This Game is Too Real

Chapter 481: Rebirth (First Update)

Although he didn't wait for reinforcements from the academy until the end, Zhao Xiao unexpectedly got a piece of news from Lao Bai that he couldn't believe—

He can go home now.

Moon dark night with high wind.

The empty camp was empty and silent.

The soldiers of the Burning Corps arranged this place fifteen minutes ago, but they did not station in the camp. They left a truck and some supplies and left here.

Zhao Xiao, who was standing in the center of the camp, was a little complicated.

I didn't expect that old white was not joking, he really let people go.

Not only him, but also Chen Yutong, and Wu Liangping, who was seriously injured and comatose in the dormant cabin... All the captured personnel are here.

As for Xuanfeng.

The Alliance insists that androids without "intelligence plug-ins" should be regarded as equipment, and this is the Academy's own point of view, so its body and AI core are not included in the exchange of prisoners.

Although is a bit arrogant, the academy does not admit that androids are human, and Zhao Xiao can't think of how to refute it. One is not just Xuan Feng.

His own sniper rifle and accessories were also detained by the guy named Ye Shi... But he didn't expect those people to return the weapon and freedom to him.

Although he has regained his freedom, there is one thing that Zhao Xiao can't understand.

That's why the alliance and corporations let their captives go.

What made him even more confused was why he was not happy at all even though he could go home soon. Maybe because of that bet.

The guy named Lao Bai didn't mention the beer, and finally just smiled and patted his shoulder to express his congratulations. But he knew very well in his heart that he was the loser after all.

At this time, Chen Yutong, who was standing beside him, suddenly said.

"I changed my mind."

Zhao Xiao was stunned and turned his head to look at her.

"change idea"

Chen Yutong nodded.

"Well, I'm going to stay."

The confusion in 's eyes gradually turned into surprise, Zhao Xiao stared at her in disbelief, and took a long time to squeeze out a sentence from his throat.

"Why?"

Betrayal is a felony.

Students who defect will be rewarded and hunted down by the academy. The higher the level, the higher the reward.

Not only that, any trainee is obliged to record his words and deeds when discovering a traitor, and report it to the Internal Affairs Department for handling by the purging plan team.

Otherwise will be sentenced to connivance…

Zhao Xiao subconsciously put his hand on his waist, but soon found that there was nothing there, and put his hand down again.

"do not know."

didn't care about the actions of his teammates, Chen Yutong shook his head gently as if he didn't see it.

She turned around, looked at the starry night sky in the south, and said to herself in a very soft voice, "Maybe... just want to go and have a look."

Although it is clear that the Alliance is not the kind of "heaven" she imagined, but she still wants to see what kind of place it is, so that those who are loyal to him can stand up and say those words confidently...

You can confirm with your eyes.

At this moment, she was even more curious about the place than the ruins.

Of course, the meal is delicious as well.

Chen Yutong, who finally made a decision, suddenly felt as if he had put down all the burdens on his body, and his whole body suddenly felt much more relaxed.

Rank, Status…

Those things are not important anymore.

She has already died for the Academy once.

In the rest of her life, she plans to pursue her true heart and live for the things she is interested in.

She looked at Zhao Xiao.

"Just tell the captain that I have died in the previous battle, thank him and me for taking care of me..."

She paused when she said this, then shook her head with a self-deprecating smile.

"Wait, forget it, let's avoid this sentence, it's too strange for a dead person to speak."

Anyway, the captain probably didn’t know about her being captured. It’s not bad to think that she, like those teammates who died, had already died in the previous action.

As long as she doesn't make the academy feel dull, the academy doesn't have to care about her little E-class, and those prospectors who disappeared in action may not all really be dead, maybe it's just like the D in Laobai's mouth Where do you live as well as a level prospector.

As for thank you.

Let’s have a chance to talk face-to-face in the future.

Zhao Xiao swallowed.

Duty told him that he should stop the defector in front of him, but he found that what he said was another sentence.

"……Take care of yourself."

After all, he is a teammate who has worked together for many years, and he still cannot enforce that discipline.

He just hoped that she would not regret her choice today.

As if she was already dead.

Chen Yutong nodded, turned his back to him, and walked away from the camp defenselessly.

Almost ten minutes after she left, the crunch of the tracks running over the stones came down the ground.

Zhao Xiao raised his head and looked towards the north of the camp, and saw the familiar heavy crawler slowly driving into the quiet and empty camp.

