This Game is Too Real

  Chapter 642 Beta0.6 version! Fruiting body cultivation system!

  The long night finally passed.

When the sky in the distance became hazy and bright white, and the first ray of sunlight in the morning shone on the smoky street, Bit, who was sitting behind the sandbag wall, finally let go of the burden in his heart, and also relaxed the tension that had been tense all night. Shoulder.

  Two hours ago, there were still sporadic nibblers wandering towards their position, but now the entire position is silent, not even a single gunshot can be heard.

   From the machine gun fire point not far away, thunderous snores gradually came, and some soldiers who couldn't bear the fatigue even fell asleep with their eyes open.

   This is their first time on the battlefield.

  Bit glanced at his right hand in disbelief, and then at the **** battlefield around him, his heart was filled with words that he couldn't say.

them…

   survived!

   This is incredible.

  At this time, there was the creaking sound of boots stepping on the concrete floor behind him.

  Bite, who was still in a trance, was startled suddenly, and suddenly woke up. He picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at a comrade not far away, trying to wake him up.

  Those guys from the regular army didn't like the people who were guilty of their crimes. It's hard to say what will happen if the people in the supervisory team find that they have fallen asleep on the ground.

   Even if they were shot dead, no one would sympathize with them.

  The stone hit the sleeping brother's head impartially, but the guy was so sleepy that he didn't wake up, and even snored louder.

   Just when Bit was anxiously planning to do something, a hoarse voice came from behind.

   "Let him sleep for a while."

  Looking at the war supervisor who walked to the side of the shooting bunker, Bit's Adam's apple twitched, he didn't dare to speak, and expressed his gratitude with his eyes.

  The war supervisor didn't care, he took out a pack of cigarettes from his coat and shook out two, one in his mouth, and the other handed over to him.

   "Smoking?"

  Looking at the cigarette handed over, Bit was stunned for a while, but still reached out and subconsciously took it.

"thanks."

"You're welcome."

  The war supervisor grinned, took out a match and lit the cigarette biting on his mouth, and then handed the matchbox to Bit.

  Looking at the man whose fingers trembled for a while before lighting the match, he turned his gaze to the sea of ​​corpses and bones in front of the position.

   Breathing out a puff of green smoke, he stretched the wrinkles squeezed between his brows, and spoke slowly.

   “This year’s wave is over.”

  "We won this war, and it was a complete victory, and there will be no more in the future...whether it is a wave or some other mess."

  Bloodthirsty monsters, tyrannical mutants, man-eating marauders, and gangs congregating at the foot of the wall to commit crimes...

  They have completely expelled all the evil born from the wasteland from Qingquan City, and today's dawn will be an unprecedented new beginning.

  Bit smoked in silence, looking at the diffuse smoke, his thoughts were in a mess.

  In the past three months, he was either working in the mine or preparing for this war, and he had no free time to think about the future.

   Now that the war is over, he has to seriously consider this issue-what to do in the future.

  At this time, he suddenly realized that he seemed to know nothing. He had never lived in a normal society for a day, and he did not have the skills to make a living in a normal society.

and…

   This year's wave is over so quickly, will the alliance really fulfill its original promise?

  Thinking of this, he couldn't help panicking, and the fingers holding the cigarette **** couldn't help shaking.

   Seemingly seeing through the thoughts in his heart, the war supervisor grinned and opened up the conversation.

"Be happy, you didn't run away in the face of the tide, you bravely fought for the compatriots behind you, you have proved the part of you who was born as a human being. Compared with the predators, you are still saved, and you are worth our hand Give us a hand."

   Paused, he continued.

   "The superior asked me to explain two things about your future."

   Bit said quickly when he heard this.

   "I'm going to call everyone here!"

   Reaching out his hand to hold Bit, who was about to turn to leave, the war supervisor continued.

   "Don't be so troublesome, I'll just tell you. You can discuss it with them in a while, and make a decision after you think it through."

   "Okay... then you can tell me."

