This Game Is Too Realistic

"Boss, help!"

"Damn it, this gnawer has no martial ethics! Why did you try to steal my equipment?!"

"Go away! Don't chew on my shield!"

"Clothes! My clothes!"

“If you don’t understand, just ask, is this game serious???”

"Come closer to me! Gan! Don't you fucking run away!"

In the subway tunnel, the noise of players echoed.

The sixth in the corner of the strength department was still trying to stabilize his teammates, but the sniper from the agility department had already disappeared, leaving only the lost and cute newbie of the perception department shivering, and the props leader of the intelligence department staged a live chase of you and me. .

Seeing the four newbies running around the place being chased by the nibblers, I felt a headache after quitting smoking.

He felt that even if he smoked all night, he might not be able to figure out how these people obtained the qualifications for the closed beta test.

Gan!

So angry!

Looking at the IDs of these people, he thought they were so awesome.

Seeing that the boss was silent the whole time, the props master hurriedly asked for help.

"Boss! Shoot quickly!"

I can’t help but spray after quitting smoking.

"Damn, you're going to use a stupid gun to kill the gnawers!"

But if I don't take action, these newbies may not see the sun tomorrow.

In the end, he quit smoking and turned on the safety, raised the Sickle assault rifle in his hand, and shot the gnawers who surrounded the props master with two bangs.

Then, he pulled out his short axe, rushed forward and slashed wildly, leading his cheating disciples to fight his way out of the siege of the gnawers.

Holding on to the wall, he took a breath, quit smoking, and shook the ax covered in black mucus.

To put it bluntly, the gnawer's senses are indeed enhanced!

Whether it was speed or strength, there was a clear difference between them and those he had encountered in the tunnel in the previous winter.

Even though he had experienced hundreds of battles, he still felt a little troublesome.

However, this does not prevent him from showing off in Mengxin.

He took a deep breath, stopped breathing steadily, and said calmly.

"There are only a few attack patterns for gnawers, grab them with your hands, pounce on them and bite them. Don't panic if they get in your face, and remember not to get entangled with them. Just hit them with a shield to make them lose their balance, and then use your dick to hit them. Just say hello on your head and you'll get the hang of it after you get used to it a few times."

Leaning against the wall of the tunnel and panting heavily, the four little players who had survived the disaster listened to Quit Smoking and explained the strategy and techniques, their eyes sparkling.

"The boss is awesome!"

"too strong!"

"Is this T0 combat power?"

"Invincible!"

Listening to these people's embarrassing remarks, I gave up smoking and coughed dryly.

"Well, it's not as exaggerated as you said. By the way, don't you even read the guide?"

"Look! We've been doing our homework for a long time!" The sixth man in the corner chuckled, and then said, "I'm a power type! I'm a DPS player in the front row!"

The other three people also raised their hands in unison.

Lost and cute: "I, I, I sense! Professional scout!"

It’s useless to lead a sniper: “I’m an agility type, but I’m just short of a sniper!”

Item leader: "I am an intelligence type! After awakening, I plan to follow the brain wave mechanical flow! Later stage dad!"

Quit smoking: ""

He seemed to know what the problem was.

All four hundred players have left Vault 117 and followed the old players to the world outside the sanctuary.

Through the VM device associated with the "Passing on the Fire" task, Chu Guang can easily understand where the newbies have gone, what tasks they are doing, and who is leading them.

Coupled with the "Hummingbird" drone that patrols the sky, he can even move the camera above the players' heads to peek at the screen.

Of course, there are also a few hard-core players who decide to go out and explore the wasteland alone with the 5 silver coins given in the novice gift package.

It's a sandbox game.

A high degree of freedom is part of the game.

As an excellent planner, Chu Guang will certainly not interfere with each player's specific gameplay.

He only makes macro decisions and rule-based rulings to ensure that most individuals are running on the right track.

A few exceptions are irrelevant.

The meaning of the rules will be reflected after they own the property in the game.

