Chapter 218

"Our enemy will not wait until the end of winter and then swagger to our trenches."

"They are predators and are good at sneak attacks. If they are quick, maybe when the snowstorm is over, their army will go to the northern suburb of Qingquan city."

"My judgment is... In early January, it may even be on New Year's day."

After reviewing the recruits of the guard, Chu Guang returned to the guard's station in Changchang farm with Liuding, wrench and vanus.

There is a bunker like temporary command post, which is covered with a thick layer of snow. Only one tunnel can enter.

In the last supply seized from the predators, there were a full 100 mm shells.

These shells weigh up to 20 kg, including 3 kg warheads, and the charge is a mixture of t en t and RDX.

I'm afraid the power of this shot will be quite amazing.

Although I don't know how many howitzers they have, these shells alone are enough to make Chu Guang vigilant.

These predators are hard to deal with!

At present, refuge 404 has lit up the production process of RDX by relying on the information obtained by the old friends on the forum and the continuous exploration of 30 life professional players with chemical related experience, but it is a pity that the output is not very high.

It is still too difficult to develop reliable heavy support firepower before New Year's day. What needs to be solved is not only the gun barrel problem, but also many problems including ballistics, which need to rely more on the experience of exploration in actual combat than theoretical knowledge.

It may be more practical to expect heavy artillery in the war with the bone chewing tribe than to expect the heartless rocket of mosquitoes.

Wrench and Liuding looked at each other subconsciously, with a slightly confused expression.

What is new year's day?

Although vanus also didn't understand what new year's Day was, his focus was not on such trivial issues, but on Chu Guang's prediction of the predator's next attack.

Staring at the paper map hanging on the wall of the temporary command post, vanus said after thinking for a long time.

"If it were me, I would choose to launch an offensive in mid January."

Chu Guang looked at him and asked.

"Why?"

Vanus said.

"This is out of careful consideration. The snow on the road will make it difficult for the truck to move, and the logistics pressure will be greater than expected. As the commander of the front line, I must first assume that you have evacuated all the settlements of survivors that can be plundered in the northern suburbs in advance, built enough fortifications, and fought with us with the determination to fight to the end."

"At that time, our troops will not be able to obtain any resources locally. They can only rely on their own supplies to fight a tough battle that may be delayed for a long time."

His eyes were fixed on an abandoned urban area in the northeast, vanus continued.

"I will first establish an operation base, deploy artillery, and then send mobile forces to harass your positions by taking advantage of vehicles, guide artillery bombing, weaken your defense by multiple raids, and finally concentrate our forces to attack from multiple directions at the same time."

Liuding and wrench held their breath involuntarily.

If the marauders do, the battle will undoubtedly be more difficult than expected.

Chu Guang nodded thoughtfully.

"That sounds like a good idea."

Of course, he did not expect that the people of the bone chewing tribe would launch a suicide charge towards his position like the blood hand clan, and then be harvested by the players squatting in the trenches with automatic weapons like cutting wheat.

Those goblin like creatures are very cunning, especially now they have acquired the tactics of the Legion - even if they have learned only a small part.

But

Unfortunately, they met themselves.

This kind of consumption method of continuous attack may be useful to others, but it is a dream to deal with players who live for three days.

He just needs to guard the new industrial zone located in the abandoned urban area and ensure the supply of weapons and equipment. Those marauders will soon experience the nightmare of being dominated by the undead.

When necessary, he can even give up the big factory, divide the production equipment into parts, withdraw into the endless ruins, and then the players give full play to the advantages of individual combat effectiveness to fight street battles with the predators in the urban area.

Noticing that Chu Guang's face was not heavy, vanus raised his eyebrows slightly in surprise.

"It seems that you have an idea?"

"Sort of."

"I'm a little curious. Can you let me know if it's convenient?"

Chu Guang smiled faintly.

"It won't be many days anyway. You'll know then."

He thought of many methods, but the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and he was not sure which scheme to adopt in the end.

After all, it depends on which card the other side plays.

Vanus wasn't asking, he just shrugged his shoulders.

His identity is only a prisoner of war after all.

If Chu Guang asks for his advice, he will express his ideas and provide suggestions for reference. But if Chu Guang didn't intend to let him know, he really shouldn't ask more in his position.

