Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi rode the Spine Hunter to the dilapidated bridge at the bottom of the sea.

The long-absent black hand grew out again here, its wide, flat, giant fingers slowly unfurling, but this time there were only 8 fingers, unlike the previous 12.

Zhou Yi activated Mind Sync.

It was Haruk.

He was relieved.

The Dimension Breaker, who had returned, said, "Zhou Yi, I'm back! I ran into a bit of trouble this time, so I'm late."

"It's good that you're okay."

Zhou Yi asked curiously, "Why do you have fewer fingers now?"

"The fewer branches in the energy form of the projection, the higher and more concentrated the energy control, and the stronger the main body."

"The strongest only has one finger?"

"Yes. But that level can break free from constraints and truly reach other worlds by crossing the dimensional gate."

Haruk explained, "But to reach that level, you need a lot of Life Cores, which is extremely difficult."

Zhou Yi now understood.

The fewer fingers, the stronger.

A single-finger Dimension Breaker is a Light Core being.

Under the [Alert] perspective, Zhou Yi noticed that Haruk's eight fingers were a rich purple color, with some small black dots floating inside.

The space around the Dimension Breaker was distorted red to some extent.

Even though the interdimensional projection can only transmit 10% of the energy, Haruk is currently an A-grade life form.

"It's all thanks to the Life Cores."

Haruk's tone was also relaxed, "Zhou Yi, the Life Cores you gave me allowed me to escape the previous cycle of destruction and officially enter the next growth cycle."

"Our cycles are two: the growth cycle, which can continuously improve, and the destruction cycle, which continuously weakens. Now I have jumped out of the destruction cycle and entered the second growth cycle, making me ten times stronger than before!"

"Zhou Yi, how many cycles do you have?"

Without the pressure of survival, the Dimension Breaker had obviously become much more relaxed and even curious about the survival methods here.

"Similar to you, but reproduction is a bit easier for us..."

Zhou Yi also briefly explained the situation of humans.

Haruk was shocked by this.

"Your talent is so strong... We cannot reproduce on our own and can only produce offspring by merging with Life Cores."

"Actually, it's a choice: whether to use the Life Core to continue your own existence, jump out of the destruction cycle, or use the Life Core to nurture a completely new generation."

"We basically choose to continue our own existence; reproduction is a very luxurious thing. Only the wealthiest and most powerful have the spare capacity for it."

Then it talked about the reason for being late.

"After returning, I began to further absorb energy to cross the cycle. During this period, I encountered a Destroyer and was chased and entangled by it all the way, so I had to find a way to get rid of it."

"Destroyers are Cyclic Stream life forms that have entered the destruction cycle and are also my kind. However, because they are on the verge of destruction, they become very crazy and out of control, often indiscriminately attacking other members of the same species."

Zhou Yi understood.

It's like a person with a terminal illness becomes twisted and retaliates against society, indiscriminately hurting people.

"I worked with another second-cycle life form to subdue it and calm the Destroyer down."

"Second cycle is our way of referring to it. That is, a life form like me that has jumped out of the first cycle and entered the second cycle. After several life cycles, it is called several cycles. It is said that a fourth-cycle life form can travel to other worlds."

Haruk briefly explained the jargon of its home world and continued, "The Destroyer eventually woke up and knew that it could no longer continue, so it chose to self-destruct before losing control. Before actively destroying itself, it told me something."

"The Destroyer said it was controlled by an invisible monster. It could feel the monster was nearby, but it couldn't see or touch it. That monster was dominating its consciousness, making it crazy and murderous."

"In the past, I only knew that I needed to keep my distance from others of my kind and not make eye contact or provoke them, because it was easy to cause infighting. So in my home world, everyone stayed far away from each other, not wanting to cause trouble and fall into a death vortex..."

"After Jedite—that is, the second-cycle life form who subdued the Destroyer with me—I learned that our world is not the only life form that exists. There is also a terrifying monster called a 'Death Apostle,' which takes pleasure in killing and torturing us."

Zhou Yi was a little surprised, "Are there no other life forms in your Cyclic Stream?"

"No."

Haruk said, "At least I haven't encountered any. The existence of Death Apostles was indirectly learned by second-cycle and third-cycle life forms after a large number of Destroyers went crazy."

"They are stronger than us, but more like a high-level existence shrouded in our world... We are actually being stared at and controlled by them all the time. Knowing this also made me feel very shocked."

"Ordinary first-cycle life forms don't know these things, because knowing is useless and will only increase panic and madness. Only second-cycle life forms are qualified to be told this secret."

Zhou Yi immediately thought.

The Earth in the current wasteland era seems to have something in common with Haruk's side.

