Chapter 240 Alpha1.0 version update! Life career gameplay epic enhancements!

   "MMP!"

   "Let the **** go."

  Standing at the edge of the forest on the northeast side of Yumu District, Chu Guang held a telescope in his hand, looked at Yuanxi Town hundreds of meters away, and couldn't help cursing.

  A few days ago, the guard's crawler vehicles patrolled the entire northern suburbs, searching for the escaped six centurions. Three of them were wiped out, but more than half of the marauders escaped.

  Chu Guang reckoned that some predators should have come to Lion's Fang and brought him the news of Black Snake's defeat.

   It's just that what he didn't expect was that this group of people were so stubborn.

   Instead of A coming up, he turned around and ran away!

   "Hit if you can, and run if you can't. It's very similar to the style of those predators."

  Standing beside Chu Guang, Vanus also held the telescope, observed for a while and continued.

   "...But these fortifications are very much like the Legion style."

  These looters reinforced the ruins with wood and dug trenches in the streets, setting up barricades and bunkers.

  Here has been transformed into a fortress.

  On a three-storey ruin, he even saw artillery emplacements reinforced with sandbags and wood.

   Judging from the reserved "concave" shooting holes, it is probably some kind of curved infantry gun.

   However, the guns there have been removed.

   "It can be seen that they withdrew hastily, and only had time to light a fire... Most of the fortifications were not destroyed in time."

  Chu Guang put away the binoculars, and lightly touched the side of the helmet with his index finger.

   "Queue 1, move forward."

"receive."

   Liu Ding, who was standing 500 meters ahead, received the order and gestured to the players beside him.

  After receiving the order, 5 teams with a total of 50 people pushed forward immediately and entered the abandoned town from five directions.

   Wearing an exoskeleton welded with steel plates, Lao Bai held an LD-47j light machine gun in his hand, and the muzzle moved around the window on the street.

   There is still a two-meter-long "lance" hanging on his back, but this kind of combat distance should not be used.

   "It's so quiet here."

   "The looters stationed here should have withdrawn," Fang Chang glanced at the human skull on the side of the road, looked around vigilantly and said, "It doesn't look like there are living people in the whole town."

   Blood stains were painted on the wall into hideous graffiti, as well as some crooked words and symbols.

   Looks like a ritual of some evil religion.

  The unfinished corpses were thrown on the side of the road, and filthy things can be seen everywhere on the street, and the ground is in a mess.

  Ye Shi swallowed.

  The atmosphere here is so oppressive that he feels suffocated.

  He would rather fight the predators head-on than explore this kind of place that makes him feel physically uncomfortable.

   "Damn, why does it feel like a horror game..."

  Guang Feng glanced around and nodded expressionlessly.

   "Well, the Resident Evil version of Silent Hill... a similar feeling."

  It's too quiet around.

  Don't say it's a living person.

   Not even a mouse in sight.

  A group of people continued to advance along the route prompted on the VM, and cooperated with other teams to conduct a round of search of the entire outer area of ​​the town.

   After confirming that there were no looters, they continued along the main road and advanced to the very center of the town.

  There is a clock tower here, with a wide view around it, and it is the tallest building in the entire town. It was probably used by those looters as a headquarters or a similar place.

  Pushing open the wooden door of the bell tower, Lao Bai, who was in the front row, walked in first, but was quickly smoked by the stench inside.

"Oh shit…"

   "What did you see." Ye Shi walked up curiously.

   "I advise you to better not watch it."

  Old Bai had just said this, but it was too late, Ye Shi, who walked in through the door, had already held onto the door and got up.

  In the hall of the bell tower, corpses piled up into a hill.

  The buzzing of flies was like a tsunami, black things crawled on the pile of corpses, and the hot air came with a rotten smell. It seems that all the cockroaches in the whole town have come here, the small ones are as big as a fist, and the big ones are bigger than shoes...

  Guangfeng went in to take a look, and was slightly taken aback.

   "This is too..."

   This visual impact.

  Even if there is a filter, it is somewhat mentally polluted.

   It was like a nightmare.

   "...I feel that the public test is far away. If the blood and corpses are not changed to green squares, it may be difficult to end." The elf king Fugui said, smacking his tongue.

  Irena glanced at him with an ambiguous expression.

   "Be more confident and get rid of the feeling."

  …

  After an hour of carpet search, it can be basically confirmed that the thousand-man team stationed in Yuanxi Town has evacuated.

   And it was withdrawn about three days ago, and the target was Xizhou City in the north direction.

   Before withdrawing, the looters executed all the slaves, sprinkled insect eggs on their bodies, burned any supplies that were too late to take away, and even set fire to the fortifications.

