[Beta 0.4 version updated!] [Update content: 1. Ocean trade system implementation: The trade route to Luoxia Province has been opened. Now players can trade with NPCs in the Lion Kingdom and invest in local farms or other industries.
In addition, more tradeable areas have been unlocked, please explore by yourself in the game.
2. A new "Yunting" ornithopter training point has been added to the northern enterprise aviation base in Xizhou City. You can learn at your own expense by paying 50W silver coins through VM. If the aircraft driving skill proficiency reaches 7 or above, and the contribution points reach senior citizens, you can apply for publicly funded learning.
3. As a mobile base for the alliance, the Heart of Steel can provide archiving services, but there is no guarantee that it will anchor at the location that players want.
4. The floor of Shelter 404 has been unlocked to floor B6. Floor B5 is currently still under maintenance, so stay tuned.
5. The upper limit of closed beta player accounts has been increased from 8,000 to 12,000!
6. Fix a few BUGs.
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Luo Yu: "What the hell?!"
Thunder Dharma King Professor Yang: "What's wrong with you?"
Luo Yu: "Leave!!!"
Feng Qing: "0.0?"
Guigui: "What?"
Luo Yu: "The countdown to resurrection has started again! Hahahaha! Thank you, Brother Guang! Oh no!"
What do you think I can do for you: "Smile, you guys continue to act, your acting is quite similar, so I will just quietly watch you pretending to be cool."
Yin Leina: "Jealousy will indeed separate the hostages. (Funny)"
Elf King Fugui: "+1 (funny)" at the same time.
Shelter No. 404. A group of heavily armed players are standing at the entrance to the B6 floor of the shelter.
What is certain now is that the entire B6 floor should be a laboratory, and it is a biological laboratory engaged in the study of mutant slime mold. According to various indications, 80% of the research samples here come from the early days of the Wasteland Era, or even three years further back.
War time.
It is obvious from the incomplete recording that the escaped experimental subject should be difficult to deal with, and even extremely dangerous! Otherwise, all the guards on the floor would not have been killed, forcing the first-generation managers to execute the plan on the entire floor.
"Shock treatment".
Of course Chu Guang would not do anything like sticking his face into the grass, especially knowing that there were landmines hidden in the grass.
What's more, he clearly has a group of young players who are not afraid of death, so why do he have to do such dangerous things by himself? At the same time that the Beta0.4 version was officially updated, the players who were selected by Chu Guang to come here had VMs on their arms.
Invariably, a line of task pop-ups appeared.
[Mission: Recover the B6 floor of Shelter 404]
[Explanation: The experimental subject stored on the B6 floor of Vault 404 went out of control, causing the floor to be infected by slime mold.]
【Target:
1. Search for possible mother bodies/mother nests.
2. Go to the laboratory to collect the experiment log.
3. Go to the computer room to search for unuploaded data.
The blue icon flashing on the VM screen confirmed the task just received from the manager, and Ye Shi's eyes shone with excitement.
"Awesome! I didn't expect to receive such a big job in the rear!"
The Sunset Province is the home of the Stormtroopers and the Skeleton Legion.
The Burning Legion has a small number of people, and its home field is in the city, not the open plains. Therefore, the entire war is almost a soy sauce, and there is no sense of participation at all.
The game has been posted on the official website forum for so long, so this is an opportunity for him to show off.
Quitting, who was following Guangfeng, stared at the VM screen and suddenly thought: "Do you think the out-of-control experimental subject could be Luo Yu?"
A smile that couldn't help but smile appeared on the expressionless face, and Fengfeng touched the bridge of his nose and said.
"...It's possible, unless there is a time machine that can travel back 100 years."
Quit smoking: "Holy shit! Is there a time machine?!"
Kuangfeng: "...can you listen carefully to what I have to say?"
Looking at the plaque covering the wall, Ye Shi couldn't help but smacked his tongue. "Oh my god... this thing has been cut off from water, electricity and air for so long, and it can still move!"
