Wasteland Development Diary

The architectural life's enthusiasm for chatting came and went quickly.

Emerald City was a civilian residence, Maria was an obstetrics and gynecology hospital, and Yalong Bay was a submarine base.

They all eventually returned to their professional topics.

However, architectural life was at a very প্রাথমিক stage in communication, completely unable to engage in commercial mutual flattery or comedic support, so the atmosphere quickly cooled and fell silent.

Zhou Yi, on the other hand, breathed a sigh of relief.

Socializing wasn't as simple as it looked.

Young people still needed to watch and learn carefully.

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Next, Zhou Yi began the modification of the Poseidon.

He planned to turn it into a branch of the Red Falcon. As long as he purchased and installed another set of signal transceivers and activated the branch service, it could be done.

This was a very mature technology.

The drone also said, "In electromechanical cities, many electromechanical lives rent themselves out, using branch technology."

Electromechanical life comes with work attributes, so each one has its own field to play.

But unfortunately, employers tend to hire high-end technology holders or cheap labor. Many electromechanical lives, like the agricultural machinery brothers, have difficulty finding work.

So they sometimes have to rent themselves out cheaply, objectifying and instrumentalizing themselves to earn light seeds or energy packs to solve the economic crisis first.

Just like some ship and vehicle electromechanical lives in the Storage Energy City, they are resold externally after being controlled by employers.

"Branch technology is one of the important services that electromechanical cities export."

Red Falcon said, "In addition to electromechanical lives, flesh and blood light nano-species, and even some humans also use this service."

Zhou Yi immediately reacted, "Remote operation with light imprint equipment?"

"Yes. You can do it as long as you buy a branch controller."

Red Falcon said, "My controller also comes with this function, but it's for emergencies. To ensure that in the event of a failure or loss of contact, I can still find my main body through the controller."

Zhou Yi looked at the black remote control in his hand, "The main advantage of the branch is cheapness?"

"And confidentiality."

Red Falcon emphasized, "Electromechanical life's protocol permission level is very high, enough to ensure the confidentiality of employer information. Electromechanical cities will temporarily put the core consciousness of the machine renter into forced hibernation until the time agreed upon in the transaction ends."

Zhou Yi frowned, "What if the employer takes the opportunity to do some special operations? For example, severely damaging the machine, engaging in criminal activities, or causing the death of the electromechanical life? How to investigate and deal with it?"

"Although the entire action cannot be interfered with, the machine's operating data will be synchronized with the city providing the service in real time and recorded. If there is a violation of the agreement, it will be terminated immediately, and the backend will directly take over the control and bring the machine back."

"The formal branch and machine rental service requires the entire process to be in recording mode, which is to facilitate record keeping. High-risk and uncontrollable are private branch modifications."

After Red Falcon said this, Zhou Yi understood.

Similar to the mechanism of self-driving cars, the backend takes over in emergencies, maintains real-time monitoring at ordinary times, and users can only issue instructions that conform to their functions.

The situation of the Poseidon was very simple. As long as he purchased a no-installation version of the advanced signal transceiver and completed the pairing connection, it would be done.

The annual service fee for the branch was 5 light seeds, but the price of the advanced signal transceiver was relatively high, reaching 70 light seeds, which was almost three times that of ordinary equipment.

These expenses were acceptable to Zhou Yi.

Red Falcon's machine was fragile, and having the Poseidon as a branch would provide an extra layer of protection.

The main reason was that he was too lazy to drive the Poseidon to Recursive City.

In the middle of winter, there was still war going on around there, and he had to cross 1,700 kilometers from the Dead Sea to get there, which was time-consuming and labor-intensive.

There was no need.

It was just a matter of spending a little more light seeds.

Red Falcon immediately rushed to Recursive City to handle the relevant business.

...

Zhou Yi, on the other hand, re-entered the Dead Sea and came all the way to the Dark Domain.

More than a month had passed, and it was time to collect a new installment payment.

Seeing Zhou Yi, Black Hand swam over here, dragging a long black connecting line behind him.

After the two sides touched, Breaker Haruke said, "Zhou Yi, I'm looking for you everywhere. The situation has changed, the boundary gate is already repelling me, and it will soon be unusable."

The Dark Domain was about to close, which meant that winter was coming to an end.

Zhou Yi calculated in his heart.

This winter was only a little over 4 months, not long.

"These are the fates I have created, all of them are here."

Big Black squeezed out glowing light seeds from his hand.

Zhou Yi used the light nano-box to accept them all.

A total of 32,004.

Zhou Yi said, "You still owe me 50,000 light seeds."

"Understood, understood."

Haruke explained, "Originally, I should have been able to create a little more, but now there is not enough time. The boundary gate will force me out, and I will only be able to come over during the next tide."

"After returning, I will use the fate core to evolve myself and break out of the previous cycle of destruction. Next time I come over, I will be able to create more fates in one tidal time."

