Chapter 208 The Incredible Biological and Technological Singularity

   "Huh... ummm..."

  The gate of Highway Town.

  Holding the tail of the rifle, leaning against the rusty road sign, leisurely humming a ditty that Sisi has never heard.

   It sounds nice.

   "What is Ah Wei whining about?"

  Seeing Sisi looking over, the corner of the mouth with the tail turned up, and said proudly.

   "Song heard on the radio!"

   "Radio?" Sisi froze for a moment.

   What an ancient setting this is.

Tail looked brightly and said: "There is a radio in the reception room on the first floor of the nursing home. It will play some incomprehensible things at night, and it will play a few repeated singles in a loop in the afternoon. It seems to be the original soundtrack built in the game! I observed before It's been a whole day! Hey, Si didn't find this easter egg!"

  Why should I pay attention to such boring things?

  Sisi looked helplessly at the slowly moving clouds in the sky, and said with a light sigh.

   "Is it really good for us to fish like this every time?"

  Tail gave Sisi a dissatisfied look.

   "What is fishing! Isn't the tail working hard?"

  Sis reminded.

   "I heard that deserting while on guard is a death flag."

  Tail doesn't care about Tao.

   "Don't be afraid, the tail is agility, as long as the tail is fast enough, death will always be one step slower than the tail!"

  Si: "..."

  The team they are in at the moment is located on an inter-provincial highway leading to the east.

  The terrain of the highway is relatively high, with gentle downward slopes on both sides. Because it is an inter-provincial highway, there are few buildings nearby. Outside the guardrail, there are patches of pine and cypress trees, as well as litter and shrubs dotted in the forest.

  The name of this survivor stronghold is Highway Town. As the name suggests, it is a small town built on the road. The only landmark here is probably the three-story road sign behind the tail, which is why this survivor settlement got its name.

  The survivors here built a long and narrow settlement along the road using materials removed from scrapped cars and wood obtained from felling trees.

  The advantage of doing this is that you don’t have to worry about the house being soaked in water in rainy weather. When wolves and hyenas wander over, you don’t dare to attack people living on the **** from both sides rashly.

  The architectural style here is quite wild, just like the temper of the local residents.

  They don’t usually grow crops, they mainly raise goats that are as tall as horses. If you have to find out the only difference between them and nomads, it is probably that they will not move their nests easily. Occasionally, they will plant some cash crops such as camu trees, and sell the produced rubber and oil-extracting camu camu to the past. peddler.

   To be honest, Sis admires the operator of "Wasteland OL" very much. He can make each survivor settlement have a different style. And this very different style is not only reflected in the modeling and texture of the game, but goes deep into the deeper core.

  These survivors have their own unique culture and customs, and have different moral standards, world views and beliefs from others.

  This kind of detail is not only reflected on the collective level, but also accurate to everyone in the group.

   Just as they were standing guard, a child in a fur coat was standing under a small tree, as if saying goodbye to something. The men and women with their bags on their backs stood at the door of their homes, looking sad at the new home that had just been repaired.

   Not far away, because they want to take away the camus trees wrapped in hemp rope and plastic in the field, the old man over fifty is arguing fiercely with the scar-faced man.

  They are like real people.

  Not only does he have his own life, but the trajectory of his life is also affected by countless variables, and thus evolves a tree diagram that breeds countless possibilities, rather than a one-way line that can be seen at a glance.

  This is much better than those sandbox games she has played.

   Even more powerful than reality!

  She even wanted to set off immediately, so she packed her bags and went on a trip.

   But then again...

  Does this count as deserting yourself?

  Sisi unconsciously glanced to the side twice, only to find that no one was paying attention to them.

  Maybe the other team members didn’t expect too much from them from the beginning, so my darkest friend and another member of the sensory system went out to scout out consciously.

  The man in the field carrying a rifle can't stop wandering around in the distance, trying to find someone to fight with, but the weather is so cold that he can't even find a mutant hyena.

Captain Quanshui, who wears the only "orange" exoskeleton in the full suit, always stands in the most stable place to command, and arranges specific tasks for each team member super carefully—including the battlefield outside as a bait Dude and I are the darkest.

  In general, this team is quite reliable, at least much more reliable than the fringe brothers, the death team that killed the chicken at midnight, and the magic team.

   So that Sisi often thinks about what is the meaning of staying here with Tail.

   Glancing at the time on the VM screen, he stretched his tail and yawned.

   "Si, it seems that there is no fight today, and we can only wait for tomorrow to show our skills."

