Chapter 629 The wave is coming again!

  Chapter 629 The Wave is Coming Again!

  ”Roar!!”

  In the center of Qingquan City, the desolate and dilapidated streets were shrouded in gray-green fog, a bleak and desolate scene.

  A wounded monster was struggling furiously, but the iron hand with scarlet fungus plaques on its head did not move at all. The

  crack in the center of the helmet shone with a creepy red light, like the pupil of a devil.

  Out of fear and awe of it, those noisy bipedal animals called it “evolution” or “Decay Knight”.

  However, for the mother nest that dominates every slime mold cell in this city, this tiny one billionth is just an insignificant atom that constitutes His existence, and there is no need to have its own name.

  Thea is actually the same.

  However, unlike other slime molds, when He created Thea, He poured extra effort into it.

  The new mother body not only inherited the essence and nutrition that He had accumulated in the past two hundred years of research on the road of evolution, but also inherited His will.

  At the same time, it was called Thea, and it also carried more expectations from Him—

  that is, to spread the footprints of the tribe to more distant places.

  To spread to places that His tentacles could not reach for the time being!

  The “little guy” who strayed into the territory was still struggling in vain, roaring, trying to rely on his savage muscles to defy the results of His evolution over the past two centuries.

  He silently watched this uncivilized organism, and did not command His one billionth to devour and assimilate it as usual, but looked down at Thea standing in the middle of the ruined street.

  ”Eat it.”

  The pheromone spread through the spores that blended together.

  Sensing the call from her mother, Thea nodded slowly, and then raised the scarlet tentacles that were like mud.

  The tentacles were like its arms.

  The cilia at the end issued a silent call, and a circle of invisible ripples were spread in the ocean of spores.

  The gray-green color began to gather towards the furry bear-shaped beast, entwining around its body and becoming more and more dense.

  ”Roar!!!”

  The monster’s face began to show fear, and it struggled more and more fiercely. Its hairy muscles twitched like a twisting caterpillar, trying to break free from the hand holding its head.

  Xia just looked at it, and then gently clenched the “hand” that was stretched forward.

  The gray-green fog spread outward a few inches in an instant, and the monster suddenly expanded its chest, and its eyes bulged out.

  It gasped desperately, but its body became heavier and heavier uncontrollably, until finally its body completely lost its strength, and it could not even resist the gravity on its shoulders, and finally stopped struggling.

  A wisp of gray fog floated out from the gap in the helmet, and the Decayed Knight released the hand holding its head and stepped aside like a real knight.

  ”Very good.”

  Looking at Xia, who had mastered her own power, He showed a relieved smile, and the spores of the entire city slowly fluctuated with the frequency of joy like waves.

  His child has completely mastered the ability to deprive its prey of breathing, and it will be stronger than his previous child.

  He seemed to have seen those weak organics running away in all directions as they were chased by the young assimilation fighters.

  Xia looked at her tentacles, or arms, that stretched forward, and spoke after a moment.

  ”My body can’t breathe, and I feel their cries.”

  The spores that permeated the surroundings and the fruiting bodies that it controlled were all part of its body, and they were also the conductors and carriers of its consciousness.

  Facing the confused child, He spoke softly.

  ”Don’t worry, my child.”

  ”Your enemies are the same. Those weak pieces of flesh are like the prey under your feet. They must keep breathing to survive. You can bear much more than them. You are more adapted to the land under your feet than they are, and this world ultimately belongs to those who can adapt to it.”

  ”Now, eat it.”

  Xia nodded slowly, and her skirt-like lower limbs crawled forward and moved to the side of the unconscious monster.

  The open skirt was like a bloody mouth, revealing a gap along the outline of the ground.

  Countless scarlet tentacles jumped out of the gap, like slender leeches, instantly piercing the monster into a hedgehog. While drilling through the skin and draining blood, the remaining organic nutrients were also rolled into its body. The

  surrounding spores fluctuated with a happy frequency. The decayed knight standing beside him lowered his head, but the scarlet light in his eyes became brighter.

  At this moment,

  the slime mold fruiting bodies on the entire ruins witnessed the “coronation” of a new king and cheered for its birth.

  Except for a certain alien.

  Feeling the bloodthirstiness flowing in the air, I couldn’t help but hold my breath and dared not make a “sound”.

  Fortunately, it does not rely on spores to transmit information. Other mutant slime molds can neither recognize nor sense its existence.

  Otherwise, there is no doubt that those guys will do everything they can to crush this heretic in its cradle…

  …

  The official website of “Wasteland OL” and the forum are as lively as ever today.

  And all this is because of a freshly baked server announcement.

  【Server Announcement: “The Tide Comes Again” expansion pack released! 】

  【Introduction: Spring is here, and it is the season for animals to reproduce, and asexual slime molds are no exception.