Zhou Yi also said, "As long as you give enough light seeds, I will find you a new fate core."

The other party immediately became happy, "I will be back as soon as possible."

The Breaker's body shrank into the Dark Domain, and the hole in the overpass returned to calm.

Zhou Yi didn't understand Haruke's world.

But he welcomed this diligent foreigner who earned money locally and spent it locally, and sincerely hoped that everything would go smoothly for him.

...

Red Falcon stayed in Recursive City for a whole day.

It said that because it was winter, Recursive City had strict controls. Advanced signal transceivers and branches like this, which were inherently technical commodities that could be easily converted into weapons, needed to undergo strict review.

It said, "In a normal process, the transceiver needs to be inspected and evaluated on-site before it can be installed."

"Fortunately, the company's credit rating is B, so we can enjoy the express lane, but we still need to go through a series of procedures. I and other applicants are waiting outside for our number to be called."

"It is estimated that it will be another 4 hours before it is my turn."

"Zhou, why don't you see if there is anything you need to buy, I can bring it back along the way."

Zhou Yi didn't get angry either.

The characteristic of electromechanical cities was that the processes were cumbersome.

He opened the Recursive City page and scanned the product catalog.

The biggest demand before was for light blockers, but Yalong Bay was already a perfect upper replacement, and the existing few light blockers were enough as backup machines.

One item caught Zhou Yi's attention.

[Combat Species]

Although the machine can only hold one combat species, it can be replaced. After the replacement, the original combat species will become invalid and dissipate.

Zhou Yi immediately saw a familiar name.

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[C-Class Combat Species · Long-necked Crocodile: Holds [Extension] and [Alertness] / 203 Light Seeds.]

...

Although the stretch fist was weak, the [Alertness] ability was very useful.

Thanks to this ability, Zhou Yi discovered that the Red Falcon was encapsulated on the sealed compartment. He wanted to find a higher-strength replacement, mainly because the extension was useless to him.

But he flipped through it and found that there were very few combat species for sale, and he couldn't buy them even if he wanted to.

Red Falcon explained, "Combat species with high strategic value and strong survivability will be bought by all parties as soon as they enter the market. There are very few combat species with advanced reconnaissance, and the long-necked crocodile is already considered a preferred option."

Zhou Yi was a little disappointed.

Soon he thought again.

A machine can be equipped with a combat species, but now I still have Machine No. 2, can Xiaofu also get one?

The Tracer said in his mind, "Although this can indeed be done... but is it really necessary to use this backward mechanism?"

"It is better to find some fire seeds and transform them into fire seed lives. A large number of fire seed lives constitute a fire seed civilization. At that time, you can arbitrarily call their power, which is much simpler than this. At present, it is important to complete the machine transformation as soon as possible and build [Light Wheel Well] and [Halo Instrument]."

"How long will the transformation take?"

"It won't take long, according to the progress on the Poseidon before, it will only take about one hundred and fifty years."

"..."

Zhou Yi thought to himself, then what are you talking about?

A distant water cannot quench a fire nearby.

Zhou Yi immediately screened the few combat species.

Then he found two targets.

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[C-Class Combat Species · Black Soul: Holds [Berserk] and [Life Strike] / 345 Light Seeds.]

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The details below described these two abilities.

[Berserk]: The machine's strength is comprehensively improved and enlarged in a short period of time, and it will fall into a period of weakness after use.

[Life Strike]: Consumes a lot of life force to break through the limit and causes a huge amount of damage that penetrates the enemy's defense.

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In addition to this, there is another direction.

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[C-Class Combat Species · Phantom Fish: Holds [Life Bubble] and [Death Bubble] / 230 Light Seeds.]

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[Life Bubble]: A camouflage bubble structure made of dead light that can hide itself in it.

[Death Bubble]: A high-energy bubble structure made of dead light. Touching it will detonate and cause high damage.

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It looks like the skill set of a bubble fish.

But why is it called Phantom Fish?

Red Falcon said, "The C-class Phantom Fish is evolved from the bubble fish. The Black Soul is generated by the aberration of the Red-haired Monster. The rating remains the same, but the damage ability is stronger."

Since it is a combat species, it must fight fiercely.

Zhou Yi also sought Red Falcon's opinion.

The drone analyzed, "[Life Strike] is an attack method that trades life for life. Its biggest defect is that it is only limited to melee combat."

"Its strength is very high and can directly ignore defense. Without a specific containment mechanism, the consumption and damage conversion rate is 1:1. If it is in close combat, the Black Soul's threat is very high. Life Strike will cause its own life to drop severely, which is a very risky double-edged sword ability."

Zhou Yi's eyes burned when he heard it.

1:1 conversion rate.

Using Xiaofu's life value, he can instantly deal 100,000 damage!

It's you.