This Game is Too Real

  【Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, our operation in the center of Qingquan was deadlocked, the soldiers fought bravely, and our enemy suffered heavy losses, but unfortunately, we have not been able to get close to the mother nest until now. 】

  [Although the Prowler tank has excellent mobility and reliable armor, it has to be overhauled every time it comes back from work, and the parts that need to be replaced cannot be found here. 】

  【Especially our equipment has no advantage in the face of the siege of slime mold fruiting entities. They fell in pieces and rushed up in groups...just like a wave. Before we kill them all, I'm afraid we'll be overwhelmed by the logistics that are pulling us first. 】

  【The most worrying thing is those "evolutionary bodies"...

  ... This is the name given by the technician who followed us into the city center. We found that some slime mold fruiting bodies have undergone secondary mutations on the basis of mutation, and have even begun to imitate us, evolving structures similar to power armor and exoskeletons, and even eroding our drones and tanks. 】

[This is not my gibberish, I know it sounds bizarre, but if we continue to treat them as beasts fighting with teeth and claws, or biochemical weapons thrown by the enemy into the battlefield, we may pay a heavy price ... In fact, our casualties have been heavy enough. 】

  【Compared with advanced weapons, we need more equipment that is easy to maintain and has a sufficient quantity. Instead of holding precious equipment and manpower to fill this completely unfilled front like it is now. 】

  [Finally, let’s have some good news. The wall outside the giant stone building has been completed. The brothers in the production department are as reliable as ever. This magnificent project can shelter at least 100,000 people through the most difficult winter. Refugees in the south do not have to continue to migrate north, they can be resettled in the western suburbs of Qingquan City, at least our first stage goal has been completed. We will start the second phase of operations immediately after a short rest. 】

  【I heard that the technical department is looking for a way to solve the slime mold at the genetic level. 】

  【I have an idea here, why not use those genes in the gene pool to "produce" a group of super soldiers who are not afraid of death? 】

  【Even if they are not useful on the battlefield, they can at least help us move something. Those androids and robots are too troublesome to maintain. I am afraid we have to configure an additional maintenance company. 】

  【——The telegram from the front line (3), 2150, March, 21st. 】

  Aboard the Heart of Steel.

   Chu Guang, who was resting in the captain's room, was browsing the official website forum of "Wasteland OL" through the holographic computer.

  These information were recovered by the players of the Death Corps, and were synchronized to the server of the Refuge with the help of the mission's communication radio.

   Looking at the information that the players took pictures and uploaded to the official website, he touched his chin thoughtfully and leaned back on the chair.

   "The year 2150...should be the 21st year of the Wasteland Era."

   He is very sensitive to numbers and remembers that the first year of the Wasteland Era is 2129.

   "However, in March, the city center of Qingquan City will be raided... It's too hard to imagine."

   Spring is the time of the tide, when the Mutant slime molds multiply at their highest rate and the spore density in the air also peaks.

   Of course, this is from the perspective of a latecomer.

  Perhaps the survivors of the time did not realize the concept of waves, as this telegram suggests, the post-war reconstruction committee underestimated the threat of those mutant slime molds.

and······

   Was it supposed to be nuclear winter? But these are not the point.

   What Chu Guang cares about is the last line of the telegram

   "... A group of soldiers who are not afraid of death, are you referring to the Willands?"

   Seeing this sentence, Chu Guang was puzzled.

   Those big noses are not as afraid of death as they thought...

   Maybe it's because the players are Awakened per capita, maybe it's because his attribute panel is outrageous enough, anyway, he doesn't think those big noses are so strong.

   may be stronger than ordinary people. "Little Qi."

   A vigorous voice soon came from my ears, which is still a rare voice of a royal sister today.

   "Here, Master."

   After pondering for a moment, Chu Guang said.

  ".・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

All information on    groups, companies, and academies. "" Good Le! "

   Hearing the energetic answer, Chu Guang waited for a while, and in less than a minute, Xiao Qi quickly completed the retrieval of all the pictures.

   Whether it is uploaded by players or saved in their personal albums.

   All the information has been sorted into a text document, and a catalog has been made for his convenience.

  Although most of the clues the players collected were fragmentary, they accidentally pieced together a lot of incredible information.

   As he guessed.

  The Willands are indeed a race created by genetic modification technology.

  Although the project was initially opposed by the technical department of the committee, the continued heavy casualties on the front lines and the large amount of unfinished work forced the defense department of the committee to press the technical department.

