Chapter 292 You were also sentenced?

  When Chu Guang and his party arrived at the No. 3 Ecological Protection Park in Qingquan City, the fire caused by the previous air raid had gradually extinguished.

  However, the smell of barbecue permeated the air, but it lingered for a long time.

  Ten KV-1 exoskeletons of the Jungle Corps are standing at the entrance of the building.

  Seeing the azure blue power armor coming from a distance, Midnight Slay Chicken immediately went up to meet it, and made a military salute with his right fist on his chest.

   "Dear Master Manager! The predators in the area have been wiped out, and the third ecological protection park is under your control!"

  Brother Chicken Killer has a loyal expression on his face.

   Players with a strong sense of substitution will occasionally do this. Of course, some players do it for favorability and hidden tasks.

   "You guys did a good job." Chu Guang fulfilled his character design, watched them and nodded approvingly.

   At the same time, the reminder pop-up window of the mission completion was displayed on the VM of Midnight Kill Chicken and his teammates behind him.

  【Mission: Assault on the Third Ecological Protection Park of Qingquan City (Completed)】

  【Reward: See the campaign settlement list for details】

   Seeing the task rewards displayed in the VM, everyone had expressions of surprise on their faces.

   Per capita income of 500+ silver coins!

   Such a high return can be said to be blood earned.

   Sure enough, in the future, you have to brush up the level of the scientific research team.

  The task has been completed, Midnight Killing Chicken took the team members away happily. The hostile units here have been cleared, there is no need to keep both regiments here to stand guard.

  Chu Guang led Yin Fang and Heya to continue forward, through the tree-filled street, and into the ecological protection park entwined with vines.

   "Do zoos in the era of the People's Federation look like this?" Chu Guang looked at the fully enclosed dome in front of him, and always felt that it was more like a gymnasium than a zoo.

  Heya also looked around curiously, but she was more interested in the wasteland vegetation in this area.

   This is completely different from what she saw in the VR device, and it is even slightly different from the steep pine and cypress trees in the northern suburbs of Qingquan City.

   As if from another world.

"It is said that the places for tourists to watch in the urban area look like this, and the large ecological protection area outside the urban area has another appearance. After the war broke out, all the animals here ran out, and the monkeys active in this area probably came out from here. of."

  Chu Guang glanced at her unexpectedly.

   "The pre-war monkeys also had scales on their backs?"

  Heya said: "Genetic mutation + natural selection, maybe monkeys with scales on their backs can survive here more easily. As for how the scales came from, only they themselves know."

   At this time, Yin Fang, who had been staring at the tablet without speaking, suddenly raised his head and said something.

"found it."

  Chu Guang looked at Yin Fang.

   "What did you find?"

  Yin Fang continued with an expression of interest on his face.

"About the information about this ecological protection park, I just restored it from a damaged court trial record...In 2113, twelve years before the outbreak of the war, a major event happened in the third ecological protection park of Qingquan City In other words, the scandal caused a sensation in the entire People's Federation at the time."

   Chu Guang had a strange expression.

   "What scandal can a zoo have?"

"An unauthorized experiment involved the safety of 23,000 tourists. The 20 researchers and professors involved were expelled from their academic institutions, and the relevant persons in charge were prosecuted. The entire ecological protection park almost Close the door..." Sliding his index finger on the tablet, Yin Fang said excitedly while browsing the materials that had just been restored.

   Chu Guang is not interested in trivial matters two hundred years ago.

  But when he heard about the experiment, he raised his eyebrows with interest.

   "What is the content of the experiment?"

"It's related to the People's Federation's colonies and the resonance field theory," Yin Fang turned off the tablet, and looked forward excitedly, "It's been more than two hundred years, let alone it was before the war, and it can be restored from public information So much for the clues, but we'll figure it out soon."

  The entrance to Shelter 401 is in the basement of the Ecological Protection Park. Players have marked the entrance with VM.

  As for the control room of the Psychic Interference Field, it is on the third floor of the Ecological Protection Park.

   After entering the dome-shaped building, a group of people split up.

  Yin Fang went to the entrance of Shelter No. 401. Chu Guang issued a task to let Kuangfeng follow him and be responsible for his safety. In addition, Chu Guang also equipped Yin Fang with a hummingbird drone, and asked Xiao Qi to support him within his ability.

  As for Chu Guang himself, he took Heya straight to the third floor.

  The two of them had just arrived at the door, and before they entered, they heard the sound of arguing and cursing from inside.

   "You bastard! This punch is for my compatriots who died for me!"

