Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi was shocked and quickly put the shell back into the energy block.

The shelter immediately merged into the solid light core.

"What's wrong?"

Zhou Yi asked with concern, "What monster? How serious is the damage?"

"102 of our kind died."

Dong Shi said sadly, "They are too ferocious, attacking us madly... We are not combat members, and we don't have combat tools. We tried our best but couldn't win."

"The monsters here are endless. They are much bigger than us, strong and savage. They don't respond to our friendly greetings, only ramming and hunting us."

"Chairman Zhou, the world you live in is too terrible..."

After listening to its intermittent accusations, Zhou Yi finally understood what was going on.

Some Dong people tried to come out of their shelters because they naturally assumed that this world must be friendly and safe, just like Zhou Yi had shown.

As a result, they were immediately besieged by the local monsters. Those monsters were much larger than them, ranging from 10 to 200 times their size, and their numbers seemed endless.

In fact, these monsters are plankton, microscopic life that ordinary people cannot see with the naked eye.

Zhou Yi immediately called Da Vinci over to measure the Dong people's shelter.

"Chairman, this is a closed object made of a special material. X-rays cannot penetrate it, so we can't know its specific structure."

"We found some very small life forms on the surface of the shell-shaped shelter. They no longer show signs of life, but their bodies are fixed on the shell surface, and there is a strange force of adhesion between them. I think these should be the dead Dong people."

"The diameter of the Dong people is about 0.3 microns, which belongs to the smallest range of bacterial volume, much smaller than a single cell."

"The plankton in our Dead Sea, including planktonic bacteria and planktonic eukaryotes, generally have a body size diameter between 0.5 and 100 microns. The Dong people are extremely fragile, and they will become the target of attacks and hunts by medium and large plankton here."

The mechanical and electrical doctor showed the morphology of the Dong people with a high-magnification microscope.

They look like translucent tic-tac-toe shapes, very thin and small, and can be connected to each other through extended four pairs of feet to form a stable combined structure.

"It's hard to imagine that this life form can not only create a civilization but also master space technology."

Da Vinci continued, "With this fragile physiological structure, my existing database cannot deduce their process of using high-density energy. Life is truly great and magical!"

Zhou Yi asked, "Is there any device that can protect them? Like a cage that can block the plankton outside?"

"Yes. Plankton nets can do it. Our hospital bought some before, and there is a small amount of stock."

"The smallest diameter of the mesh can ensure that external plankton will not enter, and it can maintain air circulation."

Da Vinci returned to the hospital to get a few small net cages and showed them to Zhou Yi.

Under the microscope, it can be clearly seen that the mesh indeed blocked plankton of various shapes outside, and they could not break through the dense mesh structure.

The number of plankton in the Dead Sea is extremely large, and the body size is generally large. However, the plankton density on the land surrounding the Dead Sea suddenly decreases, as if arriving at a sparsely populated country road from a crowded subway during rush hour.

In the net cage, the Dong people emerged from the shell of the shelter, looking at this strange world.

"Chairman Zhou, it's safe here, thank you, really thank you!" Dong Shi said gratefully.

"It's nothing."

Zhou Yi took the net cage back to Emerald City and put a grain of wheat in it.

The Dong Shi reacted strongly: "Amazing new life substance! We have never seen this before. Its texture and structure are incredible, and it contains unique and fascinating life information."

"We are trying to exchange with it."

This made Zhou Yi think of the Boundary Breaker Haruk.

Haruk also desperately wanted various forms of life on land to obtain their DNA to help himself evolve to a stronger Zhou.

It seems that the Dong people also have a similar tendency.

It took 1,500 Dong people four days to completely decompose and digest this grain of wheat.

Dong Shi said that after careful attempts, they obtained a large amount of useful life substances from it, which were integrated and assembled into each Dong person's body, gaining a certain degree of evolution and growth.

"Great Chairman Zhou, we hope to contact those monsters again."

Zhou Yi asked curiously, "Can you beat them now?"

"We have no chance of winning by purely relying on the physical strength of our lives to collide, but we must contact them, even if we have to fight for it. We need to exchange life information with them to obtain further growth and reproduction—their reproductive ability is as monstrous as monsters!"

Dong Shi said, "Last time we contacted them, we found that they have similar life forms to us and belong to close relatives. It's just that we have embarked on different evolutionary routes."

"The Dong people have learned to make tools and transform the world through generations of accumulation, so that their fragile bodies can be safely accommodated."

"The close relatives here follow the most primitive life principles, making themselves as strong as possible and reproducing as many offspring as possible. They continue in the simplest way."

"At the beginning, everyone in the shelter unanimously believed that their monster route was ignorant and absurd, and they had not even completed basic enlightenment."

"But after a period of in-depth discussion, everyone realized that this was not the case. They just embarked on different evolutionary paths from us. Although we have proud technical experience and accumulation, we may now only have this shelter left."

Dong Shi said in a serious tone, "Look at them again."

