Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 242 Government forces’ targeted strikes and bombing plans

Two days later.

Snowflakes began to fall, and Berggren was covered in a beautiful but deadly layer of silver.

Forced by the extremely cold temperatures, the large-scale battle between the government army and the Vichyni army finally came to an end, and each of them withdrew to their strongholds to recuperate.

In the aftermath of the battle between the two armies, the refugees who barely survived had to face the cold attack again. In Berggren today, this kind of cold could easily kill someone.

Therefore, wood and combustible materials have now become the most precious materials in Bergglen City. The black market prices have skyrocketed. Even the broken wood chips from various ruins have been dug out and taken away.

But even so, heating fuel was still in short supply, and countless people died from the plummeting temperature on the first day.

However, the government troops surrounding the city have no intention of giving in. They are still blocking the entry of humanitarian aid supplies and have even strengthened the siege.

A military spokesman claimed that the various accidents and crimes that occurred in the city were the main cause of the tragedy of civilian casualties, and that the rebels were the culprits.

Therefore, instead of lifting the siege, they will tighten the blockade. The spokesman also said that factors such as shelling, cold winter and lack of supplies will soon force the rebels to surrender, and the civilians trapped in the city can also be rescued by then.

At the same time, the government forces also secretly accelerated the deployment of certain plans.

——This morning.

The snow was howling, mixed with icy raindrops. The strong wind echoed like a howl, moving through the ruined city.

In heavy snow and heavy rain, a man carrying a heavy package, wearing a jacket and a scarf walked out of the woods on the edge of the suburbs.

He clutched his abdomen, staggered in the snow, and trudged forward.

"Almost...the city..."

His consciousness was blurred, and the biting rain and snow hit his face like needles. He covered his face with his hands, barely opened his eyes, and saw the huts in the distance.

That's a suburban house.

The man thought about what he was carrying, gritted his teeth, and continued to move forward.

He walked through the snow, through the forest, and fell off the river bank onto a dry, snow-covered river. The man got up and continued to stumble between the blown bridge piers.

He fell down more than once and felt that he could not support himself, but there was a faith that supported him and allowed him to cross the river and reach the opposite bank.

He climbed up the wooden steps along the river bank, braving the wind and snow. He pushed open the old iron gate, walked through the shacks and streets by the river, and finally arrived at the door of the nearest house, almost crawling.

"Is there anyone...help..."

He used his last strength to hit the door and opened it.

There seemed to be several people in the hut, and there was a fire burning, making it very warm. The rise in temperature made the man sober up a little. He saw two people running towards him, but before he could speak, he fell to the ground with a sigh of relief and passed out.

Before he fell into coma, the last words he murmured were: "Help me...my...bag..." Before he could finish his words, he fell down.

……

"…What’s wrong with you!"

The first person to run to the man was a young girl with a short black ponytail. She looked at the fallen man and found that not only did he have two gunshot wounds on his body, he was also seriously ill and unconscious.

She immediately said to her companions: "Erica! Go to the second floor, there are medicines and bandages there!"

"I'll get it right now! Anna, take him to the bed!" Erica quickly ran to the bathroom on the second floor.

Anna struggled to lift the man up and wanted to take him to the bed, but the man's unconscious body was so heavy that she almost fell down.

At this time, another pair of strong hands supported Anna and the man, and then a steady voice sounded in her ears: "Let me do it, Miss Anna."

Anna turned her head and looked at him without restraint: "Then I'll leave it to you, Mr. Li You."

Li You smiled gently, helped the man up instead of Anna, took him to the bed on the first floor, lay down on him, and covered him with a quilt.

He also checked the man's injuries and found that he had gunshot wounds on his left arm and abdomen, but they were not serious and there was no major bleeding.

Li You touched his forehead again, already knowing something in his mind.

Of course he knows this man. This is the man who appears at the doorstep of the heroine Anna's house in the beginning of Embers of the Third DLC. He is a survivor of the massacre at the synagogue outside the city, named Reuben.

In order to undermine the Vichyni people's will to fight, government forces launched targeted attacks and bombings on important facilities bearing their cultural imprint. The synagogue located in the mountainous area on the edge of the city was one of the targets. The military carried out a brutal bloodbath there and destroyed most of the precious cultural relics.

Reuben was the only survivor. Before escaping, he tried his best to bring out some religious relics, but he was also injured. Finally, he stumbled to the suburbs and was rescued by Anna.

In fact, Li You didn't come to squat with him today. Although it was already winter, who knew when Ruben would come? He just came to communicate with Anna and ask her to move.

He had just sat down when Ruben burst in. Hearing the noise over there, Li You understood what was happening, so he didn't hesitate to help.

At this time, Anna came to the bedside with Ruben's backpack and said, "His condition is very bad."

Li You didn't speak, but Erica had already ran down with the medicine and bandages and handed them to Anna: "Here!"

