"Hmph...... Uh-huh, uh-huh......"

Highway at the entrance of the town.

Holding the tail of his rifle, he leaned against the rusted road signs, and leisurely hummed a tune that Si Si had never heard before.

It's weird and good.

"What is Ah Ao humming?"

Seeing Si Si look over, the corners of his tail's mouth turned upward, and he said proudly.

"Songs heard on the radio!"

"Radio?" Si Si was stunned for a moment.

What an old setting this is.

Tail said with a blazing gaze: "There is a radio in the reception room on the first floor of the nursing home, and there will be something you don't understand in the evening, and in the afternoon, a few repeated singles will be played on a loop, which is suspected to be the original soundtrack built into the game!" I observed all day before! Oh, Si didn't even find this easter egg! ”

Why should I care about that boring stuff?

Si Si looked helplessly at the slowly moving clouds in the sky, and said with a light sigh.

"Anyway, is it really okay for us to fish like this every time?"

Tail glanced at Si Si with dissatisfaction.

"What do you mean by touching fish! Didn't the tail make an effort? ”

Sis reminded.

"I've heard that desertion while standing guard is a death flag."

The tail is full of nonchalant words.

"Don't be afraid, the tail is agile, as long as the tail is fast enough, death will always be one step slower than the tail!"

Si: "......"

The team they were in at the moment was on an interprovincial highway to the east.

The road is elevated and flanked by gentle downward slopes. Due to the interprovincial highway, there are few buildings nearby, and beyond the guardrail are patches of pine and cypress trees, as well as litter and shrubs dotted through the forest.

The name of this survivor stronghold is Highway Town, and as the name suggests, it is a town built on a road. The only landmark here is probably the three-story highway sign behind the tail, hence the name of this survivor settlement.

The survivors here have built a narrow settlement along the road using materials removed from discarded cars and wood from cutting trees.

One of the advantages of this is that you don't have to worry about the house being soaked in water when it's raining, and you don't dare to attack the people living on the slope from both sides when wolves and hyenas roam over.

The architecture here is quite wild, just like the temper of the locals.

They don't usually grow much crops, and mainly raise goats that are as tall as horses. If you have to find the only difference between them and the nomads, it is probably that they do not move their nests easily, and occasionally plant some cash crops such as camu trees, and sell the rubber produced and the camu camu fruit that can be used to extract oil to passing traders.

To be honest, Sith admires the operators of Wasteland OL for making each survivor colony very different. And this style is very different, not only in the modeling and textures of the game, but also in the deeper core.

These survivors have their own unique cultures and customs, and have moral codes and worldviews and beliefs that are different from others.

This kind of detail is not even reflected at the collective level, but also down to everyone in the collective.

While they were standing guard, a child in a fur coat was standing under a small tree, as if saying goodbye to something. Men and women with their bags on their backs stand in front of their homes, their faces full of sorrow at their new homes that have just been repaired.

Not far away, an old man in his fifties was arguing fiercely with the scar-faced man because he wanted to take away the camu trees wrapped in hemp rope and plastic from the field.

They are like living people.

Not only does he have a life that belongs to him, but the trajectory of his life is influenced by countless variables, and thus he has evolved a treemap that breeds countless possibilities, rather than a one-way line that can be seen at a glance.

It's a lot better than the sandbox games she's played.

It's even more "powerful" than reality!

She even wanted to go right away, pack her bags and go on a trip.

But then again......

Is this also deserting?

Sisi unconsciously glanced to the side twice, and found that no one paid attention to them at all.

Maybe the other team members didn't have much hope for them from the beginning, and my blackest and another friend from the perception department consciously went out to do the meat detective.

The battlefield guy with a rifle wandered around idly in the distance, trying to find someone to fight, but the weather was too cold to find even a mutant hyena.

Captain Quanshui, who wears the only set of "orange" exoskeletons in the whole uniform, always stands in the most stable place to command, and super-carefully arranges specific tasks for each team member - including the battlefield dude who is used as bait outside and I am the blackest.

Overall, this team is still relatively reliable, at least much more reliable than the fringe dude, the death team that kills chickens at midnight, and the demon scare team.

So much so that Sisi often wondered what the point of staying here with his tail was.

Glancing at the time on the VM screen, his tail stretched and yawned.

"Si, it seems that there is no fight today, and you can only wait for tomorrow to show your skills."

