"Hum... um um hum hum..."
At the entrance of Highway Town.
Holding the rifle, Tail leaned against the rusty highway sign, humming a tune that Sisi had never heard before.
It was pretty nice.
"What is Ah Wei humming?"
Seeing Sisi looking over, Tail's mouth curled up and said proudly.
"The song heard on the radio!"
"Radio?" Sisi was stunned for a moment.
What kind of ancient setting is this.
Tail said with a sharp look in his eyes: "There is a radio in the reception room on the first floor of the sanatorium. At night, it will play some incomprehensible things, and in the afternoon, it will play several repeated singles in a loop. It seems to be the original soundtrack built into the game! I observed it all day before! Alas, Sisi didn't even find this easter egg!"
Why should I pay attention to such boring things?
Sisi looked at the slowly moving clouds in the sky helplessly, sighed and said.
"Is it really okay for us to slack off like this every time?"
Wei Tail glanced at Si Si with dissatisfaction.
"What do you mean by slacking off? Didn't Wei Tail work hard?"
Si Si reminded.
"I heard that deserting while on guard is a death flag."
Wei Tail said nonchalantly.
"Don't worry, Wei Tail is agile. As long as Wei Tail is fast enough, death will always be one step slower than Wei Tail!"
Si Si: "..."
The team they are in at the moment is located on an inter-provincial highway leading to the east.
The terrain of the highway is high, with gentle slopes on both sides. Because it is an inter-provincial highway, there are few buildings nearby. Outside the guardrail are pine and cypress trees, as well as dead branches and leaves and shrubs dotted in the forest.
The name of this survivor base is Highway Town, which is a small town built on a highway. The only landmark here is probably the three-story highway sign leaning against Wei Tail's back. I think this survivor settlement is named after this.
The survivors here used materials removed from scrapped cars and wood obtained from felled trees to build a long and narrow settlement along the road.
One advantage of doing this is that you don't have to worry about your house being soaked in water when it rains, and when wolves and hyenas wander over, they dare not rashly attack people living on the slope from both sides.
The architectural style here is quite wild, just like the temper of the local residents.
They don't usually grow crops, but mainly raise goats as tall as horses. If you have to find the only difference between them and nomads, it's probably that they won't move easily, and occasionally they will plant some cash crops such as kamu trees, and sell the rubber and kamu fruit produced to passers-by.
To be honest, Sisi admires the operator of "Wasteland OL" very much, who can make each survivor settlement have a different style. And this different style is not only reflected in the modeling and mapping of the game, but also goes deep into the deeper core.
These survivors have their own unique culture and customs, and have different moral codes, worldviews and beliefs from others.
Such details are not only reflected at the collective level, but also accurate to every individual in the collective.
While they were standing guard, a child in a fur coat was standing under a small tree, as if saying goodbye to something. The man and woman with their bags on their backs stood at the door of their house, looking worried at the newly built new home.
Not far away, the old man in his fifties was arguing fiercely with the scarred man because he wanted to take away the kamu trees wrapped with hemp ropes and plastic in the field.
They are like living people.
Not only do they have their own lives, but their life trajectories are also affected by countless variables, and thus evolved into a tree diagram that breeds countless possibilities, rather than a one-way line that can be seen at a glance.
This is much better than the sandbox games she has played.
Even "more awesome" than reality!
She even wants to set off immediately and travel with her bags on her back.
But then again...
Is this also considered as deserting the team?
Sisi glanced to the side unconsciously and found that no one noticed them at all.
Maybe the other team members didn't have much hope for them from the beginning, and I, the darkest, and another perception-oriented friend consciously went out to scout.
The battlefield guy with a rifle couldn't help but wander around in the distance, looking for someone to fight, but the weather was too cold and he couldn't even find a mutant hyena.
The captain of the fountain, wearing the only "orange" exoskeleton in the server, always stood in the most stable place to command, and carefully assigned specific tasks to each team member, including the battlefield guy and I, the darkest, who were bait outside.
In general, this team is still more reliable, at least more reliable than the edge guy, the death team that killed chickens at midnight, and the devil team.
So much so that Sisi often wondered what the meaning of staying here with Tail was.
Glancing at the time on the VM screen, Tail stretched and yawned.
"Si, it seems there is no fight today. You can only wait until tomorrow to show your skills."
