Chapter 677: Ghost Shadow Under the Deep Sea
The moment they heard this, the eyes of the players around suddenly lit up.
Boy!
This is the trigger mission!
"Just wait for your words, brother," Lao Bai smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Say, what are you doing here?"
"Those people...... It's crazy...... There is no way to communicate...... It must be that telepathic interference device! Right...... And those blue-skinned monsters!"
The man spoke incoherently, as if the amount of information was not small, but the players around him listened to it with a look of nagging, and even Lao Bai couldn't help but wonder if his own Renlianyu had regressed.
"Don't worry...... Tell me slowly, what the hell is going on?"
Huang Guangwei swallowed his saliva and looked longingly at the barbecue on the fire.
"Yes...... Give me something to eat? I've ...... I haven't eaten for three days."
"Let's feed him first." Seeing this pitiful look, Lao Bai couldn't bear to continue asking, and looked at the dagger brother on the side, "Get him some food."
Hungry people can't eat meat, and it takes energy to break down protein and fat, but this guy has already eaten a steamed bun, so it should be fine.
"Okay."
The killer nodded, went to the folding table in front of the bar, brought the unfinished fries and fried fish, and cut him a piece of freshly roasted meat.
Seeing that the food was served, the man was not picky, grabbed a handful of fries and stuffed it into his mouth, and even the tavern owner Yiren scratched his head and muttered in his mouth in confusion.
"Is this NPC's sense of taste bad?"
Can he know if the fries are good or not?
After gobbling up for a while, the man burped, leaned against the palm tree with his stomach propped up and gasped, looking half-squinted as if he was full of wine and food, and then squinted and snored in full view of everyone.
The crowd of players around was dumbfounded.
They waited for a long time, just waiting for this guy to speak, but this guy actually fell asleep after eating a lot of nonsense?!
It's worth it!
Several people picked up the branches on the ground and poked them at him twice.
"!"
"Play with us!"
"Why did you ask us to help, but you spoke!"
Hearing a noisy shouting around him, Huang Guangwei, who was poked indiscriminately, suddenly woke up. Realizing that he had dozed off in public, he was also embarrassed and scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Huh, I'm sorry...... As soon as I was full, I was sleepy and almost forgot."
Lao Bai: "......"
Murderous Dagger: "......"
Midnight Kill: "......"
Can you be more unreliable?!
At this time, Fang Chang finally rushed over, and at a glance he saw the man lying under the palm tree, and then looked at the submersible on the shore.
Instead of rushing to ask the man, he first called out a few known power players, patted them on the shoulder, and pointed in the direction of the shoreline.
"Go and drag that thing back and hide it for a while."
The player looked at him and asked strangely.
"Dragged ashore?"
"Hmm."
Fang Chang nodded, glanced farther away from the sea, and then walked over to the man leaning under the palmetto tree.
"You're from Vault 70?"
"Yes...... Yes." Looking at the man squatting in front of him, Huang Guangwei nodded nervously.
Placing his hand on his shoulder, Fang Chang stared at him and continued.
"Take a deep breath and don't be nervous...... Tell us, what did you just encounter?"
Listening to the words of the man in front of him, Huang Guangwei took a deep breath, calmed his nervous emotions and said slowly.
"A bunch of blue-skinned guys, they're ...... He has the appearance of a human and has gills on his chin. They kept chasing
Me, fire harpoon shells and torpedoes at me...... And some weird stuff."
"Their power system damaged my submersible, and I had to drift around with the currents, resigned to my fate...... And then it floated here."
"Looks like you're lucky," the old white crouching next to him quipped, "just floated to us."
Huang Guangwei smiled weakly and whispered "thank you".
"But then again...... Blue-skinned guys? Gills? What's that?" Midnight Killer looked at the man in confusion, stunned by the monster that fired harpoons and torpedoes.
At this time, Fang Chang, who was sitting on the side, gradually became serious.
"If I'm not mistaken, eighty percent are mutants......
Hearing his words, the players who were squatting around were shocked, and their faces showed surprised expressions.
