Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi had an impression of Yalong Bay; it was in Hainan. He even went swimming there when he was in high school, but he really didn't know about this submarine base.

This gave him a strange sense of recovering lost territory.

As the Sand Rat squad further surveyed in the front and Nemo improved the scene modeling in the rear, the internal situation of Yalong Bay gradually became clear.

Three submarines were parked inside the base's cave, the largest of which was already fused to the inner wall.

Zhou Yi now needed to find a breakthrough point.

He said, "Yalong Bay, your function is to serve as a logistics supply and docking base for submarines. Joining us won't affect your job, and you'll get even better supply support."

The base was silent.

Zhou Yi continued to persuade, "I know you have disciplinary constraints because you are a military-type architectural lifeform, but you also said that the biggest difference between autonomous and instinctive types is that you can make changes yourself. Now is the time to change."

"If you arrive at Emerald City and find that what I promised and described is not true, you can leave at any time, and I won't be able to stop you."

The base alien suddenly spoke, "You know me?"

"Of course."

Zhou Yi thought, 'I even used to play at your place.'

However, he chose a conservative way of expressing it: "Before the Death Ray descended, you hadn't awakened as an architectural lifeform. You were located in a southern city called Sanya, where many prehistoric humans would go on vacation..."

Zhou Yi began to talk about Yalong Bay from his memories.

As he spoke, he himself became somewhat immersed in memories, trying his best to describe the journey that had become distant completely.

At the time, he thought it was ordinary, but he never expected that it would be an experience that would never happen again.

"Sanya... prehistoric humans... vacation..."

Yalong Bay muttered these two names: "I don't have memories from before I had consciousness, but my function tells me that those without passwords cannot enter. This place is strictly confidential. What you said about playing is contrary to this."

Zhou Yi patiently said, "What I'm talking about is a place. The same place has both a bay for public recreation and a secret military base built by the country. Just like you allow us to be active outside but prohibit entry into the internal shelters, this is not contradictory."

"Password."

Yalong Bay insisted, "Say the password, and then I can believe you."

Zhou Yi thought for a moment and tentatively said, "Deep Sea Sword, People's Guardian."

"Incorrect."

He recited all the propaganda slogans collected by the Sand Rats, but they still didn't match.

However, it wasn't without any gains.

Yalong Bay said, "Although your password is not correct, it makes me feel something. It seems you do know some real information."

But he still needed the password.

Zhou Yi made up his mind and went all out.

He took a deep breath and started singing with a clenched fist in a military posture: "Unity is strength..."

This military song was a mandatory subject for everyone during military training.

"Incorrect."

Zhou Yi sang another song loudly.

"Forward! Forward! Forward! Our troops are marching towards the sun..."

However, Yalong Bay commented, "It feels a bit right, but it's not accurate."

Damn it.

Zhou Yi was a little frustrated.

How could this employee be so difficult? The chairman has already sung and danced, but it's still not right. What's going on?

Calm down, calm down.

Zhou Yi adjusted his mentality and then thought carefully.

From childhood to adulthood, he passively watched a lot of news broadcasts, which contained many descriptions and reports about the army.

About the navy, the navy... got it.

Zhou Yi remembered a sentence: "Protect the country's maritime direction security, territorial sea sovereignty, and safeguard maritime rights and interests."

"Incorrect."

In the following time, Zhou Yi felt like he had become an interviewee, racking his brains to find the only answer designed by the examiner, but all of them were rejected.

He was exhausted both physically and mentally after putting in a lot of effort and energy but repeatedly suffering setbacks.

That password should be some kind of code word inside the base, which is different from external public propaganda.

Zhou Yi lay on the trestle bridge, feeling a little lost.

He had traveled thousands of miles with great ambition, but now it seemed that he was too optimistic.

It seemed that Yalong Bay was out of his reach.

A long silence fell on the trestle bridge.

Only the wind was blowing.

Yalong Bay suddenly said, "Although you don't know the password, I believe what you said."

"The content you expressed resonates with me, indicating that those things once appeared in my body, although I am not sure of their exact meaning."

"I want to make changes, just like the pioneers."

Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment and suddenly sat up.

"You agreed to join our company?"

