Infirmary at Vault 404.

Luo Hua, who was lying flat on the scanning table, opened his eyes, and what caught his eye was the silver-white ceiling. He tried to sit up from the bed, but found that the effect of the anesthetic had not worn off, and his body did not listen to him at all.

Except for his left hand looking at the bionic prosthetic body in front of him, he swallowed involuntarily.

At this time, an unfamiliar voice came from the side.

"Yo, awake?"

Luo Hua slowly moved his neck and looked at the strange man standing next to the scanning bed, and just wanted to ask where this was, when he suddenly saw silver threads as thin as hair suspended on the man's arm.

He recognized it, a "scalpel" used to perform minimally invasive surgery on neurons, commonly found in some of the large medical devices used to perform prosthetic modification surgeries.

The only people who would put this kind of thing on a biomimetic prosthetic body are those who are obsessed with Age of Prosperity technology to the point of paranoia.

The Adam's apple moved, and Luo Hua squeezed a sentence out of his mouth.

"You're from the Academy?"

"That's right, Vault 404 Branch, I'm the Dean here."

Taking the cake that Chu Guang had drawn for himself to make a joke to ease the atmosphere, Yin Fang withdrew the hair-thin knife back to the interface on the inside of his forearm.

Looking at the man lying on the scanning table, he smiled faintly and continued.

"Welcome to Vault 404, where I am the head of the expedition in addition to the dean of the academy branch. By the way, the biomimetic organs on your body are quite interesting, I just opened it and studied it, so you shouldn't mind. “

Luo Hua said helplessly.

“… Do I mind being useful? “

"It's really useless, it's over." Yin Fang said and continued, "My name is Yin Fang, if there is any fault with your parts, you can ask me to repair it." ”

"Luo Hua... Employees of the Enterprise Silver Wing Group," Luo Hua glanced around, his eyes full of surprise, "here... Is Vault 404? “

Yin Fang's eyebrows raised slightly.

"Yes, you haven't been here?"

"I've been here, I've been here..."

I just don't remember having this room at all.

Luo Hua stared blankly at the ceiling.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered something, and immediately looked at Yin Fang, who was standing next to the scanning bed, and said.

"What about your managers?"

"Just outside the door, do you want me to call him in?"

Luo Hua nodded, and was about to say "please" when the door of the infirmary opened with a bang.

I saw a man and a woman walking in from outside.

He also looked at the beautiful woman with long silver hair, but the one standing next to her was familiar to him.

"Chu Guang..."

Chu Guang smiled and nodded.

"We meet again."

Compared with when I first met a year ago, the young man lying on the bed has grown much older, and his face is even more weather-beaten. If Yin Fang hadn't shaved his beard for him, the temperament of that kind of artist would probably be more obvious.

A trace of excitement appeared in Luo Hua's eyes, and he struggled to sit up from the scanning bed, but was stopped by Chu Guang raising his hand.

"Don't get excited, it's okay to lie down and talk about something. I finally woke you up, don't wait for a while to faint in the middle of your sentence. ”

Chu Guang smiled and continued to ask with concern.

"How does it feel? It's better. ”

"Much better," Luo Hua swallowed, and then said, "We found it!" “

"Vault 0?" Chu Guang asked thoughtfully.

"Hmm!" Luo Hua said excitedly, "Just in the Great Desert... We found the entrance to that place! “

"What does it look like?"

"I don't know."

"Don't know?" Chu Guang looked at him unexpectedly, "Didn't you go in?" ”

A bitter expression appeared on Luo Hua's face.

"To be exact, we almost got in"

Chu Guang pondered: "Because of the legion? “

Luo Hua nodded with a heavy expression.

"We managed to find the coordinates of the Vault, and we also got the key to the Vault from a key person, which is the one you have."

Chu Guang glanced at the silver card in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Luo Hua, who was lying on the scanning table, paused for a moment and continued.

"They are more difficult to deal with than expected, although we have power armor, their combat effectiveness is not weak, and they are the closest 2 to the Great Desert

Oasis, where the Falcon Kingdom is their vassal. “

"In the face of the influx of soldiers, we had to abandon the Trailblazer, and some of us took refuge in a makeshift shelter near the base of the space elevator."

Chu Guang was stunned.

