Chapter 150 Legion!

  Chapter 150 Legion!

  The wasteland in the northwest of Qingquan City.

  Snow-covered pine and elm trees emerge from the damaged country villas, and withered sea buckthorns sway under the collapsed buildings. The only road has been buried by time and is covered with snow.

  This is the border between Qingquan City and TS City, and it is also the border of the southern urban agglomeration of the River Valley Province.

  Although geographically, this primitive urban area is closer to TS City, it belongs to Qingquan City, which has a larger population and more concentrated industries, in terms of administrative divisions.

  It has a name full of original ecological flavor, namely the Elm District.

  A large number of elms and pines and cypresses used to be planted here, but now only those evergreen trees survive.

  In that distant utopian era, this area was once a famous summer resort. With Linghu Lake to the south and low mountains and gentle hills to the west, the occasional breeze and sunset in the forest always make this place full of poetry. Residents of the two cities who are tired of urban life often come here to live a secluded life for a few days.

  Since there are no high-rise buildings here, every household has a lawn the size of a basketball court. Some people will grow some primitive crops in the backyard, which led to the survivors in this area being self-sufficient for a period of time in the early days of the wasteland era, forming an agricultural community based on families.

  Of course, it has been abandoned now.

  Wild green plants have replaced the traces of civilization. In just a few decades, the greening rate of this idyllic little village has soared from 60% to 100%. Now it is difficult to distinguish the edge of the forest from the ruins.

  Facts have proved that once humans adapt to industrialization, it is difficult to stay away from industry for too long.

  Even if many people clamor that they are tired of the hustle and bustle of the city, if they really go back to the agricultural era, 99% of people will not be able to stand it.

  And those primitive crops planted as a hobby are not enough for the locals to eat, let alone feed the refugees pouring in here. With the coming of the harsh winter, the agricultural communities of all sizes soon disappeared in the snow.

  Due to the lack of recyclable garbage and the presence of dangerous alien species, few survivors visited here. Only some fearless merchants chose to settle here.

  However, now, this abandoned city that no one cares about has become unusually lively.

  A group of uninvited guests came from the north and stepped into this place in a mighty manner.

  They held bolt-action iron barrel rifles of the same style, cheap wooden stocks, and the barrels were even bulky castings. There were no protective gear or uniform clothes, only a tattered fur coat and short boots with fur edges to barely cover their bodies. The

  only uniform equipment on them was probably the electric shock collars around their necks.

  These people were undoubtedly human.

  However, there was no trace of civilization and rationality in their beast-like pupils.

  Holding rifles and wearing collars, they looked more like a group of tamed monkeys. And those junior officers holding remote controls, following behind them and urging them forward, looked more like living people.

  Those who know the business can tell the identity of those wearing collars at a glance.

  Clones!

  And the cheapest ones!

  In the entire Middle Continent, there is probably only one organization that can “tame” clones on a large scale and efficiently, and put them into the battlefield in an organized manner.

  That is the Legion!

  Standing next to a dilapidated house, a man in a navy blue coat looked at the troops marching forward, his vulture-like eyes as sharp as a dagger.

  His name is Vanus.

  Whether in the Legion headquarters or in the Eastern Legion to which he belongs, this is an unremarkable name.

  However, contrary to that ordinary name, he has the ambition to become a general.

  The desire for honor and power prompted him to join the Eastern Expeditionary Force, follow the footsteps of General Kraus, and march eastward towards the Great Rift Valley in the north of the Valley Province.

  Legend has it that the “Enterprise” in the Far East also sent an expeditionary force there, but unfortunately failed.

  However, Vanus did not want to express any opinion on the failure of the enterprise, and even sneered.

  In his opinion, those weak people who covet enjoyment and curl up in the interior of a province do not understand what war is, and it is natural that they will fail.

  But the Legion is different.

  They are warriors born for battle, flesh and blood driven by iron will.

  Whether they are clones, freemen or citizens, from the moment they are born, the iron law of the Legion has been imprinted in the hearts of each of them.

  Even without advanced equipment, they can still rely on their desire for victory and glory, and the will to win engraved in their bones, to march in four directions at the same time, and conquer a vast territory on a wasteland of ruins, making countless tribes of all sizes bow their heads and offer slaves and tributes.

