This Game Is Too Realistic Chapter 744: The last trump card
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The Wandering Swamp, the far north.
The cold wind and snow are like thousands of shuttles, weaving the endless whiteness into the endless flow of the Milky Way.
This is not only the northernmost point of the academy, but also the northernmost point of the entire Central Continent. The temperature is below minus 20 degrees all year round, and even reaches minus 100 degrees at the coldest time.
The extreme climate is a natural barrier, just like the desert surrounding the oasis of Luoxia Province.
Only a few thick-haired, fatty alien species can move in this area.
However, in this bitter cold land that is frozen for thousands of miles, there is one of the most prosperous settlements in the Wandering Swamp.
Its name is Binghai City.
As the name suggests, this settlement is located on the edge of a permanently frozen coast.
The hundreds of meters high settlement is entirely made of alloy, just like a giant ax draped on an iceberg. The metal walls exude a cold light in the wind and snow.
It is said that more than two centuries ago, this place was the seed bank of the People's League. It was not until a century and a half ago that it was transformed into a settlement, home to the first batch of technical personnel who broke away from the post-war reconstruction committee.
Later, the Science and Technology Committee was established, and this place was placed under the management of the Science and Technology Committee.
However, although it is managed by the Science and Technology Committee, because of the special nature of this settlement, the people living here do not have a difficult life.
The howling wind, snow and severe cold are blocked out by the walls of the settlement. Except for the seed area embedded in the iceberg, which can feel the cold of tens of degrees below zero, several other production areas and living areas can even be said to be It is like spring all year round.
Besides, the work here is not too hard.
The most common position is that of a gardener, and the "hardest" job required is nothing more than regularly tending some special crops grown in tropical climate conditions in a hot and sweaty greenhouse, most of the time. They were all drinking tea while looking at the monitor screen.
Besides the most common gardeners, the most sought-after positions here are undoubtedly the assistants and apprentices recruited by the academy's full-fledged researchers.
Different from the college's current apprentices, the apprentices in Ice Sea City are just a job, usually tied to a specific research project, and are mainly open to young survivors between the ages of 12 and 18 who have excellent higher education examinations.
Although the salary of this position is no different from that of a gardener, for a child who is preparing for the exam every December, it is an excellent opportunity to get in touch with tutors and scientific research work in advance.
As long as these boys and girls act a little smarter and are not stupid enough to offend their bosses, they will be taken care of to some extent.
After all, most of their bosses have also experienced that exam and understand their current situation. While participating in work, they also have to prepare for the exam that determines the fate of life.
Usually, just one or two words of advice can save these children several years of detours.
When they pass the assessment and become real apprentices, a letter of recommendation or just a name on their work resume will allow them to spend their apprenticeships more easily than children in other areas of the Science and Technology Commission, and even obtain a certain With the approval of a mentor, he skipped the rank of prospector and directly became an honorable researcher.
Even if you take a step back and fail to become a formal apprentice of the college after taking exams for N years, and have to give up your position to others when you reach the age of 18, this apprentice from Ice Sea City can usually win because of his scientific research experience. Get a good job in the settlement, or even enter the management of the Science and Technology Committee to start another life.
It is precisely because of the excellent conditions here that any researcher who has some energy and a deep affection for his family will find a way to move his family to this settlement.
Researchers who leave this settlement will take care of their hometown to some extent and help this settlement within their ability.
It is precisely for this reason that although the researchers of the college do not directly participate in the management of the gathering place under the Science and Technology Committee, it still gives the settlement of Binghai City a transcendent status, and even forms an iceberg within the students. A regional faction named after Haicheng.
It’s just that due to the relatively indifferent people in the academy and the weak interpersonal relationships, the factions that rely on blood and geography are not as strong as the factions that are maintained by direct interests. Therefore, this faction is not very popular. It only plays in some insignificant influential on the issue.
For example, the special zone jointly established by the alliance and the college.
As far as the college is concerned, this special zone can be built anywhere in the Science and Technology Committee. Anyway, the core interests of most researchers are within the college.
Since then, this special zone has landed in Binghai City.
It has been half a year since the special zone was launched, and some shelter residents from the alliance have indeed brought many interesting new gadgets to the local area.
Whether it is material or spiritual, their optimism and courage are something that people here have not seen for a long time.
Of course.
Not all these guys who come from afar bring happy things.
On the apron of the dome of Ice Sea City, a long shuttle-shaped aircraft slowly landed and stopped.
A frozen sleep capsule was lifted off and placed on the snowy ground.
Two old people, a man and a woman, stood at the entrance of the tarmac. They were wearing thick winter clothes, cuddling together and staring silently at the coffin sunk in the snow.
The transparent masks were covered with a layer of white frost, making it impossible to see clearly the expressions on their faces.
