Wasteland Code Survival

Chapter 81
For these fragments of the ice python, Qi Lin plans to go to Persephone to forge a light armor - Persephone once mentioned to him that in addition to providing finished weapons, their firm also has a lot of skilled workers. Craftsman players also take on the job of equipment OEM.

After storing these things, Qi Lin set off again for the destination Li's Castle.

Except for the "red" Li Family Castle and the "blue" Extreme Ice Python Territory, the rest of the journey is in the yellow area - "yellow" means: there are no permanent or semi-permanent strongholds for human players, However, there is also no area where F-level or higher mutated organisms are active.

In other words, the highest-level mutant creatures that will appear in this area are only F-level bosses.

It's just that Qi Lin still didn't take it lightly along the way. After all, the map is drawn by the player, and the activity area of ​​​​mutated creatures is by no means static, just like the extremely ice python. Territory, entered the area originally marked in yellow.

In Qi Lin's backpack, there are two more items than when he set off from Thunder City, namely the cold liquid sac of the extreme ice python and the blood serum of the poisonous moth emperor.

The cold sac is not big, as long as it is wrapped in thick leather, it is not a big problem to carry it with you. In an emergency, it can be thrown out and used as a "freezing grenade".

For serum, the weight is even lighter, plus it is a valuable item, so Qi Lin will naturally choose to carry it with him.

Speaking of serum, as a reward, the serum of the "Chameleon" that Bryce handed over to Qi Lin has been successfully integrated by Qi Lin before departure, and he has one more special skill: [Elementary dynamic camouflage] 】.

Although I don't know the principle of this skill, as long as Qi Lin moves his mind, he can refract the light around him, achieving an effect of optical camouflage in the old age-but this skill also has its flaws, that is, once it is used, Qi Lin Lin himself can't move, once the movement range is too large, the effect of dynamic camouflage will be flawed.

Looking at the past from the perspective of an outsider, you will find that the light at the position of the pretender is distorted unnaturally.

Otherwise, Qi Lin could avoid unnecessary misunderstandings with the Griffin Hunting Group as long as he activated the dynamic camouflage before passing by.

However, according to the skill description, as long as you upgrade to the intermediate dynamic camouflage, you can perfectly camouflage your whereabouts while moving at a low speed.

By analogy, as long as the skill level is higher, you can make more substantial actions during the camouflage process without being seen through.

But then again, camouflage skills are only visual camouflage after all. For many mutant creatures, the senses of smell, sound, temperature, vibration, etc. are far more powerful than the visual senses, and dynamic camouflage cannot be hidden. Human infrared thermal imaging detector.

Generally speaking, this is a skill with great limitations. It is a magical skill if used well, but in more cases, it can only be regarded as a tasteless skill.

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The last journey did not encounter any powerful mutant creatures, Qi Lin easily approached the outskirts of the castle, but when he reached the edge, Qi Lin stopped.

As long as you pass the cake shop on the corner in front of you, there will be a large "red area" with Li's Castle as the core. Just outside the castle, there are hunters who have witnessed D-class mutant creatures. Therefore, this area was classified as a "highly dangerous" area.

D-level bosses are all extremely powerful mutant creatures. Although with the strength of the current players, after concentrating a large amount of manpower, they can still encircle and suppress these D-level mutant creatures, but the price to be paid is really too high, so up to now So far, neither the virtual trading platform on Intellectual Brain nor the auction in Thunder City have publicly shown the serum or materials of D-level creatures.

Li's Castle is a Western-style castle built in the Republic of China. The standard late Renaissance "Baroque" mixed with "Gothic" style covers an area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters. Inside the archery tower, there is even a huge garden and a large forest inside the castle.

Qi Lin boarded an abandoned high-rise building near the castle. Looking from the top of the building, he could see that the interior of the castle was desolate, and it was no longer as prosperous as it used to be. In the middle of the castle.

Inside the castle, Qi Lin found at least three E-level mutant creatures, and one D-level mutant creature. These powerful beings lived together peacefully in the castle, which made Qi Lin feel a little weird .

Logically speaking, a powerful mutated creature will not be surrounded by other mutated creatures of the same level. After all, "the side of the couch is not allowed to snore." Therefore, on Qi Lin's hunter map, All around the blue area are yellow low-risk areas, and there are very few large blue areas connected together.

Although the space inside the castle is not small, compared to the original activity space of mutant creatures, this distance is almost equivalent to the neighbors who live next door. It is easy to bump into each other whether it is foraging or other daily activities. , considering the ferocious nature of mutant creatures, it is absolutely impossible to live together peacefully like this, unless...

Unless, the relationship between these mutated creatures is not hostility, but an alliance!

Qi Lin was also a little frightened by his own thoughts about forming an alliance... It would be a big joke if it was said that mutant creatures of different races formed an alliance... But, if these mutant creatures are not "of the same camp", they And how did they live together in the castle?
I don't know why, besides "alliance", another word suddenly appeared in Qi Lin's mind.

"Captive".

Yes, it is in captivity. These powerful mutant creatures seem to be specially "captive" in this kind of castle...

"Captive breeding" mutant creatures?
So far, the only large-scale group living creatures that Qi Lin has seen are the group of Assassin crypt spiders, but the problem is that they are of the same species anyway, and these mutant creatures, from insects to mammals, span too much a little bit.

If one wants to completely control these creatures, strength alone is not enough... If there is anyone who can do this at present, it is the research institute that represents the highest level of human science and technology.

But in the shelter, the research institute has enough space to build such a "laboratory", while in the game, it is even simpler, to open up a separate virtual space isolated from ordinary players, or use it completely The way of data simulation does not make it worthwhile to set up the laboratory in an abandoned city. In this case, there are too many unstable factors.

Based on the above reasons, Qi Lin believes that this old Li family castle should not be one of the research institute's strongholds.

In the game world of "Wasteland", since it is one of the game developers, the existence of the research institute is more like an official organization, or a game administrator, who can completely control the entire game world from the perspective of God, if they need For a "zoo" that keeps mutant creatures in captivity, just type a few lines of code, not to mention these E-level and D-level creatures, A-level and S-level creatures can copy the number of a legion.

For now, the biggest possibility is that there is a branch line of hidden missions in this Li family castle!

And the map and the gray card that the two groups fought over were probably the trigger items for this hidden mission.

(End of this chapter)