This Game is Too Real

   Chapter 506 The haze buried deep in the ground

  The representatives sent by the company were Yun Yu and Su Ming, the representatives of the legion were Commander Walli and Pangolin, and the representative of the college was Jiang Xuezhou, the unseen B-level researcher student.

   As for the representatives of the alliance, it was Ye Shi and an NPC from the scientific expedition.

The latter's name is Meng Liang, a former resident of Vault 401. After being rescued by the Alliance from looters, he joined a scientific expedition to recover the remains of pre-war civilization, and studied archaeology under the guidance of Yin Fang. Relevant knowledge, currently serving as a surveyor on the airship.

   The exploration of Vault 0 is mainly based on scientific investigation.

   The investigation of the ruins cannot be completely relied on by the company, and even the allies are not obliged to disclose all the information they have investigated to the alliance.

  Chu Guang is very careful in the selection of dispatch personnel. In addition to an NPC expert with relevant professional knowledge, he also needs a reliable player to bring the information inside the shelter to the outside in the most extreme cases.

   The "Wasteland OL" forum where information is shared is his biggest hole card other than the "undead body" players.

   After confirming that the passageway was safe, the delegation began to move further and soon reached the entrance of the shelter.

   The elevator in Yihaikou is in the center of the B2 floor of the building.

  It is shaped like a funnel embedded in the ground, with four corridors leading to the elevator in the center...like an amphitheater with no seating.

  Due to the lack of attention for a long time and the special climate of extremely uneven distribution of water resources in the desert, the walls are covered with mold and dry vines.

   Searching every corner of this spacious room with a torch, Ye Shi muttered.

   "Did the crew of the Trailblazer really escape here?"

   Meng Liang, who was walking beside him, said nervously.

   "The information is yes..."

   This is his first time on duty.

   And it's such an important action right from the start.

   Last night, he read the action log sent to him by the manager several times, especially the column of known information, he almost knew the punctuation by heart.

   "But why are there no signs of battle? Not even a single bullet mark on the wall." There was still a hint of doubt on Ye Shi's face.

   Not because of his cautious nature.

   But instead of handing over this important task to Old Bai, who has the strongest combat power, the manager handed it over to him with the highest perception attribute.

   Especially the discussion on the forum yesterday made him instinctively suspect that this task might not be as simple as he thought.

   Su Ming, who was walking on the other side, shrugged his shoulders and said with a grin.

   "Maybe there were no pursuers when they escaped here... Didn't the Willands not discover the specific entrance to Vault 0?"

   "That's it," Ye Shi nodded thoughtfully, but frowned again after a while, "Hi...but I still feel something is wrong."

   What about the people of the Enlightenment?

   Don't those people know the entrance to Vault 0?

  Since Yi Hai knew that those people were trying to prevent the company from finding Refuge 0, the two sides should have turned their heads before he was frozen.

  Ye Shi was puzzled and always felt that he had missed some important clues.

   It’s a pity that Elder Fang is not here, and the idiot of the Battlefield guy probably wouldn’t dare to communicate with him.

   "Reason?" Jiang Xuezhou, who had not spoken for a while, finally couldn't help but speak.

   She doesn't really like interacting with people outside the academy, especially since this person seems to have played against her previous squad.

   However, this guy kept muttering, which made her nervous from the moment she entered this building... Obviously they haven't even touched a single mutant hyena.

   But Ye Shi didn't think about it that much. He didn't even feel the impatience in that sentence. Instead, he thought that the beauty was interested in him, so he made a smile that he considered mysterious and charming.

   "Intuition."

  Intuition…

   Jiang Xuezhou's mouth twitched, his expression a little unbearable.

   What is that?

   However, Su Ming seemed to understand very well, and patted Ye Shi on the shoulder with a laugh.

"Brother, I understand that feeling. Sometimes nothing happens, but I just feel that something is wrong... My captain said that I'm about to wake up, I hope it's not true, I'm not married yet. Anyway, be vigilant. , I also think this place is a bit wicked."

  The Battlefield guy wanted to lean over and ask, what did this guy feel?

   But there was a centurion staring at Nai He, and he could only think about it in his heart.

   Looking at Walli with a confident smile on his face, the warlord thought about at least asking for some information, so he lowered his voice and asked.