But from the silent atmosphere, people around could feel the pervading sadness.
A soldier wearing an exoskeleton stepped through the snow and walked up to the two old men. He tapped his left arm twice with his index finger, unfolded a palm-sized holographic screen on his arm, and gently pushed it to In front of two old people.
"My condolences."
The woman who saw the photo on the holographic screen swayed and seemed to faint.
The husband standing aside put his arm around her shoulders, looked at the soldier and said nothing, just nodded silently.
The three of them only exchanged one sentence.
After the soldier nodded, he turned back to the shuttle-shaped aircraft.
The silver-white fuselage rose slowly, and a faint blue flame burst out from the tail, disappearing into the boundless wind and snow, as if it had never been here...
More than a dozen residents of Binghai City stood at the entrance to the tarmac, leaning on each other arm in arm, and held a simple funeral for the poor child.
After that, his body will be sent for cremation, part of it will be kept as a memorial, and part of it will be scattered into the wind and snow flying in the sky.
Standing by the floor-to-ceiling windows in the settlement, several players wearing exoskeletons cast interesting glances at the apron.
They recognized the soldier's equipment, especially the gas mask embedded in the helmet. There was no doubt that he was a member of Task Force Alpha.
To put it another way, this game is indeed quite realistic. Even the NPCs killed by the plot in the background have their own complete lives.
They only heard about the defeat thousands of kilometers away on the forum, but they didn't expect to see corpses dragged from the front line in the game a few days later.
In other games, such inconsequential NPCs would probably just appear in the cutscenes and then be refreshed.
"...I thought the members of Task Force Alpha were poor people who couldn't afford potatoes."
A power player let out a grunt, with an obviously surprised expression on his face.
The agility player next to him also nodded and said with emotion.
“I didn’t expect there to be guys from Binghai City.”
Having stayed in this settlement for a few days, they have a good understanding of the local situation.
Even if Ideal City is used as a reference, the lives of local residents are definitely rich, but they are just not as prosperous as those of the academy's prospectors and researchers.
Whether the guy is seeking excitement, pursuing a different life and ideals, or simply rebelling against dogma, joining "Alpha" requires courage.
Another intelligence player interjected.
"But at least his relatives can receive the urn, but that may not be the case for others."
The power player shrugged his shoulders.
"That's the two sides of the world."
While talking, a group of people arrived at the exit of the settlement through the elevator and got on the all-terrain crawler vehicle that was waiting there.
Their mission today is to go to the ruins of the nearby city of Molokowa, collect local fruiting body samples, and bring them to researchers from the Alliance Biological Research Institute stationed in Ice Sea City.
There is a dormant mother nest hidden deep in the ruins, somewhere under the subway station. Due to the camouflage effect produced by a large number of spores, existing technical means cannot determine its specific location.
The fruiting bodies produced by the mother nest are also quite distinctive. They are extremely good at camouflage, can blend into the environment, and suddenly attack when prey approaches.
The current long-term goal of the special zone of the Myxocommunity is to find the specific coordinates of the mother's nest and eat it with small feathers. The short- and medium-term goal is to analyze the mother's nest and provide research projects on variant slime molds in various regions of the Myxocommunity. Provide reference data.
Although it is only a very small task, any large plan is composed of countless such small tasks.
At the same time that the group of people left, a man and a woman stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window where they had stopped before.
Looking at the dormant warehouse outside the window, Jiang Xuezhou’s face was filled with complicated expressions.
She didn't know those parents, let alone the person lying in the dormant cabin.
She just suddenly thought that if she could not come out of Vault 0 that day, but died in this wasteland like countless researchers who encountered accidents...
Her heart tightened slightly, she lowered her head for a moment and whispered.
"Hey..."
Seeing Jiang Xuezhou's heavy face, Ye Shi standing next to him made a helpless expression.
"What's wrong with you again?"
Jiang Xuezhou continued in a low voice.
"...I want to go home."
"Go back."
Ye Shi gave her a strange look. Do you need to tell yourself something like this?
Jiang Xuezhou's lips moved and it was a little difficult to speak, but he finally spoke.
"...Can you go back with me?"
Since becoming an apprentice, she has not been back for a long time, and she doesn't know how to face those familiar and unfamiliar relatives at all, so she subconsciously wants to find a trusted partner to go back with her.
When he heard that it was such a trivial matter, Ye Shi didn't think much and simply agreed.
"Okay, when?"
Jiang Xuezhou was stunned for a moment.
She just mentioned it casually and didn't even plan a specific time to go back. She didn't expect this stupid man to agree so simply and even asked when to leave.
"...Then...how about tomorrow?"
She said this without any preparation. Only then did she suddenly realize something, and her cheeks gradually became hot.
