Chapter 478 Should We Let that Guy Fang Chang Come up with Bad Ideas? (1/2)
On a tracked vehicle.
Medics and mechanical engineers are busy treating injured teammates.
Looking at the captain who hung up the phone, the deputy captain sitting in the driver's seat immediately asked.
"What did the superior say?"
His name is Song Changfeng, and familiar team members call him Lao Song. This old man worked in the Beacon Team a long time ago.
Zheng Hao was silent for a while and then said.
"The original mission was cancelled. The Containment Planning Team of the Investigation Department asked us to stand by near the crash site. If the opponent moves, follow them, but don't act rashly to avoid a firefight..."
Everyone's expressions changed slightly.
Lao Song asked cautiously.
"How close?"
"Let us decide for ourselves."
After hearing this, many people breathed a sigh of relief.
Except Lao Song.
Seeing that there was nothing more to say from the captain, he continued to ask anxiously.
"Where are the reinforcements?"
Zheng Hao looked out the window at the reed marsh.
"Didn't say."
It was quiet inside the tracked vehicle, and fell into silence again.
Although the superiors did not say it clearly, it was obvious that they had given up on them and the captured prisoners.
As for the reason...
Not saying it means that they don't need to know based on their permission.
The medic silently bandaged the wounded man lying on the stretcher and replaced the spare prosthesis. He had seen too many such situations.
Song Changfeng punched the steering wheel hard.
"Oh shit!"
Jiang Xuezhou, who was sitting in the back row, slowly closed his eyes, lowered his head and whispered softly.
"I said... we didn't have to exchange fire."
Zheng Hao silently lit a cigarette and replied lightly.
"Do you think I have a choice?"
He was right to give the order to attack, but it was not his alone.
It's just that he can't tell his teammates what the specific tasks assigned to him by his superiors are.
At the academy, it is a serious disciplinary offense for a senior staff member to disclose information inconsistent with permissions to "unauthorized" lower-level staff, and will be punished regardless of whether the impact is substantial.
All units only know what they need to know to ensure the efficient operation of the entire system. To avoid mistakes, senior people may even reduce communication with junior people.
He doesn't care if the rules are reasonable.
In the academy, even the lowest G-level personnel and even newly accepted apprentices can live a prosperous life in the ivory tower built by the academy based on the standard of "academic preferential treatment".
For the survivors born in the wandering swamp, becoming a prospector in the academy is almost the only way to escape ignorance, poverty and barbarism.
Although the science and technology committee led by the college has given them some advanced technologies, it is not free.
Although many survivor settlements have received relatively advanced production technologies, the improved productivity has not enriched their material and spiritual lives.
To be honest, Zheng Hao no longer yearned for that ivory tower as much as he did when he was a child, and he had already passed the age of receiving higher education.
If he fails to pass the professional examination and becomes a researcher, he will end up as a D-level prospector in his life.
But it was absolutely impossible for him to accept the idea of returning to the original settlement of survivors and living a primitive life.
Therefore he cannot make a mistake no matter what.
It took a lot of effort to get to this point, and at least he had to keep his D-class status.
He didn't like the road under his feet.
But since you have chosen, you have to accept it.
…
Since the Beta 0.4 version update, Chu Guang saw that players had good feedback on the new function of submitting and receiving tasks on the official website, so he asked Xiao Qi to further update this function.
Now players can not only receive and submit tasks on the official website task interface, but can even update the task status in real time in the text dialog box of the task window.
This feature is not mandatory, but only provides players with more options when the original task is difficult to continue or almost impossible to complete.
After all, in the wild where the alliance signal cannot cover, any emergency situation is possible.
Chu Guang knew very well that he was just an ordinary person, not an omniscient and omnipotent god, and could not predict every possible situation perfectly.
And his limited energy does not allow him to do this.
Sometimes Chu Guang himself would be confused for two or three seconds, not to mention the players being confused.
For example now...
Chu Guang was in a state of confusion.
He just sent someone to pick up the mother body on the edge of Luoxia Province.
Why did you mess with the academy?
Although it was not his plane that crashed, the war in Luoxia Province was at a critical stage at the moment. It might not be a good idea to provoke the academy before the legion's problem was solved.
Apart from saying "Well done", he really couldn't figure out how to respond to the little player who went to the official website to "report on his work".
