Chapter 145 Who is our enemy?

  Official website forum.

   Yaya, who had just been offline, rushed in immediately.

   "Big news!!! That piece of paper that says 100CR can actually be exchanged for money! Guess how much I exchanged? (*≧▽≦

  Ye Shi: "Hey? Said that Cao Cao and Cao Cao will arrive? (funny

  Irena: funny

  Yow: "Hey! Don't interrupt, do you still want to know! (;'O)o"

  Siss: "I guess 10 silver coins."

   Fang Chang: "You said so."

   Less bullshit: "That's it! Don't sell it!"

  Tail: "GKD!(｀)Ψ"

Yaya: "Hey, listen to me, I was selling mushroom soup, and suddenly a sneaky NPC ran over, took out a piece of paper, and wanted to take my pot away! And then, in I don't know what to do, but the manager suddenly appeared! By the way, the manager's new armor is so handsome, I don't know if I can buy that skin. (

  The fleeing mole rat in the canyon: "Gan! You are so important!"

  Teng Teng: "???(╯°Д°)╯︵┻━┻"

  Yaya: "100! 100 silver coins! The manager took the paper and gave me 100 silver coins! I was about to say, don't rush. QAQ"

   The whole post went silent for a while.

   Then, dozens of floors were brushed out in an instant!

  Old Bai: "?!"

   Gale: "..."

  Ye Shi: "What the hell?"

  Square length: "100???"

Yaya: "Don't swipe the screen, to be precise, it's actually 200... Because yesterday's 100CR ticket, I also caught up and exchanged it with the manager. The manager also praised me, saying that I am a good person. Child, hehe. (=ω｀=)”

  Irena: "￥@#!"

  Two pots of mushroom soup for 200 silver coins!

   This luck simply cannot be described by the European Emperor!

  The players on the forum are envious of the separation of the plasmoids, and even the tickets for the early access expansion are not good...

  …

   On the other side, the reception room of the outpost.

   "Hiccup~ This wine is good. The fruity aroma of grapes is mixed with the fragrance of oak. Even in a business... I am afraid it is a rare treasure."

   "You still understand this?"

"Of course, my father has a wine cellar with a lot of his collections in it. He goes there for a while every day, and he doesn't drink it, just to feel the atmosphere. I suspect that the wine will turn into vinegar if it goes on like this. "Hey, I really want to go home."

  There were a few empty wine bottles on the table. Luo Hua was so drunk that he leaned back on the chair and burped wine, babbling non-stop.

  Chu Guang responded perfunctorily, and took time to glance at the VM, which listed the information Xiaoqi helped him sort out.

  【155. This person is from a wealthy family and holds a middle-level position in the First Trailblazer Corps. It is speculated that the crew of the Trailblazer are all middle and high-level employees in the "enterprise", and their status is not low. 】

   These information were all exchanged by him with a table of barbecue, a pot of soup, and a full six bottles of wine.

  If it was normal, Chu Guang would definitely not be able to eat such extravagant food.

   But all these efforts are rewarded.

   From the mouth of the head of the office, Chu Guang asked a lot of interesting things.

First of all, the company is located in the Yunjian Province in the easternmost part of the Central Continent. It is the estuary of one big river and two tributaries, and it is also the political, economic and cultural center before the prosperous era. It has four strategic areas, three metropolitan areas, and two industrial centers. , and an ancient city group with a "long history".

   As for the company's headquarters, it is located in the ruins of the industrial zone between Yunshang City and Yunxia City, above Refuge No. 6, a place called "Ideal City".

There are huge walls as tall as dams, towers that touch the clouds, aircrafts shuttle between the streets, but they can't fly too far, people are crowded in a "city" of less than 500 square kilometers, and most people live in Underground without windows, few people can see the clouds outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

  Chu Guang listened, always felt that this "ideal city" had a bit of a "city that never sleeps", and he didn't know how true or false this guy's mouth was.

   In addition, different from the information that Xia Yandao heard from hearsay, there are not many factions and serious internal friction within the company, but they themselves are not the kind of organization that the mercenaries of Stone City understand.

For example, an enterprise does not have a ruler in the strict sense, but only has a corporate board of directors with a rigorous organizational structure and a clear division of power. Most of the members of the corporate board of directors are composed of the chairman of the branch, and there are smaller subsidiaries under the branch. , layers of dolls.

   Some of these branches produce steel, some produce cement, and some make guns, cannons, drones, and sell clones or android companions. Silver Wing Group is only the one with the largest "market value", but the market value is changing every day, so it's hard to say who is the biggest.

   Ten years ago, the company did send an expeditionary force inland, but the target was not Qingquan City in the south of the River Valley Province, but the Great Rift Valley in the north.

  People always like to take credit for themselves. As long as the same thing passes through the mouths of two people, it may evolve into more than three versions.

   And most of them are not the last truth, just because this version is the most talked about, people are more willing to believe that it is like this.