Sitting in the driver's seat is Zheng Hao, the captain of the Beacon Squad.

Zhao Xiao's eyes filled with surprise, but he didn't expect him to come to pick him up in person.

"team leader!"

Looking at Zheng Hao who jumped off the crawler, Zhao Xiao trotted over and gave him an excited hug.

patted the young man on the shoulder, Zheng Hao let go of his hand, looking at the young face in front of him, his tense expression suddenly became loose.

On the way here, he was hesitating whether his decision was correct, but at this moment all the hesitations vanished.

He was extremely grateful for his choice at the moment.

Perhaps from the academy's point of view, it would be the most "economical" way to write off these E-Class names from the list, and what he and the other team members should do is to remove the names of these people and their memories. Deleted from memory.

But he is not an academy after all.

Neither the Dr. Conclusion nor the CTO is too far away from him.

He is just a selfish person, an irrelevant D-class, a small person who is called by the superior at will....

No matter what the hardships, those people died under his command.

Even if he could save the next one, it would ease the guilt in his heart.

"Those people didn't do anything to you, did they?"

Zhao Xiao shook his head excitedly.

"No! They were kind to me - didn't even beat me."

"very good."

With a rare smile on his expressionless face, Zheng Hao patted his shoulder and let go of the young man.

"They kept their promise, I will remember this favor... By the way, did that guy named Lao Bai give you anything."

"Yes! I'm taking it with me!"

Zhao Xiao nodded immediately, took out a test tube from his pocket and handed it over.

Lao Bai told him before that he would hand it over to their captain.

took the test tube, and Zheng Hao's eyes flashed with joy, but when his eyes fell on the sleeping cabin next to him, that joy was quickly diluted by complicated emotions.

"Anyone else"

Zhao Xiao was silent for a while and shook his head.

"Gone."

Zheng Hao said nothing.

"...Put Lao Wu on the truck, this is not a place to stay for a long time, we should go."

Zhao Xiao nodded and did not ask any further questions. He cooperated with the captain to carry the dormant cabin with Lao Wu onto the back of the truck.

The two then came to the front of the truck, opened the door and got into the driver's seat.

There is a note on the steering wheel.

A few crooked stick figures roughly describe how the truck starts, how to turn on the lights, how to drive, etc.

Zheng Hao glanced at it, tore off the note and tossed it aside, unscrewed the key, started the car, and drove outside the camp.

Looking at the gradually receding camp in the rearview mirror, Zhao Xiao suddenly said.

"By the way... there is one more thing."

Zheng Hao, who was driving, replied casually.

"What's up."

"Chen Yutong...she was seriously injured before and felt that she couldn't survive, so she gave the dormant cabin to Old Wu who could still be rescued."

This is the story he just made up.

On the premise of not revealing that she is still alive, she can barely justify herself.

After a moment of silence, Zhao Xiao continued.

"She asked me to say thank you to you...Thank you for your continued care."

Zheng Hao nodded. #for internal posting only

The expression seemed to have guessed something, and he didn't seem to think much about it.

"Well, I see." Zhao Xiao breathed a sigh of relief.

Some words are hard to hold in my heart.

It feels better to say it.

The truck drove about five or six kilometers and stopped beside a mountain road.

Several members of the Beacon Squad surrounded them with their rifles. Seeing the captain and the sniper sitting in the driver's seat, they were relieved and pressed the muzzle down.

"The transaction was successful."

jumped out of the car, Zheng Hao glanced behind him, no headlights followed.

It seems that those people really let them go.

Maybe as the old white said, they are still looking forward to the next cooperation with him... Although he doesn't want to meet those monsters again at all.

Vice-captain Song Changfeng stepped forward and asked.

"What do we do now? Without communication equipment, we cannot report our situation to the Academy.

"That's right. When I went back, I said that we were actively attacked by the alliance and corporate reinforcements, and the follow-up action failed."

After a pause, Zheng Hao continued.

"But there is no way out. At the cost of a vehicle, we not only successfully rescued the captured team members, but also successfully obtained tissue samples from the mother."

Although they lost a tracked vehicle, it wasn't their own, so it would be nice to be able to exchange their captured teammates with the equipment of the academy.

They had communicated this before, and everyone agreed. For this reason, the engineers in the team also helped format the AI cores of the two android players.

A team member climbed into the back of the truck, and suddenly found that there were two boxes in addition to a sleeping cabin, so he asked with a loud voice.

