Wasteland Development Diary

A group of people wielding black riot batons charged head-on.

Zhou Yi directly activated [Berserk], his head breaking through the ceiling, and he swung his fists to fight the enemies.

Fortunately, with his back against a dead end, he didn't have to worry about attacks from all sides. Zhou Yi could smash one person away with a single punch, but he was also hit by their rain of batons, the pain especially clear.

Both sides abandoned defense and just went for wild attacks.

Zhou Yi quickly noticed something was wrong.

These people attacking him were merely humanoid in shape, their facial features blurred. They held riot batons and riot shields, able to withstand his huge fists.

Even so, being hit by a few punches would cause their bodies to gradually become transparent and disappear.

After an intense battle, the strange people were all dispersed.

Leaving only Zhou Yi, panting for breath.

Something's not right.

He continued to walk forward, and behind the iron gates along the way were large bunk beds, squat toilets, washbasins, and green benches.

How does this place look like a prison?

More than one Dead Sea Aberration underground?

Various thoughts flashed through Zhou Yi's mind as he touched the wall again.

"Hello, can you hear me?"

A cold voice sounded in his mind: "Inmates are prohibited from speaking without permission, and all actions require a report!"

"..."

Zhou Yi decided to go along with it for now: "Report, I want to inquire about the situation here."

"Inquiry prohibited."

No matter how he communicated, he couldn't get a response from this prison.

Unknowingly, the music started again in the corridor.

"The vanished time scatters in the wind

As if unable to remember to face again

Wandering days you accompany

We'll meet again if fate allows..."

Zhou Yi immediately saw that the guards with batons and shields had reappeared in the corridors ahead and behind, charging towards him.

He had to swing his fists again and start the second round of melee with the enemies.

After repelling the new round of attacks, the duration of Zhou Yi's Berserk reached its limit, and he returned to his normal form, becoming weak.

He switched to the initial mech, and the feeling of fatigue and exhaustion immediately stopped.

Zhou Yi seemed to understand the key.

The BGM of "Friendship Years" would cause the baton people to appear and attack him.

However, this prison was tightly connected to Walmart, which was very abnormal. Under normal circumstances, building lives would maintain a certain distance from each other to avoid conflict and maintain safety.

Thinking in his mind, the music echoed in the corridor again.

This time, Zhou Yi waited in the cell to conserve his strength. Soon, densely packed baton people涌来, and he forcibly resisted at the door, switching to extending punches to counterattack. Since the attack intensity had decreased a lot, it was difficult to completely disperse an enemy.

Fortunately, his defense was strong enough, and his life itself was not damaged, only the pain of the batons hitting him was real.

This time it turned into a sustained fierce battle.

The enemy basically suffered no casualties, but after three minutes, they suddenly received an order and turned their heads in unison, leaving the cell and heading towards the corridors on both sides, disappearing into the distance.

Zhou Yi understood, so it was okay to just resist.

He had to get out of this prison, otherwise he would be trapped in an endless cycle of combat here.

Along the way, he constantly fought with the baton people, figuring out the pattern.

The key was still the BGM. The baton people came with the BGM, and they would disappear when the BGM ended.

Zhou Yi spent about two hours, walking and fighting, finally making his way through this long corridor.

He pushed open the iron door at the end.

He first observed the outside.

Ahead was a brand new corridor, with a playground visible on the left and classrooms on the right.

But it was also deserted.

A school behind the prison?

Zhou Yi frowned.

The situation was getting weirder and weirder.

He still chose to continue moving forward.

The school was sunny, and the golden sun hanging in the sky stretched the shadows of the basketball hoops and roadside trees. On the dark red plastic track of the playground, there were visible gaps and cracks everywhere. Next to the track fence was the flag-raising platform, and the red flag was still fluttering in the wind.

Zhou Yi was stunned.

The layout here was too familiar, it was his former school, Beishan Middle School.

A new BGM sounded on the radio.

"The July wind is lazy, even the clouds are getting hot

Soon the sky is stuffy, and after a cloud, the rain falls..."

It was Landy Wen's "Summer Wind".

The sound was neither loud nor soft, lingering throughout the campus.

Zhou Yi looked at the classrooms through the glass.

Inside were neat desks and chairs, a blank blackboard, and slogans such as "Study Hard" and "Tempered by Hardship" posted on the wall.

He quickly woke up.

No.

This could never be Beishan Middle School.

Because that school could never maintain the way it looked when he was studying there.

Zhou Yi put his hand on the wall tiles, trying to input energy into them.

"Hello, I accidentally entered your place, I would like to ask."

He received a polite reply: "Are you a student here?"

