"There will inevitably be sacrifices on the road to eternity, and you are not the only one who will sacrifice your life for this."
"You are a smart girl, but unfortunately your curiosity has killed you. In the face of survival and the truth, you chose the most irrelevant one."
"Farewell, don't blame me."
"Everything is natural selection."
"Sleep peacefully until the new world comes..."
This will be a good dream.
Although the process is a bit painful...
The cracked ruins of the wall were covered with crows, and the setting sun lengthened the rough and hoarse voice and the shadow of the sharp claws.
It stood in the middle of the street, looking at the dim yellow falling in the distance, muttering a bunch of words to comfort someone.
The amber pupils shrank slightly, and the focused sight seemed to pass through the burning cloud and fall somewhere outside the field of vision.
After a long time, it was satisfied and withdrew its sight from a distance.
However, the moment it turned around and was about to leave, it caught its eyes with a group of people standing at the end of the street.
They were a group of ragged beggars, dressed in rags, holding chains in their hands, and carrying rifles with bayonets on their backs.
Amber pupils stared at those people, snorting from the gun-like nostrils, and Deathclaw's face was filled with disdain.
This group of ants who don’t know whether to live or die...
At the same time, the battlefield atmosphere team standing opposite had excitement written all over their faces, and they shouted to their subordinates in a low voice.
"Do as I say. Throw the chain on it. No matter if it is hit or not, run immediately to the building next to it."
"Don't hesitate, hesitation will be in vain."
Seeing the huge body rushing towards them like a tank, the battlefield atmosphere team grasped the chains in their hands and roared with high fighting spirit.
"Oli to the brothers - one"
"That's it for a thousand!"
Although he didn't know what Ollie meant, Li Ba still shouted out his fear to cheer himself up, as every cell in his body was trembling.
"Ouch!"
Just when the warrior, who had just become captain of ten, was leading his men in a battle of wits and courage with the Death Claw, the official forum in another world was also bustling with activity.
"Information decryption of Vault 79, the manager is actually the biggest villain?! (I paid for it with my life, give it a like and leave QAQ)"
After going offline, Sisi compiled all the clues he collected from the "Experimental Log" in this post.
"On December 30, 2169, the fortieth year of the Wasteland Era is coming to an end. Although many things have happened this year, fortunately our experiments are still continuing."
"But on this special day, I don't want to write too much about the experiment. I plan to write some stories about us, just in case I get Alzheimer's one day and forget all about our past."
...Vault No. 79 was built in 2120, five years before the outbreak of the Doomsday War. The shelter is numbered T in the APC permanent fortification sequence.
It is a research-type honey shelter. Its function is not to shelter any residents, but to serve as a special research facility reserved to deal with extreme situations that may occur after the war."
"Based on unreliable assumptions about human nature, the idea of the post-war reconstruction committee may fail. Our heritage may not be used to build a new kingdom of heaven, but become a tool for a few to exploit the majority, or even to revive civilization.
resistance.”
"Suppose our civilization regresses back to the feudal era, or even the earlier tribal period. What we need is not steam engines or heavy machine guns, but a king who can lead us through the darkness and from the wilderness to the new world."
"He must be strong enough to combine all great powers into one body. It is best to have an almost endless lifespan to accompany his people through the long river of time so that the ideal will never fade. He will sacrifice himself after rebuilding Utopia and return everything.
To his people who trust in him."
"Although this is just an idea based on assumptions, even if there is only one chance in ten thousand, we should try it if conditions permit."
"Plan 79 came into being."
"As one of the tens of thousands of asylum options, the goal here is to give birth to a manager with perfect abilities and morals after 120 years of isolation." He will lead his people to rebuild on the surface.
our civilization.
"A total of 100,000 researchers participated in this project. We entered the shelter in the first year of the war and woke up from the shelter in the tenth winter after the war ended. We worked step by step under the guidance of the managers."
"At first, the plan progressed smoothly. Without the review and obstruction of the Science and Technology Ethics Committee, we quickly made staged progress. However, unfortunately, in the fortieth year of the Wasteland Era, our plan finally came to an end.
An accident still happened.”
"The Ice Age is coming to an end and is expected to end completely in ten years. This is half a century earlier than the results of computer calculations. It also coincides with the death of the first generation of managers and the transition between the old and the new. Not only the residents of the new generation are convinced that the plan is correct.
