Wasteland Development Diary

Overlord Mieding's puppet was about 90cm tall, resembling a young boy with soft brown hair, wearing a white shirt and a black mandarin jacket, and clean leather shoes.

Its lower lip could move up and down when it spoke.

Zhou Yi received it in Emerald City.

He wasn't worried about the governor assassinating him; with Maiba around and Wu Yi guarding him, his safety was guaranteed.

The puppet turned its head left and right, surveying the room's decorations, and then sat down opposite Zhou Yi.

"I have released the two captured Iron Guards; they should arrive in Shell City soon."

Zhou Yi nodded.

This was a welcoming gift from both sides.

"It's my first time seeing a flying alien."

"The technological capabilities of the Wasteland Development Company are truly eye-opening."

Overlord Mieding's voice was like that of a young boy who hasn't gone through puberty.

Under Zhou Yi's 【Alert】perspective, the other party exuded a strong purple aura.

It was a genuine A-level life form.

Could it be that Overlord Mieding's drone was also an A-level life form?

That was quite astonishing.

Wasn't it said that he had fallen from the Sky Walker level?

Zhou Yi probed, "Is this body your true form?"

"Is Mr. Zhou very curious about this? Then I also have a question: is this body of yours your true form?"

Zhou Yi nodded: "Yes."

"What you see before you is my true form."

Overlord Mieding didn't appear as a puppet image. Its true form was a puppet.

Should I take this opportunity to kill it?

As long as Overlord Mieding was killed, the Honor War would be over.

Zhou Yi immediately dismissed the idea.

Unlike Duke Baili, Overlord Mieding himself had no public information; its abilities and elements were a mystery. Acting rashly could easily lead to a big loss.

Let's observe first.

Overlord Mieding's eyes turned slightly: "My original idea was to see if I could kill you, then all problems would be solved."

"However, after coming here, I found that this approach was quite difficult and had to be abandoned."

Zhou Yi smiled knowingly: "Me too."

"Then, let's solve the problem through negotiation."

The puppet's mouth opened and closed: "Continuing this Honor War is no longer meaningful. It's time to end it."

"So you will compensate 200,000 light seeds to make up for my losses and end this war."

Zhou Yi was so angry he laughed.

To translate that.

The meaning of this sentence is.

Kneel down, and I'll ask you for a favor.

He also understood one thing.

Overlord Mieding had indeed developed a habitual arrogance. Before, the Earth Official Lin Qing came and brazenly demanded the cession of Shell City. Now, threatened by Emerald City's aerial power, it still dared to come and demand compensation.

In its eyes, this was probably already a big concession.

Zhou Yi said coldly: "Then let's continue fighting."

"This is an unwise decision."

The puppet showed a surprised expression: "You have mastered alien flight technology, which is indeed promising. However, the core of war is seeing who can control fear and who can't bear the cost first. In this regard, you are not as good as me."

"I have 650,000 people to expend, while you only have less than 150,000."

"In addition to the native Shuanghe region, I also control overseas enclaves, and local people and production can be called upon at any time."

"In the end, I will definitely win."

Zhou Yi smiled: "If fighting is purely about comparing size, then the Kingdom of Heaven should have annexed the Shuanghe region long ago, right?"

The puppet nodded: "Under normal circumstances, it should indeed be annexed."

"Unfortunately, the Kingdom of Heaven is facing a rebellion and has to make concessions."

Zhou Yi was too lazy to talk nonsense with it: "Then there's nothing to talk about, go back."

The puppet stood up, seemingly unable to understand: "Compensating 200,000 light seeds is not difficult for you. Why not agree to such favorable conditions and choose another difficult path?"

Zhou Yi said lightly: "I hate ceding land and paying reparations the most. If you have the ability, completely destroy the Wasteland Development Company. See you on the battlefield."

"Then there's no other way."

The puppet looked puzzled, but still said: "You are truly a strange ruler."

...

Overlord Mieding's visit made Zhou Yi very angry.

Just wait and see if I won't mess you up!

Just you wait.

He turned around and began to strictly urge Shi Gandang.

"What about the Light Seal weapon? Didn't you say that as long as the Light Seals are connected, it can be completed? Where are the 1024 Light Seals you stored? What are you doing!"

"This... Chairman, please listen to my explanation."

Shi Gandang was a little worried: "Are you really going to install Light Seals on Emerald City and create a super light burst? To let it be a suicide bomber?"

"Don't worry."

Zhou Yi told it: "Emerald City has multiple building bodies, and each building body is a part of its machine. Small high-rises can be used as light burst carriers for strategic deployment and bombing. This has very little impact on Emerald City itself and can be rebuilt again."

Originally, he wanted to use ordinary building bodies for manufacturing.

But it simply wouldn't work.

Existing artificial light bursts must be supported by the building life's machine to be strong enough.

"Oh! Then I understand."

Shi Gandang said: "In fact, the core of the artificial light burst is the chain reaction of 8 Light Seals. These data were public to us at the time. The biggest difficulties are precision, stability, and the detonation procedure."

"There's no need to worry about precision because Emerald City is big enough. Stability is also not a problem; it's very stable, and we communicate very well."

"The detonation procedure used to be a special Light Seal device fixed on the building life's body, but now we don't need that. We can detonate part of its machine through Emerald City."

