Wasteland Development Diary

The troops returned in triumph.

During the return journey, Zhou Yi began to reflect on the flaws exposed during this high-intensity battle.

The company doesn't lack high-end combat power; in fact, it has plenty.

However, during high-intensity combat, they couldn't fully utilize their strength.

The Spotlight was originally supposed to be a powerful weapon, but its attacks were completely ineffective and it was locked down by the mechanical and electrical army's mist-like weapon.

Similarly, Bone Man Wu Yi was quickly targeted after joining the battle.

It entered the seabed, preparing to create quicksand to lock down the enemy's fleet, but discovered that a large amount of sand had become extremely heavy, consuming a huge amount of energy.

This was a special sand-like material thrown out by the enemy, greatly reducing Wu Yi's abilities and rapidly consuming a lot of energy.

The enemy also used an instrument that could absorb moisture from the air to moisten the sand, further suppressing Bone Man.

Niger's manipulation of Blackthorn did have a surprise effect, single-handedly destroying a crucial A-class warship of the enemy. It had explosive power, but poor endurance, relying on close-range combat.

In essence, everyone was fighting as individual soldiers.

Zhou Yi remembered the words of the old mercenary, St. Petersburg.

"Cooperative combat requires training, and every round of attack is very important! Sometimes the difference between life and death in battle is just one more round of effective strikes!"

"The more diverse the combat units, the better, so that more offensive space can be formed in battle, and more maneuverability can be possessed."

The company's employees have strength, but their cooperative combat ability is too poor.

When targeted, it is difficult to exert their abilities.

There is a lack of a commander role to command and deploy tactical strategies, connect and effectively use everyone's abilities, and let them cooperate with each other to produce a chemical reaction.

I used to be able to command Warrior Crab, but when it comes to complex high-end situations, my current understanding of combat may not be enough.

After careful consideration, Zhou Yi looked at the assistant beside him.

"Yuanxiao, I plan to have you become the company's combat commander, specifically responsible for the on-site command of A-level employees, to form three-dimensional combat. High-end combat power also needs to cooperate with each other, instead of charging into battle individually."

"Me?"

The Death Angel was taken aback: "But I... I have no commanding experience. I used to act alone."

"It doesn't matter."

Zhou Yi said with certainty: "You are a professional warrior with rich combat experience. You have excellent battlefield judgment ability. 'Fatal Annotation' can see the enemy's health bar, and can also identify the enemy's fatal weaknesses when the target's health is low."

"This alone is enough to make decisions, concentrate our forces to kill and break through the enemy individually."

"It's not that I'm unwilling, it's just... Chairman, the battlefield changes rapidly, and I can't ensure that I can exchange information with them in time. And for things like Spotlight, I can't communicate at all."

Yuanxiao's voice was full of bitterness.

"I'll help you."

Zhou Yi said: "I will be your adjutant, and issue your instructions to every member on the battlefield. However, you also need to develop a set of effective tactical instructions."

"Previously, Jionghu Cang and Wu Yi had similar cooperation, which was significant in the Shuanghe area. I hope to expand this tactical instruction so that more employees can understand and master it."

"If I am not on the scene, you can tell everyone your orders and tactical intentions by issuing instructions."

Yuanxiao pondered for a moment: "I understand, Chairman, I will do my best to do this."

"In fact, our company has a lot of A-level powerhouses, plus Niger and Sun Hao, there are a total of five, not counting the atmospheric creatures. It just needs to give full play to their strengths and combine them with each other, which will definitely show a strong combat power."

"Okay. I'll leave it to you. Thank you for your hard work."

"No problem. To be honest, I'm already a little excited. The Death Angel's hunter likes to deal with powerful prey! Although learning knowledge is also good, hunting is my favorite activity."

Her eyes were full of undisguised excitement, and strands of white hair stood up on her white clothes, like a cat whose fur was standing on end.

...

Back to Sandport.

Zhou Yi first ordered all departments to be on alert.

Although the Energy Storage City closest to here was destroyed, the large transportation hub, Coral Mouth, is only 1,700 kilometers away from here. A new round of army formations may be assembled at any time to launch an impact on the company.

Jionghu Cang took the initiative to ask: "I'll go scout the nearby mechanical and electrical cities to determine their movements."

