Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

The simulation cabin greatly slows down the progress of time, making every day of "imprisonment" extremely long, but Fu Yunlan doesn't have to worry about being bored at all, because the simulation cabin can perfectly simulate the pre-war world, even completely fictionalized world.

The artificial intelligence system's imagination is very bad, but humans before the war left countless stories and worldview settings in animation, novels, movies, and games, enough for him to play for hundreds of years without repeating the same.

The artificial intelligence system can also simulate the customs of any place and any era. The guardians have recorded the history of human civilization in great detail, and the restored ancient scenery is much more real than what human archaeologists know.

What's more, Thurlist also spends a lot of time with him in the virtual world.

They ate delicious food in the night market of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, watched the construction sites of the Pyramid and the Sphinx, participated in the singing and dancing festival of the grassland people as honored guests, and watched the exploration of the New World by sailing boats in the age of great voyages. .

After seeing enough human history, they began to play role-playing in the fictional history. Celeste established a huge empire spanning Eurasia. Fu Yunlan fought for him as a general. The AI ​​control of the enemy is somewhat challenging and just enough for them to win, so that the two of them can play endlessly.

After getting tired of playing alternate history, they went to a more illusory world, sometimes wandering in the fantasy world, the knight Fu Yunlan rode a dragon to fight in the sky, the elf mage Celeste assisted him with magic, and sometimes Adventure in the world, and by the way, stage a forbidden love between immortals and demons that the whole world opposes.

Celeste also brought him to see other advanced civilizations in the universe. Those life forms that are completely different from humans are beyond Fu Yunlan's imagination. He also saw what the Devourer said, "Love is true union". On a certain planet, if there is a kind of advanced intelligent life that loves each other with another kind, they will combine into one body in a grand ceremony after arranging the aftermath, and then split into dozens or hundreds of offspring with the characteristics of both sides. Love and death are the end of their lives.

For some reason, Fu Yunlan was a little envious of them.

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If it weren't for the fact that he had to come out of the virtual cabin every now and then to solve his physical problems in reality, Fu Yunlan would have played so much that he almost forgot who he was.

But Celeste gradually noticed something abnormal.

Fu Yunlan's mentality seemed to be changing.

For him, this change may be so subtle that it is almost imperceptible, but the simulation cabin can only increase the speed of human brain thinking between half-dream and half-awake, making people feel that time is slowing down. For the guardian, this kind of thinking speed is already close to It is useless for extreme species, so in Celeste's view, Fu Yunlan's changes are very obvious.

In the process of achieving their goals of "saving the world" one after another, Fu Yunlan often loses the compassion and patience of the past. Massacre the city and exterminate the clan.

This was simply unimaginable for the kind and rational him in the past.

Celeste tried to understand his change. After all, no matter how real the characters in the virtual world look, they are just a combination of data. Only when Fu Yunlan needs such a character to appear in front of him, they will It will be temporarily fabricated by Mars. In places Fu Yunlan did not see, their memories and lives do not exist. All fears and sorrows are just the results of Mars's calculations. Even if they are all killed, they only need to start over. game, they will refresh again.

Fu Yunlan knew this, so even if he showed no mercy to NPCs, it wasn't really a vicious act.

Even so, Celeste and He Xiao felt a little uneasy about Yun Lan's mental state.

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Fu Yunlan was unaware of this, and after traveling in the virtual world for an unknown number of years, he returned to Hummingbird Town.

He has experienced all kinds of wonderful lives in countless worlds, but in the end, the poor days in Hummingbird Town are still the ones he misses the most.

Celeste had a great time playing this nostalgic game with him.

Fu Yunlan was flipping through the handwritten paper reports on his desk. The Hurricane Mercenary Corps now has more than 100 well-trained mercenaries. It is undoubtedly the largest mercenary force in the wasteland. As long as he is willing to , he can attack any nearby survivor force at any time, but Fu Yunlan still wants to accumulate some strength.

He was issuing a series of administrative orders when a reminder popped up directly in his mind that the real Thurlist had come online, replacing the imposter that Case had simulated.

Fu Yunlan immediately left the work at hand to find Celeste.

In fact, in reality, Celeste only left for a few hours to deal with other matters, but for Yun Lan, this was a long parting, enough to make him feel more joyful than a new wedding.

When he arrived, Thelister was haggling with some scavengers.

"The quality of these lead weights is not good, and I can only pay you [-]% of your salary at most." Celeste just glanced at the goods they brought and made a judgment.

