Chapter 924 Free State, aborigines with refuges!
Following the trajectory detected by No. 0, we encountered four extremely hidden trip mines, which were placed on the ground where there were footprints.
At the same time, the closer you get to the center, the more miscellaneous traps there are.
Potato mines triggered by pedaling, induction mines hanging overhead, and even primitive pedal spike arrays.
No. 0 continuously reports detection results and gives the approximate location of the other party.
A round manhole cover is about 80 centimeters in diameter.
All the footsteps gathered here and then disappeared. It seemed that they were going down here.
“In the sewer?”
This group of aborigines are much better at defense than those on the fifth floor.
Even Zero’s detection capabilities have been limited, with repeated reminders that the signal has received strong interference.
Of course, it is also possible that the blue-purple slime mold grows more lushly underground, crowding out the living space of a large number of other organisms. Once they are scattered, even if some signals can be sent out, they will be absorbed when they come back, and no valid information can be returned.
Time slowly extended, and signal waves scattered outward.
About four or five minutes later, Zero's energy source started to alarm again, and the power accumulated at 2.98% during the day plummeted to 0.1% again.
It was only then that his voice came in, barely projecting a calculated picture in front of his eyes.
“Master, after comprehensive calculations of all returns, a rough model of the building under the manhole cover was obtained”
"Because there are a large number of slime molds attached to the building walls, unless you can go deep below, you cannot continue to explore inside."
In the screen.
When the manhole cover dropped vertically for about fifteen meters, it turned into a steep slope.
Go down the steep slope until you reach the gate.
Wait?
door?
Looking at the funnel-shaped downward passage, which links a square architectural model.
Su Mo's eyes widened and he instantly matched the identity of this group of people with one of the forces explained by the Wild Wolf.
Free State!
The most difficult gopher guy in Qinggang City.
This is the only force that existed widely before the war.
As early as in peaceful times, they did not believe that humans could develop controlled intelligent life, and had a strong sense of crisis, fearing that an army of machines would gather to destroy the world.
At the same time, I don’t believe that those rebels who are calling for a return to the era of human control can completely reverse the technological trend that humans have developed for more than two hundred years.
Joining the Free State means that these people believe that the final war will definitely come.
Whether it is a factional fight between two parties, or intelligent life running amok, or even the disasters that may result from those leaving through the singularity of time and space.
They began building bunker shelters underground that could withstand nuclear disasters before the war, and stockpiled a large amount of critical supplies that could survive difficult times.
They rarely recruit ordinary people who know nothing. Those who can join them either have a certain technology or are scientists who do not believe in artificial intelligence.
Naturally, this choice makes the gopher guys less effective in head-on conflicts. Basically, they suffer when forces of the same size collide. However, for a long time, there has never been a group of people who dared to fight without being crushed. Provoke when the team is killed and the opponent is destroyed.
There is no other, to explain in the original words of Wild Wolf.
The gopher man holds a grudge the most!
As long as you make trouble and are targeted by them, you will face endless attacks.
The large number of pre-war weapons they keep in their hands will give any force a headache, so that even if they suffer a loss for a long time, no one dares to provoke these people.
If it were not for the passage of time, those supplies began to be consumed, and the Gophers themselves did not have the ambitions of other forces, and only wanted to live a peaceful life and restore civilization.
Otherwise, it would not be difficult for them to unite the entire Qinggang City.
“Fortunately, I didn’t walk in rashly and stepped on their trap.”
"It's troublesome to be targeted by this group of people."
Sumo moved back and stared at the manhole cover, his eyes becoming serious.
If it were the Gophers of the Free State, it would not be unusual for them to have cotton in their hands.
Some large Free State strongholds and even large industrial facilities that were preserved before the war can work as long as they are plugged in.
In addition, their bunker shelter was built with pre-war technology and tools. There is no doubt about its sturdiness, and its function is definitely much stronger than all underground shelters in the wasteland.
It is very likely that they have established a large planting base underground.
Even if you surround this group of people for a while, you can still be self-sufficient and just be a tortoise.
"It seems we need to accumulate more power."
In any case, without the support of Zero, the underground will definitely be impossible to explore.
Sumo sighed, turned around and left reluctantly.
"It would be great if we could collect the genes of one of these gopher guys, or arrange the signal of the virtual reality."
Collect the opponent's genes and invest them in the way the Demon Soul Clan makes templates In the mark, it can be perfectly disguised and easily blended into the interior for detection. When the virtual reality signal is deployed, it can directly paralyze the humans in this area and completely lose their defenses.
However, the former needs to catch a person quietly without attracting attention, while the latter needs to invent a signal penetration capability stronger than Zero to break through the signal blocking of those slime molds.
