Chapter 388 Silencing

Infirmary of Shelter No. 404.

Luo Hua, lying flat on the scanning bed, opened his eyes and saw the silver-white ceiling. He tried to sit up from the bed, but found that the effect of the anesthetic had not yet faded and his body was completely unresponsive.

Except for his left hand——

Looking at the bionic prosthesis in front of him, he swallowed his saliva involuntarily.

At this time, a strange voice came from the side.

"Hey, awake?"

Luo Hua slowly moved his neck and looked at the strange man standing next to the scanning bed. Just when he was about to ask where this was, he suddenly saw a strand of silver wire as thin as a hair suspended on the man's arm.

He recognized that thing. It was a "scalpel" used for minimally invasive surgery on neurons, commonly seen in some large medical devices used for prosthetic modification surgery.

The only people who would install such things on bionic prostheses are those who are obsessed with the technology of the prosperous era to the point of being almost paranoid...

The Adam's apple moved, and Luo Hua squeezed out a sentence from his mouth.

"Are you from the academy?"

"Yes, I'm the dean of the 404 shelter branch here."

He made a joke to ease the atmosphere by using Chu Guang's pie in the sky, and Yin Fang put the hair-thin knife back into the interface on the inside of his forearm.

Looking at the man lying on the scanning bed, he smiled faintly and continued.

"Welcome to Shelter 404. In addition to being the dean of the academy branch, I am also the head of the scientific expedition team here. By the way, the bionic organ on your body is quite interesting. I just opened it and studied it. You shouldn't mind, right?"

Luo Hua said helplessly.

"...Does my mind work?"

"It's really useless, it's over." Yin Fang teased, and continued, "My name is Yin Fang, if your parts have any problems, you can ask me to fix them."

"Luo Hua...an employee of the Enterprise Silver Wing Group," Luo Hua looked around, his eyes full of surprise, "Is this...Shelter No. 404?"

Yin Fang's eyebrows slightly raised.

"Yes, you haven't been here?"

"I have been here..."

I just don't remember this room at all.

Luo Hua looked at the ceiling blankly.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered something and immediately looked at Yin Fang who was standing next to the scanning bed and said.

"Where is your manager?"

"Just outside the door, do you want me to call him in?"

Luo Hua nodded, and just as he was about to say "please", the door of the infirmary opened upwards.

A man and a woman walked in from outside.

He also looked unfamiliar with the beautiful woman with long silver hair, but he was very familiar with the one standing next to her.

"Chu Guang..."

Chu Guang smiled and nodded.

"We meet again."

Compared to when they first met a year ago, the young man lying on the bed had aged a lot, and his face looked even more weathered. If Yin Fang hadn't shaved his beard for him, his artistic temperament would probably be more obvious.

Luo Hua's eyes were filled with excitement, and he struggled to sit up from the scanning bed, but Chu Guang raised his hand to stop him.

"Don't be excited, you can talk while lying down. I finally woke you up, don't let you faint again in the middle of the conversation."

Chu Guang smiled and continued to ask with concern.

"How do you feel? Are you feeling better?"

"Much better..." Luo Hua swallowed his saliva, and then said, "We found it!"

"Shelter No. 0?" Chu Guang asked thoughtfully.

"Yes!" Luo Hua said excitedly, "It's in the Great Desert... We found the entrance to that place!"

"What does it look like?"

"I don't know."

"I don't know?" Chu Guang looked at him in surprise, "Didn't you go in?"

A bitter expression appeared on Luo Hua's face.

"To be precise, we almost went in..."

Chu Guang pondered, "... because of the Legion?"

Luo Hua nodded with a heavy expression.

"We successfully found the coordinates of Shelter No. 0, and also got the key to enter the shelter from a key person... the one in your hand."

Chu Guang glanced at the silver card in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Luo Hua, lying on the scanning bed, paused for a moment and continued.

"They are harder to deal with than we thought... Although we have power armor, their combat power is not weak, and the Falcon Kingdom in Oasis No. 2, which is closest to the Great Desert, is their vassal."

"Faced with the soldiers pouring in like a tide, we had to abandon the Pioneer, and some of us hid in the temporary shelter near the base of the space elevator."

