Chapter 407: New expansion preview, and communication from the East Coast
Chapter 407: Preview of the new expansion pack, and communication from the East Coast
”… I saw two infantrymen rushing up, and in a flash, I slid and swung my claws at the same time, and then with two clicks, the man was split in two from the middle, including his armor!”
Next to the campfire.
Sitting on the ground, [Garbage Picker Level 99] was describing his bravery on the battlefield in vivid detail. Next to him sat a group of new recruits from the Death Corps, who were listening to his bragging with shining eyes.
Although the pre-ordered exoskeleton has not arrived yet, it does not seem to affect Garbage Brother’s use of his flexible mouth and tongue to kill people everywhere.
”Fuck!”
”Big brother is awesome!”
”Awesome, big brother, can I ride it next time?”
Garbage rubbed his nose with his claws and smiled smugly.
”Next time for sure!”
Due to a series of factors including weight, body shape, and the “hard-working” debuff, Junji did not participate in the airborne operation, but followed the Death Corps to participate in the frontal battlefield charge.
And he was also the mount of Edge.
Although Junji refused at first, seeing that other Death Claws were lying down obediently, he was a little curious about what it felt like to be ridden, so he agreed.
However, although his body in the game is a lizard, he is still a human in spirit, so his fighting style also continues his human habits, which makes him feel awkward in various senses when he fights as a mount.
For example, although the posture of “upper limbs leaning forward and tail curled back” is more suitable for this body, he can’t help but stand up and curl up his tail.
This also makes the person riding on his back very awkward, and the whole person has to lie on his back, just like rock climbing.
After listening to this guy bragging for a long time, Edge couldn’t help but complain.
”Your slide was fun, and then you threw me to the ground.”
The debt-eye sitting next to him laughed and teased.
”Why do you always like to slide?”
Irena replied with a funny face.
”Maybe he is jealous of other people’s crotches.”
”Hahaha!”
There was a burst of laughter around.
Trash blushed, although the redness was not very obvious.
”Isn’t it… that setting? If there is, it must be bigger than you!”
The eyes of the construction site boy and the brick lit up.
”I believe this, I have seen it in other game mods.”
Debt-eye: “Brother, lend me a pen to talk.”
Awakened by the laughter, Neeko, who was dozing on the ground, opened half of her eyes and saw the noisy little thing, and her nose couldn’t help but snorted.
Too weak.
Moreover, there is no armor.
Curling up the thick tail, it rested on the exoskeleton that exuded the smell of blood, changed its posture and continued to sleep.
Happy enough, edge paddling sighed.
”Ah… I should ride my own mount. Not to mention the riding experience, it feels weird. Although this guy is a eunuch, he is still a man under the skin… This is the last time, brother, you should go by yourself next time.”
Trash couldn’t help but spray.
”Fuck you! Who insisted on riding me?”
There was another happy voice next to the campfire.
There was a campfire not far away.
Ya Ya, who had been eavesdropping on the players, covered his stomach with laughter. Teng Teng, who was sitting next to him, couldn’t help but curl his mouth and poked the fire with a branch.
Dinner was beef stewed with potatoes. The beef and potatoes were all military rations seized from the legion camp.
The legion is different from the plunderer. They don’t eat people. At most, they are made into soap. The beef in the warehouse can still be trusted.
The battlefield guy guaranteed this. The meat was slaughtered from the two-headed cows robbed from the merchants and fellow villagers.
At this time, Ye Shi came over from the airship with a foam box in his arms.
The exoskeleton of the light cavalry has turned into a bandage. His whole state now is like a mummy that has been half-finished.
It is a miracle that he can walk without a cane.
”The manager said to give us a meal!”
”The manager’s food?!” Yaya patted the dust on her hands and stood up with anticipation, “What is it?”
She is always fed as a taster, and no one knows better than her how many delicious foods the manager “hides”.
”Hey, ice cream! Confiscated from the airship!”
Ye Shi opened the box and handed her one, then looked at Teng Teng, and gave her the biggest one a little embarrassedly.
”Thank you.”
