"...You have been frozen for too long, and your hematopoietic function has not fully recovered. A blood transfusion may be better for you."
Outside of Vault 0.
In a tent at the base, a doctor in a white coat looked at Yi Hai lying on the hospital bed and said.
"No, I feel very good." Yi Hai declined the doctor's kindness and looked at his brother standing beside the hospital bed with tired eyes, and said in a gentle voice, "Can you let me rest for a while?"
Looking at his brother lying on the hospital bed with concern, Yi Chuan nodded.
".····...Please pay attention to rest."
Although there are many things he wants to say to his brother, considering that he has just been rescued from the hibernation capsule, what he needs most at the moment is rest.
Yi Chuan stood up from his seat and walked towards the door.
However, just when he reached out to lift the door curtain, he happened to meet Chu Guang walking from outside.
"Chu Guang?" Yi Chuan looked at him in surprise, thinking he was here to find him, so he asked, "What's the matter?"
Looking at the representative of Silver Wing Group, Chu Guang said with a friendly smile.
"There are some things I want to talk to your brother about. Can you take up a little of his time?".
Seeing that Chu Guang was not looking for him, Yi Chuan was slightly stunned. After listening to his request, a troubled expression appeared on his face.
"But he needs to rest now—"
Before Yi Chuan could finish his words, a voice from behind him interrupted him.
"It's okay, let Mr. Chu Guang come in."
Yi Chuan immediately turned around and glanced at his brother with a strange expression, who just said he was going to rest, but in the end he didn't say anything and let the door open.
Chu Guang gave him a look of thanks.
"Thank you. Leave this place to me. You can go about your business first... Don't worry, I won't disturb your brother for too long."
Yichuan nodded.
"Okay... then you guys talk first.'
"Um."
Chu Guang nodded, borrowed it from Yi Chuan, walked straight to the hospital bed, took an iron chair and sat on it.
Looking at the blue armor on his body, Yi Hai smiled weakly and said while lying on the hospital bed.
"You are still the same, always wearing this armor."
Chu Guang smiled faintly.
"After all, this is a wasteland, and any accident is possible... I'm honored that I left such a deep impression on you."
"Of course, it's a special place, different from all the places I've been to, not just you, but you... a lot of people have left a deep impression on me and my teammates."
That pale face was full of weakness, but the man on the hospital bed still managed a friendly smile.
"It's a pity that we had a mission at the time and we couldn't stay too long, otherwise I really wish I could be there
Stay a little longer...and see how many delicacies you have hidden in the shelter."
Hearing him talk about their common memories, Chu Guang smiled, suddenly sighed softly, and said with some sadness.
"That night I said... when you recover a little, we can sit together and have a good chat about what happened to us after you left."
"I'm really curious... what happened to you, how you have changed so much in just six months." Yi Hai's voice also had a hint of emotion, and his eyes seemed to be lost in memories.
Chu Guang didn't speak, just stared at him silently for a while.
Those dark pupils made it difficult to see what he was thinking. Yi Hai looked at Chu Guang with a hint of confusion in his eyes.
"Is there something on my face?"
"No," Chu Guang shook his head, suddenly put away the sharpness in his eyes, and continued in a gentle tone, "Let's talk about what happened before we met you first."
Yi Hai said nothing and waited quietly for him to continue.
Chu Guang thought for a moment and continued.
"A long time ago, I had a long, long dream. In the dream... I was killed by wastelanders, killed by mutants, and tricked to death by my most trusted residents. In the most desperate
At this juncture, I touched the edge of the dream again and again. However, every time I was about to pass through the fog, I would wake up from the dream again. Sometimes I couldn't help but wonder, could this be the next time?
The beginning of a cycle.”
Yi Hai was stunned for a moment, seeing that his expression didn't look like he was joking. After a while, he sighed softly and followed his words.
"That's a really bad memory."
"Yes." Chu Guang nodded, "I rarely mention the specific content of dreams to people, even the people I trust the most."
After a pause, he continued.
"Although this statement sounds strange, it surprised even me...I don't hate the people I saw in my dreams."
An expression of laughter appeared on Yi Hai's face, and the corners of his mouth twitched twice as if he was smiling.
"This does sound strange...dreams and reality are two different things after all. Normal people should not hate real people because of nightmares."
Chu Guang also smiled and said.
"Really? Let alone dreams and reality, even people in reality are different. Some wastelanders are bad-tempered, but not all wastelanders are like this. I always tell myself to be cautious
Use the power in your hands, including the authority given to me by the shelter, put aside the arrogance and prejudice of civilized people, treat everyone as equally as possible, and use rules to restrain others. Only in this way can we unite as many people as possible."
"Whether they are residents in the shelter or survivors outside the shelter, they all have the right to live in this world equally, rather than who they are born to serve, who's desires and ambitions should be given priority, or who they should be.
