Wasteland Development Diary

In the darkness, the samurai crabs skillfully crawled forward, completing pinpoint assassinations of the enemy.

The outer ring of camel soldiers were the first to fall.

By the time the four enhanced individuals noticed anything, they were already surrounded by samurai crabs. Two mages were instantly killed, and the quad bikes were overturned and hacked to death by the ambushing samurai crabs as they tried to escape.

The only one who struggled for a bit was the gunner who had pierced Iron Steed.

Within two minutes, all the light dots representing the enemy had disappeared.

Zhou Yi was used to all of this.

Battle is a cruel game of kill or be killed. You can't afford to be侥幸心 (Jiaoxingxin - harbor侥幸心: to have侥幸 psychology, i.e. to depend on luck), nor can you have mercy or compassion. You must eliminate the enemy's forces as quickly as possible.

In the Dead Sea, Zhou Yi was once exhausted from dealing with the attacks and challenges of various monsters.

No matter how many times he won, he was still attacked by the monsters one after another.

To reduce the damage to the crab soldiers, Zhou Yi had to hide and flee for a while.

He began to observe and study some of the powerful light-absorbing species that ruled the region, wondering why they were not challenged. These light-absorbing species were constantly hunting other monsters, chasing other groups everywhere, making them afraid to resist.

Zhou Yi discovered that the strength of some regional rulers was not that high; they were only slightly stronger than the individuals around them. If the hunted creatures united and attacked these rulers like they attacked his team, it would injure or even kill them.

But they never did, they just ran away in terror.

The monster rulers always took the initiative, killing some individuals in the monster群 (Qun - group), especially the strong ones. This made the other lower-level monsters feel恐慌 (Konghuang - panic), completely losing the desire and courage to resist.

After long-term observation and a large number of tests, Zhou Yi completed his "Dragon Field Enlightenment."

He had to take the initiative, strike hard, and quickly reduce the enemy's numbers. Especially by killing the strong among them, he could deter the other weaker ones and destroy their will to resist.

This method was very effective.

From then on, Zhou Yi only needed a few battles to make most monsters keep their distance.

On this basis, he made some optimizations.

Zhou Yi selected some of the stronger samurai crabs and gave them a portion of the light seeds. The shells of these samurai crabs were evolving towards black, and their need for energy was higher than that of their peers.

These stronger individuals expressed that they were very hungry.

After receiving the light seed supply, they would complete their transformation by molting.

This group of samurai crabs had stronger and lighter black shells, and their speed, strength, and explosiveness were greatly improved. Their pincers also evolved in different directions.

Some of the black-armored samurai crabs had pincers that contracted and elongated, turning into double-edged blades on both sides, which Zhou Yi called "Dual-Blade Hands."

Some had larger and more powerful pincers, like a pair of iron hammers, capable of delivering powerful hammer blows and breaking the armor of high-defense individuals. Because they were good at demolition and改造 (Gaizao - transform) walls as engineer soldiers, Zhou Yi named them "Hammerheads."

The last part, however, embarked on another evolutionary path.

Their physiological structure changed dramatically, becoming a slightly怪异 (Guaiyi - strange) upright form.

The large back shell became a segmented black shell plate armor covering the whole body, and the head shell was thick, like a space suit helmet without a glass mask.

The upright crab's pincers became three-toed claws, which could hold and climb more flexibly. Its lower body was two thick feet, but without structures like claws and feet, but bone stilts like stilts, but moving very fast, without affecting its balance.

The other three pairs of feet were folded on the back, which could tightly grasp the weapon box on the back, or quickly pull out the weapon and pass it to the two claws. It could also quickly stretch out to support when rolling, belonging to auxiliary limbs.

This upright crab was not tall, basically less than 1.5 meters, but the armor was thick, the limbs were thick, and the center of gravity was very stable.

They were the fewest in number, but the upper limit was also very high, and they could use more tools.

In addition, the upright crab was also the only one who would spontaneously lift weights, run, and train its own strength, speed, and explosiveness. They would also改造 (Gaizao - transform) weapons for their own use, and切磋 (Qiecuo - exchange notes/compare notes) with other individuals. Their intelligence and understanding of combat were higher than those of their peers.

