Wasteland Development Diary

Chapter 224: A-1 Light Imprint Expert

After understanding the Lightburst Angel's background,

Zhou Yi turned his attention back to Shi Gandang.

"If I'm not mistaken, you should be a cleaning robot. How did you become a light imprint expert?"

"This matter has a certain degree of randomness."

Shi Gandang said, "After awakening, I worked as a cleaner in Light Imprint Factory 29 in Mirror City. My job was to vacuum up all kinds of debris and dust produced in the factory to keep it clean and prevent the dust from affecting the operation of various equipment."

"You should also be able to see that I am a low-power, small-sized electromechanical lifeform with very limited strength. The work efficiency of medium and large-sized machines in the same position is several times higher than mine."

"I work 22 hours a day, 1 hour for cleaning my own tools and doing maintenance, and 1 hour for slow charging—this way, I can use the energy packs more fully and completely."

"Unfortunately, even though I think I've worked hard enough, my area is still getting smaller and smaller because other electromechanical lifeforms in the same profession are coming to Mirror City one after another, and many of them are stronger and more capable than me."

"Small working machines like me have shrinking areas, and our salaries are also shrinking. Later on, it's already difficult to make ends meet."

It said, "Many ordinary electromechanical lifeforms face this kind of predicament."

"Our growth can't keep up with the needs of urban development, so the stronger ones will take away our jobs. Losing our jobs makes it even harder for us to grow. This forms a vicious cycle. In the end, if we're lucky, we'll be diverted to some small, emerging cities."

"But this doesn't solve the fundamental problem because small cities will have the same problem. It just delays the complete elimination and unemployment..."

"In short, this is how electromechanical lifeforms are. The ability to work and labor measures our survival value. As long as this framework exists, the chronic death of most individuals is inevitable."

Speaking of the past, the cleaning robot, which had no fluctuations in its consciousness before, now had a bit of a downturn.

Zhou Yi felt miserable listening to it.

Electromechanical lifeforms rely entirely on work data, which is a data-fair society.

But this kind of fairness, when applied to individuals who are born with varying degrees of strength, allows resources to rapidly concentrate at the top.

Thus, there are high-rich-and-handsome flying electromechanical lifeforms who are born to be superior.

Agricultural machines with very low output are starting at hell difficulty, making survival difficult.

Wait a minute.

Since that's the case.

An idea in Zhou Yi's mind suddenly revived.

"Shi Gandang, according to what you said, there should be old and weak electromechanical lifeforms with weaker labor forces everywhere, right?"

"Of course, there are."

The cleaning robot said, "The aging and damage of parts are inevitable. Many D-levels will degenerate to E-levels. The continuously consumed energy packs and the cost of modification and maintenance... Every electromechanical lifeform that awakens bears a heavy debt that accumulates over time."

"Even a strong economic city like Mirror City can only regularly distribute some basic energy packs to residents in need."

Zhou Yi had a rough idea in his mind.

The per capita expenditure of electromechanical lifeforms is too high, so social security cannot cover it.

He asked, "If I go to recruit these aging and damaged electromechanical lifeforms, like your past situation, are they willing to come?"

"Many of them probably wouldn't."

Shi Gandang said without hesitation, "Electromechanical lifeforms only like electromechanical cities. Other cities, especially human cities, don't have a good impression on everyone."

"Human cities often have breach of contract and failure to fulfill promises, and the cities themselves are unstable. Everyone doesn't want to go, even if the income in electromechanical cities is much lower, they prefer to stay."

Zhou Yi was speechless.

They're so poor that they can't even eat, and they're still so particular about it.

If it were humans, they would go wherever there was food, and worry about the future later.

Zhou Yi changed his angle again: "What about a B+ level organization like our company?"

The other party was stunned for a moment: "Wasteland Development Company, the credit rating is B+?"

"Yes."

"Then there's no problem."

