[Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, our operations in the center of Qingquan have reached a stalemate. The soldiers fought bravely and our enemies suffered heavy losses. But unfortunately, we still have not been able to get close to the mother nest until now. 】
[Although the Prowler tank has excellent maneuverability and reliable armor, it needs to be overhauled every time it returns from a field trip, and the parts that need to be replaced cannot be found here. ]
[Especially our equipment has no advantage when faced with the siege of slime mold fruiting bodies. They fell in pieces and rushed up in groups... It was like a wave. In our case
Before we kill them all, I'm afraid we ourselves will be overwhelmed by the overwhelmed logistics.】
[The most worrying thing is those "evolved bodies"...
···This is the name given by the technicians who followed us into the city center. We found that some slime mold fruiting bodies have undergone secondary mutations based on mutations, and have even begun to imitate us, evolving similar to power armor and exoskeletons.
structure, and even eroded our drones and tanks.]
[This is not my nonsense, I know it sounds incredible, but if we continue to treat them as beasts that fight with teeth and claws, or as biological and chemical weapons that are delivered to the battlefield by the enemy, we will probably pay a heavy price.
······In fact, our casualties have been heavy enough.】
[More than advanced weapons, we need equipment that is easy to maintain and sufficient in quantity. Instead of using precious equipment and manpower to fill a front that is simply not enough, as we do now.]
[Finally, some good news. The outer wall of the Boulder Building has been completed. The brothers in the production department are as reliable as ever. This magnificent project can at least shelter 100,000 people through the most difficult winter. The refugees in the south do not have to continue.
By moving north, we can settle in the western suburbs of Qingquan City. At least our first phase goal has been completed. We will immediately launch the second phase of action after a short rest.]
[I heard that the technology department is looking for ways to eliminate slime mold at the genetic level.]
[I have an idea here. Why not use those genes in the gene bank to "produce" a group of super soldiers who are not afraid of death? 】
[Even if they are of no use on the battlefield, they can at least help us move some things. Those androids and robots are too troublesome to maintain. We may have to configure an additional maintenance company.]
[Telegram from the front line (3), March 21, 2150.]
Aboard the Heart of Steel.
Chu Guang, who was resting in the captain's cabin, was browsing the official website forum of "Wasteland OL" through the holographic computer.
This information was recovered by the players of the Death Corps and synchronized to the shelter's server with the help of the mission's communication radio.
Looking at the players taking photos and uploading the information to the official website, he touched his chin thoughtfully and leaned back on his chair.
"The year 2150... should be the 21st year of the Wasteland Era."
He is very sensitive to numbers and remembers clearly that the first year of the Wasteland Era was 2129.
"But to conquer the center of Qingquan City in March...it's so unimaginable."
Spring is the wave outbreak period. At this time, the reproduction rate of mutant slime mold will reach its peak, and the density of spores in the air will also reach its peak.
Of course, this is looking at the issue from the perspective of a latecomer.
Perhaps the survivors at the time were not aware of the concept of waves. As this telegram indicates, the postwar reconstruction committee underestimated the threat of mutant slime molds.
and······
Is there supposed to be a nuclear winter at that time? But that’s not the point.
What concerned Chu Guang even more was the last line of the telegram.
".·····A group of soldiers who are not afraid of death, are you referring to the Weirant people?"
Seeing this sentence, Chu Guang was puzzled.
Those big-nosed people are not as afraid of death as they thought...
Maybe it was because of the average number of awakened players among the players, or maybe it was because his attribute panel was outrageous enough. Anyway, he didn't realize how powerful those big noses were in combat.
Maybe he is stronger than ordinary people. "Xiao Qi."
An energetic voice soon reached my ears, and it was still a rare voice from a royal sister today.
"Here you are, Master."
After pondering for a moment, Chu Guang opened his mouth and said.
".·.···Retrieve information collected by players of the Death Corps, not just the Wilantes, I need information about the military
All the information about the regiment, the company, and the college. Well done!”
After hearing the enthusiastic answer, Chu Guang waited for a moment. In less than a minute, Xiao Qi quickly completed the search for all the pictures.
Whether it is uploaded by players or saved in personal albums.
All information has been organized into a text document by category, and a table of contents has been created for his convenience.
Although the players collected mostly fragmentary clues, they accidentally pieced together a lot of incredible information.
Just as he guessed.
The Weirant people are indeed a race created through genetic modification technology.
