"it...... Are these dogs crazy? ”

Inside a half-collapsed residential building.

Standing in the open-top bathroom with a ceiling missing, Ye Shi with a telescope in his hand, stared at the street three hundred meters away.

It's five o'clock in the morning, and the sun hasn't risen yet, but it's already bright.

Fifty or so marauders were seen following closely next to a truck with welded steel plates, and on the compartment was a - no, four machine guns to be exact!

I don't know if it's because the 12mm heavy machine guns are not enough, but the Marauders of the Tooth Clan also connected the light machine guns in series, and they were connected in a row with wires, steel bars and screws.

This reminded Ye Shi of the quadruple Makqin he had seen in the movie, which was simply the same as this thing.

The only difference is that one is conscious water cooling, and the other is slightly more advanced and one is air-cooled.

However, intuition tells Ye Shi that these marauders probably didn't learn from film and television works, but learned the quadruple air defense card of the Skeleton Corps.

"7mm machine gun anti-aircraft ...... Which genius came up with the idea. Fang Chang couldn't help but complain.

Lao Bai, who was sitting on the side and munching on wheat cakes, said with a smile.

"Don't even say it, if this thing's supply can keep up, the density of fire will scare people to death. As far as the wooden plane of the mosquito brother is concerned, it only takes half a second to come down from the sky. ”

Tempest's index finger touched the bridge of his nose and said.

“…… In terms of effect, we probably really hurt them that night. ”

Yeju, who watched the patrol disappear into the corner of the street and put down the binoculars, sighed.

"That's the case, but it's a little uncomfortable now that they're all together."

The AI in this game is very smart.

It will not only cut the player's leeks, but also adjust the AI's action strategy in real time according to the player's game behavior. It turned out that the predators, who could only stare dryly at the planes, also gave DIY anti-aircraft weapons in a fight.

What's that called?

Right!

Machine learning!

It is worthy of being the only fully immersive virtual reality online game in the world, and this AI technology is also strong.

Lao Bai, who was eating the cake, said calmly.

"Don't worry, the Ya Clan is sending troops to the front line recently, we just need to watch their tanks."

At present, the Burning Corps has been broken into pieces and scattered in the city, and it is still a bit difficult for the hundred-man team to rely on the four-person squad to face the hard marauders.

But it doesn't matter.

They can call for air strikes.

Usually the Marauders' tanks are hidden in underground garages, but now they are all moving to the front line, they don't need to go up and fight the tanks at all, as long as they lock the approximate location of the tanks, the players who fly the planes will naturally surprise them.

In just one week, the Burning Corps has called for air raids to scrap four Conqueror 10s, and one that was not scrapped but was also blown up.

Without the support of logistical supplies, with the hands-on ability of this group of barbarians, at most they can repair a track, As for the broken engine or even the oil pipe, it is basically no different from scrapping.

"It doesn't look like there will be tanks going down this street today." Fang Chang glanced at the time on the VM, and the sky not far away was already white.

Lao Bai threw away the paper wrapped in the wheat cake and got up from the floor with his rifle.

"Find a safe place to go offline."

As he was talking, there was a sudden creaking sound downstairs.

The four were immediately alert.

Lao Bai quickly moved to the entrance of the living room, leaned out half of his body and blocked the stairs. Immediately after that, the wind unleashed the "Firefly" drone, which flew out of the broken ceiling and landed on the outside of the residential building.

Ye Shi said in a deep voice: "I didn't feel the killing intent...... The other party should not have noticed us, or should not be sure of our exact location. ”

"Searching for ......" The expression of the wind operating the drone suddenly paused, and he was stunned.

I saw that in the window downstairs, there was a slightly immature face hidden, and it was difficult to distinguish his gender from his unkempt appearance. Tempest could only tell that he was not very old, and even taking into account the effects of malnutrition on development, he would be seven or eight years old at most.

The dark eyes stared motionlessly at the drone outside the window, and the pupils were full of apprehension, nervousness, and curiosity.

He probably thought he was well hidden, but the camera was able to see everything inside the room.

