Linghu Wetland Park.

Beside the nameless river, surrounded by charred dirt and tree trunks.

The previous fire had been extinguished, and the torches circled the clearing, enclosing twenty-nine dejected captives in the middle.

It's the middle of the night, and it's dawn in a few hours.

Yeshi, who was guarding the side, yawned and looked at Lao Bai.

"How long will it take for the manager to come back?"

"I don't know."

"Where's the tempest?"

Fang Chang pointed with his chin to the half-dug cave by the river.

"He still has classes in the afternoon, and he fell asleep there."

This game is actually quite convenient, except for the safe offline at the resurrection point, any scene can be disconnected as long as you lose consciousness.

This includes, but is not limited to, being knocked unconscious, or falling asleep normally.

It's just that this way you can't save the progress of the gene sequence.

Hearing that the wind actually went to class, Ye Shi asked suspiciously.

"Isn't it a PPT assistant?"

"I don't know, maybe I can't let go of his students, anyway, the group is over, I think he can't hold back, so I just let him go offline first and forget it." When he woke up, he was in charge of our shift. ”

As the earliest old man in the herd of cattle and horses, Lao Bai is probably the one who has been in contact with the wind for the longest time, and he is also the person who knows him best in the group.

“…… Don't look at the wind that usually brags to you in the group every day.,In reality, it's actually quite an honest person.,A group of dedicated workers.,There's no other hobby except for games.。 ”

Night Ten sighed.

"I honestly didn't see it, but it was sullen."

Lao Bai smiled.

"Haha, you can hurt him while he's not online!"

Night Ten: "Say...... After the game character goes offline, no matter how you get it, it doesn't respond? ”

"Probably, so it's actually quite dangerous to log out of the non-safe zone, if no one is watching," Fang Chang glanced at Ye Eleven, "What do you want to do." ”

Night Ten's eyes rolled.

"I didn't want to do anything, I was just thinking about it...... If we're all offline, wouldn't the NPCs be able to do whatever they want to us in the pod? ”

Hearing this brain hole, Lao Bai and Fang Chang were choked by spittle.

"Poof."

"Ahem! Well, don't speculate on others with your dirty thoughts. Moreover, such groundless speculation is meaningless, you have no evidence to prove it, and there is no evidence to falsify it. Similar questions include, but are not limited to, are aliens always with us? Is our world really a game? Is the science we know still valid outside of our horizons? Infinite suspicion is purely self-inflicted, unless you can find reliable evidence. ”

"What do you mean by filth! Can't you be curious? Why don't you stand guard and be in a daze? And why is your preachy tone more and more like a raging wind? Yashi rolled his eyes speechlessly.

Fang Chang shrugged.

"No, it's just that people who think about this question are very problematic."

Lao Bai nodded in agreement, and made up for it.

"That's right, and I don't think anyone would do anything to your body."

Night Ten: "I said yes! If! Hey, I really don't have a common language with you seniors. ”

Fang Chang: "......"

Lao Bai: "......"

At this time, Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes and three other players came over from a distance.

Seizing the opportunity, Night Ten immediately changed the subject.

"Yo, Brother Scrambled Eggs, why are you here?"

"I'm here for a shift change, didn't the manager say that I would be on duty after two o'clock?" Brother Scrambled Eggs saw that there was one person missing, so he asked curiously, "What about the wind?" ”

"It's dropped, something in reality, we'll carry it back for him in a while."

Scrambled eggs indicate a nod of understanding.

"Whew."

Since there are people changing shifts, it is much more comfortable.

Just go offline for a meal, rest and come back to play.

Lao Bai carried the wind on his shoulders, and then explained the matter of guarding the captives to Brother Scrambled Egg and others, and then left with Ye Shi and Fang Chang.

This time it was their turn to scramble eggs, and they were bored.

At first, the four young players stood guard with serious faces, but seeing that the captives were asleep, they also stood together and chatted to pass the time.

"It's sloppy, I knew it was so boring to stand guard, I should go to the warehouse to buy some meat and charcoal to bring to roast and eat."

"yes, speaking of scrambled eggs, is rhinoceros delicious?"

"Where have I ever eaten that thing......"

"Aren't you a cook?"

"Which restaurant would dare to do this ???"

"I've heard that rhinos are CITES Appendix I species of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, and it seems like it started in five years, and there is no cap. But there are probably no wild rhinos in the country, so you have to go to South Africa. ”

“…… Ahem, it should be okay in the game, right? ”

The players are chatting.

At this time, there was a sound of rustling in the forest on the side.

The group immediately tensed their nerves and grasped the guns in their hands, but soon they relaxed.

It's your own people who come.

"How's the captives doing?"

"It's all here, honorable administrator."

"Good."

Chu Guang nodded, looked at the few players who were following him, and ordered.

"Bring these people along."

A player on duty said excitedly.

