Chapter 271 Black Box Reverse Technology and Unexpected Joy

  Official website forum.

   Deadly: "The knight of decay appears!"

   Soul Chasing: "Battlefield guy scrapes the stone hammer!"

  Macabazi: "Mosquitoes scratched too!"

  Stop talking: "But luckily! The boss was shot twice by the manager!"

  Quit Smoking: "Brother Guan is awesome!!!"

  WC there are mosquitoes: "Gan! Can you blame me for scraping? Who knew he was so fast? It's unreasonable to use a knife to chop rockets! (Crazy

   He is still brooding about the fact that two recoilless guns were slashed with one knife.

   Battlefield Atmosphere Team: "Damn it, the Corrupted Knight should theoretically be level 60, right? How many levels does the manager get after two shots and a level 60 BOSS?!"

  Commander Quan Shui: "Maybe eighty!"

   Marginalized water: "Be confident, you're a faction leader like 'Alsace', is level 100 an exaggeration? It's not an exaggeration at all!"

  Irena: "I think it can be compared to the human emperor Xi Aotian. If you don't pretend to be forceful, you can't do it. If you do it, you're pretending to be forceful. (Funny

  Yow: "Woooooo, I didn't see the handsome manager pretending to be a force. (T▽T

   Fang Chang: "Wake up, that's a paper man."

  Yaya: "What does it matter! It's better than being **** on Xiaoyu?|ω`

   Fang Chang: "! That's Ye Shi, not me."

  Ye Ten: "Fuck off! Do I have it?"

  Teng Teng: "You guys are all wrong. (Squint eyes

  Tail: "Ow! Who dares to bully Xiaoyu and break his legs! ψ(｀)ψ"

  Roshan Big Momo: "!!! Who wants to bully Xiaoyu! (Angry

  Ye Shi: "Zhuo! The dog said Fang Chang! What a black old man! QAQ"

   Canyon Fleeing Mole: Squint laugh

   The players who went offline brought the battle report back to the forum, and the players who didn't plan to go offline also found a place to hang up and went to the "reality" side to join in the fun.

  Anyway, major game events will pop up on the official website forum, so don’t be afraid to miss them.

  Compared with the previous battles, the investment of heavy firepower weapons in this battle can be said to have reached the "highest in history" of Vault 404!

Dozens of Mark Qin heavy machine guns fired frantically, 88mm mortars bombed in turns, quadruple-mounted anti-aircraft guns used high-explosive bombs to wash the ground in multiple rounds, and the alien species came from the ruins and tsunami, like frosted rice fields. Generally fall into pieces.

   fully embodies the helplessness of numbers in the face of firepower.

  When the machine guns and artillery shells ceased fire, even the cement blocks on the ground were scalding hot!

  Multiple rounds of saturated firepower coverage, followed by the whistle of the charge, the immersive shock makes adrenaline soar!

   Players who have experienced it have said that it is really cool!

   Isn't this much more real than the watered cannonballs and water guns in "Dump Truck 2042"?

   Looking at the battle reports on the forum, the players who were not on the scene cried out a pity.

  Especially the 125 good brothers who died in action yesterday, are even more envious of the plasmolysis.

   It's a shame to miss such an exciting scene!

  Father of Silver: "Damn it! Why does it take three days to resurrect!"

  Silver Hand: "Why can't you open a trumpet!"

  Tyrannosaurus Warrior: "Hey! You guys still want to play a trumpet! Be yourself!"

  Professor Yang of Lightning Dharma King: "That's right! We haven't obtained the qualification for packaging and testing yet!"

   Just when everyone was regretting, a one-and-a-half-minute video was suddenly updated on the official website.

   Clean and neat cuts, coupled with the best BGM, is like a shocking epic blockbuster!

I have to say, Xiaoqi's video cutting technology is getting better and better. The invisible and intangible cake of "Wasteland OL", the more it is baked, the more fragrant it is, at least 1/10 of the credit can be counted. on it.

Although there are still the likes of Yeao, who insist that "I haven't seen it means it doesn't exist" and "My logical deduction is equal to the truth of the world", this does not prevent the vast majority of people who eat melons from playing 666 in the world. below the video.

