Chapter 506 The Haze Buried Deep Underground

  The representatives sent by the company are Yunyou and Su Ming, the representatives of the legion are the commander Wali and the pangolin, and the representatives of the college are Jiang Xuezhou, a student of the B-level researcher who has never shown his face.

  As for the representatives of the alliance, they were Ye Shi and an NPC from the scientific research team.

The latter’s name is Meng Liang, a former resident of Shelter 401. After being rescued by the Alliance from the looters, he joined a scientific expedition team aimed at recovering the relics of pre-war civilization, and studied archeology under Yin Fang’s guidance. Relevant knowledge, currently serving as a surveyor with the army on the airship.

  The exploration of Vault 0 is mainly based on scientific investigation.

   The investigation of the ruins cannot be completely relied on the company, even if it is an ally, it is not obliged to disclose all the investigated information to the alliance.

  Chu Guang was very cautious in the selection of personnel to dispatch. In addition to an NPC expert with relevant professional knowledge, he also needed a reliable player to bring the news inside the shelter to the outside in the most extreme situation.

  The "Wasteland OL" forum for information sharing is his biggest hole card besides the "immortal" players.

   After confirming that the passage was safe, the delegation began to move forward and soon arrived at the entrance of the shelter.

  The elevator in Yihaikou is right in the middle of the B2 floor of the building.

  It is shaped like a funnel embedded in the ground, with four corridors leading to the elevator in the center...like a circular theater without seats.

  Because no one cares about it for a long time, and the special climate of the great desert with extremely uneven distribution of water resources, the walls are covered with mold and dry vines.

   Searching every corner of this spacious room with a flashlight, Ye Shi muttered.

   "The crew of the Pioneer really escaped here?"

   Meng Liang, who was walking beside him, said nervously.

   "Intel yes..."

   This is his first time on duty.

   And it’s such an important action right from the start.

  Last night, he read the action log sent to him by the manager several times, especially the column of known information, and he almost knew the punctuation by heart.

   "But why is there no trace of the battle? You can't even see a bullet mark on the wall." Ye Shi still had a trace of doubt on his face.

   Not because he was cautious by nature.

   Rather, the manager did not entrust this important task to Lao Bai, who had the strongest combat effectiveness, but to him, who had the highest perception attribute.

  Especially the discussion on the forum yesterday made him instinctively suspect that this task might not be as simple as he imagined.

  Su Ming, who was walking on the other side, shrugged and said with a grin.

   "Perhaps there were no pursuers when they fled here... Didn't the Willanters not find the specific entrance to Vault 0?"

   "I see," Ye Shi nodded thoughtfully, but soon frowned again, "Hiss... But I still feel something is wrong."

  What about the people from the Enlightenment Society?

   Don’t those people know the entrance to Vault 0?

  Since Yi Hai knew that those people were trying to prevent the company from finding shelter No. 0, the two sides should have turned their faces before he was frozen.

  Ye Shi couldn't figure it out, and always felt that he had missed some important clue.

  It's a pity that elder brother Fang is not here, and that idiot Zhandi guy probably doesn't dare to communicate with him.

   "Reason?" Jiang Xuezhou, who had been silent all this time, finally couldn't help but speak.

  She doesn't like to communicate with people outside the academy, especially this person seems to have fought against her previous team.

  However, this guy kept muttering there, which made her nervous from the moment she entered the building... Obviously they haven't even encountered a mutant hyena until now.

  Huo Ye Shi didn't think too much about it, and didn't even feel the impatience in that sentence at all. Instead, he thought that the beauty was interested in him, so he made a mysterious and charming smile that he thought was mysterious.

   "Intuition."

   Intuition…

  Jiang Xuezhou's mouth twitched, his expression a little tense.

   What is that?

  But Su Ming seemed to understand very well, he laughed and patted Ye Shi on the shoulder.

"Brother, I understand that feeling. Sometimes nothing happens, but I just feel that something is wrong... My captain said that I am about to awaken. I hope it is not true. I am not married yet. Anyway, be more vigilant. I also think this place is a bit evil."

  At this moment, the Zhandi guy wants to go over and ask, what exactly does this guy feel, after all, the T0 powerhouse with the highest perception system in the whole server is not bragging.

   But Naihe had a commander staring at him, so he could only think about it in his heart.

