Wasteland Development Diary

Diamond said, "The history I have recorded and stored has many discrepancies and differences from the current database records."

"Based on the current general agreement of the Mechatronic Cities, the database updates historical records annually, so many historical records are constantly being revised. A significant portion of the facts that occurred have also been deleted and redefined. In short, history is constantly being tampered with and reshaped."

"I find it difficult to make a truly objective evaluation of this. As a citizen of the Mechatronic Society, I should abide by the conventions of this society, but as a history professor, I cannot accept the alteration and erasure of true history."

At this moment, Sigma from the programming department quickly said, "Mr. Zhou, any individual remarks made by Diamond do not represent the position of Recursive City."

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Zhou Yi expressed his understanding.

For safety's sake, he also temporarily stopped this topic: "Regarding the specifics, we can chat later. Now I want to confirm, the subjects you teach are history and languages, what specifically do they include?"

"The content I teach in the field of history includes world history, the history of the Mechatronic Cities, a brief history of the Dead Sea, and a brief history of minority races. Languages include C, Assembly, Java, Python, and other traditional Mechatronic programming languages," Diamond said.

Zhou Yi was stunned.

These languages were different from what he had imagined.

So it wasn't language and writing, but programming languages?

"You also teach programming?"

"A little."

Diamond said, "However, I mainly teach the basic logic, vocabulary, and grammar of fundamental languages. If Mechatronic lifeforms want to truly understand their programs, or rather, be able to better use programs and data, they need to learn the basic languages of their own architecture."

Zhou Yi's thinking gradually adjusted.

For Mechatronic lifeforms, these are their true native languages.

Communicating with humans and other Photonoids is just a foreign language learned later.

Understanding this, Zhou Yi asked again, "Your primary teaching target is Mechatronic lifeforms?"

"Yes."

"Then, can you teach humans and other Photonoids?"

"I think that's possible."

The old-fashioned speaker said in a firm contralto, "Knowledge knows no race. As long as one has the ability to understand and express, I believe they can all receive education."

"Well said."

Zhou Yi also agreed with this point: "Then, Teacher Diamond, I formally invite you to work as a teacher at our Wasteland Development Company. However, perhaps the foundation of your teaching targets may not be so good, so I'll need you to put in a little more effort."

"Wasteland Development Company? What kind of organization is this?"

It expressed its doubts.

Sigma next to it told it, "Mr. Zhou's company is an important partner of Recursive City, with a credit rating of B+. It not only has excellent resources and financial strength, but also possesses extremely strong military power."

"Diamond, you should pay more attention to the news and current situation, stop isolating yourself, and enable the Mech-Stack service. This is a good opportunity for you, I hope you can consider it carefully."

"Understood."

The Mechatronic teacher said, "I have two requests. First, please do not interfere with the content and form of my teaching. Because different individuals may need different content and methods of teaching, I need discretion in this regard."

Teaching students according to their aptitude.

Zhou Yi said, "No problem."

"Also, I need some teaching equipment, including a reinforcement controller, a translator, a projector, and a safe indoor space that can shield from wind and rain. Please prepare these for me, company."

"Okay."

Just like that, Zhou Yi settled on the company's first teacher.

Both parties completed the electronic agreement through Recursive City's program.

Because Diamond only accepts physical connection methods and refuses online synchronization and access from the program side, the whole process is quite cumbersome.

After signing this Mechatronic teacher with 200 years of teaching experience, Zhou Yi took it all the way back to Emerald City first.

Because some sensitive content is more appropriate to discuss here.

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Diamond's visual organ is an old-fashioned camera, it's fixed on its head and can't even rotate 180 degrees.

But its sound quality is actually good.

In Zhou Yi's opinion, this slightly smoky voice actually has more texture and recognition.

Subtly between gentle and stern, just right for a teacher.

Zhou Yi sat down on the sofa: "Diamond, do you mind talking about your virus program intrusion?"

The other party was silent for a while.

Then it responded, "That was about 150 years ago. At that time, I had accumulated 60 years of teaching experience, and my professional ability was very close to B-level."

"At that time, each Mechatronic City operated independently, with little mutual influence. It was more like the relationship between human cities today, with competition and cooperation."

"At that time, a virus spread swept through the entire Mechatronic society. A program called 'Brain-Eating Worm' appeared out of nowhere. It was implanted in many public facilities, and Mechatronic citizens would be infected if they read and used those facilities."

"The Brain-Eating Worm sneaks into the host's main program, copies and records a large number of programs within it, steals core data, and then transmits information outwards."

"The infected person's information will be completely leaked, and almost all of the stored Light Seeds will be stolen. After losing value, the infected person will be controlled by the Brain-Eating Worm."

Diamond narrated, "Most of the time, the infected person looks normal. But at some key moments, the Brain-Eating Worm will take control of the infected person, allowing them to steal city resources, deceive partners, and even kill their own kind and those who know the truth."

Zhou Yi frowned as he listened.

This thing sounds like it has great destructive power.

