Official website forum.

Death: "The Rotten Knight has appeared!" ”

Soul Chaser: "Battlefield Gua Sha Stone Hammer!" ”

Makabazi: "The mosquitoes are also scraping!" ”

Less calf: "But luckily! The boss was shot twice by the manager! ”

Quit smoking: "Brother Guan is awesome!! ”

WC There are mosquitoes here: "Gan! Can I be blamed for gua sha? Who knew he was so fast? Chopping rockets with knives, this is not at all reasonable! (Crazy)"

For the two recoilless guns that were slashed with one sword, he is still haunted by it.

Battlefield Atmosphere Group: "Damn, the Rotten Knight should theoretically be level 60, right?" Two shots in seconds to level 60 boss, so how many levels does the manager get?! ”

Commander of the Spring: "Eighty! ”

Marginal water: "Be confident, it's all the camp leaders of 'Arthas', is level 100 exaggerated?" Not an exaggeration at all! ”

Irena: "I think it can be compared to the human emperor Xi Aotian, if you don't pretend to be forced, you can't make a move, and if you shoot, you are pretending to be forced." (Funny)"

Crow: "Woo woo, I didn't see the handsome manager pretending to be forced." (Ｔ▽Ｔ)”

Fang Chang: "Wake up, that's a paper man." ”

Raven: "What's the matter! It's better than you being nymphomaniac to the little fish, right?|・ω・')"

Fang Chang: "! It was night ten, but it wasn't me. ”

Night Ten: "Fuck off! Do I have one? ”

Fujito: "None of you are right. (Squint)"

Tail: "Whew! Who dares to bully the little fish and break the leg! ψ(｀∇´)ψ”

Roshan Big Bun: "!! Who is going to bully the little fish! (Angry)"

Night Ten: "Blanch! The dog said that the square is long! What a black man! QAQ”

Canyon on the run mole: "(squint" laughs)

Players who went offline brought the battle report back to the forum, and those who didn't plan to go offline also found a place to hang up, and iQue went to the "reality" side to join in the fun.

Anyway, major game events will pop up in the forum on the official website, so I'm not afraid of missing it.

Compared with the previous battles, this battle can be said to have reached the "historical high" of Vault 404 in terms of investment in heavy firepower weapons!

More than a dozen Makqin heavy machine guns fired wildly, 88mm mortars bombarded in turns, and quadruple anti-aircraft guns washed the ground with high-explosive shells in multiple rounds.

The helplessness of numbers in the face of firepower is fully reflected.

When the machine guns and shells ceased fire, even the cement blocks on the ground were baked!

Multiple rounds of saturated firepower covered, followed by the whistle of the charge, the immersive shock makes people adrenaline soar!

Players who have experienced it have said that it is really cool!

Isn't this much more real than the water-mixed cannonballs and water guns in "Mud Truck 2042"?

Looking at the battle reports on the forum, players who were not on the scene shouted pity.

Especially the 125 good brothers who died yesterday are even more envious of the separation of the quality wall.

It's a shame to miss such an exciting scene!

Silver Daddy: "Damn! Why does the resurrection take three days! ”

Silver Hand: "Why can't you open a trumpet!" ”

Tyrannosaurus Warrior: "Gan! You still want to open a trumpet! Be a person! ”

Professor Yang of the Thunder and Lightning Method: "That's it! We haven't gotten the Closed Beta yet! ”

Just when everyone was regretting, a video with a length of one and a half minutes was suddenly updated on the official website.

The clean and neat lens cut, coupled with the powerful BGM, is like an epic blockbuster!

I have to say that Xiaoqi's technology in cutting videos is getting higher and higher, and the cake that can be seen and touched in "Wasteland OL" can be baked more and more fragrant now, at least 110 credit has to be counted on it.

Although there are still arrogant people who stubbornly uphold the views of "I haven't seen it equals non-existence" and "my logical deduction equals the truth of the world", this does not prevent the vast majority of melon-eating people from hitting 666 at the bottom of the video.

"Awesome! Is this the next-generation game? ”

"The model can be so ???"