Whose slave...do you think I did the right thing?"
Yi Hai was silent for a while and sighed sincerely.
"You are an excellent manager. No wonder you can keep your shelter in order."
This sentence sounded like a heartfelt compliment, and in fact it was so. However, to Chu Guang's ears, it had a different meaning.
Especially when he has noticed something.
This compliment was even more sarcastic.
It just so happened that Chu Guang didn't want to continue acting with him, so he looked directly into the pair of pupils that concealed hypocrisy behind weakness, and said in a very soft voice.
"I wasn't so proficient in my business from the beginning. I just gradually learned a little bit after getting along with the survivors for a while. So I actually don't understand it. If they are slave traders... they can still use the environment to do so.
Justify yourself with ignorance. However, as the heirs of civilization’s heritage, why do you want to join in those people? Haven’t the People’s League given you enough?”
"Complicit with...those people?" Yi Hai was stunned for a moment, and his expression gradually became serious, "What do you mean? You mean...there are moles and mutants trading in the company?!"
This guy was still acting stupid until the end.
Chu Guang admitted.
He actually pretends to be quite similar.
If this guy had been so careful from the beginning, or if he hadn't made his pride so obvious, he might have really fooled me.
After all, when facing the wounded, people will instinctively treat them with tolerance instead of harshly criticizing them for explaining every detail. Even if they sometimes find inconsistencies in the transcript, they will tolerate it and interpret it as normal after trauma.
reaction.
However
Some things can be explained by memory confusion,
Some things are impossible.
People may mistake the order of events and confuse the key people in the event due to confusion in memory, but it is impossible to predict things that have not happened without reason.
Almost at the same time, Xiao Qi's voice came from his ears, reporting to him what his little players had discovered in Vault 0.
Even if the walls of the shelter can block electromagnetic waves, they cannot block the connection established on the "morphogenesis field".
"Stop pretending... The real Yi Hai must have died in that shelter."
Seeing that Chu Guang had made it clear, the man lying on the hospital bed finally stopped acting.
He completely tore off the mask of weakness, his pale face was distorted due to emotional fluctuations, and a gurgling laughter came from his dry mouth.
It looked like a crazy corpse.
Chu Guang looked at him calmly.
He knew that this guy must have been holding back his laughter for a long time, and he might have been holding back his laughter from the moment he woke up.
It seems that he has laughed enough.
The distorted face returned to normal. The man let out a long breath and looked at Chu Guang with a happy expression.
"Huh...it's really hard not to laugh, you know? The stupid way you guys are busy around me is really funny, haha!"
After a pause, he looked curiously at the man in power armor in front of him.
"Chu Guang, right...I'm still a little curious, how did you find out? Those guys shouldn't have come out of the shelter yet, right?"
Chu Guang said in a calm voice.
"Although you acted very similar, even your surprise when you saw me, your feelings for your brother, your emotion when you saw the rescuer... everything was performed, but you have too much information.
"
"You know all about the Vaillants, the mutants, the Initiation, and the Initiation's final betrayal." 2
"It's strange, isn't it? It's as if you were involved in everything, including the conflict with the Valantians and the mutants, including the cooperation with the Enlightenment and the ultimate betrayal by the latter... In the end, you returned to everything without incident.
starting point."
"Smart," the man looked at Chu Guang with admiration, "I appreciate you more and more... Yes, I am a member of the Enlightenment Society."
"But I still don't understand something," Chu Guang stared at him, with a hint of curiosity in his voice, "How did you disguise yourself as Yi Hai?"
"Ah... this, is it difficult?" There was a happy smile on the man's face, and his reaction was beyond Chu Guang's expectation.
He didn't hide anything and confessed straightforwardly.
"Have you heard of mind interference devices?".
Chu Guang nodded.
"I have heard that some people similar to you have the same technology, but if I remember correctly...the higher the mind, the more specific the information can be received, but the relative impact is smaller. The lower the mind, the more information can be received.
The less information you receive, the greater the relative impact."
This technology first originated in the colonies and was developed inspired by the "unified consciousness" of alien life forms. As a substitute for the "infrasonic fence" technology, it was later used by an unscrupulous company to visit the ecological park.
From customers, products worth less than a bottle of mineral water were sold at sky-high prices, which almost subverted the advertising industry.
The mind interferometer can control some alien species with immature minds, but for humans with mature minds, the impact it can have is just to push them when they have the idea of "buying it", let alone the advanced version.
The spirit takes over.
"The resonance theory is indeed true," the man continued with a smile. "Theoretically, it is impossible to control higher life forms through the resonance theory. The mental complexity of higher life forms is tens of thousands of times that of lower creatures. However,
There are exceptions to this.”