Questions arose about the nature of the project, and even those of us who were the first researchers to enter the shelter debated whether to continue this project."
"According to the plan, we elected a second manager from the new generation of residents and gave him the power to choose the future. However, what is surprising is that as an opponent of Plan 79, this courageous manager
The young leader changed his attitude and became a staunch supporter of Plan 79 just a few months after receiving the authority of the asylum."
"More than that, he adopted a more radical experimental strategy, requiring us to no longer stick to the form of life and experimental methods. A large number of clones were put into the experiment, and for the sake of efficiency, we even improved the genes of the clones
, resulting in completely different sub-races.”
"I vaguely feel that this is inappropriate, but it seems too late to say this now..."
"On June 11, 2178, it seemed to be sunny outside, and the damn snow finally stopped!"
"June 29, 2178, he must be crazy..."
"On July 8, 2178, many people died because of that crazy plan. I will probably die soon, but there is no sadness in my heart. Even if those things didn't happen, my life would be close to the end of the oil lamp.
And before the last moment came, we had done everything we could, even if not everything we did was perfect."
"Maybe as he said, everything is natural selection."
"I hope that when I wake up next time, our world will have a completely new look, and I will be lucky enough to see the new heaven after being reborn..."
"The above is just the perspective of an ordinary researcher."
"The logs displayed in the VM are machine translations. I sorted them out roughly. The key information should be in the logs from June to July 2178.
I will move the original text to the forum one after another. If there are any missing clues, please help me find them."
The post was posted less than three minutes ago.
The number of replies in the comment area instantly reached hundreds of pages, and both players and cloud players were talking about it.
However, there are only a few nutritious replies.
Roushan Damomo: "We thought you were lost. You were walking in that building for a long time."
Aoao Sesame Paste: "...This is too scary."
Tails: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu My Sisi died so miserably! Damn it. This bastard! I'm going to set fire to his honey shelter! (; `0)o"
Mole on the run in the canyon: "It's useless, the administrator's authority in the shelter is absolute, even if you successfully bring the fire tools in...
Anyway, I don’t believe there aren’t even fire extinguishers there. (Squints)”
Tail:"!!!"
Sisi: "Well, that's what I think too. There's no point in exposing yourself now. It's better to pretend that nothing happened and give it a surprise in the end."
The most unrealistic thing about this game is probably that it can be played "off the court".
Although the PCs are playing their roles very carefully, it is a pity that they do not know that there is such a thing as a "game forum" in another world.
That Yongshi would never have thought that the secrets he was willing to keep silent would have been completely leaked...
Fringe: "The currently known clues are that the ultimate goal of Vault 79 is to cultivate a king with perfect morals and eternal life? But in the end, due to various reasons, the experiment went astray?"
Crow Crow: "The lifespan is not bad... How can one consider perfect morality? (:3")"
Irena: “The ‘Philosopher King’ in Plato’s works? (Funny)”
Edge of water: "So the experiment failed."
Fang Chang: "You may not fail if you arrive. Just remember how many years it is now. (Squints)"
The edge of the water: "The year is 2341."
The edge of the water: "Hey, wait! If that Yongshi is the second manager mentioned in the experiment log, doesn't it mean that the experiment has been successful?!"
Fang Chang: "This possibility is very high. Rather than that serum with unknown functions, I recommend you find the manager of Vault 79."
Aoao Sesame Paste: "But, the administrator's authority in the shelter is absolute. Even if we find him... we can't do anything to him, right?"
Fang Chang: "That 'Yongshi' may not be in the shelter. Otherwise, why didn't he get the serum himself, instead of placing his hopes on a group of outsiders full of uncertainties?"
Aoao Sesame Paste: "That's right...the manager has absolute control over the shelter. There must be a reason why he can't return to the shelter, so he needs to use the help of outsiders."
Tails: "Oh oh oh! That's it!! ∑(A°八)"
Sisi: "emmm... Although I think so too, I still suggest using the trick and getting the serum first."
Fang Chang: "Well, of course this is also an option, but you must be careful not to let that person take away the serum. It is the only bargaining chip in your hands."
