This Game is Too Real

  Chapter 629 The wave is coming again!

"Roar-!"

  In the center of Qingquan, the desolate and dilapidated streets were shrouded in gray-green fog, creating a desolate and desolate scene.

  A monster covered in cuts and bruises was struggling furiously, but the iron hand with scarlet plaque on its head remained motionless.

  A penetrating red light shines through the crack in the center of the helmet, like the pupil of a devil.

   Out of fear and awe of it, the rowdy bipeds dubbed it "Evolution" or "Knight of Decay."

  However, for the hive that dominates every slime mold cell in this city, this tiny one-in-a-billionth is just an insignificant atom that constitutes its existence, and it doesn't need to have its own name at all.

  Thea is actually the same.

  However, unlike other slime molds, when He created Thea, he poured extra effort into it.

  The newborn mother not only inherited the essence and nutrition accumulated in his two hundred years of research on the road of evolution, but also inherited his will.

   At the same time, it is called Thea, which also carries more expectations from him—

   That is, to spread the footprint of the ethnic group to more distant places.

   Spread to places where His tentacles can't reach for the time being!

  The "little guy" who strayed into the territory was still struggling in vain, roaring, trying to disobey the fruits of his two centuries of evolution with his brutal muscles.

  He watched the uncivilized organism silently, and did not direct one of his billionths to devour and assimilate it as usual, but looked down at Thea, who was standing in the middle of the dilapidated street.

   "Eat it."

   Pheromones are spread through fused spores.

   Sensing the call from her mother, Thea nodded slowly, and then raised the scarlet tentacles that looked like mud.

  The tentacles are like its arms.

  The cilia at the end issued a silent call, creating invisible ripples in the sea of ​​spores.

  Grey-green colors began to gather towards the furry bear-shaped beast, entangled around its body, and became denser and denser.

"Roar!!"

  The monster's face began to show panic, and the struggle became more and more intense. The hairy muscles shivered like a writhing caterpillar, trying to break free from the hand holding its head.

  Thea just looked at it, and then gently clenched the "hand" that stretched forward.

  The thick gray-green fog spread out a few inches in an instant, and the monster suddenly expanded its chest cavity, and its eyes protruded.

  It was panting desperately, but its body became heavier and heavier uncontrollably, until finally its body completely lost its strength, and it couldn't even resist the gravity on its shoulders, and finally it stopped struggling to resist.

  A wisp of gray mist floated from the gap in the helmet, and the decayed knight let go of his hand holding its head, and stepped aside like a real knight.

"very good."

  Looking at Thea who has already mastered her own power, He showed a gratified smile, and the spores in the entire city slowly fluctuated with joyful frequencies like ocean waves.

  His child has fully mastered the ability to deprive prey of breath, and it will be stronger than his last child.

  He seems to have seen those weak organisms running away under the chase of the young assimilated fighters.

  Thea stared at her tentacles stretched forward—or arms, and spoke after a while.

   "My body can't breathe, I feel their screams."

  The spores that permeate the surroundings and the fruiting entities manipulated by it are all part of its body, and are also the conductor and carrier of its consciousness.

   Facing the confused child, He spoke softly.

   "Don't worry, my boy."

"It's the same with your enemies. Those weak pieces of meat are like the prey under your feet. You must keep breathing to stay alive. You can bear far more than them, and you are more adapted to the land under your feet than they are. , and the world ultimately belongs to those who can adapt to it.”

   "Now, eat it."

  Thea nodded slowly, her skirt-like lower limbs squirmed forward, and moved to the side of the unconscious monster.

  The open skirt is like a **** mouth, and a seam has been uncovered against the contours of the ground.

Countless scarlet tentacles jumped out from the gap, like slender leeches that instantly pricked the monster into a hedgehog, piercing through the skin to drain the blood, and at the same time sucking in the remaining organic nutrients. its body.

  The surrounding spores fluctuated at a pleasant frequency, and the decayed knight standing aside lowered his head even lower, but the scarlet light in his eyes became brighter and brighter.

this moment-

  The slime mold fruiting bodies all over the ruins have witnessed the "coronation" of a new king, cheering for its birth.

   Except for a certain heterogeneous.

  Feeling the bloodlust flowing in the air, he involuntarily held his breath, not daring to make a "sound".

   Fortunately, it does not rely on spores to transmit information. Other slime mold variants can neither recognize nor perceive its existence.

   Otherwise, there is no doubt at all, those guys will definitely do whatever it takes to crush this heresy to death in its infancy...

  …

   "Wasteland OL" official website and forum today are as lively as ever.

   And all because of a fresh server announcement.

