The Ardennes Forest Ring Defense Belt may be the most expensive defense system ever fabricated in human history. Converting it into something more concrete, it is probably nine immigrant ships capable of carrying 200 people.
It can be said that the Prussians spent their own wealth. At the same time, the Ardennes Forest Ring Defense Belt was also the product of the final compromise between all parties. They could indeed use this money and productivity at the same time to build nine immigration ships.
Nearly two thousand people were sent into space.
But without the coalition forces, or without Mikkelsen's permission, they wouldn't even be able to fly out of the Earth-Moon orbit, and none of them could afford a ticket to Phoenix, although many of them had gone there first to do black magic.
However, the few messages sent back from the distant stars are telling others all the time that if you can be a human being, don't be a dog, and if you are a dog, you have to eat shit.
The Prussians spent this money on fortifications, and at the same time imagined that it would work as expected, delaying the zombie swarm and players for at least three months, giving them enough time to complete the transfer of the industrial area and build
More shelter.
All high-level officials know that the coalition forces are ready to die together. Similar news is also circulating among the people. However, ordinary people who have experienced waves of superhumans and players have found it difficult to even eat in this era. Many times they really
There isn't much room for struggle.
Is the world going to end? Okay, wait until I finish eating this meal and find a place to stay before worrying about it
Jiichiro Kinda is such a sad little person. A year ago, he was a department manager working for Yaeko Precious Metals Co., Ltd., a company specializing in precision prosthetic precious metal parts, one of the few Neon companies that can compete with the Arasaka Group in a single category.
company.
Yaeko's precious metal products include, but are not limited to, precious metal child hole color-changing membranes for replacing the color of artificial eyes, and diamond patches for crystallization of tooth surfaces. Their highest masterpiece is the full-coverage platinum skin. The thin artificial skin has a full
The seven coatings can change color as the implanter adjusts the temperature, making it a work of art!
That's right, the artwork Jichiro Kinda smiled bitterly when he looked at the limited edition figure of his famous virtual girlfriend Nadeko Nakagawa. This figure was an expensive gift customized by Yaeko Precious Metals to promote her color-changing skin. Each figure was
The handle is covered with a layer of platinum color-changing skin, which can automatically adjust the skin temperature and change color according to the player's wishes.
At that time, the average selling price of each of this figure was about 5 million neon dollars, but now Jichiro Kaneda just wants to use it to exchange for 100 kilograms of rice or 50 kilograms of canned meat.
Jiichiro Kaneda has several similar expensive souvenirs. After the company went bankrupt, he sneaked back to the company building at night and packed up all the souvenirs in the company. At that time, he just wanted to keep a souvenir for himself. After all, he was a member of Yaeko Precious Metals.
Dedicated twenty years of youth.
It was also the first time he committed a crime in his life. After that, his life took a turn for the worse. The whole world seemed to have entered a fast lane that he could not understand. Not only did Jichiro Kaneda not find another job, he also had tens of millions of neon dollars in his hands.
The savings also plummeted and soon became worthless.
Fortunately, before they were completely reduced to useless paper, Jichiro Kinda turned the gun in his hand into an Arasaka HJKE-11 Yukimura smart pistol at a previously unimaginable high price, as well as a matching low-latency smart connected palm interface.
According to the seller, Yukimura has an incredible advantage for novices like him - it has two commendable fire modes: automatic fire and three-shot burst, allowing you to choose according to the situation while enjoying ample firepower.
, as well as the need for long-term firefights, and with the cooperation of intelligent interfaces, even if your aim is as bad as the soldier in white armor in the 20th century space opera epic, you can still hit the target 100%!
To this day, Jichiro Kinda has verified this several times. He is indeed very accurate. With the Yukimura, he has won a place for himself in the black market. He is one of the few who provides high-quality items in this mixed land.
people.
In addition to selling his own small collections, Jichiro Kinda would occasionally help his former colleagues sell some good things on their behalf. After all, those people did not adapt to the new environment as quickly as he did.