Kuangfeng looked around, thought for a moment and said.
"Well, it also disabled most of the cameras and 85% of the electronic equipment in the area... The situation here may be more complicated than we imagined."
"It doesn't matter if it's complicated or not, just do it and it's done!"
Equipped with 0D-10 "Dragoon" power armor, Lao Bai grinned, raised his index finger to lock the visor of his helmet, and loaded the assault rifle in his hand.
Then, he shouted loudly on the communication channel.
"The mission has been updated in vm. Our goal is to recover the occupied B6 area!"
"Team A is following me, searching for the enemy's "crystals" and injecting inhibitors to contain them.
Team B followed Ye Shi to the sample library to search for experimental logs.
Team C followed the strong wind to the computer room and took away the hard drive containing the experimental data and information according to the mission prompts."
"After the task is completed, we gather at the entrance of the buffer workshop and make sure the signal is open at all times. The manager is watching us!"
"Action!" The players tacitly divided into three teams and cautiously moved forward to search.
As an elite team with the highest combat power in the entire server, the Burning Corps is naturally very good at performing such special operations missions. No one is better at indoor close combat than them. At the same time, Chu Guang, who was sitting in the browsing room on the B4 floor,
Through the camera equipment carried by the players, the players following him went deep into this out-of-control biological laboratory.
In addition to him, Yin Fang and Hea were also invited here as "technical consultants" for this military operation, providing players with professional advice when necessary. However, after the operation began, Hea's attention
I was completely fascinated by this large-scale and well-equipped laboratory.
That look in his eyes was more than heartwarming.
Even to the point of envy - even jealousy. "I don't understand! How much is your budget?! You are clearly behind us, why... are there so many good things?"
Facing that sour look in his eyes, Chu Guang didn't know how to answer. He simply pretended that he didn't see it. He asked him about things before the Wasteland Era. He had a hammer.
If you want to know, ask the first-generation managers!
Yin Fang, who was staring at the computer screen and focusing on other things, touched his chin and gave the first immature suggestion for this operation. "...Actually, I recommend sending the android troops, so that even if something goes wrong, , and it will not provide more organic matter to the organisms there."
Chu Guang replied casually. "I believe in my soldiers. They are much easier to use than bionics."
He Ya and Yin Fang both looked at Chu Guang in surprise, especially when they heard the word "use". However, the latter had an indifferent expression and stared at the video on the screen.
Just as we were chatting, "Team A" led by Lao Bai had already engaged the enemy.
And what’s interesting is that the slime mold fruiting bodies they encountered were completely different from the group of fruiting bodies in Qingquan City. They were skinny humanoid fruiting bodies, just like the walking dead in zombie movies.
But unlike those "zombie", these gnawing-looking fruiting bodies will not appear in dense clusters, but will hide silently in the corners of corridors and behind overturned display cabinets.
It will even lie on the ground and pretend to be dead. It will not wake up until someone approaches, and then launch an attack suddenly, turning this happy RPG game into a horror game.
The advancement speed of Player Team A and Team C slowed down significantly. Team B, led by Ye Shi, relied on its strong perception to predict the hidden dangers again and again, and quickly advanced to the area where the experimental logs were stored. .
However, although the fruiting bodies attacked unexpectedly one after another, the players did not suffer any damage, and no one was injured. Those skinny walking corpses could only scare the players.
No matter how weak the protection of the light cavalry's exoskeleton is, it will not be broken into pieces by the thin arm like a reed stick or bitten through by a few rotten teeth. Not to mention the power armor.
In the face of battleship-grade alloy steel, weak flesh and blood are like paper lakes.
Lao Bai didn't even fire. He directly pulled out the mace hanging on the armor and smashed the walking corpse that rushed up with two bangs. In a battle at such an extreme distance, rash firing could easily cause a fire. With ricochet, it is easier to accidentally injure teammates by reflexively pulling the trigger. In contrast, cold weapons are easier to use.