  Looking at Wall-E with a confident smile on his face, the Zhandi guy thought about at least asking for some information, so he lowered his voice and asked.

   "My lord, do we have any plans?"

  Wali said bluntly.

"No."

   "...No?" The Zhandi guy thought he heard it wrong, and was stunned for a while.

  Wali laughed out loud, and said with disdain.

   "Only a weak guy will believe that all problems can be solved by relying on a shelter. Our marshal has never pinned his hopes on such illusory rumors."

  The battlefield guy couldn't tell whether to laugh or cry.

   "Then why are we here..."

"Although Mr. Korn doesn't think that there may be something that can end the wasteland, it is a relic left over from the prosperous era after all...God knows what will be inside, what if it is a weapon?" Wally looked at the enterprise and the academy The representatives glanced at it and said indifferently, "In short, we can't just ignore the interest of enterprises and colleges."

   Battlefield guy: "..."

  Bringing into the perspective of the Willant people, this makes sense.

   So much so that he didn't know how to refute for a while.

   A group of people quickly came to the elevator.

  Yunyou reached out and touched the door of the elevator, and turned his attention to the two representatives of the alliance.

   "The access control card is in the hands of one of you."

"I'm here."

  Meng Liang responded immediately, stepped forward, took out the card given to him by the manager, and stuck it on the cover of the card reader.

  A light blue light emerged in front of the door, sweeping across the people in front of the door, then the floor trembled slightly, and the door slowly moved to both sides.

   The space for the elevator is really not big.

   It's surprising that the entrance to Vault 0 is so narrow.

   Or is there actually another entrance here?

   "Unbelievable..." Ye Shi whispered, "It's been two centuries, and these facilities are still in operation."

   And it is still under the condition of no maintenance.

   "It turned out to be an inactive access control card." Looking at the converging scanning light, Yun You frowned.

   "What do you mean?" Meng Liang asked nervously.

"It means... After activation once, our information will be written into the security system and bound to the code of that access control card, and this elevator can be used without that card. For others, unless we rewrite Here's the security system, or give them another deactivated access card, otherwise no one else can get in... at least not with this card."

   Paused, she continued.

   "This can effectively prevent unauthorized personnel from entering the shelter... However, this system usually appears in unfinished shelters. Unless the shelter manager has special requirements, it rarely appears in mature shelters that have assigned managers."

  Ye Shi muttered.

   "That is to say, can't you come up with a card and shake people down?"

  Yunyou glanced at him, but didn't understand what this junior said.

   Meng Liang, who was standing aside, was shocked by another message in this sentence, looked at her in surprise and said.

   "You mean... this shelter isn't finished?"

  Yunyou shrugged his shoulders.

   "Who knows, I didn't build this shelter. I just happened to work in relevant departments and heard some rumors."

   Before Meng Liang digested the huge amount of information in this sentence, she glanced at the door of the elevator, walked in without saying anything.

  Seeing this, Su Ming immediately followed.

   Taking back the useless access card in his hand, Meng Liang looked at Ye Shi and said nervously.

   "Let's go too."

   "Well, let's go."

  Ye Shi nodded, took one last look at the spacious room behind him, and stepped over the open elevator door.

  The moment he stepped through the door, a familiar stale smell penetrated into the tip of his nose, making him alert immediately.

  The omen lingering in his heart seems to be getting stronger and stronger...

  …

  In the camp.

  Although the planned construction of the fence and barracks has been completed, the five engineering vehicles parked in the center of the camp are still rumbling and running non-stop.

Except for the players who were sent to perform tasks near the industrial building, the other players were not idle. They scattered around to find some scraps and came back. Using the blueprints stored on the engineering vehicle, they remelted and processed these scraps into various kinds of parts.

  Due to the strong demand for orders, there was even a long queue in front of these engineering vehicles.

  Several small players around the side waited happily with bundles of scrap metal, for fear that the feeding ports of these machines would be empty.

  An employee of an enterprise happened to pass by. Seeing a lot of people around the construction vehicle, he took a look and asked curiously.

   "Isn't the camp already built? What are you doing here?"

  Seeing the NPC talking to me, I, who was carrying a large bundle of steel, smiled the darkest, and said in a non-standard human language.