However, what she didn't know was that a certain guy didn't think that much at all, he just saw an exclamation mark popping up on the NPC's head.
"No problem..."
Looking at Jiang Xuezhou whose face suddenly turned as red as an apple, Ye Shi couldn't help but have a strange expression on his face.
This guy has been distracted lately.
Could it be that you have a fever?
……
The front line thousands of kilometers away.
The scorching flames even melted the snow on Blood Mountain.
The roar of artillery fire shook the earth, followed by the crackling of gunfire and the roar of mutants.
Seemingly to avenge the past, Task Force Alpha re-formulated a more thorough combat plan based on the intelligence collected in the previous battle, and launched a more intense offensive than before.
This time, it was not just two squadrons of one hundred people that were pushed to the front line, but ten squadrons with a total of one thousand people!
The two sides engaged in a fierce exchange of fire in the cave.
Under the cover of the drone attack formation, one team after another methodically filled in the abyss-like cave. Only people were seen going in, but no one was coming out.
Looking at the fierce offensive of Task Force Alpha, General Modlin, who was standing halfway up the Broken Blade Mountain, couldn't help but have a surprised expression on his face.
Including the adjutant standing next to him, there was also a look of disbelief on his face.
"...Are these guys on drugs?" He muttered to himself as he stared in the direction of the front line.
In just three days, those lifeless guys seemed to have changed.
Although he couldn't see the situation in the cave, he could clearly feel the difference in those guys just by looking at their aura.
"Maybe you guessed it right." General Modlin frowned and lowered the telescope in his hand.
The Allied High Command disclosed the characteristics of Alpha Protozoa.
If we follow that standard, in the entire 310,000th team, probably only the punishment team and some physically powerful awakened ones can withstand the erosion of the red mist.
As shown in the operation three days ago, Task Force Alpha is not good at physical strength.
Without changing the equipment, he could only suspect that these guys should have taken some immunity-boosting drugs, or installed some bionic plug-ins that could fight infections.
In addition, there was another thing that caught his attention.
That is, he only saw these people entering in waves, but no one came out.
Either they fought until the last moment and died there, or they should have acquired some kind of ability to continuously recover during the battle.
Thinking of this, General Modlin couldn't help but have a hint of interest in his eyes, and he couldn't help but have a hint of expectation for the outcome of this battle.
Not only General Modlin was watching the battle, but also Commander Quanshui, the commander of the Storm Corps, and Bing Yan, the commander of the Death Corps.
The two of them were also standing on the mountainside of Broken Edge Mountain, staring at the battlefield close to Chi Chi.
"Oh my god...they are a bunch of ruthless people." With a shocked expression on his face, he couldn't help but sigh.
Excluding those clones without complete minds, this was the first time in this game that he saw guys who were not afraid of death like them.
"Indeed..." Commander Quanshui nodded in agreement, holding the telescope and staring at the battle situation on the front line.
In a sense, the Torch has really met its opponent this time.
Although the college's attitude towards Blue Jacket is relatively friendly, he still has to complain that these guys are not a match for ordinary people when it comes to being inappropriate.
After being inoculated with a thousand biological prostheses in three days, one-third of the Alphas on the front line "changed" their jobs on the spot, directly changing from mechanized soldiers to half-biological and half-mechanized warriors.
Although Xiao Yu is still quite cute after watching her for a long time, and it doesn't seem to be a problem to change her skin occasionally, but all of this is based on the premise of being able to be resurrected.
If he couldn't be resurrected or if he was resurrected, the biological prosthetic body would not be washed away. He felt that even in the game, he would have to hesitate to pretend to be this thing.
While the commanders of the coalition forces were watching the battle, the Beast King standing on the Blood Mountain also overlooked the entire battlefield.
And that expressionless face also had an expression of obvious surprise.
"What is that?"
He kept mumbling, and his eyes were full of astonishment. He couldn't believe what he saw in the eyes of those mutants, let alone understand it.
He saw with his own eyes that a soldier of Task Force Alpha was pierced through the chest by a thrust thrown by a mutant mutant, and then violently thrown out.
The hot blood even spread on it (his) head, and the hot touch could never be an illusion simulated by holographic technology.
For humans, it is undoubtedly a fatal wound.
However, he (he) had just wiped the blood on the thorns when he saw the unconscious soldier suddenly twitching. Then he lay on his side, grabbed his rifle, and pointed it at him (him). Sweeping suddenly.
Caught off guard, several electromagnetically accelerated projectiles shattered the mutant's chest and brain.
He also lost his perception of the mutant for a moment, and returned to God's perspective with a blank look on his face.
The brutal fighting continues.
These guys wearing gas masks seem to have found a way to fight the poisonous fog.
And not only that, their resilience has also become stronger, as if they have become another species overnight.
