Early afternoon. Another transport plane flies gently over the Harlan slums. Kyle Crane sits in the cabin wearing goggles and a jump suit. He wears headphones and listens to the GRE liaison briefing him on the mission. "…Therefore, Kadir Suleiman stole the document and threatened to publish it." "In addition, we have sent an agent before you, his name is Li You, and the detailed information will be sent to you later." "Li You successfully entered the city of Harlan before, and established contact with the survivor organization-the Tower, and also found clues to the document." "But later his identity was discovered by Kadir Suleiman who was hiding in secret, and he was besieged by his men and finally died unfortunately." "He dedicated his life for the safety of all mankind, and you are the one who took over his work." "Before his death, Li You handed the relevant clues of the document to a member of the Tower, requiring his successor to gain the trust of that person before retrieving the clues."
"So your most important task is to find this person and find out the clues left by Li You." Cran listened quietly, without any reaction, just rubbing his thumb and index finger. "Please note that Li You did not tell us the identity of the person, so you need to find it yourself." "In addition, be careful about the timing of your contact with us. According to Li You's last words, there are also Suleiman's spies inside the tower." "In summary, your mission is:" "First, find the clues left by Li You and learn the location of the file." "Second, confirm Kadir Suleiman's identity as much as possible." "Third, combine all the intelligence and find the file." "Good luck." I don't know if it's because an agent has been "sacrificed", the GRE liaison spoke much more carefully this time than Li You did that time, as if he was afraid that something might happen to Crane. While the GRE liaison was speaking, the plane had already arrived at the designated location. "Prepare to parachute--" It was still the pilot who shouted, Crane put on goggles and came to the cabin opening. "Jump--!" Cran suddenly jumped out of the cabin! The wind was whistling, but Crane's professionalism was much better than Li You's, at least he was not afraid of heights. So he passed through the clouds, opened his parachute smoothly, and began to fall gently. This time, GRE even carefully selected the landing site, and finally chose a relatively empty and flat beach in the southeast of the slum. Although this beach is not big and there are boulders scattered around, it is not a sandy beach, but it is still much better than the slums with shanties.
So Cran's landing this time was relatively easy, unlike Li You and himself in the game plot. After landing successfully, Cran immediately untied the parachute, took out his regular clothes from his backpack and changed into them, and then planned to confirm his location first and find the way to the tower. Then he turned around and saw a pair of eyes staring at him in the low grass not far away. Cran was immediately shocked. But he immediately calmed down, spread his hands to show that he had no ill intentions, and slowly approached the man while shouting to him: "Hello, friend! Excuse me, where is this place?" He did not forget what he learned in the GRE agent emergency training course. When contacting locals, you must first disguise your identity, and then show goodwill to gain their trust. Cran was not familiar with the situation in Harlan City, so he did it obediently. Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened his mouth to speak, the man in the bushes suddenly whimpered with a very strange tone, and then rushed out of the bushes and pounced on him! "Holy shit!" Cran was shocked and quickly retreated to avoid it. Fortunately, this "person" was not fast. No, it was definitely not a person. Just now, Cran had seen its appearance clearly. The skin on its body was yellow, and there were many rotten places, and all the hair on the body fell off. The hands, face, and especially the mouth were covered with semi-coagulated blood stains. No matter from which angle you look at it, this guy can't be called a human, but more like a "zombie" in a movie. "This is... a person infected with the Harlan virus!?" Crane was terrified. Seeing that the monster missed, stumbled, turned around, and staggered towards him, Crane immediately pulled out the pistol equipped on his waist. "Don't come over, if you get close, I'll shoot you!" Crane said the classic lines of the cannon fodder character in the zombie movie. But this can't be blamed on him. God knows what the GRE is like. They obviously want to weaponize the Harlan virus, so they should be very clear about the characteristics of the Harlan virus infected. But when they trained the agents, they obviously didn't tell them these key intelligence. So Crane, a native American, had the first reaction of using a gun to warn the other party to keep their distance, which makes perfect sense. But how could the biter zombie listen to him? Still whimpering, approaching Crane. Although the protagonist Kyle Crane sometimes behaves stupidly in the plot, there is an undeniable advantage, that is, he is not a saint. When facing an enemy, he would shoot when necessary, and would not hesitate when it was time to kill. He never bothered about such annoying questions as "whether to kill or not". So when he saw that the warning was ineffective, Cran immediately prepared to shoot and eliminate the threat first. But at this time, someone suddenly shouted from afar: "Wait! Don't shoot!" Cran didn't intend to pay attention, but he immediately noticed a sharp arrow coming through the air, so he immediately dodged again!
