"To be honest, this world is so different from what I imagined. I thought this place would be very fun." A player stood in the place once known as Big Bear Town and kicked stones from the cliff out of boredom.
into the sea.
The Geiger counter strapped to his body was screaming crazily, and the player watched in confusion as the value on the counter kept jumping on the last few red numbers that represented danger.
"Don't look at that thing. It's useless at all. The fishermen nearby said that this place was like this before the Apocalypse. It is said that the radiation level has exceeded the standard for almost half a century." Another player came to this world a few weeks before him.
He introduced in a familiar manner: "When I have time, I will take you to visit. There are many deformed people around here. They are definitely evil things that you have never seen before!"
"More evil than the three-headed monster I saw in Tir'k Dungeon before?" The player who spoke before was immediately attracted to it, with an expression on his face that showed that his trip was indeed worthwhile.
The development of different worlds by players is a relatively long process, especially in those worlds where the indigenous people are not weak, the entire development process will be even longer, even as long as one or two hundred years.
And in such a long development process, the vast majority of players are unable to get it right from the beginning to the end. They are like hamsters in heat, unable to focus on one fixed thing for too long.
Those players with such potential are basically selected and promoted to pioneers. During the long preparation work, they lay a good foundation for other players, and they have turned from players into company employees.
As the company develops more and more different worlds, those veteran players with stronger comprehensive abilities have gradually become a relatively sought-after resource. Almost every pioneer team in different worlds is thinking about it.
Ways to attract more old players into this world.
But the world they live in now has refused entry to old players for a long time. On the contrary, it has been recruiting a large number of new players without any experience.
This contrast, coupled with the special features of this world that had been circulated on the player black market, really attracted the curiosity of many old players. They have been waiting for the opportunity to come to this world to find out in person.
The two players currently talking to each other are the 'lucky ones' who were lucky enough to come to this world through a lottery.
In their player interface, the words "main quest" are shining with an alluring luster——
[Mission: Occupy the No. 11 shelter under the Arasaka Group Security Branch]
》Published by: Neon Area Pioneer Center (Main Mission)
》Mission requirements: The shelter is the most precious resource in the world. It not only represents the production place of materials, but also the largest body production center. Invade and occupy the No. 11 shelter under the Arasaka Group Security Branch.
》Mission Difficulty: Dark Blue ~ Red (The armed personnel of the Arasaka Group’s security department are one of the most elite conventional armed forces of the indigenous people in the world. You will encounter extremely challenging conflicts)
》Note: The Arasaka Group’s security department has a metahuman team (they are both a risk and an opportunity); unnecessary massacres will result in point deductions
》Rewards: Comprehensive points, body priority, loot priority (you can consume points to exchange for clothing, weapons, food, water and other items you need at the Trailblazer Exchange Center)
》Warning: Actions that damage the ecological environment of the refuge are prohibited
This is one of the baits used by Mrs. Bountiful to divert the attention of others, but obviously, neither the pioneers who are coordinating here nor the players responsible for executing the mission know anything about it.
In fact, the entire neon area is currently the area where players have invested the most effort.
There are about 3,000 players who have received this main line at the same time. This is definitely the largest operation by players in this world after the Apocalypse Day.
So of course, Shelter Zero received news of frequent player activities in the Neon area a few hours later, but at the same time, players in the Ganges area also entered an active state.
With the player's help, Sushma is trying to regain control of Vault 11 in the Ganges region.
The entire Vault 11 was infected with the Ganges virus almost from top to bottom, and the number of survivors in Vault 11 at that time was conservatively estimated to be over 150,000.
But in the end, the total number of survivors who successfully escaped from the shelter under the leadership of Sushma was only a few thousand, which means that there were hundreds of thousands of people infected with the Ganges virus in Vault 11 at one time.
Over the past twenty years, these people infected with the Ganges virus have been eating each other like poisonous insects in Vault 11.
You must know that in the early stages of infection with the Ganges virus, the infected person will not lose their mind immediately, but will become irritable and cruel, but still retain a lot of experience and skills that once belonged to humans.
So for a long time, what happened in Vault 11 was far from just a conflict between beasts. It also included a lot of cruel things that only humans can imagine.
The rhesus virus is essentially a medium that amplifies desire. It did originate from Hofheim's laboratory, but after spreading around the world, it is certain that the rhesus virus was contaminated by the gluttony gene.
, will eventually lead to such activity.
Coincidentally, the essence of the Seven Deadly Sins is also emotion, so it is difficult not to imagine that there is no other connection between the Ganges Virus and the Seven Deadly Sins.
As a top figure in the biological field, Dr. Wu Qianying focused most of her energy on superhuman beings and the Seven Deadly Sins themselves, but she still arranged a high-level scientific research team to continue to track the development and mutation of the rhesus virus.
It's not that Dr. Wu Qianying doesn't pay attention to the Ganges virus, but because she has too many resources and opportunities at hand, and the areas she needs to focus on are too wide, but her personal energy is limited.
The team proposed a year ago that the Ganges virus is very likely to be related to the current situation of a large number of predators around the world. Maybe it is not that humans have transformed under the pressure of the Apocalypse and the big storm.
Predators, a considerable part of the reason for this comes from genetic pollution.
Of course, the researchers in the team have not yet found direct evidence between the two. The rhesus virus mutates too fast, and in many cases they have to face the additional difficulty caused by the contamination of the gluttony gene.
But compared to before the Apocalypse, or even further, compared to before the wave of superhuman beings, the human race has made very long-term development in the field of self-healing.
Not only was the pioneers abusing drugs containing the gluttony gene, causing genetic pollution to humans, but the therapeutic injections that were widely promoted after that were also one of the important sources of pollution.
