At the junction of the swamps and the province of Luoxia, thin daylight shrouded the gray-yellow wasteland through the thick mist.

The crow that was biting at the corpse raised its head, and a silver-gray cross that was out of place with its surroundings was imprinted into the amber pupils.

“······ Here is Torch-1, and the "Seagull" has arrived over the coordinates······ I'll look for it, are you sure it's this coordinate? ”

In the cabin of a killer whale transport plane, the pilot sitting in the passenger seat poked the tablet with his index finger while chewing gum.

His name is Xiao Hua, a pilot under the aviation department of the enterprise, but the "enterprise" is not an "enterprise", and his actual employer is the "casual salvage company" controlled by Kangmao Group.

Although the name sounds casual, their business is known for being sound and reliable, and it is for this reason that the insurance company that provided insurance services for the crashed plane handed over this big deal to them.

They were also quite cautious when they took over this business, and they had not relaxed their vigilance since they entered Luoxia Province.

Although it was far from the area of firefighting, he didn't take it lightly when the Aviation Section had dropped a plane nearby just a week earlier.

The estrange, psychologically dark swamp guys can't think with common sense, and the devil knows why they fired missiles at their "old friends" on the East Coast.

But since the council didn't want to make a fuss, they had to try to avoid conflict.

So they cautiously hovered the killer whale transport plane at an altitude of 100 kilometers away, sending a drone over to see the situation, determine the specific location, and then decide what to do with it.

If the academy repeats the same trick.

High enough for them to glide into the desert to the south.

There was a rustling of electricity in the communication channel, perhaps because the sandstorm had finally passed, and the unstable signal had finally recovered a little.

"Wrong coordinates?! How can it be!? ”

"Can I still joke with you?" The pilot's index finger swiped down on the tablet, and took advantage of the good signal to compress the aerial picture and send it over.

There was a brief silence across the communication channel.

After seeing the aerial photos, the pilot named Sun Ze also seemed to be confused by self-doubt.

"Impossible······ The remaining craters are still on the ground. ”

"Are you sure it's a crater?" The pilot, who was sitting in the driver's seat, leaned over and asked cautiously, "We didn't find any bodies on the ground······ Didn't find the 'hive' you said either, not even the sub-drone. ”

"That's right······ Eighty percent of them were cleaned up for us by the people from the academy, and maybe they found out that they had messed with the wrong people after they hit it, so they cleaned it up for us. ”

"Makes sense haha."

There was no response to the ridicule of the two pilots in the communication channel.

There was only a rustling of electric sounds.

The pilot named Sun Ze may have doubted his life.

But they didn't want to wait any longer, and the remaining power didn't allow them to stay here any longer.

"In short, we didn't see anything······ It's running out of power, so let's stop here. The pilot sitting in the driver's seat looked at Xiao Hua, who was operating the drone next to him.

Xiao Hua glanced up at the captain.

"How do you write the report?"

The captain said indifferently.

"Whatever, just take a few sets of pictures near the coordinates and stuff them in."

"Roger."

Xiao Hua nodded, and he was also too lazy to make trouble for himself, he stretched out his index finger and selected the button to return.

Receiving the order to evacuate, the silver-gray drone quickly ended its hovering and flew towards the killer whale transport plane hovering over the mountains to the south.

The two staff members in the cabin retrieved the plane, and Xiao Hua's index finger continued to slide the screen, picking out the photos that had been stuffed into the report for a while.

But at this moment, a soft sigh suddenly leaked from the corner of his mouth, and he sat up straight from his seat.

"What's wrong?" The captain sitting next to him glanced at the tablet in his hand, and saw that there was a mountain on the screen, and there was nothing special about it.

Xiao Hua didn't speak, his index finger clicked the tool box twice, and switched to the heat source recognition mode.

At the same time that the picture changed to black and white, silver-white bright spots suddenly appeared in the dark mountain col.

The captain's expression was slightly surprised.

"What's that?"

"I don't know····· But there seem to be a lot of people," Xiao Hua muttered with a puzzled expression, "I took pictures of the drone when the drone was returning from the mountain col about thirty kilometers away from us." ”

The captain didn't say anything.

"Then leave it alone."

Xiao Hua shrugged his shoulders and swiped his index finger lightly on the screen.

"It's up to you."

At the same time, 30 kilometers away, a group of ragged scavengers were pushing large carts and small carts through the mountains.

The pilots of the company, who were returning home, did not know that the killer whale transport plane they had been looking for for a long time was actually right under their noses.

It was almost captured by aerial footage!

But presumably the wastelanders swaggered past them, and they wouldn't recognize that the parts had been removed from their transport planes.

