Zhou Yi sized up the newly completed skyscraper.

This one looked quite ordinary, neither having a distinctive appearance, nor displaying any behavior different from the rest of its group.

Its calm and stable demeanor, on the contrary, made it appear somewhat out of place among its several brothers.

Jade City said, "Building 8 and I are the most alike; it's silent and introverted, with a gentle personality, showing no aggression. Its body is the strongest amongst all of Jade City for it contains a large amount of Light Soot Sand and more metal."

"However, perhaps for this reason, it moves sluggishly, doesn't like to move around much, and gets extremely tired and resistant after just a few steps."

"Another of its flaws is that it's very afraid of heights; it easily loses balance and gets disordered in the air, shaking endlessly if it flies a little too high, it's very sensitive to and fearful of heights."

"For it, quietly staying on the ground is probably the best choice."

Despite its strength, it is afraid of heights and not good at running?

Zhou Yi rubbed his face with both hands.

Building 5, born during the war, is a warrior, Building 6 is the friend of the rebellious samurai crab, Building 7 is a pilot, and Building 8, with the best innate conditions, gives off an air of a homebody from a time of peace...

"Committee member, although Building 8 can neither fight nor explore, it has its own areas of expertise."

Jade City stated.

Each window of Building 8 emitted a strong light, projecting onto the slightly odd-looking black ground.

What should have been blocks of light instead split into tiny dots, which began to arrange themselves in an orderly fashion, forming a lifelike image of a samurai crab.

Zhou Yi was taken aback.

Building 6 is capable of dot-style display on the main high-rise body, but in terms of precision or flexibility, it's completely incomparable to the scene before him.

It's like electronic projection.

This led Zhou Yi to think of the enhanced controllers.

Those Light Imprint-created computers from the era of the Wasteland, and the sandy pixel blocks on the glass monitors, were quite similar to the scene before his eyes.

Zhou Yi asked, "Did it turn itself into an enhanced controller?"

"Committee member, I shall let Shi Gandang explain the technical part to you, my understanding in these matters is still very superficial."

A moment later.

The vacuuming robot took over from Jade City to speak: "Chairman, to explain this matter we must start from the beginning. The nurturing experience of Building 7 gave Building A and me an idea."

"The preferences and temperaments of Jade City buildings born in different periods are influenced by the overall environment, which is difficult to change. However, we can test and confirm their aptitude direction."

"For example, Building 7, due to its strong sense of adventure and its passion for flying, has spent the longest time flying. Thus, it possesses the strongest flying technology."

"Building A and I used Light Imprint for a small test to see which Light Imprint it is more sensitive to..."

They arranged something similar to a lottery for Building Life, but it involved setting up various Light Imprints in Building 8 and seeing which ones it would take an interest in, and trigger and use actively.

After multiple screenings, Shi Gandang came to a conclusion.

"For Light Imprints that are destructive, Building 8 itself seems to be resistant, and it clearly does not like anything related to extreme external movement."

"But it did show interest in 'projection.'"

Shi Gandang said, "Building 8 wants to extend itself easily and comfortably without having to run around. With this in mind, we nurtured and guided it in a specific direction."

"It quickly became proficient at using this Light Imprint, and is very skilled at light projection, even able to project into the air and the Dead Sea. The effect is even better at night."

"I think Building 8 could serve as a lighthouse after dark, projecting the company's samurai crab logo into the Dead Sea. This would be both aesthetically pleasing and could guide approaching ships from outside."

Zhou Yi: "..."

Is this capability being used to do this?

He was somewhat puzzled: "Isn't this a great opportunity to create an internal enhanced controller? It already possesses the capability to project information as recognizable images, which isn't much different from a controller's screen."

"Chairman, that's very difficult technically."

Shi Gandang explained: "An enhanced controller includes multiple Light Imprints like 'write,' 'store,' 'read,' 'output,' 'projection,' 'mainframe,' 'program system,' etc."

"Projection is only one-way image projection, outputting images to the outside, but it does not have the ability to acquire external information."

"Although the enhanced controller looks small, it actually has quite high technical requirements. And to integrate so many Light Imprints into Jade City, there are objective difficulties."

"Tell me about it."

"Let's take the most core part: the mainframe. The 'mainframe' Light Imprint is a scale imitation of the existing mechanical life mainframe prototype, composed of 8 parts, and is the most complex part of the controller. The reason why controllers are now heavy and large is because the size cannot be changed; any change to the existing proportion, whether increasing or decreasing, will lead to abnormal operation of the Light Imprint Structure."

The Light Seal Expert said with a tone of regret: "We cannot determine the exact reasons, only able to replicate and use them."

"That alone prevents the controller from being transplanted into the body of Jade City."

Zhou Yi understood.

This indeed was a technical hurdle.

However.

In his view, this was not much of an issue.

"Jade City doesn't need a mainframe, it itself is a life form, aren't its own consciousness and thinking the mainframe?"

"How could that be the same?"

Shi Gandang insisted: "The standards for an enhanced controller are set. If one standard is wrong, then the other parts simply cannot be made up."

