Since the release of the "Invasion of the Southern Barbarians" expansion, the Alliance's population has approached the six million mark.

The largest and most densely populated Dawning City and Boulder City both have a permanent population of more than one million, and the former is running towards the 2 million mark.

There is also Dawn City, which has the highest concentration of industrial and research facilities, and Deciduous City, which is a transportation hub, and the number of permanent residents is also rushing to 1 million.

Among them were not only immigrants from other regions, but also many newborns born on Union soil.

After the end of the "Bone Chewing Rebellion", a wave of baby booms broke out in the Alliance.

Nowadays, the children born at that time have already gone to kindergarten, and the teenagers who joined the alliance at that time have gradually grown into young adults.

It's not just the league's population that's growing, it's also the number of players.

As more and more shelters have been unlocked, the number of closed beta accounts has gradually increased from 100,000 to 200,000, and the number of distributed accounts has reached 170,000.

In the distant alpha closed beta period, the ratio of the number of players to NPCs can barely be maintained between 1:5~1:10, and now the number of players has been left far behind by the explosive growth of NPCs.

However, it is also inevitable.

The size of the Vault cannot support a civilization, and the inhabitants of the Vault from the old times will eventually sow the seeds and hope that have been carefully cultivated on the ground after surviving the harsh winter......

The official website of "Wasteland Online".

During the peak period of the daily online and offline periods, the forum is as lively as ever.

New and old cloud players exchanged strategies and experiences in the game, and the old drivers drove as always.

Compared to the brakes of train No. 97 and the ideological and cultural changes that are taking place in distant worlds, the vast majority of fungi are more interested in what new things have happened to Mosquito Brother and Tail recently.

It has been the tail for some time ago.

The White Bear Knights somehow made their way to the northernmost part of the continent and found a private research institute on the verge of bankruptcy in a swamp with no village in front of them and no place behind them.

It is said that the director claimed that he used to be a "supernumerary" at the academy and had learned some gene-editing techniques from a researcher.

But then I don't know if the mentor was cold, or if he forgot about himself and the project in his hand, he waited for ten years and didn't wait for the mentor to come to see him.

Now that the resources of this research institute have been exhausted, this unlucky middle-aged man was about to lock up the research institute and wander in the wasteland, when he happened to meet the warm-hearted Ah Wei.

Anyway, after a series of resource collection and specimen recovery tasks, the guy agreed to help her restore some extinct species using gene synthesis technology.

But to get this done, it's not enough to have a research institute and a few pieces of DNA.

What they need is a whole gene pool, which was mostly scattered at the poles of the planet in the pre-war era.

As a result, the White Bear Knights are heading towards the North Pole, which is further north than Ice Sea City.

It is said that part of it was the territory of the Northern Legion.

No player has ever been there.

There are already do-gooders opening on the forums, betting on how long it will be before they will see her at the resurrection point in Dawning City.

Of course, there is never a shortage of people on the forum who like to teach people to do things, such as "It's better to give me the helmet", "It's better to go to the South Pole than to go to the North Pole", "It's useless to play like this", "How did these guys get their helmets", etc.

The appearance of a good teacher is very much like the family of the family club.

And this is part of the forum ecosystem.

Just like the story about mammoths, and what kind of snakeskin is played by the garbage kings and strongmen who fight all day long, they are just a small episode in the many trivial matters of the forum.

Just when the post on the front page of the forum was swiping the screen in seconds, the mosquito brother suddenly jumped out and hit a line of titles full of gimmicks even punctuation marks on the public screen.

"! Guess what?! ”

Tail: "!? ”

Quit smoking: "What's that?" There's not even a foreground synopsis, let's guess the yarn. ”

Night Ten: "I suspect this guy is going to fart again, so let's take a look at the prophet first." (Funny)"

Mosquito: "Brothers, don't panic, and listen to me slowly." At that time, I was playing cards in Kunzhen, and an NPC was sitting across from me, playing and suddenly I couldn't afford to play...... And guess what happened? ”

Tail: "??? ”

Meat: ", the claws are hard!" ”

The post swiped to hundreds of floors.

Seeing that everyone was gradually starting to lose their ability to play, the mosquito who had a full appetite suddenly didn't dare to sell Guanzi anymore, and knocked the situation he encountered yesterday at the bottom of the post.