Zhou Yi said: "Be careful."

It is the fastest and has measurement capabilities, making it a good scout.

The mechanical and electrical cities have anti-reconnaissance equipment, which prevents satellites from capturing their real situation, so on-site confirmation is the most stable.

Then Zhou Yi contacted several sea lords of the alliance.

They had sent many messages before, but Zhou Yi didn't have time to deal with them because the war was tight.

"...The general situation is like this."

Zhou Yi held an online video conference with them: "Please also be highly vigilant and communicate with each other if you find anything unusual, especially about the machinery or light-printed units created by the mechanical and electrical cities. In order to avoid the lives of ordinary residents in various regions being threatened and affected."

The sea lords were all extremely shocked and talked at once.

"This is the first time that a mechanical and electrical city has been destroyed by external forces after the common agreement was connected!"

"The whole battle rhythm was too fast. I didn't react at all, and it was too late to dispatch troops. I didn't expect it to be over..."

"Great news!! This time, the company not only defeated the enemy's regular army's large-scale attack head-on, but also destroyed an important medium-sized city of the enemy, which is enough to buy us more time and space."

"However, the mechanical and electrical cities went crazy this time so suddenly. Aren't their procedures usually cumbersome? They completed the assembly and dispatch so quickly... It seems that in their assessment, the current situation is extremely unfavorable to them, and only war can solve the current problem."

"This winter, I didn't expect it to be such a full-scale war..."

Zhou Yi asked Red Falcon to share detailed information with them.

He himself began to do something he liked very much.

Counting the spoils of war.

Now is the relaxation period after the war.

703 took Zhou Yi all the way to Yalong Bay.

The captured warships and aircraft were all concentrated here for dismantling and modification to ensure that they would no longer be controlled by the mechanical and electrical cities.

All members of the program department were busy here.

Reinforced control units were placed under the mushroom house, and various wires connected these captured military units.

In addition to several mechanical and electrical programmers, there were also three young programmer assistants running around.

Zhou Yi recognized them as Black Hand Mushroom 102, Chen Ji, and Beta.

703 said excitedly: "Chairman, we obtained a lot of invaluable data from the Energy Storage City data center before."

"This includes detailed information about the 'Security Joint Guard'."

"This is a joint army formed by 138 mechanical and electrical cities triggering military orders with a common agreement. All cities have been opened to wartime status, and all production is tilted towards manufacturing military units, supplying logistics, and enhancing data processing and confrontation capabilities."

"As of the time we broke through Energy Storage City, the 'Security Joint Guard' had a total of 3 legions, with 46 brigades under it, each brigade having between 2,000 and 5,000 troops."

"The one attacking us was the First Brigade of the Second Legion, which is the ace force of the Second Legion. It is equipped with 2,600 military units, and the strength of the aircraft is very high. The comprehensive combat power rating is fifth in the guard and is a veritable elite."

Zhou Yi frowned as he listened.

In other words, there are at least four other armies with the same strength and scale as the one that attacked Sandport before.

If it weren't for the strategic power of the atmospheric creatures, it would have turned into a meat grinder battle. At that time, the powerful logistics capabilities of the Joint Guard would have been fully demonstrated.

The manufacturing capabilities of mechanical and electrical cities are converted into military power, and the intensity is really amazing.

Zhou Yi immediately asked: "Can the speed at which they produce various military units be determined?"

"Cannot be determined."

703 said: "Because Energy Storage City itself is not responsible for manufacturing, it mainly provides berthing, transportation, maintenance, and charging functions. It is more like a large front-line military base. There is no data record in this regard."

"However, the First Brigade of the Second Legion assembled in Energy Storage City, so the detailed information of this army is in the data center."

"The range, rate of fire, destructive power, usage environment scenarios, and inherent defects of the First Brigade's long-range light-printed missiles are all recorded very clearly."

"Based on these data, we can transform the 7 captured warships and 9 aircraft into light-printed aircraft units that serve the company."

Zhou Yi asked: "Is there any information about death ray weapons?"

"Yes! Two death ray weapons are configured on A-level ships."

The robot dog projected an image on the ground.

On the screen were two strangely shaped devices.

