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Chapter 504 - Chapter 504: Survivors of the Pioneer

The blinding white light penetrated through the cracks of his eyes, and Yi Hai, who was lying flat on the bed, frowned.

As his consciousness gradually recovered, a burning pain suddenly surged up his throat, and he turned sideways and retched reflexively.

"Ugh! Cough cough——"

After vomiting a bellyful of acid, he was quickly pressed back by two people in white coats.

Thinking that he was caught by the Weilantes, he instinctively wanted to struggle, but after hearing the conversation next to him, the struggle stopped.

"Doctor! How is his condition?!"

"Frozen sequelae... frozen hibernation for more than half a year requires injection of long-term hibernation needles, and this situation will occur with short-term hibernation needles. Fortunately, you found him in time. In another two months, he might really turn into an ice cube."

"Brother."

Hearing the familiar voice, consciousness finally returned to the body. Yi Hai moved his stiff neck and looked at the young man standing next to him.

"...Yi Chuan?"

"It's me!" Looking at the dying man on the bed, Yi Chuan's calm face finally couldn't hold back the sobs.

He sniffed hard and tried to squeeze out a smile that wouldn't make people worry.

"We're here to take you home!"

Yi Hai's Adam's apple moved, and a sense of relief finally spread across his haggard face.

"You're here..."

"We won't give up on any of the residents who are stranded outside. No matter how much it costs, we will bring them back."

The solemn voice came along with the footsteps of the heels landing on the ground.

Walking to the bedside, Wu Changnian patted Yi Chuan's shoulder and continued in a gentle tone.

"Your relatives are out of danger. For those who haven't been rescued yet, I have something to talk to him about."

Yi Chuan nodded vigorously, gave his brother lying on the bed a comforting look, took a step back, turned around and walked out of the tent.

Watching his brother's back disappear at the door, Yi Hai glanced at Wu Changnian standing by the bed, then at Chu Guang, and suddenly a trace of surprise appeared on his face.

"Are you... the manager?"

"Yes." Chu Guang smiled and nodded, looking at the face full of surprise.

He knew very well that Captain Lu Yang's adjutant must be full of questions now. Even the expression on that face seemed to be asking "Why are you here?"

It is normal to have such questions.

After all, Yi Hai's memory of Qingquan City is still a year ago, and at that time there was not even the concept of alliance.

In the eyes of the Pioneer crew, they just passed by an inconspicuous village, and both sides helped each other a little within their ability.

Looking at the confused eyes, Chu Guang continued in a relaxed tone.

"It would take three days and three nights to tell you about us. I bet our story is no less exciting than your journey... But before we tell you about us, I hope you can tell me where the rest of the crew are?"

Wu Changnian also stared at him and said.

"Where are the others on the Pioneer?"

With his head resting on the pillow, Yi Hai closed his eyes and sorted out his chaotic memories for a moment, piecing them together like a puzzle.

"They... should have gone in."

"Go in? Where?" Wu Changnian asked hurriedly.

"Shelter..."

"Is it Shelter No. 0?"

"I don't know," Yi Hai's eyes were full of uncertainty, and he continued with a hesitant voice, "If nothing goes wrong, it should be there... We found its entrance. Lu Yang said that he planned to take the rest of the people to the shelter to avoid the pursuit of the Weylanders and mutants."

He suddenly felt a dull pain in his eyebrows, and raised his hand to press on his forehead.

"...It should not be just the Weylanders and mutants who attacked us. The equipment they used is more advanced than the Legion's equipment and closer to the pre-war period."

Elite equipment?

Wu Changnian frowned.

"Could it be the Academy?"

"It doesn't seem like..."

Yi Hai shook his head, coughed and continued.

"We haven't seen anyone from the Academy... Those people seem to have lived in the desert for a long time, and they are very familiar with this place. At first we thought they were coming for Shelter 0 like us. Captain Lu Yang proposed to cooperate with them. If Shelter 0 really has the ability to end the wasteland, it wouldn't be a bad thing to have one more person to open it. Until later, we found out..."

Seeing that he stopped talking, Chu Guang, who was listening intently, immediately asked.

"What did you find?"

Yi Hai was silent for a long time.

"...The intelligence those people have is beyond our imagination. They seem to know the location of Shelter 0 from the beginning, and they didn't go to Shelter 0 from the beginning. It seems that they just want to prevent us from getting it."

Chu Guang frowned.

"Who are those people? Did they tell us their identities?"

