Chapter 389 Silencing (1/2)

Vault 404's infirmary.

Luo Hua, who was lying flat on the scanning bed, opened his eyes and saw the silver-white ceiling. He tried to sit up from the bed, but found that the effect of the anesthetic had not worn off yet, and his body refused to obey him at all.

Except for the left hand——

Looking at the bionic prosthetic body in front of him, he swallowed involuntarily.

At this time, a strange voice came from the side.

"Hey, are you awake?"

Luo Hua slowly moved his neck and looked at the strange man standing next to the scanning bed. Just as he was about to ask where he was, he suddenly saw silver threads as thin as hair suspended on the man's arms.

He recognized that thing. It was a "scalpel" used for minimally invasive surgery on neurons. It was commonly seen in some large medical instruments used for prosthetic surgery.

The only people who would install this kind of thing on bionic prosthetics are those who are obsessed with the technology of the Prosperity Era to the point of paranoia...

The Adam's apple moved, and Luo Hua squeezed out a sentence from his mouth.

"Are you from the academy?"

"That's right, Vault Branch No. 404. I'm the director here."

Making a joke about the cake Chu Guang drew for him, Yin Fang retracted the hair-thin knife to the interface on the inside of his forearm.

Looking at the man lying on the scanning bed, he smiled lightly and continued.

"Welcome to Vault No. 404. In addition to being the dean of the college branch, I am also the leader of the scientific expedition team here. By the way, the bionic organ on your body is quite interesting. I just opened it and studied it. You should not Mind it."

Luo Hua said helplessly.

"...Do I mind being useful?"

"It's really useless. It's over." Yin Fang teased and continued, "My name is Yin Fang. If there is any problem with your parts, you can ask me to repair it."

"Luo Hua...an employee of Enterprise Silver Wings Group," Luo Hua looked around, his eyes full of surprise, "This...is Shelter No. 404?"

Yin Fang's eyebrows raised slightly.

"That's right, you haven't been here?"

"I've been here before, I've been here before..."

I just don't remember this room at all.

Luo Hua looked at the ceiling blankly.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered something and immediately looked at Yin Fang standing next to the scanning bed and said.

"Where are your managers?"

"It's right outside the door. Do you want me to call him in?"

Luo Hua nodded, and just when he was about to say "please", the door of the infirmary opened upward with a sound.

I saw a man and a woman walking in from outside.

The beautiful woman with long silver hair also looked unfamiliar to him, but the person standing next to her was extremely familiar to him.

"Chu Guang..."

Chu Guang smiled and nodded.

"We meet again."

Compared with when they first met a year ago, the young man lying on the bed has become much older, and his face has a weather-beaten look. If Yin Fang hadn't shaved off his beard for him, the artist's temperament would have been even more obvious.

There was a hint of excitement in Luo Hua's eyes, and he struggled to sit up from the scanning bed, but Chu Guang raised his hand to stop him.

"Don't get excited. It's okay to lie down and talk about anything. I finally woke you up, so you don't faint again in the middle of the conversation."

Chu Guang smiled and continued to ask with concern.

"How do you feel? Are you feeling better?"

"Much better..." Luo Hua swallowed, and then said, "We found it!"

"Shelter No. 0?" Chu Guang asked thoughtfully.

"Well!" Luo Hua said excitedly, "In the great desert... we found the entrance to that place!"

"What does it look like?"

"have no idea."

"I don't know?" Chu Guang looked at him in surprise, "Didn't you go in?"

A bitter expression appeared on Luo Hua's face.

"To be precise, we almost went in..."

Chu Guang thought: "...because of the legion?"

Luo Hua nodded with a heavy expression.

"We successfully found the coordinates of Vault 0, and also obtained the key to enter the Vault from a key person... the one you have."

Chu Guang glanced at the silver card in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Luo Hua, who was lying on the scanning bed, paused for a moment and continued.

"They are harder to deal with than expected... Although we have power armor, their combat effectiveness is not weak, and the Falcon Kingdom is their vassal in Oasis No. 2, which is the closest to the desert."

"Faced with the incoming soldiers, we had no choice but to abandon the Pioneer, and some of us hid in a temporary shelter near the wreckage of the space elevator."

