Wasteland Survival Code

Chapter 877 The Forest Inside the Volcano
"...I can't answer this question, but as far as it is concerned, the number of frost dragons is extremely rare, and there is no obvious sociality among the same kind... No matter how powerful an individual is, the influence it can have is limited. "

"That's good... I don't want to survive so hard, but have to be ruled by a big lizard or something else."

The rule of aliens is an extremely terrifying thing for any species. If that day comes, human beings will be reduced to the same status as livestock and poultry, and life, freedom and dignity will not be guaranteed at all. Can only be turned into captive food or pets...

If the main brain gets rid of the shackles set by humans in the future, then humans will also face this ending, and, due to the existence of the Utopian world, humans will have no ability to resist.

No matter how powerful the Frost Dragon is, it must be limited by the natural laws of this world. However, in that virtual world, the mastermind is the supreme and omnipotent god... The Frost Dragon in the virtual program has nothing but invincibility. It's just a damaged "body surface skin", but the ability of the master brain is almost unlimited.

At that time, all human beings wanted to perish only needed a single thought.

It is also for this reason that "the mastermind must die".

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According to the flight trajectory of the Frost Dragon, its lair should be just behind the snow peak, only a few kilometers away from Qi Lin's hiding place. direction to trek forward.

"Are you really going to hunt the Frost Dragon? It's too late to regret it now. You just need to get out of this mountain range to pass the level. It's much easier than facing the Frost Dragon," said the Mastermind.

"People always have to find something challenging for themselves to do, and then life is interesting, isn't it? What's more, the big deal is to start over from skydiving."

Qi Lin, who was lucky enough to survive the siege of hyenas, seems to have seen it a lot. He realized that this is just a virtual world. He entered here not to pass the level, but to make himself stronger .

This is the purpose and meaning of the training program. Even if Qi Lin repeats several levels indefinitely, as long as his ability can be improved, it doesn't matter whether he passes the level or not.

"Your attitude is very negative. Under the conventional anthropomorphic thinking mode, I should judge your actions as thinking that there is no hope of clearing the level and you are looking for a dead end."

"Negative? I don't think so... By the way, from your data analysis results, what is the success rate that I can successfully shut down your main body?"

"zero."

"That's fine... You see, my success rate of shutting down the main brain is zero, and my success rate of killing the frost dragon is also zero. These two things are essentially the same."

"It's completely different, you are sophistrying." The mastermind retorted.

"Didn't you train me to turn that zero into another number? No matter how small the number is, no matter how low the probability of success is, as long as it is not zero, it means it has the possibility of success... If I If the Frost Dragon can be killed, it means that this kind of event with a zero success rate is actually possible, and the same goes for shutting down the mastermind's body."

"Courage is commendable, but you are still sophistrying, which is changing concepts secretly."

"Whatever you say, just think of me as cheering myself up... If I can really kill the Frost Dragon, then maybe I can really shut down your body."

"I can barely agree with this. Self-confidence is indeed very important for human beings."

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According to the information provided by the main brain, the frost dragon will stay in the lair for about two to three days after each return. Although its brain does not need to rest, its body is different. It drags such a huge and heavy body in the sky. Flying at medium and high speeds, even if the physical energy can be supplied, the muscles will be strained after long-term exercise, especially the muscles of the wings.

Time is abundant for Qi Lin, he doesn't need to rush into the dragon's lair, he can make a decision after collecting enough information.

The Frost Dragon has just returned to its nest, and there will definitely be no mutant creatures in this area. Qi Lin doesn't have to worry about being attacked, so he can travel boldly with confidence.

He went back to the battlefield where he fought the hyena before, dug the snow rhino's body out of the snowdrift, and then sawed off the two plate-shaped bones located in the pelvis. These two bones were triangular in shape and had a single area About a thousand square centimeters, Qi Lin tied these two plate-shaped bones to the sole of the shoe, and a simple pair of skis was completed.

Stepping on the skis, Qi Lin's speed increased a lot. It didn't take long for him to reach the back of the mountain.

On the mountainside, there is an extremely conspicuous cave. At the entrance of the cave, there are a large number of bones and broken furs of mutated creatures. These things are frozen together by ice, making them look extremely eerie.

"Is this the Dragon's Nest..."

Qi Lin walked around in a large circle carefully, and walked to the side of the dragon's nest. He saw a very obvious giant drag mark on the snow on the ground. It was obvious that the frost dragon had entered the mountainside through this hole not long ago. .

Qi Lin took off the Gauss sniper rifle, used the scope as a telescope, and aimed it at the depth of the cave.

This cave is not too deep, it is only less than [-] meters to the end, but there is another vertical passage connected to the bottom of the cave, leading directly to the depths of the mountain.

Qi Lin doesn't know much about geology, but the characteristics of the scene in front of him are already very obvious-this mountain should be an extinct volcano, and the crater has been blocked by ice and snow that has not melted for thousands of years , while the Frost Dragon dug through the volcano's magma channel from the side of the mountain, using this hollow extinct volcano as its lair.

"Mastermind, how about the frost dragon's sense of smell and hearing?"

"I don't know, but it mainly relies on energy sensing to search for targets, so in this training program, its hearing and smell are set as 'degraded', and its sensitivity is at most equivalent to that of an ordinary human that has not undergone mutation. Beast."

"That's easy." Qi Lin felt relieved, and quickly ran towards the entrance of the cave with a gun in his hand.

This horizontal cave used to be a sub-crater located on the side of the volcanic cone. It was once blocked by volcanic ash, and was later dug open by the frost dragon with its claws. This can be seen from the traces on the walls of the cave. Judge it.