Tempted by a huge bounty of a million silver coins, these scavengers are like ants moving.

From the plasma engine hanging outside to the glass lid on the dashboard, it took less than half a day for them to dismantle the huge transport plane and pack it all on the big carts with bottles and cans.

I didn't even have a screw left!

And that's not all.

Even the "Hive" drone hive launched by the Beacon Team before, as well as the countless small attack drones destroyed by the EMP, were all picked up by these scavengers.

Just as the old man named Gust boasted.

Just pick up the garbage, they are professional!

"Salvage company? What is that? ”

"There is a company in Ideal City that specializes in recycling, and we originally planned to contact them to do their work, but they only provide free shipping in Yunjian Province."

"Free shipping?"

Hearing a strange phrase that he had never heard before, Gust, sitting on the back of a two-headed ox and smoking a cigarette gun, cast a curious look at the Union soldier who called himself "The Old Six of the Corner".

The sixth man in the corner coughed and explained in a non-standard human language. "That's what it means to deliver to your door······ Delivered to your doorstep. ”

"Oh," the old man nodded, and then said with a smile, "Then we will also have "free shipping", which is nothing. ”

The sixth in the corner looked at him in surprise.

Most of the Wastelanders speak of the Enterprise and Ideal City with a wistful look on their face, just as they do about the Legion.

It was the first time he'd heard a very different assessment of Ideal City from a waster.

"It's nothing, isn't it great to be able to work for a company?"

"Cut, what is this," Gust said, glancing at the corner of his mouth and knocking down his cigarette gun, "Our ancestors also worked for the post-war reconstruction committee, and it's hard to say who picked up more garbage." ”

The sixth man in the corner was even more surprised in his eyes, and nodded subconsciously.

"That's probably more than you picked up····· If you count the ones you picked up before. ”

Although the old man's face was full of envy when he talked about the good things in Ideal City, when it came to his old business, his wrinkled face showed unquestionable authority and pride.

Walking next to the lost newcomer, he had a confused expression the whole time.

When it was demolished yesterday, he filmed the process of dismantling the planes by those waste pickers.

However, no matter how many times he watched it, he couldn't imagine how these people did it.

“······ Good guy, it's really dismantled back. Lost Meng Xin muttered to himself.

Glancing back at the mighty team and the small pieces of tatters carried in the team, Bai Qisni scratched his head and said.

"But how do you put this back?"

Hearing the conversation of his teammates, the sixth man in the corner came over with a smile and said.

"Hell knows! What do you care about so much? Whether or not you can put it back is a matter for life professional players and NPCs, let's ship it back first! ”

……

It didn't take long for the mighty procession to climb over another hill.

Just when the little players were performing the "disappear in place technique" under the noses of their allies, Lao Bai, who returned online after a night, finally found the two good brothers embarrassedly and confessed what happened last night······

“······ Anyway, that's how it happened, I was temporarily suspended by the manager, and I had to go back to the rear for three days. ”

Looking at the wind embarrassedly, Lao Bai continued embarrassedly.

"During my absence······ I'm sorry for you. ”

He originally thought that even if the two good brothers did not sympathize with their own experience, they would express some regret or understanding.

However, what he didn't expect was that before he finished the second half of his sentence, Ye Shi, who was standing next to him, burst out laughing.

"Hahahaha! Should! ”

Although the reaction was not as exaggerated as that of Ye Shi, after listening to Lao Bai's words, a subtle expression still appeared on Tempest's face.

After a moment to gather his thoughts, he tried to summarize.

"So······ You were temporarily suspended by the manager because you interceded for Ms. Chen? ”

"No, didn't I say it, it's the manager who thinks I'm suspicious of him······ Ouch, that's why it's so troublesome. ”

Looking at Lao Bai, who was about to be driven crazy, Hurricane didn't speak, just quietly watched him scratch his ears and cheeks with an expression of "Do you think I will believe it".

But it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not.

The pop-up window of the announcement in the system interface of the Corps will never be fake.

Tempest sighed, held his forehead and thought for a while, and suddenly thought of something.

"By the way, is that Ms. Chen going back with you too?"

Lao Bai was stunned and nodded subconsciously.

"Of course, this is a war zone, and there is no point in her being a non-combatant here... ...”

Ye Shi, who was still holding his stomach a second ago, suddenly couldn't laugh anymore.

The melon that had just been eaten in his mouth turned into dog food in less than two seconds, and his happy expression instantly put on a mask of pain.

"I'm blanching! It's not fair!!! ”

Lao Bai looked at him with a confused expression.

"What are you nervous about..."

Tempest coughed.

