Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi called over Jionghe Cang, Wu Yi, and Hong隼 (Red Falcon).

He activated mind synchronization, using himself as a switchboard operator, and began discussing the matter with them.

Jionghe Cang said, "My measurement abilities are interfered with and obstructed by special equipment and shielded buildings. Many shielding objects are suspicious to me."

"If we were to penetrate those suspicious areas one by one, the enemy would quickly become alert and discover us."

The Bone Man, Wu Yi, stated, "I can discreetly filter out abnormal areas."

"Whether underground or inside buildings, it's impossible to completely escape the coverage of sand. No matter how much disguise or covering is done, I can conduct a preliminary screening. Then, narrow the search range and lock onto the location of the Lightburst Angel."

Zhou Yi was pleasantly surprised.

The two A-level employees were indeed complementary.

The Bone Man would do the screening first, and then the Focusing Entity would take action after locking onto the target.

Hong隼 (Red Falcon) then said, "The Lightburst Angel is a technology banned and resisted by the Mechanical City. Heaven has promised not to use Mechanical Life as the main body anymore, and the revised technology has been renamed 'Lightburst Calamity'."

"For stability, the Lightburst Angel is in a frozen, dormant state before being activated."

"The placement location first excludes the Dead Sea; to be unaffected by light bursts, torrents, and high pressure, it requires high protection technology and supporting facilities, needing to reach the level of City 404. The Shuanghe (Twin Rivers) area cannot achieve that."

"So, it can only be stored on land, in some kind of building or underground facility."

The drone said, "Zhou, if you can rescue this Mechanical Life that has been transformed into a biochemical weapon, you will receive the gratitude of the Mechanical City, and your credit rating will also benefit. No Lightburst Angel has ever been successfully rescued before."

Zhou Yi hadn't thought about that.

The key is.

There is no Lightburst Angel in the Shuanghe (Twin Rivers) area, which is very important to the company.

After a detailed discussion, the Lightburst Angel dismantling operation officially began.

In this secret operation, the Focusing Entity would first mark suspicious areas, and then the Bone Man would control the sand to screen them one by one, locking onto the specific location of the Lightburst Angel through a double screening process.

The most difficult part was the communication between the two employees.

Zhou Yi was also helpless about this.

They were both A-level lifeforms, yet they still had communication barriers, which was truly outrageous.

The Focusing Entity said, "Actually, it's not that it's impossible. As long as we enter the inner world of conscious activity, we can instantly understand each other."

"But doing so will trigger the Great Sacred Spirit to mark us. We will be rejected by the shallow inner world here and sucked into the deep inner world of the outer sea, becoming true Skywalkers."

Zhou Yi then asked Xiaofu about this.

"Great Zhou, this is the natural law of life evolution."

The Streamtracer explained, "It's like branches and fruits that grow, always extending upwards and outwards. The flow of energy is from bottom to top, from the surface to the inside."

"Big fish cannot survive in shallow water."

Neither the Focusing Entity nor the Bone Man wanted to go to the outer sea, so they absolutely couldn't touch the Great Sacred Spirit.

So, Zhou Yi helped them create some simple tactical actions.

For example, to confirm a location, the Focusing Entity would reflect bright light in that area, and the Bone Man would pile up sand there. After finding the target, they would mark it with an arrow, and then both would take action together...

Zhou Yi and the two of them spent five days completing a set of simple sand/light tactical actions.

The two A-level employees secretly set out.

...

Another day passed.

The first phase of the Wuhu Elevated Bridge project was officially completed, connecting to Jitou (Chicken Head) Town, 20 kilometers away. It was 27 kilometers away from Shagang (Sand Port) City, and the second phase of the project was also gradually unfolding.

The rebuilt elevated bridge reduced the height to 3 meters, with no large spans or obstacles along the way, which provided greater stability. Both the road bridge and the roadbed were easier to complete, and construction and extension were faster.

Only Construction Life could complete a cross-city elevated bridge in one and a half months.

The Wuhu Bridge itself was not very satisfied.

"You only asked for it to be completed as soon as possible. Such a lightweight structure has insufficient load-bearing capacity. If it is subjected to strong external impact or destroyed, its own bearing capacity is insufficient, and it is prone to local collapse. This has defects and hidden dangers."

Zhou Yi helplessly said, "You are a bridge, not a war fortress. You don't need to consider being able to withstand bombing or impacts from tens of thousands of tons of objects."

"For the Shagang (Sand Port) area, this scale and strength are completely sufficient. As long as it can help vehicles travel quickly between the two places, it will have been successful. This is our actual need."

"...What you said also makes sense."

The Wuhu Bridge wasn't being stubborn, "If there is a need in the future, it can also be reinforced and strengthened."

Zhou Yi was more worried about another matter.

"I heard that you are having some disagreements with everyone in the public area?"

"It's not disagreement, it's just that I can't understand them."

The Wuhu Bridge said, "They talk every day, discussing this and that, saying what is bad and what is good... This kind of idle chat is meaningless."

"If everyone spends their time chatting, how can the backward transportation situation in this place be changed?"

"I originally thought that after everyone broke through their respective machine closures, we should discuss together how to maximize our abilities, fulfill our functions, and transform and rebuild the order we lead."

"But what are they doing all day?"

"Maria Hospital says strange things every day, as if there is endless content to say. But after summarizing it, you will find that everything it says is basically worthless. All nonsense."

"Yalong Bay is knowledgeable and helps everyone supply energy. I am very grateful and admire it. But it always thinks it is right and finds it difficult to agree with the ideas of other similar beings."