   "Brilliant! Is this the game of the next era?"

   "Can the model be so detailed???"

   "It feels like a movie without the filter!"

   "Be confident, maybe it's a film set filter."

   "Hey, let's put aside the truth and falsehoods, if you can make the promotional PV so carefully, even if it's fake, it feels worth it!"

   "The big mobile game companies are ecstatic, we have creative materials again! (Funny

  …

   When the official website was busy, players and NPCs were cleaning the battlefield on the corpse piles in front of No. 68 Street.

   Actually there is nothing to clean.

   Here is a corpse except for a corpse, the black blood seeps into the soil, and the rotting flesh exudes a stench that can be smelled even by wearing a gas mask.

   The slime mold variant is different from the death claws and monsters. The parts on the latter are somewhat useful, and the meat can even be roasted, but the former can’t even handle it.

Looking at the mice and cockroaches scurrying from the street corner, the two cute newcomers wearing gas masks, while surprised by the immersive atmosphere of "Wasteland OL", walked towards the depths of the battlefield. .

   "Does the fruiting body of slime mold also rot?"

   "Nonsense, won't your mushrooms go bad?"

   "Hey, I really haven't seen it."

   The two exchanged a few words and walked to the power armor stuffed with slime mold.

  The creep on the steel surface has been necrotic, black blood seeps from the gaps in the armor, its entire head has been smashed, and a hole the size of half a fist is printed on its chest.

  The two Mengxin were amazed by the big hole.

   The armor that even the 37mm heavy lance could not penetrate was actually pierced by a Gauss rifle.

   This power is too fierce!

  The two of them didn't waste any time, tied the big man with a rope, got it to the wooden board for traction, and dragged it back to the position.

  【Mission: Recover the Corpse of "Corrupted Knight" (Completed)】

  【Reward: 15 Silver 10 Contribution】

   Rewards are here!

   One step closer to getting a VM!

   Looking at the fifteen silver coins lying in the palm of their hands, the faces of the two little cute newcomers were filled with joyful smiles.

   Continue with this momentum.

   It won't be long before you reach T1!

  …

  The body of the rotten knight was dragged to the Garden Street subway station and temporarily stored outside the buffer room of Vault 117.

  Yin Fang tossed with the cutting machine for a long time, and finally removed the power armor from this guy.

  Heya took sliced ​​samples from various parts of the large man's body and brought them back to the medical laboratory for analysis.

  Yin Fang handed over the armor fragments removed from the power armor to Butch for research.

   As for himself, he studied the black box removed from the power armor to see if he could repair some useful data from it.

   Xenomorphs launched two rounds of offensive that day, one in the afternoon and one in the evening, but both the quantity and quality were far inferior to the one in the morning.

  Vanus' point is that these gnaws presumably want to drain their ammunition.

  Perhaps from past engagements with Boulder, the slime molds seem to know that their enemies are limited in ammunition.

   But today's Vault 404 is not what it used to be. After many wars, the military production capacity of the new industrial zone is almost full.

   It may take some time to build a tractor, but his little players know how to build guns and cannons!

   In addition to the rush to kill on the frontal battlefield, the offense and defense of the side battlefield also did not stop.

   Quite a few creepers climbed over obstacles and bunkers to flank the position, trying to replicate their earlier staged victory on 65th Street.

  Unfortunately, this time their opponent was not a death squad that was a mix of new and old players, but a hunter squad headed by the Niu Ma Squad.

   In the confrontation between skirmishers and skirmishers, players still have the upper hand.

  Although there is no heavy firepower support, the individual combat effectiveness has been fully exerted.

   A LV6 strength player or LV7 agility and physique player can basically be on par with a creeper.

   And if it is an Awakener of LV10, as long as it is not an intelligence type and a perception type, it can basically solve the creeper easily in a one-on-one situation.

   Don't even have to shoot!

   The frontal battlefield and the flank battlefield have two small wins.

   The first day of the battle ended in a stalemate.

   However, although Vault 404 achieved a staged victory, neither the players nor the guards took it lightly.

   The waves coming from the south keep coming and show no signs of stopping.

