This Game is Too Real

   "Wasteland OL" official website.

  【Beta0.4 version update! ] [Update content: 1. The ocean trade system has been implemented: the trade route to Luoxia Province has been opened, and now players can trade with NPCs in the Lion Kingdom, and invest in local farms or other industries. In addition, more tradable areas have been unlocked, please explore by yourself in the game.

2. The new "Cloud Ting" flapping aircraft training point has been added to the enterprise aviation base in the north of Xizhou City. You can learn at your own expense by paying 50W silver coins through VM. Citizens with an aircraft driving skill proficiency of 7 or more and senior contribution points can apply for public learning.

  3. As an alliance mobile base, the Heart of Steel can provide archiving services, but there is no guarantee that it will anchor at the location the player wants.

  4.404 Refuge floor is unlocked to the B6 floor, the B5 floor is still under maintenance, so stay tuned.

  5. The upper limit of the closed beta player account has been increased from 8,000 to 12,000!

  6. Fix a few bugs.

  7. …]

  Luoyu: "Fuck?!"

  Professor Yang: "What happened to you?"

  Luoyu: "Let's go!!"

  Fengqing: "0.0?"

  GuiGui: "What?"

  Luoyu: "The countdown to resurrection has moved again! Hahahaha! Thank you, Brother Guang! Ah!"

  Master is so proud of me: "Laugh, you continue to act, you are acting quite alike, so Master will quietly watch you pretend to be compulsive."

  Irena: "Jealousy really makes the walls separate. (Funny

   Elf King Fugui: "+1 (funny at the same time.

   Vault 404. A group of fully armed players is standing at the entrance of the B6 floor of the shelter.

  It is now certain that the entire B6 floor should be a laboratory, and it is a biological laboratory engaged in research on mutant slime molds. There are various indications that 80% of the research samples here are from the early Wasteland Era, or even longer, during the Three-Year War.

   It was obvious from the incomplete recording that the escaped experiment should not be easy to mess with, or even extremely dangerous! Otherwise, all the guards on the floor would not be wiped out, forcing the first-generation managers to perform "shock therapy" on the entire floor.

Of course, Chu Guang wouldn't do anything about    looking at the grass with his face, especially knowing that there were landmines hidden in the grass.

   What's more, he obviously has a group of small players who are not afraid of death, why does he have to do such a dangerous thing by himself? At the same time when the Beta0.4 version was officially updated, the players who were selected by Chu Guang to come here had a new line of task pop-ups on the VMs on their arms.

  【Mission: Recover the B6 floor of Vault 404】

  【Explanation: The experimental subject kept in the B6 floor of Vault 404 went out of control, causing the floor to be infected with slime mold. 】

【Target:

1. Search for possible mothers/broods.

2. Go to the lab to recover the experiment log.

  3. Go to the computer room to search for unuploaded data.

  The light blue icon flashing on the VM screen confirmed the task just received from the manager, and Ye Shi's eyes flashed with excitement.

   "Fantastic! I didn't expect to receive such a big job in the back!"

   Sunset Province is the home of the Stormtroopers and the Skeletons.

  The Burning Corps has a small number of people and is based in the city, not the open plain, so the entire war is almost soy sauce, and there is no sense of participation at all.

  The game has been OB on the official website forum for so long, it can be regarded as an opportunity for him to pretend to be forced.

   Quis smoking, who followed Gu Feng, stared at the VM screen, and suddenly thought: "Do you think the out-of-control experimental experience is Luo Yu?"

   An expressionless smile appeared on his face, Gu Feng touched the bridge of his nose and said.

   "...probably, unless there's a time machine that can travel back 100 years."

  Quit Smoking: "Fuck! Does this have a time machine?!"

   Gu Feng: "...Can you listen carefully to what people have to say."

   Looking at the plaque that covered the walls, Ye Shi couldn't help smacking his tongue. "Mom...this thing has been cut off from water, electricity and air for so long, yet it can still move!"

