Wasteland Echoer

"So, I have to wear these heavy things." Yaroslav complained.

After a lot of effort, Yaroslav and the two doctors managed to put on thick protective suits with the help of each other. They wrapped themselves very tightly, as if they were wearing deep-sea diving suits, which were as bloated as their heads. Leave no gaps.

If it weren't for the purpose of seeing the road, these three people would have liked to replace the glass lenses on their protective helmets with white metal fiber materials that isolate radiation.

After double-checking that he was fully dressed, Yaroslav said to Dak with some apology through the intercom placed in the protective suit:

"I'm sorry, Dark. There are only three pieces of protective clothing left in Karnosk and the 'Man-Made Lake'. As a superhuman, you have successfully escaped from the difficult environment of the 'Bitter Ruins'. You should You will not be affected by radiation. Therefore, we will not equip you with protective clothing. Please understand."

Listening to Yaroslav's noisy electric voice coming from the loudspeaker at the throat of the protective suit, although Dak was very uncomfortable, he still nodded slightly, expressing his understanding of the shortage of supplies in the camp and the commander-in-chief. Approval of arrangements.

Pulling the remote sensor near the door and "entering" the password, the giant metal door was slowly opened. Walking inside, Duck discovered that the ward space used for isolation was actually just a huge room, except that it was separated by metal partitions. Divided into several areas.

Each area is equipped with hospital beds and necessary medical equipment to treat federal [soldiers] who have been affected by radiation, in fact, "sorrow".

Many of them have no obvious external injuries, but they can see changes in their bodies, such as blackened skin, scorched fingers, broken arms and thighs, or the growth of strange vines, tentacles and other things that are not human.

Most of the doctors here, like the three Yaroslavs, wear heavy protective clothing. Even if they have difficulty moving, they are still operating on the tortured mutant [soldiers].

Walking inside, Dak, who was not wearing protective clothing, heard the continuous and continuous wails of pain, as well as the roars, scoldings, giggles, low groans, or screams of the hallucinating [Soldiers] who were affected by the spirit.

Even with the coordination of Vasily and Yaroslav, the basic medicines in the "temporary war zone hospital" are still barely enough, but most of the patients here can no longer be treated with conventional means. In addition to physical mutations, most of them have mental abnormalities. .

Thanks to the Federation's unremitting investment in medical care and education for more than five hundred years after the "New Dollar" crisis, most wounds and diseases can be treated through a series of means, either surgery or drugs.

Only in diseases caused by "extraordinary forces" did doctors across the Federal Council feel powerless.

Continuing to walk inside, Duck found that the bodies of the wounded in the compartment were covered with a layer of light, extremely easy-to-ignore black substance. It was very thin, just like the light in the morning due to the abundance of water vapor and the drop in temperature. The formation of mist is general.

In addition, many wounded people were roaring extremely excitedly one second, throwing down the doctor next to them like wild beasts, preparing to open their fangs and bite. The next second, their eyes suddenly turned white, their bodies stiffened, and then they died.

Of course, when someone dies, someone gets healed and leaves.

The two doctors brought by Yaroslav told Dakkopp that there are regulations in any isolation ward similar to this one in the federal territory. As long as they stay for 15 days and have no obvious symptoms of mental abnormality, they will pass the radiation detection of special equipment. You can leave after reaching a certain standard.

In other words, even if Wovya and Luonie are in good condition and their conditions improve after treatment, they will not be able to leave here until 14 days at the earliest.

However...Dak thought, now that Ivan XXII is dead, the Federation has achieved a staged victory in the battle with the "Chaos Group" and the "Comprehension Sect", burying the old empire in the "Bitter Relics" It is only a matter of time before technological products are discovered.

It is estimated that "Xu Ling" representing the "Order" side, "Fu Bing" and Adaloni representing Vasily himself, and Gennadi representing the federal army will soon meet here.

It is estimated that it will not take long, at most half a month, before humans will launch a final general attack on the Lost Ones.

If during this period Igor's group of scientists successfully deciphered the information provided by other "cores" with the help of the old empire's technology and documents, then, let alone "Tianji" and "Tianshu", the other four An "evolution stage" will soon be opened at the same time.

