In the hazy fog, Jiang Xuezhou opened his eyes and looked blankly at the surrounding haze.
Suddenly, there was a slight tingling between her eyebrows. She raised her index finger and pressed it on her eyebrows. The moment her fingertips touched her, the vague memory gradually began to become clear.
The first thing that came to my mind was my name, followed by the day of my birth, and the surrounding environment changed accordingly. The blanket of haze turned into a vast expanse of snow.
"It's a girl..."
"...The activity of brain cells is good, the physical fitness is good, and the hormone levels are normal. He is a good seedling." "Thank you, doctor!"
"You're welcome, this is what I should do." "She looks like you."
"Then... let's call her Snow Island." "It would be great if she can pass the exam."
The silhouettes of memories flash by like a slideshow.
She saw two kind smiles, then saw the blurred outlines stained with hoarfrost, and then watched the voice gradually turn into a sad look.
"Mom...Dad..." 2 she whispered in her mouth.
I seem to have returned to my childhood.
At that time, the conditions at home were very difficult. Her father was on the scavenger team and her mother worked in a garment factory. Their staple food was potatoes, which can grow in cold zones. However, those were livestock entrusted to local management by the Science and Technology Commission. Most of the people had one
Not necessarily the week
A path in life.
As long as any family can train an apprentice, they can receive huge subsidies from the Science and Technology Committee... That is a wealth that everyone will envy. Her parents can live in
If her brother and sister can also change to a more relaxed position, they will all be envious of wealth. Her parents can live in a bigger house. Her brother and sister can also change to a more relaxed position and strive to contribute more to the Science and Technology Committee.
Two good seedlings.
And for the lucky person who becomes an apprentice, he will live a prosperous and comfortable life from now on, without having to worry about trivial matters unrelated to scientific research.
etc···
Haven't I already passed the assessment?
And he also became the researcher that countless apprentices dream of... Jiang Xuezhou suddenly had a trace of fear in his eyes.
How did I... come back?
Apart from everything she saw, she seemed to be unable to remember anything. An unknown force froze a certain part of her memory, limiting its flow rate, only allowing it to be released little by little, and stripping it of cocoons.
Study deeply.
"answer me."
The mysterious voice sounded again, with a bewitching power. "Recall carefully..."
"Apart from your closest relatives, who is the most important person in your life?"
The most important person besides close relatives?
There was a moment of confusion in her eyes. It seemed that there was no such thing at all...
After joining the exploration team, someone would leave every now and then. She had become accustomed to jumping from one step to another.
The people she met in different life stages are slowly forgotten...including her father, mother, brothers and sisters who she has not seen for many years and who may still regard her as an honor.
Thinking about it...
Her life seems meaningless, just a program that was designed just right and has been running pretty well so far.
It's just like..."NPC".
It was beyond her expectation.
She thought that the voice in the dark would be as disappointed with her life as she was, but what she didn't expect was that the voice seemed to be very satisfied with her slowness.
A person on the fringes of society is undoubtedly easier to replace than a person standing in the center of the stage.
People didn't have much memory of her, and they wouldn't be surprised by the dissonance and changes in her. It would be too easy to replace her.
It's so easy that one can't help but wonder whether there is any need to do this.
At this time, the scenery in front of her changed again. The cold wind passing through her neck made her tighten her neck, hugged her almost frostbitten arms, and squatted on the ground.
Only then did she realize that she was squatting naked in the heavy snow, and the boundless wind and snow seemed to be completely submerging her.
5 And in the distance, there are clusters of faint green light, like the eyes of alien species, or like the underworld fire that leads to hell.
Maybe... this is my ending.
Like most of the explorers who entered the ruins in confusion and died silently with confusion and regret, they still couldn't get rid of that boring fate.
Just when she was about to close her eyes and accept her fate, a figure suddenly walked out of the goose-feather snow.
He was wearing a jet black exoskeleton, and the bulletproof plate on his chest was dented by the impact. The howling wind seemed to have a great impact on him, and every step forward was difficult.
Who is this guy?
The voice in the shadow seemed to be confused and did not answer her question. The man called her.
"Hello."
A trace of panic appeared on her face, and she even forgot that her whole body was frozen, and she slumped backwards on the cold snow. "
"Stop talking nonsense, how long do you plan to sleep here?" The man walked up to her step by step, ignored her reaction, and grabbed her arm.
Jiang Xuezhou instinctively wanted to struggle, but the man didn't want to pay attention at all, and pulled him back hard without any explanation. "Let's go."
The last words she heard there.
