After a hearty dinner, Qi Lin and Aya Aoi invariably got into the luxurious game cabin that Cheng Yanqiu sent them.

Both of them haven't logged into the game for two days, and if they don't make up for the delay in time, they are likely to be directly canceled by the mastermind.

Although Qi Lin and Ayakui don't have any pressure in their lives now, just because of the high monthly salary of the special consultant, they can do food and clothing without worrying, but if they lose their legal status on the mastermind's side, there will still be a lot of trouble.

After all, the information systems of various consortia are now built on the network built by the mastermind, and as a eliminated "ghost", it is impossible to log in to this network.

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After the darkness in front of him dissipated, Qi Lin returned to the world of the Wasteland Survival Code.

The Hellens Line was much grander than it had been when Qi Lin left, with numerous new batteries and pillboxes standing on the steep hillside, and the frontal walls had been increased to three, each with newly designed heavy artillery capable of firing at negative angles.

Even the town of Herrens has swelled considerably, and the original town is now only a small part of the entire Hellens Line, with a large number of new buildings rising from the ground, turning this originally remote town into a magnificent war fortress.

However, on the other hand, the station of the Cheng Consortium, not only has it not been developed at all during this time, but the number of soldiers in the defense area has plummeted by nearly half - among these reduced soldiers, part of them are due to the losses of the civil war, and the other part is transferred by Cheng Yanqiu to the stability maintenance work of Vault 909, and now the soldiers who are still stationed in the Cheng Consortium are a large part of the players recruited in the game, they are only under the jurisdiction of Cheng Yanqiu in the game, but in reality, These people have different identities.

According to their contract with the Cheng Foundation, they only need to work for the Cheng Foundation for twelve hours a day to get the full salary, and when the war is tight, they have additional "overtime pay", and if they die, there is also corresponding compensation, in this regard, these people are somewhat similar to mercenaries.

Cheng Yanqiu is now busy with the internal work of the Cheng consortium, but his cronies who can only fight are idle at this time, and they all return to the game one by one, but among these old faces that Qi Lin is familiar with, there is only one Karachev missing.

Qi Lin inquired and found out that just the day before yesterday, a 60-millimeter mortar shell exploded at the feet of the former KGB agent, and although he was wearing heavy body armor, the shock wave of the shell explosion still shattered more than half of Karachev's internal organs, and he was killed on the spot.

Hearing the news of Karachev's death, I don't know why, Qi Lin suddenly remembered the prayer he had recited one early morning-

"Our Father in heaven,

Hallowed be your name.

Thy kingdom come,

Thy will be done on earth,

as walking in heaven.

Our daily diet,

Give it to us today.

Forgive us our debts,

as we forgive our debts.

that we may not be tempted,

Deliver us from evil.

For all is yours in the kingdom and in the power and in the glory.

Forever.

Amen! ”

Karachev had told him that he was a devout Orthodox Christian, but this time, the God he believed in was not able to bless him.

As a soldier, death is always inescapable, and although everyone is trying their best to escape, sooner or later there will be a day when they will be caught up by death.

When a weapon is held in the hand, he has the ability to kill, and the person who kills must be prepared to be killed.

More than 2,000 years ago, Mencius once said: "Those who love others will always love them; Those who respect others will always respect them. ”

For more than 200 years, Duan Zhengyuan wrote in "The Records of the Outer Wang": "Those who kill people will always kill them." ”

"—all self-inflicted."

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The chaos in reality has finally come to an end, and the war in the game is still going on, during the time that Qi Lin left, the Herrens defense line experienced two more Kuroshio impacts, but fortunately, these two Kuroshio from the west were small in scale, and even the first wall was not breached, and it did not pose much threat to the Herrens line.

Qi Lin wanted to meet Lei Mufeng, but was told that Lei Mufeng had left the Hellens defense line yesterday and returned to China.

The person in charge of the Lei family's stay in the Herrens defense line was an executive with a foreign surname, and although he did not reveal Lei Mufeng's specific whereabouts to Qi Lin, he relayed a sentence left by Lei Mufeng to Qi Lin.

"Don't worry, I didn't sell your information, of course, because it's not necessary yet."

This is Lei Mufeng's original words.

"Is this a threat? Or is it a warning? Qi Lin left the Lei family's station in the Herrens Line a little depressed, but on the way back, he saw a mighty convoy coming from the south, different from the usual transport convoys in the past, this convoy was not transporting materials and building materials, but one after another high-mobility power armor.

Among them, the "Black Widow" newly developed by the alliance and improved on the prototype of the classic power armor "bird-eating spider" is the mainstay, according to the six loading frames on each heavy truck, this fleet has transported more than 1,000 "Black Widows".

"So much highly mobile armor? Do you want to take the initiative? Qi Lin frowned, you know, if it is a simple defensive operation, whether it is a "black widow" or a "bird-eating spider", this kind of power armor with high mobility, but the long-range firepower is not strong, the effect of power armor is not obvious, two strong machine gunners plus a 12.7 mm caliber heavy machine gun, and more than a dozen spare barrels, the strength and duration of its firepower are not weaker than a "bird-eating spider", even if you want to fight with parasites in close combat, that kind of bulldozer-like heavy power armor is more suitable.

And the alliance suddenly transferred so many light power armor, then it can only show one problem: the alliance may already be preparing a counterattack plan against Kuroshio.

Blind passive defense is definitely not what the league's top brass want to see, even if the current situation can be maintained temporarily, but the scale of the global Kuroshio is constantly expanding, and no matter how much the Hellens defense line is expanded, it will not be able to catch up with the speed of parasitism.

Moreover, fighting with the parasites has no profit at all, but it must invest a lot of manpower and material resources, which is completely a loss-making business, which is seriously contrary to the principles of capitalism, and if they can, those bigwigs must want to end this war as soon as possible.