This Game Is Too Realistic

"Roar--!!"

In the center of Qingquan, the desolate and dilapidated streets were shrouded in gray-green fog, creating a desolate scene.

A monster covered in bruises was struggling furiously, but the iron hand covered with scarlet plaque on its head remained motionless.

The crack in the center of the helmet was filled with a penetrating red light, like a devil's pupils.

Out of fear and awe of it, the noisy Bipeds dubbed it the "Evolution" or the "Knight of Decay."

However, for the mother nest that dominates every slime mold cell in this city, this tiny one billionth is just an insignificant atom that constitutes its existence, and there is no need to have its own name.

Thea is actually the same.

But unlike other slime molds, He put extra effort into creating Thea.

The new mother body not only inherited the essence and nutrients accumulated through his two hundred years of study and evolution, but also inherited his will.

At the same time, it, called Thea, also carries more of His expectations——

That is, spreading the footprints of the ethnic group to more distant places.

Spread to places that His tentacles cannot yet reach!

The "little guy" who mistakenly entered the territory was still struggling in vain, roaring, trying to defy the results of its two centuries of evolution with its savage muscles.

He silently stared at this uncivilized organism, and did not instruct one of His billions to devour and assimilate it as usual, but looked down at Thea standing in the middle of the dilapidated street.

"Eat it."

Pheromones are spread through spores that fuse together.

Sensing the call from her mother, Thea nodded slowly, and then raised the scarlet tentacles that were like mud.

The tentacles are like its arms.

The cilia at the tip made a silent call, creating invisible ripples in the ocean of spores.

The gray-green color began to gather towards the furry bear-shaped beast, wrapping around its body and becoming increasingly dense.

"Roar!!!"

The monster's face began to show panic, and it struggled more and more fiercely. Its thick-haired muscles swayed like a twisting caterpillar, trying to break free from the hand holding its head.

Thea just looked at it, and then gently squeezed the "hand" that stretched forward.

The thick gray-green fog spread out a few inches in an instant, and the monster's chest suddenly expanded, and its eyes bulged out.

It panted desperately, but its body became heavier and heavier uncontrollably, until finally its body completely lost its strength and could not even resist the gravity on its shoulders, and finally stopped struggling to resist.

A wisp of gray mist floated out of the gap in the helmet, and the Decay Knight released his hand holding its head and stepped aside like a real knight.

"very good."

Looking at Thea, who had mastered her own power, He showed a pleased smile, and the spores in the entire city slowly fluctuated with the frequency of joy like ocean waves.

His child has fully mastered the ability to take away the breath of its prey, and it will be stronger than its last child.

He seemed to have seen those weak organisms running away, chased by the young assimilation fighters.

Thea stared at her tentacles—or arms—stretched forward, and spoke after a moment.

"My body couldn't breathe and I felt their screams."

The spores that permeate the surroundings and the fruiting bodies controlled by it are all part of its body, and are also the conductors and carriers that carry its consciousness.

He spoke softly to the confused child.

"Don't worry, my boy."

"The same goes for your enemies. Those weak pieces of flesh are like the prey under your feet. They must keep breathing at all times to stay alive. You can bear much more than them, and you are more adapted to the land under your feet than they are. , and this world ultimately belongs to those who can adapt to it.”

"Now, eat it."

Thea nodded slowly, and her skirt-like lower limbs wriggled forward, moving to the side of the unconscious monster.

The open hem of the skirt was like a bloody mouth, opening a gap against the outline of the ground.

Countless scarlet tentacles rushed out from the gap, like slender leeches, instantly pricking the monster into a hedgehog. While drilling through the skin and draining the blood, they also sucked in the remaining organic nutrients. inside its body.

The surrounding spores fluctuated with pleasant frequencies. The decayed knight standing aside lowered his head, but the scarlet light in his eyes became brighter.

this moment--

The slime mold fruiting bodies throughout the ruins witnessed the "coronation" of a new king and cheered for its birth.

Except for a certain outlier.

Feeling the bloodlust flowing in the air, I couldn't help but hold my breath, not daring to make a "sound".

Fortunately, it does not rely on spores to transmit information, and other mutant slime molds can neither recognize nor sense its existence.

Otherwise, there is no need to doubt that those guys will do whatever it takes to smother this heretic in his infancy...

…

The official website of "Wasteland OL" and the forum are as lively as ever today.

And all this is because of a fresh server announcement.

[Server Announcement: "The Wave Returns" expansion pack is released! 】

[Introduction: Spring is here, and it is the breeding season for animals, and asexually reproduced slime molds are no exception.

