This Game is Too Real

   "...here is Flying Fox, we have reached the target airspace!"

   "Start to work! I don't want to miss today's lunch. What the hell, the rice buckets in Panghuang Swamp look like starving ghosts reincarnated, have they never eaten meat?!"

   "Haha! Maybe they really can't eat in their hometown!"

   "The 'wonton' in the morning is good, it seems to be called by this name—"

   "Don't interrupt, keep an eye on your target."

"receive!"

  West side of Broken Blade Mountain.

  Twelve Yunfly oropters vibrated their wings, carrying missiles full of ammunition racks, and circled aggressively towards the side of the mountain.

  At the same time, three infantry companies composed of mercenaries also completed their assembly and launched an offensive from the north.

  It's eight o'clock in the morning.

  In the hour before this, their friendly alliance had poured at least 500 155mm heavy grenades towards the mountain, washing all the positions that could be washed.

  As if they had foreseen the coming attack, the mutants on the mountain had already been preparing for it. They stared fiercely at the bottom of the mountain, clenched all kinds of guys in their hands, and prepared to teach this group of ignorant human **** a lesson.

  The same goes for the mercenaries at the foot of the mountain.

  They came here from the distant province of the clouds, just to slaughter this group of green-skinned bastards.

  For the qualification to live in the ideal city, but also for the generous reward!

  The two sides almost met their eyes, and sparks visible to the naked eye appeared—

   Mercenary leader: "Fire—!"

  Mutant centurion: "Chop them up!"

  Two roars sounded almost simultaneously, and dazzling sparks and flying tracers erupted between the cliffs in an instant.

In the hail of bullets, a mercenary was blasted in the chest by a large-caliber slug, and the bulletproof lining wrapped in blood was shattered to the ground in an instant. The chest and the corners of the mouth were bleeding. Pulled back behind the rock mass.

  The mutant who shot was quickly smashed into a sieve by a bunch of rifle bullets.

  However, until the last bullet got into his skull, the guy was frantically waving the shotgun in his hand and firing.

  The battle is about to start!

   The fighting became intense almost immediately!

   More and more mutants rushed out of the bunker and started a firefight with the mercenaries who were attacking the mountain.

   People keep falling, including mutants and soldiers wearing exoskeletons.

  The scene was extremely chaotic.

  The noisy gunshots and shouts mixed together, ups and downs in the mountain stream.

   The mercenary offensive fell into a stalemate for a while, and it seemed that they were about to lose the wind.

   And at this moment, missiles carrying metal-hydrogen warheads suddenly fell from the sky, bursting into orange-red flames in the mountains without warning!

  The burning flame was like a sudden burst of magma, and countless goblins were blown out!

   And those big green-skinned guys were blown to pieces before they could utter a scream.

The Yunfly orpter hovering along the mountain continued to fire, and the co-pilot's index finger was almost welded to the firing trigger. Under the guidance of the infantry, he continued to tilt the rockets and machine guns, and harvested hundreds of them in a blink of an eye. life.

   "Nice job!"

  Looking at the path opened by the flames, the mercenary lying behind the bunker roared excitedly towards the sky, and then with high morale, led the team behind him to kill on the winding ramp.

  Following them forward, there are more than 20 "Cerberus" unmanned vehicles.

   Facing the continuous harvest of bullets, those green-skinned guys were no match at all. The jagged rocks were covered with stumps, broken arms and scorched blood.

  Under the cover of the Yunfly flapper, the mercenaries who attacked towards the top of the mountain were like a bamboo, and they hit the halfway up the mountain in a short while.

  On Heiyun Peak not far away, the boys of the 100th Mechanized Mountain Division's Regiment were excited to see them.

   "Sir, when are we going?" A soldier wearing an exoskeleton walked up to the officer and asked energetically.

  His name is Tang Feng. The reason why he enlisted in the army was to fight for the destiny of mankind on the one hand, but more because of the recruitment advertisement on Duandian Cloud that said "Fight for the destiny of mankind".

  The officer glanced at him and then at the majestic mountain in the distance, and said simply and concisely.

   "When I let you go."

  Hearing this nonsense, everyone who was eager to try was suddenly disappointed.

  They have all reached the front line, but they can only watch the friendly troops show off in front.

   At the same time, there were new changes in the battle situation on the front line.

