Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi desperately grabbed the wooden leg of the prosthetic limb.

Like a wild horse, it carried Zhou Yi, jumping and running around in the white space.

It was completely unstoppable.

There were no switches or buttons on the wooden leg, and Zhou Yi didn't know how to operate it.

Before coming, Xiaofu had repeatedly emphasized.

"Except for 【Egolessness】, do not use any other abilities."

"Using any ability, whether it's consciousness synchronization or anything else, could break the effect of egolessness and awaken the constantly forgetting and looping guards."

"Use the simplest method, grab the item and leave."

The problem was.

This thing was as strong as an ox. Zhou Yi, who was now connected to two electric cats, could be considered a Skywalker, but he couldn't hold it back at all.

Zhou Yi was a little numb.

He felt like he had become a child riding a carousel for the first time, but it was the wild horse version.

The question was, how to get this thing out?

He could only observe patiently.

Zhou Yi gradually saw a pattern.

Although this prosthetic leg kept jumping forward, there was a trace to follow. It was circling around the stone ball guard.

At first, it kept its distance from the guard, but the radius gradually shortened, as if it was getting closer.

A thought popped into Zhou Yi's head.

Could this guy really be a living creature?

Seeing an opportunity, it wanted to escape?

This place wasn't a treasure trove... it was a special prison?

Various thoughts flashed through his mind.

After watching for a while, Zhou Yi found that the jumping of the prosthetic leg became more and more unbridled. It began to gently rub against the guard, testing the edge of danger, but the white stone ball remained still.

This scared Zhou Yi into a cold sweat, and he quickly jumped off the prosthetic leg, keeping his distance from it.

It would be troublesome if the stone ball guard thought he was an accomplice.

What happened next was even more bizarre.

The prosthetic leg actually started kicking the stone ball with its big stone foot.

It kicked with a loud bang.

Zhou Yi almost couldn't help but run away.

But thinking about the 1 million light seeds he spent to get in, he gritted his teeth and prepared to hold on a little longer.

He tried to grab the prosthetic leg, trying to stop its suicidal behavior.

But the prosthetic leg became even more excited.

Suddenly, the strange stone sole of the foot lifted up sharply.

A large hole appeared in the sole of its foot, and it directly bit down on the stone ball guard.

The white stone ball remained motionless.

Then, like a snake swallowing an egg, it sucked the static guard into the hole, and the hole in the sole of the foot disappeared.

The prosthetic leg then returned to silence, standing on the ground as if it had never moved.

Zhou Yi was a little dazed.

This thing wanted to eat the guard, but why didn't it eat it before he came in? Was it because he made it active?

Without thinking too much, Zhou Yi carried the heavy prosthetic leg and crawled out of the hole.

Returning to the Dead Sea made him feel a little safer.

The space hole that had been forcibly opened was now rapidly shrinking and disappearing.

A voice popped into his head.

"Da Zhou, it's done, it's done!!!"

Xiaofu was extremely excited.

"This proves that my judgment and plan were correct! Relying on the ability of 【Egolessness】, as long as external obstacles can be eliminated, the things inside can be safely taken out!"

Zhou Yi looked at the prosthetic leg in his hand: "What is this thing? What is it for?"

"I haven't seen this either..."

The Streamtracer said after a long while: "But the guard in the space hole is a very famous artificial life form called 【Rock Core Clan】."

"Their bodies are composed of various high-density, high-purity minerals, and they replenish energy through minerals, geothermal energy, and other methods. They can absorb heat from the surrounding environment and convert it into the energy needed to maintain life activities. In addition, they can also obtain energy and nutrients by decomposing and recombining mineral crystals."

"Rock Core Clans can obtain information through temperature, pressure, and vibration. They are very strong, generally light-core bodies, and are usually used as labor by advanced civilizations. They can be adapted to various tasks such as exploration, observation, construction, maintenance, and combat."

After the trip to the Forbidden Continent, Zhou Yi's horizons had broadened a lot.

The Golden Elephant was just a gold harvester raised by an advanced civilization.

Light-core body workers were normal too.

Xiaofu continued: "It is impossible to verify who created the Rock Core Clan. However, they have existed in the universe for a long time. To some extent, they may be longer-lived and more immortal than the civilizations that created them."

"They are very capable, and many advanced civilizations will try to obtain them, whether through plunder, bribery, or war enslavement."

"The biggest characteristic of the Rock Core Clan is that they all have a rock core."

"This rock core is composed of high-density, high-purity crystalline minerals. The rock core is the energy source and information processing center of the Streamtracer, similar to the brain and heart of carbon-based life."

"They transmit and exchange information through complex crystal structures and energy fluctuations, and the information processing speed far exceeds that of flesh and blood life."

Zhou Yi thought of this: "It's a bit like a mechanical and electrical life."

"Yes."

Xiaofu said: "Compared to the mechanical and electrical life of this world, the strength of the Rock Core Clan is much higher. Of course, their rock core is essentially a light core modification..."

"They can adapt to the complex and dangerous environments of various planets, high temperature, low temperature, storms, burning... As long as there are minerals, they can survive and work."

"Using the Rock Core Clan as a guard, the things they guard are definitely not bad. I suspect this thing should also be a tool, and it should be matched with the Rock Core Clan."

Zhou Yi said helplessly: "But the prosthetic leg just ate the guard."

Xiaofu said: "Why don't you try consciousness synchronization now?"

Zhou Yi also had this intention.

