The passage hidden behind the wall is very dark.
You can even say that you can't see your hand in front of you.
The circuit here doesn't seem to be connected to the outside world. Although there is something like a light strip on the corner of the wall, there is no reaction when you get close to it.
With the light from the VM, the two little players are excited and nervous as they explore the passage.
Teng Teng, with a red nose, rubbed his shoulders with his hands and looked around.
"It's so cold... Why does it feel like the temperature here is lower than outside."
"It's a bit... and it feels so gloomy." Ya Ya shrank his neck and looked ahead nervously, "Do you think there will be any strange things running out?"
"For example?"
"Ghosts, ghosts, etc..."
What a stupid thing.
Hearing this mindless speech, Teng Teng sighed and said.
"It's impossible. It's a sci-fi game after all. Even if something really comes out, it should be a gnat, a leech or a big spider, right?"
"Hey! Don't scare me."
Yaya stopped and didn't dare to move forward.
Teng Teng looked back at her helplessly.
"I just said it casually. As for... Aren't you a perception system? And your level is not low. Even if there is such a thing, the perception attribute can also be used for early warning."
Hearing this, Yaya blushed, and after a while of being embarrassed, she whispered.
"I... I'm not good at fighting. I gained experience when I was gathering."
Although the level has increased, the combat experience is almost 0... Teng Teng tried to understand, it should be this meaning.
"It's okay, me too... But I thought that since you have died once, you should have some experience in this area."
Yaya said with a bitter face.
"That's what I said, but I don't want to die. Do you know how hard it is to endure the night without a helmet?"
Indeed.
Teng Teng couldn't imagine how boring it would be without a helmet at night.
This game is simply addictive.
Since getting the helmet, her social needs in reality have completely dropped to zero. She completely disappeared after get off work, and no one sent her messages to harass her anymore, and she pretended not to see them.
A world where you don't have to deal with complicated interpersonal relationships and can do whatever you want without any scruples is simply amazing!
With both hands on Ya Ya's back, Teng Teng urged her to move forward.
"Yes, yes, yes... Let's go quickly, the Easter eggs will get cold if we wait any longer."
"Ah, don't push me."
If there was something in front, they would have probably discovered them long ago after hearing the voices of the two people.
But Teng Teng, with a smile on her face, was not panicked at all.
If a battle is really triggered...
Ya Ya has a lot of meat, so it should be enough for a while, right?
Please go with confidence, big-breasted alien!
Teng Teng will go out to call for reinforcements and avenge you!
The corridor soon came to an end.
After passing through a door, the two quietly walked into a room of about 20 to 30 square meters.
This place is like a warehouse, with 20 hibernation capsules on display.
The moment she saw these hibernation capsules, Ya Ya's eyes suddenly turned into the color of silver coins.
"Hibernation capsule!"
A well-preserved hibernation capsule can be sold for 50 to 100 silver coins!
Turning her head to look at Teng Teng, Ya Ya's eyes sparkled.
"Teng Teng! We each take half!"
"What nonsense are you talking about? You can't take the things here away... But this should be the Easter egg."
All 20 hibernation capsules were closed.
Teng Teng walked over and took a look at the hatch where she was lying. However, it didn't matter after taking a look. Her little face turned pale and she said with trembling lips.
"Dead, dead..."
The dried bones were covered with a blue coat, and the organic matter had almost decayed, leaving only a layer of dry skin and mold spots.
Fear arose spontaneously, and she subconsciously took a half step back, and the back of her head just bumped into a soft ball.
"There are so many corpses, is it because the hibernation capsule is out of power?" Yaya, who was standing behind Teng Teng, didn't care. She rubbed her chin with her right hand and stared at the mummies in the hibernation capsule in deep thought.
Seeing that she was still interested in observing, Teng Teng couldn't help swallowing her saliva and whispered nervously.
"You, you are not afraid?"
Yaya tilted her head.
"Well... If I have to say, I'm not completely afraid. Even with the filter, the model is very realistic, but this is a game, right?"
"Just, even if it's a game..."
Yaya continued as a matter of course.
