This Game is Too Real

the other side.

At the moment when the submersible driven by Sisi was blown away by a tentacle as thick as a bucket, the light of the searchlight flying randomly was like a broken match, and disappeared together with the submersible that was knocked out. The silent deep sea in the distance.

   "Sh!"

  Tail couldn't help but exclaimed, but through the bulky diving helmet, no sound could come out.

   After a full minute, there was a muffled sound like rolling thunder in the distance.

  The submersible appears to have hit a support for a turbine generator, causing a small collapse.

  Looking at the turbidity rolling in the darkness, Tail panicked, but there was nothing he could do.

   There was silence in the communication channel, and the last ray of light was obscured by the muddy mud.

  The entire water area seems to have returned to silence, and the silence is terrifying.

  There is no light here.

   No air.

   There is no sound either.

  There is only boundless silence and darkness, as well as the occasional tremors and muffled sounds that come with the bubbles, like the whispers of indescribable things in the abyss.

  Controlling the frequency of breathing, the tail carefully retreated to the side of the ruins, and shrank under a protruding metal bracket, trying to make itself look smaller.

  The spherical detector is not far from her left, still working quietly.

  The cable connecting it to the submersible has drifted away with the surge of the ocean current.

   Now Tail finally figured out where the ocean current that blew the probe astray came from.

   Maybe it's the monster's "breath"!

   Realizing that the monster was not far below him, Tail felt his scalp tingling for a while, and his eyes kept drifting to the spherical detector hugged on the terminal next to him.

   "I'm giao! By the way, how can this thing be considered finished collecting—huh? It's released?"

   Just as her voice fell, the round spherical detector suddenly retracted the mechanical arm hugged on the metal bracket.

  Seeing that the rising ocean current was about to wash it away, Tail quickly stretched out his arms, hugged it, and held the basketball-sized detector tightly in his arms.

   "Done!"

  Looking at the detector in his arms, his tail let out a sigh of relief, with a smug expression on his face.

  However, before she was happy for two seconds, the smug expression froze on her face.

   Here comes the problem.

  How should she bring this thing back?

  This water area is located in the middle of the southern waters, and it takes three to four hours to travel by speedboat.

  Relying on the diving suit she was wearing, she might not be able to swim back even if she was exhausted.

   Not to mention that along the way, you may encounter more terrifying alien species than the tentacle-waving sea monster.

   "Oh my god...it's over now!"

   Sure enough, it was too early to be happy just now.

   Just when she was in a hurry, there was a rustling electric sound in the communication channel, followed by intermittent sounds.

   "Ao...how is your condition?"

  Hearing the familiar voice, Tail exclaimed excitedly.

   "Sh! Great, you're alive!"

   After confirming that the tail was still alive, Sisi, who was sitting in the cockpit, heaved a sigh of relief, and then the corners of his lips curled up slightly.

   "What is this called? I don't die that easily... But then again, you are still in the mood to joke, so it seems that there should be no problem."

  Tail smiled and said energetically.

   "Oh! Of course, the tail is fine now!"

  Siss: "That would be great...By the way, Ao, can you see where the guy who knocked me out is?"

"Uh...it's a bit difficult," Tail cautiously stuck his head out of the gap in the ruins, and looked outside, feeling as if his whole body was soaked in pitch-black ink. Can't see."

   Sisi sighed.

"makes sense…"

  This is the deep sea.

  Not to mention that it is night outside, even during the day, I am afraid that there is not much light that can illuminate such a deep position.

  Hearing the silent rustling sound in the communication channel, Tail took a deep breath and spoke courageously.

   "Should I figure out a way to lure it out? I have a flashlight here—"

"Don't do that!" Hearing this dangerous speech, Sisi interrupted her without thinking, and continued in a hasty tone, "It's hard to say whether the weapons we bring are useful to that guy, if we can If so, we have to try to avoid exchange of fire... I will launch a few signal flares towards you in a while, they will mark your evacuation path, and if possible, try to bring out the detector as well, we need the data on it. "

  Tail: "Oh! Leave it to Tail!"

  Listening to the energetic answer in the communication channel, Sisi couldn't help showing a reassuring smile on his face.

   "Well! I leave it to you!"

  Although Awei usually looks not very smart, he is still very reliable when it matters.

  Put her index finger on the central control screen in the cockpit. She switched the ammunition of the remote weapon station to the signal bomb, and pressed the launch switch while aiming at the general direction of the detector.