“… Space elevator?! "

"Well, don't you know?"

Luo Hua glanced at Chu Guang strangely, and saw the latter nodding slowly, so he continued.

"Near the equator in the middle of the Great Desert is the site of the space elevator in the era of the People's Union... It collapsed two hundred years ago, and the entire Great Desert was littered with its debris, the furthest piece even falling to the east coast. But that's not the point, the point is that the Vault is just around the corner! ”

Taking a deep breath, he looked at Chu Guang seriously.

"Luyan... Our captain told me to go all the way east, and I must not let the Legion get that card under any circumstances. “

"That is our last hope to end all the suffering on this land."

The index finger and thumb pinched the center of his eyebrows, and Chu Guang took a moment to digest this huge amount of information.

"I'll do my best to help you, but for now, the Legion's airship is right under our noses. If we don't get rid of them, our people will have to make a big detour south to enter the Luoxia Province...... Do you have a way to get in touch with the East Coast side? ”

A hint of anxiety appeared in Luo Hua's eyes.

"We've already reported the situation to the company, haven't they arrived yet?"

Hearing this, Chu Guang's expression became a little subtle.

"It's here, but it's only about a hundred... Are you sure that is enough for that person? “

Luo Hua was obviously stunned.

"More than a hundred... How could there be only a hundred people?! ”

Looking at Luo Hua, whose eyes were gradually filled with anxiety and disbelief, Chu Guang nodded silently and continued.

"That's the case, it's the 26th Commando Team here, with an establishment of more than 100 people, and the captain is Yun Song. Although they had twenty power armors, there was a serious lack of heavy weapons ... To be honest, I think it's enough to choke on that little bit. ”

This was one of the reasons why he didn't call those people to come back and help deal with the Iron Heart, those hundred or so people were useless at all, so it was better to let them go to the west to help first.

What he needs is more support.

Whether it's weapons or technology, he wants as much as he wants.

Luo Hua gritted his teeth and said.

"One commando is definitely not enough! Not to mention the two 10,000 teams deployed by the legion on the west side of Luoxia Province, the standing army of the Falcon Kingdom alone is around 100,000! Even if it's twenty power armors. It is impossible to deal with so many people. “

Chu Guang sighed.

"I think so too."

Especially after seeing the power of that 400mm gun, he was even more convinced of this idea.

To be honest, he was even a little skeptical that something was going on on the east coast, otherwise why only so few reinforcements had come.

However, this is clearly not the time to discuss this.

After a pause, Chu Guang then asked.

"Don't you have any big transport planes or airships or anything like that?"

Luo Hua's face showed embarrassment.

"Yes, there is, but it's nearly 3,000 kilometers from the East Coast alone... This distance is already far beyond our electric rays' maximum range. ”

The "Electric Ray" is a twin-engine transport aircraft equipped by the enterprise, the flight mode can be switched between fixed-wing and vertical take-off and landing, and the maximum range is only 500 kilometers.

Otherwise, Yun Song and those people would not have come by land.

For a long time, the company only had the survivor settlement of Ideal City, and the other survivor settlements in Yunjian Province only maintained trade exchanges, and there was no need for ultra-long-distance deployment and combat, nor overseas military bases, so it did not have the technology of large aircraft at all.

It's not impossible to start research and development now, with advanced power technology and energy storage technology, it is not difficult for them to design a practical equipment.

However, whether we can catch up with the current crisis is a question.

Luo Hua fell into deep thought.

After a long time, he spoke.

"Anyway, you have to find a way to contact the company first... I have to tell the people over there about it! “

Chu Guang asked.

"Do you still have 'migratory birds'?"

"Such a big guy... How could I take it with me," Luo Hua coughed dryly and continued, "But except for migratory birds... In fact, there is an emergency solution. “

Chu Guang immediately asked.

"What's the solution?"

Yin Fang, who had been standing on the side and had not spoken, suddenly interjected.

"Is it an orbiting satellite again?"

Luo Hua had a surprised expression on his face and nodded.

“…… How do you know. “

An intriguing expression appeared on Yin Fang's face, and there was a hint of undetectable sarcasm in his tone.

"It's not the first time you've done this."

Chu Guang frowned slightly, a little bit didn't understand too much.