Chu Guang was stunned for a moment.

"...space elevator?!"

"Well, didn't you know?"

Luo Hua glanced at Chu Guang strangely and saw the latter nodded slowly, so he continued.

"Near the equator in the middle of the desert is the ruins of the space elevator of the United Nations era... That thing collapsed two hundred years ago, and its fragments are everywhere in the desert, and the farthest piece even fell to the east coast. But these are not The point, the point is that Shelter 0 is in the desert!”

Taking a deep breath, he looked at Chu Guang seriously.

"Lu Yang... our captain asked me to go all the way east. No matter what, we must not let the legion people get that card."

"That is our last hope to end all suffering on this land."

Pinching his eyebrows with his index finger and thumb, Chu Guang took a moment to digest the huge amount of information.

"I will do my best to help you, but the current situation is that the legion's airship has arrived right under our noses. If we don't deal with them, our people will have to make a long circuit south to enter Luoxia Province... You have Is there any way to contact the East Coast?"

There was a hint of anxiety in Luo Hua's eyes.

"We have reported the situation to the company, haven't they arrived yet?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Guang's expression became a little subtle.

"We're here, but there are only more than a hundred people...are you sure that's enough people?"

Luo Hua was obviously stunned.

"More than a hundred...how can there be only more than a hundred people?!"

Looking at Luo Hua, whose eyes were gradually filled with anxiety and disbelief, Chu Guang nodded silently and continued.

"This is the fact. The 26th Commando is here, with a strength of just over a hundred people, and the leader is Yunsong. Although they have twenty power armors, they seriously lack heavy weapons... To be honest, I don't think they have enough people. It’s all quite annoying.”

This was one of the reasons why he didn't call those people back to help deal with the Heart of Steel. Those more than a hundred people were of no use at all. It was better to let them go to the west to help first.

What he needs is greater support.

Whether it's weapons or technology, he wants as much as they have.

Luo Hua gritted his teeth and said.

"One commando is definitely not enough! Not to mention the two ten thousand troops deployed by the legion on the west side of Luoxia Province, the standing army of the Falcon Kingdom alone is around one hundred thousand! Even twenty powered armors... are impossible to deal with of so many people.”

Chu Guang sighed.

"I also feel that way."

Especially after seeing the power of the 400mm main gun, he became even more convinced of this idea.

To be honest, he even doubted that something happened on the east coast, otherwise why only so few reinforcements came.

However, now is obviously not the time to discuss this.

After a moment of pause, Chu Guang continued to ask.

"Don't you have any large transport planes or airships?"

Luo Hua had a look of embarrassment on his face.

"Yes, there is, but the distance between here and the east coast alone is nearly three thousand kilometers... This distance has far exceeded the maximum range of our 'Electric Ray'."

The "Electric Ray" is a twin-engine transport aircraft equipped by the enterprise. The flight mode can be switched between fixed wing and vertical take-off and landing. The maximum range is only 500 kilometers.

Otherwise, Yunsong and the others would not have come overland.

For a long time, the company has only one survivor settlement, Ideal City, and has only maintained trade exchanges with other survivor settlements in Yunjian Province. It has no need for ultra-long-distance deployment and operations, nor does it have overseas military bases. Therefore, I don't have the skills to fly a large aircraft at all.

It is not impossible to start research and development now. With advanced power technology and energy storage technology, it is not difficult for them to design a practical equipment.

However, whether it can catch up with the current crisis is a question.

Luo Hua fell into deep thought.

After a long time, he spoke.

"Anyway, no matter what, I have to find a way to contact the company first... I have to tell the people over there about the situation here!"

Chu Guang asked.

"Do you still have 'migratory birds'?"

"How can I carry such a big thing with me," Luo Hua coughed dryly and continued, "But apart from migratory birds... there is actually an emergency method."

Chu Guang asked immediately.

"any solution?"

Yin Fang, who had been standing silently, suddenly interrupted.

"Is it an orbiting satellite again?"

Luo Hua had a surprised expression on his face and nodded.

"……how do you know."

There was an intriguing expression on Yin Fang's face, and there was a hint of sarcasm in his tone.

"This is not the first time you have done this."

Chu Guang frowned slightly, not quite understanding.

