The representatives sent by the company were Yun Xiao and Su Ming, the representatives of the legion were Commander Wali and Pangolin, and the representative of the academy was Jiang Xuezhou, a student of the B-level researcher who had never shown his face.

As for the representatives of the alliance, they are NPCs from Night Ten and a scientific expedition.

The latter's name is Meng Liang, a former resident of Vault 401, who joined a scientific expedition to recover the relics of pre-war civilization after being rescued from marauders by the Alliance, and learned archaeology under the guidance of Yin Fang, and is currently working as a military explorer on the airship.

The exploration of Vault 0 has been largely based on scientific investigations.

The investigation of the ruins cannot be entirely relied upon by the Corporation, and even the allies are not obligated to disclose all information they have gathered to the Alliance.

Chu Guang is very cautious in the selection of personnel to be dispatched, in addition to an NPC expert with relevant expertise, he also needs a reliable player to bring the news inside the shelter to the outside in the most extreme cases.

The information-sharing "Wasteland Online" forum is his biggest hole card other than the players of the "Immortal Body".

After confirming that the passage was secure, the delegation began to move further and soon reached the entrance of the shelter.

The elevator in Yihai is located in the middle of the B2 floor of the building.

It is shaped like a funnel embedded in the ground and has four corridors leading to the central elevator...... It's like a circular theater with no seats.

Due to the long period of neglect and the extremely uneven distribution of water resources in the Great Desert, the walls are covered with mold and dry vines.

Searching every nook and cranny of this spacious room with a flashlight, Yashi muttered.

"Did the crew of the Trailblazer really escape here?"

Meng Liang, who was walking next to him, said nervously.

"Yes in the intelligence ......"

This was his first time on a mission.

And it was such an important action from the beginning.

Last night, he had read the logbook of operations sent to him several times by the administrator, especially the section on known information, and he had almost memorized the punctuation.

"But why are there no traces of the battle? Not even a single bullet mark could be seen on the wall. There was still a hint of doubt on Yeshi's face.

It's not because he's cautious by nature.

It's that the manager didn't hand over this important job to Lao Bai, who has the strongest combat effectiveness, but to him with the highest perception attribute.

Yesterday's discussion on the forum in particular made him instinctively suspect that the task might not be as simple as he thought.

Su Ming, who was walking on the other side, shrugged his shoulders and said with a grin.

"Maybe when you flee here, there are no pursuers...... Didn't the Willant discover the specific entrance to Vault 0? ”

"I see," Ye Shi nodded thoughtfully, but it didn't take long for his brows to furrow again, "Hiss...... But I still felt that something was wrong. ”

What about the Enlightenment people?

Didn't those people know the entrance to Vault Zero?

Since Yi Hai knew that those people were trying to prevent the company from finding Vault 0, the two sides should have turned their faces before he froze, right?

I couldn't figure it out, and I always felt like I was missing some important clue.

It's a pity that Elder Brother Fang is not here, and the battlefield guy probably doesn't dare to communicate with him.

"Why?" Jiang Xuezhou, who had never spoken, finally couldn't help but speak.

She didn't really like to interact with people outside of the house, especially since this person seemed to have played against her previous team.

However, this guy kept muttering there, which made her nervous from the moment she entered the building...... Obviously, they haven't even encountered a mutant hyena until now.

He didn't think about it that much, and he didn't even feel the impatience in that sentence at all, but thought that the beauty was interested in him, so he made a smile that he thought was mysterious and charming.

"Intuition."

Gut feeling......

The corners of Jiang Xuezhou's mouth twitched, and his expression was a little tense.

What is that?

However, Su Ming seemed to understand very well, and patted Ye Shi's shoulder with a smile.

"Brother, I understand that feeling, sometimes when nothing happens, you just feel that something is wrong...... My captain said I'm waking up, and I hope it's not true, I'm not married yet. Anyway, be vigilant, I also think there is something evil in this place. ”

The battlefield guy wanted to lean over and ask what this guy felt, after all, the TO powerhouse with the highest perception system in the whole server was not blown.

But there was a ten-day-long staring next to him, and he could only think about it in his heart.

Looking at Vali with a confident smile on his face, the Warfield asked in a low voice, thinking about at least asking for some information

"My lord, do we have any plans?"