"Ah O, please remember that you are actually a girl-"

A sudden explosion came from afar, interrupting Sisi's complaining.

The two of them looked in the direction where the explosion came from, and they grabbed the weapons in their hands in unison.

"The enemy is coming?!" The tail is full of energy, and the eyes are shining.

Si Si glanced at the map and muttered for a moment.

"No...... I feel like it's quite far away, and it's 80% of the other teams. ”

At this time, the scolding of the war brother was heard in the distance, which confirmed her conjecture.

"Gan! Why didn't we trigger the plot! Bad review! ”

Contrary to the players' regrets, the survivors of Highway Town were visibly frightened by the explosion, and they stopped what they were doing and looked northeast in disbelief.

"What happened?"

"That voice ......"

"Did something blow up?"

"Isn't it a bone chewer!"

"Those damned marauders! Let me catch them, I'm going to screw their heads off!" ”

The crowd was talking.

The night owl standing in Cam Tree Garden frowned, the scalded scars on his face huddled together. His hand unconsciously rested on his waist, but quickly retracted it.

The sound was at least 4 kilometers away, with a large area of ruins and wasteland in between, and it would take some time to get there.

The old man, who was arguing with him a second ago, also looked sharply in the northeast direction, and muttered to himself.

"It's the direction of the battery factory."

His name was Hook, and he was 56 years old, and he was a skilled hunter in his youth until he was shot in the knee and became the elder Hook of Cam trees.

Although he is not an Awakened One, he can live to his age, and his rich experience is not inferior to the strength of the genetic level.

The night owl asked, looking at him with a solemn expression.

"The blacksmiths?"

Hook closed his eyes and nodded slightly.

"It should be...... If you listen carefully, there are gunshots, and there are quite a few. ”

The night owl held his breath and listened carefully for a moment, his brow furrowed.

"There are 40 people, to say the least."

"At least double."

Glancing at the trees that were two acres of land, the old man finally gave up and shook his head with pity.

"Go find your father."

"We've got to move a little faster!"

……

Outside the west gate of the outpost, not far from the Guards' range, there was a red brick house, with only an iron window facing the outpost.

This is the outpost's prison, and at the moment it is holding several prisoners who have just been sent from the Long Farm.

In addition to this, there was a special "prisoner" who was held there.

In the wooden shed, the four-meter-long Claw of Death curled up in the corner.

It was wrapped in a rope of chains and devil's silk, and its amber pupils reflected a dangerous light, scanning the few people in the doorway.

Glancing at the brute, Xia Yan unconsciously took a step back and nervously grasped the sickle assault rifle in his hand.

This thing.

It's much more dangerous than a creeper!

"You, what are you doing with this thing near your doorstep?"

Chu Guang, who was standing next to her, said without thinking.

"For research, of course."

He is wearing power armor on his body, and he is also wearing a carbon nano body armor that he got at the beginning, and he is carrying a nitrogen power hammer on his back, which can be said to be armed to the teeth.

Not to mention a mere death claw, even if the Split Claw Crab Empress stood in front of him, he was also confident that he could retreat with his whole body.

"By the way, you don't have to come along."

"What stupid things are you talking about, such a dangerous thing, how could I let you come alone."

Chu Guang glanced at Boss Xia, whose face was tense, with interest, and couldn't help but wonder when this guy actually became so brave.

Is that the leg the cause?

It looks like it's worth the money.

"Unbelievable...... It's incredible! ”

Muttering to herself, Heya walked forward with a feverish expression, and Chu Guang was so frightened that she quickly pulled her back.

"Are you crazy?"

Lao Tzu's SSSR card!

No, it's the players' SSSR cards!

"Crazy? No, it's the world that is crazy, I've never seen such amazing creatures! ”

Looking at the lizard with a look of intoxication, Hea continued.

"I've checked this guy's DNA and it's undoubtedly part of the order Chordates, reptiles! However, its body has evolved its own mechanism to regulate its body temperature, and like a mammal, it can maintain a high metabolism in winter, and it does not need to sleep even in winter if it wants to! ”

"Even taiga lizards can only keep their body temperature constant for a period of time during the breeding period...... Is this really a radiation mutation? ”

Chu Guang didn't know how to answer this question, after all, he had been in this world for less than a year, and it was the first time he had seen this terrible monster.

Yin Fang, who was standing on the side, also had an unbelievable look in his eyes.