   "Ao, please quickly recall that you are actually a girl—"

  Suddenly there was a loud bang in the distance, interrupting Sisi's complaints.

  The two looked in the direction of the explosion sound in unison, and they both grabbed the weapons in their hands.

   "The enemy is coming?!" The tail was full of energy, and his eyes were shining.

  Sisi glanced at the map, pondered for a moment and said.

   "No... I feel that the sound is quite far away. It's probably from other teams."

  At this time, the old man in the field came cursing from a distance, which confirmed her guess.

   "Hey! Why didn't we trigger the plot! Bad review!"

  Different from the regrets of the players, the survivors in Highway Town were obviously startled by the explosion. They all stopped what they were doing and looked towards the northeast with a look of surprise.

"what happened?"

   "That voice..."

   "Did something explode?"

   "Could it be a bone chewer!"

   "Those **** marauders! Let me get 'em and I'll screw their heads off!"

  The crowd talked a lot.

  Ye Xiao, who was standing in the Cam Tree Garden, frowned, and the burn scars on his face were crowded together. He put his hand on his waist unconsciously, but quickly drew it back.

  The sound is at least 4 kilometers away from here, separated by a large area of ​​ruins and wasteland, it still takes some time to come here.

  The old man who was arguing with him just a second ago also looked at the northeast direction sharply, and muttered to himself.

   "It is the direction of the battery factory."

  His name is Hooker. He is 56 years old this year. He was a vigorous hunter when he was young, until he was shot in the knee and became the old Hooker who planted Camus trees.

  Although he is not an awakened person, but to live to his age, rich experience is not inferior to being powerful at the genetic level.

   Ye Xiao looked at him solemnly and asked.

   "The group of blacksmiths?"

  Hook closed his eyes and nodded slightly.

   "It should be... Listen carefully, there are gunshots, and there are quite a few."

  Ye Xiao held his breath, listened carefully for a while, and frowned.

   "At least there are 40 people."

   "At least double that."

  Looking at the trees on the two acres of land, the old man sighed as if he finally gave up, and shook his head regretfully in secret.

   "Go to your father."

   "Let's move faster!"

  …

   Outside the west gate of the outpost, not far from the shooting range of the guards, there is a house made of red bricks, with only one iron window facing the outpost.

  This is the prison of the outpost, and at the moment, several prisoners who have just been sent from Changjiu Farm are being held.

   In addition, there is a special "prisoner" locked there.

  In the wooden shed, the four-meter-long Deathclaw curled up in a corner.

  Its body was wrapped with iron chains and ropes made of devil's silk, and its amber pupils reflected a dangerous light, scanning the people at the door.

  Being glanced at by the beast, Xia Yan unconsciously took a step back, nervously holding the sickle assault rifle in his hand.

  This thing.

   Much more dangerous than creepers!

   "You, what are you doing bringing this thing near the door of your house?"

  Chu Guang, who was standing beside her, said without thinking.

   "For research, of course."

  He is wearing power armor, and he is also wearing a carbon nano body armor that he got at the beginning of the game, and he is carrying a nitrogen-powered hammer on his back. It can be said that he is armed to the teeth.

   Not to mention a mere Death Claw, even if the Queen of the Split Claw Crab stood in front of him, he was confident that he would be able to retreat unscathed.

   "By the way, in fact, you don't need to come here."

   "What stupid things are you talking about, such a dangerous thing, how could I let you come alone."

  Chu Guang glanced at the tense Boss Xia with interest, and couldn't help thinking, when did this guy become so brave.

   Is that the leg?

   It seems that the money is worth the money.

   "Unbelievable...this is unbelievable!"

  Mumbling to herself, Heya walked forward with a frenzied face, so frightened that Chu Guang hurriedly pulled her back.

"Are you crazy?"

  Lao Tzu's SSSR card!

   No, it should be the SSSR cards of the players!

   "Crazy? No, the world is crazy, I've never seen such an amazing creature!"

  Looking at the lizard intoxicated, Heya continued.

"I checked the DNA of this guy, and it undoubtedly belongs to the Chordate Phylum Reptiles and Lizards! But its body has evolved its own body temperature regulation mechanism, which can maintain a high metabolism in winter like mammals, as long as It is willing, not to hibernate even in winter!"

   "Even taiga lizards can only maintain a constant body temperature for a period of time during reproduction... Is this really radiation mutation?"

  Chu Guang didn't know how to answer this question. After all, he had been in this world for less than a year, and it was the first time he had seen such a terrifying monster.

