Over the city of Qingquan.

A Dragonfly transport plane is circling along the edge of the Fifth Ring Road.

Looking at the boundless yellow-green fog outside the cabin, he couldn't help but smash his tongue, and his eyes were surprised.

The spore clouds gathered in the center of the city are like waterfalls rolling down from the clouds, and from a distance they look like a giant tree with lush foliage.

Majestic torsos swallow the earth, and outstretched branches and leaves invade the sky.

Is there really a weapon that can destroy this thing?

Even if it's a nuclear bomb......

A faint chill crawled along the line of sight, and the steamed bun brother shook his head, picked up the walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder and shouted.

"Are you ready?"

Sandwiched by the electric sound of fried wheat, Lao Bai's intermittent voice came from the headphones.

"Okay."

The signal has begun to fluctuate unsteadily, and his intuition tells Brother Mantou that without the protection of anti-electromagnetic interference equipment, this is already the limit that the plane can approach.

He pulled the lever to the side.

With an unstable tremor, the hanging door locked by the tail was slowly lowered, and the restless air flow swept into the cabin.

"The hatch opens—"

"Good luck to you!"

At the same time, Lao Bai, who was standing at the hatch, gestured to his teammates behind him, and took the lead out of the hatch against the whistling airflow.

The camera zoomed out, only to see a few black dots separated from the cabin, speeding away in the direction of Qingquan city center. In a short time, six parachutes bloomed over the Third Ring Road.

After landing, everyone quickly gathered in the direction of the airdrop materials, and recovered the ammunition and RPG rocket launchers and other support equipment placed there.

At the same time, on the other side.

Located in Boulder City, on the edge of the West Third Ring Road, inside the radar station perched on a giant wall, the operator on duty has spotted the plane hovering over the border of the Third Ring Road.

"UFOs are approaching our airspace!" The operator sitting in front of the radar control terminal was the first to notice the red dot on the screen.

However, instead of being nervous, he shouted excitedly.

The radar station was bustling with activity.

Most of the staff here are in the same mood as him at the moment.

It's been a long time since they've seen another Survivor Force aircraft appear within range of the radar alert area.

", I'm sure! It's the scavengers in the northern suburbs! One of the operators scolded excitedly.

"The other party did not respond to our communication!"

"Could it be that they don't have the radio equipment to receive the signal at all?"

"Haha, it's possible!"

As he spoke, the colleague sitting next to him was already operating the air defense system and aimed a rapid-fire gun at the slow silver "Big Bird".

The computer has calculated the preview circle based on the motion parameters of the aircraft.

All he had to do was press the fire button, and the big silver bird would turn into a ball of fire.

"The other party is already within our range!"

"Do you want to take it down?"

Unlike the excited operators in the radar station, the station manager in charge of managing the radar station was obviously much more cautious.

"Wait."

The plane did not continue towards Boulder City, and quickly turned around and headed back in the direction of the northern suburbs of Qingquan City.

The staff operating the weapon had a slightly disappointed expression.

He's been sitting on the cold bench under his ass for almost a decade, and the air defense system on the giant wall has never come in handy.

A staff member said indignantly.

"This is a provocation to us!"

"It's up to the lord to decide whether it's a provocation or not," the head of the radar station interrupted him and looked at his deputy, "Report this incident immediately!" ”

The deputy standing aside nodded.

"Yes!"

……

South 3rd Ring Road, Qingquan City.

The five members of the Niu Ma team, who landed safely, successfully converged near the drop box and obtained the weapons placed inside.

However, everyone's expressions were not too optimistic.

The situation here is far worse than they imagined.

It can even be said that ......

It was completely unexpected.

A dark red carpet crawled over almost every building, every viaduct, and every inch of the street.

Hideous-looking nibblers, and slime mold xenomorphs that are more vicious than nibbles, wander aimlessly through the shattered streets.

And that's not just the tricky thing, it's the intricate terrain that multiplies the danger here.

The high-rise buildings that go deep into the clouds are connected to each other by tunnels, making it a real "steel forest".

When I was parachuting down, I almost hung on the pedestrian bridge.

Luckily, he was lucky enough to parachute through the middle of the two bridges, and he landed safely and joined his teammates.

"Mom...... It turns out that the city center of Qingquan City has this ghost look. ”

On the fiftieth floor of a thousand-meter-tall building, Yashi, wearing a gas mask, stands next to the broken wall, holding a telescope and looking in the direction of the crash site.

The crashed W-1 Mosquito glider got stuck in the façade of the tall building directly across from them, with the front half of its body stuck in the wall.

Falling feathers should be inside.

Yashi glanced at his feet.

Below him was an abyss with no visible bottom, a thick cloud of spore like water in a venom pool, with a limited area to observe.

Due to the spore clouds that gather in the city center, the visibility here is less than two hundred meters.