He held the wooden handle of the prosthetic leg.

Before he even started consciousness synchronization, Zhou Yi obtained a lot of information in his mind.

After a while, Zhou Yi looked at the strange device in his hand.

Translated, this thing is called 【Mad Traveler】.

It can replace the holder to find treasures everywhere. When it encounters high-energy substances and high-information objects, the prosthetic leg will hunt them down, capture them into its body, and bring them back to the holder.

It's like a high-level travel frog.

But the level is unknown - or rather, there is no description in this regard.

The usage is also simple.

As long as you connect with its consciousness, you can complete a one-on-one binding.

But how to unbind, there is no relevant information inside.

Its intelligence level is very high, with three levels: high, medium, and low.

Different levels represent the judgment criteria for treasures.

The traveler directly bound Zhou Yi as soon as it came out of the space hole, confirming him as its only holder. As long as it finds a treasure after it is turned on, it will find him to hand it over.

The reason why it swallowed the guard was also because the traveler judged that its energy and information content were very high, and launched a capture.

After sharing the information, the Streamtracer was shocked: "It turns out to be this unlucky thing!!! It's over! Bad luck!"

Zhou Yi was puzzled: "What's the situation?"

Xiaofu hesitated for a moment: "This thing has appeared in many worlds, creating a lot of disasters. In the relics of a secondary civilization that I found, the remaining records described that the civilization was destroyed by it..."

Secondary civilization?

A civilization stronger than the old humans was destroyed by this thing?

Zhou Yi was stunned: "Is it that fierce?"

"As long as this thing determines that it is a treasure, it will relentlessly hunt it down and is almost impossible to destroy."

The Streamtracer said: "Once it turns on the treasure hunting mode, it will continuously and efficiently absorb the energy of this world."

"Because it is very sensitive to energy, it can quickly enhance itself to continuously expand and increase its strength."

"The secondary iron-based civilization that was destroyed was not facing such a small traveler, but a fully developed traveler, whose strength is difficult to estimate."

"In the relic information of that civilization, the crazy traveler has covered the entire world. There are tall columnar objects everywhere, and they are connected as a whole, collecting the energy and materials of the entire world."

"It seems to have malfunctioned, frantically sucking everything there, taking energy, and monopolizing information. This caused the iron-based civilization, which was already in a period of decline, to accelerate into destruction and could not contain it... In the end, the survivors had to migrate to avoid its crazy capture."

"..."

Zhou Yi looked at the prosthetic leg in his hand and felt a little depressed for a while.

It was equivalent to spending 1 million light seeds and working hard with Xiaofu to fight wits and courage with the guards, but he got a professional destruction machine.

The problem was that he didn't want to take revenge on this wasteland world, and this thing was really useless.

Zhou Yi asked suspiciously: "What is the origin of this thing?"

The Streamtracer said: "The Mad Traveler is a failed experiment. It was leaked from a high-dimensional civilization. Because it is not perfect, it has a great destructive power to the environment. What we see is just its projection in this world, and its body cannot be directly observed."

"Also because of the dimensional difference, we can only understand part of it."

"Da Zhou, don't use this thing... the risk is too high. Letting it run in this world will only accelerate the destruction of this world. When it comes to destruction, it is more brutal than the Celestials..."

Zhou Yi had a different opinion.

Of course not here.

However.

What about other worlds?

For example, throwing it to the moon.

He also thought that he had some friendship with the Night God, so he should change one.

Mud Tree Civilization!

This is good.

Anyway, it has been destroyed and has become a world of Zerg civilizations. For Zhou Yi, who inherited part of the Mud Tree Civilization's heritage, that is a natural enemy.

"...If you say that, it's true."

Xiaofu also turned his mind around: "That's right! It doesn't matter how much damage you do there, and you are the holder. If it can really find treasures, maybe it can dig something out of the world of the Mud Tree Civilization."

"Even if it just absorbs energy and destroys it, it will get a strong thug!"

"This is possible! You can do it! Hahaha! Do it!"

The Streamtracer was immediately excited.

What it said was also Zhou Yi's plan.

Even if he couldn't find any treasures, it would be his contribution to the Mud Tree Civilization to cause trouble for the Zerg.

But before that, there was something more important to do.

Zhou Yi held the handle of the prosthetic leg.

His consciousness twisted.

The Crazy Traveler shook for a while, and suddenly raised its wide stone foot and spat out something from it.

The white stone ball rolled directly on the ground, rolled twice, and hit a propped-up iron plate.

Clatter.

A large piece was broken.

Zhou Yi was stunned.

Was the Rock Core Clan dead?

He turned on 【Alert】, but couldn't see any light.

"Not dead."

Xiaofu said: "The Rock Core Clan has a very hard life. Unless the rock core is destroyed, it will not die completely. It should be out of energy, whether it is natural consumption or being absorbed by the traveler. After the transformation, you can read its information."

Zhou Yi immediately asked the accompanying Sea God to turn on the Tinder Life Transformation.

This time, it took a full 500,000 light seeds to complete the transformation of the fragmented stone ball.

He had a silver ring on his left shoulder, and a square inside the ring.

Zhou Yi wanted to cry without tears.

He said he was going out to find treasure, but the result was light seeds -1.5 million.

He gritted his teeth in his heart.

You better be useful!

Zhou Yi immediately connected to his left shoulder.

After a moment, the sorrow on his face disappeared and he became smiling.

This money was well spent!

Expensive things are indeed expensive for a reason!