Wasteland Development Diary

The arrival of the atmospheric life form instantly became the absolute focus of the battlefield.

In the sky, reconnaissance planes and early warning aircraft swirled madly around the atmospheric creature like moths drawn to a flame, conducting multi-angle observations and calculations.

Spherical fighters and shuttle-shaped attack aircraft plunged headfirst into the gaseous life form, opening fire relentlessly and even launching kamikaze attacks.

The fleet on the Dead Sea also simultaneously redirected its guns.

One after another, thick, long barrels pointed towards the sky, spitting fire, and a dense rain of light projectiles was directed at the airborne life form.

Through satellite images, Zhou Yi saw that the B+ destroyers had finally launched light-imprint missiles.

These heavy firepower weapons, shaped like round-headed missiles, were larger than drones. They shot straight into the sky, leaving trails of straight lines, bursting into bright explosion circles that created rippling shockwaves in the clouds.

Numerous explosions flashed continuously in the clouds.

However, the atmospheric creature remained completely unaffected.

Its cloud chamber-like body covered everything around it, instantly immobilizing the drones that had penetrated the inner layers, as if they were frozen in the clouds.

Then, they plummeted from the sky like scrap metal, falling into the Dead Sea.

The sole remaining A-class cruiser then erected a silver cylindrical platform on its deck, and a ball of light rapidly condensed on the platform.

The light around the cruiser became distorted and stretched, and the light ball enveloped the entire ship.

A straight white beam shot into the sky, piercing the atmospheric creature from bottom to top.

The beam blasted out a bizarre black zone, but it quickly disappeared and returned to normal.

"It's a death ray weapon!"

"This is an extremely high-intensity death ray weapon, with precision reaching E-5 level! Otherwise, it wouldn't create a light track!"

Red Falcon seemed somewhat anxious.

Zhou Yi was puzzled: "Light track? Is that the black area?"

"Yes. Zhou, only an extremely high-intensity, high-density death ray can create a light track phenomenon through instantaneous evaporation. This intensity, even if it doesn't reach a light core body, is not far off."

The drone was worried.

Zhou Yi, however, was not concerned.

The Curling, despite appearing to be torn apart, was an atmospheric creature with extremely low density. Without a specific container or targeted ability, it was impossible to restrain or kill it.

As he had predicted, after being directly pierced by the death ray weapon, the Curling gradually returned to its cloud house shape, completely unharmed.

It began to descend actively from the sky, like a cloud sea waterfall falling to the ground, pulling the A-class cruiser and several surrounding frigates directly into its body before they could escape.

The surrounding ships, which had been transferring and interweaving attacks, suddenly froze in place, as if they had completely lost control.

The satellite signal also turned into a full-screen mosaic.

The feedback [No Signal] appeared on it.

Zhou Yi ordered Emerald City to fly towards the center of the battlefield.

Emerald City said: "Commissioner, it's very dangerous ahead."

"The consciousness fragments there are being sucked into the atmospheric creature's body. It is devouring and hunting the surrounding consciousness bodies."

"If I get any closer, I will also be affected and damaged, and may not be able to maintain flight posture."

Zhou Yi ordered it to stop.

The area ahead had completely turned into a signal dead zone.

At a distance of 5 kilometers, it was impossible to see what was happening there through the cloud house constructed by the atmospheric creature with the naked eye.

Zhou Yi suddenly remembered that he had another method.

He immediately turned on the [Radio] and activated Channel 5.

Acquiring signal imaging.

Then Zhou Yi saw it.

On the Dead Sea, the sea area covered by the atmospheric creature was emitting cold white vapor, like a cloud mountain descending to the ground. Dozens of nearby ships were all stationary, frozen in the clouds.

Further away, a large number of drones and surviving ships were all fleeing in panic, like small animals facing a giant beast hunting.

Zhou Yi felt somewhat complicated.

Although he had guessed that the atmospheric creature should be useful, he had not expected its suppressing power to be so strong.

The electromechanical army was helpless against it, and was being hunted in a completely one-sided manner.

But the atmospheric creature had not reached the level of a light core body. Why was its killing power far greater than that of light-gathering bodies and Bone Man Wu Yi, who were also A-level life forms?

Red Falcon gave the answer to this question: "Zhou, don't forget. In the outer sea, atmospheric creatures hunt Skywalkers. Their abilities and structure are inherently suppressing and destructive to other life forms."

That's true.

Without specific countermeasures, atmospheric creatures are indeed unstoppable and immortal behemoths.

The massive marine life form slowly rose and flew next to Zhou Yi again, forming a towering cloud house.

"I can't stay here for too long."

"The death ray energy density here is too low, causing my body to continuously dissipate and lose mass. Chairman, please transform me back into an energy state."

It did not leave immediately, but instead requested to return in a very orderly manner.

Zhou Yi asked: "Why are the electromechanical life forms not moving?"

The Curling said: "The consciousness bodies of these life forms have all been captured and absorbed by me, so their bodies have lost the ability to act."

Consciousness bodies?

Zhou Yi was puzzled.

The electromechanical army is composed of combat units with light-imprint bodies, and they are actually controlled by electromechanical commanders in the rear. How should this consciousness body be understood?

After repeated communication with the Curling, Zhou Yi finally understood.