"it?!"
"Mutants?!"
"Aren't those brutes green?"
"When will they still learn to swim?!"
Looking at the players who were looking at each other with surprised faces, Fang Chang shook his head and continued with a serious expression.
"Mutants refer to humanoid life formed by the modification of the original 23 pairs of chromosomes in the human body through the incomplete research results of the project, which are not limited to green skin and strong flesh, and there are gray-black variants in the great desert."
After a pause, he continued.
"There are a lot of survivor settlements in the Yunjian Province that sit on the seaside, do you remember the information set up on the official website? The company's commandos are mainly aimed at amphibious mutants who operate along the coastline...... Unlike normal mutants, they have blue skin, and a few have scales and fins attached to them."
Hearing this, Voldemort let out a breath and muttered.
"Good fellow...... Dare this Torch Church hook up with those guys?!"
The Picheng paratrooper, who had been squatting next to him and had not spoken, suddenly spoke.
"Is there a possibility that those blue-skinned mutants were created by the Torch Church?"
Lao Bai shook his head and said.
"It's unlikely, the Torch Church has only emerged in the past twenty years, and those blue-skinned mutants seem to have been around for a while."
"I'm inclined to this opinion too," Fang Chang nodded and continued, "After all, there is an example of Geumhe City there, and there is a natural intersection of interests between the Torch Church and mutants, so I guess there is some kind of cooperation agreement between the two sides, such as ...... The Church regularly provides a batch of slaves for those mutants to reproduce."
Although his expression had been written and euphemistic as much as possible, everyone couldn't help but clench their fists when they thought of the ranch they had seen in the shopping mall in Kinhe City.
"These brutes ......" Midnight Killer muttered in a low voice, involuntarily clenching his fist under the barrel, his eyes flashing with murderous intent.
The Picheng paratroopers who were squatting on the side also whispered.
"Is there any use in distinguishing between those things? Those brutes are our enemies anyway, and we have no intention of negotiating with them."
Fang Chang continued calmly.
"It's about whether they're going to attack us right away...... It now appears that the Church should be in partnership with the tribe of aquatic mutants in the nearby seas. They haven't realized what we're going on, or they've realized and haven't taken us seriously, so we'll have some time to prepare."
Lao Bai nodded solemnly and said in a deep voice.
"It seems that we need to prepare not only fishing nets made of devil's silk, but also beachheads on the shore."
Fang Chang nodded.
"It's not just the beachhead, underwater weapons are necessary...... Our assault rifles and blasters can only work on land, and if we can't attack underwater targets, they can maneuver along the coastline and attack us from any direction, which will be trickier than aquatic xenomorphs."
Lao Bai looked at him seriously and said.
"When I get offline, I'll ask the mosquitoes and see if I can find a way to make something useful."
After briefly communicating in Mandarin, Fang Chang looked back at the man who was watching them communicate with blank eyes, and continued.
"Why are those mutants chasing you?"
"I ......" Huang Guangwei's face showed a hesitant expression, as if he was struggling with whether to say it.
Fang Chang stared into his eyes and continued.
"If you don't say it, we can't help you."
「…… Well, I said."
As if realizing that he had no better way than to confess, Huang Guangwei struggled for a moment in his heart, and finally opened his mouth and told the reason why he ended up here......
"You should know, we have some conflicts with those people on the island because of some things......
Fang Chang nodded.
"I've heard that the survivors of the Southern Seas want to introduce the Torch Church's improved strain of Nago to the Southern Seas to get rid of the flooding and dangerous aquatic xenomorphs in these seas...... That's the version I heard, right?"
Huang Guangwei swallowed his saliva and continued.
"That's pretty much...... This is not entirety, first of all, we have made it clear to the survivors that the Torch Church's improved Naguo strain is extremely risky, and that it is an unfinished dangerous technology......
"But they are so confident that they have completely lost their reverence for nature. Speaking of which, it is also to blame us, and blame us for using the technology of the pre-war era to make their lives so smooth sailing in the past century, that they think they are the chosen ones, and they feel that as long as they only selectively use the good parts like with the telepathic interference devices, they will not be affected by the bad parts at all."