When the newcomers are equipped with a full set of magical costumes and have a lot of buddies or sisters who have closer relationships in the game than in reality, they will naturally understand that obeying the rules is not for others, but for themselves.

Vault 404.

Chu Guang, who had just gone to the shelter next door to talk to the newbies, took off his power armor and went straight to the medical laboratory on the B3 floor.

When he arrived here, Butch, who was dressed in a tin can, happened to be there.

Since living in the shelter, he would hang out at the medical laboratory whenever he had free time to inquire about the latest research progress on mutant slime mold.

Before Heya came out of the analysis room, Chu Guang looked at Bach sitting on the chair and asked curiously.

"Is there no mutant slime mold in the Cloud Province?"

Bach: "Of course there are. Whether it's cloud-listed or cloud-listed, it's almost impossible to completely eradicate them."

Chu Guang: "I heard that the legion will limit the living space of slime mold by demolishing cities."

A chuckle came from the tin can.

"Haha, don't listen to the idiots from the Legion bragging about demolishing all those high-rise buildings? The entire People's Federation's nuclear bomb reserve has not been used. How can they do this?"

Chu Guang gave him a strange look.

“Why does the People’s Federation want to demolish its own house?”

"Who knows what happened two hundred years ago," Batch shrugged. "I heard that there were many companies in the Prosperity Era."

As he was talking, the alloy door of the sample analysis room opened.

Heya, who was wearing a white coat, walked out from behind the door and handed a tablet that was a wrist-mounted computer into the hands of Chu Guang, who had just returned from outside.

Chu Guang glanced at the dense data on the screen. Although he knew every letter and number, he couldn't understand them when they were connected together.

But that's okay.

If she could understand it, what else would she do?

"This is?"

With unconcealable excitement between her brows, Heya said with joy.

"Detailed analysis report on the juvenile brood! Thanks to the samples obtained by your residents, we now have a more comprehensive understanding of the formation of the brood, and this further confirms my suspicion that these slime molds are affected by It is dominated by some kind of unified consciousness, and the transmission of this information is probably achieved through spores!”

That is to say

Spores are not only reproductive cells, but also media for information exchange between mutant slime molds?

Similar to insect pheromones?

Chu Guang fell into silence as he stared at the tablet.

What a convenient creature.

At this time, Butch, who was standing aside, suddenly became nervous.

"Wait, does that mean the mother nest gives orders through spores? Then will the slime mold on my body be controlled by the spores released by the mother nest?"

Heya looked at him and said.

"You were infected outside Qingquan City, right?"

Butch nodded nervously.

"After I was infected, I walked five to six hundred kilometers to the west and north before arriving in Qingquan City."

Chu Guang said.

"Five to six hundred kilometers, it should be beyond the boundaries of the River Valley Province."

Heya said in a relaxed tone: "Then don't worry. These mutant slime molds have strong regional attributes. They rely on proteins transcribed by RNA to identify the same kind. Only the same kind can have unified consciousness and coordination with the same kind. Slime mold identification codes vary by region."

Hearing this, Bucky finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Chu Guang looked at Heya and asked the question he was most concerned about.

"Does this brood have any weaknesses?"

Heya answered simply.

"Its weakness is a weakness shared by all living things. If it is killed, it will die."

Chu Guang: ""

Having said this is like saying nothing.

Heya replied simply.

"If you want to kill them completely, the best way is undoubtedly fire, followed by explosives. Strong acid is also a good way, but the cost is too expensive. If you want to ask if there is any shortcut, unfortunately, at present, See no, unless”

Chu Guang immediately asked: "Unless?"

"Unless we can find a way to get samples from the mother nest in the city center," Heya said with confidence, "According to the model I established, all spores above 80% are produced from the mother nest in the city center. A series of other fruiting bodies, including gnashers, hatching chambers, and even new broods, ultimately have their roots in the oldest brood located in the city center!”

Chu Guang: ""

What's the difference between this and not saying anything?

