Chapter 506 The Haze Buried Deep Underground (1/2)

The representatives sent by the enterprise were Yun You and Su Ming, the representatives of the legion were Commander Wali and Pangolin, and the representative of the college was Jiang Xuezhou, the student of the B-level researcher who had never shown his face.

As for the representatives of the alliance, they are Ye Shi and an NPC from the scientific expedition team.

The latter's name is Meng Liang, a former resident of Vault 401. After being rescued from looters by the Alliance, he joined a scientific expedition team aimed at recovering the relics of pre-war civilization and studied archeology under the guidance of Yin Fang. Relevant knowledge, currently serving as a military prospector on an airship.

The exploration of Vault 0 is mainly based on scientific investigation.

The investigation of the ruins cannot be completely relied on the company. Even allies are not obliged to disclose all the investigated information to the alliance.

Chu Guang is very cautious when selecting dispatch personnel. In addition to an NPC expert with relevant professional knowledge, he also needs a reliable player to bring news from inside the shelter to the outside in the most extreme circumstances.

The "Wasteland OL" forum for information sharing is his biggest trump card besides the "immortal" players.

After confirming that the passage was safe, the delegation began to move forward and soon reached the entrance of the shelter.

The elevator Yi Haikou mentioned was right in the center of the B2 floor of the building.

It was shaped like a funnel embedded in the ground, with four corridors leading to a central elevator...like an amphitheater without the seats.

Due to the long period of neglect and the special climate of extremely uneven distribution of water resources in the desert, the walls were covered with mold and dry vines.

Searching every corner of this spacious room with a flashlight, Ye Shi muttered.

"Did the crew of the Pioneer really escape here?"

Meng Liang, who was walking next to him, said nervously.

"Yes in the information..."

This is his first time on duty.

And it’s such an important action right from the start.

He read the action log sent to him by the manager several times last night, especially the column about known information. He almost knew the punctuation by heart.

"But why are there no traces of battle? Not even a bullet mark can be seen on the wall." Ye Shi still had a trace of doubt on his face.

It wasn't that he was cautious by nature.

It's that the manager didn't give this important job to Lao Bai, who had the strongest combat power, but gave it to him with the highest perception attribute.

Especially the discussion on the forum yesterday made him instinctively suspect that this task might not be as simple as he thought.

Su Ming, who was walking on the other side, shrugged his shoulders and said with a grin.

"Perhaps there were no pursuers when they escaped here... Didn't the Wilantes discover the specific entrance to Vault 0?"

"I see," Ye Shi nodded thoughtfully, but soon his brows furrowed again, "Hiss...but I still feel like something is wrong."

What about the people from the Enlightenment Society?

Don't those people know the entrance to Vault 0?

Since Yi Hai knew that those people were trying to prevent the company from finding Shelter 0, the two parties should have fallen out before he was frozen.

Ye Shibai was puzzled and felt that he had missed some important clue.

It's a pity that elder brother Fang is not here, and that fool from the war zone probably doesn't dare to communicate with him.

"Reason?" Jiang Xuezhou, who had been silent until now, finally couldn't help but speak.

She didn't really like communicating with people outside the academy, especially if this person seemed to have fought against her previous team.

However, this guy kept muttering there, making her extremely nervous from the moment she entered the building... Apparently they hadn't even encountered a mutant hyena so far.

However, Ye Shi didn't think so much, and didn't even feel the impatience in that sentence at all. Instead, he thought that the beauty was interested in him, so he made a smile that he thought was mysterious and charming.

"intuition."

intuition……

The corners of Jiang Xuezhou's mouth twitched, and his expression became a little tense.

What is that?

But Su Ming seemed to understand very well, laughing and patting Ye Shi on the shoulder.

"Brother, I know that feeling. Sometimes nothing happens, but I just feel that something is wrong... My captain said that I am about to awaken. I hope it is not true. I am not married yet. Anyway, please be vigilant. , I also think there’s something evil about this place.”

At this moment, the warlord wanted to go over and ask what this guy was feeling. After all, the T0 powerhouse with the highest perception system in the server was not just bragging.