Fang Chang asked as he stared at him thoughtfully.
"How?"
Huang Guangwei: "What do you say...... Needless to say, haven't you seen it already? Since the arrival of those gods, Haiya Province has become what it is now. In the past, when the Tower Organization was still there, everything was fine, although there were some marauders and some aliens, but at least they didn't become as human and ghostly as they are now."
Lao Bai couldn't help but ask.
"Can't they see?"
Huang Guangwei shook his head.
"Can't see? No, of course they can see it, and they don't even have to look at it, how many years have they not done business with the ports of Haiya Province? But they don't care about the risks we talk about, they not only have absolute confidence in themselves, but they also have excessive confidence in us... Guess what they said to us when we told them that the madmen in the north were killing themselves and dragging others to die with them?"
Lao Bai: "How do you answer?"
"They said, 'How do we know if we don't try?' What if the imperfect technology can be perfected? This will not only change the status quo in the southern seas, but may also save the fools who have lost their sense of self in Haiya Province, and even change the Baiyue Province...... They're not rushing to the hospital anymore, they're just a bunch of arrogant fools."
When he said this, Huang Guangwei laughed, raised his arm and wiped the seawater from his face.
"It's easy for them to say...... Could we have not tried? Mine worked with Vault 117 for decades until they got rid of themselves, and I wonder if there was a future for the technical route they proposed?"
"And it's not a technical problem anymore, the ultimate goal of those lunatics is to elevate humanity into some new species they have envisioned - 'Celestials, and then turn the earth into a kingdom of heaven for celestials, you know what I mean?' Nago was not designed for this absurd idea in the first place to solve some specific problem that exists in the wasteland."
Lao Bai asked with a frown.
"Doesn't the Federation of the Southern Islands know? It's so obvious why they're on the side of the Torch Church
?」
Huang Guangwei shook his head.
"Didn't I say that they know everything, but they're overconfident. There's no denying that they've managed to achieve something, such as feeding hundreds of thousands of survivors with just a dozen square kilometers of land while most of the wastelanders were hungry. Another example is that when the provinces of Borneo and Luoxia were still engaged in feudal kingship, they established a relatively civilized system."
"In time, they may be able to build a utopia on the sea that is not inferior to the ideal city, and use the methods that they have explored to suit their own best...... But here lies the fatal problem, and they have gone so well along the way that success is almost a matter of course for most of the people on those islands."
"There's no doubt that the Torch Church is a jackal, and they know those guys aren't well-intentioned, but they don't think it's okay, they can tame the restless Nago mycelium like they tame mutant sea sharks, and eat the icing wrapped in arsenic, which is thrown away intact...... It's like they're using the psychic interference device provided by the Torch Church and turning it into a tool to drive away xenomorphs."
"The President of the Federation of the Southern Islands has negotiated with us for this purpose, and he wants the residents of Vault 70 to work together with the thousands of experts we have cultivated in Coral City to open up the research facilities in Coral City, so that the Torch Church can investigate the brood of the Heavenly Court space station, and cooperate with the Apostles of the Torch, the researchers, to complete the improvement of Nago."
"Of course we can't say yes, it's not the first time that those crazy people have come to us, and we know twenty years ago what the virtues of those guys are, if we open up the undersea research facility to them, they can corrupt a group of our people in a matter of minutes, and then turn it into their own lair...... Just like the things they did in Haiya Province."
After listening to his words, the players crouching around looked at him dumbly.
One of them couldn't help but ask.
"And then you guys fight?"
Hearing this, Huang Guangwei's expression became a little embarrassed, and his index finger scratched his cheek with stubble.
"I didn't fight at first...... After all, the fleet is mainly in the hands of those settlements, and those settlements were built by us, so why should we attack our own people?"
Fang Chang nodded thoughtfully.
"Indeed."
Empathize with Vault 404 and suddenly go to war with Dawning City, this kind of thing just sounds outrageous.