In fact, due to the countless amounts of construction debris and reinforced concrete, the actual visibility is less than half of that number.

It's a lot more exciting than a wave.

"Haven't you explored this place before?" Quit smoking nervously.

Tempest shook his head.

"I haven't heard of anyone here."

Fang Chang also said: "There is no task here, and there is no file to save, even if you come here, it is meaningless." ”

You can't go far without high-value equipment, and you have to consider the risks when you bring high-value equipment.

The game does not limit the player's specific playstyle, but it also emphasizes that everyone is an adult and needs to be responsible for their own choices.

In fact, earlier, they had tried to start from Boulder City and explore in the direction of the Third Ring Road.

However, the combat effectiveness of the xenomorphs encountered along the way became stronger and stronger, and a lot of bullets were wasted without any gain, and finally gave up.

Carefully observing the situation on the path ahead, Ye Shi's face became heavier and heavier, and he said in a low voice.

“…… There are a lot of evolutionaries here! ”

Hearing the word evolution, everyone's expressions immediately became serious.

"Rotten Knight?" Lao Bai said with a solemn expression.

Yashi shook his head and didn't speak, but lightly pointed to the concrete elevated bridge outside the tall building, which connected to another building.

I saw the wreckage of cargo drones lying there, roughly counting nearly hundreds, and there were also packages and boxes from two hundred years ago falling next to them.

The dark red shell looks like it's rusty, but if you look closely with the binoculars, you can see that it's not rust at all.

It's a shocking fungus blanket!

"Those things...... I can sense that they are alive," after a pause, Yashi said in a deep voice, "and I'm afraid they won't be easy to deal with!" ”

Tempest frowned.

"Do you want to get around them?"

"It's not much better, have you forgotten what we saw when we came up?" Lao Bai took out the RPG bazooka behind his back, inserted a high-explosive grenade, and gestured to quit smoking with a heavy machine gun on his back, "I can only try." ”

It's impossible to get around.

The stealth difficulty of this game is not ordinary, especially for the mutant slime molds, which are covered by spore clouds, and have an enemy antenna stuck in their heads.

Get a little closer, and you'll rush up with a roar.

The best way to do this is to choose a relatively safe path, lure out the monsters in the area, clear them, and then move on.

Seeing that Lao Bai took out the RPG, the other team members also tacitly went to their respective combat positions, and the weapons in their hands were safed.

"I'm ready."

"I'm also Oak here."

“+1”

“……”

Everyone cooperated quite tacitly, after all, it was not the first time they had teamed up, and they had already experienced countless battlefields.

Seeing that his teammates were getting ready one after another, Lao Bai took the lead in pulling the trigger.

Tail Flame Spray!

A high-explosive grenade bombarded the middle of the dense swarm of drones!

As the flames and smoke exploded in an instant, a large area of drones were shocked by the blast wave and fragments of the explosion, and fell downward.

Quit Smoking, who set up a machine gun not far away, also pulled the trigger at the first time and vented his ferocious fire towards the front area.

The 10mm bullets weaved into an orange-yellow rain of fire in the air, frantically harvesting the swarm of drones that were shocked and floated.

"it...... Can this thing really fly? Fang Chang, who was firing with his rifle, had a hint of surprise in his eyes.

In two hundred years, unless it is nuclear power, no matter how durable the chemical energy battery is, it will not last so long!

Apparently those mutants of slime molds replaced the batteries on the drones as a new power source, driving the propellers in a strange way, and even evolving some of the fungus blankets into the propellers themselves.

But—

In the face of absolute firepower, these are nothing, and the swarm of drones bursting out of the billowing smoke is harvested by bullets.

Everything seems to be going well.

However, at this moment, a change suddenly happened!

The drones that were knocked down by the high-explosive grenade did not all fall to the ground and shatter, and some of the surviving little ones flew up again.

At the same time, more and more drones are floating out of the viaduct and even the opposite building, and even begin to outflank them.

The Ox and Horse squad guarding behind the bunker immediately fell into a bitter battle.

"Holy! That's a lot, isn't it?! "I emptied the whole drum, quit smoking, scolded, and immediately changed the magazine.

At this time, the wind that was pouring fire on the trigger suddenly spoke.

"Is there a possibility?"

Fang Chang: "What do you want to say?" ”

"The mimicry ability of the mutant slime mold mimics not just the individual drone, but the drone swarm ......itself," after a pause, Tempest continued, "To put it simply, it wasn't a single parcel that attacked us, but an entire locker. ”

Ten nights were frightened.

"! Don't be a crow's mouth! ”

"It's not a crow's mouth, as long as you find the 'drone hive' that dominates this group of little guys, you should be able to make them lose their organization......"

Seeing the quit machine gun resume fire, Tempest took out the drone with the IED strapped in his backpack and prepared to control it to fly to the opposite building.

