In the southern part of Linhu Wetland Park, a plane spraying a light blue fire arc flew over the abandoned urban area in the northern suburbs.

Noticed the situation in the sky early.

Liu Ding, the deputy captain of the guard team wearing an exoskeleton, led five heavily armed players to meet him from the south gate of the park.

In addition to these 5 players, more than 10 players were led by another guard and ambushed in the forest not far from the south entrance of the wetland park.

In the event of an unforeseen event, the two sides will respond to each other, while pouring firepower from far and close range. With so many guns, it is more than enough to suppress an already landed plane.

However, the other party doesn't seem to have any plans to fight?

After the plane came to a standstill, a total of three people jumped down.

Two of them were wearing exoskeletons and carrying X-2 drone assault rifles, and they looked like they were supposed to be armed guards or bodyguards.

The man standing in the middle was unarmed, wearing only a washed and whitish brown leather jacket, and walked towards the guards and players with a smile on his face as he raised his hands to show that he had no ill intentions.

"Don't be nervous, I'm just a postman with a message, and I want to meet your lord...... Or does he have something else to call it? ”

"You can call him a manager."

Holding a 'sickle' assault rifle in his hand, Liu Ding's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at the man while guarding the two bodyguards standing next to the man with his peripheral vision.

"Say what you mean."

"I said, I'm here to bring a message...... By the way, your gun looks good, where did you buy it? ”

Seeing that the face of the guy in the exoskeleton was getting more and more ugly, the man who claimed to be the postman finally restrained his unserious expression and coughed.

"Well, no kidding, my employer wants to buy something from you...... It was about knee-high and was a box, the black one, that had been in the Vault 117 administrator's office. If you agree, my employer is willing to pay 50,000 chips—"

Before the words fell, the sound from the loudspeaker came from afar.

"You'd better get out of here until I change my mind."

Chu Guang, who was wearing power armor and carrying a Gauss rifle on his shoulder, walked out of the south gate of Linghu Wetland Park.

Seeing his dark blue armor, the postman didn't have any nervousness or surprise, but the two bodyguards beside him invariably showed nervous expressions and waited for him.

Gauss rifles!

With the penetrating power of this thing, as long as you get the right position, it's enough to take the plane down!

Not to mention the power armor on his body, where bullets and fragmentation weapons hit his breastplate like tickling.

"50,000 chips is a lot...... Okay, I'll go. Guys, withdraw, we're running away for nothing. ”

The man who called himself the postman originally wanted to make a final effort, but it seemed that he sensed the dangerous aura from Chu Guang and immediately gave up this plan.

Chu Guang didn't stop him.

Because his intuition told Chu Guang that this plane should have been rented by this person—or the boss behind this person, and it would be very troublesome if it was really shot down.

The boulder city on the edge of the Third Ring Road has not taken him into account for the time being, perhaps in the eyes of those people, the survivor forces of hundreds or thousands of people are just a small fight, whether they want industry or not, whether they want business or not, just like a rotten stone on the side of the road, there is no essential difference from the bloody hand clan who lived near the elevated highway in the northern suburbs before.

The neighbors were not interested in him, and Chu Guang naturally had no intention of taking the initiative to provoke those people.

The location of Vault 404 is awkward, stuck near the elevated highway out of the city in the northern suburbs of Qingquan City, and the development space is already very small.

There is enough trouble from the north, and to provoke the people from the south will put him in a situation where he fights on two fronts.

Returning to the plane with a bodyguard, the man standing next to the cabin door raised his voice and said in a serious and playful tone.

"Dear King of the Northern Suburbs, my master, an insignificant armed broker, let me give you a word of advice."

Chu Guang looked at him.

"Say."

The man continued with a smile.

"Your strength is very strong, I heard that you have even intervened in the dispute between the legion and the enterprise, a hero like you should go and wrestle with a big man like the city lord of Boulder City, it is really beyond our business to be an enemy of you."

"My master said that if you were going to keep that box, then we would have to give up the commission...... I believe that there is no mercenary who is not open-eyed, and dares to bother you here for those hundreds or thousands of chips, this is purely self-deprecating. ”

When he said this, the man's words suddenly changed.