Zhou Yi had an idea: "I am! I'm a transfer student, just arrived."

The school immediately said: "Student, please go to your class, do not wander outside during class time."

"Okay, sorry."

Zhou Yi walked into the nearest classroom and found his old seat.

At this time, there were suddenly people around him.

There were students sitting in their seats, and a teacher standing on the podium with a textbook in hand, they all looked familiar to him. There were former friends and buddies, imaginary study goals, academic giants he felt he could never catch up with, and a few annoying guys.

Some were listening to the lecture, some were dozing off, some were using textbooks to cover what they were doing underneath, the teacher was writing on the blackboard, and sometimes cast sharp glances down below.

Zhou Yi instantly returned to his long-ago student days.

It was like taking a long nap.

After waking up, it was time for class again.

The whole class lasted 45 minutes, and "Summer Wind" sounded again, so the teacher began to pack up the podium. The students got up in twos and threes, walked out of the classroom, and began their break.

The corridor also became lively.

Zhou Yi was now sure that he should be trapped in some kind of illusion. The probability of three buildings connected end to end being underground was too low, not to mention that building lives that were too close would also have conflicts with each other.

Three different scenes, the common point was the BGM.

But he hadn't found the source of the music, nor could he determine the identity of the enemy.

Zhou Yi switched to Mech No. 2 and called Xiaofu out as a consultant.

"This situation is consciousness interception. By constructing false consciousness keys, it can temporarily connect to the memory core, making it difficult for consciousness to distinguish which consciousness keys are real and which are false."

"How long is temporary?"

"Short ones may only be a moment, long ones may be hundreds of years, until the energy is exhausted or the false consciousness keys naturally collapse."

The Streamtracer couldn't help but say: "If the [Halo Well] and [Aureole Instrument] were manufactured and installed on this mech earlier, it would be very simple to encounter this kind of thing. Connect the consciousness keys and directly convert the other party into a fire seed life..."

"Don't talk nonsense."

Zhou Yi warned.

"..."

Xiaofu pondered for a while: "There are now two ways."

"The first one is basically foolproof, just wait here. Constructing false consciousness keys for external links requires a lot of energy. It consumes a lot of energy to act on high-level life forms like us."

"As long as it consumes energy, the entire consciousness interception will collapse without being attacked. Anyway, the current intensity can't hurt the mech, the advantage is on our side. I boldly estimate that we can break through here in at most a year."

Zhou Yi asked: "What about the second one?"

"The second way is to increase consciousness intensity."

The Streamtracer explained: "Consciousness interception needs to act on consciousness keys. If the intensity of the intercepted consciousness increases, or the amount of information suddenly increases, it will cause an imbalance and rupture of the entire system."

"If you connect the fire seed life 'Baili Gong's' consciousness key and pull it into your memory core, like you did to Red Falcon and Samurai Crab before, you can break through here."

It emphasized: "However, this puts a lot of load on the memory core and may have potential risks."

Zhou Yi quickly made a decision.

A year is too long.

It's better to fight quickly.

He had already used this method of calling people during the body battle with Xiaofu, so risks had already occurred.

Solve the problems later, now you have to use good tools.

Zhou Yi turned on consciousness synchronization and connected the consciousness key.

With the previous experience, this operation became familiar.

A long shadow appeared under Zhou Yi's feet.

There was a space pull in the shadow, and then Baili Gong with heavy armor and four arms slowly condensed. It was still weak at this time, and the wounds and cracks on its body were still clearly visible.

"What's going on?" There was some confusion in Baili Gong's eyes: "Where is this? How did I get out of the spiral?"

There was no time to explain to it.

Because Zhou Yi saw that the classroom began to tremble, the windows were cracking and deforming, the walls were cracking and extending continuously, and some parts had begun to misalign and collapse.

He saw the building collapsing rapidly, the sun in the sky fading in the dimness, and the sky disappearing in large swaths like a burning painting.

Everything was collapsing and being destroyed.

In the dust, the BGM that sounded in his ears also became extraordinarily slow and elongated.

The phantom disappeared.

Zhou Yi found himself standing in a cave.

Skeletons lay scattered on the ground, some human, some other creatures. The physiological structures of the dead were very complete, as if they had died in their sleep.

In the center of the cave was a stone platform, on which was placed a black rectangular box.

Music was still playing in the black box.

"The warm - mountain wind - the wind blows into a mountain - wind - wind - wind

Why are you not - here..."

There was no Dead Sea Aberration at all, only this music player was launching consciousness interception, allowing entrants to enter different scenes in different music, and being locked in the world of BGM.

Zhou Yi walked over, found the off button on the box, and pressed it.

So the world became quiet.