Butch, who was honest and upright, spoke out what was on his mind for him.

"I think even without model analysis, we can reach this conclusion by looking at it with our eyes."

Heya glanced at him.

“Eyes can deceive, but data cannot.”

Chu Guang coughed lightly.

"You're right, data doesn't lie, but what we need most now is a way to crack the wave. We don't have much time left."

However, what surprised Chu Guang was that these slime molds had actually formed a highly organized hive society as Heya had guessed.

They not only imitate the forms and hunting methods of other creatures in nature, but also penetrate into more complex social levels.

Some fruiting bodies are responsible for reproduction, some are responsible for development, and some are responsible for hunting. When necessary, the nibblers as "worker bees" will even sacrifice themselves to become nutrients for the expansion of the bacterial carpet in the incubator.

The spore cloud covering the whole city can even act like a local area network, providing information services to the city's slime mold alien species, and these alien species themselves play the role of routers, releasing spores all the time.

There is no shortcut to destroying them.

After a pause, Chu Guang continued.

"As for the sample of the brood nest, your request is difficult, but I will try my best to help you find a way."

Boulder City, located on the edge of the Third Ring Road, may have a solution.

Chu Guang had heard from Xia Yan before that some powerful mercenary groups could go deep into the city center to search for the relics of the pre-war Ming Dynasty.

As long as he has enough chips, this problem may be solved with money.

While Chu Guang was deep in thought, Butch, who was sitting beside him, hugged the iron can on his head in pain.

"Damn it, why on earth did I make this trip?"

He was already beginning to regret it.

Perhaps, like other alumni who choose to travel after graduation, I should just travel around the Yunjian Province.

There is no need to go this far, and there is no need to set such a high goal right from the start.

The thought of his handsome face turning into this ghostly appearance made him want to die in pain.

No matter what I think, it's all Luo Hua's fault that I will become like this!

Chu Guang glanced at this friend who had come from afar with a strange expression, and gave a kind reminder.

"Actually, it doesn't matter if you take off your helmet. I don't think everyone in the shelter will mind your appearance."

Rather

Are weird-looking NPCs more popular?

However, after hearing Chu Guang's words, Bach shook his head and showed strong resistance.

"You don't want to kill me!"

at dusk.

The newbies, who had been playing the game for a whole day, dragged their tired bodies and tattered equipment back to the outpost.

When setting off from Shelter 117, many of them were carrying engineer shovels and axes produced by the No. 81 Steel Plant, or shields, javelins, bows and arrows, and spears made from the carpentry hut.

However, now, almost everyone's equipment has been replaced by steel bars, sticks, and even bricks picked up from nowhere.

Some players simply didn’t even come back.

After being cloud players on the forum for several months, they finally experienced how real a "100% real" virtual reality game can be.

Throwing the broken stick on the ground, Mengxin, whose ID was called Painter, sat down at the south door and cursed.

"Nah, this gnawer is too strong. Holding the shield, he just gnawed at it. He almost chewed off my nose!"

A good friend whose ID is illustrator also echoed.

"That's right! Didn't you say that the Gnawer is a novice monster? This strength is too outrageous!"

The encounter between the two newbies is not unique.

In fact, not only the newbies find it difficult, but even the awakened players can clearly feel that the intensity of the gnawers is much higher than before.

And this enhancement is not just the optimization of "monster AI", it is obvious that even the panel data is one or two points higher than before.

Once surrounded, even awakened ones of the strength and physique systems can easily fall into a dangerous situation.

Not to mention newcomers who haven't grown up in panel attributes yet.

But complaints are complaints, and no one is discouraged.

If you can't even accept this level of difficulty, you won't be able to complete the questionnaire with increasingly outrageous questions and difficulty, and you won't even have the chance to become a lucky closed beta player.

It’s not just the unloading point at the south gate and the market at the north gate that are lively, but also bustling in front of the labor union’s wooden house.

Looking at the predators whose hands and feet were tied, Yu Hu had a confused expression on his face.

