The celebration is coming to an end.
Hal, who was drunk, was snoring loudly on the table. At the same time, the official website of "Wasteland OL" in another world was just beginning to become lively as players logged off one after another.
Ye Shi: "Fuck Fang Chang, he's showing off his love again!"
Fang Chang: "? I didn't even go out."
Canyon Runaway Mole: "Then the question is, what did this guy do at home with the door closed all day? (funny)"
Yin Lena: "There's a story! (funny)"
Elf King Fugui: "Mole!
! Please leave the book to me. (funny)"
Fang Chang: "(rolling eyes)"
Ya Ya: "You guys are so dirty, they are such a loving couple."
Tail: "Tail discovered that there are actually many hidden CPs among NPCs! ψ(｀∇´)ψ"
Quit Smoking: "Who?"
Tail: "Frost and Eclipse!"
Quit Smoking: "Hahaha, what about the brainless and unhappy couple?"
Si Si: "Pfft, you're going too far."
Aoao Zhimahu: "But androids don't have gender, right?"
Tail: "!
! It feels more exciting."
Sisi: "?"
Roushan Damomo: "???"
Crow: "Speaking of which, I'm suddenly curious. How do you think the manager spent the past three days? 0.0"
Stop Bullshitting: "Speaking of which, why does Crow pay so much attention to the manager? (smirk)"
Tail: "Indeed, it's weird. (✪ω✪)"
Ye Shi: "Stop it, Boss Crow! There is no future for humans and NPCs! (funny)"
Kuangfeng: "Fang Chang: Thank you, I'm offended. (squinting)"
Crow: "What the hell?! I'm just curious, and you guys are also brushing your favorability! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻"
Makabazi: "Anxious, hahahaha, she's anxious !"
Ya Ya: "(Fuck you)"
Teng Teng: "But then again, I didn't see him much."
Canyon Runaway Mole: "He's probably working behind closed doors like Brother Fang Chang. (Smirk)"
Fang Chang: "Well, it seems that Changyue Group needs to expand its gaming business."
Canyon Runaway Mole: "Brother, I was wrong! (Frightened)"
Kakada: "I seemed to see him drinking with Hal, and Hal wrote a poem at the time, but unfortunately he was drunk and couldn't translate it."
Feng Qing: "But then he disappeared again."
Gui Gui: "I I I saw him! He was at the barbecue stall, with Boss Xia!"
Outlaw: "And Xiaoyu!"
Yin Lena: "It feels like a family of three. (Funny)"
Elf King Fugui: "Haha ... "
WC really has mosquitoes: "Boss Crow, don't be sad, they already have children. (smirk)"
Crow Crow: "(*・ω・)✄╰ひ╯"
Yin Lena: "Shivering. (funny)"
Official website news: [Beta0.5 version update announcement]
Star River does not enter the dream: "?"
Garbage Picking Level 99: "? ?"
Quit Smoking: "Fuck!"
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[Beta0.5 version update!]
[Update content:
1. Player public affairs: Due to the responsible performance of the Celebration Autonomous Committee at the celebration, the managers of the alliance decided to mobilize the residents of Shelter No. 404 to participate more in the public affairs of the alliance and the local area! Although we don't have the black technology of other shelters, we have the determination to end chaos and barbarism, and the belief in social supremacy!
Players who currently hold VMs and some special NPCs can initiate "proposals" without violating relevant provisions such as the "Player's Handbook" and "Fundamental Law". After obtaining more than 10% support, they will enter the "proposal" stage, where all players holding VMs will vote. After passing, they will be submitted to the relevant departments of the alliance for public review at the monthly regular meeting, and finally signed by the alliance manager to take effect.
The number of alliance members is increasing, and the energy of managers is limited. In the future, the server environment of "Wasteland OL" will be maintained by everyone. Good homework will be copied together. It doesn't matter if it is copied wrong, everyone will correct it together!
2. New transportation tool "Inflatable Airship": Direct flights from Dawn City to Pioneer City have been opened! Currently, there is only one flight a month, which is transported by civilian airships! Since there are only save points in the Great Desert and no resurrection points, players are requested to cherish their lives!
3. The biological laboratory function on the B6 floor is fully open. If you find interesting specimens in the wasteland, please be sure to contact NPC Heya!
