This Game Is Too Realistic

Red light flashes.

A meteor streaked across the sky and landed in the easternmost part of the Zhongzhou Continent, slamming into a field.

That muffled sound could be heard hundreds of meters away, let alone driving a tractor to work in the fields.

"Mom...what was that just now?"

Startled by the sound, the slovenly man jumped off the tractor, pulled out the shotgun hanging on the side of the cab, and stuffed a shotgun into the chamber while heading in the direction of the sound. Shotgun.

This place is located on the border of Yunjian Province, and it is still the northwest corner that no one cares about.

Normally no one would come to this poor place. Even the businessmen thought there was too little oil and water here, and would rather go further and try their luck in the neighboring province.

But love is not absolute.

He had seen a few mutants last month—presumably deserters who had been broken up by corporate patrols.

Those ugly guys, even just looking at them from a distance, made him feel disgusting.

It was an earth pit more than ten meters wide, as if it had been blasted out by a cannonball.

Seeing the destroyed crops, Wang Dashan's heart ached, but he still approached carefully.

There seemed to be something in the pit.

He glanced at the Geiger counter on his wrist to confirm that the radiation indicators were normal, and then took a closer look.

I saw a silver-colored metal sphere lying in the pit. There was a trace of heat around it, and the scorching high temperature even evaporated the water in the soil.

"What the hell is this?"

Looking at the metal ball in the pit, Wang Dashan studied it for a long time without studying it.

Pressing the communicator hanging on his shoulder, he reported the situation to the guards in the village.

Not long after, a pair of car lights appeared on the edge of the field, and the guard wearing an exoskeleton jumped out of the car and strode towards him.

"What happened?"

As soon as the words were spoken, the guard noticed the pit in front of him, shone a flashlight into it, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Wang Dashan, standing aside, said quickly.

"I was working in the field just now, and suddenly I heard a violent noise, so I came over to take a look... and then I found this thing in the field."

The guard continued to ask.

"Did you see where he fell?"

Wang Dashan pointed to the top of his head.

"Heaven."

"Heaven?"

The guard had an expression of surprise on his face. He looked up at the sky and then at the metal ball. Suddenly, as if he remembered something, his eyes suddenly filled with confusion.

"You watch here, I'll call the company -"

The words just fell.

Before Wang Dashan, who was standing next to him, had time to agree, he saw a black shadow flying in the distance.

That's a corporate plane.

The jet-black fuselage is about ten meters wide, like a big bird. The two drum-type engines rotate slowly, spraying blue arc light backwards to blowing downwards.

The air wave overwhelmed the wheat in the field, and the plane landed smoothly in the field.

As the cabin door opened, six soldiers wearing exoskeletons stepped out of the cabin one after another.

One of them was carrying a large box that was higher than his head. He walked straight into the pit, picked up the silver ball, and put it into the box.

"Hey, wait, you broke my—"

Seeing these people grabbing things and trying to get rid of them, Wang Dashan chased them with a shotgun and mustered up the courage to yell.

However, before he finished speaking, a banknote was thrust into his hand, blocking his words.

The soldier wearing an exoskeleton stared at him and asked concisely.

"Is that enough?"

"Enough, enough, hehe..."

Looking at the banknotes in his hand, Wang Dashan's originally indignant expression suddenly turned into a smile, and he politely watched the soldiers return to the plane.

100Cr.

Not to mention crushing this little wheat, it is more than enough to buy all the crops in his field.

The guard glanced at the guy enviously, then turned and returned to his car.

If only it had been discovered earlier, he would have had a share of the money.

You will never suffer a loss if you work for a company, and it has become common sense to save money in the clouds.

Although those people are not generous, they will never be stingy with the rewards in their hands...

…

If there is any place in this wasteland where you can admire the last glow of the People's Federation, it is undoubtedly the pearl of the East Coast - the utopia called "Ideal City".

The layers of concrete and steel frames extend from the ground to the sky. If you stand on the ground and look up, you can't even see the end.

Neon flashing light pollution is the most vivid reflection of this city. The holographic image projected on the outermost building can be seen even from dozens of kilometers away.

No matter how prosperous the wasteland visitor comes here, he will look around like a country bumpkin with his eyes wide open and be overwhelmed by the flashing lights and the traffic that extends in all directions.

Maglev trains shuttle between high-rise buildings, like schools of fish swimming among seaweed.

Only a few big fish can swim to the highest point and enjoy the first ray of sunshine in the morning...

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, the man looked out the window quietly, as if admiring the fish tank in the living room.