   "It turned out that the well was too small, and there was a groundwater reservoir just below it. We planned to drill a deeper well."

  The boy on the construction site who was carrying a sack beside him agreed with Brick.

   "That's right! This time we lengthened the threaded pipe in the drawing!"

  The enterprise employee was stunned for a moment, but before he recovered, several other players next to him began chattering in a language he didn't understand.

   "Speaking of which, the groundwater reservoir here is quite rich."

   "That's necessary, otherwise why camp here."

   "What's the point of just drilling a well? I suggest building a greenhouse and growing some vegetables."

   "That's a good idea!"

   "!! I brought the seeds!"

  The players chatted in a hurry, and there were a few more blueprints in the production queue, and the required materials also increased a lot.

  Including polyethylene materials used to make greenhouses, including cultivation tanks for growing vegetables and aluminum alloys for water pipes, etc...

  Greenhouses are arranged, sources of carbohydrates and vitamins are available, and animal protein and fat cannot be left behind.

  A balanced diet can ensure combat effectiveness.

  It is not realistic to raise cattle and sheep, after all, there is not so much grass here.

   But there are always more solutions than problems.

   Soon I thought the darkest, the brothers of the Burning Legion got some fat white worms in the mutant tribe.

  It's a little unappetizing to eat directly, and no one except Lao Na may accept it, but it shouldn't be a problem to make it into a nutritional cream.

  Anyway, they are not here to stay, the scourge is also those Mengxin who came here to open up wasteland without knowing what to do...

   As for NPCs.

  Except for their managers, they don’t seem to be very picky eaters.

   Not far away, several Willant officers looked at the busy Alliance members and couldn't help muttering.

   "What are these guys doing?"

"have no idea…"

   "Isn't this just a temporary camp? What are they doing with so many sheds?"

   "Don't they still plan to stay..."

  Thinking of this, several Willant officers suddenly became alert.

  The alliance actually put their feet behind the **** of their slave country.

   This is not a good sign...

  Actually, it's not just the company employees and the Weilante officers who are confused, even the players themselves don't know what they are going to do.

  The fun of sandbox games lies in experiencing the process. As for the purpose and result, no one cares too much.

The manager told them that the alliance intends to keep this place as an outpost of the alliance in the great desert, and they can DIY the buildings here according to their liking, and the five engineering vehicles can satisfy their needs of turning their ideas into reality as much as possible before taking them back .

   As a result, interested players queued up holding a pile of building materials.

   There aren’t many missions on the new map, and they are idle anyway. Many players have accepted the mission to expand the camp. Although the rewards are not high, it’s quite interesting.

  Chu Guang didn't explain what they must build this outpost, and left it to them to develop themselves.

  Facts have proved that these little players are even better than he imagined, from drinking water to a stable food source, to hygiene and safety, they have considered everything for him.

There are even detailed plans for the placement of various facilities... These are not just imaginations, but also refer to the layout of overseas military bases or construction sites in reality to a large extent, and take into account the situation of leaving the supply line, so that the planned The camp is somewhat self-sufficient.

  Looking at the busy little players, Chu Guang nodded with satisfaction.

"good!"

  If this is outsourced to the company's construction team, at least it will cost a few million Cr, even if it is your own construction team, it will inevitably cost a few million silver coins.

   But hand it over to these little players, and they can get it done without even using one hundred thousand silver coins. Manpower is almost free, materials can be obtained locally, and ideas are copied and discussed from the Internet.

  But anyway, this outpost is for them to use after it is repaired, so it can’t be counted as earning money.

   Looking away from the little players, Chu Guang walked to the corner of the camp, where the rescued survivors were housed.

  After the treatment of the twelve treatment cabins, the wounds of most of the survivors have been healed.

   Some mechanical prosthetics that only have basic functions are not very expensive, otherwise they would not be affordable even for scavengers.

   It happened that there were some prosthetic bodies with simple functions in the ordnance seized from the Willant people before, so Chu Guang asked the company's doctors to replace them.

  By the way, since there are corporate reporters on the airship, for the sake of showing off, Wu Changnian expressed his willingness to bear part of the cost of helping the survivors.

  Chu Guang was not polite, and casually reported 100,000 Cr to him. When he heard that it was so cheap, Wu Changnian signed it without frowning.

