To avoid any complications, Zhou Yi immediately activated the Sea God and transformed the Panda Man into a Spark Life form, imprinting it on his shoulder.

He told the other party, "The company has a partner pairing model."

"An alien employee partners with an Energy State Life. Energy State Life usually acts as company advisors, providing advice or leading projects in certain areas of expertise."

"This model has been proven to be very effective. The strong bodies of the alien employees can also protect sensitive individuals like you; they are natural disguises and cover."

"If you are willing, you can also partner with an alien employee."

"The current available alien employees are only Yalong Bay and Wuhu Elevated Bridge."

Guan Zhong asked, "What are their characteristics?"

Zhou Yi explained.

The Panda Man pondered for a while: "If the Elevated Bridge can accept it, I hope to partner with it. I have never seen an alien at the Light Core Body Level, and I am very curious about it. On the other hand, its road connection ability can affect more areas and lives."

Zhou Yi inquired about the Elevated Bridge's opinion.

It welcomed the idea extremely: "I finally have a partner! And an experienced mechanical programmer with urban management experience, I'm more than satisfied!"

The two parties hit it off immediately.

Zhou Yi transferred Guan Zhong to the Light Soot body of the Elevated Bridge.

Guan Zhong quickly sent feedback.

"It's truly unbelievable!"

"It spans across two major regions and is extending towards a third, like the living Dead Sea continent! Perhaps this is the mature form of an alien!"

"A vast number of consciousnesses are floating within it, more than the residents of a city. One Light Core Body alien is equivalent to a city, and the absorption and evolution of consciousnesses are ongoing…"

"They have an innate life form, perhaps the best native species in this world!"

The Panda Man was extremely excited: "I always thought Mechanical Life was the optimal species, but now it seems aliens completely surpass them!"

"Aliens inherit the knowledge and consciousness of old humans and possess the Death Light Power of this era. Once they become Light Core Bodies, they have no natural enemies. The Dead Sea can no longer trap them; instead, it can be their oil tanks and energy pumps!"

Zhou Yi murmured to himself.

Becoming a Light Core Body, whether human or Mechanical Life, probably has no natural enemies.

If they can't win, they can always run away and start over in another world.

Calming down slightly, Guan Zhong said: "Chairman, regarding the strategy of the Legal Front, I would like to discuss it further."

Zhou Yi listened intently.

"Mechanical City struggles to compete with our company in innovative breakthroughs, but its industrial manufacturing capability remains one of the strongest in this world. Next, they will rapidly start mass production of Electrolysis Towers, Wiring Networks, Electric Cat Transcoders, electric balls, and Cat Houses."

This was within Zhou Yi's expectations.

Mass production is the inherent advantage of Mechanical Life, their comfort zone.

Zhou Yi stated: "As long as they pay the patent fees, they can produce as they please."

"In the agricultural sector, if the Legal Front's farms expand massively, their operating costs will be lower than those of Wasteland Company."

"The Legal Front manages a large number of farms, processing plant-based oils, sugar, and other key energy materials, with the aim of lowering costs to capture and monopolize the agricultural market at lower prices."

Guan Zhong asked: "Is the company prepared for this?"

Zhou Yi hadn't anticipated this.

It seemed the Legal Front genuinely intended to engage in long-term agriculture, pushing down the prices of oil and sugar.

He thought for a while: "It's not necessarily a bad thing. While maintaining our own farmland, the company can also purchase cheaper oil and sugar. I actually hope they do so, as it benefits the wider use of our Floating Heart. I hope they succeed."

Guan Zhong was momentarily at a loss for words: "Chairman, you think quite optimistically…"

Zhou Yi smiled: "It's a good thing for most people, as lower agricultural costs mean more people can eat, and the cost of using the Floating Heart can be reduced. When our company developed agriculture, it was never about making a profit. Food, like healthcare, is a safety foundation, which is our company's red line."

"I see... no wonder the Legal Front's calculations were off in this regard."

Guan Zhong said: "According to the Data Center's simulations, the company's dominance of the new energy equipment market with low-cost Floating Hearts. The next step is likely to enter the supporting agricultural market and further monopolize it to gain greater upstream and downstream industrial chain benefits, thus forming a full industry chain monopoly."

"This explains why the company has been investing heavily in agriculture since its inception, regardless of costs... the future must hold huge profit expectations."

Zhou Yi was speechless.

From a profit perspective, this inference was quite reasonable.

However, many things were not planned from the beginning.

Initially, he just wanted to eat fresh rice, noodles, and meat. As the company expanded and the number of employees increased, more people needed to eat, and the agricultural output needed rose accordingly, slowly evolving into the current situation.

"After Spring City was destroyed, the Data Center judged that it would be difficult to directly confront the company militarily. The risk was too high, and the defeat rate of a full-scale war exceeded 49%, so the data suggested such a decision was impossible."