Chu Guang was stunned.

"...Space elevator?!"

"Well, don't you know?"

Luo Hua looked at Chu Guang strangely, and when he saw the latter nod slowly, he continued.

"Near the equator in the middle of the Great Desert is the site of the space elevator in the Human Union era... That thing collapsed two hundred years ago, and its fragments are everywhere in the Great Desert. The farthest piece even fell to the east coast. But these are not the main points. The main point is that Shelter No. 0 is nearby!"

Take a deep breath, he looked at Chu Guang seriously.

"Lu Yang... our captain told me to go east, and I must not let the people of the Legion get the card no matter what."

"That is our last hope to end all the suffering on this land."

Pinching his brows with his index finger and thumb, Chu Guang took a moment to digest this huge amount of information.

"I will do my best to help you, but the current situation is that the Legion's airship has already arrived right under our noses. If we don't get rid of them, our people will have to go south for a long detour to enter Luoxia Province... Do you have a way to contact the East Coast?"

A trace of anxiety appeared in Luo Hua's eyes.

"We have reported the situation to the enterprise, haven't they arrived yet?"

Hearing this, Chu Guang's expression became a little subtle.

"They are here, but there are only more than a hundred people... Are you sure that number is enough?"

Luo Hua was obviously stunned.

"More than a hundred... How can there be only more than a hundred people?!"

Looking at Luo Hua, whose eyes were gradually filled with anxiety and disbelief, Chu Guang nodded silently and continued.

"That's the truth. The team that came is the 26th Commando, which has just over 100 people. The captain is Yunsong. Although they have 20 power armors, they are seriously lacking in heavy weapons... To be honest, I think that number of people is not enough."

This is also one of the reasons why he didn't call those people back to help deal with the Iron Heart. Those more than 100 people are of no use at all. It's better to let them go to the west to help first.

What he needs is more powerful support.

Whether it's weapons or technology, he wants as many as he can get.

Luo Hua gritted his teeth and said.

"One commando is definitely not enough! Not to mention the two 10,000-man teams deployed by the legion on the west side of Luoxia Province, the standing army of the Falcon Kingdom alone is around 100,000! Even with 20 power armors... it's impossible to deal with so many people."

Chu Guang sighed.

"I think so too."

Especially after seeing the power of the 400mm main gun, he was more convinced of this idea.

To be honest, he even had some doubts about whether something happened on the east coast, otherwise why only so many reinforcements came.

However, now is obviously not the time to discuss these things.

After a pause, Chu Guang continued to ask.

"Don't you have any large transport planes or airships?"

Luo Hua's face showed embarrassment.

"Yes, but this place is nearly 3,000 kilometers away from the east coast... This distance has far exceeded the maximum range of our "Electric Ray"."

"Electric Ray" is a twin-engine transport aircraft equipped by the enterprise. The flight mode can be switched between fixed wing and vertical take-off and landing, and the maximum range is only 500 kilometers.

Otherwise, Yunsong and his people would not have come by land.

For a long time, the enterprise has only had Ideal City, a survivor settlement, and has only maintained trade with other survivor settlements in Yunjian Province. There is no need for ultra-long-distance deployment and combat, nor overseas military bases, so there is no technology for large aircraft.

It is not impossible to start research and development now. With advanced power technology and energy storage technology, it is not difficult for them to design a practical equipment.

However, whether they can catch up with the current crisis is a question.

Luo Hua fell into deep thought.

After a long time, he spoke.

"In short, no matter what, we must find a way to contact the company first... I must tell the people over there about the situation here!"

Chu Guang asked.

"Do you still have the 'migratory bird'?"

"Such a big guy... How can I carry it with me," Luo Hua coughed dryly and continued, "But in addition to the migratory bird... There is actually an emergency method."

Chu Guang asked immediately.

"What method?"

Yin Fang, who had been standing aside and had not spoken, suddenly interrupted.

"Another orbital satellite?"

Luo Hua showed a surprised expression on his face and nodded.

"... How did you know."

Yin Fang showed an intriguing expression on his face, with a hint of undetectable irony in his tone.

"This isn't the first time you've done this."

