Wasteland Development Diary

#84 - Bai Suanni, give me some more!

Before he could celebrate for long, Zhou Yi came back to his senses.

The light seeds within the two severed fingers of the Breaker weren't produced out of thin air; they were the result of its hunting and collecting of nearby Dead Sea creatures.

Using the Black Finger as a standard, twelve long fingers would equate to 38,400 points of light seeds, meaning this Breaker killed nearly 40,000 Light Nanos!

However.

How would the Breaker take these light seeds away? Just grab them and go back, like opening a box?

The Linchi-go provided an explanation: "It's not like that; it seems you've misunderstood the mechanism."

"The Dark Domain serves as a coordinate connecting two different worlds. Lifeforms need to expend 90% of their energy to pass through the Dark Domain and complete the projection."

"No matter how much energy they acquire on the other side, they will expend 90% upon returning, so there's almost no benefit in terms of energy. The Breakers come here to hunt and acquire light seeds, absorbing energy to bring themselves into a complete state. These are just means; the core objective is to hunt Genetic Seeds."

"The vast amount of precious information contained within the Genetic Seeds is the treasure they truly seek."

Zhou Yi suddenly understood.

The Breakers come over to level up by fighting monsters first, then hunt B-grade creatures after restoring their strength—or at least creatures of that strength, as they possess Genetic Seeds.

Speaking of which.

He suddenly realized: "The Breaker under the bridge hasn't truly left here?"

If it were to directly lose 90% of its energy, it would be equivalent to starting all over again, no different from dying once.

"Yes... yes..."

The Linchi-go glitched again: "Yes. The Breaker you injured before, it has only temporarily retreated into the Dark Domain."

However, this state cannot last long; it not only consumes a great deal of energy but is also strongly rejected by the Dark Domain.

The Linchi-go likened it to a continuously pressurized piston.

Zhou Yi immediately understood the situation.

If the monk can run, the temple can't run with him, so it will be easy to handle.

You just wait.

Information collection is the professional domain of mechanical lifeforms.

They first established a basic A to E grade strength assessment system based on actual combat, the degree of damage caused, or physical measurements, to directly confirm the danger.

In further refinement, they quantified the data of each level's mechs, damage, attack range, and other data. As long as you have the corresponding authority, you can directly obtain it at a glance.

The attack extreme value of the Hunter Sea after unfolding the [Light Prism Exoskeleton] is around 800, while the Black Box record and the Linchi-go's personal test confirm that the Breaker's attack value is in the range of 700-1000.

Therefore, Zhou Yi believed that he could withstand the Breaker's attack, as long as he allowed it to enter the attack cooldown period, he could launch a counterattack.

The Red Falcon and the Linchi-go, after discussion and calculation, created a Breaker data illustration.

...

[Breaker]

[B+ Grade Main Weapon]

Damage: 1000

Cooldown: 16

Range: 185

[D Grade High-Speed Secondary Weapon]

Damage: 3-10

Cooldown: 0.5

Range: 75

"Mark": Any attack that hits the opponent will mark them.

"Detonate": Trigger the mark with another attack, causing corrosive damage that ignores defense to health. Each mark causes 1 point of health damage.

[Mech]

Health: (10/12)?

Defense: ?

Energy: ?

...

The Linchi-go said: "My skill [Verification] can obtain real-time intelligence of the mech by continuously observing the target's movements."

"When you fought the Breaker, its mech suffered a slight degree of damage because it released those black spheres."

"Its mark uses a part separated from its own mech as a carrier, and then launches and attacks in the form of bullets."

"Another way to mark is through wide-range attack coverage, followed by high-speed shooting. The detonation points are all on these black spheres, which are two different uses of one ability."

"The main material of those black spheres is high-purity soot and a portion of light amber."

"From this, it can be concluded that the Breaker's attack requires consuming the mech itself as a cost, that is, using its own body to create bullets, thereby launching high-frequency attacks at close range."

"The large-scale energy shockwave consumes pure energy and will chemically react with the mark, causing secondary damage."

The Reconnaissance Machine concluded: "This Breaker has strong destructive power, but its weakness is insufficient mech defense, and it may even have adopted an extreme evolution route that abandons defense. Therefore, when it was hit by the Hunter Spine, part of its body was directly cut and damaged."

"In its judgment, the Hunter Spine's attack caused high damage to itself. If you launch a close-range offensive, it will be in extreme danger, so it chose to defend and evade."

Zhou Yi's face remained unchanged.

Unfortunately, the Breaker didn't know that although he withstood its entire set of attacks, only the extending punch move was impressively touching.

