Floating above the clouds, the Iron Heart, a Viper transport plane floating in the distance retracted the plume of the plasma engine and stopped on the steel-paved deck.

Four gray-robed men are escorted out of the Viper's cabin by four players wearing exoskeletons.

One of them suffered a gunshot wound to his left leg, which was simply bandaged and walked with a limp. The other three were not shot, but the grizzled appearance was obviously not less.

But no one sympathizes with them here.

They are all apostles of the Torch Church. Or war criminals.

In just a few hours, at least tens of thousands of survivors have died directly or indirectly from the interference of the Psychic Interference Device's Band 03.

There are countless mental breakdowns.

About twenty soldiers of the Guards Regiment waited early next to the tarmac.

Seeing the group of soldiers with loaded guns, Yule, who was standing in the middle, turned slightly pale.

He was the head of the parish of Pinecone Farm, as well as the head of Band 03 research, and if he was captured, the Inquisition would certainly not let him go.

However, seeing these guys, and the airship at his feet, he doubted that the Inquisition had the ability to fish him out.

"Anti-gravity device...... You've recovered anti-gravity technology!" His mouth was babbling, but no one paid any attention to him.

To prevent him from hiding locators or bugging devices, a soldier stepped forward and placed a metal ring with a shield on his neck and that of the other three apostles.

One of the apostles tried to resist, but was honest after being hit with the butt of a gun.

Looking at Ye Shi who walked in front of him, Lu Bei raised his right fist and knocked down on the left side of the breastplate, and gave a military salute cleanly.

"Good work."

"You're welcome, say hello to the administrator for me, and I'll take care of the rest." Ye Shi, who returned a military salute, said with a smile.

Lu Bei nodded, watched him return to the plane, and then took the four gray-faced guys and walked in the direction of the elevator.

There was no communication along the way.

Yule finally couldn't hold his breath and asked out loud. You guys...... Where are you going to take us?"

Lu Bei didn't speak, he went straight to a door, knocked on the door, and then pushed it open.

Looking at Zhao Tiangan lying on his back, Yuer's pupils shrank suddenly, his face became even paler, and his Adam's apple moved unconsciously.

The man in the blue power armor looked at him, then at the soldier standing next to him.

"Come one by one, and the others will find a place to lock them up first."

"Yes!"

The man bowed respectfully, then waved his hand, and led the group of soldiers with him to take his three comrades elsewhere.

Soon Yule was the only one left at the door.

Standing alone at the door, he saw the man in the blue power armor looking at him, he inadvertently met his gaze, and suddenly shuddered in his heart.

Those pupils were as deep as black holes.

Just a moment of looking at each other, he felt as if his soul had been pulled out of his shell, unreservedly exposed to the sun, scorched by the light.

No secret is hidden......

As a researcher, he doesn't believe in the ethereal thing like the soul, and he doesn't believe that there are really people in this world who can read a person's soul through their eyes.

However, he involuntarily avoided his gaze.

Then the man spoke." What's your name?"

"Yule." He didn't want to say a word, but he blurted it out subconsciously, which also made him feel annoyed.

Chu Guang looked into his eyes and continued. Do you know what you're doing?" Yule raised his head and stiffened his neck and said. Clear......

He thought the man would ask him why he did it, but the man didn't do anything

asked, just a simple nod.

"That's good."

The tone of the closing tone made Yule feel a little stunned.

I obviously didn't say anything, why does this guy look like he knows everything?

Does he really have the ability to read minds?

A hint of trepidation welled up in Yule's eyes, but he soon became ashamed of his stupid idea, and his panic turned to anger.

How could there be such a metaphysical thing!

This guy must be bluffing!

If you think that he will be so simply frightened and explain everything, then you don't know him well.

If this is a necessary sacrifice, then sacrifice yourself.

Yule raised his head, made a gesture of preferring to die, and said in a bluff with a stiff neck.

"Hehe, I won't say a word—" Before he could finish his words, a pair of glasses hung on the bridge of his nose.

His vision was blurred by the inky lenses, and Yule was slightly stunned.

This is......

For a moment, he seemed to think of something, and his face changed suddenly.

Memory extractor?!

How can these guys even have this kind of thing!

"Wait a minute, I—"

Unfortunately, before the word "say" could be spoken, as an electrical sound of "hum" penetrated the eardrum, his consciousness was like a computer that had been forcibly shut down, and the fragment was broken in an instant.

"Hey."

Dragged Yule from behind, and Frost energetically dragged him to the corner and sat aside.