"That guy took out his ears, I thought he was going to do something, but I didn't expect that guy to become the manager himself!"

There was silence in the post for a while, and no one continued to post for several seconds.

Tail: "Giao!" Is this what people do?! (///~Dish~)"

Siss: "......"

Fujito: "What the hell. ”

Raven: "Wow, I thought you were going to say something." (speechless)"

Mosquito: "Wait, don't you think it's scary?!" To tell you the truth, Lao Tzu was almost scared to pee at that time. (frightened)"

Tempest: "Don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, reflect on what bad things you've done recently." (Squint)"

Mosquito: "?? , my good people, don't wronged me! ”

Night Ten: "I guess you took out that golden legend again." (Funny)"

Feng Qing: "Speaking of the regiment leader, why did you go to Jinchuan Province?" ”

Ghost: "The front line needs people, hey! Come back as soon as you are resurrected! (╯°Д°)╯︵┻━┻”

Mosquito: "Ahem, you let me rest for a while, I'm a human and not a machine, and I'm tired after driving a plane for half a year...... Besides, now that the pilots over there have also practiced their skills, they can't let me help them with everything, and in the end, their victory will fall from the sky, which may not be a good thing. ”

Edge paddling: "You guy, you say laziness so freshly and refinedly." (Khan)"

Fang Chang: "Well, speaking of which, it seems that the manager has indeed been in Weifu City recently, but that guy is so busy, usually the dragon is not the end, and it is indeed a bit unusual to have time to play cards with you...... You think about what he did besides playing cards. ”

Mosquito: "...... Uh, is that important? ”

Fang Chang: "It's not important that it's important to analyze it for you, if you don't need it, forget it." (Squint)"

The mosquito hesitated for a while, but finally honestly retold the cause and effect.

Including the fact that he used the fusion card to summon the [Administrator who rode Niko], including the "Golden Legend Card" worth hundreds of millions of dollars, which was forcibly bought by the administrator by throwing down a few bills.

After listening to his account, there was a gloating boo in the post, and it was clear that there were not a few people who had seen the card.

Of course, in addition to those card players who have suffered greatly, there are also good brothers who seriously help mosquitoes analyze.

For example, the spring dude.

"Maybe the manager is warning you not to ride on someone else's head in his name. (Funny)"

Mosquito: "Huh?! I didn't do that. (embarrassing)"

Commander of the Spring: "Then understand it from another angle, he wants you to be more careful in using the abilities and status given to you by the Vault, remember that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, otherwise the tools for your crime will be confiscated one day." (Funny)"

Mosquito: "it...... Is it so serious?! (frightened)"

Fang Chang: "Ahem, don't tease the mosquitoes, although the manager occasionally has a dark belly, but judging from past events, he is not as dark as you said." ”

"But...... I was thinking about something else. Since you said that he understands all your stalks, including the stalks in reality, will there be another possibility, at that time, what you actually saw was not the manager, but the planner Ah Guang who played the manager. ”

Mosquito: "What's that?!" You mean the plan is on the tuba?! ”

"Hmm...... Based on the existing information, the plan should be able to log in to the NPC's account, which should not be difficult to implement technically. What puzzles me is why he did it, and whether there is any meaning behind it...... Or as the spring dude said, if he wants to send you some kind of message in this way. ”

Night Ten: "Ah Guang may just be too carried away by the mosquitoes, and want to use the NPC's mouth to tell him, 'The manager is watching you'." (Funny)"

Mosquito: "it...... He did say that! (Surprised)"

Raven: "Well, I think you're all overthinking...... Maybe Ah Guang just wants to play. ”

Tail: "Woo woo, damn it, Boss Crow is too innocent, I really want to bully her." (☆▽☆)”

Raven: "??? ”

Looking at the group of sand sculptures chatting more and more outrageously on the forum, Chu Guang, who was peeping through the holographic computer, shook his head with a smile.

"These guys have a big brain, too."

In a few words, he has changed from "can take away the manager at any time" to "can take away any NPC at any time and in any place".

The previous guess was completely taking off his pants and farting, the planner and manager were originally the same person, Ah Guang and Shuguang were his vests, he didn't need to give up at all, he was always in a double-open state.

As for the latter conjecture, it is somewhat outrageous, and even evolved some spicy-eyed inferences that even Xiao Qi's fists were hard when he looked at it, and Chu Guang, who couldn't stand it, could only close the post.

