Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi posted a job advertisement on the Energy Storage City's network through the Red Falcon.

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Position: Transportation Specialist

Salary: 10,000 Light Seeds/year

Requirements: Good health, relevant work experience, responsible for picking up and delivering company goods, and capable of transporting people in the Dead Sea.

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While waiting for applicants, Zhou Yi also commissioned a task to Recursive City, requesting an investigation of the Dead Sea area within a 2,000-kilometer radius south of the Wasteland Development Company to search for a Dead Sea alien floating on the sea.

This was also the Red Falcon's suggestion.

It had flown south several times, but found nothing.

If the floating alien king Jacob mentioned really existed, then the rescue team specializing in the search should be well aware of it, and might have the latest information. Entrusting this to Recursive City would be much more efficient.

However, the cost wasn't low. This search, based on distance and winter environment, was quoted at 200 Light Seeds.

Zhou Yi paid it readily, directly deducting it from the company's electronic account.

Soon, the Energy Storage City's exchange market sent over a lot of job applications from mechatronic lifeforms.

Zhou Yi opened each resume.

"Large Transport Vehicle Machine: Possesses over 90 years of transportation and delivery experience, familiar with traffic rules and road conditions near Energy Storage City, and can adapt to long-term driving."

"Large Passenger Vehicle Machine: Possesses over 40 years of passenger transport experience, no bad driving records, no major accidents or traffic violations, and has a strong sense of safety."

"Large Transport Ship Machine: Has 24 years of experience in transporting goods such as light soot, light amber, and precious metals, and can independently complete unloading and port route planning."

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Although there were quite a few applicants, they were all transport vehicles and transport ships.

Zhou Yi was a little disappointed.

His plan was to get an aircraft, so that traveling, whether on the Dead Sea or land, would be convenient and fast.

"That's very difficult."

The Red Falcon told him, "The number of mechatronic lifeforms is slowly decreasing year by year, and the number of flying types among mechatronic lifeforms is already very small. Models that need to be responsible for transportation are even more precious."

Zhou Yi thought about it, and it was true.

Airplanes are the fewest in number among vehicles, so the number of flying mechatronic types born couldn't be high.

He asked, "Is the decrease in the number of mechatronic lifeforms due to natural aging and death? Or is it due to war or environmental changes?"

"The main reason is natural aging."

The Red Falcon explained, "Mechatronic lifeforms have different lifespans due to different structures. But usually, as long as they can do the minimum level of regular check-ups, replacement, and upgrade of parts, even considering deaths caused by force majeure, the average lifespan is over 300 years."

"Unfortunately, not all mechatronic lifeforms can regularly maintain and upgrade themselves."

"The cost of replacing parts is a huge expense for most mechatronic lifeforms, and further upgrades are even more expensive. To maintain the life characteristics of mechatronic lifeforms, they can only maintain a dormant or low-power static mode in daily life. Relying solely on absorbing land deadlight cannot compensate for the energy gap."

"Once they operate normally and work, they need to consume energy packs. Although energy packs are already the cheapest supplies, 10 energy packs still cost 1 Light Seed, which is consumed quickly."

Zhou Yi frowned as he listened, "So, the Iron Horse and Bronze Bull brothers' income here is only 2 Light Seeds a month, which is only enough for them to buy energy packs, right? Isn't the salary a bit too low?"

This salary can't meet the needs of maintenance, replacement, and upgrades at all.

"Yes."

The drone responded, "But if the asking price is too high, the demanders can't afford it."

"Even with the current pricing for labor services, many cities are abandoning the labor of mechatronic lifeforms such as agricultural machines and turning to cheaper local human or animal power. Although there are various problems such as low efficiency, the key is that it is cheap, very cheap, and does not require the various restrictions of mechatronic cities."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but feel a bit surreal.

The era he was in was one where backward human and animal power was replaced by more efficient artificial intelligence, but the wasteland era was a reverse development.

No wonder the agricultural machine brothers also felt like they were tight on money, and even postponed their check-ups after being injured again and again.

Their physiological structure determines that they are high-spending groups.

In other words, the main reason for the death of mechatronic lifeforms is poverty.

Zhou Yi then said, "But I remember that agricultural machines like the brothers looking for work opportunities to show their skills should be helpful to their skill improvement, right? After the skill improvement, will it help alleviate their current situation?"

He had practiced the skills attached to the combat type, and he could hone them as long as he entered the Dead Sea to fight.

Like agricultural reclamation, they have to actually farm to do it, and it is more cumbersome and difficult to improve skill levels.

"Yes."

