Official website forum.
Life-threatening: "The Decayed Knight appears!"
Soul-chasing: "Battlefield guy scrapes the stone!"
Macabazi: "The mosquito also scrapes!"
Stop bullshitting: "But fortunately! The wave of SS was killed by the manager with two shots!"
Quit smoking: "Brother Guan is awesome!!!"
WC has a mosquito: "Fuck! Can you blame me for scraping? Who knew he was so fast? Using a knife to chop rockets, this is totally unreasonable!"
Battlefield atmosphere group: "Damn, the Decayed Knight should be level 60 in theory? He killed a wave of level 60 SS with two shots, so how many levels should the manager be?!"
Fountain commander: "Maybe 80!"
Marginalized water: "Be more confident, they are all faction leaders like 'Alsace', is 100 level exaggerated? Not at all!"
Irena: "I think it can be compared to the emperor Xi Aotian, who doesn't pretend to be cool and doesn't take action, and taking action is pretending to be cool."
Yaya: "Woo woo woo, I didn't get to see the handsome manager showing off."
Fang Chang: "Wake up, that's a paper man."
Yaya: "What does it matter! It's better than you being crazy about Xiaoyu, right? `)"
Fang Chang: "! That's Ye Shi, not me."
Ye Shi: "Get lost! Do I have any?"
Teng Teng: "You are all wrong."
Tail: "Ah! Who dares to bully Xiaoyu, break his legs! ψψ"
Meat Mountain Big Bun: "!!! Who wants to bully Xiaoyu!"
Ye Shi: "Chao! Damn Fang Chang! You're bullying me again! QAQ"
Canyon Fleeing Mole: ""
The offline players brought the battle report back to the forum. The players who didn't plan to log off also found a place to hang up, wandered to the "real world", and joined the fun on the forum.
Anyway, major game activities will pop up in the official forum, so there is no need to worry about missing them.
Compared with the previous battles, this battle has reached the "historical record" of Shelter No. 404 in terms of the investment in heavy firepower weapons!
Dozens of Maxim heavy machine guns fired crazily, 88mm mortars bombed in turns, and quadruple anti-aircraft guns used high-explosive bombs to wash the ground for many rounds. The aliens that came in a tsunami on the ruins fell down in pieces like frosted rice fields.
It fully reflects the helplessness of numbers in the face of firepower.
When the machine guns and shells stopped firing, even the cement blocks on the ground were baked hot!
Multiple rounds of saturated firepower coverage, followed by the whistle of the charge, the immersive shock made people's adrenaline soar!
Players who have experienced it said that it was really cool!
Isn't this more real than the water-mixed shells and water guns in "Dump Truck 2042"?
Looking at the battle reports on the forum, players who were not on the scene said it was a pity.
Especially the 125 good brothers who died yesterday, they were so envious that their cells were separated.
Missing such an exciting scene is such a loss!
Silver Dad: "Damn it! Why does it take three days to resurrect!"
Silver Hand: "Why can't you open a trumpet!"
Tyrannosaurus Warrior: "Fuck! You still want to open a trumpet! Be a man!"
Professor Yang, the King of Thunder and Lightning: "That's right! We haven't got the qualification for the closed beta yet!"
Just when everyone was regretting, a video of one and a half minutes was suddenly updated on the official website.
The neat cut of the lens, coupled with the explosive BGM, is like an epic blockbuster!
It has to be said that Xiaoqi's video editing skills are getting better and better. At least 1/10 of the credit for the "Wasteland OL" that can be seen and touched has become more and more fragrant.
Although there are still some arrogant people who stubbornly hold the view that "I haven't seen it means it doesn't exist" and "My logical deduction is the truth of the world", this does not prevent the majority of the spectators from typing 666 under the video.
"Awesome! Is this the next-generation game?"
"Can the model be so detailed???"
"It feels like a movie without the filter!"
"Be more confident, maybe it's just a movie with a filter."
"Hey, regardless of whether it's true or not, it feels worth it to make the promotional PV like this even if it's fake!"