  【Server Announcement: The Expansion Pack of "The Return of the Wave" is released! 】

  【Introduction: Spring is here, and it’s the season for animals to reproduce, and the asexual slime mold is no exception.

  In the past, we naively thought that the brood was formed by a natural mutation after the concentration of spores in the incubation chamber exceeded the threshold. However, more and more evidence shows that the brood is born from the mother, and the mother is formed from the old brood. The newborn mother inherits not only the genes of the old brood, but also the experience of fighting us, adding the influence of the warm winter, this round of waves may be more violent than previous years!

  According to the forecast of the Institute of Biology, the wave is expected to come around March 1st in the game! Players please get ready!

   This may be the most severe test since the server was opened! 】

  【Event Rewards: Event points rewards will be issued for completing event tasks and killing evolutions. Points can be exchanged for limited equipment and titles, and you can also participate in the final lucky draw! There are rich rewards in the prize pool, not only including mysterious props that even the planners don’t know, but also many valuable prizes such as DLZJ-1 "Xiaguang" power armor! Everyone is welcome to actively participate! 】

   After more than half a month.

   "Wasteland OL" launched a new expansion piece after "Fire Fighting Operation".

  Such an amazing update speed has really shocked the eyes of many players.

   And just as Chu Guang expected, immediately after the announcement, an 18-magnitude earthquake set off on the official website, and the discussion of the new expansion immediately topped the list of hot topics among players and cloud players.

   "Damn it! Beta0.6 version!"

   "I remember that in the Alpha1.1 version, Inspur was just a sub-project of the server update? Change the skin and become an expansion piece?!"

   "This activity is too perfunctory!"

   "Bad review! It's even worse than the P company that copied MOD and the CA that raised the price of blood plasma!"

   "Brother Guang, Ning is my father, please give me a helmet! T.T"

   "Thirty thousand helmets in two years, this production capacity is so unreasonable, Aguang, can you do it!"

   "I don't think it's Brother Guang's fault. Could it be that the cows and horses in the factory are being lazy? Come to our village to open a factory! I'll ask the village chief to help you recruit people!"

   "Come to us, I am the village head, I will bring someone to do it for you!"

   "I'll let you do it for nothing!"

   "???"

   "Fuck, brother, you are a bit harsh!"

   "Pass it on, someone wants to **** Brother Guang."

   "Crazy, all crazy!"

   "Garbage! What about the broken helmet? I laughed, dogs don't even play!"

   Sitting in the browsing room, Chu Guang browsed around the official website, laughed and said nothing, and was used to the teasing of these guys.

   But there is one thing to say, the alliance now has a population of one million, and this number is still growing. In comparison, the distribution speed of 50-100 test qualifications per day is indeed a bit unable to keep up with the development needs of the alliance.

  Combining the issued beta test qualifications, he now only has 30,000 accounts. Even if all of them are issued, the proportion of players in the total population is less than 3%.

  Although this number sounds like a lot, when it is apportioned to a series of things in various regions of the alliance, this manpower seems a bit insufficient.

  Chu Guang suddenly found that he was playing a noodle SLG game, when there was no shortage of food for a while, there was no shortage of people, and when there was no shortage of food, he began to be short of people again. When there is no shortage of both, the site will start to be lacking, and when the site is no longer lacking, it will start to lack people.

  “…If you solve the brood in the city center, I don’t know if you can unlock a new floor.”

   There should be a new "activation code" released by then, right?

  Looking at the little leeks "waiting to be fed" on the holographic screen, a faint smile appeared on Chu Guang's face.

Do not worry.

  Everyone has a chance to be a leek!

  Everything will be there!

   At this moment, Xiao Qi, who was sitting on the pen holder, suddenly raised her head and said in a nice voice.

   "Master, your little player has arrived at the second ring road in the city center!"

  Chu Guang's heart moved, and his index finger closed the webpage on the holographic screen.

   "Cut to them."

  Xiao Qi gave a playful military salute and said energetically.

"receive!"

  …

At the same time when the official website released the event news, two "Viper" transport planes took off from the tarmac in Dawn City, and after a period of sailing, they arrived at the edge of the second ring road in Qingquan City, hovering slowly over an abandoned skyscraper Next to the roof of the building.

  A dozen gnawers with drooping shoulders were dazed on the roof of the building, while a crawler with long hands and feet was lurking in the middle of the abandoned water tank and the ventilation pipe, watching vigilantly at the two flames that flew to the side of the tall building.

   "The enemy units have been marked. There are a total of nineteen gnawers and one crawler. No evolutionary bodies or other high-threat targets have been found."

   "Ready to attack."

"receive."

  A Viper transport plane crossed the nose, aimed the machine gun in the side cabin at the roof, and was ready to provide fire support at any time.