"This time I'm standing at ten ······ We went to the front line, and you ran back alone to enjoy the happiness, which is really not very authentic.

Ye Shi couldn't help but shout.

"That's it! I have also made meritorious contributions to the Alliance, and I have shed blood for the Alliance, so why not reward me! ”

Lao Bai: "??? ”

Ye Du is suspended.

What kind of reward is this!

……

Touching the conscience, there must be a reward.

Avoiding direct conflict with the academy, and maximizing the interests of the alliance while completing the rescue mission, all players involved in the operation were rewarded handsomely.

Since there are one or two mystery auctions held on the official website from time to time, the silver coins on the forum have always been worrying about buyers, and this generous reward is still very fragrant.

However, when he saw the pale numbers on the settlement interface, Ye Shi's eyes were full of resentment.

Embarrassed to face his gaze, Lao Bai coughed dryly, threw down the sentence "See you in three days" and turned around and walked to the transport plane not far away.

Luo Yu and Xiao Yu are also in the cabin.

These include the android Xuanfeng who was fixed in an iron coffin and the remains of the fruiting entity encapsulated in the box, as well as the two corporate pilots who were rescued earlier.

The plan has changed, and since the remaining fuel is not enough to return to Ideal City, they need to return to the aviation base in the north of Xizhou City for a transfer first.

Waiting for the plane to take off, the two pilots muttered to each other about the "ghost story" they had just heard.

"What the hell."

"What's wrong?"

"The plane is gone."

"Gone?!" The partner sitting next to him looked at Sun Ze in surprise, his eyes widened, "How is it possible, can such a big plane run by itself?" ”

"I don't know······ The salvage company contacted by the Aviation Section went to the coordinates I had reported, and they said that I had misremembered the location. ”

Sun Ze wondered if it didn't work.

He calculated the approximate coordinates based on the flight data in the black box, and he calculated it twice, how could there be a problem?

And the aerial photo clearly showed the place where the Burning Corps and the Beacon Team exchanged fire before, and he could be sure that he was not mistaken.

Such a big plane, there is still a wasteland with no roads nearby······

How the hell did it disappear?!

"Hey."

Seeing his teammates pull his sleeves, Sun Ze, who was wondering, raised his head.

"What for?"

The teammate didn't speak, but pointed to the entrance of the cabin, only to see a young woman in a beige coat come up.

Her long brown hair was tied into a ponytail, and she was thin and tall, but she was still very material.

It wasn't that he saw a beautiful girl here, but that he had seen this woman before.

Out of curiosity, Sun Ze whistled and accosted.

"Hey, beauty, aren't you going back?"

Chen Yutong looked at him twice.

"I'm staying."

Sun Ze was even more surprised when he heard this.

"Stay?"

The partner sitting next to Sun Ze was not surprised, and said with a smile.

"I've said a long time ago that the academy is not a normal life, how could anyone want to go back to that kind of place······ Want to go to Ideal City? ”

"Maybe later."

Chen Yutong said perfunctory casually, found an open place to sit down, and fastened his seat belt.

Although she has left the academy, she still doesn't like the people in the business······ She has a flirtatious attitude, is always not serious, and likes to show off things that she doesn't think are worth showing off at all.

She knew it might be bias.

But the prejudice that has been formed for twenty years is not something that can be changed in a day or two.

"Be careful with your tie this way, the wound will split."

Hearing the non-standard human language, Chen Yutong raised his head and happened to see Lao Bai walking in from outside the cabin.

Eyebrows raised slightly, and she asked curiously.

"How should I tie it up?"

"It's better to focus on the legs and shoulders by avoiding the abdomen······ Just like me. The index finger couldn't be compared, so Lao Bai simply sat down next to him and demonstrated it.

According to his demonstration, Chen Yutong unfastened the nylon buckle on his abdomen and fastened his seat belt again, and he really felt a lot more relaxed.

"Thank you······ You're not going to the front anymore? ”

"Like the two of them, the plan has changed," Lao Bai pointed to the enterprise pilot sitting not far away with his chin, and said helplessly, "Anyway······ I'll have to go back and stay for a few days. ”

Chen Yutong stared at his expression for a while, and the intuition she had developed from her work made her see something.

"Because of me?"

Lao Bai hesitated for a moment and shook his head.

"It's none of your business."

Although he was ridiculed by his good brothers, he still stubbornly believed that this matter was a punishment for him as the manager said.

Actually, there is nothing wrong with it.

Even if he never doubted the correctness of the alliance, nor did he hesitate to believe, he could not deny that there was indeed selfishness in that statement.

"I'm sorry."

Lao Bai smiled freely and said.

"Apologize, I said it had nothing to do with you."