Anna originally planned to treat Ruben's wound, but Li You waved his hand and said, "It's okay, let me do it."

He checked Ruben's wound and found that there was no bullet residue, which was easy to handle. After giving Ruben a simple treatment, he took out the diluted healing potion from his backpack and poured it on his wound.

The bleeding caused by the previous treatment stopped quickly, and Ruben's body began to heal with the help of the wound medicine gourd.

"Give me a small bandage."

Anna handed it over as instructed, and Li You bandaged Ruben's wound, then covered him with clothes and sheets, and finally took out the potion for treating abnormal conditions and asked him to drink it.

"He has a serious fever. Give him some medicine."

Li You stood up, while Anna carefully gave Ruben the medicine and asked him to lie down and rest.

"Thank you for your help, Mr. Li You."

Li You waved his hand: "You are obviously not rich in supplies, but you are still willing to help such an unknown person. How can I stand by and watch."

"Let him have a good rest and let's go to the next room to chat."

Erica said, "I'll watch him."

Anna nodded, put Ruben's backpack next to the bed, and then went to the next door with Li You to sit down.

Anna's home is a three-story wooden building, and there is a warehouse built by her grandfather next to it, which is used to store various artworks and cultural relics.

Li You came here this time just to persuade Anna to move, and at the same time to transport the cultural relics away and protect them.

Although he did not intend to side with the Vishni people, Li You had always recognized the value of national cultural relics. They were treasures of human civilization, so he was willing to help.

Of course, the main reason was... the ending of Smoldering Embers was too damn frustrating and made him very angry, so he wanted to change the original ending.

Now that the businessman Taras has been solved by him, he has successfully obtained the key to the bank vault, and there is no problem in preserving cultural relics.

The next thing to solve is the colonel Markov who wants the winner to take all.

Colonel Markov appears in the plot a few days after Anna and Ruben move into the museum. He told Milena that his superiors asked him to destroy all the artifacts in the museum, and that he could operate secretly to save these artifacts.

But the price is that Milena has to give him the museum's treasure, the famous painting "The Battle of the Leech Swamp".

Milena, the curator of the Berggren Museum, is Anna's companion and a brave person who has been dedicated to the protection of cultural relics. It's a pity that no matter which ending, he will die by the colonel's gun.

Because the colonel had no intention of fulfilling his promise in the first place.

When the final bombing begins, if the player chooses to give the famous painting to the colonel and then escape with other cultural relics, the colonel will block Milena driving at the level, kill her and steal the cultural relics.

If the player does not draw him, but chooses the channel of merchant Taras, the colonel who discovers that there is no artifact in the truck will become angry and shoot Milena.

Anyway, no matter what I choose, I can't save the curator. Even in the game, if you rush into the military camp and forcibly kill the colonel who is locked up by hiding, he will be resurrected at the end.

That's why Li Youcai said that the plot mode sacrifices a lot of things in order to tell stories.

But now, he can change these.

Anna sat opposite Li You and said, "Mr. Li You, I'm very grateful for your understanding. When you talk about moving... I'm actually a little interested."

She looked at this old wooden house full of nostalgia and said, "This is my home. I grew up here, and my grandfather took care of me. His mark is everywhere here, and I don't want to leave."

“However, the situation is getting more and more serious now, and it is too far away from the city, so the pressure to survive is too great. So I did plan to move.

"But…"

Anna looked through the door and glanced at Ruben in the next room, and Li You also understood what she meant.

"Because of this person's appearance, we can't move for the time being, right?"

"Well. After all, besides him, there is also Erica's father who needs to be taken care of." Anna also apologized a little, "I'm sorry, Mr. Li You. You were obviously entrusted by my grandfather's friends and wanted to help us, but I..."

Li Youyou: "It's okay. You don't have to make a decision in a hurry. I came here just to chat with you."

"If you are willing, just wait until Lu... wait until this person's physical condition recovers before moving."

Anna bowed her head to Li You and said, "Thank you for your understanding."

Li You just smiled and said: "This man's condition is not optimistic. The trauma is okay. I left some medicine for you. It will not be difficult to deal with. But he is very ill and it is extremely cold now. You need a lot of fuel to keep warm. .”

"Just in time, I brought something that you might need."

Li You fumbled around in his backpack for a while, and finally took out a sturdy wooden-handled fire ax.

Anna: "!?"

How did you fit such a big guy in?

Li You didn't give her any time to think. He placed the fire ax on the table and said, "Just use this to split the wooden furniture into fuel."

As mentioned before, the difficulty of the Smoldering Embers DLC is not low. For example, in the early stage, there is the dilemma of destroying cultural relics and making firewood for heating to save lives, or saving the cultural relics at all costs.

If you are a novice playing this DLC, it may be difficult not to burn some less important artifacts to keep warm.