It's just that he was not paying attention to what Hea was focused on, staring directly at the pitch-black device on the neck of the dead claw.

It looks like a big ring!

"It's outrageous...... Does the device attached to the back of its head really allow it to connect with the human mind? ”

"That's the result of the interrogation, do you want to try?"

As he spoke, Chu Guang took out a prop in the same shape as "headphones with microphones" and threw it into Yin Fang's hand.

After Yin Fang took it, he held it in his hand and pondered for a while, and soon put it on his head without a teacher.

The power is turned on.

Turn the knob to the maximum!

A slight electrical current sounds, like an overcharged brain.

But other than that, it doesn't seem to feel anything else.

"What the hell is this going to be—shhh

The stinging pain in the depths of his mind made Yin Fang snort in pain, and subconsciously reached out and pressed it on his temple.

But the pain came and went quickly, and soon he got used to the tingling sensation and put his hand down.

Looking at Yin Fang's relief, Chu Guang, who had already tried once, continued.

"You can try to give orders to that monster...... For example, command it to stand up. ”

Holding the wheat at the corner of his mouth, Yin Fang took a deep breath and stared at the dead claw and said.

"Stand up!"

The body trembled, and the claw of death lying on the ground, although it resisted the order, dragged its scarred body and slowly stood up from the ground.

it?

Really?!

Yin Fang's face was so shocked that he even forgot about his headache, and continued to order at Mai at the corner of his mouth.

"Get down!"

The claws of death obediently lay on the ground.

The expression on his face became more and more shocked, and Yin Fang's whole person seemed to have discovered a new continent, and he continued to order it with an excited face.

"Stand up!"

"Jump on one foot!"

"Draw circles on the ground with your tail! Tsk, isn't this okay? That learn to bark a dog! ”

“……”

The dead claws that were tossed repeatedly, the expression of pain gradually appeared on their faces, the neurons in the body were highly active, and the brain waves began to be disordered.

Chu Guang could clearly feel that if it weren't for the iron chain, this beast couldn't help but tear the guy in front of him with one claw!

But Yin Fang didn't care about this.

He just wanted to figure out where the limits of the device were.

Almost tried all the commands he could try, and just when Yin Fang was thinking about what other commands he could try, he suddenly felt his brain dizzy, and his shoulders shook and fell back.

Chu Guang gently pushed forward with his left hand, dragging Dr. Yin who was falling backwards, and with the other hand, he took off the headset on his head.

"It's best not to use this thing continuously...... It not only imposes a mental load on the object being manipulated, but also on the person using the device. ”

Chu Guang had tried this thing once before.

Rather than mind control, the function of this device is more akin to a kind of "hypnosis".

It does not allow the user to directly manipulate the actions of the controlled, but through mental pressure, in a way of mental suggestion, the alien who is on the ring can carry out a few simple commands.

For example, predation.

Another example is running forward, backward, or in a certain direction.

Jumping on one foot is barely possible, but you can't do things like drawing circles on the ground with your tail or learning how to bark a dog.

The device does not allow the controlled person to complete commands outside of its cognition, unless it has actively done something similar at some point in its life.

Even so, this device is remarkable, but it is still far from the "form formation field" in his shelter.

Players from the "other world" can directly "soul penetrate" clones, isn't this much more awesome than some indirect PUA and the master's orders?

The clone doesn't die, and the player can fight forever.

It's like this guy.

The ring around its neck was broken, and the eight achievements went out of control.

"I'm sorry, I'm playing a little high, I've never seen this kind of technique......" Yin Fang shook his head and regained his footing.

Chu Guang said thoughtfully.

"Technology that even the academy doesn't know?"

Yin Fang said helplessly.

"The academy is not omniscient, and we also have things that we don't know much about or don't understand at all."

After a pause, he continued.

"I should have told you before, in order to facilitate the remodeling work, we divided the technology into seven levels of fedcbas according to the difficulty of remodeling, and reasonably allocated personnel and budget."

Chu Guang nodded.

"You did say it once."

Yin Fang continued.

"In fact, in addition to the well-known seven scales, there is an eighth scale outside of the system – what we call the singularity."

