Wasteland Development Diary

Following Bai Bi, Zhou Yi walked from the rainforest to an open area.

This place was surrounded by a high chain-link fence, inside which were two long, strip-shaped large water storage pools. At both ends of the pools were two square concrete buildings, with a circle of pipes buried underground around all four sides.

A tall girl, armed with a white knight's short gun, was pacing around on patrol. She had long, wine-red hair, and her shoulders were equipped with heavy mechanical units carrying two movable cannons. Four knight's spears were strapped to her back.

Bai Bi pointed inside the chain-link fence and said, "This is our water plant. Guarding it is Sister Hong Xing, she is also a Weapon Girl."

"Sister Hong Xing, I brought Mr. Zhou here to repair and treat the water plant."

Hong Xing's gaze turned to Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi also sized her up.

This tall and slender Weapon Girl was fully armed, her body tightly wrapped in a kind of black cloth, which made her body lines clear. She wore a pair of long black boots.

"Identity confirmed, come in."

Hong Xing held her gun and stepped aside.

So Bai Bi led Zhou Yi and Yuanxiao straight towards the chain-link fence. As they approached, the fence seemed to melt away, curling outwards on all sides.

Zhou Yi felt a little magical: "Is this iron net bound to Hong Xing?"

Bai Bi nodded: "Without Sister Hong Xing's permission, you will be entangled by the iron net. Don't underestimate this [Iron Cage Entanglement], it is also an A-level weapon. It's not so easy to break through. I used to fight it one-on-one, and couldn't beat it for a long time."

Zhou Yi was shocked.

He looked at the iron net behind him.

The Arms Master's camp indeed had a wide variety of weapons. Even this thing was A-level.

Zhou Yi turned his attention back to the water plant.

He used the same old method, placing his hand on the building.

Energy input, consciousness synchronization activated.

"Hello."

"Hmm?"

The water plant responded quickly: "You can directly connect to my consciousness?"

It showed a hint of surprise.

"Yes. I am invited by the Arms Master..."

After a brief self-introduction, Zhou Yi asked about the malfunction here.

"That, I did it on purpose."

"On purpose... why?"

"Because there are big problems with this water."

It said: "My name is Xin Du Water Plant, covering an area of 32 acres, enough to serve a population of 150,000 people, with a daily water supply of 15,000 tons. The water quality has long met the standard at a rate of 99%... Originally, my work was very normal, but now the water quality compliance rate has dropped to 32%, and it is simply unusable for drinking."

"For safety, I can't let this water flow out."

So that's how it is.

Zhou Yi asked it: "What is the reason?"

"Heavy metal exceeded the standard, and radioactive contamination."

Xin Du Water Plant explained: "The water source here is the main stream of the northern regional river."

"In terms of heavy metal pollution, according to my limited ability to identify, it mainly contains a large amount of lead, and the lead content in the water is further increasing."

"Radioactive substances in rocks, soil, and air have also caused pollution to the water source, and this situation is also becoming increasingly serious."

After discussing and communicating with it, Zhou Yi roughly found the source of the pollution.

The lead content exceeded the standard, and the source was the Golden Elephants.

These super-giant lifeforms will trample various ground lifeforms into pools of gold foil. This gold foil is also unstable and will soon turn into lead, which will then pollute the water and soil.

The radioactivity comes from outside the safe zone.

There, it continues to suffer from high-intensity radiation, which also has a continuous impact on the water flow passing through.

Over the years, the water plant's water purification capacity has been unable to effectively clean up the pollution and provide safe and clean drinking water.

In the end, it chose to lock the water to prevent it from flowing out and harming drinkers.

Zhou Yi relayed this situation to Bai Bi beside him.

"This, what can we do?"

The rabbit-eared girl looked dumbfounded.

"The Golden Elephants have always existed, and there is no way to stop them from trampling. The radiation from the outside can't be changed either... Then can't our water plant produce water anymore?"