We once naively thought that the mother nest was formed by a natural mutation after the spore concentration in the incubation chamber exceeded the threshold. However, more and more evidence shows that the mother nest is born from the mother's body, and the mother's body is hatched from the old mother's nest. The new mother inherits not only the genes of the old mother's nest, but also the experience of fighting against us. Combined with the influence of the warm winter, this wave will probably be more violent than in previous years!

According to the forecast from the Biological Research Institute, the wave is expected to come around March 1st, in-game time! Players please be prepared!

This may be the most severe test since the launch of the server! 】

[Event rewards: After completing event tasks and killing evolved bodies, event points will be awarded. Points can be exchanged for limited equipment and titles, and you can also participate in the final lottery! The prize pool is rich in rewards, including not only mysterious props that even the planners don’t know about, but also many expensive prizes such as DLZJ-1 "Xiaguang" power armor! Everyone is welcome to participate! 】

It's been more than half a month.

"Wasteland OL" has once again launched a new expansion pack after "Operation Fire Fighting".

Such an astonishing update speed has really shocked the attention of many players.

And just as Chu Guang expected, immediately after the announcement was issued, there was an earthquake of magnitude 18 on the official website, and the discussion of the new expansion pack instantly topped the list of hot topics among players and cloud players.

"Holy crap! The Beta0.6 version is here!"

"I remember that during the Alpha 1.1 version, Inspur was just a sub-project of the server update? Just change the skin and it will become an expansion pack?!"

"This activity is too perfunctory!"

"Bad review! It's even worse than the P agency that copied the MOD and the CA that raised the price of plasma!"

"Brother Guang, Ning is my father, please give me a helmet!"

"Thirty thousand helmets in two years. This production capacity is so unreasonable. Aguang, can you do it?"

"I don't think this is Brother Guang's fault. Could it be that the cows and horses in the factory are lazy? Come to our village to open a factory! I'll ask the village chief to help you recruit people!"

"You'd better come to our place, I'm the village chief, and I'll bring my people to work for you for free!"

"I'll let you do it for nothing!"

"???"

"Damn it, brother, you're a bit harsh!"

"Pass it on, someone wants to fuck Brother Guang."

"Crazy, all crazy!"

"Trash! What about the broken helmet? I laughed and the dog didn't even play with it!"

Chu Guang, who was sitting in the browsing room, browsed around on the official website, laughing and saying nothing. He had long been used to the teasing of these guys.

However, there is one thing to say, the alliance now has a population of one million, and this number is still growing. In comparison, the issuance speed of 50 to 100 closed beta qualifications every day does not keep up with the development needs of the alliance.

Counting the closed beta qualifications that have been issued, he currently only has 30,000 accounts. Even if they are all issued, the players will account for less than 3% of the total population.

Although this number sounds like a lot, when spread across a series of things in various regions of the league, this manpower seems to be somewhat insufficient.

Chu Guang suddenly realized that he was just like playing a SLG game of kneading noodles. When there was a shortage of food, there was no shortage of people, and when there was no shortage of food, there was a shortage of people again. When there is no shortage of both, there will be a shortage of land, and when there is no shortage of land, there will be a shortage of people.

"...If the mother nest in the city center is solved, I don't know if I can unlock new floors."

There should be a new "activation code" released by then, right?

Looking at the little leeks "waiting for food" on the holographic screen, Chu Guang couldn't help but reveal a faint smile on his face.

Do not worry.

Everyone has the opportunity to be a leek!

Everything will be there!

At this moment, Xiao Qi, who was sitting on the pen holder, suddenly raised his head and said in a pleasant voice.

"Master, your little player has arrived at the Second Ring Road in the city center!"

Chu Guang's heart moved, and he closed the web page on the holographic screen with his index finger.

"Cut to them."

Xiaoqi gave a playful military salute and said enthusiastically.

"receive!"

…

At the same time that the official website announced the event news, two "Viper" transport planes took off from the apron of Shuguang City. After a period of navigation, they arrived at the edge of the Second Ring Road in Qingquan City and slowly hovered over an abandoned skyscraper. Next to the roof of the building.

A dozen gnawers with slumped shoulders sat in a daze on the roof of the building, while a crawler with long arms and legs lurked among the abandoned water tanks and ventilation pipes, watching with vigilance the two flames that flew to the side of the tall building.

"The enemy units have been marked. There are a total of nineteen gnawers and one crawler. No evolutions or other high-threat targets have been found."

"Prepare to attack."

"receive."

A Viper transport plane crossed the nose and pointed the machine gun in the side cabin at the roof, ready to provide fire support at any time.