   Everyone can feel that a storm is brewing!

   One day later.

   Vault 117.

  Chu Guang convened the experts under his command, held a brief meeting, and asked to report the latest research progress on the "Rotten Knight".

   The first to speak was Heya.

   Regarding the "Rotten Knight" slice samples, she has done a systematic analysis and has made preliminary progress.

   "Just say it."

"The first is by analyzing the tissue structure of the fruiting body. In the sample, I found neuronal cells that are completely different from the fruiting body structure. Compared with the DNA, it should be an adult male, and the survival time of the cells may have been Over a century...the situation is very similar to the symbiosis we have witnessed before, but the slime mold in Qingquan seems to have eroded the nervous system more completely, completely depriving the host of autonomous consciousness."

   "You can understand that the hard drive and memory were replaced, leaving only the CPU and half of the graphics card."

   Knowing that Chu Guang couldn't understand the theory that was too difficult, Heya simply used a statement that she thought was more popular.

   But when she said this, she didn't look at Chu Guang, but at Bachi, who was shivering by the side.

   After a pause, Heya looked away from the tin can, looked at Chu Guang who was in deep thought, and continued.

"In addition, its sac-like organs are more exaggerated than other fruiting bodies, and the secretion of spores can even reach hundreds or even thousands of times that of creepers. Even in order to release spores more efficiently, it has also evolved special organs, Creep that transport spores to the surface of the fruiting body are released by the ends of cilia on the creep."

"...There are indications that your speculation is likely to be correct. This kind of 'evolutionary body', which is obviously anomalous of the same kind, plays a role of a commander. They can coordinate different consciousness bodies, just like the logistics network. Nodes. Even within them, a highly fortified class is formed, with big nodes dominating small nodes, and so on.”

  Chu Guang touched his chin and thought.

   "So as long as these node creatures are destroyed, the tide will stop?"

  Hya nodded.

   "That should be the case...at least to bring them back to normal."

   Running back to the city center or disbanding in situ is far less of a threat than if they all came together.

   It's like a hundred gnats scattered in an underground garage of thousands of square meters. Even a newbie can take a little more time to clean them up.

   But if these hundred gnaws form a team and rush up in an organized manner. Without the support of heavy firepower, even the Awakened would have a headache.

  Budge raised his right hand tremblingly: "...I have a question, if my brain is completely eroded, will it become like this?"

  Hya: "That possibility cannot be ruled out."

  The tin can shook for a while, and Bucky shivered a little, wondering if he was thankful that he slipped quickly, or because he was conditioned to fear Heya's intriguing eyes.

  Chu Guang suddenly had an idea and said.

   "If you let Butch infiltrate the alien's lair and put a 100mm shell directly next to the queen..."

  Bachi looked at Chu Guang in horror: "Do you want me to die?"

  Hya shook her head.

"It doesn't make any sense other than killing him. I should have said before that they rely on proteins with weakened RNAs to recognize the same kind. Only the same kind of people can have a unified conscious body coordination, and the recognition of slime molds in different regions. Different yards. You can imagine what it would be like to throw an ant into another colony’s nest.”

   Two ants of different ethnic groups will not necessarily fight when they meet on the road, but if one of them follows the other into the other's nest and can come out alive, it can only be said that tens of thousands of ants are "blind" at the same time.

   The same goes for the slime mold xenogeneic species that are also hive societies.

  Budge will not be attacked by fruiting entities wandering on the street, but it does not mean that it can enter and leave the "core areas" such as the hatching room and the mother nest at will.

   Especially when encountering an "evolved individual" with self-consciousness, being killed on the spot is probably the most likely thing to happen.

   Knowing how to detour from the side and feign consumption, these slime molds obviously have the ability to deal with problems flexibly.

   There is no point in being clever at this time.

Pity.

  Chu Guang even thought that even if there was no way to deliver the bomb, it would be nice to be able to see the queen's position. The big deal was that he borrowed tens of thousands of chips, bought a wave of air strikes, and licked it with incendiary bombs.

   In addition to regret in his heart, Chu Guang then looked at Yin Fang.