After the volcanic ash is weathered and shattered, it will form extremely fertile soil, and this cave is located in the leeward position, the temperature is much higher than outside, many mutated ferns and cold-resistant moss grow all over the sides of the cave, if it is not for Qi Lin If you know that this is a dragon's lair, looking at these thriving plants, you may even regard this place as a paradise amidst the ice and snow...

"That big lizard should be right below here..." Qi Lin walked to the vertical magma channel with extremely light steps, and lay down on the edge of the hole and looked down.

The length of the magma channel is more than 200 meters long by visual inspection, and the space below is very open, just like an underground cavity hollowed out by human beings to build shelters. In the belly of this extinct volcano, there is actually a dense forest growing. Underground forest!

The plants that make up this underground forest are all mutated plants that can survive without sunlight, the most conspicuous of which is a tall tree with a height ranging from ten meters to twenty meters. The trunks of these trees are straight and the surface is extremely Smooth, with leaves similar to palm trees growing on the branches, but these leaves are not green, but present a strange dark purple color, and the veins of the leaves exude a faint blue-purple fluorescence, which looks like Very dreamy.

Filled between these trees are some low shrubs and a large number of fluorescent fungi. Although Qi Lin did not see the Frost Dragon, he found a path in the underground forest where no plants grew. This should be the trace left by the frost dragon often passing through the forest.

"I didn't expect that big lizard to live in an underground forest..." Qi Lin couldn't help but marvel at the uncanny workmanship of nature. If such an underground forest located in the belly of an extinct volcano was placed in the old days, it would be so rare. It is also a natural wonder that can be ranked among the top in the world.

"This underground forest does exist. I have sent drones to explore it, but I found nothing." The mastermind said on the side.

"Nothing? What's going on?"

"See those fluorescent leaves and fungi, these plants contain a lot of radiant energy, although I don't know why this underground forest has not been transformed into an aggressive black forest, but these plants are very useful for electronic equipment It has a strong 'psychedelic effect'."

"Hallucinogenic? Interference?"

"Yes, due to the effect of radiation and the strange abilities of these plants, the electromagnetic field in the underground forest is very chaotic, and the drone cannot penetrate into it at all."

"So, this underground forest should also be a 'defective product' copied by you based on the calculated data?" Qi Lin instantly caught the loophole in the mastermind's words.

"I know what you are thinking. I will not tell you the specific information of the underground forest. You also said that you are challenging yourself. If I tell you everything, what is the point of this challenge? ?”

"Alright alright……"

Qi Lin curled his lips, then took some things out of the quilt backpack, and arranged them beside the opening of the vertical passage—a miniature high-definition camera, a switch that can be remotely controlled, a complete set of mechanical frames, and a head-sized snowball.

Qi Lin took out another nuclear energy battery whose fuel was almost depleted, and connected the positive and negative poles of the battery together to form a short circuit. Since the energy of the battery has been exhausted, it will not burn even if it is short-circuited. But it will release a certain amount of energy fluctuations to the outside world, and the size of the fluctuations is probably a little higher than that of Qi Lin who is in the "energy-gathering vortex silent" state.

After stuffing the nuclear battery into the snowball, and then placing the snowball on the mechanical frame, Qi Lin quickly retreated to the outside of the hole.

Taking out the PDA, switching the screen to the miniature high-definition camera, Qi Lin pressed the remote control button of the switch—this switch is usually used to detonate explosives at a long distance, but Qi Lin connected it to the simple mechanical frame, only Seeing the two metal poles holding the snowball bounce off in an instant, the snowball lost its support and fell straight towards the underground forest directly below.

"Snapped!"

The snowball hit the ground and shattered, and the short-circuited nuclear battery fell out of it.

Qi Lin stared at the PDA screen closely, afraid of missing something... However, 5 minutes passed, and the broken snowball gradually melted, but the short-circuited battery was still lying there, and nothing happened.

The frost dragon was not alarmed at all.

10 minutes, 10 minutes... Qi Lin waited for half an hour, and the picture in the camera did not change.

Although this does not mean that it is absolutely safe below, at least it is better than Qi Lin jumping down recklessly.

(It's like playing Rainbow Six and throwing a car in to see if there is nothing wrong with it when you are about to enter the point...)
Buckling the safety rope around his waist, Qi Lin drove an air nail into the rock at the edge of the magma channel, tied the other end of the safety rope to it, and then began to slowly descend toward the underground forest ...

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The real world, underground shelter, transit station No. 1706.

An ordinary passenger train slowly entered the station, and hundreds of passengers came out of the train compartment in a file. This refuge is a freight transfer station with no permanent residents, and it will come to the station by train. The people here are either workers looking for work here or consortium agents who come to handle business.

Transfer Station No. 1706 has a large area, but two-thirds of the space has been occupied by warehouses. Some of these warehouses have been leased by large consortiums, and some are open Below, it is used to temporarily store some small batches of goods.

According to the information on the goods interception notice, the two batches of goods that should have been sent to the sixth district should be temporarily stored in the No. 102 warehouse at this moment. If the people from the Lei family do not take the initiative to come to pick them up, they will wait until 15 days Once the deadline has passed, the goods will be confiscated by the consortium alliance.

After getting off the car, Lei Yun went straight to the "Logistics Processing Office" located in the core area of ​​the transfer station. The function and status of this office are somewhat similar to the customs in the old days. You must first complete the corresponding procedures here.

Of course, this series of procedures is not free. She must pay a valuable "escrow fee" before she can take the goods. According to the agents of the consortium, this "escrow fee" Often referred to as "ransom".

(End of this chapter)