Chapter 345 The Ground Is Full of "Evolved Bodies" (1/2)

Over Qingquan City.

A "Dragonfly" transport plane is hovering along the edge of the Fifth Ring Road.

Looking at the endless yellow-green thick fog outside the cabin, Unprofessional Fan Man Bao couldn't help but click his tongue, and his eyes were filled with surprise.

The spore cloud gathered in the city center is like a waterfall rolling down from the clouds. From a distance, it looks like a giant tree with lush branches.

The towering trunk devours the earth, and the outstretched branches and leaves invade the sky.

Is there really a weapon that can destroy this thing in reality?

Even if it's a nuclear bomb...

A faint chill crawled down his sight. Brother Mantou shook his head, picked up the walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder and shouted.

"Are you ready?"

Along with the electric sound of fried wheat, Lao Bai's intermittent voice came from the earphones.

"OK."

The signal had begun to fluctuate erratically, and his intuition told Brother Mantou that without the protection of anti-electromagnetic interference equipment, this was the limit of what the aircraft could approach.

He pulled the lever on the side.

Following an unstable tremor, the locked door at the tail of the plane slowly lowered, and the restless airflow was swept into the cabin.

"The hatch is open——"

"Wish ya'll good luck!"

At the same time, Lao Bai, who was standing at the cabin door, gestured to his teammates behind him and took the lead in stepping out of the cabin despite the roaring airflow.

The camera zoomed out, and only a few black spots were seen separated from the cabin, speeding towards the center of Qingquan City. Not long after, six parachutes bloomed in the sky above the Third Ring Road.

After landing, everyone quickly gathered in the direction of the airdropped supplies and recovered the ammunition, RPG rocket launchers and other support equipment placed there.

At the same time, on the other side.

Boulder City is located on the edge of the West Third Ring Road. In the radar station located on the giant wall, the operator on duty has discovered the aircraft hovering in the sky.

"The UFO is approaching our airspace!" The operator sitting in front of the radar control terminal was the first to spot the red dot on the screen.

However, instead of being nervous, he shouted excitedly.

The radar station was instantly busy.

Most of the staff here feel the same as him at the moment.

It had been too long since they had seen the aircraft of other survivor forces appear within the radar warning area.

"Damn, I'm sure! It belongs to those scavengers in the northern suburbs!" An operator cursed excitedly.

"The other party did not respond to our communication!"

"Could it be that they simply don't have the radio equipment to receive the signal?"

"Haha, it's possible!"

As he spoke, the colleague sitting next to him was already operating the air defense system and aimed a rapid-fire cannon at the slow silver "Big Bird".

The computer has calculated the preview circle based on the aircraft's motion parameters.

He only needs to press the fire button, and the big silver bird will turn into a ball of fire.

"The opponent has entered our range!"

"Do you want to fight it down?"

Unlike all the excited operators in the radar station, the stationmaster responsible for managing the radar station looked obviously much more cautious.

"hold on."

The plane did not continue towards Boulder City, but quickly turned around and returned towards the northern suburbs of Qingquan City.

The staff operating the weapons looked slightly disappointed.

He has been sitting on the cold bench under his butt for almost ten years, and the air defense system on the giant wall has never been used.

one staff member said angrily.

"This is a provocation to us!"

"It is up to the city lord to decide whether it is provocation or not," the head of the radar station interrupted him and looked at his deputy, "report this incident immediately!"

The deputy standing nearby nodded.

"yes!"

…

Qingquan City South Third Ring Road.

The five-person Cow Horse Team who landed safely successfully met near the airdrop box and obtained the weapons placed inside.

However, everyone's expressions were not optimistic.

The situation here is far worse than they imagined.

we can even say……

It was completely beyond their expectations.

The dark red carpet covered almost every building, every viaduct, and every inch of the street.

The ferocious-looking gnawers, as well as slime mold alien species that are even more ferocious than the gnawers, wander aimlessly on the broken streets.