   Gu Feng glanced around and thought for a moment.

   "Well, it also disabled most of the cameras and 85% of the electronic equipment in the area... The situation here may be more complicated than we thought."

   "It doesn't matter if it's complicated or not, just do it and you're done!"

   Equipped with 0D-10 "Dragoon" power armor, Old Bai grinned, raised his index finger to lock the visor of his helmet, and loaded the assault rifle in his hand.

   Then, he shouted loudly in the communication channel.

   "The mission has been updated in vm, our goal is to recover the fallen B6 floor area!"

   "Team A, follow me, search for the enemy's "crystal" and inject inhibitor to contain it.

   Team B followed Ye Shi and went to the sample library to search for the experiment log.

   Team C followed the strong wind and went to the computer room, and took away the hard disk that stored the experimental data and data according to the task instructions. "

   "After the task is completed, we will gather at the entrance of the buffer workshop, pay attention to ensure that the signal is unblocked at all times, and the manager is watching us!"

   "Action!" A group of players tacitly divided into three teams, cautiously moving forward to search.

   As an elite team with the highest combat power in the entire server, the Burning Corps is naturally handy when performing such special operations missions, and no one is better at indoor close combat than them. At the same time, Chu Guang, who was sitting in the browsing room on the B4 floor, was following his players deep into this out-of-control biological laboratory through the camera equipment carried by the players.

   In addition to him, Yin Fang and Heya were also invited here as "technical advisors" for this military operation, providing players with professional advice when necessary. However, from the beginning of the operation, Hera's attention was completely fascinated by this large-scale and well-equipped laboratory.

   That look is more than heartbeat.

   even to the point of envy - even jealousy. "I don't understand! What's your budget?! It's clearly ranked behind us, why...there are so many good things?"

   Facing those sour eyes, Chu Guang didn't know how to answer, so he just pretended he didn't see it. The matter before the Wasteland Era asked him to have a hammer.

  If you want to know, ask the first generation manager to go!

   Staring at the computer screen, Yin Fang, who was focusing on other things, touched his chin and gave the first immature suggestion for this operation. "...Actually, I would recommend sending android troops, so that even if something goes wrong, it won't provide more organic matter to the organisms there."

  Chu Guang replied casually. "I trust my soldiers, they are much better than androids."

  Heya and Yin Fang glanced at Chu Guang in surprise, especially when they heard the word "use". However, the latter had an indifferent expression on his face, staring intently at the video on the screen.

   Just as we were chatting just now, the "Team A" led by Lao Bai had already met the enemy.

   And interestingly, the fruiting bodies of slime mold they encountered were completely different from those in Qingquan City. A thin humanoid fruiting body, just like the walking dead in a zombie movie.

   But different from those "zombies". These gnawing-like fruiting bodies do not appear in clusters, but hide silently in the corners of corridors, behind overturned display cases.

   Even lie on the ground and play dead. It will not be awakened until someone approaches, and then it will attack suddenly, turning this joyful RPG game into a horror game.

Players Team A and Team C's advancing speed has slowed down significantly, but Team B led by Ye Shi, relying on strong perception, predicted the potential danger again and again, and quickly advanced to the area where the experimental logs were stored. .

   However, although the fruiting entities attacked one after another unexpectedly, the players did not suffer any battle damage, and no one was injured. Those skinny walking corpses at best startle players.

   No matter how weak the protection of the hussar's exoskeleton is, it will not be smashed to pieces by the thin arm like a reed stick, or bitten by a few rotten teeth. Not to mention power armor.

   In front of the battleship-grade alloy steel, the weak flesh is like paper.

   Lao Bai didn't even shoot, he directly pulled out the mace hanging on the armor, and smashed the walking corpse that rushed up into pieces with two bangs. In a battle at this extreme distance, rashly firing is easy to cause ricochet, and pulling the trigger reflexively is more likely to accidentally injure teammates. In contrast, cold weapons are more handy.

