Chu Guang stayed in Weifu City for three whole days.

Except for listening to Li Jinrong's report on his work on the first day, he basically followed the player's "strategy" posted on the forum for the remaining two days, wandering around this settlement.

Unlike the cookie-cutter Singularity City, every district and even every street in this settlement is full of stories.

For example, Kunzhen.

This job, which was made up on the whim of the players, has now become the most prosperous neighborhood in Acropolis City.

Especially as the young men of the 100th Mountain Division of the enterprise brought the Kunpai made by the mosquito brother back to Ideal City, this street was crowded with "players" from Ideal City.

No one expected things to come to this point, including the mosquito dude himself.

Although his original intention was just to make a fortune while renovating, he didn't expect that the complex game rules and story-filled cards unexpectedly became popular all over the ideal city - at least some of the otaku were attracted.

Analyzing the underlying reasons, this may be inseparable from the vast and barren digital desert of Ideal City.

The rapid speed of information exchange makes each fragmented information lose its original meaning, like a colorful kaleidoscope as rich and empty.

It is precisely because of this that when the information services provided by the endpoint cloud are detached from the speed of information exchange, they feel the joy of returning to the basics.

In short, Kunzhen in Weifu City, like Singularity City next door, has become the spiritual hometown of another wave of Ideal City residents.

The town is teetered with backpackers who fly in from the east coast for "pilgrimage".

And because of the arrival of these guys, this town located in the wasteland has unexpectedly appeared the signs of "postmodern Renaissance", and many literary and artistic works full of whimsy have emerged.

For example, spin-offs about Kink cards, such as some indie works that incorporate the strange brains of players.

The residents of Ideal City not only bring the brain hole on the endpoint cloud, but also bring related technology.

For example, holographic projection technology that is enough to be fake, and virtual reality technology that completely dives into dreams, etc.

While these art forms were a bit ahead of their time for the Wastelanders, they were accidentally confronted by players from another world.

And that's not all.

Chu Guang heard that there were active local life professional players, and he also teamed up with engineers from Ideal City to develop a unique system called "Mewtwo".

The system interfaces with the retinal nerve, stores the acquired visual signals in a chip, and reproduces them with a special reading device.

This system greatly reduces the cost of developing immersive virtual reality system video works and games, as well as enhances the realistic effect of the picture, which is no less significant than the old days when people put cameras on their mobile phones.

Originally, the production of virtual reality games and film and television works was the patent of professional directors, but now everyone can become a director, as long as they install a set of prosthetic equipment and insert a chip, they can create their own works.

Influenced by this invention, "Wasteland Online" can be regarded as further enhancing the "death replay" and "real-time screen recording" functions.

Previously, these two functions were mainly done through the head-mounted camera on the action recorder, which was far less convenient to operate than the "Mewtwo" system.

As for the relevant laws and regulations, the delegates will naturally discuss them according to the needs of reality.

Prior to this, the players who developed the device also made some restrictions according to the terms of the "Player Handbook", such as restrictions on the circulation of restricted images, and classification review standards.

In addition to the advances in the fields of literature, art, and technology, the survivors of Weifu City have also made considerable progress in the economic and industrial fields.

Buildings that are clean and tidy rise like bamboo shoots from the ground and stretch along the straight streets, which just two years ago was a barren land that was deserted.

According to Li Jinrong's report, 170,000 wastelanders have settled here.

Among them are the pioneers from Boulder and Dawn, the Wastelanders who roam the provinces of Nishikawa and the Prancing Horse, and even the Willantes from the distant provinces of Yunjian and even the west coast, as well as swamp-wandering settlers.

The swamp dwellers, in particular, brought with them the techniques of resource exploration and extraction inherited from the Science and Technology Commission, as well as the recycling techniques they learned from the waste pickers' groups in the northern part of the valley province.

With these techniques, they were able to obtain loans from the Alliance's banks and set up resource extraction companies, which took nutrients from the remains of pre-war cities that had been buried for two centuries and turned them into the blood of industry, which was transported by rail to the various industrial areas of the Alliance.

In addition to the use of resources, the local survivors also made use of the wind resources on Shifeng Mountain according to local conditions, and built roller-shaped windmills on the towering mountain.