"It feels like removing the filter is a movie!"

"Be confident, maybe it's a movie set filter."

"Hey, true or false aside, if you can make the propaganda PV like this, even if it's fake, it feels worth it!"

"The mobile game manufacturers are ecstatic, we have advertising creatives again! (Funny)"

……

Just when the official website was busy, on the position in front of Street 68, players and NPCs were cleaning up the battlefield on the pile of corpses in the sea of corpses.

Actually, there's nothing to clean.

There were corpses but corpses, black blood seeping into the dirt, and rotting flesh stenched like a gas mask.

The slime bacteria are different from the death claws and monsters, the parts on the latter's body are somewhat useful, and the meat can even be roasted and eaten, and the former is something that Lao Na can't carry.

Looking at the rats and cockroaches scurrying past the street corner, the two new ones wearing gas masks are stunned by the immersive atmosphere of "Wasteland Online" as they walk towards the depths of the battlefield.

"Anyway, the fruiting body of slime molds also decays?"

"Nonsense, won't your mushrooms go bad?"

"Hey, I haven't seen it yet."

The two exchanged words, and had already walked over to the power armor stuffed with slime molds.

The fungus blanket that lay on the steel surface was necrotic, black blood seeping through the cracks in its armor, its entire head shattered, and a hole the size of a fist in its chest.

The two of them looked at the big hole in amazement.

The armor, which could not even be penetrated by a 37mm heavy cavalry gun, was actually pierced by a Gauss rifle.

It's too powerful!

The two of them wasted no time, tied the big piece with a rope, got it to the wooden board for traction, and dragged it back to the position with a snort.

[Mission: Recover the corpse of the "Decaying Knight" (completed)]

[Reward: 15 credits and 10 contributions]

Rewards in hand!

One step closer to getting a VM!

Looking at the fifteen silver coins lying in the palm of their hands, the faces of the two little Mengxin were filled with joyful smiles.

Continue this momentum.

It won't be long before you reach T1!

……

The body of the Decaying Knight was dragged to the Garden Street subway station, where it was temporarily stored outside the buffer room of Vault 117.

Yin Fang tossed around with a cutting machine for a long time, and finally removed the power armor from this guy's body.

Heya took slices from various parts of the man's body and brought them back to the medical lab for analysis.

Yin Fang handed over the fragments of armor removed from the power armor to Bucky for study.

As for himself, he studied the black box that had been removed from the inside of the power armor to see if he could repair some useful data from the inside.

Xenos launched two offensives that day, one in the afternoon and one in the evening, but neither the quantity nor the quality were far inferior to the one in the morning.

Vanus's point is that these gnawers presumably wanted to consume their ammunition.

Perhaps from their previous battles with Boulder, the slime molds seem to know that their enemies have ammunition limitations.

However, today's Vault 404 is no longer what it used to be, and after many baptisms of war, the military production capacity of the new industrial zone is almost full.

It may take time to build a tractor, but his little players know too well how to build guns and cannons!

In addition to the frontal battlefield, the attack and defense of the flank battlefield have also not stopped.

A number of creepers climbed over obstacles and bunkers to the flanks of the position, trying to replicate their previous stage victory at 65th Street.

However, unfortunately, this time their opponent was not a daredevil's squad mixed with new and old players, but a hunter squad led by the Niuma squad.

In the confrontation between the skirmishers and the skirmishers, the players still have the upper hand.

Although there was no heavy firepower, the individual combat effectiveness was fully utilized.

A LV6 strength player or LV7 agility or constitution player can basically compete with a creeper.

And if it's an LV10 awakener, as long as it's not the intelligence department and the perception department, you can basically easily solve the creeper in a one-on-one situation.

Don't even have to shoot!

Two small victories in the frontal and flank battles.

The first day of fighting ended in a stalemate.

However, despite the phased victory on Vault 404's side, neither the players nor the guards took it lightly.

The waves coming from the south are steady and show no signs of stopping.

Everyone can feel that a storm is brewing!

A day later.

Vault 117.