"Awei, please quickly recall that you are actually a girl."
A sudden explosion was heard in the distance, interrupting Sisi's complaints.
The two of them looked in the direction of the explosion and grasped their weapons at the same time.
"The enemy is coming?!" Tail was full of energy, his eyes shining.
Sisi glanced at the map and said after a moment of silence.
"No... I feel that the sound is quite far away, it is probably from other teams."
At this time, the swearing of the battlefield brother came from a distance, confirming her guess.
"Fuck! Why didn't we trigger the plot? Bad review!"
Unlike the players' regret, the survivors in Highway Town were obviously frightened by the explosion. They stopped what they were doing and looked towards the northeast with a look of doubt.
"What happened?"
"That sound..."
"Did something explode?"
"Could it be the bone chewers!"
"Those damn looters! If I catch them, I will definitely twist their heads off!"
The crowd was talking.
Standing in Kamm Tree Garden, Night Owl frowned, and the burn scars on his face were squeezed together. His hands unconsciously rested on his waist, but he quickly retracted them.
The sound was at least 4 kilometers away from here, and there were large areas of ruins and wasteland in between. It would take some time to get over.
The old man who was still arguing with him a second ago also looked sharply at the northeast, muttering to himself.
"It's in the direction of the battery factory."
His name is Hooker, and he is 56 years old this year. When he was young, he was a nimble hunter until he was shot in the knee and became Old Hooker who grows kamu trees.
Although he is not an awakener, he has lived to his age, and his rich experience is not inferior to his genetic strength.
Night Owl looked solemn and asked him.
"The group of blacksmiths?"
Hooker closed his eyes and nodded gently.
"It should be... Listen carefully, there are still gunshots, and there are quite a few."
Night Owl held his breath and listened carefully for a while, frowning.
"At least 40 people."
"At least double."
Looking at the trees covering two acres of land, the old man finally sighed as if giving up, and shook his head with a pity.
"Go find your father."
"We have to move faster!"
...
Outside the west gate of the outpost, not far from the shooting range of the guards, there is a red brick house with only one iron window facing the outpost.
This is the prison of the outpost, where several prisoners who have just been sent from Changjiu Farm are being held.
In addition, there is a special "prisoner" being held there.
In the wooden shed, the four-meter-long Death Claw curled up in the corner.
It was wrapped in iron chains and ropes made of devil's wire, and its amber pupils reflected a dangerous light, scanning the people at the door.
After being looked at by the beast, Xia Yan took a step back unconsciously and nervously held the sickle assault rifle in his hand.
This thing.
It's much more dangerous than the crawler!
"You, why did you bring this thing near your home?" Chu Guang, who was standing next to her, said without hesitation. "Of course it's for research." He was wearing a power armor, and a carbon nano bulletproof vest inside, which he got at the beginning. He carried a nitrogen power hammer on his back. He was armed to the teeth. Not to mention a mere death claw, even if the queen of the split claw crab stood in front of him, he had the confidence to retreat unscathed. "By the way, you don't have to come with me." "What nonsense are you talking about? How could I let you come alone with such a dangerous thing?" Chu Guang looked at Boss Xia with interest, and couldn't help wondering when this guy became so brave. Was it because of that leg? It seems that the money was worth it. "Unbelievable... This is incredible!" Muttering to herself, Heya walked forward with a fanatical look, and Chu Guang was so scared that he quickly pulled her back. "Are you crazy?"
My SSSR card!
No, it should be the players' SSSR cards!
"Crazy? No, it's this world that's crazy. I've never seen such an amazing creature!"
Looking at the lizard with an intoxicated look, Heya continued.
"I've checked the DNA of this guy. It undoubtedly belongs to the order of Lizards in the family of Reptiles of the phylum Chordata! But it has evolved a mechanism to regulate its own body temperature, which can maintain a high metabolism in winter like mammals. As long as it wants, it doesn't need to hibernate even in winter!"
"Even Taiga lizards can only maintain a constant body temperature for a period of time during reproduction... Is this really a radiation mutation?"
Chu Guang didn't know how to answer this question. After all, he had been in this world for less than a year, and this was the first time he had seen such a terrible monster.
Yin Fang, who was standing aside, also had an unbelievable look in his eyes.
