Wasteland Development Diary

On the return trip, Zhou Yi was bombarded with message pop-ups.

New prompts kept popping up on the controller screen.

[Recursive City: Warm congratulations to your company for achieving a significant technological breakthrough.]

[Coral Mouth: Congratulations to your company on the perfect success of the long-distance flight test.]

[Energy Storage City: Congratulations...]

Zhou Yi clicked on the Recursive City page to take a look.

Good heavens.

At the very top of the page was a huge headline: «Breaking News! Emerald City Completes First Flight of a Living Building!»

Not only were there photos, but also a 15-second video clip.

In the video, you could vaguely see the Emerald Twin Cities flying in the night sky, the many lit windows being highly recognizable, seemingly filmed by a plane in the distance.

Several electromechanical cities published similar headlines, reporting on Emerald City's flight to the Shuanghe area.

Among them, United City kept requesting a dialogue.

Zhou Yi clicked to connect and immediately heard Kunming Station's voice.

“Mr. Zhou, your company has shattered the inherent impression of living buildings. A flying living building is a historic moment!”

“I would like to consult with you on this matter.”

Zhou Yi said, “No problem.”

Kunming Station immediately asked, “Is this flight capability a one-time thing, or is it available long-term?”

“Available long-term.”

“Only Emerald City can use it, or…”

“This is a universally applicable technological modification.”

The other side immediately sped up its speech: “In other words, as long as it is equipped with this flight capability, theoretically any living building can fly, cross the Dead Sea, is that the idea?”

“Yes.”

“Then is there any influence from day and night? I mean, the concentration of death rays is higher during the day and very low at night. Is Emerald City's nighttime flight related to this environment in any way?”

Zhou Yi told it, “No influence. It will be easier to fly during the day because the concentration of death rays is higher, so you can adopt a gliding mode. At night, you need to consume your own energy, which is more energy-intensive. Traveling at night is to be more concealed, but I didn't expect to be watched by all parties…”

A synthesized laugh came from the other side.

“This is perfectly normal. Flying anomalies have never appeared in history. As soon as the two Emerald Cities took off, I followed the whole process with satellites. Whether it was ascending or flying in the stratosphere, it was very stable.”

Kunming Station said, “Your company's development and cultivation of living buildings has shown amazing results. In the field of improving the machine body, United City is far behind you.”

Zhou Yi also said politely, “Mostly luck.”

The other side then said, “We hope to exchange our living building consciousness projection technology for your anomaly flight technology.”

“Currently, only our two companies have mastered the core technology of living buildings. We believe that if we can achieve further cooperation, we will have greater advantages in the future. I wonder what Mr. Zhou thinks?”

The main course has arrived.

Zhou Yi first asked for the opinions of Red Falcon and Shigan Dang.

Red Falcon said, “I think it's worth considering.”

“The core of the flight technology is based on your unique ability, and we have a natural technological barrier.”

“Exchanging it for a special technology that the company does not have is a good choice.”

Shigan Dang was also very interested.

“The realm of consciousness is a forbidden zone for electromechanical life. Modifying and experimenting with our core programs is contrary to the principle of order, so exploration at the consciousness level has so far been in theoretical speculation and hypothetical experiments.”

“If we can obtain successful experience in this area, I believe it will be of great significance.”

“The anomaly light imprint modification technology essentially requires a light imprint expert like me and connects to its consciousness in an energy state. This in itself has a very high technical threshold. I think it's feasible.”

They all agreed.

So Zhou Yi also agreed to the exchange.

Kunming Station immediately said, “Our technology is based on my satellite ground station body, and through the public area, a part of the consciousness of the Water Plant Dormitory is uploaded to the satellite. Then, through the satellite, it arrives at the location of the target living building and performs a one-way consciousness projection on it.”

“The core of this technical mechanism is that one, it needs a satellite, and two, it needs a living building like the Water Plant Dormitory—one that can constantly split and cut its own independent consciousnesses. The cost is that its consciousness becomes very unstable.”

So that's how it is.

No wonder United City values satellites so much.

The Water Plant Dormitory's self-consciousness cutting is a self-mutilating split.

Zhou Yi heard the Great Buddha say it.

There are a large number of conscious entities in the living building, which together form a conscious subject, but each has its own behaviors and ideas.

With the help of the focusing body 'Zhi', the Great Buddha is gradually restricting and gathering them to form a complete and orderly unified body.

From this perspective, the Leshan Giant Buddha and the Water Plant Dormitory have embarked on two completely opposite paths.

Zhou Yi also announced the flight mechanism to the other party, but described Shigan Dang as an energy-state life who understands light imprint technology, and that he was the result of his projection connection.

“What a pity.”

Kunming Station immediately understood everything: “Although it is a repeatable light imprint modification within the machine body, the internal structures of different living buildings are significantly different, and finding such a connection threshold is very difficult… It seems that only you can use it.”