It is worth mentioning that this is the brainchild of North Island Heavy Industries of the South China Sea Alliance, where the survivors are best at harnessing sustainable renewable energy and have developed this capability to the extreme for more than a century.

Although the electricity converted from wind energy is not as large and cheap as that provided by controllable fusion reactors, it is completely sufficient for Weifu City, which has a population of only 170,000.

They can even export surplus electricity to Singularity City in exchange for agricultural products and light industrial consumer goods produced in Singularity City.

It's more economical than pulling a wire from Dawn City.

Although controlled fusion is efficient, helium-3 resources are used a little less. Before the resumption of Earth-Moon flights, the Alliance's energy was not rich enough to be squandered at will.

In addition, it is worth mentioning the farmland that stretches along the Wei River, and the extension area that expands along the roads and railways.

Many of the expeditionary forces from Borneo chose to stay here, and their extraordinary enthusiasm for the land hastened the expansion of the city to some extent.

In contrast, those who came from Boulder City preferred to live in a crowded city.

Except for those who were born as mercenaries.

All in all, the locals have found their own way of development, and at the same time they have taken into account both internal and external development, combining the strengths of each ethnic group themselves.

In Chu Guang's view, this is the most commendable place.

If time permitted, he planned to stay here a little longer, and finish reading the things that interested him before leaving.

However, there are still ten settlements for him to visit, and the ones he doesn't have time to visit will have to be left to the players to keep an eye on for him.

The train station of Acropolis City.

Chu Guang, who said goodbye to Li Jinrong and his party, sat in the waiting room next to the platform.

Looking at the busy crowd outside the window, and the thriving settlement behind them, Chu Guang had a satisfied smile on his face.

"Acropolis would be a good example."

Lu Bei wondered.

"Demonstration?"

"That's right."

Chu Guang nodded with a smile and continued in a relaxed tone.

"I told you a long time ago that barbarism is not simply destroyed by force, but they grow stubble after fire, like weeds after a spring breeze blows. However, like backward modes of production, they will eventually be replaced by more advanced ones, and it is in this process that our civilization was born. ”

"We are proud that we have nurtured the spark of civilization, and the difficulty lies only in how to spread it spontaneously and further afield."

"The city of Auris has done a great job in this matter, and the wastelanders have come here from far and wide, witnessed our order and prosperity, and then attracted to it, and then brought it in all directions...... And our ideals will continue to extend along the roads and railways they have walked in this process, injecting new blood into this barren land and awakening the civilization that sleeps under the soil. ”

Lu Bei scratched the back of his head.

Chu Guang knew that he didn't understand, but he didn't care, just smiled kindly and ended the topic.

"The next stop is Settlement No. 1...... By the way, we'll be passing by the camp of the Eastern Legion, right? ”

Finally talked about the field where he could interject, Lu Bei immediately said seriously.

"I'm ready for safe work."

Looking at this young man's serious appearance, Chu Guang said with a smile.

"I'm not worried about safety, I'm just wondering if I'll have a chance to go there."

He always heard from players on the forum's official website that the big nose there had been "corroded" into the shape of the Alliance, and he had always wondered what the shape of the so-called Alliance looked like.

Lu Bei was stunned when he heard this, and said with a hesitant expression.

"Are you talking about the control area of the 370,000th team? But...... It's not our territory after all. ”

"Hmm...... That's what I said," Chu Guang nodded thoughtfully, "Sure enough, it would be better to ask Cheng Yan to send a formal diplomatic document to Captain Benottwan." ”

Just as the two were communicating, the station radio suddenly sounded.

"Dear passengers and friends, I am sorry that due to the emergency situation in the railway section of Haiya Province, the D97 train was urgently braking due to the accident near the old site of Haibei City, and the railway line is currently suspended, and the frequency to Settlement No. 1 will be temporarily frozen, and the recovery time is to be determined......"

"At present, the staff of the outpost near the accident area has gone to the area to investigate, please be patient, we will notify you as soon as the troubleshooting is done......"

At the same time that the broadcast was broadcast, the passengers on the station platform were in an uproar.

The faces of the passengers, in particular, who were about to make their way to Settlement No. 1, were stunned and then replaced by anger.

People flocked to the duty booth, blocking the already small windows, huddled into a ball and shouting.

"What are you guys up to?"

