[Your Majesty Salen, the evacuation of Westsail Harbor is nearing completion, and we have taken over all the assets of the Southern Legion in accordance with your orders, and handed over the remaining facilities to our puppets.

General Grove wants us to raise his bounty on the playing cards to fifteen million dinars, as well as the rank of Captain Gibson who was defeated by him...... I'd say it's vexatious, but there's some truth to his explanation, and he thinks that Gurion or Tyre forgot to raise his bounty and give Captain Gibson a promotion.

Nor can we understand why General Gurion appointed a one-star captain to lead the Southern Front, but there is no doubt that the commander of the Northern Front, who fought against the Borneo Northern Field Army and the Mammoth Army, was indeed a two-star commander.

In short, it's up to you.

-- Xifan Port Temporary Headquarters Telegram]

[Let him go to Tyr.]

- Eastern Empire Nord City Palace Electricity]

……

Ravenca Industrial Zone.

Next to the dusty construction site, figures as swift as the wind shuttle through the streets.

It's time to get off work, and it's time for everything to recover.

The boys who walked off the assembly line rushed out of the factory like ducks for joy, rushed home in waves, and then rushed to the market in waves.

They used a lot of money to buy bikes, but they could still scrape together bits and pieces of coins.

With the change, they bargained with the stall owners at the market to exchange some nail clippers, markers, short-sleeved shirts, and other odds and ends from the stalls.

They don't know what the use of buying this thing is, they just think that a small steel bounce or piece of paper can actually "be small and big" is really worth it!

Surrounded by the magic of "exchanging everything", some people took the risk of getting counterfeit bills, and even drew them with pencils, but after being beaten with iron fists and sticks, these guys who dared to use and collect were honest.

In addition, some fashionable literary and artistic youths bought stereos, and some bought karaoke machines.

Listening to the discs imported from the Alliance, they not only sang of the desolation of the wasteland in their sand-laden voices, but also rented them out to others for half an hour.

Where there is a need, there are people who solve the need.

After discovering that some outsiders were making money by trading, some nimble local wastelanders also began to stand guard on the docks, and when the cargo ships docked, they swarmed up and brought in some large and small bags of goods to set up stalls near the factory.

These are smart people who can save money.

Instead of wasting their first salary on flamboyant business, they started their business as start-up capital.

It won't be long before they become the first survivors of the colony to have "credit".

Banks will be happy to lend them money and help them turn a small business into a big one.

Thus the prototype of a bazaar was formed.

It's not just the small traders who are cool, but also the craftsmen.

Rasov, who sold bicycles, earned his first pot of gold, and the bicycle masters who came with him to the port of Golden Gallen, in the industrial area of Ravenca, made a second pot.

Some people saw the business opportunity and asked the shipping company to drag some bicycles or locks from the port of Golden Gallen, and opened a bicycle shop in the local area that also repaired bicycles.

Although there are only about 300,000 people in the industrial area of Ravenca, the colony of the Southern Legion can be 2.7 million square kilometers, and the inland of the desert that has not been colonized is a vast land.

The sand is worthless, but the remains buried under the sand are still valuable.

And for a long time to come, shelters will be opened there.

After catching the radio signal from the industrial area of Ravenca, some of them will definitely try to find it......

In any case, Hope, the leader of the development foundation in charge of reform, did indeed live up to his original promise - to let the "animals" in the great desert run.

Fang Chang was also quite satisfied with his work, saving himself a lot of time to repeat operations.

A lot of things are just a little mention of themselves, and that guy can implement specific policies.

Very strong.

It's much higher than the starting point of the mayor of Golden Gallen Harbor that he trained before.

In general, it should be no more difficult to "clear" this area than the port of Golden Gallen or even Borneo.

More than 2,000 tribes may sound scary, but when they reach a certain level, they are no longer a "bad thing" but a "good thing".

At least from the "manager's" point of view, this means that these indigestible wastelanders are cut into tiny atoms, like chewed food.

The province of Borneo is different.

On the surface, there are thousands of tribes living there, but if you go deeper, it is not difficult to find that the people who live under a thousand "totem poles" actually share a set of theories, and they all believe in the "true God" of Lowell.

The underlying logic is the same, even if the ethnic groups have very different surnames and slightly different customs.

Thinking about the difference between the two, a concept that Fang Chang had heard in his mind a long, long time ago in the early version-

"Hive."

This word has appeared several times in the research report of the Alliance Institute of Biology on "Gaia", and has been established as a joint research project of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

At first, he simply wanted to understand the world and learn the language of the people, so he looked up the materials that existed in the background board of the game.

And as they went deeper into the wasteland, gradually the center of the old battlefield went to the wasteland that was swept away by the "aftermath", and these materials were gradually put aside by him.

Now he remembered it again.

He remembers a research report in which a researcher whose name he could no longer remember came up with his own hypothesis about the origin of the "Gaia" consciousness.

The researcher believed that Gaia was not a higher civilization that evolved directly from slime molds, but rather the result of a higher civilization falling from a higher life form.

Namely, a downward spiral.

If a mortal wants to defeat a giant, he doesn't necessarily have to be a taller and stronger giant.

Can also be a cockroach.

Even if a giant can trample a cockroach to death, it can't trample all the cockroaches to death.

As long as you breed wildly where the giants can't see, the ultimate winner must be the cockroach with a wider and more adaptable recipe.

Human civilization has existed for too short a time to see the full picture of the evolutionary tree from itself.

But if the timeline is stretched to a sufficient length, in fact, evidence can be found on Earth.