Vali said dryly.

"Nope."

“…… No? The battlefield guy thought he had misheard and was stunned.

Vali laughed out loud and said with a look of disdain.

"Counting on a shelter to solve it, only the weak will believe it. His Majesty the Marshal has never pinned his hopes on such vague rumors. ”

The battlefield guy couldn't stop laughing.

"Then why are we here······"

"While Master Cohen doesn't think it might contain something that could end the wasteland, it's a relic of the Age of Prosperity...... God knows what will be in there, what if it's a weapon? Wali glanced at the representatives of the company and the college, and said lightly, "In short, if the company and the college are interested, we can't leave it alone."

5

Battlefield: "........"

From the perspective of the Willantes, this makes sense.

So much so that he didn't know how to refute it for a while.

The group soon came to the elevator.

Yun Ye reached out and touched the door of the elevator and set his eyes on the two representatives of the alliance.

"Which of you is stuck in the door."

"Here I am."

Meng Liang immediately answered, stepped forward, took out the card given to him by the manager, and pasted it on the shell of the card reader.

A pale blue glow appeared in front of the door, sweeping over the crowd in front of it, and then the floor shook slightly, and the door slowly moved to the sides.

The space of the elevator is really not large.

It was surprising that the entrance to Vault 0 was so narrow.

Or is there actually another entrance here?

"Unbelievable... "It's been two centuries, and these facilities are still functioning." ”

And also without maintenance.

"It turned out to be an inactive access card." Looking at the retracted scanning light, Yun Ye frowned.

"What do you mean?" Meng Liang asked nervously.

"It means...... After activating it once, our information is written into the security system and bound to the code of the access card, whether there is that card or not, you can use the elevator. For others, they won't be able to enter unless we rewrite the security system or give them another inactive access card...... At least you can't use this card to enter. ”

After a pause, she continued.

"This is an effective way to prevent unauthorized persons from infiltrating the shelter...... However, this system is usually found in unfinished shelters, and rarely in full-fledged shelters to which managers have been assigned, unless specifically requested by the shelter manager. ”

Yashi muttered.

"In other words, can't you take the card and shake people down?"

Yun Xiao glanced at him, not understanding what this junior said.

Meng Liang, who was standing on the side, was shocked by the other information in this sentence, and looked at her in surprise and said.

"What do you mean... … This shelter is not finished? ”

Yun Xiao shrugged his shoulders.

"Who knows, I didn't build this shelter, I just happened to work in the relevant department, and I heard some rumors."

Without waiting for Meng Liang to digest the huge amount of information in this sentence, she glanced at the door of the elevator, said nothing, and walked straight in.

Seeing this, Su Ming, who was on the side, immediately followed.

Retracting the useless access card in his hand, Meng Liang looked at Ye Shi and said nervously. "Let's go too."

"Well, let's go."

Ye Ten nodded, took one last look at the spacious room behind him, and stepped over the open elevator door. And the moment he stepped through the door, a familiar stale smell penetrated the tip of his nose, which made his heart suddenly alert.

The omen that lingered in his heart seemed to grow stronger and stronger......

In the camp.

Although the planned construction of the fence and barracks has been completed, the five construction trucks parked in the middle of the camp are still rumbling there.

Except for the players who were sent to perform tasks near the industrial building, the other players were not idle, and scattered around to find some scrap and returned, using the drawings stored on the construction truck, which were re-smelted and processed into various parts.

Due to the high demand for orders, there were even long queues in front of these engineering vehicles.

A few small players around the side were waiting with bundles of scrap metal on the side, for fear that the feed ports of these machines would be empty.

An employee of the company happened to pass by, and saw that there were many people around the construction truck, so he leaned over to take a look and asked curiously.

"Isn't the camp already built? What are you guys doing? ”

Seeing that the NPC was talking to me, I was the darkest with a large bundle of steel, and said in a non-standard human language.

"It turned out that the well was too small, and there was a groundwater reservoir underneath, so we planned to drill a deeper well."

A construction site boy carrying a sack on the side echoed the bricks.

"That's right! This time we lengthened the threaded pipe in the drawing! ”

The enterprise employee was stunned for a moment, and before he could come back to his senses, several other players next to him began to chirp in a language he didn't understand.

