Wasteland Development Diary

On the deck of the Poseidon, Zhou Yi sat with the entire Scavenger Team.

After a four-hour underwater journey, the submarine arrived at the street Xie Xun had discovered.

Faintly visible were the rooftops of some of the shorter buildings, with many structures buried beneath the dust.

Xie Xun pointed with his claw at a partially buried shop nearby, saying, "Chairman, this is where we found the gold and silver."

Zhou Yi examined it from left to right. Although the outside was covered in dust, the interior decor was still familiar to him, with long glass counters connected as one, and the words "China Gold" on the back wall.

All the gold and silver inside had already been removed. The Scavenger Team had tried their best to maintain the original state inside, without causing any damage.

Zhou Yi found two mobile phones in the gold shop, and both were fed to the Combat Breed.

Further inside, there was a business license hanging on the wall.

The address栏 on it read:

[First Floor, RT-Mart, Jiaotong Street, HC District, CQ City]

RT-Mart.

Supermarket!

Zhou Yi immediately perked up.

There were many shops here, and he might be able to find the Rolex that Wu Yi needed.

Zhou Yi led the Scavenger Team in a careful search, and they indeed found an entrance to the building nearby.

Many areas inside RT-Mart were blocked by sand and dust, making entry and exit very difficult. Fortunately, the Scavenger Team was very experienced, and they were skilled at both simple clearing and excavation.

Zhou Yi felt a strange sensation in his heart.

Based on his experience, the buildings at the bottom of the Dead Sea should be coated with a layer of dead light, forming a protective layer that prevents almost all external dust from entering, with only surface accumulation at most.

But this RT-Mart was not like that.

The only possibility was that someone had been here before, damaging the light film. The intruders must have entered and exited frequently, otherwise, the amount of dust accumulation would not be so great.

Red Falcon also agreed with his view: "There are many signs of violent damage here, including the doors, windows, and ventilation ducts. The friction marks are very obvious, and dust entered through these channels."

Zhou Yi walked inside and found the first and second floors of the mall in a mess.

The computer store was ransacked, with parts scattered all over the floor. More than half of the appliances in the appliance area were missing. The clothing store, baby store, and restaurant were also looted, with obvious dragging marks on the floor and many fragments remaining.

He went down to the basement.

This used to be the area with the highest customer traffic, but now the vegetables and meat in the food area had long been eliminated by the dead light, leaving only some well-packaged ready-to-eat foods.

Many things on the shelves were missing.

Zhou Yi could tell from the remaining stickers that those things included hammers, scissors, knives, screwdrivers, wire pliers, wrenches, toolsets, etc., mostly tools.

Although he didn't find the Rolex, there were boxes of various drinks here, including beer, which was the Scavenger Team's favorite. They moved them with extra effort, and each one was visibly excited.

In addition, there were a large number of instant noodles and instant rice, biscuits, preserved fruits, oatmeal, and other foods that were easy to store and eat. In a pharmacy, they also obtained many common medicines.

For Zhou Yi personally, the biggest gain was still mobile phones.

In the digital store of RT-Mart, he found many unopened mobile phones, and fed them to the Combat Breed one by one.

A total of 256 mobile phones were invested.

The number after [Radio] became (4/4).

Zhou Yi took out the stress source he carried with him and used the radio to collect it.

A voice appeared in his mind.

"17, 16..."

It was that crisp voice again.

"Return initiated."

Channel 4 didn't seem to be any different, just with better sound quality.

"1."

The countdown ended.

Zhou Yi suddenly felt a trance.

When he came back to his senses, he was in a strange scene he had never seen before.

A large number of crystalline gems of various shapes slowly undulated on the ground like waves of water. They were square, triangular, circular, spiral, conical, gourd-shaped, worm-shaped... shimmering with blue and white radial light.

The whole world was in a pale cold tone, with nothing else, only the ocean of gems flowing.

Zhou Yi found that he could rotate the perspective.

