Chapter 513 Conspiracy (1/2)

Ruins next to the camp.

Looking at the signal tower hung with a concrete-colored camouflage net, Chu Guang, who was riding on Nicole's back, didn't know how to complain for a while, and finally said with a smile.

"...It seems they have been preparing for this plan for a long time."

A signal line was laid from outside the area affected by the thunderstorm...

Because the thunderstorm interfered with radio signals outside the battlefield, the Heart of Steel did not detect long-distance communications from outside the battlefield at all.

The signal source of the radio equipment used by the Enlightenment Society on the battlefield was the signal tower in front of him that served as a repeater.

Lu Bei, standing aside, whispered.

"Sir... do you want to follow this line down?"

"It makes no sense. They were so careful not to move this signal line to their own home... Even if they follow it and search for it, they may find a pile of junk or even a trap."

After taking a final look at the signal tower, Chu Guang patted Nico's neck. The latter understood his purr well, flicked his tail and turned around.

"Get a few people to dismantle this thing... I'll go to the industrial building and have a look."

Lu Bei, who was standing aside, replied with a loyal look on his face.

"yes!"

…

Although it is a pity that the mastermind behind the incident was not caught, a large number of high-tech equipment abandoned by the Enlightenment Society were retained.

I have to admit that there are really many good things in the shelter, and the Enlightenment Society has gathered these good things together.

Now it's all cheaper for the league.

According to statistics from the logistics department, the biggest gain from this battle is undoubtedly a phaser cannon.

This thing is not small in size. It looks like a five-meter-long oil pipe. It is carried on the back of an all-terrain crawler vehicle. It is powered by a one-kilogram cold fusion battery. From a distance, you might think it is from the pre-Prosperity Era era. Missile vehicle.

It can take down two airships converted from frigate cores. This phaser gun is either a part removed from the starship, or it has not had time to be installed.

Chu Guang planned to hand it over to the alliance's research institution for analysis to see if any useful technology could be recovered from it.

We don't expect Yin Fang and the others to reverse engineer the technology related to the anti-gravity device. The production difficulty of that thing is even greater than the technical difficulty.

But it would be great to recycle the capacitor technology inside. This thing can be used in both electromagnetic guns and electric vehicles.

In addition to "strategic weapons" such as phase cannons, there are more than 200 sets of Type 5 "Light Cavalry" exoskeletons used by the police, more than 200 sets of Type 10 "Oath" exoskeletons originally belonging to the People's Federation Army, and Sixty "magnetic rail acceleration rifles" with different uses, and more than two hundred shellless assault rifles and basic small arms, etc.

Together with the captured anti-armor rocket launchers, grenades and other military equipment, the equipment captured in this battle is enough to arm half a special operations brigade!

Near the industrial building.

Hanshuang, with his arms folded, looked at the mechanical dog lying on its nest not far away and pouted.

"Let me just say that stuff is unreliable."

Sun Eclipse's pupils flickered slightly, and he said after a while.

"It was damaged by EMP."

"EMP, haha, I'm not afraid of that thing."

"But your firepower isn't as strong as it is."

"Haha, that's not necessarily the case."

Jiang Xuezhou, who was standing next to Xiao Wang's wreckage, did not hear the two androids' chatter. If she heard this, she would definitely go up and argue with these two guys.

She glanced at the tablet in her hand and then at the tent not far away. She hesitated for a while and finally walked over there.

The administrator's log of Shelter 0 and the backup copy of the original Torch Project have been recovered. Just now, her mentor asked her to go back and resume her life, and narrate what happened just now.

Next, her mentor will probably take her back to the Wandering Swamp to archive the recovered data and participate in the Research Department's seminar.

Busy days are yet to come,

When she thought about the work she had to do next, her scalp became numb.

The next time we come out of the Wandering Swamp, I don’t know when it will be... I don’t know, the next time we meet will be a battlefield again.

As a final farewell, she wanted to at least say hello to those companions.

Although the time we spent together was short, it was still a valuable experience for her.

What she gained was not only the K points and meritorious service obtained in the mission, but also finding herself...

…

At this moment, inside the camp.

Ye Shi was looking at Chu Guang vividly and describing what happened in the shelter, and handed Captain Lu's video and the captured memory extractor into his hands.

"...That's what happened. Dear administrator, I suggest you use this memory extractor to interrogate this guy."

As he spoke, Ye Shi glared fiercely at Zhuang Lan, whose hands and feet were bound not far away. This guy had made him suffer a lot.

Looking at the memory extractor, Zhuang Lan's face turned slightly pale.

She knew better than anyone how terrible that thing was.

