Wasteland Development Diary

Returning to the company's base, Zhou Yi immediately saw the tall Building 5.

Its tall and wide body stood beside the Maria Hospital. However, once Emerald City got close, it took control of all the machines, returning them to silence.

Many residents were curiously watching below the building.

Zhou Yi couldn't help but ask, "Why didn't the small high-rises exhibit this kind of independent movement after you went out?"

"They inherited my basic functions, but they don't have independent autonomy."

Emerald City explained, "The high-rises possess complete functions consistent with mine, so they have a stronger sense of self-awareness. Now I'm certain that some of this autonomous consciousness is innate."

Zhou Yi said, "Release its constraints and see what it will do."

"It has a high propensity for movement and might damage the fragile life and farmland here."

Zhou Yi thought for a moment, "Then take it to the open hilly area. I'll have Kestrel over there to remind it to be careful. We can't keep an eye on it all the time; we need to determine its characteristics."

Haven't raised a pig, but haven't I seen one run?

It's just a hyperactive child.

Zhou Yi pondered, needing to see the extent of its hyperactivity.

Under Emerald City's guidance, Building 5 followed closely, like Building One's shadow.

After arriving at the mountainous area where the Groundhog Town cave was located, it resumed its quiet, standing posture.

Zhou Yi ordered, "Let it move freely."

After a few seconds.

The unrestrained Building 5 slowly rose and moved, sliding across the ground at a leisurely pace.

It went to the nearest hill. Vine-like steel arms extended from its high walls, touching the mountain's surface, startling many birds.

In Zhou Yi's eyes, this was more like a child's habit of grabbing things.

It's just that this child's size and strength were a bit too much.

Architectural life possesses a unique high-strength body. Zhou Yi was very concerned about Building 5's situation. If it could be guided well, its power would benefit and protect many residents. If not handled properly, it could become a rampant, gigantic killer.

Building 5 explored for a while, separating some of its iron hands to grab stones, while other steel arms pulled large amounts of soil from the ground. It began to gradually create a square house out of stones and soil.

Then two, then three, then four.

Next, Building 5 connected and stacked these houses, using steel and iron to completely fuse them together.

Waves of white light flashed on its steel arms.

It stacked a four-story, sixteen-unit building, its movements becoming noticeably slower, seemingly feeling strained.

Building 5 walked around the building it had created twice, its many steel limbs waving wildly.

Zhou Yi asked, "What is it doing?"

"I don't know."

Emerald City replied, "It's operating independently at this time. I can only get feedback after synchronizing with it."

Building 5 waved its steel arms at the building it created, as if performing some kind of ritual. Under its shamanistic, strange actions, the four-story building lit up with a faint red glow, emitting wisps of white smoke.

Then nothing happened.

Emerald City, after synchronizing, learned the reason.

"It's manufacturing weapons."

"Weapons?"

Zhou Yi asked curiously, "Flying house bombing? But this doesn't look like it."

Emerald City said, "It's different from me. It reacts strongly to combat. I think it's because it acquired a lot of combat consciousness feedback during the attack on Shell City. The collective consciousness stimulation of the entire area's residents influenced it…"

Zhou Yi repeatedly confirmed it with him and finally learned.

Different environments influence the information feedback released by residents, and this feedback affects the architectural life inclinations born during this period.

That is to say, architectural life born during wartime is inherently inclined towards combat.

Architectural life nurtured in peacetime is more gentle.

The tendencies and atmosphere of the residential area influence the newly born architectural life.

At this moment, a dazzling white light suddenly lit up on the ground.

Rumble!

The four-story building exploded, sending up a large amount of smoke and rubble.

Half of the small mountain was blown apart by it.

Building 5 waved its willow-branch-like iron hands, looking very happy.

Is this a bomber maniac?

Zhou Yi felt a little apprehensive.

Emerald City commented on this, "It has found a new use for flying house bombing, connecting the house bodies and then continuously applying internal pressure before detonating it with energy… Its talent in this area is higher than mine."

Zhou Yi was a little worried, "If it doesn't know how to restrain its abilities, it could cause the deaths of many innocent lives and even residents."

"Please rest assured, it won't."

Emerald City said, "Commissioner, it's very uneasy."

"Because I was repeatedly injured in my memories. The earliest was being parasitized by plant life outside the Mushroom Forest and falling asleep, then being attacked by warships in the Dead Sea, and also being besieged in the battle outside Shell City, resulting in damage to some of my machine bodies."

