As the Heart of Steel floated above the clouds, a "Viper" transport aircraft drifting from afar restrained the plume of the plasma engine and stopped on the steel-paved deck.
Four men in gray robes, escorted by four players wearing exoskeletons, walked out of the Viper's cabin.
One of them suffered a gunshot wound to his left leg, which was simply bandaged, and he walked with a limp. The other three were not shot, but their gray-headed faces clearly suffered a lot.
But here, no one will sympathize with them.
They are all apostles of the Torch Church, or war criminals.
In just a few hours, at least tens of thousands of survivors died directly or indirectly from the interference of the 03-band of the psychic interference device.
There are countless people who suffer from mental breakdown.
About twenty soldiers from the Guards Regiment were waiting beside the tarmac early.
Seeing the group of soldiers with live ammunition, Yule's face turned slightly pale when he was standing in the middle.
He is the head of the parish of Pinecone Wood Farm and the head of the research on Band 03. If he is captured, the Tribunal will definitely not leave him alone.
However, seeing these guys and the airship under his feet, he doubted whether the tribunal had the ability to fish him out.
"Anti-gravity device... you have actually recovered anti-gravity technology!" He muttered, but no one paid him any attention.
In order to prevent him from hiding something like a locator or listening device, a soldier stepped forward and put a metal ring equipped with a shielding device around the necks of him and the other three apostles.
One of the apostles tried to resist, but after receiving a shot from the butt of a rifle, he regained his composure.
Looking at Ye Shi walking up to him, Lu Bei raised his right fist and knocked on the left side of his breastplate, then gave a neat military salute.
"Thanks for your hard work."
"You're welcome, say hello to the manager for me, and I'll leave the rest to you." Ye Shi said with a smile as he returned the military salute.
Lu Bei nodded, watched him return to the plane, and then led the four gray-faced guys toward the elevator.
There was no communication along the way.
Yule finally lost his composure and asked, "Where are you... planning to take us?"
Lu Bei didn't say anything, and went straight to a door, knocked on the door, and then pushed it open.
Looking at Zhao Tianqian lying on his back, Yuer's pupils shrank suddenly, his face became paler, and his Adam's apple moved unconsciously.
The man in blue power armor looked him up and down, then looked at the soldier standing next to him.
"Come one by one, the others will find a place to lock up first."
"yes!"
The man nodded respectfully, then waved his hand and led a group of soldiers to take his three colleagues to other places.
Soon only Yule was left at the door.
Standing alone at the door, he saw the man wearing blue power armor looking at him. He accidentally met his eyes and suddenly felt a shiver in his heart.
Those pupils were as deep as black holes.
Just looking at each other for a moment, he felt as if his soul had been pulled out of his body, exposed to the sun without reservation, and burned by the light.
No secret can be hidden...
As a researcher, he does not believe in such an ethereal thing as the soul, nor does he believe that there are really people in this world who can read a person's soul through their eyes.
However, he still couldn't help but avoid looking.
At this time, the man spoke. "What's your name?"
"Yul." He didn't want to say a word at first, but he blurted it out subconsciously, which also made him feel a little annoyed.
Chu Guang looked into his eyes and continued. "Do you know what you are doing?" Yuer raised his head and stiffened his neck and said, "Clearly..."
He originally thought that the man would ask him the reason for doing this, but in the end the man had nothing.
asked, simply nodding his head.
"That's good."
The tone in which the matter was concluded made Yule feel a little surprised.
Why does this guy act like he knows everything when he clearly didn't say anything?
Could he really be able to read minds?
There was a trace of panic in Yule's eyes, but he soon felt ashamed of this stupid idea, and the panic gradually turned into anger.
How could there be such a metaphysical thing!
This guy must be bluffing!
If you think that he will be so easily frightened and explain everything in one go, then you don't understand him very well.
If this is a necessary sacrifice, then sacrifice yourself.
Yul raised his head, pretending that he would rather die than give in, and spoke bluffingly with a stiff neck.
"Haha, I can't say a word -" Before he could finish his words, a pair of glasses hung on the bridge of his nose.
His vision was blurred by the dark lenses, and Yuer was slightly startled.
This is……
For a moment, he seemed to have thought of something, and his expression suddenly changed.
Memory Extractor?!
Why do these guys even have such a thing!
"wait for me--"
Unfortunately, the word "said" hadn't been uttered yet. As the electric sound of "buzz" penetrated his eardrums, his consciousness was instantly cut off like a computer that had been forcibly shut down.