4. The Alliance Museum and Alliance Zoo are officially open! Players can apply for museum booths and exotic parks for their special commemorative collections and strange species found in the wasteland! (Some animals that are not easy to breed can be replaced by photos, such as sandworms.)
Curators and gardeners are being recruited. Players can choose their favorite curators and gardeners through the VM voting system or the city hall mailbox commonly used by NPCs! Not only NPCs, but players can also sign up! (Note: Sign up carefully. If you choose to be sloppy or receive too many complaints, you will be kicked out by the administrator.)
5. The upper limit of closed beta player accounts has been increased from 12,000 to 30,000! The number of closed beta qualifications issued per day has been increased to 40~50.
6. Fixed a small number of bugs.
7....
]
The Beta0.5 of the Kingdom of Heaven is finally here.
Although there is no news about the new expansion pack, the series of information in the announcement is still eye-catching enough.
Especially the fifth item!
The number of closed beta players has increased from just over 10,000 to 30,000!
The daily average number of closed beta qualification issuances has doubled!
With the entry into force of the ceasefire agreement and the end of the "Yellow Sands" expansion pack, the issuance speed of "Wasteland OL" closed beta qualification has obviously slowed down, and the number of issuances per day has even dropped to single digits!
Now a new batch of helmets has suddenly arrived. For those players who have made reservations on the forum and whose legs are numb from squatting, it is undoubtedly a sweet rain after a long drought.
Young and frivolous: "A Guang, you are my father!
You know it!"
Netizens in the north: "Brother, where are the helmets produced? I don't want to get paid for working for free, just give me a helmet as my wages!"
Cheerful netizens: "I'm willing to pay 100 million to buy a helmet!
! T.T"
Tyrannosaurus Warrior: "I'm a student, can any big brother be kind enough to give me one for free with free shipping. T.T"
What can I do with you: "Rubbish game! Even dogs don't play it! Bah! Fuck!"
Professor Yang, the King of Thunder and Lightning: "Tsk, if you have the ability, cross out the reservation mark before you talk! (rolling eyes)"
Although the probability of winning a helmet is still the same as winning the lottery compared to the huge number of reservations, it still brings a little hope to tens of millions of players who are eagerly waiting.
A one in a thousand probability is better than the one in ten thousand before.
As for why "Wasteland OL" suddenly increased the release of closed beta qualifications, the discussion on the official website forum is also a forum of different opinions.
Some people analyzed from a realistic perspective that it was due to the maturity of the industry, the increase in helmet production and the increase in server capacity.
In other words, everyone is not far from the public beta!
Another group of people analyzed from the perspective of "supply and demand", believing that this is the game official paving the way for the release of the next expansion pack.
After all, the alliance's territory has increased so much, and the area where players are active has also increased countless times. It is necessary to ensure that there are players in each "region".
Otherwise, if no one goes to the map after it is made, wouldn't it be a waste?
In addition to these rational analyses, there are also some wild analyses.
For example, Ye Aonaiwohe and his fans unanimously believe that there are not enough leeks to cut, so the dog planner is cheating hard. In the forum, except for me, everyone is a small account!
Some people have imagined human experiments and conspiracy theories, believing that this is a major conspiracy to subvert the global economy!
There are also very few people who never participate in the discussion. They assume that this is a positive signal of goodwill from extraterrestrial civilizations. So they quietly increase their holdings of silver coins and quietly take what they need from the auction to make a fortune.
It is rare to spend a few hundred million or a billion to buy an innovative key technology and create a market of tens of billions or even hundreds of billions.
If the scale of the experiment of extraterrestrial civilizations is not too small, they would like to buy more!
Facts have proved that the perspective of any person or organization is limited. People can only make subjective speculations based on the intelligence they have collected.
In fact, there are not so many "reasons" at all. Chu Guang himself was confused. The gene sequence he had been thinking about suddenly appeared.
[Hidden task completed:]
[Description: The mother nest on the B6 layer was completely swallowed by the mother of the abnormal life form, triggering the "flag6.2" judgment, and the "B6 layer biological experiment accident" event ended. ]
[Note: This may be an unexpected result. ]
[Task Reward: 18,000 Gene Sequences. ]
Browsing room on the B4 floor.