Although this project was initially opposed by the committee's technical department, the continued heavy casualties on the front line and the large amount of unprocessed work forced the committee's defense department to put pressure on the technical department.
In 2150, the 21st year of the Wasteland Era, taking the heavy casualties of "Operation Qingquan City" as an opportunity, the super soldier project called "Villant Man Project" was finally passed despite countless pressures from all parties.
The name of the Council's Defense Department, the predecessor of the Legion, is inextricably linked to the chaos a century and a half ago.
Chu Guang couldn't help but feel a little curious in his heart. Following the clues compiled by Xiao Qi, he continued to read.
The 23 pairs of chromosomes of the Weirant people were completely modified by genes
The decoration technology is designed, and the materials are extracted from an incomplete gene bank called "Vailant".
The first thousand Primarchs were indeed born
With extraordinary fighting power.
While retaining their humanity, they possess an almost beastly fighting instinct. Even without systematic training, they can still defeat more than five well-trained veterans in combat.
However, this is also where it becomes useless.
Even on the battlefield after the Prosperous Era, there are still not many opportunities for unarmed combat.
Their strong bodies make them more suitable for participating in dangerous missions with the highest casualty rate. Although their super reflexes and motor abilities allow them to kill enemies more efficiently, their number is too small.
These super soldiers ultimately failed to play a big role on the battlefield, which also led to their further marginalization politically.
After several battles against mutant slime mold, the Valantians were individually organized into a rapid response brigade, led by a young commander named Julius, using relatively low logistical requirements.
Cheap equipment supports the regular army in combat.
And this man's life is also full of legends. He was born almost in the same year as the "Vilante Project", and because his father is a senior officer of the 111th Orbital Airborne Division of the People's Federation, he has received a military education since he can remember.
.
As an "old human", he almost grew up with the "new humans", and fifteen years later, as a commander, he followed the new humans on the battlefield against mutant slime mold.
Chu Guang used the search function to search for the name "Julius" and found that in the document with less than 500,000 words, this seemingly special name unexpectedly appeared hundreds of times in the following text.
"...Speaking of it, the marshal of the legion seems to have this name too." Chu Guang vaguely remembered hearing Vanus mention the name of their marshal.
However, on the West Coast, few people will call that person by his first name, and they usually use the title Marshal.
"If the marshal of the legion is the same person as Julius in the literature, then this guy must have lived for at least one hundred and fifty years!"
Chu Guang smacked his tongue in slight surprise, unable to imagine what it felt like.
In "Stars", an officer who has lived for 150 years has reached the maximum level even if he is thrown into the "patrol fleet" and lives his life among pirates.
His index finger continued to slide on the holographic screen, and he quickly turned down a page.
Skipping the lengthy description, time quickly came to the 41st year of the Wasteland Era.
The committee's efforts to eradicate slime mold have been difficult, and the endless winter has exacerbated the problem of scarce resources and low productivity.
Some climatologists even expressed despair that the planet may not be transforming into a "waste planet" but a "polar planet" with a stronger ecosystem, and one-third of the land will eventually be buried.
Under 240 meters of ice.
That war probably set the world back eighteen thousand years.
However, even so, clearing this planet
The slime mold remains the top priority. Various research indications indicate that this "complex" organism is more cold-resistant than other carbon-based organisms native to the earth.
If this trouble cannot be solved before the situation worsens, future troubles will exceed everyone's expectations.
So far, the survivors have not discovered the "self-limiting" nature of the slime mold, but are simply afraid of monsters that cannot be cleared away even by throwing nuclear bombs.
If the survivors at that time knew that as long as they abandoned the urban areas of the People's Federation era and retreated to the suburbs with lower building density, they would enter a period of decline after the slime mold expanded to a certain extent, and I'm afraid there wouldn't be so much trouble.
Son.
Of course, this is considering the issue from the perspective of a latecomer. Many successful research on slime molds were discovered during the war against slime molds.
In short, in order to increase the loss of manpower, the defense department of the committee put forward further requirements based on the "Vailant Man Project". They needed a clone that "can be mass-produced quickly and can also play a role on the battlefield."
People soldiers.
They don't need to be very sensible, or even have an abnormally human mind, but they must complete the cycle from the assembly line to the battlefield in the shortest possible time.
Compared with the defense department in 21 Years of the Wasteland Era, the defense department in 41 Years has obviously gradually moved to extremes.
The Post-War Reconstruction Committee held a meeting to discuss the relevant legislation. The three major departments of production, defense, and technology all participated in this debate.