The most troublesome thing is not just these, but the intricate terrain, which doubles the risk factor here.

High-rise buildings that penetrate deep into the clouds are connected to each other by tunnels, making this place truly a "steel forest."

When he parachuted down earlier, Ye Shi almost hung on the pedestrian bridge.

Fortunately, he was lucky. The parachute passed between the two broken bridges, and he landed safely and successfully reunited with his teammates.

"Oh my god...it turns out that the city center of Qingquan City looks like this."

On the fiftieth floor of a thousand-meter-high building, Ye Shi, wearing a gas mask, stood next to the damaged wall, holding a telescope and looking in the direction of the crash site.

The crashed W-1 Mosquito glider was stuck on the outer wall of the high-rise building directly opposite them, and the front half of its body was inserted into the wall.

Luo Yu should be inside.

Ye Shi glanced at his feet.

Below him was an abyss with no bottom. The thick spore cloud was like the water in a venom pool, and the area that could be observed was very limited.

Visibility here is less than two hundred meters due to the spore cloud that has gathered in the city center.

However, in fact, due to countless construction waste and reinforced concrete, the actual visibility is less than half of this number.

This is much more exciting than the waves.

"Have you never explored this place before?" Quit said nervously.

Stormy Wind shook his head.

"I haven't heard of anyone coming here."

Fang Chang also said: "There are no tasks here, and there is no way to save files. There is no point even coming here."

You can’t go far without bringing high-value equipment. If you bring high-value equipment, you have to consider the risks.

This game does not limit players' specific gameplay, but it also emphasizes that everyone is an adult and needs to be responsible for their own choices.

In fact, earlier, they tried to explore deeper into the Third Ring Road starting from Boulder City.

However, the alien species encountered along the way became more and more powerful, wasting a lot of bullets without any benefit, and finally gave up.

After carefully observing the situation on the path forward, Ye Shi's face became increasingly serious and he lowered his voice and spoke.

"...There are a lot of evolved bodies here!"

Upon hearing the word evolved body, everyone's expressions immediately became serious.

"Decay Knight?" Lao Bai said solemnly.

Ye Shi shook his head, did not speak, but pointed gently to the concrete elevated building outside the tall building that connected to another building.

I saw the wreckage of cargo drones lying there. There were nearly a hundred of them at a rough count, and packages and takeout boxes from two hundred years ago were also dropped next to them.

The dark red shell looks very much like rust, but if you look closely with a telescope, you will find that there is no rust attached to the surface of the drones at all.

But a shocking carpet of bacteria!

"Those things... I can feel that they are alive," Ye Shi said after a pause, "And I'm afraid they won't be easy to deal with!"

Kuang Feng frowned.

"Are you going to get around them?"

"The situation down there is not much better. Have you forgotten what we saw when we came up?" Lao Bai took out the RPG rocket launcher on his back, inserted a high-explosive grenade, and shot the quitter who was carrying a heavy machine gun. He gestured, "We can only try."

It was impossible to go around.

Sneaking in this game is not particularly difficult, especially for those mutant slime molds. In places covered by spore clouds, it's like having enemy-seeking antennas inserted into their heads.

Get a little closer, and it will rush forward with a roar.

The best strategy is to choose a relatively safe path, lure out the monsters in the area and clear them out, and then move on.

Seeing Lao Bai take out the RPG, the other team members also tacitly went to their respective fighting positions, with the weapons in their hands turned on.

"I'm ready."

"I also have Oak here."

"+1"

"..."

Everyone cooperates very well. After all, this is not the first time they have formed a team, and they have already experienced countless battles.

Seeing his teammates getting ready, Lao Bai took the lead and pulled the trigger.

Tail flame jet!

A high-explosive grenade hit the middle of the dense group of drones!

As the fire and smoke exploded in an instant, a large number of drones were blown away by the shock wave and fragments of the explosion, and fell towards the bottom.

