This Game Is Too Realistic

A dark underground tunnel.

After being knocked unconscious, the three newbies were dragged here by a group of slime mold fruiting bodies, and then moved to a claustrophobic room.

This seems to be somewhere in Qingquan City's underground transportation network, but it has been transformed beyond recognition by bacterial plaque, and it is impossible to tell where it is.

The player who woke up first shook his head and put his hands on the ground. He felt his hands were sticky and was startled when he opened his eyes.

The surrounding area was filled with scarlet red, and the stirring carpet was like fresh meat, exuding an uneasy odor.

Big Pig Trotter looked around blankly, and it took him a long time to hold back a sentence.

"What the hell? What the hell is this place?"

Why was it that after being offline for a while, I even moved my position when I came back online?

At this time, another man and woman who had been kidnapped also woke up and were trembling with fear when they saw the situation around them.

Hungry force: "I giao... we shouldn't be swallowed by slime mold, right?"

The hungry forces lowered their heads and said: "Wake up, how can you swallow such a big lump if you don't chew it till it's chewed up?"

Hungry force: "...?"

The hungry forces bowed their heads: "I was wrong."

At this moment, a strange figure appeared in the dark entrance ahead.

Its burly body, which is as tall as two people, almost occupies the entire passage. There are only abstract features on the face. The upper body is burly and strong, and the lower body is a stretched skirt, with slender octopus tentacles rolling around the edges.

It is somewhat similar to Xiao Yu when she was still a body, but the body is slightly larger and has fewer human elements.

The three of them were all startled by the abstract appearance of this guy, and backed away with expressions on their faces that they had seen a ghost.

Unfortunately, this is a dead end. There is a wall behind them and there is no room to move.

Seeing the guy slowly moving his tentacles in front of him, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, he swallowed, raised his neck and breathed hard.

"Gu...just kill me, I won't say anything!"

It is said that she has wanted to try this line for a long time, and the key is that they, the newbies, don’t know anything about it.

I don't know if he understood her words or just heard her voice. The alien turned his abstract facial features towards her, and the hem of the skirt that was sticking to the ground suddenly opened a crack.

Just when everyone was wondering what it was going to do, countless tentacles rushed out from the gap and instantly pulled her into the open bloody mouth.

Before he even had time to utter a pitiful "wooka", the hungry force that was still stubborn a second ago disappeared in the closed "mouth".

The stretched skirt moved up and down, as if chewing carefully.

Seeing his partner being eaten by the monster in front of him, the Hungry Force lowered his head and after a brief daze, let out a hoarse scream.

"Wife!! I will fight with you!"

After saying that, he struggled to stand up and punched the monster who was two people tall.

And his fate was no different from the previous players.

Before he could take two steps, he was tripped by a tentacle that slipped out from under his skirt. Like a mosquito landing in front of a frog, he was licked into the bloody mouth without any suspense. .

A pair of dogs and a man died.

Thea, who had a full meal, swayed the tentacles under her body and slapped the ground happily, as if chewing the steak she had swallowed in her mouth.

It's just that the abstract facial features still have a trace of confusion, as if they are wondering about something.

Looking at the scarlet skirt that was constantly beating, Big Pig Trotters' face turned pale nervously, and he rolled his eyes in desperation.

"Brother! Don't eat me, I don't want to eat...I, I, I surrender! Do you need a translator? I will be your second-in-command!"

I heard that this game has a lot of freedom.

What if it breaks?

Thea turned her abstract facial features to him. After some thought, she suddenly opened the skirt that was close to the ground again without any warning.

Looking at the clothes falling out of it and the tentacles rolling like a meat grinder, Big Pig Trotters had a premonition of his own end, and his expression suddenly changed.

This is damning no matter what!

"I--"

Before he could even curse the dog mastermind, the bloody mouth swallowed him up. Without even a chance to resist, his remaining consciousness merged into the sea of ​​scarlet blood.

Feeling the breath of life melting into her body, Thea chewed quietly for a while, and the confusion on her face gradually turned into incomprehensible anguish.

"strangeness……"

As if it was aware of the child's confusion, Qinqin's voice appeared quietly in its hazy sea of ​​consciousness.

"What's wrong? My child."

Facing the empty scarlet wall and the indigestible impurities left at her feet, Thea murmured silently.

"They are empty."

Those guys are an empty shell.

And it is even more pure and empty shell than simple organisms such as cockroaches and mice, like a blank piece of paper without any information.

This is the first time since its birth that it has seen such a strange creature.

