"Giao!? The Great Antler Deer God?!"
Walking down the corridor of the sample vault where the serum was stored, Wei Ba, with a headset hanging from his ear, couldn't help letting out a startled cry.
Rou Rou and Sesame Paste wore equally astonished expressions, though the change in the former's expression wasn't quite as obvious.
Since Brother Edge had kept his mic on and the signal hadn't been blocked, the translated subtitles were quickly relayed to all the nearby VMs.
And not just theirs.
The brothers from the Death Corps heard it too.
Every player active in the surrounding area had just experienced the entire plot Brother Edge had triggered.
"No wonder... that guy said half the chaos on this land came from here," Rou Rou muttered.
They had artificially accelerated the process of natural selection through genetic engineering, cultivating mutants far stronger than the norm...
And not just mutants.
That included the raiders who still lived in tribes.
They weren't all descendants of clones created by Vault 79's experiments, but some had clearly incorporated genes that had leaked out from here.
They possessed powerful physiques, unusually developed organs, and even displayed beast-like traits under certain circumstances...
That wasn't awakening at all.
It was—
"Genetic contamination..." Sesame Paste said softly, clutching the radio.
Wei Ba suddenly spotted the flaw in their reasoning and spoke up.
"Wait... that deathclaw mother said she was Vault 79's administrator. Then who's the guy in the radio?"
Rou Rou said, "Yong?"
Wei Ba tilted his head.
"But didn't that project fail?"
Sesame Paste pondered for a moment before speaking.
"Maybe... Vault 79's administrator thought it had failed, but someone else didn't? After all, didn't that deathclaw mother say that some of the test subjects escaped outside...?"
In terms of results, they had indeed failed to