Wasteland Development Diary

Fifteen minutes later, dinner was served on the table.

Radish stew with beef, stir-fried bok choy, fresh bamboo shoots with cured meat, pickled radish, along with three bowls of white rice and three cups of tea.

Zhou Yi introduced each dish to Shang Yang: "The beef comes from the Songbei area. Their milk and beef are excellent, frozen and air-shipped here. Everyone loves it."

"The radish and bok choy are locally grown."

"The bamboo shoots are from the Treant territory. They have large bamboo forests there. We need bamboo for some of our buildings and second-generation refrigerators. Plus, the company has panda employees. Tuo Hai and Tuo Zhu, father and son, eat a lot of bamboo shoots, which has led our people here to gradually like bamboo shoots as well. Now the consumption is very high."

"The cured meat is made in Liangshan."

"Most importantly, there's this rice."

Zhou Yi pointed to the fragrant rice and introduced, "This is the first batch of rice harvested by the company this summer. The new rice really tastes different. Just eating plain rice has a very sweet taste."

"Stir-fried dishes have to be eaten with rice. Come on, try it."

Shang Yang had no taboos and picked up each dish to taste it.

It maintained the habits of a panda, loving bamboo shoots and tea. It also ate bok choy, but wasn't so enthusiastic about meat. However, it really liked rice.

It finished a bowl of rice.

Shang Yang wiped its mouth with its sleeve: "I've eaten well. Kill me now."

Zhou Yi said, "No rush."

He had only taken a few bites.

Zhou Yi praised Yuan Xiao, who was also slowly swallowing next to him, "Your cooking skills are getting better and better. It's delicious."

"Thank you, Chairman."

The Death Angel looked happy.

In the past, Zhou Yi had developed a habit of eating very quickly. He was always in a hurry since his school days. Now, he has slowed down and eats slowly, enjoying his meals as a way to enjoy life.

Shang Yang silently drank tea.

After a long while, it spoke again: "What do you want to know from me?"

Zhou Yi wiped his mouth with a napkin and followed up, "Why does the Principle believe I am the biggest threat?"

"If we divide by the sphere of influence, the Celestial Kingdom and the Star Cluster are the biggest external rivals to the Principle. They are superior to the Principle in terms of technology, population, and territory."

"If we switch to the main body of the city, human cities and Guangna cities are direct competitors with electromechanical cities."

"Considering our company as a huge threat is really strange to me."

"What the Wasteland Development Company does is nothing more than manufacturing some cheap goods and selling them, which is not even in the same track as the electromechanical cities' imprinting technique."

"The company has always welcomed electromechanical lives to apply for jobs, but unfortunately, it has limited attraction to electromechanical lives... So why would they come to the conclusion that we are a threat? Or is it that we are the easiest hidden danger to deal with and eliminate?"

After listening, Shang Yang said, "The prosperity of the Celestial Kingdom is beyond doubt, but its model itself has huge hidden dangers."

"The empire is completely dependent on the rule of the Black Emperor. The governors and territorial sea lords are divided, and there are many internal factions. If any problem occurs with the Black Emperor, the entire country will quickly split. The Black Emperor also knows this, so they maintain a long-term policy of recuperation and conservative strategy."

"The Celestial Kingdom cannot make big moves and poses no threat to electromechanical cities."

"The Star Cluster is developing outer space. The Star Cluster's light imprint is indeed a powerful and outstanding technology. Their living space does not overlap with the Principle's, and in the long run, they will be a cooperative relationship between land and air, and there is no threat."

"Human cities have high growth potential, but most of the territorial sea lords are not enterprising and fight on their own. If the power cannot be concentrated, then there is no threat."

"Guangna cities have an insufficient population base, and people of multiple races live together, lacking a main ethnic group, making management difficult. The only way to go further is through war. Once a war starts, their population will drop rapidly. If they cannot win a major victory, they will collapse and have internal strife. The innate defects are too great to be a threat."

"Alien cities are full of variables. However, the United City is not yet ready and needs a long time to grow. In addition, with the investment and influence of electromechanical cities, there is nothing to fear."

