Wasteland Echoer

September 30th, 557th year of the New Lunar Calendar.

Krusted Federation, Area Q of the Extreme Cold Special Zone (Old Cold Area), the outer suburbs of Vasilysk, the "World Core Experimental Site".

As soon as the sky became bright, the federal guard [soldier] stepped on the flying snowflakes and the clanging iron hollow stairs to the top floor of the temporary but still complete "Universal Core Experimental Field", spending the whole night The large searchlights that shook their heads and released intense light were turned off one after another.

About two hours later, after the sun's brilliance finally sprinkled a subtle dim light through the thick clouds on the land polluted by the long night, Yaroslav's "Krusted Mechanical Chariot" slowly moved forward. Drive to the small temporary parking square at the entrance of the "Experimental Field".

After a noisy friction sound like the whining of wild beasts, Yaroslav walked out of the car with Sofia's help, and walked towards the huge steel gate of the experimental site through the snow that was already covered with messy footprints. go.

"Hello, please show me your ID." The federal [soldier] guarding the "experimental site" stepped forward and gave Yaroslav a Krusted military salute, and said in a very serious tone.

Looking at these guards [soldiers] wearing pitch black combat uniforms, wearing "conceptual cyber auxiliary power units" on their joints, wearing titanium alloy technology-style masks, and armed almost to the teeth, Yaroslav and Sofia did not He was surprised, but did not show any displeasure. Instead, he quickly took out the documents he had prepared from the leather briefcase he carried with him and handed them over.

The two knew that the newly established "Universal Core Experimental Site" was an institution directly managed by the Federal Council. In other words, it was the territory directly controlled by Chief Executive Vasily.

Yaroslav's position, power and army all come from the supreme leader of the federation, and he personally promotes his old boss. Here he must unconditionally obey all arrangements of the Federal Council.

Even if he is the administrator of Vasilysk and Karnosk, even if he is the commander-in-chief of the army in the battle of the Extreme Cold Zone, he cannot show any hint of disobedience to the source of his power.

After reading the certificate and handing it back to Sofia, the two federal [soldiers] guarding Yaroslav gave a more standard military salute, and their tone became much more respectful. If the attitude just now was a bit condescending, Looking down at the meaning of weak and humble human beings, now, it is more like a loyal guard paying respect to his noble master, saying:

"It turns out to be the commander-in-chief. I'm sorry that we did not pay tribute to you. Please forgive the nature of our work. You know, this 'experimental field' has only been established for two months, and it has been used by those 'Odyssey' The spearmen came in lurking four times, and we had to guard them tightly. "

"Four times?" Sophia asked with a puzzled face and a frown.

"This is your secretary to the Commander-in-Chief. He is really young, beautiful, and promising... Ahem, it's like this. Before we clearly started the war, there were many people in the North and Karloff Zone. The "Wuxin" organized by the Lesser Lost frequently attacks our stronghold." The guard [soldier] replied:

"At first we thought it was a 'wave of unintentional people' organized spontaneously because of their desire for food. Later we focused on the 'Order Society', the 'Comprehension Sect' and the 'Chaos Group', three groups with a history of fighting against the enemy. Rust was dissatisfied with the organization.

"It's just that a month ago, the 'Cruzder Federal Guards' under the federal government conducted a raid on a Lost Castle stronghold in the west of the old Asfrog region, more than a hundred kilometers away from the 'Man-made Lake'. After discovering the organization "Spear of Odyssey" and learning more about it, we finally determined that the 25 large-scale "Heartless Waves" that occurred between 537 and 557 years ago were related to them."

"This is indeed something we need to understand, but how much does it have to do with the fact that the 'Experimental Site' was invaded four times in two months? This should be due to improper defense work on your part, right? Have you followed the "Federal Important Installation Protection Regulations" "Do it?" Sophia asked a very sharp question, which actually made the guard "Warrior" feel embarrassed and speechless for a moment.

If Yaroslav hadn't tapped him on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, tell me slowly." I'm afraid he would have been awake at night, thinking about how to deal with those tricky committee members in the military court.

Smiling awkwardly, the guard [Warrior] turned around and opened the giant steel door for Yaroslav, while explaining:

"It's not that we lack ability, but that this work does require courage and courage. We can naturally investigate the true identity of every human who enters here in detail, and start from the entrance to the central test site, As well as the location where the experimental 'core' is placed, detection equipment worth 85,000 new rubles is placed. As long as there is the 'Unintentional Man Virus' or the magic source power commonly used by the Lost in the body, an alarm will be sounded. "

As soon as the guard [Warrior] finished speaking, Sophia's heart immediately stopped for a beat, and her body involuntarily twitched due to nervousness, until the three of them walked past the first instrument and looked at it, which was still steady and bright. With the green signal light, Sophia's mood gradually changed from panic to relief and confusion.

