Chapter 194 The incredible slime mold

  The planting area of ​​B3 layer.

  The last row of the soilless planting unit.

  Standing in front of a transparent window, Chu Guang touched his chin with his right hand, and his handsome face was full of surprises.

   "Potatoes, corn, tomatoes, cabbage, cabbage...I didn't expect there are so many good things hidden here."

   Originally, I planned to come over to see the situation of the planting area, but I didn't expect to find a surprise here after walking around the planting unit.

  I saw behind the transparent window, there were boxes with labels, which contained different varieties of crop seeds.

  These seeds are soaked in a special solution and kept at extremely low temperatures.

  Chu Guang counted carefully. There are a total of 12 kinds of pre-war crops stored in the freezer. The growth cycle ranges from short to long, and the suitable climate ranges from tropical to frigid, almost completely covered.

  No matter what kind of climate and environment the residents of the refuge face after the door of the refuge is opened, they can find at least one variety suitable for the current climate to sow.

   In addition, these seeds are all genetically modified and improved varieties, which are generally similar to the β-712 cotton seeds he opened from the blind box before.

   quietly followed the manager, seeing the interested expression on his face, Makabazi said excitedly.

   "Master Manager, I think we should make use of these idle facilities!"

   Chu Guang nodded and said.

   "You are right, I do have this plan."

  Hearing this sentence, Makabazi standing beside looked expectant, but when the manager turned and left, he didn't wait for the expected sentence.

   Blinking in confusion, he hastily lowered his head and glanced at VM.

Huh?

  Why didn't the task trigger?

   Could it be that the gesture that triggers the conversation is wrong?

  …

  The soilless planting unit in the planting area, sowing, watering, fertilizing and final harvesting can all be completed through preset procedures.

  In a sense, similar to the black box production method, the demand for manpower and planting experience is extremely low.

   With such a highly automated facility, there is no need to leave it to the players to take care of it. Chu Guang intends to hand it over to Xiao Qi.

  Excessive manual participation will hinder the work efficiency of the facility.

  In terms of production ideas, Chu Guang intends to focus on the breeding of staple food varieties with a long growth cycle, supplemented by planting short-cycle crops such as cabbage.

   Wait until next spring, the seeds of those staple crops will come in handy.

   "With 50 planting units, the theoretical planting area is only 50 mu... It's still a little less."

   Even if one mu of intensively cultivated land can feed 5 people, the output of 50 mu is enough to feed 250 people, and it is not even enough to cover the new players in Alpha0.9 version.

  Every time he thinks of this, Chu Guang feels puzzled in his heart.

   "This is very unreasonable. The planting area of ​​the shelter can't even support the refugees on this floor. Does everyone here eat nutrient cream?"

   It can't be so miserable.

Or…

  Any other secrets?

   In any case, food is a big problem.

  In addition to food, his little players also need fur coats to withstand the severe cold. Although the blue jacket has the function of keeping warm, it is only for the general cold. This winter in Qingquan City, the lake even showed signs of freezing, which obviously cannot be described as ordinary cold.

  Compared to the training cabin, the supplies needed to support a player are a more urgent problem to be solved at the moment.

   What is more troublesome is that it will be December soon, and the winter has entered the high dynasty, and everyone may not have much food.

  Brown Farm can no longer squeeze out much oil and water, and there are no survivor settlements with relatively high food production in the vicinity.

  The only thing we can count on is the ruins of the greenhouse.

  I hope that brother Makabazi can give a little help.

   It's been a while, and I don't know how his cornfield is doing.

   After leaving the planting area, Chu Guang turned a corner and came to the infirmary next door, intending to see what his newly recruited bioengineering experts were up to.

  Due to the frequent onlookers and harassment of the players, the door here seems to be locked by her.

  Although for Chu Guang, the doors from floors B1 to B3 were like decorations to him, he still rang the doorbell politely because of his high EQ.

  The doorbell rang.

   opened soon.

  Passing through the infirmary, Chu Guang went straight to the inner room.

   Judging from the equipment here and the layout of the room, this should be a medical laboratory.

  When he passed through the trap door, Heya, who was wearing a blue coat, was standing in front of an electron microscope, with her eyes on the observation port, and her right hand skillfully manipulating the buttons on the touch screen.

  Standing by and observing for a while, Chu Guang asked with great interest.

"This is?"

  The movements of her hands didn't stop, and Heya, whose eyes were fixed on the eyepiece, said excitedly.

   "Mutated slime mold! Samples collected from gnawers! Thanks to your wanjias... it should be pronounced like this? Anyway, please thank them for me!"

   It seems that she is already fully familiar with the usage of the players, although she is not yet fully used to their enthusiasm.

   Chu Guang was very pleased with this.

   It would be great if all his NPCs had such high savvy, then his micromanagement would be at least doubled.

