This Game Is Too Realistic

The deserted streets are littered with unswept garbage, abandoned vehicles lie on the streets overgrown with weeds, and the mottled metal lampposts make it difficult to tell whether they are rust or blood stains.

Broken shop windows can be seen everywhere here, and the paralyzed android mannequins are still hung with scraps of cloth from the most fashionable styles from two hundred years ago, but there is not a single figure in sight.

This place has never suffered heavy military bombing, and the main structures of most of the buildings are intact.

It was eventually abandoned.

"...It should be right in front." Zhimao held a map in his hand, compared it with the surrounding buildings, and took the lead in the front of the team.

According to the information from the scientific expedition team, the gate of Shelter No. 79 is located at No. 79 Xiangling Street, East District, Ruigu City, where there is a municipal library.

As for the specific entrance, there is no specific explanation in the information. It is only mentioned in limited text. Residents in the evacuation area are requested to follow the management's arrangements and enter the shelter under the instructions of security personnel.

I think this is also for safety reasons.

Sitting next to Sesame Paste, the broad-bodied Rourou looked around with his head tilted up and murmured in a low voice.

"What a pity……"

"What a pity?" Tails, who was riding on her shoulders, tilted his head.

"I always feel that this city is still good, but the people are gone."

"That's right," Tai's index finger rubbed his chin, thinking thoughtfully, "Why doesn't everyone go live after the war is over?"

Sisi thought for a while.

"Emmm... maybe it's because there are no more people?"

Rourou: "..."

Sesame paste: "Ah...haha."

Although he just repeated Rourou's words, Xisisi didn't think it was nonsense.

As she saw after entering the city, it was not the war itself that destroyed the city, but the chaos caused by the war.

The lack of a series of resources including food, water, electricity, fuel, etc. has turned this place into a steel jungle even more cruel than the original forest.

Especially during the third phase of the war, the planet entered a half-century-long Little Ice Age.

After most people withdrew from the city, the alien species quickly occupied the place, building nests in the buildings, walking through the ruins, and hunting in the dark.

The wastelander walking here will never know that when he opens a door, the first thing that comes out is a cockroach that is longer than the legs, or a group of rats that grind their teeth and suck blood.

Or——

Something more terrifying.

"Shh..."

The cat ears on the top of his head moved slightly, and Sesame Paste made a silence gesture to signal his companions to be quiet.

Slowly walking to the intersection at the end of the street, she lay down next to the door of an abandoned car and looked at the corner on the left.

For a moment, she held her breath because of the giant thing that came into view.

Death claws!

Dark green scales covered his body, and his nearly six-meter-tall body lay across the street, with his tail curled up in front of him.

Just looking at the size, this guy is much bigger than the "Niko" at the door of Shelter 404, and his claws are sharper, so he should be of a different species.

The heavy snoring blew the bushes nearby, and the dull snoring sounded like he was asleep.

Looking at the two bloody corpses lying next to Qizhao, Sesame Paste's expression was slightly stiff.

She was not sure whether an RPG shot could really cause effective damage to this guy.

If the sneak attack fails, they may be wiped out in an instant.

She quietly withdrew, walked next to her companions, and said nervously.

"It's the Deathclaw...it's blocking the entrance to the library."

Si Si touched his chin and said solemnly.

"No wonder there aren't any other alien species around."

Rourou asked nervously.

"Then...what should we do?"

"It's okay, there's more than one way anyway," Sisi took out the paper map and stared at it for a while, thinking, "The risk of a frontal breakthrough is too high... Let's go around the garage behind the library and climb over the wall from there. ”

Deathclaw's intuition for crisis is not unusually high.

She had seen with her own eyes that the Deathclaw, who was sleeping one second, jumped up and slapped the incoming RPG rocket the next second.

Well, she shot that rocket.

After that, she and Tails were killed by the death claws that rushed up. This happened several versions ago.

Such an unreasonable creature cannot be measured by common sense.

If it was near Dawn City, they would call for air strikes. Unfortunately, this is Ruigu City, which is far away from the save point and resurrection point.

They have to try to avoid even the slightest risk.

The group changed their direction and walked along the next street, bypassing the parking lot behind the Municipal Library.

However, what Sisi didn't expect was that this place was not as deserted as it seemed from the outside. There was actually a surviving settlement hidden there!

There are two to three hundred households living here, making it a sizable village.

Right under Deathclaw's nose!

"stop!"

