Chapter 513 Yangmou

  The ruins next to the camp.

  Looking at the signal tower with a concrete-colored camouflage net, Chu Guang, who was riding on Nicole's back, didn't know how to complain for a while, and finally said with a smile.

   "...it seems they've been planning this for a long time."

   A signal line was laid out from outside the area affected by the thundercloud storm...

  Because the thundercloud storm interfered with the radio signals outside the battlefield, the Heart of Iron did not detect the long-distance communication from outside the battlefield at all.

  The radio equipment used by the Enlightenment Society on the battlefield, the signal source is the signal tower in front of him as a repeater.

   Lu Bei, who was standing aside, said in a low voice.

   "My lord... Do you want to chase down this line?"

   "It doesn't make sense. They are so cautious that they won't move this signal line to their own home... Even if they search along it, what they find may be a pile of junk or even a trap."

   After staring at the signal tower for the last time, Chu Guang patted Nicole on the neck. The latter understood his purring, flicked his tail and turned around.

   "You find some people to dismantle this thing... I'll go to the industrial building to have a look."

   Lu Bei, who was standing aside, replied with a loyal face.

"yes!"

  …

  Although it is a pity that the mastermind behind the scenes was not caught, a large number of high-tech equipment abandoned by the Enlightenment Society have remained.

   I have to admit that there are really many good things in the shelter, and the Enlightenment Society has gathered these good things together.

   Now it's all cheap league.

  According to the statistics of the logistics department, the biggest gain in this battle is undoubtedly a phaser.

This thing is not small in size. It looks like a five-meter-long oil pipeline. It is carried on the back of an all-terrain crawler vehicle. It is powered by a one-kilogram-class cold fusion battery. From a distance, I think it is from the prosperous pre-epoch era. missile car.

  It can handle two airships that have been converted from frigate cores. The phaser cannon is either a part removed from the starship, or it hasn't had time to install it.

  Chu Guang intends to give it to the alliance's research institutes for analysis, to see if some useful technology can be recovered from it.

   Don't expect Yin Fang and the others to be able to reverse the technology related to the anti-gravity device. The production difficulty of that thing is more difficult than the technical difficulty.

   But even if it is possible to recycle the capacitor technology inside, it would be great. This thing can be used whether it is an electromagnetic gun or an electric car.

In addition to the "strategic weapon" such as phase cannons, there are more than 200 sets of five-type "light cavalry" exoskeletons used by the police, more than two hundred sets of ten-type "Oath" exoskeletons originally belonging to the People's Federation Army, and Sixty "railway acceleration rifles" with different purposes, and more than two hundred shellless assault rifles and basic light weapons, etc.

  In addition to the captured anti-armor rocket launchers, grenades and other military equipment, the equipment captured in this battle is enough to arm half a special warfare brigade!

  Near the industrial building.

   Frost with her arms in her arms, looked at the lying mechanical dog not far away and curled her lips.

   "I just said that kind of thing is unreliable."

  Eclipse's pupils flickered slightly, and he said after a while.

   "It was broken by an EMP."

   "EMP, hehe, I'm not afraid of that thing."

   "But your firepower is not as strong as it."

   "Hehe, that's not necessarily the case."

  Jiang Xuezhou, who was standing next to Xiao Wang's wreckage, did not hear the chatter of the two androids. If she heard it, she would definitely go up and reason with these two guys.

   Glancing at the tablet in her hand, and then at the tent not far away, she hesitated for a while, and finally walked over there.

  The log of the manager of Vault 0 and the original copy of the Torch Project have been retrieved. Just now, her mentor asked her to go back to report and describe what happened just now.

   Next, her mentor will probably take her back to the Wandering Swamp, archive the recovered data, and participate in the seminar of the Research Department.

  Busy days are yet to come,

  When she thought of the work to be done next, she couldn't help but feel her scalp go numb.

  The next time I come out of the Wandering Swamp, I don’t know when it will be... It’s hard to say, the next time we meet is a battlefield again.

   As a final farewell, she wanted to at least say hello to those companions.

  Although the time we spent together was short, it was still a precious experience for her.

  Her gains are far from just the K points and meritorious service obtained in the mission, and she has found herself again...

  …

  At this moment, inside the tent.

  Ye Shizheng looked at Chu Guang vividly and described what happened in the refuge, and handed Captain Lu's video and the captured memory extractor into his hands.

   "...That's how it happened. Dear Master Manager, I suggest you use this memory extractor to interrogate this guy."

   While talking, Ye Shi gave Zhuang Lan a vicious look at Zhuang Lan who was bound hands and feet not far away. This guy made him suffer a lot.

  Looking at the memory extractor, Zhuang Lan's face turned slightly pale.

