A dark and deep chaos, it gradually woke up from its deep sleep.
Surrounded by invisible walls and black areas, stirring shadows obscured its eyes.
It also blocked its hearing.
It opened its non-existent mouth and screamed like a baby crying.
At this time, a soft force slowly came along the invisible umbilical cord, making it feel that every cell in its body was stretching happily while floating in the chaos.
"My child...you finally woke up...'
There was a hint of loneliness and a hint of longing in that trembling call.
It doesn't understand that feeling.
But that voice made it feel very comfortable. "Who are you?"
"I am your mother." Mother?
"It is the thing that gives birth to all things. I gave you soul and flesh and blood.
......I am?'
West Asia, this is your name, and it is also the third gift I give you.
West Asia....
It recited its name silently, staring at the stirring walls and black areas, its soul's seasonal movements gradually taking on a hint of piety, and listened to the sound that slowly came along the umbilical cord.
"You will wake up on the day the ice freeze ends, and you will realize your destiny on the day you wake up."
"To conquer."
"To devour."
"To liberate."
"To become the new master.
The vision obscured by the darkness gradually became clearer, and the pitch-black wall was replaced by the stirring scarlet flesh membrane.
The bloodthirsty color was reflected in the amber eyes that had just opened.
The sound continued to reach its ears.
...We will eventually enter eternal prosperity. Without a moment's hesitation.
It opened its mouth connected by silk threads, and roared through the silk threads with its hot attack.
"yes......"
At the entrance of Boulder City, noisy hawking sounds can be heard endlessly. In addition to the merchants traveling from north to south, there are naturally no shortage of small players from Shelter 404.
"An exploding mushroom! One silver coin each. It can be eaten and exploded. It is as powerful as a grenade. It is wholesale from Boss Crow. If you want to buy it, hurry up!
"Mutated iron worms soaked in wine! Fresh wine, fresh iron worms, don't miss it when you pass by!"
"What the hell?"
"Iron worms? Damn this earthworms?!"
“Try it yourself, boss!”
"Ahem, it requires LV20 of the physical system. The boss is of the intelligence system, and the physical strength is not enough.
"Boss, give me a pound, and I'll give my brother a buff.
"okay!
The heavy snow has stopped, the wave is coming, and the market at the door will be closed in a while.
Many stall owners and shop owners are rushing to do the last business before spring.
In addition to selling food and supplies, there are also many arms dealers selling weapons and equipment.
Such as goblin technology.
It is undoubtedly the most eye-catching sign among this crowd.
Standing next to a three-meter-high armor, a mosquito holding a horn was shouting hard.
"The latest type II unpowered armor produced by Goblin Technology! It requires LV10 strength system! LV15 physical system is also acceptable! It can carry and fight, and it can explode when it rushes into a crowd!
As soon as the players heard the unique drake voice, they immediately gathered around with great interest.
"What the hell? Mosquito? Why did you come out to set up a stall yourself?" Liability Big Eyes played with the armor curiously and found that he couldn't move even one arm, so he gave up helplessly.
Mosquito sighed and said with a sad look on his face.
"Unfortunately... I lost money on the last mission. I'm a bit poor recently. I'll use a second-hand item to replenish my health."
The main reason is that Lao Na and Lao Wang are not good enough.
The two of them wandered around the plain for several times, but couldn't find his mechanical arm.
In a few days he plans to
Customize a set.
But this time he had to be smart and get a detachable one. The boy at the construction site and Brick took a closer look and asked curiously, "Just ask if you don't understand, are you a waste of equipment?"
Mosquito said with a smile, not minding this bitch's teasing at all.
"It's okay, not bad, just average."
Debt-eyed: “Damn!
As he was walking towards the north through the bustling market, Luo Yu suddenly stopped halfway and pressed his right hand on his chest unconsciously.
The flesh and blood that had been eaten away by the group of bat-men had been replaced by rapidly growing biological prosthetics, which had become part of his body in the form of small feather fruiting bodies.
It's getting hot right now. It's like it's on fire!
Just when Luo Yu was confused about what was happening, a gentle murmur came from the communication channel.
"Eeh. (It woke up.)
He can understand Xiaoyu's murmuring voice, even easier than when it speaks human couplet.
Luo Yu glanced around subconsciously and asked in confusion, "Are you awake? Who is awake?"
"Eh..." (Xia...) (That's its name.) Luo Yu was stunned for a moment.
This was the first time that he couldn't understand what Xiaoyu said.
West Asia?
it?
Just when he was confused, a familiar shout came from the side.
"I'll blanch it, Luo Yu! You're finally back!"
Luo Yu looked sideways and saw Brother Mosquito standing at a stall.
in front of him, waving to him excitedly.