This kind of thing cannot be assimilated, or even if it is assimilated, it has no meaning. They are just a walking zombie.

It cannot understand what kind of existence they are.

Are they, like the "fruiting bodies" of the deceased, puppets controlled by a certain consciousness outside the body?

But they have shown strong autonomy.

Thea couldn't help but feel confusion on her face.

Could it be...

Do these humans also have nests?

…

"They are assimilated alien species."

Vault No. 404, B4 Floor Browsing Room.

Sitting on the sofa, Heya, Yan Chuguang and Yin Fang briefly described the preliminary test results of the two fruiting body samples from the Alliance Biological Research Institute.

Hearing the unexpected and interesting statement, Yin Fang put down the coffee cup in his hand and raised his eyebrows with interest.

"assimilation?"

Heya nodded seriously and continued.

"That's right... the slime mold collected their DNA data, and while absorbing their organic matter, it retained a portion of the nervous tissue belonging to those organisms."

After a pause, she continued.

"You still remember Bachi, right? He's the guy who was parasitized by slime mold. His situation is similar to that of those special fruiting bodies, except that the slime mold in Qingquan City is obviously more aggressive than that in Yongdong City. Here The slime mold has carried out more thorough assimilation, turning most of the captured organisms into part of its own body, and only retaining a very small part of the host's brain tissue."

In a sense, this is actually an improvement for the mutant slime mold in Qingquan City.

It's like going from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age.

In addition to using the bones of their prey as weapons, they also learned to domesticate them - that is, to train their prey to be obedient to their own "combat-type servitors".

Yin Fang pinched his chin and fell into deep thought.

Chu Guang, who had been silent all this time, coughed lightly.

"Can you put it in another way that I can understand?"

Heya explained patiently.

"To put it simply, they have made improvements on the basis of unified consciousness. In the past, both gnawers and crawlers hunted under the guidance of the nest, but now the special fruiting bodies have been assimilated. With their previous combat experience, they can use the stronger bodies given to them by the slime mold to hunt in the same way.”

Yin Fang interrupted and said.

"It is equivalent to a combat robot with an intelligent plug-in installed and not controlled by the cloud server."

Heya snapped her fingers.

"That's right!"

Chu Guang touched his chin and thought.

"What's the point?"

Yin Fang analyzed it according to his own understanding.

"The meaning is that the hive can allocate more of the hive's 'computing resources' to strategic-level command, and some higher sub-entities and evolved bodies can make tactical-level decisions on their own based on experience. Even if their tactics are not It will definitely be higher, but it will be more flexible and changeable than before... Am I right to understand this? "

Heya smiled and nodded.

"Yes, that's it!"

After picking up the coffee cup and taking a sip, Yin Fang sighed and said.

"It has evolved to this level in just one day... the speed of evolution of this thing is too exaggerated."

Heya shook her head.

"It's not just a matter of time, evolution is a long-term process. They have been learning from us, whether it is our tools or our skills... I prefer to think that the emergence of the alliance is to a certain extent "It has accelerated their evolution, but what really drives their transformation from quantitative to qualitative is their long-term observations of us."

The spore clouds are all over Qingquan City, and theoretically the mother body in the city center can indeed see them.

Just like the Alliance's Biological Research Institute has been looking for a solution to the Brood, that guy must also be tirelessly looking for a solution to the collapse of human society.

Perhaps it would have been a better idea to eradicate them in the early days of the Wasteland Era. The slime molds at that time would not have been as difficult to deal with as they are now.

But these are all things for later.

People at that time also had their own troubles. It was not easy to survive in the severe cold of dozens of degrees below zero, let alone fight an unprepared battle against an unknown enemy.

"Actually...compared to what you said, I'm more worried about another thing."

Seeing the two people looking at him, Chu Guang paused and slowly continued to talk.

"They have gradually learned to hide themselves during evolution, testing us while consciously preventing us from obtaining their remains."

"They seem to know us better and better."

…

"Wasteland OL" official website.

Different from the solemn atmosphere in the browsing room, the forum was bustling with excitement at the moment.

Since the expansion pack was released, players have been looking forward to what kind of work Gou Plan will come up with, and this time it did not disappoint.

The original wave was just a group of fruiting bodies swarming up. Now this group of fruiting bodies not only know how to position themselves, but also made a jaw-dropping wave of cooperation, and even kidnapped three of them under the nose of Brother Quanshui. Little cute.

This is something no one expected.

Quit smoking: "Bullshit!"