"Mobile game giants are ecstatic, we have advertising materials again!"
...
Just when the official website was bustling, on the battlefield in front of Street 68, players and NPCs were cleaning up the battlefield on the pile of corpses.
In fact, there was nothing to clean up.
There were only corpses here, black blood seeping into the soil, and rotting flesh and blood exuding a stench that could be smelled even with a gas mask.
Slime molds are different from death claws and monsters. The parts of the latter are somewhat useful, and the meat can even be roasted and eaten. The former is something that even Old Na can't stand.
Looking at the rats and cockroaches running past the street corner, the two newbies wearing gas masks were surprised by the immersive atmosphere of "Wasteland OL" and walked towards the depths of the battlefield.
"By the way, will the fruiting bodies of slime molds also rot?"
"Nonsense, won't your mushrooms go bad?"
"Hey, I've never seen it."
The two whispered to each other and had already walked to the power armor filled with slime molds.
The fungal blanket on the steel surface has been necrotic, black blood seeps out from the gaps in the armor, its entire head has been blown to pieces, and there is a hole half the size of a fist on its chest.
The two newbies looked at the big hole in amazement.
The armor that even the 37mm heavy cavalry rifle couldn't penetrate was actually penetrated by a Gauss rifle.
This power is too strong!
The two of them didn't waste time, tied the big guy with a rope, put it on the traction board, and dragged it back to the position.
[Mission: Recover the body of "Decay Knight"]
[Reward: 15 silver coins 10 contribution]
Reward in hand!
One step closer to getting VM!
Looking at the fifteen silver coins lying in the palm of their hands, the faces of the two little newbies were filled with joyful smiles.
Keep going at this pace.
It won't be long before we can reach T1!
...
The body of the Decayed Knight was dragged to the Garden Street subway station and temporarily stored outside the buffer room of Shelter No. 117.
Yin Fang used the cutting machine to toss for a long time, and finally removed the power armor from this guy.
Heya extracted slice samples from various parts of the big guy's body and took them back to the medical laboratory for analysis.
Yin Fang handed the armor fragments removed from the power armor to Bachi for research.
As for himself, he studied the black box removed from the inside of the power armor to see if he could recover some useful data from it.
The alien species launched two rounds of attacks that day, one in the afternoon and the other in the evening, but both the quantity and quality were far inferior to the one in the morning.
Vanus's point of view was that these gnawers probably wanted to consume their ammunition.
Perhaps it was the experience gained from previous battles with Boulder City that the slime molds seemed to know that their enemies had ammunition restrictions.
However, today's Shelter No. 404 is no longer the same as it used to be. After many baptisms of war, the military production capacity of the new industrial zone is almost full.
It may take some time to build a tractor, but his little players know how to build guns and cannons!
In addition to the charge on the front battlefield, the attack and defense on the side battlefield also never stopped.
Many crawlers climbed over obstacles and bunkers and climbed to the flanks of the positions, trying to replicate their previous staged victory on Street 65.
Unfortunately, this time their opponents were not the death squads of newbies and veterans, but the hunter squad led by the Cow and Horse Squad.
In the confrontation between skirmishers, the players still had the upper hand.
Although there was no heavy firepower support, the individual combat effectiveness was fully exerted.
A LV6 power player or a LV7 agility or physique player can basically fight against the crawlers.
And if it is a LV10 awakener, as long as it is not an intelligence or perception player, it can basically easily solve the crawler in a one-on-one situation.
There is no need to even shoot!
Two small wins on the front battlefield and the side battlefield.
The first day of the battle ended in a stalemate.
However, although Shelter 404 has achieved a phased victory, neither the players nor the guards are taking it lightly.
The waves coming from the south are endless and show no signs of stopping.
Everyone can feel that a storm is brewing!
One day later.
Shelter 117.
Chu Guang summoned his experts and held a brief meeting, asking them to report on the latest research progress on "Decay Knight".
