The rays of the rising sun sprinkled from the sky, and the whole earth seemed to be covered with a layer of golden coat.
After the end of the first small rainy season, the weather finally cleared up.
Standing in the open space above the exit of Pingtan Shelter, Liehu squinted his eyes and stretched himself after exercising.
The shiny bald head was sweating a little, and the fat that was mixed together was also loosened, revealing the muscular outline that he had more than ten years ago again.
"It's amazing!"
Liehu murmured, and touched the muscles of his abdomen with a pair of big hands.
Well.
For some reason, he always felt that he was getting "younger" these days.
Not only physically, but also mentally.
In the past, for half of the day, he liked to stay in the manager's office at the bottom of the shelter, killing time with a lot of reports that he couldn't understand at all, so as to pretend to complete the work of the shelter manager.
But now, since joining the Western Suburbs Alliance, he has learned how the allies manage the shelter.
He found himself getting more and more relaxed.
Any reports, just get out of the way, that's what the deputy manager, Jin Guqiao, should be in charge of.
What kind of war has nothing to do with me. If you want to fight, first ask the leaders of our Western Suburbs Alliance whether they agree.
As for development
This Liehu is very caring, and recently he has forced himself to calm down and read many books.
However, the reality slapped his face, these things seemed to have a grudge against him.
He clearly remembered it very firmly, but as soon as he left the gate of the shelter, he quickly forgot everything.
I have no choice but to learn from my allies.
This guy Aldrich can't learn, his shelter management is like an iron bucket, the main thing is to do nothing, and everyone will smash it together when there is a disaster.
The leader Su Mo is not good either, Liehu is quite self-aware and understands the gap between the two IQs.
Once ruled out, only Kevin is left.
Learn from him to establish a branch base in Tianyuan Territory?
Liehu pondered for two or three days, and finally decided not to make a random decision by himself, and invited Sumo over first.
After all, instead of thinking about how to develop in the future, it is better to let Sumo customize a plan for himself.
As for whether the other party will cheat him.
According to the contact during this period, Liehu is quite confident.
As the saying goes, barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes. Although the number of residents in Pingtan Refuge is much higher than that of Tianyuan Refuge next door, it is a full six times, but when it comes to the quality of residents, the two sides are simply far worse.
The gophers have been passed down from generation to generation, and the civilization left by human beings has long been lost in time.
Even, Liehu sometimes feels that a large number of people is actually a burden.
Except for the fact that it is useful when the war is started, it is a big trouble at other times.
And such a mess, even if it is a pit, is basically impossible to start.
boom.
Just when Liehu was lost in thought, a slight whistling sound suddenly came from the distant sky.
Dozens of residents who were still working on the surface raised their heads curiously, and their eyes immediately locked on the black spot that was approaching rapidly.
"Is it an enemy?"
Several vigilant flat-tan troops turned pale with fright, and immediately wanted to raise the alarm.
But before he could make a move, he was attracted by Liehu's bared-toothed laughter.
"Haha, what an enemy, this is our leader, the leader of our Western Suburbs Alliance is here!"
"Quick, give me orders."
"Received according to the highest etiquette of the Flat Beach Refuge, this is the first official guest invited by our Refuge in decades!"
Liehu ordered loudly, the few wrinkles on his face squeezed together with a smile, like a blooming chrysanthemum.
When asking someone to do something, you must have a good attitude first.
Especially knowing Su Mo's character of being soft and not hard, Liehu is not a fool, he is willing to do as much as this kind of vain courtesy.
Soon, when the airship lands.
A welcome team of hundreds of people has already appeared in front of the gate of Pingtan Refuge.
Although there is no special service, there is no unique etiquette.
But after hearing the crappy "welcome leader" in Chinese, Su Mo still couldn't help showing a smile.
"You taught them?"
"Well, they have to learn by themselves."
Liu Lu wiped the hot sweat off his brow, with a smile on his face.
As the person who first came into contact with Tianyuan, he certainly understood the importance of language communication, so he taught himself Chinese from the very beginning, with the idea that even if Pingtan died and went to Tianyuan, he would still be able to live.
However, after the past six months of development, running is temporarily unnecessary, but it has also developed a new direction.
After attending the Clear Harbor Conference, Liehu asked him to open a language class when he came back.
