It took half a month for the company to create the rudimentary network of heaven and earth.

A special type of pipeline was added on the ground of Sand Port, with a rubber hose on the outside and metal cables on the inside, installed on the central divider of the Wuhu Elevated Bridge.

The conductive lines extend along the elevated bridge, connecting the towns of Sand Port and Jade City, ensuring basic coverage in areas where people are present.

After reaching the distribution points at various residential areas, the lines were laid underneath the main streets to facilitate further upgrades in the future.

The core construction focused on two major areas: Jade City and Sand Port City.

Take Jade City as an example.

Near the company headquarters, lines were built and connected to the power plants in Yalong Bay for energy supply. They extended outwards, covering the concentrated work and living areas such as the farmland, Mushroom Forest, and Guangtai Dam.

The first batch allowed to move around independently included four electric cats, respectively Pikachu, Ye Zhao's Thunderbolt 5, Liang Xing's Assistant Teacher, and the Program Department's Biting Cat.

They raced around everywhere in the form of cat-headed electric balls.

Soon people became familiar with the electric cats and wanted to interact with these lightning-like strange life forms. However, with their high speed, unless the electric cats wanted to, no one could touch them.

When deciding whether to allow electric cats to move freely, Zhou Yi also sought opinions from Pikachu and Energy Minister You Ai.

Pikachu expressed a clear attitude: "Electric cats actually don't like being confined. The reason electric cats on the Spark Plain grow quickly and have a wide range of activities is that. It's not a bad thing for everyone to run around."

You Ai said: "Chairman, our cultivated electric cats have a certain level of intelligence. Intelligent life will have a strong sense of self and dislike restraint."

"Now, there is a matter that must be determined first."

"Are electric cats mere biological tools that we've crafted, or are they special energy-state companions? This definition will affect how we treat them."

"If they are just biological tools, there is no need for freedom, and they should even be locked in cat houses for a long time. Tools don't need independent thought, they just need to fulfill their function. If a tool is not up to standard or is abnormal, it should be destroyed directly."

"But if we regard them as work companions, then we must give them basic recognition and respect. With the growth of their intelligence, they will understand what we are doing and what they themselves are doing, and they will generate plenty of autonomous thoughts. Managing them will be much more difficult, but they will also have higher potential for growth."

The issue with robots is quite pointed.

Zhou Yi immediately said: "The electric cats are employees of the company, that's beyond doubt. They have their own thoughts, and we need them to have their own thoughts."

"Alright, Chairman."

The Energy Minister added: "Based on your definition, we should allow them to be autonomous. This is conducive to the growth of electric cats, and also beneficial for them to become familiar with our environment, as well as to recognize and tag every resident and employee."

And so, there were the four electric cats roaming everywhere.

Zhou Yi's focus was on the sky above.

Now, whenever he had the chance, he would look up at the sky.

Above Yalong Bay, a special type of glider was hovering.

Its wings had been modified into a more stable disc shape, resembling a small flying saucer.

Its cabin was loaded with Floating Heart generators, with multiple generators rotating alternately to provide continuous power and prevent the motors from overheating due to excessive heat.

Additionally, electromagnetic induction coils were installed to act as a relay station for electric cats.

It's more accurate to describe it as an airborne charging station.

Such flying saucers were hovering at various altitudes.

Surrounding them were metal electromagnetic induction coils sprayed with black threads, forming a ring structure that looked like a string of black smoke rings rising from the ground and expanding continuously upwards.

All of these ensured that electric cats had a larger radius of activity in the sky.

Within these black smoke rings in the sky, one could now see the electric cats flashing constantly.

Apart from Yalong Bay, there was a similar high-altitude structure in Sand Port. However, there it was built above a mountainous area, avoiding residential areas below to prevent the risk of high-altitude falling objects.

Although this technical approach looks relatively rudimentary, it is simple and effective.

Electric cats could use these high-altitude platforms to shuttle everywhere under electromagnetic induction, traveling to and from the skies and underground of Sand Port.

Lord Sand Sea specifically visited Zhou Yi several times because of this.

It was mainly revolving around one question.

"Give me more electric cats, Mr. Zhou, I will do anything!"

"Really, whatever you ask me to do, I will do it!"

The sea lord, like a giant seal, looked eager.

"..."

Zhou Yi was a bit puzzled.

Although Lord Sand Sea had always been very submissive before, it had never been so abject.

Even under the threat of Duke Destructive's annexation, it still maintained basic dignity.

What's going on?

"Haven't I already assigned one to you?"

"We need electric cats for the rapid development of Sand Port!"

"What do you need so many electric cats for?"

"They are natural warriors, B-grade and A-grade. Their future potential is limitless; the earlier we nurture them, the earlier we enjoy the benefits! As fast as lightning, swift as the wind!" It gestured with its paws.

