The winter battle had become a foregone conclusion, but the company's development could not stall because of this.

The better the Wasteland Development Company performed, the more it could improve the odds of victory in the honor war.

Zhou Yi looked at the diary in his hand.

The latest page read,

—Develop a technology.

It had been nearly a year since coming ashore, and the company had basically completed its initial accumulation of resources, possessing a relatively ample Light Seed reserve. It was time to delve into the field of scientific and technological development.

Zhou Yi thought very clearly.

With the current human and material resources, it was best to focus on investing in one technological project. This technology had to align with the company's development direction to form a virtuous cycle.

The company currently had two core proprietary industries.

The first was the resource development of the Dead Sea, which the Scavenger Team was advancing.

The second was Wasteland Express. Although the courier business was a new field initiated by the company and had the latest start, its development was the fastest. With further scale expansion, it still had a vast potential for the future.

Technical research and development had to revolve around these two industries.

Zhou Yi sought the opinions of many employees.

They were natives of the Wasteland World and had a clearer and deeper understanding of the society of this era than he did.

Ajin was the first to stand up and say, "Chairman, can we develop a technology for enhancing Scavengers, to enhance everyone in the company, allowing humans to also go into the Dead Sea to pan for gold? That way, all our Scavengers can utilize their specialties, and the most common professionals in the company are Scavengers, after all."

"The idea is good, but it's not feasible at the moment, sit down."

"Chairman, but isn't there enhancement transformation technology?"

The youth was not willing to give up, "If we could make this technology stronger, maybe it could be done."

Zhou Yi had Red Kestrel contact the hospital's Da Vinci for a professional explanation of this issue.

The Mechanical Doctor said, "Enhancement transformation surgery carries a heavy load on humans, not everyone can endure it. Qin Mo meets the surgical requirements because his innate physical quality is excellent."

"After organs become enhanced bodies, there will be stress, rejection, and allergic reactions, requiring the use of corresponding Suppressant Pills. Adapting to a new body also requires a lengthy process."

"Your proposal requires at least the completion of full skin, eyes, nose, mouth, throat, ears, and excretory organs enhancement transformation to ensure that the enhanced body can form a buffer between the human body and the Dead Sea. Current medical technology cannot achieve this."

Ajin scratched his head, "So it's that difficult... No wonder humans can't go down to the Dead Sea."

Then Gong Zheng also spoke up, "Chairman, from my limited experience, the intersection of the Dead Sea development and courier industries lies in the cultivation of ordinary low-level Guangna Species."

"The Scavenger Team consists of Weapon Masters, whose predecessors and foundations are samurai crabs. The core of Wasteland Express is the Bone Fish deliveryman, which are also the most inconspicuous Guangna Species life in the Dead Sea."

"Can we go further, step up their cultivation and evolution?"

Zhou Yi nodded.

This was a good idea.

"But they are two completely different species with different cultivation methods."

Qian Su agreed, "Samurai crabs are brave and active, needing a certain level of combat improvement. Bone Fish are naturally lazy and rely on bones as important physiological supplements... The specific cultivation still needs to be differentiated."

Suddenly a staff member said, "No, they have an absolute commonality."

Zhou Yi noticed that it was Octopus Brother Bi Qi.

The head of the Bone Laboratory, a former Silver Seal Alchemist, propped up his eight tentacles, "I studied the Dead Sea Bone Fossils and have been in contact with a large number of Dead Sea species."

"For bottom-level creatures, whether samurai crabs or Bone Fish, they are in a state of energy deprivation. They are unable to absorb enough Dead Light Energy on the sea floor, where there is an abundance of various impurities, Hunters, and frequent outbreaks of Dead Sea disasters."

"Their bones often show deformation and brittle fractures, with continuous increases in the cavities within. I compared the bones of the company's Bone Fish, and even for our Bone Fish deliverymen, this is a very common situation."

"To put it simply, it's a problem of malnutrition."

Zhou Yi was somewhat surprised, "Samurai crabs and Bone Fish... have osteoporosis?"

"That's right."

Bi Qi's gaze was serious, "The bones reflect their living conditions, and bones do not lie. For samurai crabs and Bone Fish, the best and most effective way to further their evolution is to feed them Light Seeds. Especially for Bone Fish, whose characteristics are most obvious; the situation for samurai crabs is more complex because they have flesh and blood."

"This approach would be very costly, but I believe it would definitely be effective. High-tier flesh-and-blood species or bone creatures all have very high bone strength, which is not unfounded but comes from a large amount of energy supplement and metamorphosis after transformation."

Zhou Yi had an epiphany, "That makes sense. This is indeed a direction to consider."

Doctor Da Vinci also remotely joined the discussion through Red Kestrel.

"Chairman, while there are certain difficulties in human enhancement transformation, it is much easier for Guangna Species because their physiological structure naturally matches the Light Imprint Structure."

"I think, with the voluntary premise of the Weapon Masters, we could try Light Imprint transplantation on them."

The Mechanical Doctor said, "Scavenger Team members often come to the hospital for treatment."