   "I'll pass on your thanks. How's it going? See something?"

  Different from the shelter residents who have lived in the wasteland for a while, Heya has been staying in the No. 117 shelter before. Although she has heard about the dangerous species that are active outside, she has never really come into contact with it.

  The manager of Refuge No. 117 is a relatively conservative leader, and does not support taking the samples from the waste soil back to the refuge at the risk of unbalancing the ecological environment in the refuge.

   But Chu Guang didn't have so many scruples. Shelter 404 had already been opened, and he didn't intend to completely seal the door again. This sample is not bad at all.

  Therefore, when he heard that Heya planned to list the heterogeneous species in the wasteland as research objects, he immediately agreed without saying a word, and even allocated a budget of 2,000 silver coins to her.

  Even if you can learn more about the weaknesses of some aliens, the money is definitely worth it.

"It's not just what I saw, these samples simply overturned my first impression of them! At first I thought that these mutated slime molds were parasitic with those alien species that you call chewers and crawlers, but then I found out Not at all."

  Hearing this sentence, Chu Guang was slightly taken aback.

   This is completely different from the rumors he has learned.

"…Is not it?"

  Heya, who was staring at the microscope, said without hesitation.

"Of course not! Eaters, crawlers, and martyrs... According to the samples that have been collected so far, these creatures that you call slime molds are actually the fruiting bodies of the slime mold variants, and they are not Not another species!"

   Hearing words that he didn't understand at all, Chu Guang asked in a daze.

   "Subentity? What's that?"

"A spore-forming structure! You may not know creatures like slime molds. They have very special habits. Sometimes they crawl around on the ground like amoebas, and sometimes they stand up like mushrooms and release spores. And The habits of this mutated slime mold are even more peculiar, the fruiting bodies they form are different from other slime molds, and in terms of shape and behavior, they are actually highly similar to higher animals with complex body structures and highly differentiated organ functions!"

  That pretty face is full of scientific fanaticism.

  Even though the eyepiece of the microscope blocked her eyes, Chu Guang could clearly feel that she exuded a completely different temperament from usual.

  Chu Guang said cautiously.

   "Can you explain in detail? I mean, try to use terms that can be understood by laymen."

"In layman's terms, these slime molds exhibit sociality similar to ants and bees! They have a clear division of labor, some form the toes, some form the head, some actively necrosis and harden, and the other part Form the nerve tissue and the muscles that move the limbs! It seems that some kind of unified consciousness determines the selective expression of each gene in the slime mold cells."

   Eyes moved away from the eyepiece of the microscope, He Ya looked at Chu Guang excitedly.

"Haven't you noticed! The gnawers are completely reproduced after the human model, and the crawlers are like a combination of some kind of quadruped beast and human. They not only imitate the appearance of other creatures, but also It imitates the hunting habits of those creatures!"

"The martyrdom is rather strange. It seems to contain the characteristics of a variety of creatures and some plants. It simulates explosives in its attack mode, and helps its own kind to capture prey through self-sacrifice... This is simply unbelievable! These slime molds are really Creatures on this planet?"

  Looking at Heya who was chattering non-stop, Chu Guang had a strange expression on his face.

  He originally planned to let her take part-time job to help take care of the crops next door. Anyway, those soilless planting units are highly automated, and only need to look at them occasionally.

   It turned out that I didn't expect that I heard something amazing from her.

   "You mean... the slime mold variants such as eaters, crawlers, and saboteurs are all fruiting bodies of mutant slime molds? Are they used to release spores?"

  Chu Guang pressed his index finger on his temple, and after trying to understand, he frowned, "That's not right, I heard that they are produced by the brood."

   "Brood? What's that!"

   He Ya grabbed Chu Guang's arm and said with piercing eyes, "Can I get a sample? By the way, you taught me that you can use VM..."

   Halfway through the speech, Heya seemed to remember something, let go of Chu Guang's arm, and raised the VM to "place an order".

  Chu Guang was taken aback by her action, and stopped her quickly.

   "Don't get excited, the brood is not something that the current players can solve. You are letting them die."

   Good guy.

   Is this using VM as a wishing machine? !

  Even if his little player is easy to use, it's not like this!

  Heya who was stopped was a little dazed, and the movements of her hands stopped.

   "Is that brood... hard to deal with?"

   "It is no longer a question of whether it is difficult or not, but that it cannot be dealt with at all."

  Although according to the standards he set, this kind of task could not pass the review by Xiao Qi at all, but Chu Guang felt that he still needed to let this old popsicle who lacked common sense about the wasteland understand what the world had become.

  Looking at the stunned Heya, Chu Guang paused for a moment, and reported to her one by one the information he had summarized under the relevant entries of the official website setting collection.