Chu Guang frowned slightly, not quite understanding.

"Orbital satellite? What do you mean? Isn't the low-Earth orbit already filled with space junk--"

"It's precisely because the outer space orbit is full of space junk that we can always find one or two things that are still usable, right?"

Putting down his arms, Yin Fang continued in a teasing tone.

"As long as a portion of the data is uploaded to a satellite that is still working, and then the remaining fuel is used to guide the satellite to fall near the east coast, the person who picked up the satellite can just take a crowbar or an axe and smash the iron lump like a coconut shell, and then they can see what is written inside... Only they can do such a thing of burning the piano and cooking the crane."

Chu Guang was stunned.

What the hell?

Can it be like this?

Not only Chu Guang was stunned, but Heya, who was standing next to him, also showed a dumbfounded expression.

Finally hearing the sarcasm in that sentence, Luo Hua blushed and said.

"We don't use it to make calls, we only use it for emergency situations."

Chu Guang couldn't help but say.

"But... why must the satellite fall? Can't it just be used as a signal repeater?"

Yin Fang shook his head.

"You think too simply. First of all, the satellite that can be used in this way is not a low-orbit communication satellite, but a scientific research satellite with a longer endurance and more reliable quality. We generally call it... T series satellite."

"This type of satellite is usually located in a higher and wider synchronous orbit. They usually remain relatively stationary with the ground and can only communicate with the research facilities directly below... and the way of communication is not radio, but laser with a narrower irradiation range."

Chu Guang: "Laser?!"

Yin Fang nodded and said concisely.

"That's right. When information needs to be exchanged, the ground research facility will shoot a beam of light up, and then another beam of light will be shot down from the sky. You can roughly understand it as hitting a coin-sized transmitter with a pistol across 36,000 kilometers... The confidentiality of this communication method is very reliable. Except for the research facility associated with the satellite, you can hardly contact the satellite from other places, let alone learn the specific coordinates of the satellite."

"Generally speaking, if the ground communication base station is disconnected from the satellite, such satellites will enter a dormant state until they are awakened again. Therefore, in theory, these satellites usually have residual energy, and the residual energy can at least meet one orbital switch."

Chu Guang said thoughtfully.

"So you only need to find a ground base station that can communicate with such satellites, then you can write data to the satellite, and then guide the satellite to fall..."

"Yes, so these people are burning the piano and cooking the crane. The use of the pre-war civilization relics by those people on the East Coast can be said to be destructive. They don't understand what sustainable use is. Crashing a scientific research satellite costing tens of millions just to say hello, tut tut..."

Yin Fang clicked his tongue in a sarcastic tone.

Although this sentence was directed at the enterprise and not at Luo Hua who was lying here, it still made the latter blush.

"Aren't we discussing the issue of the legion? Or do you have a better way?" Yin Fang said bluntly. "No, but do you know where to find that kind of research facility?" "Of course! There is one in the southern part of the Valley Province. I remember the coordinates there!" Luo Hua looked at Chu Guang and said sincerely, "It is a research institute, about 70 kilometers away from Qingquan City... You should be able to use the information inside. Can you send someone there?" Chu Guang nodded. "No problem." It was easy for him. 70 kilometers away, for the Dragonfly transport aircraft, it only takes less than an hour to fly, and a few parachutes will be enough. As for crashing a satellite... Anyway, the satellite is not his. It is enough to get the information in the research institute. The most urgent task now is to let the enterprise send more reinforcements. Of course, it would be better if more weapons could be sent. The airport in the north of Shuguang City is spacious enough to land any transport plane.

Luo Hua's eyes were filled with gratitude.

"Thank you."

Chu Guang smiled.

"You're welcome. The Legion is our common enemy."

"Just focus on healing and leave the rest to us. By the way, I got a few more barrels of good wine. When you recover, we'll have some."

Luo Hua smiled weakly.

"Haha... that'll have to wait a while."

His tense shoulders finally relaxed, and he finally showed a relieved expression on his face as he leaned on the scanning bed.

Although his companions in the desert were still in crisis, Chu Guang's supportive attitude gave him hope.

Heya, who was standing by the door with his arms folded, suddenly spoke.