But Cran immediately realized that the arrow was not aimed at him. The sharp arrow accurately pierced the head of the zombie in front of Cran, and the arrowhead came out from the other side. The zombie was just an ordinary infected person, so it was naturally killed by an arrow and fell to the ground. Cran turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound. Then he saw a young woman with a black ponytail and a tight outfit walking out from behind a tree. Cran glanced at it obscurely and noticed the simple short bow in her hand and the homemade quiver on her back with less than ten arrows left. Of course, the strength and alertness she showed in her actions surprised Cran and made him alert. Jed himself showed no abnormality, as if he knew nothing, and asked very naturally: "Are you a newcomer from somewhere? You don't even know that you can't use guns in the city." Kran really didn't know, and asked in confusion at the time: "Can't use guns? Why?" Jed looked at him and found that he was not pretending to be confused, so he explained: "Because the sound of gunfire will attract all the infected. If you don't want to die in the siege of the zombies, it's best to keep quiet." While speaking, Jed has not forgotten his job. He pretended to come to the parachute. After a simple search, he turned his head and looked at Kran: "Where is the airdrop? Where did you take the airdrop?" Kran didn't know how to answer for a while, so he could only remain silent. But Jed didn't intend to let him go. He took two steps to him and asked, "Don't worry, I'm not from the Rice Gang, and I won't rob. If you really took the airdrop, please check if there is an antidote in it. That's something our people need very much." Strictly speaking, Jed's words were not a lie, but he just selectively told the truth. Because Li You knew very well that Jed was not good at lying, he could only use this method. Of course, he certainly didn't specifically ask Jed to meet Kelan, but sent out several people in the tower who had enough combat power and brains, and made sure that everyone knew what to say when they saw Kelan. It was just that Jed found Kelan first in the end. And Crane is also a smart man. He has heard a lot of information from Jade's words, so he asked: "You... No, you want the antidote? Are you a group?" Jade did not nod and admit it immediately. Instead, he looked at Crane with some caution and asked: "Why are you asking this? Even we don't know... You! Are you not from Harlan!?" Cran was also shocked. He didn't understand how his identity was "discovered" in just two sentences. He hurriedly made amends: "I was just about to tell you this. In fact, I am a tourist. I accidentally deviated from the direction when I was parachuting and finally landed here. The parachute over there is mine." "As for the airdrop you mentioned, and the antidote, I really don't know. Compared with this, can you tell me about these... uh, zombies, what exactly is going on?" Jade looked at him and didn't know how to answer for a while. "... Tourist? In Harlan?" Jade felt that even the encyclopedic script written by Li You for her was useless. Can this man lie with more care? Cran seemed to feel that his words were full of loopholes, so he hurriedly said, "Really, you have to believe me, I really am..."
