Chapter 508 Returning to the ruins and returning to zero

   "...You have been frozen for too long, and your hematopoietic function has not fully recovered. You may be better off with some blood transfusion."

  Outside Vault 0.

  In a tent in the base, the doctor in a white coat looked at Yi Hai lying on the hospital bed and said.

   "No need, I feel fine." Rejecting the doctor's kindness, Yi Hai looked at his younger brother standing by the bed with tired eyes, and said in a gentle voice, "Can you let me rest for a while?"

   Looking at his brother lying on the hospital bed with concern, Yi Chuan nodded.

   "...you pay attention to rest."

  Although there are many things I want to say to my brother, considering that he has just been rescued from the hibernation cabin, what he needs most at this moment is rest.

   Yi Chuan got up from his seat and walked towards the door.

  However, just as he stretched out his hand to lift the door curtain, he happened to meet Chu Guang who was walking from outside.

   "Chu Guang?" Yi Chuan looked at him in surprise, thinking he was looking for him, so he asked, "What's the matter?"

  Looking at the representative of the Silver Wing Group, Chu Guang said with a friendly smile.

   "I want to talk to Brother Ni about some things, can I take up a little bit of his time?"

  Seeing that Chu Guang did not come to find him, Yi Chuan was slightly stunned, and after listening to his request, a embarrassed expression appeared on his face.

   "But he needs to rest now—"

  Before Yi Chuan finished speaking, a voice from behind him interrupted his words.

   "It's okay, let Mr. Chu Guang in."

  Yi Chuan immediately turned his head and glanced at his brother who said he planned to take a rest with a strange expression, but in the end he didn't say anything and stepped aside to open the door.

  Chu Guang gave him a thankful look.

   "Thank you, leave it to me here, you can do your work first... Don't worry, I won't bother your brother for too long."

   Yi Chuan nodded.

   "Okay...then you talk first."

"Um."

  Chu Guang nodded, borrowed from Yi Chuan, went straight to the side of the hospital bed, took an iron chair and sat on it.

  Looking at the azure blue armor on his body, Yi Hai who was lying on the hospital bed smiled weakly and said.

   "You are still the same, no matter what time you wear this armor."

  Chu Guang smiled faintly.

   "After all, this is a wasteland, any accident is possible... I am honored that I have left such a deep impression on you."

   "Of course, it's a special place, different from all the places I've been to, not just you, including you... A lot of people left a deep impression on me and my teammates."

  That pale face was full of weakness, but the man on the hospital bed still squeezed out a friendly smile.

   "It's a pity that we had a mission at the time, and we couldn't stay for too long, otherwise I really hoped to stay there for a while...Look at how many delicacies you have hidden in the shelter."

  Hearing him talk about their common memories, Chu Guang smiled, then sighed softly, and said with some regret.

   "I said that night... When you recover, we can sit together and have a good chat about what happened to us after you left."

   "I'm really curious... What happened to you, that there has been such a big change in just half a year." Yi Hai's voice was also full of emotion, and his eyes seemed to be lost in memories.

  Chu Guang didn't speak, just stared at him silently for a while.

   Those pitch-black pupils made it hard to see what he was thinking, and Yi Hai, who was looking at Chu Guang, gradually showed a hint of confusion in his eyes.

   "Is there something on my face?"

   "No," Chu Guang shook his head, suddenly put away the sharpness in his eyes, and continued in a gentle tone, "Let's talk about... what happened before we met you."

  Yi Hai didn't speak, and waited quietly for him to continue.

  Chu Guang thought for a moment, then continued.

"A long time ago, I had a long, long dream. In the dream... I was killed by wastelanders, mutants, and my most trusted residents. In the most desperate At the critical moment, I touched the edge of the dream again and again, but every time I was about to pass through the fog, I would wake up from the dream again. Sometimes I can't help but wonder if this will be the next The beginning of the cycle."