   "Enough, calm down... I am also a victim, you can't count all the people killed by the predators on me?!"

   "Huh, victim? I tui!"

   Control room.

  Two old men who were over fifty years old scuffled together, cursing and swearing in unintelligible words.

  The old man with a rather strong body and wearing a blue coat probably had a fault. He has been passively defending and glanced nervously at the players standing next to him from time to time, as if he was worried about their shots.

  The other old man dressed in rags and punched hard was aggressive, but his whole body was sick, and his fists and feet had no strength.

   As for the players?

  Of course I stood aside and watched the show.

   Even if they don't understand what they are saying, how to intervene.

  Guangfeng went out earlier, and Fang Chang is the best person here, but the so-called good is only compared to other players, and the parallel analogy is the level of "junior high school English" versus "bulk English".

  Scrambled eggs with tomatoes looked at his teammates with a subtle expression.

   "Should we pull them away."

  Old Bai looked at Fang Chang.

  The latter thought for a moment, then shook his head.

   "Don't act rashly, what if the plot is triggered?"

   Quit smoking and nodded suddenly.

   "Makes sense!"

  Then let them continue to fight.

  Anyway, the two old men have no fighting power, and they are not afraid of causing death.

   At this moment, the door of the control room opened, and seeing the power armor that appeared at the door, the eyes of several players in the room suddenly lit up.

coming!

   Really triggered the plot!

   "Stop!"

  The loud voice came from the door, and the two old men who were facing each other involuntarily stopped their hands and looked at the azure blue power armor.

   Among them, the old man with thinning hair and ragged clothes obviously recognized the equipment on Chu Guang, and there was a trace of excitement in his cloudy pupils, and even tears.

   "Mr. Seven...is that you?"

Severn?

  This old man is from Vault 117?

  Chu Guang had a subtle expression, and tapped his index finger twice on the side of the helmet to unlock the locked mask.

  When he saw the young face under the helmet, the old man froze on the spot.

   "...I am the manager of Vault 404 and the manager of the new alliance. You can call me Chu Guang. As for the Seven Willard you mentioned, he passed away many years ago."

  The old man's expression darkened, and he lowered his eyebrows slightly.

   "Passed away... also, it's been so many years."

  The old man in the blue coat next to him was panting heavily while muttering something in a low voice.

   "The new alliance? That post-war reconstruction committee? Didn't it die more than a century ago?"

  At this time, Heya suddenly came in from behind Chu Guang, stared at the ragged old man twice, and suddenly said in surprise.

   "Zhao Yuan?!"

  The old man stared at Heya in a daze.

   "Are you... Heya?"

   Didn't expect to see fellow villagers in the same shelter twenty years later, He Ya nodded excitedly.

   "It's me! How did you...become like this?"

   "Natural aging... I was not young twenty years ago, let alone now," the old man's eyes dodged a little, as if he felt a little guilty.

  Chu Guang glanced at Heya who rarely showed emotion.

  He originally thought that she would hate these traitors who destroyed her homeland, but he didn't expect her to be unexpectedly open-minded after seeing her compatriots.

   "Are you an acquaintance?"

"Um!"

  Long white hair swayed slightly, Heya nodded vigorously, and said excitedly, "He and my master are both experts in the study of bionic organs. I didn't expect that everyone is still alive... That's right."

   Heya looked at the old man, and asked expectantly.

   "Where's Kallen? Isn't my master with you?"

"She went to the south... a lot of people followed that guy named Wang Yi," the old man named Zhao Yuan said to himself with anger and remorse in his eyes, "those wastelanders don't have any good things." , they should be left to fend for themselves! I should have recognized this earlier!"

   Chu Guang stared at the old man for a while.

   "Are you from the Church of the Torch?"

   "Torch Church? Do you mean the Torch?" The old man was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and said softly, "I did join the Torch more than 20 years ago... This is also the thing I regret most in my life."

  It seems that the torch hadn't developed into a religion at that time, and the old man didn't know where the companions who parted ways with him went and what they did.

   Chu Guang nodded thoughtfully.

  The person standing in front of him was probably one of the "rebels" at the beginning of the Torch, and it was their actions that led to the destruction of Vault 117.

   Judging from the old man's tattered clothes and weather-beaten face, he has suffered a lot in the past twenty years.

  Chu Guang looked at the other old man, and looked at the blue coat on him.

   "What about you? Also a survivor of Vault 117?"

  Before the old man spoke, Zhao Yuan on the side stared at him and glared.

   "He's not from Vault 117, he's just a dog, the dog raised by those robbers!"