Looking at the unconscious Yule, Chu Guang's expression did not show the slightest pity.

The memory extractor was seized from the Enlightenment, and works by weaving dreams from the most feared fragments of the user's subconscious, sealing the user's memories and allowing them to be kept little by little, and repeatedly peeling back the cocoon until there is nothing left.

The more you resist, the more painful it becomes.

Theoretically, this device can not only squeeze people's memories, but also help people remember things they don't remember.

Because it will cause a certain mental load, he will hardly use this thing for interrogation.

If he is deceived, coerced, or has unspeakable suffering, he will give this guy a chance to confess and be lenient.

But what this guy said himself, he knows it.

In this case, if you are treated in the same way, you must not have any complaints. Compared to the survivors of Pinecone Farm, this punishment was still too light for him.

Looking at the puppet sitting on his shoulder, Chu Guang asked.

"Xiaoqi, how long does memory retrieval take?"

With his index finger on his chin, Xiao Qi, who had already connected to the memory extractor, closed his eyes and thought for a while.

"Hmm, an hour or two should be fine?"

In an uncertain tone, its eyes suddenly opened, and it continued with a soft sigh, "...... This guy has a bionic chip in his head?"

Chu Guang frowned slightly.

"What's the problem?"

Xiao Qi looked at the eclipse standing aside and whispered.

"Eclipse, can the security program on the chip be done? I'll pass it on to you."

Eclipse nodded expressionlessly. It's not a big problem."

As he said this, the pale blue stream of data was already reflected in the center of its pupils.

After receiving an affirmative reply, Xiao Qi quickly looked at Chu Guang and gave a thumbs up proudly.

"It's not a big problem, master! Rest assured that I'll leave it to Xiaoqi!"

Chu Guang: "......" Forget it.

All in all, the results were good.

The retrieval of the memory was quickly completed.

In fact, it will take a lot of time according to the normal process, but Xiao Qi put the memory retrieval program on the server of the shelter.

Data processing of the Shelter server

Capability is not at all a dimensional thing with the processor that comes with portable electronic devices.

To make a not-so-visual comparison, one is a rocket and the other is a bicycle.

It's like putting nitrogen on a bicycle to accelerate.

An hour in a dream is only half a minute in reality.

In fact, if it weren't for the limits of how fast the brain can handle information, the speed at which memories can be read would be even more exaggerated.

However, even if Xiao Qi had already shown mercy, the apostle's brain that had been drained of his memory was still under a lot of load.

Although people have woken up, they are no different from vegetative people, and even more exaggerated than vegetative people.

Looking at Yur, who had been walking against the wall with his mouth in his mouth, Chu Guang's expression couldn't help but float a little strange.

"So he's awake or not?"

Xiao Qi's expression was a little subtle.

"Ugh...... Probably awake, but not fully awake."

"What do you mean?"

"To put it simply, the image he sees is still the same dream that was formed from his memory, but the brain has actually regained control of his body...... So in our eyes he was walking against the wall, but in his own eyes, he might just be walking from the living room to the kitchen right now."

SIMPLY PUT, IT'S A HIGH PING WARRIOR, RIGHT?

Obviously, in the eyes of other players, he has been walking against the wall, but in the eyes of the players themselves, they have already walked from the B point to the middle door.

Chu Guang's heart moved.

"Like sleepwalking?"

"Well, it's a little different, but it's pretty much the same thing."

Speaking of this, Xiao Qi added in a whisper.

"I'd suggest it's better to keep him in place..... or he'll probably eat the odd stuff for breakfast."

"Like shoes or something."

Chu Guang nodded, looked at the soldiers on the side and ordered, asking him to take this guy to the confinement room and tie him to the bed for two days.

lest this guy get in trouble.

A few young players passing by happened to see the guy who kept walking against the wall, and immediately turned their heads and ears excitedly.

"Is this NPC stuck on the wall?"

「BUG！ It's a bug!"

"Awesome, this game is really buggy!

Although each version has watched the dog plan to fix the bug there, no one has ever seen what the real bug looks like.

This time it's time to see it!

Without paying attention to the captives, Chu Guang returned to the captain's room alone, sat on the chair, picked up the virtual reality equipment on the table and put it on his head.

With a slight tap of his index finger on the side, he spoke.

"Xiaoqi, help me connect the extracted memories."

The energetic voice soon reached his ears.

"Good master!"