This meeting was recorded in the literature as the "Tripartite Meeting"
This was also the second major disagreement the Post-War Reconstruction Committee had encountered since its establishment.
Long-standing conflicts have reached their peak before the meeting ends, and the open debate meeting is more like a vent.
The defense department, which continues to suffer casualties, requires the production and technical departments to provide a "clone soldier that can play an adequate role on the battlefield" to replace the casualties of the People's Alliance soldiers.
From the standpoint of the Ministry of Defense, this is a completely reasonable request.
After all, their soldiers are not only responsible for the danger and maintenance of order in the settlements, but are also responsible for protecting the technical department's prospectors from entering the ruins to recover the technology of the pre-war civilization.
The war has begun for 41 years, but their war has never started. According to a generation of twenty years, their sacrifices have even spanned two generations, affecting at least four generations.
The technical department still expresses strong approval as it did twenty years ago, claiming that this will not only bring technical risks such as "DNA contamination", but may also lead to the collapse of civilization.
This concern is not without reason.
The Wilantes, who were cultivated through genetic technology and did not have basic political rights, have become de facto "slave soldiers", and the history has been reversed even to the slave society of the feudal period, which is older than the prosperous era.
This line of thinking was wrong from the beginning, and they clearly had a better choice.
Such as robots and AI.
However, this proposal was opposed by the Production Department.
Without the support of a complete industrial chain, production is insufficient.
The cost of a sufficiently reliable robot is not a question of several times or dozens of times, but a geometric increase.
The expensive production costs and maintenance costs are beyond what today's "Post-War Reconstruction Committee" can afford.
Unless the expenditure on each survivor settlement is completely cut off, survivor settlements including Boulder City are allowed to fend for themselves.
Even so, the costs that can be saved are far from meeting the defense department's demand for manpower.
What's more, cutting the budget of each survivor settlement means that the post-war reconstruction committee will lose a huge manpower pool, which is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst.
In order to appease the Ministry of Technology and the Ministry of Defense, the Production Department put forward many compromise suggestions.
For example, the Weirant people can be given limited political rights, such as liberalizing reproductive rights, etc., and some Weirant people can be appropriately admitted into the big family of the People's Federation, as long as they can make outstanding achievements on the battlefield.
As for clones with higher yields, there is no need to limit their lives to the profession of cannon fodder. They can be allowed to freely enter factories or farmland to engage in resource production.
This kind of high-quality labor force is not only needed by the defense sector, but also by the production sector.
This meeting ultimately did not produce any results, but instead laid the foundation for the subsequent disintegration of the post-war reconstruction committee.
The year after the tripartite meeting began, in year 2171, which was the 42nd year of the Wasteland Era, the college exploration team's recovery of the Vaillant Laboratory became the fuse that ignited the powder keg.
The gene pool of the Velant people is preserved there, as well as the "Singularity" technology life cycle adjustable technology that was not completed before the end of the Prosperity Era.
Under the leadership of General Julius, the rapid reaction brigade composed of Valantians occupied the laboratory and detained all the explorers of the Technology Department's exploration team.
In the face of strong protests and negotiations from the technical department, the Ministry of Defense only claimed that it was Julius's personal behavior, and was extremely passive in arresting this "out-of-control senior officer", and even "accidentally" gave birth to an experiment that was occupied.
The room sent nuclear fusion batteries.
Obviously, they are trying to complete this research, or use part of the sub-technology in this research to create a clone army that can grow "eight times faster."
Objectively speaking, the people from the Ministry of Defense have shown considerable restraint. After all, they could obviously rob directly, but they still made up a lame excuse and pretended to do it.
The committee's control over various departments has declined to its lowest point, while the conflict between the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Technology has reached its peak.
Year 2172, Year 43 of the Wasteland Era, after several "unexpected" accidents, the Technology Department completely lost trust in the Defense Department.
Under the leadership of Dr. "Conclusion", then Minister of Technology and Dean of the Academy, the Ministry of Technology transferred a large number of core technical personnel to the northern swamps in the name of exploring large-scale ruins, and under the framework of the pre-war academic organization "Academy", preparations were made to establish
Own armed exploration force.
The Ministry of Defense is indifferent to this. Their focus has been shifting to the west of the Great Desert, and the Triumph City and most military facilities are actually already there.
under the control of "out of control senior military officers".
Although the committee's production department is low-key, it is also not a fuel-efficient lamp.
