This Game is Too Real

  Chapter 638 Gaia

  North of the River Valley Province, the origin city of the Great Rift Valley.

  In that spacious conference room, an old man with gray temples and a dignified face was sitting in front of the empty long conference table.

   He was chief of the Great Rift Valley and the last member of the Post-War Reconstruction Commission.

   Nobody knows how old he is, not even himself. The distant memories of the old times have long been left by him in the past long ago.

  Looking intently at the south, the old man gradually showed a hint of surprise on his face.

   After a while, he lowered his eyebrows and muttered to himself in disbelief.

   "...it really happened?"

  …

   It wasn't just the chief of the Rift that was shocked.

  Yang Kai, a researcher sent by the academy to the alliance, also had a very surprised expression on his face at the moment.

   The spore cloud hanging over Qingquan City is slowly collapsing!

  They have observed this hive for two centuries, and this is a miracle that has never happened in two centuries!

not only.

  By analyzing the pheromones in the spore cloud, he could clearly hear the painful wailing of the brood.

"…How did they do that?"

   Is it some kind of specially crafted virus?

   Still introduced some kind of creature that can restrain the mutant slime mold...

  But the genetic information contained in that guy's gene pool almost exceeds the sum of the genetic information of all creatures on the earth, and he has almost become a god-like existence in ancient religious beliefs!

  They don't even have a complete grasp of that guy's gene pool, where can they find creatures that can restrain him?

  Yang Kai muttered to himself, his face was full of disbelief and confusion, and he couldn't figure it out.

  He couldn't figure it out.

  A stubborn disease that even the post-war reconstruction committee could not eradicate, how did this survivor force that was born less than two years ago do it!

  …

   The spores accumulated in Qingquan City are boiling, like a pot of boiling water.

   It wasn't just the brood in the city center that roared, but also the young Thea.

   It feels the pain of the mother.

  A terrifying force invaded his body and was devouring him bit by bit!

  In addition to being angry, Thea couldn't help but feel a little panic.

   What the **** is that?

   Even its mother can't handle it!

   The spores floating beside it created circles of furious ripples.

  The gray-green smoke was like a torrent, centering on the edge of the North Second Ring Road along the street, enveloping all the fruiting bodies and evolutionary bodies.

   Silent cries echoed in the consciousness of each fruiting entity.

   "Kill 'em!"

   "Rip them all up!"

   Resonated with that furious emotion, both the nibbler and the crawler let out hoarse and mournful roars, just like the echoes aroused by that shout.

   "Hoo-oh!"

  On the defense line less than one kilometer away from the huge wall, watching the increasingly fierce offensive wave, the soldiers of the punishment battalion could not help but show a trace of panic on their faces.

   Less than an hour after the gunfire sounded, the 5,000 people were reduced by 20%.

  The two centurions were abruptly wiped out!

   They saw with their own eyes that their brothers on the same front were overwhelmed by a group of corpse eaters.

   In just a few breaths, the guy's countless claws were torn into pieces, and he couldn't find a complete bone in his whole body.

  The group of fruiting entities are like evil spirits.

   And now they are even more frenzied, rushing towards them recklessly!

   After all, they have only received three months of military training, and they can't die and die like players.

  Some soldiers couldn't help the fear in their hearts, and couldn't help moving back.

   As if seeing the fluctuating morale, the roar of the supervisor team came from behind them.

   "Hold your ground! Don't retreat!"

  At the same time, the two machine guns at the rear also fired ferocious firepower. Accompanied by the sound of chug-chug strafing, trails of trailing raindrops scattered in front of everyone.

Bit gritted his teeth, picked up the rifle in his hand, yelled bravely and took the lead to rush forward, after sweeping to death a few eaters who fell on the machine gunners on the front line, he pulled away the mutilated corpse , I squatted into the machine gun bunker.

  He knows it well.

   Whenever they take a step back, not only the rain of bullets sprinkled in front of them will retreat with them, but even the artillery fire from behind will also fall on their heads.

   To step back must be death.

  But if you hold on, maybe you can still live!

   "Ahhh!"