   However, due to lack of fuel, most of the wooden bunkers and barricades survived, except that food was burned.

   If we wait another half a month, the whole town may become a paradise for mutated cockroaches and flies.

  Although those "little guys" are not strong in combat, it is difficult to pose a direct threat to the wastelanders, but they are quite good at spreading diseases and stealing supplies.

   Obviously, Lion Tooth does not want this "fortress" to fall into the hands of survivors in the northern suburbs, so it tries to prevent them from occupying it through this method.

  Chu Guang ordered the players to set a fire in the bell tower, burning the alien species and corpses inside.

  It is nearly 30 kilometers from here to the outpost, and it is too difficult to recover these corpses, and it is not cost-effective in terms of cost.

  The two active substance extractors have been working 24 hours a day, and the production tasks have been scheduled from the beginning of the month to the end of the month.

   At least for a period of time, you don’t have to worry about resurrection coins.

  Standing at the intersection on the north side of Yuanxi Town, Wrench spread out a map in front of Chu Guang, and made several red cross marks along the contour line with a marker.

"...It's nearly 20 kilometers from Yuanxi Town to the southernmost tip of Xizhou City. There are hills and forests along the way. Although there are three pre-war roads, they are basically deserted. If they plan to move towards us from the north, the marching route is quite limited. .”

   "I suggest building an operational base in Yuanxi Town, setting up radio base stations, building outposts along the northern hills, setting up radio stations and communication equipment, and closely monitoring the movements in the north!"

  Chu Guang stared at the map for a while, and then looked at the hills covered by forests to the north. The snow covered the treetops became one piece, and only a few abandoned high-voltage electricity towers and a few relics of unknown purpose could be seen in the vast white snow.

  The view there is good, and the surrounding terrain is open.

  If an outpost can be established on the top of that hill, it shouldn't be a big problem to bring an area with a radius of five kilometers or even ten kilometers into view.

  The only thing to worry about is the alien species in the forest.

   Monsters, cave beasts, mutant brown bears, wild boars, apes, and even death claws are all likely to haunt the forest.

  Each outpost must deploy at least two machine guns and one 20mm machine gun, and two Iron Fist rocket launchers must also be placed.

   This should keep the Sentry safe.

   Nodding slightly, Chu Guang said.

   "This suggestion is good, how many people do you think is suitable for stationing?"

   Wrench thought for a moment and said.

   "There are always three people in the outpost, and two shifts a day, 30 people should be enough!"

  Chu Guang picked up the marker pen and made three marks on the map, and then returned the map to the wrench.

   "I will give you 50 people, and the number of outposts will be increased from 5 to 8. Be sure to keep an eye on this area!"

   "If there is any situation, report to me in time."

  The job of standing guard can only be handed over to the guards. It is impossible for players to do boring work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

  He plays the game by himself, and he can squat for a day for a boss, but he can't squat all the time.

  However, it is possible to release some tasks related to Yuanxi Town, and divert a group of hunters, scavengers, explorers, and life professional players to this area for activities, and the number of people is controlled between 20 and 90.

  Combined with the NPC's fixed sentry post, it should be safe.

  Clasping fists with both hands, the wrench led the way.

"yes!"

  The plains of the valley provinces are mainly concentrated at the north and south ends, and they traverse the east and west in a belt shape on the map. They are the transportation hubs from the eastern provinces to the western provinces.

   Like two corridors.

  The large area sandwiched between the two corridors is mostly hills and gentle slopes, with a few scattered plains.

  The pre-war cities were mostly on these plains, or at least centered on the plains, spreading along the contour lines to the hills.

  Most of the survivors in Qingquan City lived a good life, and a large part of the reason was because they happened to be located on the transportation hub connecting the east and the west, and there was a large plain here.

   Unless the road is blocked by heavy snow, there are usually many caravans passing by the northern or southern suburbs of Qingquan City, and they usually bring a lot of good things.

  The location of Yuanxi Town is just at the northernmost edge of the Elm District, and it is also the northernmost side of this southern corridor.

   Passed through the hills to the north, and continued to walk for more than 20 kilometers, which was Xizhou City controlled by the Ya clan.

  Whether it is to protect the safety of the farmland and long-term farms, or to ensure the smooth flow of commercial routes, it is necessary to control the strategic location of Yuanxi Town.

   "If I were a Bonechewer, I'd wait until fall to make another trip."

  Vanus, who was standing next to Chu Guang, glanced at the north direction and continued.

   "Do you want to consider deploying a 100mm cannon on the hills? That thing has average anti-armor capabilities, but it's not a problem to blow up infantry and break a track."

