Chapter 270 Black box, reverse technology and unexpected surprises (Thanks to the leader of 'Fanshang' for the reward)
Official website forum.
Killing: "The Knight of Decay appears!"
Chasing the Soul: "War Dio Gua Sha Stone Hammer!"
Makabazi: "The mosquitoes are also scraping!"
Don't be ridiculous: "It's lucky! Boss was killed by two shots from the manager!"
Quit smoking: "Brother Guan is awesome!!!"
WC: There are mosquitoes here: "Gan! Can you blame me for scraping? Who knew he was so fast? Using a knife to chop rockets is unreasonable at all!"
Battlefield Atmosphere Team: "Holy crap, the Decay Knight should be at level 60 in theory, right? Two shots killed a level 60 SS wave in seconds. How many levels does a manager need to have?!"
Commander Quan Shui: "Maybe eighty!"
Marginal water: "Be more confident, you are all leaders of the 'Alsace' camp. Is level 100 an exaggeration? It is not an exaggeration at all!"
Irena: "I think it can be compared to the Human Emperor Xi Aotian. If you don't show off, you won't take action. If you take action, you will show off."
Crow Crow: "Wow, wow, I couldn't see the handsome manager showing off."
Fang Chang: "Wake up, that's the paper man."
Crow Crow: "What does it matter! It's better than being a nymphomaniac to the little fish, right?`)"
Fang Chang: "! That's Ye Shi, not me."
Ye Shi: "Get out! Do I have it?"
Teng Teng: "There is something wrong with you all."
Tails: "Ouch! Whoever dares to bully Xiaoyu will have his legs broken! ψψ"
Roshan Big Momo: "!!!Who wants to bully Xiaoyu!"
Ye Shi: "Blank! The dog's sun is square and long! What a shady man! QAQ"
Canyon Runaway Mole: ""
Players who were offline brought their battle reports back to the forum. Players who had no intention of going offline also found a place to hang up, wandered to "reality", and went to the forum to join in the fun.
Anyway, major gaming events will have pop-up windows on the official website forum, so you don’t have to worry about missing them.
Compared with the previous battles, this battle can be said to have reached the "history" of Vault 404 in terms of investment in heavy firepower weapons!
Dozens of Maxim heavy machine guns fired wildly, 88mm mortars took turns bombing, and quad-mounted anti-aircraft guns used high-explosive bombs to wash the ground with multiple rounds. The foreign species coming in the tsunami on the ruined mountains were like frost-covered rice fields.
It usually falls in pieces.
It fully reflects the helplessness of numbers in the face of firepower.
When the machine guns and artillery shells ceased firing, even the cement blocks on the ground were boiling hot!
Multiple rounds of saturated firepower coverage, followed by the whistle of the charge, the immersive shock makes people's adrenaline soar!
Players who have experienced it have said that it is really great!
Isn't this more real than the water-laced cannonballs and water guns in "Dump Truck 2042"?
Looking at the battle reports on the forum, players who were not at the scene expressed their pity.
Especially the 125 good brothers who died in battle yesterday are even more envious to the point of separation.
It’s such a shame to miss such an exciting scene!
Bai Yin's father: "Damn it! Why does it take three days for resurrection!"
Silver Hand: "Why can't you open a trumpet account?"
Tyrannosaurus Warrior: "Gan! You still want to open a trumpet account! Just be a human being!"
Thunder Dharma King Professor Yang: "That's right! We haven't qualified for the closed beta test yet!"
Just when everyone was feeling regretful, a one-and-a-half minute video was suddenly updated on the official website.
The clean and neat camera cuts, coupled with the powerful BGM, are like an epic blockbuster!
It has to be said that Xiaoqi’s video editing skills are getting better and better. The cake of "Wasteland OL" that can be seen but not touched is now becoming more and more popular. At least 1/10 of the credit must be counted.
on it.
Although there are still people like Ye Ao who stubbornly insist that "I have never seen it, it means it does not exist" and "my logical deduction is the truth of the world", but this does not prevent the vast majority of people from eating melons from putting 666 on
Below the video.