Chu Guang, who had just returned from the celebration, sat on the sofa with a strange expression, looking at the pale blue pop-up window in front of him.
I remember that just three days ago, when he had just returned from the front line, he was still complaining to the tree-like computer in the room at the end of the B4 floor that there were not enough closed beta qualifications.
Unexpectedly, in less than 72 hours, the problem he complained to the shelter was perfectly solved.
And so many were given at once!
Eighteen thousand helmets, as long as the speed of issuing closed beta qualifications is controlled between 40 and 50, it will be enough for the whole year next year!
Or...
Go there and make a wish again?
However, this idea only stayed in Chu Guang's mind for less than a second before he dispelled it.
According to his previous speculation, the manager's work log, the speed of issuing gene sequences, and various trigger conditions should be pre-set.
Even if he burns incense for the first-generation administrator, it will probably be useless.
What Chu Guang cares about more is the "flag6.2" that appears in the description column. If he remembers correctly, when he first unlocked the B6 layer, the judgment triggered was "flag6".
In other words, in addition to the possible judgment he has triggered, there are actually "flag6.1", or even 6.3, 6.4... 6.x and other options?
"Is it another possibility?" Looking at the text on the pale blue screen, Chu Guang fell into deep thought.
Although he was curious about what the other options would correspond to, from the task description, this event has ended.
Unfortunately, he does not have the ability to save and load files, and the ending of the other route can only be seen by another self in the parallel world.
However, he believes that the future of this road is bright.
This is a choice made by him and the players together. He believes that even if the future is full of ups and downs, Luoyu, Xiaoyu and himself will not regret it.
After all, the road is chosen by oneself.
With a flick of his index finger in the air, Chu Guang closed the pale blue holographic window. He was about to go back to his room to rest when He Ya's communication request suddenly came.
"Xiao Yu has new information--"
"Is it fully awake?"
"You already know? I almost forgot that you can watch the surveillance. Yes, it has woken up, and it looks like it has something to say to you."
Looking at He Ya's excited face on the screen, Chu Guang nodded.
"I'll be there right away."
After the communication ended, Chu Guang immediately set off for the B6 floor and arrived at the biological laboratory. He Ya was already waiting for him at the door of the buffer workshop.
"Come on."
After seeing Chu Guang, she waved her hand, and then excitedly walked towards the direction of the machine room.
Chu Guang walked behind her for a while, and soon saw Xiao Yu who had fully awakened.
It was like a queen who had been crowned, sitting in the center of the room. The vast red fungal carpet like the ocean was its skirt, and its abstract facial features were becoming more and more like humans.
Ten slightly young humanoid fruiting bodies stood quietly in front of it, with their lower bodies connected to the red skirt, just like its children.
In a sense, it did absorb part of human culture and the intellectual part of human nature.
For example, its queen-like appearance at this moment was the embodiment of its own cognition and acquired aesthetics. Even those originally hideous and slightly scary tentacles have evolved into relatively round and cute ones.
For another example, when it learned from the researchers in the laboratory that the "iron lumps" in the computer room were very important to the laboratory, it did not occupy them unreasonably like an animal, but politely gave up those servers.
As for humans helping it to implant headphones into its fruiting body and install microphones in its room, it also enjoyed it and learned quickly.
Chu Guang could feel that when he stood at the door and looked at it, its mood obviously fluctuated greatly.
The long "Eum" sound, like the cry of a dolphin, was full of obvious joy and intimacy.
"It seems to regard you as a father or mother," Heya said jokingly, "Should I say congratulations?"
Chu Guang rolled his eyes at her, walked into the machine room alone, stood next to the escalator, and shouted with a smile.
"How do you feel?"
The loud voice echoed in the room and merged into the pale red ocean.
Chu Guang thought it would respond with an "Eum", but he didn't expect it to learn to speak, speaking in a broken voice.
"...I feel good, thank you."
It used Chinese.
Because Luoyu has been communicating with it in the language of players, it naturally learned the language of players.
After a while, Chu Guang will ask the researchers to teach it the universal human language in this world, so that it can communicate with more people without translation tools.
"Can you speak?"
