Wasteland Echoer

January 31st, 557th year of the New Lunar Calendar.

Cruzd Federation, the northern border of Binglin Province, the Northern Mamous District, the junction with the southern part of the Extreme Cold Zone, and the outskirts of Xinfeng Town.

The Crusted region in winter has always been synonymous with ice and biting snow, whether it was the Empire era of the first three eras or the Federation era of the fourth era.

Just two weeks after the Orthodox Christmas, the Federation urgently formulated a counterattack plan against the unintentional "unintentional people" entrenched in the Ice Forest Province and the North and South Karloff Region, as well as the Lost Ones who led them to attack the Federation.

The relevant orders have just been discussed by the Federal Council, and the "Federal Plan No. 577 No. 1" has not yet been sent to various places. Small towns like Xinfeng Town, which were mainly peaceful in the past, can still enjoy the rare blessings brought by the wind and snow for a few more weeks. "silence".

Due to climate change and the frequent activities of "unintentional people" in the past two years, this year's winter in the Commonwealth is dominated by mild snowfall, and the temperature is slightly milder than in previous years. Two weeks after Christmas, January is almost over before the "New Year's Day" finally falls. "The first snow.

The surging and warm wind blew across the white-covered earth, raising wisps of undulating fine snow like silk. The sky was filled with ghostly gray clouds, and the weak brilliance of the sun was barely transmitted downward through the gaps. A lonely and powerless light swayed in the ups and downs.

The trees covered in darkness, left uncared for all year round, were scattered on both sides of the stone road in a vague and twisted shape.

Stepping on the snow and listening to the unique "snap" sound, a young human being stretched out his white, unadorned right hand to try to catch the rare light of the snowy day.

But unfortunately, the existence of light always only belongs to a rare moment, and the human body cannot capture it. Even in this desperate era, it can only bring a little dangerous comfort to his soul.

As the clouds moved again, the light dissipated, and the direwolf's noon howl spread through the wind and snow throughout the empty, plain area.

The young man sighed and reached for the 30-centimeter-long silver-white "Crazy Bear" pistol at his waist. He silently recited the incantation for spirit formation and tried to surge the remaining magic power in his body. ,in case for need.

The young man who has been traveling in the wilderness for many years knows that danger is as invisible as the "unintentional virus", without any entity, but when it quietly arrives, it will burst out with unprecedented energy.

Before arriving in the town, he needed to rely on his magic power to defend against attacks by "unintentional people", "alien monsters", "extraordinary monsters" and ordinary beasts.

After entering the town, he had to rely on the pistol at his waist to guard against the more sinister, unpredictable, strange, and capricious evils of the human heart.

Human beings are the most despicable race in the world. Greed, temptation, terror and disguise are everywhere in the civilization they created. In his thirty years of wandering, the "young man" has seen too much.

From the time when he first encountered these things as a human being, he was angry and full of energy, to now he is semi-numb and accustomed to it, which makes the rich human emotions in his body often diminish.

In order to prevent his mental power from being dissipated to a state of collapse in the extraordinary and weird battles, he must go to live in a human town at a fixed time and maintain his human cognition in the smoke and smoke.

As the wolves howled one after another, the "young man" scanned the surroundings with his sapphire-like eyes emitting faint green fluorescence, and used the grass-and-tree magic source power skill with radar function to detect the surroundings.

The results fed back in his brain made him feel a little relieved. There were no "unintentional people" imitating animal howls around, no mutated beasts, only a pack of wolves that might have grown locally, and seemed to be hunting some kind of small beast.

The "young man" breathed a sigh of relief and patted the snowflakes off the shoulders of his black cotton-padded coat. Shaking his old blue travel backpack that was also covered with snow, he chose to continue walking along the stone road toward the distant town visible to the naked eye.

The "young man" is named Luo Nie, and he has lived in the wasteland world for more than 150 years.

Thirty years ago, when the Zine Empire launched a campaign called "The Coming of Silence" in the south, he saw a mechanical machine inextricably linked to the Crusted Empire in the central area of ​​the Silent Highlands covered by a yellow sand barrier. The god of contact is the "Daughter of Tool Yuan".

At that time, Luo Nie had not yet completely gotten rid of his identity as a "mechanical product created by the Lord of Machines", and he was a mechanical body that could not obtain the order of the magic source.

Although he has considerable strength and the privilege of receiving guidance from the gods, he has no "heart" and incomplete emotions, and cannot be recognized by any power and obtain a "career".

But at the last moment of that battle, before the "Daughter of Tool Yuan" faced the death battle, He gave Luo Nie [personality], allowing him to finally transform into a real human being.

Different from the mechanical body, Luo Nie's body after that transformation has more human features, such as the curves of the muscles and the flexibility of the body.

At the same time, the power of the gods allowed his body cells to evolve and upgrade. His face became fairer and younger, and his voice became greener and softer. All have been substantially improved by leaps and bounds.

Moreover, after gaining human emotions, the indescribable sense of disobedience he felt when he was in the human world disappeared, making it easier for him to gain recognition from humans during his fifty years of wandering.

Back then, he witnessed the explosion in the Silent Highlands, the defeat of the Zine Empire army, and the death of his friend Sai. After hearing that his master Bude was killed for "colluding with the Lost", he chose to flee this desperate country.