"Since the operation is done... can you arrange for him to be transferred to another hospital? This is not a place for recuperation."

Although this place is called the infirmary, it has actually been used as a laboratory by her. The only scanning bed in the entire alliance is an indispensable research tool.

Luo Hua showed an embarrassed expression on his face.

"Sorry to bother you."

Chu Guang said with a smile.

"How could it be? But this place is really not suitable for recuperation. I will arrange for someone to transfer you to a ward with a better environment later."

After that, he called in the medical staff waiting at the door and ordered them to transfer Luo Hua to the first hospital of the alliance on the ground.

The ward there is spacious enough, and several wounded left by the Enterprise Expedition Team are also living there.

As for medical expenses...

It would be too polite to say that.

Yin Fang, who was standing next to him, hugged his arms and kept mumbling until the medical staff transferred the wounded to the door of the infirmary.

"I knew it..."

"These guys from the East Coast must have a treasure map in their hands!"

...

In the evening of the same day.

A transport plane took off from the north of Dawn City, carrying 25 players from the Burning Legion, and flew towards the research facility 70 kilometers east.

At the same time, in Ruigu City, 150 kilometers west of Dawn City, the White Bear Knights and the Death Legion's attack on Shelter No. 79 has entered the final stage.

The main road leading to the central research area has been cleared.

Although aliens and "savages" are still rushing in from other areas, the offensive is obviously not as strong as in the first few days.

In the final analysis, the aliens active in this shelter are not the kind of slime mold fruiting bodies dominated by the "hive consciousness".

Their attacks on players are more motivated by protecting territory and hunting. There is no tacit cooperation between different populations, and there will be no large-scale "waves".

If it were the city center of Qingquan City, all the aliens on the street would rush up at the sound of a gunshot, and they would not be able to resist even if their number doubled...

"My God... This guy is quite strong!"

Shaking off the blood on the engineer's shovel, the construction site boy and Zhuan looked at the mess in the room and clicked their tongues, holding the assault rifle hanging on their chests again and changing the magazine.

There were forty or fifty corpses lying in a mess in the wide hall, and primitive weapons such as spears and bows and arrows were scattered on the ground, as well as bullet shells with green smoke.

A skirmish just broke out here.

The opponent was a group of savages, who seemed to be ambushing nearby and suddenly launched an attack after the players entered the room.

The skin of these people was sickly pale, but their limbs were unexpectedly strong, and their strength attributes were about 13~15, which was equivalent to the level of the first awakening.

Not only that, they were extremely fast, their toughness was amazing, and their dexterity in using their body muscles was like that of a beast.

Or to be more precise, they are beasts, and almost none of their organs are the same as those of humans. They just happen to look more like humans.

Fortunately, these savages can only use bows and spears.

Otherwise, it would be really difficult to deal with them.

"There is only one 'level' left to the research area. The front is suspected to be the lair of the Death Claw. We don't have much ammunition..."

Carrying a rifle on his shoulder, he walked to the front of the White Bear Knights and continued.

"I suggest that we continue the strategy tomorrow."

"Tail agrees! Phew, I'm almost exhausted!"

Tail, who was sitting against the wall, panted and raised his arm to rub his forehead. As a result, he didn't wipe off the sweat, but rubbed blood on his forehead.

Sis, who was also panting, looked at the remaining magazines and nodded.

"Well... let's continue tomorrow."

There is a day and night cycle in Shelter No. 79, and it will be night in a while.

Looking around, she continued.

"There are quite a few rooms here. Since the monsters have been cleared, why don't we explore a little before going back."

This is the last building away from the research area. It seems to be an administrative building or something like that. When she was searching other areas before, she found some interesting clues.

Before leaving here, she planned to verify it.

Hearing Sisi's proposal, Bianbianhuashui readily agreed.

"Okay, then gather in an hour."

"OK."

After reaching an agreement, the players scattered in the room to search.

Weiwei, who was exhausted a second ago, jumped up from the ground with a sound, and took Rourou to an unknown place.

Sisi, who had already thought of the target, looked at the floor diagram, and then went straight through the hall and went upstairs along the stairs to the office area.

This place was unexpectedly not occupied by aliens.