"Take it back and hang yourself?"

That's what they've always done!

This time, however, it seems that the manager has a new idea.

"Take them to the abandoned tire factory four kilometers away, where there is a dungeon they built themselves," Chu Guang glanced at the villains and said lightly, "Death is too cheap for them, they will spend the rest of their lives in the mines of Red River Town." ”

The mines in Red River are not real mines, and most of them are former landfills.

Only God knows what will be dug out of it, even if it is nuclear waste that has been illegally landfilled.

The slaves who worked there were consumables, and very few of them lived past ten years, even two or three years.

But who cares?

There are dead people every day in the wasteland.

The dozing captives were all woken up, and more than twenty people were strung with a rope, and the line was long and long.

There are more than a dozen players next to them carrying guns, and they are not afraid of these people running.

After walking four kilometers along the elevated highway out of the city, I went around a street and soon arrived at an abandoned tire factory.

Seeing that there were already people standing on the walls of the old lair, the faces of these marauders were dead and gray, and they all showed expressions of despair.

Inside the camp, the freed captives stood in the open space with blank faces, looking at the returning marauders, instinctively afraid to escape.

But when they saw the ropes that were tied to the marauders, and the warriors who held them down, the poor people fell silent again.

No matter how smart they are, they can see it.

It's a change of owner.

Announcing a "garrison mission" with high rewards, Chu Guang picked out the ten lucky players who were the first to raise their hands to stay here, and then arranged for those players who were slow to raise their hands to pack up the loot, and pack the loot on the carts and trolleys brought from the base.

According to his "contract" with Hayne, all the spoils of war belonged to him.

After making these arrangements, Chu Guang then walked in front of Hai En, looked at the businessman who had made great contributions, and said.

"When are you going to leave?"

Hain said with a respectful expression.

"I've already sent Wen back, he's fast, and he should be back with what you want in four days."

Chu Guang asked.

"He's alone?"

"Of course, one person is the fastest. He has my token on him, and it's the same with or without me," the cunning businessman probably suddenly thought of something, and his heart moved, and he continued to add, "I know what you're worried about, don't worry, I'm willing to stay with you as a hostage." Even if you can't trust my character, you should believe that I won't joke with my own life. ”

Chu Guang glanced at him with interest.

It's okay to know what I'm worried about.

I don't even know.

"Whatever you want, I didn't believe in your character, nor did I care what cleverness you had. I'm going to go back to the outpost in a moment, are you going to stay here? Or come back with me? ”

He left ten players in the base to watch, in groups of five, divided into two shifts. Basically, two people standing in the dungeon, and three people standing in the fence and doorway, it was more than enough to watch the prisoners.

These trophies cannot be carried in one trip, and there are several more trips during the day.

Tomorrow all day, players are busy with things to do.

"I'll go back with you," he said, after only a second of judgment, Hain said, "I don't want to be here for a second." ”

Marauders are usually not very hygienic, and the stockade is filled with a rotting stench that normal people can't stay, only rats and cockroaches will like it.

Chu Guang nodded, didn't say anything, and gestured to the players beside him who were pulling carts and carts that were ready.

"Let's go."

"Bring our loot."

"Go home!"

……

It was already four o'clock in the morning when we returned to the outpost.

Looking through the cracks in the forest, you can already faintly see a few traces of misty whiteness.

Except for the guards standing guard on the fence and a few professional players who are busy working in the industrial area, there are basically few people in the base.

But wait a little longer, and there will be more people.

Chu Guang randomly found two empty rooms in the main building of the sanatorium and lent them to Hain and his female bodyguards.

Then Chu Guang instructed Luca, who had just woken up, to stare at them a little, and then returned to the shelter with Xiaoqi in his arms.

put Xiaoqi in the corner of the wall to charge, told it to call Xia Yan to get up to work on time tomorrow, but don't let her make a noise to herself, and then turned around and went back to her room.

The door closes.

Chu Guang sat on the soft bed and took out a yellowed notebook from his pocket.

This is the collection he found in the room of the "bear".

Because the cover of the notebook was printed with a bloody handprint, Chu Guang thought that this should be some kind of token of the Bloody Hand Clan, so he curiously stuffed it into his pocket.

However, what Chu Guang didn't expect was that when he opened the title page of the note, he found that what was recorded in it was not the strange customs or traditions he imagined, but just a simple diary.

[January 2, 2129]

"The war ended at the end of 2128, and in 2129...... That is, this journal was written in the first year of the Wasteland Era? ”

Chu Guang is very sensitive to numbers, and he will not forget it after basically reading it.

Speaking of which, of all the information he has gathered so far, there is no news about that war.

Perhaps this diary can give you a clue.

With a hint of curiosity about visiting ancient sites, Chu Guang looked at the first row under the date label through the soft light in the room.

That's an intriguing statement.

【…… That day, I survived. 】