"Orbiting satellites? What do you mean? Low Earth orbit is not already filled with space junk."

"It's because outer space orbit is full of space junk that you can always find one or two things that still work, don't you?"

Lowering his hugged arms, Yin Fang continued in a coconut elm tone.

"As long as you upload some of the data to a working satellite, and then use the remaining fuel to guide the satellite to fall near the east coast, the person who picks up the satellite only needs to take a crowbar or axe and smash the lump of iron like a coconut shell, and you can see what is written in it about burning the qin and cooking the crane, and they can do it."

Chu Guang was stunned.

it?

Can it still be like this?

Not only Chu Guang was stunned, but Heya, who was standing on the side, also showed a dumbfounded expression.

Finally hearing the mockery in that sentence, Luo Hua blushed and said.

"We don't use it to make calls, it's just a special situation."

Chu Guang couldn't help but say.

"But... Why do you have to let the satellite fall, just as a repeater? ”

Yin Fang shook his head.

"You're thinking too simply. First of all, the satellite that can be used in this way is not a low-orbit communication satellite, but a scientific research satellite with a longer endurance and more reliable quality. T-series satellites. ”

"These satellites are usually located in higher, wider geosynchronous orbits, and they are usually relatively stationary from the ground and only communicate with research facilities directly below. And the way of communication is not radio, but a laser with a narrower irradiation range. ”

Chu Guang: "Laser?!" ”

Yin Fang nodded and said concisely.

"That's right, when it is necessary to exchange information, the ground research facility will shoot a beam of light up, and another beam of light will come down from the sky, and you can roughly understand that a penistol is hit at a transmitter the size of a coin from a distance of 36,000 kilometers. The secrecy of this method of communication is so reliable that you can hardly contact the satellite from anywhere else, let alone know its exact coordinates, except for the research facility associated with it. ”

"Generally speaking, if the connection between the terrestrial communication base station and the satellite is interrupted, the satellite will go into a dormant state until it is woken up again. Therefore, theoretically, these satellites usually have surplus energy that can satisfy at least one orbit switch. ”

Chu Guang said thoughtfully.

"So all you need to do is find a ground base station that can communicate with these types of satellites, write the data to the satellite, and then guide the satellite to fall."

"Yes, so these people burn the qin and cook the cranes, and those people on the East Coast can be said to be destructive in their use of the relics of pre-war civilization, and they don't understand what sustainable use is. Dropping a scientific research satellite that costs tens of millions of dollars just to say hello and squirt..."

Yin Fang squirted his tongue sarcastically.

Although this sentence is aimed at the company, not Luo Hua who is lying here, it still makes the latter blush.

"Aren't we talking about the Legion? Or do you have a better way? ”

Yin Fang said dryly.

"No, but do you know where to find that kind of research facility?"

"Of course! There is one in the southern part of the province of the River Valley, and I remember the coordinates there! Luo Hua looked at Chu Guang and said in a sincere tone, "That's a research institute, about seventy kilometers away from Qingquan City, you should be able to use the information in it, can I trouble you to send someone to it?" ”

Chu Guang nodded.

"No problem."

It was easy for him.

The distance of 70 kilometers is less than an hour's range for the "Dragonfly" transport plane, and a few parachutes are still enough to go over, as for the drop of a satellite.

Anyway, the satellite is not his.

It is enough to be able to get hold of the materials in the institute.

Now the priority is to get the companies to send more reinforcements, and of course, it would be better if they could send more weapons.

The airfield north of Dawning City is spacious enough that any size transport plane can be lowered.

Luo Hua's eyes were full of gratitude.

"Thank you."

Chu Guangwan said with a smile.

"You're welcome, the Legion is our common enemy."

"You can rest assured that you can recuperate, and we'll take care of the rest. Speaking of which, I've got a few more barrels of good wine here, and we'll finish it when you're healed. ”

Luo Hua smiled weakly.

"Haha... We'll have to wait a while. ”

His tense shoulders finally relaxed, and he leaned on the scanning table, finally showing a relieved expression on his face.

Although his partners in the Great Desert were still in crisis, Chu Guang's supportive attitude gave him hope.

Heya, who was standing by the door with her arms crossed, suddenly spoke.

