Wasteland Development Diary

After disappearing for 54 days, Jiong He Cang returned to Emerald City.

It was now very weak, its dim and somber cyan light resembling a will-o'-the-wisp.

Zhou Yi was not surprised by this.

When projecting from the Dark Domain to another world, aside from using the Light Seed to stimulate the space bubble, the Breaker would consume 90% of its own energy, a one-time loss.

Therefore, Breakers need to rest for a long time after returning to recover.

The Focusing Body said weakly, "Chairman, I made many mistakes this time, which caused a lot of delays."

"It's good that you came back safely."

Zhou Yi said through telepathy, "How did you spend the last two months over there?"

"Chairman, I only stayed in the Death Apostle world for two days."

Zhou Yi was taken aback, "Is the time difference that big?"

"Yes. I only confirmed this after I came back. I couldn't communicate complex things with Haruk, and they didn't seem to care about precise time, only using tides as a basic measure, which caused this problem. It was a mistake I didn't anticipate beforehand."

Jiong He Cang's voice was somewhat remorseful, "According to my measurements, one day there is equivalent to 27.3 days here."

"The Death Apostle world moves much faster than ours?"

Zhou Yi became interested.

"Not really."

The Focusing Body explained, "It's because different worlds have different time standards. The day and night are very long in that world, so one day and night is almost a month here."

"After crossing the boundary, my perception of time was distorted by the power of that world, synchronizing with the local time. So when I was there, I didn't realize the difference at all..."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but look at the Black Water Ghost in his hand.

At times like this, a timekeeper would come in handy.

It was like the biological clock was forcibly synchronized, so much so that one couldn't detect it.

"But I also made some discoveries over there."

The Focusing Body continued, "When I projected there, the world was only black and white. I was white, and the local life was black. Their forms were constantly changing, like shadows constantly changing in the light."

"I confirmed by measurement that the local death light energy density is 81 times that of ours, even higher than Haruk estimated."

81 times?

The two worlds would indeed have huge differences.

Zhou Yi thought of this and said, "In that case, there must be many natural disasters there?"

"Yes, Chairman. Light bursts occur all the time over there, like layers upon layers of waves, omnipresent, only differing in size."

The Focusing Body said, "The Death Apostle world is a natural low-pressure zone. It's hard to stand firm, and the body floats up, easily blown away by the energy shock. After arriving there, I was basically blown around by the light bursts, making it extremely difficult to walk."

"Fortunately, there was Haruk."

"It used sign language to teach me how to efficiently absorb energy. The easiest energy to absorb was in the soil."

"I learned from it to dig open the soil layer, burrow into the ground, and found some blocky objects emitting white gas. By extracting the blocky objects, I could absorb those gases. Relying on this method, I rapidly became stronger, even surpassing my original strength."

"During these processes, I slowly realized that in that world, slowness and balance are the most difficult and precise things."

It paused for a moment.

It said, "I conducted repeated measurements. Those white substances should not exist in our world. In terms of energy level, they are stronger than Light Seeds and are unique products of that place. Unfortunately, I didn't get more information."

Gaseous energy?

Zhou Yi took the Focusing Body to the seabed to meet Haruk under the Dark Domain.

He needed to supplement the missing information through this local.

Haruk, who had returned to the form of a large black hand, said, "That is our local fate, it's everywhere, and we can absorb it directly. But your world doesn't seem to have it. It only condenses inside living bodies. I think it's caused by the difference in death light concentration."

It couldn't explain it clearly either.

Zhou Yi had to let the Focusing Body continue.

"I started walking behind Haruk. Fortunately, I had it. The local life didn't attack me. They were all very strong, none of them weaker than me. If I encountered them alone, my mortality rate would be very high..."

"There is a mysterious power there that fills me with aggression and uncontrollability, making me want to hunt the local life. It was very difficult to suppress this impulse, and I kept enduring it."

"Haruk found a relatively close deep pit and asked me to go in, so I did."

Jiong He Cang said, "That pit had some kind of strange consciousness link, just like when Chairman you and I talk."

"There were imprints and information left by other lives in the pit. It was a Soul Mound."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but think of the game Dark Souls, which had various player messages, allowing later players to see the reminders of past players.

However, some of these messages were kind reminders, while others were deliberately misleading traps.

The Focusing Body recalled, "There was a large amount of complex information and fragments of consciousness inside, which consumed a lot of energy to read. With Haruk's guidance and help, I absorbed and read while relying on absorbing those gaseous energies for supply."

"Most of my time was spent on this process."

"Unfortunately, a lot of the information was fragmented and invalid. But even so, I obtained a lot of information related to myself. The capacity of my consciousness key has increased by about 50%, and my ability strength has also improved slightly."

Three small satellites floated around it, one more than before.

Zhou Yi thought to himself, that's good.

Getting an upgrade from the Soul Mound made the long journey worthwhile.