The first person to speak was Heya.
Regarding the slice samples of "Decay Knight", she made a systematic analysis and has made initial progress.
"Let me explain it briefly."
"First, by analyzing the organizational structure of the fruiting body, I found neuronal cells in the sample that are completely different from the fruiting body structure. Comparing the DNA, it should be an adult male, and the survival time of the cell may have exceeded a century... This situation is very similar to the symbiotic phenomenon we have witnessed before, but the slime mold in Qingquan City seems to erode the nervous system more thoroughly, completely depriving the host of its autonomous consciousness."
"You can understand it as replacing the hard drive and memory, leaving only the CPU and half of the graphics card."
Knowing that Chu Guang could not understand the theory that was too difficult, He Ya simply used a statement that she thought was more popular.
However, when she said this, she did not look at Chu Guang, but at Bachi who was trembling beside him.
After a pause, He Ya moved her eyes away from the tin can, looked at Chu Guang who was lost in thought, and continued.
"In addition, its sac-like organs are more exaggerated than other fruiting bodies, and the amount of spores secreted can even reach hundreds or even thousands of times that of crawlers. In order to release spores more efficiently, it has even evolved special organs that can transport spores to the fungal carpet on the surface of the fruiting body and release them through the ends of the cilia on the fungal carpet."
"... Various signs indicate that your speculation is most likely correct. This "evolved body" that is obviously abnormal from its peers plays a commanding role. They can coordinate different consciousness bodies, just like nodes in a logistics network. Even within them, a strict class has been formed, with large nodes dominating small nodes, and so on."
Chu Guang touched his chin and thought.
"So as long as these node creatures are destroyed, the wave will stop?"
Heya nodded.
"That should be the case... at least it can make them return to normal."
Whether running back to the city center or disbanding on the spot, the threat is much smaller than if they gather together.
It's like a hundred gnawers scattered in an underground garage of thousands of square meters. Even a newbie can clear them out with a little more time.
But if these hundred gnawers form a team and rush up in an organized manner. Without the support of heavy firepower, even the awakened ones will have a headache.
Bachi raised his right hand tremblingly: "... I have a question, if my brain is completely eroded, will it become like this?"
Heya: "This possibility cannot be ruled out."
The tin can shook for a while, and Bachi shivered. I don't know if he was glad that he slipped away quickly at that time, or if he had a conditioned reflex of fear for Heya's interested eyes.
Chu Guang suddenly had an idea and spoke.
"If Bachi sneaks into the alien's nest and puts a three-kilogram 100mm shell directly next to the queen..."
Bachi looked at Chu Guang with horror: "Do you want me to die?"
Heya shook her head.
"There is no point in doing this except to kill him. I should have said before that they rely on RNA-transformed proteins to identify their own kind. Only the same kind can have a unified consciousness coordination. The identification codes of slime molds in different regions are different. You can imagine what would happen if you threw an ant into an ant nest of another group."
Two ants from different groups may not fight when they meet on the road, but if one of them follows the other into the other's nest, it can only be said that tens of thousands of ants are "blind" at the same time.
The same is true for slime molds in the same hive society.
Bachi will not be attacked by fruiting bodies wandering on the street, but it does not mean that it can enter and exit the "core areas" such as the hatchery and the mother nest at will.
Especially when encountering an "evolved individual" with autonomous consciousness, being killed on the spot is probably what will happen most likely.
Knowing how to make a detour from the side and feint to consume, these slime molds obviously have the ability to deal with problems flexibly.
It is meaningless to be clever at this time.
What a pity.
Chu Guang even thought that even if he couldn't deliver the bomb to someone, it would be good to see the Queen's location. At worst, he could borrow tens of thousands of chips, buy an airstrike, and lick it with incendiary bombs.
Feeling regretful, Chu Guang then looked at Yin Fang.
This "Chief Leader of the 404 Shelter Scientific Expedition Team and Dean of the 404 Branch of the Academy" frowned and said nothing since the beginning of the meeting. I don't know what he was thinking.