The difficulty of both methods is not small.
But fortunately, the other party has not found out that he has been exposed, and there is still some time to plan.
"Director, you are back. Have you seen where that group of people is stationed?" Looking at the black figure appearing in the ruins, Feng Long breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly walked up and asked.
“A group of gopher guys, underground.”
“Are they from the Free State?”
“Well, this matter needs to be considered in the long run. We haven’t done that yet. We can quietly break into their area to explore, even if they have some supplies that we urgently need."
Now Sumo finally feels the gangsters who just traveled to the wasteland. Facing the solid underground shelter, I have the mentality of cursing my mother.
Hiding underneath is really safe, easy to defend but difficult to attack.
“The only thing we are glad about now is that this group of people is not like those damn predators.”
“They at least have some rules and have no intention of actively provoking others.”
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The plan to explore the western suburbs of Qinggang City was temporarily shelved after No. 0 energy ran out and went down.
With some of the harvest collected today, the group made a big detour and then returned to the territory from another place.
A few days before their arrival, these aborigines had not yet discovered that there was suddenly a fertile open space around them. They did not receive the threat of nuclear radiation, nor were they invaded by a large number of mutant creatures.
But paper cannot contain fire, and the territory will be discovered before long.
There will definitely be more and more conflicts between the two sides. Cotton must be obtained as soon as possible to promote the completion of the bullet production line.
Around four o'clock in the afternoon.
After circling the territory, Sumo led the Longming team back to the military camp near the village.
Somewhat lucky news.
To the west of the territory, where it borders the Demon Soul Clan, there is indeed a lush forest with a large number of primitive trees waiting to be cut down. Looking at the scale, as long as this transportation line can be opened in a short time, there will definitely be no shortage of high-quality wood.
Fanatical construction apprentices will rush in with the tools in their hands and gain exponentially more experience.
It is foreseeable that before the woods are completely cut down, this place will be a treasure trove of leveling for construction apprentices.
The terrain in the northern part of the territory, the buffer zone bordering the dwarves, has undergone earth-shaking changes.
A large circular pit appeared on the ground, with many charred ruins remaining inside.
For fear of encountering danger, Sumo did not dare to go in to investigate.
But I didn’t see the disgusting blue-purple slime mold, which basically confirms that these ruins should not come from the Blue Star of the Butterfly Universe. There should be no need to worry about threats from this direction in the short term.
As for the southern part of the territory, the buffer zone is adjacent to the mountains.
This place is still wrapped in a large amount of gray-white fog, which has no intention of coming soon.
Unable to guess what the game was about, Sumo was not in a hurry and just chose to ignore it.
“The bryophyte that you are talking about that can absorb signals is this thing in the bottle?” Lu Kuan hurried over from the research institute, and saw the glass bottle in Sumo’s hand from a distance.
Some scraped black and purple moss is placed inside and is squirming slightly along the wall of the bottle. Unlike ordinary moss, this thing is alive at first sight.
Its interior has broken away from the basic structure of moss, and has begun to extend towards a new and unknown biological system under the cultivation of radiation and special environment.
I don’t know if the source has not been completely eliminated. After obtaining the ownership of the moss, the system cannot scan the attributes.
In order to find a way to deal with this thing as soon as possible, we can only let Lu Kuan and others try to study it first.
“You can take it back and test it, don’t feel bad, there are plenty of these things.”
“In Qinggang City on the east side of the territory, this thing has covered almost every high-rise building, it’s too difficult to deal with "
Lu Kuan took it, shook it in his hand, and took out a small instrument from his pocket.
Press and the signal wave is emitted.
“Hey, it can really absorb it?”
A curious expression appeared on Lu Kuan’s face. This was the first time he saw a plant that could absorb signals.
“If this thing can be used in individual combat, instead of being attached to a vehicle, it will be a natural shield. It can completely allow fighters or tanks to break through the detection of radar waves and become a stealth killer. "
With this moss, why should we study invisible coatings?
With such a powerful signal absorption ability, as long as its structural principle can be cracked, it is simply invincible.
However, Sumo, who was standing next to him, reacted immediately.
“No wonder, they should have proactively added moss prevention monitoring to their building.”
Lu Kuan looked over in confusion, not understanding the meaning of this sentence.
But Feng Long next to him was very discerning and quickly stepped forward to explain:
"We found a group of Free State gopher guys in Qinggang City. We followed the traces they left and found out that their base was built underground, and the entrance and exit was just a small manhole cover."
"Signal shielding, we can't detect the situation inside."
Sumo nodded.
"That's pretty much what it means, but I still got some basic information."