   In 2150, the 21st year of the Wasteland Era, taking the heavy casualties of the "Qingquan City Operation" as an opportunity, the super soldier project called "The Willante Project" was finally passed despite numerous pressures from all sides.

   And the Defense Department of the Council, the predecessor of the Legion, is a name that is inextricably linked to the chaos of a century and a half ago.

  Chu Guang couldn't help but feel a little curiosity in his heart, following the clues sorted out by Xiaoqi, he continued to read.

  The 23 pairs of chromosomes of the Willante were completely genetically modified

   Decorative technology design, and the material is extracted from an incomplete gene bank called "Wilante".

   A thousand primarchs were born at first, indeed there are

   with extraordinary combat power.

   They have the fighting instincts of beasts on the basis of retaining their humanity, and even without systematic training, they can still beat more than five well-trained veterans in combat.

   However, this is where the taste is.

   Even in the post-Prosperity Era, there are still not many opportunities for hand-to-hand combat.

  The powerful body makes them more suitable for participating in dangerous missions with the highest casualty rate. Although their super reflexes and motor abilities allow them to kill enemies more efficiently, their numbers are too small.

   These super-soldiers ultimately failed to make much of a difference on the battlefield, which led to their further political marginalization.

After several battles against mutated slime molds, the Willands were individually organized into a rapid response brigade, led by a young commander named Julius, using relatively low logistical requirements. Inexpensive equipment supports regular army combat.

And this life is also full of legends. He was born almost in the same year as the "Wilant Project", and since his father was a senior officer of the 111th Orbital Airborne Division of the People's Federation, he has received militarized education since he can remember. .

  As an "old human", he almost grew up with those "new humans", and fifteen years later, as a commander, he followed those new humans on the battlefield against the mutant slime mold.

  Chu Guang used the search function to search for the name "Jurius", and found that in the literature with less than half a million words, this seemingly special name unexpectedly appeared hundreds of times in the following text.

   "...Speaking of the legion's marshals also seems to be called this name." Chu Guang vaguely remembered hearing Vanus say their marshal's name.

   However, on the west coast, few people would call that person by his first name, usually using the title of marshal instead.

   "If the marshal of the legion and Julius in the literature are the same person, then this guy must have lived for at least one hundred and fifty years!"

  Chu Guang smacked his tongue in surprise, unable to imagine how it would feel.

   In "The Stars", an officer who has lived for 150 years, is thrown into the "Patrol Fleet" to suppress pirates and mess around.

   The index finger continued to slide on the holographic screen, and he quickly turned down a page.

  Skip the lengthy description, and the time quickly comes to Wasteland Age 41.

The    committee's work on the slime mold eradication has been quite difficult, and the endless cold winter has made the problem of scarce resources and low productivity even milder.

Some climatologists even expressed desperation that the planet may not be transforming into a "waste planet", but a "polar planet" with a stronger ecosystem, and one-third of the land will eventually be buried. under 240 meters of ice.

   That war may have set the world back by 18,000 years.

   But even so, clear the planet

  's slime mold remains a top concern. Various research indications show that this "complex" creature is more cold-resistant than other carbon-based creatures native to the earth.

   If this trouble is not resolved before it gets worse, future troubles will exceed all expectations.

   So far, the survivors have yet to discover the "self-limiting" of slime molds, but simply fear those monsters that can't be cleaned by throwing nuclear bombs.

If the survivors at that time knew that as long as they gave up the urban area of ​​the People's Union era and retreated to the suburbs with lower building density, and when the slime mold swelled to a certain level, they would enter a recession period, I am afraid there would not be that much trouble. son.

   Of course, this is from the perspective of latecomers. Many successful researches on slime molds were discovered in the war against slime molds.

In short, in order to increase the loss of manpower, the Defense Department of the committee put forward further requirements on the basis of the "Wilant plan"-they needed a kind of "fast mass production, and can play a role on the battlefield" clone troopers.

   They don't have to be very sensible, or even have an abnormal human mind, but they must complete the cycle from the assembly line to the battlefield in the shortest time.

  Compared to the defense department in Wasteland Age 21, the defense department in 41 has obviously gradually gone to the extreme.

  The post-war reconstruction committee held a meeting to discuss the relevant legislation, and the three departments of production, defense, and technology all participated in this debate.

   This meeting was documented as a "Tripartite Meeting"

   And this is also the second major disagreement since the establishment of the Post-War Reconstruction Commission.