She looked anxiously at Zhou Yi: "Do you have a way? You must have a way, right?"

"There is a way."

Zhou Yi discussed feasible measures with Xin Du Water Plant.

"Two paths."

"The first is to change the water source to a river that only passes through the safe zone. Is there such a water source?"

Bai Bi shook her head.

"Then there is only the second path, which will be much more troublesome."

Zhou Yi told her: "First, you need to install a powerful integrated water purifier, which must integrate flocculation, sedimentation, sewage discharge, backwashing, water collection and filtration, and other processes."

"Then open a new sedimentation tank to repeatedly settle particles in the water and separate flocculent substances."

"Next, you need to install a brand new and powerful filtration layer, using porous solid substances to adsorb and remove heavy metal ions and radioactive particles in the water, and remove fine suspended impurities, organic matter, bacteria, viruses, etc. in the water."

"Then continue to expand the clean water pool and build two new pools of the current size to further purify the water through long-term standing."

"The water plant's supporting facilities have not been replaced for too many years, and many have long been ineffective. Xin Du Water Plant mainly relies on the most basic physical sedimentation, so the effect is getting worse and worse."

Bai Bi nodded straightly as she listened.

"I understand, it is to buy these things... and that's it?"

"That's about it, and there is one more thing..."

Suddenly, a thunderous roar came from outside, followed by a series of explosions.

Bai Bi's face changed drastically: "Oops, the Golden Elephant is rushing over! It's an adult! We have to fight!"

"Mr. Zhou, please hide first, I'll go support Sister Hong Xing."

After saying that, she turned and ran away at full speed.

Zhou Yi walked to the chain-link fence.

From here, he could clearly see the traces of the Golden Elephant in the distance. Golden pillar-like feet stomped down from the sky, splashing pieces of gold foil and a large number of gold threads on the ground.

Its legs were as thick as mountains, but the overall structure was a smooth metal structure, and the outer skin was as smooth as if it had been polished. When stepping down from the sky, no structure similar to toes or palms could be seen under its feet.

Throughout the stepping process, the legs did not make any bending movements, as if a giant metal drilling machine was driving piles.

The Golden Elephant walked towards the water plant step by step, and the sense of oppression continued to increase as the distance narrowed.

Two Weapon Girls launched an obstruction against it.

Hong Xing took the lead.

The cannons on her shoulders continued to fire at the Golden Elephant's front legs.

During the firing interval, Hong Xing leaned back greatly, and the white knight's spear was thrown out by her at a rapid speed, making a loud whistling sound.

The spear turned into a beam of white light and hit the Golden Elephant's front leg, exploding into a dazzling ball of sparks. When the black smoke dissipated, the golden elephant leg was unharmed and continued to move forward slowly.

Hong Xing threw out all the equipped knight's spears, detonating them all on the enemy's body.

Then her whole body folded and transformed into a metal bird with wide wings, rising from the ground.

Hong Xing in Weapon form began to circle the Golden Elephant's legs, the cannons under her wings continued to fire, and the bird's head position sprayed a blazing laser, trying to penetrate the golden elephant's legs.

However, the laser only reflected dazzling light when it landed on the elephant's legs, and could not break through its defense at all.

Bai Bi turned into a black and white conceptual motorcycle, with a triangular frame, white lines and opposed twin engines. The large-size metal reflector above the front wheel was integrated with the frame, streamlined, simple and elegant. The small iron coffin containing the Witch of Bad Luck was still fixed on the back seat.

It drove all the way up the Golden Elephant's golden leg pillar, driving on it at high speed, releasing layers of light waves visible to the naked eye.

Zhou Yi was touched by the light waves from a long distance away. For a time, he was mentally dazed, and his mind became a little muddled.

He quickly woke up.

It was a mental attack.

It turned out that Bai Bi was good at this field.

She and Hong Xing both wanted to distract the Golden Elephant in their own ways.

