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[Beta 0.4 Update!] [Update content: 1. Ocean Trade System Implementation: The trade route to Luoxia Province has been opened, and now players can trade with NPCs in the Lion Kingdom and invest in local farms or other industries. In addition, more tradable areas have been unlocked, allowing players to explore on their own in the game.

2. The new "Yunfly" ornithopter training point has been added to the enterprise aviation base in the north of Xizhou City, and you can learn at your own expense by paying 50W silver coins through VM, and you can apply for public-funded learning if you have a proficiency level of 7 or more in aircraft driving skills and a contribution point that has reached a senior citizenry.

3. As a mobile base of the Alliance, the Iron Heart can provide archive services, but there is no guarantee that it will anchor in the location that the player wants.

Vault 4.404 floor unlocked to B6 floor, B5 floor is still under repair, so stay tuned.

5. The maximum number of player accounts in the closed beta has been increased from 8,000 to 12,000!

6. Fix a small number of bugs.

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Luo Yu: "?!" ”

Professor Yang of the Thunder and Lightning Method: "What's wrong with you?" ”

Luo Yu: "Gone!! ”

Fengqing: "0.0?"

Ghost: "What? ”

Luo Yu: "The countdown to the resurrection has moved again!" Hahahaha! Thank you, Brother Guang! Wood! ”

Ye Ao said to me: "Laugh, you continue to act, the acting is quite similar, and the master quietly watches you pretending to be forced." ”

Irena: "Jealousy really separates the hostages. (Funny)"

Elf King Fugui: "+1 (funny)" at the same time.

Vault 404. A group of heavily armed players is standing at the entrance to Level B6 of the Vault.

It is now certain that the entire B6 floor is supposed to be a laboratory, and a biology laboratory for the study of the slime fungus variant. By all indications, eighty percent of the research samples here are from the early Wasteland Era, or even beyond, during the Three Years' War.

It was clear from the mutilated recording that the escaped subject should be unprovoked, even extremely dangerous! Otherwise, they would not have wiped out all the guards on the level, forcing the original administrators to perform "shock therapy" on the entire level.

Of course, Chu Guang would not do anything about probing the grass with his face, especially knowing that there were mines hidden in the grass.

What's more, he obviously has a group of young players who are not afraid of death, so why do he have to do such a dangerous thing by himself? At the same time as the official update of the Beta0.4 version, the players who were selected by Chu Guang to come here coincidentally had an additional line of task pop-ups on their arms.

[Mission: Reclaim Vault 404 Level B6]

[Note: Subjects stored on Level B6 of Vault 404 went out of control, causing the level to become infected with slime molds.] 】

【Objectives:

1. Search for possible mothers/broods.

2. Go to the lab to retrieve the experiment logs.

3. Go to the computer room to search for unuploaded data.

The light blue icon flashing on the VM screen confirmed that he had just received the task from the manager, and Night Ten's eyes flashed with excitement.

"Awesome! I didn't expect to receive such a big job in the rear! ”

Luoxia Province is home to the Storm Corps and the Skeleton Corps.

The Burning Corps had a small number of people and was home in the city, not in the open plains, so the entire war was fought almost with soy sauce and no sense of participation at all.

The game has been OB on the official website forum for so long, which can be regarded as an opportunity for him to pretend to be forced.

Quit Smoking, who was following the wind, stared at the VM screen, and suddenly thought to him, "Do you think the runaway test subject is Luoyu?" ”

A smile squeezed out of his expressionless face, and the wind touched the bridge of his nose and said.

“…… Possibly, unless there's a time machine that allows it to travel back 100 years. ”

Quit smoking: "it! There's a time machine for this?! ”

Tempest: "...... Can you listen carefully to what people have to say? ”

Looking at the plaque crawling all over the walls, Yashi couldn't help but smack his tongue. "Mom······ This thing has been cut off from water, electricity, and air for so long, and it can still move! ”

Tempest glanced around and pondered for a moment.