Today, the star product on his stall is not that expensive figure, but an incense-LX smart submachine gun produced by the Arasaka Group. When this miniature submachine gun was first launched, it caused an uproar in the company's trend circle. It looks like
Like an expensive piece of designer jewelry...actually it is.
Arasaka Company and luxury ready-to-wear brand Jinguji have joined forces to integrate cutting-edge technology and trendy corporate dress tastes. The two complement each other and give birth to this top-notch fashion item of the season. Countless white-collar workers in the company wanted to buy it.
This thing even used assassination methods to get rid of surrounding competitors.
But now it only needs
"What the hell is this?" A woman's voice appeared in front of Jiichiro Kinda, and then a hand with skin that was not firm picked up the incense stick-LX and played with it in his hand.
When Jiichiro Kinda looked up, he saw a woman in a vermilion cloak holding his goods and examining them in her hands. He was about to get angry when he saw the Kishida gang members following the woman, looking at him with their teeth and claws open, and he suddenly felt heartbroken.
Liang didn't know how he got into trouble with these people, but he paid the protection fee according to the amount.
"Baga! This is Miko-sama, please answer quickly!" Yakuza from the Kishida Gang came up with a big mouth and beat Jichiro Kinda into a daze. Then he bowed his head to the woman and said, "Miko-sama,
This Red Deer doesn’t know your identity, please wait a moment and I’ll educate him!”
"This thing is very nice, I want it." The woman put the incense-LX into her pocket unceremoniously, which made Jiichiro Kinda furious, but under the death gaze of Yakuza next to him, he also
I could only break my teeth and swallow it into my stomach.
Watching the group of people walking away, Jichiro Kinda looked down at Yukimura at his waist. He felt evil for a moment, but was pinned down by Tadamichi Takada, who was in charge of collecting protection fees in the local market.
"Are you crazy? That woman is a player, do you understand? Did you see that red cloak? From now on, anyone wearing such a cloak is a royal child. They can do whatever they want, just kill them.
"People." Before Takada Tadamichi finished speaking, he saw the woman smiling happily and firing the filled incense stick-LX at a passing pickup truck.
The superior performance of the small-caliber bullet incense-LX was endowed with fatal power. A sudden rain of bullets shot the father and son Yan Zuo who were responsible for delivering goods in the cab of the truck into sieves.
Takada Tadamichi looked at the people fleeing, sighed and said to Jiichiro Kinda: "Look, the Iwazuo family lost their lives, and you only lost money. I will help you reduce the protection fee this month. Don't
If something goes wrong, life will be difficult in the future. The boss of the Kishida Gang got in touch with those players out of nowhere. If he wants to sell himself at a good price, he will have to call them Oko from now on. Don't forget."
Jiichiro Kinda looked at Takada Tadamichi calling his men to clean up the scene together, and the player in the red robe had already walked away. Only the gunshots of Xenka-LX could still be heard from time to time. It is said that
The sound of the gun was specially adjusted by acoustic experts. If used with special bullets, it can play the tune of "Due to Alice".
But now, this clear and sweet sound of gunfire is accompanied by screams.
Jichiro Kinda sighed, took out his mobile phone and silently blocked his former colleague who consigned incense-LX. What else could he do? He couldn't compensate for the other party's losses, right? He didn't find that unlucky guy.
Asking for a mental damage compensation is considered charity.
It was already mid-October, and with the death of the old Emperor Arasaka, the tiny place of Neon finally ushered in the chaos of new discussions.
The Kishida Gang is still just a small group of gangsters, and it is Neon’s top brass who really sell themselves out.
With the crash of the Crystal Palace and the collapse of Arasaka's myth, Arasaka Yorinobu is busy fighting with his father's mines everywhere, and the entire neon public opinion has quietly turned towards the capitulation faction.
Most Neon people either rely on the Arasaka Group for survival or rely on its downstream companies for survival. Once there is a problem with the Arasaka Group, the Neon people have trouble eating. At this time, three months have passed since Saburo Arasaka's funeral.
Hong just staged a modern version of the rice riot in 2057.