"Now that the operation has been completed, can you arrange for him to be transferred to another hospital? I'm not the place to recuperate. ”

Although the name of this place is the infirmary, it has actually been used as a laboratory by her, and the only scanning table in the whole alliance is an indispensable research tool.

Luo Hua had an embarrassed expression on his face.

"Excuse me."

Chu Guang said with a smile.

"How so? However, this is really not suitable for recuperation, and I will arrange for someone to transfer you to a better ward in a moment. “

After speaking, he called in the medical staff waiting at the door and ordered Luo Hua to be transferred to the First Hospital of the Alliance on the ground.

The wards were spacious enough that a few of the wounded left behind by the previous expedition were also there.

As for the medical expenses or something.

It's too much of an outrage to say that.

Yin Fang, who was standing next to him, crossed his arms until the paramedics transferred the wounded to the door of the infirmary, still muttering in his mouth.

"I knew..."

"These East Coast guys have a treasure map in their hands!"

In the evening of the same day.

A transport plane set sail from the north of Dawning City, carrying twenty-five players from the Burning Corps, and flew towards the research facility seventy kilometers to the eastAt the same time, one hundred and fifty kilometers west of Dawning City, in Ruigu City, the White Bear Knights and the Death Corps' strategy for Vault 79 had also entered the final stage.

The main road leading to the central study area has been emptied.

While the Xenos and "Wildlings" continued to pounce on them from other areas, the offensive was noticeably less intense than in the first few days.

After all, the xenomorphs that are active in this vault are not the slime fruiting entities that are subject to the "hive consciousness".

Their attacks on players are more motivated by territorial protection and hunting, and there is no tacit cooperation between different populations, let alone large-scale "waves".

If it was replaced by the center of Qingquan City, a gunshot would sound and all the xenomorphs on the entire street would rush up, and they would not be able to withstand doubling their number

"Mommy. This guy has a lot of strength! “

Shaking off the blood stains on the sapper's shovel, the construction boy and brick squirted their tongues as they looked at the mess in the room, re-grasped the assault rifle hanging from their chests, and replaced the magazine.

Forty or fifty corpses lay on the ground in the wide hall, and primitive weapons such as spears and bows and arrows were scattered on the floor, as well as smoke-emitting bullet casings.

An encounter has just broken out here.

The opponent is a group of wild men, who appear to be ambushing in the vicinity, and when the players enter the room, they suddenly attack.

The skin of these people is sickly pale, but the limbs are unexpectedly strong, and the strength attribute is about 13~15, which is equivalent to the level of the first awakening.

Not only that, but they are extremely fast, extremely tough, and dexterous in using their body muscles like beasts.

Or to be more precise, they are beasts, and almost none of the organs in their bodies are the same as humans, but they just happen to look more like people.

Luckily, these wildlings only use bows, arrows, and spears.

Otherwise, it's really hard to deal with.

"There is one last 'level left' from the research area, and in front of us is suspected to be the lair of the Claws of Death, and we are running out of ammo"

With a rifle on his shoulder, he paddled over to the White Bear Knights and continued.

"I suggest continuing the strategy tomorrow."

"Tail agrees! Whew, I'm dying of exhaustion! ”

Tail, who was sitting against the wall, gasped, raised his arm and rubbed it on his forehead, but instead of sweating, he rubbed the blood on his forehead.

Siss, who was also panting, looked at the remaining magazines and nodded.

"Hmm... Tomorrow is going on. “

There is a day and night cycle in Vault 79, and it will be night in a little while.

Glancing around, she continued.

"There are still a lot of rooms here, since the monster has been cleared, why don't we explore a little before going back."

This is the last building from the study area, and it seems to be an administrative building or something. While searching other areas before, she found some interesting clues.

Before she left here, she was going to verify it.

Hearing Siss's proposal, Edge Paddle readily agreed.

"Okay, we'll meet in that hour."

"OK。"

Once agreed, the players scattered around the room to search.

The tail, which was so tired a second ago, jumped up from the ground with a thud, holding the meat and didn't know where it went.

Siss, who had already thought of his goal, looked at the floor diagram, and went straight through the hall and down the stairs to the office area upstairs.

It was surprisingly not occupied by xenos.

The entire corridor was silent.

To Siss's surprise, unlike the previous areas they had passed, the doors to the rooms here were all open.

