Chapter 657: Free?
Chapter 657: Give it for free?
Previously, the person sent by the Bugera Free State to contact the Alliance was Xavier, a salesman of the Firestone Group. This time, a guy who claimed to be the foreign minister suddenly came. Chu Guang didn’t know whether his identity was true or false. After a few polite words, he left him aside.
To be honest, he didn’t like those guys in the north very much.
Especially when rectifying the slums outside the Giant Stone City, the Alliance’s guards found that there were shadows of the Firestone Group behind many gangs.
Those guys did a lot of inappropriate things under the guise of private enterprises, and once they got into trouble, they hid behind the Free State.
Since the Free State is a “protected state” of the Great Rift Valley, and the latter has a military force that is not inferior to that of the Corps and the Enterprise, no one can do anything to these guys.
The Alliance’s guards can’t enter the Free State to enforce the law under the nose of the Great Rift Valley.
And the Firestone Group is also quite smart. It never provokes behemoths such as colleges, legions, and enterprises. At most, it only conducts business in their vassal or indirectly controlled settlements.
For example, the settlements under the jurisdiction of the Science and Technology Commission, the countries in Luoxia Province, or the more prosperous settlements in the eastern provinces, etc.
That guy is like a nasty fly. Those who have the ability to swat it are not interested, and those who can’t reach it really can’t swat it. What
puzzled Chu Guang was that even if Norreg was really the foreign minister of the Free State, why did the foreign minister come this time instead of the representative of the Firestone Group.
The Firestone Group is the real controller of the Free State, and the other party must know that the Alliance knows about this.
Putting on an official vest and running to contact, Chu Guang couldn’t help but wonder if there was any inside story behind this that he didn’t know.
Could it be…
that the Great Rift Valley “gave them advice” again?
Thinking of this, Chu Guang’s expression couldn’t help but ponder, and decided to leave the foreign minister alone before he took the initiative to speak, and observe first.
If they can figure out what their weaknesses are, the initiative will undoubtedly be in the hands of the Alliance…
Looking at Chu Guang with a questioning expression, Sun Yuechi did not explain immediately, but continued.
”Shelter 117 accommodates a large number of biological experts and their descendants. In addition to carrying out the task of surface reconstruction after the unsealing date, they are also tasked with studying the mother nest in the center of Qingquan City… After all, people at that time believed that mutant slime mold was the main cause of the wasteland. Only by solving the mutant slime mold can there be hope of ending the wasteland.”
After figuring this out, Chu Guang put Norreg aside for the time being and went to say hello to the real old friends of the Alliance.
What surprised him was that this time he actually met Luo Yong, a member of the corporate council and a major shareholder of Silver Wing Group.
The middle-aged man with extraordinary bearing first thanked Chu Guang for Luo Hua’s matter, and then revealed a heavy news to him-
”The council does not object to joining the same cross-regional cooperation organization with the college, especially on the issue of solving the mutant slime mold. We actually put aside the grudges of a century and a half a long time ago, but they are still brooding about the past… If you can convince them, we have no objection, and we can even take on more responsibilities and obligations.”
After hearing this, Chu Guang was extremely surprised in his heart, but he did not show it on his face. He just smiled and nodded and said.
”I am glad that the council has such a position. I will do my best to convince them.”
Luo Yong smiled and raised his glass.
After that, the two exchanged a few words, and Chu Guang left and went to other places.
Just when he was about to walk around the banquet hall, the host in charge of the banquet suddenly walked quickly to his side and whispered in a low voice.
”Dear Manager, there is a guest who claims to be the manager of Shelter No. 70 and wants to meet you… We cannot confirm his identity. What do you think is the most appropriate way to deal with it?”
Shelter No. 70?
Hearing this, Chu Guang was stunned.
Although there were occasionally residents of the shelters wandering in the wasteland who joined the Alliance before, most of them came from shelters that had been abandoned many years ago.
This was also the first time to visit the Alliance as a shelter manager.
Not only was the emcee undecided, but he also had a surprised expression on his face.
”What’s his name?”
The emcee said respectfully.
”He claims to be Sun Yuechi.”