His name is Luo Yong, he is one of the core members of the Silver Wing Group's board of directors and holds 17% of the shares.

"Emergency communication means... It seems that we are really in trouble in developing the mobile phone number." The guest sitting on the sofa looked at the wine glass in his hand with interest, and suddenly said casually.

His name is Kang Le, and he is one of the core members of the Board of Directors of Kangmao Group.

Unlike Silver Wing Group, which mainly manufactures heavy-duty equipment, Kangmao Group's business scope is mainly auxiliary equipment and medical equipment.

Although the two of them are drinking friends, when they get together, the topics they discuss are always not related to wine.

"Um."

"I heard that your son was on that pioneer ship?"

"Yes."

Seeing how calm this guy was, Kang Le raised his eyebrows slightly in surprise.

"Aren't you worried?"

"Don't you have a human cloning customization business? Just clone another one." Luo Yong said in a normal tone, and there was no wave in his calm voice.

Kang Le raised his eyebrows slightly and unexpectedly glanced at him twice, as if he didn't expect him to say that.

Moving his eyes away from the figure in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, he smiled lightly and said.

"...We can clone cells, but we can't clone memories, let alone souls."

"Do you still believe that?"

"It has nothing to do with whether you believe it or not. It's just a way of saying it. I think that people are a concept that is different from things, and flesh and blood is just the carrier of this concept. It's easy to make containers. We could do it a long time ago, even It is better to do it than to give birth naturally, but we still cannot transfer the thought from one container to another..."

Kang Le continued to talk endlessly, but Luo Yong, who was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, didn't want to listen and just stared out the window intently.

Not far away, an "Electric Ray" transport plane slowly passed through rows of tall buildings and landed on the apron on the roof.

He saw several soldiers carrying a box and quickly entering the building.

The satellite that is quickly installed in that box will be sent to a professional technical department for disassembly and downloading of the data inside.

Although he has not yet read the data stored in the satellite, Luo Yongqi can already guess what is written in it.

This emergency communication method can only be used in the most critical moments.

Since the satellite left its orbit and landed here, it already contains a lot of information...

"I'm not interested in your theories."

Looking away from the window, Luo Yong interrupted Kang Le's eloquence.

Staring at the man sitting on the sofa, he continued in a serious tone.

"No. 0 Vault is the belief of the residents of Utopia. After two centuries... we finally found it. As long as we can open that door, we can end all the chaos in the wasteland and return this land to its former glory." A great era.”

Kang Le was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed out loud as if he heard something funny or a joke.

He shook his head and put the wine glass back on the table.

"...You laugh at me for believing in souls, but you believe in an even more unreliable legend."

Luo Yong corrected him and said.

"That is not a legend, but a conclusion reached through rigorous and precise calculations."

Kang Le's attitude has not changed at all.

"Calculation... Haha, if there really was that kind of technology to deduce the future, wouldn't those guys lying in the grave have thought that it would be like this?"

"It's not the future that can be deduced, but it's possible in a probabilistic sense. Isn't our existence the best proof?"

Ideal City is built on Shelter 6. Everything here is strictly a product of the "Fortress" plan.

Unable to refute this, Kang Le was silent for a while and suddenly said in a soft voice.

"... Let's assume that there really is that book in Vault 0, which can correct the chaos in this wasteland like a wind and the remaining clouds. Who can guarantee that it will not affect our current prosperity?"

It would be nice if the purpose of opening a 佾hao was just to go out for a walk.

Whether it is to spread the corporate philosophy, sow the seeds of civilization, or show off prosperity and strength... it is of great benefit to the enterprise.

After all, when doing business with a group of primitive people, you can get at most a few shells or animal skins.

But if the mining exoskeleton and mining machine are sold to those wastelanders, and those wastelanders show the good life in the ideal city, when their caravan passes by again, they only need some pieces of paper to exchange to cartloads of ore.

Expedition for ideals is just a slogan. Even if they come back with nothing, no one will blame them.

However, no one expected that the group of young men would actually find Shelter 0.

It is precisely because of this that the attitudes of the major groups that originally supported the expedition began to become ambiguous.

The only one who unswervingly supports the expedition is the Silver Wing Group.

It's not because of any lofty ideals, it's mainly because they invested in the construction of the Pioneer.

That land-based fortress not only embodies their hard work, but the crew on it are also the backbone of the elite trained by the group.

Don't talk about other people.

His son is on that fortress...

Although he said that if he died, he would die again, but that was just talk.

Technology can solve many problems, but not all problems can be solved with technology.

Luo Yong looked at Kang Le sitting on the sofa and said in a serious tone.