   "Sir, do we have any plans?"

  Wally said simply.

"No."

   "...No?" The battlefield guy thought he had heard it wrong, and was stunned.

  Wali laughed out loud and said with a look of disdain.

   "I hope to solve all problems with a shelter, and only weak guys will believe it. Our Majesty the Marshal has never pinned his hopes on such illusory rumors."

  The Battlefield guy can't tell whether to laugh or cry.

   "Then why are we here..."

"Although Mr. Cohen doesn't think that there may be something that can end the wasteland, it is a relic left over from the Prosperity Era... God knows what will be in it, what if it is a weapon?" Wall-E looked at the enterprise and The representatives of the college glanced at it and said lightly, "In short, companies and colleges are interested, so we can't let it go."

   Battlefield guy: "..."

   Bringing it into the perspective of the Willant, it makes sense.

   so that he didn't know how to refute for a while.

   The group quickly came to the elevator.

  Yun Ji reached out and touched the door of the elevator, and turned his eyes to the two representatives of the alliance.

   "The access card is in your hands."

"I'm here."

  Meng Liang responded immediately, stepped forward, took out the card handed to him by the manager, and affixed it to the casing of the card reader.

   A light blue light appeared in front of the door and swept across the people in front of the door. Then the floor trembled slightly, and the door slowly moved to both sides.

  The space of the elevator is really not big.

   It is surprising that the entrance to Vault 0 is so small.

   Or are there other entrances here?

   "Unbelievable..." Ye Shi whispered, "It's been two centuries, and these facilities are still in operation."

   And it's still unmaintained.

   "It turned out to be an inactive access card." Looking at the condensed scanning light, Yun Yu frowned.

   "What do you mean?" Meng Liang asked nervously.

"Meaning... After being activated once, our information is written into the security system and bound to the code of the access card, and the elevator can be used with or without that card. For others, unless we rewrite The security system here, or give them an inactive access card, otherwise no one else can enter... At least this card can't be used to enter."

   After a pause, she continued.

   "This can effectively prevent unauthorized personnel from infiltrating the vault...but this system is usually found in unfinished vaults, unless specifically requested by the vault manager, rarely in mature vaults that have been assigned managers."

   Ye Shi muttered.

   "In other words, can't you shake people down with a card?"

   Yunji glanced at him, but did not understand what this junior said.

   Meng Liang, who was standing beside him, was shocked by another message in this sentence, looked at her in surprise and said.

   "You mean...the shelter isn't finished yet?"

   Yun Zhen shrugged.

   "Who knows, I didn't build this shelter, I just happened to work in the relevant department and heard some rumors."

   Before Meng Liang could digest the huge amount of information in this sentence, she glanced at the door of the elevator and walked in without saying anything.

   Su Ming on the side saw this and immediately followed.

   took back the useless access card in his hand, Meng Liang looked at Ye Shi and said nervously.

   "Let's go too."

   "Well, let's go."

  Ye Ten nodded, took a last look at the spacious room behind him, and stepped over the open elevator door.

   And just as he stepped through the door, a familiar stale smell penetrated the tip of his nose, making him instantly alert.

   The omens that lingered in his heart seemed to be getting stronger and stronger...

  …

   in the camp.

  Although the planned construction of the fence and barracks has been completed, the five construction vehicles parked in the center of the camp are still rumbling there.

Except for the players who were sent to perform tasks near the industrial building, other players were not idle. They scattered around to find some scraps and returned them. Using the blueprints stored on the construction vehicle, these scraps were re-melted and processed into various kinds of parts.

  Due to the high demand for orders, there was even a long queue in front of these construction vehicles.

   A few small players were waiting happily with bundles of scrap metal, for fear that the feeding ports of these machines would be empty.

   An employee of a company happened to be passing by. Seeing a lot of people around the construction vehicle, he leaned over to take a look and asked curiously.

   "Isn't the camp already built? What are you doing?"

   Seeing the NPC talking to me, I, who was carrying a large bundle of steel, smiled the darkest, and said in a non-standard language.

   "It turned out that the well was too small, and there happened to be groundwater reservoirs underneath. We're going to drill a deeper well."

