Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

"I don't know where he went!" Qin Feng also replied loudly, "Now all the equipment can't be used, and the communication system is completely paralyzed. We can't contact him!"

A fanatical believer of the True God Sect rushed into the gate. Just as Fu Yunlan and Qin Feng raised their guns, they saw that man was suddenly split in half obliquely, and even the steel assault rifle in his hand was neatly cut into pieces. cut open.

Beethoven held a long knife made of special metal. His whole body seemed to have been washed by blood, but it was all red blood. He obviously killed the enemy all the way in. He used brute force to force the computer-controlled The gate was pulled down and closed: "The outside can no longer be defended, and our soldiers are running out, what should we do?"

"... You must protect Celeste at all costs!" Fu Yunlan gritted her teeth, "Beethoven, take Celeste to the roof and leave by helicopter!"

"I don't know how to fly a helicopter!" Beethoven looked embarrassed.

"Cherister will, go!" Fu Yunlan said, "The others stay, as long as they can block, buy time for them!"

Qin Feng said: "You have to go too, you are our supreme military commander, neither you nor His Majesty can die! Go quickly, we will do our best to stop them!"

While they were talking, Beethoven had brought Celeste to the stairs, but he suddenly let out a scream, fell to the ground and began to roll around, Celeste squatted down in panic and supported Beethoven: "What’s wrong with you?"

Fu Yunlan only had time to turn her head and glance in Celeste's direction, when she heard a loud bang, the metal gate was knocked open by a chariot, and a large group of believers of the True God Sect came from the chariot and the gate. Fu Yunlan rushed in from the gap, and Fu Yunlan raised his weapon to fight them to the death, but was surprised to see that the roof of the chariot was opened, and He Xiao got out from the roof.

He smiled calmly: "You lost."

As he spoke, under Fu Yunlan's horrified eyes, he raised his gun and pointed it at Celeste on the stairs, and pulled the trigger.

After a "bang" gunshot, Fu Yunlan sat up suddenly, but he bumped his head against the roof of the simulation cabin while wearing a helmet, making him dizzy.

He eagerly took off his helmet, and through the translucent roof of the simulation cabin, he could see Celeste sitting at the table in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, eating snacks and playing with a holographic tablet computer, with the plate of raspberries in front of him. It didn't go down much.

He Xiao was sitting opposite him drinking coffee, and now he put down his coffee cup slowly and said, "Case, the roof of the simulation cabin needs to be raised by 35 centimeters, and it will be completed before tomorrow morning."

Case's voice said flatly: "It has joined the production sequence."

The simulation cabin was opened, and a robot scanned the cold sweat on his head, and thoughtfully handed over a tissue. Fu Yunlan took it and wiped his sweat, before crawling out with a little vain footsteps.

"It's over so soon." Thelister asked, "Is it fun?"

"It's not fun." Fu Yunlan looked at the safe and sound Celeste, but felt her throat dry, "Everything is very...real, it feels very bad."

I can still vividly see the blood splatter after Celeste was shot.

"You lost after only 5 minutes." Celeste asked, "Is the simulation training too difficult?"

"To be precise, it was 3 minutes and 13 seconds. It took him a lot of time to fall asleep."

"Only 3 minutes?" Fu Yunlan asked in surprise, "Why do I feel like it's been a long time?"

He Xiao explained: "Many people have had this feeling. When they are half asleep and half awake, it seems that time will slow down. In fact, time itself does not change. What changes is the brain's perception of time. This simulation cabin uses this The principle is that by stimulating the brain and guiding people to dream in a half-asleep and half-awake state, people can complete a lot of training in dreams in less time."

"It seems very interesting, can I play?" Celeste asked impatiently.

"Go, I just need to share the training results with our general."

A good title, when He Xiao said it, it carried a meaning that made Fu Yunlan uncomfortable. He sat down in Celeste's seat, bit the bullet and waited to be ridiculed.

"There is something certain about your performance just now. When the situation was unfavorable, you decisively abandoned everything and gave priority to protecting important targets. At least you didn't make any major strategic mistakes." He Xiao first affirmed his performance, " So, do you realize where you lost?"

"I don't know anything about the situation of this base or the rules of the game... I was attacked completely unprepared." Fu Yunlan was a little unconvinced by the loss.