It was a settlement they had built with so much blood and sweat that they would rather die for it a few more times than say they wanted to do anything or anything.
The biggest difference between this game and other games is probably that every gathering place where players move is built by the players themselves.
Not to mention that they are reluctant to destroy, in order to prevent those new players from coming around, they will not only actively participate in the legislation and regulations, but also spontaneously take on the "Passing on the Torch" mentoring task, giving those new players enough care to help them integrate into the society of the alliance.
"Really?" Seeing the contemplative expression of the man in front of him, Huang Guangwei paused and continued, "We originally planned to teach them a lesson, so we issued a notice of overhaul of the power facilities, and then turned off the ocean current generator set......
At this time, Lao Bai, who was next to him, suddenly spoke.
"I heard...... You cut off Coral City's power and oxygen supply system, and nearly buried the 30,000 survivors at the bottom of the ocean—"
"Nonsense! How could we do something like that! And many of the residents of Coral City are our students, colleagues, and even family members!"
Huang Guangwei's eyes widened, as if he had been cut off in a sore spot, and retorted fiercely.
"It's them! That so-called federal authorities! They took advantage of the withdrawal of our specialists from the current power station and savagely blew up there! Then retaliate by cutting off the power supply system in Coral City! We sent rescue submarines, but they threw mines at us, and in the end we only managed to save a few hundred people!"
Looking at the man with clenched fists, Lao Bai spoke to soothe his emotions.
"Don't get excited, the inhabitants of Coral City are fine, I heard that federal authorities have relocated them to various islands."
Huang Guangwei looked at him in astonishment, and then slowly calmed his breath.
"Really? Then it seems that they are still a little bit human...... You've been in contact with them?"
Lao Bai nodded.
"Yes, because of the contact, I feel that there may be some misunderstanding between you...... Why don't you sit down and talk?"
Huang Guangwei pursed his lips slightly.
"There's nothing to talk about, the federal authorities want Vault 70 to be a scientific research institution subject to federal leadership, I don't really have any problem with that, we don't want any special status, but at this juncture we can't agree that if we let go, they'll immediately hand over more than a century of our work to the madmen to the north."
Voldemort looked at him incomprehensibly and asked.
"Didn't you slip out of that shelter to talk to them?"
Huang Guangwei denied it as a matter of course.
"Of course not, I was going to the Great Rift."
"The Great Rift Valley?" Lao Bai looked at him stunned, "What are you doing there?"
"To our administrators, of course! That one is called Sun Yuechi's bastard! That guy isn't here, and we can't even function the full power of the Vault, we're completely unilaterally being pressed and beaten by the bunch of idiots from the Federation. If he's here, it won't be like this, at least we'll be able to use that piece of equipment from our security inventory!"
When he said this, Huang Guangwei gritted his teeth hatefully and clenched his fists.
It was like punching that guy...... If that guy was right in front of him.
Several players looked at each other, but they were confused by what he said.
It was the first time they had heard of the unfamiliar name Sun Yuechi, but the point was not this, but-
"Your manager...... Why is it in the Great Rift Valley?"
"I also want to know what he thinks," Huang Guangwei said scoldingly, "It's all at this juncture, and that guy is still talking in his dreams...... It is not too late to say that it is the last flame left by the Post-War Reconstruction Commission, and we should have rallied under its banner...... They'll take care of it. If those guys really had that warm-heartedness, Haiya Province wouldn't be what it is now!"
Fang Chang touched his chin and asked after thinking for a moment.
"It's more than 3,000 kilometres from here to the Rift Valley...... And it's still a straight line, how are you going to get there?"
Huang Guangwei continued.
"I originally planned to go ashore in the eastern part of Haiya Province, which is a deserted place, and I should be able to escape the eyes and ears of the Torch Church, as long as I go around to the Prancing Horse Province to the east of the River Valley Province, there should be a way to get there...... I'm willing to bet that's the way their bastard manager went."
Midnight Killer looked at him suspiciously and asked.
"Then why did you get here?"