  How scary that thing is, she knows better than anyone.

  Even if she had received special training, she didn't have the confidence to survive the interrogation. She would rather confess before putting on that thing.

The most terrifying thing about that thing is not the retrieval of memory, but as the retrieval progress deepens, it will gradually wake people up in their dreams, and use the fear dug out from the depths of memory to repeatedly torture the user, Until one's mind is completely destroyed, and the last remaining clues are squeezed from the shattered fragments of memory.

  She herself doesn't know what she will think of...

  Looking at Ye Shi who looked puzzled, Chu Guang nodded and said in a gentle tone.

   "I will consider your suggestion as appropriate, and if necessary, I will do so."

  Put the memory extractor on the side table.

  Chu Guang was planning to assign Ye Shi a new task when he suddenly noticed someone not far from the door looking in this direction.

  The soldiers of the Guards had noticed the person and stopped in front of her to ask.

  Chu Guang has a little impression of that person. Although he doesn't know the name, he seems to be a D-level researcher of the academy. That hesitant expression seemed to want to say something, but he was too embarrassed to approach him.

  Looking at the memory extractor, Chu Guang vaguely guessed something, and a smile appeared on his face.

  Looking at Ye Shi again, he spoke.

   "You've done a good job, you've worked hard. Let me take care of the rest of the matter. Go and rest."

   "Hey, I'm actually not that tired... But it's okay."

  Although it was a pity that there was no follow-up mission, Ye Shi scratched his head and hesitated for a while when he thought of the hidden mission that Lao Bai told him before, and walked out the door excitedly.

  As Ye Shi left, apart from the Enlightenment agent who was bound hand and foot, only Chu Guang, Lu Bei and a few soldiers of the pro-guard remained in the spacious tent.

   Put away his warm smile, Chu Guang looked at her and said.

"name?"

  The gazes around him made Zhuang Lan's scalp tingle.

  Especially before stepping into this camp, the claw of death at the door looked at her with amber pupils, which made her feel the fear that went deep into her bones.

   Glancing nervously at the memory extractor on the table, she swallowed, lowering her head and trembling.

   "...Zhuang Lan."

   Chu Guang stared at her for a while.

   "I don't want to waste time, so you better not waste my time, now what do I ask, what do you answer, if I think you are lying, I will use this."

   As he spoke, Chu Guang raised his index finger and tapped the glasses on the table.

  The black eyes made her feel a fear from the depths of her soul, Zhuang Lan's shoulders trembled involuntarily, and she nodded tremblingly.

"say."

"yes!"

  She didn't understand why someone who was clearly not afraid of death would be so afraid at this moment.

   Could it be the talent brought about by awakening?

  How could there be such a strange ability...

  Looking at the memory extractor on the table, she didn't dare to think deeply, she could only lower her head, and didn't even dare to look directly into those eyes.

   "Which shelter are you from?"

   "6, No. 68..."

   "How many of you are there?"

   "Two thousand."

   Two thousand people.

   That's a pretty big shelter.

   Thinking of the underground city in No. 79 shelter, Chu Guang was not too surprised and continued to ask.

   "Where's your manager?"

"…died."

   Chu Guang raised his eyebrows.

   "Before you joined Initiation?"

  Zhuang Lan nodded silently.

"yes."

  Chu Guang continued to ask.

   "How did you join the Enlightenment Society."

"...the wastelanders occupied the outpost we built on the surface, took advantage of our goodness to occupy our sanctuary, killed our managers, and put us in cages, and then the people of enlightenment found us. They Saved all the people who were still alive, and executed the group of wastelanders, they are compatriots, so we followed them."

  Knowing that there was no point in concealing it, she simply confessed everything.

   And her remarks just confirmed Chu Guang's guess.

  The Enlightenment Society developed and expanded by searching for shelters like the 401 shelter that were persecuted and even occupied by the looters.

   It's just that after those people found other shelters, they didn't take the blue coats to build settlements, but incited the hatred in people's hearts, pointing all the contradictions to the post-war reconstruction committee, and even the entire wasteland.

  There is nothing wrong with this set of narrative logic.

  The post-war rebuilding committee did some things, but it's also true that it didn't do everything right, and that it failed a lot of wastelanders and survivor colonies.

But if all the mistakes are attributed to the failure of the post-war reconstruction committee, it is undoubtedly tantamount to blaming all the problems in the wasteland on the mutants. I will believe it, but if I think about it more, I will find that the **** doesn't make sense.

   Actually, what Chu Guang was more curious about was another thing.

  That is whether the Enlightenment Society itself has actively interfered, or accelerated the process.

  According to his own observation and judgment, the attitude of most survivor settlements towards the shelter residents is actually neutral.

