In his sleep, Chen Xing opened his eyes.
The surrounding scenery was hazy, as if we were in a fog. A shadow holding a plate swayed back and forth in front of his eyes, bending down from time to time to talk to other sitting shadows.
In the corner not far away, an ancient machine flashed with colorful lights. It was a retro pinball machine, and you could play a game for just one coin. If you can reach the score set by the bar owner, you can get additional rewards, maybe a glass of ale, a steak, or a night with a bar girl.
Looking sideways, he saw a tall and fat figure lying on the table, with a thick back like a hill. He seemed to have fallen asleep due to too much alcohol.
"Longhe Radio Station, I am reporting to you that it is now 2:20 in the middle of the night..."
A female voice mixed with electrical noise came from the radio at the bar, which seemed particularly clear in this quiet night.
"Recently, space fragments of a homologous world were discovered in the underground ruins on the outskirts of Lizard City, setting off a craze for collecting cultural relics of the same origin."
"As we all know, a homologous world is a world of human civilization similar to ours. In this type of world, humans dominate, are destroyed for some reason, and eventually enter the undercurrent of time and space, and leave the red earth world behind during the cataclysm."
"The fragmented space of this world is very large. According to preliminary detection, it is at least 200,000 square kilometers. According to the analysis of scholars in Ivory City, the world was probably impacted by a huge wave of chaotic magic energy, which caused the bones to resurrect, and the dead and The living fought a desperate war, and in the end the dead won, and the world was shattered under the impact of overloaded energy."
"Currently, the Red Dragon Principality has opened the right to explore the fragments of the world to the whole world. Any citizen can participate in the exploration. They only need to pay an exploration tax of 20% of the property received when they return..."
At noon the next day, Chen Xing woke up and looked around with sleepy eyes, as if he was unfamiliar. He soon realized that his "memory regression" had been activated.
In last night's dream, the fat man lying drunk on the table was his most familiar companion in his previous life - the big cat.
Big Cat is 1.82 meters tall, slightly shorter than Ye Yang Bailiu. He has a round waist, thick legs, and is fat and strong. He is a "heavy weapons supporter" and is good at using heavy machine guns and rocket launchers.
He had some impressions of the fragments of the same origin world mentioned in the news broadcast, but he was not in the Red Dragon Principality at the time, so he had not been there and did not know the actual location. He didn't know why he dreamed about this.
But half an hour later, he understood...
When he went down for lunch, he heard some mercenaries talking.
"I heard that the red lotus bullets are very effective." "They are low-grade goods, but they are large in quantity and not cost-effective." "Are you going tomorrow?" "Of course."
Maybe they felt that no one could understand them, so when they talked, they didn't care about the people next to them.
However, Chen Xing heard it.
The other party mentioned several key words, "red lotus bombs", "large quantity" and "will go tomorrow".
The Red Lotus bullet is another name for "flammable depleted uranium armor-piercing bullet". After hitting the target, the uranium-238 bullet core will burn, generating a high temperature of 6000 degrees Celsius, which has special effects on mutated organisms such as living corpses.
At the same time, it also has a very good effect on skeletal undead creatures.
Although there is an essential difference between living corpses and skeletons, the former is a corpse mutation caused by a heterogeneous virus and can be regarded as a type of mutated organism. It has life characteristics and can replenish energy, repair the body, evolve itself, etc. through eating; while the latter They are evil spirits that rely on life energy to move. They have no life characteristics, cannot eat, and cannot evolve; but they are afraid of flames. High temperature can kill the zombie virus and can also dispel the chaotic energy.
Although this place is a wilderness, it is only seven or eight hundred kilometers away from the Lizard City, the capital of the Red Dragon Principality, so it is impossible for there to be a huge group of living corpses.
Then, the "large number" mentioned by several mercenaries probably refers to the skeletons in the fragments of that world.
"Go again tomorrow" means that the world fragment is very large and not too dangerous. They come back here to repair, replenish their ammunition, and then go exploring again.
In order to avoid alerting the other party, Chen Xing paid and left after eating. But after that, he secretly followed a few people, identified their room, and then monitored them for a long time.
Finally, on the second night, several mercenaries drove away in the dark. Chen Xing bought a second-hand mobile phone and followed the tracks. At dawn, we came to a ruined city.
These ruins are cities destroyed by nuclear bombs during the cataclysm. The radiation intensity in the central area is still very high, and protective clothing is required to enter. Moreover, when the radiation concentration in the body accumulates to a certain level, "Fordulin" must be injected to neutralize the toxins.
The ruins in the morning light revealed a sense of ancient vicissitudes.
Chen Xing reduced the speed of the car and moved forward slowly through the gap. There are collapsed high-rise buildings on both sides, and the walls are severely weathered and riddled with holes. The shadows were covered with black moss that looked greasy, like black motor oil poured on the ground. These mosses, called "black mosses," produce photosynthesis-like effects by absorbing radiation.
There were a few fresh car marks on the mud, and there were no traces of mutated creatures around, so they probably weren't lost.
After going a few kilometers deeper, the car marks gradually disappeared. Someone must have dealt with it deliberately. Chen Xing stopped his motorcycle, hid in the collapsed building, and followed on foot.
More than ten minutes later, he climbed up a half-collapsed building, observed with a telescope for a while, and found an off-road vehicle covered with gray cloth.
The opponent's disguise is well done. If the distance is too far, it can easily be seen as a big rock.
Chen Xing knew very little about this fragment of the world. He only heard it from others when chatting. It was said that it was first discovered by a few mercenaries and then controlled by two mercenary groups. However, paper could not cover the fire. The senior leaders of the Red Dragon Principality soon found out about it, and after exploring it for a while, it was opened to the outside world.
The value of a homogenous world depends on the advancement of science and technology, because the science and technology between humans are interoperable to a certain extent. Obviously the technology of this world lags behind that of the red earth world, otherwise it would not be open to the outside world.
According to news reports in Memory Recall, the internal space of this world fragment is large, but the strategic value is not great. After Crow City was burned down, the Red Dragon Principality urgently needed to fill its treasury to rebuild the city, so it used this method to stimulate tourism.
You know, when adventurers from all over the world come here to hunt for gold, the benefits of food, clothing, housing and transportation are far greater than the development of this world fragment. The so-called "collection craze" is probably caused by publicity. First, get a group of collectors to buy them at high prices, raise the price, and then wait for a group of stupid adventurers to go looking for them one after another. But in fact, in the final stage, these collections are unsaleable, like scraps.
But no matter what, seize the opportunity and take the first bite, it will definitely be the most delicious...