For example, the cockroach, which was born in the Carboniferous period, eliminated the dinosaurs that were much higher in the food chain.

Generally speaking, of course, a person cannot turn into a cockroach, but the technology to turn into another mammal exists in the background of Wasteland Online.

For example, in Vault 79's "Eternal" project, some researchers have proposed to use existing genetic technology to create a powerful species that can survive the wasteland era and carry human consciousness.

The plan ultimately failed, but it wasn't entirely unsuccessful - at least two people succeeded, and one of them was still in Vault 79.

As for the dead claws, they are all over the wasteland.

In fact, this is precisely the compromise made by higher beings or civilizations to the original principles for the sake of the continuation of civilization, or the behavior of "actively reducing the dimensionality" of their civilization.

Based on these existing clues, the researcher came up with a hypothesis.

Suppose there is a group of people named Gaia on an isolated planet.

There are two main branches of AB in this group.

And in order to overcome each other, they both invariably abandoned the bottom line, and eventually both turned from giants to slime molds - and neither could go back.

This process is not instantaneous, and it may be an extremely long process of game and internal friction.

First of all, they had to be humbled to the dust, and they could do whatever it took to survive.

Then, little by little, both sides lowered their bottom line, from giants to mortals, and from mortals to cockroaches...... Finally, step by step, the need for the environment is reduced until each cell is soaked in the culture medium.

And when they reach the extreme point of reducing their own dimensionality, giving up all goals except "existence", and like a spring that has been compressed to the limit, it can no longer be compressed...... They finally had the final "big bang" in the collapse.

No one knows what the universe was like before the Big Bang.

The same is true for the Gaia, who lived before the Big Bang – no one knows where they will be, where they will go, and what will become of them after the explosion.

Countless intelligent individuals have come up with the optimal solution under the game of the law of the jungle -

That is to destroy the will of the individual.

Destroy it.

We're tired.

Thus, the Hive Consciousness Body was born.

He keeps everything in order, and there is no more endless struggle between populations and no more any upward or downward spiral.

Under His will, the dead planet will be revived, and all nutrients will serve a final and only consensus-

That is "existence".

Or -

Stay alive.

They will forever exist in an empty universe, forgetting everything about the past, feeding, reproducing, and expanding on the words left in their DNA...... Or still.

Of course, this is only a hypothesis put forward by a researcher in Wasteland Online about the planet Gaia, and it is not the final conclusion.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Fang Chang suddenly discovered that it was actually this evil path that Tyr had adopted—if he couldn't become a giant, he would become a cockroach.

Tyr may be able to win a crushing victory in the brutal competition by constantly breaking through the bottom line, but he may be completely wiped out by the enemy who has awakened and also broken through the bottom line a second before he is about to win.

Or, the two sides are evenly matched to build a lasting and painful balance, constantly lowering the bottom line to see who can't stand it first.

However, it is clear that the Southern Legion is not strong enough to allow the alliance to break through the bottom line.

As for the province of Borneo, where they fought, it was a different story.

The survivors there themselves are "Gaia".

Or rather, they are in the early stages of the game in the "Big Bang" of Gaia and a new lease of life.

Most "anomalous" mutants are either killed or forced to flee if they do not evolve a "camouflage".

As for what the future holds, it is not certain......

……

As usual, Fang Chang sat in his office and looked through the report handed by Hope.

At this time, there was a knock at the door, and he answered casually.

"Come in."

The door opened.

A teenager dressed in a mammoth nation uniform, led by a staff member of the Autonomous Council, walked in.

There was a simple murderous aura on his body, and Mu Ne's face didn't have much expression, and he didn't even look very capable of fighting.

But no one doubted that this lean young man could put to death a man who was far stronger than him with a single move.

He'll know how to kill people.

In fact, there are not many such people in the wasteland, after all, the wasteland is more barren, and if you really want to say that there are many corpses in the tribes of marauders or mutants.

With a nervous expression on his face, the staff looked at Fang Chang, who was sitting behind the desk, and said.

"He insists on seeing you...... Said that he must hand over the contents of the box to you. ”

"I know."

Putting down the report in his hand, Fang Chang glanced him up and down, and his eyes couldn't help but tremble slightly when his eyes stopped on his hand.

"Ackerman, ...... of the 1st Battalion of the SA"

The boy introduced himself, stepped forward silently, and placed the box on the table, "...... Our father, Rassi, let us give it back to you. ”

Fang Chang didn't need to look at it to know what was in that box.

He took a deep breath and pressed his index finger and thumb to the bridge of his nose, trying not to hear the silent emotion.

“…… What else did he say? ”

Ackerman whispered.

"He said, his kindness will be repaid in the next life."

This world ......

Is it really just a game?

Fang Chang, who had his eyes closed, was speechless for a long time, and finally everything he wanted to say turned into a long sigh.

"I got it......"

Ackerman nodded, left a "thank you", and then said no more, silently following the staff guarding the door.

——

(I was called to Shanghai to participate in the event of reading literature, what kind of Chinese and foreign writers exchange meeting, I took advantage of the meeting to use my mobile phone to code half a chapter, begging to see if I have been updating eight or nine thousand words in the past few days, spare my life, and do my best.)

In addition, it is estimated that it should end in March or April next year, and the story of "after the player's intervention" has been written, and then write about the daily and extrane, write about the celestials, Gaia, the Enlightenment Society, and recycle the foreshadowing of the previous article, basically sprinkled with flowers~ If nothing else. (End of chapter)