"It is estimated that the long closed period resulted in the slime mold in this area not having enough nutrients to develop stronger fruiting bodies, coupled with the lack of hunting demand...these fruiting bodies are produced entirely for scavenging and energy conservation." He Ya touched his chin and fell into thought.
After getting the promise from Chu Guang to "give the B6 floor to her for use," she finally focused her attention on the slime mold on the floor. Chu Guang thought for a moment before speaking.
"The lack of organic matter prevents the slime mold here from secreting large amounts of spores... Hey, why do I feel that this is the same as slime mold No. 7 in the Lost Valley?" Yin Fang also nodded.
"The difference is only in the degree of wealth... Lost Valley is a desert, and this is equivalent to a space station that cuts off supplies." Chu Guang suddenly looked at Hea.
"Wait a minute, you said before... slime molds born in different evolutionary environments are incompatible with each other and will not exchange each other's genetic information. But what if slime molds were also born in an environment with scarce resources? Or in other words
In other words, are slime molds with similar evolutionary environments compatible with each other?"
He knew that the question he described was a bit difficult to pronounce. After all, he was not a professional biologist, so his wording was relatively unprofessional, and the idea that just popped up in his mind was also very abstract. Hea thought carefully for a while and answered.
road.
"In the situation you mentioned, interspecific competition and genetic information exchange should occur at the same time...or to put it more directly, it is engulfment."
Chu Guang: "Swallow?"
"Well," Hea nodded, "it's just my guess. If a and b are different varieties that evolved in an environment where materials were scarce, then a and b will always have a part of each other's genetic material, which is exactly what they want.
interested……
At this time, that part of the genetic material will be actively or passively inherited after one party devours the other."
"The genetic information of slime mold is not a simple line of code, but more like a "library" composed of countless lines of code."
"When cultivating fruiting bodies, the mother nest or mother will select a required genetic code from this library to make the fruiting bodies it needs. Even if the number of chromosomes of the gnawer and the tyrant are different, they are born in the same mother's nest.
They still belong to the same collective. In this case, they are not individuals in the full sense, but more like organs of a huge individual... This is what I call a hive society.
"If you want to fully understand this kind of creature, you must obtain their parent body and collect the original gene pool used to synthesize fruiting bodies. That is the source of all fruiting bodies and the template for all evolved bodies.
Just when Heya was popularizing science like Chu Guang, the players who went deep into the B6 layer finally encountered real trouble.
A shrill roar suddenly swept from the end of the corridor. A gray-black power armor was seen standing at the end of the corridor.
Its stature is burly, not inferior to the "Dragon Cavalry" power armor, and even surpasses it in terms of physique. Judging from the faded paint, it should be a police model. The moment I saw the armor, I was stunned.
Bai's heart wrinkled with warning signs.
The mace in his hand was thrown violently, like a meteor hitting the face of the powered armor. With the double bonus of strength attribute and armor engine, even if a tank was blocking it, a dent would still be made.
Come.
However, the powered armor just waved its arm and smashed the hammer away. The action did not pause at all. The legs of the powered armor slightly bent forward, and then it rushed towards it like a cannonball.
Bai raised the rifle in his hand and emptied a bunch of bullet clips, but did not leave a single dent on the armor.
Seeing that the 7mm bullet could not break through its defense, Lao Bai simply threw away the rifle in his hand and pulled out the hot-melt cutting ax hanging on his waist. However...
The evolved body was still one step ahead of him. Before the ax could be raised, the shoulder armor of the evolved body came into close contact with his breastplate.
"Duang-------------!"
The two Iron Pumps collided together, and the sound of metal collision echoed in the corridor. The distance was too close and it was difficult to support. The three teammates behind could only watch the two gods fighting. Their right hand was tightly held by the left arm of the evolved body, and they almost almost
The fallen Lao Bai managed to stabilize his body, looked at the gap on the side of the helmet, pulled out the combat knife with his left hand, held it backwards, and stabbed it with a sudden blow!