Zhou Yi also couldn't replicate the Water Plant Dormitory's self-mutilation operation.

There are no matching satellites and satellite stations available.

The company and United City's development of living buildings belong to two different directions, both with very high thresholds.

They are their own unique skills.

“Once again, I express my heartfelt congratulations and best wishes to you. See you next spring!”

“Thank you, and I wish you all the best too.”

……

When Zhou Yi returned to the coast on Emerald City, it was just dawn, and the sea lion-shaped Sand Sea Lord was already waiting there.

It took the elevator all the way up, ran to the door, and didn't hide its excitement: “Mr. Zhou, you are too strong! The headlines of the electromechanical cities are all about you and Emerald City!”

“A technology that changes the era and the world, a flying anomaly!”

“That… can all Emerald Cities fly?”

Zhou Yi covered his mouth with his hand and yawned: “They all can. After assembly, just practice flying. But you still need to fly more to become proficient.”

Sand Sea Lord's eyes lit up, and he smiled: “Great! That's great!”

“But you went to the Shuanghe area alone without saying a word, the pressure there must be great. This altitude, this speed, we completely suppressed them this time! Thunder Beasts are vulnerable in front of flying anomalies!”

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“Now, do you want to take the opportunity to counterattack?”

“No need.”

Zhou Yi waved his hand: “Just going for a stroll, don't think too much.”

“Yes, yes.”

Sand Sea Lord calmed down slightly: “Recently, there has been another strange thing, that is, the Great Buddha has become very strange. The Great Buddha has moved its position, leaving its previous location and sitting on the coast farther away from Sandport City. I don't know what's going on.”

Zhou Yi immediately synchronized his consciousness with Emerald City.

It said, “I didn't hear the Great Buddha mention it.”

Now, every now and then, the living buildings will agree to get together, communicate with each other through the public area, and maintain continuous contact with each other.

If there is a problem, the Great Buddha will definitely say it.

Although it has special abilities, it is not stupid at all.

So Zhou Yi told Sand Sea Lord: “Don't worry, it's okay.”

“That's good.”

The territorial sea lord said goodbye and left.

……

The impact of the anomaly's ascent continued to spread and ferment.

Recursive City is a relatively flexible small city, and its program is running the fastest. It soon contacted through Red Falcon.

“Mr. Zhou, since anomalies can fly, I wonder if you are interested in having your company's anomaly employees transport some heavy goods? Although bulk goods are heavy, the transportation costs themselves are also high, starting at 100 light seeds per order based on weight, with no upper limit.”

“Your company has high-speed flight technology, and its speed and efficiency far exceed land crossings. Recursive City hopes that your company can undertake part of our bulk cargo air transport, as well as the transport of some high-precision and important commodities.”

This reminded Zhou Yi.

Indeed.

He was thinking about how to leverage the advantages after the anomaly took off.

Delivery is the company's existing track.

Wasteland Express is already up and running. There are bone fish couriers in the sea doing small-item delivery, and now living buildings are undertaking large-item shipping. This trip alone makes a profit of 100 light seeds, which is very considerable.

Zhou Yi first asked for Emerald City's opinion.

It said: “Committee member, Building 7 can be responsible for air transportation. Because it likes to fly, it is very suitable for this job. It can also let it go to various places to broaden its horizons and satisfy its desire to explore.”

Zhou Yi also thought so.

There is one problem. Living buildings can still only communicate internally through the public area, or through their own consciousness synchronization. Other employees cannot talk to them.

But Zhou Yi quickly thought of a corresponding countermeasure.

In the early stages of air transport, first send things back to the company, then confirm them yourself before flying to the destination. This way, you can also recharge through Yalong Bay.

After becoming familiar with fixed routes, you can mark them for round trips to various places.

Also, equip Building 7 with some personnel for mobile office.

This way, not only will the house not be vacant, but also the employees can work together with Building 7.

He found Qian Su and Xie Xun for a discussion.

The Express Center sent three veteran employees, led by A Wei.

The Scavenging Team sent Xie Tu and A Jin as partners.

These two departments moved into Building 7 for joint office.

Zhou Yi also personally taught them how to send and receive goods—the experience he had working part-time at Cainiao Post Station came in handy at this time.

Currently, they only fly to four places: Recursive City, Coral Mouth, Energy Storage City, and Mass Production City.

There are no obstacles to aerial flight, and the living building's machine body is strong enough, so the trip is fast. The most time-consuming part is the loading and unloading process.

In just 4 days, Building 7 delivered all of Recursive City's bulk goods that had been backlogged for a month to buyers, earning the company 2,500 light seeds, with a daily profit of over 600 light seeds.

Just as air express was in full swing, a special guest arrived outside Emerald City.

“Nice to meet you, Mr. Zhou. I am Extinction Lord. Thank you for the warm invitation. I am now here to pay a visit.”

In front of the Red Falcon camera, the puppet boy was polite, taking off his hat and nodding.