After a series of evaluations, it returned to the topic.

"To have a sufficient impact on the Principle, you need a sound and stable infrastructure, an independent scientific and technological system, and a highly united interest demand and future vision. These ensure that you can maintain strong competitiveness over a long period of time, and in a short period of time, you can also achieve breakthroughs in various fields to obtain excess profits."

"In this world, only the development alliance led by the Wasteland Company can do this."

"In my opinion, the heroes of the world are only the Principle and the Wasteland Company."

Zhou Yi's face looked strange after hearing this.

Dude, why do I feel like you're cosplaying Cao Cao discussing heroes over wine.

The problem is.

According to the status of the advantages and disadvantages of both parties, I should be Cao Cao now, and you are Liu Bei.

I should be the one saying these words.

Zhou Yi tried to say, "Not a hero?"

"Don't read Three Kingdoms..."

The other party blurted out.

Then Shang Yang was shocked: "You read it too?"

"..."

Crap.

The code was matched.

Zhou Yi's face twitched: "No wonder you came up with a Jing Ke assassination plan..."

It turns out you were really learning from ancient scripts.

Shang Yang's gaze towards Zhou Yi suddenly became solemn: "It seems that you are also proficient in ancient Chinese. I really didn't expect to meet a fellow enthusiast here. Few people study this field."

"But ancient Chinese contains a lot of strategic knowledge and practical experience. This is a valuable legacy of our ancestors."

"..."

Zhou Yi immediately thought: "So you named yourself Shang Yang, also wanting to imitate Shang Yang's reform?"

The bearded panda man frankly admitted.

Zhou Yi was curious: "The two founders of the Electromechanical Knight Order, and you are considered to be from the same sect, they are named Lao Tzu and Zhuang Tzu..."

"Teacher Pangu likes to use the past to allude to the present."

Shang Yang didn't hide anything about this: "In this world ruled by the Celestials, everyone has to act with shackles, and many words and things cannot be said directly. Therefore, we need to use metaphors to deconstruct and retransmit those risky information and meanings."

Zhou Yi's gaze narrowed: "Pangu wanted to resist the Celestials?"

"Of course."

Shang Yang said bluntly: "Whether it is my centralized program management, or Lao Tzu and Zhuang Tzu's bypassing program model, they are different routes generated around this purpose."

"We have route disputes, but there is no difference in the ultimate goal."

Zhou Yi suddenly understood: "So the key to Pangu's arrest is because it tried to launch more electromechanical lives to resist the Celestials again?"

"Correct. This is the root cause."

Shang Yang took a sip of tea, his eyes melancholy: "Unfortunately, the teacher has now been completely broken, whether in terms of the body or the consciousness, it can no longer be restored. More thorough than death is being forgotten, dissolved, and stigmatized... This is the end of resisting failure."

Zhou Yi generally understood: "You are considered a new generation of resistance fighters."

"Not really."

Shang Yang said: "The teacher proved that the corresponding conditions are not available at all now. Survival is the most important thing, so the first thing is to ensure survival, improve survival ability, and strengthen the strength of the group."

"Resistance is an inevitable choice for historical development to a certain extent. It is not now."

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"The life groups in this world still need to survive, and there is no chance to continue to survive like this. There is hope in living."

Zhou Yi focused his attention back on the panda man in front of him.

"So in this wasteland world, you are most optimistic about the electromechanical life group."

"Yes."

"Ordinary methods cannot break the situation, the future lies in electromechanical life."

It fearlessly looked at Zhou Yi: "But now it seems that humans are also a very potential group. I am optimistic about the stability and efficiency of electromechanical life, and you are optimistic about the potential and creativity of humans. Now it can be seen that humans are the biggest challenger to electromechanical life."

Zhou Yi helplessly said: "Why do you always have either-or ideas? Humans and electromechanical life are not enemies."

"Indeed not enemies."

Shang Yang said: "But they are the most direct competitors for dominance."

