Chapter 188 What Year Is It Now?

  Chapter 188 What year is it now?

  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 attached to 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, hugged his shoulders and rubbed them, looking 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 or something…”

  What a stupid thing to say.

  Hearing this brainless speech, Teng Teng sighed and said.

  ”It’s impossible. After all, it’s a science fiction game. Even if something really runs out, it should be a gnat, leech or a big spider, right?”

  ”Hey! Don’t scare me.”

  Ya Ya stopped and didn’t dare to move forward.

  Teng Teng looked back at her helplessly.

  ”I just said it casually, so what…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, Ya Ya’s face turned red, and after a while of embarrassment, she whispered.

  ”I…I’m not very good at fighting. Experience is gained when gathering.”

  Although the level has increased, the combat experience is almost 0…Teng Teng tried to understand, this should be what he meant.

  ”It’s okay, me too…But I thought that since you have died once, you should have some experience in this area.”

  Ya Ya said with a bitter face.

  ”That’s what you said, but I don’t want to die. Do you know how hard it is to endure a night without a helmet?”

  Indeed.

  Teng Teng couldn’t imagine how boring a night without a helmet would be.

  This game is simply addictive.

  Since getting a helmet, the social needs in reality have completely dropped to 0. After work, she completely disappeared, and no one sent messages to harass her anymore, and she pretended not to see them.

  A world where you don’t have to deal with complex interpersonal relationships and can do what you want without any scruples is simply great!

  With his hands on Yaya’s back, Teng Teng urged her to move forward.

  ”Yes, yes, yes… Let’s go quickly. If we wait any longer, the Easter eggs will get cold.”

  ”Ah, don’t push me.”

  If there was something in front, they would have 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…

  Yaya has a lot of meat, so I should be able to eat it 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 the end.

  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 Yaya saw these hibernation capsules, her 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, Yaya’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. 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. 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 has lost power?” Ya Ya, who was standing behind Teng Teng, didn’t care. He rubbed his chin with his right hand and stared at the mummies in the hibernation capsule and fell into deep thought.

  Seeing that she was still interested in observing, Teng Teng couldn’t help swallowing his saliva and whispered nervously.

  ”You, you are not afraid?”

  Ya Ya tilted her head.

  ”Well… if I have to say, I’m not completely afraid. Even with the filter, the model is pretty realistic, but this is a game, right?”

  ”Well, even if it’s a game…”

  Yaya continued as a matter of course.

  ”And what’s there to be afraid of if it’s already dead? It’s not a moving monster. Anyway, compared to the slimy mutant leeches, this is much better.”

  Teng Teng: “…” It’s

  totally incomprehensible!

  She didn’t think it was good at all.

  While she was talking, Yaya had already walked to the side of another hibernation capsule.

  She was mumbling something in her mouth, while shining the light of the VM on the floor, searching along 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 over 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 air leaked out from the gap between the hatch and the cabin of the hibernation cabin, and then the frost-covered hatch slowly opened.

  Teng Teng noticed that in the cabin that looked like an ice coffin, there was a young lady in a blue coat.

  She looked young, about twenty years old, with slender and soft features, and a physique between himself and Ya Ya. What was particularly eye-catching was her long silver-white hair – and blue eyes.

  As the hatch opened, the person also woke up from her deep sleep.

  However, it seemed that because she had just woken up, her expression was a little dull. After a long time, she looked around blankly. Her

  sight fell on Ya Ya, who was closest to her. The woman lying in the cabin spoke in a hoarse voice.

  ”What year is it now?”

  Teng Teng and Ya Ya looked at each other.

  ”What did she say?”

  ”It seems she said ‘now’?” Occasionally, nomads would come to her stall to buy mushrooms. Ya Ya 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 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 struggled to raise her weak arm and held her right hand.

  ”DNA… Can you lend me some? I want to study it.”

  Ya Ya looked confused.

  Ah, this…

  is she saying thank you to herself?

  ”…You’re welcome?”

  As if she realized her abruptness from Yaya’s confused expression, the woman took her hand back embarrassedly and coughed lightly.

  ”Sorry… my occupational disease has come back.”

  Teng Teng and Yaya 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… Can you understand what she is saying?”

  ”I can’t understand it at all!”

  ”Then… let’s take her to the guard first.”

  The two reached a consensus.

  ”That’s the only way.”

  …

  On the road leading to Changjiu Farm.

  Vanus, sitting in the back of the truck, had his shoulders bumping 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 would take the trouble to build 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 occupied an area, the first thing it did was to repair the road to that place, and if conditions permitted, it would also build a railway.

  Even though it was extremely difficult to maintain a stable transportation route in the wasteland, only by ensuring smooth logistics could the combat effectiveness of the front-line troops be guaranteed.

  In order to ensure smooth logistics, they would even arrange young junior officers to patrol along the Legion’s road network with clone light infantry. 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 it seemed that they had not been cruelly abused, but their expressions seemed confused and numb.