But what he was paying attention to was different from Heya's. His eyes were fixed on the black device on the neck of the death claw.
It looks like a large ring!
"It's really outrageous... The device installed on the back of its head can really connect it to people's minds?"
"The result of the interrogation is indeed so. Do you want to try it?"
As he said, Chu Guang took out a prop shaped like a "headphone with a microphone" and threw it in Yin Fang's hand.
After Yin Fang took it, he held it in his hand and pondered for a while, and soon put it on his head without any instruction.
Turn on the power.
Turn the knob to the maximum!
A slight electric current sound sounded, just like the brain being electrified.
But other than that, there seemed to be no other feeling.
"How can this thing hiss!"
The stabbing pain from the depths of his mind made Yin Fang cry out in pain, and subconsciously reached out and pressed his hand on his temple.
But the pain came quickly and went away quickly, and soon he got used to the stabbing feeling and put his hand down.
Seeing Yin Fang recover, Chu Guang, who had already tried it once, continued.
"You can try to give orders to that monster... For example, order it to stand up."
Holding the wheat at the corner of his mouth, Yin Fang took a deep breath and stared at the death claw and said.
"Stand up!"
The body trembled, and the death claw lying on the ground, although resisting the order, still dragged its wounded body and slowly stood up from the ground.
WTF?
It really works? !
Yin Fang was shocked, even forgetting the headache, and continued to give orders to the wheat at the corner of his mouth.
"Lie down!"
The death claw obediently lay on the ground.
The expression on his face became more and more shocked, and Yin Fang continued to give orders to it with excitement as if he had discovered a new continent.
"Stand up!"
"Hop on one foot!"
"Draw circles on the ground with your tail! Tsk, this doesn't work? Then learn to bark like a dog!"
"..."
The dead claw, which was repeatedly tossed around, gradually showed a painful expression on its face, the neurons in its body were highly active, and the brain waves began to become disordered.
Chu Guang could clearly feel that if it wasn't tied with an iron chain, this beast would probably have been unable to resist and tore the guy in front of it with one claw!
But Yin Fang didn't care about these.
He just wanted to figure out the limit of this device.
After trying almost all the commands that could be tried, just when Yin Fang was thinking about what other commands he could try, he suddenly felt dizzy, his shoulders shook and he fell backwards.
Chu Guang gently pushed forward with his left hand, dragged Dr. Yin who was falling backwards, and took off the headset on his head with his other hand.
"It's best not to use this thing continuously... It will not only cause mental burden to the controlled object, but also to the person using this device."
Chu Guang tried this thing once before.
Rather than saying it is mental control, the function of this device is more like a kind of "hypnosis".
It does not allow the user to directly control the actions of the controlled person, but through mental pressure, in a way of mental suggestion, let the ringed alien execute a few simple commands.
For example, hunting.
Another example is moving forward, backward or running in a certain direction.
Single-leg hopping can barely be executed, as for things like drawing circles on the ground with the tail or barking like a dog, it is impossible to do it.
This device cannot make the controlled person complete commands beyond his cognition, unless he has actively done something similar at some point in his life.
Although this device is amazing, it is still far inferior to the "morphogenetic field" in his shelter.
Players from the "other world" can directly "soul-penetrate" clones. Isn't this much more powerful than indirect PUA and the master's orders?
As long as the clones don't die, the players can keep fighting.
Not like this guy.
Break the ring on its neck, and it will probably be out of control.
"Sorry, I'm a little excited. I've never seen this kind of technology..." Yin Fang shook his head and stood up again.
Chu Guang said thoughtfully.
"Technology that even the academy doesn't know?"
Yin Fang said helplessly.
"The academy is not omniscient and omnipotent. We also have things that we don't know much or don't understand at all."
After a pause, he continued.
"I should have told you before that in order to facilitate the reconstruction work, we divide the technology into seven levels of FEDCBAS according to the difficulty of reconstruction and manage it, so as to reasonably allocate personnel and budget."
Chu Guang nodded.
"You did say it once."
Yin Fang continued.
"In fact, in addition to the well-known seven levels, there is an eighth level outside the system, which we call the singularity."
"Singularity?" Chu Guang frowned and asked, "What does it mean?"