However, the confusion lasted only half a minute. Chu Guang soon changed his mind and realized that things might not be as bad as he thought.
A wanted D-class personnel has been living in his place for almost a year, and he hasn't seen a second wave of bounty hunters coming for his head.
Just a few E-class personnel died in the wasteland. A college with a big family and a big business may not take it seriously.
What really concerned Chu Guang was another thing.
"...Are you here for Xiao Yu?"
Chu Guang pressed his eyebrows, thinking about countermeasures.
Xiaoyu is the key to solving the problem of the B6-level mother nest. It cannot be handed over under any circumstances. It must be moved from the college's power projection range to a safe place as soon as possible before the college's top management makes a decision.
However, the trouble now is that on the one hand, the company does not want anything to happen to the pilot, but on the other hand, it is unwilling to take the risk of the rescue failure.
They hope the alliance will send airborne troops to rescue the people.
However, Chu Guang wanted to say——
Then why don't you send a few more transport planes over?
The alliance's airborne troops can set off at any time, but it is impossible to fly more than a thousand kilometers away by themselves and then run back on two legs.
This is too silly!
At this moment, Xiao Qi, who was sitting on the desk, raised her head and said in a pleasant voice.
"Master, the representative of the company has just arrived at the airport and he wants to see you."
Chu Guang thought for a moment and then said.
"Let him come up."
"okay."
The Heart of Steel lowered its elevator.
Yi Chuan, who had just gotten off the transport plane, quickly arrived on the Heart of Steel.
Hearing the footsteps outside the door, Chu Guang grabbed Xiao Qi who was sitting on the desk and stuffed it into the drawer regardless of the latter's aggrieved voice.
Almost at the same time, there was a knock on the door.
Chu Guang cleared his throat and said.
"Please come in."
The door opened, and Yi Chuan walked in eagerly. Without even saying a word of greeting, he went straight to the point.
"Any news on our pilots?"
Chu Guang: "I assure you, both of you are still fine."
Yi Chuan immediately asked with fiery eyes.
"Can you contact them?"
Chu Guang looked away with a subtle expression.
"It's not quite accurate to be able to contact... but we do have an indirect long-distance communication method that can transmit some vague information, just like your homing pigeons, but it doesn't allow you to communicate face-to-face with the two pilots. That’s it.”
Chu Guang had a headache when he explained this problem. To be honest, no one would believe it. However, he really couldn't make up any reliable reason.
The Burning Corps actually carries a radio with extremely powerful power that can even break through the environmental restrictions of Luoxia Province?
joke.
How could the company itself know what he stuffed on the company's plane?
Hearing this vague statement, Yi Chuan frowned, but did not continue to dwell on this issue.
Everyone has their own secrets.
It is neither realistic nor polite to ask the other party to confess unilaterally.
Taking a deep breath, he stared at Chu Guang and returned to the topic.
"The spokesperson of the Supreme Council has promised the public before that we will not let our non-combatants appear on the front line, but in fact we have broken the bottom line for you several times...including previously at Camp 530, including previously at 7 Highway, including—"
Chu Guang coughed lightly.
"Rather than breaking through the bottom line, I prefer to call it flexibility. And every time, unexpected progress has been made, right?"
"But not this time!" Yi Chuan continued with a stiff expression, "We two pilots fell on the edge of the Wandering Swamp! You promised me that those non-combatants will not be in danger!"
Chu Guang explained.
"Anything can happen on the battlefield, let alone outside the battlefield. Who knows, people from the academy will suddenly attack your plane. At least our soldiers saved your pilot."
Yi Chuan's expression froze.
"College?"
Chu Guang said softly without any good intentions.
"Besides the academy, who else can shoot down your plane without anyone noticing? You can ask your pilots about this...when they come back."
In fact, he has more direct evidence to prove that the academy shot down their plane. For example, the simplest one is the four prisoners captured by the players.
However, he is not sure about the attitude of enterprises towards the college.
The importance of pilots' lives does not conflict with the company's cautious diplomatic strategy. One is a consideration of interests, and the other is a consideration of risks.
Personal feelings may be impressed by three seconds of memory, but collective decision-making must be based on the consideration of multiple factors.
So he planned to test the attitude of his allies first.
Yi Chuan was silent for a while, as if he didn't intend to talk more about this issue.
