This Game is Too Real

  The dazzling white light passed through the slits of his eyes, and Yi Hai, who was lying on the hospital bed, raised his brows.

  As consciousness gradually recovered, burning pain suddenly rushed to his throat, and he recoiled sideways and retched.

   "Ouch! Cough-cough-"

   vomited a stomach of sour water, and he was quickly pressed back by two people in white coats.

   Thinking that he was caught by the Willands, he instinctively wanted to struggle, but after hearing the chatter next to him, the struggle stopped.

   "Doctor! How is his condition?!"

"Cryosurgery sequelae... Cryosurgery for more than half a year requires the injection of long-acting dormancy needles, which will happen with short-term dormancy needles. Fortunately, you got him back in time, and in two months, he may really change. It's ice cubes."

"elder brother."

   Hearing the familiar voice, his consciousness finally returned to his body, Yi Hai moved his stiff neck and looked at the young man standing beside him.

   "...Yichuan?"

   "It's me!" Looking at the dying man on the hospital bed, Yi Chuan's calm face finally couldn't hold back his choking. He sniffed hard, trying to squeeze out a worry-free smile.

   "We're here to pick you up!"

   Yi Hai's Adam's apple moved, and his haggard face finally stretched a touch of relief.

   "You are here..."

   "We will not give up every stray inhabitant, we will bring them back no matter the cost."

   A solemn voice came along with the footsteps whose heels landed.

   Walking to the side of the hospital bed, Wu Changnian patted Yi Chuan on the shoulder and continued in a gentle tone.

"Your relatives are out of danger. For those who haven't been rescued, I want to talk to him about something." Yi Chuan nodded vigorously, gave the old brother lying on the hospital bed a relieved look, took a step back, Turn around and walk out of the tent.

   Watching his younger brother's back disappear at the door, Yi Hai glanced at Wu Changnian who was standing beside the bed, and then at Chu Guang, a look of surprise suddenly appeared on his face.

   "You are...that manager?"

   "Yes." Chu Guang smiled and nodded, looking at the face full of surprises.

   He knew very well that this lieutenant of Captain Lu Yang must be full of doubts now. Even the expression on that face seemed to ask "Why are you here".

   It is normal to have such questions.

  After all, Yi Hai's memory of Qingquan City was still a year ago, and at that time there was no concept of alliance.

  In the eyes of the Pioneer crew, they just passed by an inconspicuous small village, and both sides helped each other a small favor within their ability.

   Looking at those confused eyes, Chu Guang continued in a relaxed tone.

"It takes three days and three nights to talk about us, and I bet our story is no less than your journey along the way... But before we talk about us, I hope you can tell me, the rest Where are the crew members?"

"It takes three days and three nights to talk about us, and I bet our story is no less than your journey along the way... But before we talk about us, I hope you can tell me, the rest Where are the crew members?"

   Wu Changnian also stared at him and said.

   "What about the others on the Trailblazer?"

   The back of his head rested on the pillow, Yi Hai closed his eyes and sorted out the chaotic memories for a moment, putting them together like a jigsaw puzzle.

   "They...should have gone in."

   "Go in? Where?" Wu Changnian hurriedly asked.

   "Refuge..."

   "Is it Vault 0?"

"I don't know," Yi Hai's pupils were filled with uncertainty, and he continued in a hesitant voice, "No accident, it should be there... We found its entrance, and Lu Yang said that he planned to bring it with him. The rest went to the Vault to escape the Willands and the mutants."

   His eyebrows suddenly hurt, and he raised his hand and pressed it on his forehead.

   "…We should not be attacked just by the Willands and the mutants. The equipment they use is more elite than the Legion's equipment, and it is closer to the pre-war."

  Equipment elite?

   Wu Changnian frowned.

   "Could it be an academy?"

   "Not like..."

   Yi Hai shook his head, coughed and continued.

"We haven't seen the people from the academy... Those people seem to have lived in the great desert for a long time, and they are very familiar with this place. At first we thought they were coming for Vault 0 like us, and Captain Lu Yang proposed. Working with them, if Vault 0 really has the ability to end the wasteland, it wouldn't be a bad thing for one more person to open it, until later, we found out..."

   Seeing that he had stopped talking, Chu Guang immediately asked in a fascination.

   "What did you find?"

   Yi Hai was silent for a long time.

"...Those people have more intelligence than we can imagine, they seem to know the location of Vault 0 from the beginning, and they didn't go to Vault 0 at all from the beginning, it seems that it is just to prevent us from getting it. ."

  Chu Guang frowned.

   "Who are those people? Did they say who they were?"