He couldn't help but ask, "There is a group of high-level Celestial beings here... Is the situation similar on your side?"

Haruk pondered for a while, "It's different. If they were Celestial beings on our side, then they should at least appear, but on our side, they are Death Apostles that cannot be observed or understood. I think these should be two different groups."

After this conversation, Zhou Yi and Haruk felt a bit like they were in the same boat.

Everyone's world is being controlled by high-level life forms behind the scenes.

It's the Celestial beings here, and the Death Apostles there.

"Survival is not easy."

Haruk sighed, "I originally thought that jumping out of the destruction cycle would allow me to see the true other side of the world... It seems that I still have to increase my strength, otherwise, no matter which world I go to, it will eventually be difficult."

Zhou Yi agreed with this.

Everything still depends on oneself.

"Haruk, have any other Dimension Breakers gone to your Cyclic Stream world?"

"Yes."

Haruk said without hesitation, "Dimension Breakers come to our place mainly to obtain Kindling Hills. Because we don't have many of them and can't use that many Kindling Hills, they are everywhere. Foreign Dimension Breakers like them very much."

Zhou Yi fell into thought.

Space bubbles connect two world spaces, they are just fixed channels that will decay, but there will be no changes in space itself.

In other words, the Death Apostle world where Haruk is located is connected to the wasteland world here.

Haruk and them come from there, looking for Life Cores.

The wasteland life that goes from here is going for the Kindling Hills there.

After Zhou Yi figured this out, he suddenly understood.

No wonder the Skywalkers here want to project across dimensions to go there.

It's like going abroad to get goods under the Celestial's blockade.

Zhou Yi summoned Unit 2: "Is it okay to go to other worlds to collect Kindling Hills?"

After Xiaofu synchronized the relevant information, he said, "Of course. Kindling Hills are Kindling Hills; they are essentially a polymer of highly concentrated information and matter, as long as you can collect the part you need from them."

"Cyclic Stream is a powerful high-level energy; Kindling Hills are the information surface caused by this energy breaking through dimensions. As long as you find Kindling Hills, you can enter the Reverse World through Kindling Hills, thereby expanding your Mind Keys."

Zhou Yi was surprised, "You speak a little more normally than before."

"I wasn't used to your information expression before, and I'm gradually learning about this world. In order to better cooperate and collaborate with you, I have also been learning and adjusting the expression system."

Xiaofu said seriously.

"Thanks for your hard work."

"It's nothing; we Stream Reversers are good at technical tackling. I've seen all kinds of civilizations, whether they are medium-high civilizations or low-level civilizations, we can decipher their civilization information system. Cyclic Stream technology is truly high-precision and extremely complex..."

Before he could say a few words, he habitually began to brag again.

Zhou Yi decisively shut him down.

He then turned his attention back to Haruk.

"Are there many Dimension Breakers going to your place from here?"

"Not many."

Haruk waved his eight fingers, "Mainly because they can't compete with us for the dimensional gate. The Cyclic Stream intensity on your side is too low, making most life forms very weak. Maybe it's also because there are many life forms here."

"I'm very uncomfortable after coming here. The energy density here is only about 2% of that on our side."

Zhou Yi was astonished.

The Death Ray energy density of the Death Apostle world is 50 times that of the Dead Sea here?

No wonder Haruk and them feel that reaching A-grade is easy. Even a poor first-cycle life like Haruk is a Skywalker in strength.

Zhou Yi thought to himself.

When the Focusing Body and Bone Man Wu Yi come over, he can let them try to go to that world and get Kindling Hills to enhance themselves with Haruk's help. Anyway, there are many Kindling Hills there.

Zhou Yi told his plan.

Haruk said there was no problem.

"Kindling Hills are everywhere; they are not rare things."

Hearing about the Honor Wars here, the Dimension Breaker was also actively willing to participate, "If your enemies come near here, tell me, and I will kill them."

"Also, my ability to collect Fate Marks... no, Light Seeds, has also greatly increased. I will soon be able to collect enough of the 50,000 Light Seeds I owed you before."

It paused for a moment and said cautiously, "If that part is collected, can you give me another Life Core?"

"Of course."

Zhou Yi raised his finger and said, "We said before, clearly marked price, 1 Life Core for 100,000 Light Seeds. Our company will not raise prices casually."

"Great! I'll go collect them now!!!"

After saying that, the Dimension Breaker suddenly opened up, turning into a huge black curtain, spreading in all directions, and began to collect energy to create Light Seeds.

Seeing it working seriously, Zhou Yi was also very satisfied.

Done.

Go home and continue hot pot.