Chu Guang summoned his experts and held a brief meeting, asking for a report on the latest research progress on the "Corrupt Knight".

The first to speak was Hea.

She has done a systematic analysis of the "Decay Knight" slicing samples, and has already made initial progress.

"Let's just talk about it."

"First of all, I analyzed the tissue structure of the fruiting body, and I found neuronal cells in the sample that were completely different from the fruiting body. Compare the DNA, it should be an adult male, and the cell may have survived for more than a century...... This situation is similar to the symbiosis we have witnessed before, but the slime molds in Qingquan City seem to have more completely eroded the nervous system, completely depriving the host of their own consciousness. ”

"You can understand that the hard disk and memory have been replaced, leaving only the CPU and half of the graphics card."

Knowing that Chu Guang couldn't understand the theory that was too difficult, Heya simply used a way that she thought was more popular.

However, when she said this, she did not look at Chu Guang, but at Bucky, who was standing on the side trembling.

After a pause, Heya looked away from the tin can, looked at Chu Guang, who was deep in thought, and continued.

In addition, its sac-like organs are more exaggerated than other fruiting bodies, and the secretion of spores can even reach hundreds or even thousands of times that of creepers. Even in order to release the spores more efficiently, it has evolved special organs that transport the spores to the surface of the fruiting body, through the ciliated ends of the blanket. ”

“…… By all indications, there is a high probability that your speculation is correct. This apparently anomalous 'evolution' of its kind plays a commanding role. They are able to coordinate different consciousnesses, like nodes in a logistics network. In fact, there are also classes with strong barriers within them, with the big nodes dominating the small nodes, and so on. ”

Chu Guang touched his chin and thought.

"So as long as these node creatures are destroyed, the tide will stop?"

Hea nodded.

"That's how it should be...... At least get them back to normal. ”

Whether they run back to the city center or dissolve in place, it is much less threatening than if they were gathered together.

It's like a hundred nibbles, scattered in an underground garage of thousands of square meters, even if it's a newcomer, it takes a little more time to clean them up.

But if these hundred nibbles form a team and rush up in an organized manner. Without heavy firepower, even the Awakened will have a headache.

Bucky raised his right hand tremblingly: "...... I have a question, if my brain is completely eroded, will it become like this? ”

Hea: "I can't rule it out. ”

The tin can shuddered, and Bucky shuddered, wondering if he was glad he had slipped away quickly, or if he was reflexively afraid of Hea's curious eyes.

Chu Guang suddenly had an idea and spoke.

"If you let Bucky sneak into the xeno's lair, shove a three-kilogram 100mm cannonball directly next to the empress......"

Bucky looked at Chu Guang with a frightened expression: "Do you want me to die?" ”

Hea shook her head.

"This doesn't make any sense except to kill him, I should have said before that they rely on proteins with weakened RNA to recognize their own kind, and only between the same kind and the same kind can there be a unified consciousness coordination, and the identification code of slime molds in different regions is different. You can imagine what it would be like to throw an ant into an ant nest of another population. ”

Two ants of different races may not necessarily fight when they meet on the road, but if one of them follows the other in the other's nest and can come out alive, it can only be said that tens of thousands of ants are "blind" at the same time.

The same is true for slime bacteria that are also in the hive society.

Bucky is not attacked by fruiting entities roaming the streets, but that doesn't mean it can come and go in and out of the "core area" of the hatchery and the brood.

In particular, if you encounter an "evolved individual" with an autonomous consciousness, it is likely that you will be killed on the spot.

Knowing how to make side detours and feint to consume, these slime molds obviously have the ability to deal with problems flexibly.

There's no point in being clever at this point.

It's a pity.

Chu Guang even thought that even if he couldn't give the bomb away, it would be good to be able to see the position of the empress. It's a big deal that he borrowed tens of thousands of chips again, bought a wave of air strikes, and licked it with incendiary bombs.

With regret in his heart, Chu Guang then looked at Yin Fang.

The "Chief Head of the Vault 404 Scientific Expedition and Dean of the Academy's Branch 404" had been frowning and silent since the meeting, not knowing what he was thinking.