"It should be a local survivor...... It's a child. With that, Tempest synced the drone's footage to his teammate's VM.

Fang Chang asked cautiously.

"Is there anyone else around? Or weapons? ”

There were a lot of young soldiers among the raiders, and he didn't let his guard down just because the other party was a child.

Tempest shook his head.

"I don't see it...... I haven't seen such a skinny marauder yet. ”

"Alarm dismissed."

At least temporarily......

Lao Bai breathed a sigh of relief, put away the rifle in his hand, and turned off the safe.

The game is overly realistic in some ways.

Even though the dream filter filters out most of the sensory stimuli that are beyond the limits of tolerance, for players who have too much sense of substitution, the behavior of overstepping the line can still feel mentally uncomfortable.

For example, seeing a marauder throw a living person into a pan of oil......

If he could, he really didn't want to use someone younger than him as a match.

patted Fang Chang on the shoulder, Lao Bai said.

"Let's go, I'm ready to change places."

It's dawn.

It is impossible for the Marauder's tank to come out during the day, and there is no point in continuing to squat, so don't go down to the official website for a while.

But at this time, the players are online, and from 6 to 12 o'clock in the evening, the official website belongs to cloud players.

During this time, they fought every day and night, and their routines were completely disrupted......

Walk to the top of the stairs.

Lao Bai suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, last night's airdrop box hasn't been recycled yet, so let's pick it up before going offline."

Night Ten asked curiously.

"Didn't you say you weren't in a hurry to recycle?"

Lao Bai didn't answer this question, but took out a large bag of green wheat crackers left in his backpack and put them on the floor.

"I've changed my mind."

Fang Chang sighed.

"It's better not to take the game too seriously, in the setting, there are five or six thousand survivors in this city, and you can't help with that little airdrop of supplies. If you really want to pull them out of the water and fire, it is better to get rid of the marauders sooner. ”

Lao Bai smiled.

"I know, you just think it's my self-satisfaction."

The group left.

Voices from upstairs are heard disappearing.

The boy tiptoed upstairs to see if the soldiers of the New Alliance had any trash left to recycle.

For example, bullet casings and the like can be exchanged for food by taking them to the strongholds of the resistance.

But for the shells, the boy didn't have much hope.

All night yesterday, these people didn't fire a single shot, and if there were bullet casings left, it was called a ghost.

Since the arrival of the marauders, the survivors' settlements have been destroyed, and the survivors have either been taken into slavery or taken refuge underground. Since there is no farmland, they can only grow some fungi that do not require much light, or go outside to find wild barley, croissants, or even eat soil and gnaw on tree bark.

Originally, it would have been possible to survive like this, but the recent outbreak of plague in Xizhou City, the yield of mushroom fields has been seriously reduced, and wild crops such as green wheat and croissant potatoes have almost disappeared from Xizhou City, and the stronghold of the resistance group has encountered an unprecedented existential crisis.

In the past, everyone could still receive very little relief food, but now they have to pick up the garbage to change the nutritional paste.

The boy originally wanted to join the guerrillas, but he heard that the guerrillas were in charge of food, but he was too young, and the other party didn't look at him left and right, so he could only carry a sack and go to the street to pick up waste.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the New Alliance have recently joined the battlefield one after another, and these people are not only better equipped than the guerrillas, but also have a good habit of waste.

These people never picked up bullet casings that had fallen on the ground, and sometimes there was a sudden encounter, and they didn't take half of the dry food they ate, and threw it away.

The guerrillas encouraged them to recover the shells on the ground, and 20 copper shells could be exchanged for 100g of nutritional paste. Sometimes boys can't help but think that it would be nice if they had a chance to go to a new league.

The people of the new alliance don't even want bullet casings that have fallen on the ground, and they must have endless garbage to pick up at home.

Up the stairs, the boy was about to touch into the next room.

At that moment, he suddenly smelled a scent.

Snorting, the boy searched for the scent.

When he saw the green wheat cakes on the ground, a pair of dark eyes widened instantly. Hungry, he immediately pounced, grabbed a piece and stuffed it into his mouth.

