Chapter 187: What year is it?
The passage hidden behind the wall is dark.
It can even be described as not seeing five fingers.
The circuitry here doesn't seem to be connected to the outside world, and although there is something like a glowing strip on the corner, there is no reaction at all when you get close to it.
With the light emitted by the VM, the two young players explore the past in the passage with excitement and trepidation.
The vine vine with a red nose rubbed his shoulders with both hands, and looked left and right.
"It's so cold...... How do you feel that the temperature here is lower than outside. β
"It's a bit of a ...... And there's a good eerie feel to it. Raven shrunk her neck and looked nervously ahead, "You think something strange is coming out?" β
"For example?"
"Ghosts, ghosts or something......"
What a stupid thing this is.
Hearing this mindless speech, Fujito sighed and said.
"It's impossible, it's a sci-fi game, and even if something does come out, it should be something like a nibder, a leech, or a big spider, right?"
"Yikes! Don't scare me. β
Raven stopped and didn't dare to go forward.
Fujito glanced back at her helplessly.
"I'll just say it casually, as for it...... Aren't you a perceptual system? And the level is not low. Even if there is such a thing, the perception attribute can be warned. β
Hearing this, Crow's face turned red, and after a while, he whispered.
"I ...... I'm not very good at combat, and I have a lot of experience when I was gathering. β
Although the level has increased, the combat experience is almost 0...... Fujito tried to understand it, and it should be what it meant.
"It's okay, so do I...... But I thought you'd be someone who had died once, so you should have some experience in this area. β
Raven said with a bitter face.
"That being said, but I don't want to die, do you know how hard it is to stay at night without a helmet?"
Truly.
Fujito couldn't imagine how boring it would be to be at night without a helmet.
This game is simply poisonous.
Since the helmet was introduced, the need for social interaction in reality has completely dropped to zero. After getting off work, she disappeared completely, and no one sent messages to harass her anymore, and if she did, she should not be seen.
It's great to have a world where you don't have to deal with complicated relationships and you can do what you want without any fears!
With his hands on Raven's back, Fujito pushed her forward.
"Yes, yes...... Let's go, wait a little longer for the easter eggs to be cold. β
"Ah, don't push me."
If there really was something in front of me, I am afraid that I would have found them long ago when I heard the voices of the two of them.
But the corners of his mouth were raised, and he didn't panic at all.
If the battle is triggered......
Crows have a lot of meat, so they should be able to eat them for a while, right?
Please go with peace of mind for big-breasted stars!
Fujito will go out and call for reinforcements to avenge you!
The hallway soon came to an end.
Through a door, the two quietly walked into a room of about twenty or thirty square meters.
It's like a warehouse, with 20 dormant pods on display.
The moment he saw these dormant pods, the crow's eyes suddenly changed to the color of silver coins.
"Hibernation pod!"
A well-preserved hibernation pod can sell for 50~100 silver coins!
Turning his head to look at Fuji Teng, the crow's eyes sparkled.
"Fujito! Half of us! β
"What are you talking about, you can't take anything with you here...... However, this should be an easter egg. β
All 20 hibernation pods are closed.
Fujito walked in and glanced at the hatch where he was lying. However, it didn't matter if she looked at it, her little face turned white, and her lips trembled.
"Dead, dead man......"
The dry bones were covered with a blue coat, and the organic matter was almost decomposed, leaving only a layer of dry skin and mildew.
Fear came naturally, and she subconsciously took a half step back, and the back of her head hit a soft mass.
"There are so many corpses, is it because the power is out of power in the sleeping pod?" The crow standing behind Fujito didn't care, rubbing his chin with his right hand, staring at the dried corpse in the dormant pod in deep thought.
Seeing that she still had the mind to observe, Fujito couldn't help but swallow his saliva and whispered nervously.
"You, aren't you afraid?"
Raven tilted her head.
"Hmm...... If you have to say it, it's not that you're not afraid at all.,Even if you add a filter, this model is quite realistic.,But it's a game, right? β
"It's just, even if it's a game ......"
Raven continued, of course.
"And what is there to be afraid of if you are already dead, and you are not monsters that can move. Anyway, compared to the slimy mutated leeches, this kind of is much better. β
Fujito: "......"