  Sooner or later, the rich Great Rift Valley will succumb to the iron hoof of the Legion, and there will be no exceptions under the Lion Flag. They will use the Seven Days of Massacre to punish those who resist stubbornly and commemorate the dead heroes.

  Although the war has been deadlocked for a year, Vanus has no doubt about this.

  They are about to win!

  Originally, he and his men were going to participate in the winter offensive, but at this moment, a piece of news came from afar that could not be ignored.

  A mobile fortress is heading west!

  According to the intelligence collected, the fortress comes from the distant east coast and is controlled by a group of nobles from the enterprise – of course, in their own words, they are senior employees. Judging from the route, they seem to be planning to go west to find the whereabouts of Shelter No. 0.

  Coincidentally, the Legion is also very interested in Shelter No. 0.

  However, it stands to reason that this is not something the expeditionary force should intervene in, and it is not a wise choice to divide troops to provoke people from the enterprise at this juncture.

  Vanus raised an objection to General Kras, but the objection was rejected.

  According to General Kras, in order to break through the unbreakable Holy Shield system of the Great Rift Valley, the expeditionary force needs this mobile fortress to process nuclear materials for them and produce cheap and easy-to-use nuclear warheads.

  Although reluctant to admit it, their tactical nuclear bombs are almost used up…

  ”How long are we away from that fortress?”

  Hearing the voice of the commander, the adjutant behind Vanus reported in a deep voice.

  ”There are still 10 kilometers to go, sir.”

  Vanus nodded and said,

  ”Let’s stop here. If they are not blind, they must have discovered us.”

  The Legion did not have very advanced technology, but that did not mean they had not seen it.

  Vanus’s idea was very clear.

  Build fortifications, establish positions based on the jungle terrain, and then use artillery to attack their rear, eventually forcing them to surrender.

  I believe that as soon as the gunfire sounds, those weaklings who have never fought a hard battle will be in chaos.

  ”Lay tin foil and insulation foam, and build a command center here!”

  Stepping on the concrete bricks under his feet, looking at Vanus in the south, his eyes narrowed into a slit.

  ”Those tin cans are not easy to deal with, but they can’t stay there forever.”

  ”We’ll wait for them here!”

  …

  Pioneer, a light fixed-wing drone took off from above the fortress and hovered along the edge of the Elm District.

  At the same time, the combat command center.

  Lu Yang stared at the snow-like bright spots on the screen, and his brows gradually frowned.

  ”People from the Legion?”

  The drone operator in front of the console replied.

  ”It should be, Captain.”

  The bright spots that flickered were densely packed, more than 2,000, distributed on a battle line 2 kilometers wide and 2 kilometers deep, like beans scattered on the ground.

  In addition to the Legion, he couldn’t think of any other possibilities.

  Lu Yang had heard before that the Legion had a DNA fragment that was banned in pre-war society, which could increase the development speed of clones throughout their life cycle to 8 times that of normal people.

  These mass-produced cloned slaves only need 1 to 2 months to develop from embryos into babies that can leave the cabin. After being sent to the crowded nursery, they will complete the childhood stage that normal people need 8 years to complete in 1 year.

  In this 1 year, they will learn the language, or it doesn’t matter if they can’t learn it. When the time comes, they will be sent to facilities similar to the arena, where they will spend their second year – that is, the adolescent stage.

  During this stage, their mortality rate is as high as 50%, and some facilities that select elites can even reach 70%. These facilities will not teach them how to fight, but only serve as sieves to select those who can adapt to the battlefield, or beasts that are fierce enough.

  Those who come out alive will be sent to the front line on their 2nd birthday and become qualified cannon fodder.

  Because the development speed is 8 times that of normal people, their theoretical lifespan is only 10 to 15 years.

  But this is not a weakness, because in fact they can’t live that long. The Legion has never stopped fighting. Whether fighting against aliens, barbarians, mutants, or other survivors’ strongholds, the average lifespan of cannon fodder on the front line is less than 3 years, and the longest is no more than 5 years.

  There is a saying that many predators assimilated slave dungeons, tracing back to the source, learned from the Legion. They put the captured slaves in the dungeon, let them fight for food, destroy their spirit and rationality, turn the surviving lunatics into cannon fodder, and the surviving cannon fodder becomes their own people…

  But the Legion usually does not have the last step.