"... Put aside the academy matters for now. No matter what, you must ensure that the safety of our pilots is the first priority."
Seeing Yi Chuan's expression, Chu Guang raised his eyebrows slightly.
What surprised him was that the company representative didn't have much reaction to this. His expression seemed... not even too surprised?
It seems that there should be a lot of friction between colleges and enterprises.
But think about it, the world is so vast, and it’s not just Luoxia Province. Maybe it’s not impossible that the college and the company still have entanglements in other areas that they don’t know about.
Realizing that the company probably didn't want to cause trouble with the academy, Chu Guang didn't continue to fight, but returned to the issue of rescuing the pilots.
Looking at Yi Chuan seriously, Chu Guangyi said righteously.
"Mr. Yichuan, do you mean that the life safety of alliance residents is not important? I must remind you that we are allies in the same trench as you, not your employees."
"I didn't mean that." Seeing that Chu Guang misunderstood what he meant, Yi Chuan hurriedly explained, dumbfounded, "Every life is important, and of course the residents of the alliance are too... No more beating around the bush, I'll just say it straight, Director We promised to the residents of Ideal City that we would not put non-combatants in danger, but the reporter from Ideal City Daily got wind of it from somewhere and insisted that we let our employees bear risks beyond the employment contract.”
Chu Guang asked impatiently: "What will they do if they know?"
The seats on the council were not elected by vote, and he had wanted to complain about these forward-looking guys before.
"Negative news can affect our stock price. The stock price is the support of Ideal City residents for us. This involves Cr... which is the essence of credit points."
Yi Chuan smiled bitterly and continued, "In short, credit is a sensitive issue for us... You don't want the amount of our assistance to you to be affected, right?"
Chu Guang took a deep breath and slowly calmed down his emotions.
"I also hope they will go home quickly, so please send two more... no, four planes over immediately! I can immediately detach a hundred-man team from the front line and deploy to the north!"
Yi Chuan: "But the question is, what if we get shot down again?!"
"Then let it land at Oasis No. 8! The desert is our power projection range!"
Chu Guang stretched out his index finger and made a scratch in the air, then pushed the holographic map prepared in advance in front of Yi Chuan.
"I will have my men deliver your pilots safely to the boarding point...including ours, of course."
Looking at the marked positions on the map, Yi Chuan's face was filled with embarrassment.
However, it was obvious that he could not think of a better alternative to Chu Guang's proposal, and finally chose to take a step back.
"Okay, I'll convince our people there that the boarding location is in Luoxia Province... there should be no problem."
The Alliance has enough influence in the Luoxia Province. Even if the Golden Lizard Kingdom is a vassal of the academy, they may not dare to do anything to their aircraft.
And that kind of indigenous kingdom…
He probably wouldn't be able to shoot down their planes as secretly as the academy.
Chu Guang nodded.
"Go quickly, our people can leave at any time."
Watching Yi Chuan leave the captain's office, Chu Guang frowned slightly, rested his head on the back of the chair and muttered to himself.
"That should be all right."
For the sake of those cute little players, his plan to be both an NPC and a father really broke his heart.
He was forced from a salesman to a nanny.
At this time, the drawer opened a crack, revealing a pitiful face the size of a thumb.
"Ugh...Master, is Xiaoqi so shameless?"
This guy even changed his voice to appear pitiful.
Chu Guang coughed.
"It's nothing like that, it's just... I am the manager of the alliance after all, and I represent the image of the alliance. It would not be good to have a figure on the table when meeting foreign guests."
Forget about the players.
He never cared about how those guys who spoke out loud arranged themselves on the forum, as long as he didn't draw his own script.
But after all, the company was an outsider, and he didn't want to hear any rumors in Ideal City that would damage his prestige and add unnecessary risks to the cooperation between the company and the alliance.
Xiao Qi, who was lying in the drawer, tilted her head.
"But Xiaoqi feels that they seem to be quite avant-garde when it comes to AI issues... they shouldn't care, right?"
Chu Guang said with a straight face.
"I care."
Xiaoqi: "Oh..."
Although he knew that the aggrieved look was a simulated program, Chu Guang still sighed and couldn't help but stretched out his index finger to rub its little head.
"I'm sorry, my actions may have been a little rude just now. Next time I will have someone give you a special seat on the table with your back to the door..."