"I don't want to," Huang Guangwei said as he looked at him with a smile, "I had clearly avoided a few major shipping lanes and was about to sneak into the eastern coast of Haiya Province, but I was suddenly chased by those blue-skinned guys...... I don't know what they were ambushing there, but we hit each other anyway, and then I floated all the way here, and you guys picked it up."
When he said this, he looked at Fang Chang and Lao Bai and a few others with a sincere expression.
"You're also residents of the Vault, aren't you...... Can you take me to you? I think I've heard about you, you're in the southern part of the River Valley Province?"
As he spoke, he glanced at the airship in the sky and continued in a earnest tone.
"Please, I've got nowhere to go......
Lao Bai looked at Fang Chang and said unbearably.
"Why don't you take him back?"
Fang Chang pondered for a moment and replied in Mandarin.
"Well, I'm wondering if it's possible,
Take the lead and let him sit down with the authorities of the Federation of the Southern Islands to talk."
Hearing this, Lao Bai pouted for a moment and said with a smile.
"Are you thinking too much...... Leaving aside whether the forces we are now deploying in the region have the capacity to broker peace talks, how can you be sure that there are no Torch Church members in the federal authorities?"
Fang Chang said with a sigh.
"That's what I hesitate the most."
At present, both sides insist that the explosion of the Ocean Current power station is the other's pot.
And what the specific situation is, no one can directly prove it.
Of course, he was more inclined to think that it might be the Torch Church that was playing in the way, and then planting the blame for Vault 70 in order to provoke a war between the Federation of the Southern Islands and the Vault.
However, there is no other possibility, and the explosion of the Ocean Current Power Station itself is the desired outcome of the Federation of the Southern Islands.
Energy is the rope that Vault 70 holds in its hands, and it is also an invisible deterrent.
Now that deterrence has been exhausted.
It, like a nuclear weapon thrown from a launch pad, has lost the meaning of deterrence.
Survivors of the islands in the southern seas have found that they are not unable to survive because of the loss of the Ocean Current Power Station. They can import the phased-out thermal power generators from the coal mine in Yinyue Bay, and they can also use solar and wind power to use with storage stations.
There are still many solutions.
Despite the rising cost of energy, the islands are highly united under the rule of the Federation of the Southern Islands.
In comparison, the price they pay for it does not seem to be as expensive as they think.
Fang Chang pondered for a long time, then sighed and said.
"I'll leave it to the administrators."
Lao Bai nodded.
"That's what I thought, too...... Professional work is still left to professional people."
Fang Chang looked at Huang Guangwei and continued.
"We can take you to us, and we will be in Qingquan City in about two days."
Hearing this promise, Huang Guangwei's face showed a relieved expression, and he cried with joy.
"Thank you...... Thank you so much!"
Fang Chang smiled and said.
"You're welcome, but there's one thing we need to ask you to help me with."
Huang Guangwei nodded with a happy smile and said.
"Just mention it! As long as I can help, I'll do my best!"
Fang Chang continued.
"Regarding the fact that you were attacked by mutants along the eastern coast of Haiya Province, I would like you to record a video to explain it in detail, and then provide us with the coordinates of your attack."
After listening to this simple request, Huang Guangwei agreed without hesitation.
"No problem! I'm here to help, and if you need it, I can record that video right now! As for the coordinates, they're on my submarine, so you can use them well!"
"Let's talk about the video later, I'll also report the situation to our managers here, you go to our place to change your clothes first, so as not to catch a cold."
Fang Chang smiled friendlyly, then looked at the submarine that had been towed ashore not far away, and continued.
"And that submersible of yours, can you lend us a little bit of it?" We want to try to fix its powertrain."
Huang Guangwei waved his hand absently and said generously.
"Take it and use it, as long as you can take me to Qingquan City, I can give it to you."
Originally, he didn't plan to keep that thing forever, if he succeeded in landing in Haiya Province, maybe he would throw it on the shore.
Now that someone had promised to take him to the province of the River Valley, he naturally didn't need that thing.
Since these people are interested, then take it!
Seeing this guy waving generously, Fang Chang also showed a happy smile on his face.
"Then we're welcome!"