Even before the trigger of the tripartite meeting, they had been secretly giving priority to the construction of settlements on the east coast through methods such as tilting resources.
It was against this background that Ideal City was born.
Not only that, they even joined forces with the managers of Vault 6 and the then captain of the colonial ship to jointly promote the "Enterprise" plan, establish a regional "Supreme Council", and propose a general line of "industrial salvation"
.
Perhaps in the eyes of the then Minister of Production, the colonists who stranded the colony ship on the surface in order to save their home planet, and the residents of Vault 6 who bravely opened the door to save more survivors, were more important than the
Those "colleagues" who argue with red faces at the negotiation table are more trustworthy.
Although idealists can rarely produce visible results immediately, every advancement of civilization is inseparable from the exploration of idealists.
They decided to replace the committee and become explorers of a new era.
In 2173, the 44th year of the Wasteland Era, the second triggering incident occurred. The Production Department had a premonition that the collapse of the post-war reconstruction committee was inevitable, so it unilaterally announced the "Cloud Province" through the already full-fledged Ideal City.
Recovery Act".
This bill stipulates the four strategic defense zones of the Yunjian Province of Shanhai, Islands, Neihu, and Hekou, the three urban areas of Beiyun, Shangyun, and Xiayun, as well as the two industrial zones No. 1 and No. 2, and all pre-war civilizations.
The ruins are jointly owned by all the survivor settlements in Yunjian Province.
This sounds like a very peaceful initiative and reasonable.
But in fact, he had an ulterior motive.
On the night when the bill was enacted, more than a dozen armed forces set out from Ideal City in the name of the enterprise and quickly took over all the research institutes of the committee's technical department on the east coast, as well as the relics of pre-war civilization that were under development.
A fierce exchange of fire broke out between the two sides in some research facilities.
The college's armed forces have a short preparation time and are not very effective in combat. However, due to the investment of a large amount of high-tech equipment and AI-controlled war weapons, it still caused a lot of trouble to the company's troops.
Although the company still failed in the end, it also resulted in the destruction of many research facilities.
For example, the experimental facility engaged in research on singularity technology "Gestalt Life Form" was reduced to ashes in that conflict.
This result not only resulted in the complete loss of the original components of the "Gestalt Life Form" technology, but also caused some experimental subjects with unstable DNA to flee to the wasteland, some moving along the coastline, and some migrating toward the great desert.
And these experimental subjects living in the wasteland became the later mutants.
Although this conflict was in the name of the company and Ideal City and did not involve the production department, the researchers from the technology department were not stupid.
Taking this incident as an opportunity, Dr. Conclusion immediately announced the dissolution of the technical department. Not only did he take over all the survivor settlements in Wandering Swamp in the name of the college, he also permanently cut off all technical support outside of Wandering Swamp, and even deleted
Database in the Rift Valley.
Especially the part about the coordinates of pre-war civilization ruins.
At this point, legions, companies, and colleges have entered the stage of history.
The Ministry of Defense, Production Department, and Technology Department, which had completed the "asset transfer", successively put aside their historical baggage and happily announced their dissolution.
Having lost three important departments, the Post-War Reconstruction Committee, which has been running for 44 years, has ceased to exist in name only and is unable to support the settlements of survivors everywhere.
In year 2174, it is the 45th year of the Wasteland Era.
Facing an empty conference table, the Post-War Reconstruction Committee finally reached the final step and officially announced its dissolution.
From now on, each settlement no longer needs to abide by the interim constitution established by the committee, nor does it need to be governed by the committee.
On the contrary, each settlement needs to find its own way out and solve its own survival problems in the never-ending cold winter and the intrusion of alien species.
In the final statement, the chief of the committee still expressed the hope that the management of each settlement would not forget their mission and try their best to rescue the compatriots around them to the best of their ability.
No one knew it at the time.
Just five years after the Post-War Reconstruction Committee was disbanded, the atmospheric environment showed signs of recovery.
The long nuclear winter also came to an end in people's surprised eyes, and the declining species also repopulated the land.
At this point, legions, colleges and enterprises have entered a period of development one after another, and the Wasteland Era has also entered a half-century-long "Shelter Era" from the "Committee Era".
As the climate reached the preset standard for dormancy, the shelters opened their doors one after another, and the old popsicles who came out of the shelters also stepped onto the stage that had become a wasteland.
Although the plan deviated from the expected track from the beginning, most of the shelters neither found the defunct post-war reconstruction committee, nor did they manage to keep things on the surface in the same order as inside the shelter.
