Data Wasteland

In his sleep, Chen Xing opened his eyes.

The surrounding scene is hazy, as if in the mist. A shadow holding a plate swayed back and forth in front of his eyes, bending down from time to time to talk to other sitting shadows.

In a corner not far away, an ancient machine was shining colorfully. It's a retro pinball machine, and you can play a game with just one copper plate. If you can reach the points set by the bar owner, you can get extra rewards, perhaps a glass of ale, a steak, or a night with a bar girl.

Looking sideways, a tall and fat figure lay on the table, with a thick back like a hill, and it seemed to be too strong for alcohol, and fell asleep.

"Longhe Radio, we are reporting to you, it's 2:20 in the middle of the night..."

A female voice mixed with electrical noise came out of the radio at the bar, and it was very clear in this quiet night.

"Recently, in the underground ruins on the outskirts of Monitor Lizard City, a space fragment of a homologous world was discovered, setting off a craze for collecting cultural relics of the same origin."

"As we all know, the homogenous world is a human civilization similar to ours. In this type of world, human beings dominate, and they are destroyed for some reason, eventually entering the undercurrent of time and space, and leaving the red earth world during the cataclysm."

"The space of debris in this world is very large. According to preliminary detection, it is at least 200,000 square kilometers. According to the analysis of scholars in Ivory City, the world is likely to have been hit by a huge chaotic magic energy, causing the bones to come back to life, the dead and the dead. The living waged a desperate war, and the dead won in the end, and the world was shattered under the impact of overloaded energy."

"At present, the Red Dragon Principality has opened the right to explore the fragments of the world to the world. Any citizen can participate in the exploration, and only needs to pay 20% of the exploration tax on the income when returning..."

At noon the next day, Chen Xing woke up, looking around with sleepy eyes, as if a little strange. He quickly realized that his "memory backtracking" was activated.

In last night's dream, the big fat man who fell drunk on the table was his most familiar partner in his previous life-Big Cat.

The big cat is 1.82 meters tall and slightly shorter than Yeyang Bailiu. He was born with a round waist and thick legs, fat and sturdy. He is a "heavy weapon support hand" and is good at using heavy machine guns and bazookas.

Mentioned in the news broadcast

He had some impressions of the world fragments of the same origin, but he was not in the Red Dragon Principality at the time, so he had never been there, and he didn't know the actual location. Don't know why, he would dream about it.

But half an hour later, he understood...

When he went down for lunch, he heard a few comments from the mercenaries.

"I heard that the red lotus bomb is very effective." "They are all low-grade goods, but the quantity is large, which is not cost-effective." "Will you go tomorrow?" "Of course."

It may be that no one can understand it, and when they are talking, they don't care about the person next to them.

However, Chen Xing heard it.

The other party mentioned a few key words, "red lotus bombs", "large numbers", and "will go tomorrow".

The red lotus bomb is another name for the "flammable depleted uranium armor-piercing bomb". After hitting the target, the core of the uranium-238 will burn and produce a high temperature of 6000 ℃, which has special effects on the mutant creatures of the living corpse.

At the same time, it also has a very good effect on undead creatures like bones.

Although there is a fundamental difference between living corpses and bones, the former is a corpse mutation caused by a different kind of virus, which can be regarded as a kind of mutated creature, with life characteristics, can supplement energy through eating, repair the body, self-evolve, etc.; while the latter They are evil spirits that rely on life energy for their activities. They have no life characteristics, cannot eat, and cannot evolve; but they are all afraid of flames. High temperature can kill the living corpse virus and disperse the chaotic magic energy.

Although it is a wilderness, it is only seven or eight hundred kilometers away from the Red Dragon Principality’s capital, monitor lizard city, and it is impossible for a large number of living corpses to exist.

Then, the "large number" mentioned by a few mercenaries probably refers to the bones in the fragments of the world.

"Going back tomorrow" means that the world is very fragmented and not too dangerous. They came back here to repair, replenish ammunition, and then explore.

In order to avoid alerting the other party, Chen Xing checked out and left after eating. But after that, he followed a few people secretly, determined the other's room, and then monitored it for a long time.

Finally, on the next night, several mercenaries drove away in the dark. Chen Xing bought a second cell phone car and traced it along the tracks. At the beginning of the day, I came to a ruined city.

These ruins are cities destroyed by nuclear bombs during the cataclysm,

The radiation intensity in the central area is still very high, and you need to wear protective clothing to get in. And when the radiation concentration in the body accumulates to a certain level, it is necessary to inject "Fordling" to neutralize the toxin.

The ruins in the morning light reveal an ancient vicissitudes of life.

Chen Xing slowed down and moved slowly between the gaps. On both sides are collapsed high-rise buildings, the walls are severely weathered and riddled with holes. The shade was covered with black moss, and it looked greasy, like black motor oil falling on the ground. These moss are called "black moss" and can produce effects similar to photosynthesis by absorbing radiation.

There were a few fresh car marks on the mud, and no traces of mutant creatures were found around, so they shouldn't be lost.

After a few kilometers, the car marks gradually disappeared. Someone should have dealt with it deliberately. Chen Xing stopped the locomotive, hid it in the collapsed building, and changed it to walking tracking.

More than ten minutes later, he climbed up a half-collapsed building, observed it with a telescope for a while, and found an off-road vehicle covered with grey cloth.

The other party's camouflage is done well, if the distance is too far, it is easy to be seen as a big rock.

Chen Xing knows very little about the fragments of this world. He just heard others talk about it during small talk. It is said that it was discovered by a few mercenaries at first, and then controlled by two mercenary groups, but the paper could not contain the fire. It was soon discovered by the senior officials of the Red Dragon Principality, and after a period of exploration, it was opened to the outside world.

The value of the same-source world depends on the advanced level of technology, because technology between humans is interoperable to a certain extent. Obviously, the technology of this world lags behind that of the clay world, otherwise it would not be open to the outside world.

According to news reports in the memory of retrospect, the internal space of this fragment of the world is large, but the strategic value is not large. After Crow City was burned down, the Red Dragon Principality urgently needed to fill the treasury to rebuild the city, so it used this method to stimulate tourism.

You know, when adventurers from all over the world come here to pan for gold, the benefits of food, clothing, housing and transportation are far greater than the development of fragments of this world. The so-called "collection craze" is probably also created by momentum. First, get a group of collectors to buy them at a high price, raise the price, and then wait for a group of silly adventurers to come and look for it, but in fact, in the final stage, these collections are unsalable, like scraps.

But anyway, to seize the opportunity and take the first bite is definitely the most delicious...