   The construction site boy with a sack on the side echoed the brick road.

   "That's right! This time we lengthened the threaded pipe in the drawing!"

   The employee of the company was stunned for a while, but before he regained his senses, several other players next to him chatted again in a language he did not understand.

   "Speaking of which, the groundwater reservoirs here are quite rich."

   "That's necessary, why don't you camp here."

   "What's the point of just drilling a well, I suggest building a greenhouse and planting some vegetables or something."

   "That's a good idea!"

   "!!! I brought the seeds!"

  The players chatted with each other, and there were a few more blueprints in the production queue, and the required materials also increased a lot.

   Including polyethylene materials used to make greenhouses, including aluminum alloys for cultivating vegetables and water pipes, etc...

  The greenhouse is arranged, the source of carbohydrates and vitamins is available, and animal protein and fat cannot be left behind.

   A balanced diet can ensure combat effectiveness.

   Raising cattle and sheep is not realistic, after all, there is not much pasture here.

   But there are more solutions than problems.

   Soon I thought at the darkest point that the brothers from the Burning Corps had made some white and fat worms in the mutant tribe.

   That thing is a little unappetizing to eat directly. No one except Lao Na can accept it, but it should be no problem to make it into a nutritional paste.

   Anyway, it's not that they're staying here, and the scourges are also those Mengxin who came here to open up wasteland...

   As for NPCs.

   Except for their managers, they don’t seem to be very picky eaters.

   Not far away, a few Willant officers looked at the Unionists who were busy and couldn't help but muttered.

   "What are these guys doing."

"do not know……"

   "Isn't this just a temporary camp? What are they doing with so many sheds?"

   "Are they still planning to stay..."

  Thinking of this, several Willant officers suddenly became alert.

The    Alliance put their feet behind their servants' ass.

   This is not a good sign...

   In fact, it’s not just corporate employees and Willante officers who are confused, even the players themselves don’t quite know what they’re going to do.

  The fun of sandbox games lies in experiencing the process, and no one cares too much about the purpose and results.

The manager told them that the Alliance intends to keep this place as the Alliance's outpost in the Great Desert. They can DIY the buildings here according to their liking, and the five construction vehicles can meet their needs to turn their ideas into reality as much as possible before they are taken back. .

   So, interested players came to line up with a pile of building materials.

  There are not many tasks on the new map. Anyway, if you are idle, you will be idle. Many players have taken the task of expanding the camp. Although the reward is not high, it is quite interesting.

  Chu Guang did not explain what they must build this outpost, and left it entirely to them to play.

   It turns out that these little players are better than he imagined, from drinking water to a stable source of food, to hygiene and safety.

There are even detailed plans for the placement of various facilities... These are not based on their imagination, but also refer to the layout of overseas military bases or construction sites in reality, and take into account the situation of leaving the supply line, so that the planning The camp has a certain self-sufficiency capacity.

   Looking at the little players who were busy with each other, Chu Guang nodded with satisfaction.

"good!"

   If this is outsourced to the construction team of the company, it will cost several million Cr at least, and even the own construction team will have a budget of several million silver coins.

   But hand it over to these little players, and it will be done without even needing 100,000 silver coins. Manpower is almost free, materials can be sourced locally, and ideas are copied and discussed from the Internet.

   But anyway, this outpost is built for them, so it can’t be counted as earning it.

   Looking away from the little players, Chu Guang walked to the corner of the camp and set up the rooms of the rescued survivors.

   After the treatment of the twelve treatment cabins, most of the survivors' wounds have been healed.

  Some mechanical prosthetics with only basic functions are not very expensive, otherwise they would not even be affordable for scavengers.

   It happened that the weapons seized from the Willantes had some simple prosthetics in them, so Chu Guang asked the company's doctor to replace them with them.

  By the way, because there are corporate reporters on the airship, Wu Changnian expressed his willingness to bear part of the cost of rescuing the survivors for the sake of show.

  Chu Guang was not polite, and offered him 100,000 Cr casually. Wu Changnian stopped frowning on the note when he heard it was so cheap.

   Afterwards, Chu Guang asked the logistics officer to do the math, and found that the combined value of those mechanical prosthetics might be less than 100,000 chips...

