Wasteland Development Diary

It was the fifth month of winter, and the weather was getting colder.

Zhou Yi had basically nothing to do this month, spending his days browsing the websites of Recursive City and Energy Storage City. The Mechatronics Masters Tournament had officially begun, with at least one 1v1 duel and one 3v3 team match every day.

He relied on it to make his meals more enjoyable.

Electronic cricket fighting, humans just love it.

In the single combat arena, two mechatronic lifeforms displayed their abilities. Whoever had their health reduced more in the specified time—or was damaged to the point of being unable to fight—would be defeated.

The Masters Tournament was divided into E to B grades to ensure that participants faced opponents of the same level. The different skills and techniques of each individual also filled the entire battle with uncertainty, and reversals from desperate situations occurred frequently.

What interested Zhou Yi even more was the team competition.

Team matches usually included ranged firepower, melee, and support roles, but there were also combinations that didn't need support at all, such as two shooters and one melee. There were even extreme three-shooter combinations, going for full output, doomed if approached but winning if they could suppress from a distance.

This kind of multi-player battle emphasized cooperation and coordination even more.

To better watch this event, Zhou Yi flipped through a lot of information to understand the rules and mechanisms. He consulted a large number of electronic illustrated books, which gave him a lot of new understanding of the battles of enhanced beings.

……

Outside of leisure time, Zhou Yi also took some time to do some work.

He first adjusted the function of the Samurai Crabs.

The past positioning of the Samurai Crabs was no longer applicable to the current Wasteland Development Company.

Zhou Yi invested hundreds of light seeds to help them enter the Black Warrior stage as soon as possible. The Samurai Crabs that were already covered in black shells were able to complete their transformation, giving birth to 4 weapon masters, 9 dual-wielders, and 28 hammer troopers.

The dual-wielders became the company's guards, used to carry out various combat missions.

The hammer troopers were engineers, involved in excavation, demolition, transportation, and modification work.

As a result, the Samurai Crab group also entered a stage of pursuing quality.

Considering that raising new Samurai Crabs from a young age would take too long, Zhou Yi gave Xie Xun's scavenger team a new order, asking them to recruit some highly capable Samurai Crabs when searching the seabed, and to introduce elites from the existing wild Samurai Crab groups.

Coming to Emerald City to be guards and engineers was better than living a precarious life on the seabed.

What gratified Zhou Yi was that the scavenger team, although newly formed, had already shown strong initiative.

The weapon masters teamed up to search the Dead Sea, collecting many books and magazines, unopened drinks, bagged food, intact tools, a large number of brand-new clothes, and a large number of canned goods.

Because their collection efficiency was too high, the container warehouse on the top floor of Emerald City was quickly filled.

So Zhou Yi came up with a way to have the Samurai Crabs dig an underground warehouse near the coast of the Dead Sea, and place all kinds of collected materials there first.

This would better preserve them in the Dead Sea, and no light-absorbing species would take those things, while also saving a lot of land space, which was considered a Dead Sea transit warehouse.

On the other side, good news also came from Maria Hospital.

Da Vinci reported: "The successful treatment case of Zheng Tao has been uploaded and confirmed, and there is also my relevant entry on the Medical Encyclopedia. Now several similar flesh and blood life patients have contacted me through Mount Saint, hoping that I can treat them."

"I would like to perform surgery on them at Maria Hospital, what do you think, Chairman?"

Zhou Yi said: "This is a good thing, of course I support it."

The mechatronic doctor continued: "Okay, thank you for your approval. I initially plan to schedule an appointment with the first patient in the first month after the end of winter. What do you think?"

"You decide on the professional aspects yourself, you don't need to ask my opinion."

Zhou Yi waved his hand: "But what is the origin of the first patient?"

"He is a human enhancer."

Da Vinci said: "According to the information certified by Mount Saint, his name is Ding Ye, he is a swordsman, and a member of the 'Beiyang Swordsmen' organization."