Battlefield Atmosphere Group: "Even the water from the dog spring is deflated, unscientific! (Funny)"

Commander of Quanshui: "Get out of here, I'm so embarrassed. Picking up a corpse is already considered a great achievement!"

Irena: "Speaking of which, what about the remaining corpses? Isn't there another monster? (嗽奇)"

Commander Quanshui: "When the fog cleared, it was gone. It was probably dragged away and recovered, or eaten on the spot."

Fang Chang: "I'll pay you back if I eat it..."

Ye Shi: "Hey...this mother's body feels like there is something."

Makabazi: "Speaking of the brothers who were kidnapped by those group of fruiting bodies? Haven't they come down yet?"

Big Pig Trotter: "That's me... I might have seen the mother's body!"

Upon hearing these words, the players squatting in the post instantly became excited.

Quit smoking: "Holy shit! Is this real or fake?"

Elf King Fugui: "Tell me what that thing looks like, brother. (Funny)"

Big Pig's Hoof: "I don't know how you should describe it. It looks a bit like Xiao Yu's front...it's a bit bigger than her, and her back is uglier."

Although he has never seen Xiaoyu in the game, there are always photos of Xiaoyu posted by other players on the forum.

Comparing those photos, Xiaoyu still bears some resemblance to it, except that the contours of his facial features and body are smoother, and the color is more pink.

An inappropriate but descriptive metaphor is that the mother body called Thea is more like a shark with its mouth wide open, the kind that can scare children into tears. Xiaoyu is more like a dolphin. Although it also has a ferocious side, it is closer to human aesthetics.

Commander Quanshui: "Do you remember where you saw that guy?"

Big Pig Trotter: "I don't know...but I feel like it's somewhere underground. It's very similar to a subway station."

Edge of water: "Subway station... this target is too broad."

Commander Quanshui: "But no matter what, I can confirm that this time the mother's nest and the incubation room are hidden underground... Damn it, no wonder it's something we haven't seen before."

Fang Chang: " @Big pig's trotters, in the end that mother ate you all?"

He bowed his head like a hungry man: "Yes, it swallowed my wife in one bite...and in front of me, woo woo woo."

Hungry force: "Tsk, you guy, don't say so weird! (angry)"

He bowed his head like a hungry force: "I was wrong."

Big pig's trotters: "..."

Commander Quan Shui: "What about the queen? Don't you have anything else to discover? Anything is fine."

Hungry force: "Well, I feel... it seems to be responding to our voices."

Commander of Fountain: "Voice?"

Hungry force: "At first it seemed to be trying to eat me first, but as soon as I opened my mouth to speak, it swallowed me first... I always felt like it didn't understand what I was saying. , after all, I don’t know Renlian.”

Like a hungry force, he lowered his head and said: "Hey... I also remembered what you said. I was the second one to say anything, and I was eaten right after you."

Hungry force: "So this alien species relies on sound to hunt?"

Commander Quanshui: "No, I think there is another possibility. It mistook you for a human giving orders...just like the alpha wolf in a pack of wolves."

Hungry force: "Huh? Do I still have this ability?"

Like a hungry force, he bowed his head: "What the hell? Do I have the ability to do this to you?"

Commander Quanshui: "Then I don't know, but from its perspective, maybe that's the case. After all, most mammals rely on their vocal cords to transmit information. Maybe the mother's nest understands sound as a kind of Maybe biological pheromones.”

Big Pig Trotter: "Speaking of which, I also discovered an unusual place. I wonder if this is a clue... The guy who seemed to be the mother's body seemed very surprised after eating those two mouthfuls."

Commander Quan Shui: "Surprised?"

Big Pig Trotter: "Yes, it feels like eating the wrong thing... I looked at it and tasted it carefully for a while, then vomited out the two clothes and shoes."

Fang Chang: "It's interesting."

Quit smoking: "Uh, what do you mean?"

Fang Chang: "...Do you think there is a possibility that in the cognition of slime mold, other organisms are self-aware 'mushrooms', and the clone we used does not have self-awareness, so it It’s puzzling where our self-awareness comes from.”

Commander Quan Shui: "It seems we thought of going together."

Fang Chang: "However, if my inference is correct, I am afraid that this mother body is different from all the mother bodies we have encountered before. It does not simply eat its prey, but selects some of them and assimilates them into itself." people'."

Just when everyone was discussing the book, an announcement suddenly popped up from the official website.

[Updates to the "Return of the Tide" expansion pack: Added the concept of "assimilated body\