The surrounding scenery changes rapidly like the window of a train, and the world built by the fragments of memory collapses in an instant.
In the blink of an eye, she seemed to have entered another world, and blocked memories flooded into her mind.
She was pulled back to the shore under the deep sea, and her incomplete five senses returned with a big gasp of breath. Just like from this moment, a hand took off the glasses on her head.
"ah!!
Jiang Xuezhou let out a frightened cry and quickly shrank to the wall.
Bian crossed his arms tightly, only then did he realize that he was fully clothed.
Her fair face gradually turned into the color of a lantern.
Fortunately, the person who took off the neural connection device on her head was not looking at her at this moment.
"Is this okay? I'll do my best whether it's okay or not." Ye Shi looked at Yun You aside and said.
Yun You, who put away the tablet, nodded, smiled and said.
"Well, we have successfully escaped. You did a good job."
"Really?" Ye Shi glanced suspiciously at the red-faced girl sitting in the corner and muttered, "But I feel like there's something wrong with this guy's head."
Yun You was stunned for a moment.
"Maybe... it'll be fine after a while?"
According to Zhuang Lan, if your xinxing is not strong enough, you will easily suffer from schizophrenia if you take off the glasses unless they are closed through normal means.
That is, wearing a neural connection device and connecting it to a memory retrieval device, entering a dream created by her memory fragments, allowing her to voluntarily wake up from the dream.
Ye Shi originally didn't want to go to such trouble, but the "Madonna" from Ideal City said she couldn't leave the little girl alone.
In order not to affect the subsequent plot, he had no choice but to go to the entertainment room in the living area to find a neural connection device with a universal interface, and then made a copy online with classmate Jiang.
Speaking of which, this guy seems to have had a long nightmare, in which there are alien species, mutants, predators, etc.
He counted and found that he had cleared at least six dungeons just now.
But in the end, the clearance was surprisingly simple, so much so that he felt like he had done nothing but give her a hand.
Then she woke up.
Fortunately, he waited for a few seconds.
Before the real-life equipment was connected to play the copy, the time bomb stuck on the floor-to-ceiling window had been defused by him and Yun You.
That thing turned out to be a miniature nuclear bomb with a yield of 10,000 tons.
Choosing to detonate near the reactor, it seems that the people from the Enlightenment Society planned to completely destroy the place after taking away the data here. Gradually recalling the whole story, Jiang Xuezhou slowly loosened his grip on his collar and blushed.
He lowered his head and whispered.
"······Thanks."
"No need to thank me, I just gave you a hand. If you want to thank me, just thank that person." 2
Ye Shi pointed at Yun You next to him with his chin, "A lot of the work was done by her, but I can't understand those codes." Jiang Xuezhou blushed and nodded, and whispered thank you to her.
Looking at this polite little girl, Yun smiled with her arms folded and said in a relaxed tone. "You're welcome. Although we have only been together for a short time, we can be considered partners who have experienced life and death together." Partner·
·····
Jiang Xuezhou silently glanced at Wali lying on the ground and Xiao Wang who was scrapped beside him. He bit his lips lightly, wanting to say something but not knowing how to say it.
Ye Shi walked over, took up Walli's arm, and lifted the Wilante man from the ground.
Although the man was already cold, he still had to give an explanation to the army.
"Let's go, don't keep everyone waiting too long." Living area.
Su Ming, Meng Liang and Pangolin, who had previously gone to the manager's office, were already here and were sitting silently at a dusty table.
Especially Su Ming.
After watching the previous video of Lu Yang, he seemed to have changed. He didn't say a word all the way from the manager's office to here.
Sitting between the two people, Meng Liang smiled bitterly, silently praying in his heart that his partner would come back quickly... At this moment, the door next to him opened.
Three people walked in from outside.
"I've kept you waiting for a long time." After sitting at the table, Yun You glanced at the three people at the table apologetically, and then looked at Jiang Xuezhou, "Sit down too... What we are going to say next
Very important."
Having learned the whole story on the way here, Jiang Xuezhou didn't say a word and silently pulled out a chair to sit on.
Ye Shi temporarily placed Wall-E in the corner, clapped his hands with a chuckle, and returned to the table to find an empty chair. "...Let's discuss it, about the Torch Project and this "0"
"Shelter No."
Su Ming coughed lightly and was the first to break the silence in the room. He looked around at everyone present and spoke.
"I can't represent the position of the company, but... as a citizen of Ideal City, I think we should destroy this place. After a pause, he continued.
"Destroy in the physical sense." The air was quiet for a while. "I vote in favor."