"Awesome! Is this a next-generation game?"
“How can the model be so detailed???”
“It feels like it’s a movie without the filter!”
"Be more confident, maybe it's just a movie set of filters."
"Hey, regardless of whether it's true or not, if the promotional PV can be made with such care, even if it's false, it feels like it's worth it!"
“The major mobile game companies are ecstatic, we have advertising materials again!”
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Just when the official website was busy, in the position in front of Street 68, players and NPCs were cleaning the battlefield amidst the mountains of corpses and seas of bones.
In fact, there is nothing to clean.
There are only corpses here. Black blood seeps into the soil, and the rotting flesh exudes a stench that can be smelled even if you are wearing a gas mask.
The slime mold mutants are different from the death claws and monsters. The parts on the latter are somewhat useful, and the meat can even be roasted and eaten. The former is something that even Lao Na can't handle.
Watching the rats and cockroaches scurrying across the street corner, the two newbies wearing gas masks were speechless in surprise at the immersive atmosphere created by "Wasteland OL" while walking towards the depths of the battlefield.
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"By the way, will the fruiting bodies of slime molds also rot?"
"Nonsense, won't your mushrooms go bad?"
"Hey, I really haven't seen it before."
The two of them whispered to each other and walked to the powered armor filled with slime mold.
The germ blanket spread on the steel surface was necrotic, black blood seeped out from the gaps in the armor, its entire head had been shattered, and a hole half the size of a fist was printed on its chest.
The two newbies looked at the big hole and marveled.
The armor that could not even be penetrated by a 37mm heavy rifle was actually penetrated by a Gauss rifle shot.
This power is too powerful!
The two of them wasted no time, tied the big guy with a rope, put it on the traction board, and dragged it back to the position with a groan.
[Mission: Recover the body of the "Decay Knight"]
[Reward: 15 silver coins and 10 contributions]
Rewards are in hand!
One step closer to getting a VM!
Looking at the fifteen silver coins lying in the palms of their hands, the faces of the two newbies were filled with joyful smiles.
Continue with this momentum.
It won't take long to reach T1!
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The body of the Decayed Knight was dragged to the Garden Street Subway Station and temporarily stored outside the buffer room of Vault 117.
Yin Fang spent a long time using a cutting machine and finally removed the power armor from this guy's body.
Heya extracted slice samples from various parts of the big man's body and brought them back to the medical laboratory for analysis without stopping.
Yin Fang gave the armor fragments removed from the power armor to Bach for study.
As for himself, he studied the black box removed from the inside of the power armor to see if he could recover some useful data from it.
The aliens launched two rounds of offensive that day, one in the afternoon and the other in the evening, but both quantity and quality were far inferior to the one in the morning.
Vanus's view is that the gnawers were probably trying to use up their ammunition.
Perhaps due to the experience gained in previous battles with Boulder City, those slime molds seemed to know that their enemies had ammunition limitations.
However, today's Vault 404 is no longer what it used to be. It has experienced many wars, and the military production capacity of the new industrial zone is almost full.
It may take some time to build a tractor, but his little players know how to make guns and cannons!
In addition to the charge on the frontal battlefield, the attack and defense on the side battlefield also never stopped.
Many crawlers climbed over obstacles and bunkers and climbed to the flanks of the position, trying to replicate their previous stage victory on 65th Street.
Unfortunately, however, their opponent this time is not a death squad composed of newbies and veteran players, but a hunter squad headed by the Cow Horse Squad.
In the confrontation between skirmishers and skirmishers, the players still have the upper hand.
Although there is no heavy firepower support, the individual combat effectiveness has been fully exerted.
A LV6 strength player or a LV7 agility or constitution player can basically compete with a crawler.
And if you are an Awakened at LV10, as long as you are not in the intelligence or perception system, you can basically easily deal with the crawler in a one-on-one situation.
You don't even have to shoot!
Two small wins on the frontal battlefield and the side battlefield.
The first day's battle ended in a stalemate.
However, although Vault 404 achieved a staged victory, neither the players nor the guards took it lightly.
The waves coming from the south are endless and show no signs of stopping.
