This Game Is Too Realistic

In a dark tunnel.

A dozen Wilant soldiers wearing protective clothing used flashlights and carefully searched every shadow-covered corner around them while cautiously advancing forward.

The air here is filled with a suffocating depression, and there seems to be a pair of coveting eyes hidden in the darkness... It is the coveting of the living by the dead.

Because this space is too quiet, any slight sound will appear abrupt and abnormal. Therefore, everyone intentionally or unintentionally reduces their chatter and only talks to each other when necessary.

An hour had passed since the thousand-man team led by Favre discovered the passage of this tunnel, and a full hour had passed since this exploration team went deep into the ruins to search.

Until now, they still have not explored the end of this tunnel. So much so that many people can't help but start to wonder if they are going around in circles.

Don't blame them for thinking so.

After all, this tunnel is as long as a black hole.

So the deeper they explored, the stronger the uneasy feeling in everyone's hearts became.

It's as if if you stay in here for a long time, you will never be able to get out...

"Damn...where did those diggers find this miserable tunnel?"

"The devil knows..."

"The ruins of a settlement more than a hundred years ago... I just want to know what's the point of exploring this thing? Are there still living people here?"

"That's enough, shut up!"

Telling ghost stories at this time has no benefit except scaring himself. The man who was scolded by the captain smiled and stopped talking.

Others also closed their mouths involuntarily, and the eerie silence of the bottomless tunnel was restored.

Finally it was time for routine reporting.

The Wilant soldier standing at the front of the team took a deep breath, took off the walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder and said in a deep voice.

"This is the 'sled'... everything below is normal, and no suspicious targets have been found yet."

After a brief rustle of electricity, the superior's voice came from the communication channel.

"Keep searching."

"……yes!"

Show off.

There was no way their superiors would allow them to come back empty-handed.

Until they find a valuable enough target, they can only continue searching in this bottomless tunnel.

The captain of the Velantans who led the team hung up the communication, gestured to the teammates behind him, and then continued walking deeper into the tunnel with the demoralized people.

After passing through a crooked steel bar, everyone crossed a half-collapsed ventilation duct, and the space in front suddenly became spacious.

Seeing that the situation ahead had finally changed, everyone had excited expressions on their faces, and they all quickened their steps and continued to move forward. Not long after, they arrived at a small square of about a hundred square meters.

I saw a square stone monument standing in the center of the square, and crooked chairs were arranged around the stone monument.

Most of these chairs are empty, but remnants of clothing and several completely weathered skeletons can be seen nearby.

Enduring the discomfort in his heart, the Wilante captain walked to the stone monument with a flashlight and followed the flashlight's light around him.

"This is the 'Sleigh'... We found a square, which should be a gathering place for local survivors."

After a pause, he pointed the flashlight at the stone tablet and found lines of small words engraved on it, so he continued.

"There is a stone tablet in the center of the square. We found some engraved writings on it, which seem to be the names of local residents... Wait, there seems to be a line of writing at the bottom of the stone tablet."

After carefully identifying the small handwriting, he said with difficulty.

"'Our world has ended and we will start a new reincarnation'... I don't understand. Is this some strange religion?"

Voices continued to come from the command post.

"Is there any geographical information about this settlement on the stone tablet? For example, its name?"

"I didn't find anything... Until I confirm the place name, I'll just call this place 'Stone Tablet Town'."

An expression of interest appeared on the face of the Wilante captain, and he walked around behind the stone monument with the flashlight in his hand.

Since his attention was all on the stone tablet, he didn't notice his feet at all. Until a crisp sound of "creep" came through the soles of his boots, he subconsciously lowered his head and only then realized that he stepped on it. Broken a human skull.

It was at this moment that he saw a scene he would never forget.

In the open space behind the stone monument, densely packed corpses were growing chaotically like weeds. The head he stepped on was just an insignificant one among them. The human bones were piled up into a small mountain in this not-so-large space...

This doesn't look like a settlement at all.

Rather, it looks like a worship place for some kind of cult.

What is going on here? !

Even though he was used to the tragedy of mountains of corpses and seas of bones on the battlefield, he still unconsciously felt a trace of fear about this strange death in his heart.

"Damn..."

Swallowing hard, he couldn't help but take a step back until his shoulder hit the stone monument behind him.

At this moment, he was not the only one. The other Wilante soldiers who followed him deep into the tunnel also discovered what was going on behind the stone tablet, and they all felt the coldness of their hands and feet.

The command post at the other end of the communication channel seemed to be aware of the abnormality of the situation below, and a hurried voice soon came from the earphones.

"This is the headquarters, what did you find?"

"dead……"

"dead?"