"Orbiting satellite? What do you mean? Isn't low-Earth orbit already filled with space junk——"

"Because the outer space orbit is full of space junk, you can always find one or two things that can still be used, right?"

Putting down his arms, Yin Fang continued in a teasing tone.

"You only need to upload part of the data to the satellite that is still working, and then use the remaining fuel to guide the satellite to fall near the east coast. The person who picks up the satellite only needs to take a crowbar or an ax and smash the iron lump like a coconut shell. If you smash it open, you can see what is written inside... They are the only ones who can do this kind of thing."

Chu Guang was stunned for a moment.

Damn it?

Can it still be like this?

Not only Chu Guang was stunned for a moment, but Heya who was standing aside also showed a dumbfounded expression.

Finally hearing the sarcasm in that sentence, Luo Hua blushed and said.

"We don't use it to make calls. We only use it in emergencies in special circumstances."

Chu Guang couldn't help but said.

"But... why do we have to let the satellite fall? Isn't it just a signal repeater?"

Yin Fang shook his head.

"You think too simply. First of all, the satellites that can be used in this way are not low-orbit communication satellites, but scientific research satellites with longer endurance and more reliable quality. We generally call them... T-series satellites.”

"Such satellites are usually located in higher and wider synchronous orbits. They usually remain relatively stationary with the ground and can only communicate with the research facilities directly below...and the method of communication is not radio, but a narrower range of communication. laser."

Chu Guang: "Laser?!"

Yin Fang nodded and spoke concisely.

"Yes, when information needs to be exchanged, the ground research facility will send a beam of light up, and another beam of light from the sky. You can roughly understand it as, 36,000 kilometers away, a coin will be hit with a pistol. The confidentiality of this communication method is very reliable. Except for the research facility associated with the satellite, you can hardly contact the satellite from other places, let alone know the specific coordinates of the satellite. "

"Generally speaking, if the connection between the ground communication base station and the satellite is interrupted, such satellites will enter a dormant state until they are awakened again. Therefore, theoretically, these satellites usually have residual energy, and the remaining energy can satisfy at least one orbit Switch."

Chu Guang said thoughtfully.

"So you only need to find a ground base station that can communicate with this type of satellite, and you can write the data into the satellite, and then guide the satellite to fall..."

"Yes, so these people are burning harps and boiling cranes. Those people on the east coast are using the relics of pre-war civilization in a destructive way. They have no idea what sustainable use is. They smashed a scientific research satellite that cost tens of millions. Just to say hello, tsk tsk..."

Yin Fang clicked his tongue sarcastically.

Although this sentence was directed at the company and not at Luo Hua who was lying here, it still made the latter blush.

"Aren't we discussing the legion's problem? Or do you have a better way?"

Yin Fang said simply.

"No, but do you know where to find a research facility like that?"

"Of course! There is one in the south of the River Valley Province. I remember the coordinates there!" Luo Hua looked at Chu Guang and said in a sincere tone, "That is a research institute, about seventy kilometers away from Qingquan City...the information inside You should be able to use it, could you please send someone there?"

Chu Guang nodded.

"no problem."

It's easy for him.

The distance of 70 kilometers is less than an hour for the "Dragonfly" transport aircraft, and only a few parachutes are needed.

As for throwing a satellite...

Anyway, the satellite is not his.

It is enough to get the information from the institute.

The top priority now is for companies to send more reinforcements. Of course, it would be better if they could send more weapons.

The airport in the northern part of Dawn City is spacious enough to allow transport planes of all sizes to land.

Luo Hua's eyes were filled with gratitude.

"Thanks."

Chu Guang said with a smile.

"You're welcome, the Legion is our common enemy."

"Just rest and recover, and leave the rest to us. Speaking of which, I've got a few more barrels of good wine here, and we'll fix things up when you recover."

Luo Hua smiled weakly.

"Haha... Then you have to wait for a while."

His tense shoulders finally relaxed, and he leaned on the scanning bed with an expression of relief on his face.

Although his friends far away in the desert were still in crisis, Chu Guang's supportive attitude gave him hope.

Heya, who was standing by the door with her arms folded, suddenly spoke.

"Now that the operation has been completed...can you arrange for him to be transferred to a hospital? This is not a place for him to recuperate."