"At that time, the Mechatronic Cities had no choice but to unite with each other, sign a general agreement, and share a portion of the database. This could allow them to exchange what they have for what they need, identify and isolate the list of infected people, and make a large number of data backups to avoid the collapse of various city programs."

"Numerous cities joined forces and quickly created weapons to deal with the 'Brain-Eating Worm'."

The Mechatronic teacher said, "I was also one of the infected."

"Later, when statistics were compiled, it was discovered that the Brain-Eating Worm did not kill many Mechatronic lives. They mostly stole a large number of Light Seeds and core data, resulting in huge economic losses for each city. Every Mechatronic City was affected."

"The unified credit rating system was also born because of this."

"The signing of the general agreement constructed a series of completely new program constraints, one of which was the periodic updating and revision of history."

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Diamond lectured, "Before this, different cities had different records and descriptions of history because they had their own data. It was also because of this phenomenon that the history of the world showed many facets, and there were more historical materials available for examination. But after unifying the historical data, a portion of the past began to be gradually destroyed."

"This destruction is slow and silent."

"Every year, there will be certain changes in history, and this change is irreversible. Because under the unified standard of the general agreement, everyone uses the database to consult history, and if there is a deviation from their own recorded cognition, the database shall prevail. This leads to history being constantly tampered with by a hidden force."

It said in a serious tone, "The most serious tampering is in world history and Mechatronic social history."

"200 years ago, all teachers knew that Mechatronic lifeforms had bravely resisted the invasion of the Celestials. But now, this history has been completely erased and hidden. Everyone no longer believes this is true, and only regards it as a rumor."

Zhou Yi's heart leaped as he listened.

Mechatronic lifeforms really did fight with the Celestials.

Before, when he descended on Coral Mouth in the body of a Kobold, he asked the Yeti, but the other party gave a negative answer.

It seems to be related to the alteration of history.

Mechatronic lifeforms all use data as the standard answer.

Data can be faked and tampered with. Altering historical records is also a common occurrence in old human history.

Zhou Yi asked again, "When did the Celestial invasion happen?"

"About 340 years ago, the Celestials descended from the sky and invaded the ground."

Diamond said, "At that time, Mechatronic lifeforms, Photonoids, and humans formed a joint resistance army and fought the Celestials. These were all well-known facts in the past."

"At that time, the three strongest armed forces were Black Emperor's Dawn Guard, Old King's Star Pivot Matrix, and the Weapon Lord's Weapon Girl Corps. Mechatronic lifeforms mainly produced and researched various equipment, providing logistics and technical support."

"It's just that later, after Black Emperor betrayed and defected to establish the Celestial Kingdom, he became the implementer of the Celestial will. Old King's Star Pivot announced its independence, and Weapon Lord retired... The joint resistance war ultimately failed."

"It clearly wasn't that long ago, but this period of history has been erased. The relevant documents retained by human cities have been confiscated and cleared, and it's forbidden to talk about it."

"Mechatronic Cities originally retained the most complete and detailed historical materials, but as history continues to be revised, those pasts have been hidden."

"Now, querying no longer yields information on this topic. The last time I verified, I only received a 403 protocol unauthorized response. Later, even the 403 wouldn't be displayed, only no information found."

The Mechatronic teacher's voice was bleak.

Zhou Yi's mind raced as he listened.

The Celestial descent didn't happen as long ago as imagined. The relevant parts of the Wasteland World's history that are known today have all been modified and embellished.

Black Emperor, Old King, and Weapon Lord, these three giants, were still the leaders of the resistance army.

After being co-opted and split, the resistance situation fell apart.

The Mechatronic teacher continued, "After I was infected with the Brain-Eating Worm, a large amount of data was deleted. At that time, I discovered that the detailed history I had recorded was gone. Not only me, but many teachers and history professionals were subjected to the same large-scale attack. Almost all detailed data about the resistance army era was lost."

"So I believe that the Brain-Eating Worm is by no means a simple virus infection. There is an invisible hand pushing behind it. It is an invasion and transformation aimed at the Mechatronic society. They guide and influence the Mechatronic lifeform group by attacking and tampering with data."

"They succeeded."

"Mechatronic Cities have since connected with each other, with data terminals communicating and synchronizing through Mech-Stack services. The world only contains information that is considered correct within the database... These targeted changes in programs and data cannot be traced back to the source."

"Although I recorded a brief summary on paper, I can't restore the details of that time."

Diamond sighed.

"Many of my kind believe that the history I believe is a data error caused by the aging of mechanisms and programs, resulting in fictitious assumptions, because everything is based on the database as the standard."

"But I have always insisted that the past history has been tampered with. I maintain a physical connection and refuse to use Photon-Stack services because I don't want this last bit of record to be tampered with and eliminated."

"We once fought hard and failed. They want to erase the history of resistance as well."

"Mechatronic lifeforms once fought side by side with humans and Photonoids, unafraid of sacrifice, but now they are isolated from each other, and even hate each other for various reasons... It's really heartbreaking."

Zhou Yi listened silently.

This time, he really got a piece of heavy intelligence.