Xiaoyu said word by word in a hoarse and quiet voice.
"I have learned it, but language is not efficient. But, for the sake of communication, I can learn it."
Chu Guang tried to understand its meaning from the perspective of linguistics.
For a language, the smaller the uncertainty, the smaller the information entropy, and the smaller the amount of information it carries. In short, to describe the same thing, a language with a smaller information entropy requires more characters or syllables to describe it. The advantage is accuracy, but the disadvantage is verbosity. A language with a higher information entropy only requires fewer characters and syllables to describe it. The advantage is simplicity, but the disadvantage is inaccuracy.
Humans can communicate more accurately and conveniently with language, but for "hive creatures" like Xiaoyu, information is often a one-way transmission from the mother nest to the fruiting body. Language is an inefficient way of communication. A sound of different frequencies cannot replace the description of thousands of words to let the fruiting body know what to do next.
Of course, this is just Chu Guang's own speculation, and the things speculated in three seconds are likely to be one-sided.
"I'm glad you think so," Chu Guang smiled gently and continued, "Your language is too abstract, and it's really too difficult for most of us."
Xiao Yu spent some time thinking.
Perhaps it's the benefit of evolution.
Chu Guang could clearly feel that after Xiao Yu transformed into the mother nest, there was a little more wisdom in his eyes that he hadn't had before.
Although it was just a little bit.
"Respected... the mother of mankind, I can feel their trust in you, so you are their mother, and they are your fruiting body... Can I understand it this way?"
After listening to the language that Xiao Yu spent a long time organizing, Chu Guang shook his head.
"Completely different, I don't recommend you do this."
"Then... what are they?"
"Just people who trust me, they are different individuals, with their own ideas and behavioral logic."
"Then... how should I talk to you?" Xiao Yu's voice was a little confused and confused.
Chu Guang could understand its uneasiness and confusion. A similar situation also happened when the diplomats of the alliance first arrived in the ideal city.
The Supreme Council actually has no managers.
So what could only be said to one person had to be said in a different way to a group of people.
Fortunately, Shuyu's ability to respond was not bad, and it was not the first time that the company's board of directors had contacted the survivors in the wasteland, so the communication between the two sides went smoothly.
Xiaoyu's confusion was that humans did not have a hive of one heart and one mind.
"Do you trust me?" Chu Guang asked it.
"Of course, and without a doubt," Xiaoyu's voice was mixed with strong emotions as the fungal blanket fluctuated like waves, "You... are the first person I saw after I woke up. You tolerantly gave me the opportunity to grow up when I was still immature, just like a kind father and mother."
When Xiaoyu said this, his voice suddenly became a little low.
"However, I sometimes worry... Whether it is you or Luo Yu, you may not be able to accompany me for a long time. Some memories will become something that only I remember one day in the future."
"Don't worry about those things. Leave the future to the future. Let's only discuss the present," Chu Guang looked at Xiao Yu sitting in the middle of the computer room and continued, "I just need to know that you trust me."
"Is that enough?"
"Yes," Chu Guang nodded, "You and the others among us have already reached a consensus on at least one thing. Since you all trust me, then the problems you are worried about are not problems. If you have anything, you can communicate with me directly... Just use the microphone we prepared for you and call my name."
Xiao Yu's mood stabilized a little, and he lowered his eyebrows and said.
"Thank you..."
Chu Guang smiled and said in a gentle tone.
"You're welcome. We are already on an unimagined path. Communication is the best way to resolve differences."
"If you have any confusion in the future, be sure to tell me!"
...
On the first day after the celebration, everything in the southern part of the Valley Province seemed to be back on track.
Except for a few envoys from the survivor settlements who were reluctant to leave the prosperity of Dawn City and the glory of the Alliance, most of the envoys took the Alliance's return gifts back to their hometowns on the last day of the celebration.
The Alliance's return gifts to other forces were a set of 12 "Champion" brand injections and a set of 12 induced expression serums. The former is "all attributes increase by 4% to 20% for a certain period of time", and the latter has a nearly 45% chance of awakening after four injections.
Both things are black box products, which are not precious to the Alliance, but for most small and medium-sized survivor forces, they can be regarded as impeccable gifts in terms of value and significance.
