Wasteland Development Diary

After Emerald City took action, Zhou Yi immediately confirmed with Red隼 again: "Is it possible for the Wind Chime to submerge under the Dead Sea and escape?"

"The Recursive City database shows that this type of warship does not have such capabilities. During the previous sea confrontation, when the Wind Chime was destroyed, all crew life signs disappeared, confirming their deaths."

The drone dispelled Zhou Yi's concerns.

Red隼 said, "Through comparison and capture from the Recursive City database, I simulated and reconstructed the previous process."

"Emerald City detonated by launching and igniting columnar projectiles in high-speed collisions, creating high-energy reactions with the Dead Sea fluid, resulting in intense thermal radiation and multiple rounds of shockwaves covering the surrounding area."

"This significantly increased its lethality and destructive range. Without special defense mechanisms, any machine below B-grade would suffer devastating blows."

Red隼 believes: "Emerald City's strength, skills, and machine vitality need comprehensive testing with professional equipment to determine its rating."

Zhou Yi is not considering this for the time being.

Just reaching Recursive City is too far, 1900 kilometers. The energy consumption for a round trip would be outrageous.

What's more important now is to recharge properly.

Zhou Yi placed his hand on Emerald City's outer wall, feeling that the wall was still somewhat hot.

"Are you alright?"

Emerald City said, "Consumed 2% of energy, now only about 15% remaining."

Zhou Yi thought to himself, no wonder.

A Dead Sea bombardment of this scale is a huge drain on Emerald City.

He asked, "What kind of skill is that attack?"

"It's a stress test."

Emerald City transmitted information: "Over time and influenced by the external environment, various parts of the machine will experience wear and natural shedding. Some rooms will become dangerous and require repair or even replacement, necessitating the construction of new rooms to maintain the machine's stability."

"At this time, I will use sand and gravel from existing natural materials to create rooms to replace each severely damaged room. Before replacement, a stress test is necessary."

After constructing the room structure, Emerald City will turn it into a sealed space and inject energy into it, conducting impact, fire resistance, and earthquake resistance tests.

If the room structure has defects or insufficient impact resistance, it will explode under high-pressure testing.

Many lives are terrified of this kind of stress test.

This is also Emerald City's way of metabolizing.

It utilizes this, using past explosive room structures as a foundation to create a large number of high-risk rooms, which are then used for throwing and detonation.

When facing the Wind Chime's frontal bombardment, Emerald City remained motionless, actually undergoing a large-scale synchronous construction phase.

The subsequent damage and detonation on the surface of the Dead Sea, as well as the wide-range shockwaves, were something Emerald City did not expect at all.

"I withstood their attacks, using the explosion of high-risk rooms to drive away the enemy."

This was the initial idea of the high-rise giant.

Emerald City doesn't know about so-called [skills]; it is still in the stage of acting based on its machine functions and instincts.

But similarly, it also has enormous potential for development and growth.

Zhou Yi inquired about the conditions for the flying house bombardment.

Emerald City replied, "Manufacturing a large number of dangerous rooms requires on-site materials on land, sufficient sand and gravel resources, and enough energy."

Zhou Yi looked around.

After that round of flying house bombardment, the surrounding circle of sandy land around Emerald City had already collapsed, like a dry riverbed surrounding a high-rise building.

This is not a problem.

"Synchronously mass-constructing a large number of rooms with the same structure can save construction time. Only considering basic enclosed structures and one-time use, 100 sets of dangerous rooms can be constructed within 10 minutes."

Zhou Yi pondered.

The attack interval is 10 minutes, plus the time required to turn the dangerous rooms into flying houses, the lead time is even longer.

This is heavy firepower, with strong power but slow attack speed.

He first discussed it with Red隼, then exchanged opinions with Emerald City.

Finally, relying on the wisdom of the three parties, the process was optimized and improved.

Normally, Emerald City first manufactures a batch of dangerous rooms for storage, so that ready-made shells can be used during combat, which can cause huge damage to the enemy at the first moment, giving the opponent no time to react or retreat, and can also greatly shorten the cooling time.

After manual collection and summarization, Zhou Yi manually created a set of reference data.