Those treatment injections that contain gluttony gene information will cause genetic contamination to the user once they are used. This genetic contamination is still heritable.
But for now, in nearly thirty years of observation, Wu Qianying has not discovered through data the direction of mutations that are harmful to humans. Those genetic contaminations originating from gluttony seem to be just focusing on the field of self-healing of the human body.
.
But that was just an appearance after all. In Vault 11 in the Ganges region, the genetic contamination caused by gluttony finally revealed its ferocity under the cover of the Ganges virus.
The players who accepted the mission rushed into Ganges 11 Shelter one after another in order to obtain the resources of the shelter and obtain more high-quality bodies.
Then they encountered a new terrifying experience in the shelter. How should I say it specifically?
Three hundred players who were equipped with the standard equipment of the coalition forces before the Apocalypse, and who had undergone simple training and had sufficient combat experience entered Vault 11, and then the entire army was wiped out in just 45 minutes, with no one successfully escaping.
The scope of the refuge.
The content that players discuss with each other in the forum after they die in battle is basically: How big was the monster that killed you and how strange it looked?
Obviously, after Sushma's group of survivors successfully escaped from the shelter, some huge changes took place in the shelter.
After all the food supplies in the shelter were exhausted, the infected could only become food for each other and devour each other.
Looking at the most tenacious and active components in the infected person's body, it is naturally the part that belongs to gluttony.
After these infected people eat each other, it is equivalent to a large-scale filtering of impurities, which increases the content of gluttonous ingredients in their bodies by orders of magnitude.
Of course, it can also be said that the ingredients containing the gluttony gene have the characteristics of clumping together. There are no genetic barriers between them. They are like building blocks. They can be put together, plug and play, and the more they are put together, the bigger they become.
But no one knows whether the subconscious mind of gluttony is behind all this, because the Amir protozoa, which also contains gluttony genes on the surface, still maintains the style of a harmless herbivore, feeding on harmful radiation and never
Aggressive behavior has occurred.
However, naturalized players and players like Sushma naturally don't care about the deep meaning behind the vision that happened in Vault 11.
Sushma only knows that he wants to take back control of Vault 11, and I'm afraid he won't be able to do it in a short time. But in order to achieve this goal, he needs to provide the players with more qualities, the more the better.
Although he does not have the strength to fight against the infected in Vault 11, he has enough strength to plunder his "compatriots", and his people are very happy to do so.
As for the players, they were very excited and regarded Vault 11 as a new type of dungeon. They rushed in happily and provided fresh protein and energy to the infected in the shelter.
In just three days, they discovered new changes.
Originally entrenched on the third floor of the shelter, a large infected person with a shape similar to a crocodile actually formed a cocoon. The players who went on the expedition used a large number of conventional weapons but failed to break through the shell of the cocoon.
However, the unrestrained players were never too serious. After confirming that they had nothing to do with this thing for the time being, the players happily continued to go deep into the shelter to explore deeper floors.
Only a few accomplished explorer players stayed on the third level and have been paying attention to the changes in Cocoon.
Although they have no common knowledge of biology in this world and are somewhat confused about the existence and specific functions of cocoons, they have seen similar things in other worlds and can roughly guess that the things inside the cocoons are being 'upgraded'.
Most accomplished Explorer players have a good relationship with the Pioneers, so the Pioneers soon knew the secrets that needed to be investigated in Vault 11.
And because of the ambiguous attitude between the old pioneers and indigenous people like Mikkelsen, the secret of Vault 11 soon became no longer a secret.
At least Dr. Wu Qianying received the news only about three days later than the pioneers, and most of this time was wasted on Mikkelsen.
As a cautious conspirator, Mikkelsen rarely gives up the initiative. Even if there is a piece of shit in front of him, he will take a bite first to make sure it is salty and then consider whether to keep the shit properly or use it as a bait pit.
people.
Although this description is a bit disgusting, this is Mikkelson's style.
Therefore, before notifying Wu Qianying, the Mikkelsens, in the fierce internal fighting within their own groups, tacitly squeezed out some manpower and airdropped to the Ganges area to support Mikkelsen in the Ganges area in the attack on Vault 11.
explore.
The improvised team quickly took advantage of the player's break to sneak into Ganges Vault No. 11, and as expected, the armed team including two Mikkelsen clones quickly lost contact.
After that, it was Mikkelsen's second attempt. He mobilized the cowboy team that was cleaning Shelter 7 in the Ganges area. After all, compared to the threat posed by ordinary players, the news of gluttony was more important, and No. 11
The number of active players in the shelter also far exceeds that of Vault 7.
However, Alejandro's cowboy team quickly lost contact after entering Vault 11.
After confirming that they were unable and unable to interfere with what happened in Vault 11, the Mikkelsens gave up their plans to intervene and shared the information with Wu Qianying.
After all, Wang Zhengdao and Surte, the two most mobile superhumans in the post-Apocalypse future, are both under the command of Dr. Wu Qianying, not to mention Tang Ji himself.
But at the same time, inside Vault 11, the cowboy team led by Alejandro was not completely wiped out. They only lost one-third of their team members, and by the way, the mutated infected bodies were not approaching.
Go deeper into the shelter.
"Head, the shock sensor shows that the big guy is catching up!" Rudolph panted and reported that they had just completed an armed cross-country five kilometers. Considering that one-third of the entire journey required drilling ventilation ducts, he now
If you can still speak, you are considered to have very good physical strength.
"Continue going down and see what purpose they have in driving us down." Alejandro frowned, turned around and continued walking down, and ordered: "Leave some gifts for it here, don't let it go."