"Sun Zewen, from Vault 401," the old man in blue coat cleared his throat, ignoring the cursing old man, and said politely, "Respected Vault 404 manager, and the master of the new alliance... Thank you for lending a helping hand to us in times of crisis."

   Sneering at this person's posturing, Zhao Yuan said with a sneer.

   "Mr. Chu Guang, please don't listen to his rhetoric. He is clearly an accomplice of those predators! According to the law of the People's Federation, he should be sentenced to at least 300 years in prison for crimes against humanity, and he should not be frozen into sleep."

   It seemed that he was stimulated by a certain word in this sentence. Sun Zewen, who was polite a second ago, suddenly glared at the old man next to him in a rage.

"I'm just here to live, what's wrong with me?! Who the **** put those outsiders in? Could it be me? And I refuse to admit your accusation, I did nothing but help them tame a bunch of monkeys did not do."

   "Did nothing?" Zhao Yuan gave him a contemptuous look, "Including the girl they rewarded you? You are hundreds of years behind. It's a shame that you can do it."

  Sun Zewen's old face flushed, red and purple, and he couldn't live anymore, holding back for a long time and choking.

   "I... I can't help it! If I don't accept it, have you thought about what will happen to her? And what hundreds of years old... You can't count the time I sleep."

  Chu Guang listened to the quarrel between the two with great interest, and probably restored the original appearance of the matter. At this moment, he noticed the miserable corpse in the corner, looked at the players and asked.

   "Who is that person?"

  The garbage man wagging his tail took a step forward excitedly.

   "I did it!"

   "He is Tooth!"

  Although he didn't understand what Chu Guang said just now, Zhao Yuan probably guessed that the manager should be asking about the identity of the deceased, so he continued.

   "He is the leader of the bandits here. He has countless lives in his hands. It can be said that he has committed a heinous crime and deserves to die! Please don't blame your soldiers."

  Chu Guang said with a smile.

   "Of course I don't blame them. In the territory of the new alliance, our attitude towards looters has always been zero tolerance."

  Hearing these words, the shoulders of the old man named Sun Zewen trembled.

   "My lord, I—"

  Chu Guang looked at him.

"I believe you can't help yourself. The laws of the new alliance will not be retroactive. I don't care what you have done before. From the moment I stand here, I hope you can do something useful to society and civilization. people."

   Now is the wasteland era, an era more chaotic than the troubled times. Human beings have even fallen to the top of the food chain. At this time, it is meaningless to go back to the past.

   Besides, there are no truly good people in this wasteland.

  Including Zhao Yuan himself.

  Chu Guang didn't think those torches were good things, but he didn't want to pursue what happened in other shelters either.

  Sun Zewen lowered his head tremblingly and said.

   "Thank you for your kindness."

   Zhao Yuan still had a hint of resentment on his face, but he didn't say anything.

   These people saved his life.

  The words have already reached this point, he will not force them any more, and must understand and sympathize with the suffering he has experienced.

  At this time, footsteps came from the corridor outside the door.

  Yin Fang, who returned from shelter 401, held a tablet in his hand, pushed open the door like a gust of wind and walked in.

   "Amazing! You'd never guess what I found!"

   Before Chu Guang asked what he found, Yin Fangfang shouted excitedly.

   "Resonance field!"

   "I've been looking for something for half a year, but I didn't expect it to be here!"

   Taking a deep breath, he looked at Chu Guang and said excitedly.

   "We found the treasure!"

  …

  It all started more than two hundred years ago.

  Two years earlier than the scandal that almost closed the zoo, in about 2111, a letter from a distant colony and the samples carried in the letter caused a sensation in the entire biological and sociological circles.

  The original letter was no longer found, but as a professional archaeologist, Yin Fang still managed to restore the general meaning of the letter based on limited clues.

  In short, the colony is infested by alien creatures, and frequent organic activities seriously threaten the safety of the colonists.

  At first, the colonists used the "infrasonic fence" prepared for them by the mother star to drive away alien creatures. However, in long-term practice, they discovered that the seemingly harmless infrasonic fence would seriously damage the health of the colonists.

  Due to the limited scientific research conditions of the colony, the colonists hope that the academic community of the home planet can lend a helping hand to help them develop a harmless shielding field to prevent alien creatures from harassing the colony.

  After gaining the consent of the relevant departments of the People's Federation, the colonists sent several samples of extraterrestrial organisms, and this was the first time that the Mother Planet of the People's Federation accepted biological samples from the colony.