  This mass-produced clone can only be a slave, and the final fate can only be death in battle.

  In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of these cannon fodders, they will put an electric shock collar on each cannon fodder, and every ten cannon fodders will be equipped with a junior officer to supervise the battle, that is, the legion’s centurion.

  The team of nearly 2,000 people seems huge, but most of the cannon fodder cannot actually form combat effectiveness. In comparison, what Lu Yang cares more about is why these people are here.

  ”Did they say anything?”

  ”They didn’t respond to our radio request. Either they don’t have a radio at all, or they don’t want to pay attention to us at all.”

  Lu Yang nodded.

  ”The former possibility can be ruled out.”

  ”Then only the latter one remains,” Li De said cautiously, looking at Captain Lu, “We still have 4 tactical nuclear bombs left, which is more than enough to deal with 2,000 people.”

  ”This is the most optimistic scenario. 2,000 people are standing in the square for you to blow up,” Yi Hai, the adjutant of the Marine Corps, shook his head, “They are scattered in the forest and built fortifications. Unless we raze the entire forest to the ground… but this is impossible, the conservative estimate is 40 bombs.”

  Not to mention that the enemy is scattered in a mixed terrain of jungle and urban ruins, and there are obstacles and bunkers everywhere under that terrain that can be used.

  They only need to dig a few foxholes to greatly reduce the threat of explosives. And those cloned lunatics who are like beasts basically have no morale problems. Once the electric switch on their necks is turned on, they go crazy directly, which is better than stimulants.

  Lu Yang pondered and said, “Unless we get a nuclear fusion with a large enough equivalent.”

  Before Li De could speak, his secretary Wang Jie shook his head and said, “There is not enough uranium 235 reserves. We used too much before. Heavy hydrogen can only be extracted by the sea. If we want to make it… With the remaining energy we have now, we don’t have to consider it.”

  By the end of the Prosperous Era, the use of nuclear energy on this planet had evolved from the early DD fusion to the third generation of controlled nuclear fusion.

  That is, pure helium-tri-fusion.

  Under this reaction principle, two helium-tri-atoms undergo a fusion reaction, which will produce two protons and one helium atom, and no neutrons will be produced in between.

  The Pioneer used this technology, so it was naturally impossible for them to have nothing to do and stockpile tritium with a half-life of only twelve years.

  Li De rubbed his eyebrows and said with a headache.

  ”So what should we do now? Should we just watch them build fortifications right under our noses? They are less than four kilometers away from our resource collection point! As long as they move a little further east, they will find our construction site!”

  ”Maybe they have already found it, but they are too busy digging fortifications to do it now.” A veteran Marine Corps soldier made a reasonable assumption.

  ”Let’s do it! There is no need to be polite to them! The longer we delay, the harder it will be to chew this bone,” the Marine Corps adjutant put his fist on the table, “The range of ten kilometers is already very dangerous, we can’t let them continue.”

  Mercy does not mean weakness.

  Besides, since they are members of the Legion, there is no need to hold back when dealing with that group of organized looters.

  Lu Yang is not a hesitant person. He pinched his chin and thought for a moment. After weighing the pros and cons, he made a decision in just three seconds.

  ”Launch the offensive at 8 o’clock in the evening!”

  The Legion has very few high-tech equipment, and the most advanced technology is only a single-soldier nuclear missile launcher and a laser rifle, which are mainly equipped with elite troops.

  As for these people, it is obvious that they are still far from the elite. They probably only have some recoilless guns or rocket launchers, not to mention self-guided rockets, and they may not even have wire guidance.

  The Marines of the Pioneer Corps not only have powerful power armor, but also have integrated night vision goggles and thermal imaging functions in the helmet eyepieces. There are also fixed-wing aircraft in the sky for air support.

  When it gets dark, just treat them as blind people!

  Lu Yang narrowed his eyes slightly while staring at the big screen.

  ”Since they refuse to communicate.”

  ”Then use Caliber to teach them to speak human language!”

  …

  Action camp.

  The players who went to the northern city to pick up garbage were returning from the construction site, chatting and laughing, and taking over from the Africans and newbies who came from the outpost.