The Focusing Body said, "In the Soul Mound, I also discovered traces of suspected human existence. Or rather, they once appeared in the Death Apostle world."

"I can't give an accurate description either, because the consciousness fragments I obtained were all intermittent, with only some vague descriptions. I can't determine where those humans came from or what they looked like."

The first thing Zhou Yi thought of was the Glass People.

They acted with the Celestials and could descend on the Earth of the Wasteland Era, so they also had the ability to enter the Death Apostle world.

Compared to the much stronger Death Apostle world, the Wasteland Earth was of course easier to control.

"Although I don't know what those humans were about, there are clear information messages in the Soul Mound. Those messages were left by a special life form local to the Death Apostle world."

"Its information is very clear, but the format is rather strange. I found three complete records."

——#Jade Rabbit 2 Working Log# I am still performing my mission, Happy Children's Day.

——#Jade Rabbit 2 Working Log# Keep moving forward, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival.

——#Jade Rabbit 2 Working Log# Painted the national flag on the ground, Happy Birthday to the Motherland.

"Like this, it seems to be recording tasks, but those festivals are obscure and meaningless, some seem to be special numbers, some are seasons, and the country it belongs to seems very mysterious... They only preserve information through this kind of Soul Mound recording method and show it to people of the same camp."

Zhou Yi stood there blankly, his brain a little dazed.

The Jade Rabbit 2 lunar rover was still working. It had also become an electromechanical life.

The place where it existed... was the moon.

In other words, the Death Apostle world was originally the moon?

Zhou Yi quickly came back to his senses after a moment of trance.

"Haruk, the Death Apostle that exists in your world, cannot be seen, and then targets you, wanting to reduce your numbers. Right?"

"Yes, Zhou Yi, that's right. It is very evil, a kind of evil spirit that advocates death and destruction. The Death Apostles are always watching us."

The Breaker said, "We must jump out of the life cycle, otherwise, if we enter the destruction cycle, we will be bewitched and controlled by it, falling into infighting."

Zhou Yi understood everything.

The Death Apostle was the concept life, Yueshen.

The moon beasts that Yueshen hated were Haruk and them.

Haruk and them were constantly absorbing the moon's high-energy gas, causing damage to Yueshen itself.

This was easy to understand. Because as long as Haruk and them evolved to the Light Nucleus, they would directly leave this dangerous world, causing the overall energy of the moon to constantly flow outward.

The positions of both sides were naturally opposed.

Zhou Yi decided to stand still for now.

Because this was an internal conflict on the moon, and there was no need for an outsider to get involved.

However.

Since there was Haruk on the moon, and there was also a suspected active lunar rover, then when the time was right, he had to try to develop it well.

...

Not long after, Haruk bid farewell and left.

Because the tide had arrived, representing the end of this winter.

Before leaving, Zhou Yi still gave it a mushroom life nucleus, which made the other party very grateful, saying that next time it came, it would definitely continue to make fate well.

At the end of winter, the Emerald City area was filled with joy.

The employees earned money, ate well, dressed warmly, and lived a life they couldn't have imagined in the past. Many people carried rhombus lanterns, strolled around the snack stalls outside, and strolled leisurely and admired the snow on Emerald Avenue.

Zhou Yi came to the cave in Yalong Bay and ate hot pot with Li Mo and the kobold.

He picked up a chicken meatball and asked, "Da Vinci said that your demolition surgery is over, why don't you move out?"

Li Mo put sweet potato fries into the hot pot to cook - his taste was very unique.

"Chairman, the tengu hasn't finished demolishing yet, I'll wait for him to demolish it together and then go out."

The kobold was drinking water and sticking out its tongue because it was too spicy.

Li Mo also said, "We live here very well, we can work and it's quiet. Chairman, can we not move out?"

"As you like."

"Okay."

...

It was late at night.

Zhou Yi put on a black mask, lowered the brim of his hat, and walked on the road back to Emerald City.

The lights in the residential area were all on, and every household was reuniting. There was also a saying of celebrating the New Year in this era.

Zhou Yi ordered a song "Unforgettable Tonight" at Mai Ba.

Only then did it have the atmosphere of the New Year.

As a result, listening to it, he felt even more lonely.

Gong Zheng, who was walking alongside him with a cane, handed him a can of Coke.

"Chairman, have a drink, you've worked hard this year."

"Together."

Zhou Yi took the Coke and clinked it with him.

After drinking the happy water, he quickly recovered.

Although it was the wasteland era, he was not alone. The company was with him, and so many employees were following behind him.

He had to continue to develop well next year, first set a small goal, and help the Shagang area to achieve comprehensive well-off!

"Change to a cheerful one."

So Mai Ba came up with a song "Congratulations on Getting Rich".

In Andy Lau's congratulations, Zhou Yi hummed all the way and walked towards the spring of the New Year.

[End of this volume]