Wasteland Development Diary

Only after Sun Hao left did Yuanxiao finally speak, "Chairman, the Dream Demon is already quite large..."

"It's fine."

Zhou Yi said, "I have already warned the Dream Demon."

The Angel of Death immediately understood, "So that's what happened with the Dream Demon's disappearance just now."

Zhou Yi asked her, "Is the Dream Demon timid?"

"No, quite the opposite, they are very bold."

Yuanxiao said seriously, "Because Dream Demons are difficult to restrain, they have no taboos once they gradually grow stronger and awaken. With its current size, it's already very dangerous. This treatment has greatly enhanced the Dream Demon's growth..."

Zhou Yi found it strange.

Are Dream Demons restrained by concept life forms? Or simply suppressed by the Microphone Bully's BGM domain?

He could clearly feel that the Dream Demon was afraid of him from the bottom of its heart.

Yuanxiao was also puzzled by this.

Her understanding of Dream Demons came from the previous Angel of Death. She herself was not from the healer lineage, so her understanding wasn't deep.

Regarding the Dream Demon, she could only observe and be vigilant for now.

Zhou Yi turned his attention back to the tattoo on his shoulder.

The biggest gain this time was capturing an atmospheric life form.

In the double helix world, a large cyclone-like cold storage was slowly advancing on the ladder of consciousness.

Zhou Yi looked down at the life form in the memory core.

"How do you feel?"

The bizarre creature suddenly stopped moving.

It spread in all directions, trying to stretch itself out and find the source of the sound.

But the rules of the memory core space restricted this action, causing it to spin in place like a dissipating and curling mist.

"Where is this?" it asked.

"Answer."

The atmospheric life form was silent for a moment, and finally replied, "I don't know. I have been dazed for a long time."

"Ever since that strange thing was put into my body, abnormalities began to appear all over, and then it got worse and worse... Holes began to appear in my body, and my consciousness became increasingly blurred, and I was asleep for a long time."

Zhou Yi pondered.

It seemed that storing something caused this series of changes in the cold storage.

Just storing it caused an A-level architectural life form to collapse and explode, which showed how terrifying the strength of the stored item was.

Zhou Yi said, "Do you know that you have become an atmospheric life form?"

"Atmospheric life form? What is that?"

Zhou Yi explained the relationship between architectural life forms and atmospheric life forms to it.

"An evolved direction of mutation... So that's how it is."

The other party fell into contemplation.

"I have become like this, it seems I was captured by you through some method. Could you please tell me what exactly happened before?"

Zhou Yi told him everything he knew.

"Thank you for telling me."

"Although I don't know if this is good or bad for me, I have to adapt to the new form and identity. Since I have fallen into your hands, I will follow your orders and act according to your requirements."

"Please rest assured, I have experience in this area, and doing so is most beneficial to myself."

Its thinking was very clear.

In terms of assessing the situation and making decisions, it was the strongest of the architectural life forms Zhou Yi had ever seen.

This saved a lot of trouble.

Zhou Yi said bluntly, "I need your strength, I hope we can cooperate happily in the future."

"Okay."

"What is your name?"

"In my existing memory, I don't have a name, but there is a name for an entity within me that I like very much, called Curling. You can call me that."

Zhou Yi said, "Curling, now I need to access your memory core, I need your consent."

"Consent."

Curling was very cooperative.

Then Zhou Yi began to read the memories of this former architectural life form.

...

Like most architectural life forms, Curling could not accurately record time and could only see the slow changes in the surrounding environment.

It was half-sunken in a pile of sand, in a semi-dormant state. Usually, sand rats and insects were close to it, and occasionally there were some birds of prey.

One day, a heavily armored warrior came.

The visitor was wearing metal half-body armor, a helmet covering her face, and it could only be seen from her long hair and waist and legs that she was a woman.

She observed the architectural life form for a while, then stretched out her arms, grabbed its edge, and pulled it out of the sand little by little.

The giant-force female warrior placed the cold storage in the open air and took out a silver jug, pouring light seeds onto the cold storage.

After absorbing energy, the cold storage gradually recovered and reopened refrigeration.

The female warrior dragged it onto a large ship and sent it to an island.

The cold storage became a warehouse.

Many things were put in.

Most of the stored items were wrapped in metal containers, so it was impossible to see what was inside.

There were also a few, using crystal and glass as containers, with various organs soaked in liquid inside, including hearts, lungs, intestines, bones of varying sizes, as well as tongues and teeth.

These organs maintained a certain activity and moved slowly in the containers. Their surfaces either had silver lines or were combined with metal parts.

They were all modified and strengthened organs, or light-nano organs.

Curling was specifically used to store these biological tissues that required a low-temperature environment - or biological weapons.

Its abilities were cooling and containment.

Those biological organs also had consciousness, which had a good catalytic effect on Curling. The number of stored items continued to increase, coupled with the continuous supply of light seeds from the outside, allowing the cold storage to evolve steadily for a long time.

Time passed.

One day, a special item was placed in the cold storage.

It was a pillar made of gold. Judging by the height of the cold storage, the golden pillar was about one and a half meters high, about the thickness of an adult's thigh, its top was cone-shaped, pointing to the sky, and it looked like a spear tip.