The air flow carried by the arm had almost blown into the helmet, but the arm that was smashed down was held up by the other arm of the evolved body. The bright blades and ax blades hung on the helmet, but
No progress can be made.
Shocking chunks of flesh squirmed under the broken armor, and the unused nuclear energy was transformed by the slime mold into the most primitive and direct power. From the gap in the broken armor, Lao Bai faintly saw a scarlet light.
That is the sight of a predator. Behind the instinct of killing and bloodlust, burning is an appetite that is more terrifying than hatred.
It's very hungry...
Lao Bai felt a little bit of difficulty with his arms being restrained. While he pressed down with all his strength, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised.
This guy is even harder to deal with than the Decay Knight!
"Grass!" Qi and blood surged in his chest! Lao Bai roared and activated his talent in the power system. The strength of his hands instantly doubled, and the sharp edges of the axe and dagger were pressed down an inch.
The mechanical components of the powered armor on both sides made an overwhelmed creaking sound. The evolutionary body occupying the powered armor was forced back half a step, and an impatient and harsh scream emerged from the gaps in the armor.
Taking advantage of the opportunity for it to move backwards, Lao Bai suddenly kicked it on the knees.
Under the terrifying strength, the knees that were bent outwards were suddenly stepped on and folded backwards.
The evolved body lost its balance and fell to the side. Lao Bai then stabbed its head with a dagger and stirred it violently.
However, what was unexpected was that the guy whose brain was stabbed acted as if nothing was wrong.
Lao Bai suddenly realized. This guy's nerve center is not in his head!
Maybe there isn’t even that thing at all! “Put some distance away!”
Ye Shi's voice suddenly came from the communication channel.
Lao Bai was overjoyed, and before the evolved body could stabilize its body, he kicked it on the chest again, knocking it to the ground and staggering backwards.
The rotten and thick alloy arm clasped the wall on one side, and the stiff fingers scraped against the wall, making a tooth-piercing friction sound.
The moment the two powered armors pulled away, Ye Shi, who was lying at the end of the corridor, setting up the "Viper" Gauss rifle, had already completed aiming and pulled the trigger.
"Bang------!" The light of the electric arc flashed for an instant, and the mass bullet that burst out of the barrel was instantly accelerated to Mach 4.5, and the roar of the sonic boom echoed throughout the corridor.
The attack comes from behind! Targeting the most vulnerable areas of the power armor.
The evolved body had no time to react, and the durability of the poorly maintained armor was already stretched thin. Faced with the terrifying armor-piercing ability of the electromagnetic gun, it was instantly shot through. And the evolved body was carried forward by the kinetic energy of the mass bullet.
At the same time as he staggered forward, Lao Bai, who seized the opportunity, violently swung the melt cutting ax and struck it with one blow. A hot red light flashed.
The airflow as hot as magma instantly cut open the armor on the left shoulder of the evolved body, poured in through the cracks in the armor, and instantly burned the soft tissue inside into coke. The scarlet light finally faded away, and the evolved body knelt down heavily on the ground.
Move again.
Ye Shi, who put away his rifle, stepped forward, glanced at the evolved body lying on the ground, and said with a sigh.
"Good guy... Slime mold can actually use power armor!"
Unlike the "Decay Knight", the nuclear battery of this power armor is obviously still working, but most of the electronic components inside the armor have been damaged.
"They can even drive Titans, let alone powered armor..." Lao Bai walked over and patted his shoulder, smiling and saying, "Great job! You guys have already done it?" Ye Shi said with a smile.
.
"It's done... The mother body is not in the laboratory, and there is nothing there. We took away the experimental log there under the instructions of the manager, and then he ordered us to go around this corridor to support you...
What about you?"
Lao Bai shook his head.
"Not found... We have searched most of the area, and we haven't even seen the shadow of the mother body."
Ye Shi was stunned for a moment.
"Is it where the strong wind is?" Almost at the moment he finished speaking, a pop-up window flashed on the VMs of all the players.