  Chu Guang is also an embarrassing group. He still has a bottom line, and he never thought of using those poor people to make money, let alone care about the mere 100,000 Cr.

   But it’s not appropriate to tell the company that they have given too much. After all, Minister Wu’s coercion has already been pretended to be out, and he can only let his logistics officer keep this secret in his stomach.

   The door of the barracks was pushed open.

   Looking at the light passing through the door and the sound of footsteps coming in together, the women lying on the hospital beds shrank back subconsciously.

   Seeing that he is not a mutant, everyone can relax.

   Lying in the ward were all survivors who had just undergone prosthetic surgery, about twenty people.

  Although he didn't want them to recall bad memories, Chu Guang still tried his best to ask in a gentle tone in order to gather information about that torch badge.

   "Where are you from?"

   Everyone in the house looked at each other in dismay, but didn't speak.

  The air was silent for a while.

   Just when Chu Guang was hesitating whether to find a more gentle female player to communicate with, a woman in her early twenties suddenly raised her hand tremblingly and said in a hoarse voice.

   "My name is Rama... from Borneo."

   "Borneo Province?"

  The birthplace of the two-headed cow?

   is said to be in the southwest of the Hump Kingdom.

   That's far enough...

  Chu Guang continued in a gentle tone.

   "Tell me easily, how did you get here?"

  Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of something, and added a sentence after a pause.

   "Of course, if you don't want to recall that unpleasant memory, we won't force you."

  Lama shook his head.

   "It's alright...I'm thankful you guys were able to save us from hell."

   said, she paused and continued.

"I was born in a small village. That day, a group of traders came to the village. They said they wanted to buy a two-headed cow and ship it to Yinyue Bay in the northeast. Very polite, the village chief even brought out good wine to entertain them... I also drank a little at the time, and I was in the cage when I woke up."

  Chu Guang was silent for a while.

   "Slave traders?"

"...Should be." Rama's eyes were full of fear, but he said it bravely, "Those people also said...my family sold me to them, but I don't believe them, for sure They got everyone drunk."

  Chu Guang expressed sympathy for her experience, but that part was not what he cared about the most.

   frowned, he continued to ask.

   "… those slave traders and mutants?"

   Contrary to Chu Guang's expectations, the girl named Rama shook her head, and the flickering panic in her eyes became even stronger.

   "They... sold us to another group of people who took me across the desert and brought me here."

  Chu Guang clenched his fists and said solemnly.

"who are they?"

"I have no idea……"

  The girl hugged her head, her ten fingers that penetrated into her hair trembled slightly, as if just recalling what happened at that time made her feel extremely frightened.

  Chu Guang changed his question and said patiently.

   "Did those people have... any characteristics? Like appearance, or clothing, or any uniform accessories they carried..."

  's dilated pupils suddenly began to focus, and Rama seemed to recall something, let go of the hands that were holding his head, and raised his head abruptly.

   "Those guys... all seem to be wearing blue coats."

  Blue jacket?

real or fake……

   Hearing this shocking clue, a trace of surprise appeared on Chu Guang's face.

   As far as he saw and heard in Qingquan City, the little white rabbits who came out of the shelter, let alone harming others, would burn high incense if they didn't get kicked.

  The reason why he was so good to Xiaoyu and her family was largely because they didn't hurt themselves... This is already very difficult in the wasteland.

   However, the girl named Rama was not the only one. Many survivors in the ward also nodded silently, indicating that they had experienced similar or the same experience.

  Chu Guang's expression gradually sank, took out a small notebook from his pocket, and recorded the clues that Rama had spoken.

After returning to the surface, most Vault Dwellers acted ignorant of the world, and were often overwhelmed by civilized people's self-esteem, kindness, weakness, guilt of abandoning their compatriots in the past, or superiority. Wastelanders weaker than them were slaughtered as fat sheep.

   Such is the case with Vault 401.

   The sanctuary that was taken by the looters can be said to be a canon. All the members have become coolies who grind pills, and even the black box in their hands almost failed.

   Of course, there are also a few refuges that have developed into strong regional forces. For example, some of the ancestors of the company are residents of the No. 6 Vault.

Although Refuge   101 has not developed into a strong regional force, under the guidance of Doctor Method, it still has limited influence on some surviving survivors.

