Wasteland Development Diary

To be on the safe side, Zhou Yi invited Da Vinci, and the two elders Liu and Chen, to inspect together.

The two inventors of the floating hearts immediately began comparative experiments.

Liu Fusheng observed the different results produced by the two hearts, and muttered, "Without increasing the number and strength of the plankton, producing three times the energy of a first-generation heart per unit of time... it's actually possible to achieve this level of optimization simply by changing the structure."

"This plankton is highly compatible with our heart device and should be cultivated on a large scale!"

Chen Ruixiang adjusted his thick-bottomed glasses: "Could there be any risks? The energy conversion rate is so high, with a three-fold difference in this magnitude, it's a huge generational gap. For example, the wear and tear on the plankton, and the reduction in their own population due to excessive conversion..."

Zhou Yi recounted the story of the Grotto-dwellers.

The two old engineers were initially sitting upright, but their faces gradually became puzzled when they heard about the Grotto-dwellers moving space bubbles, and for the rest of the time, they looked completely bewildered.

"This is too..."

Liu Fusheng's lips moved, trying hard to find suitable words, but in the end, he gave a wry smile: "Chairman, you've even brought the Grotto-dwellers here... I feel that the experience and technology I've accumulated in the past have become meaningless and insignificant to them."

Chen Ruixiang circled around the floating heart containing the Grotto-dwellers, looking at it and rubbing his hands non-stop: "Amazing, amazing! I never thought I would be able to witness such a powerful civilization in my lifetime, I never thought they would be so small, yet able to create such amazing technology."

"Indeed, if you live long enough, you'll see new things! It's so good to be alive!"

Zhou Yi smiled and said, "The Grotto-dwellers are a group that highly relies on the accumulation of technical experience and information recording. They have indeed created a strong and unique civilization."

"However, the part that has come to Emerald City is small in number and lacks their [place of record]. Without those mud tablets as technical manuals, they don't understand anything."

"Not long ago, the Grotto-dwellers were still fighting back and forth with the local plankton, and many of them died."

Chen Ruixiang was shocked: "We can't let that happen, Chairman, we must protect them! Losing one is a huge loss!"

Liu Fusheng glared at Chen Ruixiang: "Are you confused? If they are completely kept in captivity and protected, that would be a waste of resources and lose their advantages."

"They need to be in contact with the outside world, gradually activate and adapt here, and then they can further reproduce and iterate on a large scale. Otherwise, they will be like those endangered species that are locked up, unable to survive without protection, and can only become ornamental toys."

"...What you said makes sense."

Chen Ruixiang smiled embarrassedly: "They seem to be adapting well now. However, I still have some difficulty understanding the principle of the energy conversion improvement of the floating heart device. How exactly did they do it?"

"They have improved the biological energy conversion rate."

Da Vinci, who had completed the tedious testing, spoke at this time: "The plankton communities we collected from Yalong Bay are generally stable in distribution. When they ingest oil and sugar, they react with the death rays, and the energy conversion rate to the heart machinery is in the range of 10%, with fluctuations no higher than 1%."

"But after the Grotto-dwellers joined, they connected with each other, and a large number of individuals formed a stable organization. The energy was directionally transmitted, and the conversion rate increased to about 32%."

"Their physiological structure has a strong ability to capture and adsorb energy, and efficiently transmits energy through a large number of small molecules such as ATP (adenosine triphosphate)."

"The Grotto-dwellers are always connected to each other, moving in the form of group integration, rather than individual activities. This is already a micro-biological device, which can effectively utilize energy as much as possible, expand the reaction area, and the convergent activity mode can effectively reduce internal losses during the death ray reaction process."

Zhou Yi asked, "Are the vast majority of the hearts now Grotto-dwellers?"

"No, Chairman, the number of Grotto-dwellers only accounts for about 0.5%. The vast majority are the previous plankton communities."

The electromechanical doctor projected a picture under a high-power microscope on the wall.

In the dynamic image, plankton combined with each other, turning into a strange linear structure, like different blocks in Tetris assembled together.

