Wasteland Development Diary

Initially, Zhou Yi tried practicing his boxing using abandoned underwater structures, but the results were poor, showing no signs of improvement.

Red Falcon told him, "Without sufficient resistance and feedback, the combat gene is difficult to activate."

"When withstanding enemy attacks, the combat gene gradually changes. Its energy structure undergoes local distortion, tearing, and reorganization to adapt to the intensity required by the body."

"After energy replenishment, the combat gene structure will complete repairs time and time again, reconstructing itself in a direction that better suits the body until it reaches the peak combat intensity it can withstand, which is the limit of its own structure. Then, it cannot further increase in strength."

Zhou Yi felt that this sounded somewhat like building muscle, where sufficient intensity is necessary to be effective.

He was also a bit puzzled.

"You're a rescue drone, how do you know so much about combat genes?"

The drone explained, "Rescue drones must understand the basic structure of life. Whether a distressed person still has vital signs can be determined by the light gene."

"I am a senior rescue drone with over 100,000 hours of work experience. I have participated in many rescue operations, and sometimes I myself encounter danger and damage, so entering the rehabilitation center is very normal. Rehabilitation training includes projects such as combat gene activation and reconstruction."

Red Falcon's words made Zhou Yi even more interested in Recursive City.

Once things here are completely stable and on track, he needs to go there to see the city created by the electromechanical life forms.

Compared to the cave settlements and semi-colonies of the new humans, perhaps that place represents the civilized domain of the wasteland era.

Confirming the correct method, Zhou Yi led the samurai crabs to first capture a bone fish.

He engaged in a one-on-one fight with the bone fish.

Extending Fist!

Fist to fist!

The bone fish also retaliated with impacts and bites.

The two noobs pecked at each other, putting up a good fight.

After a long and arduous battle, Zhou Yi wiped his sweat and breathed a sigh of relief.

The bone fish slowly fell behind him, shattering into a pile of bones, with the fish head taking the opportunity to escape.

Luckily, I was more skilled.

Next!

I want to fight two!

Zhou Yi started a crazy fist-killing fish mode.

……

Four days later.

Zhou Yi looked at his stats panel.

……

[Combat ★★★]

Damage: 18-33

Cooldown: 3.45

Range: 7

"Stretch": Consumes 30 energy to extend or contract the local body structure in a short time.

"Alertness": Due to extremely high control over the body structure, it can keenly sense the trajectory of energy operation around it.

[Body]

Health: 10000

Defense: 425

Energy: 2802

……

After reaching max level, the combat gene's strength underwent a qualitative change, and the damage reached the level of the Black Warriors.

However, the attack speed decreased instead, which Zhou Yi did not expect.

Red Falcon explained to him: "Under normal circumstances, the higher the damage of an attack, the more energy and body structure are called upon each time it is launched, and the longer the reset cooldown time required."

That makes sense.

Zhou Yi's biggest surprise was that the [Alertness] trait emerged after the combat gene reached max level.

This is also the result of the further evolution of [Stretch].

He looked around.

The seabed was still shrouded in mist.

Occasionally, he could see a trace of light inside, as if he were in a thundercloud.

But after mastering [Alertness], this layer of light and mist barrier had some visual elements.

Zhou Yi could see the scattered white light, which continuously refracted, overlapped, and collided in the Dead Sea, forming a strange light structure, as if a huge kaleidoscope was unfolding before his eyes.

In the kaleidoscope perspective, there were some objects with highly concentrated light that were not easily scattered.

This represents photon organisms.

White light bodies are low-intensity creatures like bone fish and samurai crabs.

Green light bodies are more advanced monsters.

Zhou Yi looked towards the upper layer of the Dead Sea and saw many green light clusters slowly moving in the Dead Sea composed of light and mist.

Under the kaleidoscope perspective, these advanced monsters and dead light constantly interacted with each other. Some of the dead light was absorbed by them, but some of the dead light was released by them, like an exchange and respiration of energy.

Life is a highly contracted and clearly colored light sphere. After death, these lights will gradually dissipate and return to nature, merging into the dead light.

This is the visualization effect of [Alertness].

Zhou Yi now had a primary small-range reconnaissance skill, and he no longer needed Red Falcon to stay by his side to open up his vision.

He said to the drone: "You go back to Recursive City first to upgrade and update. Also, bring me back a few photon containers."

"Here are 166 light seeds, take them to use first."

He handed the photon container in his pocket to the drone.

Red Falcon's mechanical claw grabbed the can-shaped light seed wallet and put it into its body.

It said: "Under normal circumstances, making an appointment for a physical test and inspection, completing the update and upgrade, and then passing the safety test will take a maximum of 7 to 10 days. I will return as soon as possible, please be careful."

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The deep-sea fishing trip has come to an end.

On the way home, the samurai crabs discovered a strange place.

Below a broken overpass was a circular hole, and the hole was in the bridge pier.

With such a large gap, the pier body showed no signs of cracks or collapse.

Throwing things into the hole would first sink into it and then slowly pop out. If there was no external force, it would look like a painted mural, without causing any substantial impact on the surroundings.

Zhou Yi's [Alertness] saw the anomaly.

A large amount of dead light was sucked into it, forming streaks of bundled light halos.

The edge of the strange hole had a layer of light edges, which appeared in an unprecedented red color under [Alertness].

Zhou Yi pondered.

The danger level of this thing should be above C-level monsters.

I'll come back and take a look when my strength increases in the future.

Currently, the work is still mainly farming, fishing, and repairing Emerald City.

Zhou Yi ordered the samurai crabs to carry some gravel to cover the area around the hole and marked it.

Then he left.

Returning to the shore was noon a day later.

Standing on the land with extremely high visibility, Zhou Yi felt refreshed.

Under the [Alertness] ability, he could clearly see that there was also dead light here, but both the density and intensity were much weaker. They were evenly distributed in the air, illuminating everything.

After nightfall, the dead light on land became extremely thin, almost invisible.

Zhou Yi was not surprised by this.

Photon organisms always appear during the day, not because they like to bask in the sun, but to absorb the dead light in the air.

That night, Gong Zheng came over to report something.

"Chairman, while you were out, according to your order, I read and studied the books you brought back earlier, found the operation and repair methods, and made some small attempts with reference to those two strange instruments."

"Now I have restarted them."

He said with a smile: "This device called a 'light blocker' can block and insulate photon organisms, and it is very valuable. It is equivalent to a large animal trap for capturing photon organisms. As long as it is used properly, those monsters can be captured alive."

Zhou Yi was overjoyed.

The spoils obtained from the two Fangshi under Ji Chang's command were finally deciphered.

However.

What exactly is this animal trap used to catch?

Catch a bone fish to try?

Speaking of which, I don't know if bone fish can survive on land.