   However, according to Luo Hua, it is true that the expedition force did fail, because for a period of time, good news from the front line could often be heard from various channels.

   But suddenly one day, no one mentioned it again.

   Except for those investors who bought "war bonds", many of them never came back, and everything seemed to have happened.

   In a sense, the "Pioneer" is also similar to that expeditionary force. In order to build this magnificent onshore fortress, Silver Wing Group also issued a considerable amount of "bonds" and promised some benefits to the rich who bought bonds with a high probability.

   But the second half is all Chu Guang's speculation.

   Maybe it was because his ideological realm was not enough. Chu Guang felt that if he lived in such an environment and had a lot of money in his pocket, he would definitely not waste the money.

   In addition, from Luo Hua's mouth, Chu Guang also learned that the goal of their trip was to go to the west to find a place called Refuge 0.

   According to legend, there is the birthplace of a grand plan. The founder of the prosperous era, the pioneer of the great route, and the immortal who gathered countless glory once rested here.

   There is regarded by some as the last hope.

"...Since you have such advanced technology, why do you put your hope in the legendary existence? You actually don't know where it is, right?" Chu Guang poured Luo Hua a glass of wine and asked, "And I Listening to your description, since you can build a fort on the ruins, why did you... um, never think of starting over?"

  Luo Hua sighed and waved his hands full of alcohol.

"I've heard this argument too much... My friend, how far have you been? You've probably traveled the most, only from the north of Qingquan City to a little bit on the edge of the Fifth Ring Road. It’s not as simple as building a few houses for granted.”

  Chu Guang smiled and said.

   "After all, I've only been out of the ground for a few months... I'm also curious about what the world has become."

"It sucks," Luo Hua shook his head. "What's the most terrifying alien species you've ever seen? A gnawing? A creeper? We collectively call them slime mold parasites, so do you know how they came from? Have you seen their brood?"

  Luo Hua continued.

"I've seen them all, I've even seen a whole skyscraper-sized hive where runaway slime molds merged with reinforced concrete and covered half of the city. The survivors there resisted, but failed, Then it was swallowed up in pieces... We were helpless, we could only take dozens of poor people who survived and put them by the lake 50 kilometers away."

  Chu Guang's expression changed slightly.

   He has heard that there seems to be a mother's nest in the center of Qingquan City, and every once in a while, alien species such as gnaws will spread from the center of the city.

  The survivors of Boulder called it "The Wave".

   These are what Xia Yan told him.

   "You just... leave that hive alone?"

"Don't worry about that thing," Luo Hua waved his hand. "You underestimate the power of nature. After everything on this planet expands to a certain limit, it will quickly fall into decline. The same is true for those slime molds. In a few cases, they will mutate, run wild, no longer fear the sun, devour the living creatures around them frantically, and use their flesh to multiply quickly. It sounds scary, but when they expand to a certain size, where will they soon go from? Going back and forth...we call it the self-limiting nature of the expansion of the mutated slime mold."

   Hearing this, Chu Guang's expression relaxed slightly.

Too.

  If it could expand endlessly, the planet would have been occupied by them long ago.

   And from the perspective of energy balance, there is probably no ecosystem that can accommodate such terrifying creatures.

   paused for a moment, Luo Hua continued chattering while burping.

"These mutated slime molds are just one of the troubles. You know, this world is not far from being eaten by these ghosts. Even mutant cockroaches that have nothing to do with slime molds are annoying enough. By the way, there are also mutants, I don't know if you have ever seen a 'hypermutation' as high as a three-story building? I suspect that the whole thing is a lump of humanoid tumor. We used two tactical nukes to completely solve it... So you are really lucky, that Dozens of mutants, we got rid of it with just five power armors."

  Chu Guang's Adam's apple moved.

   He originally wanted to ask where these ghosts came from, but he had already come to the question, but he changed his mouth and became the question he had been thinking about all the time.

   "Who is our enemy?"

   Hearing this question, Luo Hua smiled.

"Us? Enemies? You mean... that doomsday battle? Haha, what happened two centuries ago? I've seen a lot of people who came from frozen dormancy in the 22nd century. Some of them were really for refuge, and some were purely for I think it's fun to go to the future. Haha, anyway, they can't tell what happened, they thought they were standing on the scene of a variety show, clamoring to sue us. "

   While talking, Luo Hua's eyes were a little blurry, and the hand holding the wine glass kept shaking.

  Chu Guang felt that he was drunk, so he gave him another drink... Anyway, this is his "official business", and there is not much left of this bottle.

   "Those poor bastards... hiccup, all we can do is hand them over to the nearby survivors, maybe their knowledge can come in handy, but I feel like it's enough."

   did not refuse Chu Guang to pour himself the wine, Luo Hua raised his head and took another gulp, hiccups for a long time, this time he couldn't even straighten his tongue.

"It is said that the answer is in Vault 0. It's not just us looking for it, the Academy, the Legion... Many people are looking for it, but they haven't heard anything for so many years. Maybe it's not in the west at all, or as you say Maybe it doesn't even exist. But who knows? Someone has to try it."