  Following a few short blunt bangs, one after another of fine milky white bubbles shot forward, and bloomed a coquettish orange-red light in the middle of the flight.

  The faint rays of light were like lit matches in the dark, drawing a crooked trajectory in the dark ruins.

Confirming the evacuation path by the light of the signal flare, the tail hugged the detector tightly in his arms, kicked his legs and quickly left under the half-collapsed metal bracket, towards the half-section of metal illuminated by the signal flare tens of meters away. The leaves drifted slowly.

  The tentacled sea monster is nearby.

   She can't get too close to the flare or she'll be spotted, or too far away or she won't see anything around her.

  Maybe it was because the surroundings were too quiet, Tail felt his heart beating so hard that he could even hear the beat of his pulse.

   "giao..."

  This is so exciting!

  The darkness covering all directions is like the open mouth of a monster, and it is hard not to lose all courage just by looking at it.

  The same is true for those who are in it, and the same is true for those who are out of it.

  Sitting in the cockpit of the submersible, Sisi stared fixedly at the flashing green dot on the central control screen, and held his breath involuntarily.

   "Good job Ao!"

   Only the last fifty meters are left!

  Looking at the green dot that was getting closer, her lips moved slowly, and a trace of sweat leaked from her clenched palms.

   Forty meters!

  Thirty-five!

thirty-

   Seeing that the green dot was about to separate from the wreckage of the power station, but at this moment the mutation happened suddenly!

  I saw the flickering green dot on the screen as if hitting a wall, and the forward momentum was suddenly stopped.

  Sisi, who was staring at the central control screen, was startled suddenly, and without hesitation, he immediately turned on the searchlight on the front of the submersible.

  A beam of dazzling light passed through the darkness, and shone right below the struggling Awei and the detector in her hand.

  I saw a tentacles as thick as a bucket protruding from the ruins on one side, firmly grasping the bulky deep-sea diving suit, and circled around it.

After all, it is deep diving equipment that can withstand a pressure of millions of pascals. The tentacles as thick as a bucket did not immediately knead it and Awei inside, but just listening to the voice on the communication channel, one can guess that Awei is at this moment. The situation is not optimistic.

   "Ji Li Gu Lu Gu Lu—"

  Seeing that the tail was caught by the tentacle of the sea monster, Sisi panicked, and quickly operated the remote control weapon station, aiming at the root of the tentacle.

   "Hold on! Ao!"

   While shouting loudly, she decisively pressed the launch button.

Two thick and long harpoons were launched from the belly of the submersible, drawing two cotton-white trails in the dark deep sea, one of which penetrated into the depths of the ruins, while the other hit the place impartially. Tentacles protruding from the ruins.

  The head of the harpoon pierced the monster's skin, and then the explosives tied to the harpoon exploded instantly, and a milky white bubble opened while the fire flickered.

  As the air bubbles dissipated, a washbasin-sized wound was imprinted on the root of the tentacle, and dark green liquid continued to seep from the wound—it seemed to be its blood!

  Even though these two harpoons are not professional underwater weapons, they are just stuff made up of harpoon launchers and mixed explosives.

  But in the face of enough equivalent, the alien species still suffered a lot of injuries.

  However, what was surprising was that it didn't let go of the tentacles holding its tail because of the injury, and the deep-sea diving suit under heavy pressure had already let out an overwhelmed scream.

  By the light of the searchlight, Sisi was surprised to find that the washbasin-sized wound was wriggling with tiny cilia and healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

  That's enough to overturn even a tank!

   What kind of monster is this guy? !

   Unable to wait any longer, Sisi made a decisive decision, quickly switched to the grenade launcher, and shot out at the wound that was healing.

  The dense air bubble shuttles were like arrows leaving the string, and the shots focused on the root of the tentacle.

  With a series of bang bang bangs, the washbasin-sized wound was instantly buried by a piece of fine air bubbles and mud.

   However, this grenade is not a professional underwater offensive weapon after all. Although it is invincible in the jungle of Baiyue Province, it still seems a bit stretched to put it in the deep sea below 100 meters.

  The tentacle, which had been bombarded firmly by a round, remained motionless, and the damage effect was far inferior to the previous two "Goblin Harpoons".

   There was a dull low growl in the deep sea, the sound was like a mocking sea monster.

   "Sh—I can't hold on any longer!" At this moment, the intermittent sound of the tail came from the communication frequency band, as if the sound might stop at any moment.

   "Hang on Ao!"