Of course, for important allies and forces that gave too expensive gifts, Chu Guang also gave an extra Death Claw cub.
As an envoy of the Bugera Free State and a salesperson of the Firestone Group, Xavier took the Alliance's return gifts back as soon as possible.
Although the two sides had considerable friction over a series of issues such as the Bone Chewing Tribe, tariffs, and arms trade, the problem did not deteriorate to the point of a life-and-death struggle.
After reporting to the president of the Firestone Group about what he saw and heard at the celebration and banquet, Xavier cautiously expressed his views.
"...The Alliance's administrators are ambitious. I can clearly feel that he will not be satisfied with ruling the small piece of land in the southern part of the River Valley Province. It is difficult for me to judge his ability with just a few words of conversation, but his language does have the magic of bewitching people, which is completely different from when I first met him in Xizhou City!"
"In addition, I have observed other envoys. Even some envoys from distant areas who serve feudal monarchs can't help but be attracted by the concept of equality and unity he proclaimed. There are even survivors who plan to change their names to the Alliance."
With his legs crossed on the desk, Sigma, who was dressed in formal clothes and leather shoes, played with the glass in his hand and replied casually.
"There's nothing strange about this. It's just a coincidence that he would be satisfied with that small area in the southern part of the Valley Province...Hasn't Pioneer City already extended its foothold into the Great Desert?"
"...The Free State's top leaders think that it may just be a cover to distract the Legion's attention." Xavier whispered.
"It doesn't matter what the animals in the pigsty think."
Hearing his boss's careless ridicule, Xavier smiled bitterly and comforted himself in his heart that at least he was just an envoy of the Free State, not a high-level official of the Free State, and this sentence could not be blamed on him.
But there was nothing wrong with his boss's statement.
He himself occasionally had that feeling that every time the Great Rift Valley interfered in the affairs of the Free State, those leaders who were not very smart would become even more stupid.
And the prestige of the Firestone Group and its dominance over the Free State would become better than ever because of the Great Rift Valley's reshuffle of them.
Xavier cleared his throat and continued.
"...There is one more thing. Their managers ignored the representatives of Boulder City at the banquet. According to my subsequent observations, I always have a strong premonition."
"Boulder City is probably going to be finished."
This sounds like a fairy tale.
Boulder City was at least the overlord of the southern part of the former River Valley Province and one of the heirs of the post-war reconstruction committee.
Therefore, Xavier was a little hesitant when he expressed his judgment.
However, what he didn't expect was that the president Sigma, who was sitting behind the desk, just snorted lightly.
"It's expected."
Xavier was slightly stunned.
He didn't doubt his boss's judgment.
After all, he was just an envoy of the Free State and a salesperson of the group. There must be information behind this that he didn't know.
After a moment of silence, Xavier said in an uncertain voice.
"But I still have a doubt... Didn't the Alliance claim not to interfere with foreign countries? They immediately took action against the Boulder City that invested in them. Isn't it too hasty?"
"Not interfering with foreign countries? Oh, that doesn't mean they are doing charity. These days, naive blue coats are almost extinct. They just changed their ways a little."
Sigma laughed lightly and continued.
"For example, in Luoxia Province, even if the Golden Lizard Kingdom is the territory of the Academy, the Falcon is still under the control of the Legion. Who would doubt that the Alliance is the owner there?"
I heard that the Golden Lizard Kingdom used gold melted from dinars to build a statue for the administrator. Although gold is not valuable in the wasteland, their behavior is worth pondering.
If it is given out at the celebration, the Academy will not say anything.
Once this war is over, who in the entire Luoxia Province will not flirt with the Alliance? In order to increase the foreign reserves of silver coins, the kingdoms have sold grain at a bargain price!
"The Alliance does not hold the riverbank in its own hands, simply because indirect control can maximize benefits better than fierce plunder."
"In comparison, the Legion is not very smart. They violently occupied the Honey Badger Kingdom and took great pains to make up an excuse that 'the spirit of the sea of sand predicted the great unity of the desert'. What was the result? Even their own allies did not believe it. The Honey Badger Kingdom was more united than ever before. They fought guerrilla warfare with the Legion in the mountains, fired black guns in the city, and set fire to their own farmland. The Legion's blitzkrieg took seven days, and the Alliance took it back in three days."