Everyone can feel that a storm is brewing!
One day later.
Vault 117.
Chu Guang summoned his experts and held a brief meeting, requesting a report on the latest research progress on the "Decadent Knight".
The first person to speak was Heya.
Regarding the "Decay Knight" slice samples, she made a systematic analysis and has made preliminary progress.
"Just tell me briefly."
"First, by analyzing the tissue structure of the fruiting body, I found neuronal cells in the sample that have a completely different structure from the fruiting body. Comparing the DNA, it should be an adult male, and the survival time of the cells may have been
More than a century... This situation is very similar to the symbiosis we have witnessed before, but the slime mold in Qingquan City seems to have eroded the nervous system more thoroughly, completely depriving the host of its autonomous consciousness."
"You can understand that after replacing the hard drive and memory, only the CPU and half of the graphics card are left."
Knowing that Chu Guang couldn't understand the difficult theory, Heya simply used a term that she thought was more common.
But when she said this, she did not look at Chu Guang, but at Bach who was standing aside and trembling.
After a pause, Heya looked away from the tin can, looked at Chu Guang who was deep in thought, and continued.
"In addition, its sac-like organs are more exaggerated than other fruiting bodies, and the amount of spores secreted can even reach hundreds or even a thousand times that of a crawler. In order to release spores more efficiently, it has even evolved special organs.
The spores can be transported to the fungus carpet on the surface of the fruiting body and released through the ciliary ends on the fungus carpet."
"... There are various signs that your speculation is most likely correct. This kind of 'evolved body' that is obviously abnormal from the same kind plays the role of a commander. They can coordinate different consciousness bodies, just like in the logistics network
nodes. In fact, they have formed a hierarchy with strict barriers within them, with larger nodes dominating smaller nodes, and so on."
Chu Guang touched his chin and thought.
"So as long as these node creatures are destroyed, the wave will stop?"
Heya nodded.
"That should be the case...at least it can bring them back to normal."
Whether they run back to the city center or disband on the spot, they are much less threatening than them gathering together.
It's like a hundred gnawers scattered in an underground garage of several thousand square meters. Even a newbie can clean them out if he spends more time.
But if these hundred gnawers formed a team and rushed up in an organized manner, without the support of heavy firepower, even the awakened ones would have a headache.
Bach raised his right hand tremblingly: "...I have a question, if my brain is completely eroded, will it become like this?"
Heya: "This possibility cannot be ruled out."
The tin can shook for a while, and Bucky shivered. He didn't know whether he was glad that he had escaped quickly, or he had a conditioned fear of Heya's interested eyes.
Chu Guang suddenly had an idea and said.
"If Bach is allowed to sneak into the alien's lair and stuff a three-kilogram 100mm cannon directly next to the queen..."
Bachi looked at Chu Guang with a horrified look on his face: "Do you want me to die?"
Heya shook her head.
"This has no meaning other than killing him. I should have said before that they rely on proteins with weakened RNA to identify the same kind. Only the same kind can have unified consciousness and coordination with the same kind. The recognition of slime molds in different regions
The codes are different. You can imagine what would happen if you threw an ant into the ant nest of another group."
Two ants from different groups may not necessarily fight if they meet on the road, but if one of them follows the other into the other's nest and comes out alive, it can only mean that tens of thousands of ants are "blind" at the same time.
The same goes for slime mold mutants that are part of a hive society.
Butch will not be attacked by the fruiting bodies wandering on the street, but that does not mean that he can enter and exit the "core areas" such as the incubation room and the mother nest at will.
Especially when encountering "evolved individuals" with autonomous consciousness, being killed on the spot is probably what will happen with a high probability.
Knowing how to take detours and feint to consume, these slime molds obviously have the ability to deal with problems flexibly.
There is no point in being clever at this time.
Pity.
Chu Guang even thought that even if he couldn't give away the bomb, it would be nice to be able to see the Queen's position. At worst, he could borrow tens of thousands more chips, buy a wave of air strikes, and lick it with incendiary bombs.
With regret in his heart, Chu Guang then looked at Yin Fang.