  Yin Fang, who was standing aside, also had a look of disbelief in his eyes.

   It's just that he paid attention to something different from Heya, staring straight at the jet-black device on the neck of the Death Claw.

  It looks like a big ring!

   "There is indeed an outrageous... The device installed on the back of its head can really make it connect with people's thinking?"

   "The result of the interrogation is indeed so, do you want to try?"

   As he spoke, Chu Guang took out a prop with the same shape as the "earphone with microphone" and threw it in Yin Fang's hand.

   After Yin Fang took it, he held it in his hand and pondered for a while, and quickly put it on his head without a teacher.

  The power is turned on.

   Knob turned to maximum!

   A slight electric sound sounds, just like the brain is electrified.

   But other than that, there seems to be no other feeling.

   "What's wrong with this thing—hiss!"

  The stabbing pain in the depths of his mind made Yin Fang let out a soft cry of pain, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to press on his temple.

   But the pain came and went quickly, and soon he got used to the tingling feeling and put his hand down.

   Watching Yin Fang slow down, Chu Guang, who had already tried it once, continued.

   "You can try to order the monster...for example, order it to stand up."

  Holding the wheat at the corner of his mouth, Yin Fang took a deep breath, stared at the dead claw and said.

"stand up!"

  The body trembled for a while. Although the death claw lying on the ground resisted the order, it still dragged its scarred body and slowly stood up from the ground.

   What the hell?

   Really okay? !

  Yin Fang was so shocked that he even forgot his headache, and continued to order to Mai at the corner of his mouth.

   "Get down!"

  Death Claw lay obediently on the ground.

  The expression on his face became more and more shocking, and Yin Fang continued to order it excitedly, as if he had discovered a new continent.

"stand up!"

   "Hop on one leg!"

   "Use your tail to draw circles on the ground! Tsk, can't this work? Then bark like a dog!"

   "..."

  Death Claw, who was tossed repeatedly, gradually showed a painful expression on his face, the neurons in his body were highly active, and his brain waves began to become disordered.

  Chu Guangneng could clearly feel that if it wasn't for the iron chains, the beast would probably have already tore the guy in front of him with his claws!

   But Yin Fang didn't care about these.

  He just wanted to figure out where the limits of the setup were.

   Tried almost all the commands that could be tried. Just when Yin Fang was thinking about what other commands to try, he suddenly felt dizzy in his brain, and fell back with a shake of his shoulders.

  Chu Guang gently pushed forward with his left hand, dragged Dr. Yin who was falling backwards, and took off the headset on his head with the other hand.

   "It's best not to use this thing continuously... It will not only cause a mental load on the subject being manipulated, but also on the person who uses this device."

  Chu Guang tried this thing once before.

   Rather than mind control, the function of this device is more similar to a kind of "hypnosis".

  It does not allow the user to directly manipulate the actions of the controlled person, but through spiritual pressure, in a way of spiritual suggestion, to let the ringed alien execute a few simple commands.

   Such as predation.

   Another example is forward, backward or running in a certain direction.

   Hopping on one foot can barely be performed, but things like drawing circles on the ground with the tail or barking like a dog are impossible.

  This device cannot allow the controlled person to complete commands beyond their cognition, unless it has taken the initiative to do similar things at a certain moment in its life before.

   Even so, the device was impressive, but it was far from the "morphing field" in his shelter.

  Players from "different worlds" can directly "soul wear" clones, isn't this much more awesome than some indirect PUA and master's orders?

   The clones are immortal, and the player can keep fighting.

  It's not like this guy.

  Break the ring around its neck, and it will probably be out of control.

   "Sorry, I'm having a bit of fun, I've never seen this kind of technique..." Yin Fang shook his head and regained his footing.

  Chu Guang said thoughtfully.

   "Is there a technology that even the academy doesn't know?"

  Yin Fang said helplessly.

   "Academy is not omniscient, and we also have things we don't know much or don't understand at all."

   Paused, he continued.

   "I should have told you before, in order to facilitate the remodeling work, we divide the technology into seven levels of FEDCBAS for management according to the difficulty of remodeling, and allocate personnel and budget reasonably."

  Chu Guang nodded.

   "You did say it once."

   Yin Fang continued.

   "In fact, besides the well-known seven levels, there is an eighth level outside the system—we call it the singularity."

   "Singularity?" Chu Guang frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"

Yin Fang: "It represents the frontier, and it is about the future. These technologies are like singularities in calculus, unanalyzed points in complex variable functions, and an island independent of the set... They are like us and The bottleneck between the future."

