At the top of the blood peak, the sun is setting in the west, and the cold wind is cold on the branches covered with broken snow.

A middle-aged man in a white robe stands at the top of a hill.

He was thin, with a high nose and a pair of rimless glasses under his eyebrows. If you remove the white robe on your shoulders that doesn't match his temperament, it will feel like an ordinary teacher.

But it's just a feeling.

As for names, he doesn't have that kind of thing.

From the moment he entered the Sanctuary and became the forerunner, he abandoned the name that walked in the mortal world with his physical body.

But if you want to talk about the code name of walking in the world, he also has one.

The mutants on Mount Ten Peaks call him the "Beastmaster".

As for people......

Those who were eliminated by the laws of nature did not have a chance to meet him at all.

Expressionlessly gazing at the peaks of Fushan, he watched indifferently as the guns rang out in unison, as the wailing everywhere, and as the blood-stained flag rose in the setting sun......

It was only when all the movement had subsided that he muttered something thoughtfully.

"It's coming a little faster than expected......

The Shijiao Clan was the barrier he set up at the gate of the Ten Peaks Mountain, and he thought that he could hold the alliance for at least a month, but he didn't expect that in just one day, Fushan would change hands.

Although there are still some remnants of mutants and short men left, I am afraid that it will be difficult to form an effective combat force, and at most it can cause a little trouble for the Alliance.

Thinking of this, the Beastmaster's face couldn't help but show a trace of regret.

It's a pity......

The Gray was his handpicked creation, and its prosthetic body was even his own surgery, borrowed from the hand of a mutant sacrifice.

It seems that the strength is still not enough, and the power of the prosthesis itself has not been exerted at all.

However, he was not discouraged by this, and the look of interest on his face became more and more intense.

Mutants are nothing more than tools to them, and the entire province of Haiya is their seedbed, and there are as many things as there are in them. Just give them enough time, and they'll even fill the entire wasteland with this guy.

In contrast, experimental data is the more valuable thing.

They need to test the results of the research in the laboratory on the battlefield, and continuously improve the plan based on the feedback data before they can filter out the greater lifeforms, until they finally complete the regret that the people of the Age of Prosperity failed to accomplish - "Gestalt Lifeforms".

It is only when humanity becomes a greater species that the kingdom of heaven they aspire to be truly realized.

And at that time, he will re-transplant his consciousness to the new body, and then use that inexhaustible time to think of a new name for himself.

Speaking of which, though, the Vault dwellers have a knack for names.

「…… Goblins? Interesting name."

Looking at a certain short man who had been thrown off the cliff, a faint smile curled up at the corner of the man's mouth.

He could hear the dying wails of some of the Chosen One, and of course he could hear the syllables coming out of the mouths of the Vault dwellers who had killed them.

The syllables that appear most frequently are probably the names given to the short greenskins.

He's not very good at naming his work, and after making those short mutants, he's been mixed with the big guys, and sometimes thrown into the oil pot by the big guys as condiments.

Unexpectedly, their enemies solved this problem for him.

Since it's the name given by the inhabitants of the Vault, it's better to use that name.

Sounds pretty good.

Looking back at the short, greenskin who was cowering behind him, the Beastmaster left a word in an understated voice.

"Goblins are your names from now on...... Let your enemies and your companions remember it."

A look of disbelief appeared in the humble amber pupils, and then the look of disbelief turned to excitement.

"Yes...... Yes!"

The short greenskin crouched on the ground, smacking his head hard, thanking the beastmaster for the name he had given them.

Name!

It burst into tears of emotion.

From now on, they'll have names, too!

The Beastmaster had vanished, seemingly blending into the snowstorm that day.

"Brother...... Cloth...... Lin!"

The short, green-skinned priest, who had not fully learned to speak, stammered as he tried to squeeze the words out of his mouth, then turned sharply to look behind him, at the equally short fellow creatures behind him.

It screamed, howled, danced, and told its fellow citizens about the miracles it had seen, and shared with them the name that the Beastmaster had bestowed upon it.

At first, there was disbelief and cringe in his eyes, but soon he became fanatical and fanatical.

The names of those three syllables were like a spell with magical power, and along with the miracle of the beastmaster's favor, they were passed from one green head to another.

A tribe called Goblins was born, and it was in the midst of that vicious shout.

Although they have not yet invented their own words and languages, they have learned how to call themselves.

This is their first culture.

Bestowed by the enemies who slaughtered them and the gods they worshipped......

……

[Wasteland OL Closed Beta Server Beta0.7 Version Update Announcement! ] 】

[Major Update:

1. The upper limit of the closed beta qualification has been increased from 50,000 to 100,000!

2. The slime mold research community was established!

In addition to reaching a consensus on the agenda of "jointly solving the problem of mutant slime molds", the treaty forces have also reached an agreement on a series of specific ways of cooperation.