   Contradictions that have accumulated over a long period of time have reached their peak before the meeting is over, and the meeting of open debate is more like a catharsis.

  The defense sector, which continues to suffer casualties, asked the production and technology departments to provide a "clone trooper capable of performing adequately on the battlefield" to replace the casualties of the PLA soldiers.

   From the standpoint of the Ministry of Defense, this is a perfectly reasonable request.

   After all, their soldiers are not only responsible for the maintenance of danger and order in the settlement, but also responsible for protecting the prospectors of the technical department from entering the ruins to recover the technology of the pre-war civilization.

  The war has been going on for 41 years, but their war never started. According to one generation in twenty years, their sacrifices have even spanned two generations, affecting at least four generations.

   And the technology sector, like 20 years ago, still expressed strong approval, claiming that this will not only bring technical risks such as "DNA contamination", but also lead to the collapse of civilization.

   This concern is not without reason.

  The Willantes, who were bred through genetic technology and did not have basic political rights, have become de facto "slave soldiers", and the reverse of history has even reached the slave society of the feudal era, which is older than the prosperous era.

   This line of thinking was wrong from the beginning, and they clearly had better choices.

   Such as robotics and AI.

   However, this proposal was opposed by the Ministry of Production.

  There is no perfect industrial chain support, production - Taiwan foot

  The cost of a sufficiently reliable robot is not a matter of several times or tens of times, but a geometric increase.

  The expensive production costs and maintenance costs are not affordable for today's "Post-War Reconstruction Committee".

   Unless the spending on each survivor settlement is completely cut off, the survivor settlements, including Boulder, are left to fend for themselves.

   Even so, the cost savings that can be made are far from meeting the needs of the defense department for manpower.

   What's more, cutting off the budget of each survivor's settlement means that the post-war reconstruction committee will lose a huge manpower pool, which is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst.

   In order to appease the Ministry of Technology and the Ministry of Defense, the Production Department proposed many compromises.

   For example, the Wieland can be given limited political rights, such as the release of reproductive rights, etc., and some Wieland can be properly admitted into the big family of the People's Federation, as long as they can make outstanding achievements on the battlefield.

   As for clones with higher yields, there is no need to limit their lives to the profession of cannon fodder, they can freely enter factories or farmlands to engage in resource production.

  This kind of high-quality labor is not only needed by the defense sector, but also by the production sector.

   This meeting ultimately did not discuss any results, but instead laid a hidden danger for the subsequent disintegration of the post-war reconstruction committee.

The year after the    tripartite meeting began, in year 2171, which is the 42nd year of the Wasteland Era, the Academy Expedition Team's recovery of the Wieland Laboratory became the fuse that ignited the powder keg.

  There is the gene pool of the Willant people, and it also preserves the "singularity" technology that was not completed before the end of the era of prosperity - the technology of life cycle adjustment.

   Under the leadership of General Julius, a quick reaction brigade composed of the Wielanders occupied the laboratory and seized all the prospectors of the Exploration Team of the Technical Department.

In the face of strong protests and negotiations from the technical department, the Ministry of Defense only claimed that it was Julius's personal behavior, and was extremely negative about the arrest of this "runaway senior officer", and even "accidentally" to the occupied experiment The chamber sent the fusion battery.

  It is clear that they are trying to complete this research, or use some of the sub-technology in this research, to create an "eight-time growth clone army".

   Objectively speaking, the people from the Ministry of Defense have already shown considerable restraint. After all, they obviously can directly grab it, but they still make up a lame reason to pretend.

The    committee's control of various departments has declined to the bottom, while the contradiction between the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Technology has reached its peak.

   Year 2172, Year 43 of the Wasteland Era, after several "accidents", the Ministry of Technology completely lost its trust in the Ministry of Defense.

Under the leadership of Dr. "Conclusion", the then director of the technical department and dean of the college, the technical department transferred a large number of core technicians to the northern swamp in the name of exploring large-scale ruins, and under the framework of the pre-war academic organization "Academy", preparations were made for the establishment of own armed exploration force.

   The Ministry of Defense is indifferent to this, their center of gravity is already shifting to the west of the great desert, and Triumph City and most of the military facilities are actually already there.

   under the control of "runaway senior officers".

   And although the production department of the committee is low-key, it is also not a fuel-efficient lamp.

