Wasteland Development Diary

Qian Su gripped the copper kettle, her lips moving.

“If it’s a Celestial, then everything makes sense.”

“He looks like he's been pampered, this kind of temperament and habits are hard to fake. He possesses the power to control and drive Photonoids, isn't afraid of approaching the Dead Sea, doesn't care about the Dead Sea Knight's warship attacks, handles Ji Chang's people cleanly, and even has time to study the Dead Sea Xenomorphs that have strayed onto land…”

“But, what exactly is here?”

Qian Su looked at the truck under the watchtower: “It actually attracted a Celestial?”

Destiny didn't answer.

The girl took off her glasses and wiped the lenses with a handkerchief: “Sigh, anyway, the actions of the Celestials themselves are hard to understand, they are like that. Celestials can just do whatever they want, but as a citizen of the Celestial Kingdom, there are many things to consider.”

“Assisting and serving the Celestials is a citizen's bounden duty, there's no escaping it.”

“I was thinking of watching the fun, but I didn't expect we'd be the ones dealing with the warship… Making money is so hard these days.”

She jumped off the watchtower and nimbly got into the driver's seat: “Partner, drive forward first, I'll think about what to use to dissuade the Dead Sea Knight's ship.”

The heavy truck sped towards the shallows of the Dead Sea.

Qian Su held a telescope, constantly monitoring the distance.

“This is troublesome, it really is a mid-cruiser… It's the Organ.”

Bright flashes had already appeared in the eyepiece.

The warship was bombarding the Dead Sea Xenomorph.

Qian Su frowned as she watched: “These guys want to snatch the Xenomorph… Never mind, let's state our position first.”

“Target Organ, 'Class C Anti-Light Shell' ready, three-shot burst mode, block its main gun's Photon imprint from condensing death rays.”

Clicking and clacking mechanical sounds came from the container behind the truck.

The heavy truck suddenly said: “Situation has changed.”

Qian Su also noticed.

Luminous bodies suddenly rose from all around the Dead Sea Xenomorphs. After rising into the air, the numerous luminous bodies fell towards the Dead Sea, exploding with constant flashes. The rumbling was delayed for a moment, and the truck also shook up and down under successive shockwaves.

A dozen seconds later, the firelight in the Dead Sea gradually dissipated.

A ripple-like diffusion pattern like a raindrop appeared on the heavy truck's windshield, with only one obvious high-light red dot. The other small red dots within the radiation range were fleeing in all directions.

“The Organ's trace has disappeared, and the nearby Photonoids are all fleeing.”

The real-time information captured by her partner didn't surprise Qian Su.

She clicked her tongue and sighed: “As expected of a Celestial, the Celestial Kingdom nobles' style is as strong as ever… It's a pity we reacted a little slowly, but slow is better than nothing. Partner, accelerate!”

The heavy truck's engine sound suddenly increased.

However, it hadn't been running at high speed for long when it was intercepted by a blue and white sidecar motorcycle.

“Shagang Tianjin Knights Third Squadron on duty, I am Tianjin Knight Cui Mao. The area you are in is under the jurisdiction of my squadron. The vehicle ahead, pull over and show your identification!”

“Stop immediately, show your identification!”

Qian Su pouted and looked at the rearview mirror: “Another Knights Order, what a coincidence.”

The truck slowly stopped.

She opened the door and spread her hands to signal.

“Hello, I am a legitimate businessman, I have a Celestial Kingdom citizen's passport.”

Qian Su gave the man who got off the motorcycle a professional smile: “Knight Sir, it's really hard work for you to be on duty in such a remote place.”

“It's my duty, please cooperate.”

The other party's voice was without any fluctuation.

……

After confirming that Emerald City had completely destroyed the Organ, Zhou Yi reconnected the three sets of anti-light devices to it again, and buried the chain lines underground to ensure they wouldn't attract attention.

Regarding Emerald City's strength, Red Falcon stated that it was impossible to judge.

“The strength ratings of Photonoids and various devices and props are all summarized based on the results produced by their extensive use. Things like Claw Boars and Long-Necked Crocodiles all have a large amount of data that can be verified and supported.”

“Architectural life itself is very rare, and each architectural life is a unique individual. Their structures are different, and they inherit different collective memories. Only a very few have left behind more event data and have basic electronic illustrations.”

After connecting to the Recursive City Machine Stack, Red Falcon is now equivalent to a military advisor, able to answer many of Zhou Yi's questions.

It continued: “Architectural life is a very contradictory existence.”

“It possesses amazing power that other life envies and cannot reach, able to directly absorb large amounts of death rays as energy for its own operation. They are born as at least C-level mechs. As time passes, as long as they continue to accumulate death rays, they can gradually increase their mech strength.”

“If they are not completely crushed by a more powerful external force, they are naturally immortal lives, the closest thing to eternal life in this world. The long life that many creatures crave is inherent to them.”

“But their weakness also comes from this.”

“The self-awareness of architectural life is generated by the reaction between the mech structure and collective memory. They possess completely closed self-awareness, only moving under unfavorable environmental conditions to seek stable and abundant energy areas.”

“They cannot communicate, cannot be understood, like people who live their entire lives in a closed high fortress. They can see the changes in the outside world, but they have no steps to go outside. They must rely on their own strength to think, so the growth of their consciousness may even be slower than that of insects.”

“The body of a giant, the brain of a baby, this is the contradiction of architectural life. Some of their exploratory or contact behaviors with the outside world will cause the destruction of other lives and even the collapse of the regional environment.”

“They are completely different from the existing various lives, they are aliens born from the Dead Sea.”

Zhou Yi couldn't help but look at the dilapidated building standing next to him.

He remembered when he was a child, he liked to watch ants and could watch them for a long time.

The ants would carry leaves, insect corpses, and various human foods that fell on the ground.

When he was happy, Zhou Yi would pour water on them to see how they would react to the impact of the water.

Or step on them with one foot to see their reaction.

The ants always scattered and fled, and then stubbornly returned, taking away the prey they had finally obtained.

The young Zhou Yi to the ants.

Is probably like the current architectural life to the New Humans.

Fortunately, with him as the owner committee member, Emerald City has become much more normal.

Zhou Yi raised a question in his mind: “How can architectural life be judged? If they are in the Dead Sea, and they fall into a deep sleep, can they be identified from a pile of buildings?”

“This cannot be done.”

Red Falcon said: “After entering the Dead Sea, architectural life will re-enter the uncertain state of life and death, continuing to absorb various life consciousness signals in the death rays, no different from other Dead Sea buildings.”

“To determine whether a Dead Sea building has transformed into life, the only way is to salvage them from the seabed and completely remove them from the shroud of the Dead Sea environment.”

“But doing so is very costly. Entering the seabed has a high risk, and the giant buildings of enormous weight must be completely stripped away and brought all the way to the land… If you are lucky enough, you will face a fully-fledged architectural life.”

“Their awakening represents an unpredictable huge threat.”

High costs, low probability of winning the lottery, unpredictable results… These factors all doom the development of Xenomorphs in the Dead Sea to exist only in an ideal state, and no one or organization would be willing to do a losing business.

So Emerald City appeared, and the Dead Sea Knights also wanted to snatch it.

Zhou Yi couldn't help thinking.

15% of Emerald City is already able to destroy warships, I wonder what state 100% of Emerald City is in?