Chu Guang's intuition told him that he should have discovered something.
"What about you? Did you find anything?"
Yin Fang nodded slowly.
"I found the action recorder of the T-10 power armor."
"Action recorder?" Bachi showed a surprised expression on his face, looked at him and asked, "Can that thing still be used?"
"Of course, the T-10 power armor is the land combat power armor of the People's Union Army, and the 'black box' is located near the waist."
As he said, Yin Fang gently placed a thumb-sized, nail-cutter-shaped orange box on the table.
"Although the data is severely damaged... I still restored a little bit of the fragments."
Chu Guang: "What did you find?"
Yin Fang: "The number of this armor is T-10: A71C98U. When I was investigating the ruins in Luoxia Province, I accidentally saw this series in an abandoned research institute. As expected, it originally belonged to the 71st Armored Brigade of the People's Union, and after the Wasteland Era, it belonged to the 'Post-War Reconstruction Committee'."
Post-War Reconstruction Committee.
He first heard this name, it seemed to be from the holographic image left by Dr. Principle. All signs indicate that this organization had considerable influence in the early days of the Wasteland Era, two hundred years ago.
According to the clues provided by the players, Boulder City seems to be one of the survivor settlements planned by the Post-War Reconstruction Committee.
Even the towering giant wall was built by the Post-War Reconstruction Committee.
Chu Guang frowned slightly.
The clues seemed to be connected together, but a few key puzzle pieces were missing.
He wanted to know.
What role did Shelter 404 play in this?
Yin Fang paused for a moment and continued.
"Two centuries ago, the unit to which this power armor belonged launched a military operation against the city center, with the goal of clearing the mother nest in the nuclear bomb crater in the city center. The black box did not record the final result of this operation, but it should have failed. The remaining data recorded the reason why this power armor was scrapped."
Chu Guang: "Why?"
"EMP."
Chu Guang was stunned.
But Heya was more surprised than him.
"EMP?! Are you saying those slime molds can use electromagnetic pulses?"
Yin Fang shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't know. Who knows what happened two hundred years ago? Maybe the mutant slime molds have mastered some way to trigger electromagnetic pulses, or maybe it was a friendly fire... In either case, according to the data recorded by the black box, the powerful electromagnetic pulse destroyed more than 30% of the electronic components of the power armor at 2 hours, 31 minutes and 17 seconds after the start of the battle, causing the arc engine to be forced to shut down."
"The power armor with limited mobility was quickly surrounded and completely submerged by the slime mold after the ammunition was exhausted. The first to be eroded was the gas exchange system, then the life support system, and the energy system... The whole process lasted for twenty years and continued until the black box stopped functioning."
Bachi held his breath.
After a long time, he spoke with difficulty.
"This is too miserable."
Watching the bacterial plaques crawling all over the eyepiece little by little, the spores were continuously injected into the body along the life support system, and finally the immune function was paralyzed, and it was completely reduced to a puppet of the mother nest.
The remaining nerve cells are kept alive in a special way, and they can only be freed when the body is completely destroyed.
This is even more cruel than lingchi.
Yin Fang nodded silently.
"What concerns me is these slime molds... They seem to know us very well."
Chu Guang looked at Yin Fang and asked.
"Didn't the academy record the source of those slime molds?"
Yin Fang shook his head.
"I don't know. Even if there is, it is not the information that a D-level explorer like me can access."
Mutated slime molds, radiation, aliens, mutants, and predators everywhere...
I don't know what the lunatics did two hundred years ago to blow up the mother planet into what it is now.
No wonder the companies on the East Coast pinned their hopes on the legend of Shelter No. 0, and the academy directly hid in the Wandering Swamp.
Chu Guang now even has a feeling that the first generation manager of No. 404 didn't tell him anything, maybe it was also a kind of "protection".
After all, the more you know about this world, the more desperate you feel.
The only people in this world who can face these difficulties optimistically are probably those happy little players.
