Wasteland Development Diary

The announcement from the Legalist Front didn't delve into many details, but it formally turned war into a routine means of resolving issues.

Zhou Yi quickly contacted Doom Lord.

It had previously joined forces with Hegemon Lord, launching an offensive against Turbine City.

Doom Lord said, "I did provide assistance before, but after Turbine City was captured, I cashed out and left. I only took the 100,000 light seeds it gave me and didn't consider dividing the land there."

"That place is too far from the Twin Rivers region, and enclaves are difficult to manage and high-risk."

"My information is that about an hour and a half ago, Mechanical City and Hegemon Lord broke down in negotiations and directly initiated a military breakthrough."

"They launched seven long-range missiles from the sea, destroying Turbine City's defense system. Two A-level giant weapons, 'Davids,' landed from the Dead Sea, leading a large number of military drones and robotic dogs to attack the city, resulting in Hegemon Lord being injured in battle."

"On the other hand, they used flying mechanical lifeforms to bomb Hundred School Plateau."

"Hegemon Lord reported that the Legalist Front used 12 soil-penetrating light burst bombs, destroying 13,000 acres of its agricultural land, which will be unrecoverable for at least five years."

Zhou Yi was stunned. "Soil-penetrating light burst bombs? How did they get that?"

"Huh? I thought you authorized the sale of that technology to them... didn't you?"

Doom Lord was also somewhat surprised.

"No."

Zhou Yi frowned.

Soil-penetrating light burst bombs were developed by Shi Gandang and only used once during the bombing of the Twin Rivers region.

How did the Legalist Front acquire this technology?

He immediately asked the inventor, Shi Gandang.

The light imprint expert said, "Chairman, the technology for soil-penetrating light burst bombs isn't complicated. The important thing is the concept. As long as you combine and balance E-3 level 'Sandification,' 'Evaporation,' and 'High Temperature,' you can achieve sufficient explosive energy."

"With Mechanical City's manufacturing capabilities and industrial base, it can be carried by long-range missiles or high-explosive bombs."

"They only need to analyze the explosion site, and light imprint experts can reverse engineer which light imprints were used, thereby greatly narrowing the scope of testing. These combinations can be tested."

"I speculate that they collected samples from the site of our previous bombing and then replicated it."

Zhou Yi felt somewhat helpless.

Mechanical City is indeed extremely talented in this area.

Perhaps it is difficult for them to develop something from scratch, but as long as there is a finished product or related object, they can deduce the answer from it.

They excel at copying homework.

Doom Lord continued, "Hegemon Lord saw that things were not right and withdrew from Turbine City, and paid a sum of money to escape. Wending Lord of Gear Fortress was more miserable."

"The defenses on Gear Fortress were solid, and they had built specialized mechanical interference devices. Wending Lord personally oversaw Gear Fortress, preparing to operate there long-term."

The Puppet Governor said softly, "Wending Lord refused to hand over Gear Fortress in the machine stack dialogue, and was then sniped and killed with a single blow."

Zhou Yi asked, "Sniped?"

"Yes."

"There isn't much relevant information. Hegemon Lord and I are collecting reliable firsthand information everywhere."

Doom Lord's tone was solemn. "Currently, all that is known is that as soon as Wending Lord finished the negotiation, red dots appeared on the heads of everyone in Gear Fortress."

"The red dot locked onto everyone and could not be shaken off. It is likely a special marking technology. The source cannot be determined, and there are no countermeasures."

"Wending Lord was marked all over with red dots and was pierced by a black light, turning into dust."

It said, "Wending Lord was a battle-hardened territorial waters lord with strong self-preservation abilities and high vitality. But to be instantly killed on the spot is unheard of. We suspect it is a new type of death ray weapon."

"Because black light penetration leaves a very obvious light trail effect. But its mechanism is still unknown."

Zhou Yi's heart trembled.

Red dot marking that locks onto everyone, coupled with a deadly black laser.

The launch source cannot be found.

These two technologies are clearly specially matched, efficient, and precise.

Doom Lord said, "Wending Lord was sniped, and the land officials managing the city directly surrendered."

"The entire Gear Fortress was recaptured by Mechanical City, and even Wending Lord's original base, Liaodao Island, was taken over by the Legalist Front."

Zhou Yi frowned. "Taking a one-hit kill approach against Wending Lord, and a comprehensive suppression approach against Hegemon Lord..."

"You have rich war experience. In your opinion, why adopt two different approaches externally? Logically speaking, directly sniping the territorial waters lord should be the quickest."

Doom Lord said, "It depends on the strategic objectives. If the strategic goal is achieved, even if the losses are high, they are acceptable. If the goal is not achieved, even if there are great victories along the way, it is useless."

"To defeat a territorial waters lord's force, sniping the territorial waters lord himself is indeed the simplest and most efficient. The Legalist Front's purpose is not just this. Recapturing the stolen mechanical cities is also important..."

It pondered for a while. "Testing data."

"I think they are doing tests externally."

"In terms of quick battles and quick resolutions, the assassination method against Wending Lord is the best, but the follow-up is very difficult to handle. Without a leader, a force will be divided into many small groups. Managing Liaodao Island is not as easy as it looks."

"Gear Fortress is only about 300 kilometers from Liaodao Island. If left unchecked, it will become an unstable factor, affecting the security of Gear Fortress and the external environment in the future."

Doom Lord elaborated, "The other method is the model used to deal with Hegemon Lord, a full-scale war and combat power suppression. Although the cost is higher, it can obtain stable cities and surrounding environments. Retaining Hegemon Lord can maintain the stability of the adjacent area."