  Admiring his expression of being eaten up, Lu Bei laughed and said nothing.

  What a joke!

  Do you need to say anything about the wisdom of the administrator?

  Stupid captive!

  Ten kilometers is not far, and it is a nearly straight road, so there are not many places to slow down in the middle. The truck arrived at the station quickly.

  Lu Bei pushed his back with the butt of the gun and signaled him to get off the truck.

  Vanus didn’t say anything. He didn’t even think about running away in this horrible weather. He jumped off the truck obediently.

  After getting off the truck, Lu Bei put the rifle on his back, walked to the south gate of Changjiu Farm on the snow, and saluted the guard on duty at the gate.

  ”I brought the war criminals here on the order of the administrator.”

  The slightly older guard looked at him and nodded.

  ”Well done, the administrator is in the middle room, you should take the man over quickly.”

  ”Yes!”

  Lu Bei turned around with great energy and waved to Vanus, signaling him to come over.

  ”Listen, I’m taking you to see the administrator now, you’d better watch your words and deeds.”

  Vanus said meekly.

  ”Yes, sir, I will.”

  It had been a while since they last met, and he wanted to meet the man who had defeated him on the battlefield.

  Although the man who defeated him on the front battlefield was Lu Yang, he did not have much respect for those profiteers who could only stand opposite him with the power of their equipment.

  Instead, he was more impressed by the survivors who rushed to the flank of his position without fear of death.

  When he was in the prisoner-of-war camp, Vanus heard his centurion say how brave the 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 leader with charisma could make his soldiers have such a noble spirit of sacrifice and enthusiasm?

  After this period of hard work and communication with the brick factory workers, 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, a blazing fire could be seen.

  Lu Bei went forward and knocked on the door. After receiving a reply to come in, he took Vanus in.

  There were quite a few people sitting in the room, including the manager Luca, the captain of the guard, and two people he had never seen or recognized.

  They seemed to be discussing something.

  Vanus noticed that when he walked into the room, everyone looked at him.

  Especially the tall stranger, who paused slightly after seeing his nose, 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 the land loss, and the other is probably a migrating herdsman, and 80% of them are from the northern or central areas of the River Valley Province.

  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 administrator, Lu Bei straightened his back, put his right hand on his chest, and said respectfully – 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 administrator 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 too bad to describe. The hills were blown into depressions by shells, and the hard ground turned into 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 didn’t dare to 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. The defeated soldiers of the legion fled everywhere. We were unlucky to run into two of them. It took five people to kill one and control the other. After asking, we learned that the people of the Great Rift Valley won, the expeditionary army of the legion 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 didn’t feel a ripple in his heart. Until half a month ago, he still firmly believed that General Kras was invincible, but now he felt relieved.

  It’s finally over.

  Jiuli, who was standing in the house, glanced at him, his mouth twitched slightly, with a slightly mocking expression, but he didn’t expect that the man didn’t even look at him, so he retracted his gaze 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.” The

  legion’s people said it themselves.

  The credibility should be quite high.

  Chu Guang fell into deep thought.

  At this time, the guard captain Wrench standing aside stepped forward and said with a serious expression.

  ”Sir, if the legion’s defeated soldiers continue to move south, I’m afraid we will encounter those locusts soon. 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 Elm District and the northern urban area.”

  Old Luca also advised.

  ”That’s what I thought.”

  Building defense lines and expanding patrol areas are the most basic and inevitable things. 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 by TS 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 said that in the central and western parts of the Valley Province, a huge predator tribe is rising rapidly. Some people say that they have absorbed some of the legion’s defeated soldiers, and some people say that they are the legion’s defeated soldiers themselves. They burn, kill, rob and abuse, and do all kinds of evil.”

  Chu Guang asked.

  ”What are their names?”

  The nomad whispered.

  ”Chew bones, sir, I remember it was called chew bones.”

  ”It must be the group of people in the legion!” Jiuli cursed, “Those bugs are just like the plague. Where they are, there will be no good things!”

  Vanus didn’t dare to say a word and tried to pretend to be air.

  Luca looked at Chu Guang and said in a low voice.

  ”Sir, the chaos is spreading. I have a bad feeling.”

  Is there still a need for a premonition?

  Chu Guang tapped the armrest of the chair with his index finger. He stared at the nomad in front of him with an uneasy 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 middle-aged laborers. Obviously, they have encountered many battles along the way.

  What Chu Guang was more interested in was that in addition to carrying 5 yaks, these people also raised a certain number of poultry.

  This is definitely a pleasant surprise.

  He hasn’t eaten tea eggs for a long time. I don’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 have 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 it.

  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.

  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 spoke.

  ”Now, let’s discuss your problem.”

  ——

  (The next chapter will be out at 11 o’clock. As usual, I will correct the typos first… In addition, I opened a “Drama” section in the book review area yesterday. Those who are interested can make an appointment. It’s too difficult to find “Drama” in the book review area, and sometimes I see it but forget it. (｀ω))

  (End of this chapter)