Chu Guang took a deep breath.
"Anything else to report?"
"I," Bachi raised his hand, and seeing everyone looking at him, he continued nervously, "Regarding the material of that power armor... I have carefully studied its structure."
Chu Guang said immediately.
"Can it be imitated?"
Bachi was stunned and smiled bitterly.
"The porous aluminum-magnesium-manganese alloy is used as the structure, and boron carbide and silicon carbide are alternately filled. This is just the first layer."
Seeing that Chu Guang still had an expectant expression on his face, Yin Fang sighed and looked at the tin can sitting in the corner and said.
"He won't understand what you said, so don't beat around the bush and speak directly."
Chu Guang looked at Yin Fang dissatisfiedly.
"What do you mean by this?"
Why can't I understand!
Xiao Qi, who had been quietly watching the screen, suddenly interrupted.
"That's right! Are you looking down on the wise and powerful administrator? Master, do you need me to clean him up?"
Chu Guang coughed dryly.
"That's not necessary."
And what the hell is that "wise and powerful administrator"? He doesn't remember teaching Xiao Qi to call him that.
Yin Fang rolled his eyes at the camera on the ceiling.
He wanted to dismantle the "wastebasket" for research before, but Chu Guang didn't agree and strictly forbade him to do so, so he gave up the idea.
Curious, but he's not stupid.
But it seems that the petty AI has remembered this.
Bachi quickly tried to smooth things over and continued.
"The T-10 power armor is pre-war equipment. The armor shell is likely based on 3D printing technology and is constructed directly at the atomic level. Our technology gap is too big. Not to mention here, even the enterprise cannot produce this thing."
The composite armor with a thickness of only 40mm can have an equivalent thickness of 400mm homogeneous steel on the vertical plane. With a slight inclination, it must be thousands of times thicker?
This protection is almost at the same level as modern main battle tanks!
In my impression, the Iron Fist rocket launcher of the Legion seems to be able to cause damage to the power armor of the enterprise. Obviously, even the enterprise does not have the conditions to imitate this armor piece.
Seeing the disappointment on Chu Guang's face, Bachi continued.
"But it's not without gain."
"We previously analyzed a material called 'A3 alloy' from the database of Zhongzhou Aerospace, but due to missing data and no samples, we have not been able to determine its specific composition."
Yin Fang looked at him in surprise.
"Could it be..."
"Yes," Bachi nodded and said excitedly, "The missing part should be aluminum-magnesium-manganese alloy,"
Chu Guang asked immediately.
"Is the performance of this alloy very strong?"
Yin Fang: "It can't be said to be very strong, but it should be said to be very strong, and it has a wide range of uses and is relatively cheap. It can be used from exoskeleton brackets to connecting parts of large machinery."
"To put it more intuitively, if the bracket of the KV-1 exoskeleton is replaced with A3 aerospace aluminum alloy, the protection, maximum load and durability can be doubled while the weight remains unchanged and the cost increases slightly."
"At least it is a C-level technology!"
Not only exoskeletons, but also vehicles running on the ground and drones flying in the sky can benefit from this achievement.
If it were in the academy, this credit alone would be enough for him to be promoted from a D-level explorer to a C-level researcher.
The only drawback is that there is a risk of fire in an oxidizing environment.
But as long as it is not used on a large scale or mixed with other materials, it is not a big problem!
Chu Guang's eyes lit up immediately.
"Can it be done?"
He only cares about this one thing!
Bachi nodded, his tone much more relaxed than before.
"Compared to the composite armor of the T-10, the mass production of A3 aerospace aluminum alloy will not be very difficult. I should be able to do it."
Hearing this, Chu Guang's face showed a happy expression.
I didn't expect to be able to recover such a good thing from that iron lump!
It's a pleasant surprise!
After the meeting, Chu Guang updated some of Heya's research results on the official website and shared them with players as official guides.
At the same time, on the West Third Ring Road of Qingquan City.
On the dark and silent ruins, there was a fire rising to the sky...