  Chu Guang looked at him and said.

   "I'm planning to do this. Speaking of which, how far can your army's artillery hit?"

  Vanus thought for a moment and answered.

"The effective range is 11 kilometers, but sometimes it can hit 13 kilometers. If it is a rocket-extended range, the range may be doubled, but I looked at the batch of shells you seized, and they seem to be ordinary high-explosive shells. bomb."

  When attacking the Pioneer before, the two howitzers he used were Legion-style 100mm artillery. They were deployed in the forest of Yumu District and hit Changjiu Farm more than ten kilometers away.

   It's just that the two cannons didn't play any role.

   Not only were most of the shells fired, they were intercepted by point defense systems with higher technological content, but they were even locked by drones and sent into the sky by employees of the company with two metal hydrogen shells.

  However, there is one thing to say. Compared with the high-tech equipment that is expensive to build and expensive to maintain, this kind of cheap, easy-to-use, simple and powerful large-caliber artillery is more suitable for the wasteland environment.

   After all, it would be too wasteful to use such a good thing as metallic hydrogen to deal with predators.

  It is equivalent to shooting cockroaches with a submachine gun.

   After leaving Wrench, Liu Ding and other guards here, Chu Guang led the players back home.

   After a whole winter of militarism, it finally opened up room for development.

   Now that spring is here, if you don’t farm, you will starve to death.

  After returning to the refuge, Chu Guang first opened the refuge system, entered the manager allowance page, and confirmed the reward points.

  Due to the hard work of the players during this period, the reward points consumed in the celebration some time ago have returned a lot of blood, and now there are 271 points.

   "It's time for a happy blind box opening again."

  After some deliberation, Chu Guang selected 2 high-level blind boxes, 5 intermediate blind boxes, and 21 primary blind boxes.

  With the slight shaking of the wall, the alloy door opened, and the rewards from the blind box were quickly sent out along the conveyor belt.

  Looking at the things on the conveyor belt, Chu Guang showed a surprised expression on his face.

"This is…"

  It was a set of black exoskeleton with blue lines visible on the surface. Its shape was somewhat similar to the five-style exoskeleton, but its size was not small, and it was a circle larger than the five-style foot.

   To make an inappropriate but vivid metaphor, if the five-style exoskeleton is compared to a basketball uniform, then this set is a football uniform. Thick composite panels hang from the chest, and scale-like armor linings cover almost more than 90% of the body.

[Type 6 "Heavy Cavalry" Police Exoskeleton: An improved model of Type 5, which has stronger bulletproof capability than Type 5 "Light Cavalry" exoskeleton. It can not only resist the shooting of light weapons, but also resist explosions to a certain extent. Shockwave and fragment damage. 】

   "There is something."

  Chu Guang put it on his body with great interest and moved his limbs.

  The power supply is probably a chemical battery such as azide compound or solid hydrogen, and the battery life is 24 hours under normal use.

  Compared to nuclear-powered power armor, this thing is more suitable for daily wear, and it can be recharged when it runs out, so there is no need to look for cold fusion batteries everywhere.

  As for the other high-level blind box, the reward it opened is very ordinary, it is an EMP grenade.

   So far, among the things opened in the advanced blind box, this thing is the most useless.

   The middle-level blind box and the primary blind box opened pretty good things, including two treatment needles, two boxes of bandages, a box of antibiotics, and a lot of canned food, portable food, and condiments.

   "Unfortunately, no seeds were produced this time."

   It would be perfect if you could unlock a few more high-yield crops!

   After confirming the rewards, Chu Guang came to the office and sat down, turned on the computer, logged on to the official website and took a look around.

   Today's little players are still as punishing as ever.

  The two directors of the No. 81 Iron and Steel Plant are having heated discussions with cloud players about whether to change the 20mm cannon into a 37mm rapid-fire cannon, so as to increase the charge of the shells and produce a greater explosive effect.

Mosquito used a pencil to draw a picture that only he could understand, showing the new equipment being developed by Goblin Technology—the shell of the split claw crab is used as armor, the wood engine is powered, and it is equipped with an 88mm short-barreled mortar. And a "crab tank" with a 20mm cannon!

  Although everyone complained about whether this thing can hold a tank, Mosquito still insisted that this is the equipment that meets the needs of the wasteland.

   "How can there be so much steel for tanks! And this is wasteland, brothers, how can there be so many tanks for you?"

   “Obviously what we needed was a heavy-duty piece of equipment that could harvest soft targets quickly and travel across rough terrain. It didn’t need to be very protective, just enough to stop bullets.”