VM opens.

The neural access device is worn on the head.

However, at this moment, Tempest's expression suddenly froze.

Noticing the change in his expression, Ye Shi hurriedly asked.

"What's the situation?"

Holding the headphones, the wind frowned, glanced at the VM screen in front of him, and said in a deep voice.

"Can't connect to ......"

Hell yes.

There's still a little signal left!

“%￥#@！”

Yashi scolded and knocked off the empty magazine on his rifle.

No one can count on it now.

If you want to survive, you can only do your best to shoot down all the drones in front of you!

However, at this moment, a drone suddenly broke through the fire network, passed through the broken wall on the side of the building, and rushed towards Yeten.

The alarm is rising!

Reflexively, Yashi released the magazine in his hand and pulled out the ten-captain pistol stuck in the belt.

And yet—

Even though he had warned of danger in advance, his hand was still a step slower.

The drone, covered in a dark red fungus blanket, crashed headlong, and the tentacles protruding from under the fuselage popped out as fast as lightning and slammed into his face.

Night Ten only had time to see a black shadow flicker, and then his consciousness fell into boundless darkness.

A pale blue pop-up window appears.

【Disconnected】

At the same time, another world.

Jiangcheng University, in a dormitory of the men's dormitory, an abrupt ghost cry suddenly sounded.

"Blanch!"

Hearing the movement from the bed, the animals sitting down and eating black chickens were stunned on the spot, and the hands that pressed the guns stopped.

What's going on?

There was silence in the dormitory.

Sun Qian turned his head to look at the bed behind him, and was about to ask what was going on, when the voice of Brother Ah Wei floated over from the bed.

"Sauri...... Something went wrong. ”

Ye Wei, who was sitting on the bed, stared at the helmet in his hand, his chest slowly rising and falling.

The three roommates looked at each other.

I don't know what's going on, but it's okay.

"Whew...... Small problems, out of the way. ”

"We don't care, but you pay attention to your body......"

"Indeed, playing r18 games is still so loud, it's hard for a few buddies not to worry about you."

Ye Wei: "......"

mmp！

These!

Ye Wei rolled his eyes and threw the helmet next to his pillow.

Getting up and getting out of bed with the ladder, he went to the balcony to wash his face, leaned against the guardrail and took out his mobile phone, and glanced at the small group.

"Anyone?" He sent a message to the past.

After a while, no one answered.

Seeing this, Ye Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that everyone is fine, only I accidentally gave it for nothing.

However, the thought that he would not be able to get on the number for the next three days made him feel depressed.

Boy.

The withdrawal response has already begun!

Just when Ye Wei was about to close the Q group and go to the official website to take a look at what new work the sand sculptures had done, a message suddenly popped up in the group.

Guang: "Yes, what's wrong?" ”

Seeing the ID of this sudden corpse, Ye Shi was shocked.

it?

Dog Planning!

"Brother Guang?!"

"You're still alive??"

Suddenly realizing that there seemed to be something wrong with his question, Ye Wei hurriedly withdrew the message, and typed at the speed of light to answer below.

"Well, I mean you actually remembered the account password."

Guang: "......"

Ye Wei's expression was a little embarrassed, and he sent a dog head to ease the atmosphere.

However, the broad-minded Brother Guang didn't care about such a trivial matter, and soon took the initiative to change the topic.

Guang: "What's the situation over there?" Got the enemy? ”

Isn't this knowingly asked?

However, it was rare to chat with the dog planner, and Ye Wei still answered truthfully.

"Well, we just hit the xenos not long after we landed. The situation inside the Third Ring Road was even worse than we expected, on the ground, in the sky, and in the ground...... The intricacies of traffic are like a maze, paper maps and compasses are useless, and we have to rely on VMs and weak signals to orient ourselves. ”

"And then there's the xenomorphs...... It's not just gnawers, creepers, and tyrants, but also a plethora of ancient machines operating in the area. ”

Guang: "Ancient machines? ”

Ye Wei continued to type.

"It's an evolution! For example, the power armor wrapped in slime molds, tanks, self-propelled robots, etc., which appeared in the previous Wave expansion...... It's all weird stuff anyway. ”

"By the way, and drones! On the way to the crash site, we encountered a large swarm, densely packed like locusts! ”

Hi-kwang: "Can you elaborate on the situation of those evolutions?" ”

After a few seconds, he added another sentence later.

"I mainly want to understand what is going on on the new map from the player's perspective."

Although he felt a little strange, Ye Wei didn't think much about it, picked the screen of his mobile phone, and described his encounter in the Third Ring Road to Ah Guang one by one.

After a while, Ah Guang replied.

"Well, I guess I understand."

After paving for a long time, Ye Wei then typed.