   It seems that the ammunition was exhausted, and the two attack formations composed of cloudfly oropters began to return.

   At the same time, the mutant troop, which had been in decline, suddenly started to function again as if it had been drugged.

  Especially among those big green-skinned guys, something different started to appear.

  Even if their skulls are pierced, they will not die immediately, but will rush up like crazy, even more dangerous than before being headshot!

  Caught off guard, many mercenaries were grabbed by the crazy green skins and beat them fatly. Even the exoskeleton and bones were beaten into pieces, and their throats were even bitten off alive, and half of their faces were torn off.

Everyone was terrified by this vicious style of attack. They couldn't even die with a headshot, or even pierced the heart. They were fearless in the face of fire suppression. For a while, almost everyone didn't know what to do. That's it.

   What's more terrible is that these "Xiao Qiang" with extraordinary vitality look no different from other mutants in appearance.

   They are like landmines buried in the crowd, they will explode at one point, and each "explosion" will cause huge troubles for the attacking troops.

   And these mutants would not give them time to breathe. Seeing that the human beings showed signs of decline, they immediately rushed up howling, and the offensive became more and more fierce.

  The three mercenary companies that attacked halfway up the mountain immediately fell into a hard fight. In the blink of an eye, one company was disabled and had to withdraw from the front line like a meat grinder.

  Command room.

  Looking at the aerial image on the holographic screen, Lin Shangwen, commander of the 100th Mountain Division, frowned, his face full of dignity.

  That is the picture captured by the belly camera of the "Seagull" fixed-wing UAV.

  At this moment, this drone is hovering 500 meters above Broken Blade Mountain, and this is the only close support available to the frontline troops.

   Standing next to him, the Chief of Staff Yun Song also had a serious expression on his face. After a moment of thought, he spoke.

   "There are the last eight tactical missiles, cover their retreat."

   As the former captain of the 26th commando, he knows how difficult it is to deal with mutants.

  The average person will lose more than half of their combat effectiveness when they are shot, but these guys will fight more and more courageously after being shot, until they finally die.

  And these green skins are obviously different from other green skins.

  Baobuqi Torch Church not only improved their prosthetic bodies, but also improved their biology.

  Mr. Lin nodded, but he couldn't help hesitating for a while when he thought of the mocking expression of the Willant people.

"But…"

   "Whether you are facing the 'pressure' from Triumph City or the pressure from Ideal City, you have to choose one."

   After a pause, Yun Song continued.

   "Even if they are just mercenaries, we can't really let them all die there."

  Hearing this, Lin Shangwen no longer hesitated, looked at the adjutant aside and ordered.

   "Let the frontline mercenaries retreat."

   "Also tell them, if you want to receive the full reward, at least bring me back the corpse of a mutant!"

  The adjutant immediately gave a military salute.

"yes!"

  …

  As the order to retreat was delivered to the front line, the mercenaries who were fighting **** breathed a sigh of relief.

  The remaining two companies took alternate covers and retreated in an orderly manner along the narrow and winding mountain road.

  On Heiyun Mountain not far away, Midnight with an umbrella and no knife, his eyes widened and he said in surprise.

   "The people in the company actually retreated?"

  Wasn’t the round of shelling in the morning for nothing?

   At this moment, [Sleepy when I wake up] standing aside touched his tactical helmet and muttered.

   "By the way, what are those mutants? New monsters?"

  As soon as he heard that there was a new monster, the outlaw fanatic immediately looked at him and asked curiously.

   "What the hell? What did you capture?"

   When he woke up, he was sleepy and didn't speak. He just uploaded the things he just took with the quadcopter drone to the VM, and gave it to the curious brothers who came over.

In the video, a mutant with half his head missing rushed out from behind a rock mass, swung the ax in his hand, picked up a hapless guy, and then rushed to other people behind him. Soldier.

  Soldiers from a group of companies frantically focused their fire on it, but the guy didn't seem to feel it until he was shot into a honeycomb before falling to the ground.

   After watching the video to the end, the players surrounding the VM couldn't help swallowing.

   Good guy...

   Is this slime mold possession? !

   Meanwhile, the battle on the front lines continues.

  Seeing that the troops that attacked halfway up the mountain began to retreat, the mutants on the mountain naturally didn't want to let them go. They dragged all kinds of guns and short cannons out of the cave, and greeted these human things head-on.