"It is estimated that the long period of confinement caused the slime molds in this area to not have enough nutrients to develop more powerful fruiting bodies, coupled with the lack of hunting needs... These fruiting bodies are produced entirely for scavenging and energy saving." Hya Touching his chin, he fell into contemplation.

   After receiving the promise from Chu Guang to "give her the use of the B6 floor", her attention finally focused on the slime mold on the floor. Chu Guang thought for a moment and then said.

   "The lack of organic matter prevents the slime molds here from secreting a large number of spores... Hiss, why do I feel that this is the same as the slime mold No. 7 in the Lost Valley?" Yin Fang also nodded.

   "The difference is only in the degree of scarcity... The Lost Valley is a desert, and this is equivalent to a space station where supplies are cut off." Chu Guang suddenly looked at Heya.

"Wait, you said earlier... Slime molds born in different evolutionary environments are incompatible with each other, and they won't exchange genetic information with each other, but what about slime molds that were also born in resource-poor environments? Or in other words, Are slime molds with similar evolutionary environments compatible with each other?"

   He knew that the question he was describing was a bit sloppy. After all, he was not a professional biologist, so his wording would be relatively unprofessional, and the idea that had just popped up was very abstract in his mind. Heya thought for a while and replied.

   "In the case you're talking about, interspecific competition and genetic information exchange should happen at the same time...or more directly, phagocytosis."

  Chu Guang: "Swallow?"

"Well," Heya nodded, "it's just my guess, if a and b are different species that evolved in an environment of scarcity, then a and b always have some genetic material between each other, and the other party just feels the same. interest…

   At this time, that part of the genetic material will be actively or passively inherited after one of the parties devours the other. "

   "The genetic information of slime molds is not a simple line of code, but more like a "library" composed of countless lines of code."

"When cultivating fruiting bodies, the mother nest or mother will select a required genetic code from this library and make the fruiting bodies they need. Even if the number of chromosomes between the predator and the tyrant is different, they are born in the same mother nest. They still belong to the same group. In this case, they are not individuals in the full sense, but more like organs in a huge individual... This is what I call a hive society.

   "To fully understand these creatures, one has to get to their mothers and gather the original gene pool used to synthesize fruiting bodies. That is the source of all fruiting bodies and the template for all evolutionary bodies.

   Just when Heya was writing like Chu Guang popular science, players who went deep into the B6 floor finally encountered real trouble.

   A shrill roar suddenly swept from the end of the corridor. I saw a gray-black power armor standing at the end of the corridor.

  Its burly stature is not inferior to the "Dragons" power armor, and it is even better in physique. Judging from the faded paint, it should be a police model. The moment he saw the armor, Lao Bai's heart wrinkled with warning signs.

   The mace in his hand slammed out, like a shooting star hitting the face of the power armor. With the dual bonus of strength attributes and armored engines, even if a tank is blocked there, it has to be smashed into a pit.

   However, the power armor just swung its arm and smashed the flying hammer away. The action didn't stop at all, the legs of the power armor slightly bent forward, and then rushed over like a cannonball. Old Bai raised the rifle in his hand and emptied a shuttle of magazines, but did not leave a single dent on the armor.

   Seeing that a 7mm bullet could not break its defense, Lao Bai simply threw away the rifle in his hand and pulled out the hot-melt cutting axe hanging from his waist. However……

   That evolution is still one step ahead of him. Before the axe was raised, the evolution's shoulder armor came into close contact with his breastplate.

  "Duang—!"

  The two iron bumps collided together, the sound of metal collision echoed in the corridor, the distance was too close to support, the three teammates behind could only watch the two gods fight. His right hand was tightly held by the evolutionary body's left arm, and Lao Bai, who almost fell, barely stabilized his body, looked at the gap on the side of the helmet, pulled out the combat knife with his left hand, and stabbed it sharply!

   The airflow carried by the arm has almost blown into the helmet, but the arm that slammed down was caught by the other arm of the evolutionary body. The dazzling blade and axe were hanging on the helmet, but they could not move forward at all.