The edge of the water: "Haha, don't worry! We have more than a hundred awakened people stationed here, and they cannot be stolen! (Baring teeth)"
Sisi: "I'm so scared when you put this flag up. (Squints)
Debt-eyed: "But who is that Yong family?"
Makabazi: "From what you discussed, I feel that the residents of Xiangling Town are all suspicious. Was that radio found in the library?"
While the players were busy discussing, the trash guy who had been silent all this time suddenly appeared in the comment area.
In fact, I was just thinking, is there a possibility..."
"That guy is actually not a human at all?"
The night is deep.
In a wilderness 70 kilometers away from Qingquan City, 25 heavily armed soldiers were advancing along a deserted road.
This used to be a small town, but it has now been abandoned. The broken concrete roads are lined with piles of collapsed houses and construction debris.
The nearest survivor settlement here is Garbage City, with a population of several hundred thousand, but this has nothing to do with the goal of their trip today.
The abandoned research institute hidden in the town was the goal of their trip today.
Stopped.
Lao Bai glanced at the research institute in front of him from a distance, compared the photos on the VM screen and said jokingly.
"It's nothing like it was two centuries ago."
A wooden fence smeared with blood and minced meat formed a circle outside the institute's wall. Mutated flies as big as fists flew around the tips of the wooden posts, making a buzzing sound. Rats hiding in the corners gnawed at the remains.
The leftovers were left cold, and from time to time I looked up at the wall.
Even predators would not leave their lair so slovenly and surrounded by plague and putrid stench.
The creatures living here are obviously not humans, but something else...
"Mutant."
With his eyes tightly closed, Guangfeng suddenly heard three words pop out of his mouth.
The four-rotor drone he controlled through the neural access device has flown over the research institute and synchronized the aerial footage to the VMs of every nearby team member.
On the roof of the research institute, two mutants as strong as calves with dark green skin were standing next to the guardrail.
Next to them was a burning iron bucket, holding the leg meat of an unknown animal in their hands, while they were feasting and chatting in loud noises.
The way he drinks blood is just like the green-skinned orcs in the medieval Warhammer.
Everything here is exactly the same as the mutant tribe that players encountered in earlier versions.
The difference is that the mutants are still the same mutants, and the players standing here are no longer the newbies they were back then.
"Mutants, there's nothing more to say," Ye Shi loaded the sniper rifle in his hand, pushed in an anti-material armor-piercing incendiary bomb, and said with a smile, "Just go ahead and do it."
If it is an area where survivors gather, you have to identify the other party and determine whether to adopt a negotiation or eviction strategy.
But for mutants, these problems do not exist.
Sending these beasts to hell is what they should do.
Lao Bai looked at Guangfeng seriously.
"Number of people, location."
"Two on the roof, one in the corner on the west side, two in the garage on the north side, one standing next to the oil drum, and three next to the window on the second floor. That's all you can see." The strong wind where the consciousness merges with the drone,
Calmly report the point and mark the target on the v map with red dots.
After confirming the enemy's intelligence, Lao Zi made a clean gesture.
After receiving the order, the players following him immediately divided into three teams.
A group of people was led by Ye Shi and moved to the high slope on the west side of the research institute. A group of people moved to the left side of the main entrance of the research institute. The remaining people were led by him personally and rushed towards the main entrance of the research institute.
Mutants have very good eyesight, and their beastly intuition allows them to quickly detect anomalies in the dark.
However, when they realized that a disaster was coming, it was already too late.
"Fire!"
Following Lao Bai's order, a series of "bang bang bang" explosions came from the west side of the research institute.
Six "heavy lances" spurted out tongues of fire at the same time, and six thick traces of light shot toward the top floor of the research institute like lightning, completely tearing apart the silence of the night.
In front of the 37mm armor-piercing incendiary bomb, the mutant's strong body was like a piece of paper. It was either poked through on the spot, or the warhead was embedded in the flesh.
The hot magnesium-aluminum alloy sprayed sparks, roasting the flesh and blood into charcoal. The mutant rolled on the ground and screamed, his dark green face twisted into a ball in pain.
Without any mercy or softness, Lao Bai led his team into the research institute quickly. The assault rifle in his hand spurted out tongues of fire, sifting through the mutants who tried to rush up and fight them.