  Bit nodded, swallowed nervously, and watched the war supervisor listen carefully.

  The war supervisor continued.

   "Your last task is to clean up the piles of corpses on the streets and move them to our designated location before they rot. This work will last about a week, and then you can leave the punishment camp."

"As for where to go after leaving the punishment camp, my superiors gave you two options, one is to disband on the spot, return the gun to the organization, and go wherever you want in the future, whether it is to leave the alliance or go to the refugee home to report. Another option is to join the newly established Southern Construction Corps, go to Jinchuan Province to open up wasteland, and build your own homeland."

  The former sounds easier.

  Although there is no status as a citizen of the Union, the Union is not as exclusive as the early Boulder City. As long as you report to the refugee's home, learn a craft as a "supervised person", and then go to the industrial area to find a stable job and obtain a tax ID number, you will become a citizen of the Union in a short time.

   This is because he does not have a skill to earn a living.

  If you have the skills to make a living, you can even skip the step of going to the refugee home, as long as there is a factory willing to pay him a salary that meets the tax standard.

  But if no factory wants him...

  Thinking of this, Bit couldn't help but feel tight. If that was the case, he felt that he might take the risk again and go back to the old path.

No-

   That's almost guaranteed to happen.

  As if he had seen his own future, Bit silently smoked the whole cigarette, collected himself, looked at the war supervisor and said.

   "I choose the latter."

   seems to have guessed that he would choose this way.

  The war supervisor smiled, threw the cigarette **** on the ground and stomped it out, then reached out and patted the young man on the shoulder.

   "No matter what you choose, cherish the hard-won freedom. You paid for it with your life. Don't go in again."

   "Next time, you won't be so lucky."

  …

   The price of victory is heavy.

  The punishment battalion has reduced its staff by 40%. There were more than 5,000 people when they went to the front line, and only 3,000 people were left alive overnight.

   Not just punishment camps.

  The First Corps and the Militia also suffered a lot of casualties, but they were not as exaggerated as cannon fodder.

   Not to mention players.

  As the vanguard of the alliance, they always appear in the most dangerous places, and always rush to the forefront.

  A total of nearly 20,000 players participated in the fierce battle on the battlefield, and less than half of them survived in the end.

   For every survivor in Qingquan City, this is destined to be a sleepless night.

  However, in contrast to the heavy sacrifice, their victory is infinitely glorious.

   After two centuries of sinking, the survivors who marched towards union finally overcome the tide once thought invincible!

   This is a difficulty that neither the post-war reconstruction committee nor even the ancient People's Federation has really overcome!

  They achieved this impossible miracle with their own hands!

  After hearing the good news from the front line, everyone's faces were filled with excitement, whether it was the residents of Boulder City, Dawn City, or Fallen Leaf City and Dawn City.

  People either fired guns into the sky, talked happily with wine, or hugged and celebrated, venting the joy of victory in cheers and shouts.

  When the dawn dispelled the haze, almost everyone was cheering for the hard-won victory!

   Not even just people!

  Even the spore cloud that filled the sky above the ruins brought a lightness that had never been seen before.

   Less than five kilometers away from the giant wall, a half-collapsed hospital is located on the edge of the second ring road. A thousand-man team from the Boulder City militia is stationed here.

  At this moment, the underground parking lot of the hospital is filled with scarlet slime mold.

   There is an incubation room for mass production of spores and fruiting bodies.

   A large number of eaters and crawlers started from here, rushing towards the defense line of human civilization like waves.

  As usual, if you want to end this annual wave, you must completely destroy these distorted hatching chambers.

  But this year is different from previous years.

  The brood in the city center has long been taken by Xiao Yu, and the transcription of the DNA related to the aggression has stopped, and no new nibblers or crawlers will come out of the hatch.

   And this is also the best proof that the wave is over, apart from the drop in spore concentration.

  Looking at the rolling light red ocean, the adjutant wearing a heavy exoskeleton couldn't help but speak in shock.

