Wasteland Development Diary

As a new Sky Walker visiting the Great Holy Spirit Internet for the first time, Zhou Yi felt both apprehensive and excited.

"What should I do now?"

The Spirit Interface said: "Here are the nodes you can access."

An electronic image appeared in Zhou Yi's mind, with many sparkling spots.

To his surprise, this map only included the Development League and a few surrounding areas, with very limited accessible zones.

The Northern Heavenly Kingdom was shrouded in mist, and the Mech City area to the west was completely inaccessible.

Zhou Yi was puzzled: "Why can I only access such a small area? Why can't I go to other places?"

"I'm sorry, because your consciousness is only strongly connected to this area. Although you are accessing through the Great Holy Spirit, your own consciousness is also important. If the connection is too weak, or your consciousness cannot influence certain areas, it will be difficult to access."

The Spirit Interface told him: "Please come back to explore the restricted access areas in the future."

"..."

Zhou Yi was helpless.

However, the consciousness side and the material side were originally two sides of the same coin, influencing each other.

The Heavenly Kingdom expands its territory to maintain its rule, and conceptual beings like the Night God expand their influence and spread. They take two different forms, but ultimately they converge to the same goal.

The competition in the field of consciousness is also very important.

Zhou Yi turned his attention back to the area he could access.

Southeast of Sandport, there was a public node emitting a green light, representing its operational status.

You're it.

After Zhou Yi made his selection, the surrounding environment suddenly changed.

He arrived on a mountain.

This mountain was composed of black and white stones, with a large number of rocks and fragments piled up like discarded building materials, forming this huge mountain.

There was no water, no blue sky or white clouds, only this mountain resembling ruins.

The borders were covered in gray mist, and the line of sight could not extend further.

Zhou Yi saw many shadowy figures from Detective Conan standing here, but they were all blurry.

He asked the Spirit Interface: "What are those?"

"Visitors like you. In public nodes, visitors are anonymous and hidden, so they cannot identify each other, which makes it easier for everyone to move around freely."

4399 said: "Time is precious, aren't you going to mine?"

"Mine?"

"It's about extracting the required consciousness fragments from the node. Visitors come here for this purpose."

"How do I mine?"

Zhou Yi looked around, seeing the shadowy figures standing still, motionless.

He must look the same in their eyes.

"Of course, you dig with your hands."

"If you need tools to improve efficiency, we also provide them."

A price list appeared before Zhou Yi's eyes.

【Pickaxe 33/33】: Mining hard consciousness blocks.

【Shovel 25/25】: Digging.

The numbers after the tools represent their durability, i.e., how many times they can be used.

Both of these things are very expensive.

The pickaxe costs 3300 light seeds, and the shovel costs 2500 light seeds, with the price linked to their durability.

Each swing costs 100 light seeds.

Zhou Yi thought, this Sky Walker mines at such a high cost.

He decided to try using his hands first.

Zhou Yi began to clear the black and white stones under his feet. He found that these were all consciousness key fragments, but for some reason, they were extremely heavy, making it difficult to lift and move them.

After manual collection and searching for a long time, he didn't find anything useful.

The Spirit Interface instructed: "If you touch valuable consciousness fragments here, there will be a strong reaction. As long as you extract it, you can obtain the information inside."

"However, only fragments related to your consciousness will have this reaction."

"If it is something you have never encountered, even if it is of great value, you will not be able to sense it."

Zhou Yi searched for a long time.

He asked the Spirit Interface to time and report the points for him.

After working for more than half an hour, moving more than a dozen consciousness keys and searching through handfuls of fragments, he didn't gain anything.

Zhou Yi gritted his teeth: "One pickaxe and one shovel each."

"Okay."

The Spirit Interface said: "We will settle the bill after the end. Just put the light seeds into any entrance. Of course, if you forget or refuse to pay, you will not be able to access the Great Holy Spirit again."

The two tools were slender, with zebra-like black and white patterns all over, and felt heavy in the hand.

Although the price was expensive, they were really easy to use.

Zhou Yi easily shoveled out a large number of fragments with one shovel, and after three shovels, he found a glowing spot inside.

He picked up the glowing fragment and read a piece of information from it.

【The Sand Rat tribe has a little-known special habit: they are born with inter-racial mating desires. This tendency is more likely to break out on a large scale when the number of individuals in the tribe is larger, and the tendency is more easily suppressed when the number of Sand Rats is smaller. This is the result of my experiment.】

Is this the Sand Rat's fetish?

