Shuguang City, the train station in the northern suburbs.
A cursed complaint was drowned in the roar of people, as the crowds of people poured from the platform to the exit of the security check channel.
It's December now, and it's the coldest time of the year in Dawn City.
However, maybe it's because there are more people, maybe it's because the air conditioner is turned on enough, but I don't feel the coldness of winter at all in this crowded station. On the contrary, it feels a little bit hot.
"Grandma's... finally squeezed out."
After finally squeezing into an open space, [Without Family] let out a sigh of relief, and then stretched his muscles that were about to fall apart due to the squeeze.
In the distance are streets and squares that are painted golden by the sun. The giant hammer symbolizing order stands in the center of the square.
Squinting at this familiar yet unfamiliar scene, the family couldn't help but have a happy smile on their faces. Not only did they feel much better, but all the bad luck on their bodies was also wiped away.
Three days ago, when he was landing on the coast of Death, he was accidentally taken away by a self-destructing mutant huddled in a trench.
In the words of several of his teammates, he flew directly into the sky like a rocket, and when he fell he couldn't even find a complete body.
No wonder he couldn't get back in no matter how much he tried to reconnect.
In this way, he scratched his head offline and was restless and anxious for three days, and now he is finally back online.
"Haci haci" took a few breaths of the intoxicating air of Shuguang City. Feeling much more comfortable, [No Family] walked toward North Street with a satisfied look on his face.
Before transferring to the airship and heading to the French Fries Port, he planned to go to North Street to get some food and walk around to see the scenery.
Since the start of the War in Heaven, he has been operating in the southern sea area. Thinking about it, he hasn't come back for more than half a year.
Now walking on this familiar but unfamiliar street, listening to the shouts and shouts of the vendors on both sides, he actually felt like he was "looking like a stranger in the countryside".
“Fresh tropical fruits! Durian bigger than a washbasin! Cold chain air transportation from Baiyue Company! Don’t miss it if you pass by~”
"Smart wearable device from Ideal City! Using the latest holographic projection equipment, you can switch your mood at any time. One piece of clothing is worth the entire wardrobe!"
"The Free State's bionic companion is the most practical in the entire wasteland! Our company's products can meet all your needs and can learn independently based on the image data you input. Come and take a look!"
The shouts of hawkers are endless.
No one in the family was wandering around leisurely on the street while looking around with interest to see if there were any novelties here that they had not seen before.
"...There are really more and more good things in Dawn City."
Just when he was walking back to the square, he suddenly saw a group of strange guys.
They wore white robes and held a stack of leaflets in their hands, which they handed out to everyone they met.
Perhaps because they thought they looked too suspicious, the passers-by they were eyeing moved to the side, so that they kept talking for a long time and still had a big pile in their hands.
However, although few of the leaflets in their hands were distributed, they were not discouraged at all and still persevered in trying to put leaflets into the hands of passers-by.
Seemingly noticing [No Family]'s gaze, the young men in white robes briefly exchanged a few words, and soon one of them walked up carrying a flyer.
"Friend, do you want to know more about Equality?"
"Let me see."
Just wondering what these guys wanted to do, no family member took the flyer from their hands with great interest, held it in his hand and read it carefully.
At first, he thought that the so-called "Equality Meeting" was probably some kind of "manager fan meeting" organized voluntarily by the private sector. After all, Dawn City was most in need of fans of managers who had lost their minds, and similar things had happened before.
Pass.
As a result, when he was halfway through reading, he suddenly discovered that the "Equality Society" had nothing to do with Auroville City at all, but was an "overseas salvation organization" voluntarily formed by overseas survivors in Borneo Province.
The leaflet contains not only the governance philosophy of the Equality Association, but also the specific action plan they have formulated to achieve the grand goal of "building an equal society in Borneo Province."
The guy who wrote this thing is a genius!
[No Family] The more he looked down, the more surprised he became, and his eyes involuntarily became brighter.
I didn’t expect that in that land where people cannibalize people, there could be such progressive voices!
And while he was looking at the flyers, the young man who handed him the flyers was not idle either. He was constantly sparing no effort to promote his organization.
"...the wasteland is experiencing unprecedented changes. We cannot continue to sleep, we must unite! Only when all of us act for the same goal, can we overthrow the decadent feudal empire and the wasteland
Let’s move towards a new era together with other friends!”
When he spoke, the young man's eyes were gleaming, and the family members couldn't help but feel their blood boiling when they heard Kang's passionate voice.
At this moment, he suddenly noticed the triangular badge at the end of the flyer, and couldn't help but ask curiously.
"What's this?"
The young man saw his eyes falling on the triangular badge and quickly introduced it enthusiastically.
"This is the badge of the Equality Society!"
No one in the family was surprised.
"Have you even made the badge?"
"Of course!" The young man continued with a proud expression on his face, "We want to build a society like an equilateral triangle! This new society will no longer have distinctions between high and low. Every side and every corner is different from the other.
One edge is just as important as another angle!”
No one touched his chin, thought for a moment and said.