"And what's there to be afraid of dead ones? They are not moving monsters. Anyway, compared to the slimy mutant leeches, this is already much better."
Teng Teng: "..."
It's totally incomprehensible!
She didn't feel what was good about it at all.
While she was talking, Yaya had already walked to the side of another hibernation capsule.
She was mumbling something while shining the light of the VM on the floor, searching for some invisible traces.
Suddenly, as if she had found something, she walked quickly to the side of a hibernation capsule in surprise.
"Teng Teng! Come here! This way!"
Teng Teng said alertly.
"I won't come over, tell me what's there first?"
"Don't worry, it's not a corpse! The person inside seems to be alive!"
"?!"
Hearing that there was a living person, Teng Teng hurried over.
At this time, Yaya, who was groping on the hibernation capsule with both hands, seemed to touch a switch.
There was a hissing sound, and cold gas leaked out from the gap between the hatch and the cabin of the hibernation capsule, and then the hatch covered with frost slowly opened.
Teng Teng noticed that in the cabin that looked like an ice coffin, there was a young lady in a blue coat lying.
She looked young, about twenty years old, with slender and soft features, and a physique between herself and Yaya. What was particularly striking was her long silver-white hair and blue eyes.
As the cabin door opened, the person woke up from her deep sleep.
However, it seemed that because she had just woken up, her expression was a little dull, and after a long time, she looked around blankly.
Her eyes fell on Yaya, who was closest to her, and the woman lying in the cabin spoke in a hoarse voice.
"What year is it now?"
Teng Teng and Yaya looked at each other.
"What did she say?"
"It seems she said 'now'?" Occasionally, nomads would come to her stall to buy mushrooms. Yaya did learn a few phrases, but she didn't know grammar at all.
Teng Teng's heart moved, and she quickly moved closer and gestured three numbers with her fingers.
"211?"
The woman looked confused, but seemed to understand, and a trace of relief appeared in her eyes.
"211 years in the Wasteland Era?"
She slept for more than 20 years...
It was really long.
After staring at Ya Ya for a while, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she raised her weak arm with difficulty and held her right hand.
"DNA... Can you lend me some? I want to study it."
Ya Ya was confused.
Ah this...
Is she saying thank you to herself?
"... You're welcome?"
As if she realized her abruptness from Ya Ya's confused expression, the woman took her hand back embarrassedly and coughed lightly.
"Sorry... I have an occupational disease."
Teng Teng and Ya Ya looked at each other and whispered to each other.
"What should I do?"
"It seems that the hidden task has been triggered."
"But there are no subtitles... Do you understand what she is saying?"
"I don't understand it at all!"
"Then... Take her to the guard first."
The two reached a consensus.
"That's the only way."
...
On the road leading to Changjiu Farm.
Sitting in the back of the truck, Vanus' shoulders were shaking with the truck. Glancing at the road outside the truck, he spoke to the young guard sitting next to him.
"Have you cleared all the obstacles on the road?"
"Yes."
Although he didn't want to pay attention to this prisoner, Lu Bei thought of the manager's order to him and replied in an impatient tone.
Vanus couldn't help but praise.
"A wise choice... Few survivor settlements will take the trouble to repair those roads, but they don't know that this is the greatest wealth left to them by the pre-war society."
Every time the legion occupies an area, the first thing is to repair the road to there, and if conditions permit, a railway will be built.
Even though it is extremely difficult to maintain a stable transportation route in the wasteland, only by ensuring smooth logistics can the combat effectiveness of the front-line troops be guaranteed.
In order to ensure smooth logistics, they even arranged for young junior officers to lead clone light infantry to patrol along the army's highway network.
At this time, Vanus saw that the people who were clearing the road were his subordinates, and his expression suddenly became a little embarrassed and stopped talking.
The only consolation was that his subordinates seemed to be in good spirits?
At least they were all wearing thick clothes, and they didn't seem to be cruelly abused, but their expressions seemed confused and numb.
Appreciating his expression of being beaten, Lu Bei laughed and said nothing.
What a joke!
Do you need to say anything about the wisdom of the administrator?