But there was a captain watching next to him, so he could only think about it in his heart.

Looking at Wall-E with a confident smile on his face, Warlander wanted to at least get some information, so he lowered his voice and asked.

"Sir, do we have any plans?"

Walli said simply.

"No."

"...No?" Warfield thought he heard wrongly and was stunned for a moment.

Walli laughed out loud and said with disdain.

"Only a weak guy would believe that relying on a shelter to solve all problems. Our Marshal has never placed his hope on such false rumors."

The warlord didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Then why are we here..."

"Although Mr. Cohen doesn't think that it may contain something that can end the wasteland, it is a relic left over from the Prosperous Era after all... God knows what will be inside, what if it is a weapon?" Wall-E looked at the company and the The representatives of the college glanced at it and said calmly, "In short, if companies and colleges are interested, we can't just ignore it."

Warlander: "..."

From the perspective of the Weirant people, this makes sense.

So much so that he didn't know how to refute it for a while.

The group of people quickly arrived at the elevator.

Yun You reached out and touched the elevator door and turned her attention to the two representatives of the alliance.

"Which of you holds the access control card?"

"I'm here."

Meng Liang responded immediately, stepped forward, took out the card given to him by the manager, and pasted it on the shell of the card reader.

A light blue light appeared in front of the door, sweeping over the people in front of the door. Then the floor shook slightly and the door slowly moved to both sides.

The elevator space is really not big.

It's surprising that the entrance to Vault 0 is so small.

Or is there actually another entrance here?

"It's unbelievable..." Ye Shi muttered in a low voice, "It's been two centuries, and these facilities are still operating."

And it's still without maintenance.

"It turned out to be an inactive access card." Looking at the narrowed scanning light, Yun You frowned.

"What do you mean?" Meng Liang asked nervously.

"It means... after activation once, our information is written into the security system and bound to the code of the access card. You can use the elevator with or without that card. For others, unless we rewrite Break the security system here, or give them an unactivated access card, otherwise no one else can enter...at least not with this card."

After a pause, she continued.

"This can effectively prevent unauthorized personnel from entering the shelter... However, this system usually appears in unfinished shelters, unless there is a special request by the shelter manager, and rarely appears in mature shelters that have assigned managers."

Ye Shi muttered.

"In other words, can't you just hold the card up and shake people off?"

Yun You glanced at him, not understanding what this junior said.

Meng Liang, who was standing aside, was shocked by the other information in this sentence and looked at her in surprise.

"You mean...this shelter is not finished?"

Yun You shrugged her shoulders.

"Who knows, I didn't build this shelter. I just happened to work in the relevant department and heard some rumors."

Before Meng Liang could digest the huge amount of information in this sentence, she glanced at the elevator door and walked straight in without saying anything.

Su Ming on the side saw this and immediately followed him.

Taking back the useless access card in his hand, Meng Liang looked at Ye Shi and said nervously.

"Let's go too."

"Well, let's go."

Ye Shi nodded, took one last look at the spacious room behind him, and stepped through the open elevator door.

And the moment he stepped through the door, a familiar stale smell penetrated the tip of his nose, making him suddenly alert.

The omen lingering in his mind seemed to be getting stronger and stronger...

…

In the camp.

Although the planned construction of the fence and barracks has been completed, the five construction vehicles parked in the center of the camp are still rumbling there.

Except for the players who were sent to perform tasks near the industrial building, other players were not idle either. They scattered around to find some scraps and came back. They used the blueprints stored on the engineering vehicles to resmelt and process the scraps into various products. kind of parts.

Due to the strong demand for orders, there are even long queues in front of these construction vehicles.

Several young players gathered around carrying bundles of scrap metal and waited enthusiastically, for fear that the feed inlets of these machines would be empty.

An employee of a company happened to be passing by and saw a lot of people surrounding the construction vehicle, so he took a look and asked curiously.

"Isn't the camp already built? What are you doing?"

Seeing the NPC talking to me, carrying a large bundle of steel, I smiled the most and said in non-standard human couplet.

"It turns out that the well is too small, and there happens to be a groundwater reservoir underneath. We plan to drill a deeper well."