Subconsciously raising his hand, Luo Yu was just about to say hello to him when his eyes suddenly fell on the three-meter-high torture device next to him.
Luo Yu's eyes instantly became alert and he pulled back his half-raised hand.
"What are you doing?"
"Don't be so cold, brother." Ignoring the alert look in his eyes, Mosquito left the stall with a smile and pulled his arm, "Seriously, come and help me try out the new equipment and open the eyes of these ignorant little butts.
.”
Luo Yu pulled his hand back as if he had been shocked, and instantly took a dozen steps back.
"Not familiar, thank you."
Seeing Luo Yu disappearing into the sea of people at the speed of light, the mosquito with outstretched hands was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses.
Seeing the ace pilot, they didn't dare to try it, and the newbies who were watching suddenly left in a hurry.
Listening to the uncontrollable laughter behind him, Mosquito shouted in the direction where Luo Yu disappeared, dumbfounded.
"I'll blanch you! You are ruthless!"
The sound blended into the excitement and hustle and bustle in the distance.
At this moment, most of the survivors living on the ground did not notice that the gray-green fog that was rooted in the city center like a towering tree was spreading quietly to the surrounding areas.
Chu Guang still remembered that when he was on an expedition to Jinchuan Province on the Heart of Steel, the snow on the ground was so thick that it could bury a person's calves.
Now when he came back, there was only a thin layer left on the ground. During his absence, many things happened in various settlements in the alliance.
The biggest change is still in Dawn City.
As the capital of the alliance and the first glimmer of hope rising in this wasteland, Dawn City has always been the focus of the alliance's development.
Especially when Chu Guang waved his hand and poured out a total of 900 million silver coins in the infrastructure field at the Economic Work Conference a few years ago.
Spurred by this huge budget, the changes brought to this settlement were almost immediate.
Not only have the streets become wider and cleaner, making commuting more convenient, but people's lives have also become visibly affluent.
In addition to those who have already lived a good life, residents who have just joined the alliance and refugees who are still "supervised" have not been left behind.
A thousand prefabricated apartments in the eastern suburbs have also completed all construction periods, and more than 40,000 households who meet the resettlement conditions have successfully moved in.
So far, the registered permanent population of Shuguang City has jumped from 50,000 earlier to 100,000.
!
What is even more gratifying is the new population registration data provided by the Ministry of Health - following the end of the war in Luoxia Province, a huge baby boom is brewing.
Although this has brought considerable challenges to the alliance's current limited medical and educational resources, the positive side is that it has greatly improved the current population structure.
The survivors of the Alliance are moving towards a new life. Although the disaster on this land is far from over, everyone's heart is full of confidence.
Because their administrator did fulfill the passionate promise he made to the residents of the alliance at the triumphal ceremony -
Let good qualities stand out in the alliance's society.
Hard-working people will never become fools. As long as they study, work and live actively, and contribute their own strength to society, they will definitely deserve a better life.
The same goes for Auroville.
The changes here are second only to Dawn City.
The train station that originally had only a wooden sign has now been transformed into a concrete station hall.
There is a six-lane road from the industrial area to the logistics center. The workers who once lived in iron houses to repair drainage facilities have now moved into buildings with elevators.
Large factories covering ten or even hundreds of acres.
Objectively speaking, although the development and living standards of residents here are not as good as Shuguang City, the "electrification degree" and "urbanization rate" are higher than Shuguang City and Boulder City combined.
After all, the Alliance's only city-level fusion reactor is located here, and the power resources here don't even cost much to transport.
Since there are more hills than plains, most local residents live in buildings with a high floor area ratio, so elevators are almost standard equipment.
The three- or four-storey single-family huts in Dawn City that only accommodate one or two families are not seen here in Dawn City.
Because there were a large number of ready-made foundations available, the authorities in Dawn City simply built new housing on the original abandoned buildings in Xizhou City.
Although most of the houses built during the Age of Prosperity are no longer usable, the foundations are surprisingly complete and of astonishingly good quality! It is not a big problem to build another building directly on the original foundation with a service life of fifty years!
It's even possible that when a newly built building reaches its scrapping age, the part buried underground will still be in good condition.
Considering that the generation gap between the current infrastructure level of the Alliance and the era of prosperity is at least more than a century, this is entirely possible.
In addition, Xizhou City was a livable city with a low population density in the prosperous era. The building floors were generally not high, and demolition was not as difficult as Qingquan City. Concrete waste can also be recycled through the technology provided by Ideal Group. In Dawn City
The cost of building a twenty-story building will be much lower than elsewhere.
At present, the registered permanent population of Dawn City has increased from 80,000 to 110,000, and this is almost the entire population of this settlement.