"They seem to..." Yi Hai thought for a long time, and finally remembered something vaguely, "It seems to be called Enlightenment or something."

...

In the subsequent statement, Yi Hai briefly explained the whole story, including how they found the location of Shelter 0, how they clashed with the Willant people, how they fell into danger, etc.

Captain's office.

Chu Guang, who returned to the airship, stared at the notebook in his hand and fell into deep thought.

On the blank page, a scribbled symbol was drawn in pencil - it was two inverted triangles connected, forming the shape of a torch.

Yi Hai claimed that they saw this symbol on those people, but they were at a loss for the "Torch Church" he mentioned.

Those people claimed to be an organization called the Enlightenment Society, and most of its members were blue coats, that is, residents of the shelter.

After all, the four major industrial areas and the space elevator in the center were once the industrial and economic centers of the Human Union era. The number of shelters distributed in these areas is naturally far more than that of Luoxia Province and River Valley Province.

Since the end of the nuclear winter, almost every year a group of people wake up in an unknown corner... This Enlightenment Society is composed of some of the residents of the shelter.

The philosophy of this organization is just like their name, aiming to restart the declining civilization and save this world that has been sinking for two hundred years.

It is for this reason that Lu Yang chose to cooperate with them to find the No. 0 shelter together.

It is really not easy to meet like-minded people in the wasteland.

However, no one expected that those like-minded people would choose to betray them at the last moment...

But there is still a doubt.

If it is true as Yi Hai said, that the organization calling itself "Enlightenment Society" knows the location of Shelter No. 0, and its purpose is to prevent them from finding the shelter, then why do they pretend to cooperate with Lu Yang and others?

Even if they need to rely on a surprise attack because they cannot win, there is no need to take action after the Pioneer finds the entrance to Shelter No. 0, right?

"... Enlightenment Society hopes that the people of the enterprise will find it, but there is a disagreement on how to deal with Shelter No. 0."

Chu Guang closed his eyes and thought for a while, and finally shook his head.

There is too little information.

There are two possibilities he guessed, but neither of them lacks reliable evidence to prove it. Perhaps the answer is hidden in Shelter No. 0.

In any case, they have obtained the exact coordinates of the entrance to Shelter No. 0 from Yi Hai.

It is an industrial building covering an area of ​​thousands of acres, or a more vivid way of saying it is a "vertical assembly factory."

The two major achievements of the prosperous era are that farmland was stuffed into a thousand-meter-high building, and the other is that the assembly line was stuffed into it.

And it was stuffed into it on a large scale.

According to the information provided by Yi Hai, the building is the entrance to Shelter No. 0, and a piece of debris from the space elevator just fell in that area.

Due to the presence of radioactive materials, many extremely dangerous alien species are active in the area.

At present, the 26th Commando of the enterprise has sent some personnel to control the entrance of the building. Tomorrow, representatives from all parties will officially enter the ruins to unveil the mysterious veil of Shelter No. 0.

Chu Guang released the communication relay drone carried by the airship, and took the opportunity of regularly sending back archived data to organize and update the previously collected information on the official website.

At this moment, the forum is still immersed in the joy of the victory of the Luoxia Province War.

Since only a small number of players followed the airship, most of the players who participated in the expedition followed the NPC's large army to return by land, or walked back slowly in groups of three or five.

Most players shared their experiences on the forum, including what they found in the Honey Badger Kingdom and the Lion Kingdom, or the new gameplay that was unexpectedly unlocked during the journey.

For example, they bought a piece of land in the oasis and became a farmer with the rewards from the expansion pack. Another example is staying in the local area and helping the Alliance garrison to fight looters and run errands.

"Wasteland OL" does not stipulate how players must play some games, but only stipulates some things that cannot be done and the consequences of breaking the rules through the player manual.

Except for a few major nodes related to the direction of the world line, most of the time players can find the fun of this open world game by themselves.

Whether it is using the knowledge that can be found outside the game with a flick of the finger to help the wastelanders improve productivity, or just talking about a relationship when they are bored.

Even for most players, if you put aside the huge rewards brought by the main quest, the side quests that are accidentally triggered or the strange gameplay that is unlocked in the game are more fun than those "artificially designed routes".

However, even so, when Chu Guang used A Guang's vest to update the latest clues of the main storyline on the forum, it still attracted the attention of countless players.

The post was published in less than a minute.

The number of replies quickly exceeded thousands.

Quit Smoking: "The Enlightenment Society??? What is that?"