In fact, to be honest, he really doesn't want anyone to use his name to forcibly persuade or oppress others.

However, the "golden legend" of the mosquito confiscation he didn't have that much meaning, purely because this guy was too embarrassed to draw himself holding a hammer.

If this Dogecoin painted him realistically or handsomely, he wouldn't have spent 500 silver coins on a piece of paper.

This thing is too expensive to sell for five silver coins.

After buying it, he threw it to Xiaoqi and asked him to keep it for himself.

In the end, it was the broad-minded Crow who knew him best.

……

On the other side, in the south of Borneo Province, on the state border between Wolf State and Snake State, soldiers carrying guns are carrying large bags of supplies from the direction of Wolf State.

They were plainly dressed and small, but their eyes were piercing, like wolves in the jungle.

A few days earlier, under the command of General Grove, they had launched a campaign called Operation North Wind.

Nine 10,000-strong teams, including the 101st and 102nd, broke into pieces and advanced from the northern state border of Snake Prefecture to Wolf Prefecture, and launched surprise attacks on various strategic facilities of the Southern Army in the southern part of Wolf Prefecture by infiltrating and attacking with small forces and dividing and encircling.

Tactically speaking, this operation can be called a textbook victory, the Southern Army did not expect Shah Rukh to attack at all, and the spies planted in Snake Prefecture did not receive any information about the "North Wind Operation", and several garrisons and baggage troops guarding the southern counties were beaten and retreated dozens of kilometers.

Strategically speaking, this force from Snake Prefecture not only dealt a heavy blow to the logistics deployment of the Southern Army in the south of Wolf State, but also greatly shared the military pressure in the south of Tiandu.

Since the Southern Legion occupied the Wolf State, it has trained its servants in the region and waited for opportunities to infiltrate the states east of Borneo Province from the southern part of the Heavenly Capital.

The states to the east have a number of industrial facilities and railroads built with the aid of the Union.

Their security is not only about the economy of Borneo, but also about the supply of goods on the front lines.

Shahuk, who was running faster than a rabbit, seemed to finally remember that he was a wolf, not a dog, and gnawed hard at the heels of the Southern Legion.

Although it is impossible to determine Shah Rukh's own attitude towards Operation North Wind, those 10,000 people are his men after all.

This hearty victory not only gave a resounding slap in the face to those who ridiculed him for "recuperating his energy", but also greatly boosted the morale of the radicals in Port Goldgallen.

And this is also true for the soldiers on the front line, especially the 1.01 million troops under the personal command of General Grove, from officers to soldiers, with a raised brow on their faces.

When they came out of Snake State, the two poor people used one gun, and when they came back, not only did they carry two or three guns on their backs, but they even had a bunch of long guns, short cannons, and heavy machine guns.

Not only that, but the military trucks of the Southern Army also laughed at them, and together with the three-wheeled bicycles and ox carts that transported the goods, they rushed back to the mountains of Shezhou with boxes and bundles of ammunition on their backs.

In addition to the front-line troops fighting on the front, General Grove, who commanded the battle, was equally addicted.

Looking at the guns and ammunition brought back from the front line, he patted his dog brother on the shoulder enthusiastically, and the corners of his mouth were almost on the root of his ears.

"What a trick Mr. Bear is! After this battle, we will have to destroy 20,000 or 30,000 enemies! ”

Hearing this, Brother Dog smiled embarrassedly and said modestly and low-key.

"Don't dare, don't dare, it's just a little trick in life."

Twenty or thirty thousand is an exaggeration, but it's not too much.

After all, he had seen with his own eyes, the group of Willantes and their servant army that looked like they had seen the hell.

This time, those big noses can be beaten up enough of embarrassment!

By the way, Bear is the nickname he gave himself, after all, his ID is different from other players, and no matter how he splits the words, he doesn't pronounce it very elegantly.

You can't just call yourself an old dog or a catheter when you meet people, right?

The name "Bear" is a little more domineering.

Hearing that strange statement, Grove was stunned and scratched the back of his head in confusion.

"Raw...... Life hacks? ”

Brother Dog coughed lightly and explained.