  Yi Hai was stunned for a moment, seeing that his expression didn't look like he was joking, he sighed softly after a while, and followed his words.

   "That was a really bad memory."

   "Yes." Chu Guang nodded, "I seldom mention the specific content of dreams to people, even my most trusted... people."

   Paused, he continued.

   "Although this statement sounds a bit strange, even I was surprised... I don't hate those people I saw in my dream."

  Yi Hai had an uncontrollable smile on his face, and the corners of his mouth twitched twice as if he was laughing.

   "This sounds really strange... After all, dreams and reality are two different things. People who hate people in reality because of having nightmares should not be like this."

   Chu Guang also smiled and said.

"Really? Don't talk about dreams and reality, even people in reality are different. Some wastelanders have a bad stomach, but not all wastelanders are like this. I always warn myself to be cautious. Use the power in your hands, including the authority granted to me by the shelter, let go of the arrogance and prejudice of civilized people, treat people as equally as possible, and use rules to restrain others, only in this way can we unite as many people as possible.”

"Whether they are the residents in the shelter or the survivors outside the shelter, they all have the right to live in this world on an equal footing, not who they are born to serve, to satisfy whose aspirations and ambitions, or to be Whose slave...do you think I did the right thing?"

  Yi Hai was silent for a while, and said with emotion from the bottom of his heart.

   "You are an excellent manager, no wonder you can manage your shelter in good order."

  This sentence sounded like a sincere compliment, and it was indeed true, but in Chu Guang's ears, there was something special about it.

  Especially if he's already aware of something.

   This compliment is even more ironic.

   It happened that Chu Guang didn't intend to continue acting with him, looking directly at the pair of pupils that concealed the hypocrisy behind the weakness, and said in a very soft voice.

"My business was not so proficient at the beginning, but I gradually learned a little bit after getting along with the survivors for a period of time. So I actually don't understand it. If it is a slave trader...they can use the environment and Ignorance justifies itself. But you, as inheritors of civilization, why do you want to go with those people? Isn't the People's Federation giving you enough?"

   "Collaborate with... those people?" Yi Hai was stunned for a moment, his expression gradually became serious, "What do you mean? You mean... there are insiders and mutants trading in the company?!"

   This guy is still playing dumb until the end.

   Chu Guang admitted.

  He pretended to be quite similar.

  If this guy had been so attentive from the beginning, or if he didn't reveal his pride so clearly, he might have really fooled him.

After all, when facing the wounded, people instinctively treat them with tolerance, rather than criticizing them for explaining every detail clearly. Even if they sometimes find inconsistencies in the transcripts, they will tolerantly understand them as normal after trauma. reaction.

However-

  Some things can be explained as memory confusion, and some things are not.

  People may mistake the order of events due to memory confusion, and confuse the key characters in the event, but it is impossible to predict things that did not happen for no reason.

  Almost at the same time, Xiao Qi's voice came from beside his ears, reporting to him what his little players had discovered in Shelter 0.

  Even if the walls of the shelter can block electromagnetic waves, they cannot block the connection established on the "morphological field".

   "Stop pretending... The real Yi Hai has already died in that shelter."

   Seeing that Chu Guang had made it clear that the person lying on the hospital bed finally stopped acting.

  He completely tore off the mask of weakness, his pale face was distorted due to emotional fluctuations, and a gurgling laugh came out of his dry mouth.

  It looks like a dead body that has gone mad.

  Chu Guang looked at him calmly.

  He knew that this guy must have been holding back for a long time, maybe he had been holding back his laughter since the moment he woke up.

   It seems that I have laughed enough.

  The distorted face returned to normal, the man let out a sigh of relief, and looked at Chu Guang with a happy expression.

   "Huh... it's not easy not to laugh, you know? It's so funny how stupid you guys are hustling around me haha!"

   Paused, he looked curiously at the man in power armor in front of him.

   "Chu Guang, right... I'm still a little curious, how did you find out? Those guys probably haven't come out of the shelter yet?"