Another hovering "Viper" transport plane quickly came forward and flew directly to the top of the building, less than five meters away.

The crawler crawling in the shadow let out a hissing growl, and its thick and powerful limbs began to bend, getting ready to take the initiative.

However, what it doesn't know is that the players flying in the sky have already seen it.

Before it could gather enough strength to leap upward, a large black shadow fell from the sky, dragging a hot red light and smashing straight towards it.

Before the crawler could react to what was happening, a blunt, unedged ax struck it in the face, followed by sparks that split open its body smoothly.

Before he even had time to scream, the unlucky crawler turned into mud and covered the ground, followed by a muffled sound of feet hitting the ground.

A total of ten soldiers wearing exoskeletons have completed their deployment. They have pulled the bolts of their guns, opened the safety and raised the muzzle.

Noticing the movement coming from the side, the nibblers raised their heads one after another, and their cloudy pupils were gradually stained with a layer of bloodthirsty scarlet.

They moved their frozen legs, opened rotten cracks, and roared like hiccups at the landing warriors. ..

"Well--"

After shaking off the black slime on the ax, Lao Bai hung it on the power armor and waved his hand forward cleanly.

"Fire."

As soon as those understated words fell, thick and long tongues of fire lit up the misty roof of the building into daylight.

In a burst of gunfire, the nineteen gnawers on the roof, together with the dozen that rushed up from the stairwell, were instantly beaten into sieves.

As planned, the ten players quickly divided into two teams.

One team quickly searched every corner of the roof to confirm that no slime mold fruiting bodies were left behind, while the other team quickly advanced to the entrance of the stairwell and pushed a steel plate slightly wider than the door towards the door. Go up, then pull out the safety bolt, and punch the red button.

With a series of "bang" explosions, steel nails were driven into the concrete wall, and the steel plate was firmly embedded in the door.

That alone is not enough.

Several players took out the electric drills, steel bars and welding guns they carried, and reinforced the door panel embedded in the wall a second time, inserting a layer of "well"-shaped steel bars on the outside.

There was a banging sound behind the steel plate that sealed the entrance to the stairwell, but the steel plate was still embedded there motionless.

Not to mention dozens of gnawers, not even the Tyrant can hit this thing now. Team B, who had successfully controlled the stairwell, had put down their weapons and turned off the safety. Team A, who had also completed the task, spread out to the four corners of the edge of the building, guarding against aliens with flying capabilities flying over to harass them.

Although this place has gone deep into the area occupied by mutant slime mold, neither the players nor the NPC showed excessive nervousness.

With the continued in-depth investigation by the Alliance Biological Research Institute, the Alliance has now learned more and more about the secrets of the mutant slime mold.

The conclusions that were originally based purely on experience or even conjecture are now supported by more scientific and rigorous theories.

Every slime mold fruiting body in Qingquan City is connected to the mother's nest consciousness, but this does not mean that the mother's nest can monitor the situation of every child entity all the time, just like the managers of the alliance cannot keep an eye on every child entity all the time. Like players, you can at most retrieve the records of the VM or official website when necessary.

The same goes for the slime mold's mother nest.

Most of the unclimate and passive threats will be assigned to sub-machine rooms such as "incubation rooms" for processing. Only when unrecognizable organisms invade the territory on a large scale will the mother nest be directly alerted.

Just like now.

At most, the mother nest in the city center will feel that a few small flies have landed on it, just like usual, and will never think that what these few small flies are doing may threaten its own life.

Looking at the packed equipment in the cabin and the staff wearing protective clothing, Jiang Xuezhou, who was almost tied to the seat with a seat belt, finally couldn't hold back his curiosity and said.

"What are you doing?"

Seeing the ignorant expression on this guy's face, Ye Shi, who was sitting aside, couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth proudly.

"You don't understand this. We plan to wait until the wave is busy to send a little shock to the alliance to the big guy in the city center... The shock is ready, now is the preparation stage."

Jiang Xuezhou looked confused.

What the hell?

Without explaining in detail, Ye Shi glanced at her and continued.

"By the way, what are you doing here with us? Aren't you here to help us get rid of Naguo's thing?"

Compared with the "self-limiting" mother's nest, the disorderly expansion of Naguo obviously makes the fallen empire in the north more alert.

Ye Shi still remembers very clearly that Jiang Xuezhou and her mentor who never showed his face came to help them solve problems related to the fruit.

As for the mother's nest in Qingquan City, it is not within their scope of work.

Regarding Ye Shi's question, Jiang Xuezhou coughed lightly and said seriously.