"That's right... there are dead people everywhere here. Starting from behind the stone monument in the square to the streets that are suspected to be buried in garbage, there are at least tens of thousands of bones lying here. It feels like..."

The Vallant captain swallowed once again, looked around at the devastated mess, and said in a hoarse voice.

"It's like hell..."

…

At the same time that the Valant soldiers were exploring deep into hell, at the refugee camp established by the alliance a few miles away, two vertical take-off and landing killer whale transport planes slowly landed in the open space near the camp.

There are tens of thousands of survivors stranded in the local area. Haibei, which is still surrounded by the Kingdom of Heaven, is not a suitable resettlement site. Both the transportation of supplies and sanitation are a big trouble.

At this time, the Alliance Army Command issued new instructions to the frontline troops, requiring the troops stationed in the local area to move the survivors to the coastline a hundred miles away for resettlement.

There is a temporary alliance camp there, as well as a temporary dock that allows cargo ships to load and unload supplies, which is more than enough to accommodate 10,000 survivors.

However, since the "Overlord" transport aircraft independently developed by the alliance must rely on the runway to take off and land, the task of transferring refugees can only be entrusted to the corporate aviation fleet.

Looking at the long line of survivors waiting in front of the tarmac, the pilot sitting in the driver's seat couldn't help but clicked his tongue and said to the Alliance soldiers who came to take over the work.

"No offense intended...are you guys picked up from Hell?"

People with missing arms and legs are everywhere here, and it is almost impossible to find a complete person.

And that's not all.

Many people have rotten scars on their bodies, and they look twisted and hideous, making it unbearable to look at them.

"Almost, after all, we just crawled out of hell."

Murderous Dagger grinned, smiled at the fussing pilot, and joked casually.

"Mutants like to eat alive. They often eat half and throw away the other half. If they can't finish eating, they throw the rest back to the dungeon to be raised... These survivors who have eaten the fruit have absolutely no worries about wound infection. The rotten meat will It grows with the new flesh on their bodies, and finally becomes what you see.”

The pilot sitting in the co-pilot's seat retched, and after a long time, he raised his head with a pale face, looked at the murderous dagger standing next to the cockpit, and protested.

"...That's enough, stop talking!"

That description made him feel physically uncomfortable.

The murderous dagger shrugged, threw the personnel list into the cockpit, and patted the pilot's shoulder with a smile.

"There are still more than 17,000 targets that need to be transferred, and the prisoners from the Weiland people are also planned to be handed over to us... The task is difficult, and I will leave it to you. Come on!"

Watching the soldier turn and leave, the two pilots sitting in the cockpit looked at each other and couldn't help but whisper to each other.

"I suspect that these people are mentally disturbed...otherwise how could they not feel any discomfort at all."

"I completely agree with your point of view..."

After explaining what was going on here, the killer patted the cockpit hatch, then turned around and went about other things.

While the company's transport plane was busy moving to the coastline, two Viper transport planes carrying researchers from the Alliance scientific expedition team flew over from the direction of the coastline and stopped not far from the killer whale transport plane.

A group of researchers in white coats quickly got off the plane and, escorted by a group of players with live ammunition, quickly headed to the entrance of Vault 20.

At present, the entire shelter is still under the control of the Alliance's Burning Corps. The nearby streets have been replaced with brand-new monitoring equipment, and drones are arranged to patrol the surrounding area 24 hours a day.

Until the inspection of the data saved in the shelter is completed, the shelter will not be disclosed to other members of the sticky body.

Chu Guang is not the only one who is paying attention to the latest progress of the investigation. Fang Chang, who is very interested in Vault 20, is also paying attention to the latest investigation progress of the scientific expedition team.

While he was waiting for the results of the investigation, Lao Bai, who was patrolling from outside, brought him unexpected news.

"I have some bad news and some bad news here. Which one do you want to hear first?"

Fang Chang coughed slightly when he heard this treacherous statement.

"You should start with the most important one."

Lao Bai said with a grin.

"Remember those Wilantes before? They really dug something from the position we abandoned before."

Fang Chang was stunned for a few seconds when he heard this, and then looked at Lao Bai in disbelief.

"real or fake?"

Lao Bai nodded and said.

"It's the news given to me by the brothers from the battlefield. It shouldn't be wrong."

Fang Chang asked immediately.

"What about the news about Tuo?"

Lao Bai said with a grin.

"That's the news you just heard. As for the bad news...it's a pity that our friendly forces were not very lucky and found nothing except corpses."

Fang Chang frowned slightly.

"...Nothing was found except corpses?"

Lao Bai nodded and continued.

"Yes, the passage they dug seems to be the entrance to a certain settlement, but that settlement has been abandoned for more than a century, and there is nothing inside except the corpses of local surviving people."

Looking at Fang Chang who was deep in thought, Lao Bai paused and continued.