"Well, and it also paralyzed most of the cameras in the area and 85 percent of the electronics······ The situation here is more complicated than we thought. ”

"It doesn't matter if it's complicated or not, it's done!"

Equipped with the 0D-10 "Dragoon" power armor, Lao Bai grinned, raised his index finger to lock the mask of the helmet, and loaded the assault rifle in his hand.

Then, he spoke loudly in the communication channel.

"The mission has been updated on the VM, and our goal is to reclaim the fallen B6 layer area!"

"Team A follows me, searching for the enemy's "crystals" and injecting inhibitors to contain them.

Team B follows Night Ten and heads to the sample bank to search for the experiment log.

Team C followed the wind and went to the computer room, where they took the hard drive containing the experimental data and materials according to the mission prompts. ”

"After the task is completed, we gather at the door of the buffer workshop, pay attention to ensure that the signal is smooth at all times, and the manager is watching us!"

"Action!" The players tacitly divided into three squads and cautiously searched ahead.

As an elite squad with the highest combat power in the whole server, the Burning Corps is naturally handy when performing this kind of special operations mission, and no one is better at indoor close-range combat than them. At the same time, Chu Guang, who was sitting in the browsing room on the B4 floor, was following his players deep into the runaway biological laboratory through the camera equipment that the players carried with him.

In addition to him, Yin Fang and Hea were also invited here to serve as "technical advisors" for this military operation, advising players in areas of expertise when necessary. However, from the beginning of the operation, Hea's attention was completely mesmerized by the large, well-equipped laboratory.

That look is more than heartbeat.

Even to the point of envy – even jealousy. "I don't understand! What is your budget?! Obviously the sequence is behind us, why...... Will there be so much goodies? ”

Facing that sour look, Chu Guang didn't know how to answer, so he simply didn't see it. Pre-Wasteland Age asked him to have a hammer to use.

If you want to know, ask the first managers to go!

Staring at the computer screen, Yin Fang, who was focused on other things, touched his chin and gave the first immature suggestion of this operation. “…… Actually, I'd recommend sending the android troops, so that even if something goes wrong, it won't give more organic matter to the organisms there. ”

Chu Guang replied casually. "I trust my soldiers, they're much better than androids."

Heya and Yin Fang both glanced at Chu Guang in surprise, especially when they heard the word "use". The latter, however, had an indifferent expression on his face, staring intently at the video on the screen.

At the moment of chatting just now, the "A Team" led by Lao Bai had already received the enemy.

And interestingly, the slime fruiting bodies they encountered were completely different from the group of fruiting bodies in Qingquan City. A thin, humanoid fruiting body, like the walking dead in a zombie movie.

But it's different from those "zombies". These fruiting bodies resembling gnawers do not appear in large numbers, but silently hide in the corners of the hallways, behind overturned display cases.

They even lie on the ground and pretend to be dead. It won't wake up until someone gets close, and then attack coldly, turning this joyous RPG into a horror game.

The advance speed of the player's A team and team C slowed down significantly, but the B team led by Night Ten, relying on their strong perception, predicted the hidden dangers again and again, and quickly advanced to the area where the experiment log was stored.

However, despite the surprise attacks of the fruiting entities, the players did not suffer any battle damage, and no one was injured. The emaciated walking corpses scare the player at best.

No matter how weak the protective force of the light cavalry exoskeleton is, it will not be shattered by the thin arm of the reed stick, and bitten through by a few rotten teeth. Not to mention power armor.

In front of the battleship-class alloy steel, the weak flesh and blood are like paper paste.

Lao Bai didn't even shoot, he directly pulled out the mace hanging on the armor, and smashed the walking corpse that rushed up to pieces with two clicks. In such an engagement at an extreme distance, it is easy to cause ricochets when firing rashly, and it is even easier to accidentally injure teammates when reflexively pulling the trigger, compared to cold weapons.

