Chapter 345: The Ground is Full of “Evolved Bodies”
Chapter 345 The ground is full of “evolutions”
The sky above Qingquan City.
A “Dragonfly” transport plane is circling along the edge of the Fifth Ring Road.
Looking at the endless yellow-green fog outside the cabin, Unprofessional Fan Man couldn’t help but smack his tongue, and surprise appeared in his eyes.
The spore cloud gathered in the city center is like a waterfall rolling down from the clouds. From a distance, it looks like a giant tree with lush branches and leaves. The
towering trunk devours the earth, and the outstretched branches invade the sky. Are
there really weapons in reality that can destroy this thing?
Even a nuclear bomb…
A faint chill crawled along the line of sight. Brother Mantou shook his head and picked up the walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder and shouted.
”Are you ready?”
Lao Bai’s intermittent voice came from the headset with the sound of the blasting microphone.
”OK.”
The signal has begun to fluctuate unstably. Intuition tells Brother Mantou that without the protection of anti-electromagnetic interference equipment, this is already the limit of what the aircraft can approach.
He pulled the joystick on the side.
With an unstable tremor, the locked door at the tail of the plane slowly dropped down, and the restless airflow swept into the cabin.
”The door is open–”
”Good luck to you!”
At the same time, Lao Bai, who was standing at the door of the cabin, gestured to his teammates behind him, and stepped out of the cabin first against the whistling airflow.
The camera zoomed out, and saw several black dots separated from the cabin and rushed towards the center of Qingquan City. Soon, six parachutes bloomed in the sky above the Third Ring Road.
After landing, everyone quickly gathered in the direction of the airdropped supplies to recover the ammunition and RPG rocket launchers and other support equipment placed there.
At the same time, on the other side.
Located on the edge of the West Third Ring Road, the Boulder City, in the radar station located on the giant wall, the operator on duty had already discovered the plane hovering in the air.
”The UFO is approaching our airspace!” The operator sitting in front of the radar control terminal was the first to discover the red dot on the screen.
However, instead of being nervous, he shouted excitedly.
The radar station was instantly busy.
Most of the staff here felt the same as him at the moment.
It has been a long time since they have seen aircraft from other survivor forces appear within the radar warning area.
”Damn it, I’m sure! It’s the stuff of those scavengers in the northern suburbs!” An operator cursed excitedly.
”The other party didn’t respond to our communication!”
”Could it be that they don’t have radio equipment to receive signals?”
”Haha, it’s possible!”
As he said this, the colleague sitting next to him had already operated the air defense system and aimed a rapid-fire cannon at the slow-moving silver “big bird”.
The computer had calculated the pre-aiming circle based on the aircraft’s motion parameters.
He only needed to press the fire button, and the silver big bird would turn into a ball of fire.
”The other party has entered our range!”
”Do you want to shoot it down?”
Unlike the excited operators in the radar station, the stationmaster in charge of managing the radar station was obviously much more cautious.
”Wait a little longer.”
The plane did not continue to move towards the Giant Stone City, but quickly turned around and headed back to the northern suburbs of Qingquan City.
The staff operating the weapons looked a little disappointed.
He has been sitting on the bench for almost ten years, and the air defense system on the giant wall has never been used.
A staff member said indignantly.
”This is a provocation to us!”
”Whether it is a provocation or not is up to the city lord to decide,” the stationmaster of the radar station interrupted him and looked at his deputy, “Report this incident immediately!”
The deputy standing next to him nodded.
”Yes!”
…
South Third Ring Road, Qingquan City.
The five members of the Bull and Horse Squad landed safely and successfully met near the airdrop box and took the weapons placed inside.
However, everyone’s expression was not optimistic.
The situation here is far worse than they imagined.
It can even be said that…
it was completely beyond their expectations.
The dark red fungal carpets almost covered every building, every viaduct, and every inch of the street.
The hideous gnawers, and those slime mold species that are more ferocious than the gnawers, wandered aimlessly on the fragmented streets.
