Wasteland Development Diary

Chapter 72: Why did you start playing by yourself!


Pumpkin Brother flew towards another Heavenly Corpse, continuing its task of transportation.

Throughout this process, Zhou Yi noticed that all the deceased Heavenly People had a common feature: a purple hue within their bodies.

The purple light darted around inside them, like fireflies trapped in a lampshade.

He pondered over this.

Could it be.

That the Sun's purple light is deadly to the Heavenly People?

With this question in mind, Zhou Yi continued to observe.

Unfortunately, Pumpkin Brother was just a heartless corpse transporter; it made no extraneous actions, simply seeking bodies, carrying them away, and sending them to the Ring Solar Wall to be discarded outside.

When transporting the fourth corpse, Pumpkin Brother suddenly froze.

Zhou Yi saw that purple light appeared within it as well, the light streams bouncing and flowing among the gemstones.

Pumpkin Brother stopped moving.

The Ruby's memory was disconnected.

Zhou Yi found himself back beside the Heavenly Corpse.

The deaths of the Heavenly People near the Sun seemed somehow connected to this purple light. If invaded and infected by it, they would die instantly.

This was indeed a piece of brand new information.

Zhou Yi silently noted it down.

Within the Ring Solar Wall, many secrets were still hidden, perhaps needing to be unearthed bit by bit later.

For now, he should first transform the Heavenly Corpse and send it to the Night God.

He began adjusting the gemstone structure inside Pumpkin Brother.

According to the structure design provided by the Night God.

The core was a Ruby.

Around the Ruby, a complete sequence structure consisting of 1024 gemstones needed to be constructed.

This structure required a large number of White Gemstones and Black Gemstones, arranged and connected alternately, forming a columnar structure, somewhat resembling a worm gear in machinery.

Then, it needed to be made to rotate.

The key was to create a supporting protective layer to build a gemstone support space, ensuring it would not squeeze or affect the stability of the internal worm gear structure.

The construction was more difficult than Zhou Yi had anticipated.

He failed forty times in a row.

Either the structure collapsed before it was even completed, or friction quickly developed once they began to spontaneously adjust their connections, leading to jams and breakage.

It was nothing like the "very simple" that the Night God had described.

Zhou Yi didn't think the Night God was lying; it should be the difference caused by differing environments and operators.

The Night God's body was a Heavenly People Gem structure, operating gemstones as easily as using hands and feet.

Zhou Yi explored throughout his failures.

He attempted hundreds of times.

Yet even after failing, he continued to fail.

He felt a bit frustrated.

Xiao Fu suddenly said: "Da Zhou, pay attention."

"Its essence is an artificial Memory Core."

"Since maintaining a whole rotation is difficult, try stretching and bending it into a double helix."

The Reverse Flow suggested: "The sorting itself has no problem. Follow the regularity of the Memory Core, adjusting its structural space won't affect its essence, just may create some minor external changes."

Only then Zhou Yi came to his senses.

He was overly fixated on the structure itself, turning into a gemstone screw worker, entirely losing the ability to observe and think.

Following Xiao Fu's advice, he bent it into a double helix structure.

It immediately became stable and smooth.

He worked busily for quite a while.

Finally, Zhou Yi heaved a sigh of relief.

Inside the Heavenly Corpse, the first double helix began to slowly rotate.

Its rotation drove the other gemstones, and the second, third, and fourth double helices began to naturally form.

Just like Gem Cells had an inherent tendency to replicate.

Though it was still a Sea of Gems overall, inside it had gradually transformed into individual double helix structures, like gears turning and interacting with each other.

The entire Gemstone Body underwent some kind of unpredictable change.

Zhou Yi couldn't help but feel a little nervous: "Won't this create some bizarre thing?"

"Don't worry."

Xiao Fu confidently said: "At most, external structures may undergo slight changes. The core sequence remains unchanged, strictly adhering to the sequence provided by the Night God."

"However, the activity of these Gem Cells is much stronger than I anticipated. Although the Consciousness as a whole dissipated, by transforming them through specific arrangement structures, they can engage in special types of movements and wield significant power."

"Truly worthy of being an Assembly!"

Zhou Yi noticed.

The double helix inside Pumpkin Brother was spreading like a virus, with a massive number of double helices forming and spinning, blending the grandeur of jewelry and the beauty of machinery.

As this process continued, the entire Heavenly Corpse began to emit a faint light.

Densely packed lines of light shone from each spiral structure, slowly rising to the outside, like rising luminous steam, the light streams spreading continuously in the air.

They quickly turned into a stream of light, piercing into the darkness.

Suddenly, Zhou Yi's head ached tremendously, and his consciousness became blurred.

He heard Xiao Fu's urgent voice in his mind: "Withdraw! Da Zhou, this is Consciousness synchronization, it seems to have been synchronized with the Night God, get off this thing quickly!"