   Even before the trigger of the tripartite meeting, they had been secretly prioritizing the construction of settlements on the east coast through resource tilting and other means.

  Ideal City was born in this context.

Not only that, they even joined the manager of Vault 6 and the then captain of the colonial ship to jointly promote the "enterprise" plan, set up a regional "Supreme Council", and proposed the general line of "industrial salvation" .

Perhaps in the opinion of the then Minister of Production, the colonists who stranded the colony ship on the surface to save the mother planet, and the residents of Vault 6 who bravely opened the door to save more survivors, are more than Those red-faced "colleagues" at the negotiating table are more trustworthy.

  Although idealists rarely produce immediate results, every advance of civilization is inseparable from the exploration of idealists.

   They decided to replace the committee and become the explorers of the new era.

In the 2173rd year, the 44th year of the Wasteland Era, the second fuse event occurred. The production department had a premonition that the disintegration of the post-war reconstruction committee was inevitable, so it unilaterally announced the "Province Between the Clouds" through the already full-fledged Ideal City. Recovery Act".

The Act stipulates the four strategic defense zones of Shanhai, Archipelago, Neihu and Hekou in the province of Yunjian, the three metropolitan areas of Beiyun, Shangyun and Xiayun, as well as the No. 1 and No. 2 industrial zones, all pre-war civilizations. The ruins are owned by all the survivor settlements in the Province of the Clouds.

   This sounds like a very peaceful initiative, and it makes sense.

   But in fact it is a scheming.

   On the night when the bill was promulgated, dozens of armed forces set off from Ideal City in the name of an enterprise, and quickly took over all the research institutes of the technical department of the committee on the east coast, as well as the relics of pre-war civilization that were under development.

   A fierce exchange of fire broke out in some research facilities.

  The armed forces of the academy have a short preparation time and are not strong in combat effectiveness, but due to the investment of a large amount of high-tech equipment and AI-controlled war weapons, they still cause a lot of trouble to the army of the enterprise.

  Although the enterprise still failed in the end, it also resulted in the destruction of many research facilities.

  For example, the experimental facility for the research of singularity technology-"gestalt life form" was reduced to ashes in that conflict.

   This result not only resulted in the complete loss of the original technology of the "gestasis" technology, but also caused some experimental subjects with unstable DNA to escape to the wasteland, some moving along the coastline, and some migrating in the direction of the great desert.

   And these experimental subjects living in the wasteland are the later mutants.

  Although this conflict was in the name of the company and the ideal city, and without the participation of the production department, the researchers in the technology department were not stupid.

Taking this incident as an opportunity, Dr. Conclusion immediately announced the dissolution of the technical department. Not only did he take over all the survivors' settlements in the Wandering Swamp in the name of the Academy, but he also permanently cut off all technical support outside the Wandering Swamp, and even deleted it. Databases in the Great Rift Valley.

   Especially the part about the coordinates of pre-war civilization relics.

   So far, legions, companies, and colleges have entered the stage of history.

   The Defense Department, the Production Department, and the Technical Department who completed the "asset transfer". Then they dropped the historical burden one after another and happily announced their dissolution.

   Lost three important departments, and the Post-War Reconstruction Committee, which has been in operation for 44 years, has died in name only, unable to support the settlements of survivors everywhere.

   It is year 2174, which is the 45th year of the Wasteland Era.

   Facing the empty conference table, the Post-War Reconstruction Committee has finally reached its final step—officially disbanding.

   From now on, the settlements will no longer need to abide by the interim constitution formulated by the committee, nor will they be governed by the committee.

   On the other hand, each settlement needs to find its own way and solve its own survival problems in the never-ending winter and alien intrusion.

   In the final statement, the chief of the committee still expressed the hope that the management of the settlements will not forget their mission and try their best to help the compatriots around them.

   No one knew at the time.

   Just five years after the post-war reconstruction committee was disbanded, the atmosphere began to show signs of recovery.

  The long nuclear winter also came to an end in the eyes of people, and the decayed species also re-bred in this land.

   So far, legions, academies and enterprises have entered the development period one after another, and the era of wasteland has also entered the half-century-long "sanctuary era" from the "committee era".

  Because the climate has reached the preset standard for hibernation, the shelters have opened their doors one after another, and the old popsicles who came out of the shelters have also stepped onto the stage that has become a wasteland.

  Although the plan went off track from the start, most shelters have neither found the disbanded Post-War Reconstruction Committee nor managed to keep things as organized on the surface as they were inside the shelter.