   Chu Guang said in a calm voice.

   "Although you acted very similarly, even the surprise when you saw me, the feelings for my brother, the touch when you saw the rescuer...all of them were acted out, but you have too much information."

   "Wilanters, mutants, the Enlightenment Society, and the final betrayal of the Enlightenment Society, you know everything."

"It's weird isn't it? It's as if you've been a part of everything, including the conflict with the Villantes and the Mutants, including working with the Enlightenment and ultimately being betrayed by the latter...and you end up back where it all started without incident .”

   "Smart," the man looked at Chu Guang appreciatively, "I appreciate you more and more... Yes, I am a member of the Enlightenment Society."

   "But I still don't understand something," Chu Guang stared at him, with a trace of curiosity in his voice, "How did you pretend to be Yi Hai?"

   "Ah... this, is it difficult?" The man had a happy smile on his face, and his reaction was beyond Chu Guang's expectation.

  He didn't hide anything, he confessed very simply.

   "Have you heard of mind interference devices?"

  Chu Guang nodded.

"I heard that some people who are similar to you have the same technology, but if I remember correctly... the higher the intelligence, the more specific the information that can be received, but the relatively less affected. The lower the intelligence, the more acceptable information The less information you have, the greater the relative impact."

This technology first originated in the colonies, and was researched inspired by the "unified consciousness" of alien life forms. It was used as a substitute for the "infrasonic fence" technology, and was later used by an unscrupulous company to visit the ecological park. Customers sold products worth less than a bottle of mineral water at sky-high prices, which almost subverted the advertising industry.

The Psychic Interferometer can control some immature aliens, but for mature humans, the only impact it can have is to push him when he has the idea of ​​"buy it", let alone the advanced version. The spirit dominates.

"Resonance theory, that's true," the man continued with a smile on his face. "Theoretically, it is impossible to control higher lifeforms through resonance theory. The mental complexity of higher lifeforms is tens of thousands of times that of lower creatures, but It's not without exceptions."

  Chu Guang stared at him for a while, and suddenly there was a trace of surprise in his eyes.

   "…clones?"

"That's right, especially the ones whose minds are as pure as white paper," the man nodded approvingly, "Thanks to those Willant people, now I have at least a thousand instant clones in my hand, as long as you pick a tall one More or less, a facelift and a chip implant would suffice.”

"As for the problem of memory, it is better to solve it. Before this guy is completely cold, just lock his consciousness into the virtual space and interrogate him slowly. Through overhead dreams and subconsciousness, there is always a way to get rid of what we don't know. The content is squeezed out."

   When he said this, he deliberately paused and slowed down his speech.

"But speaking of this, I have to give you a compliment. Your sanctuary really left a deep impression on this guy... Among the 1700 dreams, at least 320 are about your scenes. He might die The last wish of the former is to visit your place again, ha ha."

   Not irritated by his provocation, Chu Guang took a deep breath and continued to ask.

   "So the crew of the Trailblazer are all dead?"

  The man smiled and said, "How come? If I didn't let one go on purpose, would you all come here all the way?"

   "Since the Pioneer stepped into this field, all of you...whether you are in it or outside it, are under my calculation."

   "It seems that you are satisfied with your plan." Chu Guang raised his chin slightly, looking down at that ugly and distorted personality.

   It's like looking down at a maggot.

  However, the man didn't care about it. Instead, he nodded and admitted happily from the look in his eyes.

   "Of course, in my expectation, only companies and legions will come here, and now there is an extra college unexpectedly... It couldn't be more perfect!"

  Suddenly thought of something, he stopped talking again.

   "Ah, maybe four, but unfortunately, I'm not interested in you. A three-digit shelter, we have a lot of managers of two-digit numbered shelters."

   Chu Guang stared at him.

   "Will Enlightenment be?"