I have never heard of this name.
But this is also normal.
The Alliance has never found Shelter No. 70.
Chu Guang thought for a moment and then spoke.
”Please ask him to go to the lounge, I will come later.”
The emcee nodded.
”Yes, sir.”
…
The spacious lounge.
Sitting on the sofa, Sun Yuechi frequently looked at the wall clock, and from time to time he glanced at the VM on his arm, his expression seemed a little awkward.
Although he was prepared to contact the alliance manager, he was not 100% sure what kind of person the other party was, and what his attitude was towards other shelters.
But at present, they are the most reliable in this area.
After waiting for a full quarter of an hour in restlessness, heavy footsteps came from outside the door of the lounge.
Sun Yuechi subconsciously sat up straight, and at this moment, the door of the lounge opened, and a man in power armor walked in.
Seeing the azure power armor, Sun Yuechi was slightly surprised, and while getting up from the sofa, he blurted out subconsciously.
”Is this… Seven Willard’s power armor?”
Before in the square, he only took a look from a distance and did not see the details of the appearance of the azure power armor.
Seeing that the man in front of him recognized the origin of the power armor on his body, Chu Guang also looked at him twice in surprise.
”Do you know him?”
”Of course I do…ah, but not the kind of acquaintance you understand. I just know some things about him.”
Looking at Chu Guang’s surprised expression, Sun Yuechi immediately realized that he had misunderstood, and then stretched out his right hand and said with a smile, “Please allow me to introduce myself. I am the manager of Shelter No. 70, Sun Yuechi.”
”Manager of Shelter No. 404, Chu Guang. Don’t be so polite. We are all friends on the same front. Sit down and talk about anything.” After
shaking hands with him, Chu Guang invited him to sit down, and then looked at the man who claimed to be the manager of Shelter No. 70 with curiosity.
”Can you tell me where you learned about Seven?”
”That’s a long story.”
As if thinking about where to start, Sun Yuechi stopped and thought for a moment, and then slowly opened his mouth to continue.
”You should know that most shelters, in addition to the obligation to accommodate survivors, also have the task of rebuilding civilization.”
Chu Guang nodded, but didn’t know why he mentioned this.
Mutated creatures, predators, mutants, and wastelanders who are going backwards… Those are all problems that arose in the wasteland era.
Only mutant slime molds and nuclear radiation are truly historical problems.
Chu Guang nodded.
”I’ve heard that there are residents of Shelter No. 117 in the Alliance, and she is also our chief biologist. The research on mutant slime molds is led by her.”
Sun Yuechi smiled and said.
”Really? Mr. Seven Villard would be relieved if he knew. In short, our mission is similar to that of Shelter No. 117. In addition to performing the reconstruction task after the blockade period is lifted, we also have the task of studying the nearby mother nest.”
”Therefore, after discovering that the Post-War Reconstruction Committee had evacuated Qingquan City, we managed to get in touch with Shelter No. 117, the only local shelter that was still carrying out its mission. After all, cooperation in scientific research is always faster than working behind closed doors.”
”Since we opened our doors a hundred years earlier than them, and Seven Villard strictly implemented the blockade strategy of Shelter No. 117, it is usually our people who do the land surveys on their behalf, while they are more engaged in sample research and data processing.”
”This work has been going on for almost a century. We send people to Qingquan City almost every year to regularly contact and exchange information with Shelter No. 117, observe the slime mold fruiting bodies in the center of Qingquan City, and discuss the next research plan.”
When he said this, Sun Yuechi’s expression revealed a slight regret, as if he was missing an old friend who had passed away.
It was like missing a lost era.
”I took over the management authority of the previous manager ten years ago, and ten years before I took over the management authority, all our communication with Shelter No. 117 came to an abrupt end… That was the 191st year of the Wasteland Era, you should know that, right?”
Chu Guang said solemnly.
”Torch.”
Sun Yuechi nodded and said with a complicated look.
”Yes, when our people arrived again… there was only an empty shelter left there. We were unable to take over a shelter thousands of kilometers away from us, so we copied some data and left it there, and believed that other nearby shelters would find it after the blockade was lifted.”