   Vault 79 is nothing like the little white rabbit. Those guys killed themselves purely by themselves, but apart from the crazy "Yongshi", the others didn't do much harm to the survivors on the surface.

   As for the Enlightenment...

   is probably the other extreme of the "blue coat" group.

  Chu Guang didn't know what happened to them in the past.

   So much so that they completely put down the pride and restraint of civilized people, and even went to make deals with mutants and slave traders.

   Anyway, they have crossed the line.

   Someone started, and other survivors soon confessed their origins and how they were sold to these mutants.

Most of them are from Luoxia Province, especially the Falcon Kingdom and Honey Badger Kingdom where the war broke out, but some people are from Jinchuan or River Valley. Although there is no war in those places, the chaos is not inferior to that of Luoxia Province. war zone.

  Chu Guang made statistics on this one by one.

   His kindness wasn't enough to avenge someone he had only known for a few days, but the enlightenment made up of the residents of the refuge would make him feel deeply disturbed.

   Even if it's not moral.

   Just for the sake of the alliance, he couldn't just leave those guys hiding in the dark.

   At least we have to figure out what the motives of those people are, where is their hometown, how many kilometers away from the alliance...

   "...I'm sorry for what happened to you, you may have encountered some unfriendly Vault Dwellers, but I'm sure not all Vault Dwellers are like that."

   After a pause, Chu Guang continued.

   "We'll give you some help."

   Grabbing the edge of the quilt with his right hand, Rama nodded and said sincerely.

"thanks……"

   "You're welcome, take a good rest... I've finished asking what I'm about to ask, so forget about the unpleasant past."

  Chu Guang glanced at the notepad in his hand, closed it and stuffed it into his pocket.

   However, when he was about to return to the airship, he suddenly thought of something, and turned around and walked to Yi Hai's barracks.

   A sudden thought made him a little concerned.

   If you don't ask clearly.

   He will not be able to fall asleep...

  …

   G/F of Industrial Building.

  The number of layers is unknown.

   After the elevator door opened, a giant gear-shaped metal door quickly entered the eyes of the investigation team.

  In the middle of the giant metal gear, there is a rhombus with an angular shape. The center of the rhombus was hollowed out, and it was undoubtedly the digient of the number "0".

   The passage leading to the interior of the sanctuary is next to the giant door. It is obvious that someone has come here and opened it.

  The crew of the Trailblazer is ahead!

   However, what made Su Ming feel uneasy is why they have all arrived here, but no one came out to greet...

   "... Vault 0 actually exists." Shocked by something completely different, Yun Yu unconsciously took a step forward.

  Su Ming also stepped forward immediately and followed her closely.

   stared at the giant gear-shaped gate for a while, then Ye Shi touched his chin and muttered something in a couple of words.

"Strange……"

   "How strange." Jiang Xuezhou squinted at this man whose mouth was not ordinary, and he had talked too much along the way.

  Yeju said embarrassedly.

   "I always feel... this Zero painting is a little crooked. Is this really Vault Zero?"

   Jiang Xuezhou stared at the symbol for a while.

   "Vault 0 was originally a refuge other than the number, and its symbol is like this... It basically matches the information collected by the academy before."

   "Okay... maybe I'm thinking too much."

   Ye Shi shrugged his shoulders, turned his eyes to the deep corridor, followed behind the company representative, and continued to walk forward.

   "We went too."

  Wally patted the pangolin on the shoulder, and followed with strides.

  The battlefield guy noticed that his eyes flashed with intense excitement and curiosity.

   This guy said he didn't care what was in Vault 0, but his body was surprisingly honest...

   The group walked through the corridor and quickly reached the interior of the shelter.

   However, what surprised everyone was that the structure here was not as complicated as they thought, and it was even so simple that it was scribbled.

   It doesn't look like a sanctuary at all.

   is more like a laboratory.

   Of course, this is not what surprised everyone more.

   It was the dark red plaques that covered the cracks in the corners and doors, and the ominous gray-green particles floating in the air...

   Slime mold!

   There are slime molds here too! ? -

   (I wanted to finish writing the rest, but I really ran out of time.)

   (end of this chapter)