  Another hovering "Viper" transport plane quickly stepped forward and flew straight to the top of the building, less than five meters away.

   The creeper crawling under the shadow let out a hissing growl, and his thick and powerful limbs began to bend, ready to take the initiative to attack.

  However, what it doesn't know is that the players flying in the sky have already seen it long ago.

   Before it could gather enough strength to leap upwards, a large black shadow descended from the sky, dragging a fiery red light, and smashed straight at it.

  Before the creeper realized what happened, an unsharp blunt ax slammed into its front door, and the sparks that shot out immediately split its body.

   Before there was even a scream, the unlucky crawler turned into mud and fell to the ground, and the muffled sound of both feet on the ground sounded along with it.

  A total of ten soldiers wearing exoskeletons have completed their deployment. They have pulled the bolts to load, opened the safety and set up the muzzles.

   Noticing the movement coming from the side, the nibblers raised their heads one by one, their muddy pupils gradually stained with bloodthirsty scarlet.

   They moved their frozen legs, opened the rotten gap, and let out a hiccup-like roar towards the soldiers who landed.

"Uh-"

   Shaking the black slime off the axe, Lao Bai swung his hand forward cleanly while hanging it on the power armor.

   "Fire."

  As soon as the understated voice fell, thick and long tongues of fire turned the foggy building into daylight.

  Amidst bursts of gunfire, the nineteen nibblers on the top of the building, together with the dozen rushing up from the stairwell, were instantly smashed into a sieve.

  As planned, the ten players quickly divided into two teams.

A team quickly searched every corner of the roof to confirm that there was no fruiting body of slime mold left, while the other team quickly advanced to the entrance of the stairwell, and smashed a steel plate slightly wider than the door towards the door. Go up, then pull out the safety lock, and punch the red button with a fist.

  With a series of bangs, steel nails were driven into the concrete wall one by one, and the steel plate was firmly embedded in the door.

   This is not enough.

  Several players took out the electric drill, steel bars and welding guns they carried, and made a second reinforcement to the door panel embedded in the wall, and inserted a layer of "well" shaped steel bars on the outside.

   There was a banging sound from behind the steel plate that sealed the entrance to the stairwell, but the steel plate was still embedded there motionless.

   Not to mention dozens of nibblers, even a tyrant can't break through this thing now. Team B, who had successfully controlled the stairwell, had put down their weapons and turned off the insurance, while Team A, who had also completed the mission, spread out to the four corners of the building to guard against the harassment of alien species capable of flying.

  Although the area occupied by the mutant slime mold has already penetrated here, neither the player nor the NPC showed an overly nervous expression.

  With the continuous and in-depth investigation of the Alliance Institute of Biology, the Alliance has now grasped more and more secrets about the mutant slime mold.

  The conclusions drawn purely by experience or even conjecture are now supported by more scientific and rigorous theories.

Every slime mold fruiting body in Qingquan City is connected to the brood consciousness, but this does not mean that the brood can monitor the situation of each fruiting body at all times, just like the alliance manager cannot keep an eye on every fruiting body all the time. Like players, at most, call the records of the VM or the official website when necessary.

  The same is true for slime mold nests.

  Some unacceptable and passively generated threats are mostly assigned to sub-computer rooms such as "incubation rooms" for processing, and only when unrecognizable organisms invade the territory on a large scale will the brood be directly alerted.

   Like now.

  The brood nest in the city center can only feel that a few small flies landed on it, just like usual, and never think that what these few small flies are doing may threaten their own life.

  Looking at the packed equipment in the cabin and a staff member wearing protective clothing, Jiang Xuezhou, who was almost tied to the seat with a seat belt, finally couldn't hold back his curiosity and said.

   "What are you doing?"

  Looking at the ignorant expression on this guy's face, Ye Shi, who was sitting by the side, couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth triumphantly.

   "You don't understand this, we plan to wait for the wave to be lively, and send a little alliance shock to the big guy in the city center... The shock is ready, and now is the preparation stage."

  Jiang Xuezhou looked confused.

  What the hell?

   Without explaining in detail, Ye Shi glanced at her and continued.

   "By the way, speaking of which, what are you doing together? Aren't you here to help us get rid of Naguo?"

  Compared to the "self-limiting" brood, the disorderly expansion of Nago is obviously more alert to the fallen empire in the north.

  Ye Shi still remembers very clearly that Jiang Xuezhou and her mentor who never showed their faces came to help them solve Naguo-related issues.

   As for the brood nest in Qingquan City, it is not within their scope of work.

   Regarding Ye Shi's question, Jiang Xuezhou coughed lightly, and said solemnly.