"It is estimated that the long period of closure has caused the slime molds in this area to not have enough nutrients to develop more powerful fruiting bodies, coupled with no need for hunting...... These fruiting bodies are produced entirely for scavenging and energy saving. Hea touched her chin and fell into deep thought.

After getting the promise of "giving the B6 floor to her to use" from Chu Guang, her attention was finally on the slime molds in the floor. Chu Guang thought for a moment and then spoke.

"The lack of organic matter prevents the slime molds here from producing large amounts of spores...... Hey, how do I feel like this is the same as the slime fungus No. 7 in Lost Valley? Yin Fang also nodded.

"The difference is only in the degree of scarcity............ Lost Valley is a desert, and it's the equivalent of a space station that cuts off supplies. Chu Guang suddenly looked at Heya.

"Wait, you said before...... Slime molds born in different evolutionary environments are not compatible with each other and do not exchange genetic information with each other, but what if they are also born in resource-poor environments? Or in other words, are slime molds with similar evolutionary environments compatible with each other? ”

He knew that the question he was describing was a bit awkward, after all, he was not a professional biologist, and he would be a layman in terms of wording, and the idea that had just popped up was very abstract in his mind. Heya thought carefully for a moment and replied.

"In the case of the case you are talking about, interspecies competition and exchange of genetic information should take place at the same time...... Or to put it bluntly, it is to devour. ”

Chu Guang: "Devouring? ”

"Well," Hea nodded, "it's just my guess, if A and B are different breeds that evolved in a scarce environment, then A and B always have a part of the genetic material between each other, and the other happens to be interested......

At this time, that part of the genetic material will be actively or passively inherited after one party devours the other. ”

"The genetic information of slime molds is not a simple line of code, but more like a "library" of countless lines of code. ”

"When breeding fruiting bodies, the mother nest or mother will select a piece of genetic code from this library to make the fruiting body that she needs. Even if the number of chromosomes is different between the nibber and the tyrant, they are still part of the same group when they are born in the same brood. In such cases, they are not individuals in the full sense of the word, but more like organs in the body of a large individual······ That's what I mean by hive society.

"To fully understand these creatures, it is necessary to get their mothers and collect the original gene pool for the synthesis of fruiting bodies. That is the root of all fruiting entities and the template for all evolutions.

Just when Heya was like Chu Guang popularizing science, the players who went deep into the B6 layer finally encountered trouble in the real sense.

A terrible roar suddenly swept from the end of the hallway. I saw a gray-black power armor standing at the end of the hallway.

Its body is burly, not inferior to the "Dragoon" power armor, and even surpasses it in physique, judging from the faded paintwork, it should be a police model. The moment he saw that armor, Lao Bai's heart wrinkled.

The mace in his hand was thrown violently, like a meteor smashing into the front door of the power armor. With the dual bonus of strength stat and armor engine, even if a tank is in the way, it will have to be smashed out of a pit.

However, the power armor only flicked its arm and smashed the speeding hammer into the air. Without the slightest pause in the movement, the power armor's legs bent forward slightly, and then rushed over like a cannonball. Lao Bai raised the rifle in his hand and swept away a shuttle of magazines, but did not leave a single dent in the armor.

Seeing that the 7mm bullet could not break its defense, Lao Bai simply threw away the rifle in his hand and pulled out the hot-melt cutting axe hanging on his waist. However............

The evolution was still one step ahead of him. Before the axe could be raised, the evolutionary's shoulder armor made intimate contact with his breastplate.

"Duang--------------!”

The two iron bumps collided together, and the sound of metal clashing echoed in the corridor, the distance was too close to support, and the three teammates behind could only watch the two immortals fight. The right hand was rigidly held by the left arm of the evolutionary, and Lao Bai, who almost fell, barely stabilized his body, looked at the gap on the side of the helmet, pulled out the combat knife with his left hand, and stabbed it violently!

