Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi stood at the foot of Building 6.

This was his first time at the Samurai Crab Apartments, and he couldn't help but look around.

The apartment entrance used a ramp instead of stairs, and the entrance was wide open.

Samurai Crabs have wide, flat bodies and usually walk sideways, so even if they entered side by side, they wouldn't be crowded or stuck.

The public areas such as the ground floor and corridors of the apartment building were covered with a thick layer of sand, like a beach, soft underfoot, so the Samurai Crabs could walk on it without wearing down their feet.

These were all very thoughtful details.

Zhou Yi praised, "Building 6 really understands Samurai Crabs."

"Yes."

Emerald City said, "Samurai Crabs are the only residents it recognizes."

Zhou Yi entered the apartment building and ran into two Samurai Crabs hurrying out.

The two Samurai Crabs immediately stood to the side and raised their pincers in salute, showing respect.

Zhou Yi waved back at them, and then the Samurai Crabs carefully sidestepped past him before quickly running away.

Just like students encountering the principal on patrol.

The layout inside the building was also different from Emerald City's Building No. 1.

The standard for the upper floors was six units per floor, but the apartment only had three units on the left side, while the right side was blocked by a wall with a door that could be entered and exited.

Zhou Yi was observing this closed door.

A Weapons Master quickly ran over from outside.

It frantically tapped its shell with its claws, trying its best to stand up straight, and the translator transceiver it was wearing emitted a somewhat stuttering voice: "C-Chairman, Xie Lian reporting for duty!"

Zhou Yi said with a smile, "You completed your transformation here?"

"Yes, Chairman!"

"Tell me about your situation."

"Yes, Chairman!"

It looked very nervous.

Zhou Yi patted the Weapons Master's shell: "Relax, it's not an interrogation.

I'm here to understand the specific situation, take your time, no need to rush."

"Okay."

The other party relaxed a little.

It walked to the door on the right, knocked on the door, and the door automatically opened inward.

"Please come in."

Zhou Yi found that it was a corridor inside, also with three units, all with open doors.

Xie Lian said from the side: "Chairman, these three are the apartment's training rooms."

The three training rooms were different.

The first one was filled with metal hollow spheres, iron cakes, stone hammers, and long-handled iron lumps.

Several Samurai Crabs were working hard inside, lifting and doing standing lateral raises, honing their physique.

"This is the strength room, which can continuously increase the weight and improve one's own endurance."

In the second training room, the walls and the ground were flowing, like high-speed treadmills.

A Samurai Crab was running hard inside, its eight claws flying.

Xie Lian said, "Chairman, this is the speed room.

Long-term practice can increase movement speed and reaction speed."

In the third training room, various parts of different sizes were hung on the wall, including various wooden products, iron shells, iron shafts, copper wires, stone pieces, stone cones, pottery jars, and other items.

The room was empty.

Xie Lian tapped his head with his claw, explaining: "Chairman, this is the intelligence room, which tests and hones everyone's intelligence."

"You need to select the different parts on the wall and combine them to make useful tools in order to pass the most basic test."

"I first practiced in the strength room next door, but there were too many Samurai Crabs there, and later I found this place was very quiet, so I came over to try it out."

"But this is very difficult.

Combining tools is a difficult challenge for Samurai Crabs... I was lucky to combine a shovel and pass the first level of the room."

Zhou Yi became interested: "The first level? Are there any follow-ups?"

"Yes, this is the simplest introductory test.

There will be higher challenges next."

Xie Lian took a wooden stick from the wall next to him, skillfully combined it with a piece of iron, tapped it a few times, and raised this shovel-shaped tool.

A green light in the shape of a crab lit up on the wall.

Then, a metal ladder twisted from steel bars descended from the ceiling.

Xie Lian started climbing the ladder.

Zhou Yi followed.

The room on the second floor was filled with sand, gravel, and wood.

"Here, you have to use the existing raw materials and the previous tools to create a simple cave."

"Digging caves is not difficult for Samurai Crabs, but you need to pass the inspection here."

Xie Lian waved his homemade iron shovel to dig out a flat area, used stones as the foundation, and then used wood as a support to create a simple cave in the sand.

Then it raised its pincers high.

Suddenly, water started dripping from the ceiling, and the indoor rainfall was concentrated above the cave, and the amount of water continued to increase, quickly submerging it.

Then a red crab mark lit up on the wall.

"Like this, it's a failure."

Xie Lian explained: "There will be various tests here, rain, strong winds, earthquakes... If the cave cannot withstand the test, it will not pass."

It started demolishing and rebuilding.

This time, Xie Lian first modified the terrain, piled up a higher mound, and compacted the foundation on the mound.

It again used stones as the base, took wooden boards to support the overhang, and used branches and wooden strips as raw materials to build a simple bird's nest house in an almost woven manner.

In the new round of rainfall, the water no longer backflowed, but flowed all the way to the four sides along the overhanging plate and the slope.

Then the room began to shake again, and although the bird's nest house also shook with it, it did not collapse.

This time, the green light was displayed on the wall, indicating passage.

"Then you can enter the third floor."

Xie Lian breathed a sigh of relief.

On the third floor of the intelligence room, various magazines were placed on the brackets on the wall.

Zhou Yi leaned in and observed.

There were comics, beauty guides, urban weeklies, idol photos, and some gardening, repair, hairdressing, and other books on the shelf... but all of them were incomplete and damaged books.

"This is the most difficult time."

Xie Lian's voice carried a kind of heaviness, and it looked around: "Challengers have to copy these books, record the various symbols, texts, and pictures on them.