   "This thing looks really scary."

   In recent decades, charging towards the hatching room has always been the job of mercenaries.

  Although it has been a few years since he joined the militia, it was the first time he had seen a living hatchery outside of a photo or hologram.

  Not only him.

  The same is true for the officers of other militia regiments. Almost everyone's face is full of anxiety.

   "Is it really okay to keep this guy?"

   "What if one day it starts hatching those nibblers again?"

   "I always feel like it wants to eat me!"

   Everyone exchanged glances and whispered in low voices.

  Listening to the whispering among the officers under his command, Joey, the head of the militia, coughed hard, interrupting the rumors that were spreading more and more outrageous.

  Looking at the quiet crowd, he paused for a moment and said.

"The administrator said that he intends to designate an 'ecological protection area' near Shelter 401, and move the hatching rooms and fruiting bodies in the urban area there. There are relatively few survivors in the East District of Qingquan City, and most of them live in With dangerous alien species, it can be used as a pilot."

   Never heard of such a strange word, the adjutant asked after a moment of stupefaction.

   "What is an ecological reserve...?"

   This word was definitely not a rare thing two hundred years ago, but it is definitely an advanced concept in the wasteland.

   "Probably... a settlement where slime molds and humans live in harmony?"

  Joy is actually not very clear, so he can only try to understand while trying to explain to his colleagues who are confused.

   "For example, people live in mushrooms."

   Obviously, his one-sided understanding not only failed to explain everyone's doubts, but had the opposite effect.

  A military officer was stunned for a long time, then came back to his senses and shook his head with a wry smile.

   "This is so weird."

  The other officer did the same, looking at the scarlet ocean not far away, he swallowed, and nodded in agreement.

  “…I would never stay with that thing, don’t even think about it.”

  Joy shrugged.

"What are you talking about, the ecological reserve is currently only open to the residents of the refuge, you have to apply first if you want to go in and have a look... I don't think it really matters, as long as they don't plant mushrooms on the huge wall, they can suppress the annual The wave is already very good, or you have a better way."

  The officer coughed embarrassingly.

   "Of course I unconditionally agree with the manager's decision..."

"me too."

  Joy nodded, turned his gaze to the scarlet flora that was gradually fading, and continued speaking slowly.

   "We have tried all the methods we can try, whether it is fire or chemical reagents... Even if their plan seems a bit unbelievable, now we can only try it."

  His point of view is actually more optimistic.

   It is not because of blind trust in the manager himself, but because biotechnology is indeed the strength of the alliance, and that adult will definitely consult experts in related fields when making decisions.

  With the current unity of the alliance, there is absolutely no reason for the experts of the alliance to fool him, and they will probably give a truly suitable suggestion based on their conscience.

  Since so many people think that it is not a big problem from their professional point of view, Joey thinks that this ecological reserve can still look forward to it.

   They have nothing to lose anyway.

  The worst result is to let the wave that has lasted for two centuries continue.

   And if they succeed, they will open up an unprecedented path, which may become an opportunity to end the entire wasteland...

   At this time, a soldier came from a distance, stood in front of Joey and gave a military salute.

   "Report! A group of merchants are approaching the checkpoint we set up. The representative they elected wants to meet with you to discuss the cleanup of the slime mold fruiting bodies."

  Usually, during the duration of the wave, there will be merchants who come to the front line to wholesale corpses. This can be regarded as an old tradition in Qingquan City.

  Although the fruiting bodies of slime molds cannot be eaten directly, they still belong to the category of organisms, and can more or less recover a little bit of nutrients.

  Whether it is processed into fertilizer or nutritional paste, it is an excellent raw material.

  If they are left alone for a long time, and neither eaters eat them nor incubators recover them, these corpses will soon become breeding grounds for bacteria, which may even cause large-scale plagues.

   Therefore, Boulder City usually packs these corpses to the merchants for processing, and collects some chips as a benefit by the way.