   Trying to calm himself down, Sis stopped pointless firing, and operated the searchlight to search around for a while, trying to find the weakness of this giant sea monster.

   This guy is very cunning, he hid behind a huge turbine engine ruins, using the metal bracket and the turbine casing as a cover to protect most of his body.

  Sis even had a feeling that the reason why it exposed one of its tentacles instead of dragging its tail back behind the bunker to eat after being injured was because it used her as bait and waited for itself to pass by!

  Looking around with the searchlight for a while, Sis soon found that just below the ring-shaped turbine where the sea monster was hiding, was a piece of porous reef and rows of bent metal brackets.

   With a thought in her heart, she immediately adjusted the front sight of the remote weapon station, aimed at the bottom of the turbine generator and emptied the bomb bay.

   Fragmentation grenades penetrated into the narrow space like migratory locusts one after another, and while exploding rapidly, they also shattered the reef and metal brackets supporting the ring turbine.

  Amidst an overwhelmed metallic cry, the circular turbine, which was already leaning backwards, toppled like a landslide, and pressed heavily on the sea monster hiding behind it.

   Its huge size had no time to dodge. The giant sea monster shaped like an octopus was instantly crushed by the huge turbine more than ten meters high, and fell towards the billowing mud amidst a dull mournful cry.

   "Cough—!"

   There was a coughing sound from the tail in the communication channel, and she was thrown out by the tentacle that lost strength while holding the probe, and rolled and crashed into the ruins beside her in the ocean current.

  Aiming at the signal from the detector, Sis pushed the output power to the maximum, drove the submersible to catch up with her, and opened the outward hatch at the moment of approach.

"come on in!"

   The tail that hit the ruins almost lost the connection on the spot, and the red warning light on the helmet of the diving suit was already on.

   Fortunately, the physical fitness of the awakener allowed her to hold on. She reached out and grabbed the open hatch, and then with a sudden force, she slid in sideways holding the round detector.

  The cabin door was slammed shut.

  The pressure indicator applied to the diving suit decays rapidly, and then the seawater in the buffer chamber begins to empty outwards.

  Looking at the green signal light that disappeared into the dark and gloomy cabin that disappeared into the gap of the hatch, Tail, who was slumped on the ground, took several breaths before calming down, rolled his eyes and stuck out his tongue.

   "Ahem—giao! The tail almost turned from tail to tail sauce!"

   There was an uncontrollable puff in the communication channel, and Sisi, who was holding back a laugh, had a dry cough, and he regained his strength and asked with concern.

"are you OK?"

"I still-"

  Tail was about to answer, but just as she opened her mouth, a huge impact hit the hatch that was close at hand, causing her to fly from the floor to the ceiling in an instant.

   A muffled sound of "clang" passed through the Tianling Cap, and she felt that her jaw might be dislocated. She reached out to try to snap it back, but was blocked by the mask of the diving helmet.

   Before she could recover from the previous impact, the second impact soon followed.

  The sea monster crawled out of the collapsed turbine generator as if going berserk, and slapped and hammered the submersible hiding in the dark.

  Before he was about to lose consciousness, Tail finally touched the folding chair with safety belt in the buffer cabin. He couldn't unfold the chair, so he fixed himself on the chair with the nylon buckle on it.

  Listening to the tinkling sound coming through the bulkhead, Tail took off the helmet on the diving suit with great effort, and fumbled on the chin with both hands, and it took a long time to break the dislocated jaw back.

  Thanks to the fact that the extreme pain sense in this game will be shielded, if it were in reality, she would probably faint from the pain.

  The tinnitus gradually dissipated, and Sisi's voice came from the communication channel.

   "...that guy is not dead yet! Sit tight!"

  Tail: "giao! The blood of this boss is too thick!"

  Sisi: "It's not just a matter of blood thickness, the healing speed of the wound is not like that of ordinary alien species. Maybe it's a genetically modified artificial variety!"

  Tail: "Synthetic variety?!"

  Siss: "That's right... I can't think of any other possibility other than the Church of the Torch!"

  Tail: "Then what do we do now?!"

"I can't help it. The weapons on our submersible have almost no effect on it. Now we can only pray that its speed is not fast. As long as we can drive away from the ruins, we will have a way to escape... Fuck!" Sisi suddenly let out an exclamation.

  Tail was also shocked when he heard the exclamation, and asked quickly.

   "What's wrong?!"

   "The power system... that thing that was just repaired seems to be broken again!"

   "giao?!"

  Looking at the flashing power failure alarm on the central control screen, Si Si was sweating profusely, and poked his index finger on the screen violently.