Quitting, who set up a machine gun not far away, also immediately pulled the trigger, unleashing ferocious firepower toward the area ahead.

The fired 10mm bullets formed an orange-yellow rain of fire in the air, wildly harvesting the swarm of drones that were stirred into the air.

"Holy shit... can this thing really fly?" Fang Chang opened fire with a rifle, a trace of surprise appeared in his eyes.

In two hundred years, unless it is nuclear powered, no matter how durable the chemical energy battery is, it will not last this long!

Apparently those mutant slime molds replaced the battery on the drone and became the new power source, driving the propeller in a strange way, and even evolved part of the carpet into the propeller itself.

but--

In the face of absolute firepower, these are nothing. A swarm of drones burst out against the billowing smoke, and large areas were harvested by bullets.

Everything seems to be going well.

However, at this moment, a change suddenly occurred!

Not all of the drones that were knocked down by high-explosive grenades fell to the ground and broke into pieces. Some of the surviving little guys flew up again unsteadily.

At the same time, more and more drones floated out from the viaduct and even the building opposite, and even began to outflank both sides.

The cattle and horse team guarding the bunker immediately fell into a hard fight.

"Holy crap! Isn't this too much?" He emptied a whole drum, cursed when he quit smoking, and immediately changed the magazine.

At this time, Guangfeng, who was holding the trigger and pouring out firepower, suddenly spoke.

"Is there a possibility?"

Fang Chang: "What do you want to say?"

"The mimicry ability of the mutant slime mold not only imitates the individual drones, but the drone group itself..." After a pause, Guangfeng continued, "To put it simply, it is not a certain express package that attacks us, but a group of drones itself..." A whole express locker.”

Ye Shi was shocked.

"Damn it! Don't be so talkative!"

"It's not just a crow's mouth. As long as we find the 'drone hive' that dominates these little guys, we should be able to make them lose their organization..."

Seeing that the machine gun that had quit smoking resumed its firepower, Guangfeng took out the drone with the IED strapped in his backpack and prepared to control it to fly to the opposite building.

The VM opens.

The neural access device is worn on the head.

However, at this moment, Kuangfeng's expression suddenly froze.

Noticing the change in his expression, Ye Shi hurriedly asked.

"What's the situation?"

Kuangfeng, who was holding the headset, frowned, glanced at the VM screen in front of him, and said in a deep voice.

"Can't connect..."

Damn it.

There is still a little signal left!

"%￥#x-on:!"

Ye Shi cursed and knocked off the empty magazine on the rifle.

No one can be counted on now.

If you want to survive, you can only do your best to shoot down all the drones in front of you!

However, at this moment, a drone suddenly broke through the firepower network, passed through the broken wall on the side of the building, and rushed towards Ye Shi.

A warning sign suddenly rose in my heart!

Ye Shi reflexively loosened the magazine in his hand and pulled out the centurion pistol inserted in the gun belt.

However——

Even if he warned of the danger in advance, his hand was still a step slower.

The drone covered with dark red fungal carpets crashed into him head-on, and the tentacles extending from the bottom of the fuselage popped out as fast as lightning and slammed into his face.

Ye Shi only had time to see a flash of black shadow, and then his consciousness fell into endless darkness.

A light blue pop-up window appeared.

[Disconnected]

At the same time, another world.

In a dormitory of the boys' dormitory of Jiangcheng University, a sudden ghost cry suddenly sounded.

"Zhao!"

Hearing the movement from the bed, the animals sitting below playing PUBG were stunned on the spot, and their hands stopped suppressing the gun.

What's going on?

The dormitory was silent.

Sun Gan turned his head to look at the bed behind him. Just as he was about to ask what happened, the voice of Brother Wei floated over from the bed.

"Sao Rui...something happened just now."

Sitting on the bed, Ye Wei stared at the helmet in his hand, his chest rising and falling slowly.