Standing on the wall reinforced with steel bars and wooden boards, the man wearing a studded coat whispered to the people outside the wall.

He held a shotgun in his hand, and his eyes were fixed on the bushy white bear, as well as the ammunition chain and light machine gun on the back of the white bear, with nervousness and uneasiness in his expression.

Although there were only three women standing outside the wall.

He would not naively think that a woman who could tame such a strong beast and walk alone in the wasteland would be a good thing.

"Don't be nervous, we are not hostile." Sisi glanced at the shotgun in the man's hand, and then at the iron pipes held by the survivors behind him, without taking it too seriously.

After resupplying, she had already put on a new body armor.

The kind of iron-barrel rifle whose bullets undergo Brownian motion has no deterrent effect on her.

"Who are you? A legion? Or a company?" The man standing on the wall looked at her and asked nervously.

"No, we are wastelanders from Qingquan City next door."

The survivors standing behind the man exchanged surprised glances with each other.

"Qingquan City?"

"I went there when I was young... there was this giant stone city, and they used pieces of plastic as money to buy mint-scented soap."

"real or fake?"

"Really! I heard that you can eat three meals a day there!"

"What a good thing!?"

Listening to the whispers of the people behind him, the man stared at Si Si suspiciously, but finally put away his gun and hostility.

"It seems that there are really no women in the legion... No matter who you are, you just have to be not those guys."

After a pause, the man briefly introduced himself.

"My name is Wu Tao, the hunter from Xiangling Town...and the mayor here."

"What happened here?" Sisi looked at the man and asked.

"A lot of things have happened. You really shouldn't come here at this time...have you seen the airship to the northwest?"

Sisi nodded.

Don't say you saw it.

They had a fight with someone who came down from there just a few days ago.

"Legion has been here?"

"More than just coming here," Wu Tao curled his lips, "Just the day before yesterday, that group of bandits, more than a hundred of them came, saying that the company's army was burning, killing and looting nearby, and they wanted us to move to their camp to accept their protection. … Only the devil believes their nonsense.”

"We have lived here for more than a century. Let alone the enterprise, even if the mutants come, we will not go anywhere! Then those villains started setting fire..."

The man cursed.

Sis frowned and continued to ask.

"What happened next?"

"Later, that guy showed up..."

As he said that, Wu Tao glanced behind him with lingering fear, but his sight was not at the library behind him, but over the eaves of the building.

Si Si knew what he was referring to and said slightly surprised.

"That deathclaw?"

Wu Tao nodded with a complicated expression.

"Yes, although I don't know where it came from, thanks to that guy, the Legion dropped a few corpses, and the rest of the people were run away."

Sisi: "Aren't you afraid of that death claw..."

"Afraid, of course, the airship is still there, and we are worried that people from the legion will come again."

Wu Tao sighed and said in a helpless voice, "Seeing it chewing up the corpses, we threw some mutant hyenas and rats at it. That guy wasn't picky about food, so he settled at the door of the library... We don’t know how long it will stay or how many days it will be stable. None of the people we sent to the legion to find out the news came, so it’s hard not to think about whether they are in trouble. "

Si Si estimated that the Legion was probably reluctant to use the 400mm cannon on that beast. Otherwise, even the Death Claw would not be able to withstand the blow of the "Anti-Army Warrior".

"Our story is over, it's your turn."

Wu Tao stared at Si Si and continued to ask, "Since you are not a legion, you are not a company, and you are not like a businessman... So what do you want to do when you come to us?"

"We are looking for Vault No. 79." Sisi did not hide anything and stated his purpose straightforwardly.

She thought the man in front of her would know something, but she didn't expect that after hearing the word "shelter", he only had a blank expression on his face.

That expression was obviously not fake, but a subconscious reaction.

Not only him, but also the few young survivors behind him, their faces looked like they had never heard of it before.

"Shelters... there are no shelters nearby." Wu Tao looked at Si Si with a strange look on his face, "This is Xiangling Town, and this building is the municipal library. Who would build a shelter in the library? You guys Could it be that you are looking in the wrong place?”

"Eh?! Isn't it here?" Taiwei took out the map in surprise and unfolded it, repeatedly confirming that the coordinates and street numbers were correct.

Sisi frowned slightly.

"It's impossible... We came here because of reliable information."

"Then I don't know. Anyway, I have lived here since I was a child, and it has been almost thirty years," Wu Tao said, shaking his head. "Unfortunately, our mayor packed up his belongings a few days ago and followed the caravan heading west. Run away, otherwise you might know something from him."