  Standing in the center of the camp, looking at the vast sea of ​​people returning from afar, Quitting Smoking opened his voice and shouted excitedly.

  ”Group leader! Fang Chang! Kuangfeng! Ye Shi! Where are you?”

  He shouted for a while, and soon, four little players who looked like they had just crawled out of a coal mine came over and patted his shoulders with a smile.

  ”Sure, man, you finally came up.”

  Quitting Smoking: “Hey, it’s all tears if I say too much! So, who are you?”

  Fang Chang said with a smile: “I’m Fang Chang! The one who doesn’t shave is Lao Bai, the one next to him who is the most coquettish is Ye Shi, and the one who is reserved and coquettish is Kuang Feng.”

  Ye Shi said with a grin: “I don’t agree! What do you mean I’m the coquettish? Isn’t Kuang Feng the coquettishest? Even though this guy doesn’t talk usually, he can still make it to the first echelon with the intelligence department. Isn’t that enough to show how wretched he is?”

  Kuang Feng: “Get out.”

  Lao Bai went up and patted Quitting Smoking’s shoulder, said with a hearty smile.

  ”It’s really not easy for you! I remember you made an appointment when it was version 0.1, right? It should have been the easiest time to get an appointment at that time. Later, more and more people came, and it became more difficult to queue up!”

  Quitting Smoking was excited: “Oh, it’s all tears! I really watched the appointment threshold increase from 10 questions to 100 questions. I drew 7 times in a row and didn’t win once. I was about to break.”

  Lao Bai sighed: “It’s okay, you are not the only African. Didn’t you see that many brothers on the forum have started to update “Queue Diary”? The closed beta qualification of this game is indeed a little less. It should be much better when the internal beta starts.”

  ”Actually, it’s quite a lot,” Fang Chang said with a smile, “Which game company can give so many equipment to players for free? There are already 400 helmets, right? Everyone is waiting anxiously, mainly because the game is a bit unfinished. I’m quite surprised that only one bug was encountered after such a long period of closed beta.”

  Ye Shi said with a smile, “Brother Guang said that I’m working overtime now. Even if you lick me, I can’t hear what you are saying.”

  Fang Chang: “Fuck! Is your father that kind of person!”

  Lao Bai put his right hand on Quitting Smoking’s shoulder.

  ”Enough of the nonsense, brother Quitting Smoking. We are going back to the outpost in a while. There is still a dungeon over there that we haven’t cleared yet. Teng Teng has mastered the weaving skills a few days ago. With so many people waiting to change their armor, the demand for the devil moth’s cocoon will definitely increase. It just so happens that we have finished the mission here, so we plan to spend some time to take down the B1 floor of the greenhouse ruins.”

  ”Just follow the main force in a while, get familiar with the operation first, the process of this game is quite simple.”

  ”When you return to the outpost, we will take you to the dungeon to level up!”

  Hearing that there is a big guy who wants to take him, Quitting Smoking nodded happily, his face was full of smiles.

  ”Okay, big brother! I will definitely work hard and get the equipment first, and I will not fall behind!”

  Ye Shiyi sighed.

  ”You newcomers are really lucky. You came out just in time for the expansion pack, and it’s a big expansion pack with a new map! Once you get the rewards for this expansion pack, you can graduate directly from the Novice Village. We had to build our own furnaces to burn cement and iron blocks, and fight with bows and spears.”

  ”Yeah, compared to ‘Land Boat’, ‘Winter Is Coming’ is just a little brother. There is no equipment, no food, not even a PV of pie in the sky, and you have to fight with bricks.” Fang Chang also sighed, “You are simply chosen by heaven. You have everything as soon as you come out.”

  Quitting touched his nose embarrassedly and said with a smile.

  ”Low-key, hehe… When you say that, I suddenly feel that I am quite lucky.”

  Ye Shi laughed.

  ”Are you moved?”

  ”Of course!”

  At this time, thunder suddenly came from the distance.

  The five friends in the cattle and horse herd looked towards the north in unison, curious about what happened behind the snow curtain.

  However, at this moment, Ye Shi’s face suddenly changed slightly.

  The crisis omen that surged into his mind made him shout loudly almost instinctively.

  ”Lie down!”

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  (Next chapter will be updated at 11 o’clock! October’s daily 2/30!)

  (End of this chapter)