As soon as he finished speaking, pale blue particles of light spread out from the center of his field of vision, transforming everything he touched into a different shape.

First the floor, then the tables and chairs, then the walls—the room beneath his feet changed from the captain's room to a pure white one.

Chu Guang had never seen this place.

But from the nurse who delivered the baby, the baby lying in his mother's arms, and the man who looked like a father standing next to the bed, he could probably tell that this should be the delivery room.

The people in the delivery room were busy, and the couple sweetly discussed what to choose for the child in their arms.

No one noticed the stranger standing in the room.

After all, this is Yule's memory, and he doesn't belong here.

Chu Guang stretched out his hand and passed through the nurse on the side, then walked to the window again, and looked out of the window.

Outside the window, the greenery is lush and the birds are singing...... I didn't expect that even this kind of detail was perfectly restored.

"Why did you get me here?

？」 Chu Guang's voice carried a hint of helplessness.

He wasn't interested in learning about the life of a little person.

Even though the memory may be important to that person, it is something that matters to him and the wasteland.

If he really read the memories of these twenty or thirty years from beginning to end, he wouldn't have to do anything else.

Pale blue particles of light flicker.

Chasing Chu Guang into this memory, Xiao Ran, who had turned into a puppet, fell on his shoulder and sat down, swaying his calves and said shyly.

I'm sorry, master, I'll drag it in

Degree bars!

Looking at Xiao Ran's shy smile, Chu Guang always felt that this guy was doing it on purpose.

Seeing that the master did not speak, Xiao Ran asked in a low voice.

That started when he joined the Torch Church?

Well, wait.

Chu Guanggang wanted to nod, but suddenly his heart moved, and he noticed a detail.

Looking beyond the window of the lush greenery, you can see the towering buildings and the endless sea of cars...... Even the ideal city is inferior.

This is clearly not a wasteland.

This guy was born before the war?

…… From his memories before he entered the hibernation pod," after a pause, Chu Guang changed his tone and continued, "I want to know which shelter he entered."

However, Xiao Qi's answer was beyond his expectations.

"He's not a Vault dweller." Not a Vault dweller? Chu Guang frowned slightly.

"Then take me before he enters the hibernation pod...... I want to know why he chose 'time travel' and how he got to the future."

With that, Chu Guang left the window, walked to the side of the bedside table, and looked at the holographic screen suspended above the electronic clock.

It's the year 2100.

The 75th year of the Age of Prosperity.

At this moment, the prosperity is at the moment, and people have built a utopia on the ground, and both material and spiritual satisfaction have been infinitely satisfied.

And just ten years later, in 2110, industry and academia will once again liberate people's imagination of a better life in the future.

Graviton tunnels and FTL engines will officially knock on the door of the interstellar age, and the ticket to the world light years away will no longer be a one-way ticket with no return, but an adventure that anyone can go back and forth.

Of course, the future is not always good, and taking a step forward can lead to the discovery of new treasures, but it also means that more new problems are coming.

For example, just 13 years later, the psychic interference device developed to replace the "infrasonic fence" was originally used to drive away dangerous xenos who harassed the colony, but a shocking scandal of suspected brainwashing and human experiments broke out in the third ecological reserve of Qingquan City, the home planet.

It was so big that even the authorities were implicated, but it was clearly just a small episode for people living in utopia.

Chu Guang felt that even if he could talk to the people in front of him across time and space, no one would believe that the baby lying in swaddling clothes at the moment had done something that even Satan would be stunned after two hundred years.

And if he told the people here that it was just a small episode in the distant future, and that all the good things would be over in 29 years, he would probably only be regarded as a strange madman.

It's the year 2100.

There are only 29 years left until the first year of the Wasteland Era, 2129......

Vaguely hearing the mother give the child in her arms the name "Yuer", Chu Guang immediately saw the scenery beside him fly by with the progress bar dragged by Xiao Qi.

Like many people of that era, Yule had a pleasant childhood, going on to higher education and then finding employment......

When everything is frozen, the clean and bright delivery room has been transformed into a simple and spacious office, with wide floor-to-ceiling windows that can see floating clouds and high-rise buildings like forests.

A neatly dressed young man stands at his desk

, excitedly talking to the boss sitting behind the desk.

Chu Guang didn't listen carefully to the content of their conversation, but immediately paid attention to the clues containing time information.

Soon he found what he was looking for on a holographic billboard outside the floor-to-ceiling window—

It's July 13, 2121.

Three days later, it was the day of the launch of a popular home guard robot, and the pre-order price was only 100,000 credits - but these are not the point.

