Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi sized up the creature before him.

It was similar in size to a gerbil, with thick fur, and its head was encased in a coal-like shell, resembling a conical drill bit.

This creature seemed to enjoy burrowing; it would press its head against the ground and rotate its body downwards, using its claws to dig, and soon it would create a hole.

They would burrow underground and emerge from the ground on the other side.

Nemo introduced from the side, "Chairman, this is the offspring of the Coal Shell Beetle and the gerbil."

"After this period of breeding and testing, I've found that they possess both the adventurous spirit of the gerbil and the Coal Shell Beetle's ability to survive underwater, and they have a very stable temperament."

"They have no eyes or vision, and like the Coal Shell Beetle, they use their shell to observe the world, capable of sensing dead light and energy."

Zhou Yi picked up an amphibian rat with his hand.

When lifted, it remained still and began to play dead.

Under the 【Alert】 perspective, this creature had no white light, indicating that it belonged to the category of ordinary creatures, like the gerbil and Coal Shell Beetle. It couldn't replenish energy solely through dead light and needed to feed normally.

Zhou Yi squeezed its helmet-like drill bit, feeling like bone or keratin.

The Mecha-electric Rat continued, "Coal Shell Beetles live underground in the Dead Sea, and they quickly show signs of maladaptation when on land. The low concentration of dead light here makes their bodies very heavy and their senses dulled."

"So, apart from mating, they all hide back in the Dead Sea."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but recall.

When he previously saw the Coal Shell Beetles and gerbils interbreeding, they did indeed seem as slow as snails, moving with difficulty, which was related to the Dead Sea.

"However, the hybrid offspring don't have this problem."

"They can survive on land and enter the sea. Their back shell has also degenerated and shrunk to their head, which they use as a tool for drilling into the ground, which is very useful in the Dead Sea."

Nemo pointed its small claws to the side, "Chairman, they really like land food."

Zhou Yi saw the amphibian rats gathered together, gnawing on sweet potatoes. Their mouths were under the drill shell, and they used their claws to grab pieces of sweet potato and stuff them into the shell, crunching loudly.

"They may be the future of gerbils and Coal Shell Beetles."

The Mecha-electric Rat's electronic eyes glowed slightly, "Evolving into this form allows them to take into account both land and the Dead Sea, continuing to reproduce and grow underground without being noticed."

"It's just that whether they have the ability to reproduce independently still needs to be verified. It would be a bit of a pity if they can't reproduce offspring themselves."

Zhou Yi held the amphibian rat in his hand, "What is their intelligence like?"

"Similar to gerbils, better than Coal Shell Beetles. It should still be a matter of living space; they have diverse spatial activities from birth, and they receive more information and experience. Coal Shell Beetles mostly don't move much underground, feeding on dead light sludge, which causes their shells to become thicker and thicker."

"I will use the gerbil tribe to give them collective education, please rest assured."

Nemo said, "Chairman, please give them a name."

Zhou Yi put the small creature in his hand back on the ground. It ran all the way to its kind and followed them to gnaw on sweet potatoes.

"Let's call them Drill Rats."

"Yes, Chairman."

……

A day later, Zhou Yi arrived outside the cave of Yalong Bay.

Today was surgery day.

Da Vinci was performing the third removal surgery on Li Mo.

Taking advantage of the time, Zhou Yi also chatted with Yalong Bay, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

The other party didn't care about the winter's war of honor.

"War is sometimes unavoidable, I only hope it can be quelled as soon as possible."

Yalong Bay was interested in the action next spring.

"I wonder what the new life form in the water plant dormitory will look like."

"If this ability can be replicated, the architecture life will no longer be bound by the Dead Sea, which will be a historic day."

The submarine base was very much looking forward to it.

However, Zhou Yi was considering something closer, "I'm wondering if there is an opportunity to learn the existing connection technology of United City. They can connect Meizhou Prison, Happy Valley Amusement Park, Kunming Station, and the water plant dormitory to each other. Theoretically, we should be able to do the same here."

"You're right."

Yalong Bay also agreed, "They are the pioneers in this regard, and we are the followers. United City hopes to liberate and unite all architectural life. I think we can try to ask for their help."

Zhou Yi decided to give it a try, it wouldn't cost him anything anyway.

He contacted Kunming Station through Red Falcon.

The reply was, "Of course. We are willing to share this technology with all architectural life."

"The whole process is actually not complicated. As long as you open a part of the machine bodies of the two architectural lives and connect them together, you can achieve it."

"There are two difficulties."

"The first is that before connecting, you need to delineate a public area. You need to ensure that the consciousness bodies are transmitted and connected in the public area to avoid entering their respective deep consciousness, causing the body to be confused."

"The construction and improvement of the public area requires a long period of adaptation from both parties, a bit like your humans making friends."

"The second is the need to trust each other, which is the most difficult point. At the beginning, we made a risky attempt to survive in a group and under damaged conditions, but with your special abilities, this may not be difficult."

"Specifically, there are also..."

After listening, Zhou Yi expressed his sincere thanks.

Kunming Station really wanted to teach other similar beings so that the architectural life group could awaken and grow rapidly.

After listening to Zhou Yi's retelling, Yalong Bay praised, "Amazing exploration and discovery."

It wanted to connect with Emerald City to try to build the first public area.

Zhou Yi said, "No problem, I'll tell Emerald City about this later."

The two sides discussed the details.

Unknowingly, Da Vinci's surgery was over, and he notified Zhou Yi to enter the cave.

The Mecha-electric doctor raised his mechanical arm, showing his results, a brand new stress source fragment sealed in a sol-gel.

"This time the separation position was the bone, but it took a lot of time in the search process. In order to avoid affecting the nerves and spine, a minimally invasive procedure was performed, which was the smallest wound."

Zhou Yi looked at Li Mo inside.

The mutant child was sitting on the sofa at this time, with his legs crossed, flipping through a comic book under the tunnel lighting, without feeling like a patient at all.

The cave now has leather sofas, Simmons beds, tables, chairs, wardrobes, and iron shelves specially for Li Mo to display his cups, as well as a workbench specially for making cups. Various foods are also delivered here regularly.

It has changed from a deserted building in the past to a simple studio today.

After getting the third stress source, Zhou Yi returned to the 31st floor of Emerald City.

【Radio】, channel 5, turned on.

"223, 222..."

The countdown appeared again.

……

Zhou Yi returned to the Sea of Gems, and all that met his eyes were flowing gems of various kinds.

His perspective sank into the gem room, wanting to see the Kobold's situation.

Only a floor of white gems remained in the room, which meant that the Kobold had absorbed all the energy of the sapphire.

There were two red light spots flying around inside.

The Kobold chased after them all the way.

"Stop, stop, come back!"

"Come back, you two disobedient things!"

What's the situation?

Did he refine an external pill?

Zhou Yi watched with interest.

He soon discovered that the two red light spots were not external pills, but two eyeballs...

The Kobold's eyes were now separated from his body, and the two eyeballs were fighting outside, emitting red light to each other.

Zhou Yi was also a little confused by what he saw.

He had never seen this scene before.