The air currents carried by the arm had almost blown into the helmet, but the arm that smashed down was blocked by the other arm of the evolution. The blades of the blades and axes hung from the helmet, but they could not move forward.

Shocking pieces of flesh wriggled under the broken armor, and the unexhausted nuclear energy was transformed into the most primitive and direct power by slime molds. From the crack in the broken armor, Lao Bai faintly saw a scarlet light.

That's the sight of a predator. Behind the instinct to kill and bloodthirsty burns an appetite that is more terrifying than hatred.

It's hungry......

Lao Bai, whose arms were clamped, felt a little hard, and while he pressed down with the strength of feeding, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised in his heart.

This guy ---- tougher than the Rotten Knight!

"Grass!" The blood in the chest is surging! Lao Bai roared angrily and opened the talent of the power system, and the strength of his hands instantly doubled, and the blades of the axe and dagger were forced down by an inch.

The mechanical parts of the power armor on both sides creaked overwhelmingly. The evolved that occupied the power armor was forced back half a step, and an impatient and piercing scream emerged from the cracks in the armor.

Taking advantage of the gap when it fell backwards, Lao Bai burst out and kicked it in the knee.

Under the terrifying power bonus, the outwardly bent knees were trampled and folded back.

The unbalanced evolved body fell to the side, and Lao Bai immediately poked a dagger into its skull, violently stirring it.

However, unexpectedly, the guy who was stabbed in the brain seemed to be fine.

Lao Bai's heart was instantaneous. This guy's nerve center is not in the head!

I don't even have that stuff at all! "Distance yourself!"

Suddenly, the voice of Night Ten came from the communication channel.

Lao Bai was overjoyed, and before the evolution could stabilize its body, he kicked it in the chest again, kicking it backwards for a while.

The rotten, thick alloy arm clasped against the wall on one side, and the stiff fingers scraped a tooth-aching sound against the wall.

At the moment when the two power armors opened up the distance, Night Ten, who was lying at the end of the corridor and setting up the "Viper" Gauss rifle, had already completed his aim and pulled the trigger.

"Bang ------!" The light of the arc flickered for a moment, and the mass projectile that burst out of the chamber was instantly accelerated to Mach 4.5, and the roar of the sonic boom echoed throughout the corridor.

The attack is coming from behind! The target is the most vulnerable area of power armor.

The evolution didn't have time to react at all, and the durability of the armor that was neglected was already stretched, and in the face of the terrifying armor-piercing ability of the electromagnetic cannon, it was instantly shot through the body. And at the same time that the evolution was staggered forward by the kinetic energy of the mass bullet, Lao Bai, who seized the opportunity, suddenly picked up the hot-melt cutting axe and slashed it with an axe. A hot red light flickered.

The magma-like air flow instantly sliced through the armor on the left shoulder of the evolutionary, pouring through the crack in the armor, instantly burning the soft tissue inside into charcoal. The scarlet glow finally faded, and the evolutionary fell to his knees, no longer moving.

Night Ten, who had put away his rifle, stepped forward and looked at the evolved body that had fallen to the ground, and said in a speech.

"Good guys······ Slime molds are even better at power armor! ”

Unlike the "Decaying Knight", the power armor's nuclear battery is apparently still in working condition, although most of the electronic components inside the armor have been damaged.

"They can even be driven by Titans, not to mention power armor ······" Lao Bai walked over and patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Well done!" You've got it done there? Ye Shi said with a smile.

"That's it······ The mother was not in the lab, it was empty, we took the experiment log from it at the direction of the administrator, and then he ordered us to go around this corridor to support you...... What about you? ”

Lao Bai shook his head.

"Didn't find ······ We've searched most of the area, and we haven't even seen the shadow of the mother. ”

Ye Shi was stunned.

"Is it in the wind?" Almost at the moment when the words fell, a line of pop-up windows flashed on the VMs of the players.