"What are the two boxes on the truck"

Zhao Xiao heard the answer.

"Oh, that, it's the supplies they gave us. They said they couldn't finish it anyway, so they left it for us to eat on the way..."

The medic pouted.

"Who will eat the enemy's stuff."

He had unloaded the supplies on the tracked vehicle, including enough freeze-dried food, energy bars and fresh water for the squad to consume for thirty days.

Zhao Xiao scratched the back of his head.

"That being said, but those things taste pretty good..."

Several team members looked at each other with strange expressions.

This guy must be locked up stupid.

Song Changfeng looked at Zheng Hao, his expression obviously wanting to ask his opinion.

Zheng Hao didn't say anything, just nodded and said casually.

"Keep it."

He had already heard Zhao Xiao talk about the two boxes in the car. Although he was very confused as to why the other party did such an unnecessary thing, he never thought that those people would poison them or something. 30

With their abilities, there is absolutely no need for this.

This kind of trivial matter is fine, he doesn't bother to worry about it at all.

What he is thinking about now is which professor should be contacted after returning to the academy.

There is only one chance.

He has to think of a way to maximize the value of the test tube in his hand...

Meanwhile, north of Oasis 8.

After nearly a week of long-distance travel, Lao Bai and his party finally successfully joined the large army that came to support.

Looking at Sun Ze who was approaching, several corporate pilots walked up to him with a smile and patted his shoulder and arm.

"Haha, brother, I heard later that you fell badly."

Sun Ze sighed.

"That's not right, the ghost knows what kind of medicine the crows in the swamp ate, and when they met, they killed Lao Tzu with a missile!

You don’t know how exciting it was at the time, I was almost finished! Fortunately, Laozi’s driving skills are awesome, and he was rescued!”

"What about the plane?" Another pilot asked curiously.

Sun Ze waved his hand indifferently.

"Scrapped! I've marked the wreckage on the map, let's wait for the aviation department to send someone over to deal with it... What's the matter, I'm worth it anyway! Haha!"

Having said that, Sun Ze vividly described what happened to him and the Burning Corps after they landed.

In particular, he focused on how he used his wit, bravery and determination to lead a group of soldiers to break out of the siege under the siege of the academy, completely forgetting that he was about to urinate at the time.

A few small players stood by and stared at the subtitles on the VM while whispering in Mandarin.

"Fuck, this is too good to blow"

"+1, I'm afraid this skin is thicker than the wall of the Stone City..."

The rescued two corporate pilots will take a direct flight back to Ideal City to be interviewed by a number of media and clarify some misunderstandings.

But before going back, the pilot's commander seemed to have something to say to the two rescued lucky ones, so he pulled Sun Ze, who was bragging, aside.

As for Luo Yu and Xiao Yu, they will take the samples recovered from the Eagle fighter jets and return to Dawn City on the company's plane.

Companies are not particularly interested in Oba.

Or to put it more accurately, those who are interested in it do not have enough say and influence in the Supreme Council.

In contrast, the android named "Xuanfeng" may arouse the interest of Kang Mao Group, but that's what the managers have to worry about.

Lao Bai confirmed the update task on the VM.

After reunited with the main force of the Burning Corps, they will return to the frontline airport with the reindeer heavy crawler "captured" from the academy to wait for the next step.

I heard that the battle on the front line was going very smoothly. Under the joint attack of the Skeleton Corps, the Storm Corps, and the Lion Kingdom Army, the retreating 90,000-strong team was defeated by two more.

If this trend continues, less than half of the 10,000-strong team can successfully withdraw to Oasis No. 2. The scale of victory is almost in the hands of the alliance.

It is estimated that before the end of the year, the Alliance will be able to meet the old friends on the Trailblazer.

At this time, Gu Feng, who was operating the drone, suddenly raised his head and looked at Old Bai who was thinking about the route of the march later.

"Someone is coming from the north."

A look of surprise appeared on Lao Bai's face.

Have you given up on recruiting those nerds from the north?

"Several."

Gu Feng touched the bridge of his nose and said.

"I just saw one."

"Go and meet him!"

Ye Shi jumped out of the truck excitedly, and was about to try the weapon accessories he had just captured, but was stopped by Lao Bai reaching out his hand.

"Not necessarily to trouble us, I'll take a look."

said, Lao Bai walked out of the camp alone.