If I remember correctly, the task I posted should be to search for slime mold alien species in the area, clean the incubation room where the gnawers are produced, and the source of spore diffusion.

However

Why did these "players" capture a bunch of living people?

At a rough count, there are over a hundred.

His trade union doesn't have the task of catching slaves.

Looking at the president of the Artificial Guild, Commander Quanshui chuckled: "We didn't find the incubation room, but we did find the predator's lair."

The battlefield atmosphere team said with emotion: "These people are real cowhide, and they are hiding in a bridge cave!"

I was the darkest: "It stinks!"

Lao Wang next door: "Hey, these are the ones I caught, and their lair is actually on the hanging tower!"

Kakarot: "Damn it, aren't you afraid of falling if you sleep so high?!"

Lao Wang next door shook his head and poked the predator next to him with his gun, "I don't know, why don't you ask him?"

The predator who was stabbed by the gun shivered, afraid but did not dare to hide aside.

The same goes for other predators.

In addition to fear, there was more confusion on his face.

They originally didn't intend to deal with these poor guys who didn't even have a two-headed cow. Those fat caravans were their targets.

However, as soon as these people saw them, their eyes seemed to glow green, and they rushed forward without saying a word.

In fact, from the perspective of the players, there is nothing wrong with it.

After all, the combat effectiveness of the alien species has obviously increased, and the only ones that have not changed are these predators.

Those old players are very experienced in dealing with predators. From bloody hands to bone chewers, which one of them will not be defeated by them?

Not to mention that these predators are much fatter than the cannibals. They can earn a lot of silver coins by destroying their lair and increase their contribution.

Who would say no to a walking experience package?

In addition to the captured raiders, there are also slaves that the player rescued from their lairs.

Among them were men and women, some with intact limbs, some missing arms and legs, or even dying.

Some of them even had huge bellies.

Yu Hu, who had never dealt with predators, didn't know how to deal with it for a while.

Fortunately, the manager came over at this time.

After understanding the situation, Chu Guang immediately called Guo Niu, who was in charge of the warehouse at the outpost, and gave him instructions.

"The people were sent to prisoner-of-war camps first, and the guards there knew how to identify the plunderers. After the interrogation, the plunderers stayed in the prisoner-of-war camps, and the other rescued survivors were sent to long-term farms."

"If they have somewhere else to go, let them go. If they are willing to stay, place them in a refugee village and let Jiuli find something for them to do."

There is a large area of ​​farmland on the west side of the long-term farm that needs to be cultivated.

And in addition to farm work, many hotels and taverns for merchants have recently been opened in Changjiang Farm, and they are recruiting accountants, bookkeepers, chefs, cleaners and waiters.

Regardless of whether you have any skills or not, as long as you want to work, there will never be a shortage of job opportunities.

Guo Niu nodded seriously.

"Okay, sir!"

According to the price of 50 silver coins and 50 contributions for a prisoner and 80 silver coins and 80 contributions for a plunderer, Chu Guang settled the players' mission rewards.

Looking at the players who were happily rushing to the north gate, Yu Hu lowered his head in shame and said in a low voice.

"Sorry, I didn't do this little thing well."

Chu Guang said in an encouraging tone.

"Don't say that. You've done a pretty good job. As for similar things, you'll gain experience by dealing with them a few times. If you're really undecided, you can just contact me or Xiaoqi."

In fact, let alone Yu Hu, Chu Guang himself was quite surprised.

His original intention of establishing the Human Guild was to cope with the upcoming wave and enrich the gameplay of the servant players. However, he did not expect that the human players failed to find several incubation rooms and instead destroyed many predators' lairs.

The large area of ​​land in the northern suburbs is in trouble for cultivation.

It was an unexpected surprise to be able to pick up so many prisoners.

Clearing his throat, Chu Guang looked at Yu Hu and continued.

"Let's get down to business first. How did the matter I asked you to investigate go?"

Yu Hu nodded quickly and said immediately.