"Additionally, the Mechanical Administrator has been persuaded by the Legal Front and has begun activity. It's a Concept Life born from Mechanical City."

Guan Zhong's tone became serious: "The strength of Concept Life is highly connected to its prototype. Therefore, the Administrator's interests are tightly linked with Mechanical City."

Zhou Yi frowned: "Are they going to use Concept Life to attack us?"

"Not exactly."

Guan Zhong explained: "The characteristic of the Mechanical Administrator is 'series connection,' enabling high mutual identification among the residents of Mechanical City, especially Mechanical Life, and maintaining this stable living form."

"Mechanical Life rarely lives outside and mostly settles in Mechanical City. The scattered Mechanical Life wandering in the wild tend to stay once they enter Mechanical City. This is the underlying reason."

Zhou Yi touched his chin.

So that's the reason. It's not just because Mechanical City's facilities are more complete.

Consciousnesses also have an influence.

"The Mechanical Administrator will summon the Mechanical Life wandering outside back to Mechanical City. This summoning and deep consciousness influence are subtle and imperceptible."

Guan Zhong emphasized: "The large influx of Mechanical Life is because the Mechanical Administrator is further enhancing the 'series connection.'"

Zhou Yi was startled.

This needed attention.

He asked, "What level is the Mechanical Administrator?"

"It's known to be a Light Core Body. It has been dormant since the Resistance Army's defeat."

Guan Zhong replied: "If it awakens, it will significantly impact Mechanical Life, causing them to gather densely in large cities while small and medium-sized cities rapidly decline and disappear. For the stability of the prototype order, it chose to sleep."

"But the pressure from Wasteland Company is too great, so the Legal Front chose to awaken it."

"Besides influencing Mechanical Life, the Administrator will also absorb a group of repaired semi-civilized entities, bringing them into Mechanical City."

Zhou Yi's hair stood on end.

No wonder more Mechanical Bulls were venturing out.

Jade City already provided excellent employment opportunities.

Yet the Mechanical Bulls chose to leave in droves, claiming to explore the outside world and seek more opportunities. It was actually the Legal Front's covert influence!

The Legal Front was repairing the plank road openly while advancing in secrecy, directly undermining us with a bottom-up approach.

Damn!

It's still not enough bombing!

Though how to deal with the Light Core Body level Administrator, Guan Zhong had no clue.

...

Zhou Yi immediately sought help from Xiao Fu.

"There are two ways. First, severely injure it and then use a mic master to lock it, transforming it into a Spark Life."

Reverse Flow said: "The second is to continue bombing Mechanical City, destroying several more. If the prototype is damaged, it will weaken. If bombed enough, it won't even be able to maintain its Light Core Body, and once it falls to the Skywalker stage, it will be easy to deal with."

Zhou Yi stated: "Both methods seem a bit difficult."

Bombing many cities is too costly.

Furthermore, although the prosthetic leg was re-entered into the Mud Tree World, it hasn't returned yet, so there's no Light Core Level ammunition.

"Saying difficult but not impossible."

Xiao Fu suggested: "Directly invite the Night God and the Cat God to join forces, two against one should suppress it."

This was an idea.

Zhou Yi immediately thought: "Night God Night God, call my mind."

A classical woman, draped in gauze, appeared before him.

She held a round fan, blinking: "Long time no see, Mr. Zhou, how have you been?"

"Alright."

Zhou Yi got straight to the point, expressing his desire to gang up on the Mechanical Administrator.

The other party shook her fan: "Mr. Zhou, I never do such things, I'm a proper Concept God. Attacking other Concept Life is not appropriate."

Zhou Yi said: "One million Light Seeds."

"Oh no, really, it's not possible."

"Two million."

"It's really not good, sigh, this way the Night Church will suffer significantly, the public opinion will be terrible."

"Three million."

"Deal."

The Night God immediately turned serious: "The Mechanical Administrator has angered the masses and must be taught a lesson. Honestly, just me alone won't have confidence, even though it's not combat-oriented. But as you mentioned, there's another Light Core Body plus the mic master's ability, which is another matter."

"But what's the use of capturing it? After it dies, it will return to the Great Holy Spirit unless it's perpetually imprisoned, but the energy consumption would be enormous… once it slightly recovers, it can self-destroy to return."

Zhou Yi said: "Just catch it, leave the rest to me."

He thought.

As long as the Administrator is transformed into a Spark Life and plastered on his shoulder, it's out of options!

Dare to steal my employees, I'll make you pay back with interest!

The Cat God and Night God disappeared into the air.

Zhou Yi opened a copy of "Dream of the Red Chamber," ready to cultivate his temperament.

After reading a couple of paragraphs, his eyelids started to fight, and soon he fell asleep.

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