However, there is actually an extreme gameplay at the beginning of this DLC, which is to ignore everything else and just pile up the metal workbench like crazy, upgrade to the second level in two days, and directly produce the ax on the third day, and then you don’t have to worry about fuel anymore.

Of course, playing this way is still related to gameplay. Because in the game, without an axe, even if the warehouse is filled with discarded wooden furniture, the character cannot take it apart and make a fire. The real world is naturally not so rigid.

But even so, having an ax in hand would be of great help to Anna. So Li You specially brought the ax he made, which was originally intended for her. This fire ax was made by himself, and its durability is much higher than those crudely made props in the game. Basically, it is not a big problem to use an ax to "clear the level".

By the way, the performance of Anna's character is the same as that of Erica and Esma, and her characteristic is silent sneaking.

Berggren's three female killers.

Anna accepted the ax without refusing.

The rain outside had stopped, but it was still snowing, so Li You said it was time to leave.

After Anna solemnly thanked Li You again, she sent Li You to the street entrance.

……

On the way back, Li You was also thinking.

Reuben has arrived at Anna's house, and the smoldering embers plot has officially begun. The biggest problem with this DLC is that there were several large-scale bombings during the process, and at the same time, small-scale shelling continued.

Probably because the government troops had been besieging the city for so long in the cold winter, they were also impatient, so their methods became more and more inhumane.

The shelling at the end covered nearly half of the city, and countless innocent refugees were buried in the rubble.

Li You is also thinking about whether this incident can be prevented?

Even if it is for nothing else, it is valuable to do so for the safety of yourself and your companions. After all, even he and Ai Ji were no different from ordinary people under the bombardment of modern heavy artillery. Even Yuzi couldn't stand it.

The DLC plot does not specifically show which areas were bombed. Li You only knows that the bank's underground vault is relatively safe, and Adam's apartment building is also fine.

But in this world, plot details have changed so much that it’s really impossible to tell.

So if possible, he still wanted to avoid the bombing directly.

As for the specific methods...

Naturally, it will fall on the side of the government forces.

Li You went all the way back and once again came to the riverside hut where Malik and Esma now live.

After knocking on the door, it was Marco who came to open the door.

"Li You! How did things go?"

Li You entered the house and put down his backpack: "It went smoothly."

Marco is here not for anything else but to help Malik and Esma.

Li You also wanted to convey some important news through Malik, and he couldn't make any mistakes here. And even if this area is safe, just the two of them are at risk.

Therefore, Li You arranged for his companions to come and stay for two days every once in a while to help them.

It just happened to be Marco's turn today.

Villa shelters and orphanages don’t have to worry either. There are Adam and Boris at the orphanage, one with T1 and one with T2 combat capabilities. The defense reinforcement of the small building has been completed long ago. Unless there is an attack by soldiers, nothing will happen.

As for the villa, Aiji, Roman, and Livia are currently staying there, so there will be no surprises.

Of course, during the crime wave, Aggie would also go to the orphanage to help, while Roman would switch shifts with Marco and come to the hut to help.

But he and Malik didn't get along very well. After all, one escaped because he couldn't stand what the rebels were doing, and the other felt that the rebels were the saviors.

Fortunately, Esma was in the middle to mediate, so there was no conflict. In addition, Li You had stated in advance that Roman did not stir up trouble. On the contrary, Esma heard the exact news about the resistance from Roman, and had a deeper understanding of what Li You said before.

Here, it was Asma who went out to search last night because she also wanted to find news for Malik. So she is resting now.

Li You went directly to the basement and found Malik.

"How's it going?"

Malik, who was sitting in front of the radio station, took off his headphones and looked very unhappy: "The news has been broadcast, but there are still people who do not believe in evil."

"Also, government forces are looking for us particularly aggressively."

Li You snorted: "They are quite good at this."

On the day when the city was closed due to heavy snowfall, in response to pressure from the international community, the government forces announced that they would soon open a temporary humanitarian channel for trapped citizens in Bergglen. However, the specific time and location have not yet been determined and will be announced as soon as possible.

The news caused an uproar among the refugees in the city.

A spokesman for the Graznavia government's armed forces, that is, the government army, also claimed that when the humanitarian channel is opened, only seriously injured, seriously ill, or parents with children can pass.

In the chaotic Berggren, one can imagine the choices that such a request would make those crazy people make.

Therefore, although the crime wave in the city has subsided, the most extreme gangsters have become more active.

So in the past two days, Li You has received many requests from neighbors, hoping that he can help deal with those crazy bandits.

What these bandits did completely crossed Li You's bottom line. He would never refuse, not to mention that doing so would gain the gratitude of the children. So Li You has been busy killing the most inhumane gangsters for the past two days.