"Singularity?" Chu Guang frowned and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Yin Fang: "It represents the forefront, and it is about the blank space of the future. These techniques are like singularities in calculus, unresolved points in complex functions, islands independent of sets...... They are like a bottleneck between us and the future. ”

"For example, the neutrino channel that you may not have heard of, or the mutants that are flooding the wasteland...... They are all singularities, and while immature, they often have extremely attractive prospects behind them, which, once completed, will predictably lead to a technological revolution. For example, the former corresponds to faster-than-light travel, which will allow us to travel farther to galaxies faster and cheaper, and the latter corresponds to superlife with the ability to adapt to all environments. ”

As he spoke, Yin Fang shrugged his shoulders.

Of course, the technological revolution here is under the premise of social integrity, and what we need now is obviously not innovation, but revival. So...... The college does not know much about singularity, and only selectively retains some topics that are worth continuing, and the focus of recycling work is mainly focused on the mature technology in the system. ”

Isolated individuals outside the system, even "futuristic technology" that did not complete research before the war.

To make an inappropriate analogy, probably similar to forbidden spell magic in a fantasy setting?

Chu Guang could only understand it this way.

"I'm suddenly a little curious, are the clones of the Legion a singularity?"

What Chu Guang didn't expect was that Yin Fang nodded decisively.

"Yes, but only half of it. The full name of the whole project should be 'Whole Life Cycle Tunable Technology', and if it can be completed, we can theoretically shorten or extend the time of any life cycle and truly control evolution. ”

"As long as you want, you can be a child for the rest of your life, or an adult, and you will be immortal on a genetic level. Our race will completely get rid of the backward R and K strategies, and will no longer accept natural selection, but define itself by itself. ”

Heya, who was standing next to her, was stunned on the spot.

"Can this be done?"

"Who knows?" Yin Fang shrugged his shoulders, "Maybe you can, maybe you can't, everything about the future is only known by the future." ”

Regarding whether this kind of thing can be realized, Yin Fang and Heya began an academic discussion. It was clear that Hea was not convinced, saying that such a thing was unheard of.

And Yin Fang's firm statement about her was a glance at his mouth.

"It's so young...... Didn't your mentor teach you not to jump to conclusions about the unknown? ”

Hearing that Yin Fang actually pointed the topic at his mentor, Heya instantly exploded.

Xia Yan looked confused the whole time, she couldn't remember clearly, when she started not to understand.

Chu Guang fell into deep thought.

He suddenly thought of the recording, the expression of "morphological field".

After organizing the language for a moment, Chu Guang interrupted the argument between the two and spoke.

"If there is a technology that can create a strong connection between two different dimensions of consciousness and transmit information across the boundaries of space and time."

"What the hell is that? Magic? Yin Fang, who was arguing, replied without thinking about it, and the tone sounded like ridicule.

But maybe it was because he thought that this person was not easy to bully, and he immediately closed his mouth again when he just spoke.

However, Chu Guang didn't take what he said to heart.

Because that's what he thinks, too.

Something unheard of sounds like a miracle.

However, seeing Yin Fang's reaction, Chu Guang probably understood.

Some kind of technology hidden in Vault 404 is obviously beyond the Academy's knowledge, and naturally cannot be within the FEDCBAS classification system.

There is no doubt that it has reached the realm of the "singularity"!

And it is suspected that it has matured......

Just when Chu Guang was about to talk to Heya about the Torch Church, Xiao Qi's voice suddenly came from the communication channel.

"Master, something has happened to your player!"

Hearing this, Chu Guang was slightly stunned, and before he had time to ask in detail, he immediately turned off the mask of the helmet, and clicked his index finger in front of the tactical eyepiece a few times, cutting to the map interface.

Xia Yan, who was standing next to him, saw Chu Guang's sudden movements, realized something, and hurriedly asked in a low voice.

"What's going on?"

Chu Guang, who was staring at the map, frowned and said in a deep voice.

"There's a situation."

Almost as soon as the words fell, a guard trotted in from a distance.

Standing still in front of Chu Guang, he gave a military salute and said with a serious expression.

"Your Excellency, the team you sent to the battery factory to cover the evacuation of the local survivors has been attacked by marauders!"

"Got it, I've already arranged for someone to go."

Chu Guang looked up at the sanatorium, only to see a spare hummingbird drone soaring into the air and quickly disappearing in the northeast direction.

Just now, he had already mobilized the team that was carrying out a mission nearby to support, and issued a defensive mission to the players on the front line.

Until reinforcements arrive, be sure to hold out!

"But you have to hold on!"

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(The next chapter is not finished...... I should be able to do it before twelve o'clock, it's too difficult for the handicap to be disabled qaq)