  But at this moment, a slender white smoke suddenly fell from the sky, blasting beside a cave entrance halfway up the mountain.

Several goblins struggling to carry the shells let out a scream, and they turned into a mist of shredded flesh and blood in the flames of the explosion, and even the big green-skinned guy carrying the iron-pipe cannon in front was swept away by the flames of the explosion. He went in, howled and rolled down the mountain.

  The missiles falling from the sky deterred the mutants who were about to rush out.

  They thought it was the little flies with flapping wings that had flown back again, and retreated cautiously into their caves.

  The Beastmaster warned them that the rock mass hundreds of meters thick is the strongest natural barrier, even nuclear weapons are much inferior to it.

  Even if the equivalent is tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of tons, there is not much to do in the face of the hard rock mass that has been diageneted for two billion years.

  They have already dug hundreds of tunnels connected to each other in the mountain, even if half of them collapsed, it would be fine, but those humans are still counting on building roads and bridges on top of them!

  As long as they don’t rush down from the mountain all at once, they can survive forever with the materials stored here!

  By eleven o'clock in the morning, the three-hour battle came to an end.

   This battle ended in a draw!

  …

  At the same time as the mercenaries were retreating, on the bridge of the Loyalty airship, General Leum's face was filled with an undisguised sneer.

  He waved his index finger in the air, and a light blue holographic screen unfolded along the trajectory of his fingers, projecting a snow-white video window.

  The commander of the enterprise did not appear on the screen, probably because he was embarrassed to turn on the camera.

  Lium didn't pay any attention, just said mockingly.

   "Can you do it? Or send regular troops to go up, don't waste all of our time."

  Heiyunfeng is a position controlled by the Legion, and his people have been watching by the side. The 100th Mountain Division stood still on the position and did not make a move at all.

  To be honest, compared with the performance of the servants of those guys, he is more curious about the combat effectiveness of the regular army of Ideal City, and this is what Saren, the head of the Eastern Legion, is most curious about.

  Although the two sides are friendly forces now, no one can guarantee that they will not fight in the future.

   It seems that in order to save face, a voice came from the opposite side of the communication channel.

   "...we have achieved today's operational objectives, and today's offensive is over."

  Hearing this sentence, Lium almost couldn't laugh out loud.

   Or have already laughed out.

   "Achieved? Isn't your goal to plant the flag on the top of the mountain?"

   Lin Shangwen said with a dark face.

   "That's the ultimate goal. Finding out what happened to these mutants is what we're going to do today."

  Lium narrowed his eyes, staring at the white snow in the window, and suddenly smiled.

   "Could it be that you are afraid?"

  He used the aggressive method to encourage these guys to send out the regular army.

   Unfortunately, the opposite party was not fooled, and continued in a calm tone.

   "If you think that studying the opponent's weaknesses, grasping the key points and defeating them in one fell swoop is called 'fear', then you can understand it as you like. In my opinion, our lives are more valuable."

   After a pause, Lin Shangwen sneered.

   "I don't know what you are so proud of for defeating a thousand-man team in one day."

  Hearing the slight sarcasm in that sentence, Lium's face flashed a trace of sullenness.

   But only a little bit.

   Only clones were killed, not the 310,000th team under General Modlin.

  In any case, their casualties were less than one company, and they successfully planted the flag on the highest point of Heiyun Peak.

  Looking at the hung up communication, Lium snorted coldly.

   "The dead duck has a hard mouth."

  …

   "Zhi Yuan Bao"

  【At eight o'clock today, the 100th Mechanized Mountain Division and the Seventh Air Force launched a fierce offensive towards Broken Edge Mountain. Annihilated more than a thousand mutants with slight casualties.

  According to the intelligence searched on the front line, more and more clues can directly prove the crimes against humanity committed by the Church of the Torch.

   Large numbers of survivors were fed addictive drugs and kept in captivity for reproduction. In addition, the apostles of the Church of the Torch also used the biological technology of the Prosperous Era to carry out extremely dangerous genetic improvements on some mutants, resulting in a large number of improved varieties with serious safety hazards...

   War correspondent Wu Kai'an, reporting for you.

  ]

  The next morning.

  A two-engine killer whale transport plane and a four-engine Bawang were parked on the tarmac and airport runway of the Weifu military base in tandem.