Seeing the text in the pop-up window, Ye Shi's face suddenly changed. "it...... My crow's mouth is open! ”

Lao Bai didn't talk nonsense, and reached out to pick up the rifle on the ground and the mace he threw out earlier. "Let's go! Help him go! ”

…… Level B6. Biological laboratory computer room. I saw that the rows of chassis displayed on the metal shelves had been completely engulfed in dark red slime molds.

In the room covering an area of hundreds of square meters, there are all wriggling fungus blocks as far as the eye can see, and the entire computer room seems to have become a sea of slime molds, and there is no place to stay under the steps of the main entrance!

Translucent egg-like flesh-red films float on this ocean, like cocoons woven of silk, agitating restlessly.

"It" seems to have just woken up.

I am excited about the sudden resurgence of the "climate" and the prey that I have not visited for a long time!

Looking at the scene in front of him, Hurricane and the group of teammates behind him had a blank expression on their faces. Swallowing his saliva, quitting smoking and looking at the smartest guy on the team.

"This ...... How to recycle? Tempest shook his head solemnly.

The "I don't know ......" chassis has been completely submerged in a sea of slime molds, and the chassis are completely glued, not to mention finding the hard drives hidden in a certain case, and even how to approach the rows of chassis is a problem.

Stepping on these slime molds used to feel like something was going to be a big problem. Tempest pondered for a moment before calmly analyzing.

"Anyway, we've got to get rid of the slime mold here...... I'm afraid this is not an ordinary slime nest, maybe it's a shrunken mother nest. ”

Including quitting smoking, the three players standing behind Tempest whispered to each other.

"If I'm not mistaken, the mission requires us to recycle this guy......"

"Recycling? It's all a swimming pool······ Not to mention how many inhibitors we have to use to numb it, how do we get it out of this room? ”

"I'm tired, just blow it up."

"It's impossible to blow up...... The experimental data we need to retrieve is still on the hard drive of one of the chassis. ”

The player on the mission is in a dilemma.

Chu Guang, who was sitting in the browsing room watching the battle, was the same. It's easy to get rid of the brood there, it's enough to allow the player to bring heavy weapons into the B6 floor, and stuff a 155 into it to detonate it manually.

If one shot is not enough, two shots.

Detonating a heavy grenade in a confined environment, the shock wave generated by the explosion alone is enough to shock the organisms in the room to death several times.

But the trouble is that the data stored in those chassis ......

Due to the destruction of the transmission line, it was impossible to remotely manipulate the data to upload it to the Vault's server, so the hard disk in the server could only be removed manually.

Not to mention that high-powered weapons can't be used.

What to pour gasoline, sulfuric acid and so on, I'm afraid it's not easy to use. At this moment, Yin Fang's heart suddenly moved.

"What if you fight poison with poison?"

Chu Guang was stunned.

"Fighting poison with poison?" Yin Fang nodded excitedly, and while gesturing with his index finger, he described the genius idea he had just come up with.

"For example...... Introduce another mother from the outside, take advantage of the incompatibility of different populations of slime molds, and let the mother deal with the mother! Chu Guang was stunned, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

Good guys, gobble! The idea······ It's unexpectedly good. Then just when he was about to speak to express his affirmation, Heya, who was standing with his arms crossed, sighed,

"Where are you going to get the mother? The closest mother body to us is also in the city center. Yin Fang was stunned.

Yan: "Isn't the kind of nest that can produce nibbles the mother?" ”

"It's called an incubation room!" Heya complained, "They don't store the complete gene pool of the entire population, at most they can be regarded as production organs and signal repeaters for the production of certain products!" Separated from the spores of the mother or brood, it doesn't take long for them to shrunk and get that thing in, at most as fertilizer for the slime molds inside. ”

Speaking of this, Heya, who is still obsessed with the ruins of Oasis No. 7, added another sentence later.

"However, this idea is not entirely a bad idea, I heard that there seems to be a relatively benign variant slime mold in that Lost Valley...... If you can get the parent there, you can not only solve the slime molds in the B6 layer, but also get a group of benign strains! ”

That's a good idea.