"But speaking of that settlement, it's also very strange. According to the Weiland people who went to explore the ruins to investigate, they found that the entire settlement seemed to have been buried in an instant."

"A large number of surviving corpses were gathered in the square at the entrance of the settlement. No trace of resistance was seen at the scene... Those survivors seemed to have accepted their fate. They carved their names on the stone tablets. At the same time, a prophecy of doomsday was written at the end, and the final death was quietly welcomed.”

"The whole ruins exudes an evil smell from head to toe, and what's even more evil is that I heard from the warlords that there is something mentally wrong with the Wilant soldiers coming from below. They are like It was as if they were frightened by something and became suspicious... Logically speaking, this is abnormal. They are all experienced warriors and would not be frightened like this by a few corpses. "

Fang Chang nodded in agreement, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly raised a possibility.

"Could it be the influence of a mind interference device or some kind of bacteria?"

Lao Bai shook his head and said.

"That's not clear. In fact, I would like to find a few 'wounded people' from the legion to come over and cooperate with our research. But the problem now is... we obtained the information through abnormal means. They don’t take the initiative to explain, and we are not very open to it.”

Fang Chang said with a sigh.

"Indeed... However, according to the clues dug by the Weilant people, it can support some of the conclusions of the scientific expedition team."

Lao Bai's heart moved and he asked in surprise.

"Are there any results from the scientific expedition team?"

Fang Chang nodded and spoke slowly.

"According to the investigation opinions of the scientific expedition team, the management log of Shelter 20 was probably deleted manually, and it was after a certain catastrophic experiment result."

Lao Bai asked with a frown.

"Disastrous experimental results?"

Fang Chang nodded and continued.

"The main research direction of Vault 20 is the development of outer space. According to the two technical ideas they designed for 'returning to space', they considered two sets of plans in the two decades after Wasteland 51 ”

"The first plan is to use limited resources to build a non-orbital space elevator, step by step, to re-walk the path that the People's Union of China has taken. The other plan is to find a new way to launch thinking into outer space and return it to outer space. He works on the human-connected era space equipment to complete the rescue from the outside to the inside... This can be regarded as a disguised overtaking in a corner. "

"According to the investigation conclusion of the scientific expedition team, it is very likely that Shelter No. 20 abandoned the plan from the technical feasibility demonstration stage after imagining the first set of plans, and put down all the chips from the beginning. Regarding the second plan... we can’t find any specific experimental plan for the first plan on the server of our shelter. For this reason, they have never tried it from the beginning. "

Lao Bai frowned.

"Does this mean...that orbitless space elevator plan won't work?"

"No," Fang Chang shook his head, "How can you say that something that has not been tried does not work? If that thing is really a technology that cannot be realized in principle, it will not be turned into a plan. In the shelter."

Lao Bai asked in confusion.

"Then why did they give up?"

Fang Changqi recalled what he just heard from the NPC for a moment and continued.

"The opinion of the scientific expedition team is... At that time, the residents of Shelter 20 judged that the material cost and time cost required for the first set of plans were beyond their ability to bear. If they forcibly pushed forward the plan, they might spend five years. Ten years or more.”

Lao Bai said thoughtfully.

"Fifty years...that doesn't sound unacceptable."

"This seems to be the case to us, but to them at the time, it seemed that this time was too long... In fact, it is not difficult to think from their perspective. If it would take such a long time to return to outer space, it would be a long time. I don’t know how long it will take to restore the borders of the Federation of People’s Federation at its peak.”

After a pause, Fang Chang continued.

"The scientific expedition team speculated that due to various considerations, they most likely chose the second plan as the direction of their efforts... suppressed all hopes into one that seemed cheaper and more viable. "Thinking Projection Technology of Multiple Uncertainty Elements."

Lao Bai couldn't help but ask.

"Then they...succeeded?"

Fang Chang sighed softly.

"Didn't I say that the management log was deleted after a disastrous experimental result..."

After a pause, he continued.

"We have no way of knowing what they did in the 21 years from 1951 to 1972 in Wasteland Chronicles. If the corpses dug up by the Wilantes were left behind by them, then the results of that experiment are self-evident. Metaphor...The eagerness of the residents of Vault 20 led to ultimately disastrous consequences, so much so that the entire experiment turned into a desperate suicide."

Listening to this cruel inference, Lao Bai's Adam's apple moved up and down, and finally he shook his head and choked out one sentence.

"It's really crazy..."

Fang Chang nodded and said after a moment of silence.

"Indeed, that is another group of madmen. They and the Torch belong to different eras, but their madness is exactly the same."

"So much so that it's hard not to wonder whether the Torch was inspired by the experience in Vault 20 to do so many outrageous things..."

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