Zhou Yi was a little confused.

Although the Sand Rat is indeed related to him, this information is really a bit unpopular and useless.

I don't know who is researching in this direction.

He shoveled a few more times and directly dug out a hole.

But the bottom was blocked by two columnar white consciousness keys.

Zhou Yi swung the pickaxe and smashed it after 4 or 5 swings.

He dismantled four consciousness keys in a row and saw another glowing object.

He picked it up and read it.

This time there was a lot of information.

【Did you know? Xenomorphs also excrete, or rather, metabolically shed some residue. Their residual excrement forms a condensed form that is almost like a calculus, which they bury deep underground.】

【These feces have been modified by Xenomorphs and are radioactive. They need to be dug out and buried elsewhere, otherwise the accumulation of quantity will cause discomfort, disease, and even death to other nearby creatures.】

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【However, these feces themselves are also valuable research objects. They release energy in a way that is almost like decay. If this energy can be utilized, there may be new discoveries. It's a pity that I have too few samples here, and time is running out, so I can't conduct more in-depth exploration, what a pity.】

Zhou Yi was stunned.

Construction life actually poops.

He had never known such a thing until now.

Xenomorph employees never mentioned it either.

But... even if they excrete, they won't say, Chairman, I pooped today, it feels great.

It's just that this calculus feces can actually decay and release a lot of energy, which can be further developed and tried.

It is also necessary to collect them to avoid radiation affecting the surrounding residents.

He got a very useful piece of information.

Zhou Yi's enthusiasm for mining suddenly increased.

However, in the next hour, he gained nothing. No matter whether he used a shovel to dig up gravel or a pickaxe to smash those hard consciousness blocks, he didn't find any more glowing objects.

Perhaps the beginner's welfare ends here.

The shovel and pickaxe were exhausted.

After generally understanding this situation, Zhou Yi temporarily ended his Great Holy Spirit visit.

...

Opening his eyes again, Zhou Yi found himself still standing in the same place.

Only 1 second had passed.

He first took out the Light Naringe and put 5800 light seeds into the patched entrance.

Zhou Yi immediately asked Emerald City about the feces problem.

"Yes, Commissioner, there is excrement."

"They have special radiation-style energy."

Emerald City replied: "We usually bury it deep underground, away from life on the ground, to avoid causing harm to other lives."

"So please rest assured, it will not harm the company's employees and nearby residents."

Zhou Yi also asked Shi Gandang if he knew about this.

"I know."

The electromechanical expert who partnered with Emerald City said: "We also recorded it in the past during experiments in the Heavenly Kingdom. Those feces have strong radiation and are the product of Xenomorphs constantly adjusting their bodies and continuously reorganizing. It is not accurate to call them feces."

"More like molts."

"Their molts are different from flesh and blood life."

Shi Gandang said: "There are a large number of consciousnesses in Xenomorphs. As time goes by, some consciousnesses will appear abnormal, out of control, or chaotic, affecting the entire Xenomorph body."

"Therefore, this part of the consciousness and naturally decaying consciousness fragments will be isolated and squeezed out by the Xenomorph, and then carried and sealed with highly compressed matter and energy, which is stripped from the body. It is a process of self-detoxification and treatment."

"So the external radiation is because it contains chaotic consciousness and has a high level of energy, which is highly dangerous."

So that's how it is.

Zhou Yi was a little speechless: "Emerald City, how come you don't know yourself as well as Shi Gandang does?"

The Xenomorph employee said: "Commissioner, I am still learning, learning is endless, there is a lot to learn. I will try my best to understand myself like Shi Gandang."

"..."

Considering that construction life itself cannot communicate with the outside world, knowledge accumulation and cognitive improvement all require a process.

Forget it.

Shi Gandang added: "Chairman, this chaotic stone molt itself is a dangerous object, and it will generate strong radiation just by being left there, so it cannot be used."

"Because our development and understanding of consciousness are very basic, and electromechanical life progresses slowly in this area."

"But according to what you said, someone once tried to push it along the energy direction. In principle, this is possible."

"Although our existing devices and equipment cannot achieve material decay. But Emerald City and the others can."

"Centralized management of stone molts can convert the heat they generate into electrical energy, which can save a lot of costs. This can be done, and because the energy level of stone molts is very high, it can be used continuously for many years."

Zhou Yi was overjoyed to hear this.

He immediately ordered.

"Emerald City, dig out the stone molts! Let me see!"

"Yes, Commissioner."