   Picking up the machine gun, Bit clenched the trigger, and while shooting at the predators rushing towards him, he used a roar to dispel fear.

   Just then, there was a sudden sound of cannons on the other side of the street.

   That voice was all too familiar to him, it was the Alliance's 37mm cannon!

   As if to confirm his guess, one after another armored vehicles rushed into the battlefield from the side, overturning a large number of alien species with their wide fronts and steel anti-collision nets.

  The 37mm machine guns carried on top of the armored vehicles opened fire, and tracers as thick as pythons opened a web of death on the fragmented streets.

   I saw a series of black blood mist explode in the middle of the wave, and the roaring and charging fruiting bodies fell down like cutting wheat in an instant, and many nibblers were extremely miserable and lost half of their bodies.

  The pressure on the originally precarious defense line was reduced by half in an instant, and the morale of the punishment battalion also returned from the bottom of the valley to the halfway up the mountain.

  Seeing the armored vehicles and the black skull badges, many people let out joyful cries, and some even whistled.

   "It's the Skeleton Corps!"

   "Reinforcements! Our reinforcements!"

   "They didn't abandon us!"

   Not just skeletons!

   And the militia in Boulder City!

  The militiamen wearing exoskeletons, led by power armor one after another, followed closely the pace of the armored vehicles and launched a counterattack against the turbulent tide.

  The artillery projected from the giant wall and the bullets fired by the punishment battalion have wiped out a sufficient number of fruiting bodies, and some gnawers who are full are trying to bring nutrients back to the hatching room as a resource for the rioters.

  Of course the alliance won't let these guys succeed, they don't intend to give that Thea any breathing time.

   Taking advantage of the weak tide, the Skeleton Corps, who had been waiting for an opportunity for a long time, immediately joined forces with the militia in Boulder City to launch a counterattack.

  Watching the roar of guns on the street, Bit's pupils couldn't help dilated, and then revealed a trace of unbelievable ecstasy.

  The same goes for the soldiers behind him.

  A few months ago, they hated the alliance's tanks and armored vehicles. After all, it was these guys who blocked the slums under the huge wall, and they took them all without talking about martial arts.

  Especially after being incorporated into the punishment camp, almost everyone desperately thought that they were doomed, and the alliance would definitely use them as cannon fodder until they died.

  However, what they didn't expect was that the alliance did not do this, but fulfilled the agreement with them—after they fulfilled the mission of cannon fodder and sustained the attack of the wave, the alliance and the militia took over the offensive task.

  Only when you lose something and find it again, can you know the value of life.

  At this moment, they who survived the catastrophe were so grateful that they could kneel on the ground.

  Even the most vicious prisoner offered heartfelt praise.

   "Praise the Union! Praise the Great Manager!"

Escort the infantry of the militia to the vicinity of the hatching room. After solving dozens of difficult evolutionary bodies, the skeleton corps only left more than a hundred awakened ones to help. The Death Corps on the edge of the North Second Ring Road.

  According to the message from the human flesh radio station from the front, the Death Corps crashed into the remnants of the former 111th Orbital Airborne Division infested with slime mold.

   There are not only dozens of decayed knights, but also a six-story Titan!

  Half its head poked out from the roof of the armored car, the Mole picked up a horn and shouted.

"Full speed ahead!"

   "Our fringe dude hit a titan! Don't let that guy eat alone!"

  The loud roar echoed in the communication channel.

   "Aww!"

  With the start of the counter-offensive campaign, the situation in the war zone near Boulder City has been reversed.

  The hatching rooms scattered along the route of the wave are equivalent to the "barracks" of slime molds. Once the rioters are dismantled, the corpses all over the ground can only be used as raw materials for refining nutrient cream.

  The battle on the western front has basically come to an end, and the battle on the northern front is still going on at this moment.

   Especially the No. 06 section of the defensive line.

  A total of 10 positions in the front, middle and back sections were completely submerged in the violent offensive of the wave.

  The Burning Corps parachuted into the center of the city seemed to have stabbed the den of defense, that Thea seemed to be crazy, and rushed to the alliance's position recklessly.