It doesn't matter how many people can be taught to learn Chinese, at least let them do basic communication.
Looking at the smile on Su Mo's face now, the teaching effect is not bad.
"Then you have to work hard, try to teach them more, maybe there will be surprises in the future."
Steering the airship to land slowly, Su Mo shook his head with a smile.
Cultural fusion is indeed a general trend that cannot be stopped by individuals.
Right.
They are all human beings, and many of them have similar faces from the same region. How could it be possible to cut off closed communication because of a small problem like language.
In other words, even if the real language cannot communicate, the Earthlings and the Blue Stars will definitely develop a third way of communication.
This is a spontaneous fusion of billions of people. As long as there is no shield from the power of the game, it will definitely be the same as what happened in Pingtan Refuge now.
More and more Earth players will learn the Blue Star language.
More and more Blue Star aborigines will learn communication languages such as Chinese or English.
"My dearest ally, the leader of the Western Suburbs Alliance, you are finally here!"
As soon as the airship landed, Liehu rushed over without hesitation.
He bowed slightly at first, then took out a garland from nowhere, and placed it gently on top of Somo's head under the gaze of hundreds of pairs of eyes.
The size is just right, even if it is a strenuous exercise, it may not be thrown off immediately.
"I, Liehu, the twenty-ninth generation manager of Flat Beach Refuge!"
"On behalf of all the residents, you are welcome!"
Liehu bent down again, this time much bigger than last time.
Almost got down on one knee.
"Trouble."
Su Mo nodded slightly, showing a kind smile.
And when the two held their right hands tightly, a person ran out from behind the viewing team.
click.
A flash of light burst out in the morning sun for an instant.
Looking at the perfect photos he took, the resident in charge of recording couldn't help grinning.
Unexpectedly, the metal aging disaster is so serious, and this old antique handed down from the "ancient" can still be used.
Handed the photo developed below to Liehu, and quietly pressed the negative to save it.
The recorder has no other ideas, but simply wants to save as many commemorative negatives as possible before the memory space is used up, so that they can be remembered when they are old.
However, to his surprise, it was this negative that recorded the first official visit of the Western Suburbs Union Somo.
When he wanted to sell the camera a few years later, its collection value was comparable to a whole shelter for 100,000 people!
Of course, this is something.
After exchanging a few words with Liehu at the door, Su Mo couldn't wait to walk towards the conspicuous door.
Speaking of which, a few months ago, he was still planning how to secretly sneak into this refuge to investigate the gopher guy's intelligence.
But no one thought of it.
Today, the first time I entered here, I was officially invited by the refuge manager.
It can be described as a trick of good fortune.
"This is our first underground line of defense, used to block the sudden onslaught of enemies. Well, this is the sixth time it has been rebuilt. The last time it was almost rushed in by the guys from the harbor."
Stepping into the flat beach shelter, there are obvious bullet marks on the walls of several passages.
Liehu did not avoid suspicion, and introduced the source of these bullet marks carelessly.
Some were left over from the civil strife in the shelter hundreds of years ago, when two groups of people clashed with each other.
Some were left by daring looters trying to infiltrate the shelter, only to be found dragged here and shot.
In addition to this, there are more foreign battles, large and small.
Those cunning and ferocious enemies invaded here, and left behind after a battle broke out with the Sanctuary defenders.
"During the dispute more than ten years ago, the enemy even broke through this line of defense. If I hadn't killed the previous manager and detonated the bomb decisively, otherwise the Pingtan Refuge would have changed hands."
Originally, there were many passages leading to the ground and underground, but they were all blown up by the bold behavior of hunting tigers.
Many of these that remain today are still difficult to build later.
Staring at the traces left by these years, Su Mo stretched out his hand to touch it, and suddenly said with emotion.
"Haven't those enemies considered blowing up here?"
"Of course not." Liehu shook his head resolutely: "The purpose of Blue Star's previous wars was completely different from now. At that time, wars broke out for the sake of profit. If more benefits cannot be obtained after the war to make up for the losses, then the war The best days of the initiator are almost over."
The enemy of the enemy is also waiting for the opportunity to come.
After the war is over, there are only losses, so those hungry wolves in the dark will be left with a chance.
