Wasteland Development Diary

Emerald City officially announced: "30% energy recharge is enough to support large-scale reconstruction."

The architectural life has begun a new phase.

Zhou Yi couldn't feel much change indoors, just continuous tremors and noises, like living in an elevator building where you always hear the inexplicable sounds of drills and thumps.

But through the Red Falcon's perspective, he clearly saw Emerald City undergoing surgical self-modification.

The square structure on the far left of the 30th floor was neatly cut and slowly extruded, then a steel arm captured it and placed it steadily in the material area (the area where Zhou Yi piled concrete bricks and other building materials).

Afterward, the steel arm grabbed a newly created gray-brown housing embryo structure from the ground, inserted it into the newly created gap, and then separated dense metal fingers to reinforce and correct the connecting seams, aligning and connecting the contacting surfaces. The whole process flashed with high-brightness white light as if welding.

Finally, it achieved complete fusion, seamlessly as if it were originally one piece.

Through this capture of extracting and replacing like building blocks, Emerald City was repairing its own body.

For some severely damaged building bodies, Emerald City directly crushed them into waste and dumped them in the material area. The gaps were filled with rebar as a skeleton, and then muscles composed of concrete and broken bricks began to grow along the rebar frame, completing the repair and coverage.

Emerald City explained: "Cutting and replacing consumes less material and energy; only specific structures can be directly replaced."

"Local reshaping consumes a lot of energy, but the advantage is that the fit is higher."

"Commissioner, does your house also need to be rebuilt?"

Zhou Yi was wary: "Are there any reconstruction or maintenance fees?"

"Only 100 Light Seeds."

"No, thanks."

"What a pity."

Zhou Yi's purse has been tight recently.

He wouldn't waste Light Seeds on this kind of thing.

As long as the house is habitable.

There is no need to waste expenses on replacing a new house at this stage.

What Zhou Yi cared about was that Emerald City actually showed rare self-emotion. It felt sorry that he was unwilling to replace and transform his new house, which was obviously more vivid than the previous cold, floor-manager-style expression.

He wondered if it was because of the energy recovery.

Zhou Yi talked about business: "Can you still sense the energy pool in the Mushroom Forest?"

"Yes."

Emerald City could not provide a precise and detailed description.

The Red Falcon found the answer based on its characteristics and the natural environment structure.

The drone said: "It encountered a 'Dead Light Sediment Belt,' which is an invaluable rare natural resource."

"Dead Light will penetrate the geological layer of this world and react with underground minerals and water to form sediments. The sediments are connected by Dead Light and, after a long period of evolution and accumulation, become deeply buried sediment belts."

"The sediment belt can be regarded as another form of miniature Dead Light gathering place. Unlike the Dead Sea, the sediment belt is very stable because it is adsorbed by the stratum, and there are almost no disasters such as torrents or light bursts."

Zhou Yi thought.

This Dead Light Sediment Belt can be understood as Dead Light petroleum or coal.

It is a mine of extractable solid or liquid Dead Light.

He asked again: "How to extract and purify it?"

Emerald City had directly absorbed the Dead Light from the sediment belt, and its personal experience showed that there were too many impurities and the absorption efficiency was low. After inhaling it, it would also cause consciousness blur and confusion, which meant the energy was poisonous.

If it could not be purified, even it would be overwhelmed and have strong side effects, let alone ordinary Light Nano-species.

The Red Falcon reported: "The Dead Light Sediment Belt requires professional excavation, collection, and refining equipment to eventually convert it into energy packs for use by electromechanical life or light-printed devices."

"Recursive City is supported by the service industry and does not involve construction and mining. If necessary, I can contact another electromechanical city, 'Energy Storage City,' which is engaged in energy technology and related collection and manufacturing services."

"If the construction is handed over to Energy Storage City, whether leasing this sediment belt directly to them and collecting rent, or entrusting them to make energy packs for sale, can create huge wealth."

The Red Falcon's attitude was clear.

Small workshops can't handle this; you need professionals.

"I've never heard of any life being able to directly convert the sediment belt."

The drone expressed doubt about this: "This needs to be verified."

...

Zhou Yi arrived at the Mushroom Forest in the Samurai Crab.

The farmland next to it had begun to show results. The soil was turned soft and flat, and small ditches were dug along the edges of the fields, connecting them to the oasis belt's river for easy irrigation.

Tender green seedlings had already been planted on the ridges.

The Iron Horse's body extended two nozzles, watering the soil. The Copper Bull moved slowly along the edge of the field, inserting a device like a carbon rod or iron rod into the soil to check something.

They were all focused on their work, and Zhou Yi didn't bother them.

When he arrived outside the Mushroom Forest, two Black Hand Mushrooms stood up straight: "Hello, Chairman!"

"How are you guys doing?" Zhou Yi asked.