   The "Chief Head of the Scientific Expedition Team of Vault 404 and Dean of the 404th Branch of the Academy" frowned and said nothing from the beginning of the meeting, not knowing what he was thinking about.

   Intuition told Chu Guang that he should have found something.

   "Where are you here? Did you find anything?"

  Yin Fang nodded slowly.

   "I found the action recorder for that T-10 power armor."

   "Action recorder?" Butch asked with a surprised expression on his face, "Can that thing still work?"

   "Of course, the T-10 power armor is the land combat power armor of the People's Alliance Army, and the 'black box' is located near the waist."

   Saying that, Yin Fang gently placed an orange box the size of a thumb and shaped like a nail clipper on the table.

   "Although the data is badly damaged... I still restored a little bit of debris."

  Chu Guang: "What did you find?"

Yin Fang: "The serial number of this armor is T-10: A71C98U. When I was investigating the ruins in Luoxia Province, I came across this series in an abandoned research institute. Not surprisingly, it originally belonged to the People's Federation. The 71st Armoured Brigade, after the Wasteland Era, was assigned to the 'Post-War Reconstruction Committee'."

   Postwar Reconstruction Committee.

   He first heard the name, and it seemed to be a hologram left by Doctor Principle. There are various indications that this organization had considerable influence in the early days of the Wasteland Era—that is, two hundred years ago.

  According to the clues provided by the players, it seems that Boulder City is one of the survivors' settlements prepared by the post-war reconstruction committee.

   Even that towering wall was built by the post-war reconstruction committee.

  Chu Guang frowned faintly.

   The clues seem to be connected, but there are a few key puzzles missing.

   he wanted to know.

  What role does Vault 404 play in this?

  Yin Fang paused for a moment and continued.

"Two centuries ago, the unit to which this power armor belongs carried out a military operation against the city center, with the goal of clearing the mother nest in a nuclear bomb crater in the city center. The final result of this operation is not recorded in the black box, but it should be It was a failure, and the remaining data records the reason why this power armor was scrapped."

  Chu Guang: "Why?"

   "EMP."

  Chu Guang was stunned.

   But it was Hya who was more surprised than him.

   "EMP?! You mean those slime molds use electromagnetic pulses?"

  Yin Fang shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't know, who knows what happened 200 years ago? Maybe the mutant slime mold mastered a certain way to trigger electromagnetic pulses, or maybe it was an accidental injury by friendly forces... In either case, based on the data recorded in the black box, The powerful electromagnetic pulse destroyed more than 30% of the electronic components of the power armor at 2 hours, 31 minutes and 17 seconds of the battle, causing the arc engine to be forced to shut down."

"The mobility-limited power armor was quickly surrounded and completely overwhelmed by slime mold after the ammunition was used up. The gas exchange system was eroded first, then the life support system, and the energy system... The whole process lasted for two years. Ten years until the black box function ceases and continues."

  Budge held his breath.

   After a long time, he said with difficulty.

   "This is too miserable."

   Watching the plaques cover the eyepiece little by little, the spores are continuously injected into the body along the life support system, and eventually the immune function is paralyzed, and it is completely reduced to a puppet of the mother nest.

  The only remaining nerve cells are maintained by a special way, until the physical body is completely destroyed, and finally liberation can be obtained.

   This is simply crueler than Ling Chi.

  Yin Fang nodded silently.

   "What concerns me is these slime molds...they seem to know a lot about us."

  Chu Guang looked at Yin Fang and asked.

   "Didn't the Academy document the source of those slime molds?"

  Yin Fang shook his head.

   "I don't know, even if there is, it's not the information that a D-level prospector like me can access."

   Mutant slime molds, radiation, xenomorphs, mutants, and predators everywhere...

   I don't know what the madmen did two hundred years ago to blow up the mother planet into what it is now.

  It is no wonder that the companies on the east coast pin their hopes on the legend of Vault 0, and the academy went straight to the swamp.

  Chu Guang now even has a feeling that the first-generation manager of No. 404 didn't tell himself anything, maybe it was a kind of "protection".

   After all, the more you know about the world, the more hopeless you will feel.

   The only people in the world who can face these difficulties optimistically are probably only those happy little players.