You have to copy at least one of them, and there can't be too many mistakes."

It gestured with its claws: "This is really difficult, because the structure of the Samurai Crab's pincers makes it difficult to hold charcoal pencils and branches for flexible writing."

"Among these Dead Sea Scrolls, some have many pictures and few words, and some have many words and few pictures.

Choose according to your strengths and preferences."

This layer uses the sand layer on the ground as an exercise book, copying the contents of the book on the sand.

Xie Lian grabbed a thin book.

It turned out to be a children's picture book "Little Red Riding Hood", with (reading for children aged 2-6) written on the side.

Xie Lian looked as if he was facing a formidable enemy, his eyes solemn.

It held a branch in its hand and focused on drawing sand on the sand, with somewhat crooked strokes.

Watching this Weapons Master paint, Zhou Yi personally experienced that it was not easy for Samurai Crabs to learn to write.

It takes a lot of effort and hard work for them to overcome their physiological inconveniences.

The low birth rate of Weapons Masters is also normal, this road is really too difficult.

Xie Lian spent an hour finishing a sand painting, which was the result of a lot of practice.

Zhou Yi felt that it was almost done, so he said, "Okay, let's go to the next level and take a look."

"Yes, Chairman."

Xie Lian was relieved and finally put down the branch that served as a paintbrush.

After receiving the order, Building 6 opened the ascending ladder to enter the fourth floor.

Zhou Yi came to this fourth floor and found that there was a long table inside.

Commonly used tools were placed on the table, including crowbars, wooden boxes, tin cans, translator transceivers, etc., a total of eight.

"This last one is actually quite simple."

Xie Lian's tone was much easier: "As long as you can skillfully use these tools to complete the function in the specified time, this level will be cleared."

Zhou Yi pointed to the ceiling: "Isn't there anything upstairs?"

"There are."

"But those above are already situations that only Weapons Masters can handle, including building some small sandy mazes, making tools based on drawings, weaving ropes and mantises..."

Xie Lian said: "While honing myself on this fourth floor, I evolved into a Weapons Master."

"According to the company's established practice, I also gave myself a name, using the Xie prefix you gave me.

I think I'm still very weak, so I remind myself that if I'm weak, I have to practice more, so I'm called Xie Lian."

Zhou Yi praised: "Very good, Xie Lian.

You are the first Weapons Master cultivated by the Samurai Crab Apartments, and any first crab to eat... any first breakthrough is a very difficult thing."

"Do you have any department you want to work in?"

The other party hesitated for a moment: "Chairman, I want to work in Maria Hospital, is that okay?"

Zhou Yi was a little surprised.

He originally thought that Xie Lian would either join the Scavenger Team or enter the popular Courier Center, but he didn't expect that it would want to become a medical staff member.

"Why do you want to go there?"

It said: "Because... I saw many brothers injured.

I am not strong, and my mind is not very smart, but I am patient, and I have completed the practice here with a lot of training."

"There is currently no targeted treatment for Samurai Crabs.

If I go to the hospital, I can learn and help everyone deal with simple injuries."

Xie Lian said so.

"No problem."

Zhou Yi nodded: "I will tell Da Vinci, you will report there tomorrow and start as a trainee nursing worker, and everything will be arranged there.

But the hospital is very hard, you have to be mentally prepared."

"Yes, Chairman, I am not afraid of hardship!"

Xie Lian immediately became excited.

"Go busy with your work."

"Yes, Chairman!"

Watching Xie Lian leave, Zhou Yi walked into the strength room and speed room again for on-site observation.

Three paths have been constructed here.

Lifting iron to practice strength can make it easier to become a Hammer Soldier.

Practicing speed and agility will gradually evolve towards the direction of a Dual-Wielding Fighter.

If you can complete the trials in the intelligence room, you may grow into a Weapons Master, provided that the energy is sufficient.

But these growths are not absolute.

Acquired practice only further accelerates the pace of evolution, and the innate talent gap still objectively exists.

Xie Lian thinks he is stupid, but according to Da Vinci's physical test after the fact, his brain capacity reached 1700ml, second only to Xie Xun, and is also a proper brain talent among Samurai Crabs.

Emerald City said: "The layout of Building 6 is an imitation of the existing behavior of Samurai Crabs."

"It has been observing Samurai Crabs since it was built.

Hammer Soldiers like to practice strength, Dual-Wielding Fighters value speed, agility, and explosiveness more, and Weapons Masters improve their brains by making tools, transforming the environment, and learning to read."

"These are the wisdom of the past Samurai Crab groups, which have been proven to be useful, so they will continue to practice them."

"The Samurai Crab Apartments are very spacious, with a large number of vacant houses, so Building 6 had such an idea to make it easier for them to exercise.

I didn't expect it to accelerate the process of evolution."

Zhou Yi's heart moved when he heard this.

This is more like a mutual promotion between the Samurai Crabs and the apartments.

The Samurai Crabs did get a good return when they took care of Building 6 at the beginning.

Zhou Yi pondered for a moment and told Red Falcon: "Notify all Samurai Crabs and encourage the apartments to develop in multiple directions.

Any Samurai Crab employee of the company, whether they evolve into a Hammer Soldier, a Dual-Wielding Fighter, or a Weapons Master, will be rewarded with 5 Light Seeds!

Go directly to Gong Zheng to receive this reward."

"Yes."

The drone began to broadcast widely through the translator.

In the Wasteland Development Company, Samurai Crabs have become the first group to have their own exclusive school.