  But this year is different from previous years.

Before the wave started, the Boulder City militia had received instructions from the shelter. In the future, the slime mold fruiting bodies captured by the alliance will no longer be packaged for private processing in the form of franchise, but the alliance authorities will be responsible for recycling and unified processing .

   Not surprisingly, the remains of those fruiting bodies will be sent to the newly established ecological protection area for decomposition and used as construction materials.

  Looking at the soldiers who delivered the order, Joey gave the order succinctly.

"Tell those merchants that the wreckage of the fruiting bodies in this area has been taken over by the Alliance authorities, and the Alliance has a better use. If they are interested in taking over the work, they can contact the logistics department. If they are fighting those fruiting bodies and evolutions The idea, give up as soon as possible."

  The soldier gave a military salute, turned around and returned to the checkpoint at the entrance of the garrison, and repeated the original words of the regiment leader to the merchants surrounding the door.

  After listening to the soldier's words, the faces of all the merchants were full of astonishment. You look at me and I look at you, exchanging glances.

   Better use?

  Besides being made into nutrient paste and fertilizer, what else can that stuff be used for?

  Almost everyone can't fix it.

  …

   A group of merchants from the wasteland scratched their heads and couldn't guess what the esteemed manager was going to do.

   Just when everyone was confused, the official website of "Wasteland OL" in another world suddenly updated an announcement.

  【Wasteland OL beta test server Beta0.6 version update announcement! 】

  【Major update:

  1. Qualifications for closed beta testing increased from 30,000 to 50,000!

  2. The blockade of the second ring road area of ​​Qingquan City has been lifted, and a large number of proven ruins that have not been recovered have been added. Relevant tasks can be obtained from the scientific expedition team.

  3. Added "South Gate 2" galaxy and Gaia world to the game world! (Note: Although the map has been made, the passage to the map is still under development, and players can also explore the way there by themselves, so stay tuned for more content!)

  4. Added the "Fruit Entity Cultivation" system!

  5. The B7 floor of the shelter will open soon.

  6. Fix a few bugs.

  …

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  【Introduction to the "Fruit Entity Development" system:

  The brood nest in the center of Qingquan City has been occupied by us, and the hatching rooms in the whole city are currently under our control!

  However, what troubled Xiaoyu was that it had never controlled so many fruiting bodies, and these fruiting bodies designed for killing would show red-fruited hostility to other organisms like wild beasts if they were not careful.

  In order to avoid wasting resources, and for everyone’s Xiaoyu, Vault 404 is now recruiting a group of volunteers!

  Requires an intelligence attribute of 10 or more, or implanted with a bionic chip that enhances brain computing power!

  Eligible players can apply for the "control system" biological prosthesis transformation surgery through the VM terminal in the game. If the application is passed, the registration is successful! The refuge will arrange biological prosthesis implantation surgery for the player after the player goes offline.

  After the operation is successful, the player can establish a conscious connection between the "control system" biological prosthesis and specific sub-entities, directing their actions just like manipulating a drone through a neural connection device.

  The adoption fee for conventional fruiting entities is 100~10,000 silver coins, and the types include eaters, crawlers, butchers, tyrants, etc.

   In addition to regular fruit entities, players can also apply for adoption of more powerful evolutionary bodies including "decay knights" by preparing synthetic materials and paying more fees!

   Even according to personal preference, DIY if the gene pool allows!

  The shelter system will comprehensively calculate the cost of customization based on various factors such as the function of the evolution, the consumption of organic matter required for production, and the incubation time.

   It should be noted that the number of sub-entities that players can operate at the same time is related to the intelligence attribute, please refer to the researchers' suggestions and do what you can.

  If the fruiting entity gets out of control, all losses and consequences will be borne by the adopter himself!

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   Less than half a minute after the announcement—

  The entire forum instantly boiled!

  —

   (Thanks to the two leaders of "Makabakamo" for the reward!! Happy new year, brothers!)

  (end of this chapter)