After carefully recalling the revelations during the conversation with the "Daughter of the Mechanical Element", he finally decided to go north to the Crusted Federation to find gods and the meaning of human life.

In the first few years, after he left the Silent Highlands, he first went to Chekavsk to rest for a period of time, and then went north along the road to Zhenets, the capital of the Zine Empire, to take on some combat missions from the Explorers Association, and accumulated a lot of money. After the "New Ducat" was hard currency, he set off northward.

In the remaining twenty years of his travels in the Cruzeid Federation, he successively traveled to Koenig Province, Waters Province, Icefield Province, Nanshan Mountains, etc., and reached as far as the Yuan Dynasty where the end of the Great Railway is located. The Far East City stronghold under the jurisdiction of the Northeast District.

Countless walks in the ice and snow wasteland made him truly feel the "loneliness" mentioned by the "Daughter of Tool Yuan".

However, three or four years ago, while traveling in Wuya City in the northern part of the "Southern Swamp" in the Waters Province, he accidentally discovered the extremely familiar "Crazy Bear" pistol in an underground market.

At that time, he felt the familiar aura that he had not seen for a long time as he touched the silver-white gunfire and surged with magic power. It was the weapon used by the person who had fought alongside him in the Silent Highlands and who had divined the fate of him countless times in the Zine Empire - Wright.

After spending 200 "new rubles" to buy it, Luo Nie asked the stall owner about the origin of the weapon. Unfortunately, the pistol had been resold many times, and it was very difficult to contact the original seller.

As a last resort, after much deliberation, he activated the "Gray Crest" again, entered the slightly dilapidated Gray Dream, and exchanged part of his life force for the divination of the "false god" who looked like a little girl.

To his surprise, the conclusion drawn from the sequence card divination not only showed that Wright was still alive in the world, but also pointed him in the direction of "searching deeper to the north."

The "false god" also informed that he and Wright were destined to have an unforgettable fate. As long as "the ice and snow of Crusted began to melt, the wheel of fate would turn." However, in order to trigger fate, one must first find the "Pula" Minnie” wrapped god.

As a result, Ronie re-established the direction of his travels and chose to search for traces of Wright and "Plamini" in the Iceland Province, the North and South Karloff Zone and the Extreme Cold Zone of the Cruzeland Federation in the next few years.

In three years, Luo Nie has traveled throughout the North and South Karlof Region and Binglin Province. Today's destination, Xinfeng Town, is his last stop in this province.

After walking along the stone road and walking on the ice and snow for more than an hour, Luo Nie found a road with traces of cleaning left after the snowfall in the sky gradually subsided, and rummaged through the travel backpack to find the Zhnetsk military The "Military Compass" produced by the factory and the "Binglin Province Civilian Map" produced by the Mayang City Strategic Materials Factory are intended to determine the road ahead covered by ice and snow.

According to experience, areas with more human traces have relatively fewer wild beasts and dangers. Human beings are born with the core of "wisdom" and have an instinctive and subtle suppression of evil spirits except "unintentional people".

Therefore, the probability of encountering danger will be greatly reduced when traveling along roads built by humans.

However, just as he was gesticulating and trying to see the direction of the road clearly, a man's shrill cry for help came to his ears.

"Is there anyone? It's better not to meddle in other people's business." Luo Nie said to himself, put the things in his backpack and prepared to leave.

But the low-pitched prayer to the "Lord of Machinery" that followed the roar made him curious about the source of the cry for help.

After some tangle, Luo Nie chose to walk deeper and deeper along the sparse tall oak trees through waist-deep snow.

After walking for about four or five minutes, in front of a small, claustrophobic and rare oak inhabited growth area that was slightly deep and claustrophobic, exuding a wild atmosphere, and covered with dim shadows, he saw a fresh and faintly heated area. human blood.

Taking a few steps forward, he found a group of people with fangs and green eyes in front of a tall oak tree that was about a hundred meters tall, exuding a toughness like a rock and exuding hazy grass-type magic power. The "direwolf" was surrounding the man covered in blood.

Looking carefully, there are about seven or eight wolves in the pack. Due to the deterioration of the surrounding environment, each one is more than two meters long and grows extremely strong.

The trapped man is only about 1.7 meters tall and looks middle-aged, probably in his 40s. At this moment, he was leaning against a thick tree trunk, holding a hunting spear in his hand, staring at the beast in front of him with desperate eyes.

There were several fresh scars on his face that were not too deep from being scratched by animal claws. The clothes on his chest, abdomen and thighs were torn and stained with dark red blood. His felt hat was knocked to one side, his hair was messy, and he was holding a broken wooden cross in his left hand. He was on the edge of despair.

Luo Nie, who was sheltered by trees, did not smell the scent of "unintentional people" or lost people. The magic power emitted did not receive any dangerous feedback, which also showed him that the man had not been attacked by any "unintentional people". "Virus" invasion, there is no risk of mutation.

After confirming this information, Luo Nie didn't have any unnecessary hesitation, let alone the panic and fear that humans have when facing wild beasts.

He chose to rush forward with a lunge, took out the "Crazy Bear" pistol from his waist, and launched an attack on the wolves.