  We used to naively think that the mother nest was formed by natural mutations in the incubator after the spore concentration exceeded the threshold. However, more and more evidence shows that the mother nest is born from the mother body, and the mother body is hatched from the old mother nest. The new mother body inherits not only the genes of the old mother nest, but also the experience of fighting with us. Combined with the impact of the warm winter, this round of waves may be more violent than in previous years!

  According to the forecast of the Institute of Biology, the wave is expected to come around March 1st in the game time! Please be prepared!

  This may be the most severe test since the server was launched! 】

  【Event Rewards: Completing event tasks and killing evolutions will issue event points rewards. Points can be exchanged for limited equipment and titles, and you can also participate in the final lottery event! The prize pool is rich in rewards, not only including mysterious props that even the planners don’t know, but also many valuable prizes such as DLZJ-1 “Xiaguang” power armor! Everyone is welcome to participate! 】

  After more than half a month,

  Wasteland OL has launched a new expansion pack after the “Fire Extinguishing Operation”.

  Such an amazing update speed has really shocked many players.

  And just as Chu Guang expected, the announcement immediately caused an 18-magnitude earthquake on the official website, and the discussion of the new expansion instantly topped the list of hot topics for players and cloud players.

  ”Damn! Where’s the Beta 0.6 version!”

  ”I remember that when the Alpha 1.1 version was released, Inspur was just a sub-project of the server update? Just changing the skin and it became an expansion?!”

  ”This activity is too perfunctory!”

  ”Bad review! It’s worse than Paradox that copied MODs and CA that raised the price of blood plasma!”

  ”Brother Guang, Ning is my father, can you give me a helmet! TT”

  ”30,000 helmets in two years, this production capacity is so unreasonable, Guang, can you do it?”

  ”I don’t think this is Brother Guang’s fault. Could it be that the cows and horses in the factory are lazy? Come to our village to open a factory! I’ll ask the village chief to help you recruit people!”

  ”Come to our place, I’m the village chief, I’ll bring people to work for you for free!”

  ”I’ll let you work for free!”

  ”???”

  ”Fuck, brother, you’re a bit heavy-mouthed!”

  ”Spread it around, someone wants to kill Brother Guang.”

  ”Crazy, crazy!”

  ”Rubbish! What’s the use of a broken helmet? I’m laughing, even dogs won’t play with it!”

  Chu Guang, who was sitting in the browsing room, browsed the official website and laughed without saying anything. He had long been accustomed to the teasing of these guys.

  But to be honest, the Alliance now has a population of one million, and this number is still growing. In comparison, the speed of issuing 50 to 100 closed beta qualifications every day is indeed a bit behind the development needs of the Alliance.

  Including the closed beta qualifications that have been issued, he now has only 30,000 accounts. Even if all are issued, the proportion of players in the total population is less than 3%.

  Although this number sounds like a lot, it seems a bit insufficient when it is distributed to a series of things in various regions of the Alliance.

  Chu Guang suddenly found that he was like playing a dough SLG game. When there is a shortage of food, there is no shortage of people, and when there is no shortage of food, there is a shortage of manpower. When there is no shortage of both, there is a shortage of territory, and when there is no shortage of territory, there is a shortage of people again.

  ”…If the mother nest in the city center is solved, I don’t know if I can unlock new floors.”

  There should be a new “activation code” released by then, right?

  Looking at the “crying” little leeks on the holographic screen, Chu Guang couldn’t help but reveal a faint smile on his face.

  Don’t worry.

  Everyone has a chance to be a leek!

  Everything will be there!

  At this moment, Xiao Qi, who was sitting on the pen holder, suddenly raised his head and said in a pleasant voice.

  ”Master, your little player has arrived at the second ring road in the city center!”

  Chu Guang’s heart moved, and his index finger closed the web page in the holographic screen.

  ”Cut the screen to their side.”

  Xiao Qi saluted playfully and said with full enthusiasm.

  ”Got it!”

  …

  At the same time when the official website released the event news, two “Viper” transport planes took off from the apron of Shuguang City. After a period of flight, they arrived at the edge of the second ring road of Qingquan City and slowly hovered next to the roof of an abandoned skyscraper.

  A dozen gnawers with drooping shoulders were in a daze on the roof, and a long-armed and long-legged crawler was lurking between the abandoned water tank and the ventilation pipe, watching the two flames flying next to the high-rise building with vigilance.

  ”Enemy units have been marked. There are a total of 19 gnawers and one crawler. No evolutions or other high-threat targets have been found.”

  ”Prepare to attack.”

  ”Received.”

  A Viper transport plane crossed its nose and aimed the machine gun in the side cabin at the roof, ready to provide fire support at any time.

