The building standing in the thick fog slowly fell over, and was smashed to pieces on the ruins like tofu pieces. The splashed gravel flew hundreds of meters into the air, and the dust picked up by the air flow was blown a kilometer away.
Outside...
Staring blankly at the slowly collapsing building, the red tapir's eyes first flashed with disbelief, and then gradually turned into fear.
It took a long time before he squeezed out a sentence through clenched teeth.
"day……"
Champion Biological Research Institute…
The core of the underground research area!
The church’s hard work over the years!
These ignorant wastelanders actually blew it up!
The fruit-nagging fungi in the entire Jinhe City area have lost their core heart, and the collapse of the Kingdom of Heaven is inevitable. They do not have time to build a new mother nest for this land. It is not a project that can be completed in a short time.
Since the collapse of the kingdom of heaven is inevitable, the church can only abandon this parish and come back when the time is right.
The biological soldiers deployed in the city are retreating towards the south under the cover of gray fog. Among them are Goliaths and some bat-winged people who are not dead.
Most of them are mindless monsters induced and synthesized by mutant cubs. They are deformed products from head to toe, but the deformity is just right.
In addition to assisting in experiments, the Qi Tribe's other great use to the church is to provide newborns that can be used as raw materials.
But now, even their final usefulness has been lost.
Even with the use of modified prosthetics supported by the church, the Qi tribe still failed to stop the alliance's attack. Almost all the able-bodied warriors died on the front lines, leaving only the old, weak, sick and disabled hiding in the underground transportation network of Jinhe City.
Whether as soldiers or as breeding tools, they are not the most suitable choice, not to mention that there are many "ancestral sects" among them who are incomplete and conservative.
Although it is a pity to lose this almost perfect pastoral area, today's Qi tribe has lost even its last value.
However, Red Tapir's heart was full of unwillingness.
It wasn't out of sympathy for his allies. He didn't like those ugly green-skinned animals at all. He had always regarded them as an "inconvenient but temporarily irreplaceable" tool.
What really makes him unwilling is that for the eternal kingdom of heaven to come to this land, both the church and the tribunal have sacrificed too many people.
However, in the end, this was the result...
He couldn't accept it!
That traitor...
If Luo Gan hadn't suddenly disappeared just before the Kingdom of Heaven came, they wouldn't have lost so miserably!
If that Luo Gan could launch an attack on that airship as soon as the kingdom of heaven came, the alliance would never have the chance to last so long!
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and the red tapir almost broke his teeth.
Just when his emotions were about to reach their peak, a voice he had heard somewhere came from not far away.
"Do you think it's my fault?"
"who?!"
Chi Tapir suddenly turned around, only to see an old man with a dull golden light standing two steps behind him, his fierce eyes instantly narrowed into slits.
"...Luo Gan!"
Luo Gan looked at him calmly.
Those empty eyes seemed to pass through his body again, looking straight at the collapsed tall building not far away.
After pondering for a long time, he slowly spoke as if talking to himself.
"Sometimes I suspect that there may be a slight deviation between the ideal and the reality... In order for the final plan to be realized, we did do something wrong."
"Maybe we should have a good discussion with our followers, ask for their opinions, at least ask them if they are really willing to go to the heaven we envision, otherwise they will unite even if we are at the end of the sea of suffering. Rising up and desperate to overthrow us."
Looking at the red tapir who had raised his gun, Luo Gan suddenly smiled, with a hint of self-mockery in his voice, and continued in a light tone.
"Shoot."
"If you have a way to kill me, it might not be a bad thing."
Thinking about it this way, that manager is indeed not simple.
The first time he saw himself, he saw through what he really was.
However, the irony is that these servants who are loyal to the Sanctuary know nothing about it... They are obviously the closest existence to the Sanctuary.
The red tapir looked at him with disdain, spat, and did not move the muzzle of the gun.
"You are so pretentious! The sanctuary is just a chip installed in your brain. Don't think I don't know! Just put-"
"As long as every person with a chip is killed, as long as every chip is taken out and crushed, Luo Gan will disappear from this world... Is that what you think?"
Luo Gan looked at him with pity and continued.
"It's a pity that even I don't remember how many versions of myself I buried in this land, and the real me died twenty years ago."
All the forerunners who entered the sanctuary have died.
This is also the prerequisite for entering the sanctuary.
In order to carry out the will of the Torch unswervingly, they sacrificed themselves before sacrificing everyone else.
Looking at the astonished red tapir, Luo Gan slowly left a meaningful sentence.
"Every me is me, and every me is not me. I split the soul given to me by the Creator into countless parts in exchange for time that does not belong to me, and the price is that I can never close my eyes. Maybe this is the Creator Punish me."