"Speaking of which, the groundwater reservoirs here are quite abundant."

"Then you have to camp here."

"What's the point of just digging a well, I suggest getting a greenhouse and growing some vegetables or something." "That's a good idea!"

“！！！ I brought the seeds! ”

Players are chatting and talking, there are more drawings in the production queue, and the materials required have increased a lot.

Including polyethylene materials used to make greenhouses, including cultivation tanks for cultivating vegetables and aluminum alloy for water pipes, etc.

Greenhouses are arranged, carbohydrates and vitamins are available, and animal protein and fats cannot be left behind.

A balanced diet is the only way to ensure combat effectiveness.

Raising cattle and sheep is not realistic, after all, there is not so much pasture here.

But there are always more solutions than problems.

It soon occurred to me that the brothers of the Burning Corps had gotten some white, fat worms in the mutant tribe.

It's a bit unappetizing to eat that thing directly, except for Lao Na, no one estimates that anyone can accept it, but there should be no problem with making it into a nutritional paste.

Anyway, it's not them staying here, it's the newcomers who come here in a daze......

As for the NPCs.

Except for their managers, none of them seem to be too picky eaters.

Not far away, several Willant officers looked at those Alliance people who were busy before and after, and couldn't help muttering. "What are these guys tossing?"

"I don't know ......"

"Isn't this just a makeshift camp? What are they doing with so many sheds? ”

"Are they still planning to ......stay?"

Thinking of this, several of the Willant officers suddenly became alert.

The Alliance actually stuck its foot behind the ass of their client state.

That's not a good sign...

In fact, it's not just the corporate employees and the Willant officers who are confused, but even the players themselves don't quite know what they're going to do.

The fun of sandbox games is to experience the process, and no one cares much about the purpose and outcome.

The administrator told them that the Coalition intended to keep it as an outpost of the Coalition in the Great Desert, where they could DIY the buildings they liked, and that the five construction trucks would be as good as possible for them to turn their ideas into reality before they were reclaimed.

As a result, interested players came to line up with a bunch of building materials.

There aren't many quests in the new map, and it's idle anyway, and many players have received the task of expanding the camp, although the rewards are not high, but it's quite interesting.

Chu Guang didn't explain what they had to build this outpost, and left it completely up to them to play on their own.

As it turned out, these little players were even better than he could have imagined, taking care of everything from drinking water to a stable food source to hygiene and safety.

There is even a detailed plan for the placement of various facilities...... These are not just imaginations, but also largely refer to the layout of actual overseas military bases or construction sites, and take into account the situation of detachment from supply lines, so that the planned camps have a certain degree of self-sufficiency.

To a certain extent, it also refers to the layout of overseas military bases or construction sites in reality, and takes into account the situation of detachment from supply lines, so that the planned camp has a certain self-sufficiency ability.

Looking at the little players who were busy, Chu Guang nodded with satisfaction.

"Not bad!"

If this is outsourced to the company's construction team, it will cost millions of Cr to say the least, and even its own construction team will have a budget of millions of silver coins.

But leave it to these little players, and you won't even need 100,000 silver coins to get it. Manpower is almost free, materials can be taken locally, and ideas are copied and discussed online.

But anyway, this outpost is repaired and it is for them to use, so it can't be regarded as their own earnings.

Retracting his gaze from the little players, Chu Guang walked to the corner of the camp to house the rooms of the rescued survivors.

After the treatment of the twelve treatment chambers, most of the survivors' wounds have been healed.

Some mechanical prostheses with only basic functions are not very expensive, otherwise they would not be affordable even for waste pickers

It just so happened that the ordnance seized from the Willant people had some simple prosthetics in them, so Chu Guang asked the doctor of the enterprise to replace them with them.

By the way, since the airship was carried by a reporter from the company, Wu Changnian expressed his willingness to bear part of the cost of rescuing the survivors for the sake of show.

Chu Guang was not polite, and casually reported 100,000 Cr to him, and when he heard that it was so cheap, Wu Changnian didn't frown and signed it.