"They are in the wild surveying and searching, often encountering other Guangna Species, including predators, and also experience rapids and Light Burst impacts. Although they now have specialized exoskeletons and shields, the issue of insufficient strength still exists."

"Their Guangna organ is the cephalothorax, which has not yet formed a fixed Light Imprint Structure inside, indicating that the Weapon Master form has not yet entered a true maturity stage. Surgery can be performed to implant a Light Imprint. If it becomes unnecessary in the future, the Light Imprint can also be removed or replaced."

He wanted to perform artificial surgery on the Weapon Masters to enhance the body.

Zhou Yi looked to Xie Xun, the representative of the Scavenger Team attending the meeting, "What do you think?"

Xie Xun rapped his chitinous claw against his carapace, and a voice came from the translator machine, "I think as long as everyone is willing to try, there should be no problem."

"Xie Fei always feels that we are too slow in our actions. If we could speed things up, it would be much better. It wants to install devices on itself to move quickly through the Dead Sea."

There were no objections from any party.

So Zhou Yi immediately decided that they would proceed with both approaches concurrently.

Over at Da Vinci's side, he would work on Light Imprint modifications for any Weapon Masters willing to do so.

Zhou Yi personally took on the task of feeding the Light Seeds, to see if it could cure the Bone Fish's osteoporosis and malnutrition.

...

Location: Inside the Bone Laboratory.

The experiment subject was deliveryman number 001, the Bone Fish "Health King."

Zhou Yi poured a Light Seed out of the Guangna Box and fed it to Health King.

This made the Bone Fish look a bit more spirited, no longer lazing listlessly on the ground but moving its body around.

Zhou Yi continued this step.

After feeding a total of 20 Light Seeds, Octopus Brother Bi Qi suddenly said, "Chairman, please wait a moment."

Zhou Yi noticed it too.

Health King's surface Light Soot Sand was peeling off.

Initially, the bones on the Bone Fish's body were mostly irregular and cobbled together, giving a sense of patched-up junk. But now, Health King's bones were changing shape, with the entire skeletal structure undergoing fine-tuning and remodeling.

It shed a heap of black sand and fragments on the ground.

Health King's skeleton underwent massive changes, taking on a form different from before.

Bi Qi, waving his eight tentacles, exclaimed, "This direction is correct, correct! They are indeed on the very threshold of survival, hence unable to complete the initial accumulation and embark on powerful enhancement and the path of evolution!"

Zhou Yi also found the sight bizarre.

The Bone Fish deliveryman had transformed its entire body into a droplet shape, with a flat backbone like a deck and a bone fin resembling a ship's bridge. The tail even had a propeller structure... It was the spitting image of a miniaturized version of the Sea God.

This reminded Zhou Yi of the Weapon Masters.

The samurai crabs evolved to mimic themselves, giving rise to the Weapon Masters.

The Bone Fish deliveryman used the Sea God as a model to reconfigure itself into a submarine form.

However, this shape was not fixed. At the base of Health King, there were supportive bone fins, which still allowed movement on land.

Zhou Yi tried to synchronize his consciousness but was still unable to communicate with the Bone Fish.

He wasn't sure if they naturally lacked intelligence or if there was some other reason.

Even the Light Absorption Monsters could speak a few words.

But not the Bone Fish.

Bi Qi put on a pair of goggles and conducted a thorough examination of the Bone Fish, then said, "Chairman, Health King's bone density has increased significantly. The Light Seeds you provided gave it enough energy to enhance its body."

"This is not its limit yet, as some of its bones have not completely fused. It needs more energy."

So Zhou Yi continued to feed Light Seeds.

After consuming another 32 Light Seeds, the gaps between Health King's bones were almost invisible, and its body surface became smoother, with a visibly increased bone density.

Zhou Yi persisted with the feeding.

He fed, and the Bone Fish ate, indiscriminately accepting anything that came its way.

Until after swallowing another 241 Light Seeds, Health King underwent another drastic transformation.

The submarine-like Bone Fish's bones reorganized on a large scale again, transforming into a nearly two-meter-tall conical structure that stood erect on the ground, resembling a triangular tower constructed from white bones.

Bi Qi's eyes went blank, and he propped up his eight tentacles, circling the triangular tower several times, "What kind of evolutionary branch is this? No, no, this isn't right. Bone Fish should evolve into Bone Horseshoe Crabs or into something like jellies."

"Could it have failed? Has it become a mutated species?"

Red Kestrel, after scanning, also said, "This is a previously unseen direction of mutation; there's nothing like it in the Recursive City database."

Suddenly, Zhou Yi saw each level of the triangular tower's bone structure begin to rotate slowly.

The rotation sped up, accompanied by a clicking noise, as if unlocking a series of locks.

Then, out of the blue, the triangular tower shot a beam of light into the sky, disappearing in an instant.

Zhou Yi and Bi Qi were left staring blankly in place.

One second later.

Zhou Yi and Octopus Brother slapped hands forcefully!

Bone Fish Fatty Method, a huge success!

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