Wasteland Development Diary

Chapter 71: Heavenly Corpse Porter


Zhou Yi thought first: "Can you use the Dual Towers?"

"How could that be?"

Night God waved his hand and said in the consciousness channel, "That thing needs sufficient Heavenly People support to start and operate. I don't have 151 Heavenly People to supply it...let alone a living one, I don't even have a corpse."

"What about it then?"

Night God was a bit annoyed: "You can develop technology, so can I. What? You look down on me?"

"No, it's just..."

Zhou Yi said, "Mainly, you were working with the Church before, so it feels a bit inconsistent. I just didn't think in that direction."

"It seems you misunderstand our Church. The Night Church explores Mysticism, which is a general term for convenience. Strictly speaking, it should be the new natural laws in the Wasteland era environment."

Night God said, "For example, some believers' research focuses on mystical rituals, which are specific sacrificial words to call Concept Life. Essentially, it's the same as a code. Like making a call, Concept Life can sense someone calling them."

"The known rituals collected so far include those for the Sun God, Dragon, Heavenly Kingdom Paradise, Dead Sea Master..."

Zhou Yi's eyes widened: "Wait, the Church can even call the Dead Sea Master?"

"It's not summoning, just calling."

Night God corrected, "But without a response, it's useless. The Dead Sea Master, unlike other Concept Life, has no emotions; calling only brings Light Burst or rapids."

Zhou Yi asked, "How did you get the Dead Sea Master's ritual?"

"It's related to the Land God."

"Among Concept Life, the land has very high strength on the consciousness side because it's broadly associated with a large number of self-aware intelligent life. Everything is intricately connected to it. However, over 99% of the Land God's power is seized by the Dead Sea Master, which is an extension of the Dead Sea suppressing the land on the consciousness side."

Night God said, "To be precise, it's the Land God's ritual that triggered the Dead Sea Master."

"Last time, when the Land God was killed by Heavenly Kingdom Paradise, it was because an island resident used the correct ritual, causing the Dead Sea Master to respond, unleashing a Light Burst nearby...although it was the lowest-grade A-level Light Burst for it, it was still a disaster."

"This actually made the island worse, and several people died as a result."

"That's why the Land God could not stand it anymore and helped them by Sealing Soil, hoping to compensate for the loss through fertile land and harvest next year."

Zhou Yi let out a gasp.

Recite the right sacrificial words, and end up calling the Dead Sea Master first.

A bandit suppressing a hero.

The visitor brought with them a set of rapids surge, Death Light burst, and high-pressure field quality triple threat... truly hard to bear.

Only now did Zhou Yi understand why the Land God was always silent and melancholic.

Anyone would be depressed by this situation.

Falling from the peak to the valley.

Your power is taken, your rituals are used by others, and you bear the infamy.

As a deity revered by people, it's really tragic to end up like this.

"Let's not get too far off topic."

Night God brought the conversation back: "My newly developed gemstone technology comes from the gem pool under the Dual Towers. Inside each Heavenly Person's body is a special arrangement structure, which is an automatic switch."

"Remember?"

"The Gemstone Transformer was caught by that light on the Moon. It's that mechanism; the core is changing the gemstone arrangement inside, making the Gemstone Transformer itself fly into the gem pool."

"I experimented with it repeatedly. Even if placed in the Mars Ring away from the Moon, it would still be captured by that light band, come through the nearest space channel, and enter the gem pool."

Zhou Yi was somewhat skeptical.

After all, the Heavenly Person Gem Body is much larger than the Transformer.

But he thought it might be worth trying since it only changes the internal gemstone structure.

"Ok."

"Let's do it now."

Night God looked eager: "I want to recreate the world of the old humanity before the Circular Flow burst in the gem space, building a one-to-one scale consciousness world. You go get a Heavenly Corpse for me."

"But why do you suddenly need a Heavenly Corpse?" Zhou Yi asked curiously.

"I want to be like you."

"Huh?"

"Like you can go to the Heavenly Person Graveyard and then near the Sun, a Heavenly Corpse is the best vessel."

Only then did Night God reveal his purpose: "I want to modify a Heavenly Corpse, then like you, disguise myself as a Heavenly Person to blend in and take a look over there. To activate the Dual Towers and thoroughly understand the Moon's mechanism, Heavenly People are a must. So, I must find one."

"They dare not come, so I have to go."

"By then, working together over there will make everything easier, right? But we need a Ruby; with it, we can record, store, and read, and continue each time from where we left off."

Only now did Zhou Yi realize Night God's intention.

"Ok."

He didn't waste words: "Give me the structure you mentioned, and I'll adjust it."

After an hour of confirmation, all was correct.

Zhou Yi initiated remote consciousness projection and entered the long-lost Heavenly Person Graveyard.

...

The cemetery area was the same as always.

