Wasteland Development Diary

Once the Red Falcon is a certain distance away, it can no longer transmit real-time images or even sound; it can only receive text messages.

Taking advantage of the free time, Zhou Yi held the company's first self-service barbecue team-building event.

The location was outdoors, around a bonfire, with plates of meat on the stainless steel tables. This was wild goat hunted by the Samurai Crabs.

Originally, Zhou Yi wanted to put out seasoning bottles of cumin, chili powder, and barbecue sauce, but he wasn't sure if these aged foods would have any side effects.

He himself wasn't afraid; the Bai Suanni's body was no different from a photon-absorbing species.

But both employees were humans with normal digestive systems.

Safety first.

However, because the meat was fresh, it was delicious even with just a little salt.

A Jin ate and grilled with abandon, completely letting himself go. Gong Zheng, on the other hand, paid attention to etiquette, choosing to take small, slow bites, but still stuffed one piece of meat after another into his mouth.

"Today is the company's first dinner party and your welcome party."

Zhou Yi handed each of them a duffel bag: "Welcome gifts, open them and see."

A Jin wiped the grease off his hands with his clothes, but he didn't know how to open the bag. Gong Zheng, having seen more of the world, figured out how to unzip it after a little thought, and the contents inside were revealed.

"This clothing is so impressive."

A Jin took out the black windbreaker inside, looked at it from left to right after putting it on, his face full of satisfaction.

Both gift bags contained a windbreaker jacket, a pair of sweatpants, a sports water bottle, a hat, a set of underwear, two pairs of socks, a pair of sneakers, two towels, and an umbrella.

The difference was that A Jin had an extra pair of work gloves, while Gong Zheng had an extra four-legged crutch.

They changed into the full outfit, and apart from their hair and faces being a bit dirty, they looked no different from people from his era.

"These shoes aren't afraid of rocks at all; they don't hurt my feet one bit!"

"It looks really impressive."

A Jin walked back and forth, unable to stop laughing.

Gong Zheng next to him had a solemn expression: "These things can't be made in the city… they are all relics of the God Era sealed in the Dead Sea."

"Such precious items, I am extremely grateful."

The trainee Fang Shi hurriedly bowed.

A Jin next to him quickly followed suit and bowed: "Thank you, Chairman!"

Zhou Yi said: "Eat meat."

So this meal officially entered the main topic.

Zhou Yi asked about the marauder groups.

Last time, he did kill the trio, but it was best to find out whose territory Maogu Town belonged to. Sooner or later, there would be a collision between the Wasteland Development Company and the local forces here.

Gong Zheng put down the meat skewer in his hand and said seriously: "Chairman, the marauders all come from the west, and only Jitou Town in the west can provide a foothold nearby. But to travel between Jitou Town and Maogu Town, you need to pass through the Death Dunes in the middle. We lack the necessary tools and cannot pass through at all, so we can only wait for the merchants from Jitou Town to come over."

"Although the Ant Lions are brutal, they are very afraid of birds. As long as the people of Jitou Town pave the road with chicken feathers, chicken blood, and chicken bones, they will not be attacked by them, which will make them afraid. But we can't do that here."

"So when the merchants over there come, they lower the price, and we can only sell them what we find, or exchange mushrooms for burlap, gloves, and some metal tools at a high price. The things sold to the town are usually used and already damaged."

"If the marauders are not just wandering and looting, they basically have forces behind them now."

He sat on a rock, revealing a look of recollection: "When I was a Fang Shi apprentice, I heard other apprentices say that it was an open secret that cities were raising marauders. Cities compete with each other through trade economy, technical knowledge, and ideological output. It looks calm, but they are always trying to annex competitors."

"Cities compete internally on economic capabilities, living environment, and attractiveness to enhancers, while cities compete externally on combat mobilization capabilities. Marauders belonging to different cities usually haunt and loot around other cities, both打击competitors and obtaining rich gains."

"As for the marauders here."

Gong Zheng brought the topic back: "I'm not sure how many there are, but what is certain is that there are enhancers. Many residents in the town have seen marauders appear in the mushroom forest. They have blocked the surrounding area, and there are knights riding monsters patrolling there."

Zhou Yi thought of the thoughts of the Fang Shi he had killed before.

——It just so happens to be at this time……

The marauders are appearing in Maogu Town, it seems that they have other purposes.

"Mushroom Forest… Chairman, I heard my father say something."

A Jin, the young man who had been listening and eating meat, also joined the discussion: "My father said that in the past, an old man saw a miracle in the mushroom forest. He said that there was a giant who couldn't stand up."

"He said that the giant was very tall and very strong, like a sand dune. The giant may have been injured, or his legs were broken or something… In short, he tried to get up, but he couldn't stand straight."

"It's like a person trying to prop up his body, but in the end he still can't get up, and in the end he can only lie back down."

"But he told me not to tell anyone about it, to avoid causing trouble."

Zhou Yi asked further: "Are there any other rumors about this giant?"

A Jin shook his head.

The clue seemed to be broken again.

Silence lasted for a while.

Gong Zheng spoke again: "Although I don't know about this giant, I do know about the giant mushrooms in the mushroom forest."

"The giant mushroom species takes a long time to grow, and it is one of the raw materials for Fang Shi to collect toxins."

"This large mushroom is constantly squeezing the living space of other plants around it. It absorbs a lot of dead light energy from the nearby area and has a high energy absorption rate. It becomes difficult to survive if you are too close to the giant mushroom."

"But in the southern mushroom forest, a large number of giant mushrooms grow together, but it does not affect the growth of the Black Hand Mushrooms and Explosion Mushrooms at the bottom at all. This is a very strange thing."

"According to A Jin's statement, the marauder group led by enhancers frequently appears in the mushroom forest, and the hunting group has repeatedly tried to enter it…"

Gong Zheng paused for a moment and said seriously: "Chairman, allow me to propose a bold guess. The various photon-absorbing mushrooms, led by the giant mushrooms, may be parasitized on that giant, constantly drawing its energy, causing the originally damaged giant to struggle, and now it is completely unable to move."

"That giant is likely still under the surface of the mushroom forest, being further sucked dry by the mushrooms."

Gong Zheng looked solemn: "If this giant who can't stand up exists, and can support and grow so many mushroom groups by himself, its strength is at least C-level. This level of life already has the ability to destroy cities. If you want to go there to investigate and excavate, please be very careful."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but take another look at this Fang Shi apprentice.

The material conditions in the Wasteland Era are very difficult, but there is still no shortage of intelligent people.

They are just limited in their thinking by the living environment and vision.

Zhou Yi said: "This theory is very valuable, I have noted it down."

However.

The top priority at the moment is to get the farm up and running. The mushroom forest will have to be visited sooner or later, but it has to be scheduled later.

Zhou Yi recorded a new goal in his diary.

——Survey the mushroom forest and find the giant.