Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi discovered a problem.

As the company's industries continued to expand, the content he managed had become increasingly extensive.

Externally, there were the Sage Mushroom patent royalties, the jointly held Emerald Soup and Exploding Mushroom with Coral Mouth, long-term trade orders with the United City, and the internal circulation of the entire Development Alliance.

Internally, there were the express delivery center, the Mushroom Forest sedimentary zone, the collection of Light Ash Sand from the Light Ash Dam, farmland cultivation, breeding platforms, the processing of new foods, and the various inventories of the seabed human heritage…

The various industries had been further subdivided.

After pondering, Zhou Yi adjusted the company structure and created two new departments.

Farmland, breeding platforms, and the food industry were merged into the Agriculture Department, headed by agricultural advisor Zheng Tao.

Foreign liaison and cooperation affairs all belonged to the Foreign Trade Department, headed by Red Falcon.

The Mushroom Forest and Sand Rat groups continued to operate independently.

To facilitate internal information transmission within the company, Zhou Yi also sent Red Falcon to buy a batch of enhanced controllers, which were also portable computers in the wasteland era.

They were entirely made with Light Imprint Technology, looking like a small metal briefcase. When opened, inside was a peculiar display composed of glass and special sand.

The sand served as the basis for pixel blocks, forming various texts and images, all unfolding within the glass in the form of sand paintings. Although the resolution was only 640x480, basic recognition was not a problem.

This Light Imprint Controller could store text, images, and sounds, and transmit data between each other.

Its operation relied on multiple electromechanical Light Imprints installed internally, such as "Write," "Store," and "Read."

Depending on the configuration accuracy, each enhanced controller cost from 50 to 200 Light Seeds.

In addition to the box terminal, it was also necessary to purchase at least one transmission pile with a "Transmission" Light Imprint as a supporting device, replacing the role of the machine operator to complete the transmission between controllers.

The price of a transmission pile was 50 Light Seeds, but its coverage was only 500 meters.

To cover the entire Sandport area with this set of equipment, the cost was too high.

Therefore, the enhanced controller could only be used as an electronic notebook, and information transmission could only be carried out when returning to the company.

It could only be said that the independent development of Light Imprint Technology still needed time.

This kind of Light Imprint processor was mostly used by large organizations such as the Knights Templar, the Alchemist Society, and the Craftsman Guild for logistics statistics. Due to the expensive price, it was still impossible to popularize it.

Although many aspects of the function need to be improved, it was also considered a preliminary paperless office upgrade. The employees were overjoyed with the controllers they received.

Especially Zheng Tao, he happily swiped his finger on the glass panel: "The statistics in the agricultural field are very complicated. Although the agricultural machinery brothers can help, it's not good to keep asking them. Now with the processor, the planning, seedling raising, fertilizer, labor and other numbers of each planting season can be recorded and calculated."

"In this way, after the final streamlining, the agricultural output will be clear at a glance."

Scavenger Captain Xie Xun opened the box, looked carefully at the image composed of sand grains on the screen, and couldn't help but sigh: "What a powerful tool, I will definitely put claw covers on my claws, so I won't smudge the glass. We have found out how much stuff, now it's clear."

Sun Chonglai also said: "With this, I can record the information of each Black Hand Mushroom. Chairman, you don't know, among this batch of children, two have changed a lot. I have been paying attention to this matter recently."

Bone Man called over the two Black Hand Mushrooms.

But Zhou Yi didn't notice anything different about them. They were all short and small, with facial features that seemed to be painted on.

"Where is the big change?"

"Here, here."

Bone Man pointed to the caps of the two Black Hand Mushrooms.

Only then did Zhou Yi notice that some fluff had grown on their hat-like caps, looking like they were wearing woolen hats.

"Is this a seasonal effect?"

"No, absolutely not, it has never happened before!"

Sun Chonglai gestured excitedly with his arms: "They are further growing and changing. These two children were the first to go to work at the breeding platform. Because it is close to the Dead Sea, they were a little scared at first, but slowly they adapted."

"Before, they said that they felt itchy on their heads, and then these fluff grew out. They are affected by the high concentration of Dead Light in the Dead Sea environment. I don't know what will happen next, but I think their bodies are adapting to the high concentration of Dead Light on the Dead Sea."

Zhou Yi suddenly realized: "That is indeed good news, you should pay close attention to them."

He suddenly thought.

"Should we try ingesting a large amount of Light Seeds?"

Maybe there will be a transformation like the Rocket Bone Fish.

Sun Chonglai hurriedly refused: "Chairman, please don't do this to them. If the Black Hand Mushrooms need Light Seeds, they will say so. These children were originally very timid, please give them some time to grow and let them grow up slowly and healthily."

Zhou Yi nodded: "I was a little too impatient, do as you say."

"Please wait for our good news."

…

Red Falcon suddenly issued a broadcast.

"Latest news, the United City has officially passed the assessment and has been recognized by the Mechanical City as a Class A city."