Even though she had received special training, she didn't have the confidence to withstand the ruthless interrogation, and would rather confess before putting on that thing.

The most terrifying thing about that thing is not the retrieval of memory, but as the retrieval progresses, it will gradually wake people up from their dreams, and use the fears dug out from the depths of memory to repeatedly torture the user, Until it completely destroys a person's spirit and squeezes the last remaining clues from the fragmented memory fragments.

She didn't even know what she would think of...

Looking at Ye Shi who looked confused, Chu Guang nodded and said in a gentle tone.

"I will consider your suggestion at my discretion and will do so if necessary."

The memory extractor was placed on the table beside him.

Chu Guang was about to assign a new task to Ye Shi when he suddenly noticed someone not far from the door looking over.

The Guards soldiers had noticed the man and stopped in front of her to ask.

Chu Guang had some impression of that person. Although he didn't know the name, he remembered that he seemed to be a D-level researcher at the college. The hesitant and anxious expression seemed to have something to say, but he was too embarrassed to come closer.

His eyes fell on the memory extractor. Chu Guang vaguely guessed something and couldn't help but have a smile on his face.

Looking at Ye Shi again, he spoke.

"You did a good job, thank you for your hard work. Just leave the rest to me. You can go and rest."

"Hey, I'm actually not that tired...but that's okay."

Although it was a pity that there was no follow-up mission, thinking of the hidden mission that Lao Bai told him before, Ye Shi scratched his head and hesitated, then walked out the door happily.

As Ye Shi left, apart from the Enlightenment Society agent whose hands and feet were tied, only Chu Guang, Lu Bei and a few guardsmen were left in the spacious camp.

Chu Guang put away his warm smile and looked at her.

"name?"

The sights around him made Zhuang Lan feel his scalp numb.

Especially before stepping into this camp, the deathclaw at the door looked at her with its amber pupils, which made her feel fear that penetrated her bones.

Glancing nervously at the memory extractor on the table, she swallowed, lowered her head and said shakily.

"...Zhuang Lan."

Chu Guang stared at her for a while.

"I don't want to waste my time, so you'd better not waste my time. Now you answer whatever I ask. If I think you are lying, I will use this."

With that said, Chu Guang raised his index finger and tapped the glasses on the table.

Those black eyes made her feel a fear coming from the depths of her soul. Zhuang Lan's shoulders trembled involuntarily, and she nodded tremblingly.

"say."

"yes!!"

She didn't understand why she was so afraid of someone who she clearly wasn't even afraid of death.

Is it the talent brought about by awakening?

But how could he have such a strange ability...

Looking at the memory extractor on the table, she didn't dare to think deeply. She could only lower her head, not even daring to look directly into those eyes.

"Which shelter are you from?"

"No. 6, 68..."

"How many of you are there?"

"two thousand."

Two thousand people.

That's quite a big shelter.

Thinking of the underground city in Vault 79, Chu Guang was not too surprised and continued to ask.

"Where are your managers?"

"……died."

Chu Guang raised his eyebrows.

"Before joining the Initiation?"

Zhuang Lan nodded silently.

"yes."

Chu Guang then continued to ask.

"How did you join the Initiation?"

“…The Wastelanders occupied the outpost we built on the surface, used our kindness to occupy our shelter, killed our managers, and put us in cages. Later, the people of the Enlightenment found us. They rescued everyone who was still alive and executed the wastelanders. They were compatriots, so we followed them."

Knowing that there was no point in hiding it, she simply confessed everything.

And her words just supported Chu Guang's suspicion.

The Enlightenment Society developed and grew by collecting shelters like Vault 401 that were persecuted or even occupied by looters.

It's just that after those people found other shelters, they did not take the blue coats to build settlements. Instead, they incited hatred in people's hearts and pointed all conflicts towards the Post-War Reconstruction Committee and even the entire wasteland.

There is actually nothing wrong with this narrative logic.

The Post-War Reconstruction Committee did do some things, but it was true that they did not do everything well and failed to live up to the expectations of many wastelanders and survivor settlements.

But if all mistakes are attributed to the failure of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee, it is undoubtedly the same as blaming all the problems in the wasteland on mutants. There is nothing wrong with that, and there are a lot of people. I would believe it, but if I think about it more, I’ll realize that it doesn’t make sense.

In fact, Chu Guang was more curious about another thing.

That is whether the Enlightenment Society itself actively intervened or accelerated this process.

According to his own observation and judgment, the attitude of most survivor colonies towards the residents of the shelter is actually neutral.