In the history known to Chu Guang, Vault 79 and its "Yong" project were launched last year of that year.

The end of the heyday seems to be showing signs.

People began to feel anxious about the future, consciously or unconsciously, and the consensus that tomorrow would be better was gradually replaced by apocalypticism.

Anxiety is a business opportunity in itself.

Businesses that sell family shelter programs and protective gear have made a fortune doing so, and the company he works for is no exception.

Chu Guang glanced around the office, and when he saw the documents on the desk, he was surprised to find that good guy, this is actually the headquarters of the "Champion" Pharmaceutical!

The researchers at Vault 79 are all die-hard fans of this company, and even the coffee beans are the company's brand!

But—he's always wanted to complain.

Is it really okay for pharmaceutical companies to sell coffee? The conversation between the two in the office gradually became clear.

"..... anti-radiation agent?"

The boss who read the report in his hand touched his chin, and the expression on his face was unpredictable, and the clerk standing in front of him described it in an exaggerated tone.

"That's right! I bet this new anti-radiation agent will be the next growth point for the company's profits! And it's explosive!" The two are not Yule.

But that's Yule's memory, and the guy was apparently nearby.

Chu Guang glanced around and didn't find it, but he quickly had an idea that the guy was only 21 years old and might just be a newcomer to the workplace, so he immediately walked outside the office.

Sure enough, the guy was at the door.

He was carrying a briefcase in his hand, his eyes were wandering around, and some very subtle expressions could be seen that he should have just left the campus.

Although he looked younger, there was no doubt that this kid was the person he had interrogated just now.

Seeing Yule staring intently at the conversation in the office, Chu Guang also focused his attention on the two people in the office.

If Chu Guang guessed correctly, the new project they were discussing at the moment was the recipe for "using 'Blue Umbrella Mushroom' to synthesize anti-radiation agent".

In a sense, this recipe has really saved a lot of people.

At least most of the mercenaries in Boulder City lived on this thing, and his first pot of gold in the wasteland was earned by selling the mushroom.

「…… To put it more technically, DNA self-repair technology! We have found a special active substance in a blue fungus that can repair macromolecules in living organisms that are damaged by neutron rays."

"That's a good idea...... With all due respect, medical nanobots can do better."

Putting the report in his hand on the table, the boss-like man interrupted the subordinate at the desk and spread his hand and said.

"We are a technology company that, IMHO, uses mushrooms as medicinal herbs...... It sounds like an idea from the ancients."

However, Yule's seniors did not give up and continued with reason.

"War, friend, I'm talking about the war years! Of course, I know that nanobots can perfectly repair damaged large molecules, proteins, and enzymes, but where do you find that kind of thing during the war years?"

"Compared to nano-medical robots, which require a huge industrial chain to support, my solution will be much more practical! Even if the worst happens, suppliers are completely paralyzed, and raw materials skyrocket around the world, we can still provide our consumers with cheap and reliable anti-radiation medicines...... Of course, it's a little more expensive

As a result, we have an unbeatable cost advantage!"

This time, the boss sitting behind the desk didn't immediately say no, but touched his chin with an interested expression on his face.

"Sounds interesting."

Everyone felt that parting ways with the colonies was a probable event, and war seemed to be the only way to resolve their differences.

To this day, nuclear weapons are still the most efficient way to wipe living things off the face of the earth, except in the way and scale of delivery.

A high-quality and inexpensive anti-radiation agent, in the era of radioactive fallout, is undoubtedly much more practical than any nanorobot.

Eventually, Yule's seniors managed to convince their bosses.

Even if the process was not easy, he wasted no less spittle.

Looking at the senior who came out of the office, Yule immediately stepped forward and asked.

"How?"

A big smile appeared on the face of the senior.

"It's done! The boss promised to lend us the research institute in Geumhe City, and if we could produce tangible results, he would get more budget for us at the board meeting...... Time waits for no one, you pack up the materials before you get off work, and we'll leave early tomorrow morning!"

Hearing this, Yule's face was filled with surprise, and he clenched his fists excitedly, but he was stupid and only held back a sentence for a long time.

"Great!"

The senior smiled and patted him on the shoulder." Keep up the good work."

Looking at the two people walking towards the elevator, Chu Guang's face showed a hint of surprise.

If he remembered correctly, the "Champion" group had only one research institute in Jinhe City, the one given to him by the academy.

And at the moment, the research institute is controlled by mutants......