Completely incomprehensible!
She didn't think anything was any better.
As she spoke, Raven had already walked to the side of another sleeping pod.
She muttered something as she lit the floor with the light of the VM, searching for something she couldn't see.
Suddenly, as if she had found something, she walked quickly to the side of a sleeping pod.
"Fujito! Come here! This way! β
Fujito said vigilantly.
"I'm not coming, you tell me what it is?"
"Don't worry, it's not a corpse! The people inside seem to be alive! β
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Hearing that there was a living person, Fujito hurriedly rushed over.
At this moment, the crows groped with their hands on the dormant pod, as if they had touched some switch.
There was only a loud sound, and cold gas leaked out of the gap between the hatch and the chamber of the sleeping pod, and then the frost-covered hatch slowly opened.
Fujito noticed that in the ice coffin-like cabin, there was a young lady in a blue coat.
She doesn't look very old, about twenty years old, with slender and soft lines, and her physique is somewhere between herself and Crow. Particularly striking are the long silver-white hair β and the blue eyes.
As the hatch opened, the man awoke from his slumber.
However, it seemed that because she had just woken up, her expression was a little dull, and it took a long time before she glanced around blankly.
Her eyes fell on the Raven who was closest to her, and the woman lying in the cabin spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Now it's ...... What year? β
Fujito and Raven glanced at each other.
"What did she say?"
"Like a 'now'?" Occasionally, nomads would come to her stall to buy mushrooms, and Raven had learned a few phrases, but she didn't know any grammar.
Fujito's heart moved, and he hurriedly leaned over and gestured three numbers with his fingers.
β211οΌβ
The woman looked dazed, but as if she understood, and a hint of relief appeared in her eyes.
"211 years of the Wasteland Age?"
I slept for more than twenty years......
It's been long enough.
After staring at Raven for a moment, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she struggled to raise her weak arm and grasp her right hand.
βDNAβ¦β¦ Can you lend me some? I'd like to look into it. β
Crow looked confused.
Ah......h
Are you saying thank you to yourself?
ββ¦β¦ You're welcome? β
As if realizing her abruptness from the crow's bewildered expression, the woman retracted her hand embarrassedly and coughed lightly.
"Sorry...... Occupational disease is committed. β
Fujito and Crow glanced at each other and whispered to each other.
"What should I do?"
"Looks like a hidden mission has been triggered."
But there are no subtitles...... Do you understand what she's saying? β
"I don't understand it at all!"
"Or ...... Let's take her to the guards first. β
The two reached a consensus.
"That's all it can be."
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On the road leading to the long-term farmstead.
Vanus sat in the back of the truck, his shoulders jolting with the truck. Glancing at the road outside the truck, he accosted the young guard sitting next to him.
"You've cleared all the obstacles from the pavement?"
"Yes."
Although he didn't want to deal with this captive, Lu Bei thought of the manager's instructions to him, so he still replied in an impatient tone.
Vanus couldn't help but praise.
"Wise choice...... Few survivors would have gone to great lengths to build those roads, but they didn't know that this was the greatest asset that pre-war society had bequeathed them. β
The first thing the legion does when it occupies an area is to repair the road to it and, if possible, a railroad.
Even if it is extremely difficult to maintain a stable communication route in the wasteland, the combat effectiveness of the front-line troops can only be guaranteed by ensuring smooth logistics.
To ensure logistical smoothness, they even arranged for young junior officers to patrol along the Legion's road network with clone light infantry.
At this time, Vanus saw that the people who were clearing the road were his subordinates, and his expression was suddenly a little embarrassed, and he stopped talking.
The only consolation is that his subordinates all seem to look good?
At least they were all dressed in thick clothes, and they didn't seem to be brutally abused, but they looked confused and numb.
Appreciating his expression of eating turtles, Lu Bei smiled and did not make a sound.
Joke!
Do you need to talk about the wisdom of the manager?
Stupid captive!
Ten kilometers was not far, and it was a nearly straight road, with little to slow down in between, and the truck quickly arrived at the station.
With the butt of the gun on his back, Lu Bei motioned for him to get out of the car.