After seeing the text in the pop-up window clearly, Ye Shi's expression suddenly changed. "Damn it...my crow's mouth is open!"
Lao Bai didn't talk nonsense. He reached out and picked up the rifle on the ground and the mace he had thrown out before. "Let's go! Help him!"
...B6 floor. Biological laboratory computer room. Rows of chassis displayed on metal shelves were seen, completely engulfed by dark red slime mold.
The room covering an area of hundreds of square meters was full of wriggling fungi. The entire computer room seemed to have turned into a sea of slime molds. There was no place to stay under the steps at the front entrance!
Translucent egg-shaped flesh-red films floated on the ocean, like cocoons made of silk, stirring restlessly.
"It" seems to have just woken up.
I am excited about the sudden recovery of the "climate" and the prey that has not visited me for a long time!
Looking at the scene in front of them, Fengfeng and the teammates behind him had a blank expression on their faces. He swallowed, quit smoking and looked at the smartest guy in the team.
"How... how to recycle this?" Guangfeng shook his head solemnly.
"I don't know..." The chassis has been completely submerged by the sea of slime mold. Each chassis is completely stuck. Not to mention finding the hard drive hidden in a certain chassis, even how to access the rows of chassis is a problem.
I always felt that there would be big problems if I stepped on these slime molds. After thinking for a moment, Fang Feng calmly analyzed it.
"Anyway, we have to clean up the slime mold here first... I'm afraid this is not an ordinary slime mold nest, maybe it is a shrunken mother's nest."
Including quitting smoking, the three players standing behind Guangfeng whispered to each other.
"If I read correctly, the mission requires us to recover this guy..."
"Recycle? This has turned into a fucking swimming pool... No matter how many inhibitors are used to stun it, how do we get it out of this house?"
"I'm tired, just blow it up."
"It's impossible to explode...the experimental data we need to recover is still in the hard drive of one of the chassis."
Players performing missions are in a dilemma.
The same goes for Chu Guang, who is sitting in the browsing room watching the battle. It is very simple to eliminate the brood there. It is enough to allow players to bring heavy weapons into the B6 floor and insert a 155 into it to detonate it manually.
If one shot is not enough, use two.
When a heavy grenade is detonated in a closed environment, the shock wave generated by the explosion alone is enough to kill the organisms in the room several times.
But the trouble is, the data stored in those chassis...
Because the transmission line was damaged, the data could not be remotely uploaded to the shelter's server, and the hard drive in the server could only be removed manually.
Don't say you can't use powerful weapons.
Pouring gasoline, pouring sulfuric acid and other operations may not work. At this moment, Yin Fang suddenly felt something in his heart.
“What if we fight fire with fire?”
Chu Guang was stunned for a moment.
"Fight fire with fire?" Yin Fang nodded excitedly, gesturing with his index finger while describing the genius idea he had just come up with.
"For example...introducing another mother body from the outside, using the incompatibility characteristics of different slime mold populations, and letting the mother body deal with the mother body!" Chu Guang was stunned for a moment, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
Good guy, drive away the wolf and devour the tiger! This idea... was unexpectedly good. Then just when he was about to speak to express his affirmation, Hea, who was standing aside with his arms folded, sighed,
"Where are you going to get the mother body? The mother body closest to us is also in the city center." Yin Fang was stunned for a moment.
Yan: “Isn’t the kind of nest that can produce gnawers the mother body?”
"That thing is called an incubator!" Hea complained. "They do not store the complete gene pool of the entire population. At most, they can be regarded as production organs and signal relays for producing certain products! They are separated from the mother's body or mother's nest.
Covered with spores, they will shrink in a short time. If you get that stuff in, it will at best serve as fertilizer for the slime mold inside."
Having said this, Hea, who was still obsessed with the No. 7 oasis ruins, added another sentence immediately after.
"However, this idea is not completely bad. I heard that there seems to be a relatively benign mutant slime mold in the Lost Valley... If we can get the mother body there, maybe we can not only eliminate the slime mold on the B6 layer, but also
Get a group of benign bacteria!”