A feeling of happiness spread between his lips and teeth, and an incredible expression appeared on his sallow face.

He couldn't tell what it tasted like, and he had never eaten such a delicious barley cake...... Is this really a green wheat cake? Why is there a smell of oil, and there is no grass sour taste at all!

How?

Are these people the messengers of the god of the bighorn deer?!

Finally swallowing the food in his mouth, the boy looked at the bale of green wheat crackers on the ground greedily, and instead of eating them, he carefully packed them into the sack.

"Gotta go back before dawn."

After spending a lot of time outside, my sister will be worried......

Silently thanking the generous people, the boy carefully put away the rest of the wheat cakes, burrowed into the narrow crevice like a rabbit, and dodged out of the apartment.

He didn't know why the soldiers of the New Alliance were leaving these delicious delicacies behind.

Like at this moment, he didn't know that there were four pairs of eyes following him behind him.

"Anyway...... Is it really okay for us to stalk a small child? Night Ten said with a strange expression.

Fang Chang did not directly answer this question.

Or that he didn't answer from the perspective of the night ten's question.

"Let's make a bold assumption, assuming that an NPC's behavior logic is to go out foraging, and then gather enough food, what is his next step?"

Ye Shi was stunned.

“…… Bringing food home? ”

"Correct solution!" Fang Chang snapped his fingers silently and said with a smile, "As long as we follow him, we can find his home." ”

Yashi held his forehead.

"I said you...... You won't even have to rummage through other scavengers' boxes. ”

Tempest said the same thing.

"I don't approve of this kind of behavior, and I feel guilty for a few silver coins."

Fang Chang coughed.

"When did I say I was going to rummage through other people's boxes, do I have such a dog?! I'm just curious about where he lives, aren't you? ”

Night Ten and Tempest glanced at each other.

"Didn't you say you lived underground?"

"Hmm...... According to the background information on the official website, the survivors of Xizhou City hid underground to deal with the marauders of the Chewing Bone Tribe, and formed resistance groups and guerrilla groups. ”

Fang Chang was heartbroken.

"That's right! Do you also know that they have formed a resistance group, rationally analyze a wave, and have an organization, and should not have a fixed stronghold? A survivor colony is at our feet, and we've been on the new map for more than half a month, and we don't even know where it is! Don't you wonder what it looks like? ”

Tempest was slightly stunned.

"A wave of rational analysis...... It can indeed be analyzed in this way. ”

"Hey, I just want to do a good thing, why do you have to make the problem so complicated......" Lao Bai scratched the back of his head with a headache, "Forget it, what you said makes sense." ”

It would definitely help them if they could hook up with the local resistance.

Strange to say, they have been here for more than half a month, and the local resistance group has never contacted them.

Is it because the program needs players to discover for themselves?

"Are you going to recycle the drop box later?" Night Ten asked.

"No, it's going to dawn soon, and I'll take it when it's dark...... Let's go to the resistance group here first," Lao Bai reached out and took two packets of green wheat cakes from Fang Chang's tactical hanging bag, "Evenize me two packets." ”

"Gan! You take the one in my backpack, and I'll hang it on my chest to block bullets. Fang Chang reflexively ducked to the side, covering his chest with his hands.

Lao Bai couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"This can stop a god's bullet!"

Night Ten: "Hahahaha. ”

Tempest coughed dryly.

"Don't leave people behind...... Let's go. ”

The group followed the boy through two streets and walked about two kilometers to the entrance of a half-collapsed subway station.

The boy stopped at the entrance, looked around cautiously, and slipped in through the entrance.

Fang Chang and his party followed him, passed through the ticket gate of the subway station, and entered the tunnel from the platform.

There are a lot of rats here, and there are countless black pressures in the abandoned carriages, and they are not afraid of people, and even bared their teeth at people.

The boy pulled out a bar of steel and swung it wildly to chase the rat away, and then immediately ran towards the depths of the tunnel.

"Shouldn't these be the little brothers of the difficult brothers?" Ye Shi, who was following behind, muttered in a low voice.