"Get to the point."

"..."

Only then did Lord Sand Sea stammer: "That is... enhancement."

"Enhancement?"

Zhou Yi frowned, realizing this was no trivial matter.

"I won't keep it from you."

Lord Sand Sea revealed a pleasing smile: "My ability is quite unique, it can only be used under very special circumstances."

"By casting Chicken Bone into the Dead Sea, under the effect of Death Light radiation and action, my ability can induce mutations that produce Bone Fish fry."

"My ability, catalyst, has a certain probability to cause a life to undergo a mutation reaction, allowing more fry to survive. However, it only works in the Dead Sea and is highly related to the energy of the Dead Sea. So only species from the Dead Sea can be catalyzed."

"This ability can cause extreme pain in the physiology of the catalyzed, so in the past it could only be used to create fish fry. If used on other life forms, even Bone Fish, they would immediately flee and go crazy, even resort to self-harm or death, with the strong ones attacking me directly... its application is very limited."

It said softly: "However, I discovered that electric cats don't feel pain. So when they are catalyzed by me, they don't have any adverse reaction."

"Then I used the electric cat you allocated to me, Thunderbolt 19, and catalyzed it. I've named it 'Shali Huo,' look."

Lord Sand Sea took out an electric ball and pressed it.

A bunch of sparks sprang out.

Zhou Yi immediately noticed something was off with this electric cat.

Under the [Alert] perspective, the electric cat emitted colorful lights, the same A-rank as when it was given to Lord Sand Sea.

But Shali Huo's form wasn't the previous cat-headed electric ball; instead, it had become a ring-shaped lightning with two layers and a dense array of electric arcs constantly stretching and altering around the edges.

It looked like an eye of lightning, with the middle of the ring a twisted pitch-black, the inner circle still slowly moving, as if gauging the surroundings with its eyes.

This thing, to Zhou Yi, felt far more dangerous than the original electric cat.

Lord Sand Sea touched the edge of the lightning with his claw, then the eye of lightning flew behind it, like a kind of Holy Light displayed on its back.

"Chairman, this is the 'Shali Huo' I have catalyzed after the process. Everything else is normal, I've tested it with the Electric Cat Transcoder, and conversation is still very smooth."

"It is only aware of undergoing a mutation reaction and turning into this appearance."

"But the ability of this form of electric cat has changed."

"Look."

Lord Sand Sea pulled out a Knight Firearm from its waist, opened the breech, loaded a bullet, and aimed skillfully at the ring-shaped electric cat behind.

He pulled the trigger.

Bam!

There was a sudden flash at the muzzle.

In the smoke, the bullet shot into the ring-shaped lightning.

Then the bullet was pinned in the inner dark circle, frozen in place. The lead bullet began to slowly rotate along the inner circle of lightning and rapidly disintegrate.

Zhou Yi watched with intent concentration: "Can it alter the movement of energy?"

"Not to that extent."

Lord Sand Sea said proudly: "It's an ability that allows impact energy to be adsorbed and stuck by the electric cat itself, and it can radiate and decompose power through the pattern of heating up at the edges."

"As long as there is sufficient electricity, it can expand itself to a very large size... like a huge capture net, it can resolve various types of external impact attacks and gunfire!"

"Is this worth giving me another two cats?"

Zhou Yi was dumbfounded.

He had never imagined Lord Sand Sea to be an Innate Cat Breeding Saint Body!

Zhou Yi immediately had the Witch Hunter test it.

The Witch Hunter fired continuously at the ring-shaped Shali Huo.

Every bullet got stuck in the inner circle, the rounds spinning around the inner track as though a special gravity fixed them in orbit.

The electric arcs around became stronger, and the temperature noticeably rose, creating waves of heat.

Effective against A-rank attacks!

Zhou Yi took it to Yalong Bay to test its strength, wielding the Witch Hunter and firing with [Life Strike].

This time he spent 100,000 Light Seeds, enough to deal 1 million-level damage.

This was also the attack limit of the Ice Pot—or rather, atmosphere creatures.

The bullet hit the ring-shaped lightning.

It wasn't able to capture this time.

But the bullet carrying [Life Strike], under high-speed rotation by Shali Huo, was transformed into an outward burst of energy impact, condensing into a dazzling pillar of light shooting straight into the sky!

Even level-one-million damage couldn't breach the ring-shaped defenses of the Mutated Electric Cat, which would nearly refract and deflect it.

This was simply an absolute defense below Light Core Body!

Zhou Yi looked at Lord Sand Sea: "I'll give you 20 electric cats, raise them well! Cultivate them all into Mutated Electric Cats! I'll give you 3 of them!"

"Yay!"

Lord Sand Sea, overjoyed and beaming: "Just you watch my abilities!"

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