Chu Guang stared at him for a while, and suddenly a trace of surprise appeared in his eyes.
"...Clone?"
"That's right, especially the kind with a mind as pure as a blank sheet of paper." The man nodded approvingly, "Thanks to those Weirant people, I now have at least a thousand instant clones on my hands. I just need to choose a height."
It’s almost the same, it’s enough to give him plastic surgery and chip implantation surgery.”
"As for the problem of memory, it is easier to solve it. Before this guy is cool, just put his consciousness into the virtual space and slowly interrogate him. Through imaginary dreams and subconscious, there are always ways to find out what we don't know.
The content is squeezed out.”
When he said this, he paused deliberately and slowed down his speech.
"But having said that, I have to praise you. Your shelter really left a deep impression on this guy... Among the 1,700 dreams, at least 320 were scenes about you. Maybe he
My last wish before I die is to visit your place again, haha."
Not irritated by his provocation, Chu Guang took a deep breath and continued to ask.
"So the crew of the Pioneer are all dead?"
The man smiled and said: "How could it be? If I didn't let one go on purpose, would you have come all the way here?"
"From the moment the Pioneer entered this area, all of you... whether you are inside or outside, are under my calculations."
"It seems that you are very satisfied with your plan." Chu Guang raised his chin slightly and looked down at the ugly and twisted personality.
It's like looking down at a maggot.
However, the man didn't care about it. Instead, he seemed to get pleasure from the look in his eyes, and nodded happily to admit it.
"Of course. Originally, I expected that only companies and legions would come here, but now there is an unexpected addition to the academy... It couldn't be more perfect!"
Suddenly something occurred to him and he stopped talking again.
"Ah, maybe four, but unfortunately, I have no interest in you. A three-digit shelter. In our place, there are many managers of two-digit shelters."
Chu Guang stared at him.
"Is enlightenment going to happen?"
"That's right," the man said simply, "the residents who can be selected to become the shelter are without exception the elites of the People's Federation society, or at least the descendants of the elites. This world should be controlled by us... But it is a pity.
Now this cake is covered with mantises, so we plan to clean them off before cutting the cake."
When he said this, he suddenly changed the subject, rolled his eyes, and stared at Chu Guang.
"But having said that, although I am not interested in your shelter, I am quite interested in you personally. According to the rules, you manage a three-digit shelter, and even if you join us, you have to start as a disciple, but I
We can make an exception and let you become an elder."
Chu Guang chuckled.
"Your level classification is quite interesting. You actually use the shelter number to rank the seats."
The man said matter-of-factly.
"That's for sure. The ranking of the shelter represents the priority of the budget. The higher the ranking, the higher the social status before the war."
The first half of his sentence is indeed true, but the second half is obviously just his own understanding, which is at least different from the information Chu Guang himself learned.
"Then what's your number?"
"Me?" The man was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud, "Of course I am 0."
"By the way, I haven't told you my name yet...but forget it, the name is just a code name, and that kind of thing isn't important in the first place."
After a pause, he looked at Chu Guang happily.
"You can be like my disciples."
"Call me Guixu!"
The smile on that face is simply like a devil.
He was lying here, looking at the people from the company, the legion, and the academy, in the maze he had set up with his own hands.
He was busy in front and back, wandering around. And his true body should be somewhere not too far from here.
The only thing Chu Guang can be sure of now is that the technology he uses is not the same morphogenesis field as Vault 404, but is based on the resonance theory originated in 2111, so the transmission of information will be affected by interference factors.
Otherwise he should know everything about what's going on underground.
"But I heard that Vault 0 was not completed."
"It means that you, like the cuties on the Pioneer, know nothing about the Torch Project."
Guixu continued nonchalantly.
"But this is normal. Vault Zero originally existed outside the sequence... It is not a real-life shelter, but a building composed of multiple components. Each of its components has been carefully
Designed to complete the final plan - to clear the planet of all organisms outside the sanctuary, and to complete the restart of civilization before the legacy is exhausted."
When he said this, Guixu smiled.
"The underground shelter is just one of many facilities. We originally came here just to pick up one thing, but unfortunately we couldn't find the key to get in. Thanks to the cuties on the Pioneer for helping us."
"You know what? Seeing how understanding they are, I thought they knew what they were looking for. But I didn't expect that they had never even heard of the Torch Project. It was just because of a legend that could end the wasteland. It was really hard for them to rely on it.
I found it here with a lot of information... Hahaha, what a pity." He shook his head with a smile and continued.
"I originally wanted to get them to join the team, and the descendants of Vault 6 are not impossible. For this reason, I talked a lot of nonsense with them carefully, just like now."
"However, after listening to my explanation, the guy named Lu Yang not only stupidly rejected me, but also betrayed me treacherously. He threw the maternal specimen hidden on the Pioneer and killed many of my men.