   "They seem to..." Yi Hai thought for a long time, and finally vaguely remembered something, "It seems to be called enlightenment."

  …

In the follow-up statement, Yi Hai briefly explained the whole story, including how they discovered the location of Vault 0, including how they conflicted with the Willands, including how they got into danger, etc. Captain's Office.

   Chu Guang, who returned to the airship, stared at the notebook in his hand and fell into deep thought.

  A blank page was marked with scribbled symbols in pencil—two upside-down triangles joined together in the shape of a torch.

   Yi Hai claimed that they saw this sign on those people, but they were at a loss for the "Torch Church" he mentioned.

  Those people claim to be an organization called the Enlightenment, and most of its members are made up of blue jackets—that is, residents of the sanctuary.

   After all, the four major industrial areas and the space elevator in the center were once the industrial and economic centers of the People’s Union era. The number of shelters distributed in these areas is naturally far from the ratio between Luoxia Province and River Valley Province.

   Since the end of the nuclear winter, a group of people wake up in an unknown corner almost every year... This enlightenment is composed of some of the refugee residents.

  The idea of ​​this organization is just like their name, aiming to restart the decaying civilization and save the world that has been sinking for two hundred years.

   It is precisely for this reason that Lu Yang chose to cooperate with them to find that Refuge No. 0 together.

   It is not easy to meet like-minded people in the wasteland.

   However, no one expected that those who share the same aspirations with them would choose to betray at the last moment...

   But there is another doubt.

   If it is true as Yi Hai said, the organization that calls itself the "Enlightenment Society" knows the location of Vault 0, and its purpose is to prevent them from finding it, then why pretend to cooperate with Lu Yang and others?

   Even if you can't win and you need to rely on sneak attacks to win, there's no need to start after the Trailblazer finds the entrance to Vault 0, right?

   "…The Enlightenment wants the corporate folks to find it, but disagrees over what to do with Vault 0."

  Chu Guang closed his eyes and thought for a while, and finally shook his head.

   has too little information.

   There are two possibilities for his guess, but neither of them lacks reliable evidence to prove that the answer may be hidden in Vault 0.

   Anyway, they have obtained the exact coordinates of the entrance of Vault 0 from Yi Hai.

   That is an industrial building covering an area of ​​thousands of acres, or to put it more vividly, it is a "vertical assembly factory".

  The two major achievements of the prosperous era, one is to stuff farmland into a thousand-meter-high building, and the other is to stuff the assembly line into it.

   And it was stuffed in a large scale.

  According to the information provided by Yi Hai, that building was the entrance to Vault 0, and a piece of the wreckage of the space elevator just landed in that area.

   Due to the presence of radioactive materials, there are many extremely dangerous alien species active in the area.

  At present, the 26th commando of the company has dispatched some people to control the entrance of the building. Tomorrow, the representative of the party will officially enter the ruins and unveil the mysterious veil of Vault 0.

  Chu Guang released the communication relay drone carried on the airship, and took advantage of the opportunity to periodically return archived data to organize and update the previously collected information on the official website.

   At this moment, the forum is still immersed in the joy of the victory in the Luxia Province war.

   Since there are only a small number of players who follow the airship, most of the players participating in the expedition follow the large NPC troops to return by land, or go back slowly in groups of three or five.

  Most players share their experiences on the way back on the forum, including those found in Honey Badger Kingdom and Lion Kingdom, or unlocked new gameplay unexpectedly during the trip, etc.

   For example, you can buy a piece of land in the oasis and become a farmer with the reward of the expansion pack. Another example is staying in the local area and helping the Union garrison to fight looters and run errands.

   "Wasteland OL" does not stipulate how players must play some games, but only stipulates some things that cannot be done through the player manual, and the consequences of violating the rules.

  In addition to several major nodes related to the direction of the world line, most of the time players can find the fun of this open world game by themselves.

  Whether it is to help wastelanders improve their productivity with knowledge that can be found outside the game with a finger, or to talk about something boring.

   Even for the vast majority of players, if you put aside the huge rewards brought by the main quest, the unexpectedly triggered sidelines or the strange gameplay unlocked in the game are more fun than those "artificially designed routes".

   But even so, when Chu Guang used Ah Guang's vest to update the latest clues of the main story on the forum, it still attracted the attention of countless players.

   Posts are published in less than a minute.

   The number of replies quickly exceeded a thousand.

  Quit Smoking: "Enlightenment??? What is that?"