  Afterwards, Chu Guang asked the logistics officer to do the math, and found that the combined value of the batch of mechanical prosthetic bodies might be less than 100,000 chips...

  Chu Guang is also an embarrassing group, he still has a bottom line, and he never thought of using those poor people to make money, let alone the mere 100,000 Cr.

   But it is not appropriate to tell the company that there are too many supplies. After all, Minister Wu has already pretended to be forced, and he can only let his logistics officer keep this secret in his stomach.

  The gate of the barracks opened.

  Looking at the light passing through the door, and the sound of footsteps coming in together, the women lying on the beds shrank back subconsciously.

   Seeing that they are not mutants, everyone is relieved.

  The people lying in the ward were all survivors who had just undergone prosthetic surgery, and there were about twenty of them.

  Although he didn't want them to recall bad memories, in order to collect information about the torch badge, Chu Guang still asked in a gentle tone as much as possible.

   "Where are you from?"

  Everyone in the room looked at each other, but didn't speak.

   The air was silent for a while.

   Just when Chu Guang was hesitating whether to find a female player with a gentler image to communicate with, a woman in her early twenties suddenly raised her hand tremblingly and said in a hoarse voice.

   "My name is Rama... I am from Borneo Province."

   "Borneo Province?"

  The birthplace of the two-headed cow?

   It is said to be in the southwest of the Hump Kingdom.

   That's far enough...

  Chu Guang continued speaking in a gentle tone.

   "Can you tell me, how did you get here?"

   Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of something, and added something after a short pause.

   "Of course, if you don't want to recall that unpleasant memory, we won't force you."

  Lama shook his head.

   "It's ok...I appreciate you guys saving us from hell."

   As she spoke, she paused and continued.

"I was born in a small village. A group of merchants came to the village that day. They said they wanted to buy two-headed cattle and transport them to Yinyue Bay in the northeast. Very polite, the village head also brought out good wine to entertain them... I also drank a little at the time, and I was in the cage when I woke up."

  Chu Guang was silent for a while.

   "Slaver?"

"...It should be." Rama's eyes were full of fear, but he said it bravely, "Those people also said...my family sold me to them, but I don't believe them, it must be them Get everyone drunk."

   Chu Guang expressed sympathy for her experience, but that part was not what he cared most about.

   Frowning, he continued to ask.

   “…are those slavers trading mutants?”

   Contrary to Chu Guang's expectation, the girl named Lama shook her head, and the frightening flickering in her eyes became more intense.

   "They...sold us to another group that took me across the desert and brought me here."

  Chu Guang clenched his fists and said in a deep voice.

"who are they?"

"I have no idea…"

  The girl hugged her head, and her ten fingers penetrated into the hair trembled slightly. It seemed that just remembering what happened at that time made her feel extremely terrified.

  Chu Guang changed the question and said patiently.

   "Do those people have... any characteristics? Such as appearance, or clothing, or what uniform accessories they carry..."

  The slack pupils suddenly began to focus, and Lama seemed to recall something, let go of the hands holding his head, and raised his head suddenly.

   "Those people... seem to be wearing blue coats."

  Blue jacket?

real or fake…

  Hearing this shocking clue, a hint of surprise appeared on Chu Guang's face.

  Based on his experience in Qingquan City, those little white rabbits who came out of the refuge, let alone harming others, would burn incense if they didn't get their kidneys bruised.

  The reason why he is so kind to Xiaoyu and her family is largely because they didn't harm him... This is already not easy in the wasteland.

  However, the girl named Lama was not the only one. Many survivors in the ward also nodded silently, expressing that they had similar or similar experiences.

  Chu Guang's expression gradually sank, he took out a small notebook from his pocket, and recorded the clues dictated by Rama.

After returning to the surface, most of the residents of the refuge are ignorant of worldly affairs, and are often dismissed by far because of the self-esteem, kindness, weakness of civilized people, and the guilt of abandoning their compatriots in the past, or the sense of superiority. Wastelanders who were weaker than them were slaughtered as fat sheep.

   Like Vault 401.

  The shelter that was taken away by the looted person can be said to be a classic. All the staff have become coolies rubbing pills, and they almost lost the black box in their hands.

  Of course, there are also a few shelters that have developed into powerful regional forces. For example, some of the ancestors of the enterprise are residents of No. 6 shelter.