Zhou Yi named it "Weapon Master."

Dual-Blade Hands, Hammerheads, and Weapon Masters were the three branches of the samurai crab evolving to the next form.

Their common features were that their armor became漆黑 (Qihei - pitch-black), their longitudinal eyes became silver-white, and silver纹路 (Wenlu - lines/patterns) no longer directly appeared on the body surface, but only appeared when absorbing the power of dead light.

Zhou Yi named them "Black Warriors."

They were able to maintain a隐匿 (Yini - hidden) state and blend into the surrounding environment, making them difficult to detect.

This characteristic was very effective in combat.

The success of this night attack also proved that their ability was equally effective and usable in ground operations.

Zhou Yi only had one thing he didn't understand.

He asked the remote control: "Are these people too weak? Why do I feel like the enhanced individuals didn't have any effective resistance."

Red Falcon replied: "When there is a significant gap in機體 (Jiti - machine body, here referring to capabilities), there is no confrontation, only the weak being unilaterally hunted by the strong."

"These Black Warriors, their strength, or rather, their destructive power, has reached level D. You sent 30 Black Warriors and 104 ordinary samurai crabs to deal with these 4 enhanced individuals and 28 ordinary humans. This is the result."

The drone said: "The strength of Black Warriors like this should be the leader of a crab群 (Qun - group), and normally there is排他性 (Paitaixing - exclusivity). It's incredible that you can get them to cooperate with each other."

"Especially the Weapon Master inside, I've never heard of this evolutionary branch."

Zhou Yi thought to himself, that's because I am the leader in their eyes, and I saved them from childhood and raised them to adulthood.

Around the absolute core, everyone can do their job.

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Confirming that none of the enemies survived, Zhou Yi came all the way to the scarred Iron Steed.

The surface of this agricultural machine has many black marks and溃烂 (KuiLan - festering) from being burned by flames, the headlights are also drooping and dragging on the ground, and the machine gun on the back is completely枪口歪了 (Qiangkou waile - gun barrel is crooked). The hole in the roof is still噼里啪啦 (Pili Pala - crackling) with electric arcs, but the main body of the agricultural machine is relatively intact.

Zhou Yi said: "Sorry, I'm late."

"Thank you for your help, you came in time." Iron Steed made a buzzing, broken sound, as if there was a problem with the loudspeaker.

"I was almost拆了 (Chaile - dismantled) by these bastards, these guys are really卑鄙 (Beibi - despicable)..."

After its narration, Zhou Yi learned that Iron Steed originally wanted to protect the newly reclaimed farmland, so it came over to stop these people from expanding the storm, but it was ambushed and beaten.

Zhou Yi pointed to the machine gun on its top and joked: "It seems that the firepower is not enough."

"This is actually a bluff, there are no bullets inside. Because bullets are very expensive, the machine gun is just a fake, just to make a show."

Iron Steed added: "The traps they created made it difficult for my機體 (Jiti - machine body, here referring to capabilities) to operate normally, and a lot of energy was吸走 (Xizou - absorbed). I can only barely maintain basic power."

Zhou Yi just found out.

It turned out that a fake weapon was installed to bluff.

Just then, Red Falcon suddenly emitted an unprecedented sharp whistle.

"Be careful! There's something in the mushroom forest!"

"The energy intensity is very high!"

"At least level C!"

Zhou Yi turned his head and looked.

At this time, the sun was rising, and there was a rumbling sound in the mushroom forest, as if something was震荡 (Zhendang - vibrating).

Then a big mountain slowly rose from inside.

Suddenly, a loud whistle sounded from behind.

"Brother, I'm here!"

Then Zhou Yi saw that in the direction of the whistle, two thick red flames lit up, and they crashed into the giant thing in the mushroom forest at high speed.

In the blinding flash of light and deafening roar, the originally rising mountain slowly collapsed.

Zhou Yi watched and said "Ah."

"Copper Bull is back with fertilizer."

Iron Steed explained: "Unlike me, it's equipped with real stuff."