  This includes what Luo Hua saw and heard during the trip, including the "waves" that erupt in Qingquan City every once in a while.

  After hearing these amazing things, Heya finally had a general understanding of the danger of the brood.

   This thing is extremely dangerous!

   It's like a natural disaster.

  Even a veteran local survivor force with certain industrial capabilities like Boulder City will find it difficult to face the wave set off by the brood.

  As for collecting samples from the brood, it is almost impossible to do with the current conditions of the refuge.

   "Sorry, I didn't know...it turned out to be such a dangerous thing." Heya showed a shameful expression on her face.

   Chu Guang shook his head and said.

"It's okay, I was surprised when I heard about the brood for the first time. The research on xenomorphs can be done step by step. When we have the ability to solve the trouble in the city center, I guarantee you will get the samples you want .”

  Although this condition is not yet met, Chu Guang has no doubt in his heart that he and his little players will one day completely eradicate the troubles in the city center.

  Anyway, I got some interesting information from Heya.

  Chu Guang intends to selectively update this information in the official website setting collection for a while, and give his little players as a reference.

  …

   End of a busy day.

  Little players carrying javelins, spears, and axes drilled out from the depths of the tunnel on the B3 floor.

  In one day, they successfully pushed the battle line 500 meters south and north at the same time, and killed nearly 2,000 gnawers! Hundreds of martyrs and nearly twenty crawlers!

  The number of alien species in the tunnel is larger than expected, especially in the north direction, the gnawing people flock to it, and even form waves of corpses!

  However, the experienced little players are very clever, placing wooden roadblocks along the way to slow down the advance speed of the gnawers and at the same time lengthen the team of gnawers.

  Once the density cannot be formed, the nibbler is not so scary.

   To deal with this kind of alien species that has a single attack method and needs to rely on numbers to win, as long as they are not surrounded by them, even professional players who are not good at fighting can easily solve it.

   Not to mention those high-level players in the tunnel whose average level is above LV6!

  In the refuge, there was already a long queue at the bathroom entrances on the B2 and B3 floors, and there was a lot of chattering.

   "Damn! Take a shower in front of me, hurry up!"

   "Exactly! Dwdling with a yo-yo! We've been in for ten minutes!"

   "!! Are you all dogs? You don't need to take a bath for ten minutes?!"

   "It is strongly recommended to increase the water price!"

   "Don't raise it, if you raise it again, Boss Crow won't be able to take a bath anymore!"

   "Get out!"

  Yin Fang, who was carrying the bucket, planned to wash up before eating, but was frightened by the battle. He didn't even dare to eat, so he hid back in his temporary laboratory.

  The door to the laundry room is the same.

  Especially those little players who came out of the tunnel, one or two seemed to have fallen into a coal mine, with more ash than blood on their bodies!

   Finally squeezed out from the crowd.

  Ye Shi, who was about to go back to the room to log out, just happened to see Brother Mosquito, seeing this guy's disheveled face, he went up to say hello with a playful smile.

   "Yo! Brother Mosquito, are you in the mood to book today?"

   "What book are you writing, I got it for testing new equipment."

   "It exploded again?"

  Hearing this playful ridicule, Mosquito couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

"What do you mean exploded again! If you don't explode, can it still be called a weapon? Anyway, the results of today's test are not bad, but there is a small problem with the propellant ratio. After it was released, I was sprayed with ashes on my face. Damn, I need to make the launch tube longer."

   Paused, Mosquito looked at Ye Shi and continued.

   "Stop talking nonsense, by the way, have you seen that stupid lizard? Why didn't you see that guy squatting in a corner doing push-ups today?"

  As soon as the lizard was mentioned, Ye Shi suddenly became happy.

   "You mean that guy? Hahaha, he went crazy in the tunnel at the exit of the B3 floor! I guess it's not enough right now."

  I think back in the early versions, Brother Garbage was called a puller. He was the only one who could move at night in the whole server, drink blood like a hair, and tear aliens with his hands. All players envied him.

  However, who would have thought that in less than a month, winter would come. As a cold-blooded animal, the garbage brother was directly frozen to the ground, and he couldn't even get out of the door of the shelter.

   It really is a version of a generation of gods, only the newcomers laugh, and the old ones don't cry.

  The mosquito smacked its tongue.

   "I feel sorry for Brother Garbage, this guy has at least three versions of OB, right?"

  Ye Shi also expressed emotion.

   "Be more confident and remove the word 'ba'!"

  The night in the wasteland is getting darker, but the real sun has risen.

  Every time the peak hours when players go offline, the traffic on the official website forum of "Wasteland OL" will usher in a wave of high tide.

  Chu Guang briefly browsed the forum.

  I found that players are quite enthusiastic about the new version he launched.

  In less than 72 hours, more than one hundred strategies have been born.