The boy at the construction site carrying a sack beside him agreed with Brick.

"That's right! This time we lengthened the threaded pipe in the drawing!"

The company employee was stunned for a moment, and before he could recover, several other players next to him started chattering again in a language he didn't understand.

"Speaking of which, the groundwater reservoir here is quite rich."

"It's necessary, why not camp here?"

"What's the point of just digging a well? I suggest building a greenhouse and growing some vegetables."

"That's a good idea!"

"!!! I brought the seeds!"

The players were chatting away, there were a few more drawings in the production queue, and the demand for materials also increased a lot.

Including polyethylene materials used to make greenhouses, including cultivation tanks for growing vegetables and aluminum alloy for water pipes, etc...

The greenhouse is arranged, the source of carbohydrates and vitamins is available, and animal protein and fat cannot be left behind.

A balanced diet can ensure combat effectiveness.

Raising cattle and sheep is not practical because there is not much pasture here.

But there are always more solutions than problems.

Soon I thought that the brothers of the Burning Legion had got some fat and white worms in the mutant tribe.

It's a bit unappetizing to eat directly. No one except Lao Na can accept it, but it shouldn't be a problem if it's made into a nutritious ointment.

It’s not like they are staying here anyway, it’s the newbies who are confused and come here to open up wasteland that are causing trouble...

As for NPCs.

Except for their manager, none of them seem to be picky eaters.

Not far away, several Wilant officers looked at the busy Alliance people and couldn't help but muttered.

"What are these guys doing?"

"have no idea……"

"Isn't this just a temporary camp? Why are they building so many sheds?"

"Are they still planning to stay..."

Thinking of this, several Weiland officers suddenly became alert.

The Alliance actually put its foot behind the buttocks of their servant countries.

This is not a good sign...

In fact, it's not just the company employees and Valantian officers who are confused, even the players themselves don't quite know what they are going to do.

The fun of sandbox games is to experience the process, but no one cares too much about the purpose and results.

The manager told them that the alliance planned to keep this place as the alliance's outpost in the great desert. They could DIY the buildings here according to their own preferences, and the five construction vehicles could meet their needs to turn their ideas into reality as much as possible before they were taken back. .

As a result, interested players came to line up holding piles of building materials.

There are not many tasks in the new map. Anyway, they are idle. Many players have taken the task of expanding the camp. Although the rewards are not high, they are quite interesting.

Chu Guang did not tell them how they must build this outpost, leaving it entirely to them.

It turns out that these little players are even better than he imagined. From drinking water to stable food sources, to hygiene and safety, they have taken everything into consideration for him.

There are even detailed plans for the placement of various facilities... These are not based on their imagination. To a large extent, they also refer to the layout of overseas military bases or construction sites in reality, and take into account the situation of being separated from the supply line, so that in the planning The camp has a certain degree of self-sufficiency.

Looking at the little players who were busy, Chu Guang nodded with satisfaction.

"good!"

If this was outsourced to a corporate construction team, it would cost at least several million Cr. Even if it were our own construction team, it would have a budget of several million silver coins.

But leave it to these little players, and they can get it done without even using 100,000 silver coins. Manpower is almost free, materials can be obtained locally, and ideas are copied and discussed online.

But anyway, after the outpost is repaired, it will be used by them, so you can't count it as your own profit.

Withdrawing his gaze from the little players, Chu Guang walked to the corner of the camp and found the room where the rescued survivors were placed.

After treatment by the twelve treatment cabins, most of the survivors' wounds have been cured.

Some mechanical prostheses that only have basic functions are not very expensive, otherwise even scavengers would not be able to afford them.

It happened that the ordnance previously seized from the Weiland people contained some prosthetics with simple functions, so Chu Guang asked the company's doctors to replace them with them.

By the way, since there were corporate reporters on the airship, Wu Changnian expressed his willingness to bear part of the cost of rescuing the survivors for the sake of show.

Chu Guang was not polite and casually quoted him 100,000 Cr. When he heard that it was so cheap, Wu Changnian signed without even frowning.

Afterwards, Chu Guang asked the logistics officer to do some calculations and found that the total value of the mechanical prosthetics was probably less than 100,000 chips...

