Wasteland Development Diary

The attire of these two men was the same as Cui Mao in Zhou Yi's memory: soft armor and black clothing. Their muscle lines were clear, indicating long-term training.

One of them said, "We are from the Ninth Squadron of Tianjin Knights. Our captain, Yao Yuan, is the one who has undergone mutation. My name is Fang He, and the one next to me is Zhao Qiang. We learned about your matter from the Third Squadron."

"You're also here to find the Flying Star, right? We are willing to share all the information, only hoping that you can help our captain."

Having more sources of information is always good.

Zhou Yi said, "I'll try, but I can't guarantee the result."

Fang He and Zhao Qiang immediately showed joy.

"If you take action, the chances will be much greater."

Then Fang He began to recount their experiences.

The Ninth Squadron, representing the Tianjin Knights, accepted this Star Nexus bounty mission, which was to be carried out by four knights. To reduce weight and travel quickly, they didn't bring any knight guards and sailed here as quickly as possible.

But before they could even dock, one of the knights' enhanced bodies showed a severe rejection reaction, leading to weakness and exhaustion, forcing him to stay on the ship to await rescue.

The remaining three then entered the main island.

Captain Yao Yuan, along with Fang He and Zhao Qiang, first visited the local natives and learned that the Flying Star had fallen near the Rotating Garden.

He noticed that no one from the Shadow Tower had set foot there yet, so he led the team to light a bonfire below.

This was to remind those who came later that the Tianjin Knights were already investigating and making progress here.

Later, some Mechanical Knights and Bounty Knights came, but after discovering them, they only observed for a while and then left.

The special mechanism of the Forbidden Martial Arts Ruins meant that everyone was afraid of conflict, as the first-mover advantage was significant. If an area was set with traps or local dangers were deliberately concealed, those who came later would easily find themselves in a disadvantageous position.

So everyone remained restrained.

Fang He said, "The current situation is basically that we are in the Shadow Tower, the Mechanical Knights are investigating the Mobile Colossus, the Bounty Knights are stationed around the Forbidden Martial Arts Aberration, and the Dead Sea Knights are in the Rotating Garden..."

Zhou Yi was puzzled, "You said the Dead Sea Knights are in the Rotating Garden?"

"Yes. They even greeted us when we arrived. There weren't many of them, and this kind of thing isn't necessarily effective with large numbers."

Fang He said, "Only the Mechanical Knights brought a lot of equipment and had a large number of people. Their main target is the Aberration."

Zhou Yi felt strange.

He and Qin Xie had searched for a long time inside Happy Valley, and there was indeed no one else there.

But he would think about this later.

Zhou Yi signaled Fang He to continue.

The Tianjin Knight recalled, "Once we got here, the captain led us to investigate each floor."

"This is a very old Dead Sea Aberration, severely damaged, and without any signs of self-repair. It didn't stop or repel us. We checked each room and only found some birds and mice, nothing else."

"But as we approached the top floor, things changed."

Zhou Yi suddenly heard a soft, babbling sound.

A man holding a little girl walked past him, talking to his daughter about something.

Ahead, a woman walked towards Zhou Yi, passing through his body and continuing out of the building.

Suddenly, everyone in the tenement building appeared.

These residents walked along the corridor, chatting, eating melon seeds, laughing, joking, whispering, all kinds of sounds intertwined.

The corridor was also filled with the sounds of the news and music.

Zhou Yi and the two knights seemed out of place.

Fang He didn't seem surprised. He looked around and said, "This Aberration creates illusions. At first, we were startled, but later we realized they weren't harmful, just some shadows that looked very much like real people."

Zhou Yi nodded slightly.

Fang He pointed to himself and his comrade, "I'm good at reconnaissance, Zhao Qiang is skilled at controlling devices, and the captain is the most capable overall. The captain told us to meet him on the 12th floor. He went up to the 13th floor alone because there was a strong energy reaction on the top floor."

"We waited at the stairwell for half an hour, and then we saw the captain stumble all the way down. He was completely off, unable to speak. The mutation of his enhanced body caused his entire body to swell and turn red... So we quickly put him in the emergency bed."

He pointed to the iron box next to him.

Zhou Yi asked the two, "Can it be opened now?"

"Yes."

Zhao Qiang, who hadn't spoken until now, responded. He unlocked the four buckles on the iron box and pulled the two iron doors open to the sides.

A large amount of ice fog rose from inside.

Inside the box lay a pale-skinned man. He was only wearing black clothes, his eyes were closed, and his face was covered with blood vessel patterns, as if something was affecting his blood system, sometimes making his facial vessels dense and sometimes slowly disappearing.

Yao Yuan was strapped to the emergency bed with belts, kept in a state of sleep in a low-temperature environment.

Zhou Yi noticed that there was an abnormal bulge in his chest area. The bulge slowly wriggled on Yao Yuan's body, as if some kind of parasitic beast was active inside him.

Zhao Qiang pointed to Yao Yuan's bulging chest and said in a deep voice, "The captain's enhanced body organ is his skin, on his chest and back. The light imprint structure implanted in his skin allows him to sense many subtle changes and prevent problems before they happen."