  Another hovering Viper transport plane quickly moved forward and flew directly above the roof, less than five meters away.

  The crawler crawling in the shadows let out a hissing growl, and its strong and powerful limbs began to bend, ready to take the initiative to attack.

  However, what it didn’t know was that the players flying in the sky had already seen it a long time ago.

  Before it could gather enough strength to leap up, a large black shadow fell from the sky, dragging a hot red light and smashing straight at it.

  Before the crawler could react to what happened, an unsharpened blunt axe hit its face, and then the sparks that burst out split its body smoothly.

  Before it could even scream, the unfortunate crawler turned into mud and covered the ground, and along with it came the muffled sound of feet stomping on the ground.

  A total of ten soldiers wearing exoskeletons had completed their deployment, pulling the bolts to load their guns, opening the safety and cocking their guns.

  Noticing the movement from the side, the gnawers raised their heads one by one, and their turbid pupils gradually became bloodthirsty and scarlet.

  They moved their frozen legs, opened their rotten cracks, and roared like hiccups at the soldiers who landed.

  ”Uh–”

  After shaking off the black slime on the axe, Lao Bai hung it on the power armor and waved his hand forward neatly.

  ”Fire.”

  As soon as the understated voice fell, thick and long tongues of fire turned the foggy roof into daylight.

  Amid a burst of gunfire, the nineteen gnawers on the roof, along with the dozen that rushed up from the stairwell, were instantly shot into sieves.

  As planned, the ten players quickly split into two teams.

  One team quickly searched every corner of the rooftop to confirm that there were no fruiting bodies of slime mold left behind, while the other team quickly advanced to the entrance of the stairwell, pushed a steel plate slightly wider than the door towards the door, then pulled out the safety pin and punched the red button. With a

  series of “bangs”, steel nails were driven into the concrete wall, firmly embedding the steel plate in the doorway.

  This alone was not enough.

  Several players took out the electric drills, steel bars and welding guns they carried, and reinforced the door panel embedded in the wall for a second time, inserting a layer of “well”-shaped steel bars on the outside.

  Behind the steel plate that sealed the entrance of the stairwell, there was a banging sound, but the steel plate was still embedded there without moving.

  Not to mention dozens of gnawers, even a tyrant couldn’t knock this thing open now. Team B, who had successfully taken control of the stairwell, had already laid down their weapons and turned off the safety, while Team A, who had also completed their mission, had spread out to the four corners of the building to guard against flying aliens that might come over to harass them.

  Although they were already deep in the area occupied by the mutant slime mold, neither the players nor the NPCs showed any signs of being overly nervous.

  With the continued in-depth investigation of the Alliance Biological Research Institute, the Alliance has now mastered more and more secrets of the mutant slime mold.

  The conclusions that were originally drawn purely based on experience or even conjecture are now supported by more scientific and rigorous theories.

  Every slime mold fruiting body in Qingquan City is connected to the mother nest consciousness, but this does not mean that the mother nest can monitor the situation of each fruiting body at all times, just like the managers of the Alliance cannot always keep an eye on every player. At most, they can retrieve the records of the VM or official website when necessary.

  The mother nest of slime mold is the same.

  Most of the insignificant and passive threats will be distributed to sub-machine rooms such as the “hatching room” for processing, and only when unrecognizable organisms invade the territory on a large scale will they cause direct alertness to the mother nest.

  For example, now.

  The mother nest in the city center will only feel that a few small flies have landed on it, just like usual, and will never think that what these small flies are doing may threaten their lives.

  Looking at the packed equipment in the cabin and the staff wearing protective clothing, Jiang Xuezhou, who was almost tied to the seat with a seat belt, finally couldn’t help but speak out of curiosity.

  ”What are you doing?”

  Seeing this guy’s ignorant expression, Ye Shi, who was sitting next to him, couldn’t help but curl up his mouth with pride.

  ”You don’t understand this. We plan to send a little alliance shock to the big guy in the city center when the wave is lively… The shock is ready, and now it’s in the preparation stage.”

  Jiang Xuezhou was confused.

  What the hell?

  Without explaining in detail, Ye Shi glanced at her and continued.

  ”By the way, what are you doing with us? Aren’t you here to help us deal with the Naguo thing?”

  Compared with the “self-limiting” mother nest, the disorderly expansion of Naguo obviously makes the Fallen Empire in the north more alert.

  Ye Shi still remembers clearly that Jiang Xuezhou and her mentor who never shows his face came to help them solve Naguo-related topics.

  As for the mother nest in Qingquan City, it is not within their scope of work.

  In response to Ye Shi’s question, Jiang Xuezhou coughed lightly and said seriously.