"No..." There was a troubled expression on Sesame's face.

Si Si refused to give up and asked Yu.

"Can we go in and have a look?"

"Okay, but you have to leave the weapon," Wu Tao stared at the assault rifle in her hand and said warily, "We can't allow you to enter our house with this thing."

Sisi didn't say anything and threw a heavy bag of gold coins on the wall.

"That's unrealistic. Let's try another way. Here are 100 dinars. We won't use your food and water. We only need a room that can accommodate people. We will come as soon as it gets light in the morning and we will never disturb you. ”

She found this money bag from a legionnaire. It can be said that rummaging through boxes and touching corpses is a fine tradition among players.

Although the Legion is annoying, as one of the two major "currencies" in the wasteland, those golden gold coins are not annoying.

Staring at the money bag hanging on the wall, Wu Tao swallowed and changed his gaze with the other residents behind him.

"Are you going to let them in?"

"Just staying for a day... there shouldn't be any problem."

"What are you afraid of? It's just three little girls...plus a bear at most."

"By the way, that bear! We can't let that guy in."

Wu Tao looked at the people outside the wall.

"No problem...but your pet scares our residents and it needs to stay outside."

"She is not a pet, she is our partner," Sisi corrected him and continued, "But it doesn't matter, we didn't plan to let everyone in."

As she spoke, she looked at her partner behind her and switched languages ​​skillfully.

"Rourou, Awei, can you please wait for us outside? Sesame and I will go in and have a look. It may take a little time, but we should be able to come out before eight o'clock in the morning."

"I always feel like those people are lying," Sesame Mu hesitated. "Is there something wrong with our intelligence? Maybe Vault 79 is not here."

"Whether it's here or not, the last clue points here. According to the conventions of general RPG games, the key to enter the next auxiliary will most likely be here. It's better to check it out first."

Shelters do not necessarily have only one entrance. Shelter 404 has two, one connected to the subway and one connected to the nursing home in the park.

Perhaps the library door of Vault 79 has not been used since it was closed, or the residents may have left through other exits.

Of course, this is just her guess.

She simply felt that the planner would not design a meaningless scene.

"Oh! No problem!" Tai Tai nodded enthusiastically, his chest thumping loudly, "Don't worry, just give it to Tai Tai!"

Rourou said worriedly.

"If you encounter danger, remember to shout for help."

Sissi smiled and gently touched the furry head.

"Don't worry, nothing will happen."

…

The reinforced wall has no door, and only a ladder lowered from the wall can be climbed into.

Entering a strange settlement of survivors, Sesame's expression was a little nervous, but after seeing the elderly and children in the camp, he felt a little more relaxed.

There were old people and children, and at least this was not a raider's lair or a slave trader's farm. Maybe the people here are not as open-minded as Dawn City, but at least they have a basic moral bottom line.

The two followed Wu Tao's footsteps, passed through the parking lot where domestic garbage and supermarket shopping carts were piled, and entered the library through the back door.

The library is quite spacious and surrounded by concrete structures, like a castle. In the center is a 100-meter-wide patio. The dome is dotted with steel frames, and the front should be inlaid with large pieces of glass.

The zigzag layout allows ample light in the center of the library, and local residents plant many crops here.

In addition, there are clothes drying lines and freshly washed clothes hanging on the corridor around the patio, and rows of shacks made of iron sheets or wooden boards are spread around.

Although privacy is an issue, the people living here don't seem to care.

Sesame Paste looked left and right curiously. She was very interested in the way of life of the people here. The residents living here also looked at her curiously, especially the pair of cat ears on her head.

They've seen a lot of weirdos.

But this is the first time I’ve seen one with ears on top of the head.

Wu Tao, who was sitting in front with a shotgun on his back, introduced the situation here to Sisi on the side. Including how they lived for more than a hundred years and what supplies their settlements needed.

This woman mentioned before that she was from Qingquan City.

Although he has never been there, he heard that survivor settlements in big cities are usually relatively wealthy, and there is also a Boulder City where you can buy everything.

If they pass by there next time, they can bring more soap and fertilizer. They can exchange it for local game or some specialty crops.

Although now is not the time to discuss business, he is now the mayor here and needs to consider more than immediate things.

He believes that sooner or later, the Legion will leave this poor and barren place, and then the people here will live how they want.

This is why he accepted the bag of gold coins.