  《Self-Cultivation of a Monster Hunter! Crack Claw Raiders Single Swipe! "

   The Scavengers' Handbook! The landlord vomits blood and summarizes, 20 pieces of cost-effective recycling materials! Just ask for a like! "

  《The son of version is born! The power-based scavenger tells you what it means to make a miracle with great strength! Start with two hands, all equipment depends on picking! "

  《Refuge No. 404 B3 Floor Entrance and Exit Tunnel Raiders! The four-physique perpetual motion game will take you out of the sky! Swipe until the monsters are wiped out! "

  《…》

  Chu Guang briefly read a few articles, and couldn't help admiring the wisdom and brains of these little players.

  What is a high-quality human player?

  The average level in the Wasteland OL beta test server!

  The people who wrote the guide were very enthusiastic, as were the enthusiastic players, cloud players, and sand sculpture netizens.

  Among the more than 100 guides, those with over 10,000 likes and over 1,000 replies accounted for a full 20%!

  By BBS standards, this data is quite exaggerated.

  However, what interested Chu Guang the most was not the strategy posts, but a few popular posts in the discussion area.

  WC really has mosquitoes: "MMP! The power of the twelve-barreled rocket is enough, but the exit speed is still a bit low! High-speed targets can't be hit at all! But it is surprisingly effective against ground targets?"

  Old Bai: "How much?"

  WC really has mosquitoes: "80 silver!"

  Ye Shi: "Tsk, the one you sell is more expensive than the iron fist in the NPC store, why don't I buy an iron fist, which can blow up even a split-claw crab. (Funny

  WC really has mosquitoes: "Hey! This is already the cost price!"

  Fang Chang: "Brother, let's find a way to reduce costs, otherwise it will always be a dream. By the way, the number of players has increased, and it is time to expand the scale of production."

  WC really has mosquitoes: "My head hurts! I'll think of a way!"

Lao Bai: "If you want me to tell you, don't bother to fix any anti-aircraft rocket launchers, let alone guidance. You haven't even adjusted the proximity fuze, so you can defend against the ball. Why don't you get out the SPG-9 recoilless gun? The anti-aircraft effect will not be improved. It’s like your jab is more reliable. (Slanting eyes)”

  Ye Shi: "+1, give me an elevation angle, I can even use the tank's main gun to kill the plane. (funny

  WC really has mosquitoes: "Damn you! It's a battlefield!"

  Chu Guang actually doesn’t quite understand the aesthetics of violence in Mosquito’s heart.

  This guy is actually very capable. At least half of the credit is due to the outpost base being able to get out chemical products, nitrocellulose, and T-um-T explosives so quickly.

However…

  The weapons made by this guy always have a strange style of painting, and there are only a handful of them that are practical.

  Although this may not be a bad thing, Chu Guang felt that if he wanted to fill the gap in the air defense weapons of the outpost, he probably had no hope.

  In another post that is slightly less popular than Brother Mosquito, [Yar, I want to go to the toilet] and [Ward's beriberi who Levin] are having technical exchanges with some special cloud players.

Brother Suo: "It is still a bit difficult to imitate the 88 gun. Although the design drawings and videos can be found, and the parts can be cut out with the black technology of the shelter, many problems still cannot be solved. Especially the gun barrel, if you want to To increase the muzzle velocity of the shell, it is necessary to increase the charge, so that the barrel can withstand greater chamber pressure!"

  Brother Levin: "That's right, and the research and development of new equipment is really expensive! 500 silver coins are not even enough for research and development costs, at least add 0!"

  High R&D costs are indeed a problem.

   Staring at the computer screen, Chu Guang thought for a moment, then cut to the desktop, and opened the budget form.

   "For the research and development of large-scale equipment with high production threshold and high expenditure, it is not appropriate to completely let players bear the research and development costs."

  Chu Guang thought for a while and had an idea in his mind.

  He intends to set up a special fund to support the research and development of new equipment. As long as you pass the review, you can get financial support.

   As for the anti-aircraft weapon project at Steel Plant 81...

  Chu Guang thought for a moment and made a decision.

   "The budget of 5,000 silver coins seems too deliberate, so let's change it to... 5,500 silver coins. If it is not enough in the follow-up, it can be increased."

   "The original mission remains unchanged, and the new mission is re-released in the form of an 'exclusive order'."

   As for the mosquitoes...

  Let him ponder for a while for now.

  If Brother Mosquito can come up with a reliable design plan, Chu Guang will of course support him with a research and development budget.

   It’s just that so far, Chu Guang hasn’t figured out yet what he plans to make...

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   (On the X day of the recovery day, I feel that the schedule is a bit chaotic. I will adjust it. I am sorry that there is only one update today. But this chapter also has 6K, which is equivalent to two chapters of 3K? It should not be considered degraded.)

  (end of this chapter)