Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi asked, "After your explosion, do you also become atmospheric creatures?"

Shi Gandang replied, "No, it's just a powerful bomb that brings a light burst-style, large-scale strong radiation."

"In other words, the key is that the architectural life itself can be transformed into atmospheric creatures, rather than the explosion creating atmospheric creatures."

"Correct."

Shi Gandang continued, "But neither the Mechanical-Electrical City nor Heaven knows much about atmospheric creatures."

"Atmospheric creatures can hardly be completely killed, only greatly weakened and severely injured. Their physiological structure has a low density, extremely high ductility and flexibility, but they can absorb and lock in large amounts of dead light energy, making them extremely dangerous outer sea creatures."

"The Star Nexus knows them best. Heaven has deeply explored the land and the Dead Sea. Due to the antagonistic relationship between the two sides, it is impossible to obtain more information. We can only carry out difficult independent research."

Zhou Yi's mind raced. "What is the Star Nexus's attitude towards atmospheric creatures?"

"In terms of attitude... it should be said that they are neither hostile nor deeply connected. From the large amount of confidential information provided to us by Heaven, the Star Nexus is more indifferent to atmospheric creatures."

"Indifferent? Is it because of altitude?"

"Yes, the two sides live at different altitudes. The Star Nexus is far above the outer sea."

Zhou Yi thought that the Star Nexus was composed of satellite clusters, which were indeed far outside the atmosphere.

Wait.

Atmospheric creatures, atmosphere, outer sea...

He asked, "Atmospheric creatures cannot survive without leaving the outer sea, right?"

"According to known information, that's indeed the case, which is why they are called atmospheric creatures."

The cleaning robot said, "Atmospheric creatures lived there before the earliest Skywalkers entered the outer sea. The early atmospheric creatures were different from now. They were more gentle and less aggressive. On the contrary, the Skywalkers initially hunted atmospheric creatures."

This aroused Zhou Yi's interest. "Tell me more about it."

"There are still some video records of Skywalkers hunting atmospheric creatures, but they are not made public. We watched them during our research."

This light imprint expert described, "In that video, atmospheric creatures seemed to have no awareness of attack or defense at all. After being trapped by the Skywalkers' abilities, they were captured with special devices. The whole process was no more difficult than capturing ordinary B-level creatures."

"Until they were locked into specially made gas cabinets, the atmospheric creatures began to struggle, but it was too late. The gas cabinets that locked them were specially built with high pressure and sealing oil, fixed inside and outside by mechanical-electrical light imprints, which rapidly cooled and froze the atmospheric creatures, putting them into a dormant state..."

"The main reason is that atmospheric creatures are unaware of danger and are attracted to the gas cabinets by the light seeds, just like birds captured by simple traps."

"The captured atmospheric creatures were first found to be unable to extract combat seeds or obtain genetic seeds, so they could only be used to extract light seeds. They themselves have a high degree of energy and were used as living minerals on the outer sea."

"But this process did not last long, and the atmospheric creatures gradually became smarter. They were no longer easily fooled, would not fall into gas cabinets because of light seeds and curiosity, and would drive away the ground life that captured them."

Shi Gandang paused. "The complete change in the situation began with the appearance of the atmospheric creature 'Shi'."

"It was the first atmospheric creature to actively hunt Skywalkers. It was extremely powerful and ate three Skywalkers and seven Sea Territory Lords in a short period of time."

"Soon the atmospheric creatures discovered that hunting ground life in the outer sea was not difficult. The situation immediately reversed."

It recalled, "The Skywalkers in the outer sea became the hunted targets, and the atmospheric creatures began to hunt everywhere. Later, the Skywalkers spent huge resources to build Mount Cirrus to deal with atmospheric creatures."

"The so-called Mount Cirrus is a man-made island built with A-level mechanical-electrical light imprints, surrounded by 'light banners' that restrain atmospheric creatures."

"If an atmospheric creature approaches Mount Cirrus, these light banners will continue to mix into its body, causing discomfort and physiological abnormalities, leading to various pains... It can be understood as a poison to them."

Zhou Yi listened patiently and said, "Is the light banner a man-made substance?"

"No. It is a naturally formed phenomenon in the outer sea."

Shi Gandang explained, "They look like banner-shaped clouds, with highly compressed energy structures, large and small, but with extremely strong adsorption force to the surrounding area, able to roll various energies into them... somewhat like the rapids of the inner sea."

"But its main body moves slowly and can be maintained for a long time. In fact, whether it is a Skywalker or an atmospheric creature, encountering a light banner is dangerous. Once caught in it, it will be completely torn apart and transformed into energy."

The cleaning robot said, "But compared to the huge atmospheric creatures, Skywalkers are easier to avoid the slow light banners. Therefore, placing the light banners around Mount Cirrus forms a natural barrier."

"It's just that moving and pulling the light banners consumes a lot of energy. The Skywalkers also spent a lot of manpower and material resources to finally deploy the light banner array to block atmospheric creatures."