  Tail: "Oh! Smelled the breath of conspiracy. (:w·

  Siss: "Oh! The new expansion...Wait, shouldn't the new expansion continue to go west? I'm betting on the south ahead of time. E (°A°11I

  Tail: "S·.·2?"

   Picking up trash at level 99: "Hey...Isn't this the symbol of the Torch Church before, this thing was painted on the collars that controlled the aliens that were put on the shelves in the early days of the NPC shop, right?"

   Debt and big eyes: "One thing to say, this sign is really ugly. Could it be that Aguang drew it with a pencil? (funny

   Construction site boy and brick: "@Canyon is running away mole rat, comment."

  The fleeing mole rat in the canyon: "The scribbles are unruly, rough without losing details, and every stroke can be seen in the rough and fine art skills, and it is identified as a good job!"

   Debt Big Eyes: "???"

   Quit smoking: "Hahahaha! Good licking!"

  Irena: "No wonder you're unemployed. (funny

  Ye Shi: "Brother Guang! Someone said you are fine!"

  Fugitive mole rat in the canyon: "%￥#@!"

  Siss: "Speaking of which, the founder of the Torch Church... the guy who claims to be the Son of God, is also a refugee resident, right?"

  Tujito: "Well...the official website setting seems to say that he is a wastelander adopted by the refuge? But he grew up in the refuge."

  Yuya: "Ah!! Could that guy also be a member of the Enlightenment?"

Canyon Fleeing Mole: "It doesn't really matter if he is a member of the Enlightenment. This updated Enlightenment gives me the impression that it is only a regional force. The Torch Church was at least involved in the Legion's Great Crusade and the later Bone Biting. It's a mess, and they ... seem to have put the Blazers out of the fire, the sense of presence is too low."

  Ye Ten: "Didn't they all say that the real bosses are hiding behind the scenes? (funny

   Gust: "That's a misunderstanding... You don't have enough strength to need a conspiracy. Those who are really awesome will just show their cards. (Squint

Fang Chang: "After reading it, I have found two doubts. First, why did the Enlightenment Society, which aims to restart civilization, prevent companies from approaching Vault 0. Second, the Torch Church in the far south and the Enlightenment Society in the center of the mainland are still in the dark. and connection."

  Ye Shi: "I suspect that Brother Guang himself has not thought about how to make it up. (Funny

  Fang Chang: "Then you underestimate him. I feel like there is a big game behind this... Speaking of which, what exactly is Vault 0?"

  Tengteng: "Hmm...a big, big shelter?"

   Fang Chang: "How big is it? In other words, how many black boxes and how many power armors must be installed in it to restore the world to its original appearance?"

Gufeng: "Well...you say so, I always feel that the three major forces of the academy, enterprise, and legion may have information that we don't understand. Even our allies, enterprises, have not fully shared them with us. know something."

   Fang Chang: "This is inevitable. My intuition tells me that maybe our thinking was wrong from the beginning."

  Ye Shi: "What do you mean? (frozen

  Fang Chang: "When the computer is stuck, there are three solutions we commonly use, one is to wait for the program to respond, the other is to end the current process, or directly restart the computer."

"The underlying logic of most internal shelters should be regarded as the first type. Most of the elements that make up civilization, such as personnel, resources, energy, knowledge, tools, etc., are preserved and unsealed until it is suitable for rebuilding civilization... This is a relative A mild solution, but the implementation method will be different when it is specific to different shelters." "However, Refuge 0 is a 'legendary' existence after all, whether it is a company, academy or legion, it has nothing to do with it. data, not even sure if it was ever built..."

   "However, Vault 0 is a 'legendary' existence after all. Neither the company, the academy nor the legion have any relevant data on it, and it is not even certain whether it has been built..."

   "An irresponsible conjecture, perhaps in the underlying logic of this sanctuary, it is fundamentally different from other sanctuaries."

  Raven: "Ah, you mean...that might not be a sanctuary at all?"

  Fang Chang: "Don't worry about it, I just combined the conspiracy theory with the related settings of the Enlightenment. It may not be as good as the rumors. (Squint eyes

   It can only be said that he is indeed the man who understands Ah Guang the most on the forum. Fang Chang's guess soon sparked new discussions.

  Some players tend to think that this is a new job planned by the dog, and other players think that things are not that complicated.

   As for cloud players, they don’t care about this, they only care about when the production of helmets can be increased again.

   They have missed a magnificent expedition.

   Looking at the cakes that the dog planned to draw, many pre-registered players who have not yet entered the game are heartbroken.