   The frightening pieces of flesh wriggled under the broken armor, and the nuclear energy that had not been exhausted was transformed into the most primitive and direct power by the slime mold. From the crack of the broken armor, Old Bai faintly saw a scarlet light.

   That is the sight of the hunter. Behind the killing and bloodthirsty instincts burns an appetite that is more chilling than hatred.

   It's very hungry…

   Old Bai, whose arms were restrained, felt a little bit of difficulty, and at the same time he pressed down with the strength of sucking milk, he couldn't help being secretly surprised.

  This guy- is harder to deal with than a rotten knight!

   "Grass!" Qi and blood surged in my chest! Lao Bai roared and activated the talent of the power system, the strength of his hands doubled in an instant, and the sharp edges of the axe and dagger pressed down an inch.

   The mechanical parts of the power armor on both sides made an overwhelmed squeak. The evolutionary body occupying the power armor was forcibly forced back half a step, and an irritable and harsh roar emerged from the gap in the armor.

   Taking advantage of it backwards, Lao Bai kicked his knees violently.

   Under the terrifying power bonus, the knees that were bent outward were stunned and folded backwards.

   The evolutionary body that lost its balance fell short and fell to the side, and Lao Bai stabbed a dagger into its head, and stirred it violently.

   But unexpectedly, the guy whose brain was pierced seemed to be fine.

   Lao Bai suddenly felt in his heart. This guy's nerve center isn't in his head!

   Maybe there is no such thing at all! "Put the distance away!"

   The voice of Ye Shi suddenly came from the communication channel.

  Old Bai was overjoyed. Before the evolutionary body could stabilize his body, he stomped his foot on its chest and staggered it backward for a while.

   The rotten and sturdy alloy arm clasped the wall on one side, and the five rigid fingers scraped the wall with a tooth-searing rubbing sound.

   At the moment when the two power armors pulled apart, Ye Shi, who was lying at the end of the corridor with the "Viper" Gauss rifle, had finished aiming and pulled the trigger.

   "Bang!" The light of the arc flickered for a moment, the mass bomb that burst out was instantly accelerated to Mach 4.5, and the roar of the sonic boom reverberated throughout the corridor.

  The attack comes from behind me! The target is the most vulnerable area of ​​the power armor.

   That evolutionary body didn't have time to react at all, and the durability of the armor that was neglected was already stretched thin. Faced with the terrifying armor-piercing ability of the electromagnetic gun, it was instantly shot in the opposite direction. At the same time that the evolutionary body was staggered forward by the kinetic energy of the mass bomb, Lao Bai, who seized the opportunity, slammed the hot-melt cutting axe and slashed it with one axe. A hot red light flickered.

  The hot air flow like magma instantly cut open the armor of the evolution body's left shoulder, poured in from the cracks in the armor, and instantly burned the soft tissue inside to coke. The scarlet light finally faded, and the evolution fell to the ground heavily, not moving.

  Ye Shi, who had put away his rifle, stepped forward, glanced at the evolved body that fell to the ground, and said stunned.

   "Good guy... Slime mold can even use power armor!"

   Unlike the "Rotten Knight", the nuclear battery of this power armor is obviously still working, but most of the electronic components inside the armor have been damaged.

"They can even drive Titans, not to mention power armor..." Lao Bai walked over and patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Nice job! You guys have already done it?" Ye Shi said with a smile .

"It's done... The mother body is not in the laboratory, there is nothing there, we took the experiment log there under the manager's instructions, and then he ordered us to go around this corridor to support you... what about you?"

   Lao Bai shook his head.

   "I didn't find it... We have searched most of the area, and we haven't even seen the shadow of the mother."

   Ye Shi was stunned.

   "Is it where the wind is blowing?" Almost as soon as the voice fell, a pop-up window flashed across the players' VMs.

   Seeing the text in the pop-up window, Ye Shi's expression changed suddenly. "Fuck... my crow's mouth is open!"