   And the Alliance did not show any weakness. The planes of the Goblin Corps whimpered and circled among the dilapidated high-rise buildings, raining death on the ground from time to time.

  The artillery in the rear is also firing non-stop, sending shells one after another to the positions that have been filled with fruiting bodies.

  Although the positions were almost submerged in the endless waves, no matter how Thea urged the fruiting entities under her command to attack, they still failed to completely occupy those battlefields.

  The gunshots of resistance did not stop for a moment. Even if more than half of the casualties were exceeded, the players did not take a step back, but continued to push forward.

  Inspired by the residents of the refuge, the NPCs of the alliance also burst out with amazing fighting will, rushing towards the position one after another.

  The battle situation has entered a stalemate.

  Every street seemed to be turned into a meat grinder. Both sides used all the means that each other could think of, competing for every inch of ground in front of the last line of defense.

   And at this moment, a scene that no one expected happened.

  The slime mold fruiting bodies that had rushed to the position like a tide suddenly retreated!

  Whether it’s a cannon fodder gnawing or a decaying knight wielding a massive weapon.

  They turned their directions like the ebbing sea water, and left in a hurry along the way they came.

  Standing on the No. 4 position in the middle of the defense zone, Kakarot, panting heavily, changed the magazine of the rifle in his hand, and glanced at the street outside the window of the building.

   When he saw the nibblers who turned around and retreated, surprise appeared on his face.

"what's the situation?"

  The wave actually retreated? !

  When the wave came last year, after several days of fierce fighting, they pushed all the way to the side of the mother who kept giving birth, and killed it before the wave ended.

  He's having a blast.

  Why did this group of fruit entities start running back?

  The same goes for Kevin with a broken leg standing aside, with the expression of the sun coming out from the west.

   "Is that Thea cowardly?"

  Looking at the slime mold fruiting bodies continuously withdrawing from the building, Kakarot shook his head subtly.

  At this time, Brother Quanshui's voice came from the communication channel.

   "... Brother Mosquito saw the slime mold fruiting bodies returning to defend the North Second Ring Road. I guess it was the brothers of the Burning Corps... Unbelievable, they actually succeeded?"

  When he said this, the voice of Commander Quanshui couldn't help but carry a touch of emotion.

  To be honest, although he agrees with Brother Fang's "bodyguard plan", he has doubts about that guy's plan to surprise the city center.

  Maybe his understanding of the game is not deep enough.

   In his opinion, a game that is still in beta testing stage, there is no reason for the dog plan to let them kill the big boss in the city center.

  Is it appropriate not to add a blood lock?

   In the end, I didn't expect the dog to be so generous in planning. It's really like what he said when he painted the cake, everything is possible.

   If that Thea is also killed, the wave will probably become history from now on.

  At least this is the case in Qingquan City.

   "What are we going to do now?" Kakarot reached out and tapped his helmet, asking in the communication channel.

  Just thinking for a moment, Quan Shui said without hesitation.

   "Catch up!"

  The broken leg Kevin on the side froze for a moment.

   "Catch up? Now?"

"That's right!" Quan Shui said without hesitation, "Now is the best opportunity. The Death Corps has reached the edge of the North Second Ring Road, and the Skeleton Corps is also advancing towards the North Second Ring Road. We just need to hold back the retreat of those little guys. , you can take them old and small in one pot!"

   "Hey, I like that idea!"

   Kakarot grinned, loaded his rifle, cut to the voice of the whole team, and roared loudly.

   "Brothers! The tide is retreating, it's time to counterattack!"

   "It's time to change our BGM!"

  As if in response to his command to attack, the broadcast that was originally broadcasting noise suddenly blew the familiar melody—the sound of the charge!

  When the resonant melody passed through the smoky battlefield, the players whose physical strength was almost exhausted instantly burst out astonishing morale as if their blood had awakened!

  The earth-shattering roar even dispersed the gray fog that had piled up on the street.

  All the players rushed towards the retreating slime mold like chicken blood.

   "Kill!!"

   "Aww!"

  The soldiers of the First Corps standing on the ground were all dumbfounded, staring dumbfoundedly at the group of refuge residents who were red-eyed and were chasing after the slime mold fruiting bodies.