"What the hell is going on? Let me rest easy...... Tell me when I can resume my shifts! ”

"! Lao Tzu booked a passenger boat flight to North Island in the evening, and you are now telling me that the train can't go, and the recovery time is to be determined?! Who will compensate for my loss! ”

"Refund !!"

In the face of the ensuing problems, the staff at the duty booth were also anxious.

Obviously, the little girl sitting in front of the window didn't know what was going on in front of her, and she was even notified no earlier than the traveler here.

In fact, don't talk about her, Lu Bei, who was standing in the waiting room, also looked confused, until a soldier of the Guards Corps trotted into the waiting room, gave a military salute and stopped beside him and Chu Guang with a nervous expression.

"Report! A train hit 110 kilometres north of settlement No. 1 occurred...... According to reports from nearby outposts, the cause of the accident was an attempt by 120 survivors from Settlement 1 to intercept a passenger train. Although the conductor activated the emergency braking procedure, he ended up crashing into the crowd due to the short distance...... Two dead and one seriously injured. ”

Lu Bei glared at him and said.

"What the hell is the branch doing over there, they don't know about such a big thing now!"

The soldier buried his head and nervously explained.

“…… It happened in the wasteland, and it happened so suddenly. ”

Lu Bei hated that iron could not become steel and said.

"At least people come out of the ghetto, right? The people over there don't have any news at all? ”

The soldier hesitated to explain, but Chu Guang raised his hand to interrupt the conversation between the two.

"Well, don't embarrass him, even I can't know everything that's going on in the settlement."

The division of the Guards Regiment in Settlement No. 1 has only been established for less than half a year, and it is understandable that intelligence gathering is not yet proficient.

Moreover, the kind of settlement established entirely by immigrants has too much population mobility, and the dividing line between the settlement and the wilderness is even less obvious, and it is basically impossible to completely prevent the problem from happening, not to mention that the place where the incident occurred is in the wasteland.

It is not easy for them to understand the situation in the first place, and there is no need to be too harsh.

Looking at the soldier with his head down, Chu Guang continued in a gentle tone.

"Lift your head up, straighten your back, and tell me what the hell is going on. This includes whether the situation is under control, why those people stopped the car, and what their purpose or appeal is. ”

Hearing Chu Guang's words, the soldier was moved, straightened his waist and continued to report.

"The accident occurred in the area controlled by the 370,000th squad of the Eastern Legion, and the centurion named Anthony had already brought the situation under control and handed over the arrested persons involved to the guards of the outpost who rushed to the scene......"

"According to the security investigation, those people are survivors from Borneo, most of whom have obtained Union citizenship, and the rest are supervised. After seeing the guards, they appealed, saying...... Said I wanted to see you. ”

Chu Guang was stunned.

“…… See me? ”

The soldier of the Guards Regiment nodded subtly.

"That's right...... They kept shouting, saying they wanted to see the administrators of the Alliance. ”

……

At the outpost near the old site of Haibei City, Anthony, who was leaning next to the open-top off-road vehicle, had just finished eating the boxed lunch sent by the Alliance brothers, and burped with a beer.

The Ten, who was sitting on the hood, looked at him and asked with a helpless expression.

"Are we going to stay here any longer?"

After handing over the "perpetrators" to the Union guards, the matter is theoretically nothing to do with them.

However, he, the chief, was probably addicted to watching the show, so he insisted on staying here and not leaving, and even had a cheeky meal.

Hearing his subordinate's voice, Anthony grinned nonchalantly.

"Why are you in such a hurry to go back, why don't you wait here and see, maybe we can meet the management of the alliance."

I heard that guy killed the Torch Church's precursors in bio-powered armor with a single hammer.

And it was under the siege of a group of batwingers.

He had always wondered what that guy looked like, how many arms and heads he had.

Of course, he was more curious about what the guy was going to do with it.

These are all citizens of the Alliance.

And he is his most "loyal" supporter.

Just as he was curious, two pale blue arcs flashed in the distant dusk sky.

Anthony tossed the beer bottle aside, removed the binoculars hanging on the inside of the door, and glanced in the direction of what appeared to be a plasma plume.

It was only a moment before an excited expression appeared on his face.

"It's coming!"

Not long after his words fell, a "Viper" transport plane flew from the direction of Shifeng Mountain, and then slowly landed on the overgrown wasteland.