E-Pass System: The system is designed by research units such as the Academy, Camp 101, Endpoint Group, and Triumph City Digital Research Institute, and can be applied for by Alliance players through VMs. Players with an e-pass can enter areas under the actual control of the Contracting Parties (limited to public places and infected areas, excluding sensitive facilities) to engage in production and business operations, as well as exploration and investigation activities. The Parties undertake to guarantee the safety and fundamental legitimate interests of the person entering the Parties, as detailed in the Details, and to review each Pass issued by them.

Offshore information services: The Parties to the Community will cooperate on the exchange of information by setting up signal repeaters and wired cables with each other as an alternative to blocked satellite communications. At the same time, the parties undertake not to monitor the wired and wireless signals of the parties. To put it simply, VMs can be connected outside of the Alliance! (This is provided that there is a networked base station nearby.) )

E-Account: Tied to the e-pass system, players can use the e-money in the VM to withdraw and exchange currencies at the main bank of any party to the Sticky Community, and the alliance bank will guarantee the transaction. The application-free exchange quota is 1,000 silver coins per day, and if you exceed the quota, you need to declare it on the official website of the forum! At the same time, when the player actually controls the regional activities of the contracting party, he can receive local currency as remuneration through the VM (currently available for dinars, Cr, and non-members of the scientific and technological committee for the exclusive use of G points), and the alliance bank will settle the settlement as silver coins and deposit it into the player's account at the exchange rate of the day.

3. Battle for Heaven!

All members of the Adhesive Community have officially declared war on the Torch Church! Players can freely choose to join the battlefield on the southern or northern fronts according to their own situation, and they can also engage in production work in the rear to contribute to the front line!

Northern Front: the main offensive direction of the coalition forces! The current front line is the area of the Ten Peaks Mountain in the southern part of Geumcheon Province, and the main enemy units are mutants and biotechnological derivatives of the Torch Church. Troops of the Enterprise, the Academy, the Legion, the Bougerra Free State and many other powers will arrive on the battlefield, either by our train, or by their own means.

Southern Front: The Alliance's Second Battlefield in the South! Our allies are fighting with the Northern Union for control of the southern seas, and the Torch Church has intervened in the region, and we cannot leave our allies alone. Take control of the region, the warships of the South China Sea Alliance will provide us with cover! Let's land our tanks on their beaches!

4. Added map: Jinga

Lun Harbor, French Fries Harbor, Southern Sea Alliance Islands, Vault 70, Weifu Wasteland, Weifu Military Base, Shifeng Mountain, Binghai City, Yunxia City Settlement, etc......

5. Fix a small number of bugs.

……

】

Update announcements come out of nowhere, without the slightest warning.

One second ago, the forum was still hotly discussing the bloody battle on the Ten Peaks Mountain, and the next second, the topic of the new version quickly jumped on the hot list of the forum!

Tail: "giao!∑ ("Д"ノ)ノ"

Quit smoking: "it! Beta0.7!」

Professor Yang of the Thunderbolt Method: "100,000 Sealed Beta Qualification! The open beta is just around the corner! Excited!"

Night Ten: "Good fellow! Sacrificed a garbage king.,Directly summoned the new version!"

Picking up trash Level 99: "Grass! Are you polite?! (angry)"

Makabazi: "Hahahaha!"

Siss: "Hmm...... How do I feel that it's because I recycled the Vault 70 Administrator Log that I submitted? Forget it, the little things don't seem to be very important."

Tail: "Oh! The reason for the surge in closed beta qualifications is actually Vault 70!"

Roshan Big Bun: "It's just a coincidence. (laughing and crying)"

At present, there are about 40,000 players in the closed beta on the server.

This is a small number of people compared to the wider game world and the growing influence of alliances.

Especially in the last Beta 0.6 update, the game map is even more five light years away! There are only 40,000 or 50,000 people on the entire server.

While skyrocketing game qualifications don't immediately translate into the number of online players on the server, as has traditionally been the case, an increase in the number of closed beta titles per day will increase the number of closed beta qualifications issued each day.

And that's the most important thing.

It is also eagerly awaited by countless pre-registered players.

Many people have actually run a business in the game, and some people have even invested in their own industries, but people are still lining up outside, which has to be said to be a very good thing.

Compared with the closed beta qualification that has attracted the attention of cloud players, veteran players are more concerned about the content of game updates.