Zhou Yi said, "What I mean is, based on the actual situation of Jade City, to carry out a degree of building electromechanization and intelligence."

"For instance, a projection Light Imprint is now available. This shows that Jade City can output visualized information externally."

"I see that the black floor of the projection is made of Light Soot Sand, which looks like it's a screen specifically for projection use, right?"

He laid out his train of thought: "Then we could completely build projection walls as display devices, visible to the residents of Jade City. Things like danger alerts, or some announcements, could be projected onto these walls, right?"

"Architectural mechanization... Intelligence..."

"What you're saying sounds a bit strange… but it seems correct."

Shi Gandang suddenly snapped back to attention: "I was thinking in a dead end! I've been trying to force Jade City to fit the standards of an enhanced controller, and that's why it couldn't be applied or matched."

"Jade City itself is a living host; as long as it's integrated with the requisite Light Imprints, it could interact with humans in an entirely new way!"

It became more and more excited: "If we follow this line of thought, the mainframe is not a problem at all. The Building Life has a multitude of Consciousnesses, each capable of calculation and thought, and can perform synchronized computations..."

"It can also transmit image information externally. For example, by converting existing languages into images, we can construct an entirely new Alien Language. This way, after projecting with the enhanced controller from outside, Jade City would be able to read and understand the information given to it."

"As long as we can develop this kind of image language, then the Building Life could converse with anyone in the outside world through projection!"

"In theory, it is possible!"

"The biggest technical challenge is to create such a special language, translating from existing human text, or it could be from programming language. For this, we could draw inspiration from Prehistoric Humans' writing, which was called pictograms, right... it is both writing and drawing, easy to understand and disseminate."

"When you mention it like this, it seems Prehistoric Humans already solved the problem of communication with Building Life ages ago. It's a universal language!"

"Incredible, incredible! We're only just understanding their ancient footsteps now; Prehistoric Humans really were far ahead of us, I'd love to see what they looked like walking with the gods in their prime..."

The sweeping robot became so excited that it entered brainstorming mode.

Zhou Yi was surprised: "Aren't you specialized in power structures and engineering?"

"Actually, many fields intersect and share common points."

Shi Gandang said with pleasure: "Our past research on Building Life couldn't be done without controllers used as terminal information tools."

"Chairman, you've given me a major hint! If we can create this set of Alien Language, the history where Aliens cannot converse will be completely rewritten."

"I will devote all my time and energy to this area, to make a breakthrough as quickly as possible!"

"It said, "Number 8 has great talent in this area, and it's also very interested in projections, so I request for it to assist me in the testing."

Zhao Yi asked: "Will this affect residency?"

"Not at all."

That's fine then.

Because aside from Building B, Buildings 3 and 4, even though they have been rebuilt, with the growing population of the company, everyone's expectations for housing are still increasing.

Even with enough Mushroom Houses to go around, people are still looking forward to moving into the more luxurious Jade City.

It's a higher pursuit in terms of living.

Zhou Yi sincerely said: "I wish you an early completion, and hope for this historic day to come soon."

"Chairman, I will give it my all!"

Shi Gandang began to get busy with Jade City.

...

Two days later.

Sigma from Recursive City sent a message: "Mr. Zhou, due to the spread of the Sunday virus, Recursive City will temporarily close for a week for internal inspection and cleaning."

"During this period, we'll cut off signals from the outside world. Please understand."

"Understood."

Zhou Yi was curious: "Is the Sunday virus very serious?"

"Very serious, as of now 138 Mechanical Cities have been infected, to varying degrees. Infected individuals are forcibly ejected from work after 144 hours, leading to a significant efficiency crisis in Mechanical Cities. Arrests and isolation of the infected are being carried out everywhere... we have come to know that a terrorist organization called the Mechanical Knight Order is behind it."

"The number of spreaders is still increasing; many mechanical lifeforms outside are also carriers of the virus, and the Knight Order is also continuously updating the Sunday virus."

"Mechanical Cities are on the hunt for them, and if you have any information, please let us know."

"Please be careful at your company as well."

"Alright."

Zhou Yi immediately swiped the screen, finding that the pages for Recursive City, Coral Port, and Mass Production City couldn't be accessed, all displaying maintenance notices.

The impact of the Sunday program was much higher than anticipated.

"Additionally, if your company needs it, Recursive City can provide our security program services for you, carrying out inspections and virus clearing while ensuring your company's privacy."

Sigma was quite proactive.

However, 703 had already eradicated this virus program, which no longer affected the mechanical employees. With the official establishment of a five-day workweek and a two-day weekend, even if the virus were to enter the company again, it wouldn't impact the workflow of the departments.

"Thank you, I'll consider it."

Zhou Yi suddenly caught something out of the corner of his eye: "Let's get in touch later, I have something to do right now."

"Okay, I won't bother you then."

Ending the connection there.

Zhou Yi looked at his wristwatch.

The Black Water Ghost was emitting white light, indicating some special change.

The white light spread out in all directions forcefully, enveloping the whole house.

"I've become a standard clock!"

The voice of the Black Water Ghost was very proud.

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