Chu Guang is also one of the embarrassing ones. He still has a bottom line and has no intention of using those poor people to make money, let alone a mere 100,000 Cr.

But it wasn't appropriate to tell the company that they were giving too much. After all, Minister Wu had already pretended to be cool, and he could only let his logistics officer keep the secret in his belly.

The barracks door opened.

Looking at the light coming through the door and the footsteps coming in together, the women lying on the hospital beds subconsciously shrank back.

Everyone felt relieved when they saw that they were not mutants.

The people lying in the ward were all survivors who had just undergone prosthetic surgery. There were about twenty people.

Although he didn't want them to recall bad memories, Chu Guang still tried his best to ask in a gentle tone in order to collect information about the torch badge.

"Where do you come from."

Everyone in the room looked at each other and said nothing.

The air was silent for a moment.

Just when Chu Guang was hesitating to find a female player with a gentler image to communicate, a woman in her early twenties suddenly raised her hand tremblingly and said in a hoarse voice.

"My name is Rama...I am from Borneo."

"Borneo Province?"

The birthplace of the two-headed cow?

It is said to be in the southwest of Camelback Kingdom.

That's really far away...

Chu Guang continued in a gentle tone.

"Can you tell me how you got here?"

Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of something, and added after a moment of pause.

"Of course, if you don't want to recall that unpleasant memory, we won't force you."

Rama shook his head.

"It's okay...I'm grateful for saving us from this hell."

After saying that, she paused and continued.

"I was born in a small village. A group of merchants came to the village that day. They said they wanted to buy two cows and transport them to Silver Moon Bay in the northeast. They were generous and the price they gave was quite good. People in the village were very fond of them. They were very polite, and the village chief even served them some good wine... I drank a little too, and when I woke up, I was in the cage. "

Chu Guang was silent for a while.

"Slave trader?"

"...It should be." Rama's eyes were filled with fear, but he still spoke out bravely, "Those people also said...that my family sold me to them, but I don't believe them, I'm sure They got everyone drunk."

Chu Guang expressed sympathy for her experience, but that part was not his biggest concern.

Frowning, he continued to ask.

"...Are those slave traders dealing with mutants?"

To Chu Guang's expectation, the girl named Rama shook her head, and the panic in her eyes became even stronger.

"They... sold us to another group of people who took me across the desert and brought me here."

Chu Guang clenched his fists and said in a deep voice.

"who are they?"

"I have no idea……"

The girl hugged her head, her fingers trembling slightly in her hair, as if just recalling what happened at that time made her feel extremely frightened.

Chu Guang changed the question and said patiently.

"Do those people have... any characteristics? For example, appearance, clothing, or any uniform accessories they carry..."

The dilated pupils suddenly began to focus, and Rama seemed to recall something. He loosened his hands holding his head and raised his head suddenly.

"Those people... all seem to be wearing blue coats."

Blue coat?

real or fake……

Hearing this shocking clue, a trace of surprise appeared on Chu Guang's face.

From what he saw and heard in the Qingquan City area, those little white rabbits coming out of the shelter, not to mention harming others, would be very incense if they didn't hurt themselves.

The reason why he was so kind to Xiaoyu and her family was largely because they didn't harm him... This was already very difficult in the wasteland.

However, the girl named Rama was not the only one. Many survivors in the ward also nodded silently, saying that they had experienced similar or identical experiences.

Chu Guang's expression gradually darkened, he took out a small notebook from his pocket and recorded the clues dictated by Rama.

After returning to the surface, most of the residents of the shelter are ignorant of worldly affairs, and are often outclassed by civilization due to their pride, kindness, weakness, guilt for abandoning their compatriots in the past, or a sense of superiority. Wastelanders who were weaker than them were treated as fat sheep and slaughtered.

Such as Vault 401.

The shelter that was completely taken away by looters can be said to be a classic. All the staff became hard laborers who made pills, and even the black box in their hands was almost lost.

Of course, there are also a few shelters that have developed into powerful regional forces. For example, some of the company's ancestors were residents of Vault 6.

