Wasteland Development Diary

After confirming the information, Zhou Yi rode the Emerald City to the northern forest area, scaring the forest goats in the treetops to scatter and hide.

Led by Nightclaw, he indeed found the cannon barrel device exposed from the soil in the forest.

The Hammer Troopers poured out of the Emerald City and dug around, retrieving the buried chariot from underground.

This was an eight-wheeled chariot with yellow camouflage paint, its body severely compressed and deformed, and its wheels missing. Its exterior had many dents, with obvious signs of violent blunt force damage.

It had four cannon barrels on the left and right sides of its top, but they were all twisted and bent, making them unusable. Only the black Gatling machine gun in the middle remained intact—this was the part exposed above ground.

Zhou Yi walked to the dilapidated chariot and placed his hand on the metal shell.

Energy input failed.

Basic confirmation of consciousness death.

He had to take out the remote control and describe the condition of the chariot.

Red Falcon responded quickly.

——That's it. Desert digital camouflage, 8×8 wheeled chassis, 25mm Gatling machine gun, its model is 625E, extremely rare, and it's the only one in the northern area.

——Returning to Recursive City, I checked the circumstances before and after we were attacked and learned that the 625E itself was a mecha-electric thug. It often attacked other mecha-electric lifeforms to plunder photon cartridges, and ordinary photon species were also its prey. It was wanted by the mecha-electric city, rated as C, but there has been no news of it since that incident.

Zhou Yi was a little puzzled: "Why can mecha-electric thugs break free from the constraints of the order program and directly attack their own kind and other lifeforms?"

——The reasons are various.

——Some have inherent faults that cause the existing main program to fail, and some have removed self-restrictions through external means, resulting in them no longer being constrained. Dealing with such disordered mecha-electric lifeforms is usually handled by investigators.

Zhou Yi said, "Are investigators all dispatched by 404 City?"

——Besides 404 City, "Purification City" and the "Security Department" also have investigators.

Red Falcon explained in detail.

——The investigators dispatched from these three places have their own missions.

——The investigators from Purification City mainly deal with individuals with strong self-destructive tendencies, to prevent the tendency to spread further through various forms, thereby affecting the entire mecha-electric lifeform group.

——The Security Department's target is lifeforms that disrupt the order of mecha-electric cities, whether mecha-electric lifeforms or photon species, they are the objects of their investigation, containment, and capture. Mecha-electric thugs are also within their scope of capture.

——404 City is the most special, with the fewest investigators dispatched, dealing with extremely dangerous individuals, and possessing unlimited firing rights.

The other two are easy to understand.

Zhou Yi asked, "Is this Security Department a universal department?"

——Yes.

——The Security Department exists in every mecha-electric city. The establishment of this program department is to maintain the stable operation of the entire mecha-electric life society's order.

Got it, more or less.

Now that the mecha-electric thug is scrapped and turned into a pure machine.

Let's see if we can take something useful from it.

Zhou Yi operated the Emerald City to grab the entire chariot, placed it on the roof, and then returned to the company's base camp to let Qian Su take a look.

The arms dealer looked around at the scrapped chariot, her eyes stopping on the machine gun: "This caliber is good, I'll check the inside first."

She opened her toolbox, flipped out a tiger-head pliers and a crowbar, skillfully pried open the deformed hatch, and drilled inside.

A moment later.

The machine gun began to move slowly up and down, rotating left and right, looking very flexible.

After moving for a while, the machine gun pointed to the sky, and then the entire barrel rotated, making a slight buzzing sound.

Qian Su lowered her head and came out from inside.

"Mr. Zhou, the other structures are badly damaged. This machine gun is well preserved, the steering and aiming are fine, the light imprint structure is basically complete, and the local metal deformation can be repaired. Install an energy pack, and you can fire."

"This is a C-level 25mm high-speed main gun prototype, not a replica light imprint device, with a range of at least 500 meters, worth a fortune."

She looked at the black barrel, not hiding her liking on her face.

Zhou Yi looked at the remote control screen in his hand.

Red Falcon gave detailed data.

……

[C-level 25mm High-Speed Gatling Machine Gun]

Damage: 18-22

Cooldown: 0.3

Range: 1500

……

The range is extremely excellent.

It can fire three death ray cannons per second.

With such strong firepower, it's not hard to understand why Red Falcon's rescue team was directly shot down.

But who destroyed the 625E with this cannon?

Zhou Yi asked Qian Su for advice.

The girl wiped the mud and dust off the barrel with a towel: "I can be sure it was smashed by a Red Fur Monster."

Qian Su pointed to the dents on the surface of the car body: "Look, these dents were caused by stones and fists, the marks are very clear."

"The Red Fur Monster's personality is that if you give way to it, it will walk away. If you provoke it or attack it proactively, it will try to fight back. If the opponent is tricky, they will also look for helpers everywhere and help each other get revenge."

"Facing a heteromorph like the Emerald City, the Red Fur Monster has no choice but to avoid it from afar or admit defeat, but they never show mercy to mecha-electric lifeforms."

"This chariot has enough firepower, but the defect is that its protection ability is low. It is a light vehicle that pursues mobile operations, and its true power cannot be exerted in single combat."