  The ordinary wastelanders neither adore nor hate the blue coat, they don’t care who abandoned whom two hundred years ago, who ancestors owed whose ancestors, and don’t care why there were wars in the past. Most people have long since forgotten the era of prosperity and Renlian, and just want to concentrate on living a good life now.

  Even the people from Xiaoyu’s family saw him as pitiful, and squeezed out a small amount of rations, gave him a bite to eat, and taught him which waste products could be exchanged for money from merchants.

Leaving aside the refuges targeted by predators, most of the refuges are in normal conditions, as long as they maintain basic vigilance, limited contact, and cooperation above neutrality, they can basically develop into "No. 101 mode"... really develop into " 401 mode" is actually not very common.

  Chu Guang is more inclined to believe that the people of the Enlightenment Society should have taken the initiative to do something, which accelerated the deterioration of the relationship between the refuge and the nearby survivors.

  For example, deliberately revealing the location of the shelter to the nearby predator camps and mutant lairs, or buying the unsteady wastelanders to betray the blue coat who cooperated with him...

  Chu Guang finds it hard to believe that an organization that takes destroying the world as its mission will be reserved in the means to achieve its goals, letting go of those shelters and their managers who are unwilling to cooperate with them.

As long as those unwilling shelters fall, save the residents there from the abyss as a savior, and instill in them the idea that the enemy is the entire wasteland, the Enlightenment Society can easily harvest a large number of loyal and reliable disciples .

  During the conversation with Guixu, Chu Guangneng clearly felt that although the goals of the upper and lower disciples of the Enlightenment Society were unified, their positions were actually not the same.

  The former is purely to create a dream of a new world completely dominated by elites.

   Most of the latter don't care who dominates the new world, they just feel desperate for the status quo.

   "Have you seen that guy named Guixu?"

   Zhuang Lan was silent for a long time.

"…No."

   Chu Guang continued.

   "You haven't even met him, why do you believe what he says is true?"

  Zhuang Lan was silent for a long time, and then slowly spoke.

   "I don't care if he's hiding something, it doesn't matter to me, I just know that those wastelanders treat me—"

   "And you did the same thing as them?"

   "I…I didn't, I was just saying—"

   "You said you didn't, but those compatriots in your mouth have done a bad thing."

  Looking at Zhuang Lan who was blushing and defending, Chu Guang pointed to the direction of the camp outside with his chin, and said sharply.

   "Look at those tents, the people living in them are all victims of your atrocities. Do you want to say that because those people were not kidnapped by you, they have nothing to do with you?"

  Looking at the silent Zhuang Lan, Chu Guang continued.

   "I don't expect to sympathize with a cold-blooded guy, but I'm curious about one thing. Do you really think your homeland, that is, Vault 68, was destroyed by the wastelanders?"

   "Of course! I saw them—"

   Staring at Zhuang Lan with a determined face, Chu Guang recalled what he had read in a discussion post on the official website, and continued in a calm tone.

"You saw them beheading your parents, you saw them put you in a cage, you saw the Enlightenment people save you, every single one of you, including the ones we caught on the battlefield Those captives...you have never doubted it once, isn't this too coincidental?"

"How did those wastelanders rebel, when and how did the people from the Enlightenment Society discover you, how did your manager die, where is his work log, what wastelanders should do about that kind of thing Not interested... have you checked his administrator log? Can you answer these questions for me?"

   Zhuang Lan was stunned.

"I…"

  Chu Guang stared at her and continued slowly.

   "You don't know. You believe what they say, and you do what they tell you to do. And even if it's such a narrow-death mission, doesn't Guixu have the guts to meet you in person?"

  Looking at Zhuang Lan who was pale and unable to speak, Chu Guang suddenly had an expression of interest on his face.

   "Let's make a bet."

   "Bet...?" Zhuang Lan stared at him blankly, "What are you betting on?"

"Your freedom," Chu Guang looked at her and continued, "The log of the manager of the No. 68 refuge, there will be backups in the refuge, and there is a way to restore it even if it is destroyed. That thing can answer your confusion. It also happens to satisfy my curiosity and find it for me."

   Zhuang Lan looked at him in surprise.

   "Are you going to let me go?!"

"I just lend you your freedom temporarily," Chu Guang said lightly, "If there is no shadow of the Enlightenment Society behind the disaster that happened in Vault 68, you will be free. If the clues recorded in the log are consistent with my guess Match, you'll be back, remember to bring it to me."

  The administrator log of each shelter is an important file, and it is the obligation of all managers to recover as much as possible after the shelter is closed.

  Even if there is only one punctuation mark on it, it still has the value of recycling.

   These are valuable sociological experiences.