"According to our analysis of the samples, there is a large amount of DNA in the gene pool of the Naguo species that highly overlaps with the mutant slime mold in Qingquan City. It can be basically concluded that this biological weapon is made based on the mutant slime mold in Qingquan City... My instructor doubts Residents of Vault 117 have explored the ancient battlefield in the center of Qingquan City, and there may be clues we need there. Rest assured, I have applied with your manager, and he has approved me to participate in wave-related operations as an accompanying researcher. "

  According to her observation, the residents of the alliance have extraordinary respect for the administrator, even adoration, and many people talk about that guy every now and then, wishing him a long life.

  She didn't have much interest in that person, but since she was on his territory, she still showed some respect in the spirit of doing as the Romans do.

   But what she didn't expect was that someone didn't care about the last half of her sentence at all, but focused on an inconspicuous detail.

   "Wait, you said that the residents of Vault 117 may have been to the city center?!" Ye Shi stared at Jiang Xuezhou in surprise, with an expression on his face as if he had discovered a new world.

"I…"

Realizing that he had slipped his mouth, Jiang Xuezhou said inwardly that he was sorry, and just wanted to close his open mouth, but seeing the exaggerated expression on Ye Shi's face, he soon realized that it might not be so serious. It's good to be fooled.

   "I, I didn't say that..." Out of a guilty conscience, she added in a low voice, "Don't talk around."

  Ye Shi chuckled and gave her a "I understand" look.

   "Don't worry, I understand, I understand, you never said that."

   Good guy!

   Another contribution point for nothing!

When he just woke up from the Iron Heart, he received a task in the task bar, asking him to serve as the bodyguard of a D-class researcher visiting the Alliance, and report all the information about the academy that he heard from her. .

   According to the value of the intelligence, the alliance will reward him with contribution points. Ye Shi still remembers that Fang Chang's envious and jealous eyes when he talked about this in the group that day.

   Seeing Ye Shi's apparent ignorance, Jiang Xuezhou became anxious.

   "I really didn't say that! Don't talk nonsense, if it reaches my mentor's ears, I will die, really die..."

  Ye Shi: "Don't worry, our managers are very strict with their mouths."

  Jiang Xuezhou: "???"

   Just a few moments after the two of them spoke, the battle on the top of the skyscraper was over.

   Lao Bai, who was standing next to the creeper's corpse, reached out and tapped on the side of the tactical helmet, switching to the command channel.

   "The landing area has been controlled and is ready to be deployed at any time."

   There was a rustling sound and a clean answer from the communication channel.

"receive."

   At the same time as the voice fell, two "Viper" transport planes landed towards the roof of the skyscraper one after the other, and the hot plasma plume blew away the thick residual snow and dust.

   After the fuselage stopped, twelve staff members wearing chemical protective suits, gas masks, and oxygen tubes on their backs also landed on the roof.

  A communication radio station, an air detection device, and a paraglider bag disassembled into parts were also deployed along with it.

   The Institute of Biology of the Alliance will calculate the approximate location of the brood nest in the city center based on the changes in the concentration of spores during the tide and the movement track of the slime mold fruiting body.

  As long as an approximate coordinate can be obtained, the alliance can directly send the ground troops there, and under the cover of the firepower of the "Dragon" missiles and 400mm naval guns, a surgical precision attack will be launched on the brood nest in the city center!

  Even if that guy hides in a nuclear bomb crater or a nuclear bunker and can withstand the bombing of conventional weapons, he must not be able to prevent the face of the Burning Corps.

  The alliance will take advantage of this turbulent tide to end once and for all the threat that has plagued Qingquan City for two centuries.

  Lao Bai is full of confidence in this.

  Even if this year's tide is different from previous years, it doesn't matter, after all, today's alliance is no longer the original alliance.

  The survivors in Qingquan City no longer have to fight alone, and they don't even have to face the threat of the wave alone. The survivors in Luoxia Province will send a steady stream of food, while the survivors in Dawn City will supply them with weapons and steel.

   Not only NPCs are united.

   The scale and quality of the players is not the same as the earlier version.

   If he remembered correctly, the manager seemed to be less than level 20 back then.

   And now the average level of the entire Burning Corps has exceeded this number, and he himself has reached LV43.

  In terms of strength alone, among all the players on the entire server, I am afraid that only the "improper" trash brother can wrestle with him.

   As for combat experience other than attributes.

   Each of them is a veteran of many battles.

"bring it on."

  Looking at the treacherous and changeable gray-green thick fog in the distance, he only felt the fighting spirit in his heart burning like a flame, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but grinned.

   "Let's see what new work Ah Guang has prepared!"

  —

   (Thanks to the leader of "Chengfu or Chengfu" for the reward!!)

  (end of this chapter)