Because of the independence of the Arasaka Group, the Gray Field Project has never affected Neon. Although Arasaka Yorinobu is a collaborator, from the promotion to planting of crops to the results, it is estimated that Neon people will not be able to eat a hot bite before the end of the world.
And because of the increasingly frequent player activities, the already declining shipping industry is unable to rely on imports to support the consumption of hundreds of millions of mouths in Neon. Moreover, there are a large number of Neon people in Neon who are superstitious about the myth of Saburo Arasaka. Although they
They will not commit suicide to follow their old masters, and they will not dare to openly speak out for their old masters, but they will use all means to plunge the cooperation between the coalition forces and Neon into a quagmire.
Under this situation, the naturalized forces seized the opportunity of the coalition forces, directly connected with the neon civilians through dimensional gate smuggling, and began to build their own service-oriented 'country' for players.
Anyway, the Neon People have served the Federation for so long in history, and then they were tortured by the Arasaka Group for decades without collapse. Now they have a new master, and they must be completely able to accept it.
And this African continent is different. Neon is a serious developed area, with no shortage of food, drink, entertainment, and everything is top-notch, which is perfect for players to settle down again, while the big funds are just insignificant food, the food of the Gray Field Project.
The naturalized people used the food that Mikkelsen had carefully prepared for the post-war wasteland as their own weapons and entered the neon. Taking the Kishida Gang as an example, every time a player enters their area for one day, the Kishida Gang
You will get a full 500 kilograms of grain.
What the Kishida Gang has to pay is just to let the player do whatever they want. From the name they gave the player "Miko", we can see how this gang serves the player.
Is this any loss to the Kishida Gang? Of course not. Kishida Gemel, the leader of the Kishida Gang, even gained a wave of public support by directly waiving a lot of protection fees and stall fees. He still plans to
When the food shortage spreads further, use food to stabilize the order in the neighborhood, recruit full-time soldiers, use food to trade with the former Arasaka armed forces, exchange for more arms with stronger firepower, and build your own immortal business.
Of course, Kishida Gemel thought a lot but did very little, because in the second week after Miko was wreaking havoc, Jiichiro Kaneda found an opportunity to kill him from behind.
Do you want to be a dog? Kishida Gemel, an uncultured and unthinking low-level Yakuza, can do nothing. It is better to replace him with Jiichiro Kaneda.
As a department manager who has been in the job for 20 years, Jichiro Kinda's dog-making skills are at the LV4 level. As soon as he took office, he received a lot of praise from players and stood out among the many underground gangs that cooperated with players in the surrounding area.
Just like Jiichiro Kaneda said, those Yakuza who only know how to fight and kill are so ignorant. Can’t they see that killing is just a necessity for these players like eating and drinking water? What they really need is someone to rely on.
A spiritual luxury?
Cultural output is the most important thing. Jiichiro Kinda spent some time to create a very beautiful and cool prosthetic body for a female player, which instantly made other players fall for it!
The deeds of Jiichiro Kinda seemed to have awakened the neon people. Countless neon underground gangs began to imitate Jiichiro Kinda, trying to pass on the unique culture of this world to those scary players, from makeup, tattoos to
Prosthetic transformation.
Many players have been in this world for almost half a year, and for the first time they know that prosthetics are not a weapon system developed for war, but a special decoration that includes entertainment ideas and can be used to express themselves.
This new customizable thing is so new to players, they have never seen such fun things in other worlds.
The number of players in Neon surged throughout October, with the number of people online at the same time exceeding 30,000 at the highest point. However, these 30,000 players only caused an average of 65,000 vicious incidents every day. To be fair, this is not a big deal for Neon, which has a population of hundreds of millions.
For Hong Kong, it is simply negligible!
For a time, the neon effect spread all over the world, and was promoted by players and naturalized people at the same time, reducing the resistance of the world's indigenous people.
Although Arasaka Yorinobu still firmly sides with the coalition, his influence is temporarily limited to Arasaka Tower, and it is difficult to influence the entire Neon like Arasaka Saburo.
On October 30, 2057, the Neon Government declared itself a permanent neutral zone without warning, becoming the third country in the world to declare itself a permanent neutral zone after the Swiss and the Ganges.