Anthony was not the only one who noticed the two arcs, the Union guards at the outpost had noticed the incoming transport plane from afar, including the Brahmans who were detained at the gate of the outpost.

Seeing the soldiers of the Guards Regiment jumping from the transport plane, Jeramy, who was squatting on the ground, recognized the exoskeletons on their bodies, and the originally drooping face was filled with excitement again in an instant.

It's the person around the manager!

Sure enough, the adults cared about them!

Ignoring the guards' reprimands, Jerami bounced off the ground like a rabbit jumping out of the grass, spread his legs and ran to the side of the guards, before falling to his knees with a thud.

"Administrator...... Are you here...... We...... We were wronged. ”

The air was unusually quiet.

The guards in exoskeletons stared at him coldly.

Through the pitch-black eyepieces, Jerami couldn't see the expressions on their faces, but he could feel the coldness in their gaze.

He swallowed unconsciously, trying to find the azure power armor, but saw only a man in civilian clothes.

There was a special aura exuded from that person's body.

It's just that unlike what he imagined, it was not the majesty of his imagination, but a reassuring or convincing power.

"Tell me, what are you talking about?"

Jerami pressed his forehead to the ground and said in a choked voice.

"We just wanted to see you, but we were ...... by those Willantes And these rude guards were brought here like prisoners. ”

As he spoke, he glanced hatefully at the open-top off-road car not far behind him, especially at the man standing next to the car.

Chu Guang, who was standing motionless, looked at the old man who was kneeling on the ground, and did not scold the old man to stand up like he scolded everyone else.

He knows.

While others lowered their heads out of fear of power and authority, this guy was motivated by a visceral desire.

Even if you help him up with your own hands, it doesn't make any sense, but it will follow his humble wishes.

Chu Guang didn't particularly understand this kind of feeling before, including when he was in Singularity City, he was puzzled more than once why some people prefer to live like animals.

Now that someone showed up and demonstrated it, he suddenly understood it in an instant.

These guys are desperate for a divine emperor to help them settle all the contradictions of reality, even if the power of ignoring the laws of physics is only their imagination.

They understand equality as equality to do whatever they want, and once the person who promises them equality cannot satisfy their wishes, they will blame equality for the pain of reality, believing that equality is not absolute, that is, absolutely unequal.

Actually, they can't be blamed entirely for this.

Part of the reason is that the people who brought them here have deceived them with white lies, making them mistakenly believe that the Alliance is a wish-granting machine, and that they are the Santa Claus who rides an elk to deliver gifts.

Perhaps what they lack is not equality, but the suffering of inequality that they have not yet endured.

Chu Guang was silent for a while, looked at him and continued

"Now that you see me, what do you want to say to me?"

Jerami held his breath with excitement, tears of gratitude streaming down his face, and his forehead was almost bleeding on the ground.

Not only him, but also the other Brahmanas who were crouching at the gate of the outpost.

They are like real pilgrims!

After that journey full of tribulations, they finally saw the true God in their hearts!

Dear Administrator!

"The survivors of Settlement No. 1 have been blinded by the Congress, who have made peace with wild beasts in human skins for the sake of profit...... For the sake of their own selfish desires, they have clever sophistry and disregard for the interests of the Alliance! ”

"But it's not too late, as long as you are willing to climb and shout, we will rally around you, and all the Brahsins you have saved will be! I can swear to you with my last name that I will always be loyal to you, including my children, my grandchildren...... All of us for generations! ”

"Only the group of insects was disbanded! By throwing them in prison and sentencing them to death, we can end the Wasteland Age and we can achieve true equality! This is for all the compatriots of the Alliance, while it is not too late......"

The old man burst into tears, and his forehead was pressed against the ground, like a loyal servant with a liver and brain.

The same was true of the other Brahsinas who followed him.

If you can follow this guy here, there won't be a few normal people.

"You went to stop a train that couldn't stop at all to see me, killed two people who didn't deserve to die, and broke a leg...... You say this is for the sake of the compatriots of the Alliance, and I will not say that you have a few words of truth, have you really shed a tear for your compatriots? ”

"Don't talk to me about the guys thousands of kilometers away whose names you can't even name, just look at the railroad tracks behind you, the people you can see who were alive a few hours ago."