Tail: "Oh! I smell a conspiracy. (っ??ω??)っ"

Sisi: "Oh oh! New expansion... Wait, won't the new expansion continue to go west? I've already bet on the south. Σ(?д?lll)"

Tail: "?·?·??"

Garbage Picker Level 99: "Hiss... Isn't this the logo of the previous Torch Church? The collars for controlling aliens that were put on the shelves in the NPC store early on had this thing drawn on them, right?"

Debt Eyes: "To be honest, this logo is really ugly. Could it be that A Guang drew it himself with a pencil? (Funny)"

Construction Site Boy and Brick: "@Canyon Runaway Mole, give me a review."

Canyon Runaway Mole: "There is a sense of unruliness in the sloppy handwriting, rough but not without details "

Debt Big Eyes: "? ? ?"

Quit Smoking: "Hahahaha! So licking!"

Yin Lena: "No wonder you're unemployed. (Funny)"

Ye Shi: "Brother Guang! Someone said you're delicate!"

Canyon Runaway Mole: "%¥#@!"

Sisi: "Speaking of the founder of the Torch Church... that is, the guy who calls himself the Son of God, is he also a resident of the shelter?"

Teng Teng: "Hmm... The official website seems to say that he is a wastelander adopted by the shelter? But he grew up in the shelter since he was a child."

Ya Ya: "Ah!!! Could that guy also be a member of the Enlightenment Society?"

Canyon Runaway Mole: "It doesn't really matter whether he is a member of the Enlightenment Society. The Enlightenment Society updated this time gives me the feeling of a regional force. Torch The church at least participated in the Legion's Great Expedition and the subsequent Bone Chewing Rebellion, but they...seemed to have shut down the Pioneer, and their presence is really too low. "

Ye Shi: "Isn't it said that the truly powerful bosses are hiding behind the scenes? (Funny)"

Kuang Feng: "That's a misunderstanding... People with insufficient strength need conspiracy, and the truly powerful ones are directly exposed. (Squinting)"

Fang Chang: "I've finished reading it, and I've found two suspicious points. First, why does the Enlightenment Society, which aims to restart civilization, prevent the Enterprise from approaching Shelter 0. Second, what is the connection between the Torch Church far to the south and the Enlightenment Society in the center of the continent."

Ye Shi: "I suspect that Brother Guang himself hasn't figured out how to write it. (Funny)"

Fang Chang: "Then you underestimate him, I feel like there's a big game behind this... Speaking of Shelter 0 What is it exactly? "

Teng Teng: "Hmm... a very big shelter?"

Fang Chang: "How big is it? Or how many black boxes and power armors are needed to restore this world to its original state?"

Kuang Feng: "Well... it's true that you put it that way. I always feel that the three major forces of the Academy, Enterprise, and Legion may have intelligence that we don't know. Including our allies, Enterprise, they have not fully shared what they know with us."

Fang Chang: "This is inevitable. My intuition tells me that maybe our thinking was wrong from the beginning."

Ye Shi: "What do you mean? (Stupefied)"

Fang Chang: "When the computer freezes, there are three common solutions we use. One is to wait for the program to respond, the other is to end the current process, or directly restart the computer."

"The underlying logic of most in-organization shelters should be the first one, which is to save most of the elements of civilization such as personnel, resources, energy, knowledge, tools, etc., and unseal them when it is suitable to rebuild civilization... This is a relatively mild solution, but when it comes to different shelters, the execution method will be different. "

"However, Shelter 0 is a 'legend' after all. Neither the enterprise, the academy nor the legion has any relevant data about it, and it is not even certain whether it has been built…"

"An irresponsible guess. Perhaps the underlying logic of this shelter is fundamentally different from other shelters."

Ya Ya: "Ah, you mean… it may not be a shelter at all?"

Fang Chang: "Don't mind. I just combined the conspiracy theory with the relevant settings of the Enlightenment Society. It may not be as beautiful as the rumors say. (Squint)"

It can only be said that Fang Chang's speculation quickly triggered new discussions as he is the man who understands A Guang the most on the forum.

Some players tend to think that this is a new job of the dog planner, while others think that things are not that complicated.

As for the cloud players, they don't care about this. They only care about when the production of helmets can be increased.

They have missed a magnificent expedition.

Seeing the cakes drawn by the dog planner, many pre-ordered players who have not yet entered the game feel disappointed.

There are actually players who hope that the production team will update slower during the EA stage. This is unique in the history of games...