Afterwards, Chu Guang asked the logistics officer to calculate it, and found that the combined value of those mechanical prosthetics might be less than 100,000 chips

Afterwards, Chu Guang asked the logistics officer to calculate it, and found that the combined value of those mechanical prosthetics might be less than 100,000 chips

Chu Guang is also an embarrassed group, he still has a bottom line, and he never thought about making money with those poor people, let alone caring about the 100,000 Cr.

But it's not appropriate to tell the company that there is too much, after all, Minister Wu's coercion has already been pretended, and he can only let his logistics officer put this secret in his stomach.

The barracks door was pushed open.

Looking at the light passing through the doorway and the footsteps coming in together, the women lying on the hospital beds subconsciously shrank back.

Seeing that it was not a mutant, everyone was relieved.

Lying in the ward were about 20 survivors who had just undergone prosthetic surgery.

Although he didn't want them to recall the bad memories, in order to gather information about the torch badge, Chu Guang still asked in a gentle tone as much as possible.

"Where are you from?"

Everyone in the room looked at each other, but did not speak.

There was a moment of silence in the air.

Just when Chu Guang was hesitating whether to find a female player with a more gentle image to communicate, a woman in her early twenties suddenly raised her hand tremblingly and said in a hoarse voice.

"My name is Rama... … It is from the province of Borneo. ”

"Borneo?"

Where did the two-headed cow come from?

It is said to be in the southwest of the Hump Kingdom.

That's far enough......

Chu Guang continued in a gentle tone.

"Tell me, how did you get here?"

At this point, something suddenly occurred to him, and after a pause, he added.

"Of course, if you don't want to recall that unpleasant memory, we won't force you."

Rama shook her head.

"It's okay······ I am so thankful that you were able to save us from hell. ”

As she spoke, she paused and continued.

"I was born in a small village, and that day a group of merchants came to the village, and they said they wanted to buy two cows and transport them to Silvermoon Bay in the northeast. They were generous and the price they gave was quite good, and the people in the village were very polite to them, and the village chief even brought out good wine to entertain them...... I drank a little bit and woke up in the cage. ”

Chu Guang was silent for a while.

"Slave traders?"

“…… It should be. Rama's eyes were full of fear, but he was brave enough to say it," the men added...... It was my family who sold me to them, but I don't believe them, they must have drunk everyone. ”

Chu Guang sympathized with her plight, but that part was not what he was most concerned about.

Frowning, he continued.

“…… Are those slave traders and mutants traded? ”

To Chu Guang's surprise, the girl named Rama shook her head, and the horror in her eyes flickered even more intensely.

"They...... Sold us to another group of people who carried me across the desert and brought me here

Chu Guang clenched his fists and said in a deep voice.

"Who are they?"

"I don't know ......"

The girl hugged her head, and the ten fingers that penetrated her hair trembled slightly, as if the mere memory of what had happened made her feel terrified.

Chu Guang changed his question and said patiently.

"Did those people have... What are the characteristics? For example, the appearance, or the clothing, or the uniform accessories you carry......"

The dilated pupils suddenly began to focus, and Rama seemed to remember something, let go of the hands holding her head, and raised her head sharply.

"Those people...... They all seem to be wearing blue coats. ”

Blue coat?

Really......

Hearing this shocking clue, a trace of surprise appeared on Chu Guang's face.

As far as he saw and heard in the area of Qingquan City, those little white rabbits who came out of the shelter were not to mention harmful, and they burned high incense without being scolded.

The reason why he was so good to Xiaoyu and her family was largely because they didn't harm themselves...... This is not easy enough in the wasteland.

However, the girl named Rama was not the only one, and many survivors in the ward nodded silently, indicating that they had suffered similar or identical experiences.

Chu Guang's expression gradually sank, and he took out a small notebook from his pocket and recorded the clues dictated by Rama

Most of the Vault's inhabitants have returned to the surface as ignorant of the world, and are often slaughtered as sheep by the wastelanders who are far weaker than them because of their self-esteem, kindness, weakness, and guilt for abandoning their fellow human beings in the past, or a sense of superiority.

This is the case with Vault 401, for example.

The entire shelter that was taken by the plundered can be said to be a pawn, and all the staff have become coolies who rub pills, and even the black box in their hands is almost not saved.

Of course, there are a few Vaults that have developed into powerful regional powers, such as the fact that some of the company's ancestors were residents of Vault 6.