At this time, the door of the cabin closed, and it was not long before the hum of the plasma plume could be heard outside the cabin behind the two of them.

With a slight tremor, the transport plane slowly lifted into the air.

Luo Yu and Xiao Yu, who were sitting at the other end of the cabin, were still muttering and communicating.

“.····· Eat, eat, and I'll buy you a box of lollipops to nibble on when I get back! Let you eat enough at once! ”

"Hmmm!"

"Ice cream? Are you sure? Can't you stand something that's too cold? ”

"Babble!!"

"Good, good······ I'll just buy it. ”

That scene of harmony and friendship made Lao Bai's face can't help but show an aunt-like smile, but he still can't figure out how the two communicate.

By the airwaves?

How, exactly.

"It's incredible·····."

Speaking his heart for him, Chen Yutong's eyes also showed an interested look, and he said in a soft voice.

"The parent body of the mutant slime fungus can actually communicate with people······ This is a reversal of what we have known about it for 200 years. ”

Lao Bai nodded.

"Well, we were just as surprised when we found it, especially in places like Clear Springs, where slime molds are almost synonymous with death and plague. If it weren't for the orders of the administrators, I'm afraid no one would have allowed it to live. ”

Players don't really care.

As long as you can communicate, even the Claw of Death can be used as a mount, not to mention the mutant slime mold, the stranger it looks, the more awesome it is.

If it weren't for the mutants' minds being too brutal and bloodthirsty, and the psychic interference devices not being able to interfere with their brains, Goblin Technology would have designated two as free labor.

However, compared to players who don't play according to the routine, the wastelanders who are living in this world are still a little concerned.

It was only because of the personal charisma and prestige of the managers that they accepted the existence of this anomaly. Chen Yutong looked at Lao Bai.

"But even so, you accepted it?" Lao Bai scratched his head.

"Well, at least for now, it's harmless, and there might be a way to make those broods harmless······ Anyway, I don't think it's possible to completely destroy them, and this thing can live for more than 200 years without air, water, and oxygen. ”

Chen Yutong thought for a moment.

"I once heard a rumor."

Lao Bai asked casually.

"What rumors." Chen Yutong pointed to the top of his head.

"Where they come from."

"There?"

Lao Bai was stunned.

He subconsciously raised his head, but only saw the silver-gray ceiling.

"What she wants to say may be South Gate II."

Sun Ze, who was sitting not far away, interjected idly, and under Xiao Yu's longing gaze, he smiled and threw a piece of gum into his mouth.

"I've heard of the former colony of the Human Union, a planet shrouded in auroras, but what if you hear about it······ By the way, you can't see it here. ”

Lao Bai cast a puzzled look at her.

This is a setting that is not detailed on the official website.

didn't care about the company's employees' complaints, Chen Yutong nodded lightly, with a hint of regret in his voice.

"A lot of people have forgotten that it used to be ours."

At the same time, thousands of kilometers away in the desert, hundreds of trucks broke down beside the ruined road, scrapped steel burning in the dunes.

Standing in the middle of the tank turret, the mole with a telescope in his hand was looking out at the devastated battlefield in the distance.

Another hearty victory.

Thanks to the intelligence of the "Pangolin" comrades, this retreating 10,000-strong team was crushed by the steel torrent of the alliance.

This is the third 10,000-strong team they have annihilated this week.

Counting the results of the friendly forces, I am afraid that there are not a few pieces left in the hands of the legion.

There is only one thing the Mole wants to do now, and that is to take over the Falcon Kingdom in front of the Fountain Brothers, and intercept the supplies sent by the Legion from the east.

He brought the communicator close to his lips.

"Panzergrenadiers advance!"

"Roger!"

Patting the front of the truck, Irena was standing next to the machine gun on the roof of the car and motioned for the driver to start, while straightening the 20mm heavy machine gun welded to the roof.

The muzzle of the black hole pointed straight at the battlefield in the distance, and a twisted wave of heat rose from the hot metal barrel.

The armored forces have annihilated most of the resistance. Next is the infantry cleaning the battlefield.

In fact, all they had to do was gather the soldiers who had surrendered, confiscate their weapons, and hand them over to the Lion Kingdom Army following behind.

At this moment, the skeleton corps is only fifty kilometers away from the Falcon Kingdom, and they will soon be able to see the royal palace that General McLene "remembers".

Glancing at the Wilantes with their heads in their hands, Irena said with a smile. "Hopefully the Battlefield isn't in there."

Hearing the ridiculous meme, the construction site boy drew a hammer on his chest with the brick.

"Pray for him."

(The sequelae of the outbreak, today I will write about the daily life of a professional gamer in the rear.) ）

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