"...I don't expect to convince you by reasoning, let's talk about the conditions."

Kang Le looked at him without asking any conditions.

"Oh? What do you want me to help you with?"

"In two hours, the data analysis should be completed..."

Luo Yong lifted his cuff with his index finger and glanced at the time on his watch. "We will submit a plan to expand the reinforcement scale at noon today. We have already received support from Changge Group, and we are only one vote away... I hope you can convince the board of directors of Kangmao Group to support our proposal at the highest board meeting of the company."

Changge Group is the largest arms dealer in Ideal City.

Kangle is not surprised that Yinyi Group can get support from those guys.

Those arms dealers are eager to see the outside world in full swing. What they love to do most every day is to discount their own products and promote them, while complaining that the company's arms budget is too tight and demanding the expansion of the commando team.

Although the company has tens of thousands of subsidiaries, and each subsidiary holding shares of the parent company has voting rights on major resolutions, since the vast majority of shares are in the hands of five giants, when a proposal is supported by three giants, there will be no suspense about the proposal being passed.

On the contrary, if three giants oppose it, a proposal will not be passed no matter what.

Kang Le thought to himself that this guy found himself in trouble, and 80% of it was because he ran into a wall with the other two companies.

Come to think of it, the "Endpoint" Group, which mainly engages in intelligent business, and the "Ideal" Group, which mainly engages in public utilities and urban construction, are indifferent to waste land business.

There is a possibility of being dragged...

It seems that only my side is concerned.

"Expand the scale of recruitment... Kangmao Group can accept equipment and economic assistance, and can only accept this. I don't know what agreement you have reached with Changge Group, but the scale of the commando is already large enough, and you don't want to see those warmongers grow bigger, right?"

Luo Yong said without any change in his expression.

"The agreement we reached with them has nothing to do with expanding the scale of the commando, but about other areas."

Kang Le stared at him for a while and nodded slowly.

"Okay, I can help you, but I'm just a shareholder on the board of directors of Kangmao Group. You can't expect me to convince others with just my mouth." Luo Yong didn't say anything, waiting for him to continue to make conditions. After a pause, Kang Le continued. "If you are willing to relax the proposal of imitating people to participate in public affairs... I think they should agree to your request." Hearing this request, Luo Yong breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense expression finally relaxed into a smile. "Deal." ... The distant river valley province. The horizon finally showed a hint of dawn, and the residents of Shuguang City opened their windows and walked out of their homes to greet the new day. At this moment, someone in Shelter 404 had not slept all night and was still sitting in front of a fancy computer with high spirits.

"... Unbelievable, guess what I found from the data?!"

Chu Guang, who was sitting on the sofa beside him, said absentmindedly without looking at Yin Fang, whose eye bags were deeper than a panda's.

"What?"

"The order for the Lagrange Space Station docking module renovation project!" Yin Fang continued with a happy expression on his face, speaking quickly, "I knew that it would not be easy to have an independent scientific research satellite and research institution!"

Lagrange Space Station is okay.

That's really far away.

The army is pressing forward step by step, and Chu Guang can't consider such a long-term situation for the time being.

Compared with long-term space technology, he cares more about the reinforcements from the East Coast.

However, he still made a joke.

"Are you going to complete the order for them?"

Hearing this, Yin Fang couldn't help rolling his eyes.

"Are you kidding? That was an order placed over 200 years ago! By the time the Doomsday War breaks out in 2125, 50% of the design work has been completed..."

Chu Guang: "What's next?"

"... After that, they plan to replace the astronomical telescope on the No. 41 connecting arm with a two-kilometer-long mass accelerator. Later, we found some technologies that can be collected from the list."

"These include 12 electromagnetic control-related technologies and 4 key gas-jet verticalization technologies, 5 of which have reached E-level standards, 3 technologies have reached D-level standards, and 2 have reached C-level standards!"

You guys, C-level technology!

And two of them! ?

With a surprised expression on his face, Chu Guang, who was originally uninterested, sat up straight from the sofa.

At present, the New Alliance has only two C-level technologies, one is solid hydrogen and the other is a3 aerospace aluminum alloy.

The high-end technology reserves have doubled directly, and this harvest can be said to have completely exceeded his expectations.

Technology is the foundation of the development of the alliance.

For Chu Guang, acquiring new technologies is more exciting than seeing more and more players break through LV20.

"Can you tell me more about that C-level technology?"

"I was planning to do that."

Yin Fang showed a proud expression on his face, cleared his throat and continued.

