Chapter 416 Beta0.4 version frontier: "Ocean Trade" system!
[Today's News: The controlled fusion reactor in Xizhou City has been successfully ignited! The alliance is about to enter the fusion era! ]
[Jiuli, the Lord of Dawn City: Residential and industrial electricity will be free for a limited time for one week! The price will be adjusted to 30% off the original price after one week. Welcome to open a factory in the new industrial zone of Dawn City! ]
[Dawn City Weapon Store: 200 sets of "Miner I/II" exoskeletons and 500 G9 "Black Swan" assault rifles are newly put on the shelves. The purchase limit of corporate weapons will be lifted. After the inventory of more high-tech weapons is exhausted, you can make an appointment to purchase through VM! The import of power armor is under negotiation, so stay tuned! ]
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"Wasteland OL" official website.
Today's forum is as lively as ever.
In particular, several newly released announcements completely ignited the discussion enthusiasm of cloud players and quickly became the focus of heated discussions-
"Fuck, controlled nuclear fusion?!"
"Shocked, weren't you still playing in the mud last year? How come you are using nuclear fusion?!"
"It only took one year from primitive steelmaking to nuclear fusion... This is too magical!"
"I wonder which great man has accomplished such a great feat, I bow to you!"
"If you don't understand, just ask, this is a 100% real game, right? Can you make one in reality with the same method?"
"Fuck, it's the post-Internet era, and there are still people who take the developer's advertising slogan seriously?! Hurry up and get some brain gold!"
"It's unscientific, it's too fucking unscientific!"
Regarding the news of the successful ignition of controlled nuclear fusion, the topic heat on the official forum of "Wasteland OL" is much more heated than the noise of the alliance residents in the tavern.
After all, for the residents of the wasteland, controlled nuclear fusion is something they once had. Although they have almost forgotten it, it seems nothing to be surprised about.
However——
For the netizens on Earth, the meaning is completely different.
The distance between them and the legendary thing that only exists in fantasy is not just a matter of the finishing touch.
Even if it appears in a movie, it has to be labeled as science fiction.
Let alone how to use it to generate electricity, the question of whether it can be used and whether it is suitable has not been finalized.
If it is just an ordinary science fiction game, it would not be surprising to have the setting of controlled nuclear fusion.
This is indeed not the darkest technology.
However, the selling point of "Wasteland OL" is reality, so real that the outside of the shelter was still a wasteland a year ago, and the closed beta players who pioneered the wasteland had to build their own houses and burn cement, and build their own novice village from scratch brick by brick.
Now the technology of controlled fusion has been pointed out.
It's hard not to be surprised!
In the chat section, which has no threshold for speaking, posts are almost refreshed at a speed of seconds, and the most frequently appearing sentences are either asking for closed beta qualification or asking for pictures.
There are languages of all countries.
Although there are many discussions in the closed beta player communication section, "free electricity price limit" is not as attractive as "lifting the purchase limit of corporate weapons" after all.
You know, in last year's Alpha version, the G9 "Black Swan" assault rifle was placed in the reward pool as a prize for the lottery.
Now it's not just the G9 assault rifle.
Including holographic sights, night vision goggles, thermal imaging sights and even more sci-fi life signal detectors and other high-tech weapon accessories, can be purchased in the NPC store!
Isn't this a fucking shopping spree!
Therefore, apart from a few lazy people who show off in the chat section and the pre-booked players, only the life profession players are seriously discussing the impact of controlled fusion on the alliance.
Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes: "I feel that the impact of a controlled fusion reactor alone is enough to make a new version of the content."
Stop bullshitting: "+1, hey, NPCs are indeed the primary productive force! T.T"
Kill God: "That can't be said. Advanced production technology is important, and production theory and production methods are equally important, and these are things in different dimensions. Controlled nuclear fusion only opens up the bottleneck of energy, and the Alliance's use of energy is far from reaching the bottleneck. There are still many issues to consider."
Ward Foot Foot Who is coming to write: "+1, our steelmaking process has only developed to the three-phase arc furnace. Even with nuclear fusion, there is still a long way to go."