Locked in."
When he said this, he looked up at the clock on the wall, and the smile on his face became even happier.
"Thank you for chatting with me for so long. The thundercloud storm should have arrived in this area, and it should have started thundering outside... From now on, no news can get out from here. But don't worry, no matter it's from the Pioneer
The crew, whether it's the Wilrantians or the Academy, they all go home safe and sound...and we send our best wishes to your families.
At this moment, the guy who called himself Guixu finally confessed all his plans.
He not only wants something hidden in the underground shelter, he also plans to use this opportunity to replace everyone here!
Just like he usurped Yi Hai's identity.
As long as they control everyone here and extract their memories through virtual reality equipment, they can use the Legion's clones, plastic surgery and mind interference technology to pretend to be dead people, while arranging disciples to serve as servants or other identities.
Live next to the puppet to complete the infiltration of legions, companies, and colleges.
Chu Guang had to admit that this guy and his enlightenment meeting were really extraordinary.
Declare war on three fallen empires at the same time, plus a new alliance.
This kind of behavior is usually called getting tired of living.
"No wonder you told me everything without any worries." Chu Guang said with emotion as he looked at the guy lying on the bed.
Guixu smiled faintly.
"Yes, your only chance to survive is to join us. To be honest, without my cooperation, it is a thankless task to seize the manager's authority, not to mention we have no interest in taking them away from the disciples.
The rights. As long as you cooperate with our work, you and your residents will gain the rights to survive in the new world."
"Has my status been downgraded from an elder to a disciple? But it's a pity that I have no interest in the new world you talk about."
Chu Guang chuckled.
While speaking, he had closed the visor of his helmet.
"If you want my life, then come and try."
As if expecting his answer, the man lying on the bed just yawned indifferently.
"Then let's try it."
A thundercloud storm has formed.
In this special climate environment, the aircraft cannot take off at all, and the signal transmission distance is also weakened to the extreme.
In order to prevent the shield energy from being wasted for no reason, the two airships hovering above began to lower their altitude.
However, at this moment, a harsh alarm bell suddenly sounded in the sky.
Chu Guang frowned slightly and immediately pulled out the nitrogen-powered hammer from his back. The violent airflow spread instantly and blew the entire ceiling of the barracks away. The debris in the barracks was also blown around.
"Do you want to kill me? It doesn't matter. Although it's a pity to be asked out of the special seat, I will watch you from other places." Guixu chuckled, looked at the murderous Chu Guang, and continued, "But
Before that, I suggest you keep an eye on the top of your head."
There is no need for him to remind me at all.
Chu Guangzheng looked up at the sky.
The two airships floating directly above the camp were seen sinking at an uncontrollable speed. The propellers on both sides of the ship were spread out and turning rapidly. However, the limited thrust was obviously unable to support the heavy body.
It wasn't just Heart of Steel that fell.
There is also the judge not far away!
Chu Guang narrowed his eyes slightly.
Phase energy rectifier!
There is only one possibility to make the airship's deflector shield and anti-gravity system fail at the same time.
At this time, Yi Chuan, who had left the camp earlier, hurriedly rushed in from outside.
"The airship is falling?! What the hell happened--"
His words suddenly stopped.
Looking at Chu Guang holding the war hammer, looking at the ceiling that was blown away, and then looking at his brother lying on the hospital bed, Yi Chuan's face was filled with shock and bewilderment.
The smile on the man's face in the hospital bed suddenly gave him a strange feeling, as if something had gotten under his brother's skin.
not only that.
That smile that had nothing to do with him made him feel the coldness that penetrated into his bones.
Not looking at Yi Chuan who was standing at the door of the barracks, Guixu looked at Chu Guang with a smile and said in a nonchalant tone.
"Under the instruction of the Enterprise, the Alliance suddenly opened fire on the Adjudicator, and Captain Adria requested reinforcements from Triumph City... What do you think of this script?"
Chu Guang replied expressionlessly.
"not so good."
"Indeed, I forgot about the academy," the man nodded thoughtfully, "Let me think about it again."
"Brother..." Yi Chuan looked at him blankly and wanted to take a step forward, but a big steel-covered hand fell on his shoulder.
"That's not your brother lying there."
After grabbing Yi Chuan who was about to move forward, Chu Guang did not look at the falling airship, but looked sharply outside the camp.
There are at least a thousand clones that this guy got his hands on...
Maybe even more.
Through spiritual connection, it is remotely operated by disciples of the Enlightenment Society... This sounds like a very strong sense of déjà vu.
"Aren't you going to run?" The man looked curiously at Chu Guang, who was standing there motionless, and reminded him kindly, "If you don't run, it will be too late."
"run?"
Chu Guang raised his eyebrows and suddenly smiled.