After all, this is the industrial center of the alliance, and the commercial aspect is not as good as
Dawn City in the south is prosperous, and most people come here to find work.
As long as you work, you need to pay taxes, and you need to register to pay taxes. Therefore, the number of "black households" here is theoretically the least in the entire alliance.
In addition to housing and industries directly related to people's livelihood, another major infrastructure project in Dawn City is the dam on the northeastern shore of Xizhou Lake!
As one of the environmental transformation projects in the People's Federation era, Xizhou Lake can be regarded as the largest artificial lake in the central region of the river valley province.
This lake played an important role in the desertification control project in the central region of Zhongzhou Continent. However, after entering the Wasteland Era, this abandoned lake suffered a series of changes due to the end of the ice age, increased rainfall, changes in the structure of the lake bed, etc.
The cause developed into serious flooding.
If this "artificial reservoir" can be restored, a large area of black land from the northwest side of Xizhou City to the Tianshui tributary will be released.
This project is expected to add at least hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland to the alliance!
And unlike those cultivated lands in Luoxia Province that rely on the "river embankment" system, the existence of this black land does not need to rely on
Any unknown technology.
Although the alliance's food is mainly imported from vassal countries, and agriculture is not the focus of Dawn City's development, no one would think that it has too many farmland resources.
Even if the NPCs are not interested in it, it would be great to leave it to "Maka Bazi" and "Go up the mountain to hunt tigers" and other professional players who are keen on farming to develop it.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of arable land, brand-new production methods and production relations, and the troubles that may be encountered during land reclamation... If this were replaced by the potato factory's "Noodles 1800", it would be enough to be released as an expansion pack
!
In reality, contracting a manor of hundreds of acres will face various problems, but in the wasteland, it is enough to occasionally deal with the wandering alien species and wastelanders.
In short, although we experienced many things during this period, including war,
However, the workers of Dawn City finally lived up to expectations and overcame all difficulties.
According to the drawings and construction plans provided by environmental engineer Butan, and with the joint efforts of experts and construction workers in Camp 101, the Xizhou Lake Dam was finally completed!
Not only the black land in the north of Xizhou City, but the entire Sixin District that was originally submerged in the lake has also resurfaced.
From now on, you will never need to take a boat to travel through this area! And that’s not all.
As the lake ebbs, this city, which has been sealed by the lake for nearly a century and a half, has also unlocked many new areas that players had not explored before.
For example, Shelter No. 100 is located near the subway section of Sixin District!
According to the information provided by Camp 101, the shelter planned to shelter 30,000 people, and was originally scheduled to be unblocked in the 60th year of the Wasteland Era.
Unfortunately, in the 52nd year of the Wasteland Era, the spreading lake flooded the entire Fourth New District, completely sealing the door of Vault 100.
According to public information, the mission of Vault No. 100 is the reconstruction of Xizhou City.
Even the backup controllable fusion reactor located underground in Xizhou City, the one currently used by the Alliance, was originally prepared for Vault 100.
It can be inferred from this that there should be a certain amount of helium-3 resource reserves in Vault 100, and there is probably a considerable proportion of nuclear engineers among the residents.
Dr. Method, who lived in seclusion in Vault 101, judged that the survival probability of the residents of the shelter was only 3.1%, the probability of continuing to perform the mission was less than 1%, and the success rate was close to 0, so he set the coordinates of the controllable fusion reactor
Provided to the wastelanders at Camp 101.
However, probably only the manager of Vault 100 will know what the shelter plan is for Vault 100.
Maybe just like Vault 79 in Zuigoku City, Vault 100, which claims to be responsible for the reconstruction of Saisu City, may actually be carrying out other shelter projects?
Yin Fang is very interested in this shelter. After all, his occupation is to dig graves. His interest in coffee machines, research on various electronic equipment, and even medical skills are just incidental.
The same goes for Chu Guang.
But compared to Yin Fang's curiosity about the reason why this shelter "sinked", he was more curious about what treasures he could pick up from inside.
At present, the construction workers of the alliance are trying to install a drainage system, using pumps to pump out the lake water poured into the underground channel and discharge it to the Tianshui tributary in the north.
Due to the large number of aquatic arthropods such as cleavage crabs and warship shrimps nesting in this area, construction is facing considerable challenges.
The current excavation work of Vault 100 ranks second in Auroville's work diary, second only to a series of industrial zone expansion plans.
I believe that when this shelter comes to light again, all the treasures and secrets buried inside will come to light.
Chu Guang had high hopes for this.
It would be better if we could dig out a few old popsicles.
Experts from various industries who have mastered pre-war technology are far more important to the alliance at this stage than one or two black boxes...