Zhou Yi frowned: "I don't understand. Since everyone's ultimate goal is to improve their strength and eventually be able to break through the Celestial blockade one day, then why do you have to engage in this infighting? Whether it is imprinting technique, electric cats, or floating hearts, a hundred flowers blooming can bring more possibilities to each group."

Shang Yang insisted: "In this world, electromechanical life is the best group to maintain order. They can guarantee the rules to the greatest extent and ensure that the interests of each individual are protected under the rules."

"They are the optimal solution, so they can prosper for a long time. Temporary prosperity is far from enough, but stability and continuation for a longer time, hundreds of years, thousands of years, this is the only way to have a chance to reach a higher level."

Zhou Yi said: "It seems that this is where our differences lie. You are pursuing a stable lower limit, and I want to hit a higher upper limit."

He now understood.

Shang Yang's principle of centralized distribution and management is to pursue extreme stability.

In comparison.

The Principle is like making large deposits, ensuring stable returns on the premise of minimizing the loss of principal.

The Wasteland Company, under the guidance of Zhou Yi, has allocated a large number of index funds - that is, investing in the entire new human group, high risk and high return.

"This is a fundamental contradiction, and the external contradiction is the challenge to technological dominance."

Shang Yang said again: "No matter what, this is a real conflict of interest. The imprinting technique is impacted by the floating heart and electric cat systems, and the export of light imprint products has been greatly reduced, causing a great impact on electromechanical cities, resulting in a significant drop in city revenue."

"The largest part of the electromechanical cities' revenue is the imprinting technique."

"War consumes too much. You have to calculate expenses and income. Before, the Principle did not have the certainty of winning against the Wasteland Company. As the large city of Clockwork City was destroyed, it is basically impossible to start a war. No large city is willing to become the price again."

It spoke very bluntly.

Zhou Yi said: "I know why you wanted to assassinate me."

"Because you don't want to live, you don't want to go back to 404 City, return to the Celestial's experimental sample, be decomposed, be reorganized. You may not be afraid of fighting, but you can no longer endure experimental torture."

"So you want to make your death more valuable, that is, try to exchange one for one with me, to pave the way for the Principle."

Shang Yang said: "What you said is generally correct."

"Under normal circumstances, you have to die now in order for the Principle and 404 City to be acceptable."

Zhou Yi said: "But there is another option."

"Don't you want to fight against the Celestials? Our company's long-term goal is also this. I can give you a makeover, place you in our company, and continue your unfinished business."

The panda man was stunned: "You also want to fight against the Celestials?"

"Of course."

Zhou Yi said softly: "It's just that it hasn't reached that level yet, so we have to bury our heads and develop. For the Wasteland Development Company, the real enemy is only the Celestials."

"Why?" Shang Yang frowned: "You seem to have no conflict of interest with the Celestials. I heard that the Celestials have also visited here, so the relationship should not be bad."

It was talking about Zhou Yi transforming into a Tengu, and the fake Celestial returning to the company.

Zhou Yi said slowly: "Since you study ancient Chinese, then you should know a saying, called an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

"After the Celestials descended into this world, the lives in this world, whether humans, Guangna species, or electromechanical life, are all objects of their experimental transformation."

"I want to try to experiment and transform the Celestials as well. In the words of the ancients..."

"The Celestials can go, and I can go too."

Shang Yang's pupils shrank suddenly.

The panda man's face became very complicated: "There is indeed a reason why you can lead the Wasteland Company to develop so rapidly to this day."

"Do you want to come together and do something big?"

Zhou Yi stretched out his hand to it: "Anyway, just consider yourself dead. It's always a good thing to add to the Celestials' troubles, right?"

Shang Yang thought for a moment, then stretched out his bear paw: "Shang Yang is dead, now I am just a nameless resurrected corpse, I will gamble with you."

Zhou Yi thought for a while: "The name Shang Yang is unlucky, the result of him himself was not good, let's change it. From today onwards, how about you being called 'Guan Zhong'?"

"Guan Zhong in the ancient Spring and Autumn period, respecting the king and resisting foreign enemies, defending against foreign enemies together?"

The panda man's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Good, good! I will be Guan Zhong of this era!"