Pushing up her glasses, Yun You looked at everyone sitting here seriously and continued.
"...With the current level of mutual trust between the various forces in the wasteland, there is no communication channel. Once this evil weapon is unearthed, even if it is just a blueprint... everyone will fall into a prisoner's dilemma.
middle."
Ye Shi was stunned for a moment.
".·····What's the meaning?"
Yun smiled and was about to explain to this stupid kid who was confused but had a good mind. Jiang Xuezhou on the side walked half a step ahead of her and spoke with a complicated expression.
"This means that the first person to "press the button" will get the greatest benefit, so even people who are not interested in this weapon at all have to join this competition, because no one can guarantee that others are not doing this secretly.
plan."
Seeing that someone had already spoken for her, Yun You coughed lightly and said.
"·Just like she said."
In reality, the prisoner's dilemma is not absolutely unsolvable.
The reason why prisoners become prisoners is because there are no channels for information exchange. If the channels for information exchange are opened, many problems will naturally be solved.
However, this is the difference between the wasteland and real society.
There is not even a telephone line between the highest levels of the company and the college, and all parties from the collective social form to
Even an organization like the Alliance, which has a relatively small management scale, is troubled by who to contact when meeting with companies for the first time.
Not to mention that the academy and the legion focus on one route and develop a path on their own.
It has been a huge organization for half a century. Once it enters the prisoner's dilemma, there is almost no solution.
Jiang Xuezhou stared at Yun You intently.
"But how can we ensure that you didn't get those research data? You just proposed destroying this shelter because you didn't want others to get it."
Su Ming frowned, stared at Jiang Xuezhou and stood up. "Are you doubting us?"
"It's just a reasonable question, but your reaction now makes me feel even more suspicious." Being stared at by that murderous gaze, Jiang Xuezhou's face didn't look good, but he didn't give in at all.
What is related to this is no longer her, but the fate of many people...
Ye Shi glanced at her unexpectedly.
I always feel that this guy seems to have become different after coming out of that dream.
Looking at the angry Su Ming, Yun You coughed slightly and said in a calm tone.
"Su Ming, Ms. Jiang from the academy is indispensable. There is at least one person from all parties involved here... so sit down."
"" After hearing the unquestionable order, Su Ming didn't speak and sat back silently.
He didn't really think about doing anything to a girl, he just wanted to scare this guy, but it didn't work. If people from the academy died inside, the conditions for blowing up the shelter without any diplomatic risks would not be established.
Even if they could blame the death of the female researcher on the Enlightenment Society, no matter whether they believed it or not, they were forced to prepare for the worst.
After all, if a person dies inexplicably inside, and if he walks out of it openly, the results of the two gestures are completely different.
Yun You looked at Jiang Xuezhou.
"What can we do to make you believe it?" It was beyond everyone's expectations.
No embarrassing conditions were put forward for this opportunity.
Staring at Yun You's eyes for a while
I don’t believe you. Yun You was stunned.
Just when she subconsciously wanted to ask why, Jiang Xuezhou looked away as if embarrassed and whispered to himself.
"...If you want to keep it to yourself, there's no need to go to such trouble to save me, right? I'm just an insignificant person anyway."
"So I believe you."
"I also hope... I won't regret my decision."
"Hey... I told you earlier, it made us so nervous." Ye Shi breathed a sigh of relief and leaned back on his chair. Jiang Xuezhou stared at him angrily.
"Is it too much for me to think about such an important decision for a while?"
Ignoring this "ungrateful" guy, Ye Shi simply raised his hand. "I vote in favor."
The reason is simple. The alliance cannot win this competition. This is an objective gap.
Even if the legion's research and development capabilities and scientific research personnel reserves are superior to them, the advantages accumulated over time cannot be filled up in just a few days and months.
Just like there is only a wall between self-confidence and arrogance, but the results are thousands of miles apart. He is still self-aware of this.
What's more, being dragged into a scene where you can't watch
A race for revenue does the league no good.
It is foreseeable that, except for the final weapon to restart the world, this plan will most likely not produce any phased results that have a positive effect on society.
Also considering this issue, Meng Liang nodded. "Ye Shi and I have the same position."
Except for Ye Shi, everyone looked at the pangolin who didn't say a word from beginning to end.
There was only one person left who did not express his position.
However, the latter's answer did not surprise many people. "Vote in favor."
The tense expression finally relaxed a little, and a happy smile appeared on Yun You's face, and she looked at it gratefully.
In just that moment, they had almost accomplished a miracle that was impossible in this land.