"The shell of the split claw crab perfectly meets this requirement! With its eight mechanical legs, it can span ravines, pits and bunkers like a spider, opening the way for our troops on the whole front and providing direct fire support! Even the deathclaw, You have to run like a reptile in front of the 88mm mortar!"

  Human body stroke chef: "Although I can't understand it at all, it sounds awesome."

  Professor Yang, Thunder King: "How do you plan to coordinate the movement of the eight mechanical legs? And what if one is broken? Let me say it's better to put it on the track directly, or get a big tire, just like an off-road vehicle!"

  WC really has mosquitoes: "Hehe, I want you to take care of it! I have my own way!"

  Highland security: "You guys should hurry up and get the plane out. Get a piston-type propeller plane out, isn't it more delicious than this thing? It can clean the ground and investigate, and it is more than enough to beat a few bandits."

  Ivan the Great of Siberia: "Go directly to the airship! That thing has a large amount of bombs, and tons of explosives are thrown down!"

  WC really has mosquitoes: "MMP! It's easy to say, come in and get it!"

Ya'er, I want to go to the toilet and ask: "But there is one thing to say, you can try a wooden plane. I remember that the big mosquito bomber seems to be made of wood and glue. Furniture factories can make it. Only the engine and landing gear are still there. The connecting parts are made of metal, which can carry 4,000 pounds of aerial bombs, and the speed is particularly fast, comparable to the bf109, but it is a bit expensive for the pilot."

  Ward's beriberi Levin: "Old Maozi's Bo-2 biplane seems to be a wooden machine, which has been in service for half a century."

  Irena: "Charlie from Zappo? (funny

  Looking at the content of these small players' exchanges, Chu Guang was very pleased.

  Airplane.

   That's a good thing.

   Build an airstrip at Jiujiu Farm, and it should be no problem to fly to Xizhou City.

   At that time, take a few photos in the sky to learn about the deployment of the "Ya" clan of the Bone Chewing Tribe in that area, so as to deal with the next attack.

   Maybe they can find a chance to counterattack.

   However, there is no rush.

  The most severe moment has passed. Vault 404 has been militarized all winter. What is most needed now is development.

  After entering February, there will be a large wave of caravans passing through Qingquan City, and the buff of the permanent partner of the enterprise will come in handy soon.

   Before that, he needs to be fully prepared to seize this historic opportunity.

   "With the grain seized from the black snake, it shouldn't be a big problem to feed another 300 people."

   "Although it is a month earlier than planned, now is the time when manpower is needed."

   "The refuge needs more life professional players, especially players with farming experience in reality."

   "It's time to release the Alpha 1.0 version."

   It is not difficult to screen out these players.

Now that the number of reservations has exceeded 100,000, it is more than enough to select 300 players with user tags such as "agriculture-related occupation or profession", "farming tendency", "management game enthusiasts", and "liver emperor" according to the questionnaire .

   It is not necessary for these 300 people to go to farm obediently.

   This is neither realistic nor in line with the logic of the game.

  But as long as 1/10 of them, even 1/20 of them, can wish to stay in the field 24 hours a day like Brother Maca, it is enough for Chu Guang.

  It is best for these players to combine their real-world experience, improve agricultural tools and planting techniques, and bring them to the wasteland.

  Now the industrial zone is able to produce pottery machines independently, and mosquitoes have started to make crab chariots. It should not be a big problem to build two tractors before the start of spring plowing.

  Combined with some other cheap and easy-to-use tools, as long as they can solve 1/3 of the production tasks, they can already help the managers a lot!

  After thinking for a while, Chu Guang opened the text document and edited a line of words in it.

  【Alpha1.0 version update announcement! 】

  【Major update:

  1. The number of closed beta players has increased to 1100!

  2. New occupations such as "farmer" and "operator" have been added, and the agricultural and commercial systems have been fully upgraded!

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  【Optimization:

  1. Richer mission content: The game content is expanded to Yuanxi Town, and more alien species can be hunted. But please be careful, there are death claws infesting in that area, because all death will drop, low-level players please go carefully!

  2. Richer NPCs and merchants with unique styles: After the game time enters February, merchants from the eastern provinces and western provinces will pass by Changjiu Farm.

  3. A richer ecosystem: Starting from the new version, players can capture heterogeneous cubs, domesticate wild animals, and turn them into pets. They will become your good helpers, whether it is to help you search for prey, carry goods, or plow in the fields... Players are welcome to explore more ways to play.

  4. Fix a few bugs.

  …

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  【New expansion pack: "Forging Swords into Plowstocks" is now online! 】

  【The B-round test will start after the expansion pack is unlocked. Stay tuned for more new content, new maps and new elements! 】

  (end of this chapter)