The most difficult thing is not only these, but also the complicated terrain, which makes the risk factor here multiplied.
The high-rise buildings deep in the clouds are connected by tunnels, making this place a real “steel forest”.
When he parachuted down earlier, Ye Shi almost got hung on the pedestrian bridge.
Fortunately, he was lucky. The parachute passed through the middle of the two broken bridges, so he landed safely and reunited with his teammates smoothly.
”Oh my God… So the city center of Qingquan City looks like this.”
On the 50th floor of a thousand-meter-high building, Ye Shi, wearing a gas mask, stood next to the broken wall, holding a telescope and looking in the direction of the crash site.
The crashed W-1 Mosquito glider was stuck on the outer wall of the high-rise building opposite them, and the front half of its body was inserted into the wall.
Luo Yu should be inside.
Ye Shi glanced at his feet.
Below him was an abyss with no bottom in sight. The thick spore cloud was like water in a pool of venom, and the area that could be observed was very limited.
Due to the spore cloud gathered in the city center, the visibility here is less than 200 meters.
However, in fact, due to the countless construction waste and reinforced concrete, the actual visibility is less than half of this number.
This is much more exciting than the wave.
”Haven’t you explored here before?” Quitting said nervously.
Kuangfeng shook his head.
”I haven’t heard of anyone coming here.”
Fang Chang also said: “There are no tasks here, and you can’t save the game. Even if you come here, it’s meaningless.”
You can’t go far without high-value equipment, and you have to consider the risks if you bring high-value equipment.
This game does not restrict players to specific gameplay, but it also emphasizes that everyone is an adult and needs to be responsible for their own choices.
In fact, earlier, they tried to start from the Boulder City and explore in the direction of the Third Ring Road.
However, the aliens encountered along the way became stronger and stronger, and they wasted a lot of bullets without any benefits, so they gave up in the end.
Carefully observing the situation on the way forward, Ye Shi’s face became heavier and heavier, and he lowered his voice and said.
”…There are quite a few evolutions here!”
Hearing the word evolution, everyone’s expression immediately became serious.
”Decadent Knight?” Lao Bai said solemnly.
Ye Shi shook his head and did not speak, but gently pointed to the concrete viaduct outside the high-rise building, which was connected to another building. There
were wreckages of cargo drones lying there, and there were nearly a hundred of them at a rough count, and there were packages and takeout boxes from two hundred years ago beside them.
The dark red shell looked like it was rusted, but if you take a closer look with a telescope, you will find that the surface of those drones is not rust at all.
It is a shocking fungal blanket!
”Those things… I can sense that they are alive,” Ye Shi paused and said in a deep voice, “and I’m afraid they are not easy to deal with!”
Kuangfeng frowned.
”Should we go around them?”
”The situation down there isn’t much better. Have you forgotten what we saw when we came up?” Lao Bai took out the RPG rocket launcher behind him, inserted a high-explosive grenade, and gestured to Quitting who was carrying a heavy machine gun, “We can only try.”
Going around is impossible.
The difficulty of stealth in this game is extremely high, especially for those mutant slime molds. In places covered by spore clouds, it’s like there’s a search antenna on their heads.
Get a little closer, and they’ll rush up with a roar.
The best strategy is to choose a relatively safe path, lure out the monsters in the area and clear them, and then move on.
Seeing Lao Bai take out the RPG, the other team members also tacitly went to their respective combat positions and opened the safety of their weapons.
”I’m ready.”
”I’m OK here too.” ”
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Everyone cooperated very well. After all, this was not the first time they formed a team, and they had already experienced countless battlefield trials.
Seeing that his teammates were ready one after another, Lao Bai was the first to pull the trigger.
Tail flame spray!
A high-explosive grenade blasted into the middle of the dense group of drones!
As the flames and smoke exploded instantly, a large number of drones were blown away by the shock wave and fragments of the explosion and fell downwards.