"Ahem...... I mean, that's how we fought with the Chewy Bone tribe back then. The marauders received the Legion's equipment and command staff, and were far superior to us, but they were ultimately defeated in the face of our constant skirmishers. ”

After a few months of training, his human language is not as weak as it was at the beginning of the year, but sometimes the words are still a little "different", which is a little difficult for survivors outside the alliance to understand.

But fortunately, this little problem did not prevent them from communicating, and Grove didn't ask much, just nodded suddenly.

"I see...... The ability to fight guerrilla warfare is a life skill for you. ”

When he said this, Grove's eyes became more and more adoring.

Someone always told him what kind of fighting race the Willantes were, and according to him, it was clear that these people from the valley were!

After all, they still have a group of people to help, and these guys are stunned to rely on their own strength to take down the marauders supported by the legion.

Brother Dog: "Well, it's not that exaggerated...... Forget it, whatever you understand. ”

Misunderstanding is misunderstanding.

It's not a bad thing anyway.

As for why Alliance players are in Grove's troops, that's a long story.

In the past few months, Brother Dog has been lurking in Snake Prefecture to gather information about this organization in order to find out what the situation of the family will be.

Intriguingly, however, what he saw subverted his original impression of the family meeting.

Criticizing the proselytizing methods aside, compared to the other demons and monsters active in the province of Borneo, at least these family members are practicing their professed concept of equality and fraternity.

When the warlords of Huzhou and Baozhou took away the land and water from the homesteaders, they not only planted and milled beans themselves, but even woven cloth and dyed clothes themselves.

If they are bad people, then General Jeha of Huzhou is simply bad and smoking.

After all, what happened to that Jehagan is obvious to everyone, and this person can be called a model of lawlessness. If he had taken a fancy to the profits of a factory, he didn't even bother to pretend to pay out of his pocket, but directly sent the commander to rob it.

Compared to what these nobles did, he really couldn't find anything wrong with these poor people.

And what is even more commendable is that they are willing to change.

After meeting Zeid, the elegant and easy-going man not only listened carefully to his opinion, worked out an improvement plan overnight, but also called everyone to vote on the improved plan, declared the pyramid scheme illegal in the name of the law, and deeply examined himself.

This situation is extremely rare, not to mention Tiandu, even the Golden Gallon Port.

Later, Brother Dog learned that Snake State also has its own committee members, but their names are parents.

And unlike the Abu Saick commissioners, their parents are truly free to vote for each person.

In addition, for his friend from the alliance, these family members also welcomed and treated him warmly as if he were their own family.

They were not rich, and they would rather be hungry themselves, but also squeeze out the few supplies they had to entertain him, and every time he was very embarrassed, he could only distribute the unfinished food to the children nearby.

In addition to food, there are several young and beautiful girls who fall in love with him, and pull him to talk about life and ideals whenever they have the opportunity.

Looking at those big watery eyes, if you want to say that you are not moved at all, it is definitely to cut off your conscience and feed it to the dogs.

But in order not to affect the lives of the locals, after a battle between heaven and man, he finally chose to be a person, and offered to leave the relatively comfortable rear and go to the front line with relatively difficult conditions.

Zeid kept him again and again, and the young man who always followed Zeid even took his hand with snot and tears, saying that he wanted to ask him more questions.

But perhaps for the sake of his decision, they finally allowed him to go.

In this way, he became acquainted with General Grove - the second man of the legendary Gray Wolf Army on the front line in the northern part of Snake State.

Unlike Gopal, the leader of the Gray Wolf Army, who always has a cold face and gives people a gloomy and sympathetic feeling, this Grove feels like an innocent and optimistic "old guy".

In terms of age, this guy is also in his early thirties, but the young energy that dares to fight is still like a teenager.

The most commendable thing for Brother Dog is that this straightforward guy doesn't have so many crooked intestines, he has always said something, and he dares to do things.

Not only that, but his strategy is not inferior to bravery.

Brother Dog could feel that although Shah Rukh was surrounded by careerists like Zeid, just like the Commander's Mansion in Tiandu, at least the guy in front of him was a true idealist.

By analogy, he and the "Jungle Rat Ischer" in the north, who was bounty on a playing card by the Willants, were carved out of the same mold, only with a slight lack of political talent.

But very coincidentally, Brother Dog later found out that this guy was actually a "fan" of Ischer.

Very few werewolves would worship a rat-native, but this guy looked admiring and adoring every time he mentioned that name, and even openly regarded him as a role model.