This is indeed a good idea.
It would be better if there wasn't that Titan.
A monster that couldn't be killed by a nuclear bomb, he would hit it with his head!
Pretending not to see the dazzling look in his eyes, Chu Guang coughed lightly and looked at Yin Fang who was standing aside. "Hea is right...this method still needs to be discussed."
Hea: "Well, what I want to express is actually -----"
Chu Guang interrupted her and continued.
"Anyway, before deciding what measures to take to deal with the slime mold there, we should first investigate the experimental logs to see if the research results there are worth the risk we take."
With that said, Chu Guang looked at Xiao Qi who was sitting on the desk and ordered. "Xiao Qi, ask the team on the B6 floor to withdraw with the experiment log." Putting his right fist on his chest, Xiao Qi replied playfully.
."receive!"
The mission is half done.
It is true that only half of the rewards Chu Guang gave to the players were given out.
Insert the memory card that holds the experiment log into the holographic computer pen, and a blue holographic image is quickly projected in the center of the reading room.
The first thing played was a holographic image.
In the image, there is a strange man standing, talking to someone outside the camera. He is wearing a shelter uniform, and the label on his chest has the characters [G-13] printed on it, which should be his.
serial number.
From the perspective of the filming, neither he nor the person he was talking to realized that they were being secretly filmed. "...This planet has been polluted, in other words, it is hopeless."
"This is a more cruel method of extermination than neutron killing. These slime molds are designed to destroy us and are more adapted to our homes than we are. They will not kill us directly, but will kill us in our lives.
Places grow wildly, chasing our footprints and squeezing our living space. Our descendants can only abandon the city and migrate to the suburbs, or stay and become their fertilizer!”
"The little inheritance we leave to our children will eventually dry up. As the level of production continues to decrease, this planet will no longer have the soil to accommodate advanced production relations. Our civilization will grow in the opposite direction, first declining to
Feudal society, then slave society, and finally tribe...
Until we turn into beasts and are eventually replaced by something even more savage."
"Yes, our black box is still working, but what about a thousand years from now? What about ten thousand years from now? Once the trend is formed, it will be difficult to reverse. If these problems cannot be solved now, the situation will only be worse in the future...
····By that time, let alone a professional biological laboratory, our descendants may not even be able to build a microscope, so how can they use it to study those things?”
"This is not alarmist. In fact, the regression of civilization has already begun before winter is over. Look at the community we monitored. Is it called "Bloody Hands" or something...
I bet those people won’t be smarter than monkeys even if they survive this winter!”
"The seeds of barbarism have invaded their brains. They will become the source of chaos, using the most primitive methods to plunder the wealth of civilized people like the ancient nomads. At least the survivors in this suburb cannot escape their clutches."
"I don't understand why the professor acquiesced to the guard, risked exposing the location of the shelter, and used precious radios to help those hopeless idiots... No matter what his purpose was, the guard committed suicide, and his
The plan undoubtedly failed, but I can't put my chips on a loser!"
"But he is the manager, or do you have any better ideas?" The man standing opposite Researcher G-13 finally made a voice, and the whole scene was no longer a one-man show by Researcher G-13.
Perhaps seeing the heartbeat on the man's face, Researcher G-13 continued with excitement.
"certainly!"
"Slime molds are very adaptable. We will be stronger than them. The ones who will be swallowed will not be us, but them!" The man continued to ask hesitantly.
"How do you plan to do it?" "Synthetic matrix!" G-13yx researcher answered with a decisive voice, and his idea was unexpectedly different from the immature idea Yin Fang proposed before.
Conspiring together.
"We can cultivate mature somatic cells into embryonic stem cells, and we can also reversely restore mature fruiting bodies to the mother's nest!"
"We will recompile the gene pool of the brood and let them change into our shape under our interference!"
Those childlike eyes and nets shone with the light of ambition. Researcher G-13 continued speaking in a steady voice.