  However, the submersible does not listen to it at all, and rolls and drifts forward with the ocean current under the action of inertia.

   At this moment, the rampant submersible suddenly stopped violently, and the surrounding bulkheads made a series of creaking friction sounds.

  Through the side window of the cockpit, Sis saw a huge tentacle, circled around the dome and along the outside of the drum-shaped submersible, and made a solid circle.

  She could even see the barnacle-sized suction cups stuck to the outer glass!

  It seems that their good luck has finally run out, and the sea monster lurking in the dark finally caught them.

   "Gan..."

  The pressure sensors in the four directions on the screen were instantly full, and her heart rose to her throat in an instant, and the memory of fear resurfaced again.

   Before she had time to react, the acceleration of a few g's pushed her firmly onto the chair.

  The tentacle seemed to have tampered with the shot put in its hand, and lifted the submersible high up, making a gesture of throwing a shot put.

  Seeing that the tentacle was about to smash them and their boat on the reef, a metal sphere shaped like a sea urchin suddenly fell into the silent deep sea with a string of bubbles.

   Its diameter is about half a person's height, and its tapered firing pins are as long as a forearm.

  The sea monster crawling on the reef of the sea obviously noticed this unexpected guest, but it didn't take it seriously.

  But soon, that guy paid a heavy price for his rash actions.

  Only when the iron ball approached his back, a dazzling light instantly lit up the silent deep sea.

  The burgundy flame engulfed the shattered pieces of iron and exploded in an instant, opening up a bubble cavity several meters deep in the deep sea below a hundred meters in an instant!

  The scorching temperature caused the sea monster waving its tentacles to let out a painful wail.

  Large sheets of air bubbles gushed out from the reef, as if the entire sea was trembling under its twist.

  The tightly held tentacle subconsciously let go, and threw the submersible out of his hand like throwing a can.

   "S—we're flying!"

  Listening to the exclamation of excitement on the communication channel, Sis felt as if a rocket had been inserted under his seat, staring at the darkness outside the window and tightened his nerves.

   "The best thing is to fly!"

   In this deep sea without light, she couldn't tell the difference between east, west and north.

  At their current speed, if they hit a rock or the bottom of the sea, they will end up turning into a pile of scrap iron, and they can only wait for others to do the archaeology for them—

  If the monsters in this sea area plan to leave them a whole corpse.

   Fortunately, the worst did not happen.

  After flying for a while, the submersible stopped accelerating under the resistance of the water flow, and floated quietly in the water like a jellyfish.

   "...Shhhh! What the **** was that thing that exploded just now?!"

  Listening to the excited voice on the communication channel, Sisi, who was leaning on the seat, gasped for a moment, and said slowly.

   "It should be the bomb of the Federal Patrol... It seems that they still shot."

  Tail: "Huh!? Didn't Tail owe them another favor?"

  Sisi: "Not to mention...as long as we can bring this detector back, they will be the ones who owe it."

   She had no doubts about it.

  Although the scientific expedition team has not yet analyzed the data, this sea monster lurking under the ruins is enough to explain many problems.

  The terrifying recovery ability is very similar to the handwriting of the Church of the Torch, and it desperately prevents them from taking any clues from the ruins, which means that there must be something they are looking for!

   At this moment, there was another dull loud noise not far away.

  The speedboat of the federal patrol dropped a second depth charge on the sea monster, and this was probably the last one on the speedboat.

  The depth charges filled with picric acid and high explosives are enough to overturn a submarine with a displacement of 10,000 tons.

  Even if the sea monster has an amazing recovery ability, it is still a bit meaningless in front of this professional underwater weapon.

  Twice consecutive hits, the sea monster waving its tentacles finally swallowed its last breath in humiliation after a painful cry, and fell heavily on the ruins and broken reefs of the ocean current power station.

   A moment later, a noisy voice came from the communication channel.

   “…how are you doing?”

   Adjusted his breathing, Sis said.

   "It's okay, except that the power system and pressure sensor are damaged...others are okay."

   "That sucks."

"What's wrong?"

   "The Federation Fleet is heading towards us... The noise you made just now was too great!"

  There was a hint of annoyance and anxiety in that voice.

obviously.

   This will be troublesome for him.

   After calmly thinking for a few seconds, Sisi spoke.

   "Can you find a way to lure them away?"

  Mu Da: "Do you think they are idiots?!"

  Sisi took a deep breath.

   "That can't be helped... Do us a favor."