"But also because of this, the mutated skin is tearing his muscles, trying to absorb his body's strength and then detach from his body. In this environment, once the enhanced body detaches, the captain will die."

He looked worried, "The rejection reaction of the enhanced body is at most redness and pain, this situation is already severe mutation. The source is on the 13th floor. I don't know if there is a Flying Star there, but there is definitely a radiation source, causing a strong stress response in the enhanced body when approached within a certain distance."

"But the captain forbade us from going there. He said before that unless he returned safely from there, we shouldn't go up. Neither the strength nor the endurance of our enhanced bodies is as good as the captain's."

Zhou Yi asked, "Why not take him away from here, away from the radiation source?"

Zhao Qiang said sullenly, "Because we're not sure what the radiation source is."

"Some radiation sources will further accelerate the reaction if you move away from them, and we dare not gamble. We have contacted the rear, and rescue personnel will need at least 11 days to arrive. The captain can't last that long."

"We have looked for other knight orders here, but they have no solution... So now we are in a dilemma."

The general situation is understood.

Zhou Yi said, "I'll go up and take a look. You stay here."

"Please be careful."

The two knights guarded the ground floor.

Zhou Yi walked up the stairs, passing through the many old shadows here.

His fingers were on the railing, and through energy input, he activated consciousness synchronization.

"Excuse me, what's the situation on the 13th floor?"

An old man's voice sounded in his mind, "Hahahaha, empty building, empty building, gone, gone, all gone."

"Hello, can you hear me?"

Then it turned into an old woman's voice, "Why come back? Look at this building, broken and old, can't be sold, getting stinkier and stinkier."

"..."

Then a man's voice, "Let's go, let's go."

A little girl said, "Daddy, I don't want to go."

This was the first architectural life that Zhou Yi could not communicate with at all.

The tenement building only recorded the voices left by the former residents. It repeated the past sounds like a tape recorder. Like a mumbling old man, he would only talk to himself.

Zhou Yi was a little helpless.

It seemed that although architectural life was theoretically immortal, it could also experience this kind of near-senile dementia or mental abnormality.

But in this respect, they were more like life.

Zhou Yi walked up the spiral staircase.

The whole building was an octagonal ring corridor, like a huge patio. After the people left, most of the area was in shadow.

The shadows coming and going did not add any vitality to the place, but made it more gloomy and deserted.

Stepping onto the stairs leading to the 13th floor, the Red Falcon suddenly said, "There is a strong dead light radiation reaction above, the radiation source is very clear, there will be some risk."

Zhou Yi switched to No. 2 machine form, let it resist the first round of damage.

Arriving at the 13th floor corridor.

Zhou Yi immediately felt something was wrong, his body was taking continuous damage.

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Is it damage that ignores defense?

Zhou Yi switched back to the initial body.

The damage numbers continued, but were unable to take effect under high-intensity defense.

Then it's okay.

It seemed that the lethality of this radiation was also limited.

Then Zhou Yi saw that there was light in a room on this floor.

He walked over.

Inside the room was a seven- or eight-year-old boy, barefoot, wearing an adult's clothes that dragged to his knees.

The little boy released a blazing red light from his right hand, a mass of bright red high-temperature fluid slowly forming in his hand, slowly being kneaded by him, and finally becoming a smooth black cup.

Zhou Yi noticed that the stone table and stone display cabinet in the room were filled with all kinds of cups, some smooth, some rough, some brown, black, red and yellow color schemes, and so on.

The other party seemed to like cups very much.

"Have you seen enough?"

The little boy slowly turned his face, his eyes gloomy, "Why did you run here? You always have to force me, do you know you are about to die?"

Zhou Yi smiled slightly, "Come up and take a look, and find something by the way."

Under the [Alert] perspective, the little boy showed a dangerous red color, representing that he was a B-level life.

From the outside, the other party was completely human.

Red Falcon reminded, "Zhou, it's a mutant, be careful."

"What is a mutant?"

Before he could get an answer, the little boy in front of him looked surprised. He quickly came over and looked Zhou Yi up and down.

"No, something's wrong... Why aren't the organs on your body affected by me?"

"Under normal circumstances, shouldn't you be radiated, mutated and then fester to death by me? Even an enhancer can't be without reaction..."

The little boy's face was full of doubts, "Why are you okay?"

A determined light suddenly appeared in his eyes, "You are not human! There's something wrong with you!"

Zhou Yi: "..."

You're the one with the problem, kid.

"Since you're not human, then there's no need to be polite."

The mutant child's eyes hardened, flames rising from his entire body, rushing towards Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi was a little surprised.

Does the prison not care about the architectural life inside?

He snapped his fingers.

"Mic Master, music!"

Then the little boy's eyes suddenly became stagnant, and the fire on his body instantly went out. He stood there blankly, turning into a silly state with an empty brain.

Zhou Yi stood with his hands behind his back.

Do you understand what a mechanism monster is?