Chapter 137: A new journey

"Hey, hello, Cooper, can you hear it?" Qi Lin called Cooper for the first time after leaving the 404 base through the communicator connected to the power armor.
"...Whis...you can hear...whis...but since most of the facilities at the base are closed...the signal received is not very good now..."
"How long will this situation last?"
"...His...After repairing part of the reactor, I...his... will give priority to the signal amplifier and the receiving tower...his... it takes about a week..."
"Okay, I see." Qi Lin shut down the communication, and then slowly looked around in a circle wearing power armor.
Now Thunder City has been besieged by the tide of beasts. Although the mutant creatures cannot enter Thunder City, the entrance to Thunder City will be destroyed. If you want to return to Thunder City, you must go in a big circle and bypass that one. The rift in the abyss.
However, Qi Lin does not intend to return to Thunder City. It is a very dangerous move to stay in a city besieged by the beast wave. No one knows which day the beast wave will engulf the entire city-no matter whether it is bypassing the gap. , Or from some other route. In the game world of level two difficulty, no one knows how high the ai of these mutant creatures has been.
Therefore, Qi Lin's next destination is a coastal bay not far from here, and the name of that bay is the famous "Hangzhou Bay" in the old times.
During the war, the entire Hangzhou Bay was turned into a giant military port, and in the "Wasteland Survival Code", the players gathered in this port rely on a sky-class super ship that was stranded there in the old days. The aircraft carrier "Jiangzhe" has built a city no less than Thunder City.
The "Jiangzhe" super aircraft carrier is one of the largest sky-class aircraft carriers in China in the old age. It is known as a mobile fortress on the sea. It is more than 1,000 meters in length and has a maximum displacement of more than 400,000 tons... and relying on this abandoned ship The city built by the super aircraft carrier was named the "City of Steel" by the wasteland players!
Within just one week of the establishment of the City of Steel, more than 100,000 players have gathered. There is no other reason, just because the actual control of the City of Steel is held by an organization called the "New Era Mutual Aid Association". in.
This "New Era Mutual Aid Association" is said to be a religious organization founded by an English priest in China. The main purpose of this organization is similar to that of the church of the old age. They both promote the existence of a supreme and require the members of the mutual aid association to treat everyone with love, equality, friendliness and integrity on the premise of maintaining absolute piety to the Lord God. .
The Mutual Aid Association publicizes the need to open up a pure land on the wasteland, so that every player, rich or poor, high or low, can have equal status and rights, so that everyone has the guarantee that they can survive on the wasteland.
Because of this, the Mutual Aid Association gathered a large number of fanatical believers in just a few days.
In this wasteland where many people can't see tomorrow and hope, a religious organization that pops up suddenly can naturally make up for the confusion and emptiness in these people's hearts.
The two cities, the City of Steel and Thunder City, are also currently the two cities with the largest scale and the largest number of players in the southeast coast of China.
Moreover, according to the chats of some players on the World Radio Channel, some ships have been repaired in the City of Steel, and it will not take long before sea routes can be opened.
Although the radiation also affects the creatures in the sea to some extent, the powerful marine mutant creatures almost all stay in the deep sea area. In this case, it is just that the routes of coastal navigation are much safer than those on the ground.
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Qi Lin is somewhat skeptical about the true face of this "New Era Mutual Aid Association". On the wasteland, if someone like that really exists, then it is simply the reincarnation of the Virgin... But no matter how you look at it, Qi Lin I feel that this mutual aid association is certainly not as simple and simple as it seems.
But in any case, at least on the surface, the City of Steel and the New Era Mutual Aid Association have played a role of advocating justice in the wasteland. At least unlike some other cities that use high-pressure methods to rule, they will destroy most of the players in the city. All become slaves without human rights.
After simply packing up his equipment, Qi Lin quickly found a still-driving van in an abandoned town a few kilometers away.
Carrying the power armor into the cargo hold, Qi Lin got into the cab-although this car, not to mention the Hummer he just lost, can't even compare with the off-road vehicle he looted, but it is still one It's a means of transportation, otherwise, Qi Lin can't wear a power armor and go across most of Jiangsu Province.
However, before Qi Lin drove a few kilometers, he found a large group of refugee players in ragged clothes, carrying all kinds of big bags, and holding simple "weapons" such as wooden sticks and farm tools in their hands.
There are about 20 or 30 of these players. The oldest of them has white hair and beard, while the youngest is only in their early tens. According to Refuge Decree No. 153, children under the age of 8 do not need to enter the game, so this is almost the youngest player Qi Lin can see.
Hearing the sound of the truck, each of these players turned their heads. Several of the younger and more powerful players furiously waved their arms towards Qi Lin, shouting something in their mouths.
Qi Lin drove the truck closer, but he did not stop, but gradually slowed down the speed of the car. At this time, a man who looked like the leader of this team ran leaning over and said to Qi Lin out of breath. : "Hey, brother...brother, can you give us... a ride? We... can... pay!"
"Hitchhiking? Where are you going?" Leaning on the window, Qi Lin glanced at him and asked indifferently.
"Steel... The City of Steel! Do you know! It is said that you can join the mutual aid association there... and you can... have food and shelter... and... and... clean hot water... you can take a bath? !"
Seeing that this player was almost out of breath, Qi Lin finally stepped on the brake.
"Have food and shelter? Can you take a bath? Where were you before? Who told you this information?"
"...Hu...hu..." The other party first leaned on his knees with both hands, gasped violently, and then said: "We have traveled a long distance from Hui Province, and our settlements and land have been destroyed by mutant creatures. Now, there are more than one hundred people, and there is only so little left when they walk here... As for the mutual aid association, a person who passed by our settlement and claimed to be a "missionary" told us."
Settlement? Qi Lin looked at this person’s clothes, but didn’t doubt what he said—in the game, not all slum players gathered in big cities like Thunder City, and more, they were in the wilderness. Large and small settlements have been established in places where the radiation concentration is low, and live by hunting some low-level mutant creatures and planting some good-feeding crops such as potatoes.
Such a settlement with basically no combat power, often a few mutant creatures that are less than f-rank, can be easily destroyed.
But the "missionary" made Qi Lin a little interested... Does this "New Era Mutual Aid Association" really want to develop into a religion like Christianity in the old age?
"How can you be sure ~ EbookFREE.me~ that the missionary must be true?" Qi Lin asked.
"Someone in our settlement has unlocked the World Radio Channel, and we have also paid special attention to it. This is true! As long as you join a mutual aid association, your life can be guaranteed. There is no need to worry about food and mutant creatures!" It seems that Qi Lin is not convinced. The player said very excitedly.
"Oh? Are these all free? Did the missionary say that after joining the mutual aid association, what needs you to do?" Qi Lin continued to ask.
"This..." the other party recalled for a while, and then said, "First, we must maintain our devotion to the'Master God', and second, we must unconditionally obey the requirements of the Mutual Aid Association's president, that is, the'Archbishop'... Other... Others seem to The man did not say."
"Then what if the archbishop wants you to die? Do you obey?"
Qi Lin's question made the man stunned for a moment, and then the man laughed immediately: "Brother, stop joking, the archbishop is a saint, why would let us die? I think you must have also unlocked the World Radio Channel. , You can just turn on the brain and take a look. There are more than 100,000 people in the City of Steel. Almost all of them have joined the mutual aid association. Can’t those more than 100,000 be fools!"