  Li Shudong swallowed, his eyes were full of surprise and shock, and then gradually replaced by boundless respect.

  They are all true warriors!

   Not afraid of death, nor tired!

  Inspired by the monstrous fighting spirit, he felt the blood in his chest boiling up, and he couldn't help shouting that cry that he didn't understand what it meant.

   "Kill!!"

  …

  As the Storm Corps and the First Corps began to pursue, the counter-offensive campaign in the northern suburbs of Qingquan City also started.

   While Thea was struggling to cope with the pressure from two directions at the same time, trying her best to mobilize the fruiting bodies to return to defense, Luo Yu and Xiao Yu's devouring of the brood gradually came to an end.

  The increasingly weakened consciousness no longer pleaded, but fell into a dark abyss amid vicious curses.

  Luo Yu felt that his consciousness was merging into his body, flowing along his blood vessels throughout his whole body.

   Gradually, he could feel not only his body, but also the part outside his body.

   The billions of spores floating in the air are like his tentacles.

  Through the floating neurons, he can vaguely perceive each fruiting entity.

  They are all His children.

   Including Thea.

   Also includes the creep that covers the walls.

  He clearly saw that Thea, his most beloved child before his death, was looking up at him with fearful eyes.

   It's like he's a scary monster.

  At this moment, a word that he had only seen in novels suddenly appeared in his mind.

   "Could this be... seizing the house?"

   This seems to be the most appropriate description.

   Realizing this, Luo Yu quickly fell into ecstasy.

   Ignoring Thea who was terrified of him, he tried to concentrate all his energy and integrate his consciousness into the vast sea of ​​consciousness.

   At this moment, a bright white light suddenly broke into his consciousness.

  Accompanied by a loud bang, he felt as if his body was being sucked away, and he was forcibly pulled closer into the vast darkness.

  Suddenly lost the perception of his body, Luo Yu couldn't help but panicked, thinking that he was acting too aggressively and suffered the backlash of the brood.

   Fortunately, at this time, a light whisper floated into his ears, which immediately calmed his restless mood.

   "Yeah!" (Don't be afraid, I'm here too!)

  Luo Yu took a deep breath, and looked at the bright white light floating beside his conscious body.

   "Xiaoyu?"

   "Yeah!" (Yes!)

   "Where am I?"

   "Eep." (This is His memory.)

   "His memory..."

   Repeating this sentence, Luo Yu suddenly realized that what they devoured was not only his body, but also his memory.

  Thinking of this, Luo Yu couldn't help feeling a little curious, wanting to see what was hidden deep in the memory of this brood.

   Right at this moment, small dots of light suddenly appeared in the darkness beside him, and then the boundless darkness turned into a vast starry sky.

   Floating in the colorful starlight, Luo Yu's eyes couldn't help but widen, although he was just an abstract consciousness body here, without real eyes.

   Gradually, a bright star emerged from the starry sky.

   And beside that star, hangs a beautiful planet.

  It is like a finely crafted work of art.

  The earth is dusk red, and the sea is vibrant green.

  The endless rainforests are all over the world, where lush species rest and thrive.

   What's even more incredible is not just this.

  The endless rainforest is not made of trees, but huge "mushrooms".

  The "animals" active on the planet are also essentially different from the animals on the earth.

  They are born from the soil under their feet, and they return to the dust after death, and then start a new cycle.

  Everything feeds on His hair, no need to fight and kill each other, and can play and play all day long.

  There is no such concept as a food chain here, only a nearly perfect circle.

  In a sense, whether it is running on the ground, flying in the sky, or growing out of the soil.

  Everything on this planet is His fruiting body, and in the long river of ages they finally achieve eternal harmony.

  All things are nourished by Him, and all things nourish Him.

  Looking at that beautiful planet, Luo Yu couldn't help being fascinated by it for a while, mainly because she had never seen it before.

   Is this the "hive"?

   it seems...

   Is it not as scary as imagined?

   "Who is He?"

  A distant voice came from the depths of his sea of ​​consciousness.

   "He has no name."

   "When you come, call him Gaia."

  (end of this chapter)