Vanus didn't say anything, he didn't even think about escaping in this ghostly weather, and jumped off the truck very obediently.
Following him and getting out of the car, Lu Bei put the rifle on his back, stepped on the snow and walked to the south gate of Changchang Farm, and gave a military salute to the guards on duty at the gate.
"On the orders of the Administrator, I brought the war criminals here."
The slightly older guard looked at him and nodded.
"Good job, the manager is in the middle room, you can quickly bring people over."
"Yes!"
Lu Bei turned around very energetically, beckoned to Vanus, and motioned for him to come over.
"Listen, I'll take you to meet the manager now, and you'd better be careful about your words and actions."
Vanus said meekly.
"Yes sir, I will."
It's been a while since they last met, and he'd long to meet the man who had defeated him on the battlefield.
Although the person who defeated him on the frontal battlefield was that Lu Yang, he did not have much respect in his heart for those profiteers who relied on the strength of equipment to barely stand opposite him.
On the contrary, it was the survivors who rushed to the flank of his position without fear of death that made a deeper impression on him.
Earlier, in the prisoner of war camp, Vanus had heard from his ten-captain how brave the survivors were on the battlefield.
They are as nimble as normal people, interspersed with front and back, but they are more fearless than the clone infantry, and regard death as nothing.
What kind of charismatic leader is it that makes his soldiers have such a noble spirit of sacrifice and enthusiasm.
After this period of hard work and communication with the brick factory workers, Vanus found some answers, but more confusion followed.
Intuition told Vanus that perhaps only that person could answer the questions in his mind.
Passing through the city gates, Vannus followed in the footsteps of the young guard and soon came to a concrete house.
Through the half-hidden window, you can see the roaring fire.
Lu Bei stepped forward and knocked on the door, and after getting the answer to come in, he brought Vanus in.
There were quite a few people sitting in the room, including Luca, who was in charge, and the captain of the guard, and two people he had never seen and did not know.
They seemed to be discussing something.
Vanus noticed that when he walked into the house, everyone was looking at him.
Especially the tall strange man, after seeing his nose, there was obviously a trace of anger in his pupils. The other looked at a somewhat thin, nomadic man with a hint of fear in his eyes.
Vanus probably had a number in mind.
Both are likely to be displaced people, one is a survivor of lost land, the other is estimated to be a migratory herder, and eighty percent came from the northern or central regions formed by the river valleys.
He had seen a lot of this kind of person when he was heading south, and basically turned around and ran away when he saw his banner.
Walking in front of the manager, Lu Bei straightened his back, rested his right hand on his chest, and said respectfullyβeven reverently.
"My lord, I brought you the person you wanted!"
Looking at this guard, who was only a little older than the child, Chu Guang nodded appreciatively.
"Very good, it's okay for people to stay here, you go down first."
"Yes!"
When he went out of the house, Lu Bei closed the door with his hand.
As the wooden door closed, the air in the room fell silent, and only the crackling of firewood in the fireplace could be heard.
Vanus's throat moved, hesitating whether he should say something on his own initiative.
At this moment, however, the ruler sitting on the throne looked away from him and looked at the nomad with fear written on his face.
"Go on."
"Yes, my lord......"
Glancing at Vanus standing at the door, the nomad swallowed and cautiously continued.
"We passed through the northern part of the province of the river valley, where the situation could not be described as terrible, the hills were blown into depressions by shells, the hard ground turned into mire, and the ground was littered with corpses, attracting vultures, hyenas, nibbles and even deathclaws......"
"The men of the Great Rift Valley refused to take us in, and we did not dare to stay there, so we had to bypass the battlefield along the western side and continue southward, but the situation in the south was also terrible, and the dignitaries of the Legion fled in all directions. We were unlucky enough to run into 2 and die 5 to kill one and control the other. After questioning we learned that the Rift Valley had won, that the Legion's expeditionary force had been crushed, and that General Klaas had died in the chaos. β
The expeditionary force was defeated?
Vanus had a blank look on his face.
However, for some reason, when he heard the news, there was no trace of turmoil in his heart. Obviously, until half a month ago, he still firmly believed that General Klaas was invincible, but at this moment he felt a sense of relief.