"In a world where there are such outstanding and great lives as you, they still exist, are everywhere, and even have a diversity that we have never had. There are so many kinds of them, and they can survive under various environmental changes, not to mention the reproductive ability that we cannot reach."

"In this world, they are a more successful direction of evolution than us."

"We chose tools... or, according to you, built civilization."

"They embrace the purest essence of life and death and transform into monsters."

"From the results, they maintain a strong vitality, and if there are no accidents, they will continue to grow stronger. But we have been declining very early, because the offspring we reproduce are becoming more and more weak and necrotic, and there are quite a few such individuals in the shelter."

"The newly born members cannot make up for the number of deaths, and destruction has become inevitable."

It said sadly, "We have the technology to change the world, we have created a large number of records and erected them all over the world, turning them into proof of our existence and prosperity, but we cannot transform ourselves and complete our continuation."

Zhou Yi talked with it and consulted Da Vinci, who is a doctor.

Da Vinci believes that the main reason lies in the deformed life environment on the Dong people's side.

In the era when trees and insects had not yet appeared, the only group of life in that world was the Dong people.

This is both lucky and unfortunate.

The luck lies in the fact that they are the world's inherent masters, and they can complete the original accumulation of the entire group without worry, and finally build the brilliant civilization of the Dong people generation after generation.

The misfortune lies in the difficulty of reproduction.

They continue to reproduce, but they are all inbreeding, resulting in a large number of deformed children. The longer the time, the more serious this phenomenon becomes.

Da Vinci said: "This is even more fatal for life with a simple structure. Decreased genetic diversity will weaken the population's ability to adapt to environmental pressures—such as changes in temperature and salinity—and increase the risk of extinction."

"High genetic similarity makes the population more susceptible to specific pathogens, leading to large-scale disease outbreaks."

"Inbreeding may lead to a decline in reproductive success, affecting population size."

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"The Dong people's idea of contacting local plankton is correct. If they can exchange genes with local species, the next generation of new Dong people can fundamentally change the current predicament."

After this science popularization, Zhou Yi felt relieved.

Da Vinci added: "However, contact also needs to be gradual. Chairman, we can capture some smaller plankton and put a small amount into the net cage."

Zhou Yi thought this was a good idea.

The specific operation was handed over to Da Vinci, a professional.

It first put a planktonic bacterium into the net cage.

Half a day later.

Dong Shi said excitedly, "We get along very well with it. The close relatives on land are much gentler and more stable, and their aggressiveness is not so strong."

"It is at peace with us, and our kind has basically exchanged information with it."

The meaning of this sentence is that they have mated.

So Zhou Yi asked Da Vinci to increase the intensity.

As plankton were put into it one by one, the Dong people gradually became active.

"Chairman Zhou, we have given birth to the first new member, it is a brand new Dong person! It is the life born from the exchange and combination of us and local close relatives! This is a new moment worth remembering!"

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"These new generation Dong people are not much different from us, and they fit us very well. It's just that they are more irritable than us... We have taught them basic knowledge, and this knowledge is recorded on the shelter, so fortunately this part will not be forgotten."

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"Our numbers have increased tenfold!"

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"We have reached 1 million individuals!"

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"Chairman Zhou, we want to contact the Dead Sea close relatives."

After seeking Da Vinci's opinion, Zhou Yi agreed.

"These monsters!! They are still so crazy!! What a bunch of mad beasts!"

"Damn it, don't think we are afraid of you! Brothers, do them!"

"Kill them!"

After completing the exchange and reproduction with the local plankton, the Dong people are continuously updating and changing. The personality of this group is also changing with the environment, and they are no longer the timid and clueless people who have lived in the greenhouse for a long time.

Now they are physically fighting with the local plankton, and they can be regarded as integrated into the local community.

Zhou Yi pays attention to the recent situation in the net cage every day and actively communicates with Dong Shi.

One day.

Dong Shi suddenly said: "Chairman Zhou, we want to challenge the plankton you raised. If we can integrate into the local close relatives of this level, I think we can play some role."

"In that way, we can not only repay your help, but also make ourselves stronger."

Zhou Yi took an old-fashioned 1st generation plankton heart from the inventory and let Dong Shi send some Dong people into it.

Four days later.

After testing, the effectiveness of this plankton heart actually reached 3 floats, which is even twice that of the 2nd generation heart!

Zhou Yi used a multi-band dead light reflector to irradiate it and found that no green light appeared inside, indicating that the plankton had not evolved to be stronger.

What is the situation?

Dong Shi said proudly about this: "We have completed the information exchange with them and created a large number of new generation Dong people. Now in the heart, we have actually become the dominant position."

"We use our innate structure that can be connected to each other to release and transmit the energy generated with as little loss as possible."

"Refuse to waste! We can help you!"

Zhou Yi was shocked by what he heard.

Wouldn't that be...

Can the plankton in the heart be completely replaced by the Dong people?