Not far away, the smoker who set up a machine gun also pulled the trigger at the first time, venting fierce firepower towards the area ahead. The
accumulated 10mm bullets formed an orange-yellow rain of fire in the air, madly harvesting the group of drones that were startled and floating.
”Fuck… Can this thing really fly?” Fang Chang, who was firing with a rifle, had a hint of surprise in his eyes.
Two hundred years, unless it is nuclear power, no matter how durable the chemical energy battery is, it can’t last that long!
Obviously, those mutant slime molds replaced the batteries on the drones and became a new power source, and drove the propellers in a peculiar way, and even evolved part of the fungal blanket into the propeller itself.
However-
in the face of absolute firepower, these are nothing. The group of drones that rushed out with billowing smoke were harvested by bullets in large areas.
Everything seemed to be going well.
However, at this moment, something strange happened!
The drones that were knocked down by the high-explosive grenade did not all fall to the ground and break into pieces. Some of the surviving little guys swayed and flew up again.
At the same time, more and more drones floated out from the viaduct and even the building opposite, and even began to outflank from both sides.
The Niu Ma Squad guarding behind the bunker immediately fell into a bitter battle.
”Damn! This number is too much, right?!” After emptying the entire drum, Quitting Smoking cursed and immediately changed the magazine.
At this time, Kuangfeng, who was pulling the trigger and pouring fire, suddenly spoke.
”Is there a possibility?”
Fang Chang: “What do you want to say?”
”The mimicry ability of the mutant slime mold imitates not only individual drones, but the drone group itself…” After a pause, Kuangfeng continued, “In short, it is not a certain express package that attacks us, but an entire express cabinet.”
Ye Shi was shocked.
”Fuck! Don’t be such a pessimist!”
”It’s not really a pessimist. As long as we find the ‘drone hive’ that controls these little guys, we should be able to make them lose their organization…”
Seeing that the machine gun that quit smoking had resumed its firepower, Kuangfeng took out the drone with an IED tied to it from his backpack and prepared to control it to fly to the building opposite.
VM turned on.
The neural access device was put on his head.
However, at this moment, Kuangfeng’s expression suddenly froze.
Noticing the change in his expression, Ye Shi asked hurriedly.
”What’s the situation?”
Kuangfeng, who was holding the headset, frowned, glanced at the VM screen in front of him, and said in a deep voice.
”Can’t connect…”
Damn it.
There was obviously a little signal left!
”%￥#@!”
Ye Shi cursed and knocked off the empty magazine on his rifle.
No one can be counted on now.
If you want to survive, you can only do your best to shoot down all the drones in front of you!
However, at this moment, a drone suddenly broke through the firepower network, passed through the broken wall on the side of the building, and rushed towards Ye Shi.
Warning signs suddenly rose in my heart!
Ye Shi reflexively loosened the magazine in his hand and pulled out the centurion pistol inserted in the gun belt.
However –
even though he was warned of the danger in advance, his hand was still a step slow.
The drone covered with dark red fungal carpet slammed into him head-on, and the tentacles extending from the bottom of the fuselage popped out as fast as lightning and slammed into his face.
Ye Shi only had time to see a flash of black shadow, and then his consciousness fell into endless darkness. A
light blue pop-up window appeared.
[Connection disconnected]
At the same time, in another world.
In a dormitory of the boys’ dormitory at Jiangcheng University, a sudden ghost cry suddenly rang out.
”Zhao!”
Hearing the noise coming from the bed, the animals sitting below playing PUBG were stunned on the spot, and their hands stopped pressing the gun.
What’s going on?
The dormitory was silent.
Sun Qian turned his head to look at the bed behind him. Just as he was about to ask what happened, the voice of A Wei’s brother floated over from the bed.
”Sao Rui…something happened just now.”
Ye Wei, who was sitting on the bed, stared at the helmet in his hand, his chest rising and falling slowly.
The three roommates looked at each other.