"Hey."
Dragging Yule from behind, Hanshuang vigorously dragged him to the corner and sat beside him.
Staring at the unconscious Yuer, Chu Guang's expression showed no mercy.
That memory extractor was seized from the Enlightenment Society. Its working principle is to use the most fearful fragments in the user's subconscious to weave dreams, seal the user's memory, and only allow it to be retained bit by bit, and repeatedly
Peel away the cocoons until nothing is left.
The more you resist, the more painful it will be.
In theory, this device can not only squeeze people's memories, but also help people remember things they don't even remember.
Because it would cause a certain mental load, he would hardly use it in interrogations.
If he was deceived, coerced or had unspeakable difficulties, he would give the guy a chance to confess and be lenient.
But this guy said it himself and he knew it.
In this case, he would not have any complaints if he was treated in the same way. Compared to the survivors of Pinecone Farm, this punishment was still too light for him.
Looking at the puppet sitting on his shoulder, Chu Guang asked.
"Xiao Qi, how long does it take to retrieve memory?"
Putting her index finger on her chin, Xiaoqi, who had already connected to the memory extractor, closed her eyes and thought for a while.
"Well, an hour or two should be enough?"
Speaking in an uncertain tone, its eyes suddenly opened and it let out a light sigh before continuing, "...This guy actually has a bionic chip installed in his head?"
Chu Guang frowned slightly.
"Any questions?"
Xiaoqi looked at Sun Eclipse standing aside and whispered.
"Eclipse, can the security program on the chip be taken care of? I'll forward it to you."
Sun Eclipse nodded expressionlessly. "It's not a big problem."
While saying this, the light blue data stream was reflected in the center of its pupils.
After receiving a positive answer, Xiao Qi quickly looked at Chu Guang and gave a thumbs up proudly.
"It's not a big problem, Master! Feel free to leave it to Xiao Qi!"
Chu Guang: "..." Forget it.
All in all the results are good.
The memory retrieval is quickly completed.
In fact, the normal process would take a lot of time, but Xiaoqi placed the memory retrieval program on the shelter's server.
Data processing for shelter servers
Capabilities are completely different from the processors that come with portable electronic devices.
A less vivid comparison is that one is a rocket and the other is a bicycle.
It's like adding nitrogen acceleration to a bicycle.
An hour in a dream is only half a minute in reality.
In fact, if there were not a limit to the speed at which the brain can process information, the speed at which memories can be read would be even more exaggerated.
However, even if Xiao Qi had shown mercy, the apostle's brain, whose memory had been drained, was still bearing a considerable load.
Although the person has woken up, he is no different from a vegetative state, and is even more exaggerated than a vegetative state.
Looking at You'er who kept walking towards the wall with a babble in his mouth, Chu Guang couldn't help but have a strange expression on his face.
"So is he awake now or not?"
Xiaoqi's expression was a little subtle.
"Uh... I'm probably awake, but not fully awake."
"What's the meaning?"
"To put it simply, the scene he saw was still the dream formed based on his memory, but the brain had actually restored control of the body... So in our eyes he was walking against the wall, but in his own eyes,
He probably just walked from the living room to the kitchen now."
To put it simply, it is a high-ping warrior?
Obviously in the eyes of other players, they have been walking towards the wall, but in the eyes of the players themselves, they have walked from package point B to the middle gate.
Chu Guang's heart moved.
"Like sleepwalking?"
"Well, although there are some differences, the meaning is almost the same."
When speaking of this, Xiao Qi added in a low voice.
"I suggest it's better to tie him up...otherwise he might eat strange things for breakfast."
"Like shoes or something."
Chu Guang nodded, looked at the soldier on the side and ordered him to take this guy to the solitary room and tie him to the bed for two days.
Don't let this guy get into trouble.
Several young players passing by happened to see the guy walking towards the wall, and they immediately started whispering to each other excitedly.
"Is this npc stuck on the wall?"
"Bug! It's a bug!"
"Awesome, this game is really buggy!
Although every version is watched and planned to fix bugs, no one has ever seen what the real bugs look like.
This time we can see it!
Ignoring the prisoners, Chu Guang returned to the captain's room alone, sat on a chair, picked up the virtual reality device on the table and put it on his head.
He tapped the side with his index finger and said.
"Xiao Qi, help me connect the retrieved memories."
The energetic voice soon reached his ears.
"Okay master!"
As soon as he finished speaking, light blue light particles spread from the center of his field of vision to the surroundings, changing everything he touched into another appearance.