"Haha...hahahaha!"
The astonishment in his eyes gradually turned into enthusiasm, and he suddenly laughed while looking down at his feet.
"Interesting...it's so interesting!"
Is it possible to actively inoculate fruiting bodies of benign varieties to gain immunity before being infected by slime mold spores?
These old guys were not as rigid as he thought, and they knew how to adapt.
Sure enough, it is interesting to compete with such thoughtful opponents.
In addition to getting a batch of organic matter from fighting those Weirants, he learned nothing.
Looking down at the Alpha Task Force members who were waiting at the foot of the mountain, the Beast King said in a very soft voice.
"...I want to understand the secrets of those guys. Can you please eat them?"
That is not the sound transmitted through sound waves, but the communication between consciousness and consciousness.
After waiting for about a few minutes, the dull sound like an ancient bell slowly entered the sea of consciousness.
"I think... you'd better not let that guy get close to me."
The Beast King was stunned for a moment and frowned slightly.
“Can’t you eat it?”
The "Plague Lord" located deep in the mountain slowly spoke.
"Generally speaking, we evolved to devour other organisms, and engulfing other broods is just an accident in evolution. That guy is different. Its evolutionary logic is completely opposite to ours. It is purely to devour other mucus. Bacteria exist, and they can coexist with the humans who feed them."
"Just like those green-skinned guys who can tolerate the smell of me and even worship me, you can understand it as... it is the 'mutant' among 'us'."
After a pause, the voice continued.
"I can feel from the disgusting breathing sound that that guy has devoured at least two of its kind... I already have so many lovely children, and I don't want to be the next one."
Those believers are its children.
It had never seen anything so interesting, embracing the distortions it had bestowed upon them with joy and love, rather than fear of its own appearance.
The guy called the Beast King told it that this is the "belief" of humans. They regard themselves as the mother who gives them life, or even gods!
It likes the name Plague Lord very much, and it also likes the believers who cheer its name even more than it loves its own fruiting body.
It is precisely for this reason that it will feed them with its own flesh and blood, and select the guy with the most pious beliefs among them as the "prophet" to cultivate the "plague", and then use that guy as a seedbed to produce spores. Give them a stronger "evolution factor".
In a sense, they are its fruiting bodies, at least part of them are.
It has high hopes for them, hoping that they can continue to expand the size of the population until they occupy the entire planet, and go to conquer more distant worlds with their belief in themselves.
One day, calling out their names, they will return to their mother, Gaia, on their behalf.
Perhaps they can also bring her a message for themselves.
The Beast King pondered for a moment and suddenly spoke.
"Then if you can devour it, wouldn't you also gain...its ability to devour other slime molds?"
He thought of the forest in Baiyue Province, where Naguo was born, and where Naguo's weakness lies.
If the mother nest there can be swallowed up, their heaven will no longer have any weaknesses.
The Plague Lord was silent for a moment and then slowly spoke.
"That's true, but...its body doesn't seem to be here. So far, only its fruiting bodies have appeared. My fruiting bodies can digest them, but that is only digestion in the physical sense. If If I eat them, I might suffer from indigestion."
"I see...I understand." The Beast King nodded thoughtfully.
This is indeed a problem.
However, they can use scientific methods to solve the problem, such as making the samples harmless before feeding them.
Of course.
That was after taking over Qingquan City.
"Don't worry about this for now... My children are begging me for help. You should have heard their cries." Looking at the Beast King who seemed to be distracted, the Plague Lord's voice was urging.
The battle on Blood Mountain has become increasingly unfavorable for its children.
Not only its children, but itself, are in danger.
It has a premonition.
If someone carrying other slime mold fruiting bodies enters its lair, bad things will happen.
The Beast King nodded slowly, turned around and looked at the gray sky in the southeast.
That is the direction of Haiya Province.
Standing on the top of Blood Mountain, you can even see the gray mist that permeates there, and the prosperous country hidden in the gray mist.
He admitted that the fruiting bodies that inhabited people were beyond his expectation.
But if these guys think they can beat him with one or two unexpected cards, they are underestimating him.
They set foot on this desolate and chaotic land many years before these old things noticed it.
It took them more than ten years of operation before the seeds could take root, bloom, and bear abundant fruits.
All the land from Shifeng Mountain to Weifu Wasteland is his domain, and the Kingdom of Heaven has arrived here a long time ago.
These guys just built a few houses on it, took down a few hills, and thought it was their territory.
It has always been his territory.
He would teach them a profound lesson.
"Don't worry."
The Beast King waved his hand gently, and the red mist wrapping around the mountain seemed to blur for a moment, and then was replaced by the slowly rising gray-green thick mist.
"It's time for fog."
(End of this chapter)