"You're thinking too much of him...... Leave the rats alone, don't lose your target. "My gut told Fang Chang that they were almost there.

The boy stopped in front of a green-painted iron door, and reached out and knocked rhythmically on the door.

It didn't take long for the door to open.

The boy dodged in and disappeared through the tunnel.

It's like it never happened.

“…… It should be the entrance to the underground settlement of the survivors of Xizhou City! Fang Chang's face was full of excitement.

NEW MAP!

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Lao Bai touched his chin.

"I wonder how we can say hello to them and go up and knock on the door? Or say hello first? ”

Tempest pondered.

"I think it might be better to show your identity first."

Just as Lao Bai and Tempest were discussing how to greet each other, Ye Shi's expression suddenly changed slightly, and he held the semi-automatic rifle in his hand.

"Someone's coming!"

Almost as soon as the words fell, footsteps could be heard from behind the tunnel.

I saw a group of poorly dressed and unkempt men appear near the platform of the subway station. They carried iron barrels and rifles on their backs, and woven bags in their hands, judging from the shriveled bags, today's harvest should not be good.

When they met the gaze with Lao Bai and his party, the group of people was obviously stunned, and then immediately shouted in panic and loaded the iron pipe rifle in their hands.

Tensions rose sharply.

With his index finger on the insurance, Lao Bai glanced at the weapons in the hands of those people and gave his good brother Fang Chang a look.

Fang Chang comprehended, lowered the muzzle of the gun and stepped forward, and shouted in the words of someone who was not very familiar with his back.

"We are paratroopers of the new Union! We are here with peace in mind, and I hope you will calm down! ”

Paratroopers of the new alliance ?!

Aren't they at war with marauders?

How did you get here?

The group of people standing at the mouth of the tunnel were visibly stunned, obviously not expecting the people of the new alliance to be here.

Maintaining an aiming posture, the man in the lead shouted nervously.

“…… How can we believe you! ”

Fang Chang said succinctly.

"Let you continue to stand, it is our greatest sincerity, if you continue to aim at us, don't blame us."

"Stop!"

The green-painted door opened.

A man in a leather jacket walked out.

He was flanked by two guards with automatic rifles, followed by a boy with a bag in his hand and watching the four men in the middle of the tunnel with trepidation.

Lao Bai looked at the boy, and then at the man in the leather jacket. The angular face looks like it has been cut out of a knife, and its sharp pupils are reminiscent of the jackals that can be found everywhere in the wasteland.

He's a master.

Whether it's experience, or strength.

Lao Bai made an evaluation in his heart.

And while he was locking up the man, the man was also looking at him with jealous eyes.

"Wu Chengyi, the mayor of Hope Town, and the captain of the guerrillas, may I ask what your name is?" The man reported himself to the door.

"Lao Bai." Lao Bai didn't know how to say the idiom "White Horse Passing the Gap" in a human-like language, so he used the nickname that everyone gave him.

For this name, which obviously does not look like his real name, Wu Chengyi didn't feel strange.

The wasteland has any name.

It doesn't matter what it's called.

"You're from the New Alliance?"

Lao Bai, who is not good at human interaction, cast his gaze at Fang Chang for help, asking him to guess it based on his expression and demeanor combined with the context, but it is a little difficult for him to communicate normally.

'What should I do?' ’

'I'll do it. ’

Seeing the embarrassment of the good brother at a glance, Fang Chang took over the conversation, cooperated with the translation function of the VM, and spoke.

"Yes, we owe allegiance to the new Alliance, allegiance to the Administrators, fighting for the revival of civilization, and are currently at war with the Chewy Bone Tribe...... When we heard that you were too, we thought that the enemy of our enemy might become friends, so we came uninvited. ”

Is the enemy of my enemy a friend......

Not necessarily in the wasteland.

The enemy of the enemy may be able to become friends if he is evenly matched with himself. If there is a huge difference in strength, it may also become the opponent's trophy if it is not done well.

The vast majority of the survivors in Xizhou City have a good impression of the new alliance, and even have an unrealistic vision, but Wu Chengyi knows very well that there is no free lunch in this world.