First the floor, then the tables and chairs, then the walls - the room under his feet changed from the captain's room to a pure white room.
Chu Guang has never seen this place before.
But from the nurse who delivered the baby, the baby lying in the mother's arms, and the man who looked like his father standing next to the hospital bed, he could probably tell that this was the delivery room.
People in the delivery room were busy, and the couple discussed sweetly what name to give to the child in their arms.
No one noticed the stranger standing in the room.
After all, this is the memory of "Yul", and he does not belong here.
Chu Guang stretched out his hand and passed through the nurse on the side. Then he walked to the window and looked out the window.
The green plants outside the window are lush, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant... I didn't expect that even such details were perfectly restored.
"Why did you send me here?
?" Chu Guang's voice was filled with a hint of helplessness.
He has no interest in understanding the life of some little person.
Even though this memory may be important to that person, it is insignificant to him and this wasteland.
If he really could read these twenty or thirty years of memories from beginning to end, he wouldn't have to do anything else.
Light blue light particles flashed.
Chasing Chu Guang into this memory, Xiaoran, who had transformed into a human doll, sat down on his shoulder, swaying his calves and said shyly.
Sorry, Master, I'll drag you in.
Degree bar!
Looking at Xiaoran's shy smile, Chu Guang always felt that this guy did it on purpose.
Seeing that the master didn't speak, Xiao Ran asked in a low voice with a guilty conscience.
That started when he joined the Torch Church?
Well wait.
Just as Chu Guang was about to nod, his heart suddenly moved and he noticed a detail.
Looking beyond the lush green plants outside the window, you can see towering buildings and the endless flow of cars from a distance... even the ideal city is inferior to it.
This is obviously not a wasteland.
This guy was born before the war?
...Starting from the memory before he entered the dormant cabin," after a pause, Chu Guang changed his words and continued, "I want to know which shelter he entered."
However, Xiaoqi's answer was beyond his expectation.
"He is not a shelter resident." Not a shelter resident? Chu Guang frowned slightly.
"Then take me before he enters the hibernation capsule... I want to know the reason why he chose 'time travel' and how he went to the future."
With that said, Chu Guang left the window, walked to the bedside table, and looked at the holographic screen suspended above the electronic clock.
It is the year 2100.
The 75th year of the Prosperity Era.
At this moment, the prosperous age is at its peak, and people have built a utopia on the earth, and they have obtained infinite satisfaction, both materially and spiritually.
And just ten years later, in 2110, industry and academia will once again liberate people's imagination of a better life in the future.
The graviton channel and FTL engine will officially open the door to the interstellar era. The ticket to the world beyond light years will no longer be a one-way ticket with no return, but an adventure that anyone can take.
Of course, not all good things come with the future. Taking a step forward can discover new treasures, but it also means the arrival of more new problems.
For example, just 13 years later, the psychic interference device developed to replace the "infrasonic fence" was originally used to drive away dangerous alien species that harassed the colony. However, suspected brainwashing and human body abuse were exposed in the Third Ecological Reserve of Qingquan City, its home planet.
The shocking scandal of the experiment.
The incident was so big that even the authorities were implicated, but it was obviously just a minor episode for the people living in Utopia.
Chu Guang felt that even if he could talk to the people in front of him across time and space, no one would believe that the baby lying in swaddling clothes at this moment did something that would make even Satan stunned two hundred years later.
And if he told the people here that it was just a small episode in the distant future, and that all the good things will end in 29 years, he would probably only be regarded as a strange lunatic.
It is the year 2100.
There are only 29 years left until 2129, the first year of the Wasteland Era...
He vaguely heard that the mother named the child in her arms "Yu Er", and then Chu Guang saw the scenery around him fly by with the progress bar dragged by Xiao Qi.
Like many people of that era, Yule had a happy childhood, successfully entered school, and then found a job...
When everything settled down, the clean and bright delivery room had turned into a simple and spacious office. From the wide floor-to-ceiling windows, you could see floating clouds and tall buildings like a sea of forests.
Young man in formal suit standing in front of desk
, talking excitedly to his boss sitting behind the desk.
Chu Guang did not listen carefully to the content of their conversation, but immediately paid attention to the clues containing time information.
Soon he found what he was looking for on a holographic billboard outside the floor-to-ceiling window -
It is now July 13, 2121.
Three days later is the day when a hot-selling home security robot will hold a press conference. The pre-order price is only 100,000 credits - but these are not the main point.