People from four different places, the legion, the enterprise, the academy, and the alliance, at this moment, unanimously cast the same vote on the issue of the future destiny of civilization.
Just like a few months ago, two hundred years ago, or even more distant past...the same brave and ordinary people. They made ordinary but not simple choices.
The bomb timer restarted. The group evacuated the shelter.
Before leaving, they spent some time to move the twelve sleeping pods in Area X-13 to the entrance of the shelter. The crew of the Pioneer had been killed.
The people lying inside at the moment are all disciples of the Enlightenment Society. According to Zhuang Lan's confession, there is also a "guide" among them. In the organizational structure of the Enlightenment Society, the "guide" is between the elders and disciples, which is equivalent to many
Mentor to disciples.
Although it is easier for these guys to let them die silently like this, as relevant personnel who have come into contact with those deleted data, let them bring the secrets in their stomachs and this city that should never have come to this world from the beginning.
Being buried together in a shelter is the best option for those still alive on the surface.
As for Zhuang Lan.
Logically speaking, it should be left to those Weiland people to deal with it. After all, she killed one of their captains, but Su Ming and Yun You were both resistant to doing so.
"...We will not extradite anyone to the Legion. This is equivalent to selling criminals to slave traders." The pangolin was stunned for a moment.
"That's not good."
Before the alliance was established, they seemed to sell captured raiders to the mines in Red River Town. This was nothing to be ashamed of. He called it efficient.
But soon he remembered his role as an undercover agent, his expression suddenly changed, and he glared at Su Ming fiercely. "What do you mean?"
Dare you make me angry? Damn people from the east coast.
Su Ming ignored him, looked at Ye Shi who was holding back a smile for some reason, and continued. This is our
I think it is the management of the Enlightenment Society who should be punished.
Even if she killed the Legionnaires, I still feel sick when I think of what the Velantians did to the prisoners. They didn't just send people to work in the mines... Do you want to hear it?
?I have heard some from the merchants."
Ye Shi coughed.
"No way."
It’s better not to play too heavy a game with a happy face. He’s not the kind of person who has a bad taste. Besides, does this kind of thing require guessing?
When they captured the Heart of Steel before, they saved many poor people who were abused by those big noses.
A warlord collective that adopts a feudal system can become a small closed kingdom, as small as an airship or a manor, and the only thing that can restrain the behavior of these Weirant people is the moral sense of their immediate superiors.
This happens to be the least reliable.
Even if the Legion conquers half of the Middle-Continent, the most civilized place may only be the Triumph City under the rule of their Marshal. And even the Triumph City is only relatively civilized.
It is foreseeable that she will not be tried, and will only end up being tortured to death by the governor named Cohen.
"So I'll leave it to you. We won't hand her over to the legion anyway. You can do whatever you want." Su Ming shrugged and decided that person's fate with these words.
Ye Shi felt that this guy talked so much nonsense because he just wanted to throw the trouble to the alliance. However, such a result would not be harmful to the alliance.
Even if she is just a disciple, has the power and speed of three stages of awakening and is sent to participate in this kind of mission, she is at least an "elite monster".
If you put some thought into it, you might be able to get something out of her mouth.
With so many shelters and a geomantic treasure in the desert, there must be a lot of good things from the Enlightenment Society. Thinking of the wrong memory retrieval device he saw before, Ye Shi couldn't help but reveal a sinister look on his face.
Smile.3 How about just use that one?
He felt that it was reasonable for him to repay what he had done to others. It was necessary to make some suggestions to the managers.
"Hello····
The voice coming from the side interrupted Ye Shi's thoughts.
Looking in the direction of the sound, I saw a D-level researcher from the college standing there, looking like he had something to say.
This guy never gave him a good look, and Ye Shi had no interest in her, so he asked casually impatiently, "What's wrong?"
Jiang Xuezhou didn't speak for a long time.
Just when he was almost impatient with waiting, she said in a very small voice, "... Did you see it?"
"Huh?" Ye Shi replied casually without understanding what she wanted to ask.
Seeing this guy pretending to be stupid, Jiang Xuezhou blushed, gritted his teeth, and finally suppressed the words that came to his lips.
"Nothing." Ye Shi: "?" Damn it!
You have cat cakes!
Changing the previous topic in a hurry, Jiang Xuezhou continued. "By the way..."
Ye Shi rolled his eyes impatiently. "What's wrong?" Jiang Xuezhou asked in a low voice.
"That person...is pretending to be me, right?" Ye Shi: "Yes."
Jiang Xuezhou asked immediately.