The newly formed Slime Molds Research Community has more than doubled the scope of player activity, and now there are Alliance save points and communication sites on the territory of Corporations and Academies, and it is even possible to trade, hand, and earn rewards for tasks through VMs. Coupled with that "Paradise Battle", I have to say that this update is quite sincere.

It's just that those "new" maps are a little unkind.

Luo Yu: "Wait, Golden Gallen Harbor, French Fries Harbor, Southern Sea Alliance Islands, Weifu Military Base, Binghai City, Yunxia City Settlement...... I'm blanching! Aren't all the maps added in this update already open?!"

Green Lantern Ancient Wine: "There are a few more that we made ourselves!"

Irena: "Congratulations, you've discovered the essence of sandbox games. (funny)"

Elf King Fugui: "The dog is planning to be lazy. (funny)"

Fang Chang: "It can't be said that the right of way in Binghai City and the settlement in Yunxia City are the result of the meeting of the Adhesive Community...... However, it is true that we have developed places such as French Fries Port and Golden Gallen Port, and we have also attracted allies from the South China Sea Alliance. (squinting smiles)"

Han Eight Turtles: "Big guys, don't worry about the new map for now, which of the two fronts is better?" Meng Xin joined the group for the first time, and he had never seen the world, so he was a little nervous. ⁤QAQ」

Commander: "It's casual, if you add the corps, you will follow your regiment commander's transfer, if you don't add the corps, it's up to you to like it." At the moment, there may be a little more tasks on the northern front, and the southern front is still fighting for control of the islands, and the main warring sides are very reluctant. Moreover, the sea is basically over-the-horizon combat, and if you lock on, it will be a matter of a few torpedoes or missiles, and if you can't fly an airplane or a ship, let's wait until we land."

Midnight Killer: "Well, there is no air supremacy without sea supremacy, if you can use the life of Coral City and Anle Island

It would be nice to build an aircraft carrier, but there are submarine factories there, and the largest shipbuilding base in the Federation happens to be in the hands of Charas, and in two months they will not be able to launch a destroyer again."

C really has mosquitoes: "How about thinking about a diving mother? (funny)"

Midnight Killer: "What's that? (Stay)"

Xinghe didn't fall into a dream: "Diving aircraft carriers, old antiques from the First World War era, they have been turned out and discussed after the Iraq War in the nineties, but it is too technically difficult to implement. After all, jets and piston planes are completely different concepts, and the requirements for the deck are completely different...... I guess that's enough."

Commander of the Spring: "Well, in fact, rational analysis may not be possible, after all, the game is not reality, and it is not advisable to copy it in a rigid way. Looking at the cargo space of the Dolphin, I thought that it seemed to be no different from the aircraft carrier, and in reality, it would be enough to build the same model that can't dive."

"If the cargo hold area can be redesigned as an upwardly inclined runway or ejection track, and the top deck can be designed as a runway, you don't have to change too much of the drawings. Even if it's just a sea airfield where you can move and deploy and dive to evade missiles, it's great to have the planes recharge their ammunition or something...... If I'm not mistaken, the submarine is powered by nuclear fusion, right?"

Xinghe does not dream: "Grass, awesome......"

Fang Chang: "Well, that sounds interesting...... I'll go to the game and consult with the professionals. (squinting smiles)"

……

"Talent...... These guys are getting better at playing!"

Shelter 404, Chu Guang, who had just uploaded the update announcement, looked emotional, and couldn't help but give a thumbs up to the following reply.

One thing to say, his little players' intuition is still very accurate, and they almost guessed the truth several times.

That's right, Wasteland Online's Closed Beta qualification is indeed tied to unlocked Vaults.

However, there is really nothing to hide from this.

After all, even if it's a little weird, it can be used as part of the game's setting - only by unlocking more "newbie villages" can more new players enter the game.

For veteran players, if you don't want to spend all day with the few acquaintances on the list, it is also good to explore a few more shelters.

Since unlocking the machining center on the B7 floor, the Vault system has actually given him a lot of permissions.

Even the cultivation chamber and the dormant chamber, which used to be either produced through black boxes or waiting to be delivered, can now not only be produced through the B7 floor, but even some low-tech structural components can be handed over to the factory in Dawn City to save the valuable "high-quality production capacity" of the B7 floor.

Except for triggering emergency tasks when certain conditions are met, he is no longer like a nanny to instruct him on how to be a good manager, let alone send out those daily tasks of cutting trees, moving bricks and planting land every day like in the early days.

Retrieving the Manager's Log unlocks a variable number of genetic sequences.

Aside from completing unexpected missions, this is almost the only way to obtain the genetic sequence, and from the player's point of view, it is naturally the qualification for the closed beta.