"Okay." Jed, who finally recovered, interrupted him, "I know, you are an unlucky tourist who accidentally entered Harlan. In this case, you must really be unaware of Harlan's affairs, otherwise, you would not run to this area to skydive at this time." "Anyway, it's bad luck for you to end up in Harlan, but fortunately it's not the worst result. Let's go." Jed turned to leave, and Cran hurriedly followed, asking at the same time: "Where are you going?" Jed Glancing at him, he said, "Aren't you asking if we are a group?" "This question is easy to answer, yes. I come from an organization called 'Tower', which is a group of survivors from the slums of Harlan." "Come back with me, you just arrived in Harlan and you don't know anything. You will die if you are alone. Our people will explain everything here to you and show you the current situation in Harlan." Cran originally wanted to go to the tower, so he certainly wouldn't refuse, so he said decisively: "Okay." ... About an hour later. Jed took Cran back to the tower from the southeastern rocky beach. Cran looked up at the two tall buildings in front of him and murmured, "Is this the tower?" Jade answered his question, "Yes, this is the tower. This building is our base." Cran was startled by her, and then said, "Your ears are really good." Jade just smiled and said, "Let's go. The entrance is here." Cran followed Jade into the tower and took the elevator to the 19th floor and came to the command room. Then Cran saw a strong middle-aged man in a yellow short-sleeved shirt and a bloody bandage on his head open the door and hold Jade's hand tightly: "Jade! Just come back safely." Then the man looked at Cran: "Who is this...?" Jade looked at the bandage on Bracken's head with a strange look on her face, and Bracken glared at her obscurely, signaling her not to talk nonsense, so as not to be exposed. So Jed briefly introduced: "I found him on the beach. He said he was a tourist who accidentally entered Harlan while skydiving. So I didn't find the airdrop, sorry." Bracken sighed heavily and said, "Alas, today is another fruitless day." Then he seemed to remember something and looked at Crane: "Oh, sorry, my friend, you are a tourist who accidentally entered this place, right? Then you are so unlucky. But I understand you. I originally wanted to come to Harlan to make money to buy a house, ha!" "So, what haven't you asked yet...?" Cran quickly replied: "My name is Crane, Kyle Crane." Bracken nodded: "Crane, right? Okay, my name is Bracken, and I am the leader of the tower. Let me ask you a question first, you were not bitten, right? I was bitten by those wandering zombies." Cran shook his head honestly "No, thanks to...Jed, I'm fine." "Very good." Bracken patted his shoulder, "Because if you are bitten, you will be infected, and the consumption of antidote will increase. But we don't have much antidote left." Cran couldn't help asking: "What exactly is this antidote...?"
Bracken just shook his head and sighed, then said: "It is the key to everyone's survival. Forget it, you just arrived at the tower today, you should have a good rest, and we will talk about these things slowly tomorrow." "Jed, take Cran to the guest room." Jed nodded, and then said to Cran: "Come with me." Seemingly seeing that Cran was extremely confused, Jed kindly explained to Cran the current situation in Harlan City on the way, including the rampant zombies and the infected survivors who could only rely on antidotes to suppress the virus. Then, Jed led Clan to a guest room and said, "You can only stay in the small room for a while. The lower floors of this building are not safe, and there is not much space for us to move around." "It's getting dark, so rest tonight. Someone will come to take you to visit the tower tomorrow." Even though Clan was very reluctant, Jed and the tower leader told him to talk tomorrow, so he had to give up asking. He came to the inside of the room, next to the window, took out the radio specially equipped by GRE, and started to contact the liaison officer. "This is Cran." "Cran? Didn't I say not to contact casually?" "Don't worry, I'm inside the tower now, in the room they assigned to me, there's no one around, no one will eavesdrop." "...Okay, it seems you've successfully sneaked into the tower, has your identity been exposed?" "Not yet, but there's no news about any clues left by the previous agent, I'll slowly explore." "Got it, remember, time is running out." "Understood, Cran ends." Cran hung up the call and began to stand by the window, looking at the city of Harlan outside, which was shrouded in the light of dusk. On the other side, Bracken, Amir, Jed, Spike, and several other important figures in the tower, all gathered in the command room, discussing something. After listening to everyone's reports, Bracken concluded: "It seems that it is basically certain that he is the new GRE agent that Li You mentioned." Amir said: "From your description, it is true. Let me contact him tomorrow to find out his intentions first." No one else had any objection to this, and Jed said: "Then I will contact Li You now." ... Lights guard the base. Li You sat at his desk, on which was spread a map of the old city of Harlan, that is, the zero zone. Of course, he was not looking at a paper map, but browsing the 3D map generated after the system entered the data. On the 3D map, Li You marked all the buildings that Troy knew had been occupied by the Rice Gang before they escaped in red, and the safe zone for the survivors was blue. And looking around, a small half of the area in the old city has fallen into the control of the Rice Gang. This was even the situation yesterday, and today, the red of the Rice Gang must have spread to farther places. Li You looked at the safe zone locations of several important NPCs that he had marked based on his memory, but he saw that the blue dots were basically in the red area, which gave him a headache.