He looked down and saw that he was also made of gems, but had become a gem pillar.

Zhou Yi tried to combine gems into a hand. This hand could also spread its five fingers, clench them into a fist, and move each finger skillfully.

This ocean of gems was closely related to him.

It was part of his body.

Zhou Yi tried hard to rise, raising his perspective further. He saw that he was in a huge sphere made of many gems, with countless gems flowing like the ocean, shining brightly.

The outside was dark.

In addition to himself, there were other gem spheres, but the luster of different individuals was different, and the size varied. The gem world Zhou Yi was in was considered small in it.

Just as he was about to try further, his head suddenly ached violently.

Like eating too much ice cream in one breath, the stabbing pain in his brain made it impossible to think at all.

He could only grit his teeth and endure.

After a while, this tingling pain gradually subsided.

Zhou Yi found himself back in the RT-Mart supermarket.

Xie Xun and other scavenger team members were looking at him very nervously.

He waved his hand, his voice a little dry: "I'm fine, continue with your work."

The weapon masters then resumed their work.

Zhou Yi looked at the stress source fixed with gel in his hand. Looking closely, this thing was like a fragment peeled off from a gem.

He thought in his mind.

Channel 4 can not only collect signals, but also directly connect with Tianren signals, so it allows itself to synchronize with that return countdown and enter the space where the Tianren is located.

So.

The strange spherical world composed of gems is likely the body of the Tianren.

The stress source is part of the Tianren gem machine, implanted into the wasteland's external body, so it forms a result similar to consciousness synchronization.

The situation has become much clearer.

Zhou Yi started [Radio] again, preparing to test his speculation.

As a result, he found that the ability could not be used.

The radio was temporarily in an unusable state, and the physiological fatigue brought by the Combat Breed was also transmitted to Zhou Yi, making him feel like he had also experienced a big battle, and his energy was greatly depleted.

At this time, Zhou Yi also calmed down.

If he had just temporarily entered the Tianren's body through the stress source, that is, the body of Li Mo's former boss "Cup". The other party did not use the body for some reason, and he might not be so lucky next time.

Channel 4 needs to be used with caution.

The Streamers might know something.

For accurate expression, Zhou Yi directly shared this part of the information with Xiao Fu.

After reading it, the Streamer said: "This situation is that you formed consciousness information synchronization through the ability of [Radio], so you were returned to the other end of the synchronization."

"The Tianren seems to be just their disguise to avoid being discovered in their true form. The strange gem structure... I don't know where they come from."

"However, this channel can continue to be used."

Xiao Fu explained: "Da Zhou, that kind of body is not a house. As long as the owner is not there, others can sneak in. Any non-autonomous changes to the machine will be immediately detected by the consciousness."

"You were not rejected, there is only one possible reason. That is, the original owner's consciousness has died, leaving behind a masterless machine without consciousness control. Just like the Poseidon before."

"So don't worry, you can use it boldly."

Zhou Yi then confirmed that the countdown was calling for the Tianren to which the stress source belonged.

Li Mo's former boss died for some reason.

This made Zhou Yi feel relieved.

Then you can use this method to get a glimpse of the Tianren group.

Next, Zhou Yi reviewed the demand for mobile phones by the [Radio] ability.

Channel 1 is the simplest, 1 mobile phone as an element can be opened.

Channel 2 requires 4 mobile phones to open.

Channel 3 consumed a total of 16 mobile phones.

Channel 4, which was opened just now, fed a total of 256 mobile phones.

That is to say, the element required for the next channel is the square of the consumption of the previous channel.

Channel 5 needs 65536 mobile phones to open, and there is still a chance if you work hard, while Channel 6 needs 4.3 billion mobile phones... which is already an impossible task.

Red Falcon suddenly issued an alarm.

"More than 10 Photonoids are approaching here at high speed from underground!"

Zhou Yi immediately ordered: "Everyone, hide in place and prepare for battle."