  ”According to our analysis of the samples, there is a large amount of DNA in the gene bank of the Naguo bacteria that is highly overlapped with the mutant slime mold in Qingquan City. It can be basically concluded that this biological weapon is based on the mutant slime mold in Qingquan City… My mentor suspects that the residents of Shelter No. 117 have explored the ancient battlefield in the center of Qingquan City, where there may be clues we need. Don’t worry, I have applied to your manager, and he has approved me to participate in the wave-related operations as an accompanying researcher.”

  According to her observation, the residents of the alliance have extraordinary respect for the manager, even worship, and many people often mention that guy and wish him a long life.

  She has no interest in that person, but since she has arrived at his territory, she still showed some respect in accordance with local customs.

  But what she didn’t expect was that someone didn’t care about the second half of her sentence at all, but focused on an inconspicuous detail.

  ”Wait, you said that the residents of Shelter 117 may have been to the city center?!” Ye Shi stared at Jiang Xuezhou in surprise, with an expression like he had discovered a new world.

  ”I…”

  Realizing that he had let the cat out of the bag, Jiang Xuezhou secretly said in his heart that it was bad, and just wanted to close his open mouth, but seeing the exaggerated expression on Ye Shi’s face, he soon realized that this matter might not be so easy to fool.

  ”I, I didn’t say that…” Out of guilt, she added in a low voice behind, “Don’t tell it everywhere.”

  Ye Shi smiled and gave her an “I know” look.

  ”Don’t worry, I know, I know, you didn’t say it.”

  Good guy!

  Another free contribution point!

  When he just woke up from the Iron Heart, he received a task in the task bar, asking him to serve as a bodyguard for a D-level researcher visiting the Alliance and report all the information about the academy he heard from her.

  According to the value of the information, the Alliance will reward him with contribution points. Ye Shi still remembers the envious and jealous look on Fang Chang’s face when he talked about this in the group that day.

  Seeing that Ye Shi obviously didn’t understand, Jiang Xuezhou suddenly became anxious.

  ”I really didn’t say that! Don’t tell anyone. If my mentor hears it, I’m dead, really dead…”

  Ye Shi: “Don’t worry, our managers are very tight-lipped.”

  Jiang Xuezhou: “???”

  In the short time it took for the two to say these words, the battle on the roof of the skyscraper was over.

  Lao Bai, who was standing next to the corpse of the crawler, reached out and tapped the side of the tactical helmet, switching to the command channel.

  ”The landing area has been controlled and can be deployed at any time.”

  There was a rustling sound and a neat answer in the communication channel.

  ”Got it.”

  As the voice fell, two “Viper” transport planes landed on the roof of the skyscraper one after another, and the hot plasma plumes blew away the thick remaining snow and dust.

  After the fuselage came to a complete stop, twelve staff members wearing chemical protective suits, gas masks, and oxygen tubes on their backs also landed on the roof.

  Along with them were deployed a communication radio, an air detection device, and a paraglider bag disassembled into parts.

  The Alliance’s Biological Research Institute will calculate the approximate location of the mother nest in the city center based on the changes in spore concentration during the wave and the activity trajectory of the slime mold fruiting body.

  As long as an approximate coordinate can be obtained, the Alliance can directly send ground troops there, and under the cover of the firepower of “Dragon” missiles and 400mm naval guns, a surgical precision strike will be launched on the mother nest in the city center!

  Even if that guy hides in a nuclear bomb pit or a nuclear bunker and can withstand the bombing of conventional weapons, he will definitely not be able to prevent the sudden attack of the Burning Corps.

  The Alliance will take advantage of this surging wave to end the threat that has plagued Qingquan City for two centuries once and for all.

  Lao Bai is full of confidence in this.

  It doesn’t matter if this year’s wave is different from previous years. After all, the Alliance today is no longer the same Alliance as before.

  The survivors of Qingquan City no longer had to fight on their own, and they didn’t even have to face the threat of the wave alone. The survivors of Luoxia Province sent them a steady stream of food, and the survivors of Dawn City would supply them with weapons and steel.

  Not only did the NPCs unite.

  The scale and quality of the players were also incomparable to the early versions.

  If he remembered correctly, the managers seemed to be less than level 20 at the time.

  Now the average level of the entire Burning Legion has exceeded this number, and he himself has reached level 43.

  In terms of strength alone, among all the players in the entire server, perhaps only the “unhuman” Trash Brother can compete with him.

  As for combat experience other than attributes.

  They are all veterans who have experienced hundreds of battles.

  ”Come on.”

  Looking at the strange and changeable gray-green fog in the distance, he felt that the will to fight in his heart was burning like a flame, and the corners of his mouth could not help but open a little arc.

  ”Let’s see what new things A Guang has prepared!”

  ——

  (Thanks to the leader of “Chengfu or Chengfu” for the reward!!!)

  (End of this chapter)