  Old Bai didn't talk nonsense, he reached out and picked up the rifle on the ground and the mace he threw out earlier. "Go! Help him go!"

  …layer B6. Biological laboratory computer room. I saw rows of chassis displayed on metal shelves, completely engulfed by dark red slime mold.

  In the room that covers an area of ​​hundreds of square meters, all of them are crawling bacteria blocks. The entire computer room seems to have become a sea of ​​slime molds. There is even no place to stay under the steps of the main entrance!

   Translucent egg-like flesh-red membranes float on this ocean, like cocoons woven from silk, stirring restlessly.

   "It" seems to have just woken up.

  I am excited about the sudden recovery of the "climate" and the prey that I haven't visited for a long time!

   Looking at the scene in front of him, Gu Feng and the teammates behind him had a blank expression on their faces. After swallowing, he quit smoking and looked at the smartest guy in the team.

   "This...how to recover?" Gu Feng shook his head solemnly.

  "I don't know..." The chassis has been completely submerged by the sea of ​​slime mold, and the chassis has been completely stuck, let alone finding the hard drive hidden in a certain chassis, even how to approach the row of chassis is a problem.

   Stepping on these slime molds used to feel like something big could go wrong. Gu Feng thought for a moment and then calmly analyzed.

   "Anyway, we have to clean up the slime molds here... I'm afraid this is not an ordinary slime mold nest, maybe it's a shrinking mother nest."

   Including quitting smoking, the three players standing behind Gu Feng whispered.

   "If I read correctly, the mission requires us to recover this guy..."

   "Recycling? It's turned into a swimming pool... Not to mention how many inhibitors are used to stun it, how do we get it out of this house?"

   "Tired, let's just blow it up."

   "It's impossible to blow up... The experimental data we need to recover is still in the hard disk of one of the chassis."

   The player who performs the quest is caught in a dilemma.

   Chu Guang, who was sitting in the browsing room watching the battle, was the same. It is very simple to solve the mother nest there. It is enough to allow players to enter the B6 floor with heavy weapons, and insert a 155 into the artificial detonation.

   One shot is not enough, just two shots.

   Detonating a heavy grenade in a closed environment, the shock wave generated by the explosion alone is enough to shock the organisms in the room to death several times.

   But the trouble is, the data stored in those enclosures…

  Because the transmission line was damaged, the data could not be remotely manipulated and uploaded to the shelter's server, and the hard disk in the server could only be removed manually.

   Not to mention the use of powerful weapons.

   Any operations such as pouring gasoline, sulfuric acid, etc., may not work well. At this moment, Yin Fang suddenly moved in his heart.

   "What if you fight fire with fire?"

  Chu Guang was stunned.

   "Tackling poison with poison?" Yin Fang nodded excitedly, gesturing with his index finger while describing the genius idea he just came up with.

   "For example...introduce another mother from the outside, take advantage of the incompatibility of different species of slime mold, and let the mother deal with the mother!" Chu Guang was stunned for a moment, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

   Good guy, drive away the wolf! This idea is... surprisingly good. And just when he was about to say yes, Heya, who was standing with arms crossed, sighed.

   "Where are you going to get the Matrix? The closest Matrix to us is also in the city center." Yin Fang was stunned.

  Yan "Isn't that kind of nest that can produce gnats the mother?"

"That thing is called an incubator!" Heya spit out, "They don't store the complete gene pool of the entire population, at most they can be considered production organs and signal repeaters to produce a few products! They are separated from the mother's body or the mother's nest. It doesn't take long for them to be covered in spores, and they'll shrivel up after a while, get that stuff in, and at best fertilize the slime mold inside."

   Having said that, Heya, who still misses the site of Oasis No. 7, added another sentence right after.

"However, this idea is not entirely a bad idea. I heard that there seems to be a relatively benign mutant slime mold in that Lost Valley... If you can get the parent there, maybe you can not only get rid of the slime mold on the B6 layer, but also get A group of benign bacteria!"