It's finally over.
Jiu Li, who was standing in the room, glanced at him, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and his expression was a little mocking, but he didn't think that this person didn't look at him at all, so he took his eyes back in disappointment.
Chu Guang stared at the nomad and asked, "Is the news reliable?" β
The nomad was only a promise.
"My lord, I don't know, but it should be accurate...... After all, it was the people of the Legion who said it themselves. β
The people of the Legion said it themselves.
That credibility should be quite high.
Chu Guang fell into deep thought.
At this time, the captain of the guard who was standing on the side took a step forward and said with a serious expression.
"My lord, if the rout of the Legion continues south, we may not be long before we encounter those locusts. I proposed digging trenches and fortifications in the northern part of the farm, deploying patrols further north, and establishing outposts in the Elm district and the northern part of the city. β
Luca Sr. also admonished.
"That's what I thought too."
Building a defensive line and expanding the patrol area is the most basic and inevitable, and this winter may be more lively than I imagined.
Chu Guang nodded in agreement, then looked at the nomad and continued, "Do you have anything else to see along the way?" β
The nomad was slightly stunned, frowned and meditated for a while, and suddenly as if he remembered something, he hurriedly spoke.
"When we were passing through Tianshui City, we heard a rumor from the survivors who stayed there to rest...... But I'm not sure if it's accurate. β
Chu Guang looked at him and said.
"You say."
The nomad cautiously continued.
"They say that in the central and western part of the valley province, a huge tribe of marauders is rising rapidly, some say that they have absorbed some of the legions' routs, others say that they themselves are the legions' routs, they burn, kill, loot, and do all kinds of evil."
Chu Guang asked.
"What's their name?"
The nomad whispered.
"Chew bones, sir, I remember it's called chewing bones."
"It must be the Legion's gang!" Jiu Li scolded, "Those bed bugs are like a plague, and there will be no good thing in a place with them!" β
Vanus didn't dare to squeak and tried to pretend to be air.
Lukka looked at Chu Guang and whispered.
"My lord, chaos is spreading, and I have a sense of foreboding."
Does this still require a hunch?
The index finger lightly tapped the arm of the chair, and Chu Guang stared at the nomad in front of him with a worried expression, and fell into deep thought.
This group of nomads, like Wu Tieaxe, migrated from the north, but they were obviously not the same tribe.
More than 50 people are not much, but the young and middle-aged labor force is less than 30%, and there is obviously no shortage of battles along the way.
What Chu Guang is more interested in is that in addition to carrying 5 yaks, these people also raise a certain number of poultry.
It was an absolute bonus.
He hadn't eaten tea eggs for a long time, and he didn't know what the taste of the eggs boiled by Spirit Leaf was.
After a long time, Chu Guang spoke.
"Your tribe is allowed to migrate to Linghu Wetland Park and stay with other nomadic tribes who have migrated here."
The man breathed a sigh of relief, knelt down gratefully, and put his head on the floor.
"Thank you, sir! My tribe and I will saddle your horse and fight to the death! β
"The word spear is too murderous, and it's easy to confuse, you came in winter, and it will be called frost spear in the future." Looking at the man kneeling on the ground, Chu Guang continued, "I will confirm your loyalty with my eyes, stand up now, we don't kneel here." You don't need to kneel down when you see me, just put your right fist on your left chest. β
"Yes! Thank you for your name! β
The frost spear that received the name was given and retreated happily.
It doesn't matter what the name is.
The key is who gave the name.
In the culture of the vast majority of the Buraku and Displaced People in the wasteland, giving a name means acceptance and naturalization. They will pass down a portion of their name from generation to generation until the bloodline dies.
As soon as the door opened and closed, a trace of cold air blew in the room.
Chu Guang then looked at Vanus, who was standing next to the door, and spoke.
"Now, let's discuss your problem."
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(The next chapter will come out at eleven o'clock, the old rule, I'll fix the typo first...... In addition, yesterday in the book review area opened a dragon building, interested in children's shoes can make an appointment. It's too difficult to find out in the book review area, and sometimes it's very difficult to forget the results when you see them. (ο½γ»Ογ»Β΄)οΌ