Wasteland Development Diary

Iron Steed and Copper Bull returned to the oasis and resumed farming.

Under Zhou Yi's command, the High-Rise Giant stretched out a steel skeleton structure made of intertwined rebars—these also served as its agile limbs for external operations.

Containers were individually lifted by Emerald City's iron hands and secured onto the 31st-floor gap. Through the power of the building's life force and mechanical connection, these container homes were firmly fixed with steel bars, becoming integrated with the building.

A Jin and Gong Zheng were busy moving in and organizing their new homes.

Zhou Yi, with the Warrior Crab, did a simple renovation of his bare concrete room.

Beds and bedding, various cabinets, sofas, tables, and chairs were not a problem.

The floor was initially left as a cement surface because transporting and laying flooring was too meticulous of a task; the Warrior Crabs couldn't handle it, and he couldn't manage it himself. Keeping it clean was good enough.

But the windows were a problem.

The dark, gaping windows allowed wind to constantly pour in, making it cold and causing a lot of noise on the high floor.

Zhou Yi pondered, it seemed he could only seal them with wooden boards for now.

Unexpectedly, Emerald City proactively offered: "Do you need to reassemble the windows?"

"We can use locally sourced materials to manufacture sturdy glass that fits the dimensions. The cost will be deducted from the maintenance fund, and it is estimated that less than 1/10 of a Light Seed will be needed to complete the construction of all the windows in the house."

Zhou Yi said, "Then let's try installing one window first to see the effect, just in the living room."

Then he saw a layer of green light cover the originally bare window frame. A layer of steaming, transparent fluid grew from bottom to top, quickly sealing the entire square hole and becoming smooth and flat.

A floor-to-ceiling window was installed.

At Zhou Yi's request, Emerald City also cut out a vent window on the fully enclosed floor-to-ceiling window, using the wood stored in the container home as the window frame material.

Once the style and specifications were determined, the windows for the entire room grew rapidly.

Since that was the case.

Zhou Yi then thought, "You can also make wooden floors, right? Just use the existing wood we have."

Emerald City indicated that it could.

A moment later, wooden-textured floors grew out of the gray, dusty ground. However, these wooden floors were much smaller in size, like pieces of wooden rulers pieced together.

This was because the raw materials were mainly branches, and large pieces of wood were scarce.

Zhou Yi was very satisfied.

"What about floor heating and air conditioning? Do you have that?"

This place was a sandy environment; it was hot during the day from direct sunlight, but the temperature dropped very low at night.

Although Zhou Yi had the body of a White Suanni, it didn't mean he couldn't feel cold and heat; he could just tolerate it.

If there were conditions, of course, he wanted to install them.

"No problem at all."

Emerald City continued to modify.

The entire house began to become warm and cozy.

Zhou Yi also asked for the same treatment for the container office area.

After finishing all this, he lay on the sofa and flipped through "Storybook", thinking that it would be wonderful if he could also watch TV.

Journey to the West TV brother... if only you were still here.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

"Chairman, Chairman, something terrible has happened!"

It was A Jin's voice.

Zhou Yi went to the door.

After opening the door, he saw the teenager with a look of horror: "Something bad has happened, Chairman! The house is on fire! It's getting hot! Gong Zheng is trying to find the location of the problem, but he hasn't found it yet. You should leave here first! Safety first!"

"..."

Zhou Yi had to tell him that this was the company's normal air conditioning configuration, warm in winter and cool in summer.

A Jin listened in stunned silence: "Are you saying that there is a furnace here that can blow wind during the day and ignite at night?"

"You can understand it that way."

"So powerful!"

Not long after A Jin left, Red Falcon sent another message: "Bone Man Sun Chonglai is outside, requesting an audience."

"Let him come up."

Soon, Night Claw led Sun Chonglai to the rooftop.

Under the indoor lighting, the red scarf on the bone man's neck was particularly striking. He carried a square leather suitcase, and his tattered clothes were almost hanging on his bones, making him look more like a refugee fleeing from disaster.

He seemed a little restrained: "Thank you very much for granting me an audience."

"We are truly ashamed that we did not heed your previous advice and were too presumptuous and blindly confident..."

Zhou Yi didn't mind.

"Sit."

"Thank you."

The bone man then sat down, placing the suitcase at his feet.

"I noticed when I came that the two electromechanical lifeforms you hired have resumed cultivating the farmland. In fact, we Mushroom Forest have many years of mushroom cultivation technology and very much hope to develop the surrounding land with you to cultivate more crops."

"Please take a look."

The bone man opened the suitcase.

Zhou Yi knew in his heart that Emerald City was having an effect here.

Demonstrating strength was the best self-introduction.

Three mushrooms were placed in the bone man's suitcase.

His skinny finger bones pointed to the largest oval white ball: "This is the spore of the Giant Mushroom. We cultivated it from a part of the Giant Mushroom. As long as you plant it, it will grow quickly. However, it will slow down when it grows to nearly three meters, and then it will require a long wait."

"The Giant Mushroom can stabilize the land. It exhales a gas that can make many creatures drowsy. We call it sleep gas. However, it has no effect on bone men like me or the Black Hand Mushrooms."

"It is also an important support for our Mushroom Forest, able to isolate external creatures from damaging and invading the interior, and stabilize and expand the Mushroom Forest's range."

Zhou Yi nodded.

"And this one is the Carpet Fungus."

The bone man pointed to the next one, which was a patch that looked like a bit of brownish-yellow moss growing on the soil, and also somewhat like peeling bark.

"If you look closely, you will find that the Mushroom Forest is full of Carpet Fungus. They occupy the ground, do not compete with the Giant Mushroom for the dead light irradiation in the high sky, but absorb the Giant Mushroom's fallen debris, ground rot, and other substances. They require very little and are tenacious in survival."

The bone man picked up this inconspicuous flat fungus: "You see, it is very thin and easily damaged. But as long as it is not completely crushed, it can slowly recover. It is a humble and unnoticed mushroom. It is inedible and useless, like a mixture of soil, rotten leaves, and a little bit of sourness."

"But it has a very peculiar ability, which is that they can connect with each other."

"A large number of Carpet Fungus connect on the ground, with you in me and me in you. If the Giant Mushroom constitutes the skeleton of the Mushroom Forest, then they are the flesh and skin there."

The bone man's dark eye sockets looked at the rotten carpet-like fungus, and he gently rubbed this simple creature.

"The Black Hand Mushrooms can listen to the various sounds in the Mushroom Forest through it. Whether it is footsteps or conversations, they will be transmitted and amplified by them, and then we can hear them all."

Zhou Yi agreed with interest: "It is indeed a magical species. The Mushroom Forest is very interesting."

"Thank you for the praise."

The bone man nodded slightly: "But if you want to talk about magic, it is the most magical thing in the Mushroom Forest."

He carefully picked up the last mushroom and placed it on his dry, yellowed white bone palm.

"This mushroom, its wonder cannot be summarized in a word. The Explosion Mushroom is one of its variations, or rather, it is the larva of the Explosion Mushroom."

Zhou Yi was stunned.

Because the mushroom in the bone man's hand was shaped like a mud ball.

It was the Mud Ball Mushroom that he had been paying attention to before.

This thing, so it turned out to be the Explosion Mushroom?