"The biggest problem now is that the high-rise only has 11 floors. After using 8 Light Seals, the remaining Light Seals don't support its ability to fly... It can't achieve remote detonation after precise flight."

Zhou Yi turned to Emerald City and asked: "Can you carry the small high-rise to fly?"

"Yes."

Then it's okay.

Zhou Yi said to Shi Gandang: "Don't pursue perfection; Emerald City can just airdrop it."

"If that's the case, then there are still 3 Light Seal positions. I think they can be used to enhance the power."

The Light Seal expert thought for a while: "Chairman, which direction do you want to go? Blast speed? Intensity? Radiation intensity?"

Zhou Yi fell into deep thought.

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If it's bombing a city, radiation lethality is undoubtedly the strongest, which would kill a large number of civilians...

Overlord Mieding regards the population as consumables. It controls 7 cities and external enclaves, and population loss has limited damage to it.

What is the most precious thing to it?

Zhou Yi racked his brains.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up.

Got it!

There is a kind of resource loss that Overlord Mieding absolutely cannot accept!

"Shi Gandang, is there a Light Seal structure that can destroy the local soil structure?"

"For example, making the local area unable to grow plants, or turning it into barren or difficult to produce things, or desertification that is not suitable for survival..."

Shi Gandang responded quickly: "Yes. There are prototypes of this ability in nature that can make the land dry and desertified."

"However, this requires huge energy to promote. To instantly change the structure of a large enough area of surrounding land, but in this way, the explosion intensity will be very weak."

"Are you going to strategically strike the cultivated land in the Shuanghe region?"

"Yes, is this feasible?"

"Yes!"

Shi Gandang understood: "In this world, the most scarce thing is land not covered by the Dead Sea. If the local soil structure is destroyed, leading to inability to cultivate and build, it will be a real disaster for the Shuanghe region."

"A region with a population of 600,000 will quickly collapse if it does not have the ability to produce its own food."

Zhou Yi's idea was to hit Overlord Mieding's vital point hard.

Explosive power and radiation lethality are not what he needs; what he wants is to hit Overlord Mieding's weakness hard.

"This operation is codenamed 【Soil Destruction】. Manufacture the corresponding weapons as soon as possible, based on Buildings 3 and 4 for modification."

"Yes, Chairman!"

...

The Soil Destruction plan continued.

Overlord Mieding took the lead in attacking the front line.

Red Falcon sent the latest battle report: "Some puppets suddenly appeared in the ruins of Shell City. These puppets are only palm-sized. They launched suicide explosions, causing 17 deaths and 68 injuries."

"There are two ways these puppets invade: one is by digging underground passages from the bottom of the Dead Sea, and the other is by being airdropped in hidden marginal areas."

The puppet image appeared on the tablet screen.

They are male and female, full of fairy tale and stage play style, with long eyelashes and beautifully painted facial features, looking harmless.

Zhou Yi immediately contacted Duke Beidu on the front line.

"Puppets have appeared, and they have caused a big trouble."

The territorial sea lord said: "They can bewitch people's hearts. Ordinary people will be controlled if they look at them, and they will also cover them. This has caused great obstacles and pressure to our defense."

"Because we are not sure when the explosion will happen or where it will take place. Especially when transporting supplies along the coast, we have increased a lot of manpower, but the explosions continue to occur."

"This suicide puppet army, we have not yet found an effective way to deal with it. Someone is controlling them, carrying out a layered infiltration and invasion of Shell City, and cooperating with air raids and naval bombardments."

"Now the situation in the city is severe, and everyone is already suspecting each other. Since the start of the war, this is the most tense and dangerous time in Shell City."

Steel Refining City and Sand Port City also have puppet legions.

Explosions occur randomly in the three cities, causing continuous public panic.

Zhou Yi knew.

This is Overlord Mieding's move.

It said before.

The core of war is seeing who controls fear and who can't bear the cost first.

Zhou Yi immediately responded. He asked Nemo to lead the sand rats to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the Sand Port area, search for underground passages, and find those suicide puppets.

After the sand rats launched a full-scale attack, they effectively curbed the puppet invasion in the Sand Port area, found 12 lurking puppets, and cooperated with the samurai crabs wearing straw raincoats to destroy them.

Then Nemo led the team to Steel Refining City for support.

On the other hand.

Overlord Mieding's subsequent offensive was like a tide. The gray whales returned. Whale Song once again promoted rounds of forced landings on Shell City, and the Thunder Beast group launched large-scale high-altitude bombings.

Duke Beidu and the 5th Brigade of the Beiyang Legion were caught in a bitter battle.

The number of puppets on the front line is still increasing.

Zhou Yi also sent the St. Petersburg and Poseidon to carry out long-range naval bombardment to support the front.

The melee in Shell City became more and more frequent, the casualties on both sides continued to increase, the number of Iron Guards who lost combat effectiveness continued to increase, and the defense force was gradually weakened.

The Shuanghe region has a steady stream of troops being sent to the front to participate in the meat grinder.

Duke Beidu has made a pessimistic prediction to the rear: "Shell City is expected to not last too long. When necessary, we can only evacuate from here."

Just at this critical moment.

Shi Gandang finally had results.

"Chairman, it's done, it's done! I made it!"