Teng Teng didn’t feel unnatural and took it casually.
Although she is only 1.5 meters tall in the game, she is not in reality.
Ye Shi didn’t know how to find a topic, so he said something to make conversation.
”That… my sister? That Jiujiu.”
Teng Teng thought about how to describe it for a while, but before he could speak, Yaya on the side spoke without restraint.
”Dead… Oh, it was so sudden. I just felt something was wrong when a rocket came flying over and the whole wall was blown to pieces… Then, then, she was broken too.”
Biting the ice cream, Teng Teng pressed her forehead with a headache and complained vaguely, “… You don’t have to describe it in such detail to the family members.”
Ye Shi was indeed stunned, but he was not too sad. He just waved his hands and said embarrassedly.
”It’s okay, it’s okay. I’m sorry to trouble you to take care of the little guy.”
”No, she is actually very capable and brave. You can trust her more. Besides, she must be at least 18 years old to get the closed beta test qualification. Since she is an adult, don’t always treat her as a child.” Although
she used a teasing tone, Teng Teng still couldn’t help but say a few more words.
But Ye Shi didn’t think she was nagging. She just scratched the back of her head. She looked like a student standing in the corner, completely different from her usual self.
Realizing that he couldn’t help but lecture again, Teng Teng stopped talking and changed the subject.
”By the way, Lao Bai and the others? Why didn’t I see them?”
Ye Shi sighed and made a helpless expression.
”Dead.”
Teng Teng and Ya Ya both opened their mouths in surprise.
”Dead?”
”Lao Bai… I remember he should be a professional, right?”
There are players of all kinds of professions in this game, but no one usually mentions it every day. She just vaguely remembers hearing someone say that Lao Bai was a soldier.
Although he has retired.
”Hey… After playing this game for a few months, who can be considered an amateur?”
Ye Shi smiled helplessly and sat down next to the campfire.
”And don’t underestimate the opponent… Those soldiers in black robes are not weak. Whether it is equipment, training or physique, it is still a bit tricky to fight them.”
In peacetime, even if the training time is full, it is impossible to open your eyes and see death hanging over your head like in this game.
He still remembers Lao Bai telling him that you don’t have to be too superstitious about so-called professionals, let alone be too confident in professionals. After all, professionalism is only a relative concept, not absolute. If someone who can’t
swim is thrown into a wild river and survives after struggling a few times, he will not be washed away by the water or eaten by fish. He can also be considered to be able to swim.
Even a professionally trained swimmer would not dare to say that no river could kill him. In a
bloody battle where one is on the verge of death, it is worth boasting if you can survive, and it is not surprising if you don’t survive.
Ye Shi felt that it was a surprise that he survived.
After the awakeners of the perception system are strengthened to the third stage of sequence – that is, after the second awakening, their combat effectiveness is often not as good as the three major systems of strength, agility, and physique.
Especially for extreme distance firefights, there is no time to prepare. Just like Ya Ya said, even if her perception is very high and she can foresee the impending danger, it does not mean that she can avoid it.
Before parachuting, Ye Shi never thought that he could get off the airship. After all, he is
good at medium and long-range black guns. The people sitting in front of the campfire talked about what happened during the battle, and lamented that if they had done this or that at that time, their teammates would not have died.
However, no one was too sad about it.
Since they can be resurrected, death is not a taboo topic for players. After all, they can meet again in three days, and they may go back faster than themselves.
Of course…
everyone tacitly did not touch the topic of NPCs.
There will definitely be casualties in war.
Unlike them.
Those people, once they die, they will really not appear…
squatting next to the foam box brought by Ye Shi, the debt-ridden big-eyed man held an ice cream in his mouth and widened his eyes in surprise.
”Fuck, this thing is quite delicious! Can I have another one?”
Ye Shi said with a gesture of driving him away.
”Go away, go offline and order takeout. This is the spoils of war. One for each person! I’m giving it to others.”
The old man Quanshui, who was also standing next to him and biting an ice cream, couldn’t help but sigh.