"How did you recognize me?"
She had wanted to ask this question before she came out of the shelter, but she had never thought of how to ask it. Seeing the "adoring" look in her eyes, Ye Shi smiled sheepishly.
This one.
It's embarrassing to say that he is also a good player after all, but there are too many talented people in the group, so he usually can't show it off.
Especially in terms of intuition.
He's not bragging, no one in the entire server is more awesome than him. Even the old lady who has lived for more than two hundred years was frightened, and he came out.
·It’s completely different.”
Jiang Xuezhou was stunned for a moment.
"Completely... unlike?" Ye Shi said simply.
"Well, maybe my intuition is sharp. The moment that person stood at the door, I knew she was not you.
····Said as if I knew you very well."
Ye Shi waved his hand.
"You don't have to be familiar with each other, it's just that you are you and she is her... They are not the same person, how can they be the same."
The fair face gradually became tinged with a hint of red. Jiang Xuezhou stared at him and gritted his teeth. Finally, he snorted coldly and walked away.
Ye Shi stared at the guy's back inexplicably as he turned and left.
Hey.
It's really evil.
I originally thought that it would trigger a hidden mission, or maybe I would get some gold coins because I was so grateful, but I turned around and left.
When did I provoke this guy?
On the tenth night of the night, shortly after Su Ming and his team evacuated from the industrial building, a deafening explosion engulfed Shelter 0. The 10,000-ton equivalent released inside was enough to completely blow up the entire unfinished shelter, at least enough
Physically destroy parts of the server.
The "plan" brought out from the shelter and the video left by Captain Lu are enough to explain everything that happened here.
Although it is a pity that no treasure was taken away from it, this can still be regarded as a barely satisfactory result for all parties.
However, to everyone's surprise, the chain reaction caused by the explosion caused the surface to collapse. As luck would have it, the location of the power room was right below where the Arbitrator landed.
Before the people of Velant who escaped by hiding in the buffer cabin could recover from their shock, fire broke out again under their buttocks.
The shelter itself absorbed most of the blast wave.
If the impact had been larger, I'm afraid not many people would have survived...in the camp.
Adria found Chu Guang and said angrily, "What happened with the explosion just now?" Chu Guang looked at this guy with a strange face.
What does it have to do with me?
However, considering the other party's eagerness, he coughed lightly and comforted him without any pain.
"I heard that there was originally an unfinished shelter. Maybe it was in disrepair...the reactor exploded." After hearing this, Adria immediately burst into tears.
"How could third-generation controllable fusion explode? The critical temperature of that thing is several billion degrees!" It could be tens of billions of degrees, he couldn't remember clearly.
But one thing he knew was that it was not a gasoline barrel that could be ignited by throwing a lighter. Chu Guang shrugged, with a look of no comment.
said.
"I didn't know, I'm very confused now... I just hope that my people have come back from below, and they may know something."
Unlike the confused representatives of the legions, companies, and colleges, he actually knew a little bit about what was happening below. Pangolin could not wait to go offline and report the latest plot to him.
Although he was surprised by the players' choices, he still expressed respect. The Alliance really doesn't need that kind of thing.
He said he would stay with his residents until the end.
Looking at the furious Adria, Chu Guang smiled and continued. "By the way, if your airship really can't be repaired-" "No need!"
Before Adria could react, McClun, who had rushed to answer in advance, pulled him aside and stared at Chu Guang warily before answering.
"We can repair it ourselves, we don't need your help!"
General McClun, Chu Guang was stunned for a moment, and then said in a dumbfounded voice.
"We can repair it ourselves, we don't need your help!"
Looking at the suspicious General McClun, Chu Guang was stunned for a moment, and then said in a dumbfounded voice, "I haven't said anything yet."
McClung said with a dark face. "I don't want to know."
Several Weiland people rushed towards the industrial building.
Chu Guang guessed that they should have gone to find Wali to understand the situation, but unfortunately that man had been killed by the disciples of the Enlightenment Society.
At this time, his personal guard captain Lu Bei came from the side. With his right fist close to his chest, the young man said solemnly.
"...Sir, the Wolf Cavalry of the Death Corps has locked onto the phaser cannon attacking us, but has not found the enemy's headquarters."
Chu Guang frowned. "Didn't find it?"
Lu Bei nodded in shame.
"Hmm... According to a report from a Wolf Cavalry, the local headquarters should not be nearby. He found a signal tower in the area near the signal source. That signal tower seemed to be wired to connect with other
The terminal is connected, and it seems to be connected to a very far place.