"We have been living here probably since the tenth year of the Wasteland Era. I heard from my grandfather that this library is quite old. It can even be traced back to the early days of the People's Federation... Why do you think this place is so old?" Maybe there's a shelter underneath? There's not even a basement here."

"It's okay, it doesn't matter even if you don't have it, we just want to satisfy our curiosity." Sisi Zuoji glanced around, "By the way, is the collection of books here still there?"

Wu Tao said.

"Most of them are gone, but some are well preserved. The previous mayors followed the ancestral instructions and kept the surviving books on the bookshelf on the second floor of the library. Although the previous mayor ran away, I will probably stick to it."

Sisi suddenly became interested.

"Can you take me to see you?"

Wu Tao nodded.

"No problem, but the premise is that you can't take them with you, let alone damage them. I'm not kidding, if you do something bad to those books, bad luck will soon find you... Something like this has happened before things.”

"I can swear on my life," Sisi said with a wink, "I will cherish those books as much as I cherish my life."

Perhaps moved by her sincerity, Wu Tao was stunned for a few seconds on the spot.

After coming back to his senses, he coughed lightly and said, "Hey."

"There's no need to be so exaggerated..."

"Since you said so, then come with me."

…

Wu Tao took the two to the second floor and left them here.

Looking at the rows of aluminum alloy bookshelves and the dazzling collection of books, Sesame Pasty had a hesitant expression on his face.

"Are the clues to Vault 79 hidden in these books?"

Sisi shook his head.

"I don't know, but these books are probably the only information that survived the disaster two centuries ago... Maybe we can find something."

He casually took down a book, turned it over in his hand, and then his expression suddenly froze.

Although she was able to speak daily using the unskilled Chinese couplet and could also recognize some characters in the Chinese couplet, she was far from being able to read normally.

The camera does have a step-by-step translation function.

But in offline mode, the amount of text that can be translated is quite limited.

Just when she felt in trouble, a strange voice suddenly floated from behind the bookshelf in front of her.

"I wonder, why are you so persistent in trying to find Vault No. 79? The residents here have already told you that the shelter is not here."

"Besides, it's a shelter, not a vault, and there aren't any valuable treasures hidden in it. Even if you fail, you'll still be in vain."

The voice was hoarse, like sandpaper rubbing against the wall, which startled the two people in the room.

"Who?" Sesame paste nervously held the gun.

Sisi's reaction was more direct, and he ducked behind the bookshelf. However, he did not see the person who made the sound, only saw a retro-looking radio with rough workmanship.

With a hint of surprise in her eyes, she quickly glanced left, looking for the camera in the room, but saw nothing.

"Stop looking around, I'm not here, and it doesn't matter whether I'm here or not." The man on the radio smiled evilly and continued in a joking tone, "You'd better focus on my problem. Okay, what if I am the security program for the door? Your suspicious reaction just now is enough for me to lock the door."

"Si..." Qi came to Sisi's side and noticed the radio on the table. Zhimao glanced at his partner next to him nervously.

She had no idea what the radio was saying.

But the sound gave her a bad feeling.

"Give it to me..."

Giving her a reassuring look, Sisi looked at the radio and continued talking.

"We are here on the orders of Mr. Administrator."

"Manager..." The radio rustled and he continued thoughtfully, "Are you residents of the shelter?"

"Yes." Sisi nodded and said in a sincere voice, "We are from Vault 404 in Qingquan City... Do you know any news about Vault 79? This is important to us. ”

"Hmm, that's important...what are you going to use it for?" the radio said glibly.

Sisi said seriously.

"If the people inside are still there, we will help them. If they are no longer here, we will continue their unfinished work...reviving our culture."

A chuckle came from the radio, as if fingernails were broken on a blackboard, making one's teeth ache.

Sesame Paste took a step back nervously, and Sisi frowned slightly.

But it didn’t take long.

The laughter turned into a sigh.

"If what you are thirsty for is knowledge, the collection of books around you is enough for you to study for a lifetime. If you have such naive ideals as reviving literature, you really shouldn't come here."

Before Sisi could speak, it continued talking.

"Vault 79 is not the kind of place you want to live in. It was never meant to shelter anyone from the beginning."

Sisi felt that it seemed to have something to say.

After swallowing, she asked Yu seriously.

"Where...is that place?"

"A source of confusion."

That hoarse voice seemed to be lost in long-lasting memories.

But in the end it all turned into a helpless self-mockery.

"At least half of the savagery in this land can be traced back to me."