   While talking, Luo Hua planted his head on the table.

   Seeing that he was about to tip his head into the brazier next to him, Chu Guang hurriedly reached out to help him and moved his head to the other side.

  Luo Hua was still shouting.

   "I'm going to write a biography, and if we're successful, it'll be the best-selling book in Ideal City."

"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. Your names are too hard to pass on by word of mouth. If you change the 'First Pioneering Corps' to the 'Templar Knights', then change the Pioneer to Zheng He, and then give it to you. Change the name of the captain to something more aggressive...like Luby Yanka, you go to the West to learn the scriptures, and I bet this book will become the best-selling adult fairy tale on the East Coast."

   Chu Guang was talking nonsense, but Luo Hua's eyes lit up after listening to it.

"good idea--"

   The word "meaning" was only halfway through, when the young man suddenly thumped and completely stopped cooking. And the wine glass in his hand fell beside the brazier with a bang.

  Chu Guang did not care about the drunkard anymore, but stared at the VM screen.

   Looking at the last line of information recorded on the screen, he raised his eyebrows slightly.

   "The Legion and the Academy..."

  The world seems to be wider than I imagined.

very nice.

   I can draw a new pie again.

  …

   The next morning.

As soon as    arrived at six o’clock, the hard-working little players went online on time and trotted all the way to the pool of the public toilet in the center of the camp.

   After a brief wash, they continued to run to the open space in the center of the camp in groups of three and five carrying their lunch boxes.

   However, as soon as they reached the open space, they were dumbfounded.

  I saw twenty or so NPCs in gray coats with bowls in their hands, already standing in line in front of the cauldron.

   Seeing those blue jackets looking over, the crew of the Trailblazer were somewhat embarrassed. They smiled at their allies, waved their hands friendly, and pointed to the bowls in their hands.

   That expression seemed to say—

   "Don't panic, big brother, we'll leave after a meal."

   The players who were also carrying bowls were stunned.

   "Damn it! These NPCs are getting more and more assertive!"

   "The pot didn't even open, what?!"

   "Huh? Where's Brother Scrambled Egg? I saw him by the faucet just now, why is he gone?"

  Not far away, Brother Scrambled Egg was following old Luca, walking over with a big basket of noodles in his hand. When he got to the wok, he placed the frame heavily on the table.

   There are also some other ingredients and condiments on the table.

   raised his arm and rubbed his forehead. Brother Scrambled Egg put on his sleeves and apron, and tapped the edge of the pot with a spoon.

"Plant meat, artificial starch synthetic noodles, and Boss Crow's chanterelle mushrooms... Let's try some high-tech ingredients today. I declare in advance, I haven't tried it yet, try my best to make it, it won't taste good, etc. Think about it next time."

  The scrambled egg brother originally planned to cook porridge to fool the meal. After all, the time in the morning is not as generous as in the evening, and they have to go to the new map to move bricks later.

   But at this moment, his VM suddenly received a task - let him cook a pot of happy food for the players in the camp.

  What is food that can make people happy?

  Brother Scrambled Egg was stunned, but the three question marks in the quest reward column, and the exclusive label for the expansion piece pasted on the head, aroused his desire to win.

   Hearing that Brother Scrambled Egg was going to show his hand, the players in the queue cheered excitedly.

   "The big guy is awesome!"

   "Give me more eggs!"

   "Pass it on! Brother scrambled eggs, let's eat it!"

   "Oh, this can't be passed on, you can pass it on yourself!"

   Although the Pioneer crew members who were surrounded by them didn't understand, they looked forward to seeing how excited the blue jackets were.

  Brother Scrambled Egg ignored it and devoted himself to the work in front of him.

   Put some wild boar fat on the bottom of the pot, and after exploding the aroma of oil, he skillfully poured the vegetable meat that had been marinated with "secret cooking wine" into the pot.

  Laughter——!

  The aroma of meat is diffused.

Quickly stir fry, the soy sauce is colored, sprinkle some salt and pepper to enhance the fragrance, wait until the minced meat bubbles, the scrambled egg brother skillfully picks up a pot of boiling water, pours the boiling water into the iron pot, and shakes the iron a few times. The pot is then covered with a lid.

   The grunting sound was covered with the fragrance.

  The scallops here are ready, and the stewed chicken oil mushroom soup over there is also fragrant.

  The taste buds were constantly being teased, and the NPCs in the queue kept swallowing their saliva one by one.

   The pot finally boiled.

  The scrambled egg brother put the noodles through a mesh, shake it twice and put it into the bowl that was handed over, pour a spoonful of mushroom soup and a spoonful of pork chops evenly over it.

   "One 4CR! All of them, don't worry."

  Old Luca took the money, handed the bowl full of noodles to the truck driver who was smiling and thanked him, and continued to shout enthusiastically at the gray coats lining up.

"Next!"

   (end of this chapter)