According to the history that Chu Guang knows, Vault 79 and its "Yongshi" plan were launched last year.
There seem to be signs that the prosperous age is coming to an end.
People began to feel anxious about the future, consciously or unconsciously, and the consensus that tomorrow would be better was gradually replaced by doomsday theory.
And anxiety itself is a business opportunity.
Companies selling home shelter solutions and protective gear have made fortunes, and his company is certainly no exception.
Chu Guang glanced around the office, and when he saw the documents on the desk, he was surprised to find that, my dear, this is actually the headquarters of "Champion" Pharmaceuticals!
The researchers at Vault 79 are all die-hard fans of this company, and even the coffee beans are branded by this company!
But——he always wanted to complain.
Is it really okay for pharmaceutical companies to sell coffee? The conversation between the two people in the office gradually became clearer.
"...radiation resistant agent?"
After reading the report in his hand, the boss touched his chin, the expression on his face was unpredictable, and the employee standing in front of him described it in an exaggerated tone.
"That's right! I bet that this new anti-radiation agent will definitely become the next growth point of the company's profits! And it will be an explosive growth!" The two of them are not Yuul.
But this is Yule's memory, and the guy is obviously nearby.
Chu Guang looked around but couldn't find it, but soon he had an idea and thought that the guy was only 21 years old and might just be a newbie in the workplace, so he immediately walked outside the office.
Sure enough, the guy was at the door.
He was holding a briefcase in his hand, his eyes were wandering around, and some very subtle expressions could be seen. He must have just left campus not long ago.
Although he looked younger, there was no doubt that this boy was the person he had just interrogated.
Seeing Yuer paying close attention to the conversation in the office, Chu Guang also focused on the two people in the office.
If Chu Guang guessed correctly, the new project they were discussing at the moment was the formula of "synthesizing radiation anti-radiation agent using 'blue mushroom'".
In a sense, this formula has indeed saved many people.
At least most of the mercenaries in Boulder City relied on this stuff to survive. His first pot of gold in the wasteland was also earned by selling that mushroom.
"...To put it more professionally, it is DNA self-repair technology! We have discovered a special active substance in a blue fungus that can repair macromolecules damaged by neutron rays in the organism."
"It's a good idea... but with all due respect, medical nanobots can do a better job."
Putting the report in his hand on the table, the man who looked like a boss interrupted the subordinate's ramblings in front of the desk, spread his hands and said.
"We are a technology company, and with all due respect, using mushrooms to make medicine... sounds like the idea of ancient people."
However, Yule's senior did not give up, but continued to argue with reason.
"War, friend, I'm talking about war years! Of course I know that nanobots can perfectly repair damaged macromolecular nucleic acids, proteins and enzymes, but where can you find that kind of thing in war years?"
"Compared to nano-medical robots that require a huge industrial chain to support, my plan will be much more practical! Even if the worst happens, suppliers are completely paralyzed, and raw materials around the world are skyrocketing, we
It is still possible to provide our consumers with cheap and reliable anti-radiation drugs... Of course, it is also possible to be slightly more expensive.
Yes, we have an unparalleled cost advantage!"
This time, the boss sitting behind the desk did not say no immediately. He touched his chin with an interested expression on his face.
"Sounds interesting."
Everyone felt that parting ways with the colonies was a high probability event, and war seemed to have become the only way to resolve the differences.
To this day, nuclear weapons are still the most efficient means of erasing living things from the surface of the earth. The only difference is the method and scale of delivery.
A high-quality and low-cost anti-radiation agent is undoubtedly much more practical than any nano-robot in an era when radioactive dust is rampant.
In the end, Yule's senior successfully convinced the two bosses.
Even though this process was not easy, he wasted a lot of time.
Looking at the seniors walking out of the office, Yule immediately stepped forward and asked.
"How about it?"
A bright smile appeared on the senior's face.
"It's done! The boss promised to lend us the research institute in Jinhe City. As long as we can produce visible results, he will fight for us at the board meeting for more budget... Time waits for no one, you
Pack up the information before getting off work, we will set off early tomorrow morning!"
Hearing these words, Yule's face showed surprise, and he clenched his fists excitedly. However, he was so clumsy that he held back only one sentence for a long time.
"Very good!"
The senior smiled slightly and patted his shoulder. "Come on."
Looking at the two people walking towards the elevator, Chu Guang had a look of surprise on his face.
If he remembered correctly, the "Champion" Group only had one research institute in Jinhe City - the one given to him by the academy.
At this moment, that research institute is controlled by mutants...