I heard the conversation between Ivan 22nd and the two lost people "Future" and Roka. The "evolution stage" was just a chess game laid by Ivan 22nd to calculate the federation.

Now...it is difficult for the Lost Organization and the independent armed forces that can stop the "Evolution Platform" plan to take more actions. Only by finding the gods behind "Echoer" and "Pramini" as soon as possible can he take more actions. Destroy Vasily's "evolution platform" plan to bring about disaster in high dimensions.

It seems... that they must leave the "man-made lake" camp the moment Wovya and Luo Nie walk out of the "temporary war zone hospital", and go north as soon as possible to the "Beslunai" area to find the wind wall in the ice and snow. .

All he can do is race against time, try his best to find one before the Federation completely cracks the secret of the "evolution platform", or make a request to the gods... to destroy one.

But...with my own strength...can I really do it? In other words, if "Xu Ling"'s so-called reincarnation caused by the "Reselection Pattern" really "existed", can he... really break through the arrangement of fate and get out of the conspiracy... and reincarnation?

While thinking, Duck came to the innermost compartment of the isolation ward, a relatively quiet and spacious place.

His eyes passed over the patients who were bound by iron chains and still had the strength to struggle wildly. Duck came to the white plastic door next to the cubicle.

With the consent of Yaroslav and the two doctors, Dark opened the small door with traces of coke and blood.

However, before he took a few steps into the room, Yaroslav closed the door from behind and locked it.

"Commander-in-Chief, what does this mean?" Dak ran to the door and asked.

"Don't panic, Dak." Yaroslav's voice mixed with electricity reached Dak's ears, "This is a rule. Anyone who comes to visit must stay in the same cubicle with the patient and must go up. This is to prevent patients from attacking doctors and nurses due to accidents during visits.

"Also, Dak, you only have thirty minutes. When the time is up, you have to leave with us no matter what, go to the 'quiet room' above, and you can only leave the hospital after you are well under observation."

Dark knew in his heart that what Yaroslav and the others were afraid of was that he, like those patients, would be contaminated by extraordinary power, radiation, or inexplicable energy and fall into a state of madness.

The reason for temporarily locking yourself in a cubicle is just to consider that if you have a problem, you can isolate yourself and treat yourself on the spot, so as not to cause trouble outside.

Although this explanation sounds very far-fetched, in line with the principle of seeing through without telling the truth, Dak simply said "Oh", then turned back and walked into the compartment, reaching the two innermost beds.

Fortunately, this place is not as Dark expected. It is not filled with devil-like roars whizzing by, or the night cries of wild beasts and birds of prey, nor the violent breathing sounds coming from the dying moments of the deceased, and Those Federation [soldiers] whose souls were extracted and only their bodies were left struggled fiercely out of instinct.

When Duck came to the bedside, he pulled out a military-style mazaar from the small bedside table, stretched it open, and placed it on the ground. He raised his head and looked at one near and one far away. His arm was connected to a slender infusion, just like the infusion that a dying person draws the last of his life force. Wulfya and Luo Nie, who were stunned, raised their heads and joked:

"I just heard from the doctor that most of the patients here have mental problems. They are either biting people crazily, or they are tied up with chains and treated with scalpels. But you two look very normal. You are different from the ordinary wounded people above. There’s no difference.”

Hearing this, Wovya lifted the quilt, and his muscular and strong body tossed several times on the hospital bed, causing the bed made of spliced ​​steel pipes to creak and almost fall apart.

After finally sitting up and breathing a sigh of relief, Wovya slapped the guardrail of the hospital bed with the hand that was not on the intravenous drip and complained:

"I get angry when I talk about this. We just wanted to help Luo Nie, and we accidentally entered the 'Brutal Ruins' under the attack of those 'mechanical dog-headed' monsters. Dak, you are the judge, Yaro It’s okay if the old Slavic man doesn’t send troops to find a way to rescue us.