"But fortunately, at least in the end I did the right thing."
The red tapir stared at him intently.
"……What's up?"
However, Luo Gan had no intention of telling him, and just turned his back to him.
"You don't need to know, this has nothing to do with you."
"My mission has ended. I can no longer accompany you on this road to the new world. Please tell the other forerunners for me."
"We will never meet again."
"Wait! Stop!" Seeing that the figure was about to disappear from here, the red tapir stared at the back of his head and roared.
The old man didn't pay attention to what he meant. His figure was slowly becoming dull, and his breath was disappearing.
The look in his eyes gradually turned into madness, the red tapir's index finger trembled, and he finally pulled the trigger.
"boom--!"
The piercing sound of gunshots echoed in the streets.
However, the one who fell was not the old man who turned into a phantom and disappeared, but his partner Tang He - the sniper with a thin crew cut and his left eye replaced by an electronic eye.
The 9mm bullet entered through his right eye and came out of the back of his head, bringing out a stream of plasma and brain spray, which sprayed onto the broken shop window on the street.
With an expression of shock and madness, the man fell heavily to the ground. It seemed that he had never thought that he would be pointed at by his partner who had worked with him for many years, let alone that his partner could actually shoot.
The left half of his head was blown off by a wastelander, and now the right half of his brain was blown off by a teammate.
This time there wasn't any left at all.
Looking at Tang He lying motionless in a pool of blood, the red tapir's expression changed from stunned to dull, and then from dull to frightened.
"No……"
"Tang He?!"
"There must be... there's something wrong! That's right! I remembered that it was Luo Gan who took over your body... I, I just want to help you drive him out."
His lips trembled and he took a step back, the muscles on his face twisted into a ball, he held his head with his hands, and let out a heart-rending cry.
"Ahhhhh!!"
He suddenly remembered.
The Sanctuary is not on the ground from beginning to end, and can only be seen by the chosen person - in other words, that guy is not occupying his partner's body, but in his head.
Suddenly, he saw his own reflection on the blood-stained window, but that face was not his own, but that of Luo Gan who had just disappeared.
"I'm going to kill you!!!" He roared at the top of his lungs, pointing the gun at his chin, and his breathing became increasingly rapid.
His face turned the color of pig liver, and he finally closed his eyes with determination and pulled the trigger.
The bang of the gunshot almost shattered his jaw, but the bullet did not penetrate his jaw, but grazed his cheek and flew into the sky.
"Haha...hahahaha!"
He laughed loudly, raised his gun and fired into the sky, his empty eyes full of madness and distortion.
The sound of gunfire attracted the attention of people nearby.
He saw at the end of the street, an armored vehicle with a gun barrel heading towards it, surrounded by a group of soldiers with live ammunition.
The helmets covered most people's faces, but he could tell that the faces hidden under each helmet were Luo Gan's.
"Hey……"
He let out a breathless laugh, raised his pistol and pointed it at the group of people at the end of the street. The moment he pulled the trigger, he seemed to see a flash of fire.
And then--
His consciousness fell into the boundless abyss...
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"Another cyber madman found."
Sitting in the turret of the armored vehicle, Mole stared at the broken body lying in the middle of the street, and continued speaking concisely into the headset.
"Lao Na, go up and have a look."
"receive."
Standing up from the side of the wheel, Yin Leina stepped forward with a rifle.
Previously, the big brother standing in the middle of the road fired a burst of gunshots into the sky. They thought someone here needed help.
As a result, as soon as they came over, this guy pointed his gun at them, and was taken away by a sudden burst of fire.
Looking at the lake of flesh and blood embedded in the exoskeleton, Yin Leina smacked her tongue, squatted down and inspected his relics, and soon touched a silver weapon badge covered in blood.
Engraved on it are two inverted triangles, which are the symbols of the torch.
There is also the coat of arms of the Inquisition on the back.
"They are the executioners, and the one next to them should be the same... They have the logo of the tribunal and military tags with their names and blood types on them. They are equipped with exoskeletons equipped with optical camouflage plug-ins, a sniper rifle, and an assault rifle. , two pistols and some ammunition, EMP grenades, etc... No disguised explosives were found."
Standing up from the side of another guy whose head was shot, Yin Leina continued speaking in the communication channel.
"They seemed to have an internal conflict. The guy named Red Tapir first killed his accomplice with one shot, and then tried to commit suicide, but failed... Of course, this is just my speculation."
Elf King Fugui smacked his tongue.
"Outrageous."
Suddenly thinking of what happened yesterday, a player who was following him spoke.
"By the way, is this the sniper we met before?"
Another player touched the back of his head.
"That should be the case. I heard that the brothers of the Burning Legion suffered a terrible loss at their hands...but it's really strange."
