This Game Is Too Realistic-Chapter 447.3: Hundred Year Old Lonely Fella

In the year 2173, the 44th year of the Wasteland Era, the second trigger event occurred. The production department anticipated the inevitable disintegration of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee and unilaterally announced the Among Clouds Province Revival Act through the well-established Ideal City.

This act stipulated the four strategic cooperative defense zones of the Among Cloud Province. The mountains, the islands, the inner lake, and the mouth of the lake, four strategic locations, along with the Northern Cloud, Upper Cloud, and Lower Cloud Municipality[1], with the additional Industrial Zones 1 and 2 would be jointly owned by all survivor settlements in the Among Cloud Province.

It seemed like a peaceful initiative and was also reasonable, but in reality, they had other motives.

On the night the act was enacted, numerous armed forces, in the name of Enterprise, set out from Ideal City and quickly took over all the research institutes of the committee's technical department on the East Coast, as well as the pre-war civilization relics that were under development.

Both sides engaged in fierce gunfire within some research facilities.

The Academy's armed forces, which had been established for a short time and were not strong enough, still caused significant trouble for the forces of Enterprise due to their investment in large amounts of high-tech equipment and AI-controlled pre-war weapons.

Although the Enterprise eventually failed, many research facilities were destroyed.

For example, the experimental facility engaged in the Singularity-level technology of a complete lifeform research was reduced to ashes in that conflict.

The result not only led to the complete loss of the technology's original components, but also caused some unstable DNA experimental subjects to escape into the wasteland, some moving along the coastline, others migrating toward the desert.

Those experimental subjects who wandered into the wasteland later became known as mutants.

Although the conflict was nominally under the names of Enterprise and Ideal City without the involvement of the production department, the researchers of the technical department were not fools.

Taking the event as an opportunity, Dr. Conclusion immediately announced the dissolution of the technical department, not only taking over all the survivor settlements in the Wandering Swamp under the name of the Academy but also permanently cutting off all technical support outside, even deleting the database in the Great Rift Valley.

Especially the parts about the coordinates of pre-war civilization relics.

From then on, the Army, Enterprise, and Academy stepped onto the stage of history.

And the defense department, production department, and technical department that had completed the asset transfer successively dropped their historical baggage and happily announced their dissolution.

Having lost three major departments, the Post-War Reconstruction Committee, which had been running for 44 years, was virtually defunct. They were powerless to support the various survivor settlements across the regions.

By the year 2174, the 45th year of the Wasteland Era...

Faced with an empty conference table, the Post-War Reconstruction Committee also finally took the last step and formally declared dissolution.

From then on, each settlement no longer needed to abide by the temporary constitution set by the committee, nor accept the committee's management.

Conversely, each settlement needed to find its own path forward, solving its own survival issues amid the endless winter and invasions by mutants.

In their final statement, the chairman of the committee still expressed hope that the management of each settlement would not forget their mission and help their fellow citizens as much as possible within their capabilities.

At that time, no one knew...

Just five years after the Post-War Reconstruction Committee declared its dissolution, signs of recovery began to appear. The long nuclear winter also ended to the surprise of many, and declining species began to proliferate on this land once more.

Thus, the Army, Academy, and Enterprise each entered a period of development, and the Wasteland Era transitioned from the ‘Committee Era’ to the ‘Shelter Era’ that lasted half a century.

With the climate reaching the preset standards, the shelters gradually opened their doors. The old popsicles who had been sleeping for some time emerged. They stepped onto the stage that was a wasteland.

Although the plan had deviated from its expected course from the start, most shelters neither found the now-dissolved Post-War Reconstruction Committee nor managed to keep surface affairs as orderly as within the shelters.

But those people, who were out of place in the current era, still managed to inject a strong stimulant into the declining world in a short time, using knowledge from the Prosperity Era and mysterious items like black boxes to help some wastelanders through the dark days without the Post-War Reconstruction Committee.

