Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi tried to load a lead bullet into the flintlock pistol, but not only could he not ignite the gunpowder, the hammer also jammed frequently, making it troublesome to use.

After fiddling with it for more than an hour without success, he gave up and turned his attention to the stack of paper.

The paper was covered with densely written symbols in charcoal, many of which looked like pictographs describing specific items, giving it a hieroglyphic feel.

Zhou Yi could rely on Bai Suanni to converse with people of this era without any barriers, but he could not understand these texts.

He suddenly thought that since the Kestrel was a rescue drone, it might have the ability to recognize SOS texts, perhaps it could recognize them.

"This text is recognizable."

The drone's response relieved Zhou Yi.

The Kestrel translated the New Human text into Old Human Chinese.

This confirmed that the deceased's name was Yang Si.

Yang Si's notes included not only textual descriptions but also drawings.

His sketching skills were quite solid, and he drew the various parts of the pistol, and also made detailed cross-sectional diagrams of the two colors of bullets.

The black ring bullet was an ordinary lead solid bullet.

The blue ring bullet was different.

It had a special substance inside, which, when exploded, could summon a shaded monster.

Those monsters would attack the area where the bullet exploded, causing various creatures in the area to fall into a coma and dream.

This was called the 'Dream Trap Bullet'.

There were also notes below the drawing, reminding to cover the mouth and nose when shooting—or wear protective gear, and hold your breath until the monster disappeared, otherwise you would also fall asleep.

It was like a copied operation manual.

This bullet was probably a weapon for the enhanced.

Zhou Yi looked through the other items in the box, and the second thing that caught his attention was the badge.

The copper badge had a bottle containing a small person engraved on its surface, and some incomprehensible symbols engraved on the back, but the workmanship was very exquisite.

This thing seemed to represent some kind of identity.

Zhou Yi called Ah Jin and asked if he knew the badge.

"This... Homunculus, is from the Alchemist Society."

Ah Jin looked surprised: "This is the first time I've seen a real badge.

But only alchemists among the enhanced are qualified to hold this thing.

Master, how did you pick this up?"

Zhou Yi said, "What is the relationship between the Alchemist Society and the enhanced?"

"I also heard it from the elders," Ah Jin scratched his head: "Enhanced are high-level professionals among humans who can fight against various monsters, possessing all kinds of abilities and weapons."

"The most common professionals are knights, alchemists, and archers."

"Knights have mounts or vehicles, and can move very fast in the wild.

They are very mobile, very capable of fighting, and act as organized groups of knights.

They initially banded together to fight against the looters, and after expelling and destroying many looters, the knights controlled many transportation routes between cities."

"As the knight groups grew stronger, they had more functions, such as guarding, fighting, exterminating, hunting, and trading transportation... They were also the first group to fight the Guangna species head-on."

"The knight orders themselves have rich combat experience and their own codes of conduct, and are highly respected.

Almost every city has a knight order stationed there."

Speaking of the knight order, Ah Jin's eyes lit up.

"Alchemists can read and write, and are knowledgeable scholars.

Only those recognized by the Alchemist Society and granted an identity badge are alchemists.

Their abilities involve various aspects, some can change the weather, causing wildfires and rainfall, some can heal the sick and save people, and some can make monsters go crazy and worship..."

"The last are the archers, who are long-range attackers."

Ah Jin gestured to draw a bow and arrow: "It is said that archers can directly shoot monsters at the foot of the mountain from the top of the mountain.

They have the most sophisticated long-range weapons and are trump card assassins against powerful monsters.

Archers basically have combat experience in knight orders or hunting groups, and need to hunt a large number of monsters to be cultivated, and rarely appear in public."

"There are also some other enhanced, but only these three have been to Maogu Town."

Zhou Yi suddenly understood that Yang Si, whom he killed, was an alchemist.

Not a combat specialist.

For ordinary people, the flintlock pistol in Yang Si's hand was more than enough, but he just didn't expect to face the encirclement of the Samurai Crab and the flying knife array.

Zhou Yi thought silently.

The bandit gang that ruled Maogu Town in the dark should also have other enhanced behind them.

If they know what's good for them, then they will leave each other alone, but if they cause trouble again, then he will completely destroy this evil force.

Zhou Yi flipped out his diary and crossed out the line about returning to land.

He wrote down two new plans stroke by stroke.

—Build a base camp and reclaim the surrounding area.

—Plant rice and wheat after finding them to achieve self-sufficiency in rice and noodles.

To rebuild a familiar human civilization environment, it has to be done step by step.

It is impossible to have the Samurai Crabs farm the land, so it is necessary to recruit people from Maogu Town to do farm work.

However, to do all this, it is necessary to first ensure that this area is safe and stable.

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It's time to raise a flag.

Zhou Yi announced to his employee Ah Jin next to him: "From today onwards, our Wasteland Development Company is officially established, and you are an employee of our company.

From today onwards, call me Chairman."

"Wasteland... Development Company?"

Ah Jin listened a little blankly: "Chairman, what is a wasteland?

What are we going to develop?"

"Wasteland is abandoned land, and we need to make use of it.

Building houses is one of the development directions."

Zhou Yi explained: "Isn't Maogu Town short of food?

Our next step is to plant crops here so that people nearby can have enough to eat."

"Are you saying, grow mushrooms?"

Ah Jin's eyes lit up.

Zhou Yi asked him if there were any other grains, but Ah Jin just shook his head, saying that even the large market towns in the west didn't have such things.

Currently, only mushrooms can be grown.

He also asked: "Ah Jin, do you have any experienced mushroom growers to recommend?

The important thing is that the person is down-to-earth and works carefully, and everything else is easy to talk about."

The market town teenager thought for a while: "Someone who is good and knows how to grow mushrooms, I know Uncle Cao, and Brother Feng."

"Uncle Cao knows how to grow mushrooms best, but his temper is not very good, but when there is a famine, he always shares his mushrooms with everyone.

Brother Feng raises Maogu worms, but in order to raise the worms well, he is also good at growing mushrooms, because mushrooms are the food of Maogu worms, and he lives with the worms every day."

Zhou Yi said: "Bring them here, I'll chat with them, and if there are no problems, they will be hired, and the treatment will be the same as yours."

"Including food and lodging, and meat, they will definitely come!"

Ah Jin suddenly remembered something and said: "Chairman, there is another person, Mr. Gong.

Although he doesn't know how to grow mushrooms, he can recognize mushrooms, and he is the only person in town who can read and write."

"He used to be an apprentice to an alchemist for a few years, and he knows a little bit of everything, he can see a doctor and find medicine, and he can identify monsters and various things.

Many of the things we pick up are first asked him to help identify them to see if they are valuable."

"Mr. Gong is a reliable person."

Zhou Yi had some impression: "Is that the person who thought your wound was okay before?"

"Yes... Mr. Gong has saved many people, but he certainly can't compare to you," Ah Jin was still speaking up for this Mr. Gong, even though he had been misdiagnosed by him.

Zhou Yi thought for a while, it's not easy to have an intellectual in this place, it's good to bring him over to take a look.

"Then add him."