Zhou Yi silently remembered.

The geographical environment of the outer sea and the inner sea is indeed very different. There is no land at all, and artificial mountains and natural defenses have to be built.

"Let's get back to the experiment itself."

Shi Gandang said, "Because atmospheric creatures are extremely powerful and difficult to deal with, Heaven hopes to cultivate controllable atmospheric creatures."

"A large number of experimental results have proved that this is impossible."

"But our experiments have discovered another thing: atmospheric creatures continue to evolve through hunting."

"They hunt Skywalkers and Sea Territory Lords in the outer sea. The core is to obtain the consciousness bodies of other lives to supplement themselves. This kind of predation can only obtain incomplete consciousness, but it can give them a lot of information, making them smarter."

"So as the two sides confront each other, the atmospheric creatures grow rapidly. They gain the experience and knowledge accumulated by their prey through hunting."

Zhou Yi frowned as he listened.

The more atmospheric creatures fight, the stronger they become, supplementing the most needed brain link through war, which is a bit difficult for Skywalkers to handle.

Shi Gandang added, "But atmospheric creatures also have weaknesses. They all live and act alone."

"They also attack and hunt each other internally. Because they have highly divergent consciousness, they often do whatever they want, and it is impossible to judge their next move."

"Otherwise, even Mount Cirrus would be difficult to stop if they gathered together."

Skywalkers have to fight wits and courage with atmospheric creatures in order to obtain the Xinqiu of the outer sea.

Fortunately, atmospheric creatures cannot survive in the too weak inner sea.

Various thoughts flashed through Zhou Yi's mind, but he quickly turned his attention back. "The core of the light burst angel is to maintain confidentiality."

"Yes."

Shi Gandang said, "All the light imprint experts at the time, whether they signed a confidentiality agreement or not, were made into light burst angels. Only in this way can Heaven ensure that secrets will not be leaked."

"Heaven has never given up on transforming atmospheric creatures, and research in this area must still be ongoing."

Zhou Yi said, "Then what about the Heavenly People?"

Shi Gandang just said, "I don't know."

Zhou Yi summoned Unit 2 again and asked Xiaofu for his opinion.

"Atmospheric creatures are actually a kind of phenomenon life and can only exist in specific environments. They are not a big threat in themselves. I didn't expect that architectural life could evolve in this direction... These guys' growth is indeed very high."

The Streamtracer said, "In my opinion, your plan is more suitable for them. Architectural life is a collection of many consciousness bodies, and the machine itself can complement the divergent consciousness bodies. This is not just a kind of restraint. If there is a chance, we can catch an atmospheric creature and see what is going on."

Zhou Yi thought that would be a long time later.

Currently, he still had to focus on the inner sea.

Let them fight like gods in the outer sea.

Shi Gandang's words reminded Zhou Yi that the biggest competitiveness of the outer sea was that there were Xinqiu there.

There were also plenty of Xinqiu in the Death Apostle world.

Now that the company has two A-level employees, it's time to consider going there to take a look.

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At the same time.

The atmosphere in the conference room of the Shuanghe area was particularly depressing.

Everyone else was silent.

General Bai Xing smoked a cigarette.

Lin Qin bit the bullet and said, "This time the light burst angel was stolen... I surveyed the scene and compared many traces. It is basically determined that it was the two A-level lives of the Wasteland Development Company."

"The concentrating body can instantly destroy the alert system, and the sand dust ability of that bone man dismantled the light burst angel's container. I thought there were internal conflicts between them. They had fought here before, but I didn't expect them to cooperate very well... From this, we can see that the Wasteland Development Company has a high degree of control over its employees and can make A-level lives faithfully and quickly execute orders."

The others remained silent.

Lin Qin had to continue, "Now that the light burst angel has been stolen, we have lost a crucial strategic deterrent."

"Zhou Yi is using this method to warn us. Considering that the logistics and strategic reserves are somewhat insufficient, I suggest that we can discuss a ceasefire and peace talks."

Another land official in charge of production said, "I agree."

"The war with the Development Alliance has led to our being sanctioned by Coral Mouth. Now we cannot use the trade transportation channels there, and the cost continues to increase. The export volume to the southern region has been declining rapidly in the past two months, and the market share is being seized by other regions. This loss, once deepened, is irreversible, and we may permanently lose a part of the market."

Another mechanical-electrical life also spoke, "The rebels have recently made a comeback, and mutants have been found in them, which deserves high vigilance. I think more troops should be concentrated on the rebels. They may impact our inland."

"No."

General Bai Xing overruled all objections, "Continue fighting."

"This war of honor must be fought until the adults return. A truce will put us in a dangerous situation."

"As long as the war continues, the parties observing in secret will not end."

It exhaled a puff of smoke and said in an unquestionable tone, "Meeting adjourned."

Lin Qin could understand.

It was just worried about further angering Zhou Yi and the Wasteland Development Company... I don't know what will happen.

This winter is really dangerous step by step.