Although they didn’t know what happened, they were glad that the person was okay.
”Well…it’s a small problem, it’s nothing.”
”We don’t care, but you should take care of your health…”
”Indeed, you are playing R18 games and shouting so loudly, it’s hard for us brothers not to worry about you.”
Ye Wei: “…”
MMP!
These guys!
Ye Wei rolled his eyes and threw the helmet beside the pillow.
He got up and climbed down the bed with the ladder. He went to the balcony to wash his face, leaned against the guardrail, took out his mobile phone, and glanced at the small group.
”Is anyone there?” He sent a message.
After a long while, no one replied.
Seeing this, Ye Wei breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed that everyone was fine, and only he accidentally gave it away.
However, when he thought that he would not be able to log in for the next three days, he felt depressed.
Oh my god.
The withdrawal reaction has begun!
Just when Ye Wei was about to close the Q group and go to the official website to see what new things the idiots have done, a message suddenly popped up in the group.
A Guang: “Yes, what happened?”
Seeing this ID that suddenly resurrected, Ye Shi was shocked.
What the hell?
Dog planner!
”Brother Guang?!”
”You are still alive?”
Suddenly realizing that there seemed to be something wrong with his question, Ye Wei quickly withdrew the message and typed a sentence below at the speed of light.
”Uh, I mean you actually remembered your account password.”
A Guang: “…”
Ye Wei looked a little embarrassed and sent a dog head to ease the atmosphere.
However, the broad-minded Brother Guang did not care about such a small matter and quickly took the initiative to change the subject.
A Guang: “How is the situation over there? Have you encountered the enemy?”
Isn’t this asking knowingly?
However, it was a rare opportunity to chat with the dog planner, so Ye Wei answered truthfully.
”Well, we ran into aliens not long after we landed. The situation inside the Third Ring Road was worse than we expected, on the ground, in the sky, and underground… The complicated traffic was like a maze, and paper maps and compasses were completely useless. In the end, we had to rely on VM and weak signals to determine our location.”
”Then there were aliens… There were not only gnawers, crawlers, and tyrants, but also a large number of ancient machines active in this area.”
A Guang: “Ancient machines?”
Ye Wei continued typing.
”They were evolutions! For example, the power armor wrapped in slime mold, tanks, self-propelled robots, etc. that appeared in the previous Wave expansion pack… Anyway, they were all strange and weird things.”
”Oh, and there were also drones! We encountered a large group of them on the way to the crash site, as dense as locusts!”
A Guang: “Can you tell me in detail about the situation of those evolutions?”
After a few seconds, he added a sentence at the end.
”I mainly want to know what’s going on in the new map from the player’s perspective.”
Although he felt a little strange, Ye Wei didn’t think much about it. He scratched the screen of his mobile phone and described his experience in the Third Ring Road to A Guang in detail.
After a while, A Guang replied.
”Well, I roughly understand.”
After laying the groundwork for so long, Ye Wei immediately typed.
”Brother Guang, is the difficulty in the Third Ring Road too high? The equipment can’t keep up, and it’s hard to advance with just a few light weapons.”
”It is strongly recommended that the weapon store put power armor on the shelves!”
There are too many high-level monsters!
This level design is simply unreasonable!
However-
A Guang didn’t seem to intend to adopt his suggestion.
”I can’t do anything about the difficulty. Part of the game content is generated by the server itself, and part is added by the players. We are only responsible for maintaining the server operation and handling violations… Sorry.”
”I have something to do here, so I’ll log off first and talk later.”
Automatically generating game content is fine.
What kind of Ubisoft behavior is this?
Looking at the two lines of messages on the screen, Ye Wei looked helpless.
Regardless of whether he believed it or not, A Guang had no intention of continuing to explain to him. After asking what he wanted to ask, he went offline without mercy.
He was the only one left in the group.
There was no point in continuing to watch. The lonely Ye Wei sighed, closed the group chat window, opened the browser and logged into the forum. The forum
was very lively at this time .