But they, who are out of tune with this era, still injected a boost of heart into this decaying world in a short period of time, and used the knowledge of the prosperous era and mysterious black boxes and other objects to help some wastelanders survive. The era of light that initially lost the Reconstruction Commission.

   To Chu Guang's surprise, these unknown secrets were placed on the bookshelf in the Great Rift Valley lounge for people to read at will.

   What he didn't expect was that the old neighbor to the north of the alliance was the predecessor of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee!

   "No...I can't say I didn't expect it at all."

  Chu Guang carefully recalled the holographic image left by Dr. Principle that he had seen with Yin Fang before, and connected the clues collected by the Death Corps with it.

"... In the second year of the Wasteland Era, Dr. Principle, who delayed his awakening for two years, was escorted by the 111th Orbital Airborne Division battalion commander Zhao Weisheng, and went to the University with more than 1,000 unplanned survivors. The Rift and the comrades of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee meet."

   "According to the description in the hologram, the Great Rift Valley was already controlled by the 111th Orbital Airborne Division... In other words, the predecessor of the Legion's predecessor was actually the 111th Orbital Airborne Division deployed in River Valley Province?"

   And one of the three founders of the Academy?

   Looking at the materials recovered by the players and the past events in the past hundred years, Chu Guang couldn't help but have mixed feelings for a while.

  When Vault 404 was closed, so many things happened outside...

   And at this moment, he finally realized the feeling of Doctor Method, why did that guy go to Vault 101 to shut himself up.

   If you are backstabbed twice by teammates in a row for yourself, I am afraid that your mentality will not be very good, especially the second knife is completely inexplicable.

   But from the standpoint of the disbanded Defense Department and Production Department, of course they also have their own reasons——

I will help you open the ruins with blood and sweat, and let you order human cloning technology instead of doing it. I will do it by myself. Anyway, you will definitely split up in the future. Since it is an expected high probability event, why is the person who started it first? can't be me? "

   Looking at the last page in the hologram, Chu Guang couldn't help but think of his alliance.

   Both he and the league are very young, but he will grow old one day, and there is a limit to human ability, and he cannot keep up with the changes of the times forever.

  The world of players is also moving forward, and even because of the technical support of the Refuge, they will progress faster than under abnormal circumstances, and even enter a prosperous era.

   At that time,

   "Wasteland OL" will face new challenges.

  "...・・In any case, the Alliance will not follow in the footsteps of the "Committee". "

   After a little silent recitation, Chu Guang stretched out his index finger and swiped in the air, closing the window that was floating in front of him.

   He always has a strong sense of sight.

   himself seems to have said something similar.

   At this moment, a light blue pop-up window suddenly flashed before his eyes without warning.

  【Emergency mission triggered! 】

  【Description: The morphological field device detected a normal individual, triggering the "flag6" judgment, and the player ID: "Luoyu" login permission was temporarily frozen. 】

   [Requirement: This task has been noted as the highest priority, and the coordinates have been updated to the Refuge Server map file. The administrator is requested to retrieve the normal individuals as soon as possible, and place them on the conveyor belt on the B1 floor after anesthesia. 】

  【Quest Reward: Unlock B6 Layer】

  This task pop-up has not appeared for a long time, and Chu Guang almost didn’t recognize it when it suddenly popped up.

   And when he saw the quest reward, he was even more stunned.

  B6 layer? and many more······

   Isn't the B5 layer still unlocked? Why did you just skip it?

   But what he cared more about was the description of the urgent mission.

   "...Normal individuals?!" What the heck?

  Chu Guang was stunned for a few seconds, then came back to his senses and immediately reopened the holographic computer, instructing his hateful little assistant.

   "Xiao Qi, immediately synchronize the newly received coordinates on the shelter server to my holographic computer." Xiao Qi: "Received!"

The   coordinates quickly appeared on the map.

   is right in the south of Luoxia Province, where the Lost Valley is located.

   Seeing these coordinates, Chu Guang was even more confused.

   He clearly remembered that a nuclear bomb had only been detonated there a few hours ago.

   Even if there are players who want to die and have to lean over to try to be bombed by a nuclear bomb, they won’t be able to survive a nuclear bomb, right?

   Can this game still be played?

   Just when Chu Guang wondered what happened to Er, there was a miserable cry on the official website forum.

   "Boil!"

   "I'm counting, why doesn't the countdown to resurrection go!!!"