   There are players who want the production team to update a bit slower in the EA stage, and it is the only one in the history of the game. …

  Old Bai: "Speaking of which, let's stop talking about the ones that are not there. When are you coming back? You are here for a new job. (screaming teeth

   Fang Chang: "Cough, soon, just a few days... Don't worry, I'll be back before you guys."

   Battlefield Atmosphere Team: "Hey! Did you guys plan PY with the dog again?"

  Old Bai: "If it doesn't exist, you should come back as soon as possible. (screaming teeth

   Battlefield Atmosphere Team: "What's the matter with me?"

  Old Bai: "It's nothing, I'm just urging others. Does it matter? I'll find out when you come back." Battlefield Atmosphere Team: "...?"

   The next day.

   Bottom of abandoned industrial building.

   Several large dogs with grayish-yellow skin and long fangs on forearms were wandering on the gravel-covered steps, searching for prey with their noses with a keen sense of smell, unaware that danger had quietly approached their throats.

  A xenomorph suddenly raised its head alertly and looked around.

   However, before it let out a low roar, a few short shots of "chirp" pierced through the heads of those alien species.

   There was a sound in the sea buckthorn grass, and the small animals were frightened to flee quickly, and several exoskeletons appeared in the shadow not far away.

   tapped his index finger on the helmet, Su Ming glanced at the drone hovering in the sky, then looked around, and said in a clear voice.

   "Five xenomorphs were killed, the image data has been recovered... The entrance to the building has been controlled, and it is confirmed that there are no other threats... Damn, don't let me name it again."

  According to the information from Yi Hai, it is suspected that an unknown third party is eyeing Vault 0... But Su Ming thinks that this may just be a trick of the Willantes.

   Those guys are not without high-tech equipment, but only a small number.

  How else to explain how the Trailblazer was targeted by the Willands and surrounded by a large army of clones?

   As for the Enlightenment.

   Might have been a rhetoric made up by the Willantes in order to get close to the Trailblazer, and what is outrageous is that Captain Luyang actually believed it.

  If it were him, he wouldn't trust strangers he met in the wasteland.

   "It's better to upload it to Endpoint Cloud and let netizens vote."

   "Good idea, when is the next time to let migratory birds go back?"

   "It seems to be tomorrow."

  “左…”

  Su Ming scolded in a low voice, turned on the vertical stabilization system of the battle video, and prepared to record some interesting material to update to the social account.

   At the same time, ten armed trucks drove out of the camp, with a group of soldiers and representatives who were about to explore the ruins, and smashed downstairs of the industrial building that had been emptied.

The wreckage of the    space elevator is not far from here, and a towering curved metal shell is embedded in the ground like the roof of a hangar.

   I heard that this magnificent component is just a "tile", a brick on that space elevator.

   Just looking at the broken bricks and tiles, it is hard to imagine how majestic the sky-to-sky tower leading to space was before it collapsed.

  The forces of the Quartet gathered downstairs in the building.

   Tall Willantes dressed in heavy armor and led by an officer with a raised nose and deep eye sockets. Next to him stood a squire, handsome in different styles, who killed countless pangolins on the battlefield.

  Wally glanced triumphantly at the Union soldiers who were said to have caused his compatriots to suffer on the battlefield.

  The reason why Mr. Cohen named pangolins as his guards was not without the intention of showing off his might in front of the alliance.

   But what puzzled him was why those guys' reactions were so flat, they didn't even look this way.

   Don't you know this brave general under his command?

   Or because of fear, he didn't even dare to make eye contact with him.

  Thinking of this, the corners of Wall-E's mouth couldn't help but twitch into a smile.

   is too weak!

   The battlefield guy who was standing with him in the front row of the queue now had an uncomfortable expression on his face, his toes clasped to the ground.

Oh shit.

   This is too embarrassing!

   Unlike the Legion, the academy was quite low-key, and there was only a female researcher with long black hair.

   Next to her was a half-human-high quadruped robot dog with a bulging backpack hanging from its broad back.

  Since getting out of the car, she has not communicated with anyone, standing in a place where she feels safe with a face that no one is allowed to enter.

   This is mostly the case when the Academy's fellows are outside.

  The problems left over from history and the high cost of equipment have made almost every academy person suffer from persecution paranoia.

   In fact, this is not a delusion, after all, the prospectors of the academy are full of treasures, which is almost common sense in the wasteland.

  Most prospectors choose to hide their past identities after leaving the academy...the exact opposite of corporate employees who are keen to brag.

Most of the survivor forces have to weigh the risk of being blacklisted when they are thinking of corporate employees, especially in the province between the clouds, things are too ostentatious, and they will provoke the anger of people and gods on the endpoint cloud, and may also attract The pursuit of corporate allies or direct commandos.

   was confirming the task assigned to him by his mentor through the holographic window, at this moment, Jiang Xuezhou suddenly frowned.