It can't be said that it has no effect, it can only be regarded as battlefield entertainment.

Zhou Yi first used 110 light seeds to replenish the previous 1100 points of health loss.

However, light seed replenishment and conversion takes a certain amount of time, and the mech itself must remain stable, otherwise the conversion will be interrupted, or even cause the light seed energy to dissipate in vain.

In other words, it is almost impossible to replenish in real-time during high-intensity combat.

Zhou Yi gritted his teeth and directly took out all his savings, totaling 12,414 light seeds.

White Lion, give me some points!

He absorbed the light seeds one by one, converting them all into health.

His vitality directly doubled, reaching 22,504 points.

To deal with the Breaker, you have to be able to withstand its attacks.

Ready, Zhou Yi led the team to the Dead Sea again, starting the second battle.

After arriving at the destination at the bottom of the sea, the Hunter Spine immediately flew over to report.

"Chairman, that guy came out twice again. We confronted each other, and it shrank back again. But seeing that you weren't here, it swaggered out again."

"I originally wanted to teach it a lesson, but I remembered that the task you gave me was to monitor, so I endured it."

Zhou Yi glanced at it sideways.

The Hunter Spine's two-barrel red eyes immediately glanced down, somewhat unnaturally.

Zhou Yi didn't expose it.

He has now basically figured out the Hunter Sea's personality.

To put it nicely, it is a team-type player; to put it bluntly, it is a dog-like person.

When Zhou Yi is leading the team, it is very strong, with a look of eagerness to try and charge forward. If it is asked to fight alone, it will be cowardly.

The Hunter Spine is a B-grade creature. In theory, even in the entire Dead Sea food chain, it belongs to the upper circle and should have a strong temperament that I am the only one.

But because of its personality, the Hunter Sea is timid.

Zhou Yi estimated that this guy may have been protected too well by its mother, so it lacks courage when facing dangers and challenges alone. The Hunter Sea lacks that ruthlessness, and its initiative is also insufficient. It needs to be pressured and ordered.

But then again, if the Hunter Sea had an indomitable and strong mentality, it probably wouldn't have any relationship with him, and it wouldn't have come to work for the company so easily.

Zhou Yi immediately said: "Listen carefully, I will withstand its damage, and you will attack."

"Yes, Chairman!"

The Hunter Sea's upper and lower eyes suddenly burst into red light, its fighting spirit rose up, and it quickly switched to the triangular prism combat posture.

The Breaker's shadow was indeed discovered in front. Although this guy was missing two fingers, the remaining ten were still very flexible, but the way it rummaged around and scraped the ground looking for light nanos looked like a homeless man.

Zhou Yi launched a charge at it.

This time, the Breaker directly gave up attacking, and its huge body quickly shrank into the Dark Domain cave, directly acting as a tortoise.

Zhou Yi walked under the bridge and pointed at the cave and cursed.

"You have the ability to rob my fish here, why don't you have the ability to open the door?"

"Listen carefully, you better hide inside for the rest of your life."

"If you dare to come out, see if I don't finish you."

This time he was prepared.

The Samurai Crab brought over rhombic lamps, books, canned cola, beer, and some bagged nuts, and even a lazy sofa to sleep on.

Zhou Yi sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, reading the manga "Fist of the North Star" while drinking cola.

Time passed by every minute and every second.

Two hours later.

The Dark Domain cave finally experienced a strong shock, directly squeezing the black Breaker inside out.

The moment it came out, it was immediately subjected to the waiting Hunter Spine's death ray cutting, and two more black fingers fell to the ground.

This time, the other party seemed to want to fight desperately, and the remaining eight fingers were aimed at Zhou Yi, and the whole body was covered with a layer of silver patterns, with a crazy aura of wanting to die together.

While retreating, Zhou Yi calmly issued orders, and he also took a black finger nearby - this is a trophy. Carrying it on his shoulder, he suddenly found that the other end of the black finger was still connected to the main body and had not been completely cut off.

At the same time, he had an idea.

Could he also input energy into this guy and chat for a few words? Battles have always been about fighting and talking at the same time.

Zhou Yi tried to input energy into the severed finger.

Effective.

He said: "Hello? Can you hear me?"

After a moment.

An angry voice came from his mind: "What's there to say to you barbaric monster? Do you want to humiliate me!"

Huh?

I'm a monster?

The tables have turned.

Zhou Yi reminded the other party: "Pay attention to quality, do you want to negotiate or not, pay some war reparations or something."

"Ridiculous!"