   This is a really good idea.

   It would have been better without that titan.

   The monster that can't be killed by nuclear bombs, he will fight with his head!

   Pretending not to see the bright eyes, Chu Guang coughed lightly and looked at Yin Fang who was standing beside him. "Heya is right...this method is still open to question."

  Hya: "Well, what I meant to say was—"

  Chu Guang interrupted her words and continued.

   "Anyway, before deciding what to do to get rid of the slime mold there, we should investigate the experiment log to see if the research results there are worth the risk."

   Having said that, Chu Guang looked at Xiao Qi who was sitting on the desk and ordered. "Xiao Qi, ask the team on the B6 floor to withdraw with the experiment log." With his right fist on his chest, Xiao Qi replied playfully. "receive!"

   The mission is half completed.

   Chu Guang's rewards to the players were only half of the rewards.

   Insert the memory card for saving the experiment log into the holographic computer pen, and the light blue holographic image is quickly projected in the center of the browsing room.

   The first thing to play is a hologram.

   In the video, a strange man is standing, talking to someone outside the camera. He was wearing the uniform of the Refuge, and the characters [G-13] were printed on the label on his chest, which should be his serial number.

   From the point of view of the filming, neither he nor the person he was talking to was aware that he was being candidly filmed. "... This planet has been polluted, in other words, it is hopeless."

"It's a more brutal extermination method than neutron killing. These slime molds are designed to destroy us and are better adapted to our homes than we are. They don't kill us directly, they live in us. Places are growing like crazy, chasing our footprints, squeezing our living space. Our descendants can only abandon the city, migrate to the suburbs, or stay and become their fertilizer!"

"The little legacy we leave to our children will one day dry up. As the level of production continues to decrease, the planet will no longer have soil that can accommodate advanced production relations. Our civilization will grow in the opposite direction, first declining to Feudal society, then slave society, and finally tribes...

   until we are completely beasts and eventually replaced by more savage ones. "

"Yes, our black boxes are still working, but what about a thousand years from now? What about ten thousand years from now? Once the trend is established, it will be very difficult to reverse. If these problems are not solved now, the future will only get worse... At that time, let alone a professional biology laboratory, our descendants may not even be able to build a microscope, so what will they use to study those things?"

   "This is not an alarmist, in fact the regression of civilization has already begun before the winter is over. Look at the community we are monitoring, is it called "Blood Hand" or something...

   I bet those people wouldn't be smarter than monkeys even if they made it through the winter! "

   "The seeds of savagery have invaded their brains, and they will become the source of chaos, plundering the wealth of civilized people in the most primitive way like ancient nomads. At least the survivors of this suburb cannot escape their claws."

"I don't understand why the professor acquiesced to that guard, risked revealing the location of the shelter, and helped those hopeless idiots with his precious radio... Whatever his purpose, the guard committed suicide, his plan Failed without a doubt, but I can't put my chips on a loser!"

   "But he's the manager, or do you have a better idea?" The man standing opposite Researcher G-13 finally made a voice, and the whole image was no longer the one-man show of Researcher G-13 alone.

  Perhaps seeing the heartbeat on the man's face, Researcher G-13 continued with a beaming expression.

"certainly!"

   "Slime molds are very adaptable, we will be stronger than them, and it will not be us, but them!" The man continued to ask hesitantly.

"How do you plan to do it?" "Synthetic matrix!" Researcher G-13yx answered in a firm voice, and his idea was unexpectedly different from the immature brain hole that Yin Fang had proposed earlier. coincide.

   "We can cultivate mature somatic cells into embryonic stem cells, and we can certainly reversely restore mature fruiting bodies into mother nests!"

   "We will recompile the gene pool of the brood, making them our shape with our interference!"

   Those pupils. The net shines with ambition. Researcher G-13 continued speaking in a word-by-word voice.

   "They will replace the slime molds on the surface!"

   "And we will control evolution!"