"The United City's application for the [Alien City] classification has also been officially recognized, becoming the fourth type of city form after [Mechanical City], [Human City], and [Light-Nurturing City]."

Zhou Yi knew that the United City would definitely rise, but he didn't expect the speed to be so fast.

It directly obtained an A rating in a few months.

Behind this credit rating is the high amount of loans that the Mechanical City is willing to give them, optimistic about their broad prospects and leading position in the future.

But Zhou Yi completely didn't expect the classification of Alien City.

The United City is not only going to become bigger and stronger, but also created a new social form standard.

Zhou Yi said: "I know Mechanical City and Human City, but what is Light-Nurturing City?"

"It is a city where Light-Nurturing species are the core productivity, but the number is very small. The main residents and productivity of Light-Nurturing cities are the three groups of Water Octopi, Bone Men, and Mountain Dogs."

Red Falcon explained: "Water Octopi are outstanding intellectual workers, and all cities welcome their arrival very much."

"Although Bone Men are wandering immigrants, they are inherently fragile and rely heavily on making and using tools, as well as doing various small trades."

"Mountain Dogs are born to live in groups. They can survive in various harsh environments, are hardworking and tenacious, and have a well-organized internal order. They are also one of the few Light-Nurturing species with strong natural cooperation ability. Although their individual abilities are not strong, and their combat and intellectual abilities are not excellent, living in cities can give play to their collective advantages."

Zhou Yi immediately thought of Kobolds.

He described their image.

"Judging from their appearance and behavior, they are undoubtedly Mountain Dogs."

The drone gave an affirmative answer.

"The standards defined by the United City are as follows."

"Alien City is a city where building life represents the core productivity. It needs to have at least 5 building lives to maintain and expand the city, and at least 30,000 permanent residents."

The United City uses itself as the standard.

Zhou Yi swiped his finger across the screen and searched for this entry on the Recursive City page.

On the pie chart of the United City, the first part is [Service Cooperation], accounting for 51%, the second part is [Construction], accounting for 30.6%, and the last part is [Environment], accounting for 18.4%.

Zhou Yi clicked on the Service Cooperation rated A and found that the core was [Prison Transformation].

The most important cooperation between the Mechanical City and here is in Meizhou Prison. They send some criminals here for detention, including both mechanical life and flesh and blood life. It is a centralized prison recognized by various cities.

From this point of view, the United City is a service-oriented city, mainly detaining and transforming criminals from various places.

The [Construction] industry is also rated A because five building lives, such as Meizhou Prison and Happy Valley, have been recognized for their urban functions and occupy all the weight.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Yi couldn't help but ask: "Logically speaking, our company also has four major building lives, hasn't it improved?"

"The company's credit rating has also been updated just now and has been officially upgraded to B+."

Zhou Yi immediately checked it out.

It really was.

On the pie chart of Wasteland Development Company, there is an additional item [Construction], rated B+, which is also supported by Emerald City, Maria Hospital, Yalong Bay and Leshan Giant Buddha.

Because of this new project, the comprehensive credit rating has finally been upgraded by half a level.

"Zhou, this time the classification of Alien City has been formally established, and it is no longer limited to the city's own form."

"Kunming Station has passed through various mechanical cities and issued the [Declaration of Independence of Building Life], which is committed to liberating building life that is treated as slaves."

"The United City has received the addition of more than 33 mechanical cities, and will work together to help building life get rid of slave status, rescue them through various means, so that building life can exert real power and value to defend and promote world order."

"Kunming Station has already sent documents to major cities, willing to compensate economically in exchange for the freedom of local building life, and send them to the United City."

Zhou Yi was secretly surprised.

The big moves of the United City are one after another.

The Alien City was established, gained independent discourse power, reached a long-term strategic cooperation with the Mechanical Cities, became the 404 city on the ground, and then began to devote itself to liberating building life.

They had obviously been planning for a long time.

Kunming Station officially began to advance when it confirmed that the time was ripe.

Zhou Yi felt strange for a while: "Why are the Mechanical Cities willing to help them? This kind of thing will inevitably conflict with the local territorial sea lords. Given the Mechanical Cities' attitude of maintaining neutrality, how could they wade into this muddy water?"

According to the tendencies of mechanical life, they lack spontaneous motivation for reform, and stability is the core of their pursuit.

Red Falcon said: "What can be publicly found at present is that the United City is actively introducing mechanical life. They are building a new type of city based on building life as the basic structure and manager, mechanical life providing professional services, and humans and Light-Nurturing species as the main body of labor and creation."

"The self-repair and long life of building life, the professional ability expansion of mechanical life, and the vitality and innovation of humans will combine to form a new urban model."

"Many mechanical cities are supporting this pilot project, just wanting to join this new wave of reform. As long as the price is right, the territorial sea lords holding building life will not refuse to release the transaction. For them, this is just a business."

Zhou Yi touched his chin.

He originally wanted to try this direction, but the United City directly started operating.

From a good perspective, the systemic pressures and risks that this kind of urban reform will face will also be borne by the United City.

He can also cross the river by feeling them.

Not bad.