"What, we risked our lives and worked so hard to pick up these scrap metals, but you told us that we can only pay [-]%?" Maybe seeing Celeste's appearance is easier to bully, a scavenger snapped Get off the table and stand up aggressively.

Celeste didn't panic at all, and snapped his fingers: "Beethoven."

"Come on!" Beethoven, who was hanging upside down on the beam and listening to music, turned over and fell down, cleaned up the scavengers and threw them out, and threw out a bag of promised rewards. The scavengers were almost scared Embarrassed, he scrambled and ran away.

Old Hunter called the workers over to take the scrap metal for smelting. As a technical assistant on the construction site, he was always much busier than the master. Celeste didn't feel a bit guilty about squeezing the old man's surplus labor. Just leave all the work behind, hug Fu Yunlan's arms and go home with him.

Fu Yunlan was smiling all the way, listening to Celeste chatting about some trivial things: "It seems that I haven't made any progress in the past few days after I left temporarily. There are still not enough workers. The refugees who have been attracted recently are healthy The temperature is too low, a lot of food will be wasted, and it will take a long time to work. According to this work progress, it will take more than half a year to build a robot production line."

Fu Yunlan looked at him tenderly: "It's okay to take your time."

"I shouldn't have invested all my resources in such a difficult project at the beginning. Although it can develop rapidly after it is built, it is too hard in the early stage. If I put those resources If it is used to develop low-end technologies such as pure water and electric tools, the population and food of Hummingbird Town will at least double several times."

Fu Yunlan smiled and stroked his soft hair: "Since it's already half built, let's keep going."

"Well, of course." Celeste followed him to the Crimson Bar, "What do you want to eat tonight?"

As soon as Miriam saw them, she greeted them happily: "Are you shopping for ingredients again? The farm just sent a batch of fresh vegetables over. Seeing that Lan is still so handsome today, you can get a [-]% discount. "

Fu Yunlan took a look, and there was such a rare thing as beef in the food bar.

Some old memories about delicious food came to mind, Fu Yunlan said, "Let's have steak tonight."

"But beef is so expensive." Celeste calculated, "A meal of steak can eat half a box of bullets for the mercenary regiment, or ten days' rations for the workers."

"It's okay, I'll go and kill a few gangsters."

"Alright then." Celeste graciously bought the beef back home.

On the way back, the garrison captain Li Kailin greeted them with a smile. Because of the deterrent force of the mercenary group, the security level of Hummingbird Town has been maintained at a relatively high level. The number of manpower has been reduced a lot, but Li Kailin has no complaints and is dedicated to her duties as always.

They still lived in that two-story building. Fu Yunlan planned not to consider moving until he unified the entire wasteland. He liked this dilapidated building, after all, he had his best memories here.

Celeste put on an apron with a bear pattern and was frying steak in the kitchen. Fu Yunlan walked in following the scent and hugged his waist from behind.

"Don't make trouble." Celeste writhed restlessly in his arms, "The steak will burn."

"I don't do anything, just look at it." Fu Yunlan rubbed her face on his shoulder, smelling the sweet smell of butter, and for some reason said something mysteriously: "After all, no one else has this It's an honor to have the steak fried by His Majesty himself."

Celeste smiled and turned to kiss him: "Is it really okay for you to act like this?"

Fu Yunlan smiled softly: "Anyway, this is not the real world. Here, no matter what I do, right or wrong, there will be no consequences, will there be?"

"It's not good for you to think that way." Celeste finally decided to talk to him about this issue, "You seem to be taking other people's lives less and less seriously recently. Although they are only simulated by data, their voices and smiles are all They are no different from normal people, if you get used to treating them like nothing, will you become a cruel and ruthless person when you return to real life one day?"

"Back to real life?" Fu Yunlan smiled uncomfortably, "In real life, I can only stay in that luxurious cell forever, anyway, I will never be free again, what else do I have? scruples."

Celeste shook his head: "Don't think so, as long as we figure out the means of the Devourer..."

"That's enough." Fu Yunlan interrupted Celeste impatiently, "I'm not stupid, how could a high-ranking guardian waste precious energy for the freedom of a mere human being? Just lie to yourself."

Celeste looked at him in astonishment as if he suddenly didn't recognize him.

"Why, have you never seen me get angry?" Fu Yunlan sneered, "I have always restrained my temper in front of you, for fear of scaring you, so you think I am someone who will never get angry no matter what you do person?"