"Everything is fine in the Mushroom Forest."

Then the two mushroom people spoke one after another.

"You are too strong! We saw it. There were monsters causing trouble in the Dead Sea, and you blasted them to pieces with fire rain! Everyone climbed onto the Giant Mushroom to see it. What a thrilling battle!"

"Someone actually dared to challenge you, it was simply courting death."

"Chairman, we watched, but we didn't slack off. Everyone is seriously growing mushrooms!"

"Yes, yes, yes! We have grown a lot of mushrooms. The lord said it's enough to feed the people of two Mao Gu towns."

...

The Black Hand Mushrooms were still talkative and energetic, chattering non-stop. Considering their short stature and lifespan, they were indeed like a group of teenagers.

Zhou Yi listened patiently.

Soon, Sun Chonglai, the bone man with a red scarf, trotted over.

"Chairman."

He also stood as straight as a soldier.

This seemed to be some kind of etiquette in the Mushroom Forest.

Zhou Yi asked Sun Chonglai about the sediment belt and the Stone Sac Mushrooms.

"This is the first time I've heard what you said."

The bone man thought for a while: "But this piece of land is indeed different from the surrounding area. The mushrooms in the central area grow very fast, while the outer area is much slower. The Black Hand Mushrooms were also born from the central area, and they are rarely awakened from the edge area. It seems to be directly related to the underground Dead Light deposits."

"Stone Sac Mushrooms are indeed very nutritious... but they can only temporarily increase energy and physical strength, causing short-term excitement, not directly increasing energy. I can guarantee this."

Not the Stone Sac Mushroom?

Zhou Yi suddenly thought of mushrooms that looked like soil...

Emerald City was talking about the Explosion Mushroom!

"Explosion Mushroom? It does have highly concentrated energy. Unlike the conventional method of Stone Sac Mushrooms, its energy is constantly concentrated and further compressed until it explodes when triggered."

Sun Chonglai's voice was a little puzzled: "But the energy inside cannot be directly extracted. At best, we can cut it out from the ground and use it as a defense line for the Mushroom Forest."

Zhou Yi immediately began to experiment.

He asked the Black Hand Mushrooms to bring several Explosion Mushrooms to the company building, where Emerald City tried to test them.

The mushroom, which looked like a flat clod of earth, was attached to the high-rise building, and Emerald City easily extracted it, turning it into a Light Seed and putting it into Zhou Yi's Light Nano-box.

Then came the second experiment, and the result was the same, obtaining Light Seeds.

Third time, fourth time...

A large number of experiments proved that the Explosion Mushroom production was very stable. Depending on the size of each mushroom, Emerald City could extract 1 to 3 Light Seeds.

The extracted Explosion Mushroom became shriveled and wrinkled, like a piece of dehydrated, dried moss.

The bone man had a further discovery after he recycled them.

"They have become Carpet Fungus!"

Sun Chonglai gesticulated excitedly with his slender arms: "Chairman, I understand, I understand everything."

"The foundation of the Mushroom Forest is the Carpet Fungus, and it has two branches."

"The first branch is to become a Stone Sac Mushroom. Then, either it connects to the ground and absorbs underground deposits to become an Explosion Mushroom, or it continues to grow upward, absorbing Dead Light from the air, eventually evolving into a Death Angel with a small probability."

"The second branch is to evolve into a Black Hand Mushroom, gaining a wider range of activity and being able to further expand the radiation and growth range of the entire group."

The bone man said excitedly: "I never understood it in the past. Why can the Black Hand Mushrooms safely remove the Explosion Mushrooms from the ground? If other lives or people do it, they can't do it even if they are careful. It turns out they are one family!"

Zhou Yi also suddenly understood.

The Carpet Fungus is the core of the Mushroom Forest.

Now that he understood the lineage and growth requirements of the Explosion Mushroom, the next step was to cultivate and plant them in large quantities.

"The cultivation of Explosion Mushrooms is not difficult. As long as they are in the central area, they will grow quickly, just with water. It only takes 10 days from the appearance of the mushroom bud to the initial maturity, but it takes a total of 1 month to further grow to the transplantable stage. It takes 1 to 3 months to grow into a larger complete body, and the longest is 4 months."

The bone man pointed to the Mushroom Forest behind him: "However, only the central area can support the growth of Explosion Mushrooms, and each of them must have a certain independent ground space, otherwise they cannot grow together. So we transplant the grown Explosion Mushrooms to the periphery for defense."

"The surface of the central area can support the growth of about 5,000 Explosion Mushrooms at a time."

Zhou Yi was overjoyed to hear this.

Even according to the lowest calculation, he could harvest 5,000 Light Seeds from the Mushroom Forest every month. As long as the Dead Light Sediment Belt has not dried up, he can continue to profit!

Now his family really has a mine.