Yaroslav saw Sofia's nervousness, so he pointed at the light of the instrument and asked:

"What's the name of this instrument? And why didn't it sound an alarm when my... secretary Sophia walked by it? My secretary, but... that... by the way, a 'lost type of psychic'."

"Haha, it's like this, Commander-in-Chief, this instrument is called 'YWNF-01 Element Detector'. It can detect an energy fluctuation called 'change value'. The formation conditions of this energy are very harsh, so it has A certain degree of uniqueness,” the guard [warrior] replied.

"What exactly is the 'variation value'? And why is it unique?" Sophia quickly regained her composure from the panic and asked.

"This, Professor Igor told us during the training, the 'mutation value' is exclusive to the lost, not the 'superpowers'. This is because there is a section in their genes called 'lost'. The sequence of the "direction gene" will cause the lost people to be very stubborn about their identity, making them feel awkward, restless, irritable and depressed when in contact with humans. "The guard [Warrior] explained based on what he learned:

"And this kind of 'gene' will be transformed by some mysterious and extraordinary magical power during the process of the lost person's gradual evolution and order promotion, and will either disappear or be improved, so that it will gradually have a subconscious understanding of human identity. Agreed, and an external indicator to measure whether this type of 'gene' has changed is the 'change value'.

"As the name suggests, the 'change value' stands for 'Lost Person Direction Change Value'. Those Lost Persons who are unwilling to cooperate with humans will emit particulate matter brought by genes that humans cannot sense at all. If the concentration is higher than 0.27, then Will fall into the ranks of the lost, and the highest level for psychics is generally only 0.15-0.17. Therefore, even if your secretary, Ms. Sophia, was once a lost person, her genes make it easier for her to come into contact with humans and cooperate with us. Then she is a 'superpower' as defined in the 'new regulations'."

"That's it, then I'm relieved." Yaroslav patted Sofia's hand and breathed a sigh of relief:

"I was also worried that Sophia's past identity would bring her unnecessary trouble. Now it seems that I, an old guy, can't keep up with the times."

"No, no, I didn't mean to accuse you." The guard [soldier] saw Yaroslav saying this and hurriedly explained.

Coincidentally, while chatting, the three of them also walked along the hollow metal stairs from the gate of the "Universal Core Experimental Field" to a platform about ten meters above the ground, overlooking the entire experimental field.

When the two scientists who had been waiting here for a long time saw the arrival of Yaroslav and the others, they hurried away from the giant instrument that was "overgrown" with a complex structure like the Eye of Cthulhu, and then took away the guard [Warrior]. 】After that, he came to Yaroslav.

The first person to briefly salute Yaroslav and speak was Igor Constantinier. When he was in Xinfeng Town, he was framed by the then "Order Society" collaborator "Wind Mine" for stealing the core. He was forced to work for the Lost in the "One World 0 Experimental Site" on the outskirts of there for two or three months under coercion and inducement, until the "Wind Mine" collapsed and his forces were purged from the Federation.

After leaving the "Oneworld 0 Experimental Site", Igor went through a month-long review by the "Hostile Conduct Investigation Room" directly managed by the "Urban Happiness Group" of the Federal Council before all of his actions were finally determined. Serving the Federation both subjectively and objectively.”

Therefore, under Vasily's personal instruction, Igor not only restored his previous identity, position and treatment, but also worked with Ross to formally determine the "Heaven" near Vasilysk based on the results of previous data analysis in the old empire's data. The final specific location of the "pivot" and "evolution platform".

"Hello, Commander-in-Chief Yaroslav, my name is Igor Constantinier, and this is Ross from Ice City. The 'Call of the Evolution Platform' ceremony will be held tonight. We are conducting the final "Equipment debugging." Igor was straightforward and straightforward.

Yaroslav obviously liked Igor's resolute personality. With a long-lost smile on his face, he nodded and said:

"Thank you for your hard work, two great scientists from the Federation. By the way, is Secretary Kuka here today? He said he wanted to witness with me the historical moment of determining the location of the 'Evolution Platform'. Why is there no trace of him here?" See?"

"That's it, Commander-in-Chief." Ross, standing behind Igor, said:

"Because something happened in the capital, Kuka returned early this morning before dawn." (End of Chapter)