"One is the synthesis path of N10-anionic nitrogen stacks used in ejection cushioning airbags... This stuff is similar to solid hydrogen and has a very high energy density. However, unlike solid hydrogen, nitrogen stacks are inherently unstable and are more suitable for making bombs than batteries."

"The other one is about nitrogen hammer control... A gas shield can be formed through a gas manipulation field. Your hammer uses similar technology, so you should be familiar with it. However, this thing consumes a lot of energy, so there is no Portable reactors can only be used for short periods of time with chemical batteries and capacitors.”

Chu Guang said with a smile.

"It doesn't matter! I, the residents of the shelter, won't mind! By the way, what is the electromagnetic control related technology?"

"Well, it's related to the mass accelerator. Simply put, it's an electromagnetic gun. You won't be able to use it for the time being...well, but that's not necessarily the case."

Speaking of this, Yin Fang suddenly paused for a moment, then changed the subject and continued.

"When the fusion reactor in Xizhou City is newly ignited, it should be no problem to get a few mass accelerators to serve as anti-aircraft guns."

"It's not too difficult to get the necessary materials. That thing is more useful than your artillery."

Electromagnetic gun!

Chu Guang suddenly became excited when he thought of the electromagnetic point defense system on the Pioneer that could stop even artillery shells.

"Can the mass accelerator be mounted on a tank?"

As if you guessed that he would ask this.

A few moments after Chu Guang finished speaking, Yin Fang shook his head and said.

"Don't think about it, unless you can get the technology related to the miniaturization of the electromagnetic gun... This thing is an electromagnetic gun for the space station, and it needs to be used with a fusion reactor. Even if it is scaled down, it will not be possible for you to put it in a car. superior."

It’s nuclear fusion again…

"Well, just pretend I didn't ask."

Chu Guang calmed down his excited expression and sighed with regret.

It remains to be seen when the Alliance will be able to independently produce fusion reactors.

But it seems useless to think about it now.

More critical than the fusion technology itself is the nuclear fuel required for fusion.

The closest one to him is a helium-3 collection station, which is the moon 380,000 kilometers away.

Seeing Chu Guang's unsatisfied expression, Yin Fang couldn't help but complain.

"Just be satisfied, two C-level technicians! In the academy, this merit is enough for a D-level prospector to be promoted to C-level."

"No, I'm not dissatisfied. I'm just wondering when our reinforcements will arrive."

"Then you have to ask the people in the company, but I advise you not to have high expectations. Those people will definitely be difficult to deal with." When he said this, Yin Fang's expression was a little subtle.

Looking at that subtle expression, Chu Guang suddenly thought of something and said.

"Speaking of which, there's something I've always been curious about."

"What?"

“Isn’t the relationship between the college and the enterprise very close?”

Yin Fang thought seriously for a while.

"This statement is true. Although I personally don't hate corporate people, we do have big differences with them on some matters."

"Because they are developing the ruins?" Chu Guang said thoughtfully.

Yin Fang smiled lightly.

"That's just an appearance. It's up to them how to use the relics... In the final analysis, what's disappointing is that they have taken possession of precious heritage but have no ambition. Whether it's territory or knowledge, you can find that they are actually not So eager. Wealth? Maybe, but I think it’s more of a greed for enjoyment than a desire for wealth.”

"You can see that they have decorated their homes beautifully. The luxury there is almost the same as in the Prosperity Era. Many wastelanders and old popsicles dream of living there for the rest of their lives. But in my opinion, there is nothing wrong with it. It is the farthest place from the era of prosperity.”

"The prosperous era has left behind a lot of things, whether they are unused fusion batteries, garbage that can be recycled, or black boxes that can turn garbage into treasure... But all these things will be used up sooner or later, not today. it is tomorrow."

"As soon as we finish sorting out the technologies left over from previous civilizations, we will immediately start exploring new topics and find ways to restore the planet's state to its pre-war state."

"And they are just squandering their little inheritance."

Speaking of this, Yin Fang paused for a moment.

"Of course, there are some respectable people in the company. It's a good idea to find Refuge 0... I remember that the college also sent a scientific expedition team into the desert before."

Chu Guang was slightly stunned.

"The academy has also found No. 0 shelter?"

"That was all a matter of love a few years ago," Yin Fang sighed, "I only remember that the scientific expedition team disappeared into the desert... and no one mentioned it again after that."

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(Thanks to the leaders of "ぶ真爱﹍ぇ", "Ayanami Little Angel", "DevilMayCry5", "ぉ Butterfly", "Unwinter", and "Cloud Cliff" for the reward!)