Vault 101 has not developed into a powerful regional force, but under the guidance of Dr. Method, it still has a limited impact on some of the surviving survivors.

Vault 79 wasn't a White Rabbit, the guys had killed themselves purely by themselves, but apart from the crazy "Yongshi", the others didn't do much harm to the survivors on the surface.

As for the Enlightenment Society......

Presumably the other extreme of the group of "blue coats".

Chu Guang didn't know what had happened to them in the past.

So much so that they completely let go of the pride and reserve of civilized people, and even went to trade with mutants and slave traders.

In any case, they have already crossed the line. Someone started up, and the other survivors soon confessed to where they came from and how they were sold to the mutants.

Most of them are from the province of Luoxia, especially the kingdom of the Falcon and the kingdom of the Honey Badger, but there are also some people from the Nishikigawa or river valleys, where there is no war or chaos, but the chaos is not inferior to that of the war zone of the Luoxia province.

Chu Guang made statistics on them one by one.

His kindness wasn't yet overflowing enough to avenge the people he had only known for a few days, but the Enlightenment of the Vault's inhabitants would have made him deeply uneasy.

Even if it's not moral.

Just for the sake of the alliance, it is impossible for him to leave those guys hiding in the shadows alone.

At the very least, it is necessary to figure out what exactly the motives of those people are, where their hometown is, how many kilometers from the Union

“··· … I'm sorry for what happened to you, you may have encountered some of the unfriendly Vault dwellers, but I'm sure not all of them are. ”

After a pause, Chu Guang continued.

"We're here to help."

Gripping the edge of the futon with her right hand, Rama nodded and said sincerely.

"Thank you......"

"You're welcome, let's have a good rest...... I've already asked about it, so let's forget about the past unpleasantness. Chu Guang glanced at the notepad in his hand, closed it and stuffed it into his pocket.

However, just as he was about to return to the airship, something suddenly occurred in his heart, and he turned around and walked to Yi Hai's barracks.

A sudden thought of something made him a little concerned.

If you don't ask clearly.

He wouldn't be able to sleep if he cared......

Ground floor of the industrial building.

The number of layers is unknown.

After the elevator door opened, a huge metal door in the shape of a gear quickly came into the eyes of the investigation team.

In the middle of the giant metal gear, an angular diamond shape is printed. The diamond-shaped shape is hollowed out in the middle, and there is no doubt that it is a digital body with the number "0".

The passage to the interior of the vault was next to the giant door, which had clearly been visited and opened.

The crew of the Trailblazer is ahead!

However, what made Su Ming's heart faintly uneasy was why they had all arrived here, but no one came out to greet them

“…… Vault 0 actually exists. Shocked by something completely different, Yun Xiao unconsciously stepped forward and took a step.

Su Ming also immediately stepped forward and followed her closely.

Staring at the gear-shaped giant door for a while, Ye Shi touched his chin and muttered in human language. "Strange ......"

"It's weird again." Jiang Xuezhou glanced at this man with a broken mouth, and he had too many words along the way.

Night Ten said embarrassedly.

"I always feel like ... This Zero is a little crooked, is this really Vault Zero? ”

Jiang Xuezhou stared at the symbol for a while.

"Vault Zero is meant to be an unnumbered vault, and that's how it symbolizes...... It is basically consistent with the information collected by the academy before. ”

"Okay...... Maybe I'm thinking too much. ”

Yajuchi shrugged his shoulders and set his eyes on the deep hallway, followed behind the business representative, and continued to walk forward.

"We're on it too."

Vali patted the pangolin on the shoulder and strode after him.

The Battlefield noticed that those eyes flashed with excitement and curiosity.

Although this guy said that he didn't care about what was in Vault 0, his body was surprisingly honest......

The group made their way through the hallway and soon reached the interior of the vault.

However, to everyone's surprise, the structure here is not as complex as they imagined, and even simple to the point of scribbling.

It doesn't feel like a shelter at all.

It's more like a laboratory.

Of course, it wasn't that that surprised everyone.

Rather, it was the dark red plaque that crawled through the cracks in the corner doors, and the ominous gray-green particles that floated in the air......

Slime mold!

There are slime molds here, too!?

(I wanted to finish writing the rest of it, but I really didn't have time.) ）