This "Chief Leader of the Scientific Expedition Team of Shelter 404 and Dean of Branch No. 404 of the Academy" had frowned and said nothing since the beginning of the meeting. He didn't know what he was thinking about.
Intuition told Chu Guang that he should have discovered something.
"What about you? Did you find anything?"
Yin Fang nodded slowly.
"I found the action recorder of that T-10 power armor."
"Action recorder?" Bucky looked at him with a surprised expression on his face and asked, "Can that thing still work?"
"Of course, the T-10 powered armor is the People's Federation Army's land combat powered armor. The 'black box' is located near the waist."
As he spoke, Yin Fang gently placed an orange box the size of a thumb and shaped like a nail clipper on the table.
"Although the data was severely damaged... I was able to restore a few fragments."
Chu Guang: "What did you find?"
Yin Fang: "The serial number of this armor is T-10: A71C98U. When I was investigating the ruins in Luoxia Province, I happened to see this series in an abandoned research institute. Not surprisingly, it was originally affiliated with the People's Federation
The 71st Armored Brigade belonged to the 'Post-War Reconstruction Committee' after the Wasteland Era."
Post-War Reconstruction Committee.
The first time he heard this name seemed to be in the holographic image left by Dr. Principle. Various signs showed that this organization had considerable influence in the early days of the Wasteland Era, two hundred years ago.
According to the clues provided by players, Boulder City seems to be one of the survivor settlements planned by the post-war reconstruction committee.
Even the towering giant wall was built by the post-war reconstruction committee.
Chu Guang frowned slightly.
The clues seem to be connected together, but a few key puzzle pieces are missing.
He wants to know.
What role does Vault 404 play in this?
Yin Fang paused for a moment and continued.
"Two centuries ago, the troops to which this powered armor belonged carried out a military operation in the city center, with the suspected goal of clearing the mother nest located in the nuclear crater in the city center. The final result of this operation was not recorded in the black box, but it is presumed that it should
It failed, and the remaining data records the reason why this power armor was scrapped."
Chu Guang: "Why?"
"EMP."
Chu Guang was stunned for a moment.
But even more surprised than him was Heya.
"EMP?! You mean those slime molds use electromagnetic pulses?"
Yin Fang shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't know. Who knows what happened two hundred years ago? Maybe the mutant slime mold has mastered some way to trigger electromagnetic pulses, or maybe it was a friendly fire... No matter what the situation is, judging from the data recorded in the black box,
The powerful electromagnetic pulse destroyed more than 30% of the electronic components of the power armor at 2 hours, 31 minutes and 17 seconds into the battle, causing the arc engine to be forced to stall."
"The power armor with limited mobility was quickly surrounded, and after the ammunition was exhausted, it was completely overwhelmed by the slime mold. The first thing to be eroded was the gas exchange system, then the life support system, and the energy system... The whole process lasted for two days
Ten years on, it continues until the black box function ceases."
Bucky held his breath.
After a long time, he finally spoke with difficulty.
"This is too tragic."
Watching the plaques covering the eyepiece bit by bit, the spores are continuously injected into the body along the life support system, eventually the immune function is paralyzed, and it is completely reduced to a puppet of the mother's nest.
The remaining nerve cells are kept alive in a special way, and only when the body is completely destroyed can freedom be finally achieved.
This is simply more cruel than Ling Chi.
Yin Fang nodded silently.
"What concerns me is these slime molds... they seem to know a lot about us."
Chu Guang looked at Yin Fang and asked.
"Didn't the academy record the origin of those slime molds?"
Yin Fang shook his head.
"I don't know. Even if there is, it's not information that I, a D-class prospector, can access."
Mutant slime mold, radiation, alien species, mutants, and predators everywhere...
I don’t know what the madmen did two hundred years ago to blow up the mother planet into what it is now.
It’s no wonder that businesses on the east coast pinned their hopes on the legend of Vault 0, and the college was destroyed and hid in the Wandering Swamp.
Chu Guang even has a feeling now that the first generation manager of No. 404 didn't tell him anything, maybe it was also a kind of "protection".
After all, the more you know about this world, the more hopeless you feel.