The three roommates looked at each other.

Although they didn't know what happened, they were fine.

"Oh...it's just a minor problem, it's nothing."

"We don't care, but you should take care of yourself..."

"Indeed, you're still screaming so loudly while playing R18 games, it's hard for us guys not to worry about you."

Ye Wei: "..."

MMP!

These idiots!

Ye Wei rolled his eyes and threw his helmet on the pillow.

He got up and got off the bed with the help of the ladder. He went to the balcony to wash his face, leaned against the guardrail, took out his mobile phone, and looked at the small group.

"Is anyone there?" He sent a message.

No one replied for a long time.

Seeing this, Ye Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that everyone is fine, only he accidentally gave it away.

But when he thought that he couldn't log in for the next three days, he felt depressed.

Oh my god.

The withdrawal reaction has begun!

Just when Ye Wei was about to close the Q group and go to the official website to see what new things the idiots had done, a message suddenly popped up in the group.

A Guang: "Yes, what happened?"

Seeing this ID that suddenly resurrected, Ye Shi was shocked.

What the hell?

A dog planner!

"Brother Guang?!"

"Are you still alive??"

Suddenly realizing that his question seemed to be a bit wrong, Ye Wei quickly withdrew the message and typed a sentence below at the speed of light.

"Uh, I mean you actually remembered your account password."

A Guang: "..."

Ye Wei looked a little embarrassed and sent a dog head to ease the atmosphere.

But the broad-minded Brother Guang didn't care about such a small matter and quickly took the initiative to change the subject.

A Guang: "How is the situation on your side? Have you encountered the enemy?"

Isn't this asking knowingly?

But it's rare to chat with the dog planner, so Ye Wei still answered truthfully.

"Well, we ran into aliens not long after landing. The situation inside the Third Ring Road was worse than we expected, on the ground, in the sky, and underground... The complicated traffic was like a maze, and paper maps and compasses were completely useless. In the end, we had to rely on VM and weak signals to determine our location."

"Then there were aliens... There were not only gnawers, crawlers, and tyrants, but also a large number of ancient machines active in this area."

A Guang: "Ancient machines?"

Ye Wei continued typing.

"It's the evolutionary bodies! For example, the power armor wrapped in slime mold, tanks, self-propelled robots, etc. that appeared in the previous Wave expansion pack... Anyway, they are all strange things."

"Oh, and there are drones! We encountered a large group on the way to the crash site, as dense as locusts!"

A Guang: "Can you tell me in detail about the situation of those evolutionary bodies?"

After a few seconds, he added another sentence at the end.

"I mainly want to know the situation in the new map from the player's perspective." Although it felt a bit strange, Ye Wei didn't think much about it. He scratched the screen of his mobile phone and described his experience in the Third Ring Line to A Guang in detail. After a while, A Guang replied. "Well, I roughly understand." After laying the groundwork for so long, Ye Wei continued to type. "Brother Guang, is the difficulty in the Third Ring Line too high? The equipment is not up to par, and it is difficult to advance with just a few light weapons." "It is strongly recommended that the weapon store put power armor on the shelves!" There are too many high-level monsters! This level design is simply unreasonable! However——

Aguang seemed not to take his advice.

"There is nothing I can do about the difficulty. Part of the game content is generated independently by the server, and part of it is actively added by players. We are only responsible for maintaining the operation of the server and handling violations... Sorry."

"I have something to do here. I'll leave now and talk later."

Automatically generating game content is okay.

What kind of Ubisoft behavior is this?

Looking at the two lines of messages on the screen, Ye Wei had a helpless expression on his face.

Regardless of whether he believed it or not, Aguang had no intention of continuing to explain to him. After asking what he wanted to ask, he went offline ruthlessly.

He was the only one left in the group.

There was no point in continuing to watch. The lonely and empty Ye Wei sighed, closed the group chat window, opened the browser and logged into the forum.