At the same time, Li You also asked Malik to broadcast the news, telling the refugees that the so-called humanitarian channel by the government forces was completely a cover. The military planned to round up the refugees, kill them and then blame the rebels in response to pressure from the international community.

Although this approach is extremely crude and a discerning person will know what is going on at a glance, it is indeed effective as a means of combating public opinion. As for the lives of refugees? Government forces didn't take it seriously.

After this news was broadcast, the refugees were in an uproar again. Based on the trust accumulated by Malik and his radio station and the past atrocities committed by government forces, many sane people believed the news.

However, there are still people who are desperate or want to make a desperate move. They are unwilling to let go of this "opportunity" and are preparing to pass through the humanitarian channel.

To these people, Li You had no other choice but to say good luck to you... Oh no, you put other people's children down for me!

Then he killed countless bandits who tried to abduct the children, and successfully gained the children's gratitude.

At this time, Li You comforted him and said: "Don't worry, Esma has been very careful when going out recently. No one discovered that you moved here. The government troops can't find it."

"Rather than this, I hope you will monitor and see if you can hear any news about Markov, the colonel of the government army."

Malik nodded subconsciously, but then he was stunned: "Markov? Wait, I remember I heard news about him today... Yes!"

Malik took out a piece of manuscript paper from the pile on the table and handed it to Li You: "This is the military communication I intercepted this morning. Markov is mentioned in it. See if it is useful."

Li You was a little surprised. Did the information come so easily? He took the manuscript and looked at it, then was stunned.

The short message intercepted by Malik was written in pencil on the manuscript paper:

"...Colonel Malfoy...has been cleared...of the Church Rebels...and will return...ready for...action."

Li You immediately understood that the tragedy in the synagogue where Ruben was located was also caused by Markov's leadership.

It must be because of this that he was not in the city a few days ago.

But now, having completed his mission, he will soon return to the government army outpost.

Li You's mind immediately became active.

"It seems... we can go see this bandit colonel."

He didn't stay any longer, and after giving Marco a few words, he returned to the villa shelter.

That night, Li You took Ai Ji to the army outpost.

The army outpost stands near the entrance to the eastern part of the city. Because that area of ​​the city had been destroyed, occupied and occupied by government forces, there were basically no rebel activities, so they set up outposts here to fully alert the lurking rebels in the central and western cities.

Li You and Aiji sneaked in here.

The military outpost is quite large, with two small buildings, several watchtowers, searchlights and sirens.

The number of soldiers in the army outposts in classic mode and Embers of Smoldering is the same eight, while Embers of Smoldering only has one more colonel who does not hold a gun but has a health lock.

However, in the classic mode, there are no alarms at the army outposts, and the soldiers are scattered. But in the smoldering embers, the alert here was immediately turned on. When the alarm went off, everyone in the military camp gathered around. It was basically impossible to achieve full assassination, and it was very difficult to pass the level.

Especially since you can't take the initiative to attack Markov, you can only rely on the assassination mechanism to forcibly solve it.

Of course, for Li You and Aiji, it is not a problem to sneak in.

The two of them hid in the darkness, and Aggie detected the location of the soldiers' patrols, avoiding their eyes and ears, and easily slipped in.

Although the small building in the deepest part of the military camp where Colonel Markov was located was heavily guarded and difficult to sneak into, Li You and Ai Ji gave up on sneaking in from the inside and instead chose to climb the wall and reach the roof.

Ai Ji can easily climb walls, and after Li You obtained the Spider Rune in the Dead Cells world, he can also act like her.

The two came to the top of Colonel Markov's room and began to listen to the voices inside.

A young voice reported respectfully: "...Colonel, I just received the order from the headquarters."

Markov's voice sounded absent-minded: "Tell me."

The soldier said: "There are two in total. The first one is about the humanitarian channel. It says that the rebels will try to escape the city through the humanitarian channel. They will pretend to be citizens, such as parents with children or the wounded. They cannot be Lie and deal with them depending on the situation."

Markov snorted: "...Hmph. It's still the same. This is clear enough. You know what to do, right?"

"understand!"

"What about the second one?"

"The second article is about the bombardment arrangements. It says that you should submit the location of the rebel hiding spots and the important cultural facilities of the Vishni people as soon as possible. The headquarters will conduct shelling again within this week."

The colonel pondered for a while this time before saying: "Okay, I understand. Just reply and I will submit the report within three days. Go down."

"--yes!"

The soldier opened the door and left.

The colonel stayed in the room, stroking his beard and muttering to himself: "...I didn't find anything particularly valuable this time. Sure enough, I still have to go to the museum. Otherwise, I won't even be able to get any oil or water. No, wouldn’t my job as a frontline commander be in vain?”

On the top of the building, Aiji had already clenched his fists and said to Li Youyou: "This scumbag. Should we kill him now?"

Li You thought for a moment, then smiled: "Don't worry, I have a better idea."

(End of this chapter)