The Red Falcon explained, "Taking agricultural machines as an example, if they can be upgraded to higher-level [Agricultural Reclamation] and [Farming], they will generate higher added value, and may even improve high-quality crops of extremely high value. Further improving the skills, coupled with sufficient work experience, can complete the leap in occupational class."

"Like Iron Horse and Bronze Bull, they are the most basic 'Agricultural Machines'. If they are upgraded to the peak of their skills, they can apply to update their identity and become 'Agricultural Machine Experts', and their salary will also rise, with a very large increase."

"Many large cities that are truly engaged in long-term agricultural development will only recruit experts for guidance and planning. Ordinary agricultural machines are not needed, because most of the labor will be undertaken by human and animal power."

"It's just that becoming an expert requires a long period of accumulation of a large amount of agricultural practice, which is quite difficult."

Zhou Yi now fully understood.

It's actually skill titles. Only by going up the title can you cross the threshold and become a high-level professional.

Mechatronic life perfectly inherited the old human involution society.

"Most mechatronic lifeforms are just ordinary workers."

The Red Falcon emphasized, "Parts will continue to age naturally. The more faults occur, the more they will be downgraded, making it more difficult to obtain quality labor opportunities."

"Losing the opportunity and ability to work, mechatronic lifeforms will fall into social death. The death of the body will follow closely. The continuing decline in the number of mechatronic lifeforms is also due to this reason. Currently, they lack sufficient jobs and living space."

Zhou Yi thought of the agricultural machine brothers again.

It has been more than a month since these two brothers returned to Recursive City, and there is no news so far. I don't know if they have bypassed the war zones along the way.

The latest novels are first published on Six Nine Book Bar!

I hope they are well.

"The situation of flying mechatronic lifeforms is different."

The Red Falcon brought the topic back, "Especially the larger individuals among them, they have inherent advantages, can cross the Dead Sea relatively safely and quickly, and have always been the best choice for trade transportation and passenger transport. The unemployment rate of mechatronic lifeforms continues to increase, but it has little impact on them."

"Most flying types are either elites hired by cities for a long time, such as the medical rescue aircraft 'Cloud Rail' sent by Holy Mountain to Energy Storage City before, or they have their own established businesses."

In short, this group belongs to the natural elite and basically does not appear on the open talent market.

That's the situation.

Zhou Yi could only adjust his goal according to the actual situation.

Then let's get a transport ship first.

As a result, Zhou Yi clicked on the details and was dumbfounded.

These applicants are not the mechatronic lifeforms themselves, but the transport ships and transport vehicles held by the mechatronic lifeforms.

The details described that they use an advanced machine stack sub-machine service, which can remotely synchronize and control these transport vehicles for activities.

In fact, they use clone bodies and then work remotely from home.

The biggest problem is that this operation is affected by the transmission environment. It is also noted that if force majeure factors affect the transmission synchronization, they will not bear any responsibility, and it is also recommended to purchase related insurance business... The most important thing is that almost all transport ships are in this sub-machine mode.

Zhou Yi rubbed his face with his hands.

It's really not easy to find a suitable employee.

The Red Falcon said, "If you want to find better ones, you can only post recruitment in the five major central areas, the closest being Mirror City. However, it is in a state of city closure in winter, and it will not be reopened to the outside world until the end of winter."

Zhou Yi thought about it.

Since there are no suitable ones, it is better not to look for them.

At this time, the Red Falcon said, "Why not consider Victory Snakes?"

"Victory Snakes?" Zhou Yi suspected he had misheard.

The Red Falcon continued, "Although the Victory Snake group is a flesh and blood life, they have a special skill [Mortise and Tenon Joint], which can connect to each other extremely firmly."

"They will protect the injured, young, and dormant inside the group, and use their own bodies to build a defensive structure. A sufficient number of Victory Snakes will create fortresses and huddle together to cope with external offensives."

"In addition, they are creatures that can come and go in the Dead Sea and move very quickly. Before, they carried floating islands, which proved that they can exert extremely strong thrust and transport heavy objects."

"Why not hire Victory Snakes from the entire snake island and let them cooperate as a group to become the company's Dead Sea transportation specialists."

Zhou Yi suddenly became enlightened.

He had always thought of mechatronic lifeforms, but ignored the larger number of flesh and blood lifeforms.

The most needed puzzle was already within reach.

He only had one question: "Is this really feasible? I don't know much about Victory Snakes."

"Normally, this is impossible because Victory Snakes are very aggressive and have high social attributes."

The Red Falcon said, "But because of the existence of Da Vinci and Maria Hospital, the Victory Snakes on Snake Island have also transported floating islands for this purpose, which is a successful case."

"Through Da Vinci, I think there is a certain feasibility."

If so, then you have to try.

Zhou Yi immediately rushed to Maria Hospital.