"It sounds interesting...but even if it is an equilateral triangle, it must have one side facing down to stand firm, right?"
The young man said with a smile.
"Why does one side have to be facing down? We can lay it flat, just like drawing on paper, so there is no distinction between up and down?"
No one in the family was so surprised that they were speechless for a while, and it took a long time before they opened their mouths.
"What a talent! Did you come up with these?"
However, as soon as he said this, he quickly thought that this statement was a bit sophistry.
After all, let alone an equilateral triangle, even if you draw a circle or a square and lay it flat on the ground, there is no distinction between up and down.
But saying this seemed like he was being arrogant, so he kept his mouth shut and didn't point it out.
But the young man only heard his praise and didn't notice the subtle expression on his face. He puffed up his chest and said proudly.
"This is not something I came up with, it was our revered Holy Father who came up with it!"
"Holy Father?"
No one in the family was stunned for a moment, and just as he was about to ask who this Holy Father was, a strange voice came from not far behind him.
"Those are all false names given to me by my friends without authorization, please don't take them to heart."
Hearing the sound, no family member turned around, only to see a man in a white robe walking toward him with a smile on his face and politely extending his right hand.
"My name is Zayinder, from Golden Gallen Port."
"Oh, Mr. Zayinde...nice to meet you." No family member shook hands with him, but did not give out his ID.
The man named Zayin De didn't ask for his name, he just smiled warmly and continued to explain.
"My compatriots still have a very abstract understanding of equality, so I thought of using some visual methods to make it easier for them to understand. In fact, to put it bluntly, the so-called equality is nothing more than a few words: let the tiller have land and the laborer have a house.
, industrial and commercial people can develop freely, and intellectuals can gain dignity... We intend to share what people need equally with everyone, instead of letting these things that should belong to everyone be in the hands of a small group of nobles
.”
After listening to his words, no one in the family members sincerely praised him.
"I never thought there could be a thinker like you in Borneo."
Zayin De laughed and said.
"You misunderstood. I am not a thinker. I think... I should belong to the action group. The Equality Association I founded upholds the concept that action is greater than fantasy. Rather than writing our ideals in newspapers, we are more willing to adopt actions.
Come practice the equality we preach! Of course, we are still too weak now and need the support of knowledgeable people like you, my friend.”
Hearing this, no one in the family couldn't help but smile shyly, coughed slightly and said.
"You are too polite. Compared to me, a fun-loving person with no ideals, you are the real people of insight."
As he spoke, he took out a hundred-dollar bill from his pocket and stuffed it into the donation box under the excited eyes of all the young men.
"A little kindness is not a sign of respect. I hope I can help you... Also, I call you family, and you can just call me family."
"Family..." Zayinde thought about this word repeatedly, his eyes suddenly lit up, "This is a good title..."
The words "friend" and "comrade-in-arms" still seem a bit unfamiliar.
However, the word family is different.
This word seems to contain some kind of magical power, which can bring two strangers closer to each other in an instant.
The more Zayinder thought about it, the more he felt that the person who invented this word was simply a genius.
Then, he no longer hesitated, looked at the young men standing aside and said.
"Our rules need to be changed. From now on, members of the Equality Association will treat each other as family members. We must unite like a family!"
All the young men looked at the "Holy Father" in high spirits and said in unison.
"Yes! Family!"
There were no family members standing aside. Lei, who was called "family" one by one by this group of people, was burnt on the outside and tender on the inside. He quickly explained.
"I mean, my name is family, not what you think... Hey! You should listen to what I have to say."
He wanted to correct them, but it seemed it was too late.
These people's learning speed is not unusually fast, and they have completely accepted this new setting. In the end, he had no choice but to give up persuasion.
In fact, whatever the name is is secondary, the key is to see what is done. As long as what they want in their hearts is to unite everyone, what is the difference between calling them the Equality Association and the Family Association?
No family member has convinced themselves so deeply.
Moreover, this guy named Zayin De seems to be a little more reliable than that Lacy.
Although the latter is a capable person, his way of doing things is indeed a bit rough.
For the sake of the survivors suffering in the wasteland, he sincerely hoped that his name and the one hundred dollar bill could bring them a little good luck...
If only they could really succeed.
…
On the other side, the abandoned urban area of Haibei City.
Since the torch entrenched in this area was defeated, this area has become lively at a speed visible to the naked eye.
I saw a clanging sound near the crooked concrete building wreckage.
The Wilant soldiers carrying shovels were working with their backs to the ruins, eager to dig up the entire thunderstorm.
Favre still didn't believe in this evil. His luck was so bad. The ruins under his feet were nothing but concrete debris.
When nothing could be dug under the fortress built by the mutants, he ordered the excavation to be expanded.
Not having enough manpower, he asked Colway for reinforcements of 1,000 more laborers.
The entire construction site was filled with dust, and from a distance it looked like they were fighting with the Alliance.
Zhanjie Lao felt that this guy was a little crazy, and couldn't help complaining that his good brothers were too cruel.
In fact, this is indeed the case for Favre.