"I accept your suggestion. I will verify and seek truth on the ground, including what you said about Emerald City growing through humans and Maria Hospital rapidly recovering due to further opening up to the outside world, but due to functional limitations, I can't do much."

Zhou Yi said, "It's okay. As long as you allow ships to dock at the trestle bridge, can you do that?"

"Yes, but not inside the shelters."

"No problem."

Putting aside everything else, the addition of the massive Yalong Bay alone is a natural deterrent.

Then came the main event.

Zhou Yi asked, "What is your skill?"

"If you are talking about the functional characteristics of this body, there are two."

Yalong Bay replied, "The first is containment. I can contain specific electromechanical lifeforms, which are the submarines you mentioned. As long as they enter the area radiated by me, they will approach me and be received by me."

Zhou Yi was overjoyed.

That's it.

He quickly said, "Then can you issue orders to them after capturing them?"

"Capture? Orders?"

Yalong Bay paused for a moment: "I think there is a misunderstanding here."

"The relationship between me and those electromechanical lifeforms is not a hunting relationship. My function is to inspect and maintain them to ensure that their bodies are running well. They often take the initiative to find me to do a full range of inspections, repairs, and maintenance."

Ah?

Zhou Yi was stunned on the spot.

He still felt that something was wrong: "Jacob said before that the Sea God was eaten by you and is getting weaker and weaker. Sheng She also said that you ate a submarine not long ago."

"It's containment."

Yalong Bay corrected: "The Sea God you described suffered serious damage to its body for unknown reasons. If it is not contained, it will soon be destroyed. Its situation is special, and it has been sleeping in the cave for a long time, but I can only prevent it from further deterioration."

"The individual I contained not long ago is already very familiar with me. It is very injured and often comes to me for repairs and maintenance. It is very aggressive and will patrol around me to drive away possible threats."

"During this containment, it also issued a firing warning to the ships and photon species in the area."

Zhou Yi was a little dumbfounded.

It turned out to be a submarine repair port.

But thinking about it carefully, Yalong Bay's main body was originally for logistical support. If you really want to carry out strategic strikes, you have to rely on submarines or coastal defense guns, which are closer to the category of electromechanical lifeforms.

He asked again, "What about the other one?"

"It is the most special. It was in the cave when I became conscious and has been integrated with my body."

Yalong Bay said, "It is difficult for me to accurately describe the relationship between it and me. It is not a submarine or electromechanical lifeform in the usual sense. It remains suspended and evenly distributes power to the bottom of my body... let's call it Yalong."

"Yalong's power allows me to break away from the land and float and sail on the Dead Sea. It is more like some kind of external structure or what you call an organ. Maybe it is because of its existence that I can stay awake in the Dead Sea. It is like another core of mine..."

This large submarine has no autonomous conscious behavior, has never interacted with the outside world, and is more like an architectural lifeform than an electromechanical lifeform.

Zhou Yi had a guess in his mind.

The drone also gave the same judgment: "Uncivilized body."

If the electromechanical lifeform is severely damaged during awakening, or is affected by the environment, it will not be able to complete the awakening process and will become like this.

Just like the Journey to the West TV series.

The symbiosis of the uncivilized body and the architectural lifeform has created the special situation of Yalong Bay.

Zhou Yi shared this information with the submarine base.

"Uncivilized body... so that's how it is... I still know too little, and there is still much to learn."

Yalong Bay has a strong ability to accept new things.

Zhou Yi remembered again: "What is the other skill?"

"Summon."

The base alien said, "I can summon submarines to move and approach me, radiating to a very far area in the Dead Sea."

"Because I have done multiple maintenance on many submarines, we have a stable cooperative relationship. When they are summoned, they will know it is me and will also drive away and repel various dangers around to ensure the stability of the maintenance process."

"Whenever I arrive at a completely new area of the Dead Sea, I will summon them. By repairing and maintaining them, I will also get beneficial body feedback, but this feedback requires a lot of accumulation to produce results."

"Unfortunately, my cave only has three spaces, which can only accommodate 3 submarines for continuous maintenance. Yalong and Sea God occupy one each for a long time, leaving only one external spot."

Zhou Yi's eyes lit up when he heard this.

This is good.

Yalong Bay comes with a network of contacts to summon submarines to help, and he doesn't have to spend money to raise these foreign warships.

Maybe he can also recruit new employees from the submarines!