"However, the boss who entrusted us with the recycling of the box is not so easy to deal with, even if it is a big man like the city lord, he has to weigh the consequences of offending him. If that person is willing to use 50,000 chips to buy the black box in your hand, I believe that the value of that thing in his heart will definitely be far more than 50,000 chips. ”

"100,000? Or 200,000? No matter how much, he will not give up. Maybe when this winter passes, he'll pick it up himself. If I were you, I wouldn't want to leave this hot potato in my hands. But I'm just a small person after all, maybe you have other plans? ”

"If you're planning to change your mind, come to the Pirate Cove Tavern in Boulder City. You are a strong man worthy of respect, and if there is a chance, my master would like to treat you to a drink. ”

"By the way, his name is White Shark...... Although surely you already know. ”

The vertical take-off and landing aircraft slowly increased its altitude and headed back towards Boulder City to the south.

Seeing the plane go away, Chu Guang smiled.

50,000 chips?

Hehe.

Lao Tzu can earn dozens of pieces by picking up garbage for five months, and he is still under the exploitation of old leeches.

Yin Fang is researching how to make implantable prosthetic devices with that thing, and his little players are still waiting to use that thing to become stronger.

Want to take it from yourself?

Trade your life for it!

However, in the end, the man who claimed to be the postman did not say who the person who wanted the black box was.

At this moment, Chu Guang's heart moved slightly.

"Could it be...... Torch? ”

Those survivors who took a lot of black boxes from Vault 117!

It seems that they have had a good life over the years, and the black technology props produced by the black box have become the big names in the mouths of the wastelanders.

However, Chu Guang didn't panic at all in his heart, those black boxes were written about bionic organs and implanted prostheses, and they were not weapons of mass destruction.

If they do come to the door, that's fine.

I went to them myself.

Watching the plane disappear into the sky, Liu Ding put away the rifle in his hand, walked to Chu Guang's side, and said seriously.

"My lord, their planes are too arrogant, we lack effective means of air defense, and it is dangerous to go on like this."

"I know."

The absence of anti-aircraft weapons is really a problem.

At the beginning, the people of Boulder City went to negotiate with the Pioneer, and the plane obediently stopped a few kilometers away, and when they arrived, they flew directly to their doorstep.

Chu Guang pondered for a moment, then stretched out his right hand and tapped it on the side of the power armor helmet.

An orange visualization window is projected onto the helmet's tactical eyepiece.

The power armor has a built-in vital signs monitor, which is functionally similar to the VM, and it is not difficult to communicate data. Programs that can be run on a VM will naturally be able to run here as well.

With his index finger in the air a few times, Chu Guang quickly edited a task and posted it in the "Weapon Making" task section of the public channel.

The players who will take the task here are the most tortured guys in the server.

Look at Liu Ding, that's how players use it!

[Mission: Aerial Threat]

[Introduction: The deputy captain of the outpost guard seems to be a little troubled, let's talk to him.] 】

[Deputy Captain of the Guards, Liu Ding: The other side's planes can come and go freely over our heads, and we need an anti-aircraft weapon that can take them down at the necessary moment!] Or at least get them away before they drop their bombs! 】

[Reward: 500 silver, 500 contributions.] 】

Get!

After finishing the matter, Chu Guang looked at Liu Ding and said.

"Someone will come to you in two days with something weird, and if you want to see which one is cheap and easy to use, just tick the VM's task page."

Liu Ding was stunned.

I didn't quite understand, but I nodded.

"Okay...... My lord. ”

……

At the same time, the outpost.

Seeing that the administrator of Vault 404 had been out for a long time and had not returned, a fidgeting Hea walked out of the reception room.

When she walked to the door of the main building of the sanatorium, the players who happened to pass by here saw her wearing a blue coat at a glance, and her face suddenly showed an expression of discovering a new world.

"White hair!!"

"I'm giao! Can you also customize the hair color in this game? ”

"Why didn't anyone tell me!"

"Little sister! What's your nickname? ”

Hea looked dazed, not understanding what the shelter dwellers were saying.

More and more players gathered here, and it soon became clear that she was not a player despite wearing a blue coat.