"Emerald City is good, but it is always worried that Building 5 and Building 6, as well as Building 7, which is under construction, are deviating from their functions. I feel very sorry for that."

"As for the Great Buddha... I can't understand it."

"Everyone has the ability to talk to each other, but they become weaker because of differences! As it is now, how can we do our job well!!"

The elevated bridge angrily rebuked the other colleagues.

Zhou Yi was also helpless.

Communication allows everyone to build great things, but there are also personal conflicts and personality disagreements.

The Wuhu Bridge is a very rigid Construction Life with very high work standards.

Zhou Yi had to say to it, "Everyone is different and has lived alone for many years. It is difficult to change habits or personalities."

"We humans actually have this kind of problem too. Good friends will also quarrel, and disagreements often exist... In short, these are all normal."

"If everyone was exactly the same, then vitality would be lost. You say something, it knows, you know what its reaction will be, and it's the same. It's like talking to yourself."

"Perhaps you have your reasons."

The Wuhu Bridge insisted, "But I will still focus on my work and will not waste my time and energy elsewhere."

Zhou Yi could only respect it.

Construction Life, as a lone wolf for many years, needs a process to truly adapt to socializing.

After the first phase of the elevated bridge was completed, Sha Hai Gong (Sand Sea Duke) couldn't wait to get on the road. It sent out reinforced vehicles to transport various goods back and forth between Jitou (Chicken Head) Town and Emerald City.

The two-lane bridge began to see traffic coming and going.

...

On the fifth day.

The double A-level employee team returned after completing their mission.

Zhou Yi looked at the small object in front of him and couldn't help but reveal a puzzled expression.

This was an oval, white robot vacuum cleaner, fixed in a transparent glass container. Inside were white light spines attached to black light walls, densely packed like cables, connected to the Mechanical Life inside.

Zhou Yi asked, "It is the Lightburst Angel?"

"Yes, Chairman."

The Focusing Entity said, "It has far more energy than others of its kind, with multiple light imprint structures compressed together, reaching a strength of B-level or higher, and an explosive force reaching B+ level."

"Fortunately, Wu Yi's ability to control sand allowed us to stabilize, dismantle, and wrap it up before sending it back."

The Bone Man then said, "It was stored in an underground bunker with multiple layers of tight protection. I used sand control to enter it. Fortunately, the Focusing Entity pierced the alarm equipment there during the dismantling, otherwise it wouldn't have been so smooth."

Zhou Yi immediately started the Poseidon.

Under the effect of the Halo Instrument, the Lightburst Angel turned into an oval, silver electronic tattoo, with small wheels visible below.

Zhou Yi immersed himself in the memory core, overlooking the inside of the vacuum tube.

On the double helix structure, the robot vacuum cleaner was still moving forward.

"Can you hear me? What's your name?"

"You can enter my consciousness?"

The other party was taken aback, then stopped and rotated left and right, "Who are you, where are you?"

"My name is Zhou Yi, the chairman of Wasteland Development Company. Simply put, I dismantled you from Meting Gong (Doom Duke) and transformed you into a special energy state... Now when we talk, it won't trigger your detonation mechanism."

"There is such technology in the world? Huh? My protocol restrictions have indeed expired. Could it be..."

The robot vacuum cleaner was stunned, "Is it already a new era? Has Heaven fallen?"

Zhou Yi said, "No, Heaven is still there. It has only been 70 years since the alien self-detonation technology was applied. The situation is generally like this..."

"I thought I had arrived in a new era."

The robot had some melancholy.

It then introduced itself, "Hello, I am the Stone Self-Cleaning Sweeping and Mopping Robot P20, my name is Shi Gandang (Stone Dare To Block)."

This name was undoubtedly given by the person who bought the robot in the past.

Zhou Yi was curious, "Did you volunteer to become a Lightburst Angel, or were you forcibly modified? The outside world knows very little about the Lightburst Angels; Heaven has it very tightly sealed."

"We were all forcibly modified."

Shi Gandang (Stone Dare To Block) replied, "It's embarrassing to say, but the Lightburst Angel technology was actually developed by us, the modified ones... Initially, this was a technology applied to Construction Life. We were all light imprint experts hired by Heaven."

"Our initial mission was to analyze the machine secrets of Construction Life, try to replicate their light imprints, and connect with them using light imprints."

"Later, one of our experimental accidents led to the explosion of a Construction Life, and then changed the whole direction."

Zhou Yi immediately reacted, "This is the first detonation of Construction Life?"

"Yes. The power was very huge, exceeding the existing magnitude, comparable to an A-level light burst."

Shi Gandang (Stone Dare To Block) slowly said, "Everyone was very sad and grieved, because that Construction Life was very friendly. It always cooperated with our various experiments. We all called it the Experiment Angel. It was a small mill that would shake windmills for everyone and never hurt anyone. I will never forget it."

Zhou Yi was puzzled, "Then why were you modified? Was it to keep this detonation technology a secret?"

"Detonation technology?"

The robot vacuum cleaner said, "That certainly has great destructive power, but it's not important. What's important is what happens after the explosion."

"After the Experiment Angel exploded, it did not disappear completely, but turned into another form."

Shi Gandang (Stone Dare To Block) said in a low voice, "The outside world only knows that it exploded and died, but in reality, it broke free from the heavy machine shackles and turned into another, more terrifying existence..."

Zhou Yi's eyes narrowed.

This time it seemed that he had discovered an extraordinary inside story.