When he said this, Sun Yuechi looked at Chu Guang and smiled.
”It seems that my predecessor’s judgment was correct. Not only did you make good use of the resources of that shelter, you even fulfilled their long-cherished wish that they had not fulfilled until their death… Completely solved the mother nest in the center of Qingquan City.”
Hearing this sincere praise, Chu Guang smiled heartily, but soon noticed another detail mentioned in his words.
”Do you have a mother nest there too?”
”Yes.” Sun Yuechi nodded gently, took out a holographic computer pen and placed it on the coffee table in front of the sofa, and gently touched the button.
The light blue holographic light and shadow intertwined into a giant silver disc above the coffee table.
Chu Guang initially thought that he was showing him the structure of Shelter No. 70, until a blue planet appeared next to the silver disc.
This turned out to be a space station!
And considering the earth and the space elevator as reference objects next to it, the scale of this ring-shaped space station is not small!
It floats next to the end of the space elevator, and like other space stations, it circles around like a carousel, just like the satellite city of the elevator.
”This is what the Tianting Space Station looked like before… As for now, it has become like this.”
Sun Yuechi stretched out his index finger and slid it gently.
The blue planet and the space elevator turned into light blue light particles and dissipated. The giant silver disc seemed to have fallen into a bottomless water tank, and then was entangled by scarlet tentacles extending from the darkness, filling every inch of the interior.
Looking at Chu Guang, who was speechless, Sun Yuechi continued in a very light voice.
”Our shelter is on the seabed, where there are a lot of undeveloped resources that can be used. We originally planned to build a settlement on the seabed that can accommodate 100,000 survivors, and then gradually expand to the sea surface and the shore to complete the revival of Haiya Province and the southern seas.”
”However, plans can never keep up with changes. The Tianting space station fell with the collapse of the space elevator during the three-year war, and it landed near us. The huge impact kinetic energy is no less than that of a strategic nuclear weapon. Although our shelter withstood the damage, the underwater engineering equipment we placed outside the shelter and the production units that have not yet been deployed were almost completely destroyed…”
”Fuck!”
When Chu Guang heard this, he couldn’t help but blurt out a sentence. Seeing Sun Yuechi staring at him blankly, he coughed lightly to cover up his gaffe.
”Sorry, I’m just a little surprised. Your luck is really…”
He couldn’t find the right words to describe it for a while.
Such a large space station just happened to fall at the door of the shelter.
Although the shelter was built to withstand nuclear weapons, Chu Guang had not heard of any shelter that was actually hit by a nuclear weapon.
Maybe they were the only shelter that took a “strategic nuclear weapon” with their faces.
Sun Yuechi made a helpless expression and shrugged his shoulders.
”We are not the only one in the deep sea shelter. It fell on our heads, and there is nothing we can do about it. Maybe it’s just like you said, our luck is not good… Especially there is a hatching mother nest lying on this space station.”
”When we left the shelter, the three-year war had ended for a century, and the mother nest had been breeding on the seabed for a century, turning most of the space station into part of the nest. In order to build the underwater settlement, we tried to recycle some materials from it, but what we could recycle was quite limited. Even though we were careful enough, the fruiting bodies it hatched still caused us a lot of trouble.”
After listening to his words, Chu Guang probably guessed the purpose of his coming here. He must have hoped that he could help them get rid of the mother nest that was entangled with the space station.
Chu Guang happened to be very interested in the space station, so he said seriously.
”No problem! Fighting for the future of human civilization is our unshirkable responsibility. Making the mutant slime mold harmless is exactly what we are best at. We will help you solve that problem!”
”Thank you, I really didn’t make a mistake,” Sun Yuechi looked at him gratefully, but soon showed a guilty expression, “But… the help I want to ask you for is not just this. Before solving the mother nest that is entangled with the Celestial Court, we have more urgent problems.”
Without waiting for Chu Guang to ask, he paused and continued.
”Like Shelter No. 117, we are also facing a situation of disintegration.”
Chu Guang was stunned and looked at him with a strange expression.