Keep your voice down, I Braum: "Hey, if I could get a reactor in reality Just make it! "
Ye Shi: "Good man, if this thing is made in reality, it must be updated directly from 0.9 to 1.0 version. (Funny)"
Makabazi: "A Guang: If I were so awesome, what kind of game would I make? Wouldn't it be nice to be an academician? (Funny)"
WC Zhenyou Mosquito: "Haha, be more confident. If it can be made in reality, what if I give you a title alone? (Smirk)"
Kuangfeng: "Deuterium-tritium fusion may have some hope, but the pure helium fusion in the game... forget it. (Slanting eyes)"
Since controlled fusion technology has exceeded everyone's knowledge, the topic of the player exchange section quickly shifted from the reactor itself to the "electricity price limit and exemption" activity.
Previously, the alliance's power grid mainly relied on thermal power generation facilities such as burning wood and coal. Although there was also a small amount of wind and solar energy, the cost was not low.
And there were power outages every now and then.
Now that controlled fusion technology has been broken through, the new and old industrial areas of the alliance no longer have to worry about energy issues. Not only will industrial costs fall further, but the demand for electrical consumer goods will also rise.
This is an epic enhancement for life professional players!
Just as the players were talking about opening more factories, a new announcement popped up on the official website.
This time it's not just life professional players.
The entire forum is boiling...
...
Real world.
The bedroom of a certain house.
Fang Chang, lying flat on the bed, opened his eyes to the sound of cicadas and traffic outside the window, but he was reluctant to get up from the bed.
Whenever he saw the words "disconnected" appear in a dark field of vision, Fang Chang's heart would involuntarily feel a sense of emptiness as if his whole body was hollowed out.
And this feeling has been particularly strong recently.
Even if it's just a normal offline...
Sit up from the bed.
After taking off his helmet and placing it on the bedside table, Fang Chang picked up his phone, turned on the screen, checked the time, and muttered to himself.
"It's already this late..."
In fact, he didn't need to look at it at all, he could figure it out.
The time difference between the game world and the real world is exactly twelve hours. He logged off at twelve o'clock in the morning of the wasteland time, and it was naturally twelve o'clock noon when he woke up.
Usually he would wake up around eight o'clock, then go downstairs to have breakfast, go to the park for a run, see if he needs to go to Niuma Company for a walk, or browse the forum to write a strategy, and then plan tomorrow's arrangements...
However, recently, this regular life has changed a little. Every day he would delay logging off and getting up until very late.
For example, today.
He can eat lunch directly after waking up...
Finally got out of bed, Fang Chang walked to the window and opened the curtains, letting the hot sun shine into the room.
He walked to the bathroom with sleepy eyes, turned on the faucet, picked up a handful of cold water and splashed it on his face, trying to wake himself up.
The cold water rolled from his Adam's apple to his collarbone and penetrated into his loose collar. He subconsciously reached out to touch his neck, but his index finger paused slightly when it swept across his neck.
There was no trace of anything there at all.
The burning sensation that lingered there dozens of minutes ago also seemed fake...
A trace of confusion flashed in his eyes.
But it was only for a moment, and as he picked up another handful of water and splashed it on his face, the confusion quickly disappeared from his face.
Looking at the slightly thin face in the mirror and the water drops that kept dripping from his bangs, Fang Chang suddenly smiled bitterly.
"Is this considered Internet addiction?"
Or...
Internet love?
But it's also strange to describe it with this word.
He knew very well that the world was just a piece of code running on the server.
It is precisely because of this that he can always stay sober and rational. Even if he is in a desperate situation, he can still calmly think about countermeasures. He will not be too impulsive and emotional like Lao Bai, nor will he be indecisive like Ye Shi and cannot distinguish between virtual and reality.
However, now.
Instead, he has become the most irrational person...
At this time, a mobile phone rang in the bedroom.
Fang Chang walked over while brushing his teeth, picked up the phone and took a look, and found that it was Ye Shi - or Ye Wei's grandson who called.