Zhou Yi hurriedly returned to the Heavenly Corpse he was controlling.

Pumpkin Brother transformed into a light stream and vanished before his eyes.

...

Zhou Yi slowly opened his eyes.

Looking around, he only saw Yuan Xiao watching over him.

"Where is the Night God?"

"Chairman, the Night God was suddenly very happy just now, saying she got what she wanted, and the quality is excellent. She asked you to go to the Double Tower after you woke up."

It seems the Heavenly Corpse has arrived.

Zhou Yi felt slightly relieved.

This matter is at least accomplished.

However, through this method, there is now a way to transport the Heavenly Corpse, and the delivery is fast; it can automatically transfer over once the transformation is complete.

In this way, the valuable Heavenly Corpses from that side can be gradually moved over, and a large number of Gem Cells become available.

Zhou Yi was in a good mood.

He boarded Hei Fu to enter beneath the Moon.

The Double Tower Area is still the Night God's forbidden zone. Outside of herself, only Zhou Yi could directly enter.

At this moment.

In this underground world, the Night God was gazing at the air.

A gigantic Gemstone Body was suspended there.

Its surface had countless spiral structures tirelessly spinning.

"Thanks, this thing is great quality!"

The Night God looked at the Heavenly Corpse with fondness.

"Indeed, fresh corpses are different; they're nothing like those drained guys in the Gem Pool."

"It's highly active, with low Gem Cell wear and high rotation speed, the interlocking and driving between gems are smooth. Unlike the corpses buried deeply here, which make clicking noises and easily get stuck or partially collapse."

Zhou Yi did not know there was such a difference between corpses.

He could only say, "As long as you like it."

"Hmm."

The Night God suddenly told him, "You improved the structure I gave. This improvement is interesting. Now it has another form."

"Look."

The Night God raised her hand, her fingers slightly clenched.

The suspended Heavenly Corpse began to transform suddenly.

A large number of gemstones twisted and extended, spiral structures intertwined and built, the original oval structure stretched out, gradually forming four limbs extending outward and a top raised.

The Gemstone Body became human-shaped.

Its entire spiral structure was still spinning autonomously, staring too long would induce a strange mental disturbance.

Fortunately, its surface was quickly covered by a layer of White Gemstone, resembling skin.

Unlike the Light Core Giant, the human-shaped Gemstone Body had distinct human features. Its face had eyes, a nose, a mouth, ears, and even a hair structure.

Its hands had ten fingers.

There's just one problem.

Zhou Yi realized, how did this guy look identical to him?

He looked at the Night God: "Did you shape it?"

"Wasn't it you who created it?"

The Night God asked back.

Zhou Yi was stunned: "No, I just adjusted to a spiral structure because your method didn't work..."

Xiao Fu suddenly spoke in his mind: "It's mimicry; Gem Cells have a deep mimicry ability. They performed a complete mimicry with the Light Imprint Skill, able to unfold in the transformation biology experiment."

"They mimicked your structure when you transformed their Memory Core."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but feel a bit gloomy: "Doesn't this mean that it reveals the transformer is me..."

"It can change form, Da Zhou, can revert to the previous oval shape."

"Look at the positive side."

The Reverse Flow was very excited: "This double helix life Memory Core structure allows it to synchronize with you! Do you know what this means? You can continuously transform Heavenly Corpses, transport them here, you can train and use them!!!"

"In the future, you can use these Heavenly Corpse warriors to fight against living Heavenly People!"

Zhou Yi listened skeptically: "Is this possible?"

"Absolutely possible!"

Xiao Fu affirmed: "This transformation confirmed two points."

"First is the death of the collective consciousness of Heavenly Cells, but individual Gem Cells still maintain activity; it's a utilizable special life organization."

"Second is that after transformation, it will mimic the transformer and synchronize. I've been in the Memory Core for a long time, I'm most familiar with it, haven't you noticed you can also control it?"

Zhou Yi turned his gaze back to the human-shaped Gemstone Body.

It stood on the plain beneath the Moon, staring back at him.

Zhou Yi indeed felt he and it had a very special connection, as if lines connected him and the other.

He raised his right hand.

The human-shaped Gemstone Body also raised its right hand.

He spread his fingers.

The Gemstone Body spread its fingers.

Zhou Yi performed a combo punch.

The counterpart synchronized and punched.

He did a push-up.

The Gemstone Body also lowered its large body, hands on the ground, starting to rise and fall.

Zhou Yi was instantly thrilled!

It really was.

This guy was mimicking and synchronizing his movements.

The Night God beside him was shocked: "How can you control it? I thought only I could do that..."

"Wasn't this corpse sent to me?"

"How come you're playing with it yourself!"

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