Although the name here is the infirmary, she has actually regarded it as a laboratory. The only scanning bed in the alliance is an indispensable research tool.

Luo Hua had an embarrassed expression on her face.

"Sorry to bother you."

Chu Guang said with a smile.

"How is that possible? But this place is really not suitable for recuperation. I will arrange for someone to transfer you to a ward with a better environment later."

After speaking, he called in the medical staff waiting at the door and ordered Luo Hua to be transferred to the Alliance First Hospital on the ground.

The ward there is spacious enough, and several wounded people from the previous Enterprise expedition are also staying there.

As for medical expenses and so on...

That would be too foreign to say.

Yin Fang, who was standing next to him, folded his arms and was still mumbling until the medical staff moved the injured outside the door of the infirmary.

"I knew it……"

"These East Coast guys definitely have a treasure map in their hands!"

…

That evening.

A transport plane set off from the north of Dawn City, carrying twenty-five players from the Burning Corps, and flew towards the research facility seventy kilometers to the east.

At the same time, in Ruigu City, 150 kilometers west of Dawn City, the White Bear Knights and the Death Corps were entering the final stage of their attack on Vault 79.

The main road leading to the central research area has been cleared.

Although alien species and "savages" are still coming from other areas, the offensive is obviously not as good as in the first few days.

After all, the alien species active in this shelter are not the slime mold fruiting bodies controlled by the "hive consciousness".

Their attacks on players are more motivated by the two motives of protecting territory and hunting. There is no tacit cooperation between different groups, let alone the formation of a large-scale "wave".

If it were the city center of Qingquan City, a gunshot sounded and all the aliens in the whole street rushed up. Even if their number doubled, they wouldn't be able to withstand it...

"Oh my god...this guy is quite strong!"

After shaking off the blood on the engineer's shovel, the boy at the construction site and Bian looked at the mess in the room and clicked their tongues. They once again grasped the assault rifle hanging on their chests and changed the magazine.

Forty or fifty corpses lay scattered in the wide hall. Primitive weapons such as spears and bows and arrows were scattered on the ground, as well as smoking bullet casings.

An encounter just broke out here.

The opponent was a group of savages who seemed to be ambushing nearby. They waited for the players to enter the room and suddenly launched an attack.

The skin of these people is sickly pale, but their limbs are surprisingly strong. Their strength attribute is about 13 to 15, which is equivalent to the level of the first awakening.

Not only that, they are extremely fast, incredibly tough, and use their body muscles as dexterously as beasts.

Or to be more precise, they are beasts, and almost none of the organs in their bodies are the same as humans, they just happen to look more like humans.

Fortunately these savages can only use bows and spears.

Otherwise it would be really difficult to deal with.

"There is one last 'level' left before the research area. The front is suspected to be the Deathclaw's lair. We are running out of ammunition..."

With the rifle on his shoulder, he walked up to the White Bear Knights and continued.

"I recommend continuing the strategy tomorrow."

"Tail agrees! Phew, I'm almost exhausted!"

Tails, who was sitting against the wall, was breathing heavily. He raised his arm and rubbed his forehead. As a result, the sweat was not wiped off, but the blood on his forehead was rubbed.

Sisi, who was also panting, glanced at the remaining magazines and nodded.

"Well... we'll continue tomorrow."

Day and night change in Vault 79, and it will be night in a little while.

After looking around, she continued.

"There are quite a few rooms here. Now that the monsters have been cleared, let's explore a little before going back."

This is the last building from the research area. It seems to be an administrative building or something. While searching other areas, she found some interesting clues.

Before leaving here, she planned to verify it.

Hearing Si Si's proposal, Bing Shui readily agreed.

"Okay, let's meet in one hour."

"OK."

After reaching an agreement, the players spread out to search in the room.

Tails, who was extremely tired just a second ago, jumped up from the ground with a thud, leading Rourou to who knows where.

Sisi, who had already figured out his goal, looked at the floor map, then walked straight through the hall and followed the stairs to the office area upstairs.

Surprisingly, this place is not occupied by alien species.

The entire corridor was silent.

What particularly surprised Sisi was that unlike the several areas they passed before, the doors to the rooms here were all open.

"Oh, unexpected discovery..."