Yin Fang: "It represents the forefront, and it is a blank space for the future. These technologies are like singularities in calculus, unresolved points in complex functions, and an island independent of the set... They are like bottlenecks between us and the future."
"For example, you may have never heard of the neutrino channel, and the mutants that are rampant in the wasteland... They are all singularities. Although they are immature, they usually have extremely attractive prospects behind them. Once completed, it is foreseeable that a round of technological revolution will be set off. For example, the former corresponds to superluminal travel, and we will be able to go to more distant galaxies faster and cheaper, and the latter corresponds to super life with full environmental adaptability."
Yin Fang shrugged his shoulders.
"Of course, the technological revolution mentioned here is based on the premise of social integrity. What we need now is obviously not innovation, but revival. So... the academy doesn't know much about singularities, and only selectively retains some topics worth continuing. The focus of recycling work is still on the mature technologies within the system."
Isolated individuals outside the system, even "future technology" that has not been completed before the war.
To make an inappropriate analogy, it is probably similar to the forbidden magic in fantasy settings?
Chu Guang can only understand it this way.
"I suddenly feel curious, are the clones of the legion considered singularities?"
What Chu Guang didn't expect was that Yin Fang nodded decisively.
"Yes, but only half of it. The full name of the whole subject should be 'Full Life Cycle Adjustable Technology'. If it can be completed, theoretically we can shorten or extend the time of any life cycle of any life, and truly control evolution."
"As long as you want, you can be a child or an adult for your whole life, and you will be immortal at the genetic level. Our race will completely get rid of the backward r strategy and k strategy, no longer accept natural selection, but define itself by self."
Heya, who was standing next to him, was stunned on the spot.
"Can this kind of thing be done?"
"Who knows?" Yin Fang shrugged, "Maybe it can, maybe not, everything about the future can only be known in the future."
Regarding whether this kind of thing can be achieved, Yin Fang and Heya began an academic discussion. It is obvious that Heya does not believe it, saying that such a thing has never been heard of.
And Yin Fang sneered at her firm statement.
"You are so young... Didn't your mentor teach you not to jump to conclusions about unknown things?"
Hearing that Yin Fang actually directed the topic to his mentor, Heya instantly exploded.
Xia Yan was confused the whole time. She couldn't remember when she couldn't understand anymore.
Chu Guang fell into deep thought.
He suddenly thought of the recording about the "morphogenic field".
After organizing his words for a moment, Chu Guang interrupted the argument and spoke.
"If there is a technology that can establish a strong connection between consciousnesses in two different dimensions and transmit information across the boundaries of space and time."
"What the hell is that? Magic?" Yin Fang, who was arguing, replied without thinking, and the tone sounded like a mockery.
But perhaps because he thought that this person was not easy to bully, he immediately closed his mouth again.
But Chu Guang didn't take his words to heart.
Because he thought so too.
Unheard of things sounded like a miracle.
However, seeing Yin Fang's reaction, Chu Guang probably understood.
The technology hidden in Shelter No. 404 has obviously surpassed the academy's cognition and is naturally impossible to be within the FEDCBAS classification system.
There is no doubt that it has reached the realm of "singularity"!
And it is suspected to be mature...
Just when Chu Guang was about to talk to Heya about the Torch Church, Xiao Qi's voice suddenly came from the communication channel.
"Master, your player is in trouble!"
Hearing this, Chu Guang was slightly stunned. He didn't have time to ask in detail. He immediately closed the mask of the helmet and tapped the front of the tactical eyepiece with his index finger a few times, switching to the map interface.
Xia Yan, who was standing next to him, saw Chu Guang's sudden action and realized something, and hurriedly asked in a low voice.
"What happened?"
Chu Guang frowned and said in a deep voice while staring at the map.
"Something happened."
Almost as soon as the voice fell, a guard trotted over from a distance.
Standing in front of Chu Guang, he saluted and said seriously.
"Mr. Manager, the team you sent to the battery factory to cover the evacuation of local survivors was attacked by predators!"
"Got it, I've arranged for someone to go."
Chu Guang looked up at the sanatorium and saw a spare Hummingbird drone soaring into the air and quickly disappeared in the northeast.
Just now, he had mobilized the team that was performing tasks nearby to provide support and issued a defense mission to the players on the front line.
Before the reinforcements arrive, you must hold on!
"Hold on!"