Although Vault 101 has not developed into a strong regional force, under the guidance of Dr. Method, it still has a limited impact on some surviving survivors.

There is no white rabbit in Vault 79. Those guys killed themselves purely by themselves, but except for the crazy "Yongshi", the others didn't do much harm to the survivors on the surface.

As for the enlightenment meeting...

Probably the other extreme of the "Blue Jackets" group.

Chu Guang didn't know what they had encountered in the past.

So much so that they completely put aside the pride and reserve of civilized people and went to make deals with mutants and slave traders.

Either way, they've crossed a line.

Someone started, and other survivors soon confessed their origins and how they were sold into the hands of these mutants.

Most of them come from the Luoxia Province, especially the Falcon Kingdom and the Honey Badger Kingdom where war broke out. However, some people come from Jinchuan or the River Valley. Although there is no war in those places, the chaos is not inferior to that in the Luoxia Province. war zone.

Chu Guang made statistics on this one by one.

His kindness is not enough to avenge someone he just met for a few days, but the enlightenment made up of the residents of the shelter will make him feel deeply uneasy.

Even if it's not moral.

Just out of consideration for the interests of the alliance, he couldn't leave those guys hiding in the dark alone.

At least we need to figure out what the motives of those people are, where their hometown is, and how many kilometers away from the alliance...

"...I'm sorry for your experience. You may have encountered some unfriendly shelter residents, but I believe that not all shelter residents are like this."

After a pause, Chu Guang continued.

"We're going to get you some help."

Holding the edge of the quilt tightly with his right hand, Rama nodded and said sincerely.

"Thanks……"

"You're welcome, have a good rest...I've already asked you all the questions I wanted to ask. Just forget about the unpleasantness of the past."

Chu Guang glanced at the notepad in his hand, closed it and stuffed it into his pocket.

However, just when he was about to return to the airship, something suddenly occurred to him, and he turned around and walked back to Yi Hai's barracks.

Something suddenly occurred to him that concerned him.

If you don't ask clearly.

He will be too concerned to sleep...

…

Industrial building underground.

The number of layers is unknown.

After the elevator door opened, a giant gear-shaped metal door quickly came into view of the investigation team.

In the middle of the giant metal gear, there is an angular rhombus printed on it. There is a hollow in the middle of the diamond shape, which is undoubtedly the digient of the number "0".

The passage leading to the interior of the shelter is right next to the huge door. Someone has obviously been here and opened it.

The crew of the Pioneer is ahead!

However, what made Su Ming feel uneasy was why no one came out to greet them even though they were already here...

"...Shelter No. 0 actually exists." Shocked by completely different things, Yun You unconsciously took a step forward.

Su Ming also immediately stepped forward and followed her closely.

After staring at the giant gear-shaped door for a while, Ye Shi touched his chin and muttered something in Chinese couplet.

"Strange……"

"Why is it weird?" Jiang Xuezhou glanced sideways at this man who had an extraordinary mouth. He talked too much along the way.

Ye Shi said sheepishly.

"I always feel...this Zero painting is a bit crooked. Is this really Shelter Zero?"

Jiang Xuezhou stared at the symbol for a while.

"Vault Zero is originally a shelter outside the number. Its symbol is like this... It basically matches the information collected by the academy before."

"Okay... maybe I'm overthinking it."

Ye Shi shrugged his shoulders, turned his gaze to the deep corridor, followed the company representative, and continued walking forward.

"We're on board too."

Walli patted the pangolin on the shoulder and followed him quickly.

Warlander noticed that those eyes were shining with strong excitement and curiosity.

Although this guy says he doesn't care what's in Vault 0, his body is surprisingly honest...

The group walked through the corridor and soon reached the interior of the shelter.

However, what surprised everyone was that the structure here was not as complicated as they imagined, and was even simple to the point of being sloppy.

It doesn't look like a sanctuary at all.

More like a laboratory.

Of course, this is not what surprises everyone.

But the dark red plaque crawling all over the cracks in the corners and doors, and the ominous gray-green particles floating in the air...

Slime mold!

There are slime molds here too! ?

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(I originally wanted to finish writing it later, but I really didn’t have time.)