  The former sat with a team of biology experts from Yunjian University, while the latter sat with technicians from the Union Institute of Biology.

  Although they belong to different camps, they all came to the front for the same purpose.

   Namely, those mutants who won't stop fighting even if they get shot in the head.

  As the person in charge of the military base, Li Jinrong personally rushed over to receive them and arranged them in a three-story concrete building at the corner of the military base.

  It was originally intended to be a field hospital for the wounded, but there are not many wounded at present, so this place is not used for the time being, and it just happens to be used as a field laboratory first.

Without a moment's delay, when a body bag containing only samples was delivered from the front line, more than twenty experts just gathered together for a brief meeting, assigned their respective tasks, and immediately started the dissection work, analyzing each variant Human somatic cell samples were assayed.

   This work lasted from morning until late at night, and finally made some progress.

  At the same time, Vault 404.

  Chu Guang, who had just finished his day's work and was about to close his eyes, received a message from Heya, so he sat up from the bed again and went to meet her in the browsing room on the B4 floor.

"The results of the test came out, and they are very amazing... There are many pairs of chromosomes in the genomes of those mutants that contain coding genes that cannot even be fully resolved with our current technology. Such a strange mutant."

  Glancing at the completely incomprehensible report in his hand, Chu Guang squeezed his chin and nodded with a half-comprehension, then returned it to Heya's hand.

   "Amazing... all specimens?"

Heya: "It's just a part! Although they can be called super mutants in general, they are not exactly like those guys, but more like something in between. What do you think it is called? good?"

  Chu Guang took a look at the official website and found that some players were discussing this matter, so he picked a nickname with the highest frequency and said.

   "... Let's call it a zombie mutant, or a zombie mutant, or a zombie mutant for short?"

  Heya's eyes lit up, and she snapped her fingers.

"Okay, let's call it this... In short, apart from the extremely strong recovery ability, this kind of mutilation also has the brain tissue self-healing ability that ordinary mutants do not have! The clinical manifestation is that even if they are smashed The head can also grow back!"

   Chu Guang was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help asking.

"how did you do that?"

  His recovery ability is also very strong, but it is far from strong enough to grow back after being headshot.

  Even the head can grow back, this resilience is somewhat outrageous.

   Are these guys earthworms?

"...Our preliminary speculation is that their nervous system has evolved a 'memory backup' function, as long as a certain percentage of the nervous system remains intact, it can continue to repair the damaged part of the nervous tissue. It's just that the brain is destroyed Sometimes, their bodies will temporarily lose the control of brain tissue, and their actions will be completely controlled by the rest of the nervous system. Another way of saying it is easier to understand is that they are completely controlled by instinct."

  Looking at the dumb Chu Guang, He Ya took a deep breath and continued to speak seriously.

   "I have to remind you that the biology experts of the Torch may have more technology than we originally imagined. I even have a feeling that when we are testing them, they are also testing us..."

  Having recovered from the initial surprise, Chu Guang nodded and said in a very soft voice.

   "It's normal, after all, there may be a hundred or so experienced experts like you."

  He actually felt it a long time ago.

   While he was testing the cards in Torch's hand, those guys were also testing the cards in his hand.

   Maybe this war is the same.

   Those guys are testing the strength of all parties in the "Cohesion Body" bit by bit, and they are constantly honing and improving their skills on the battlefield of Shifeng Mountain.

  The resistance encountered by the coalition forces on the third hill was obviously much greater than the resistance encountered on Fushan...

   In a sense, the group of green skins grew up very similar to the players.

   Players who can't really be killed will become stronger by respawning again and again.

   And those guys are rapidly iterating through death after death, and the new ones will be more cruel and more durable than the ones that died before.

  Whether in the sense of sociology or biology, they are all absorbing the achievements of civilization in the era of prosperity in a special way.

   And with the help of technicians left over from the Age of Prosperity...

  Thinking of this, Chu Guang couldn't help showing a trace of solemnity on his face, and thought in his heart.

   Being praised so suddenly, Heya was a little embarrassed, coughed lightly and said.

"It doesn't matter how many experts there are. Research is a systematic thing. Our current research system is borrowed from the academy and has been relatively mature. ...However, the problem lies in the accumulation, and I actually suspect that those people may have some information about the lost items."

