The so-called A-level standard troops of the consortium alliance are definitely an extremely elite mercenary army according to the standards of the old era.

The soldiers are all veterans who have been in the army for more than three years, and they have sophisticated standard equipment, as well as a certain amount of power armor and heavy fire support.

Among the 2,000 people, the proportion of first-level evolutionaries has reached 25 percent, and there are more than a dozen second-level evolutionaries.

Qi Lin didn't know where Thunder had come up with such an army, in short, when he and Cheng Yanqiu walked out of the ruins in the north of the city with a few elite soldiers of the Cheng Consortium at noon, this army was already waiting for them outside the city.

"It's weird." The big guy in charge of driving the car muttered, "Young master, you said, since the old man Thunder is so strong, why don't you slaughter all the mutated creatures outside at once, and you have to let them surround you, how much trouble you have to live these days?" ”

Cheng Yanqiu and Qi Lin sat side by side in the back seat of the off-road vehicle, and when they heard the big man's doubts, Cheng Yanqiu smiled and looked at Qi Lin: "You should know why, right?" ”

"If I'm not mistaken...... Is it serum...... Now it seems that Thunder City is in danger, but in the same way, the large number of mutated creatures driven by the King Blood Dragon Lizard has made this the place with the highest serum production rate in the Huaxia region at present, and the continuous supply of serum is enough to build an army composed of all evolutionary people......" Qi Lin frowned.

He thought of an even more terrifying possibility...... According to this point of view, maybe the "Dragon Slaying Operation" itself is also a cover, and Thunder has long been informed of the news that the difficulty level of the game world is about to increase, whether it is the beast tide or the current situation of Thunder City...... It's all planned!

Maybe even when choosing a city to build a location, Thunder has already calculated this step...... Only by using that abyssal rift can the surging beast tide be kept under the city wall.

And those so-called breakout actions are just a play for outsiders.

If that's really the case...... This series of methods is too terrifying, right?

I don't know what it will be like for those players who are destined to be abandoned as pawns from the beginning after knowing the truth of everything......

"Almost, according to the contract between Thunder and several of our franchise consortiums, the mutant biological serum we purchased must be transferred to him at fifty percent of the purchase price, and as for where this batch of serum ended up, even I don't know." Cheng Yanqiu shrugged his shoulders and said.

"Fifty percent?" Qi Lin was a little surprised, although his bag of serum worth 10 million yesterday was already a lot, but compared to this number, it was really a small amount.

You must know that this 50% base is almost the entire amount of serum produced by Thunder City, except for a small part that is used by the players themselves, most of the serum eventually flows into the hands of those big conglomerates.

"Yes, but there is no way, if we want to make money here, we must share a piece of the city lord of Thunder."

……

The commander of this army had not yet arrived, so during this time, Qi Lin and Cheng Yanqiu could only accompany them and be stationed here.

Although it is inevitable to delay for a few days, in Cheng Yanqiu's words, it is difficult to avoid - the consortium alliance is also full of conflicts of interest, and Thunder may be able to send this force, but who to let be the commander of this force is not necessarily something he can decide.

But it just so happens that Cheng Yanqiu can also wait for the last few players under him who have been resurrected far away to return to the team.

……

The garrison of the army was a gymnasium in the old era, and the soldiers of the private army and the members of the Cheng Consortium set up tents on the track and field in the middle of the gymnasium, and Qi Lin was also assigned to a single march and set up next to Cheng Yanqiu.

As soon as the tent was set up, Qi Lin was invited by a player from the Cheng consortium, and saw that between the tents, several people who followed Cheng Yanqiu to break through that night were all sitting in a group, with a pot in the middle, and some pieces of meat and fungi were boiling in the pot.

"I didn't expect you to be a young master of a consortium, and you usually eat this kind of thing?" Qi Lin sat down and looked at the food in the pot.

The pieces of meat are all luncheon meat dug out of cans, almost most of them are starch, the content of pork is very small, the nutritional value is also very low, and the source of mushrooms is also a few bags of instant food left over from the old era, which is estimated to have exceeded the original shelf life a year ago.

Although in the wasteland, this food is already good, but compared to what Thunder eats, it is almost no different from pig food.

"I'm used to it, when I was training in Israel before the war, I ate both cockroaches and earthworms." Cheng Yanqiu said with a smile.

Although Qi Lin knew that Cheng Yanqiu was different from the ordinary rich young master, he always felt as if the other party's identity was a joke when he saw him sitting on the ground with these people, sharing the simple food in the pot together.

However, even so, Cheng Yanqiu, who was sitting there, still had a temperament completely different from ordinary people, as if he stood out from the crowd, and it was difficult not to notice him in this group.

"That, Cheng Shao, let me ask you something." Qi Lin suddenly remembered something and asked.

"Just call me by name, you ask." Cheng Yanqiu responded.

"That...... These people are all ......" Qi Lin looked at the team members around him, these were the original team members under Cheng Yanqiu, as for the newcomers who were temporarily recruited that day, he didn't bring any of them this time.

"These are brothers who were born and died with me, and they can be trusted, and if there is anything, just say it." Cheng Yanqiu nodded at Qi Lin.

"Do you know that the abilities in the game can be brought to the real world?" Qi Lin originally wanted to ask Lei Ting this question, but Lei Ting left after arranging the affairs of the private army, and did not give Qi Lin this opportunity.

However, as the successor of the Cheng consortium, Cheng Yanqiu should know a little bit about this matter.

"So that's what you asked...... So, you already feel that your physical abilities have become stronger in reality, right? ”

Qi Lin nodded.

"Anyway, you must have guessed it, this is the function of the game cabin, after all, the purpose of the promotion of the "Wasteland Survival Code" is to train warriors, but a qualified warrior, it is not enough to master skills, he also needs strength."

"I know, but ...... Evolution doesn't require a serum or something, how does a game pod do it? Qi Lin frowned slightly.

"I don't know much about this. According to some credible sources, the game pod can emit a specific kind of radio wave to your brain based on your physical state in the virtual world, so as to achieve the effect of mental suggestion. ”

"Psychic suggestion?"

"Hmm. There's a saying you don't know if you've ever heard – 'The human body itself is an untapped treasure trove'. The device inside the game pod catalyzes the player's brain to produce a special hormone through mental suggestion, which promotes the self-evolution of the human body - of course, I only know some general, specific contents, and I am afraid that only those scientific maniacs in the research institute can explain clearly. ”