"There are already results! I'm planning to report to you!"

After a pause, he continued.

"According to clues collected by our team of people sent to the edge of the Fifth Ring Road to the Fourth Ring Road, a large number of nibblers are moving along multiple out-of-city highways from the city center to the suburbs."

"Their speed is not fast, but their pace is firm. Especially at night, their marching speed is almost twice as fast as during the day. If they maintain their current speed, the first wave of nibblers will probably reach the northern suburbs within two days, and the scale will probably be no less than One hundred thousand!"

One hundred thousand? !

Chu Guang's face turned slightly solemn.

"Has anything similar happened in the northern suburbs before?"

If the scale of the wave is really that huge, the power of the northern suburbs is simply not enough to withstand it.

Not to mention the bolt-action rifles in the old Leech warehouse, even if the Brown Farm and the Bloody Hand clan were added together, it would be impossible.

Yu Hu frowned and thought hard for a while, then shook his head and said.

"I haven't heard of the waves going north, but there are fogs a few times, but not every year."

The difficulty of this year's wave has increased significantly.

Is it because of population?

Chu Guang looked serious and said immediately.

"I need to know the specific route of the wave. Do you have a map here?"

Yu Hu nodded immediately.

"Yes! I was just going to get it for you!"

With that said, he returned to the wooden house of the Labor Union, quickly took out a map, and walked out of the wooden house again.

Returning to Chu Guang, Yu Hu unfolded the map in front of him and pointed to the mark he drew on the map.

"right here!"

I saw a red line and four yellow lines drawn with a marker on the paper map.

The lines in these two colors respectively represent the main direction of the "wave" and the branch lines that run through the streets in the city.

The Garden Street subway station is located between Bate Street and Brown Grange, right on the red line!

Without a moment's delay, Chu Guang took the map and went directly to the guard station, recalling the guard captain Wan Wan from Jiujiu Farm and a group of his capable men.

The combat meeting begins.

Chu Guang spread the map on the table.

"If the wave continues, not only will our neighbors suffer, but Vault 117, outposts, and new industrial zones will be in trouble."

"There is a relatively open area at the entrance and exit of the ring road south of the Huayuan Street subway station. I plan to build a direction around this area and deploy more than 500 troops and heavy firepower."

"If you have any good opinions, you can put them forward now!"

Vanus, who was staring at the map, thought for a moment and suddenly spoke.

"I wonder if our opponents are just Gnawers, or are they Creepers and Tyrants?"

Chu Guang: "Maybe both!"

Everyone in the conference room held their breath in unison.

It would be okay if they were just gnawers. Those alien species that could only run and bite would only be killed in front of guns and cannons. A few heavy machine guns would be enough to press them to the ground and rub them.

However, if there are "all-terrain maneuverable" monsters like crawlers and tyrants with "unfathomable health bars", the situation may not be optimistic.

Coupled with monsters like the "Destroyer" who don't play by the rules at all, this battle will probably be a disaster.

Vanus only spent half a minute thinking and made a judgment immediately.

"I'm afraid one line of defense is not enough! Based on this line of defense, we only need a strategic depth of at least three kilometers to prevent them from advancing through multiple layers of defense lines!"

Wrench frowned.

"I'm afraid it's too late to reach three kilometers. It's too difficult to build this line of defense before they arrive!"

Vanus did not speak, but looked at Chu Guang.

So does everyone else.

As if he was the only hope.

Under the gaze of everyone, Chu Guang nodded Xia's head slowly and said only three words.

"There's enough time!"

There's always time.

Just requires a little sacrifice

At the same time, on the viaduct more than ten kilometers away.

In the queue that was moving forward like a tide, a pair of scarlet pupils were staring intently at the northern sky.

There was a coercion in that sight that even the claws of death couldn't look at.

Its mouth is open.

The hoarse voice was like the cry of a ghost.

"children"

"burning"

"Necessary purification"

Those scarlet pupils were filled with the desire for killing and blood!