"strangeness?"
"What about Goliaths? Those big guys... In terms of combat effectiveness, they are much more capable than those guys with wings."
Listening to the whispers in the communication channel, Mole thought for a while and said.
"I guess I gave up."
Elf King Fugui said with a smile.
"You're giving up now?"
"Well, after all, the brood nest has been destroyed, and this gray fog will probably dissipate soon."
The mole looked up and saw a ray of sunlight stretched by the gray fog that had broken through the thick cloud cover and was shining on the ruins.
"Except for the Qi tribe...the church seems to have no reason to continue to persist."
After pausing for a moment, he looked at Lao Na who was still touching the body in front of him, and shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Drag the body into the car first, and then dig it out when we get back. There is still work ahead!"
All mutants in the Champion Biological Research Institute have been wiped out, and the Torch Church has also withdrawn from this area.
Now, it's the turn to hide from those beasts in the subway...
…
The deck of the Heart of Steel.
The Viper transport aircraft, dragging a blue plasma plume, slowly landed.
Two flight crew members wearing exoskeletons jumped out of the cabin carrying a boxy metal bracket and carefully placed it on the trailer.
In the center of the metal bracket, an approximately spherical container is fixed. It is shaped like a water droplet and is as large as a gas tank.
But what is stored inside is not gas, but helium-3 in a superfluid state!
Although it is only missing one neutron, the technical content of this thing is so much higher than that of ordinary liquid helium superfluids.
As we all know, the superfluid of liquid helium was discovered almost immediately after people successfully prepared liquid helium.
However, its isotopes do not have this treatment.
Since helium-3 lacks a neutron, it becomes a particle similar to a fermion and cannot assemble together according to the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
It is precisely for this reason that "whether helium-3 exists in a superfluid state" has been an unsolved mystery in physics for a long time.
It was not until later that people discovered that when the temperature is low enough, helium 3 can also form Cooper pairs through the interaction of atomic nuclear spins, and this also resulted in the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics - David Osherov, Robert
In the laboratory, others finally achieved helium three superfluidity at an extremely low temperature only two thousandths of a degree higher than absolute zero.
Although it is unclear why these nuclear fuels are preserved in a superfluid form, the huge technological reserves of this world are indeed quite astonishing compared to the world where the players are.
To store one liter of helium-3 superfluid, only a "gas tank" with a volume of about thirty or forty liters is enough.
Even two people can carry it.
It is no exaggeration to say that the "helium-3 storage technology" contained in this gas tank alone is an amazing harvest for the new alliance.
Not to mention the staggering amount of nuclear fuel.
There are a million similar containers in the warehouse in the underground research area, all stored on container-like shelves, with a total storage capacity of up to one thousand cubic meters!
Before the building collapsed, the nuclear fuel had been moved to a safe location.
Although I don’t know why the Torch didn’t transfer this batch of fuel to Haiya Province, no matter what their intentions were, this batch of fuel is now in the hands of the Alliance.
For a long time to come, the Alliance will no longer have to worry about energy issues!
In addition to nuclear fuel, players also recovered a batch of mechanical prosthetics and modified equipment from the Champion Biological Research Institute.
Many of these are the legacy of the War and Construction Committee.
Just like the Boulder Military Industry inherited by Boulder City, the "Champion" Biopharmaceutical Research Institute, which originally belonged to the Central War Research Institute of the People's Federation, is also one of the legacies left to Singularity City by the War Construction Committee.
It's just a pity that they didn't use the facility properly, and even ended up on the road to self-destruction.
Yin Bosi is very interested in these devices, which will be packaged and sent to Jushi Military Industry for disassembly and reverse engineering.
Although it is a pity that the researchers affiliated with the Torch were not caught, there are experienced technical workers and engineers in Boulder City who are enough to figure out the secrets hidden in those devices...
The deck of the Heart of Steel was busy in full swing, and the bridge, which served as the command tower of the entire ship, was also not idle.
Vanus and other officers are directing the operations of the ground troops.
Chu Guang still stood at the same old place out of the way, staring at the blue holographic window in front of him, listening to Hea's report on the latest research progress of the Alliance Biological Research Institute.
"...The biotechnology the Torch has mastered exceeded my original expectations. The technology they have mastered is not entirely brought out from Vault 117, such as the biomass armor, some of which have DNA fragments and mutant slime molds.
There are similarities."
After listening to Heya's statement, Chu Guang frowned slightly.
"I remember that Naguo too."
"Yes," Hea nodded slightly and continued, "Including the mutant with bat wings, and the giant mutant named Goliath... A large number of mutations can be found in their chromosomes
DNA fragments related to slime mold. Not to mention the nago mold you mentioned. From the nago core to the bacterial colony to the spores released by the hyphae, the entire system composed of nago molds is designed to imitate the mutant slime mold.
of."