Stupid captive!
The ten-kilometer journey was not far, and it was a nearly straight road. There were not many places in the middle where it was necessary to slow down, so the truck arrived at the station quickly.
Lu Bei pushed his back with the butt of the gun and motioned him to get off the car.
Vanus didn't say anything. He didn't even think about escaping in this damn weather, and he jumped off the truck obediently.
Following him out of the car, Lu Bei put his rifle on his back, walked on the snow to the south gate of Changjiu Farm, and saluted the guard on duty at the gate.
"I brought the war criminal here on the orders of the administrator."
The slightly older guard looked at him and nodded.
"Well done, the administrator is in the middle room, take the man over quickly."
"Yes!"
Lu Bei turned around very spiritedly and waved to Vanus, signaling him to come over.
"Listen, I'm taking you to see the administrator now, you'd better pay attention to your words and deeds."
Vanus said meekly.
"Okay sir, I will."
It has been a while since the last meeting, and he also wanted to meet the man who had defeated him on the battlefield.
Although the person who defeated him on the front battlefield was Lu Yang, he didn't have much respect for those profiteers who barely stood opposite him with the power of equipment.
Instead, the survivors who rushed to the flank of his position fearlessly left a deeper impression on him.
When he was in the prisoner-of-war camp before, Vanus heard his centurion say how brave those survivors were on the battlefield.
They were as flexible as normal people, moving back and forth, but they were more fearless of sacrifice than the clone infantry and regarded death as nothing.
What kind of charismatic leader can make his soldiers have such a lofty spirit of sacrifice and enthusiasm?
After working for a while and communicating with the workers in the brick factory, Vanus did find some answers, but more confusion followed.
Intuition told Vanus that perhaps only that person could answer the questions in his heart.
After passing through the city gate, Vanus followed the footsteps of the young guard and soon came to a concrete house.
Through the half-closed window, you can see the blazing fire.
Lu Bei went forward and knocked on the door. After getting the reply to come in, he took Vanus in.
There were many people sitting in the house, including Luca, the manager, the captain of the guard team, and two people he had never seen or recognized.
They seemed to be discussing something.
Vanus noticed that when he walked into the house, everyone looked at him.
Especially the tall stranger, after seeing his nose, he paused slightly, and there was obviously a hint of anger in his pupils. And the other man who looked a little thin and dressed like a nomad had a hint of fear in his eyes.
Vanus had a rough idea in his mind.
Both of them should be refugees, one is a survivor of land loss, and the other is probably a migrating herdsman, and 80% of them are from the northern or central areas where the river valley is formed.
He had seen many such people when he went south, and basically they turned around and ran away when they saw his flag.
Walking in front of the manager, Lu Bei straightened his back, put his right hand on his chest, and said respectfully and even reverently.
"Sir, I brought the person you wanted for you!"
Looking at this guard who looked only a little older than a child, Chu Guang nodded in appreciation.
"Very good, the person will stay here, you go down first."
"Yes!"
When leaving the house, Lu Bei closed the door.
As the wooden door closed, the air in the room suddenly became quiet, and only the crackling of firewood in the fireplace could be heard.
Vanus's Adam's apple moved, hesitating whether he should take the initiative to say something.
However, at this time, the manager sitting in the main seat turned his eyes away from him and looked at the nomad with fear on his face.
"Go on."
"Yes, sir..."
Glancing at Vanus standing at the door, the nomad swallowed his saliva and continued cautiously.
"We passed through the northern part of the Valley Province. The situation there was simply terrible. The hills were blown into depressions by shells, and the hard ground became a quagmire. The ground was full of corpses, attracting vultures, hyenas, gnawers and even death claws..."
"The people of the Great Rift Valley refused to take us in. We dared not stay there. We could only bypass the battlefield along the west side and continue to the south. However, the situation in the south was also very bad, and the VIPs of the Legion fled everywhere. We were unlucky to meet 2 of them, and 5 people died before we killed one and controlled the other. After asking, we learned that the people of the Great Rift Valley won, the Legion's expeditionary army was defeated, and General Kras died in the chaos."