The speed at which the gossip section refreshed the screen was dizzying. Almost every time it was refreshed, the posts on the homepage would be completely replaced.
At this moment, Ye Wei was suddenly surprised to find that A Guang had secretly updated an announcement while he was not paying attention?
Curiously, he clicked in to take a look, and he was stunned on the spot.
[Map information update: Qingquan City Center]
[Map Overview: The central area of Qingquan City has been completely destroyed by the erosion of slime mold. A large number of equipment left over from the prosperous era have been assimilated by the fruiting bodies of mutant slime molds, forming an evolutionary body with a special structure…]
[Recommended exploration level: LV.25 or above]
[Map Tips 1: Recover the remains of the evolutionary body and exchange them for high rewards in the scientific expedition team! 】
【……】
The recommended exploration level and map tips are not bad.
But the “map overview” column…
why does it look so familiar? ?
…
Wasteland world.
Dawn City Industrial Zone, train platform near Bachi Aluminum Factory.
The staff were busy operating the crane equipment, loading some large equipment that had been disassembled into parts onto the pallets of the freight train.
The industrial zone of the New Alliance is moving northward.
This work will be carried out simultaneously with the construction of Dawn City.
By then, the industrial zone of Dawn City will be transformed into a light industrial base mainly producing consumer goods. Heavy
industries including steel, weapons, and heavy equipment production will be transferred to Dawn City in the north.
After listening to Xiaoyu’s introduction, Pai asked curiously.
”Why are you moving north?”
Xiaoyu said helplessly.
”Because it’s too close to our neighbors.”
Pai asked in depth.
”Do you have a bad relationship with them?”
She put her index finger on her chin, thought seriously for a while, and answered.
”Well… I can’t say whether it’s good or not. To use Brother Chu’s words, we are too close to them, and it’s dangerous for both of us.”
Of course, there are also a series of factors such as the north is closer to the source of raw materials and has a larger population, but it’s too troublesome to explain in detail. Xiaoyu herself only has a vague understanding, so she simply omitted it.
”Okay.”
Accepting this explanation, Pai put this insignificant matter aside for the time being and continued to search around the material pile area.
Xiaoyu looked at her movements and asked curiously.
”What are you looking for?”
”Some raw materials!”
”Raw materials?”
”Nothing, don’t worry about it, it won’t hurt you anyway!”
Looking at Pai with a confident face, Xiaoyu tilted his head in confusion. Although he was still very curious, he didn’t ask more questions in the end.
”Okay… Can I help you?”
”Really? That’s great!” Pai’s eyes lit up, and excitedly gestured the size of a cup with his hands, “First, I need a bottle of crude oil, it doesn’t matter what kind… probably this much is enough!”
In order to teach that rude guy a profound lesson.
This is the necessary material!
”Raw, crude oil?” Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment and asked in a low voice, “Can biomass crude oil be used?”
Pai touched his chin and thought for a while.
”Biomass crude oil… It’s a bit troublesome, but it’s okay!”
”Anyway, get a bottle first and see!”
…
On the other side.
In the south of Shuguang City, the sanatorium in Linghu Wetland Park.
Chu Guang had just learned about the situation in the city center from Ye Shi, and was about to continue to conceive the unfinished reform plan and the updated content of Beta0.3 version.
However, just as he was staring at the newly created folder on the screen, thinking about what title would be more appropriate, an unexpected call suddenly came to him.
Seeing that the communication request came from the “New Alliance Office in Boulder City”, Chu Guang temporarily stopped the work at hand and pressed the connect button.
Soon, Shu Yu’s voice came from the other end of the phone.
”Five minutes ago, someone from the Boulder City City Hall came to me.”
Someone from the City Hall?
A hint of surprise appeared in Chu Guang’s eyes.
”What did they say?”
Shu Yu continued.
”About trade and security issues…”
”The director of the City Hall hopes to talk to you on the phone.”
(End of this chapter)