In the hierarchical province of Borneo, this is quite unusual.

I'm afraid that Isher himself may not have imagined that he who was fighting guerrillas in the three northern states would become the idol of a high-ranking officer of the Gray Wolf Army.

In short, when Grove learned that this "bear" was a friend of Ischer, he dragged him to talk all night at every opportunity, and every time they chatted, he would inquire about Ischer, and called him "the second god of war in Borneo".

As for who the first god of war was, Brother Dog didn't ask, and Grove didn't tell him.

For Alayan, the imperial god of war, most of the old Gray Wolf Army's feelings are extremely complicated.

That was both their shame and their glory.

“…… After this battle, I don't know if I have a chance to be drawn as a Southern legion poker card. ”

Putting down the binoculars in his hand, Grove's face was filled with excitement and red, as if he had drunk two taels of vodka.

Brother Dog nodded approvingly and said.

"I think it's enough, we're going to beat them up this time."

After a pause, he cautiously continued.

"However, it's time to retreat."

Apparently it was not only he who thought so, but also General Grove, who was standing next to him, who was not in the slightest carried away by the victory in front of him.

"Well, I think so too, if we continue to go deeper, we will not be able to keep up with the logistics, and it is already a great achievement to achieve such a result...... How do you say that? That proverb of your alliance. ”

Brother Dog said with a smile.

"Accept it when you see it, and be content and happy?"

"That's right! Hahaha, accept it when you see it, be content and happy! Grove closed his mouth and patted his good brother on the shoulder.

I could tell he liked it.

Brother Dog had a knowing smile on his face, but it didn't take long for his expression to become bitter again.

Damn it.

The eagle of the dog day fooled him into taking this decaying name, saying that the family should be neat and tidy.

Knowing that he had a chance to "go down in history", he would have chosen a normal name when he chose a nickname!

Just as the two were discussing retreat, the sound of tank tracks quietly running over the open field by the woods fifty kilometers to the north.

Here is the 1,000th squad of the 60th armored 10,000 people of the Southern Army, which is mainly composed of light tanks and wheeled armored vehicles.

After receiving the order to attack, Captain Gibson took decisive action after entering Wolf State, first sending reconnaissance planes to search for enemy movements, and then personally leading a light armored force to march to Milyans County, the fulcrum of the troops' retreat route in the direction of Snake State.

This place is on the border line of Snake State, with mostly hills to the south and plains to the north, which is conducive to the advance of armored forces.

He could tell that the oil thieves had run away for the most part.

However, the nine 10,000-strong teams advanced at the same time, and with the radio penetration and organization of the other side, it was impossible for them all to escape back, and there were always one or two tails left.

Captain Gibson, who was sitting in the command car, squinted his eyes and looked south, and his complicated and confused expression made it impossible to see what he was thinking.

The adjutant sitting next to him looked at the map and said with a serious expression.

"Five kilometers further on is Milyans County, where a thousand-man detachment is resting, according to intelligence from the aviation brigade...... We should encounter them soon. ”

"Hmm."

Gibson, who squinted, nodded his head and lifted the telescope in his hand, but instead of touching the bridge of his nose, he held it to his lips like holding a wine bottle.

Noticing the strange gaze cast from the side, he came back to his senses that he was not sitting at the bar of the bar, but on the battlefield.

Coughing in embarrassment, he grabbed the radio and put it to his lips, and gave the order with a serious expression.

"Attention units, target Milyans County, purge the units in the area!"

Hearing the sonorous voice of the commander, the lads in the communication channel let out a high-spirited roar, and the cannonball stuffed into the chamber of the cannon, stepping on the accelerator to the bottom.

"Roger!"

They've had enough of that aggrieved in Eternal Night Harbor, and now they can finally turn their guns on the people they're supposed to be aiming at.

Sitting under the turret, Carver held his breath in the bumpy carriage, his right index finger rubbing the trigger constantly, and the sights equipped with night vision devices were aimed at the wooden house with lights on in the distance.

The last three kilometers!

He had even seen the man standing by the window smoking, and the face that was gradually turning from a look of vibrancy to panic.

They're dead!

Carver, who had found his target, had already pronounced the death sentence of that guy in his heart, and it was at this moment that the roars of his comrades came from behind him.

"High-explosive shells! Reloaded! ”

"Fire!"

(End of chapter)