What surprised Chu Guang was that those secrets were just laid out on the bookshelves in the Great Rift Valley’s lounge, available for anyone to browse.

What surprised him even more was that the old neighbor to the north of the alliance was actually the predecessor of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee!

"No... It's not completely unexpected." Chu Guang carefully recalled the segment of the holographic image left by Dr. Principle that he and Yin Fang had seen before, and connected the clues collected by the Death Corps with it.

"In the 2nd year of the Wasteland Era, delayed by two years, Dr. Principle, under the escort of Captain Zhao Weisheng of the 111th Orbital Airborne Division, traveled with more than 1,000 survivors to the Great Rift Valley to meet with comrades from the Post-War Reconstruction Committee."

"According to the description in the holographic image, at that time, the Great Rift Valley was already under the control of the 111th Orbital Airborne Division... In other words, was the precursor to the Army actually deployed in the River Valley Province?"

He even saved one of the three founders of the Academy?

Looking at the materials recovered by the players and the events of the past century, Chu Guang's heart was filled with mixed emotions.

When Shelter 404 was closed, so much had happened outside...

That moment, he also finally understood Dr. Principle's feelings, why that guy would seclude himself in Shelter 101.

If one were to be backstabbed by teammates twice in a row, their state of mind probably wouldn't be very good, especially since the second stab was for a useless reason.

But from the standpoint of the now-dissolved defense and production departments, they certainly had their reasons.

‘I shed blood and sweat to help you discover relics, and you don't even want to touch the clone technology I discovered? Fine! I'll do it myself. Since you're definitely going to split up in the future, why can't the person who makes the first move be me?’

Looking at the last page in the holographic image, Chu Guang couldn't help but think of the New Alliance.

Both he and the New Alliance were very young, but he would age one day, and human capabilities had limits. He couldn't always keep up with the changes of the times.

The world of players was also moving forward, and because of the technological support from the shelters, their progress would be faster than normal, quickly entering the Prosperity Era.

By then... Wasteland Online would face new challenges.

"... No matter what, the New Alliance will not follow in the Committee's footsteps." Muttering softly, Chu Guang stretched out his index finger and drew in the air, turning off the floating window in front of him.

He always had a strong sense of deja vu.

It seemed he had said similar words before.

The next second, a light blue interface suddenly appeared in front of him without warning.

[Emergency Mission!]

[Description: The morphogenic field has detected a murated individual, triggering ‘flag6’ judgment. Player ID: Falling Feather has login permissions temporarily frozen.]

[Requirement: Highest priority! Coordinates updated to the map. Please retrieve his body as soon as possible and place them anesthetized on the conveyor belt in level B1.]

[Mission Reward: Level B6]

It had been a long time since such a mission popup appeared, and Chu Guang almost didn't recognize it when it suddenly did.

When he saw the mission reward, he was even more stunned.

Level B6? Wait a minute...

Isn't B5 layer still locked? Why is it skipped?

But what concerned him more was the description of that emergency mission.

"... Mutated individual?!"

What is that?

Chu Guang was stunned for a few seconds, then started speaking to his ‘cute’ little assistant. "Little Seven, immediately sync the latest coordinates received to my VM."

"Hmm... Got it!"

The coordinates quickly appeared on the map.

Fortunately, it was located in Lost Valley.

Seeing the coordinates, Chu Guang was even more baffled.

He clearly remembered that a nuclear bomb had just exploded there a few hours ago.

Even if a player wanted to see what it felt like to be bombed by a nuclear bomb, they couldn't possibly survive a direct hit, right?

No fucking way you can cheat, right?!

And just as Chu Guang was wondering what had happened, a tragic howl suddenly erupted on the official forum.

- WHAT THE FUCK!

- I was counting down! Why isn't the respawn timer moving?!

1. Ya, first time getting a clearer picture, will change their names in the future ☜