  Mu Da was stunned for a moment.

"What?"

Siss: "Take the detector to Chip Harbor for me, and I will share its coordinates with you later... Our researchers can analyze the data inside. Remember, you must bring it to Chip Harbor, if you I also hope to find out the truth.”

  Mu Da: "What about you?"

  Siss: "emmm... For the sake of helping us so much, how about giving you first-class merit?"

  Mu Da: "What?"

   Without waiting for the guy to respond, Sis stretched out his index finger and tapped on the central control screen to hang up the communication, and then transferred the communication to the tail sitting in the buffer cabin.

   "Awei, throw the detector out."

   "Eh?!" Tail moved his face to the small window of the buffer door in surprise, looked at Sisi sitting in the cockpit and asked, "Throw it out?! Don't you take it back?"

  Sisi made a helpless expression.

   "I would like to, but it's a pity that this broken submarine is no longer available, and the Federation's navy is on its way here again... I can only ask that NPC named Muda to help us deliver this courier."

"Ah, got it!"

   Tail nodded, put on the helmet again, waited for the seawater to fill the buffer compartment, then manually opened the outer hatch, and then forcefully threw the spherical detector out of the cabin.

  The silver metal ball floated into the sea, and quickly floated up slowly.

   It won't be long before it floats to the surface, where it will be recovered by the speedboat waiting there.

   After finishing all this, Tail closed the hatch of the buffer compartment, floated back to the chair and sat down.

   Did not drain the water in the buffer tank immediately, Tail asked in the communication channel.

   "What about us? Next?"

  Sisi leaned back on the seat, pinching the tired brows with his index finger and thumb.

   "Let me see..."

   First of all, this is the submersible in Vault 70.

Although the two of them have shown their faces at the port of the circular island, there are not many people who have seen her face. It doesn't matter whether they were captured as residents of Vault 70 or directly identified as residents of Vault 404. option.

  Comparing the two options, she actually prefers the former.

   In this way, they will have the opportunity to contact the high-level members of the Federation. Maybe they can find out what happened to the sea monster, and at the same time avoid direct diplomatic disputes between the Alliance and the Federation of the Southern Islands.

   Of course, there is actually a third option.

   That is to find a place to bury yourself.

   You can be resurrected in Dawn City in three days, and you can return to Potato Fries in up to five days by airship. This is the most trouble-free way.

   Just when Sisi was hesitating, a light blue antenna icon suddenly popped up on the radar of the central control screen, and then an unfamiliar communication request was automatically connected.

   "...This is the 'Dolphin', we have received your distress signal and are heading in your direction."

   Not only Sisi heard the sound, but also the tail sitting in the buffer cabin, and a surprised expression suddenly appeared on his face.

"what's the situation?"

  Sisi stared blankly at the central control screen, and swallowed unconsciously.

   "I don't know... I guess that some safety detection equipment of this submersible automatically sent a distress signal. The Dolphin is probably the No. 70 refuge submarine patrolling this area?"

   At the same time, on the rough sea in the distance, a majestic ship shadow has emerged.

  It is completely different from the speedboat of the Federal Patrol. That ship is a serious battleship. It not only carries two thick and long gun barrels on the deck, but also is equipped with torpedo launchers and close-in defense guns with abundant firepower.

   That is a Federation destroyer.

  Standing on the bow of the speedboat, Mu Da held a walkie-talkie in his hand, looking at the flagship in the distance with a trace of complexity in his eyes.

  He was thinking for a while how to explain to his superiors.

  Of course, compared to how to explain it to his superiors, what made him more complicated was the signal he just captured through the terminal of the mind interference device.

  The psychic interference device is a gift from the Church of the Torch to the Federation of the Southern Islands. This technology does not exist in Vault 70.

  Even if those shelter residents have mastered the relevant principles, they are far less proficient in application than the Federation.

  There is only one explanation that can explain why the signal that should not have appeared appeared in the waters controlled by the Federation of the Southern Islands without anyone noticing, and escaped repeated searches.

   This is definitely not something that a captain can do, at least it must be someone from the naval staff or even the top authorities, or even a group of people!

   That insider for some reason hindered, if not completely misled, the federal investigation into the ruins of the Ocean Currents power station.

  If so—

   Was it really Vault 70 that blew up the ocean current power station?

  Looking at the approaching warship, Mu Da's eyebrows gradually became solemn.

  I always feel that things are getting more and more troublesome...

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   (diarrhea... never eat raw pickled food again)