After breaking through the first line of defense, the players waiting on the left side of the door followed them into the institute, making a roundabout way to the rear of the institute, cleaning every inch of the corner between the wall and the main building of the institute.
From the west, gunshots like the sound of cannons were heard from time to time, and large-caliber armor-piercing incendiary bombs were used to tear the mutants who were near the window and tried to fight back into pieces.
There was no suspense in the battle, and it quickly turned into a one-sided massacre.
Although they have strong bodies and decent iron pipe rifles and axes, these mutants are obviously no match for these battle-hardened "veterans".
In less than 2 minutes, the elite members of the Burning Corps eliminated all the mutants in the entire research institute and rescued more than a dozen prisoners who were held in the basement and had not had a chance to be "eaten".
These people are both male and female, the oldest is over 30 years old, and the youngest is probably only about 10 years old.
Judging from their clothes, some of them looked like businessmen, and some looked like villagers from nearby settlements.@
When they were first rescued, they were huddled in the corner of the room, with no light in their eyes. Although they were still alive, they were no different from dead.
It wasn't until the shackles were released that a trace of life returned to those dull eyes.
"It's okay, we have cleared out the mutants here, you are safe."
Thank you thank you!”
A survivor just got up from the ground and wanted to kneel down with a majestic face, but Lao Bai reached out and held him in his arms.
"No need to thank us, we are soldiers of the Alliance. If you have nowhere to go, you might as well go east to the northern suburbs of Qingquan City.
The people there will take you in."
Although his Chinese couplet is not very good.
But he already knew this line by heart.
The "Alliance" survivor had a blank expression on his face, but he chewed the word repeatedly in his mouth, as if he wanted to write it down.
"That's right," Lao Bai gave the man an encouraging smile and continued, "We are trying to build a society there that is different from other places. If you are fed up with life in the wasteland, you can go there and give it a try.
"
After sending the survivors out of the door, he returned to the institute.
Tomato Scrambled Egg looked at him and joked with a smile.
"Okay, the first image ambassador of the alliance."
Lao Bai said with a smile.
"You don't understand, this is called building character."
The manager always keeps an eye on each of his residents. Loyal behavior can increase the equipment explosion rate and the probability of triggering hidden tasks.
Although there is no conclusive evidence to prove this rumor, it doesn't hurt to believe it.
Many residents of the Alliance have benefited from them, and those people regard them as heroes.
The NPC in this game is quite different from other open world games. Even if you don't save the world, but just do a small good deed, the NPC will remember it for a long time.
Those people are really grateful.
Quitting asked curiously: "By the way, how close are you to 100,000 contribution points?"
Lao Bai: "When this task is completed, it should be almost done."
"Awesome!" Ye Shi gave a thumbs up and said with emotion, "Everyone is doing the same task, how come you guy's contribution points rise so fast."
Lao Bai smiled sheepishly.
"Maybe a little adds up to a lot."
Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes: "Good brother, let me touch it when you change the power armor, hehe."
"Okay, do you want me to take it off for you to touch, or do you want me to touch it for you with it on?"
Quitting smoking, he looked at Lao Bai in surprise, as if he had discovered a new world.
"Damn it, when did you become as sexy as Ye Shi!"
"I was shot even while I was lying down," Ye Shi rolled his eyes and urged, "Stop talking nonsense and hurry up and do the task."
They came all the way to skydive, not just for tourism.
The group of people split up.
A group of people went to the institute's laser launch unit and physically opened the rusty launch hatch.
Another group of people went to the control room on the third floor of the institute.
Fortunately, the backup generator here actually still has remaining power, so they don't need to prepare a generator to charge the capacitor of the laser emitting unit.
Lao Bai walked to the console, opened the M screen, and confirmed the current task.
[Mission: Orbital Drifting Bottle] [Introduction: Our war with the Legion has reached a stalemate. Although we have successfully tricked them into thinking that they are at war with the enterprise, it is difficult to say how long this blindness can last. We need support from the east coast, and first of all
We have to let them know that their old friend is in trouble. As a matter of urgency, we have to dismantle a satellite.] [Requirement: Activate the laser emission unit of the institute and make contact with the scientific research satellite in synchronous orbit directly above,
And complete the data transmission.] The method of starting the laser emission unit has been listed below the task bar.
They just need to plug the data port into the console and place the communication balloon.