  Chu Guang frowned slightly.

   "Missing an item?"

   "Gestalt life form!"

  Heya looked at him with piercing eyes, and there was a hint of eagerness and longing in her eyes.

   "That singularity-level technology! The unfinished singularity of the Prosperity Era! Whether it's mutants, or the Vilantes and their eight-fold growth clones... are all by-products of that technology!"

  Chu Guang showed a thoughtful expression when he heard the words, and couldn't help but think of the fuse that led to the disintegration of the War Construction Committee a century and a half ago-the laboratory on the east coast.

   That laboratory is like a squashed cockroach, with eggs scattered everywhere.

   And that failed military operation has also become an indelible stain in the history of the company, including the destruction of Singularity City, which is inextricably linked to that incident.

   Maybe...

  The Torch probably obtained the information from that laboratory through some method!

   Judging from the actions of the torches around Jinhe City, they are consciously recovering the materials about "Gestalt life forms" scattered on the wasteland!

  Thinking of this, Chu Guang's eyes flickered slightly.

  Although it is not good to start worrying about allies now, these materials should not fall into the hands of the legion anyway!

  Looking at Chu Guang, who was silent and thinking about his thoughts, He Ya continued to speak seriously.

   "In short, I have to go to the front, including how to restore the soil of Haiya Province..."

   "Well, it's good to go to the scene to see."

  Chu Guang nodded, suddenly thought of something, and continued.

   "By the way, you wait until the day after tomorrow to set off, and then I will go with you."

   "Are you planning to go to the front too?" Heya looked at him in surprise, and then said teasingly in a narrow tone, "Aren't you worried about me?"

   Didn't care about the teasing tone, Chu Guang just smiled and said.

   "I am also the nominal supreme commander of the coalition forces elected by all parties, and I was going there. It's just that I have been dealing with the work in the rear for the past few days, and I didn't finish my work until recently."

Due to various contradictions among legions, colleges, and enterprises, the election of a representative of any party to the supreme commander will be opposed by the other two parties. Therefore, the only "acceptable" candidates are actually the alliance and the freedom to participate in the war on behalf of the Great Rift Valley. state.

  Although the latter also got a few votes, it is completely negligible compared to the huge number of votes received by the alliance.

Although the representatives of the   legion had some complaints about the results of the vote, they only proposed that the commander must be assumed by Chu Guang himself, and did not exercise his veto power.

  Chu Guang knew that those Weilante people didn't like him very much, let alone what those wastelanders always said, "Wilante people admire the strong".

  Those guys are just worried that they will embarrass them by sending Vanus or other Willanters who have been "assimilated" by the alliance.

  From the perspective of Triumph City, this is not impossible. After all, the alliance's personnel appointments never ask about their background, but only about their original intention and ability.

  The serf can be the city lord, and the Willante can naturally be the marshal.

   It's just that in Triumph City, these guys who defected to the alliance have almost become synonymous with shame, and they don't think that pursuing equality is something that is justifiable.

  If Vanus was made the commander of the coalition forces, and finally led them to victory, no one in Triumph City would be happy.

  Including the "Loyalty" sent by the Eastern Legion this time, there may be no meaning of those people who are yin and yang.

  These guys just have bigger noses, but it’s hard to say what kind of mind they have, maybe they’re smaller than people in the academy.

  Hearing Chu Guang's answer, He Ya suddenly showed a bright smile on her face, and said happily.

   "Great! After all, this way, you don't have to bother you to send the specimen to the front line."

   "The physical examination is not bad these days." Chu Guang coughed dryly, and said a little embarrassedly, but He Ya shook her head and stared at him intently.

   "No, it has nothing to do with the physical examination, but the study of Gestalt life forms."

   Paused, her voice gradually became a little fanatical, and her eyes became unusually eager.

   It's like staring at some incredible experimental results.

   "...Others don't know, but I have clearly witnessed the whole process of the transformation of some of your non-coding genes into coding genes."

  I always feel that this guy's eyes make people panic.

  Chu Guang took a sip of water from his teacup, concealing the fleeting embarrassment on his face.

"so what?"

  However, Heya's next words almost made him spit out the water he just drank.

   "Maybe it's not just the Willant people, your DNA also has part of the results of that singularity technology!"

  (end of this chapter)