"That's right," the man said bluntly, "The residents who can be selected as the refuge are without exception the elites of the People's Federation society, or at least the descendants of the elites. This world should be dominated by us... But it's a pity, now The cake was covered in cockroaches, so before we cut the cake, we were going to get rid of those cockroaches."

   When he was talking about this, his conversation suddenly changed, his eyes rolled around, and he stared at Chu Guang.

"But having said that, although I am not interested in your refuge, I am quite interested in you personally. According to the rules, you manage a three-digit refuge, and even if you join us, you have to start as a disciple, but I An exception can be made to make you an elder."

  Chu Guang laughed out loud.

   "Your grading is quite interesting. You actually use the refuge number to arrange the seats."

  The man said naturally.

   "That's for sure. The ranking of the shelter represents the priority of the budget. The higher the ranking, the higher the social status before the war."

  His first half of the sentence is indeed true, but the second half of the sentence is obviously just his own understanding, at least different from what Chu Guang himself learned.

   "Then what's your number?"

   "Me?" The man froze for a moment, then laughed out loud, "Of course I'm 0."

   "By the way, I haven't told you my name yet... But forget it, the name is just a code name, and that kind of thing is not important at all."

   Paused, he looked at Chu Guang happily.

   "You can be like my disciple."

   "Call me Guixu!"

  The smile on that face was almost like a devil.

  He was lying here, watching people from companies, corps, and academies bustle around in the labyrinth he set up with his own hands.

  And his real body should be somewhere not too far from here.

  The only thing Chu Guang can confirm now is that the technology he uses is not the same morphological field as the 404 shelter, but is based on the resonance theory originating in 2111, so the transmission of information will be affected by interference factors.

   Otherwise he should know all about what's going on underground.

   "But I heard that Vault 0 is not finished."

   "It means that you, like those cuties on the Pioneer, know nothing about the Torch Project."

   Gui Xu continued casually.

"However, this is also normal. Shelter Zero is an existence outside the sequence...it is not a real shelter, but a building composed of multiple components, and each of its components has been carefully designed , to complete the final plan—clear all organisms outside the sanctuary on this planet, and complete the restart of civilization before the heritage is exhausted."

   When talking about this, Guixu smiled.

   "The shelter under the ground is just one of many facilities. We came here to get one thing, but unfortunately we didn't find the key to get in. Thanks to the little cuties on the Pioneer for helping us."

"Do you know? Seeing that they know so much, I thought they knew what they were looking for, but I didn't expect that they hadn't even heard of the Torch Project. It's just because of a legend that can end the wasteland. It's hard for them to rely on it." I found it here with a lot of information... Hahaha, what a pity."

   Shaking his head with a smile, he continued.

   "I originally wanted to lure them into the group. The descendants of Vault 6 are not out of the question. For this reason, I have talked a lot of nonsense with them, just like now."

"However, after listening to my explanation, that guy named Lu Yang not only rejected me stupidly, but also betrayed me by throwing the maternal specimen hidden on the Pioneer into it, which messed up many of my subordinates. locked inside."

   Speaking of this, he looked up at the wall clock on the wall, and the smile on his face became even more cheerful.

"Thank you for chatting with me for so long. The thundercloud storm should have arrived in this area, and it should have started to thunder outside... From now on, no news can get out from here. But don't worry, whether it is the crew of the Pioneer , or those from the Willante or the Academy, they will all go home safe and sound...and our thoughts go out to your families."

   At this moment, the guy who called himself Guixu finally confessed all his plans.

   What he wants is not just something hidden in the underground shelter, but also intends to take this opportunity to replace everyone here!

   It's like he usurped Yi Hai's identity.

As long as everyone here is controlled and the memories of these people are squeezed through virtual reality equipment, they can use the legion's cloning, plastic surgery, and mind interference technology to pretend to be those who are already dead, and at the same time arrange disciples to serve as servants or other identities Live next to the puppets, thereby completing the infiltration of legions, companies, and colleges.

  Chu Guang has to admit that this guy and his enlightenment meeting are really not ordinary brave.