If the Alliance chose to occupy Luoxia Province, even if they picked a banner of equality and asked the king to abdicate, there would definitely be endless people who would resist them.
No matter how bad the royal family is, it is the king blessed by the spirit of the sea of sand.
So in Sigma's view, the Alliance did a very smart thing, which is to learn from the experience of the academy to a certain extent.
"In terms of handling regional affairs, the Academy is much smarter than the Legion. They provide patents and technology, and the Wastelanders help them produce. Even if they take the lion's share, the Wastelanders have nothing to say. And the group of Weylanders, who conquered a large area of land, only turned themselves into a weak fat man. If they just take their eyes away for a while, the slaves will start to be lazy or even rebel against them."
"So the evaluation of the Legion by the enterprise is reasonable. Apart from playing coloring games on the map for their own entertainment, they have hardly solved any existing problems in the wasteland."
However, although he gave the Academy a high evaluation, Sigma did not like the Academy because those people could not do business at all. It was almost difficult for his Firestone Group's branch to drive into the swamp, and it was physically impossible to enter.
In comparison, the Legion was much easier to talk to. As long as they could afford the dinar, they could turn a blind eye even if it was a business of mutants.
Even if the marshal did not do it, the officers below would do it.
So Sigma looked down on the various analysis reports of the Free State's top leaders on the Alliance. In his opinion, only fools who know nothing would use simple diode thinking such as good and evil to define the collective will. How could an organization hand over the future to such pale things as good and evil?
Even if it is a company, it also did dirty work that could not be washed clean a century and a half ago, and their way of "apology" was just to chase the mutants in the Cloud Province along the coastline.
"I don't understand, what the Alliance is doing... Can't the Lord of Boulder City see it?" Xavier frowned and looked at his boss in confusion.
Sigma, leaning back in his chair, said lazily.
"You're right not to understand, because you have no idea what their city lord is... If you ask me, those guys from the Enlightenment Society are right about one thing. The Post-War Reconstruction Committee is the most evil and useless organization in this wasteland. They thought they built settlements and protected the fire of civilization, but when you get closer, you can see that they are just pig pens, turning people into pigs."
For example, the Bugera Free State is the most typical example.
The old man was unwilling to accept the failure of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee, but he still had to pretend to abide by the agreement not to interfere in the affairs of the wasteland, so he built a "new pig pen" at his doorstep and named them the Bugera Free State.
They naively hoped that with their "suggestions", this free pig pen could develop in a balanced way and eventually replace the separated production, defense and technology departments.
Isn't this funny?
Fortunately, the survivors of the Free State have their own ideas. Most of them are unwilling to be pigs in a pigsty and change their ways under the finger-pointing of a group of old stubborn people who are hard of hearing.
Through the efforts of generations, they have made another rule on the rules set for them by the Great Rift Valley -
That is, use the "Firestone Group" to override the "Free State"!
The latter rules the day as a guise to perfunctorily deal with the sovereign, while the former rules the night as the uncrowned king of the underworld!
In order to achieve their goals, they will appropriately use extortion, blackmail, bribery, kidnapping and other means to coerce the officials of the Free State to become their own people.
In this way, no matter how many times the Great Rift Valley tries to interfere with them, the Free State will still be the pure land of incomparable freedom.
Sigma has an undisguised sneer on his face.
He has a very accurate positioning of himself.
He is a traveling merchant, a businessman, who regards enterprises as "idols", but he will not be a group of sanctimonious guys on the East Coast.
He just does what he is - a profit-seeking villain.
After all, the reason why they put on the "legal" vest is to do whatever they want under the open rules. If they still have to abide by the rules and regulations imposed on them by others, wouldn't it be a waste of the painstaking efforts of countless generations of presidents of the Firestone Group?
This is a wasteland!
Putting down his legs on the table, he looked at Xavier - the confidant who has been with him for a long time and is responsible for southern affairs.
"Let's keep an eye on the nails buried around the Boulder City."
"Since the alliance wants to slaughter this pig in advance for the New Year, then we will help them speed up, but we have to get a share of it!"
Xavier nodded seriously.
"Yes!"