Wasteland Development Diary

Deep in the Mist Sea.

Zhou Yi sat on the deck of the Sea God, with the skeletal Wu Yi beside him identifying directions.

Above the submarine floated the spotlighting Jiong He Cang.

The Red Falcon also participated in this operation as information support.

Wu Yi said that the burial area was in a range of undersea mountains, but the exact location needed to be determined up close. It was located directly east of the United City and submerged by a large amount of water.

The spotlighting body quickly locked onto the target area through ultra-high-speed movement measurement.

It was a strait filled with real seawater and also belonged to a natural high-pressure zone, consistent with the characteristics of Wu Yi's hometown waters.

The spotlighting body discovered a unique energy reaction beneath the seabed silt, a reaction that was weak but had strong radiation capabilities within a small range.

It projected the seabed environment, outlining a cluster of crystal structures in the air.

"That's it!"

Wu Yi asserted, "That's what it looked like when I buried her."

Arriving at the target location.

Zhou Yi switched to Mode 2 to cope with the permanent damage to defense caused by the high-pressure field.

Wu Yi used his sand control ability to open a stepped passage in the silt.

"I'll go down first."

The skeletal man took the lead and walked inside.

Zhou Yi followed closely behind.

The Black Water Ghoul had activated its defenses early, and he wasn't worried about being affected like the skeletal man in the past.

Reaching the depths, Zhou Yi discovered that this was a wide undersea pipeline, with translucent crystal blocks all over the bend ahead, blocking the way.

The skeletal man stood in front of the crystal blocks and said, "This is it. She's gotten bigger."

The Red Falcon identified it with its electronic eye: "This is quartz, which can also be considered glass. From the structure, it's a man-made product."

It was the glass person who created these quartz that blocked the pipeline.

Zhou Yi immediately thought that in the underground base of Dongji Island, the core of the mutant manufacturing device stored by the Heavenly Kingdom was a small part of the Celestial's gemstone body, also sealed with crystals.

The Celestial's gemstone would rapidly turn into sand upon contact with the natural environment here, but it could be preserved for a long time after being sealed.

It seemed this was a way for the glass person to protect themselves.

For safety's sake.

Zhou Yi said, "Wu Yi, step aside and let Jiong He Cang cut it open."

The skeletal man took a step back.

The cyan light emitted by the spotlighting body cut open the outer layer of quartz, and when it extended about a meter inward, a human-shaped outline faintly appeared in the inner layer of quartz.

Then, the spotlighting body's light knife also became much more cautious, and began to shave off the quartz layer little by little, trying not to touch the core area.

Gradually, the person inside the crystal became clearer.

It was a long-haired woman, about twenty years old, with her eyes closed and clear feminine features. Her whole body was translucent, with dense glass blood vessels, but no internal organs, like some kind of bizarre work of art.

Very similar to the glass person Zhou Yi had seen.

The difference was that the glass person in the Celestial's memory had a higher degree of fusion between glass and gemstone, and the whole body, except for the head, was gemstone fiber.

The woman in front of him looked more like a human.

Could there be different branches within the glass people?

Just as Zhou Yi was thinking, a sense of inexplicable crisis suddenly surged in his heart.

The woman in the quartz had opened her eyes at some point, and a pair of light blue eyes were staring straight at him.

In an instant, Zhou Yi only felt his head buzz.

Everything stopped moving.

The floating dust solidified in the air, and his mind seemed to be stuck by some kind of force.

This situation lasted only a moment.

Then it returned to normal.

"It is indeed a disruption of consciousness time. This guy's ability is in the field of consciousness, and it will directly affect the biological clock."

"But it's useless in front of world time."

The Black Water Ghoul on his wrist said.

Zhou Yi then noticed that black dials appeared on the walls, floor, and ceiling of the pipeline he was in.

The white hands on them were turning at different speeds, some even moving in reverse.

Above Zhou Yi's head was a spherical little sun, displaying the hands and scales.

Under the unification of solar time, many hands began to calibrate and tend to normal.

The power of standard time enveloped and covered the entire area, allowing the spotlighting body, Wu Yi, and the Red Falcon to recover.

"Incredible ability," the Red Falcon's camera glowed slightly.

"It's this feeling. This is what caused me to not remember in the past," Wu Yi said with lingering fear.

The spotlighting body also said seriously, "This ability is very strange. I was also greatly affected, as if I couldn't resist at all."

Zhou Yi stared at the woman in the quartz crystal.

At this time, her eyes looked a little scattered and dull.

Zhou Yi knocked on the glass: "Hey, hey, hey? Can you hear me?"

The other party remained motionless, just staring straight at him.

Zhou Yi turned on [Radio].