Vanus is still curious. What is this man going to do?

The other party has 100 mm howitzers, and we don't know how many.

In addition, the number of predators is more than 1000, the number of vehicles is unknown, and both equipment and military strength have an absolute advantage.

They are not ordinary predators. After two previous fights, the man in front of them is obviously clear.

The odds are not high.

But his expression of indifference was really elusive.

Just then, there was a knock at the door of the temporary command post.

After getting permission, a guard in a black coat came in from the door, with his right fist on his chest and gave a military salute.

"Report!"

Chu Guang was concise and comprehensive.

"Say."

Said the guard.

"The Scout we sent to explore in the North found the raider's patrol in Yuanxi Town, just north of Changchang farm. It was suspected to be from the bone chewing tribe!"

After hearing the report, Chu Guang was slightly surprised and immediately looked at the map on the wall.

Yuanxi town is about 20km away from Changchang farm, adjacent to the north of Yumu district. Administratively, it belongs to the southernmost township of Xizhou City, close to Xicheng District of Tianshui city.

This distance can't be very close, but it's definitely not far.

However, what puzzled Chu Guang was why those marauders appeared in Yuanxi town?

According to the marching route of the marauders, it is obvious that they should be stationed in the northeast of Qingquan city and the south of Tianshui city.

Is it

They moved?

Vanus, staring at the map, gradually dignified his face.

"Manager, although I don't want to say that... I'm afraid we have to prepare for the worst."

In the temporary command post, four pairs of eyes looked at him.

Chu Guang had guessed something vaguely, but he didn't speak, but waited for him to continue.

Vanus paused for a moment, took a deep breath gently, and slowly vomited a breath of white gas from his mouth.

"The troops in the due north direction and the Raiders in the southern suburb of Tianshui city are obviously not the same group."

"You will probably face more than a team of thousands..."

"But two."

……

[day 14 of the wartime regulations]

After confirming the information on VM, Lao Bai wiped away the mucus adhered to the steel arm guard and the cilia falling from the moth's wings.

"The Raider difficulty of B9 layer is unexpectedly small."

"After all, this is the place to put the reactor. There is no incubator, and the area is not very large." the square leader put away the mechanical composite bow in his hand and said casually.

Four days ago, he reached lv10 and became the first agile awakener in the whole service.

As Lao Bai guessed, his primary attribute has increased by 5 attribute points, and the other 4 secondary attributes have increased by 1 point each.

Up to 17 points of agility, he has almost three times the reaction speed of ordinary people and dynamic vision.

And the skills he acquired are also very satisfactory to him - similar to the bullet time in Max Penn!

This does not mean that he can become faster, but based on the bonus of agility attributes, he can turn everything around into slow motion when his attention is highly focused.

Maybe as long as the agility attribute is high enough, maybe one day he can see the trajectory of the bullet clearly.

In any case, it can be called a magic skill for a shooter.

Praise planning!

Since unlocking the bullet time, although the teammates have no intuitive feeling, the commander feels invincible.

The task enters the closing stage.

Carefully searching the dead corner of layer B9, Lao Bai uses the short knife of melee to clean up the devil moth that is not completely dead.

Walking in the back of the night, seeing that there was no chance to shoot, he said in a chatty tone.

"What do you think will happen on the B10 floor?"

The wind walking aside thought and wanted to say.

"I don't know. What's certain is that the mother nest of the devil moth is there."

Night ten: "will there be a moth as big as a mutant?"

Gale: "from the perspective of evolution, it's unrealistic. The oversized volume is not suitable for arthropod survival... At least in terms of the oxygen content and gravity environment on earth. However, this is not absolute. Waste soil is not a normal natural selection environment, let alone a game."

Speaking of this, the wind suddenly stopped and looked up at the front.

"But... The game is too real."

The party stopped and a closed gate was placed in front of them.

From the signs on the door similar to the power room on the B3 floor, according to the marks on the VM map, this should be the reactor.

Through a narrow transparent window, the strong wind can see the cylindrical reactor in the room.

A reactor that has been operating for two centuries.

Even in the game, it's pretty incredible.

It looks like it's not boiling water.