   Declare war on three fallen empires at the same time, plus a nascent alliance.

  Generally, this kind of behavior is usually called tired of work.

   "No wonder you told me everything without worrying at all." Looking at the guy lying on the bed, Chu Guang said with emotion.

   Guixu smiled faintly.

"Yes, your only chance to survive is to join us. To be honest, if you don't get your cooperation, it is a thankless task to seize the authority of the administrator, not to mention that we are not interested in snatching them from the hands of the disciples." power. As long as you cooperate with our work, you and your residents will have the right to survive in the new world."

   "Has my status been downgraded from an elder to a disciple? But unfortunately, I have no interest in the new world you are talking about."

  Chu Guang laughed.

   While speaking, he had already closed the visor of the helmet.

   "If you want my life, then try it."

   As if expecting his answer, the man lying on the bed just yawned indifferently.

   "Then try it."

  A thundercloud storm has formed.

  In this special climate environment, the aircraft could not take off at all, and the transmission distance of the signal was also weakened to the extreme.

  In order to avoid the shield energy being consumed for no reason, the two airships hovering above began to descend.

  However, at this moment, a shrill alarm bell sounded in the sky.

  Chu Guang frowned slightly, and immediately pulled out the nitrogen-powered hammer behind him. The violent air flow spread instantly, and the entire ceiling of the barracks flew out, and the sundries in the barracks were blown upside down.

"Are you going to kill me? It doesn't matter. Although it's a pity to be asked out of the special seat, I will watch you from other places." Guixu laughed, looked at the murderous Chu Guang, and continued, "But Until then, I suggest you keep an eye on the top of your head."

   He didn't need to remind him at all.

  Chu Guang is looking up at the sky.

   The two airships floating directly above the camp were sinking at an uncontrollable speed, and the propellers on both sides were spinning rapidly, but the limited thrust obviously couldn't support the heavy body.

   It wasn't just the Heart of Iron that fell.

   There is also the Judge not far away!

  Chu Guang narrowed his eyes slightly.

   Phase Energy Rectifier!

  It is the only possibility to make the airship's deflector shield and anti-gravity system invalid at the same time.

  At this moment, Yi Chuan, who had left the tent earlier, rushed in hastily from the outside.

   "The airship is falling?! What the **** happened—"

   His words stopped suddenly.

  Looking at Chu Guang holding a warhammer, at the ceiling that was blown away, and at his brother lying on the hospital bed, Yi Chuan's face was full of astonishment and bewilderment.

  The smile on the face of the man on the hospital bed suddenly gave him a strange feeling, as if something had got under his brother's skin.

not only that.

  That irrelevant smile made him feel the chill that went deep into his bones.

   Didn't look at Yi Chuan standing at the door of the barracks at all, Guixu looked at Chu Guang with a smile, and said in a casual tone.

   "At the behest of the enterprise, the alliance suddenly opened fire on the adjudicator. Captain Adria asked for reinforcements from Triumph City... What do you think of this script?"

  Chu Guang replied expressionlessly.

"not so good."

   "Indeed, I forgot about the academy," the man nodded thoughtfully, "Let me think again."

   "Brother..." Yi Chuan stared at him blankly, and wanted to take a step forward, but a big hand covered with steel landed on his shoulder.

   "The one lying there is not your brother."

  Holding Yi Chuan who wanted to go forward, Chu Guang didn't look at the falling airship, but looked out of the camp with sharp eyes.

   There are at least a thousand clones in the hands of this guy...

   Maybe even more.

  Through spiritual connection, it is operated remotely by the disciples of the Enlightenment Society... This sounds too visual.

   "Are you still running?" The man looked curiously at Chu Guang who was standing there motionless, and reminded him kindly, "If you don't run, it will be too late."

"run?"

  Chu Guang raised his eyebrows and suddenly smiled.

   "Why should I run?"

   One shot of the phaser is trying to get him.

  That would be too small for him...

  (end of this chapter)