  Before this, biologists from the People's Federation wanted to study creatures in alien galaxies, so they had to take the immigration flight that only happened once a month to go there in person.

  Because the People's Federation has just stepped into the star sea, the grasp of the gravitational channel is not yet proficient, and the development level of the colonies outside the system is low, so the flights to the colonies are basically one-way tickets, and it is difficult to go back once.

   One can imagine how precious these samples are.

  The samples and help-seeking information from the colonies soon received widespread attention from all walks of life in the People's Federation, and the research on the replacement of the "infrasonic fence" has thus become a popular topic nowadays, attracting the participation of countless scholars.

   "Wait...exocolonies?"

  Listening to Yin Fang's narration, Chu Guang rubbed his eyebrows with his index finger, and said with a slight headache, "I always thought that the territory of the People's Federation only extends to the Kuiper Belt."

  Heya also looked bewildered.

  She grew up in a refuge, let alone a foreign colony, and it was only a few months ago that she saw the sky.

   Yin Fang said patiently.

"This kind of statement is indeed no problem. After all, going to outer system colonies is completely different from going to Mars and moon colonies... But this has nothing to do with us. No matter where it is, it is too far away from us. I don't know much about it. You have a lot more."

  Yin Fang coughed lightly, and corrected Chu Guang's crooked topic.

"Continuing the topic just now... The dissection of alien life forms has opened the eyes of the academic community. Reliable evidence shows that these alien life forms have evolved a unique set of hive social form. They will divide labor and cooperate like ants, perform their own duties, selectively express their genes according to the needs of the group, and even modify their genes.”

   "Are you surprised? A group of alien species that didn't even invent the internal combustion engine have mastered the mysteries of evolution. It would be great if I was born in that era..."

   Yin Fang had a hint of envy in his eyes, looked at the tablet in his hand and continued.

   "In short, based on these research results, the research team of Nantianmen University's Institute of Biology came up with the set of 'resonance theory', and boldly made a guess that those alien life forms are dominated by a unified consciousness."

"In order to prove this conclusion, the person in charge of the research team found a medical company called Silver Hope, and used their resources to connect with the Third Ecological Protection Park of Qingquan City, hoping to use the site and animal research resonance field here. "

  Chu Guang: "...they succeeded?"

"It's more than successful, it's simply too successful," Yin Fang said in admiration, "They got inspiration from those alien biological specimens, put forward the resonance theory based on the resonance theory, and designed a set of mind interference devices —It can output specific information and multiply it in the individual."

"This kind of information can be as specific as a sentence, or even a complex picture, or it can be a vague dream, or just a piece of pure emotion. The higher the mind, the more specific the information can be received, but the relatively less affected. The lower the mentality, the less information can be received, but the relatively more affected."

  Chu Guang touched his chin.

"I see."

  The mind of a monkey is probably between that of a man and a hyena?

   Possess a certain mind and can understand simple commands, but the mind is not high, so it will be affected by the mind interference device.

  The psychic interference device designed by Vault 401 is quite similar to the device used by the Church of the Torch.

   It's just that the latter probably improved it to a certain extent, turning "AOE skills" into point-to-point single-body skills.

   "...This device is much more reliable than the infrasonic fence. It not only consumes less energy, has more application scenarios, and has fewer side effects, but also only works on specific living organisms, and the frequency is adjustable."

   "As long as the fear is continuously exported to the surrounding alien creatures, they will consciously stay away from the colony. And when used in the field of agriculture and animal husbandry, it can also make animals reproduce faster."

   "However, the company that sponsored them was obviously not satisfied with the immediate results. They quickly turned their ideas on the customers, so the experiment continued, but the subjects changed from animals in the zoo to tourists."

"Everything shows that they are still successful. Although it is difficult for people with advanced minds to be directly affected by this device, under the constant stimulation of 'buy it', the sales of souvenirs in the ecological protection park hit a record high, and many tourists Even paying for a set of smart wearable devices for an item worth less than a bottle of mineral water... This has almost subverted the advertising industry."

  Chu Guang stared at Yin Fang dumbfounded.

   "This is also okay?"

"People in the Prosperous Era are all monsters...whether they are researchers or businessmen," Yin Fang expressed his heartfelt emotion, "Of course, it is true that the company was fined and went bankrupt in the end. People who treat others as fools usually end up badly." All those involved have been prosecuted, and it is said that the sentence of the one who received the heaviest sentence has not yet expired.”

   Listening to the side all the time, a smear of shame appeared on Sun Zewen's blushing face.