At this time yesterday, he was still leading his subordinates to conduct an uncertain search on the sea. Today, in this base that looks like a time travel, he was forced to become a general, and he was unprepared. Under such circumstances, it is necessary to shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending the camp, and it is not surprising that they will lose in a complete mess.

"Yes, you don't know enough about your own army. I gave you time to find out, but you came to find Celeste in a hurry, as if you were afraid that if you missed one, I would abduct him." He Xiao ruthlessly pointed at the core.

"I'm not..." Fu Yunlan subconsciously wanted to deny it, but he stopped after saying only three words. It was meaningless to argue with He Xiao on such a question, he said unconvinced: "... Let’s not talk about this, you can just disrupt the communication and the robot, and even open a portal in the base directly, this cheat is too rogue.”

"It's really rogue, but all of the things that Case simulated are likely to happen in the war." He Xiao said, "The Devourer's use of the four-dimensional space is still in a bottleneck period. As their technological level continues to improve, the portal you saw in the simulation training may appear in front of you at any time, what are you going to do then, to protest the 'unfairness' with the Devourer?"

"If this simulation training is to restore the real battlefield as much as possible, then why don't you help at all, and Celeste doesn't do anything, it's not reasonable at all." Fu Yunlan realized at that time Everything is virtual, because the real Celeste will never just shrink behind him in such a panic. Even if he doesn't stand up and direct the battle without changing his face, he will definitely raise his weapon and shoot the enemy one by one.

"In a real battle, I'm afraid I have to use most of my energy to contain the interference of the Devourer, just to prevent him from hitting himself with our robot, or issuing false orders through our communication equipment. I'm doing my best, and you can't expect me to help you in other areas." He Xiao said, "As for Celeste, I have to admit that Case doesn't know enough about his behavior patterns. Maybe in actual combat he He will behave more assertively, but during training, in order to prevent you from being dominated by him, Case will continue to let him continue this behavior pattern of not caring about anything. After all, the purpose of simulation training is to train your commanding ability, and Not the character that Case simulated in training."

"...Okay." Fu Yunlan said annoyedly, "I'm not capable enough, so I have nothing to say."

"Since you also know that your ability is insufficient, from today onwards, you have to take 4 hours of theoretical courses and 6 hours of simulation training every day." He smiled and said, "Case has drawn up teaching materials for you based on your knowledge. I hope the intensity of learning will not make you collapse."

"I'll just follow your arrangement." Fu Yunlan said with some discomfort.

"Very well, the next training will be very hard, but you have to understand that from the moment I brought Celeste to the base, the Devourer has already begun to prepare for the next all-out war, when will you Only if you can defeat Case with the help of Mars, can you defeat the army commanded by the Devourer with my help. If you can't, then our battle with the Devourer will only speed up the process of human extinction."

"You set the conditions so harsh...do I really have a chance of winning?" Fu Yunlan asked with some doubts.

"How can there be no chance of winning? I haven't prepared for nothing these years. The soldiers in the base are much better than the soldiers of the True God Cult in terms of individual combat ability. It's just that after the command system is paralyzed, they have no chance to display their combat effectiveness. , I also assume that the portal of the Devourer can be disturbed and closed by us, so the number of enemies you need to face is limited. In addition, you still have some very useful chess pieces in your hand, such as Mars and Beethoven, if not Idle by you, they can play a role beyond your imagination." He Xiao smiled and said, "Just right, Celeste just repeated your training course, you can share your experience with him. "

Fu Yunlan followed his gaze and turned to look. The simulation cabin opened, and Celeste took off his helmet and climbed out.

"How is it?" Fu Yunlan walked over and asked.

Celeste said flatly, "I won."

"..." Fu Yunlan was left speechless.

"This time the conditions are set relatively simple, and your thinking and reaction are quick, so it is not surprising that you can win." He Xiao said, "Unfortunately, it is useless for you to win. Your behavior pattern is very similar to mine, and it is easy to be devoured." Guess right, when Fu Yunlan can win the simulation training, we will really have a chance of winning. Human thinking is always flawed, but sometimes the flaw is an advantage."

"Lan, you have to work hard." Celeste went to play with the holographic projection tablet again. He gestured with his fingers on the 3D image and said to He Xiao enthusiastically, "I suddenly have an idea about the devourer. The opened portal may not be a plane, but a sphere..."

Celeste has never been very concerned about other people's feelings, so Fu Yunlan was left aside again in embarrassment. He sighed, stood up and walked towards the holographic simulation cabin.