As the leader of the Resistance, he needs to think about a lot more, and it is extremely dangerous to easily trust strangers until he understands the motives of the other party.

Wu Chengyi stared at Fang Chang and continued.

"Last question, what do you think of us?"

"What do you think?"

Fang Chang was slightly stunned, then understood what the man in front of him wanted to ask, and thought for a moment and said.

"You're a bunch of ...... Brave people, at least did not surrender. Of course, this is just my opinion, if you want to ask the manager's opinion, you might as well go and ask him directly. ”

Wu Chengyi was slightly stunned.

"Do you have a way to get in touch with him?"

Fang Chang gave him a strange look.

"Of course, our radio station is always ready to communicate with the rear."

Hearing this, happy expressions appeared on the faces of the people around him.

After exchanging a few words in a low voice with the guards beside him, Wu Chengyi motioned for the guerrillas to put away their guns.

Walking alone in front of the players, he held out his right hand.

“…… Thank you for reaching out to us, and please forgive us for being wary, we have witnessed the death of so many of our compatriots in the past six months, and it is difficult for us to trust any stranger easily. ”

Fang Chang took his hand and shook it.

"Understood."

After a pause, Wu Chengyi continued.

"I've thought about your proposal."

"Allow me to talk to your administrators."

……

New Union Barracks.

Chu Guang, who was sitting in the command room, was looking at the report sent from Qingshi County.

The exploration of the copper-molybdenum deposit has been completed, the construction equipment has been delivered, and the mining and smelting of the copper ore is already underway.

By the end of last week, the new alliance was already self-sufficient in copper, molybdenum, sulfur and other industrial raw materials.

The railway for transportation has also been laid from Yuanxi Town to Qingshi County.

Chu Guang has paid special attention to the speeches of the few life professional players who were "sent to the Geopark to explore mineral deposits" on the forum in the past few days.

Judging by the photos they took and what other cloud players discussed, everyone was blown away by the mining equipment left over from the early days of the human connection.

Especially when it comes to industrial design.

Although more than 300 years have passed, and the mining equipment used as an antique exhibition has long been unusable, the design ideas of some equipment still bring them a lot of inspiration.

The shock from the professional field is far stronger than the feeling brought to them by solid hydrogen and X-4 fibers for those few small players who are geology majors.

All the little players involved in the exploration work couldn't help but sigh.

This game company's business is too extensive!

"Master, there is new news about the Burning Corps you sent to Xizhou City." Xiao Qi's voice came from his ears.

Putting down the report sent by the logistics department, Chu Guang asked casually.

"What's the news?"

Xiao Qi continued.

"Your player has reached out to a local survivor. A man claiming to be the leader of the Resistance who wants to speak with you. ”

Resistance in Xizhou City?

To be honest, in his original plan, he had considered using the power of the local survivors to deal with the Tooth Clan.

But that was a few versions ago.

With the cards he has now, it is enough, there is no need to support the local resistance groups, raising them too fat will affect the subsequent co-optation.

However, since they took the initiative to contact themselves......

This might be a good opportunity.

The index finger lightly tapped on the table, and Chu Guang thought for a while before speaking.

"Make an appointment with them for me."

"All right, master!"

As an assistant, Xiao Qi is as reliable as ever today, and after the voice fell, he immediately went to help him arrange a time for the conference call.

Picking up the tablet on the table again, Chu Guang flipped to the last document.

【Xizhou Industrial Zone Development Plan (Draft)】

After thinking for a moment, Chu Guang added a line to the title.

【…… and the reconstruction of new rehabilitation areas and survivor settlements]

The large number of survivors in Xizhou City, coupled with the captives of the marauders, could not be digested at all at once with the population capacity of Dawning City.

The best way to do this is to build a new settlement and house the survivors in place.

It just so happened that he planned to transfer heavy industry from Qingquan City to Xizhou City, which was further away from Boulder City.

Looking at the document in his hand, Chu Guang nodded with satisfaction.

"This pie ......"

"Players and natives alike should love it."