...

[Flying House Bombardment]

Damage: B-grade

Cooldown: 10 minutes (3.3 seconds when ready-made ammunition is available)

Range: 225

...

This is much more intuitive.

With the crisis resolved, Zhou Yi ordered the company to resume normal operations.

He looked at the vast Dead Sea, feeling very惋惜.

Emerald City is too heavy-handed, directly blowing up the Wind Chime, failing to salvage any spoils and instead consuming 2% of its energy.

He needs to remind it to pay attention in the future, to seek safety and stability, but also to consider economic benefits.

...

A stony area 1500 meters from the beach.

An American-style heavy truck quietly lurked in the darkness.

A small, foldable metal observation tower was erected on its container.

Qian Su sat on the platform of the observation tower, enjoying the breeze. She gnawed on a dry biscuit, her eyes focused on the adjustable high-powered telescope, closely monitoring the movements of the Dead Sea.

While eating, she muttered to herself.

"Good fight, we'd be out of a job if there wasn't a fight."

"It's a pity that Zhou Yi has no intention of buying weapons and equipment at all, I don't know if it's confidence or no budget."

"Are my prices too high? Not expensive, just 25% higher than the market price, running to such a remote and desolate place, just earning a little hard-earned money."

"Partner, do you think he can withstand the Dead Sea Knight's warship?"

An electronic voice came from the heavy truck cab: "He will win."

"You're so optimistic about him?"

Qian Su yawned: "What if it's not a light cruiser that comes, but a medium cruiser equipped with main battle weapons, his undefended coastline is a sitting duck."

The heavy truck said, "That alien is very strong."

The girl swallowed a bite of biscuit: "Um... I certainly know the Dead Sea alien's strength is very high. But that kind of thing still hasn't broken free from the survival characteristics driven by instinct. As long as the Dead Sea Knights aren't stupid, they'll know to pull it through the Dead Sea."

"Maybe it won't cause any damage to it, but the generation and stimulation of energy will make that guy move closer to the Dead Sea. The alien is like a moth to a flame, always unable to refuse the source of high-intensity energy."

"As long as it enters the Dead Sea, it's finished, it will fall asleep like a newborn baby. The Dead Sea Knights only need to confirm and mark it, and then call in a large number of helpers, and they can transport this big guy all the way through the Dead Sea."

"If the Wasteland Development Company has no other means, this alien is afraid it can't be kept."

The heavy truck was silent for a while.

"It's a C-grade machine."

"C-grade? That's normal. The mechanism is there, unless it's an A-grade echelon, otherwise the Dead Sea alien's own defect in rational cognition will always allow them to be controlled by their energy-seeking nature." Qian Su crossed her legs, saying casually.

"Yay? Has your [Appraisal] improved again? You can directly scan aliens now? Have you finally broken through into your full form? This ability can make a lot of money! We're going to be rich!?"

The girl's face lit up.

"Dead Sea aliens can only be evaluated based on their destructive power."

The heavy truck corrected: "I'm talking about Zhou Yi."

Qian Su's face froze, and then she coughed violently while clutching her chest. She quickly took a sip of water.

"Could you be mistaken?"

"How could a human machine reach C-grade? Impossible, impossible... He doesn't have a light imprint, that kind of thing is easy to identify. That is clearly flesh and blood."

The heavy truck reiterated: "[Appraisal] has indeed broken through the final stage, reaching the fifth stage of the limit peak. From this, a special advanced effect, [Reverse Judgment], has evolved, which can infer based on the other party's real-time unfolding abilities."

"[Appraisal] did not find any abnormalities in Zhou Yi, and believes that he is a normal human. But [Reverse Judgment] gave a different conclusion. The moment he looked at me, he unfolded a certain skill, and this ability fed back a judgment that the machine is C-grade."

"But when he stopped looking at me, no more information could be obtained."

"It can be determined that this is information he deliberately revealed." The heavy truck was extremely certain.

Qian Su's eyes suddenly became serious and tense.

"C-grade machine... no light imprint, and no large-scale prosthetic replacement..."

The girl couldn't help but gasp: "A Celestial Being!"