”Damn, there are even popsicles. Damn, these big-nosed people live a very comfortable life…”
The construction site boy and the brick laughed.
”What’s the big deal? Isn’t it in our hands?”
…
The night gradually deepened.
In addition to the players who received the patrol mission, the players who were lying in the camp went offline one after another.
And as these offline players brought the battle reports back to another world, the forum was even more lively like a festival.
There will be a delay in the settlement of the campaign rewards, and they need to be issued after the spoils are counted. However, it must be a considerable sum to shoot down such a large airship.
The rewards from the administrators have never disappointed them.
I just hope that the silver coins will not fall too much when the flood is flooding.
Although the rewards have not yet arrived, the scores of the campaign have come out.
The group with the highest score is the Burning Corps.
Whether it is blowing up the gun cabin or capturing the 400mm main gun, it has played a decisive role in the battle situation. As the enemy completely loses its long-range firepower, the Alliance’s rocket launcher can output steadily to the end.
The best pilot is Luo Yu.
Whether it is the difficulty of flight or the difficulty of mission, his performance in the campaign is obvious to all players.
Especially the last extreme deceleration Cobra maneuver, not only the players were stunned, but even the enemy and our NPCs were stunned.
Of course, a group of transport pilots, including the pig brothers, are also quite excellent. Without the cover of the smoke rush, the Burning Corps’ airborne landing may not only have more than half of the casualties, but also be difficult to land successfully.
As for the best commander, there is no suspense.
While formulating a detailed combat plan, completing the integrated air-ground command and reasonably maximizing the efficiency of the supporting artillery, this achievement naturally belongs to the Fountain Commander.
Since the scale of the battle exceeded 10,000 people, each person performed different tasks and served different combat positions, so the game officials no longer set up an “overall MVP”.
Instead, each corps will select the MVP of its own corps based on the performance of its players in the local battle and the efficiency of task completion, and decide who will receive additional bonuses.
This is similar to the previous Songlinyu decisive battle.
As for the MVP of the mixed thousand-man team and the NPC corps, the game officials will set it based on the score.
Tail: “Oh! Finally finished, it was so hard! Although I didn’t get the MVP, it was still very nice! (*｀)”
Meat Mountain Big Bun: “It’s me who worked hard! QAQ”
Sisi: “Oh, Rourou worked hard, carrying Awei for so long, please remember not to run so fast next time, we can’t keep up.”
Aoao Sesame Paste: “Hahaha… I think Rourou was scared, but it’s much better than before.”
Since the corps commander was the commander-in-chief, it was difficult to take care of the front line. The most capable battlefield guy was the “pangolin” again. The battlefield positioning of the Storm Corps became the guard company, so the performance was not as outstanding as the other corps. However,
the results were also remarkable.
Of course, the most eye-catching record was undoubtedly the Burning Corps.
Less than 200 people landed safely, facing the Marines who were ten times more than their own and familiar with the terrain, they were able to achieve a casualty ratio of nearly 1:3, which was quite fierce.
Especially fighting to the last man.
The high morale and fighting spirit completely stunned the other side, and it was precisely because of this that the Jungle Corps was able to complete a rapid raid on the lower cabin of the airship.
After watching the official battle report and the battle video uploaded by Ye Shi, the spectators on the forum exclaimed that it was awesome and exciting.
Isn’t this more exciting than a Hollywood blockbuster? !
Of course, it is inevitable to argue.
Ye Ao Nai He: “500 people killed 751? Haha, you dare to call this elite? My uncle was on a mission in the Golden Triangle. There were only four people in a team, and they directly wiped out a village! Killed nearly a thousand people, and the whole Southeast Asia was shocked. Later, no one claimed the bodies, and no one mentioned it again. Those who understand will understand.”
Ye Shi: “Is your uncle Iron Man or Batman? (Funny)”
Irena: “Fortunately, your uncle went to the Golden Triangle instead of Wa State. Let alone special forces, even the Buddha would have lost a relic. (Funny)”
Elf King Fugui: “If Tyson went there, he would be beaten into a teddy bear. (Funny)”
There are really mosquitoes in WC: “Brother Guang, please, just give brother Ye Ao the qualification. The player’s reservation label has been up for a year! TT”
Lao Bai: “What do you want to do to our version pet? (squinting smile)”
Kuangfeng: “Brother Guang said: Children should not play this game, wait a little longer.”