But this behemoth just ignored the obstruction and moved forward.

The huge gap between A-level and Light Core body cannot be compensated by quantity.

It was less than five hundred meters away from Xin Du Water Plant. It only needed four or five steps to crush this place and destroy the already overwhelmed building life.

Zhou Yi no longer hesitated.

The atmospheric creature on his shoulder burst out, forming a huge cloud house covering the sky and the sun, and its size was not inferior to the Golden Elephant with only four legs.

Upon receiving the order, Bing Hu did not retreat because the opponent was a Light Core body, and launched an attack on the Golden Elephant.

At the same time.

Mai Ba also launched the BGM field.

But in just an instant, it gave feedback: "No, Chairman. Its consciousness intensity is too high. My current strength cannot pull it into my world, and can only slightly affect it."

"Then affect it as much as possible."

Zhou Yi also knew that it would be absolutely easy to deal with the Light Core body.

It would be a success if they could just hold it back.

Fortunately, the atmospheric creature's consciousness intensity was sufficient, coupled with the influence exerted by Mai Ba, the Golden Elephant was stuck in a moment of stillness.

Next, they just had to wait for the Arms Master's support to arrive.

At this time, Yuanxiao suddenly said: "There is a flaw. Chairman, this guy has a fatal flaw. Its life is running out, so it is going crazy."

Huh?

Zhou Yi was surprised: "Is this a wounded Golden Elephant?"

The Death Angel stared firmly at the huge monster in the distance, its eyes were like red glass, and a wisp of black lines appeared at the corners of its eyes: "Its weakness is under the foot of its right hind leg. I can see life flowing away quickly. That is the biggest gap! Its fatal weakness!"

Zhou Yi immediately shouted: "The weakness is under the foot of the right hind leg, attack there!"

The two Weapon Girls immediately changed their targets and rushed towards the right hind leg.

Under their precise attacks, the Golden Elephant finally did not turn a blind eye, and its four legs melted everything it touched into gold, turning into flowing liquid gold.

Zhou Yi could not tell whether it was the golden blood flowing out of the Golden Elephant, or it was transforming and assimilating the surrounding environment on a large scale.

Hong Xing and Bai Bi also had to quickly distance themselves to avoid being affected.

The Golden Elephant continued to move forward.

The Weapon Girls continued to attack the right leg, Mai Ba exerted its full influence, and the atmospheric creature continued to attack with consciousness.

These methods were completely ineffective in front of the serious Golden Elephant.

Bing Hu suddenly said: "Chairman, this guy has no malice... I have obtained part of its consciousness. It is dying, just wanting to return to the place where it was born to die - in the water plant, it was born here."

"Confirm?"

"Confirmed."

Zhou Yi hesitated for a moment and shouted to the two Weapon Girls: "Stop attacking, let it come over."

Bai Bi was the first to stop firing, and Hong Xing also stopped firing later.

The Golden Elephant continued to move forward.

It crossed the A-level [Iron Cage Entanglement], and the iron wires extending from these iron nets were directly crushed and torn apart by it.

The Golden Elephant took the last step and arrived at the side of the clean water pool.

A crisp metallic collision sound came from its body.

It seemed that it could no longer support itself, and its body began to collapse, and its four feet crashed to the ground. However, the upper part of its body was still nowhere to be seen.

Zhou Yi then saw that the foot of the Golden Elephant's right hind leg was broken or hollowed out by something, turning into a hollow cylinder.

After falling down, its huge four feet began to melt, and gold flowed from top to bottom, evaporating a large amount of white gas.

But it soon seemed to burn out and became a pile of huge silver-gray lead blocks.

In the collapsed lead block, a small golden pillar was very eye-catching. Its top was conical, like a spear pointing to the sky.

Zhou Yi's eyes narrowed.

It turned out that the golden sunflower was the tombstone of the Golden Elephant.