After about ten minutes, a figure soon appeared on the sand dunes in the distance.

She came alone, without a weapon.

Looking at Chen Yutong who walked in front of him, Lao Bai asked with a smile.

"Did something fall here?"

Chen Yutong shook his head, but after a while, he nodded again.

"I want to follow you... Go to the place you mentioned where the wastelanders reported to the group to warm up."

Old Bai looked at the girl in front of him in surprise.

Seeing that the expression didn't look like he was joking, he didn't ask any more questions and stretched out his right hand with a smile.

"It seems that you have been thinking about it for a long time. Now that you have decided, I will not advise you... Welcome to join us."

"Thank you, if you don't take me in, I'm afraid I'll be homeless."

reached out and shook his hand, Chen Yutong made a joke with a slightly relaxed expression, "After making this decision, I should have gone from missing to dead at the academy.

Old Bai also joked jokingly.

"Congratulations on starting a new life, do you want a new name?"

Chen Yutong said simply.

"No, I don't plan to forget the past, and there are so many people with the same name and surname, no one cares about the life and death of an E-level prospector."

She is just a small person, not worthy of the attention of those high-level A-level or B-level people.

paused for a moment, then looked around and continued.

"Didn't you get a tracked vehicle from Zheng Hao? Why didn't I see it?"

Lao Bai said embarrassedly.

"Still on the way back... My people have just taken over and are studying the instructions left by your captain. They will be back in about a few minutes."

Compared with the Alliance truck, that thing is much more troublesome to drive. There are more than 50 buttons on the 12-inch central control.

That thing isn't much better to operate than the flappers that businesses sell them.

Chen Yutong smiled.

"That's right. When your people come back, I can teach you how to drive that thing."

Old Bai's eyes flashed with surprise, and he said with a hearty smile.

"That's great, you can help us a lot"

The naturally hanging bangs blocked her view, she shook it gently and said indifferently.

"You're welcome, this little thing is nothing, just treat me to a glass of wine made from potatoes when I go back... What is it called?"

"You mean vodka"

Old Bai looked at the brave girl in surprise, laughed and joked, "I heard that people in the academy don't drink alcohol, and ethanol is only used as reagent and fuel... Are you sure you can drink it?"

Chen Yutong's mouth curled up.

"I'm no longer from the academy. And if I can drink it, how will I know if I don't try it"

Maybe it's because of the different identities, or maybe it's because of thinking about it, Lao Bai always feels that she seems to be different from yesterday.

But that's not a bad thing either.

Try some new things that you have never tried before, it is still very helpful to integrate into the new life.

"Okay, I won't stop you...but I recommend you a drink that is suitable for rookies. You can add some Coke or Sprite in it."

Chen Yutong asked curiously.

"What's that good to drink?"

"A kind of drink...that gang of life pro gamers—I mean the stuff made by the residents of the shelter who love life. Simply put, it is sugar water with a little carbonic acid."

"Carbolic acid? Does that thing smell?" Chen Yutong frowned slightly.

The college also has beverages with added sugar, caffeine and vitamins.

But they definitely don't add carbonic acid to drinking water, they put them in a labeled sample cabinet like ethanol.

Those things can neither replenish nutrients nor promote dopamine secretion, but will cause the loss of minerals in the body, just like alcohol can damage the brain.

Even if harmful doses are manageable, there is absolutely no need to increase avoidable risks for meaningless things.

"No, there is no taste at all, but the feeling of the bubbles exploding between the lips and teeth can bring a little different excitement to the mediocre sugar water, you will know when you try it..."

Lao Bai's answer met her expectations.

But what surprised her was his other views on "meaning".

For her reborn, this is more interesting to her than deliciousness.

"That's it, can you tell me about Sprite again? I'm a little curious."

Looking at the curious face, Old Bai explained with a bit of a head.

"Hey, this question is too professional, it's the same as Coke in general, but we use citric acid instead of caffeine..."

"Citric acid instead of caffeine?! That's it... I'm looking forward to it."

I don't know when it started, the two have already started walking back.

Chen Yutong naturally followed him and asked a lot of questions that he was interested in but didn't have time to ask with great interest.

The two are like old friends who have known each other for a long time.

On the sand dunes not far away, Ye Shi, who was holding a sniper rifle, put away the gun cursingly, patted the ash on his trousers and got up.

"Damn! Don't look at it, because I was worried that something would happen to him, so I stuffed a mouthful of dog food."