The only people in this world who can face these difficulties optimistically are probably the happy little players.
Chu Guang took a deep breath.
"Is there anything else to report?"
"I," Bach raised his hand and continued nervously when he saw everyone looking at him, "regarding the material of that power armor... I studied its structure carefully."
Chu Guang said immediately.
"Can it be copied?"
Bucky was stunned for a moment and smiled bitterly.
"Porous aluminum-magnesium-manganese alloy is used as the structure, and boron carbide and silicon carbide are alternately filled. This is just the first layer."
Seeing that Chu Guang still had an expectant expression on his face, Yin Fang sighed, looked at the tin can sitting in the corner and said.
"He won't understand what you're saying. You'd better not go around in circles and just say it."
Chu Guang looked at Yin Fang dissatisfied.
"What do you mean by that?"
Why can’t I understand it?
Xiao Qi, who had been quietly peeking at the screen next to him, also interrupted with a cold comment.
"That's right! Are you looking down on the wise and powerful manager? Master, do you need me to clean him up?"
Chu Guang coughed dryly.
"That's not necessary."
And who is that "wise and mighty manager"? He didn't remember that he had ever taught Xiao Qi to call him that.
Yin Fang rolled his eyes at the camera on the ceiling.
He wanted to dismantle the "waste basket" before and study it, but Chu Guang didn't agree and strictly prohibited him from doing so, so he gave up the idea.
Curiosity is curiosity, and he is not stupid.
However, this matter seems to have been remembered by the cautious AI.
Butch quickly smoothed things over and continued.
"The T-10 powered armor is pre-war equipment. The armor shell is most likely based on 3D printing technology and is constructed directly at the atomic level. Our technological generation gap is too big. Not even here, not even an enterprise can do anything about it.
Produce this thing.”
Composite armor with a thickness of only 40mm can have the equivalent thickness of 400mm of homogeneous steel on the vertical plane, but with a slight inclination, it cannot be thousands?
This protection is almost on the same level as a modern main battle tank!
In my impression, the Legion's Iron Fist rocket launcher seems to be able to cause damage to the company's power armor. Obviously, even the company does not have the conditions to imitate this kind of armor piece.
Seeing the disappointed expression on Chu Guang's face, Bach continued.
"But it's not without gain."
"We previously analyzed a material called 'A3 alloy' from the Zhongzhou Aerospace database, but due to lack of data and lack of samples, we have not been able to determine its specific composition."
Yin Fang looked at him in surprise.
"Could it be..."
"Yes," Bach nodded and said excitedly, "The missing part should be aluminum-magnesium-manganese alloy,"
Chu Guang asked immediately.
"Is this alloy very strong?"
Yin Fang: "It can't be said to be very strong, but it should be said to be very strong. It has a wide range of uses and is relatively cheap. It can be used from exoskeleton brackets to link components of large machinery."
"To put it more intuitively, if the bracket of the KV-1 exoskeleton is replaced by A3 aerospace aluminum alloy, the protection, maximum load-bearing capacity and durability can be doubled while the weight remains unchanged and the cost increases slightly.
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"At least it's a C-level technology!"
Not only exoskeletons, but also vehicles running on the ground to drones flying in the sky can all benefit from this achievement.
If he were in the academy, this credit alone would be enough for him to be promoted from a D-level prospector to a C-level researcher.
The only drawback is the risk of fire in oxidizing environments.
But as long as it is not used in a large area or mixed with other materials, it is not a big problem!
Chu Guang's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Can it be done?"
He only cares about this one thing!
Bucky nodded, his tone much more relaxed than before.
"Compared with the T-10's composite armor, mass production of the A3 aerospace aluminum alloy will not be very difficult. I should be able to handle it."
Upon hearing this, Chu Guang's face showed an expression of joy.
I didn't expect that such a good thing could be recovered from that iron lump!
What a surprise!
After the meeting, Chu Guang updated some of Heya's research results on the official website and shared them with players as official strategies.
At the same time, the West Third Ring Road in Qingquan City.
On the dark and silent ruins, there was a fire shooting into the sky...