Hear the voice drifting slowly.

Jerami froze, raised his head, and met a pair of pitying eyes.

It was supposed to be something that excites him.

Yet, for some reason, there was a hint of uneasiness in that pity.

That mercy was not directed at him, but at something in him.

It's like watching something of value fall into a puddle of mud.

It's as if nothing but his life is worth mentioning.

He tried to argue something, opened his mouth, but could not say a word.

Chu Guang's patience gradually faded as he waited, and he was not interested in continuing to listen to the quibbles he was making up.

"Looks like you've managed to move yourself, and I'm getting more and more incomprehensible about what you're saying."

"In accordance with the laws of the Alliance, the organizers are primarily responsible, and the participants are secondarily responsible. This should not have been repeated by me, but now I have made an exception to tell you. ”

"Even if you probably didn't care about the safety of those two dead compatriots and everyone on the train, and you never cared about the law, since you are standing on the land of the Alliance, you have to follow the rules here and pay for your stupidity."

"If you have anything to say, tell the judge, if you want to kneel, you can continue to kneel."

At the same time as the words fell, Chu Guang's outline gradually blurred, and then turned into a sparkling light and dissipated in the wind.

That's a hologram.

Until the end, the lord did not answer their prayers, or even deign to look at them.

Jeramy's eyes fell into despair, and the look on his face was as if he had been drained of his soul and was really dead.

The guards standing not far away glanced at each other, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

This farce should be over, but the aftermath may be far from over.

The Guards Regiment returned to the plane.

As two plasma plumes erupted, the Viper Transporter returned in the direction it had come.

"Get up, you have seen it, manager, even if the gentleman does not like what he says, but I want to say that he actually has you in his heart...... Those big noses won't be so polite to you. ”

Walking up to Jeramy's side, the director of the post touched him with his shin.

At such a touch, Jerami finally came back to his senses, and the wrinkled old face gradually changed from fierce to panicked, like a defeated rooster.

Managers don't need his loyalty.

He thought he was doing it for everyone's good, but he didn't realize that he was just a disorderly madman and a hopeless burden in the eyes of that gentleman.

He's on the wrong side.

And his insistence turned into a joke.

He seemed to be aware of the problem, but he didn't seem to realize it at all.

But he was really scared.

Just a few minutes ago, he treated the law as a waste of paper, and he actually took the initiative to ask about the criminal law of the alliance.

“…… What will happen to us? ”

Looking at the old man with trembling shoulders and his whole body seemed to shrink in a circle, the director of the outpost sighed.

"I don't know, I've never had such an outrageous thing before......"

The marauders who intercepted the train were usually sent to a labor camp, and if they died, they would be sentenced to death or life imprisonment, depending on the circumstances...... However, human life here usually refers to the loss of life or injury to train security or passengers.

Kill yourself......

He hadn't seen it either, and that probably set a precedent for the Union since railroads existed.

After a pause, the director of the outpost said.

"But after all, there was a death and economic losses, and the sentence is certain, maybe more than ten years in prison, maybe deportation...... It's up to the judge to decide what to do. ”

If the judge can't make up his mind, he may have to leave it to the legislature, because it's a strange thing.

Then again, the representatives of the dissolution of settlement No. 1......

What the hell does this guy think?

Those people must have spoken for them, and they said a lot.

Anthony, leaning next to the SUV, put down the binoculars in his hand and muttered something to himself.

"So that guy looks like this......"

Except for the fact that he looks quite handsome, there doesn't seem to be anything special about it.

However, for the head of such a group, it doesn't matter what kind of sample it looks like.

Importantly, the manager's conversation was surprisingly appealing to him.

Perhaps as a Willant, what he actually hated was not the smell of mud on those people, but those guys who kept saying that they were for their compatriots, but their hands were stained with the blood of their compatriots.

Then again, it seems that this kind of person is not just the preserve of the Brahmans, but also has ...... in the ranks of the Wilantes And those blue gophers were still a little prescient.

Thinking of this, Anthony suddenly felt a little envious of those blue gophers.

Their managers are still alive and kicking, and occasionally come out to say a few words and show a sense of presence.

And his most respected marshal, but it has been a long, long time since he has been active like this......

(Push a new book, "The Years I Was Tricked into Northern Myanmar")

(End of chapter)