  Although Vault 101 has not developed into a powerful regional force, under the guidance of Dr. Method, it still has a limited influence on some survivors who survived.

  Vault No. 79 is not a white rabbit, those guys killed themselves, but except for the crazy "Yongshi", the others didn't do much harm to the survivors on the surface.

   As for initiation sessions…

   Probably the other extreme of the "blue jacket" group.

  Chu Guang didn't know what happened to them in the past.

  So much so that they completely let go of the pride and reserve of civilized people, and went to do business with mutants and slave traders.

   In any case, they have crossed the line.

   Someone started, and other survivors soon confessed their origins and how they were sold to these mutants.

Most of them are from Luoxia Province, especially the Falcon Kingdom and Honey Badger Kingdom where war broke out, but there are also some people from Jinchuan or Hegu. Although there is no war in those places, the chaos is not inferior to Luoxia Province war zone.

  Chu Guang made statistics on this one by one.

  His kindness would not overflow to the point of avenging someone he had just met for a few days, but the enlightenment made up of the shelter residents made him feel deeply disturbed.

   Even if it is not out of morality.

  Just out of consideration for the interests of the alliance, it is impossible for him to leave those guys hiding in the dark alone.

   At least find out what the motives of those people are, where are their hometowns, and how many kilometers away from the alliance...

  "...I'm sorry for what happened to you. You may have encountered some unfriendly shelter residents, but I believe that not all shelter residents are like this."

   After a pause, Chu Guang continued.

   "We'll give you some help."

  Holding the edge of the quilt tightly with his right hand, Rama nodded and said sincerely.

"Thanks…"

   "You're welcome, take a good rest... I've finished asking what I want to ask, and forget about the unpleasant past."

  Chu Guang glanced at the notepad in his hand, closed it and stuffed it into his pocket.

  However, just as he was about to go back to the airship, something suddenly occurred to him, and he turned and walked to Yi Hai's barracks.

  A sudden thought made him a little concerned.

   If you don't ask clearly.

  He won't be able to sleep because of it...

  …

  Industrial Building Ground Floor.

  The number of layers is unknown.

  After the elevator door opened, a giant gear-shaped metal door quickly caught the eyes of the investigation team.

  In the middle of the giant metal gear, there is a rhombus with edges and corners. There is a hollow in the middle of the rhombus, which is undoubtedly the digital body of the number "0".

  The passage leading to the interior of the refuge is next to the giant door, and someone has obviously come here and opened it.

  The Pathfinder crew is ahead!

  However, what makes Su Ming feel a little uneasy is why no one came out to greet them...

   "...Vault No. 0 actually exists." Shocked by something completely different, Yunyou unconsciously took a step forward.

  Su Ming also stepped forward immediately, and followed closely beside her.

   Staring at the huge gear-shaped gate for a while, Ye Shi stroked his chin and muttered something in human-linked language.

"Strange…"

   "Why is it so strange?" Jiang Xuezhou squinted at this man with an unusually broken mouth, and he talked too much along the way.

  Ye Shi said embarrassedly.

   "I always feel... this zero drawing is a bit crooked, is this really Vault Zero?"

  Jiang Xuezhou stared at the symbol for a while.

   "Vault No. 0 was originally a refuge without a number, and its symbols are like this... It basically matches the information collected by the academy."

   "Okay... Maybe I'm overthinking it."

  Ye Shi shrugged his shoulders, cast his eyes on the deep corridor, followed behind the company representative, and continued to walk forward.

   "We're on it too."

  Wali patted the pangolin on the shoulder, and strode after him.

  The Battlefield guy noticed that those eyes were shining with strong excitement and curiosity.

  Although this guy says he doesn’t care what’s inside Vault 0, his body is surprisingly honest…

  A group of people walked through the corridor and soon arrived inside the shelter.

  However, to everyone's surprise, the structure here is not as complicated as they imagined, even simple to the point of scribbling.

  This doesn't feel like a shelter at all.

   More like a laboratory.

  Of course, this is not what surprised everyone even more.

   It's the dark red plaques crawling all over the corners and door cracks, and the ominous gray-green particles floating in the air...

   Slime Mold!

   There are slime molds here too! ? -

   (I wanted to finish writing later, but I really don’t have time.)

  (end of this chapter)