"After leaving Zhuoriyigo, if Luo Nie and I hadn't been lucky enough to find an 'emergency exit' dug by craftsmen when building the tomb of the old emperor emperor and escape, we don't know what we would have encountered.

"But then again, Dak, we haven't seen you since we left Zhuoliigo. After coming out of the pile of rocks next to the 'man-made lake', I looked for you for a long time until I met Oleg. We didn't see any trace of you in the subordinate patrol team. How did you... escape from behind? "

"How did you escape?" Dak subconsciously touched the back of his head and tried to recall as much as possible, but the memory after defeating Zhuoriyigo, especially the details, was like coming from a wonderful dream. After waking up, that memory has begun to become blurry.

After sorting out the language a little, Dak still picked out some key points and said:

"After leaving the metal plate passage, I seemed to have arrived at a Cruzde palace-style garden. There was a pavilion there. It should have been white pillars, which looked very red under the light. After that, I also saw Lots of sunflowers, and Kruse germanium-sunflowers are there.

"I also met a girl. For a girl, she looked like Princess Crusted. She was wearing a gas mask, but I remember the air there was not smelly."

"It sounds like..." Luo Nie also sat up, turned his head and looked at Dak and said:

"It's very similar to what I saw after putting on 'Klassen's Mask', the building complex wrapped in blood. I remember thirty years ago, the residential area below the Explorers Association in Sunida Town, Zine Empire, and When the children of the Tein sect were together, I spliced ​​two masks obtained from different places, and after combining them into one, I briefly entered that strange, uncomfortable blood-red space."

"Although... your experience feels very rich, and the proper nouns of these places and organizations sound very high-level, but I am curious, Luo Nie, what happened thirty years ago, you can still remember so many details. "Duck said half teasingly, half admiringly.

"You know, Dak, I am a mechanical body. As long as I want, I can remember anything that happens every moment, including all the details, until my brain's storage is full." Luo Nie said with a curled lip. :

"Actually, I only entered that space for two or three seconds, and I was forced to leave there due to the double feeling of dizziness and vomiting. Compared with this matter, I wanted to complain about Yaroslav's arrangements more, you all know Now that Wovya and I are your friends, he is still so inhumane and puts us here with a group of madmen. Anyway, I am also helping Igor find scientific research on the 'Tianshu Evolution Platform' The personnel, they have no respect at all.”

"Luo Nie, you still have to relax." Dak patted Luo Nie's leg and said comfortingly:

"The supplies here at the 'Man-Made Lake' are not as abundant as those in Binglin City and Xinfeng Town. The basic medicines are just enough, let alone all kinds of medicines and vaccines that can neutralize the 'Unintentional Virus' and 'Shang'. Yes. For Commander-in-Chief Yaroslav, safety is above all else, and we... still have to understand him."

"Come on, Dark. Just tell the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief Oleg. Don't believe it yourself." Luo said with a pinched belly:

"They all have 'special potions' specially supplied to the military commanders, so it's natural to stand and talk without pain. But don't forget, I am a 'machine body' created by the 'Lord of Machines'. Even 'lure' and 'Charm' is immune to more than 99.99%, not to mention the 'sad' in 'ruins'.

"For our 'mechanical body', 'sad', which is what those unskilled doctors call 'current radiation', will at most make my body parts age and my movements stiff, and it is impossible to affect my consciousness. Besides, I The mechanical power can help me discharge those 'radiations', so I don't need to come here for isolation treatment."

"But don't forget, you are a human being with [personality] now." Dak reminded:

"Luo Nie, don't have any illusions. Your emotions, moods, and complaints just now are no different from humans. You are no longer a 'mechanical body', so you will naturally be affected by mental pollution and 'sad'.

"Also, the process of expelling 'Shang' may affect other normal [soldiers]. I advise you and Wulfya to wait until 15 days later. After the instrument test confirms that there is no problem, it is not too late to leave here. .

"However, the reason why I came here this time is not to argue with you about whether the arrangement of placing you in isolation here is reliable, but...I plan to...as soon as you leave the hospital, we will immediately go north to find the Echoers '...Also, 'Plamini'." (End of this chapter)