These linear structures have three-dimensional network structures in the center, forming more complex and interconnected forms.

A large number of microscopic lives eventually merged into a huge mesh sphere.

They maintained a jellyfish-like floating posture, and continued to build mesh structures from the inside out, and further extended linear structures to the outside.

If the previous plankton were scattered soldiers, now they are group operations.

Zhou Yi was a little puzzled: "Only 0.5% of the Grotto-dwellers can connect other plankton?"

"This cannot be confirmed from observation."

Da Vinci said: "The reason is still unknown."

Zhou Yi then asked the person involved through synchronous consciousness.

Dong Shi replied: "We exchanged life information with them, and they also connected with us."

"In fact, not all similar species connect with us, only about 90%. This part is smaller in size and has certain difficulties in individual survival. Connecting with us can get more energy in each conversion. Those who are unwilling to connect for a long time are individuals with larger size and higher individual strength. They prefer to act autonomously."

Zhou Yi understood this time.

The special physiological structure of the Grotto-dwellers can link a large number of external individuals into a whole, which is also effective for other plankton here.

Zhou Yi couldn't help but wonder: "If you have enough numbers, there should be further qualitative changes, right?"

"Yes."

Dong Shi said proudly: "If there are enough of our kind, we can build a brand new place of record!"

Huh?

This qualitative change was different from what Zhou Yi thought.

He thought that after there were enough numbers, the Grotto-dwellers would become like cells turning into organ tissues, and then one organ after another would form a huge life aggregate.

"Ah? There is no such thing..."

Dong Shi explained: "We actually have a number limit. It is definitely good to have a large number, but too many will cause new problems. Updating and iteration alone will lead to constant local damage, and exceeding a certain scale will be less efficient."

"Fragile life individuals, no matter how many are piled up, are just a pile of fragile and short-lived lives, and cannot be directly transformed into a powerful life form. At least in our experience, this cannot be done."

"What we have to do is to build a place of record."

It returned to the Grotto-dwellers' mud tablet.

Zhou Yi thought to himself.

Still use the Grotto-dwellers' traditional method.

He asked: "Do you need clay to make a place of record, to record the current situation?"

Dong Shi said: "If so, please provide some to us. As long as it is clay from the Dead Sea, that is just the base plate, the most critical carrier is us."

"The dying individuals will become part of the place of record, and each will carry a part of the life information, arranged and connected in a specific order. Through their corpses sealed by the energy shell, later generations can read a lot of information. As long as they touch it, we can immediately obtain and copy those experiences."

"Currently, only the shelter is equivalent to a place of record, there is none outside. Those individuals who enter the floating heart, although they are Grotto-dwellers, carry very little information and are not very intelligent, and cannot form a group thinking like me. It is because they lack a place of record and cannot read and learn."

Zhou Yi was shocked.

The Grotto-dwellers' mud tablet actually uses Grotto-dwellers' corpses as information carriers.

No wonder they can directly read the records inside.

This method sounds a bit barbaric and cruel, but it is extremely simple and effective. Biological information is packaged and stored, layer by layer fixed in the mud tablet, which can be maintained for many years.

Zhou Yi pulled back his thoughts.

There is still one thing that needs to be determined immediately.

The Grotto-dwellers can greatly improve the floating heart.

Is it to integrate the Grotto-dwellers into the heart for the company's own use, or to operate all hearts in this way?

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This world is ruled by the Celestials. If there are Grotto-dwellers supporting the micro-field, there will be more possibilities in the future. The more people use the heart, the more Grotto-dwellers belong to the company.

The Celestials are the real enemy.

It's just that the Celestials are too strong. Currently, the company is still in the development and dormancy period and must remain low-key.

We must unite all forces to deal with the future Celestial crisis.

The Grotto-dwellers are weak individually and are not easily discovered and noticed. They have proven themselves and can control light-core level energy and even develop space technology.

As long as the number increases, plus the acquisition of the mud tablets from the Mud Tree World, they can reproduce their former power.