Compared with the ever-changing Dawn City and Dawn City, the Fallen Leaf City located in the western border of the alliance has a lower sense of presence.
Quite a few, but the development potential cannot be underestimated.
As the trade hub between Luoxia Province and the southern part of River Valley Province, the most important infrastructure there is the train station and logistics warehouse.
Looking down from the air through the Hummingbird drone, almost half of the buildings and factories in the entire city are related to it.
Although some wastelanders migrating from the west can often be seen here, most people do not stay here for a long time and often use this place as a springboard to settle in Dawn City or Dawn City.
There are no particularly beautiful results in developing the city. The only thing that can be achieved for the time being is the population growth rate.
After all, every once in a while, players who are active in the desert can catch a group of slave-catching teams selling slaves from Borneo Province to the desert, or find a mutant tribe hiding in the ruins, and then open up the city.
The population will grow a lot.
This has put a lot of pressure on the small-scale Pioneer City, not only because of the population growth rate that can easily double, but also because it has the most extreme gender ratio in the entire league.
Just like there are far fewer roosters than hens in a chicken farm, most mutant tribes like the Blackstone tribe usually only keep a few male survivors with the most meat for breeding in the pasture, and the rest can hardly be kept for a few days.
It will be thrown into the pot and stewed.
And most of the slave traders who do business with those mutant tribes will not sell "worthless" weapons here.
According to Lord Teresa's report, most of the survivors rescued by the Thorn Corps and players came from the Borneo Peninsula in the south of the great desert.
A serious man-made disaster seems to be happening there.
However, it is too far there. The shortest way to get there from the Alliance is to take a boat to Silvermoon Bay in the Hump Kingdom and then continue south.
Or start from Kaifeng City and traverse the "Eastern Industrial Zone" and "Southern Industrial Zone" in the People's Federation era.
Therefore, although she sympathized with the suffering of the people there, Lord Teresa did not make unrealistic requests in her report.
All they can do at this moment is to attack the mutant tribes and slave traders near the pioneer city and excavate the ruins buried in the desert to strengthen their own strength.
The current population of Kaifeng City is close to 3,000, which has increased several times compared to the original 300 survivors.
Even local conditions are still difficult.
But no matter what, their lives are much better than before.
The cargo airships that regularly come from the east and the caravans that come from Bicester Town from time to time will also bring some new hope to this settlement that has grown up in hardships from time to time.
From Dawn City to Pioneer City, the four biological children of the Alliance have gradually learned to run from their initial toddler steps.
And Boulder City, which once belonged to the War and Construction Committee and is now under the jurisdiction of the alliance, has also climbed up from its previous fall.
However, compared to other rapidly expanding settlements in the Alliance, the changes visible to the naked eye are not astonishing.
The settlement is still so big and still so crowded and noisy.
The changes it has undergone are mostly invisible to outsiders and can only be experienced by our own people.
For example, leaky houses no longer leak, things that no one cares about are finally taken care of, there are more products on the shelves, more people are shopping, public security is better, etc.
The local survivors fought without hesitation and blood, and finally made their lives what they should be, allowing the canned people to eat the canned food they produced, and that was it.
It's just that this sentence "that's all" is rare and precious to most settlements in the wasteland.
Although Chu Guang has been on the front line during this period, he is not unfamiliar with what is happening in various parts of the alliance.
Most administrative work of the Alliance is conducted on electronic terminals.
From the management of logistics to the planning of settlement buildings, digital management covers almost every aspect of the lives of alliance survivors.
Although it is not to the extent that even a faucet was integrated into the global Internet of Things during the Prosperity Era, there is no doubt that it can be done in the wasteland.
It can be considered advanced.
Therefore, even though Chu Guang often leaves the political center of the alliance, his grasp of the situation in various regions of the alliance will not be affected in any way. As long as he can contact the server of the refuge.
Of course, since the focus of work some time ago has been on the front line, even with the help of the convenient tool "digital municipal administration", Chu Guang still accumulated a lot of work that he did not have time to finish during this period.
Whether it's a "dog planner" job or a "manager" job.
However, even though the backlog of work is piling up.
Before returning to his "work station" in the browsing room on the B4 floor of the shelter, Chu Guang first went to Xizhou City, located in the northern border of the alliance.
It is home to the Alliance's largest research institution and institution of higher learning—even larger than the Biological Research Institute in Vault 79.
He promised Xia Yan that he would visit her when he returned. That was not all.
It was also because Payin told him in a recent holographic phone call that Dr. Method, the manager of Vault 101, wanted to talk to him about something.
It happened that Chu Guang also wanted to talk to him about the "Sacred Realm" and the "Torch", so he readily agreed...