”Didn’t you… come out of the shelter a long time ago?”
”That’s right, but the issue worth arguing about is not just whether to come out of the shelter. We have differences on many issues… Especially after our people saw the situation in Haiya Province, some people began to think that allowing humans to evolve into a higher existence is also a way to end the wasteland era, even if the church’s approach is a bit extreme.”
Looking at the stunned Chu Guang, Sun Yuechi’s expression was half bitter and half embarrassed.
After all, this is really not something to be proud of.
However, he still tried to explain a few words.
”This is inevitable. After all, our cooperation with Shelter No. 117 has lasted for nearly a century. Our people naturally have a good impression of those who broke free from their shackles and escaped…”
”Do you… know what those crazy people did in Haiya Province?” Chu Guang looked at him and asked, his Adam’s apple moving.
”I know,” Sun Yuechi said with a wry smile, “but what’s the use of me knowing alone? I am different from you. You can make those people believe in you unconditionally, but I can only try to convince those who have different opinions. I think the Torch Church’s approach is too extreme. Even though we used to be friends, some people think that this is the price that must be paid. Some even fantasize about using the torch technology to turn themselves into elves that travel the sea… What else can I say?”
After a pause, he continued.
”The mistakes were made before I took over Shelter No. 70. Although most of the residents still in the shelter are on my side, the disagreement comes from the offshore settlements we built on artificial islands in the southern waters.”
”They established a federation under the leadership of some Torch supporters, and have in fact broken away from our control and intend to join the arms of the Torch Church.”
”I have used almost everything I can, but I still can’t stop them from moving closer to the Torch Church. It would be fine if they just planned to destroy themselves, but the problem is that they are not satisfied with this, and they also plan to introduce Nago’s mycelium into the ocean.”
After a pause, Sun Yuechi looked at Chu Guang and said solemnly.
”I originally planned to go to the Great Rift Valley to seek help. After all, there are still people from the War Construction Committee there. Maybe they will help because of the urgency of the situation. However, on the way here, I heard many legends about you and the Alliance, which made me change the destination of this trip.”
”Those wastelanders have no hope for everything left by the War Construction Committee. They even regard those guys as one of the reasons why the world has become like this. However, when talking about you and the Alliance, they give extremely high praise… Even if not everyone likes you.”
Chu Guang was caught off guard by the flattery. He coughed lightly and said modestly.
”Rumors are always more exaggerated than facts… Compared with those ancient survivors, we are still too young.”
”But you have accomplished what they have not done, right? Besides, I don’t just believe those hearsays. I have indeed observed this settlement for a while. You do have some things that we don’t have… Not just in terms of technology.”
Looking at Chu Guang seriously, Sun Yuechi continued in a serious tone.
”So, I hope to transfer the management rights of Shelter No. 70 to you, including the settlement we built on the sea.”
Chu Guang: “……?”
After saying that, Sun Yuechi did not wait for Chu Guang to answer, and raised the VM on his left arm, stretched out his index finger and tapped the screen.
As a line of light blue pop-up windows appeared on the VM screen, he selected the confirmation button twice in a row, completing the transfer of administrator rights.
Looking at Sun Yuechi who breathed a sigh of relief, Chu Guang was stunned.
Is this guy serious? ?
Just when Chu Guang came to his senses, this guy had completed all the procedures and readily threw the key of Shelter No. 70 to him.
The entire transfer of rights was much simpler than expected, and a line of light blue pop-up windows flashed quickly in front of Chu Guang’s eyes.
[The administrator rights of Shelter No. 70 have been reclaimed…]
[Please ask the new administrator to go to Shelter No. 70, import the password on any terminal device connected to the shelter’s main server, and update the biometric information to complete the final confirmation procedure for the transfer of administrator rights. 】
Looking at the dumbfounded Chu Guang, Sun Yuechi smiled with a relieved tone, and his tone was much more relaxed than before.
”I am ashamed to hand over this mess to you, but this is the only thing I can do… Since you said you want to unite everyone, then our future is also in your hands!”
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(Thanks to the leader of “meaningless life” for the reward!!!)
(End of this chapter)