But they were incompatible with this era. In a short period of time, they injected a boost into this declining world, and used the knowledge of the prosperous era and mysterious black boxes and other objects to help some wastelanders survive.
The original bright era of losing the Reconstruction Committee.
What surprised Chu Guang was that these unknown secrets were placed on the bookshelf in the Great Rift Valley Lounge for people to browse at will.
What he didn't expect even more was that the old neighbor to the north of the alliance turned out to be the predecessor of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee!
"No...I can't say I didn't expect it at all."
Chu Guang carefully recalled the holographic image left by Dr. Principle that he and Yin Fang had seen before, and connected it with the clues collected by the Death Corps.
"... In the second year of the Wasteland Era, Dr. Principle, who had delayed his awakening for two years, was escorted by Battalion Commander Zhao Weisheng of the 111th Orbital Airborne Division and went to the planet with more than a thousand survivors unplanned.
Rift Valley joins comrades from the Post-War Reconstruction Committee.”
"According to the description in the holographic image, the Great Rift Valley was already controlled by the 111th Orbital Airborne Division at that time... In other words, the predecessor of the legion was actually the 111th Orbital Airborne Division deployed in the River Valley Province?"
And he also saved one of the three founders of the academy?
Looking at the data recovered by the players and the past events of the past hundred years, Chu Guang couldn't help but have mixed feelings in his heart.
When Vault 404 was closed, so many things happened outside...
And at this moment, he finally understood Dr. Method's mood, why that guy went to Vault 101 to isolate himself.
If I were stabbed twice in the back by my teammates, I'm afraid my mentality would not be very good, especially since the second stab was completely inexplicable.
But from the standpoint of the defunct Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Production, they certainly have their own reasons.
I shed my blood and sweat to help you open the ruins, and I asked you not to do any cloning technology. I will do it myself. Anyway, you will definitely separate in the future. Since it is an expected event with a high probability, why is the one who takes action first?
Can’t it be me?”
Looking at the last page in the holographic image, Chu Guang couldn't help but think of his alliance.
Both he and the league are young, but he will always grow old one day, and human abilities have limits after all, and he cannot always keep up with the changes of the times.
The player's world is also moving forward, and even because of the technical support of the shelter, they will progress faster than under abnormal circumstances, and even enter an era of prosperity quickly.
At that time,
"Wasteland OL" will face new challenges.
"...No matter what, the Alliance will not follow the footsteps of the "Committee"."
After muttering softly, Chu Guang stretched out his index finger and flicked it in the air, closing the window suspended in front of him.
He always had a strong sense of déjà vu.
I seem to have said something similar before.
At this moment, a light blue pop-up window suddenly flashed in front of his eyes without warning.
[Emergency mission triggered!]
[Explanation: The morphological field device detected a normal individual, triggered the "flag6" determination, and the login permission of player ID: "Luo Yu" was temporarily frozen. 】
[Requirement: This task has been noted as the highest priority, and the coordinates have been updated to the shelter server map file. Administrators are requested to recover the normal individual as soon as possible, anesthetize it and place it on the B1 floor conveyor belt. 】
[Task reward: Unlock B6 floor]
This mission pop-up window had not appeared for a long time, and when it popped up suddenly, Chu Guang almost didn’t recognize it.
And when he saw the mission reward, he was even more stunned.
B6 floor? Wait...
Isn’t the B5 layer not unlocked yet? Why was it skipped directly?
But what concerned him more was the description of the urgent mission.
"······Normal individual?!" What the hell?
Chu Guang was stunned for a few seconds. When he came to his senses, he immediately reopened the holographic computer and gave instructions to his nasty little assistant.
"Xiao Qi, immediately synchronize the latest received coordinates on the shelter server to my holographic computer." Xiao Qi: "Received!"
The coordinates quickly appeared on the map.
It is exactly in the southern part of Luoxia Province, where the Lost Valley is located.
Seeing this coordinate, Chu Guang was even more confused.
He clearly remembered that a nuclear bomb was exploded there just a few hours ago.
Even if a player wants to die and wants to try out what it would be like to be bombed by a nuclear bomb, they can't survive being hit by a nuclear bomb, right?
Can this game still be hacked?
And just when Chu Guang was wondering what happened to his son, a miserable wailing appeared on the official forum.
"Blank it!"
"I'm counting, why is the countdown to resurrection not starting!!!"