Quit Smoking: “Hahahahaha.”
The forum is full of a happy atmosphere, but it’s a pity that brother Ye Ao is still the same as before, pretending to be cool and then running away, and not giving people a chance to complain.
Fang Chang: “Speaking of which, Lao Bai, how come you are gone too?”
Lao Bai: “That’s not normal, it’s just a pity for that set of equipment, ah… it’s a heavy loss.”
Edge paddling: “What’s there to be afraid of? The Corps equipment is the inventory of the Alliance, and it is separate from personal equipment. (grin)”
Kuangfeng: “Having said that, whether there is inventory or not is another matter. (squinting)”
Edge paddling: “Well, it seems so, your exoskeleton doesn’t seem to be cheap.”
Fang Chang: “It’s not a matter of money, it’s the refresh probability that depends on luck. By the way, Lao Bai, your contribution should be over 10,000, right?”
Lao Bai: “Well, it should be enough after this battle.”
Fountain Commander: “Awesome! Good brother, wait until you get the dragoon and let me touch it.”
Lao Bai: “What’s so rare about it, it’s not the original goods, a battle-damaged version, I don’t think it may be better than the exoskeleton.”
Edge paddling: “Fuck! No need to give it to me!”
Ye Shi: “This is too ordinary!”
Lao Bai doesn’t think he is in Versailles.
If it is really useful, would the administrator not wear it?
The other players actually knew this, but since it was the first set of power armor in the server, they couldn’t help but feel envious.
And sincere admiration.
Contribution points and silver coins are two completely different mechanisms.
When the base is small, the contribution points given by the task may be more than the silver coins. However, as the level increases, the silver coins rewarded by the task will increase, but the contribution point rewards have almost no increase.
Contribution point rewards above four digits are basically impossible to obtain through tasks. They usually only appear in wars or when special relics are discovered.
100,000 contribution points, a full six digits.
Even if you have been playing since the server was opened, this is too awesome.
This honor is even more dazzling than a medal.
A true hero of the alliance.
Just when the players were discussing it, the ID and post of planner A Guang suddenly appeared on the forum.
And it was highlighted and pinned to the top of the homepage.
A Guang: “Thank you for your support for the expansion pack event. Our server has safely passed the most dangerous moment. The triumphal celebration and medal ceremony prepared for the warriors will be held in 5 days! At that time, the new expansion pack ‘Yellow Sand Wanli’ will also be released together, so stay tuned! (grin)” ”
In addition, in order to commemorate another victory of our alliance and the first 10,000-scale battle on the server, the “Wasteland OL” operation team unanimously decided to erect a monument on the Fallen Leaf Ridge next to the new base Fallen Leaf Camp!”
”Until the end of the operation, all players who died in the operation can leave their names on the monument.”
”However, for the sake of the authenticity of the game and to take into account the sense of involvement of other players, the name left on the monument will be limited in length and format, and special characters, emoticons, and numbers may not be used. The name will be included as a ‘commemorative title’ and can no longer be used as a game nickname.”
”In addition, other players’ nicknames may not be written on the monument, and if your own nickname is used, the nickname will be abandoned by default.”
”The settlement of campaign rewards will be completed within one day, and the points lottery will be held at the celebration 5 days later.”
”Let’s toast to victory! Although it seems a bit inappropriate to drink in broad daylight. (Laughs)”
After the post was published.
The comment section below was instantly boiling.
Monument!
And it’s in the novice village of the future public beta? !
This sounds…
quite interesting!
Quit Smoking: “Wait, what does it mean that it can no longer be used as a nickname?”
Canyon Fugitive Mole: “It means that you use your real name to go on the wall. In the future, you can’t use this game name, and other new players can’t register this nickname. Simply put, this name is dead.”