"For example, the neutrino channel that you may have never heard of, or the mutants flooding the wasteland... They are all singularities. Although immature, they usually have extremely attractive prospects behind them. Once Completion will predictably set off a round of technological revolution. For example, the former corresponds to faster-than-light travel, and we will be able to go to farther galaxies faster and cheaper, and the latter corresponds to super life with the ability to adapt to all environments.”

   As he spoke, Yin Fang shrugged his shoulders.

"Of course, the technological revolution mentioned here is based on the premise of a complete society. What we need now is obviously not innovation, but revival. So...the academy doesn't know much about singularities, and only selectively retains some worthy ones. As a continuing topic, the focus of recycling work is still to focus on mature technologies within the system.”

  Isolated individuals outside the system, "future technology" that had not been researched even before the war.

   To make an inappropriate metaphor, it is probably similar to the forbidden magic in fantasy settings?

  Chu Guang can only understand it this way.

   "I'm suddenly curious, is the clone of the legion a singularity?"

   What Chu Guang didn't expect was that Yin Fang nodded decisively.

"Forget it, but it can only be counted as half. The full name of the whole project should be 'full life cycle adjustable technology'. If it can be completed, theoretically we can shorten or extend the time of any life cycle of any life, and control it in the true sense. evolution."

"As long as you want, you can be a child or an adult for the rest of your life, and you will live forever on the genetic level. Our race will completely get rid of the backward r strategy and k strategy, no longer accept natural selection, but define itself by self .”

  Heya who was standing by the side was stunned on the spot.

   "Can this kind of thing be done?"

   "Who knows?" Yin Fang shrugged, "Maybe, maybe not. Only the future can know everything about the future."

   Yin Fang and He Ya started an academic discussion on whether this kind of thing could be realized. Obviously Heya didn't believe it, saying that such a thing was unheard of.

   But Yin Fang glanced at her mouth when he said that she was sure.

   "You are so young... Didn't your mentor teach you not to jump to conclusions about unknown things?"

  Hearing that Yin Fang actually pointed the topic at his mentor, He Ya instantly blew up.

  Xia Yan was in a daze the whole time. She couldn't remember exactly when she couldn't understand.

  Chu Guang fell into deep thought.

  He suddenly thought of that recording, the expression about the "morphological field".

   After organizing the language for a while, Chu Guang interrupted the argument between the two and spoke.

   "If there is a technology that can establish a strong connection between two different dimensions of consciousness, and transmit information across the boundaries of space and time."

   "What the **** is that? Magic?" Yin Fang, who was arguing with the boss, replied without thinking, and the tone sounded like a mockery.

  But maybe because he thought that this person was not easy to bully, he immediately closed his mouth when he opened his mouth just now.

   But Chu Guang didn't take what he said to heart.

  Because he felt the same way.

   Something unheard of sounds like a miracle.

  However, seeing Yin Fang's reaction, Chu Guang probably understood.

  Some kind of technology hidden in Vault 404 has obviously surpassed the cognition of the academy, so naturally it cannot be included in the FEDCBAS grading system.

   There is no doubt that it has reached the realm of "singularity"!

   and suspected to have matured...

   Just when Chu Guang was about to chat with Heya about the Torch Church, Xiao Qi’s voice suddenly came from the communication channel.

   "Master, something happened to your player!"

  Hearing this sentence, Chu Guang was taken aback for a moment, and before he had time to ask, he immediately closed the helmet's visor, tapped his index finger a few times in front of the tactical eyepiece, and switched to the map interface.

   Xia Yan, who was standing beside him, realized something when he saw Chu Guang's sudden movement, and quickly asked in a low voice.

"what happens?"

   Chu Guang, who was staring at the map, frowned and said in a deep voice.

   "There is a situation."

   Almost as soon as the voice fell, a guard trotted over from a distance.

  Standing still in front of Chu Guang, he gave a military salute and said solemnly.

   "Master Manager, the team you sent to the battery factory to cover the evacuation of local survivors was attacked by looters!"

   "Understood, I have arranged for someone to go."

  Chu Guang looked up at the nursing home, and saw a spare hummingbird drone flying into the air, and quickly disappeared in the northeast direction.

  Just now, he had mobilized the team that was performing missions nearby to support them, and issued defensive missions to the players on the front line.

  Be sure to hold out until reinforcements arrive!

   "You have to hold on!"

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   (The next chapter is not finished yet... I should be able to finish it before twelve o’clock, Riwan is too difficult for the handicapped QAQ)

  (end of this chapter)