They were friends in the game a long time ago. Although he had never met in reality, he had always saved Lao Bai and their phone numbers in his phone.
Pressing the connect button, he put the phone to his ear.
"Hello?"
"Damn, you finally woke up! It's so hard to find you... What's in your mouth?"
"Toothbrush," Fang Chang rolled his eyes and continued in a lake voice, "What's the matter? Hurry up and tell me, I'll hang up if you keep talking nonsense."
"Okay, okay, no more jokes, have you checked the official website?"
"Official website?" Fang Chang was slightly stunned, and after a moment of recollection, he said, "About the new equipment?"
He did see the announcement on VM, but the enterprise's equipment was not very attractive to a T0 player like him, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
Later, when it was time to go to bed, he took off his wrist computer and didn't pay much attention to the news afterwards. Could there be a new announcement?
Thinking of this, his expression couldn't help but be a little weird.
When did A Guang become so diligent?
Soon, Ye Shi's complaints confirmed his guess.
"That was a few hours ago! There was a new announcement on the official website just now! The map of the East Coast has also been made!"
The map of the East Coast? !
Fang Chang said immediately.
"Oh, I'll take a look later."
"Don't worry, hurry up, I'm waiting for your strategy!"
"Don't rush, don't rush, I'll update it soon."
He hung up the phone at the speed of light.
Fang Chang went back to the bathroom to spit out the mouthwash, threw down his toothbrush and cup, and immediately went to the study room, sat in front of the computer desk and pressed the computer case.
Log on to the official website.
He really saw the freshly released announcement.
[Beta0.4 version frontier: "Ocean Trade" system! ]
A Guang: "Hello everyone, I am your most beloved planner A Guang. After sacrificing more than 2,000 programmers, we finally waited for the Beta0.4 version of the Kingdom of Heaven. In the new version, more forces will join the stage of the wasteland. This is an opportunity and a challenge for the new alliance!"
"In order to bring you a better game experience and fix more bugs, we hereby start a limited-time event-send a sincere gift to our friends from afar!"
"For more information, please see the event details page. In addition, we will also draw two lucky players from the registered players to give them tickets to the ideal city to participate in the test of the new map!"
"I wish you all a good time!"
[Limited-time event starts: prepare a sincere gift for the allies on the East Coast! ]
[Event details:
1. Gift requirements: Both life professional players and combat professional players can participate. The content of the gift can be the specialty of the new alliance, or you can give full play to your imagination and make magic changes based on the best-selling products in reality. It is required to be polite, simple and not sloppy. It is best to show the richness and diversity of the spiritual civilization of the alliance residents!
2. Event rewards: The most popular gift for residents of Ideal City. In addition to a huge amount of expansion points, you can also get a million-level entrepreneurial assistance provided by the Alliance Bank!
3. In addition: We sincerely recruit two skilled bodyguards and salesmen (testers) to escort the Alliance's envoys to Ideal City by plane. The contribution level must be above senior citizens!
]
Comment area below the event announcement.
Tail: "Two updates a day!!! Giao!"
Quit smoking: "Is the chance to get some free stuff coming again? (Excited)"
Construction site boy and brick: "Black stockings! Oh no, artwork! We should send more artwork to our old friends! (Funny)"
Debt eyes: "I suggest putting black stockings on Ya Ya and sending them over to spread the word - oh no, to preach. (Funny)"
Ya Ya: "Get lost!!"
Macabazi: "Get lost?! What is that?! It sounds exciting. (Nosebleed)"
Ya Ya: "(#?ω?)?╰ひ╯"
Yin Lena: "(Funny fear limited.jpg)"
After reading the post from beginning to end, Fang Chang's face showed obvious surprise.
The map of the East Coast has been completed? !
This development speed is a bit awesome.
"... Yunjian Province should be 3,000 kilometers away from Hegu Province, right?"
The map of "Wasteland OL" is presented in the game world at a ratio of 1:1, which means that the mountains, rivers and survivor settlements along the 3,000 kilometers are all made? !
Fang Chang was excited and immediately clicked on the event page.