Intuition told Chu Guang that he should have discovered something.

"What about you? Did you find anything? ”

Yin Fang nodded slowly.

"I found that T-10 power armor action recorder."

"Tachograph?" With a surprised look on his face, Bucky looked at him and asked, "Does that thing still work?" ”

"Of course, the T-10 power armor is the land power armor of the People's Alliance Army, and the 'black box' is located near the waist."

As he spoke, Yin Fang gently placed an orange box the size of a thumb and shaped like nail clippers on the table.

"Although the data damage is severe...... But I still restored a little bit of the fragment. ”

Chu Guang: "What did you find?" ”

Yin Fang: "The number of this armor is T-10: A71C98U, when I was investigating the ruins in Luoxia Province before, I happened to see this series in an abandoned research institute. Not surprisingly, it was originally part of the 71st Armored Brigade of the People's Federation, and was part of the 'Post-War Reconstruction Committee' after the Wasteland Era. ”

Commission for Post-War Reconstruction.

The first time he heard the name was in what seemed to be a hologram left by Dr. Principle. By all indications, this group had considerable influence in the early days of the Wasteland Age, two hundred years ago.

According to the clues provided by the players, it seems that Boulder City is one of the survivor settlements prepared by the Post-War Reconstruction Committee.

Even the majestic wall was built by the post-war reconstruction committee.

Chu Guang frowned faintly.

The threads seem to be strung together, but a few key pieces of the puzzle are missing.

He wanted to know.

What role does Vault 404 play in this?

Yin Fang paused for a moment and continued.

"Two centuries ago, the unit to which the power armor belonged launched a military operation against the city center, with the suspected goal of clearing the brood nest in the center of the city's nuclear bomb crater. The black box did not record the final result of the operation, but it was supposed to be a failure, and the remaining data recorded the reason for the scrapping of this power armor. ”

Chu Guang: "Because of what?" ”

“EMP。”

Chu Guang was stunned.

But even more surprised than him was Hea.

“EMP？！ You're saying those slime molds use electromagnetic pulses? ”

Yin Fang shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't know, who knows what happened two hundred years ago? Maybe it's the slime mutant that has mastered some way of triggering the electromagnetic pulse, or maybe it's a friendly mistake...... In either case, according to the data recorded by the black box, the powerful electromagnetic pulse destroyed more than 30% of the electronic components of the power armor in 2 hours, 31 minutes and 17 seconds at the beginning of the battle, causing the arc engine to be forced to shut down. ”

"The power armor, which had limited mobility, quickly became encircled and completely overwhelmed by slime molds after running out of ammunition. The first to be eroded are the gas exchange system, then the subsistence system, and then the energy system...... The whole process lasted for twenty years, and it continued until the black box function stopped. ”

Bucky held his breath.

It was a long time before he spoke with difficulty.

"It's too bad."

As the plaque creeps up all over the eyepieces, the spores are continuously injected into the body along the life-sustaining system, and eventually the immune function is paralyzed, and it is completely reduced to a puppet that becomes the brood.

The only remaining nerve cells are kept alive in a special way until the physical body is completely destroyed, and finally liberation is achieved.

This is even more cruel than Ling Chi.

Yin Fang nodded silently.

"It's the slime molds that care me...... They seem to know us well. ”

Chu Guang looked at Yin Fang and asked.

"Doesn't the academy record the origin of those slime molds?"

Yin Fang shook his head.

"I don't know, even if there is, it's not information that I'm a D-class prospector can access."

Mutant slime molds, radiation, xenomorphs, mutants, and marauders everywhere......

I don't know what the madmen did two hundred years ago to blow up the home planet to what it is now.

It's no wonder that businesses on the East Coast are pinning their hopes on the legend of Vault 0, and the academy has just taken refuge in the swamp.

Chu Guang even has a feeling now that the first manager of No. 404 doesn't tell him anything, maybe it's also a kind of "protection".

After all, the more you learn about the world, the more hopeless it becomes.