The first is a metal sphere that releases energy to form a layer of light wall that covers the surrounding area. External attacks that touch the light wall form polygonal structures like mirrors, and then the energy is dispersed and absorbed into the sphere.

"Chairman, this is the death ray weapon [Mirror Force Field]."

703 introduced: "It is manufactured by Mirror City and rated A+."

"The mechanism of this weapon is an extension and modification of an alien's absorption of external energy. It can disperse and transfer the impact energy that the force field range can withstand, and can form a block-style defense, which can eliminate up to 95% of the damage."

"Even against light core bodies, this mechanism can form an effective defense."

Zhou Yi thought to himself, no wonder the Spotlight's light knife could not break through the A-class cruiser.

This defense mechanism is indeed awesome.

He recalled again: "However, didn't Niger use Blackthorn to penetrate the cruiser?"

"Yes, the effect is quite limited when dealing with light core bodies. Because this force field has several structural modes, it is necessary to select the corresponding gear to deal with different types of attacks. Blackthorn's light core body breakthrough and flicker are not in the data model, so the general mode can only offset about 40% before being forcibly penetrated."

Zhou Yi listened silently.

The mirror force field consumes a lot of combat data, and it is easy to be killed at first sight when dealing with unfamiliar attacks.

But its strength is very exaggerated, and it comes with invulnerability against opponents with enough data.

The second death ray weapon displayed by 703 looked like a columnar high platform.

In the dynamic picture, it slowly rises, concentrating a large amount of energy on the front-end column, and then releasing a beam of light to the outside.

Zhou Yi remembered this. After the atmospheric creatures descended, the last A-class cruiser launched this weapon to carry out a powerful air strike, and also fired black light marks.

"Chairman, this is the [Death Ray Cannon], rated A+, manufactured by Xue County."

"It collects and gathers death rays from the natural environment, and combines its own energy to construct a sufficiently strong energy cluster, and then releases it to a specific area."

703 said: "[Death Ray Cannon] requires a high-intensity death ray environment. The Dead Sea is the best, and the effect on land is much worse."

"It itself needs to continuously accumulate energy. The longer the energy accumulation time, the more energy can be gathered, theoretically reaching a level infinitely close to the light core body."

"When facing our side, it does not have so much energy accumulation time, and this non-targeted energy damage has limited effect on atmospheric creatures. However, if it is replaced by other units or cities, if they are hit, most of them will be destroyed in an instant, and its strength is very high."

"These two death ray weapons require the energy supply of the 'Energy Pool' to be activated. They consume a lot of energy, and it takes a certain amount of time to start. Only large warships with sufficient strength can carry them."

Zhou Yi nodded.

The enemy came prepared and launched a military attack on Sandport with a rapid march.

If they were really allowed to approach Sandport and enter the long-range strike range within 50 kilometers, the disadvantage would be great this time.

"What about the cloud, what is the cloud that locked the Spotlight?"

"That's not a death ray weapon, but a special device [Foam Mirror], which is a device that targets energy-based life forms and energy attacks."

The robot dog explained: "This method uses special materials to create high-reflectivity foam to disperse and refract high-density energy in large quantities, so as to temporarily trap it in that environment and form a defensive zone."

"The Spotlight's energy was dispersed, which prevented it from determining the surrounding situation, so it did not dare to break through rashly."

Zhou Yi's eyes were widened this time.

The mechanical and electrical cities do have rich technical reserves, and there are many varieties in the arsenal.

703 said confidently: "We have obtained a lot of detailed data, and we will never be afraid of similar units and weapon attacks in the future!"

"Now if the enemy dares to come again, without more and stronger new weapons, they will no longer be able to gain any advantage!"

Zhou Yi didn't feel any relaxation in his heart.

This battle seemed like a great victory for our side, but the process was very dangerous, and the victory or defeat was in that instant.

"It's a pity."

703 added: "Once the electronic accounts on the Energy Storage City side are disconnected from the outside world, they cannot be used, and there is no way to obtain any income from the enemy's accounts. The light seeds have already been transferred from the front-line cities... They have made preparations in this regard."

Zhou Yi didn't care: "There are already a lot of spoils this time, and we have also achieved the most important strategic deterrence purpose."

At least it can give Sandport a little peace for a while.