  Chu Guang took a deep breath.

   "Anything else to report?"

   "I," Butch raised his hand, seeing everyone looking at him, he continued nervously, "Regarding the material of that power armor... I carefully studied its structure."

  Chu Guang said immediately.

   "Can it be copied?"

  Bachi was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly.

   "Porous aluminum-magnesium-manganese alloy for the structure, alternately filled with boron carbide and silicon carbide, this is just the first layer."

   Seeing that Chu Guang still had an expectant expression on his face, Yin Fang sighed and said to the tin can sitting in the corner.

   "He doesn't understand what you're saying, so don't go around in circles and talk straight."

  Chu Guang looked at Yin Fang with dissatisfaction.

   "What do you mean by that?"

   I can't understand why!

   Xiao Qi, who had been quietly peeping at the screen beside her, also interjected abruptly.

   "That's right! Are you looking down on the wise and wise manager? Master, do you need me to clean him up?"

  Chu Guang coughed dryly.

   "That's not necessary."

   And what the **** is that "wise and marvelous manager", he doesn't remember that he taught Xiao Qi to call him that.

  Yin Fang rolled his eyes towards the camera on the ceiling.

   Before, he wanted to dismantle the "wastepaper basket" for research, but Chu Guang didn't agree, and he was strictly forbidden to do so, so he gave up the idea.

  Curiosity is curiosity, and he is not stupid.

   However, this matter seems to have been remembered by the careful AI.

  Bachi quickly rounded the ground and continued.

"The T-10 power armor is pre-war equipment, and the armor shell is likely to be based on 3D printing technology, which is directly constructed at the atomic level. Our technology generation is too different, let alone here, even if it is an enterprise, there is no way to do it. Produce this thing."

  Composite armor with a thickness of only 40mm can have the equivalent thickness of 400mm homogeneous steel on the vertical plane, and it can’t be thousands of dollars with a little inclination?

   This protection is almost at the same level as a modern main battle tank!

   In my impression, the Legion's Iron Fist Bazooka seems to be able to cause damage to the power armor of the enterprise. Obviously, even the enterprise does not have the conditions to copy this armor piece.

   Seeing the disappointed expression on Chu Guang's face, Butch continued.

   "But it's not without gain."

   "We previously parsed out a material called 'A3 type alloy' from the database of Zhongzhou Aerospace, but due to missing data and no samples, its specific composition has not been determined."

  Yin Fang looked at him in surprise.

   "Could it be..."

   "Yes," Bachi nodded and said excitedly, "The missing part should be aluminum magnesium manganese alloy,"

  Chu Guang asked immediately.

   "Is this alloy strong?"

  Yin Fang: "It can't be said to be very strong, it should be said to be very strong, and it has a wide range of uses and is relatively cheap. It can be used from exoskeleton brackets to link components of large machinery."

"In other words, if the bracket of the KV-1 exoskeleton is replaced with an A3 aerospace aluminum alloy, the protection power, maximum load and durability can be doubled under the condition that the weight remains the same and the cost increases slightly. ."

   "At least a C-level technology!"

  Not just exoskeletons, from vehicles running on the ground to drones flying in the sky, all can benefit from this achievement.

   If he was in the academy, this credit alone would be enough for him to be promoted from a D-level prospector to a C-level researcher.

  The only drawback is the risk of fire in an oxidizing environment.

   But as long as it is not used in a small area, or mixed with other materials, it is not a big problem!

  Chu Guang's eyes suddenly lit up.

   "Can it be done?"

   He only cares about this one thing!

  Bachi nodded, his tone much lighter than before.

   "Compared to the T-10 composite armor, the mass production of the A3 aerospace aluminum alloy is not very difficult, and I should be able to handle it."

   Hearing this sentence, a happy expression appeared on Chu Guang's face.

  I didn't expect to be able to recover such a good thing from that iron lump!

   is a surprise!

   After the meeting, Chu Guang updated some of Heya's research results on the official website and shared it with the players as an official guide.

   At the same time, the West Third Ring Road in Qingquan City.

   On the dark and silent ruins, there was a blaze of fire...

   (end of this chapter)