"We can't delay any longer. We must open up the road to the old city as soon as possible!" Li You had sent people out to investigate earlier today, and he also set off at the same time. He personally investigated the route mentioned by the survivor who joined the organization, and asked the people in the organization and the tower to help him find the "Savior" organization in the game. Li You's investigation results showed that the route could indeed lead to the old city, but the passage was too narrow and inconvenient to move, and it was difficult to transport people on a large scale. Almost at the same time when he returned to the base, the team he sent out to find the "Savior" also sent back news. The so-called "Savior" organization, although the name is high-sounding, is actually a small group of people who control an underground passage between the slums and the old city and are doing the work of transporting people there. Moreover, they only bring people to the entrance and don't care about the rest. Even in the game, the leader of this organization, Ha Shan, directly sold Crane because he was caught by Rice. As a result, Crane was besieged by Rice's soldiers and almost died in the sewer. The savior line was introduced by Bracken, so Bracken indirectly cheated Crane. However, at this moment, Li You no longer needed to find Ha Shan specifically to avenge this arrow. He just told his men not to act rashly after finding the "savior", but to find opportunities to control them all and prevent them from interacting with each other. Les contacted and that was enough. Dyke was the leader of this mission. The young man was very active and successfully completed the mission. He took down the people of the Savior Organization and kidnapped them back. ——It turns out that the so-called "savior" organization only has five people in total, and they still charge fees and provide an unsafe route. Li You didn't bother to care about them, and just asked people to lock them into a prison converted from the basement, and then asked people to watch the passage controlled by the savior. This passage is wider than the one Li You went to see, and can accommodate a small group of elite personnel to pass through. But unless everyone has at least Amir's level of combat effectiveness, a small team will go to the old city to deliver food to Les. And since this passage was previously in the hands of the savior, and the savior indirectly obeyed Les, it is certain that if you choose to take this path, what awaits everyone at the exit of the passage will definitely not be a welcome party, but a hail of bullets. . Even if Li You's men couldn't be annihilated by encirclement, then Rice would definitely be able to blow up the passage. Therefore, Li You could not choose either of these two paths. After going around in a circle, we are back to the previous question. Unless he planned to rush into the old city single-handedly again and clear out the Rice Gang's gangsters building by building, he would still have to open up a road that was spacious enough to lead to the old city. "It seems that this task still has to fall on the heads of those funny brothers..." Li You asked Karim, and Karim also said that in fact, Rice did have two relatively smooth tunnels that could connect the slums and the old city. However, of these two tunnels, one was first occupied by the Night Stalker as a lair and later collapsed on its own, while the other was blown up by Les before he finally evacuated the slum. If other more convenient modes of transportation, such as waterways and air, cannot be found, then if one wants to send people to the old city on a large scale, the only option is to open tunnels. When talking about the tunnel, Li You immediately thought of brothers Tolga and Fatan. In the game, didn't the two brothers finally use a train car and a siege engine to break through a tunnel on the outskirts of Harran and escape? If they can be provided with sufficient conditions, then maybe it is not impossible to clear the tunnel leading to the old city. Just as he was about to call Karim over and ask him to call Brother Doubi, the radio on Li You's waist suddenly rang, and Jade's voice came: "Li You, can you hear me?"
Li You guessed the situation as soon as he looked at the time. It seems that our Harlan Superman, Harlan Spider-Man, Harlan Boxing King, Harlan Foot King, Harlan Lock Picking King, Harlan Chief Courier... and the protagonist of the game, Kyle Crane, have finally appeared. "It's me." "Li You, the person you mentioned is already in the tower. We'll let him stay temporarily on the 18th floor." "His name is Kyle Crane." "The scout we arranged just now by the window on the twentieth floor heard him reporting to GRE. We can confirm that he is an agent." Li You smiled slightly when he heard that familiar name. It’s finally here, the universal tool man I’ve long been optimistic about! It can also be seen from the numerous titles in front of Crane's name that he is truly a jack-of-all-trades and an excellent tool man. Li Youzheng needs such a strong subordinate who has combat effectiveness, work efficiency, and a bottom line. Of course, after all, Crane has just landed, and his account level is probably still very low. It is best to assign him some simple tasks first to let him pass the novice stage. Fortunately, with this in mind, Li You had already laid a trap in advance. Want to know who the mysterious man in the tower is with the clues? Do you want to improve that person's trust and get the clues left by the seniors? Then go run errands and do tasks, brave young...middle-aged man! Once you've run enough side missions and passed enough toilets, you'll be able to meet the person you're looking for! Li You grinned. "That's why I said... welcome to Harlan, junior." Updated. Updated. One 6k chapter is released today, so it won’t be divided into two chapters. (