"These memories strongly stimulated it. It wants to manufacture sufficiently strong weapons to prevent me from being injured again. Before completely separating from me, it is part of me. Protecting me is protecting itself."

"It hates insecurity and reacts particularly strongly to it."

Through repeated conversations with Emerald City, Zhou Yi gradually understood.

This is equivalent to a child born in a time of war, with memories of injury accompanying childhood and adolescence, so it is easy to tense up and enter combat mode.

However, Emerald City said, "I can't teach it."

"I don't have combat talent. It's stronger than me in this regard."

Zhou Yi had no choice.

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Then there was only more companionship and more guidance.

From this day on, Zhou Yi and Emerald City would take Building 5 out for walks and strolls in the wild every day.

Arriving at a safe area, the free-state Building 5 began to make bombs.

Its initial direction was to expand the scale of the bombs, trying to connect more house bodies, combining the 16-unit, 4-story houses in pairs to bring greater detonation damage.

But this route was quickly abandoned.

Building 5 chose a two-story, four-unit structure as a unit, adding them to its outer walls and roof, forming circles of illegal buildings, like putting on a thick external armor.

It faced the hillside ahead.

The surface of the high-rise flashed red, and the added houses ejected at high speed, launching a flat barrage at the target.

After a muffled explosion, the distant hilltop was almost razed to the ground, and the high temperature caused the blast zone to be covered with splashes of glassy substance.

Zhou Yi, who witnessed the entire process, gasped.

It hasn't been born for long, but it has transformed flying house bombing into missile salvoes...

Could it really be a genius?

Every day, Building 5 manufactured explosive-like house bodies and fixed them on its main body, launching rocket-propelled grenade-style bombardments at imaginary targets. Although the range did not increase, the lethality and accuracy were greatly improved.

In addition to manufacturing weapons and practicing bombing, Building 5 also liked to patrol along the Dead Sea.

It strolled on the beach of the Dead Sea, avoiding pedestrians and the dam, walking parallel to Emerald Avenue.

The burly high-rise, equipped with an ammunition depot, set off from the residential area, arrived outside the port of Sandport all the way, paused for a while, and then returned all the way to the residential area, before resuming its quiet, standing posture.

It patrolled once during the day and once at night.

Day after day, without stopping.

At first, people were a little frightened, but after a few days, they understood that this Building 5, which was even stronger than Building One, was patrolling on the company's territory, protecting everyone's daily safety.

Many people would wave to it, although this big guy couldn't understand.

But no matter whether it was windy or rainy, seeing the burly shadow of Building 5 patrolling made people feel at ease. The light-na species by the Dead Sea were driven to even further places.

Zhou Yi watched all of this.

Having one more warrior-type architectural life was a pleasant surprise.

However, apart from a strong desire for combat protection, Building 5 was still blank in other aspects and still needed a long time to grow.

Zhou Yi was originally worried that Building 5's situation might affect occupancy. Because its habits determined that it would stop supplying water and heating when moving, which would be somewhat inconvenient compared to other small high-rises.

Building 5 also periodically conducted target practice, which was also something residents needed to adapt to.

As a result, as soon as he announced the news of the trial occupancy, the number of applicants queuing up to register was even more than before, and Building 5 was in high demand.

Even many residents of Sandport City ran over, requesting to be able to move in.

"Very tall and strong, very safe!"

"Strong!"

"It feels like if you live inside, you're not afraid of anything!"

Regardless of gender, everyone liked Building 5, which had flourishing martial fortune.

Zhou Yi still followed the usual practice, giving priority to the company's workers and farmers, and then selecting outside applicants through a lottery for the remaining spots.

It was just that because the number of company employees was really too large, there were very few places for outsiders.

Building 5, which had 33 floors, also had 6 households per floor, with each household having three bedrooms and one living room, with two people living in each room. However, unlike Building One, there were insufficient elevator-related materials, so it was transformed into a vertically moving lifting stone platform, which did not affect its use.

Within three days of the trial occupancy announcement, the entire building's 1100 resident slots were all filled.

Just as Zhou Yi and Emerald City were continuously paying attention to this combat-type machine body, a black iron-clad ship came to Emerald City and stopped at the trestle bridge in Yalong Bay.