Previously, the Pioneer City side managed to recover some abandoned shelters in the Great Desert, and the total number of genetic sequences exchanged through the administrator's journal was about 20,000.

Vault 70 also rewarded more than 20,000, adding up to almost 50,000.

Considering that the area of the alliance is getting bigger and bigger, as well as the ongoing "Battle of Heaven", Chu Guang simply sent out all the qualifications for the closed beta and adjusted the number of daily qualifications to three times the base value.

In three months, the server should be able to add 30,000 new people, and the ongoing war is just enough to absorb this "suddenly surplus" group of people.

Whether they choose to work in production in the rear or fight on the front lines, there are enough "jobs" for them to find a way to play.

And there are old players with them, and they don't worry about these newcomers' nonsense, and when they follow the game process to get the VM, they basically assimilate into their own people.

In addition, the second battlefield opened by the alliance in the south

, that is, on the southern front, the development of diving aircraft carriers is indeed a good idea.

He actually talked about this issue when he met with Captain Chen Jianhong before - the cargo hold space of the Dolphin is so large that it can be changed to an airstrip or something.

Affected by the inertia of experience in the parallel world, Chu Guang felt that not only his players, but even himself had always had a soft spot for the development of aviation equipment.

And it turns out that airplanes are really useful.

In particular, it is operated by the league's dead pilots, who can not only accurately drop bombs on the enemy's heads, but also turn them into bombs to provide a wave of 72-hour CD precision guidance.

It's a pity that Chen Jianhong only gave him an ambiguous answer at that time, after all, that guy is just a captain and not an expert in shipbuilding, and it is not easy to make a conclusion about things that he has never seen. The experts at Camp 101 had little experience in shipbuilding, so the matter was stopped.

The submarine experts of the South China Sea Alliance are all on Anle Island, and now that Commander Li Minghui has promised to form a new coalition government with the members of Vault 70, it should not be a problem to borrow some equipment and talent.

Chu Guang is still very confident in the players he brought out by himself, believing that they have mastered the communication skills of "not being annoying".

「…… It seems that I don't need to worry too much about the southern front, and we can focus more on the northern front until the South China Sea alliance takes control of the southern seas. By the way, Xiaoqi, what about those Willantes? Where have they been?"

Seeing Chu Guang looking at him, Xiao Qi, who was sitting on the edge of the pen holder and dangling his calves, immediately sat up straight and reported crisply.

"Report to your master, the Legion's troops arrived in Bicester yesterday! According to the local mayor's report, the Glorious Army, which consists of 50,000 clones, is queuing up to board the train, and they will take the special train we have prepared for them directly to Geumcheon Province."

After a pause, Xiao Qi continued.

"There is also news from the Civic Self-Government Committee of Falcon City, and the 310,000 troops directly under the Eastern Legion also set off on the 'Loyalty, airship. In addition to tanks and self-propelled guns, they also brought a 'Bison, all-terrain armored walker, which is expected to reach the front line in three days!'

Chu Guang's heart moved and asked, "Is it the one we saw in Falcon City?"

Xiao Qi nodded with a serious expression.

"I heard so."

For that "bison", Chu Guang certainly had an impression in his heart.

He'd met it outside of Falcon City before, and in the Academy's opinion, it was a hybrid between diesel-powered and fusion-powered freaks, but to him it looked more like a four-legged train cannon.

A 200 mm cannon with an automatic loader capable of pouring the firepower of an artillery brigade in a short period of time, plus a deflection shield and steel armor......

It can be seen that the marshal of Triumph City still attaches great importance to the torch.

Otherwise, it would not have been under such great logistical pressure to throw so much heavy equipment from the west coast tens of thousands of kilometers away.

Looking at Chu Guang, who was deep in thought, Xiao Qi paused and continued.

"In addition, the troops of the enterprise and the academy are almost here. I heard a report from Yi Chuan's side that the 100th Mechanized Mountain Division and the 7th Air Force were entering Jinchuan Province from the Prancing Horse Province, and it seemed that there were more than 10,000 people combined. The news from the academy is that the 'Alpha, Mobile Task Force under the Science and Technology Committee's command will arrive at the aviation base north of Dawn City the day after tomorrow, judging from the number of pass applications, there are probably more than 1,000 people."

"In addition, there are also survivor forces such as the Boguerra Free State, the Lion Kingdom, the Honey Badger Kingdom, the Falcon Kingdom, the Xilan Empire, and the Junk City that have also sent troops to the front line, and they are expected to arrive one after another within half a month."

Hearing this, Chu Guang's contemplative face couldn't help but have a hint of a smile.

The stage has been set up.

Actors are also in place one after another.

"Looks like there's a good show to watch this time."

--To the Essence Book

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