At this moment, he was like a gambler who was losing his mind. He was completely obsessed with the ruins at his feet, making all his subordinates miserable.
At this moment, a shout of surprise suddenly came from the construction site.
I saw a Wilant soldier carrying a shovel, limping over with his body covered in mud, shouting as he ran.
"Sir! We dug something!"
Favre, who was munching on dry food, was delighted when he heard this. He quickly stuffed the beef jerky and cold bread as hard as shoehorns into his pockets, and hurriedly walked towards the Wilant soldier.
Ignoring the dirty mud on the soldier's body, he grabbed the soldier's shoulders and asked in a trembling voice.
"What did you dig up?"
"An underground space!" The soldier swallowed nervously, his eyes full of excitement, and he gestured with his hands, "The area is about this big... it can fit hundreds of tanks into it!"
He didn't know how to describe the vastness of the space, so he could only use this abstract example to describe it.
Seeing that this guy couldn't figure out anything after gesticulating for a long time, Favre was tickled in his heart, so he simply pushed him and walked forward.
"Take me there quickly!"
The soldier nodded hastily.
"yes!"
Watching the two people walking hurriedly towards the depths of the ruins, the Battlefield Atmosphere Team was sitting not far away eating dry food, and a look of surprise suddenly appeared on their faces.
"Good guy...could they have really dug up something?"
Thinking of this, he suddenly couldn't sit still. He quickly patted his pants and stood up, quietly following behind the two of them, intending to follow them to see what was going on.
The group of people quickly arrived at their destination.
Hundreds of workers with shovels were seen standing next to a half-collapsed concrete building.
And in the middle of the crowd, there was a passage extending diagonally downward.
The passage is very spacious and can accommodate two tanks running side by side without being crowded. It is no wonder that the Wilant soldiers used tanks as an example.
Not only that, the concrete walls here were formed at a different time than the concrete buildings outside. The latter is obviously more than two centuries old, while the former is only a hundred and fifty years old at most.
Seeing the two captains walking towards this side, the technical officer standing next to the ruins quickly stood up and gave a military salute to Favre and Pangolin respectively.
"Sir, you are here!"
After simply returning a military salute, Favre stared straight at the man-made passage and asked impatiently.
"What's going on with this passage?"
The excitement in Commander Favre's eyes could be seen, and the technical officer quickly opened his mouth to explain.
"We have just discovered this passage. The details of it are still unclear. We can only confirm that this tunnel was probably built around the 50th year of the Wasteland Era... and was buried around the 70th year of the Wasteland Era."
"About seventy years of the Wasteland Era..."
The battlefield atmosphere team chewed on this sentence over and over again, and suddenly came to a realization.
Isn't this the time when Vault 20 stops operating?
That is to say...
The reason why Vault 20 stopped operations for the first time has something to do with this facility?!
Realizing this, the Battlefield Atmosphere Team was immediately shocked.
Good guy!
He really made his prediction come true!
He didn't notice the change in the expression on "Pangolin"'s face. After hearing the conclusion drawn by the technical officer, Favre just subconsciously frowned.
Year 70 of Wasteland Era?
That must have been a long time ago.
The Torch Church is something that has happened in the past ten years. So this ruins probably has little to do with the Torch...
However, he still asked with interest whether it was his men who finally dug out this ruins.
"What's buried under this passage?"
The technical officer standing at the entrance of the cave and the engineer next to him looked at each other.
Seeing the former kicking the ball to him, the engineer looked at Captain Favre and made a helpless expression.
"We don't know either... There should have been a large-scale collapse here before, and we have just excavated this passage, and there is a lot of building materials and garbage in it that needs to be cleaned up. We have sent an exploration team down, but they need a little time.
"
As if worried that Favre was in a hurry, the engineer added something later.
"But judging from the batch of garbage we just cleaned up, we can initially infer that there should be a settlement of survivors down here."
Favre was stunned for a moment.
"Settlements?"
The engineer nodded seriously.
"That's right... a settlement with a history of more than 100 years! And it is most likely the group born in the early Wasteland Era! There may be shelters nearby. After all, many settlements in the early Wasteland Era are
Built near the shelter, or even at the entrance to the shelter!"
Although the ruins of a survivor settlement did not interest Favre in any way, if a shelter were added to it, the meaning would be completely different.
Favre's face immediately showed an excited expression and he urged.
"Then what are you waiting for here! Dig for me quickly! Go down and dig!"
Upon hearing this nonsense, the technical officer on the side quickly spoke out to persuade him.
"Someone is already digging. Only so many people can go down at one time. If we go down any further, something will happen!"
"Okay, okay! Then hurry up! If you have any requests, just ask, I will do my best to help you get it!"
Favrez rubbed his hands excitedly and couldn't suppress the joy on his face.
On the other hand, the master pangolin standing behind him had a calm and calm expression that was admirable.
However, everyone did not know that although the pangolin man had no expression on his face, in his heart he was greeting the mothers of everyone present.
What should I do to fix this problem?
He can only pray silently now. There is really just a grave under this passage...