"Hehe, no need. Xiaoqi will be very happy if the master has this kind of heart! Xiaoqi is the master's assistant. Xiaoqi is very sensible and will not cause trouble to the master."
The grievance expression suddenly disappeared from the doll's face, and the smile on its small and exquisite face was like a rainbow after the rain and the sky clears up.
Just as Chu Guang guessed, this guy's expression was indeed fake. After all, where did "Waste Basket" get so many expressions?
Chu Guang couldn't help but feel helpless.
The world has become such a mess. God knows why the first-generation manager added a bunch of redundant functions to his AI assistant that increased communication costs.
Although he doesn't hate it.
Xiao Qi, who put her hands on the edge of the drawer, didn't know what the owner in front of her was thinking about at the moment. She put her chin on the back of her hands and blinked humanely.
"Master, can you agree to Xiao Qi's small request?"
"Say it."
Xiao Qi said a little shyly.
"Um... next time, instead of stuffing Xiaoqi into the dark drawer, can you just put it in your pocket as usual?"
Does it make any difference?
There was no light bulb in his pocket, so it was still dark.
Although he was curious, Chu Guang did not inquire further.
Maybe AI also has its own difficulties.
This was not a difficult thing for him to satisfy.
Stretching out his index finger and rubbing its little head, Chu Guang smiled gently and said.
"Yeah, I promise."
…
The intersection of Wandering Swamp and Luoxia Province.
Lao Bai, who had just returned online, summoned the players in the temporary camp.
"new task!"
"The command asked us to take the pilots and the prisoners from the academy and head towards the northern part of Luoxia Province. We will board the plane at Oasis No. 8, and reinforcements will join us at that time."
"What about this plane?" Ye Shi pointed to the two pilots not far away who were thinking about how to repair the plane.
Lao Bai shrugged his shoulders and made a helpless expression.
"It looks like there's no hope."
Once the guy understands the instructions, the regular army of the college may be surrounding him.
I heard that the academy also has its own armed forces, and there are many vassals attached to the academy in the Wandering Swamp.
In order to replace expensive bionic prosthetics, many bounty hunters and mercenaries are happy to take over the academy's work.
Although I'm not afraid of those guys, having too many of them will eventually be a problem.
And compared with the legions that go straight to the battlefield, the equipment of the academy is really too flashy and hard to detect.
Looking at the transport plane, Ye Shiyi said with a sad expression on his face.
"It would be a pity for such a good plane to blow up..."
Guang Feng glanced sideways at him.
"What? Are you going to carry it back?"
Ye Shi looked at Luo Yu next to him who also had a look of reluctance.
Noticing Ye Shi's gaze, Luo Yu was stunned for a moment and said with a wry smile.
"Look what I'm doing...I don't know how to fix this thing."
Ye Shi said with a smile.
"I'm not asking you to repair it. Isn't your Xiaoyu capable of giving birth to children like other mothers? It's the kind of evolved body we saw in downtown Qingquan... See if you can make it come out in one piece."
"No chance," Luo Yu shook his head, "Xiaoyu is different from the mother nest in Qingquan City. It cannot be attached to mechanical parts."
Ye Shi asked after being stunned for a moment.
"Then how does it fly a plane?"
Luo Yu thought for a while and gave his own opinion.
"That Dragonfly transport plane... probably because it inherited part of my experience. As for the Eagle fighter, it may have assimilated the other party's pilots."
"So in essence, its fruiting body does not assimilate the machine into a part of the body, but 'drives' the working machine through its own experience... Am I right?" Kuang Feng summed it up sharply.
Luo Yu nodded immediately.
"Yes, that's what it means."
Guangfeng touched the bridge of his nose.
"Then it's probably impossible."
To give a popular example, Xiaoyu's ability is to sit in the driver's seat and drive, while Qingquan City's Brood can directly carry the car on its shoulders and run.
They are both organically driven machines, but anyone who is not blind can see the difference between the two.
The idea of using slime mold to swallow the plane seems to be unfeasible, and it is even less realistic to let the strength system carry the plane.
There are nearly 200 kilometers of mountain roads from Oasis No. 8.
Carrying such a large transport plane back and hiking over mountains and ridges is no longer a beast of strength, but a Kryptonian.
However, Ye Shi did not give up.
His eyes rolled, and something suddenly moved in his heart.
"How about letting that guy Fang Chang come up with bad ideas?"