She pointed to the Gatling machine gun: "This anti-aircraft gun is mainly for dealing with high-altitude targets, and of course you can choose to fire it horizontally, but once it is approached or ambushed by the Red Fur Monster, it's finished. Whether it's overturning the chariot or removing the wheels, the cannon will be difficult to exert its power."

Qian Su tapped the metal shell with a crowbar: "I infer that it should have been lured by the Red Fur Monster and fell into a ground trap, unable to break free. The cannon was restricted and was directly smashed and dismantled."

"The most direct evidence is that I found Red Fur Monster hair and feces inside. These guys like to mark their victory in this way, leaving the enemy's complete corpse, placed in their territory to deter other invaders."

"But usually the Red Fur Monster won't go crazy, maybe the chariot had a conflict with them."

Zhou Yi pondered in his heart.

According to the 625E's style, it should have opened fire first, and then the Red Fur Monster confronted it.

As a result, this time high technology lost to barbaric monsters, and was ambushed and gang-banged to death in the forest.

Qian Su also said: "Prototypes are very simple to use because they are inherently complete and the technology is mature."

"I just tried it, and it also has the ability to lock onto targets, no operation is needed at all. As long as you replenish the energy packs, it will aim at every moving target in the air, and you can press the fire button to let it fire by itself."

"If you want it to be more precise, I can also make more detailed debugging settings, which can more specifically kill targets."

Zhou Yi asked her to help repair it.

So Qian Su took a wrench and got into the deformed chariot, tinkering inside with a pair of iron hands.

The sky gradually darkened.

After nightfall, the summer temperature finally dropped.

Zhou Yi turned around and cooked two bowls of instant noodles, and brought two cans of Coke over.

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The two ate dinner next to the chariot on the roof.

Qian Su liked to eat instant noodles very much, even drinking the soup clean.

Her face was covered with some dirty oily stains, and she drank Coke and said, "Thank you for the treat, it's delicious. Actually, this has already been repaired."

"So fast?" Zhou Yi was surprised.

"The main gun was only slightly damaged. I separated it from the chariot to ensure independent operation, so that the energy consumption is less. However, I disassembled and didn't care about the related launching tubes, driving balance instruments, mobile shooting, and coordinated firing, they are too complicated and I can't repair them."

"But the main gun can be used."

"Let me show you."

Qian Su put down the bowl, wiped her mouth with the paper towel Zhou Yi handed her, and then stuffed the paper towel into her pocket. She walked to the chariot and took out ten energy packs—this thing is a square iron box, only the size of a lighter.

She turned her face and said seriously, "This has to be reimbursed."

"Of course."

Zhou Yi nodded.

Only then did the other party breathe a sigh of relief, and then directly loaded all the energy packs inside.

"I'm now turning on the air-to-air mode and firing into the air."

Then Qian Su climbed out, holding a button box with a line connected to the chariot.

She pressed the button on the box.

A small red light lit up on the Gatling machine gun on the chariot, and the barrel began to rotate slowly, searching for targets in the sky.

The muzzle suddenly spewed out flames.

Da da da! Da da da!

Very rhythmic, three shots per second.

The air-to-air shooting lasted for more than ten seconds.

Qian Su was focused throughout the whole process, and only said after it was over: "A total of 14 seconds, 42 shots, one photon species can only shoot for so long. The consumption is still very large."

At this time, a spherical luminous body swooped down from the sky.

The red-eyed two-tube eyes of the Hunter Spine appeared above: "So this is what was attacking me, it shot very accurately, and it hurt quite a bit."

It turned out that the cannon was locked on the Hunter Spine.

Zhou Yi told it about the situation, and the Hunter Spine was very happy: "Great! When encountering large-scale thorn birds, it is better than me and can quickly eliminate those annoying little monsters."

"Chairman, after Mr. Saint Petersburg's special training, I can also use weapons now. If you trust me, I can also use it to shoot, my shooting is very accurate!"

The Hunter Spine actually knows how to rely on equipment.

Zhou Yi was relieved.

The previous mama's boy monster has now grown into a qualified warrior.

Zhou Yi told it: "There will be opportunities for you to use it in the future."

At this time, Red Falcon sent a message.

They have completed all the procedures, obtained formal authorization and certification, and returned with the first batch of goods.

Zhou Yi looked at Qian Su: "How much can you earn in a year doing weapon business?"

The girl said a little sullenly: "That's hard to say, sometimes more, sometimes less. You also have to consider miscellaneous taxes, managing relationships, transportation costs. The recent three years have been sluggish, and I've earned a total of 300 photon species."

Zhou Yi was shocked: "So little?"

He originally thought that Qian Su should be a high-income group.

"The net profit is only this much, the turnover looks okay."

The girl sighed: "My and Mission's expenses are also very large. My body needs maintenance, and Mission is a mecha-electric lifeform, so the expenses are even higher. Actually, this income is not enough. The main reason is that I have too few customers and it is difficult to compete with those big merchants."

Zhou Yi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

He originally thought her salary was too high and it would be difficult to bring her in.

Since that's the case.

Zhou Yi said: "Would you like to consider coming to our company? I'll give you a base salary of 200 photon species per year."

"Okay!"

The other party agreed readily: "Is it for me to do things related to weapons?"

Zhou Yi shook his head: "We don't do weapon business."

"The company is going to establish a new express center, and I want you to build up the company's express business..."