Fang Chang: “Got it! It’s a name change card! And it’s a golden legend! (Funny)”
Quit Smoking: “What what what?”
Fang Chang: “Literally understand it! If you leave your name on the wall, you have to give yourself a new name. You can’t say that I’m on the wall, but I’m still alive, right?”
Debt Big Eyes: “Fuck, it can be like this?!”
Tail: “Oh!!! It sounds so interesting, Can I use the name in reality? (Ω) ” Fang Chang:
” Uh
, although it is not recommended to expose privacy in the game, there are so many names in reality, not ID numbers, it seems that it does not matter. ”
”Quit smoking :
” Niubi
! “This game is renamed!”
Pick up the garbage
level 99: “Decision, my name is
Wu X ancestor.” This feature is there, but no one does not
really want to
change
their names .
However, after seeing the list, his brows couldn’t help but twitch.
Li Lei, Han Meimei… these are relatively normal.
Although using the names of celebrities involves the issue of name rights, after all, the other world is not governed by the laws of the earth, so it is not impossible to turn a blind eye. As
for the strange names such as Lao Liu, Lao Ba, Ultraman, and Aoli Gei, it is a bit unreasonable. Chu Guang directly asked Xiao Qi to mark them as unapproved and sent them back for those frivolous guys to rewrite. He
worked until the late night.
Chu Guang finally came up with a more detailed list.
2,934 “killed” shelter residents, including their life stories, heroic performances in battle, and causes of death.
This list will be used as news material and published in the “Survivor Daily”, “Dawn City Daily” and other media under the alliance, and edited and broadcasted on radio stations such as “Alliance Voice”.
At the same time, this is also proof that the alliance is asking for compensation from neighbors and allies.
Chu Guang felt that Boulder City might not be willing to pay directly.
But for the sake of long-term interests, companies on the East Coast will still give some.
After all, if it were me, I would at least give a favor to this kind of ally who “really dares to fight” and “can win after fighting”.
I can’t let people down.
In addition to the players, the three thousand-man teams composed of mercenaries and the First Corps and the Guards Corps also suffered heavy casualties.
Especially the artillery squadron of the First Corps.
The 30 100mm artillery pieces deployed by the Alliance at the artillery position on the east side were almost completely destroyed, and the artillery was reduced by 60%.
There is nothing to regret about those equipments, after all, many of them were captured from the Bone Chewing Tribe. What
made Chu Guang uncomfortable were the dead soldiers. Many of them had followed him for a long time, and some were even veterans promoted from the original guard.
However, there is no way to have the best of both worlds in this world.
Wars have been like this since ancient times.
If it weren’t for the “Singularity” technology morphogenetic field in Shelter No. 404, which could project the player’s consciousness onto a new body, even the most exhilarating victory would be overshadowed by the heavy casualties…
…
Just as Chu Guang was counting the casualties, the captured Corps engineers were working on the wings of the airship with lights on, using a crane to lift the broken wing up and insert it into the fracture reinforced with steel bars.
These repairs can only be considered emergency measures, and the durability of the repaired wing is definitely not as good as a new one.
However, if you want to replace the entire wing, you can only wait until you return to Dawn City and then think of a way.
The Corps’ engineers promised Chu Guang that they would repair it within five days, at least make the airship move, and guarantee a speed of 20 knots.
At a speed of 20 knots, it would only take five hours to drive back to Dawn City.
If it can be repaired within five days, it will not be difficult to catch up with the triumphal celebration five days later.
Chu Guang plans to take the airship back.
As for other players, they can freely decide whether to take the airship, go alone, or find someone to go together.
Outside the French window of the bridge.
There are only scattered lights on the ground covered by the night, and the skyline in the distance has already faintly shown a gray outline.
Unknowingly, I have been busy all night, and it is almost dawn outside.
Sitting next to a control terminal, Chu Guang yawned and yawned, and connected a VM to the terminal under the guidance of Xiao Qi.
”Can you control it?”
Xiao Qi’s voice came from the VM.