Those ordinary wastelanders neither admire nor hate Blue Jacket. They don't care who abandoned whom two hundred years ago, whose ancestors owe whom, or why there were wars in the past. Most people have long forgotten about the Prosperous Era and the People's Union, and just want to concentrate on living a good life now.

The people of Xiaoyu's family even saw him as pitiful, so they squeezed out the few rations they had, gave him a bite to eat, and taught him which waste products could be exchanged for money from merchants.

Leaving aside the shelters that are targeted by predators, under normal circumstances, as long as most shelters maintain basic vigilance, limited contact, and cooperation above neutrality, they can basically develop into "Mode 101"... and truly develop into Extreme situations like "Mode 401" are actually not common.

Chu Guang was more inclined to believe that the people from the Enlightenment Society should have done something on their own initiative, which accelerated the deterioration of the relationship between the shelter and nearby survivors.

For example, deliberately revealing the location of the shelter to nearby marauder camps and mutant lairs, or bribing unsteady wastelanders to betray the blue jackets who cooperated with them...

It was hard for Chu Guang to believe that an organization whose mission was to destroy the world would be reserved in the means to achieve its goals and let go of those who were unwilling to cooperate with their sanctuary and its managers.

As long as those unwilling refuges fall, and as saviors rescue the residents there from the abyss and instill in them the idea that the enemy is the entire wasteland, the Enlightenment can easily gain a large number of loyal and reliable disciples. .

In the conversation with Guixu, Chu Guangneng clearly felt that although the goals of the upper-level and lower-level disciples of the Enlightenment Society were unified, their positions were actually not consistent.

The former is purely about creating a dream new world dominated entirely by elites.

Most of the latter don't care who leads the new world, but are simply desperate for the status quo.

"Have you seen that guy named Guixu?"

Zhuang Lan was silent for a long time.

"……No."

Chu Guang continued.

"You haven't even met him, why do you believe what he says is true?"

Zhuang Lan was silent for a long time and then slowly spoke.

"I don't care if he is hiding something, it doesn't matter to me, I just know that those wastelanders treat me -"

"And you did the same thing as them?"

"I...I didn't, I was just saying-"

"You say you haven't, but the compatriots you mentioned have done nothing bad."

Looking at Zhuang Lan who was blushing and defending, Chu Guang pointed in the direction of the camp outside with his chin and said to the point.

"Look at those tents. They are all victims of your atrocities. Do you want to say that because you didn't kidnap those people, they have nothing to do with you?"

Looking at Zhuang Lan who was silent, Chu Guang continued.

"I don't expect to make a cold-blooded guy feel sympathy, but I am curious about one thing. Do you really think that your home, that is, Vault 68, was destroyed at the hands of the Wastelanders? "

"Of course! I saw them with my own eyes—"

Staring at Zhuang Lan who looked determined, Chu Guang recalled what he had read in a discussion thread on the official website and continued in a calm tone.

"You saw them chop off your parents' heads, you saw them put you in a cage, you saw the people from the Enlightenment Society rescue you, every one of you said this, including those we caught on the battlefield. Those prisoners...haven't you ever doubted this? Isn't this a coincidence?"

"How did those Wastelanders rebel? When and how did the people from the Enlightenment Society discover you? How did your manager die? Where is his work log? What should Wastelanders do about that kind of thing? Not interested... Have you checked his manager's log? Can you answer these questions for me?"

Zhuang Lan was stunned.

"I……"

Chu Guang stared at her and continued slowly.

"You don't know. You believe whatever they say, and you do whatever they ask you to do. And even if it's a near-death mission, doesn't Guixu have the guts to see you face it in person?"

Looking at Zhuang Lan, who was pale and speechless, an expression of interest suddenly appeared on Chu Guang's face.

"Let's make a bet."

"Betting...?" Zhuang Lan looked at him blankly, "What are you betting on?"

"Your freedom," Chu Guang looked at her and continued, "the administrator's log of Vault 68. That thing will be backed up in the shelter. Even if it is destroyed, there is a way to restore it. That thing can answer the confusion in your heart, It just happened to satisfy my curiosity and find it for me.”

Zhuang Lan looked at him in surprise.

"Are you going to let me go?!"

"I'm just lending you your freedom temporarily," Chu Guang said lightly. "If there is no shadow of the Enlightenment Society behind the disaster that happened in Vault 68, you will be free. If the clues recorded in the log are consistent with my guess, Yes, you will come back, remember to bring it to me."

Each shelter manager's log is an important file, and it is the obligation of all managers to recycle it as much as possible after the shelter is closed.

Even if there is only one punctuation mark on it, it still has recycling value.

These are valuable sociological experiences.