"However, not all wars are like this. There are also quite a few people who are more aggressive. For these people, if you dare to mess with me, then even if I give everything, I will drag you to die with me."
"Are you introducing yourself?"
Liehu shook his head with a foolish smile, but did not answer Su Mo's rhetorical question.
There is no lethality to be stubborn, and the past record is enough to prove everything.
The forces that dared to fight the idea of Pingtan Refuge had already been killed by him by various means.
Even the residents of those forces were packaged into slaves by him, or sold to Foundation merchant ships, or given to the surrounding cities where there was a shortage of people to work.
And this is also the reason why very few people in Qinggang City dare to provoke Tiger Hunter.
Although he is old now, no one knows in which war Liehu's last madness will be used.
"This is the second line of defense. It was newly added after I became a manager. It was originally intended to be a maze for the enemies to confuse in, but in the end it ended up like this because of the huge amount of work involved."
The main entrance of the Pingtan Refuge has more defensive facilities than the side entrances on the lower seven floors.
After leaving the passage, they entered an abandoned garbage dump that looked like an outpost.
A lot of construction waste was piled up in the corners, and there was still a thick layer of ash on the ground that had not been cleaned up.
"Is no one here usually?"
"No, there are very few people going through the main gate, it's too troublesome."
The entrance to the Flat Beach Refuge is in one corner of the dump, and the entrance door is disguised as a garbage collection site.
Lie Hu struggled to push away the debris piled up in front of the door, and the dust splashed up made the people behind cough repeatedly.
But after pushing the door open, it was much cleaner immediately behind the door.
It's not a small space, about two hundred square meters.
The ground is carved with dense patterns, and there is also a huge two-headed cow pattern carved in the middle. One wall is carved with incomprehensible hieroglyphs, and some of them look like rooms used to enshrine beliefs.
"This is the last line of defense. Don't look at him as simple. In fact, there is a big bomb buried below. Once it is detonated, the entire upper part of the shelter will collapse. It is our last resort!"
Not knowing whether it was true or not, Liehu took the initiative to walk in front and touched the horns on the ground.
creak.
The wall engraved with hieroglyphs suddenly shrank inward, and a small door for passage appeared at the corner.
Since it is not a place to transport goods, this door is not very big, barely enough for three people to enter together.
Following in the footsteps of Liehu, Su Mo walked through the door.
Considering the construction of Tianyuan Dungeon in the future, Su Mo felt that it was necessary for him to write down the structure here.
Good adoptions become part of the dungeon, bad ones serve as counter-case warnings.
But it's a pity. As the eyes suddenly opened up, they looked at the interior of the Sunny Harbor Refuge.
There was still a hint of disappointment on Su Mo's face.
The dark "Hui"-shaped building structure extends continuously from the ground, looking like a mine.
Moreover, there is no such thing as an elevator in the Pingtan Refuge, and there is a walking roundabout corridor in the middle.
Stand on the edge and look down, whether it's the ground or the walls, or where the structures are connected.
There are traces of time everywhere, and the air is still filled with a dead smell that cannot be removed by the exhaust fan.
Coupled with dim lighting, and completely neglected noise treatment.
The rumbling sounds echoed together, making my brain ache.
To be honest, the environment here is really not as good as a prison on Earth, let alone compared with Tianyuan Dungeon, especially the B6 floor produced by the system!
"That's why I said a long time ago, don't have any expectations for these refuges that have been passed down for hundreds of years. The level of civilization here may not be as good as the pile of ruins on the ground."
Liehu explained softly, with an expected expression on his face.
This familiar disappointment was not only reflected in Somo, but also reflected in those wanderers and predators who entered the underground shelter for the first time.
Human beings have too many expectations for this kind of underground emergency facility.
What black technology, what underground living space, even what underground city.
If you think about it carefully, these large and small shelters were built with private funds more than two hundred years ago.
Even a wealthy entrepreneur, how much money can he have?
It is amazing enough to build such an underground building, and it is simply beyond the ability of these people to want extravagance.
In other words, people with this ability don't need to build shelters at all. They have already stood at the pinnacle of Blue Star and are the operators of this war.
Do traders need to hide like gophers?
The answer is yes.
"Let's go, there's nothing to visit in these residential layers above. I'll take you down to see the places that are really worth visiting. That's where the real soul of the underground shelter is!"
