Wasteland Development Diary

Gong Zheng drove the enhanced car on Emerald Avenue.

Summer was still scorching, but it was very cool inside the car.

Now, the company's official cars are equipped with the latest refrigeration boxes, which discharge smoke through special copper pipes, adding a small chimney on the roof that emits gray smoke, giving it a bit of a steam locomotive feel.

Zhou Yi and Yuanxiao sat in the back seat.

The death angel, in the form of a young girl, looked out the window, lost in thought.

She gently pinched her fingers: "Healers are different from us hunters. They are born with a tendency to heal other lives and can repair those damaged and broken consciousnesses."

"Their birth rate is very low. When I sensed him in the Dead Sea, I initially felt it was unreal. It wasn't until I saw him that I was sure it was true."

"The healer's ability is a great help to those with damaged consciousness, but for the healer themselves, it is a double-edged sword."

"Their ability is 'Consciousness Puzzle,' which can find the missing parts of fragmented consciousness and complete them. If they repair a consciousness, they will receive strong positive feedback from that consciousness, and this ability will be enhanced."

"However, this ability, like my 'Death Conversion,' requires a price as it is a power that can leverage and change life."

Yuanxiao said in a deep voice: "His price is that a 【Nightmare】 will be conceived within him."

"Healers need to immerse themselves in the worlds of various consciousnesses to repair consciousnesses. During the repair process, they will also be continuously attached to and eroded by a large amount of consciousness, gradually forming a bizarre monster condensed from fragments of consciousness, a Nightmare."

"With each repair, the Nightmare will become stronger and stronger. Initially, it will piece consciousness fragments into its own body. When it reaches a certain point, consciousness fragments will no longer satisfy it, and the Nightmare will attack the healer until it hollows out their consciousness and leaves."

"At that time, the Nightmare will have entered its complete form. It will enter and exit the dreams of every life, hunting for the consciousness fragments it needs."

Zhou Yi frowned: "Is there no way to eliminate the Nightmare?"

"If you get rid of the Nightmare, the healer will also die as a result. The Nightmare is essentially an evolution of the 'Consciousness Puzzle' ability."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but feel棘手.

It was indeed tricky.

"So in the end, there are only two paths."

Yuanxiao's face unknowingly became serious: "Most healers will be eaten by Nightmares, and only very few can tame them."

"However, after taming the Nightmare, they will enter the other side of the consciousness world and disappear without a trace. But this is already the best ending."

Zhou Yi pondered in his heart.

No wonder there are so few death angels. Although they are exceptionally talented, their life trajectory also belongs to hell difficulty.

Either they kill everywhere and then explode themselves, or they practice medicine everywhere and end up disappearing.

Neither is a good ending.

"So what you said, Chairman, reminded me."

A glimmer of light flashed in Yuanxiao's eyes: "Relying on ourselves alone, we cannot escape this cycle of death. But if we leverage other external forces or new technologies, we might have a chance."

"Just like how the company developed alien flight technology, since the discovery of the Dead Sea aliens, they have always been ground monsters with extremely strong land dominance. But now they can also fly! This was considered impossible in the past."

"Another thing is that aliens cannot communicate with the outside world. This is also based on many years of experience and general consensus, but it has now been broken. The United City has alien connections that can even communicate remotely with other aliens, and you, Chairman, can do the same here at the company."

"Since ancient aliens can change their fate, we also have a chance."

She maintained a positive optimism.

Zhou Yi nodded: "Nothing is impossible."

In the era when he lived in the past, who would have thought that the world would be destroyed by being submerged in light?

The car slowly stopped next to the mushroom forest.

Zhou Yi and Yuanxiao got out of the car.

"There's ice cola in the refrigeration box in the trunk. Take the cola."

He reminded: "Sun Hao likes to drink that."

"Oh, okay."

The girl directly lifted the entire refrigeration box with one hand.

Okay then.

Zhou Yi walked in, and from a distance, he heard a slightly smoky alto voice.

"How many states are there in Heaven? Who can tell me?"

Diamond, the electromechanical teacher, was lecturing.

In front was an open-air classroom, and the surrounding giant mushrooms shielded the sun, so it wasn't hot.

More than a dozen Blackhand Mushrooms sat on stone benches, each with an enhanced controller placed on the table in front of them, listening to the teacher lecturing in front of the podium.

Behind the electromechanical teacher was a projection screen with the Chinese title 【History of Heaven】 displayed on it, with some very vivid pictures below.

"166, you answer."

The Blackhand Mushroom that was called out stood up: "51 states!"

"That's right, then where is the capital?"

"Zhongzhou, Dawn City."

"Very good, sit down."

The Blackhand Mushroom sat down and looked around triumphantly.

Zhou Yi saw that Sun Hao was sitting in the last row. In the same row with him, there were also two human workers who were also listening attentively.

This class ended after waiting for twenty minutes.

Zhou Yi went to Diamond to understand the situation and also gave the two death angels a little time alone.

"Chairman, the Blackhand Mushrooms are smarter and more proactive than I expected. They are good children and students."

The electromechanical teacher's voice was light and cheerful: "Thank you very much for providing us with complete equipment, which is of great significance for them to intuitively understand knowledge."