After choosing the nearest room, Sisi carefully confirmed the safety of the room and then carefully walked in with the rifle in hand.

This is a futuristic office.

The furniture inside is quite unique, with an area of ​​nearly 20 square meters, and only two tables are placed quite luxuriously.

Walking to the nearest table, Sisi glanced at the messy table top and opened the drawer on the right side.

There were some personal belongings inside, including a work ID card and a thumb-sized memory card.

The memory interface fits perfectly with the VM.

"This is... a USB flash drive?"

With a look of interest in his eyes, Sisi took it in his hand and looked at it for a while, then inserted it into the VM.

The signal light flickered slightly, and a light blue dialog box quickly appeared in front of her, and was automatically converted into a language she could understand by the VM's built-in translation program.

[Vault 79 Research Log]

[Experiment Log: 2129/2/7]

[Experiment log:...]

The last log entry is dated July 8, 2178.

Speaking of which...

2129 seems to be the first year of the Wasteland Era?

The index finger gently rubbed his chin, the interest in Sisi's eyes became more and more obvious, and then he clicked on the first diary in the list.

[February 7, 2129: The hibernation capsule was opened. What woke us up was not our compatriots who were full of joy, but the procedures of the shelter. This shows that we have finally reached the worst ending. The outside world has been destroyed, and this is the end. Home... Damn, it sounds like a dream, but rubidium atomic clocks never lie. 】

[I will remember this desperate yet hopeful day, and we will fulfill the vow we made three years ago... But can such a whimsical thing really be possible? 】

"...Something whimsical?"

She muttered softly and frowned slightly.

The Yong family mentioned that Vault 79 was conducting research on "restoring mutated creatures to their pre-mutated state."

But did alien species exist in the first year of the Wasteland Era?

She vaguely remembered that the official website setting mentioned that the time when alien species appeared on a large scale should be half a century after the Little Ice Age?

"That is to say..."

"Are other experiments being conducted here actually?"

She didn't believe everything the NPC said. In fact, she had always had doubts about the identity of the Yong family.

Since it is a completely real virtual reality game, is it possible for NPCs to lie?

However, just when she was about to turn to the next article, the alloy door behind her suddenly fell, cutting off the only exit.

Sisi's expression changed slightly, and he immediately rushed over and bumped the door with his shoulder, only to find that the door did not move at all.

Without hesitation, she took a few steps back, raised the assault rifle hanging on her chest, and pulled the trigger on the alloy door.

"Bang, bang," two thunderous gunshots echoed in the room. Jumping sparks shot to the ceiling, but not a single bullet mark was left on the surface of the door.

She took a deep breath, walked to the door and groped for a while, formed her hands into a trumpet shape, pressed her hands against the door and shouted.

"Awei!"

"Can you listen to me?"

no respond.

She put her ear to it and couldn't hear any sound from outside.

"Tsk...the sound insulation effect is too strong."

With a click of his tongue, Sisi gave up the pointless attempt and moved his ears away from the door.

In the shelter, the manager's permission is absolute - at this moment she finally realized the meaning of this setting.

The crystallization of the strongest technology in the People's Federation era was simply not something that the retro assault rifle in her hand could penetrate.

I'm afraid even if I use the grenades I have on me, it won't help.

As long as the shelter manager wants to.

He could even keep the door locked until the next century.

At this time, Sisi suddenly noticed that the air outlet above his head had lost its sound for some time and seemed to have stopped working.

Understanding in her heart, she whispered,

"Are you planning to silence yourself..."

That guy is probably already murderous.

Otherwise, he could have locked the door before he came in.

"A normal adult consumes 0.75 kilograms of oxygen a day... A room of 20 square meters has a floor height of about three meters, which is 60 cubic meters of air."

Carbon dioxide poisoning occurs when the oxygen content is less than 10%.

"That is to say...it can live for about 5 days."

Considering the metabolic rate of the awakened person, maybe two or three days will be enough.

Glancing at the log on the VM screen, Sisi's lips suddenly turned into an imperceptible smile.

It’s okay to leave time for yourself...

Too much.

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(Thanks to the leaders of "My name is Wang Laoji", "NightChicK3n" and "Little Dimple Accompaniment" for the reward!!!)