The expeditionary army was defeated?
Vanus had a blank expression on his face.
However, for some reason, when he heard the news, he felt no ripples in his heart. Even though he had firmly believed that General Krass was invincible until half a month ago, he felt relieved at this moment.
It was finally over.
Jiuli, who was standing in the room, glanced at him, his mouth twitched slightly, with a slightly mocking expression, but he didn't expect that this person didn't even look at him, so he took his eyes back in disappointment.
Chu Guang stared at the nomad and asked, "Is the news reliable?"
The nomad said timidly.
"Sir, I don't know, but it should be accurate... After all, it was said by the legion's people."
It was said by the legion's people.
The credibility should be quite high.
Chu Guang fell into deep thought.
At this time, the guard captain Wrench standing next to him stepped forward and said with a serious expression.
"Sir, if the defeated soldiers of the legion continue to move south, we will probably encounter those locusts in no time. I suggest digging trenches and building fortifications in the north of Changjiu Farm, deploying patrols to a more northern location, and setting up outposts in Yumu District and the northern urban area."
Old Luca also advised.
"I think so too."
Building defense lines and expanding patrol ranges are the most basic and inevitable. This winter may be more lively than I imagined.
Chu Guang nodded in agreement, then looked at the nomad and continued, "Did you see anything else along the way?"
The nomad was slightly stunned, frowned and thought hard for a while, and suddenly seemed to remember something and spoke hurriedly.
"When we passed Tianshui City, we heard a rumor from the survivors who stayed there to rest... but I'm not sure if it's true."
Chu Guang looked at him and said.
"You say."
The nomad continued cautiously.
"They say that in the central and western parts of the River Valley Province, a large tribe of predators is rising rapidly. Some say they have absorbed some of the defeated soldiers of the Legion, while others say they are the defeated soldiers of the Legion themselves. They burn, kill, rob and abuse, and do all kinds of evil."
Chu Guang asked.
"What is their name?"
The nomad whispered.
"Chew Bone, sir, I remember it was called Chew Bone."
"It must be the people from the Legion!" Jiuli cursed, "Those bugs are just like a plague. Where they are, there will be no good!"
Vanus dared not say a word and tried to pretend to be air.
Luca looked at Chu Guang and said in a low voice.
"Sir, chaos is spreading. I have a bad feeling."
Does this still need a premonition?
Chu Guang tapped the armrest of the chair with his index finger lightly, staring at the nomad in front of him with a nervous expression, and fell into deep thought.
This group of nomads, like Wu Tiefu and others, also migrated from the north, but they were obviously not from the same tribe.
More than 50 people are not many, but less than 30% of them are young and strong laborers. Obviously, they have encountered many battles along the way.
What Chu Guang is more interested in is that in addition to bringing 5 yaks, these people also raise a certain number of poultry.
This is definitely a pleasant surprise.
He hasn't eaten tea eggs for a long time, and he doesn't know what eggs cooked with spirit leaves taste like.
After a long time, Chu Guang spoke.
"Your tribe is allowed to migrate to Linghu Wetland Park and stay with other nomadic tribes that migrated here."
The man breathed a sigh of relief, knelt down on the spot with gratitude, and put his head on the floor.
"Thank you, sir! My tribe and I will serve you till death!"
"The word spear is too murderous and easy to confuse. You came in winter, so you will be called Frost Spear from now on." Looking at the man kneeling on the ground, Chu Guang continued, "I will confirm your loyalty with my eyes. Now stand up. We don't have the custom of kneeling here. You don't need to kneel when you see me. Just put your right fist on your left chest."
"Yes! Thank you for the name!"
Frost Spear, who was given the name, retreated happily.
It doesn't matter what the name is.
The key is who gave the name.
In the culture of most tribesmen and refugees in the wasteland, giving a name means acceptance and naturalization. They will pass down part of the name from generation to generation until the bloodline dies out.
The door opened and closed, and a breath of cold air blew into the room.
Chu Guang then looked at Vanus standing next to the door and said.
"Now, let's discuss your problem."