The whole corridor was quiet.

What surprised Sisi in particular was that, unlike the several areas they had passed before, the doors of the rooms here were actually open.

"Oh, an unexpected discovery..."

Choosing the nearest room, Sis carefully confirmed the safety of the room, and walked in carefully with a rifle.

This is a futuristic office.

The furniture inside is quite unique. In an area of ​​nearly 20 square meters, there are only two tables, which is quite luxurious.

Walking to the nearest table, Sis glanced at the messy desktop and casually opened the drawer on the right.

There were some personal belongings inside, including a work permit and a thumb-sized memory.

The interface of the memory just matched the VM.

"Is this... a USB drive?"

With a hint of interest in her eyes, Sis took it in her hand and looked at it for a while, and then plugged it into the VM.

The signal light flickered slightly, and a pale blue dialog box soon appeared in front of her, and the built-in translation program of the VM automatically converted it into a language she could understand.

[Research Log of Shelter No. 79]

[Experimental Log: 2129/February/7]

[Experimental Log: ...]

The date of the last log is July 8, 2178.

Speaking of which...

2129 seems to be the first year of the Wasteland Era?

Rubbing his chin gently with his index finger, the interest in Sis's eyes became more and more obvious, and then he clicked on the first log in the list.

[2129/February/7: The hibernation capsule is opened, and it is not our compatriots who are full of joy who wake us up, but the procedures of the shelter, which means that we have finally reached the worst ending. The outside world has been destroyed, and this is the last home... Damn, it sounds like a dream, but the rubidium atomic clock will never lie. ]

[I will remember this desperate and hopeful day. We will fulfill the oath we made three years ago... But can such a whimsical thing really be done? ]

"... a fantasy?"

She muttered softly, her brows slightly furrowed.

That Yong mentioned that Shelter No. 79 was conducting research on "restoring mutant creatures to their pre-mutation state".

But did the alien species exist in the first year of the Wasteland Era?

She vaguely remembered that the official website setting collection mentioned that the time when the alien species appeared on a large scale should be half a century after the Little Ice Age?

"In other words..."

"Are other experiments actually being conducted here?"

She would not believe every word the NPC said. In fact, she had always doubted the identity of that Yong.

Since it was a completely real virtual reality game, it was possible that the NPC lied, right?

However, just as she was about to turn to the next article, the alloy door behind her suddenly fell, cutting off the only exit.

Sisi's face changed slightly, and she immediately rushed over and hit the door with her shoulder, but found that the door did not move at all.

Without hesitation, she stepped back, raised the assault rifle hanging on her chest, and pulled the trigger at the alloy door.

"Bang bang" two thunderous gunshots echoed in the room. Jumping sparks burst into the ceiling, but there was not even a trace of bullet marks on the surface of the door.

She took a deep breath, walked to the door and fumbled for a while, then put her hands into a trumpet shape and shouted against the door.

"Awei!"

"Can you hear me?"

No response.

She put her ear against it, but could not hear any sound from outside.

"Tsk... the sound insulation effect is too strong."

With a tsk, Sis gave up the meaningless attempt and moved her ear away from the door.

In the shelter, the administrator's authority is absolute - at this moment she finally realized the meaning of this setting.

The crystallization of the strongest technology in the era of human union is simply not something that can be penetrated by the retro assault rifle in her hand.

I'm afraid that even if I use the grenades on my body, it will be useless.

As long as the manager of the shelter is willing.

He can even lock this door until the next century.

At this time, Sis suddenly noticed that the air outlet above her head had stopped working at some point.

She understood in her heart, and whispered,

"Are you planning to kill me..."

That guy must have been ready to kill me.

Otherwise, he could have locked the door before she came in.

"A normal adult consumes 0.75 kilograms of oxygen a day... A 20-square-meter room has a floor height of about three meters, which is 60 cubic meters of air."

If the oxygen content is lower than 10%, carbon dioxide poisoning will occur.

"That is to say... I can live for about 5 days."

Considering the metabolic rate of the awakened, maybe two or three days is enough.

Glancing at the log on the VM screen, Sis's mouth suddenly pulled up a barely noticeable smile.

The time left for myself is a bit...

Too much.