Lao Bai: "Let's not talk about those things for now. When will you come back? New work. (grin)"

Fang Chang: "Well, it's almost time, just these few days... Don't worry, I will definitely come back before you."

Battlefield Atmosphere Group: "Fuck! Are you guys PYing with the dog planner again?"

Lao Bai: "No, come back quickly too. (grin)"

Battlefield Atmosphere Group: "What does it have to do with me?"

Lao Bai: "Nothing, I'm just urging others. You'll know whether it matters or not when you come back."

Battlefield Atmosphere Group: "...?"

...

The next day.

At the bottom of an abandoned industrial building.

Several large dogs with grayish-yellow skin and fangs as long as their forearms were wandering on the steps covered with gravel, searching for prey with their sensitive noses, unaware that danger had quietly approached their throats.

An alien suddenly raised its head alertly and looked around.

However, before it could growl, a few short "chi chi" gunshots pierced through the heads of the aliens.

There was a noise in the sea buckthorn grass, and the small animals were frightened by the noise and fled quickly. Several exoskeletons appeared in the shadows not far away.

Su Ming tapped his index finger on the helmet, glanced at the drone hovering in the sky, looked around, and said in a clear voice.

"Five aliens have been killed, and the image data has been recovered... The entrance to the building has been controlled, and it has been confirmed that there are no other threats... Damn it, don't let me name it again."

According to the intelligence from Yi Hai, it is suspected that an unknown third party has targeted Shelter 0... But Su Ming thinks that this may just be a trick of the Weirant people.

Those guys are not without high-tech equipment, but the number is relatively small.

Otherwise, how to explain how the Pioneer was targeted by the Weirant people and surrounded by a large number of clone troops?

As for the Enlightenment Society.

Maybe it was a story made up by the Weirant people to get close to the Pioneer. What's outrageous is that Captain Lu Yang actually believed it.

If it were him, he would not believe the strangers he met in the wasteland.

"Why not upload it to the endpoint cloud and let netizens vote."

"Good idea, when will the migratory birds be released next time?"

"It seems to be tomorrow."

"Fuck..."

Su Ming cursed in a low voice, turned on the vertical stabilization system of the battle video, and prepared to record some interesting materials to update the social account.

At the same time, ten armed trucks drove out of the camp, carrying a group of soldiers and representatives who were about to explore the ruins, and rushed to the downstairs of the emptied industrial building.

The wreckage of the space elevator was not far away, and a towering curved metal shell was embedded in the ground like the roof of a hangar.

I heard that this magnificent component was just a "tile" and a brick on the space elevator.

Just looking at the broken bricks and tiles, it is really hard to imagine how magnificent the Tower of Babel leading to space was before it collapsed.

The four forces gathered downstairs of the building.

The tall Willant was wearing heavy bulletproof armor and was led by an officer with a protruding nose and deep eye sockets. Next to him stood a squire, who was handsome in a different style. He was the Pangolin who had killed countless enemies on the battlefield.

Wally looked proudly at the Alliance soldiers who were said to have made their compatriots suffer on the battlefield.

The reason why Lord Cohen specifically asked Pangolin to be his guard was to show off in front of the Alliance.

However, what puzzled him was why those guys reacted so calmly and didn't even look at him.

Did they not recognize the brave general under his command?

Or were they afraid and didn't even dare to make eye contact with him?

Thinking of this, Wally couldn't help but smile.

Too weak!

The old man standing in the front row of the queue with him had an uncomfortable expression on his face at this moment, and his toes were tightly clenched on the ground.

Damn it.

This is too embarrassing!

Unlike the Legion, the Academy is quite low-key, with only one female researcher with long black hair.

Next to her is a half-human-high four-legged robot dog, with a bulging backpack hanging on its broad back.

Since getting off the car, she has not communicated with anyone, standing in a place where she feels safe with a look of "no strangers allowed".

Most of the researchers in the Academy are like this when they are outside.

Due to many reasons such as historical problems and high equipment costs, almost everyone in the Academy has paranoia.

In fact, this cannot be considered a delusion. After all, the explorers of the Academy are full of treasures, which is almost common sense in the wasteland.

Most explorers choose to conceal their past identities after leaving the Academy... This is exactly the opposite of corporate employees who are keen on bragging.

Most survivor forces have to weigh the risk of being blacklisted when they are targeting corporate employees.

Especially in Yunjian Province, if things are done too ostentatiously, it will arouse the anger of both people and gods on the endpoint cloud, and may also attract the pursuit of corporate allies or direct commandos.

