Wasteland Development Diary

Sun Hao examined Blackthorn.

"It has severe congenital dysplasia and has been subjected to tearing and separation."

"The consciousness is completely fragmented and cannot form even a complete block. Fortunately, it is strong enough and has a special physiological structure. A large amount of energy maintains the most basic instincts, otherwise, in this situation, it should have already suffered consciousness death."

Every day, Sun Hao came to treat Blackthorn. He would stop in time when he was close to exhaustion, without overloading himself to the point of unconsciousness as he did last time.

The repair lasted for 14 days.

Sun Hao said, "Father, the treatment is complete. It is now like a newborn baby, its consciousness is just beginning to absorb external information, and its subsequent growth requires its own accumulation."

"However, its body is very strong, but its consciousness recognition is extremely limited, so it still needs to be restrained and taught to a certain extent."

Zhou Yi nodded, "Thank you for your hard work. Let me see your Nightmare."

A huge shadow monster slowly emerged behind Sun Hao.

The Nightmare was nearly 3 meters tall, and the horns on its head almost touched the ceiling. However, when it noticed Zhou Yi, its small eyes still showed fear.

Zhou Yi glanced at the Nightmare and handed Sun Hao a can of Coke, "Get some rest."

"Yes, Father."

The black-robed teenager took the Coke and left.

...

Zhou Yi turned his attention back to Blackthorn.

Its consciousness had been completely repaired, and it was now a communicable entity.

Zhou Yi touched its spiky shell with his hand.

Energy input.

Consciousness synchronization activated.

"How do you feel now?"

"I feel... good."

There was a response.

Zhou Yi was overjoyed.

Blackthorn without self-awareness was certainly a stable biological vehicle. But Blackthorn with awakened self had more possibilities.

"Do you remember what happened before?"

"Before? I don't know, there was nothing before."

Blackthorn was full of curiosity about everything.

"Who am I?"

"You are Blackthorn, a special life form cultivated by the Mud Tree Civilization."

"Who are you?"

"My name is Zhou Yi. I found you in the Dead Sea and brought you to the Wasteland Development Company."

"You saved me. I can sense that the scent that helped me has some kind of crossover relationship with your scent."

"Scent crossover? What does that mean?"

Blackthorn gave a description of this.

It relies on light and scent to contact the outside world.

Light, that is, perceiving the flow of dead light.

And every material life has its own unique smell, that is, scent.

It sensed that Zhou Yi and Sun Hao had similar scents.

Zhou Yi couldn't help but wonder, "Are you sure?"

He himself was human, and Sun Hao, although an adopted son, was essentially a Death Angel, a life form evolved from mushrooms.

The racial difference was very large.

"I'm sure."

Blackthorn insisted, "Scents will affect each other, and you have a high correlation in scents."

Zhou Yi also called Yuanxiao over.

"What about her?"

"... also. You have a relationship in scent! Your relationship is closer! Your scents are intertwined! And there are special reactions!"

"..."

Later, Zhou Yi learned through Da Vinci that this was actually the microscopic interaction between living things. Life that lives together for a long time, or has deep contact with each other, will have this exchange at the atomic or even more basic particle level.

Blackthorn can identify this microscopic exchange and diffusion.

Zhou Yi changed the subject, "Now that you have awakened, it is time to tell you about the Mud Tree Civilization..."

After listening, Blackthorn just said, "I'm a little hungry, I want to eat some energy."

With permission, it soared into the air and plunged into the Dead Sea.

Half an hour later.

Blackthorn rose into the sky and returned.

"I'm full, it feels so good."

It said, "Now my mind is clear, and I'm also easily hungry. I don't think I felt this way before."

Zhou Yi was reminded of the semi-enlightened bodies.

Some of the Horned Cattle of the Taming Bull Tribe were unwilling to give up their semi-enlightened identities because it was easier and simpler to live that way.

Transformed into mecha-electric cattle, their demand for energy would greatly increase, and life would become more complicated, requiring more energy and materials to maintain survival.

To Zhou Yi's surprise, after awakening, Blackthorn's control accuracy over its own body far exceeded the past external operation with fruit cores.

"I have three states."

"One is the usual state, which consumes the least energy and does not activate [Insecticide] and [Slowing Wave]."

"Then this is the second stage."

Blackthorn exuded visible ripples, causing the light shining on it to appear wavy and distorted.

Unlike in the past, this time it compressed the range of the ripples to about five centimeters on the body surface.

Zhou Yi immediately realized, "Can you control the radiation distance?"

"Yes. In fact, this ability consumes a lot of energy, and it can only be activated for a long time in the Dead Sea. The dead light energy on land cannot meet the consumption of continuous activation."

Blackthorn added, "Finally, this is the strongest, the third stage."

As soon as the words fell.

Its whole body was surrounded by electricity again.