Including the logs stored in Shelter 0 and the relevant plans of the "Torch Project", Chu Guang also recovered them.

"Aren't you worried that I'll run away?" Zhuang Lan took a deep breath and asked in disbelief.

Chu Guang smiled faintly.

"The look on your face tells me you're going to do it, but if you had any brains at all, you'd realize how stupid it is."

"The enemy who really killed your parents deceived not only you, but also the compatriots you cherish most."

"Find that thing for me. This is your only chance to atone."

"The Post-War Reconstruction Committee and his three sons don't care about you, we will take care of you."

…

Staring at the figure disappearing at the door of the barracks, Lu Bei hesitated for a moment and whispered.

"Sir, is it really okay to let her go?"

He didn't doubt the manager's decision, he just doubted whether the cunning guy would keep such a non-binding promise.

Unlike the worried Lu Bei, Chu Guang didn't care much and replied casually.

"If she finds something, she might be able to help us dismantle the Enlightenment Society from within. Even worse, she can also find the location of the Enlightenment Society's headquarters for us."

Can't find it?

That's impossible.

Chu Guang didn't believe that that villain could refuse the temptation of taking shortcuts.

If he guessed wrong, then he was wrong, it didn't matter.

A small minion, one more or one less will not affect the overall situation.

After a pause, Chu Guang continued.

"Of course, if she didn't check at all and just returned unscathed, what would you think if you were a senior member of the Enlightenment Society?"

Lu Bei thought for a while and scratched his head.

"I am a senior member of the Enlightenment Society...but sir, I don't have that structure."

Looking at this unsatisfactory young man, Chu Guang shook his head and criticized him harshly.

"It is slave thinking to think that the superior must have three heads and six arms. People are people. How many times have I told you!"

Lu Bei was young after all, and his head was still bright. He reacted immediately when Chu Guang glared at him.

"Doubtful! Doubtful as to why she came back alive!"

Chu Guang nodded approvingly.

"clever."

Especially the guy named Guixu, he felt like a combination of arrogance and arrogance.

That guy may have something, but not much. Theory outweighs practice, and his subconscious inferiority complex and sense of urgency make him eager to prove his strength, even to the point of displaying it in front of his enemies in a ostentatious tone.

In contrast, the marshal of the legion, the conclusion doctor of the academy, and even the city lord of Boulder City are more inclined to "hide" themselves.

These old monsters, who have lived for who knows how many years, never reveal how many cards they have in their hands, and their thoughts are even more difficult to figure out.

"But...is it okay for her to be alone?" Lu Bei looked at Chu Guang in confusion and asked.

Chu Guang said nonchalantly.

"That's her own business. I didn't place all my hopes on a temporary idea."

The people who killed the crew of the Pioneer have died in the nuclear explosion. This guy has nothing to do with that incident and has no access to the data. The Legion is not his ally. He has no obligation to avenge the Velantes. There is no point in killing people.

And if he is locked up with other prisoners of war for labor reform, the Legion will definitely use this reason to pressure him and demand his extradition. This kind of thing happens twice once, and Chun Chun is a trouble.

If Cohen wants to avenge his henchmen, then he should go after them himself, which will allow them, who are closer to the desert, to keep an eye on the small actions of the Enlightenment Society for the alliance.

When he said this, Chu Guang paused for a moment.

"By the way, you and Captain Adria will inform you later that the agent of the Enlightenment Society who murdered Wall-E has escaped and let them figure it out on their own."

With his right fist pressed against his chest, Lu Bei looked at the manager with admiration.

"Yes! Sir!"

"Go ahead."

Smiling and watching the young man disappear from the door, Chu Guang turned his attention to the memory extractor placed on the table.

I heard that this thing is so evil that it can not only squeeze people's memories, but can even help people remember things they can't even remember.

When he just came out of the shelter, Warfield secretly put it on and tried it, but unfortunately it was of no use to the players. He posted a post and then gave up thinking about it.

It wouldn't have been useful.

The clone's brain is like a blank piece of paper, just a signal repeater. At most, it has a cache, and it does not store long-term memories. As for the players' memories, they are all stored in their own brains - brains in another world.

Suddenly, an idea came to Chu Guang's heart.

What would you see if you put it on yourself?

The most fearful thing deep in my memory...

While thinking this, Chu Guang's hand was already on the glasses. However, within just a few seconds, he shook his head and gave up the idea.

The inexplicable sense of déjà vu reminded him that doing so would not lead to good results...

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(Thanks to the leader of "Six Classics Guan Sage" for the reward!!! There were too many updates in the past few days, which is a bit empty T.T)