   She always felt that there were two eyes staring at her...

   In fact, she felt right.

   But it's not the human being staring at her, but the corporate android.

   Staring straight at the little girl from the academy, Hanshuang said angrily.

   "Eclipse...why don't you let us go? Strictly speaking, androids shouldn't be considered human, right? Wouldn't it be better to bring more people down?"

  The pupil of the solar eclipse flickered slightly.

   "It is said that this is the proposal of the academy."

  Frost looked at it dissatisfied.

   "But didn't they bring a mechanical dog with an AI core? What's the difference?" Eclipse was silent for a while.

   "That.......isn't supposed to be a human being."

   Hanshuang's face was filled with humiliation and unwillingness, and he clenched his fists.

   "Damn...isn't it just lying on your stomach? It's not like I can't."

  Eclipse: "...?"

   Just as everyone was waiting, the passage from the main entrance of the building with the entrance to Vault 0 was completely opened.

   walked out of the hall on the first floor with his subordinates, and Yun Song, the captain of the 26th Commando, happened to bump into Yun Ye who just got out of the car.

   This time, the company arranged for two representatives to enter Vault 0, one is Yun Ye, and the other is Su Ming, his best scout.

   Looking at Yun Xiao, who was approaching, Yun Song's face showed rare hesitation and restraint, and asked in a low voice. "Are you... all right?"

   Yun Ye nodded simply.

   "No problem, we've reached a ceasefire agreement with the Legion, and there are only two of them." "I always feel that the threat is not just from the Willantes..."

   Looking back at the abandoned building, Yun Song looked at Yun Xiao again, seeing that her expression was not loose, and finally gave up and sighed.

   "Be careful for a while."

   Yun Ye nodded and said concisely.

"Um."

not far away.

   Looking at Yun and Yunsong standing next to each other, Ye Shi approached for a while next to the NPC teammates who were about to get down with him, and asked curiously.

   "Hey, brother, by the way, what is the relationship between your captain and the representative from the Endpoint Group?" He was curious before.

   Both have the surname Yun, but they are completely different in character and temperament, and they don't even look like people of the same era.

  Su Ming said mysteriously.

"you guess?"

   Ye Shi gave him a sideways glance.

   "You are so mysterious... I guess it's not a sibling."

   "Smart," Su Ming gave a thumbs up and said in approval, "Keep guessing."

   "...Mother and son?"

  Su Ming shook his head like a rattle.

   "No, this generation is far behind."

   "It's alright after the difference in generation... Aunt and nephew? Grandpa and grandson? Damn, what the **** is that?" Seeing that guy was trying to sell off, Ye Shi couldn't help but swear.

  Su Ming smiled.

   "I'll just say you can't guess."

   Seeing that his teammates were going to be driven mad, he no longer gave a shit, leaned closer to Ye Shi and whispered in his ear.

   "Actually... . . . In terms of seniority, she should be the grandmother of the N generation of our captain..."

   Ye Shi was stunned, and his worldview was immediately hit hard.

   "What the hell?!"

  Su Ming shrugged.

"This kind of situation is actually not uncommon in Ideal City. One day you were at work and suddenly learned that one of your ancestors has a sister or brother or brother who has been frozen and dormant from a hundred years ago, and now that guy is sitting in the hospital. I flipped through a non-existent camera, and thought I was the target of a trick show, and everyone around me was ganging up to deceive me... Can you understand this feeling?"

   "When you wake up, your incurable disease is cured, but the world you are familiar with is ruined along with your pension."

   said he paused and continued.

   "It's another matter for someone who suddenly picked up an ancestor. You now have to worry about how to get him or her to accept reality and explain... what is your situation."

   Ye Shi was stunned.

   "...Ah this."

   He hadn't thought about this issue before, he just thought it would be cool to go to the future by freezing and hibernating.

   The android maid in the game may be able to complete a set in reality, and the deposit in the bank card seems to be doubled.

   But when you think about it, this assumption seems to be tacitly "Tomorrow will be better".

   What if the future gets worse?

   It's kind of scary to think about it.

   "Of course... I'm just making an analogy. Our captain and Ms. Yun Ye are in another situation... In short, she comes from the prosperous era, and her knowledge is very useful to us. We will have to protect her in a while."

   Looking at the gathering gesture of the captain, Su Ming patted Ye Shi on the shoulder and said with a grin. "Go bro, get ready for work." (A little late today, sorry!)