However, just when he was about to sign up, his index finger on the mouse paused slightly, and his pounding heart slowly slowed down.
3,000 kilometers...
I don't know how long this trip will take.
...
Wasteland world.
Shelter No. 404.
Chu Guang, sitting in the browsing room, stared at the computer screen with a satisfied smile on his face.
Earlier in the day, he successfully persuaded Yi Chuan to take the alliance's gifts to Ideal City on the return flight.
But at that time, he didn't actually think about what to send.
Until an hour ago, he was still racking his brains to think about this problem.
However, just when he turned on his computer and was about to go to the forum to collect materials, he suddenly saw that the players were discussing enthusiastically how to maximize the value of controlled nuclear fusion technology.
At that time, Chu Guang slapped his head.
Why did he spend so much effort thinking about these things?
Isn't there a ready-made labor force that can be used for free!
As a dog planner, making games is secondary, and creating a creative workshop is the real work.
Smart little players will not only help fix bugs and adjust values, but also update modules for free.
When you can't come up with new things, copy the players' mods, and the next DLC will be there, right?
After wasting an hour of his life in vain, Chu Guang, who suddenly realized, no longer hesitated, and immediately opened the document and posted another announcement next to the previous limited-time event announcement.
Want to experience the new map in advance?
Want to visit the legendary ideal city?
Who has more bad ideas!
Give him the plane ticket!
Seeing Chu Guang's increasingly exaggerated smile, Xiao Qi, who was sitting at the desk, asked worriedly.
"Master, is it really okay to let the players decide on such an important matter?"
Realizing that the expression on his face was a little too exaggerated, Chu Guang coughed lightly and restored his elegant and easy-going smile.
"I will do the final check."
He rubbed the doll's hair with his index finger and said with a confident tone.
"Don't worry, there will be no problem!"
...
One night passed.
The commercial street in the north of Shuguang City welcomed the sunrise of the next day.
Stepping on the morning dew, two androids wearing silver cloaks stopped at the door of the rattan hut.
One of the androids looked up at the sign on the door and suddenly said.
"Eclipse, found it!"
Eclipse didn't speak, and his face lacked expression changes, and it was hard to tell whether he was simply expressionless or at a loss.
"Excuse me, is there anything I can help you with?"
Noticing the movement at the door, Huahua, yawning, walked out of the store while greeting the customers.
However, the moment her eyes fell on the faces of the two people, she froze in place.
Bionic people?
"Your clothes!"
Han Shuang looked at her seriously and said without hesitation, "In order to save the declining civilization, please give us your clothes."
Huahua's face flushed, and she stood there at a loss, not knowing what to say.
At this time, a lazy voice floated from behind the open store door.
"What's wrong, Huahua?"
Hearing the boss's voice, Huahua finally came back to her senses, blushed and looked back at the door, hesitating.
"... Door, two strange guests came to the door, they... they..."
Teng Teng: "Strange guests?"
Huahua whispered: "They want me to give them clothes."
"...?"
After listening for a long time and not understanding what her own clerk wanted to say, Teng Teng put down the tools in her hand and walked out of the store.
Her eyes fell on the two androids at the door, and she recognized their identities at a glance.
Aren't these the two sent by the enterprise?
Their names seem to be... Frost and Eclipse?
After looking at Huahua standing next to her, and then at the androids staring at her clothes, Teng Teng's eyes flashed with a flash of realization, and her right fist fell on the palm of her left hand.
"...I see."
The answer turned out to be a maid outfit!
This is really surprising.
"Do you want maid outfits?"
Eclipse did not move, but Frost beside him nodded without hesitation.
"Correct!"
Huahua's face turned redder in an instant.
Is that what you meant?
But this expression is too strange...
"Oh, oh...the two of you have come to the right place."
Teng Teng smiled happily and turned aside to make way for the store entrance.
"Come in and talk."
...
Just as Teng Teng was promoting the artworks in the store to two guests from the East Coast, Wu Mu from Changge Group in the north of Dawn City finally saw the Death Claw he had been dreaming about.