The only people in this world who can face these difficulties optimistically are probably only those happy little players.

Chu Guang took a deep breath.

"Is there anything else to report?"

"I," Bucky continued nervously as he raised his hand and saw the crowd looking at him, "about the materials for that power armor...... I took a closer look at its structure. ”

Chu Guang said immediately.

"Can it be imitated?"

Bucky was stunned for a moment and smiled wryly.

"The porous aluminum-magnesium-manganese alloy is used for the structure, and boron carbide and silicon carbide are alternately filled, and this is only the first layer."

Seeing that Chu Guang still had an expectant expression, Yin Fang sighed, looked at the tin can sitting in the corner and said.

"He doesn't understand what you say, so don't go around in circles."

Chu Guang looked at Yin Fang dissatisfied.

"What do you mean by that?"

I just don't understand!

Xiao Qi, who had been quietly peeping at the screen next to him, also interjected coldly.

"That's right! Are you looking down on the wise and powerful administrator? Master, do you need me to clean him up? ”

Chu Guang coughed dryly.

"That's not necessary."

And what the hell is that "wise and martial manager", he doesn't remember that he taught Xiaoqi to call himself that.

Yin Fang rolled his eyes at the camera on the ceiling.

Before, he wanted to dismantle the "wastebasket" to study, but Chu Guang didn't agree, and strictly forbade him to do so, so he dispelled this idea.

Curiosity is curiosity, and he is not stupid.

It's just that this thing seems to be remembered by the careful-eyed AI.

Bucky hurriedly rounded the court and continued.

"The T-10 power armor is a pre-war equipment, and the armor shell is likely to be based on 3D printing technology, directly at the atomic level. The difference in our technology generation is too great, let alone here, even if it is a company, there is no way to produce this thing. ”

Composite armor with a thickness of only 40mm can have the equivalent thickness of 400mm of homogeneous steel in the vertical plane, and the inclination angle of a little bit cannot exceed thousands?

This protection is almost the same level as a modern main battle tank!

In my impression, the Legion's Iron Fist Bazooka seems to be able to cause damage to the power armor of the enterprise, and it is clear that even the enterprise is not in a position to imitate this armor piece.

Seeing the disappointed expression on Chu Guang's face, Bucky continued.

"But it's not without its gains."

"We have previously analyzed a material called 'A3 alloy' from the database of Zhongzhou Aerospace, but due to the lack of data and no samples, we have not been able to determine its specific composition."

Yin Fang looked at him in surprise.

"Is it ......?"

"Yes," Bucky nodded, excitedly, "the missing part should be the aluminum-magnesium-manganese alloy,"

Chu Guang immediately asked.

"Is this alloy very powerful?"

Yin Fang: "It can't be said to be very strong, it should be said to be very strong, and it has a wide range of uses and relatively cheap costs, from exoskeleton brackets to link parts of large machinery. ”

"To put it more intuitively, if the bracket of the KV-1 exoskeleton is replaced with A3 aerospace aluminum alloy, the protection force, maximum load and durability can be doubled under the condition that the weight remains the same and the cost rises slightly."

"At least it's a C-level technology!"

Not only exoskeletons, but also vehicles running on the ground and drones flying in the sky can all benefit from this achievement.

If he was in the Academy, this credit alone would have been enough for him to go from D-class prospector to C-class researcher.

The only drawback is the risk of fire in an oxidizing environment.

But as long as it is used in a small area, or mixed with other materials, it is not a big problem!

Chu Guang's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Can you make it?"

That's all he cares about!

Bucky nodded, his tone much lighter than before.

"Compared with the composite armor of the T-10, the mass production of the A3 aerospace aluminum alloy will not be very difficult, and I should be able to handle it."

Hearing this, Chu Guang's face showed a happy expression.

I didn't expect to be able to recover such a good thing from that iron bump!

What a bonus!

After the meeting, Chu Guang updated some of Heya's research results on the official website and shared them with players as an official guide.

At the same time, the West Third Ring Road of Qingquan City.

In the dark and silent ruins, there was a fire rushing to the sky......