There were some small noises inside, but no other information was captured.

So he started the old process.

Energy input.

Feasible.

Consciousness synchronization.

Successful.

"Can you hear me now?"

After a while.

A voice came from over there: "I can hear you. Are you a Celestial God?"

Celestial God?

Meaning a Celestial?

Zhou Yi didn't admit it, nor did he deny it. He was going to test it again.

"Why are you here?"

"It's the Celestial God's order."

"What order did you receive?"

"Let me go back, back to the village, but I can't go back, my body can't move."

Zhou Yi was a little surprised.

Listening to her, she was actually human.

In other words, she was a glass person who was selected and taken away for modification by the Celestials.

Zhou Yi pondered slightly: "What's your name?"

"Tie Tie."

"Can you see me?"

"I can't see. My eyes were blinded during the sacrifice. I can't hear either. I can only use my body to feel the light. The feeling you give me is that of a Celestial God."

"Since you have been modified and strengthened, why were you downgraded?"

"This is because..."

The other party hesitated for a moment, but still answered: "I'm no good in any way."

"In the beginning, I was sacrificed and sent to the God Realm. After the Celestial God transformed me, I changed my appearance and became like a crystal all over."

"Then I was taken by the Celestial God to a black space."

"He ordered me to have children."

"But I can't give birth."

Zhou Yi: "..."

Having children can't be done alone.

No, that's not right.

Zhou Yi suddenly came back to his senses.

The Celestials are the rulers behind the wasteland world, and they can't not know the human way of reproduction. In other words, the glass people used to be able to reproduce on their own.

So after transforming the new humans into glass people, the Celestials wanted to continue this method.

The result failed.

Currently, it can be determined that glass people and new humans are indeed two different intelligent species.

After Zhou Yi understood, he said again: "Then what?"

"I can't give birth to children, so I was sent by the Celestial God to another place, which was dark, with chains made of huge gemstones. We were placed there."

"There are many sacrifices like me there."

Tie Tie said: "We can't talk to each other. The Celestial God forbids us from talking. If we violate this, we will be killed. I saw a few who secretly talked and were filled into the walls and died."

"At that time, I was sitting on the chains, but in the end, no Celestial God chose me. Other sacrifices around me were chosen, and they turned into light and were taken away."

"I was very sad at the time. All the sacrifices around me were chosen, leaving only me. Why didn't they choose me? I didn't understand. But later I learned that the gods didn't choose me, which was indeed very prescient."

The girl's tone was a little frustrated: "At that time, I waited on the chains for a long time. Eventually, the Celestial God took me back and sent me to the long wall again."

"That wall is boundless and completely made of luminous crystals. We sacrifices repair the wall there, connecting the crystals one by one, fixing them with our bodies, and then checking for anomalies and continuing to connect the next one."

Zhou Yi further confirmed: "The wall you're talking about is made of four-colored gemstones?"

"Yes! You know, you are indeed a Celestial God."

She said: "Then you also know that repairing the wall is actually a very hard job. We have to build the wall with crystals while also checking for damaged areas and repairing them."

"But when I was repairing the wall, I caused multiple local collapses due to operational errors, and then the Celestial God took me away, because I couldn't even repair the wall."

Tie Tie sighed: "I thought I would be filled into the wall, but the Celestial God was very tolerant of me. He forgave me, saying that I was a pure congenital defect, prone to distraction and absent-mindedness, not subjective laziness and disobedience..."

"He finally decided to send me back, because I couldn't do anything well."

"The Celestial God's last order to me was to go back to the village and see my own luck."

"Later, I was dropped from the sky and crashed into something. But after I came back, I was blind and couldn't hear. I don't know what happened outside."

"What happened outside? Celestial God?"

Zhou Yi sorted it out.

The Celestials first find suitable individuals, transform them into glass people, and then see if they have reproductive ability. If not, they enter the next stage of the gemstone chains.

This stage sounds like a product display? Or it is a supply for other Celestials to choose.

If they are also eliminated in this step, they will fall into the wall repair stage.

The four-colored gemstones are used to build the ring-sun wall, which is indeed built by the glass people.

Like Tie Tie, she is actually an淘汰者 in the screening of glass people, and she was thrown back into the wasteland world.

Zhou Yi told her: "I will transform you into an energy state, which is convenient for obtaining information."

"Okay, please do so."

Tie Tie was very cooperative.

Then Zhou Yi turned on the Sea God and used the 圜光仪 to transform her into a Fire Seed life form, and also added a profile of a long-haired woman to his shoulder.

The Fire Seed life form transformation was completed.

Zhou Yi immediately connected and retrieved her information.

Tie Tie was very obedient.

Then, Zhou Yi immersed himself in her life's past.