The forum is quite lively at this point.

The speed at which the news in the Gossip section refreshes the screen is dizzying. Almost every time it is refreshed, the posts on the home page change completely.

At this moment, Ye Wei was suddenly surprised to find that Aguang secretly updated an announcement while he wasn't paying attention?

Curious, he went in and took a look, and he was stunned on the spot.

[Map information update: Qingquan City Center]

[Map Overview: The central area of ​​Qingquan has been completely destroyed by the erosion of slime mold. A large number of equipment left over from the Prosperity Era have been assimilated by the fruiting bodies of mutant slime mold, forming an evolutionary body with a special structure...]

[Recommended exploration level: LV.25 or above]

[Map Tip 1: Recycle the remains of the evolved body and exchange them for high rewards in the scientific expedition group! 】

【……】

There is nothing wrong with recommending exploration levels and map tips.

Just the "Map Overview" column...

Why does he look so familiar? ?

…

Wasteland world.

Shuguang City Industrial Zone, the train platform near Bach Aluminum Factory.

The staff are busy operating crane equipment to load some large equipment that has been dismantled into parts onto the pallets of freight trains.

The industrial areas of the new alliance are moving north.

This work will be carried out simultaneously with the construction of Auroville.

By then, Shuguang City's industrial zone will be transformed into a light industrial base focusing on the production of consumer goods.

Heavy industries, including steel, weapons, and heavy equipment production, will be moved to Dawn City in the north.

After listening to Xiaoyu's introduction, Pai asked curiously.

"Why are you moving north?"

Xiaoyu said helplessly.

"Because it's so close to our neighbors."

Pai asked inquiringly.

"Do you have a bad relationship with them?"

Putting her index finger on her chin, she thought seriously for a while before answering.

"Well... I can't say whether it's good or not. In Brother Chu's words, we are too close to them and are dangerous to each other."

Of course, there are also a series of factors such as the fact that the north is closer to the origin of raw materials and has a larger population. However, it is too troublesome to explain in detail. Xiaoyu himself has only a partial understanding of it, so he simply omits it.

"All right."

Tentatively accepting this statement, Pai put this inconsequential matter aside for the time being and continued to search near the stacking area.

Xiaoyu looked at her movements and asked curiously.

"What are you looking for?"

"Some ingredients!"

"raw material?"

"It's nothing, you don't have to worry about it, it won't hurt you anyway!"

Looking at Pai who looked confident, Xiaoyu tilted his head in confusion. Although he was still curious, he didn't ask any more questions in the end.

"Okay...can I help you?"

"Really? That's great!" Pai's eyes lit up, and he excitedly gestured with the size of a cup with his hand, "First of all, I need a bottle of crude oil, the type doesn't matter...probably this much is enough!"

To teach that rude guy a hard lesson.

This is necessary material!

"Original crude oil?" Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Can biomass crude oil be used?"

Pai rubbed his chin and thought for a while.

"Biomass crude oil...it's a little troublesome, but it's okay!"

"Anyway, let's get a bottle and take a look first!"

…

the other side.

South of Shuguang City, the sanatorium in Linghu Wetland Park.

Having just learned about the situation in the city center from Ye Shi, Chu Guangzheng planned to continue to conceive of the unfinished reform plan and the update content of the Beta0.3 version.

However, just as he was staring at the newly created folder on the screen, thinking about a more appropriate title, an unexpected phone call suddenly came to him.

Seeing that the communication request came from the "New Alliance Office in Boulder City", Chu Guang temporarily stopped what he was doing and pressed the connect button.

Soon, Shuyu's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Five minutes ago, someone from the Boulder City Hall came to my place."

People from City Hall?

A hint of surprise appeared in Chu Guang's eyes.

"What did they say?"

Shuyu continued.

"On trade and security issues..."

"The minister at City Hall would like to speak with you on the phone."