The Heavenly corpses floated in space.

Zhou Yi first confirmed the Heavenly Corpse he controlled was intact, with only some White Gemstone naturally worn away but otherwise unchanged.

The outside was normal too.

He quickly locked onto a small Heavenly Corpse.

The majority of its gemstone surface was White Gemstone, giving an impression of desolation and coldness.

After capturing it, Zhou Yi found it had no Rubies inside.

Not suitable.

Next one.

He aimed at yet another slightly larger one, connected with it using the Gem Channel, and first checked the internal situation of the corpse.

Again, no Ruby.

Not suitable.

...

He screened eight corpses in succession and found no Ruby.

This is also normal.

Heavenly Corpses with Ruby inside are the minority.

When he found the 12th Heavenly Corpse, Zhou Yixin let out a sigh of relief.

Finally, there was one that met the requirements.

This Heavenly Person stored deep within its body a faded Ruby, overall looking somewhat like a flattened oval pumpkin, for now, let's call it Pumpkin Brother.

Zhou Yi first proceeded to read it.

Immersion initiated.

Zhou Yi found himself floating over a huge High-Temperature world.

The ground was ablaze, displaying a dazzling yellow-white color.

Small celestial bodies rose from the sea of fire, many of which had diameters exceeding 1000 kilometers, irregularly burning bodies.

They were like burning mushroom clouds that, after reaching a certain height, would fall back, their colors fading from bright to dim to black before disappearing.

Zhou Yi later learned that this was the granulation on the Sun, a convection phenomenon caused by High-Temperature plasma rising (bright areas) and cooling down (dark edges).

At this point, he had an inkling.

It should be the Sun.

The deceased Heavenly People operated near the Sun.

The Sun's surface had patches of black spots; these were dark due to being a thousand degrees cooler than the surrounding areas, causing them to stand out against the surrounding brightness.

This star, on which humanity depends for survival, surprisingly had something similar to a liquid flowing, but they were all in a state akin to boiling High Temperature.

The oddly unsettling thing was that the Sun's surface occasionally released streaks of purple light.

They were some kind of explosive energy bursts, shooting in all directions before disappearing into the darkness.

Zhou Yi's Heavenly body at this time also felt the searing heat.

A blue light surrounded his body surface, greatly alleviating the effects of High Temperature and Radiation.

In Zhou Yi's first-person perspective, the Heavenly Person was flying above the Sun, approaching another floating Heavenly Person.

Heavenly People were rare here, each surrounded by a blue light, moving within their respective areas.

Zhou Yi looked behind him.

Away from the Sun, under intense light, he could clearly see the large structure made of transparent gemstones. Long walls covered the sky, seemingly attempting to envelop the entire Sun.

The inner layers of the Ring Solar Wall were circular structures, like long rings, wrapping around the Sun.

The inner wall gathered the purple light emitted by the Sun into hemispherical nodes, curving and directing them there, preventing further release to the outside.

The outer wall was farther away, visible only as a faintly glowing blue canopy.

Zhou Yi felt a vague sense.

The purple light must have some special significance, otherwise, the Ring Solar Wall wouldn't be specifically collecting them.

The source of the purple light and the Purple Sun both stem from the Sun.

It seems only the Jupiter side can receive and identify the purple light.

Just as Zhou Yi pondered, he suddenly felt a tremor in his perspective.

He snapped back to consciousness.

Found that the Heavenly Person he was in had just connected with another larger Heavenly Person. The other Heavenly Person was radiant with brilliant blue, energy abundant, but within, there was a layer of faintly flickering purple.

Contact between Heavenly People, Zhou Yi encountered it for the first time.

He couldn't help feeling a bit excited.

Wondering how the bodily contact between Heavenly People would facilitate communication.

Could it really be just an accidental collision?

Then he saw that Pumpkin Brother was taking the massive Heavenly Person, flying bit by bit towards space away from the Sun.

The speed accelerated.

Approaching the inner wall, the massive Heavenly Person was directly thrown out by it.

That Heavenly Person entered a ring-shaped area on the inner wall, was absorbed, and began spinning, transforming into a meteor dragging a long blue tail.

It accelerated away from the Sun, disappearing into the distance.

Did this Heavenly Person commit a crime and was thrown out?

Zhou Yi suddenly snapped back to the present.

No.

The Heavenly Person that was thrown out, despite being energy-rich, did not have that layer of Light Film on its surface. It was extremely hot, offering no resistance in the entire process of being thrown out, nor did it release any information or actions.

That was a deceased Heavenly Person.

Once confirmed dead, it was taken out from here and sent out through the Ring Solar Wall to drift.

The one this perspective belongs to.

Is it a Heavenly Corpse transporter?

Zhou Yi couldn't help but find it amusing.

Come to think of it, this one could be considered his peer.

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