Information is consciousness.

The information instructions constantly transmitted from the remote end are also a type of consciousness, but only slightly different in form.

The consciousness bodies of normal life forms are continuous and precise, with complex variations.

The remote command of electromechanical life forms is composed of individual instructions. Compared to normal consciousness bodies, it is more like a result of assembling a large number of consciousness fragments in chronological order.

But consciousness is consciousness, and it is an object that can be captured and annexed by atmospheric creatures.

So it captured all kinds of consciousness that approached it—that is, information. This caused the satellite signal to be interrupted, and the instructions for remotely controlling this army were completely intercepted and digested, and these steel machines were directly scrapped.

Zhou Yi suddenly thought: "These light-imprint body units are still intact?"

"Yes, Chairman. I just cut off their consciousness level. They have no autonomous consciousness, and are more like puppet tools."

Zhou Yi's eyes lit up: "In this environment, can you persist a little longer?"

"I can, but not for too long, because my outer periphery is already dissipating, and life and consciousness are continuously being lost."

The Curling said.

Relying on its information shielding ability, Zhou Yi immediately ordered Bone Man Wu Yi, Niger, and Yuanxiao, who had escaped, to participate in the loot transportation phase.

These ships that had lost contact on the sea—especially the A-class cruiser equipped with death ray weapons—had to be brought back. Even if they were sold off to cash in, it would earn a sum and recover the war losses.

Everyone was busy rapidly.

Emerald City carried the 200-meter-long cruiser and flew all the way back to Yalong Bay, placing it in the cave storage for sealing, and then continued to fly back and forth to transport.

The light-gathering body then used its measurement ability to lock onto the two combat command planes hidden in the sky.

They looked just like ordinary early warning aircraft, but were measured to have extremely high energy levels.

The frontal battlefield had collapsed, but they had not left. They still wanted to rescue and command the fallen ships and drone groups, trying to give them combat or return instructions.

Then they were penetrated and destroyed by the light-gathering body with a light saber to eliminate future troubles.

The entire loot recovery was swift and efficient.

Red Falcon said: "Current recovery has been completed."

"On the drone side, captured 5 E-1 small reconnaissance drones, 1 E-2 early warning aircraft, 1 E-2 fighter, and 2 E-3 attack aircraft."

"On the ship side, captured one A-class cruiser, one B+ class destroyer, two C-class frigates, and three integrated supply ships."

"These are complete parts, and there are more incomplete or damaged parts that have not been counted and need to be salvaged in the Dead Sea."

"The Manufacturing Department and Qian Su are working together to dismantle their signal transceivers. Currently, these units are very safe and stable. As long as they are modified or reset later, they will be ships and aircraft that we can use."

"Our counterattack war has been a great success!"

The drone happily concluded.

Seeing that the situation was settled.

Zhou Yi then entered the Dead Sea, summoned the Poseidon, and consumed 120,000 light seeds to transform the Curling into a fire seed life form again.

This consumption was 20,000 light seeds more than last time.

He muttered in his heart.

Atmospheric creatures are strong, but deploying one costs more than 100,000 light seeds. War is really expensive.

Fortunately, he also got a lot of loot, otherwise it would be a pure loss.

Only then did Zhou Yi have time to ask the Curling: "You could have left here and entered the outer sea. Why did you choose to stay?"

He had actually prepared for this loss when he released the atmospheric creature to fight.

"I can indeed sense that there is a very strong energy reaction in the sky. There should be a death ray area with extremely high density, which is more suitable for my survival."

"But I work under you. Although I have transformed from a construction life form into an atmospheric creature, I believe that I still have to have basic professional ethics."

"What should be done must be done well."

The Curling said: "Furthermore, the situation in the outer sea is unclear. It is safer and more stable here with you. I have said that I am not a fighter. I am better at refrigeration and storage. A savage and disordered environment is not suitable for my survival."

"But after you released me this time, I found that I can also obtain a lot of consciousness bodies through hunting, which is much faster than the growth in the past construction life form stage."

"Like this time, although the consciousness bodies I captured are almost all fragmented, the number is very considerable, reaching 20% of my previous total consciousness body amount."

"It will take some time to fully integrate them and turn them into a usable state."

It was still clear and had a clear self-awareness.

Zhou Yi sighed in his heart.

It was also his good luck to meet such a good employee.

This can reduce a lot of ineffective communication and probing.

Zhou Yi has always been one who respects me a foot, and I respect you a yard.

He told the Curling: "If one day you want to go out and do it yourself, tell me, and I will let you leave. Let's get together and break up well."

"Yes, Chairman."

The Curling said: "If there is such a time, I will definitely tell you and never leave without saying goodbye."

Zhou Yi was very satisfied.

At this time, Jionghe Warehouse sent a message again: "Electromechanical army movements have been detected in the distance. They are gathering here again, and a new round of offensive is suspected to be in preparation."

Zhou Yi couldn't help frowning.

It's endless.

He asked: "Where did the army attacking us come from?"

Red Falcon said: "Energy Storage City. The joint guards are all assembled and departed from that port, and then drove over."

Zhou Yi felt a chill in his heart.

If you are unrighteous, don't blame me for being unfaithful.

Energy Storage City! You wait!