"Don't worry, leave it to me. No, just leave it to Zhuo Junfan." Lu Kuan changed his voice. Said: "He keeps nagging in the virtual reality every day, and now he finally found a good job for this guy."
"Okay, leave the task of studying this thing to him. You can tell me that if you can study and decipher the principles inside, the reward will be."
Raising his hand, Somo shook the magic weapon on his arm. Soul clan mark.
Lu Kuan was slightly stunned, but then he laughed, with a "sinister" arc in the corner of his mouth.
"Don't worry, I understand."
Evening.
The night market in the village was a little earlier than yesterday.
Almost just after six o'clock in the afternoon, those food stalls that had tasted the sweetness started to set up, and there was a fragrance that made people greedy and panicked.
After a night of "difficult choices", in order to keep up with market updates and always maintain his competitiveness, Ma Haoge finally launched a must-have star product for every ramen shop.
Beef Ramen!
The price is 15 iron coins!
"I swear, this ramen is definitely the most delicious noodle I've ever tasted in the wasteland. No, even on Earth, this is the most delicious noodle I've ever tasted!"
"It's really delicious. This soup is so delicious. , I was so hungry yesterday that I couldn’t sleep after one bowl!”
“Beef ramen is worth half a crossbow, what kind of wealthy person can afford it?”
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“Boss, give me a bowl of vegetarian ramen and add more soup. I like soup!”
“Brother in front, why don’t we work together? I like soup too!” I eat noodles but don’t like soup~”
"Get lost!"
"Speaking of which, is it really so delicious?"
It's not yet the busiest time of the night market, but the number of people gathered in front of the stall is only smaller than yesterday. More and less.
Going to the front of the queue and staring at the menu for a few moments, Somo took out two copper coins from his pocket.
“Bring me a bowl of beef ramen.”
"Okay, thank you? Lord, you are here again!"
Hearing that someone was willing to order the stall's sign so early, Ma Haoge raised his head excitedly.
The next second, he became even more excited when he realized that it was the lord again.
"Sit down quickly, I will give you something to eat right now."
After being greeted to sit down, Ma Haoge returned to the chopping board, his whole body trembling.
Compared to making money, the temptation to upgrade is undoubtedly greater!
He has not forgotten the pleasure that immediately increased by one level after finishing the bowl of noodles yesterday.
But it was a pity that until the noodles topped with beef slices were brought to Somo, the prompt to complete the hidden task did not pop up again.
“Hey guys, the beef ramen has so much beef, it looks like a good deal?”
“But it will cost a lot of money to buy so much meat from the logistics department, right?”
"Would you like a bowl? Let's jointly share a portion of the beef on top?"
"I think it's okay, I'll pay five iron coins!"
Looking at the first bowl of beef noodles After reading the portions, many people who were still waiting in line couldn’t help but get ready to make a move.
Waiting until Somo was full and leaving, these people discussed it and hurriedly posted it.
“Boss Ma, a bowl of noodles, beef ramen.”
"Okay."
Ma Haoge chuckled and glanced at the expectant faces of these people.
Crack.
A bowl of noodles was placed on the table.
"Grass? Why are there only three pieces? And they are cut so thin!"
"That's right, I just saw that the lord's bowl of noodles was full of meat!"
"You're a fool, right? I'm going to complain to the village chief!"
Looking at it is just enough A piece of beef for each person, the people behind who were still planning a joint venture suddenly trembled.
Good guy!
The feeling of being controlled by a ramen shop is back!
This piece of meat is as thin as a cicada's wings, leaving no doubt that it can be blown away by the wind.
"Go away, that's the lord, are you fucking the lord?"
"Besides, if anyone can let me upgrade, they can come to my place to eat noodles for free in the future!"
Picking up the rolling pin on the chopping board, Ma Haoge smashed it lightly, and the meaning was self-evident.
“But.”
"Forget it, since you are in the second bowl, let me add a piece of meat for you."
Picked out another piece of meat from the small bowl at the back.
The scene becomes three people divided into four parts.
The three people who had just said they were going to complain suddenly got into a fight and went to the side to argue with the bowls in hand.
Looking at these people, my eyes scanned the back of the figure walking to the stall next to it.
Ma Haoge couldn't help but shake his head, feeling extremely regretful.
Ramen without meat is like rice roll without soy sauce.
It is too difficult to spread the breeding industry due to frequent natural disasters in the wasteland, and there is simply no such long growth time to form a large scale.
“Well, it would be great if we could get something like plant-based meat that can replace beef.”
He sighed softly, held the Tianyuan coins in his pocket, and thought Some new ideas couldn't help but arise.
(End of this chapter)