"They are testing these two methods to see which is the better solution. They will use data collection to determine their combat strategy against different territorial waters lords in the future."

Zhou Yi thought, 'He really is a professional.'

Doom Lord does have a unique understanding in the field of war.

The Legalist Front is collecting data and making decisions based on data. They have not participated in wars for many years and need to collect a large amount of battlefield data and subsequent feedback.

Just one day later.

The Legalist Front issued another announcement.

——Piston Town has expelled all invaders.

——Piston Town has officially joined the Legalist Front.

Piston Town is a small mechanical city, similar in size to Recursive City. Previously, the General Agreement model was broken by the Mechanical Knight Order, and Piston Town was also occupied by a group of Heaven Kingdom mutant rebels.

Zhou Yi had also heard Doom Lord mention this group of mutant rebels.

They use small-scale guerrilla tactics to break through the Heaven Kingdom's blockade, unite overseas, and establish territories, calling themselves the [Free Army]. Now, the Free Army has absorbed mutants from all over the place and is a force to be reckoned with.

Free Army members are all mutants who naturally carry radiation and are not suitable for settling in cities with a large number of ordinary people. Mechanical cities, however, do not affect them because mechanical lifeforms have a certain degree of radiation resistance.

The Free Army seized the opportunity and successfully raided Piston Town.

Unfortunately, they hadn't warmed up the city much before they encountered the Legalist Front's army pressing down.

As a bystander, Zhou Yi watched the front-line situation with satellites every day, paying close attention and constantly manually refreshing the page.

Regarding the Free Army, the Legalist Front adopted a third style.

They initiated an air strike mode.

The Legalist Front's air force dropped "light-blocking bombs," "high-pressure bombs," and "sealing bombs" from an altitude of 5,000 meters.

Light-blocking bombs can block the condensation of light imprints, and are weapon killers.

High-pressure bombs can instantly pressurize a regional area, forming special light and shadow phenomena, which are used to identify hidden enemies.

Sealing bombs destroy the local light structure and seal the active ability of nearby people and light imprint devices.

Along with the bombing, paratroopers descended from the sky at night.

They are a new type of mechanical spider submachine, with an all-metal structure.

Unlike the Mechanical Knight's "spider car," these mechanical spiders are much smaller, each about 20 cm to 30 cm long, 15 cm to 25 cm wide, and about the size of a child's washbasin.

These mechanical spiders are small and difficult to detect.

After landing, they began to quickly lay nets on the ground with copper wires. Electric cats then burst out of these spiders and moved along the copper wires, building defenses.

Mechanical spiders, as combat engineers, built electrical works, and with the electric cats' strong breakthrough and mobile capabilities, they quickly defeated the defending mutants in Piston Town and easily retook the mechanical city.

Zhou Yi was originally eating and watching the show, but when he saw this, he was dumbfounded.

He was eating melons and ended up eating his own.

He immediately contacted Gustav of Yin Shang Company.

"Did you sell all the electric cats to the Mechanical Legalist Front?"

"Mr. Zhou, no. We sold them in batches to different groups, but I don't know what method the Legalist Front used to eventually acquire at least 200 of the 500 electric cats."

Gustav's voice was full of helplessness, "We only sell things and can't control the final destination of the goods..."

Zhou Yi immediately understood.

According to the style of Mechanical City, all actions are the result of calculation.

They decided to purchase electric cats from the beginning, and were preparing to build an electric cat system at that time.

A day later.

The Legalist Front launched a recapture battle for Mechanical Bay.

Unlike the previous cities, this is an important large manufacturing city, and its situation is also complicated.

In the previous stage of the General Agreement era war, large-scale explosions occurred in Mechanical Bay. These explosions did not come from outside, but some mechanical lifeforms in the city installed [keys] and became mechanical thugs.

A large number of mechanical thugs were born in the city, and they created explosions everywhere, plundering various resources in the city.

There are two reasons for this situation.

One is that the unemployment rate in Mechanical Bay is extremely high, with more than 27% of mechanical residents being unemployed and entering the death phase. If it were not for the mechanical life mechanism constraints, the riots would have come sooner and more violently.

The second is the guidance of external forces.

Gustav did not shy away from this, "Our company did participate... In fact, not only us, but also the Railway Company and Shenwei Company, and the Heaven Kingdom and Star Hub also participated."

"Mechanical Bay is very large, with complete infrastructure, ports and large factory areas, abundant water resources, and is a plain area, with more than 40,000 mechanical lifeforms settled there. Human resources and natural resources are very good."

"However, because of the intervention of all parties, everyone maintains a delicate balance, and they all want to absorb senior professionals and obtain some land use rights. Before joining the Legalist Front, Mechanical Bay was still an independent city."

"It's just that this time I didn't expect the Legalist Front to come so fiercely... We can only reluctantly cut off our flesh and leave."

What Zhou Yi cares more about is.

This time, when cleaning up Mechanical Bay, the Legalist Front no longer pretended at all and adopted the electric cat system throughout the entire process.

Mechanical spiders descended from the sky on flying silk, built guide nets, released electric cat warriors, and even used electric cat transcoders to communicate with the electric cats.

Electric cats have absolute suppression over mechanical lifeforms, causing the control of mechanical thugs to subdue them almost instantly.

Zhou Yi was furious when he saw this scene.

Floating Heart at least gave patent fees.

The company gathered the wisdom of its employees to develop the electric cat system, but the Mechanical City stole and replicated it and applied it to such large-scale profits, and even launched a war. This is definitely patent theft!

If other small places do this, I can turn a blind eye.

The Legalist Front is so big and does this, they don't even want their face.

You just wait!