"Is this a tokamak or a star simulator?" night ten asked curiously.

The wind thought a little and shook his head.

"It's not like... It looks ugly outside, even smaller than a nuclear fission reactor."

And much smaller!

Night ten hehe smiled.

"Maybe the operators simply don't want to make it up... I thought it would be more cool."

"This design is actually reasonable. After all, in the pre war society depicted in the game background, the popularity of controllable nuclear fusion has continuously replaced fossil fuels, and even replaced chemical batteries in some fields. Their understanding of energy technology is like a black box for us, which will be presented in a more concise way than we thought, but more reasonable."

Gale is curious about what kind of brain hole operators use. After all, it involves areas he is familiar with.

However, he is a rational man and can't risk the life of his teammates.

What's more, he doesn't have the ability to break it.

To destroy the first wall that can block neutron rays, it takes at least hundreds of kilograms of explosives.

This thing is not made of tofu.

The alloy door leading to the reaction chamber alone is at least half a meter thick, not to mention the wall, and even the whole is made into a part of the load-bearing structure.

If this layer collapses, it may not be able to scrape off a layer of skin from the reactor.

At this time, the strong wind suddenly felt a slight tingling in the middle of his eyebrows, and then a burning feeling spread to his whole body, which made him frown.

Standing aside, Yeshi seemed to have the same reaction, and gave an exaggerated cry and held his right arm.

"I GIAO, my Wang Zhili! That boiling feeling... Coming!"

The head looked at him speechless.

"Can you be a little normal?"

Reaching out to hold Yeshi, Lao Bai noticed the state of the strong wind at the same time. He was stunned and his expression was momentary happy.

"Good guy, we woke up two today!"

The first intelligent and perceptual players in the whole service were born at the same time!

All members of the cattle and horses team land in the hall of fame!

This achievement is invincible!

Fang Chang's face is also full of excitement, but now they are in the moth's nest, which is obviously not a time to distract themselves from happiness.

"Exciting! Anyway, let's go back and save a file."

It can be predicted that today's forum will be lively for a while.

At the suggestion of the commander, the cattle and horse team touched the door on the next floor, left the greenhouse site and returned to the outpost.

He escorted his teammates to the gate of the outpost. Lao Bai, standing under the concrete wall, suddenly stopped.

"Before going offline, I'm going to go to the industrial zone. Go back and file it first."

Night ten asked curiously.

"Industrial area? What are you doing there?"

Lao Bai said with a smile.

"The ld-47 has been used for a while, but I always feel I can't give full play to the advantages of the power system. I'm going to go to the steel plant to see if I can order two pieces of equipment suitable for the power system and improve the firepower of our team."

Night ten and the wind looked at each other.

Fangchang understood what he meant and immediately became interested.

"I'll go with you! Anyway, I'll be offline soon. I have nothing to do."

Old Bai Shuanglang smiled.

"OK, let's go!"

……

New industrial zone.

At the gate of No. 81 iron and steel plant, as soon as Lao Bai and Fang Chang entered the door, they saw that killing chickens at midnight was discussing something with brother toilet rope.

"I want a chainsaw. Can I do it?"

"I can get a hammer. Where can I get you a battery?"

In the face of brother toilet rope's white eyes, he still doesn't give up killing chickens at midnight.

"Oil burning is OK."

Hearing the light words, brother xisuo almost didn't spray and continued to torture his soul.

"Do you have a diesel engine? Do you have diesel?"

If you can't find a diesel engine on the whole waste soil, it's ridiculous.

He has had a headache about it these days.

Killing a chicken at midnight was a little stunned. Unexpectedly, he scratched the back of his head.

"Well... I'd better buy an axe."

“……”

Brother zisuo looked helpless.

A hatchet with a wooden handle is only 10 silver coins, and this is after the price rise.

After deducting the cost of raw materials, labor and electricity, the profit margin is only 10%, and you can earn a silver coin.

It's better to sell more bullets than axes!

"I sincerely suggest you consider more modern equipment."

Just as he was about to find a reason to send the chicken killing man away, he suddenly saw Lao Bai and Fang Chang at the door.

His eyes suddenly brightened. Brother zisuo immediately threw down the midnight chicken and greeted them.