Jiang Xuezhou was confirming the task assigned to him by his mentor through the holographic window. At this moment, Jiang Xuezhou suddenly frowned.

She always felt that there were two eyes staring at her...

In fact, her feeling was very accurate.

However, it was not people who were staring at her, but the company's androids.

Staring straight at the little girl from the academy, Han Shuang said indignantly.

"Eclipse... Why don't you let us go? Strictly speaking, androids should not be considered human, right? Wouldn't it be better to bring more people down?"

Eclipse's Tong Kong flickered slightly.

"It is said that this is the proposal of the academy."

Han Shuang looked at it and said unhappily.

"But didn't they also bring a mechanical dog with an AI core? What's the difference?"

Eclipse was silent for a while.

"That...shouldn't be considered a human being."

Han Shuang's face was filled with humiliation and unwillingness, and he clenched his fists.

"Damn...Isn't it just lying down? It's not like I can't do it."

Eclipse: "...?"

While everyone was waiting, the passage from the main entrance of the building to the entrance of Shelter No. 0 had been completely opened.

Yun Song, the captain of the 26th Assault Team, walked out of the lobby on the first floor with his subordinates and ran into Yun You who had just got off the car.

This time, the company arranged two representatives to enter Shelter No. 0, one was Yun You, and the other was Su Ming, his best scout.

Looking at Yun You walking towards him, Yun Song's face rarely showed hesitation and restraint, and asked in a low voice.

"Are you...ok?"

Yun You simply nodded.

"No problem, we have reached a ceasefire agreement with the Legion, and there are only two of them."

"I always feel that the threat does not only come from the Weilants..."

Looking back at the abandoned building, Yunsong looked at Yunyou again, and seeing that her expression did not relax at all, he finally sighed in resignation.

"Be careful later."

Yunyou nodded and said concisely.

"Yeah."

Not far away.

Looking at Yunyou and Yunsong standing together, Ye Shi approached the NPC teammate who was about to go to the dungeon together and asked curiously.

"Hey, brother, what is the relationship between your captain and the representative from the Endpoint Group?"

He was curious before.

Both of them have the surname Yun, but their personalities and temperaments are completely different, and they don't even look like people of the same generation.

Su Ming said mysteriously.

"Guess?"

Ye Shi glanced at him.

"You are so mysterious... I guess they are definitely not siblings."

"Smart," Su Ming gave a thumbs up and praised, "Keep guessing."

"...Mother and son?"

Su Ming shook his head like a rattle.

"No, the generations are too far apart."

"It's okay if the generations are too far apart...Aunt and nephew? Grandfather and grandson? Damn, what is it?" Seeing that guy was keeping it a secret, Ye Shi couldn't help but curse.

Su Ming smiled.

"I said you would never guess it."

Seeing that his teammates were going crazy, he stopped keeping it a secret and whispered in Ye Shi's ear.

"Actually...according to the generations, she should be our captain's grandmother for N generations..."

Ye Shi was stunned, and his worldview was immediately hit hard.

"What the hell?!"

Su Ming shrugged.

"This situation is not uncommon in Utopia. One day, you are at work and suddenly find out that a direct blood relative of your ancestor has a sister or brother who has been in cryogenic hibernation since a hundred years ago. Now that person is sitting in the hospital flipping through the non-existent camera, thinking that he has become the target of a prank show, and everyone around him is working together to deceive him... Can you understand this feeling?"

"When you wake up, your incurable disease is cured, but the world you are familiar with is gone along with your pension."

He paused and continued.

"It's another matter for someone who suddenly picked up an ancestor. Now you have to worry about how to make him or her accept the reality and explain...what is your situation."

Ye Shi was stunned.

"...Ah this."

He had never thought about this problem before, he just thought it would be cool to cryogenically hibernate and go to the future.

The android maid in the game might also be a set in reality, and the deposit in the bank card seems to be doubled.

But if you think about it carefully, this assumption seems to be tacitly acknowledging that "tomorrow will be better."

What if the future gets worse?

It's quite scary to think about it this way.

"Of course... I'm just giving an example. Our captain and Ms. Yunyou are in another situation... Anyway, she comes from the prosperous era. Her knowledge will be very useful to us. We must protect her well later."

Looking at the captain's gesture of gathering, Su Ming patted Ye Shi's shoulder and said with a grin.

"Let's go, brother, get ready to work."

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