The rest can be left to the shelter NPC to operate remotely.
Watching Lao Bai plug the data interface into the console, Ye Shi who stood aside asked curiously.
"Is this using satellites as drift bottles?"
This is too luxurious.
Kuangfeng stared at the console screen for a while, then suddenly said: "Actually, I'm more curious about how this place can get in touch with satellites in synchronous orbit through lasers."
This technology is a little too dark.
But comparing it with controllable nuclear fusion, it doesn’t seem unacceptable?
Lao Bai didn't think too much, he laughed and said.
Who cares, who knows what will happen more than a year from now, you can’t expect Brother Guang to come up with something for you in reality.”
Guangfeng's expression became a little subtle.
It’s hard to say which one is more difficult to achieve, a 99.99.% real virtual reality game or laser communication technology spanning 36,000 kilometers.
The reading bar in the console screen is completed.
The transmitting device in the center of the research institute suddenly shot out a beam of light as thick as an arm.
It is difficult to tell what color the light is. Its color is as erratic as its existence itself, with outlines of light red and lavender appearing and disappearing.
That beam of light passed through the clouds and penetrated into the endless deep sky.
Move to the roof of the institute.
Kuangfeng looked up at the looming light in the sky and muttered.
"...If I were a member of the Legion, I would definitely shoot here."
Lao Bai smiled and said: "What are you thinking about? This place is more than 20 kilometers away from the airship. What kind of artillery shells can go so far?"
200 kilometers.
Then it has to be tactical missiles.
I heard that Goblin Technology is researching short-range missiles, but I don’t know what the progress is.
That guy from Mosquito didn't have a reliable word to say. No matter how many times I asked him, he always got it right.
Although there is an element of necessity, one thing is that the technology tree of the new alliance is really crooked.
"makes sense."
Kuangfeng nodded thoughtfully, staring at the beam of light, but thinking about other things in his heart.
Under the influence of Tyndall effect, the beam of light can be seen from a long distance.
Was this also the case 200 years ago?
Or is it because the equipment is in disrepair and the output power is unstable, which leads to such obvious scattering and clutter.
But only people 200 years ago know what happened 200 years ago...
"Signal transmission completed confirms that the satellite is leaving the course." After confirming the mission progress through v, Lao Zi reached out and pressed on the earphones.
Cut to the team member repeating the order.
Ye Shi asked curiously.
"Can we see shooting stars soon?"
"Maybe you can see it on the east coast. It's probably quite difficult here." Lao Bai smiled, reached out and picked up the rifle leaning on the side, and patted his teammate on the shoulder. "The mission is completed, we should withdraw."
I heard that the scientific expedition team retrieved a lot of interesting things from the data they recovered.
Just wait and ask around when you get back.
At the same time, on board the Heart of Steel.
General McClung was standing on the bridge, listening to the reports from his men.
The prey that he longed for was still hiding in the urban area of Ruigu City.
But what is gratifying is that his dull men finally made a little progress.
With the help of an experienced local hunter, they successfully hung two iron chains on the deathclaw.
Of course, this is not enough to hurt the deathclaw, but it is enough to cause it a lot of trouble.
According to the hunter, the chains would be like spearguns attached to the whale, and the beast's claws were too long to remove it on its own.
As long as enough garbage is wrapped around it to restrict its movement, it will not be able to catch prey and will be exhausted. Sooner or later, it will fall to the ground exhausted and let them slaughter it.
Through continuous offensives, he weakens his opponents who are far more powerful than himself, and finally concentrates his power on one fatal move.
This theory seems to be applicable not just for hunting, but also on the battlefield.
General McClung suddenly became curious about the indigenous hunter.
At this moment, a faint red light suddenly came through the floor-to-ceiling window directly in front of him.
General McClure caught that slight abnormality with his peripheral vision, and squinted his eyes.
However, when he looked carefully, it was completely dark outside the window and he couldn't see anything.
"Did you see that light?"
Hearing General McClung's voice, the adjutant standing nearby was slightly startled, with confusion written on his face.
"Light…?"
Glancing at the blank expression on the adjutant's face, General McClung withdrew his gaze.
"…nothing."
Maybe it's an illusion.
For some reason, he always had a bad feeling in his heart.
It was as if there was some conspiracy brewing somewhere beyond his sight.
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