The arrival of the golden spear tip caused a series of anomalies.

Zhou Yi saw that the organs in the glass and crystal containers were rapidly mutating, growing strange soft tissues.

They broke through the containers, leaned towards the golden spear tip and stuck to it, looking very creepy.

The people who came for inspection took out those abnormal organs one by one.

In the end, only the golden spear tip was left in the room.

Curling also endured this alienating radiation, but its machine strength was high, so the whole process was much slower.

One day, the golden spear tip suddenly changed.

Its cone-shaped top opened in all directions, forming a wide golden disc, with small face-centered cubic unit cells growing on the disc - that is, a three-dimensional geometric form exhibited by a cluster of spheres, which were later cut into cubes.

These face-centered cubic unit cells formed small bumps on the top, like fruit granules on a disc, looking like a golden sunflower created by precise cutting.

The strangest thing was that, in Curling's perception, this thing was still alive.

The low-temperature environment would reduce its activity and slow down the movement process.

But it still turned on the flower form.

After the golden sunflower bloomed, it was as if some kind of power had awakened, and the room was shrouded in golden light.

Then Curling's memory was interrupted.

It woke up again after being transformed into a fire seed life.

...

Zhou Yi repeatedly read this memory.

The Weapon Master used cold storage to contain the golden sunflower, trying to seal this golden life with the machine of the architectural life form, to avoid its indiscriminate alienating radiation to the surrounding creatures.

But in the end, it still destroyed the entire cold storage and triggered a xenomorph self-explosion.

Regarding this matter, weapon hunter Fang Qiao did not mention a word, which probably belonged to an important secret of the Weapon Master lineage.

The general situation was understood.

Zhou Yi asked again, "Now your form structure is completely different, what is different about your abilities compared to before?"

"No different."

Curling said, "It is still the original two characteristics, [Refrigeration] and [Storage]."

"Refrigeration, can reduce the temperature to -111.7℃."

"Storage, is that the stored items cannot be observed from the outside."

"It's just that the strength does not have the upper limit of machine constraints, if the energy is sufficient, both refrigeration and storage can continue to evolve and strengthen."

"Another thing is that I can directly capture entities of consciousness, I couldn't do this before."

Zhou Yi understood in his heart.

So this is how the atmospheric life form transformed from architectural life is.

Continuing the past abilities, but greatly increasing the upper limit and strength.

...

While Zhou Yi was studying the atmospheric life form.

The other side of the Dead Sea.

Weapon hunter Fang Qiao arrived at a wide canyon, where the ground was covered with huge footprints.

In front of a smaller footprint stood a man.

The man had long hair tied behind his head, sunken eyes, heavy dark circles, and pale skin, looking a little listless.

He was wearing a large brown robe and eating a grilled corn.

Behind him stood two women.

One of them was tall, wearing half-body armor, and her face was completely wrapped in a helmet, only her long hair and long legs could be seen, which was the heavily armored female warrior that Zhou Yi saw in Curling's memory. At this time, she was grilling corn by the campfire.

The other woman was petite, looked youthful and lively, had long rabbit ears, and carried a small iron coffin on her back.

The man with dark circles looked at the footprints with interest, "Finally found another juvenile body."

The rabbit-eared girl shouted, "With Master's action, this little golden elephant will definitely be tamed."

"Don't."

The man covered her mouth, "Every time you say this, I get hurt..."

"Master, you are still so superstitious." The rabbit-eared girl waved her fist and said, "Superstitious adults are the most handsome!"

"Better to believe it than not."

The man didn't care, "There are many evil things in this world."

The heavily armored female warrior handed over another grilled corn, "Master, please."

"Hmm. Lan Liao's grilled corn is the best."

The man took the corn but handed it to Fang Qiao opposite, "What's wrong?"

"Master, that..."

Fang Qiao stammered and repeated the whole story.

"The imprint of the cold storage has completely disappeared, it has been destroyed. But I wasn't at the scene, so the details were not witnessed..."

"If it's gone, it's gone."

The man with dark circles said casually, "The golden elephant flag itself is too strong, it's normal for the xenomorph to not be able to withstand it after the second stage. It was a miscalculation at the beginning, letting it escape from the cold storage, it's my problem... Eh, no, it's Bai Bi's problem."

He looked at the rabbit-eared girl next to him, "You said at the time that I would definitely win the golden chess elephant. You are usually very sweet, but your mouth is really poisonous..."

"I am guilty..." The rabbit-eared girl lowered her head to take the blame, with a pitiful look.

The man looked at Fang Qiao again, "You have to eat the corn while it's hot, it's not tasty when it's cold."

Fang Qiao quickly took two bites.

"Put the weapon you want to strengthen there, I'll deal with it when I'm free."

"Yes."

Fang Qiao put down the Gatling gun and was about to say goodbye and leave.

The Weapon Master suddenly said, "That Zhou Yi, what kind of person is he?"

Fang Qiao hesitated for a moment, "He's a pretty good person."

"Then next time, help me tell him that if he is interested, he can come to Golden Elephant Valley and invite him to be a guest. I also need him to help diagnose the xenomorphs here, the reward is easy to say."

"Yes, Master."