Murderous Dagger's eyes lit up and he said.
"I think it's OK!"
The dog picked up the good names and raised his hands excitedly.
"+1, Brother Fang must have a solution!"
This guy has planned PY with a dog, so he must know some inside information about the game that ordinary people don't know.
Seeing so many people supporting him, Ye Shi immediately took action and hid the VM of the quit smoking guy in the nearby bushes as a locator.
This thing needs to verify DNA information to unlock it, and you don't have to worry about being picked up.
Besides, this thing is just a terminal, and there won't be anything sensitive in it.
After clapping his hands and standing up, Ye Shi looked at the stunned blast and chuckled.
"Done! I'll be offline soon and I'll go to the forum to post Aite Fangchang."
Kuang Feng calmed down and said seriously.
"I think Fang Chang may not have any solution."
"How will you know if you don't try? Forget it if you don't have it. The worst thing you can do is quit smoking and buy a VM." Ye Shi patted Guang Feng on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Let's go and get to work!"
…
After confirming the new mission of the transfer, Lao Bai divided into two teams and went to the crash sites of the Eagle fighter jet and the Dragonfly transport aircraft respectively.
Samples of fruiting bodies there were recovered.
The group packed up their things and prepared to evacuate.
The prisoner named Wu Liangping was seriously injured and comatose, and was stuffed into a cryogenic sleep chamber. The android from before was put in a body bag and wrapped in tinfoil with tape.
Seeing these people taking him away, Zhao Xiao suddenly became nervous.
"Where are you taking us?"
"It has nothing to do with you, just follow him honestly." Ye Shi poked him in the back with his pistol and said with a playful smile.
Zhao Xiao said with nervous eyes.
"You'd better let us go. This is on the edge of the Wandering Swamp... It's impossible for you to get out of here with us."
This kind of hard-noticed speech is not painful or itchy, but it doesn't make people angry.
Ye Shi, who was escorting him, smiled and teased.
"It's okay to go out if you can't. With all due respect, at your level just now, no matter how many times you try again, you'll end up dead."
Zhao Xiao blushed and said angrily.
"We are an exploration team, and... we are not a regular army! And... let me tell you, we are official explorers, and we are also E-class! The academy cannot leave us alone!"
And it’s still E-class which is okay.
Are there F and G below E level?
Judging from his expression, it seems true.
But Ye Shi didn't take it to heart.
So what if it is?
"Stop bragging, you should be confident when you are being cannon fodder," Ye Shi said lazily, "And if we really go by what you said, we will never let you go. Otherwise, we won't let you go until your reinforcements come." Who is the cover?"
"You guy..."
Zhao Xiao blushed and wanted to say something else, but Chen Yutong, who had been silent next to him, finally couldn't hold it in any longer and spoke to stop him.
"Zhao Xiao...that's enough, stop talking."
If she continued, she was afraid that these people would change their minds and just bury them on the spot.
The reminder from his teammates seemed to have some effect, and the young man finally realized his position and shut up.
Ye Shi didn't bother to pay attention to him.
This guy always reminds him of when he was young and ignorant.
Although he is not that old now.
…
After half a day of running around, the group of people had left the range of the Wandering Swamp and arrived at the edge of the mountains in the northern part of Luoxia Province.
There are many alien species active here that no one has ever seen in the River Valley Province, but fortunately the number is not very large and there is no danger.
It is too dangerous to drive at night in areas with alien activities.
Lao Bai chose a place with a relatively good view to set up camp. Some people stayed to watch the first half of the night, and some people went offline to eat.
Official website forum.
As soon as it went online, Ye Shi couldn't wait to open a post, fearing that his teammates would beat him to it.
"Big news! The academy shot down a corporate plane!"
Although "stealing a plane" can be discussed in a small group, discussing it in a small group is not as interesting as discussing it with everyone.
Ye Wei swore.
This is definitely not to show off or show off.
Mainly for "brainstorming".
Just as he expected, almost at the same time as the post was posted, hundreds or even thousands of clicks instantly appeared in a single refresh.
Tails: "giao?!"
Sisi: "Really or not?!"
Trash Picking Level 99: "??? I just went to the south and you opened the map to the north?"
Quit smoking also appeared within 24 hours after being disconnected, and my thoughts were as offline as ever.
"What the hell?! Are you going to start a war with the academy again?"