If this confused expression is pretended, then the acting skills are too good!

"She doesn't seem to understand what we're talking about, and she can't understand our memes."

"It doesn't look very smart...... Is it a new NPC? ”

"But she's wearing a blue coat......"

"What's strange about this, it's not just players who have blue coats, there are a few in the maintenance room of Vault 117, right? It's just that we don't seem to have met anyone from the other shelters. ”

This sentence has been recognized by many players.

Indeed, the game doesn't say that the Blue Jacket is the exclusive property of the player, except that the player takes on the role of being a resident of the Vault.

At this moment, a young player who had just been on a mission in Vault 117 approached.

"I know! She's an NPC picked up by Raven and Fujiten! In the hidden room of Vault 117! ”

Hearing this, the surrounding crowd suddenly let out a surprised sound.

"Damn?! The hidden room has been found?! ”

"And it's still Boss Crow!"

"Damn, unfair! The tail almost scraped off the wall skin and couldn't find it! ”

"If you don't understand, just ask, is it because there are mushrooms growing in the room?"

"You people, don't underestimate Boss Crow, she's the first player on the whole server - the player who was killed by a monster and triggered the punishment task, manual funny."

"I don't care about the hidden room, I just want to know where to pick up the same white-haired NPC?"

"Plus one!"

Surrounded by this group of hospitable shelter residents, the confusion on Heya's face gradually turned into confusion, and then from confusion to fear, not knowing what to do.

At this time, a power armor came from the direction of the south entrance, and a loud voice floated out of the speaker.

"Spread out, don't scare people."

"By the way, this is a new Ph.D. in bioengineering from our shelter, and she'll be officially on her job starting tomorrow...... Miss Hea, please come with me. ”

Heya nodded hurriedly and hid behind Chu Guang.

Using a yellow card warning on a few excited little players, Chu Guang took her to the elevator and pressed the down button.

Looking at the closed elevator door, Hea finally breathed a sigh of relief and said with palpitations.

"Are they all residents of Vault 404?"

Untied the mask, Chu Guang moved his neck and said casually.

"My 'players' are a little enthusiastic, please don't see it...... By the way, 'wanjia' means resident, specifically shelter dweller. ”

"Why don't I understand what they're saying? You're not using Renlian? ”

I was in the emergency shelter before.

Hea couldn't understand what the two ladies were saying when they woke up from the hibernation pod.

However, Chu Guang did not intend to communicate with her about this issue in depth.

"Isn't it strange that people have disappeared for more than 200 years and evolved into other languages? But I can speak both languages, so don't worry. ”

Heya silently recited the strange pronunciation of "wanjia" several times and silently memorized the word.

Leaving the power armor in the maintenance room, Chu Guang led her through the two gates of the buffer room and went straight to the B2 floor, where there were still a full hundred empty rooms in Area B.

I found a room at random.

Having assigned permissions to her VM, Chu Guang looked at her and continued.

"This will be your new home from now on, instructions for the facility and the Vault 404 Resident Handbook, which I will send to your VM later. From tomorrow onwards, you are an expert in bioengineering, and I will arrange something for you to do. ”

Hera glanced inside the room and saw that there was only a single bed and a table, which was smaller than the confinement chamber of Vault 117.

"Your room...... It's so compact, have you always lived in this kind of place? ”

It wasn't the first time Chu Guang had heard someone complain that his shelter was so poor, so he didn't pay attention to it at all.

"Yes, but our spiritual world is rich, and those players ...... Well, when I sleep, I go to other places to move. ”

"In the early days of entrepreneurship, the conditions were difficult, but it will get better in the future, and I hope you can overcome it."

What is entrepreneurship?

Obviously she had only slept for twenty years, but Heya had a feeling of being in a different world.

Is there such a big generation gap between shelter and shelter?

It's all words and concepts that I don't understand......

After settling Heya, Chu Guang returned to the central square on the B2 floor.

Just when he was about to go to the B3 floor that he had just unlocked to take a look, the first generation of managers had left him something, but found that Boss Xia was waiting at the elevator door with Xiaoqi in his arms.

also saw Chu Guang, Xiao Qi shouted from afar.