It would be better if there was no Titan.

A monster that can't be blown up by a nuclear bomb, he will hit it with his head!

Pretending not to see the radiant eyes, Chu Guang coughed lightly and looked at Yin Fang, who was standing aside. "Hea was right······ This approach is still up for debate. ”

Hea: "Well, what I'm trying to mean is actually -----"

Chu Guang interrupted her and continued.

"Anyway, before deciding what to do to deal with the slime molds there, we should first investigate the experiment logs to see if the results of the research there are worth the risk."

As he spoke, Chu Guang looked at Xiao Qi who was sitting on the desk and ordered. "Xiaoqi, let the team on the B6 floor withdraw with the experiment log." The right fist was attached to his chest, and Xiao Qi playfully replied. "Roger!"

The task is half done.

Chu Guang's rewards to the players were also very realistically only half of them.

Inserting a memory card to hold the experiment log to a holographic computer pen, a pale blue hologram is quickly projected in the center of the browsing room.

The first hologram to play is played.

In the video, a strange man stands, talking to someone outside the camera. He wears a Vault uniform, and a label on his chest has the characters [G-13] printed on it, which is supposed to be his number.

From the point of view of the filming, neither he nor the person he was talking to was aware that he was being secretly photographed. “····· The planet has been polluted, in other words, there is no way to save it. ”

"This is a more brutal means of extermination than neutron extermination, and these are designed to destroy our slime molds, which are more adapted to our home than we are. They don't kill us directly, but they grow wildly where we live, chasing our footprints and squeezing our living space. Our descendants will have to abandon the city and migrate to the suburbs, or stay and become their fertilizer! ”

"The little legacy we leave to our children will one day dry up, and as the level of production continues to decrease, the planet will no longer have the soil to accommodate advanced production relations, and our civilization will grow in the opposite direction, first into feudalism, then into slave society, and finally into tribes......

Until we are completely turned into beasts and eventually replaced by more savage guys. ”

"Yes, our black box is still working, but what about a thousand years from now? What about 10,000 years from now? Once a trend has formed, it will be difficult to reverse. If these problems are not solved now, the situation will only get worse in the future······ At that time, let alone a professional biology laboratory, our descendants may not even be able to build a microscope, so what can we use to study those things? ”

This is not alarmist, in fact the regression of civilization began before the end of winter. Look at the neighborhood we're watching, is it called "Bloody Hands" or something......

I bet even if they survive this winter, those people won't be smarter than monkeys! ”

"The seeds of savage have invaded their brains, and they will become a source of chaos, plundering the wealth of civilized people in the most primitive ways like the ancient nomads, at least the survivors of this suburb will not escape their clutches."

"I don't understand why the professor acquiesced to that guard, risking revealing the location of the vault, to help the hopeless idiots with the precious radio...... Whatever his purpose, that guard committed suicide and his plan undoubtedly failed, but I can't put the chips on one loser! ”

"But he's a manager, or do you have a better idea?" The man standing across from Researcher G-13 finally made a sound, and the whole image was no longer a one-man show by Researcher G-13.

Perhaps seeing the excitement on the man's face, Researcher G-13 continued with a frown.

"Of course!"

"Slime molds are very adaptable, we will be stronger than them, and it will not be us who will be devoured, but them!" The man continued hesitantly.

"How are you going to do that?" "Synthetic Mother!" Researcher G-13yx replied in a categorical voice, and his thoughts coincided unexpectedly with the immature brain hole that Yin Fang had proposed earlier.

"We can grow mature somatic cells into embryonic stem cells, and we can also reverse reduce mature fruiting bodies into mother nests!"

"We will recompile the gene pool of the mother nest and let them become our shape with our interference!"

Those pupils. The net shimmers with ambition. Researcher G-13 continued in a word-for-word voice.

"They'll replace slime molds on the surface!"

"And we, we will control evolution!"

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