"do not talk…"

   These materials are stored in the deepest part of the No. 401 shelter server. He has never told anyone about it, and he doesn't know how this guy dug these things out.

  Chu Guang looked at the guy in front of him in surprise.

   "You were also sentenced?"

   Fuck.

   Talent!

  It was the first time he saw the old Popsicle from the Renlian era.

  Responding to Chu Guang's surprised eyes, Sun Zewen said with a wry smile.

   "I'm just a small researcher... The main responsible person has indeed been sentenced to a heavy sentence, but it is not enough to be liquidated on us."

  Yin Fang looked at him with interest and said.

   "You guys even got tickets to Vault 401."

  Sun Zewen was silent for a moment, then nodded.

"Yes, I don't deny that I can live to the present, and it is somewhat related to the research I am engaged in. After all, technology itself is innocent. It can free the fellow colonists from the infestation of alien creatures. It's just a pity... this newly born New things, used by the wrong people in the wrong place.”

   "I agree with you. There is no right or wrong in technology itself. It is the people who use it that need to be supervised." Chu Guang nodded approvingly, and continued after a short pause.

   "Now it's not just the distant world, the land under our feet is infested by alien species. The new alliance needs your technology, and I hope you can use your technology to do something more meaningful."

  With this thing, the prevention and control of heterogeneous species does not need to rely on fences, and the farmland, pastures and villages near the settlement do not have to worry about the harassment of heterogeneous species.

   But the technology is not without risks.

  Once the frequency is adjusted to the range of human brain adaptation, it is equivalent to opening Pandora's box.

  Although spiritual resonance has limited influence on higher mental life forms, continuous emotional input is still tantamount to brainwashing.

   And this effect is indifferent.

   Thinking that the Church of the Torch also possessed similar technologies, Chu Guang couldn't help but be secretly alert.

  He is a man with a limit.

  But it’s hard to say whether others have it.

  He must take over the legacy of Vault 401, not only to deal with alien species and waves, but also to study countermeasures.

   "Of course, respected Mr. Manager..." Sun Zewen bowed his eyebrows and said, "It is my honor to be able to play for the great new alliance."

  Honestly, he doesn't care about any of that.

  The world has become like this, and the knowledge in his head can be used by anyone. At least the man in front of him looks much better than those predators.

   Zhao Yuan, who was standing aside, did not speak the whole time.

  He looked at Sun Zewen, who had resolutely turned to the new owner, and at Chu Guang, who was wearing the equipment of the former manager, and suddenly said.

   "You said the same thing as that person."

   Chu Guang saw that he was talking to himself, and looked at him curiously.

   "Who?"

"Wang Yi... the boy we rescued from the wasteland, we raised him, and because he split twice, maybe we shouldn't have opened the door that day." Regret flashed in the muddy pupils, and the old man lowered his head .

   Chu Guang remembered the name.

   This name is the beginning of the disintegration of Vault 117, and it is also the leader of the Torch Church more than ten years later—his followers call him "Holy Son".

  Since contacting the Pioneer, Chu Guang has been trying his best to collect information on the major forces in the wasteland and identify useful clues.

   "I wanted to ask just now, after you came out of shelter 117, have you been here for a while?"

"Vault 401 has thrown an olive branch to us. Their psychic interference device can drive away alien species within a range of three kilometers. We originally planned to establish a stronghold here, and then take over the old stubborn people of Vault 117. Use beautiful The new homeland slapped them in the face...but that Wang Yi, he thinks we should continue south to find the specimen of that alien life form."

  Zhao Yuan's Adam's apple moved, and he said in a heavy tone.

   "We parted ways again... Except for me, there were only three people left, and the rest followed that Wang Yi to the south. I even suspect that they were all brainwashed by that resonance field and mind interference device."

"Don't be bloody, the resonance field doesn't have this function." Sun Zewen, who had taken refuge in his new employer, was much tougher than before. Looking at the old man, he sarcastically said, "Haven't you ever found the reason in yourself? For example, you are too easy to deceive. gone?"

   Zhao Yuan was angry again.

   "Who are you calling a fool!"

   Seeing that the two of them were about to quarrel again, Chu Guang had a headache and planned to stop it.

  But at this moment, Heya suddenly whispered something.

   "Karen...my master is still alive."

  The anger in his pupils was gradually replaced by shame, the old man slowly lowered his head, and said in silence for a long time.

"I have no idea…"

   "But she, like you, can live a long time under normal circumstances."

   "If there are no accidents, she should still be there."

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   (Thanks to "Jijia Luoyu" for the reward from the Silver League! Call the boss!)

  (end of this chapter)