"Eh, brother Bai and brother Fang, why are you here free?"

These two are big!

Recently, the progress of greenhouse site strategy seems to have been pushed to the eighth floor underground? Or the ninth floor?

Although the ox and horse teams have never disclosed the specific number of rewards, they can guess according to the difficulty of the maze. The rewards are at least four digits.

See the toilet rope brother decisively left himself and killed the chicken at midnight.

good heavens.

So real?

Looking at the old acquaintance coming up, old Bai Shuanglang smiled and said.

"I'm going to make a piece of equipment. Do you have a more powerful one?"

"Powerful... What do you mean? We have grenades and imitation iron fist bazookas, which are powerful!"

"I'm not talking about disposable explosives. I mean," Lao Bai tried to gesture with his hand, "is there a gun with a larger caliber?"

While he was talking, Lao Bai's eyes suddenly fell on the factory building behind brother Suo, the four unit machine gun that had not been assembled.

At this look, Lao Bai's eyes couldn't be moved. He immediately walked over and touched the thick and long barrel.

"Good guy, is it too late?"

Seeing someone interested in his work, brother toilet rope immediately smiled and said confidently.

"20mm quadruple mounted anti-aircraft gun! Three kinds of warheads can be selected. We call it air cloth tearing machine, referred to as' Ripper '!"

The name sounds domineering enough.

Old Bai continued happily.

"How much!"

Brother xisuo was stunned and said with a dry cough.

"That's NPC's order... If the price is 3000 silver for a machine gun and 20 Silver for an armor piercing bullet, please refer to it."

"Sleeping trough?! 3000 silver?" old Bai's eyes stared round.

The price of such a machine gun is equivalent to 1.5 sets of miners' type I exoskeleton!

Moreover, the price of armor piercing bullets is outrageous. One bullet is equivalent to 20 rounds of 7mm. You can buy an iron fist bazooka for three rounds!

Although they pushed the progress of the fourth floor these days and took down the most critical B9 floor, the money they earned can not be so wasted.

After knowing the price, Lao Bai immediately gave up the idea of buying one, and was embarrassed to ask if it could be cheaper.

Seeing the expression on Lao Bai's face, the captain felt a little moved in his heart, walked forward, stared at the gearbox for a while, and suddenly said.

"Why is this machine gun so expensive?"

Just then, brother Levin, another factory director, came out of the nearby workshop.

Hearing the mayor's inquiry, he answered casually.

"It's said that it's a gun. Do you still need to ask? The gearbox in front of you alone costs at least 2000 silver, not to mention the gun barrel and other parts in front."

Director Fang thought.

"What if we need a single shot machine gun? Instead of such a complex gearbox, we can even change it to rotary bolt locking and manual loading."

Brother Sisuo and brother Levin were stunned at the same time.

"Changed to rotary bolt locking... Bolt?"

"Manual filling?"

Seeing that they didn't seem to understand what they meant, the mayor continued.

"What I just described may be a little inaccurate. In short, it is to remove the full-automatic mode of this machine gun and make a weapon similar to a bolt rifle, which can be easily held in your hand and put on the ground -"

"I see what you mean. Omit the buffer and the tandem gearbox, right?"

Brother Levin interrupted the leader and touched his chin with interest.

"But that kind of gun will be very heavy, right? And I'm afraid the recoil force is not small. It's estimated that it can be used on a fixed tripod... Are you sure it can be used?"

This thing is a gun, not a gun.

If the shock absorber and buffer device are cut off and made into a weapon that can be carried on the shoulder, the shooter's shoulder will be destroyed if only one shot is fired.

Unless the length of the shell is made shorter and made into the size of that bullet.

However, in that case, the caliber of 20mm is a little redundant, and it has to be changed to 12mm.

However, after hearing brother Levin's concerns, Fang Chang and Lao Bai looked at each other, and a meaningful smile appeared on their faces.

Most people think it's a little difficult.

But are they ordinary people?

"Bipod and butt can help me install one, and fixed tripod is not necessary."

Lao Bai knocked on the welded breastplate of the exoskeleton with his fist, and a smile full of security appeared on his face.

"Don't worry, I can carry it!"