”Wuwu… I’m sorry, master. The degree of electronicization here is too low. I can only connect the radar and shield systems. I can adjust the output power of the energy system, but the gear switching seems to require manual operation…”
Although it was expected, Chu Guang still sighed.
”It’s okay, just connect the radar and shield systems first.”
Xiao Qi said enthusiastically: “Okay!”
After the system was connected.
Chu Guang simply checked the radar of the Iron Heart and found that it was much more advanced than he had imagined.
As a mobile radar station, its detection limit can reach 1,200 kilometers, but the signal at this distance is already very vague, and it is estimated that it can only detect larger targets, and it has no effect on small aircraft.
However, in the wasteland, this is already very difficult.
The radioactive clouds moving with the monsoon belt naturally have an ionizing effect, and the huge clutter is enough to drown out the radar signal.
Although radiation is not the main threat in the wasteland, and the main cause of the wasteland is not nuclear weapons, it does not mean that the impact of nuclear weapons on the planet does not exist.
In addition to the impact of the environment itself, there are also out-of-control satellites and jamming devices running in low orbits, etc., resulting in the “effective detection radius” of the Iron Heart radar being only 100~150 kilometers. It is
actually not difficult to further increase this number. Just dismantle a gun cabin and convert it into a “radar array”.
But doing so does not seem to make much sense.
Most of the survivors on the wasteland don’t even have aircraft, let alone the ability to strike beyond visual range. The only thing the Iron Heart needs to guard against is some unexpected black technology.
Just as Chu Guang was fiddling with the radar with interest, Xiao Qi’s voice suddenly came from the VM again.
”Master, the airship’s communication system has received an unidentified communication request from the east… Would you like to connect?”
East?
Chu Guang was slightly stunned, and then he was delighted and said immediately.
”Connect immediately!”
The communication was connected.
Along with the noisy sound of electricity, intermittent conversations came from the other end of the communication channel.
The signal condition on the other side was quite bad, and I didn’t know what the signal node was made of, but Chu Guang still barely heard the content clearly.
”…This is Enterprise.”
”If you still have a little respect for the ancient contract, stop invading our allies immediately and release the Pioneer and the crew on the Pioneer, otherwise it will be regarded as a declaration of war, and we will respond with war without mercy.”
Ancient contract?
Chu Guang frowned slightly. This diplomatic rhetoric made him feel a little unusual.
It seems that something happened two centuries ago that he didn’t understand.
But that’s not the point.
When he heard the second half of the sentence, even with a serious mood, he couldn’t help but smile.
It will be regarded as a declaration of war.
The fight has come to this point, and both sides are almost killing each other. Isn’t it considered a formal war?
However, the local tycoons on the East Coast actually called themselves allies, which was beyond Chu Guang’s expectation.
The two sides have no alliance. The alliance led by Shelter No. 404 is strictly speaking just a permanent partner of the enterprise.
No matter what the reason is, at least when facing the threat of the Legion, they did regard themselves as allies on the same front and deterred the Legion.
Even if it was verbal.
Chu Guang looked at Xiao Qi on the screen and asked.
”Can you answer their signal?”
Xiao Qi said very considerately.
”Yes, master, just say it directly, I will record it and send it to you!”
Looking at the signal light on the upper left corner of the tablet, Chu Guang cleared his throat and spoke in a solemn and clear voice.
”…This is the alliance, you are one step late.”
”In order to prevent the situation from deteriorating further, we had no choice but to launch a preemptive attack, and the airship has been captured by us.”
There was only the sound of electricity on the other side of the communication channel.
I don’t know if I am confused or I didn’t hear it.
Chu Guang glanced at the screen and saw Xiao Qi pop up an emoticon of an OK gesture, knowing that the other party must have heard it.
After brewing his emotions for a moment, he continued in a slightly heavy tone.
”However, we also paid a heavy price of thousands of lives.”
”Even if it weren’t for us who were forced to get involved in the conflict, and for the survivors in Luoxia and Hegu provinces, for the sake of Shelter No. 0, for the sake of those stranded crew members–”
”If you can hear our voices, please send reinforcements immediately while you can still hear them now!”
(End of this chapter)