Shi Gandang was a little puzzled again: "But at this level, you should need higher-level professional electromechanical lifeforms, right? The poorest and most difficult ones are E-level. Their labor capacity is very limited, and some even have difficulty moving. Are you really sure you want to consider hiring them?"

"Sure."

Zhou Yi said, "They are still professionals in various fields, aren't they?"

"Yes, but the labor value may not be as you wish."

Shi Gandang is measuring by the standards of electromechanical cities.

What Zhou Yi is thinking is that the company lacks professionals in various fields. Before, he wanted to dig up retired human strengtheners, but he failed.

The retired and unemployed electromechanical lifeforms have a chance.

Even if their functions degenerate, they are still good teachers who can drive and teach the company's new human employees.

Shi Gandang said, "Your company has a very high credit rating, which is actually no different from ordinary electromechanical cities."

"If you are really willing to accept them, they will come. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you on behalf of everyone."

Zhou Yi immediately said, "Let's not talk about anything else, join our company first. It will be more convenient to participate in many things as a company employee."

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"You rescued me from the Lightburst Angel's chronic death, and I will do everything I can to contribute my strength."

Shi Gandang continued to talk about his previous experience.

"I was getting poorer and poorer. I didn't have light seeds to replace new equipment, so I could only repair it myself."

"Fortunately, I worked in the light imprint factory, and long-term labor also allowed me to learn some simple techniques from the processing workshop. Plus, my structure is not complicated, and the repair difficulty is not high. I also tried to modify my parts to be more suitable for work."

"I practiced with the factory's waste materials and learned the basic installation and testing of light imprints. Later, there was a safety accident in the factory that damaged several engineers after repair, temporarily creating a job vacancy."

"So I participated in that application and successfully passed the test and became a temporary engineer assistant. After two and a half months, because I was highly skilled and the yield rate was on the standard line, I was officially left to be an assistant."

"I worked as a cleaner and an engineer assistant, and after slowly accumulating, I later became an engineer, and then a light imprint expert."

"Honestly, I was lucky. Mirror City was in a state of rapid development at that time, and many new light imprints and devices were successively born from the light imprint factory. A large number of inventions were exploding. As engineers in that period, we ate a lot of the era's dividends."

"With enough light seed savings, I can do more application experiments, and my position will be more stable, and I can also get special funds allocated by the factory and the city... This is how electromechanical lifeforms are. The weak are always weak, and the strong are always strong."

"Later, because I was an A-1 light imprint expert, I was signed by the Heavenly Kingdom's technology department at a high price for a new technology research and confidentiality agreement, and I came here with other experts to do light imprint research and application reproduction on building lifeforms."

"My specialty in light imprints is in power structures and engineering, mainly to make light imprint structures that can provide various movements. The common 'light float,' 'propulsion,' and 'spray' all belong to the fields I study."

Zhou Yi asked, "Are there further level subdivisions for experts?"

"Yes. Just like electromechanical light imprints have E-1 generation and E-2 generation."

Shi Gandang said patiently, "The 1 after A-1 represents the height in the professional field, and the highest is A-3."

Zhou Yi pondered in his heart.

Judging from the professional rating alone, Shi Gandang is also a professor or researcher in the wasteland world.

The Heavenly Kingdom directly transformed such high-end talents into lightburst angels. They are ruthless enough.

Zhou Yi asked another question: "Is there a way to unlock the light imprints on you?"

Shi Gandang said, "The light imprint structures used to lock us are different, and the precision is very high. Without the original data, it is difficult for the outside world to unlock them. As long as there is one step wrong, it will directly detonate."

Zhou Yi temporarily gave up the demolition.

"The company has a new research direction recently. Are you willing to connect with our company's building lifeforms in the field of consciousness? After all, you have experience dealing with building lifeforms, and I think it's a good opportunity for mutual understanding..."

The cleaning robot was stunned for a moment: "The company actually has this kind of technology?!"

"Yes, but it's still in the pilot phase. So far, it doesn't seem to be harmful..."

"I am willing!"

Shi Gandang became excited: "Very willing!"