Zhou Yi asked: "Don't we have a dedicated classroom?"

He had just built a row of houses with Emerald City, specifically for use as a school in the mushroom forest.

"Those classrooms are very good, but the children here don't like them."

Diamond said: "They are life born from nature and prefer to be in the external natural environment. So I usually teach outside, and the open classroom itself makes them more relaxed, and anyone who wants to attend can join at any time."

"I see."

Zhou Yi said: "How are the students progressing in their studies?"

"There are 23 students who regularly participate in my public class. They have fully participated in all the courses so far, and their learning progress is the fastest. In addition, some company employees will also come to listen to the lectures."

The electromechanical teacher said: "The easiest thing for students to learn is history because history is composed of events, which in itself has ups and downs of attraction. Many students get excellent grades in history during exams."

"The language course is much more difficult."

"Because I teach the traditional language of electromechanical programs, it is more difficult for non-electromechanical life to understand. However, there are also a few students who are very good and have completely kept up with the progress. Blackhand Mushroom 102, Chen Ji, and Beta are the best learners."

"I recommended the three of them to Minister 703. They are now studying with me while working as assistants in the program department, helping and applying knowledge in the field."

Zhou Yi said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work."

Diamond said: "The greatest achievement of a teacher is to see students learn and grow well and make their own contributions to the progress of this society and the world. I like my current work environment very much, and I also like this group of students."

Zhou Yi then formally asked: "How is... Sun Hao doing in his studies?"

"He is studying seriously."

Diamond paused for a moment: "Sun Hao is very interested in history, but his grades in programming language are not ideal. Overall, he seems to be insensitive to numbers and calculations, even difficult."

"In the most recent test, Sun Hao's history score was 65 out of 100, and his electromechanical language score was 5."

Zhou Yi felt a thump in his heart.

In terms of learning, he was really exactly the same as Yuanxiao.

It could only be said that they deserved to be a family.

"However, different students have different interests. Sun Hao's interest lies in medical treatment. At Maria Hospital, he learns very quickly and is already gradually helping some patients with treatment in the field of consciousness."

Diamond said: "Although he has difficulty learning in some areas, Sun Hao has been working hard to understand a lot of knowledge. With this persistence and self-discipline, I believe he will be a very good doctor."

Zhou Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

Now he somewhat understood the mood of parents going to teachers to understand their children's situation.

At first, it was uneasy, then up and down, then thinking it was over... and finally getting a little comfort from the teacher as an ending.

Zhou Yi looked back and couldn't help but be stunned.

Yuanxiao and Sun Hao were relatively silent, looking like complete strangers, keeping their distance from each other.

It looked like it had been a long time of awkward silence.

Zhou Yi went over to break the deadlock: "Sun Hao, how are you feeling lately? I heard from the teacher that you are learning very quickly at the hospital."

Facing Zhou Yi, the black-robed boy seemed much more relaxed: "Father, I have no talent in programming language. At the hospital, I have received Dean Da Vinci's approval and am now Dr. Feng Ying's assistant."

"Dr. Feng will perform rehabilitation therapy on some patients, and I will also perform examinations and repairs on their consciousness."

"Treating those patients, whether they are bone people or ordinary humans, makes me feel very confident."

"It's good that you like it."

Zhou Yi nodded: "Yuanxiao told me about the Nightmare that will be conceived in your body... How do you feel now?"

"Are you talking about this?"

Sun Hao stretched out his hand, and a small shadow monster slowly appeared in his hand, about the size of a tennis ball.

It had a horn on each side of its head, a pair of hollow white eyes, and looked somewhat like an owl with its wings folded.

"It doesn't have any harm to me now."

The boy said: "It will eat the harmful fragments of consciousness, usually the parts of pain and despair. This allows the consciousness to be stitched together, avoiding continuous tearing and fragmentation."

The shadow monster looked around in his hand, looking like a small pet.

Zhou Yi's 【Alertness】 could not see any white light on it, indicating that it was indeed not an independently existing life.

"You have to learn to control it, otherwise it will eat you."

Yuanxiao finally spoke next to him.

Sun Hao said: "Thank you for the reminder, I will be careful."

A very polite reply.

The attitude was clear, they were not familiar with each other.

In the end, Yuanxiao handed him the cola in the refrigeration box, and then Sun Hao distributed it to his other Blackhand Mushroom classmates.

……

On the way back in the car.

Yuanxiao looked out the window and said in a low voice: "Sun Hao is much better than Nian Gao. He is more patient and polite and not impatient. It's good that he can meet you."

"Chairman, thank you, thank you."

"I will work hard for the company."

She looked serious.

Zhou Yi was very satisfied in his heart. Sincerity was indeed the strongest killer move.

"That."

Yuanxiao suddenly said: "I have an idea, Chairman. Now that Sun Hao recognizes you as his father, if we get married in the human way, will he immediately call me mother? This is the fastest way! Can you just marry me for a while..."

Zhou Yi's smile froze.

"Don't do those crooked ways! Where did you learn that from?"

"There are such stories in the history of the gods, stepmothers becoming biological mothers..."

"Don't learn this part!"

"Oh."