Blackthorn's long thorns were softening and stretching, appearing like blue mud and ink, making the form difficult to describe.

Zhou Yi activated [Alert], but only saw a constantly changing color.

Just a few seconds of staring made him feel very tired and dizzy.

Blackthorn switched back to the low-consumption mode of the first stage.

"It's more comfortable this way."

"The third stage is too tiring, and it's easy to get hungry."

It said, "My own capacity is limited, and I can't store too much energy. I need to continuously absorb external dead light. Absorbing dead light in the Dead Sea is not fast because it has to be filtered and purified layer by layer, which is a slow charging process."

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2 minutes is still the limit for Blackthorn under the light core body.

Each time after the end of the third-stage state, it had to spend a long time to recharge and replenish, lighting up the energy storage lobes in the body.

A thought popped into Zhou Yi's mind, "That is to say, if you can store more energy, you can maintain the third stage for a longer time?"

"According to the physiological structure, that's right. It's just that my limit on my own is like this."

So Zhou Yi immediately called the light print expert Shi Gandang.

After listening to Blackthorn's situation, the sweeping robot was very excited: "Mud Tree Civilization... actually has such a peculiar technological system!"

"To improve energy endurance, our method is to use specific light print devices. For example, the 'Energy Pool' is a light print specifically used to store a large amount of energy."

"It's just that the structure of the energy pool is heavy, the volume is large, and it is inconvenient to move and control. It can usually only be used for medium and large equipment."

The energy storage technology of light printing has not yet developed to the point where it can be reduced in size for portable use.

But Shi Gandang put forward another idea.

"Chairman, speaking of energy supply, the company's most capable and best at it is Yalong Bay."

"If Blackthorn can withstand the energy transmitted by the Xenomorph—compared to energy packs, this energy directly obtained from the Dead Sea is much more violent. But if you ignore these situations, it is almost the perfect energy supply."

"It can be said that Yalong Bay is the best A-5 super energy pool."

Zhou Yi was awakened by his words.

How could he forget this.

He turned to describe the method of alien transmission energy to Blackthorn.

"This is not a problem, I can also directly absorb dead light. From this point of view, I should have some similarities with it."

It had no objection, but Yalong Bay raised a question.

"Chairman, if it is pure connection charging, there is no problem with this, and the previous steel structure can do it. But it must maintain activity in order to show strategic power, right?"

"Due to structural reasons, the endurance of building life is very strong, but this is precisely the field where Blackthorn itself is congenitally deficient."

"If it only needs to replenish energy, it can enter the Dead Sea. But if it wants to fight or use energy at high intensity while receiving supplies, the existing structure on my side cannot do it."

Zhou Yi immediately calmed down.

Yalong Bay is indeed a super energy pool that can quickly charge Blackthorn.

But if it is performing tasks or fighting against strong enemies, it will soon be exhausted, and there may be no space and time to safely recharge.

"There is another way."

Yalong Bay proposed, "Chairman, use fly silk."

"It is a special substance that can transmit and act as a dead light itself. Many gliders are test-flying here, and I have connected with the fly silk and found that its energy transfer efficiency is extremely high."

"If the fly silk is bound to Blackthorn, and then the other end is connected to my transmission, it can have extremely strong endurance combat power on land—at least near Emerald City."

Zhou Yi's eyes lit up.

There is such a method!

He immediately took Blackthorn and conducted an experiment.

According to Yalong Bay's idea, two 100-meter-long fly silks were installed above the cave of Yalong Bay.

In the natural state, they remain straight up into the sky, like natural measuring scales.

After Blackthorn connected to it, its whole body was filled with white light.

"It works! It really works!"

"So strong, so powerful! It's like there is endless power to use!"

Blackthorn excitedly entered the light core body form, and the body was further expanding, and the whole body of electric light almost turned into a halo layer, making it look like a small blue sun.

This phenomenon caused the residents of Emerald City to look up and watch, discussing it with each other.

After maintaining the light core body state for half an hour, it returned to its original state.

"No problem, no problem at all!"

"I don't feel tired at all!"

Blackthorn was still active: "Yalong Bay's power is so strong and pure, it's much faster than absorbing it in the Dead Sea!!"

Zhou Yi also felt relieved.

In this way, there is also a Yalong Bay + Blackthorn combat combination, which can maintain the light core body form for a long time.

The company can be regarded as further expanding the combat power ceiling.

Landing back to Zhou Yi's side, Blackthorn added, "Just now in the third-stage state, one thing was very strange."

"I felt that something in the distance was calling me."

"The feeling is very strong and the frequency is very high."

"It should be some kind of life using my fruit core to make me go over."

Zhou Yi frowned.

Someone wants to grab control of Blackthorn.

Daring to have this idea from so far away, if he hadn't repaired Blackthorn's consciousness, he would have really been stolen from his home.

For this kind of petty villain, we must never condone it!

We must take heavy action!