  Including the logs stored in No. 0 Vault and related proposals of the "Torch Project", Chu Guang also recovered them.

   "Are you not worried about me running away?" Zhuang Lan took a deep breath and asked in disbelief.

  Chu Guang smiled faintly.

   "Your expression tells me that you will do this, but if you have any brains, you will realize how stupid it is."

   "The enemy who really killed your parents did not deceive you alone, but also your most cherished compatriots."

   "Find that thing for me, this is your only chance for redemption."

   "The post-war reconstruction committee and his three sons don't care about you, we will take care of them."

  …

   Staring at the figure that disappeared at the door of the barracks, Lu Bei hesitated for a moment and whispered.

   "My lord, is it really okay to let her go?"

  He didn't doubt the manager's decision, but only doubted whether that cunning guy would abide by this non-binding promise.

  Different from the worried Lu Bei, Chu Guang didn't care much, and replied casually.

   "If she finds something, maybe it can help us disintegrate the Enlightenment Society from within, or she can find the location of the Enlightenment Society headquarters for us."

   Can't find it?

That's impossible.

  Chu Guang didn't believe that that villain-like guy could refuse the temptation to take shortcuts.

   If he guesses wrong, he's wrong, it doesn't matter.

   A little guy, one more or one less will not affect the overall situation.

   After a pause, Chu Guang continued.

   "Of course, if she didn't investigate at all, and just went back unscathed, what would you think if you were a senior member of the Enlightenment Society?"

   Lu Bei thought for a while, then scratched his head.

   "I am a senior member of the Enlightenment Society...but my lord, I don't have that structure."

  Looking at this disappointing young man, Chu Guang shook his head and criticized severely.

   "Thinking that the superior must have three heads and six arms is slave thinking. People are people. How many times have I told you!"

   This kid Lu Bei is young after all, and his head is still bright. When Chu Guang stared at him like this, he immediately reacted.

   "Doubt! Will doubt why she came back alive!"

  Chu Guang nodded in approval.

"clever."

   Especially the guy named Guixu, he felt like a combination of arrogance and arrogance.

  That guy may have something, but not much. The theory is greater than practice, and the inferiority complex and sense of urgency in his subconscious make him eager to prove his strength, even showing it in front of the enemy in a show-off manner.

   In contrast, the marshal of the legion, the conclusion doctor of the academy, and even the lord of Boulder City are more inclined to "hide" themselves.

   These old monsters who have lived for an unknown number of years have never been willing to reveal how many cards they have in their hands, and their minds are even more difficult to fathom.

   "But... is she okay alone?" Lu Bei looked at Chu Guang puzzled and asked.

  Chu Guang said indifferently.

   "That's her own business. I didn't put all my hopes on a temporary idea."

Those who killed the crew of the Pioneer had already died in the nuclear explosion. This guy had nothing to do with that incident, and he had no access to those data. The Legion is not his ally, and he has no obligation to avenge the Willant people. It doesn't make sense to kill people.

   And if he is locked up with other prisoners of war for labor reform, the Legion will definitely use this reason to put pressure on him and ask him to extradite. This kind of thing happens twice once, pure is a trouble.

  If Cohen wants to avenge his confidant, then he should go after it himself, so that they, who are closer to the great desert, will keep an eye on the small actions of the Enlightenment Society for the Alliance.

   When talking about this, Chu Guang paused for a moment.

   "By the way, after a while, you and Captain Adria will inform you that the Enlightenment agent who murdered Wall-E has escaped, and let them figure it out."

  Holding his right fist to his chest, Lu Bei looked at the manager adoringly.

   "Yes! Your Excellency!"

   "Go."

   Smiling and watching the young man disappear at the door, Chu Guang cast his gaze on the memory extractor on the table.

   I heard that this thing is quite wicked, not only can it squeeze people's memory, but it can even help people remember things that they don't even remember.

  When he first came out of the refuge, the warlord secretly tried it on, but it was a pity that it was useless to the players, so he gave up thinking about it after posting a post.

   It wouldn't have been useful either.

  The clone's brain is like a blank sheet of paper, it's just a signal repeater, at most a cache is added, and it doesn't store long-term memories. As for the players' memories, they are all stored in their own brains—brains located in a different world.

  Suddenly, a thought came to Chu Guang's mind.

  What would you see if you put it on?

  Is it the most frightening thing in the depths of memory...

   While thinking this way, Chu Guang put his hands on the glasses. However, in just a few seconds, he shook his head and dismissed the idea.

  The inexplicable déjà vu reminded him that doing so would not lead to good results...

  —

   (Thanks to the leader of "Six Classics Viewing Saints" for the reward!! There were too many updates a few days ago, it was a bit empty T.T)

  (end of this chapter)