Zhou Yi thought for a while.

He looked at the two elders Liu and Chen: "You two, I plan to ask the Grotto-dwellers to improve all the hearts."

"But before that, we will first complete the Grotto-dwellers' coverage of all the hearts within the company, and then gradually spread to the entire Development Alliance, and finally launch it to the outside world."

"From a professional point of view, what do you two think?"

Liu Fusheng was the first to agree: "That's the best. The special physiological structure and trend of the Grotto-dwellers greatly improve the floating heart. If the upgrade of all the company's hearts is completed, our power generation will increase by 3 times!"

Chen Ruixiang thought for a while: "This method is very stable. We will first observe internally. If there are any problems, we can adjust them as soon as possible, replace them internally, and then gradually promote them to the outside world. This will give us enough time to test and test."

Zhou Yi discussed with Dong Shi, and they also gladly agreed.

So this plan was finalized.

The number of Grotto-dwellers needed to change a floating heart is not large, as long as there are 150.

This basic number is enough to exchange information with other plankton and breed a large number of offspring. The new generation of Grotto-dwellers has both local strong reproductive ability and can self-divide every 20 minutes, doubling the number.

Therefore, it only took two days for the Grotto-dwellers to move into the floating heart.

Four days passed.

The floating hearts improved by the Grotto-dwellers have become strong and powerful, showing twice the efficiency of the second-generation hearts. This also made all departments of the company more comfortable, and the electric cats ran and transmitted electricity more openly, everywhere above and below the ground.

...

The combination of the Grotto-dwellers and the floating heart showed a very strong chemical reaction.

In the company, the name of the Grotto-dwellers gradually became well-known.

However, Ni Ge, the mud tree man who is the true heir of the Grotto-dwellers civilization, was a little melancholy.

He found Zhou Yi: "Chairman, I don't understand."

"The Grotto-dwellers are so small and so fragile, but they can make mud tablets and energy blocks, and can move and use space bubbles. Why can't our mud tree people do it? It doesn't make sense."

Zhou Yi smiled and said: "I think it is because the mud tree people are much stronger congenitally, so they don't need to spend a lot of time seeking survival like the Grotto-dwellers, using the corpses of the same kind as information carriers to make mud tablets. Many of their technologies, I heard Dong Shi say, are piled up with corpses."

"You have found the Pan Tree and the Tiantian Tree, and there is no difficulty in life, of course, there is no need to develop so many technologies."

The environment forces life to change.

The life of the mud tree people is a simple mode. When they were born, they found the tree as a place to live and a source of food. There is no motivation to develop various technologies. They only need to cultivate better plant tools to get better fruits of all kinds.

The Grotto-dwellers have nothing, and are fragile and short-lived, so they have to desperately transform the environment, try various things, and use everything they have. On the contrary, they have created amazing civilization achievements by accumulating over the generations.

Zhou Yi's words made Ni Ge fall into deep thought.

"It seems to be the case."

"Chairman..."

The mud tree man hesitated: "Are we mud tree people... very frustrated?"

Zhou Yi was stunned, and then said: "No, the Tiantian Tree you developed, I think is stronger than the Space Tree. Because the Tiantian Tree is a natural place to live, can produce food, and is the core of biological tools, let me choose one of the two, I must choose the Tiantian Tree."

The mud tree man finally showed a smile: "We are indeed very strong in trees and fruits."

"Last month, except for the one where Hei Fu is located that does not bear fruit, the other 7 Pan Trees had a great harvest, producing 7,600 fruits."

"Now they are growing very lush, the height is close to 40 meters, very wide, the tree demon's improvement and fertilizer technology is really a magic skill!"

Zhou Yi was also very happy to hear it.

Dead Sea fruit is an important nutrient to improve the physical fitness of the company's employees.

According to the cycle of the Pan Tree producing a round of fruit every 2 months, it can be gradually distributed to employees and students next year to improve everyone's life intensity.

Having a good body is the key to living and working better!