When he said this, Hea paused and continued in an uncertain tone.
"It's hard to imagine that this is the result of research they completed in twenty years... Do you think it is possible that those people obtained the technology left over from the three-year war in an ancient battlefield or ruins in the south?
"
Chu Guang's heart moved.
"You mean...colonial rebel biotechnology?"
Hea nodded seriously.
"That's what I think...although it's just a guess."
Chu Guang fell into thinking.
This possibility cannot really be ruled out.
In fact, it is not only the fruit related to mutant slime mold, but also the mind interference technology mastered by the Torch Church.
What they used was not the version of Vault 401, but more like an upgraded model with more power and wider coverage.
If he remembered correctly, the psychic interference device was a joint research project between Qingquan City's Third Ecological Park above Vault 401 and the Colonial Research Institute on "an alternative to the infrasonic fence device."
Due to the scandal that later broke out, research on mind interference devices was halted by censorship agencies in 2113.
However, the information left in Vault 401 did not mention whether the project was completely terminated, or whether the home planet simply did not continue the research, while the colony was still looking for "an efficient alternative to the infrasonic fence."
And it is not regulated by any censorship agency.
If it's the latter case...
This kind of mind interference device is very likely to have been used in the military.
Even the mutant slime mold mother nest, which is a biological weapon, is itself a hive creature born based on a psychic interference field?
The more Chu Guang thought about it, the more he felt it was possible.
"...It is worth digging deeper into the technology source of the Torch Church. I will ask my subordinates to pay attention. If you have any new clues, please tell me immediately."
"Well, leave it to me... Oh, by the way." Just as he was about to hang up the communication, Hea suddenly remembered something and continued, "What happened to the person you sent to Shelter 79?
?”
Hearing her ask about Yuer, Chu Guang thought about it and said casually.
"That guy is a former researcher at the 'Champion' Pharmaceutical Research Institute, and he participated in the development of anti-radiation agents and radiation elimination agents."
The Big Horned Deer God should be interested in that guy, after all, even the coffee and biscuits in Vault 79 are championship brand.
Eighty percent of the people there are fans of the Champions Group, and it might be interested in chatting with that guy about past events.
Hea was stunned for a moment and looked at him in disbelief.
"You actually managed to find such a talent."
Chu Guangdan smiled faintly.
"To be precise, he is a war criminal. If he does not make any significant contributions, he will have to spend the rest of his life in Vault 79. I will trouble you to keep an eye on him in the future."
Hea nodded seriously.
"I'll keep an eye out."
After the communication ended, Chu Guang turned off the holographic equipment and looked out the floor-to-ceiling window at the mist-shrouded land.
With the capture of the False Brood, the war in Jinhe City has come to an end.
The next step is to clean up the battlefield and clean up the mess, and think about how to deal with the Haiya Province that has entered the fourth stage.
But before that, the Alliance still has a "wave" that is about to break out to deal with, and tomorrow he plans to drive the Heart of Steel back to Dawn City.
As for Jinhe City.
It shouldn't be a big problem to leave it to Hanshuang and the Kangmao Group behind it.
Chu Guang's requirements for it were very low. As long as it could hold on for a period of time and wait until the alliance could free itself from its own affairs, it would be enough.
At this time, the sound of opening the door and footsteps came from behind.
An officer came up behind him and stood at attention, placing his right fist against his left chest and making a military salute.
"Report!"
Chu Guang turned around and looked at him and said.
"What's up."
"A mutant who calls himself the Priest of the Strange Tribe wishes to discuss surrender with you. It claims to be willing to offer its loyalty to the Alliance."
"surrender?"
Chewing the word playfully, Chu Guangdan glanced at the officer.
"Have I declared war on them?"
Although those guys were all natural laborers, after seeing the "ranch", he had lost interest in transforming them.
It's a mistake that something like this can breathe.
He doesn't care whether the remaining mutants are the warring faction or the peaceful faction. It will be better for the Alliance and the world to completely exterminate them.
The officer was stunned for a moment, then saw the manager's look, and gave a military salute with a serious expression.
"yes!"
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(Thanks to the leaders of "Oppa Likes You" and "Dark Star Emperor" for the reward!!! I shouldn't have been showing off just now. I felt like I had a weak debuff when I came back from a trip, but I won't have to worry about running out of food in the next few days.
...)
Introduction to "I Invented at Hogwarts": After Rigg joined Hogwarts, the pressure came to Azkaban. When Voldemort escaped from the trap, he was killed by a railgun from Harry Potter.
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"Rig, this is much easier to use than a wand!"
Unable to stand it, Vera rubbed her hard and pushed her again.