"Brother Guang, will the difficulty within the Third Ring Road be too high? The equipment can't keep up, and it's hard to advance with just a few light weapons. ”

"Power armor is highly recommended in the weapon shop!"

There are too many high-level monsters!

This level design is simply unreasonable!

And yet—

Ah Guang did not seem to intend to take his advice.

"I can't help the difficulty, part of the game content is generated by the server itself, and part of it is added by players on their own initiative, and we are only responsible for maintaining the operation of the server and dealing with violations...... Condolences. ”

"I have something on my side, let's go down first, let's talk back."

Auto-generated game content is ok.

What is this Ubisoft behavior?

Looking at the two lines of messages on the screen, Ye Wei had a helpless expression on his face.

Whether he believed it or not, Ah Guang had no intention of continuing to explain to him, and after asking what he wanted to ask, he went offline ruthlessly.

I was left alone in the group.

There is no point in continuing to guard, the empty and lonely Ye Wei sighed, closed the group chat window, opened the browser and boarded the forum.

It's a bit of a buzz on the forum.

The speed of swiping the gossip section is dizzying, and almost every time it is refreshed, the post on the homepage will change the whole round.

At this moment, Ye Wei was suddenly surprised to find that Ah Guang actually took advantage of his inattention and secretly updated an announcement?

Curious, he went in and took a look, and he was stunned on the spot.

【Map information update: Cheongsen City Center】

[Map Overview: The area in the center of Qingquan has completely fallen under the erosion of slime molds, and a large number of equipment left over from the Prosperous Era has been assimilated by the fruiting body of mutant slime molds, forming an evolutionary body with a special structure......]

[Recommended Exploration Level: Lv.25 or higher]

[Map Tip 1: Recover the remains of the evolutionary body, which can be exchanged for high rewards in the scientific expedition group!] 】

【……】

The recommended exploration level and map tips don't have a lot of slots.

It's just the "Map Overview" section......

Why does he look so familiar??

……

Wasteland World.

Shuguang City Industrial Zone, the train platform near the Bucky Aluminum Factory.

Crews are busy operating crane equipment, loading some large equipment that has been disassembled into parts onto pallets on freight train pallets.

The industrial areas of the new alliance are migrating north.

This work will take place in parallel with the construction of Auroville.

At that time, the industrial zone of Shuguang City will be transformed into a light industrial base focusing on the production of consumer goods.

Heavy industry, including steel, weapons, and heavy equipment production, will be moved to Dawn City to the north.

After listening to Xiaoyu's introduction, Pai asked curiously.

"Why are you moving north?"

Xiaoyu said helplessly.

"Because it's so close to our neighbors."

Pai asked.

"Do you have a bad relationship with them?"

With her index finger against her chin, she thought for a moment before replying.

"Hmm...... I can't say whether it's good or not, in Brother Chu's words, we are too close to them, and it is dangerous for each other. ”

Of course, there are also a series of factors such as the north being closer to the source of raw materials, more population, etc., but it is too troublesome to explain in detail, and Xiaoyu himself is also half-understood, so he simply omitted it.

"Okay."

Accepting the argument, Pai put the trivial matter aside for a moment and continued to search for it near the stockpile.

Xiao Yu watched her movements and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"What are you looking for?"

"Some ingredients!"

"Raw materials?"

"It's nothing, you don't have to worry about it, it won't hurt you anyway!"

Looking at Pai with a confident face, Xiao Yu tilted his head in confusion, although he was still curious, but in the end he didn't ask more.

"Okay...... Can I help you? ”

"Really? That's great! Pai's eyes lit up, and he excitedly gestured with his hand to the size of a glass, "First of all, I need a bottle of crude oil, it doesn't matter what kind of crude oil...... That's probably enough! ”

To teach that impudent guy a deep lesson.

This is the necessary material!

"Hara, crude oil?" Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Is it okay to have biomass crude oil?" ”

Pai touched his chin and thought for a moment.

"Biomass crude oil...... It's a bit of a hassle, but it's okay! ”

"Anyway, let's get a bottle and see it!"

……

The other side.

South of Shuguang City, a sanatorium in Linghu Wetland Park.

Having just learned about the situation in the city center from Night Ten, Chu Guang was planning to continue to conceive of the unfinished reform plan and the update content of the beta 0.3 version.

However, just as he was staring at the new folder on the screen, wondering what title would be more appropriate, an unexpected phone call suddenly came to him.

Seeing that the communication request came from the "New Alliance Office in Boulder City", Chu Guang temporarily stopped what he was doing and pressed the connect button.

Soon, Shuyu's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Five minutes ago, someone from the Boulder City Hall came to my place."

The people of the town hall?

A hint of surprise appeared in Chu Guang's eyes.

"What did they say?"

Shuyu continued.

"...... on trade and security issues"

"The director of the town hall would like to speak with you on the phone."