Looking at Neeko tied to the shack by a rope, Wu Mu, who was wearing power armor, clenched his fists excitedly and looked at Chu Guang standing beside him excitedly.
"Is this the Death Claw in the video...I mean, is it the Death Claw you rode that day?!"
It seems that the video that Xiao Qi helped him edit was a hit in Ideal City, leaving such a deep impression on this guy.
Chu Guang smiled and nodded.
"Yes."
Wu Mu continued to ask excitedly.
"What's its name?!"
"Nico, it's a big girl," Chu Guang smiled faintly and continued, "My subordinates found it in a research facility occupied by predators. At first we just used it as research material, but over time, we developed feelings for it and kept it here."
Wu Mu said in amazement.
"Incredible... It turns out that the Death Claw can really be tamed!"
Chu Guang glanced at him and asked curiously.
"Haven't you tried it?"
"Death Claws are not very common on the East Coast. We occasionally see them, but they are not very big. The main threat to us is mutants... They move along the coastline, plundering everywhere, burning villages, and multiplying at an absurdly fast rate."
As if he didn't want to talk about mutants, Wu Mu quickly ended the topic and asked excitedly while looking at Nico.
"Let's not talk about that. How much food does such a big guy eat in a day?"
Without asking about mutants, Chu Guang smiled and continued with his topic.
"Half a ton of nutritional paste, or two adult creepers. It has a big appetite, but fortunately it is not picky about food, and can even go out hunting by itself."
Wu Mu asked excitedly.
"Can I ride it?"
"Of course."
Chu Guang made a gesture of invitation.
After getting permission, Wu Mu smiled shyly, turned on the camera function of his helmet, and walked forward with clumsy steps.
"Good boy, let me ride--"
Wu Mu, who was approaching, was about to reach out, but before he finished speaking, a thick and long tail "whooshed" across the ground, tripping him and falling to the ground.
The wrinkled eyelids lifted up, revealing half of the amber child's eye, and Nicole's nose snorted, and the expression seemed to be mocking.
However, the arrogant expression did not last long, and a sharp sight looked over here, causing the scales all over its body to tremble.
"Woo..."
After being glared at by Chu Guang, Niko purred in grievance, and her naughty tail curled up in a circle on the grass.
Seeing this guy pretending to be aggrieved, Chu Guang shook his head, but did not force him anymore. He walked forward and pulled up Wu Mu who had fallen to the ground.
"I'm sorry, friend... This guy has a bit of a temper."
"It's okay, it's okay, I can't control this guy..."
Patting the dust on the armor, the young man stood up from the ground, touched the back of his helmet embarrassedly, and looked at Chu Guang with more admiration.
He can tame such a terrifying monster and make it lie on the ground like a cat and purr...
Is this the man at the top of the food chain?
As expected of the manager of the alliance, he is as extraordinary as the rumors say!
Chu Guang glanced at the power armor of this big brother with a slightly strange expression without noticing Wu Mu's admiring eyes.
This thing looks pretty cool.
Why do I feel that its function is a bit lame?
As if he understood his expression, Wu Mu's expression was a little embarrassed, and he explained.
"There is no way. Portable reactors are too rare, and we don't have many of them. Power armor can only be allocated to frontline troops first. Sales like me don't have to go to the front line anyway, so I made a metal hydrogen battery to make do. Although it can move, it is still a little different from the fully functional power armor..."
Good guy.
No wonder Neeko is not afraid at all.
It turns out to be a castrated version...
Chu Guang's heart moved.
He happened to have a black box that could produce portable reactors, which was placed in the warehouse of Shelter No. 79.
Because of its large size, it was not moved here.
If we can get a batch of castrated versions without reactors installed from the company, maybe we can assemble a batch of complete versions!
However, Chu Guang did not rush to bring up the matter, but just smiled and ended the topic.
"We have quite a few Death Claws here, and there are many varieties, some with horns and some without. If you are interested, I can give you a slightly smaller one."
Upon hearing this, Wu Mu immediately became alert.
"Really?! Thank you so much!"