"According to our analysis of the samples, a large amount of DNA in the gene pool of the Naguo strain highly overlaps with the mutant slime mold in Qingquan City. It can be basically concluded that this biological weapon is based on the mutant slime mold in Qingquan City... My mentor It is suspected that the residents of Vault 117 have explored the ancient battlefield in the center of Qingquan City. There may be clues we need there. Don't worry, I have applied with your manager, and he has approved me to participate in wave-related operations as an accompanying researcher. .”

According to her observations, the residents of the alliance have extraordinary respect for the manager, even worship. Many people talk about that guy at every turn and wish him a long life.

She had no interest in that person, but since she was on his territory, she still followed the locals and showed some respect.

But what she didn't expect was that someone didn't care about the last half of her sentence at all, but focused on an inconspicuous detail.

"Wait a minute, you said the residents of Vault 117 might have been to the city center?!" Ye Shi stared at Jiang Xuezhou in surprise, with an expression on his face as if he had discovered a new world.

"I……"

Realizing that he had let something slip, Jiang Xuezhou thought to himself, "Oh no!" and was about to close his open mouth. However, seeing the exaggerated expression on Ye Shi's face, he quickly realized that it was probably not that serious. Very easy to fool.

"I, I never said..." Out of guilt, she added in a superfluous voice, "Don't go around talking nonsense."

Ye Shi chuckled and gave her an "I understand" look.

"Don't worry, I understand, I understand, you never said it."

Good guy!

Another contribution point wasted for nothing!

When he just woke up from the Heart of Steel, he received a mission in the taskbar, asking him to serve as the bodyguard of a D-class researcher visiting the Alliance, and report all the information he heard from her about the academy. .

Based on the value of the intelligence, the alliance will reward him with contribution points. Ye Shi still remembers the envious and jealous look in Fang Chang's eyes when he mentioned this in the group that day.

Seeing Ye Shi's obvious lack of understanding, Jiang Xuezhou suddenly became anxious.

"I really didn't say that! Don't go around and talk nonsense. If it reaches my mentor's ears, I will be dead. I am really dead..."

Ye Shi: "Don't worry, our managers are very strict with their mouths."

Jiang Xuezhou: "???"

In the short time it took for the two of them to say these words, the battle on the roof of the skyscraper was over.

Standing next to the crawler's body, Lao Bai reached out and tapped on the side of the tactical helmet, switching to the command channel.

"The landing area is under control and ready for deployment."

A rustling sound and a crisp reply came from the communication channel.

"receive."

At the same time as the words fell, two "Viper" transport planes landed one after another towards the roof of the skyscraper, and the hot plasma plume blew away the thick residual snow and dust.

After the fuselage came to a stop, twelve staff members wearing chemical protective suits, gas masks, and oxygen tubes on their backs also landed on the roof.

Also deployed were a communication radio, an air detection equipment, and a paraglider bag dismantled into parts, etc.

The Alliance's Biological Research Institute will calculate the approximate location of the mother nest in the city center based on changes in spore concentration during the wave and the activity trajectory of slime mold fruiting bodies.

As long as it can obtain an approximate coordinate, the Alliance can directly deliver ground troops there, and under the cover of the firepower of "Dragon" missiles and 400 naval guns, carry out a precise surgical strike on the nest in the city center!

Even if that guy is hiding in a nuclear crater or a nuclear bunker and can withstand the bombing of conventional weapons, he will definitely not be able to resist the sudden appearance of the Burning Corps.

The Alliance will take advantage of this turbulent wave to end once and for all the threat that has plagued Qingquan City for two centuries.

Lao Bai is full of confidence in this.

Even if this year's wave is different from previous years, it doesn't matter. After all, today's alliance is no longer the same alliance as before.

The survivors in Qingquan City no longer have to fight alone, and they don’t even have to face the threat of the waves alone. The survivors in Luoxia Province send a steady stream of food, while the survivors in Dawn City will supply them with weapons and steel.

Not only the NPCs are united.

The size and quality of players is also not on par with earlier versions.

If he remembered correctly, the manager seemed to have been less than level 20 at the time.

Now the average level of the entire Burning Corps has exceeded this number, and he himself has reached LV43.

In terms of strength alone, among all the players in the entire server, probably only the "unhuman" trash guy can compete with him.

As for combat experience other than attributes.

Each of them is a veteran of many battles.

"bring it on."

Looking at the strange and changeable gray-green thick fog in the distance, he felt the fighting spirit in his heart burning like a flame, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but grin.

"Let's see what new job A Guang has prepared!"

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(Thanks to the leader of "City or City" for the reward!!!)