"Master!"

Chu Guang glanced at Xia Yan and Xiao Qi in her arms, and asked with a strange expression.

"Why did you take Xiaoqi down?"

"It was it that made me take it off...... By the way, who is that white-haired woman? Putting Xiao Qi on the ground, Xia Yan peeked behind Chu Guang and found that the person was no longer here.

Chu Guang said casually.

"The inhabitants of Vault 117, she's the only one left there, and my players brought her back."

"Huh." Xia Yan nodded as if he didn't understand, and whispered with a slightly hesitant expression, "But...... Is it really good to just let her live in? In case she's going to be some kind of bad person. ”

Chu Guang said with a smile.

"Don't worry, Xiaoqi will keep an eye on her 24 hours a day, if there is any abnormal behavior, I will know as soon as possible."

Xiao Qi said helplessly: "Although it is true, Xiao Qi still doesn't recommend that the master bring in some people of unknown origin, especially the guy whose right hand is a machine, I always feel that his eyes are strange and scary when he looks at me." ”

And what?!

"It's because I'm not at ease that I put them under my nose...... Is the guy you said with a machine in his right hand Yin Fang? I'll let him pay attention. ”

After a pause, Chu Guang continued.

"Let's not talk about this, I still have some things to deal with, since you are also here, let's go together."

Xia Yan was stunned: "Together?" What ...... together"

The corners of Chu Guang's mouth curled up with a faint smile.

"Go check out our B3 floor."

As he spoke, he walked into the elevator and swiped his index finger lightly on the touch screen, and soon the words "Unlock B3 Floor Permissions" appeared on it.

Xiao Qi, who was next to Chu Guang's calf, made a surprised sound.

"Wow, master, you got the B3 level?"

Chu Guang nodded.

"Well, I just got it."

The elevator door closes, then sinks slightly.

When the door opened again, the dry and fresh air immediately rushed in, just like when Chu Guang had just stepped into the B2 floor.

"It always feels like this place has just been cleaned...... Xia Yan glanced around, followed Chu Guang's footsteps, and walked out of the elevator.

The layout here is carved out of the same mold as the B2 floor. Whether it's the 4 sectors in a circular shape and the elevator tower in the center of the square, or the 600 rooms in total, as well as the public canteen and sanitary facilities in Zone A.

Even the passage between Zone A and Zone B is identical!

His eyes fell on the passage, and Chu Guang's heart moved slightly, looking at the floor plan printed next to the elevator.

As you can see from the floor plan, behind the passage is a rectangular space with four rectangular areas of different sizes divided by partitions.

This seems to be the "ribbon".

"Power rooms, growing areas, medical laboratories, warehouses...... And the buffer chamber? Wait, why is there a buffer room at the back of the warehouse? A hint of surprise appeared on Chu Guang's face.

The buffer chamber is a special structure used to balance the air pressure inside and outside the shelter, which contains two gates and a corridor with a wind shower function, which can remove dust and most harmful substances from clothing, and spray acid to sanitize if necessary.

This is usually located at the entrance to the shelter, on the B3 floor?

Xiao Qi, who was following Chu Guang, raised the camera, and his voice was also full of doubts.

"Perhaps...... Vault 404 has more than one entrance? ”

Chu Guang touched his chin and thought for a moment, then nodded slightly.

"I don't rule it out."

Xia Yan looked at him and said slightly nervously.

"Would you like to go over and have a look?"

"Of course, otherwise I'm here for something."

However, before that, Chu Guang still had something to do.

As he spoke, Chu Guang opened the VM on his arm and retrieved the pre-edited document

【Alpha 0.9 Update Announcement】

Alpha 0.9 Developer Diary

One click to connect twice, click send!

Uploaded complete!

After doing this, Chu Guang then looked at Xiao Qi.

"Xiaoqi, sync to the official website for me."

The signal light above his head flickered slightly, and Xiao Qi said energetically.

"Okay! Master! ”

The two of them walked towards the depths of the B3 floor.

Almost at the same time, the official website of "Wasteland Online", located in another world, instantly boiled with the release of the update announcement!

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(Ahem, old rules...... Before eleven o'clock. ）