Zhou Yi asked Red隼 to call up relevant information about this group.

Swordsman is one of the enhancer professions, but the number is much smaller than that of knights.

Knights are traditional military armed groups with strict organizational structures and strict order. Swordsmen are the other extreme of knights. Most of them travel around alone, brave and combative, and act on impulse.

A common saying describes them.

—Swordsmen are not afraid of death, but afraid of failure.

Swordsmen will help when they see injustice, and they will draw their swords at each other if they disagree. This is a combat profession with a very high mortality rate.

But everything has its advantages and disadvantages.

Because of the crazy path of swordsmen, their growth rate far exceeds that of other enhancer professions. They are one of the few brave men who dare to fight beyond their level.

Zhou Yi had only heard of them in the past, but had never seen them.

Red Falcon introduced: "The 'Beiyang Swordsmen' are a group of heroes in the Beiyang area. They are supported and funded by the Earth Officials behind them, so they can travel around without any worries and grow rapidly."

Earth Official is another enhancer profession.

They were originally regional lords or rulers independent of the city, owning their own territories, building manors, fortresses, or even city-states, with different Earth Officials having completely different tendencies.

But now, Earth Official has become a specialized bureaucratic profession. Earth Officials can be hired, appointed, and invited to serve as the mayor of a town or city. They are often the core decision-makers and think tanks of towns.

This group is also a key adhesive that connects cities, diplomacy, and internal affairs, allowing various forces to establish cooperation.

Zhou Yi asked: "So it's like these local forces' Earth Officials sponsoring swordsmen to raise retainers?"

"Retainers? Are you talking about subordinates? It's not like that."

Red Falcon corrected: "Earth Officials train and fund swordsmen because a considerable number of Earth Officials used to be swordsmen. After the golden age of combat growth, swordsmen will eventually transform as long as they don't die. Investing in swordsmen now will definitely pay off as long as new Earth Officials are born from them in the future."

“In addition, Earth Officials usually sponsor and train swordsmen in the name of master and apprentice. Therefore, the relationship between the two is much closer than it seems to the outside world.”

“Because of these origins, swordsmen also have different groups, with disagreements and conflicts between them. Behind them, Earth Officials are fighting openly and secretly to increase the influence of different regions.”

“But swordsman is still a relatively pure profession. They verify and improve themselves through battles again and again.”

Zhou Yi nodded as he listened.

Swordsman is the choice of high-spirited young people, pursuing their own limits alone. Old swordsmen with injuries all over their bodies become Earth Officials after retirement and return to life, which is easy to understand.

Zhou Yi was quite interested in this Beiyang swordsman, Ding Ye.

I wonder if he is missing arms and legs, or the kind who draws his sword and starts hacking if he disagrees… He is going to have surgery, so he shouldn't be so explosive, right?

……

In addition to regularly checking the operation of various departments of the company, Zhou Yi also has an important task recently.

Buying transportation.

His plan is to buy a ship, preferably a plane, or a big car if that's not possible.

However, Recursive City doesn't have this service at all. It's just a small city with a shortage of labor.

Zhou Yi can only browse the pages of Energy Storage City every day.

Here, various models of vehicles are sold to the public—but they are just ordinary cars and ships.

Just when he was frowning, Red Falcon suggested: "Why not try public recruitment?"

"As long as you are willing to offer a high price, there will be qualified mechatronic lifeforms willing to sell related services and complete the tasks you assign."

Zhou Yi's eyes lit up.

That's right.

In the past, he only picked up bargains, but now it's time to recruit talents in a proper manner!

"How much salary do you think is appropriate per year?"

"It depends on what level you need."

"Is A-level possible?"

"Impossible."

"What about B-level?"

"Also difficult."

Red Falcon said: "5000 light seeds, you can try."

Zhou Yi gritted his teeth.

If you're going to do it, do it well.

I'll pay 10,000, this time I have to choose carefully!