"Oh, an unexpected discovery."

Picking the nearest room, Si Si carefully confirmed that it was safe in the room, and then carefully walked in with his rifle.

It's a futuristic office.

The furniture inside is quite chic, with an area of nearly twenty square meters, and only two tables are placed in a rather luxurious way.

Walking to the nearest table, Si Si glanced at the messy table top and casually opened the drawer on the right.

Inside, there are a number of personal belongings, including a work card, and a thumb-sized memory.

The interface of the storage coincides with the VM.

"It's... Flash drive? ”

With a look of interest in his eyes, Sisi took it in his hand and looked at it for a moment, and then inserted it into M.

The signal light flickered slightly, and a pale blue dialog box quickly appeared in front of her, and the VM's built-in translator automatically translated it into a language she could understand.

[Vault 79 Research Log] [Experiment Log: 2/7/2129] [Experiment Log: The last log was dated 07/08/2178.

Speaking of which......

The year 2129 seems to be the first year of the Age of the Abolitions?

The index finger rubbed his chin slightly, and the look of interest in Siss's eyes became more and more obvious, and then he clicked on the first journal on the list.

[2129/02/7: The hibernation pod opens, waking us up not to our rejoicing compatriots, but to the program of the Vault, indicating that we have finally gone to the worst, the outside world has been destroyed, and this is the last home damn it, it sounds like a dream, but the rubidium atomic clock never lies. I will remember this desperate and hopeful day, we will fulfill the vow we made three years ago, but can such a whimsical thing really be done?] 】

”… Whimsical things? ”

With a soft mutter, her brow furrowed slightly.

That Yongshi mentioned that Vault 79 was conducting research on "restoring mutant creatures to their pre-mutation levels".

But was there a different species in the first year of the Abolition Era?

She vaguely remembered that it was mentioned in the official website setting that the time point for the large-scale appearance of xenomorphs should be after the Xiaoice period of half a century?

"That is to say..."

"Actually, there's other experiments going on here?"

She wouldn't believe anything the NPC said, in fact she had always had doubts about the identity of the Yong clan.

Since it's a completely real virtual reality game, it's possible for NPCs to lie, right?

However, just as she was about to turn to the next one, the alloy door behind her suddenly fell, cutting off the only exit.

Sisi's face changed slightly, and he immediately rushed over and slammed his shoulder against the door, only to find that the door was not moving.

Without hesitation, she took a few steps back, raised the assault rifle hanging from her chest, and pulled the trigger at the alloy door.

"Bang bang" two thunderous gunshots echoed through the room. Leaping sparks burst into the ceiling, but the surface of the door left not a single bullet mark.

She took a deep breath, walked to the door and fumbled for a while, clasped her hands in the shape of a trumpet, and shouted against the door.

"Ah Oo!"

"Can you hear me?"

No response.

She put her ear to it, and she couldn't hear anything outside.

"Squirt... The soundproofing is too strong. ”

With a snort, Sis gave up the pointless attempt and removed his ear from the door.

In the Vault, the Administrator's authority is absolute—and at this moment she finally realized the meaning of the sentence.

The crystallization of the strongest technology in the era of the People's Union is not at all what the retro assault rifle in her hand can penetrate.

I'm afraid that even if I use the grenade on my body, it won't help.

As long as the administrator of the vault wants to.

He could even lock the door until the next century.

At this time, Sisi suddenly noticed that the air outlet above his head had stopped working for some time, and seemed to have stopped working.

Knowing it in her heart, she muttered in a low voice,

"Are you going to kill it?

That guy has already been murderous.

Otherwise, he could have locked the door before he came in.

"The average adult consumes 0.75 kilograms of oxygen a day, and a 20-square-meter room is about 3 meters high, which is 60 cubic meters of air."

Carbon dioxide poisoning occurs with oxygen levels below 10%.

"That is, you can live for about 5 days."

Considering the metabolic speed of the awakened, it may be about the same in two or three days.

Glancing at the log on the M screen, the corners of Siss's mouth suddenly pulled into an imperceptible smile.

There's a lot of time left for yourself.

(Thanks to the league leaders of "My name is Wang Laoji", "NightChicK3n", and "Small Dimple Accompaniment" for their rewards!! )

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