Wasteland Development Diary

Chapter 73 Preliminary Use of Gemstone Devices


Zhou Yi explained the whole story to Night God.

The other person showed a puzzled expression: "That shouldn't be... The activity of the gem cells should support them to complete subsequent stabilization and connections. It's like magnets, as long as they're connected in the right direction, they can maintain a specific structure."

"Let me see what's going on."

Night God looked at the humanoid gemstone body.

Black and red pupils cast two beams of light, enabling X-ray vision on the heavenly corpse.

Soon enough.

Night God oh-ed: "So that's how it is."

Her pupil color returned to normal: "You can't use the columnar structure because you are not a gemstone body and can't resonate with them. I can manipulate it easily because my body also has the same structure.

"This columnar structure actually isn't just for positioning and transmission; it also has an informational function. The embedded information code can roughly be understood as 'like me'. "

"The information in the consciousness domain is syncing."

"You adopted the double helix structure, which is the memory core form of your own life. That's why gem cells undergo this change, becoming inclined towards your physiological structure."

According to Night God's interpretation.

This special arrangement structure actually installed an instruction, a segment of information code.

Though she couldn't say what exactly are the detailed operations at the information code level.

"I only know that they can be transmitted over. It turns out there's also an autonomous imitation and synchronous control method."

Night God rubbed her hands and said: "Let's use this guy to go to the Heavenly Person Graveyard, just like a fairy!"

Zhou Yi advised: "Next time I'll take you. You've never been there, you're unfamiliar with the place, and it would be troublesome if you attract the attention of the Heavenly People."

"It's better to first adapt to controlling the gemstone body. Actually, the initial process for me took quite a bit of time."

"This isn't difficult."

Night God raised her right index finger.

The gemstone body immediately began to change entirely, its internal double helix structure instantly transformed into a columnar rotation. One by one, the gem screws quickly replaced the existing basic units, opening up another form of rotation.

The originally humanoid gemstone body also reverted to a flat oval pumpkin shape.

"Maybe because the main body also has a similar structure, I picked it up easily."

"I've already modified it, for safety, it's better to use this traditional structure."

Zhou Yi agreed with this.

"However,"

Night God suddenly said: "I still want to first restore the Old Human World, at least repair a part, and then we can go over there. You've achieved what you needed, I can't fall behind."

"Alright."

...

Recently, after finishing up here, busy with things over there.

Zhou Yi prepared to take a few days off.

He stayed directly at the Guanghan Palace, experiencing the living conditions here firsthand.

Thanks to the almost unrestricted energy supply from the pupil-shaped body, this Moon City has ample oxygen, water, and lighting, maintaining constant temperature and pressure, with a number of new human workers already residing there.

They worked in three shifts, each going out for 3-5 hours.

When going out, employees wore Wasteland Armor, walking in the Moon Surface Dead Sea. They marked locations, collected various minerals, and used special equipment to gather dust flowing in the Dead Sea.

After several months of continuous optimization, the endurance of the Wasteland Armor has greatly improved, now able to support a single operator walking continuously for 8 hours.

Based on the structure of the Wasteland Armor, a sealed large vehicle, powered by Stone Molt Reactor, was also developed here, named "Camp Vehicle."

It carries a complete set of small oxygen production and water systems, and since the raw material, moon soil, is plentiful everywhere, as long as the camp vehicle's energy is sufficient, it can operate externally for a long time.

Zhou Yi also participated in Moon Surface operations using the camp vehicle.

To avoid drawing attention, he wore a wide black mask and a wool hat.

The new human workers here asked.

"Newcomer?"

"Yeah."

"What's your name?"

"Aji."

"Why the hat and mask?"

"I was seriously injured."

"Oh? Are you a mutant from the Freedom Army?"

"Yeah."

"Then you've come to the right place. Operating Wasteland Armor here is better than on Mars. There's no dust storm here, nor those terrifying killer rats, you can walk around freely, really envy your physique... wonder when the Strong Base Plan will have a spot for me."

The workers here were all a group of young people, seeing Zhou Yi not saying much, they didn't continue to ask and instead started talking about the work process and the everyday challenges they faced.

"The most troublesome part is wearing the armor. After a while, your whole body gets hot and sweaty, and it's very stuffy inside, like being in a coal mine."

"Another issue is the low gravity, making you float while walking, completely different from Earth. It's the same inside the city; sometimes you hit your head and body, so you need to hold onto the railings to move around. It's best to walk sideways like a samurai crab."

Apart from these two drawbacks,

everyone is quite satisfied with the current work.

The income from the Moon Affairs Department is considerable, with the same five-day workweek and two days off, and the daily working hours are 5-6 hours, shorter than on Earth.

Equipment maintenance and repair are handled by mechanical life, so the main task for human employees is to walk in wasteland armor and provide a vast amount of data for the rear.

Unlike Mars, the Moon Affairs Department is more involved in data collection and research.

The core of data collection involves the Moon Dead Sea and wasteland armor.

Zhou Yi, fully dressed in wasteland armor, participated in a 3-hour round-trip hike.

The armor is heavy, and the internal space is extremely narrow. Even though it's filled with a Light Shoot Muscle Suit, you still feel a significant delay in movement, completely different from your body.

According to veteran operators, the delay used to be more pronounced, but after two optimizations, it has become much more sensitive.

It's easy to lose balance in a low-gravity environment, so even walking is not easy.

The old employees told him.

"Aji, you're new here and don't understand this place."

"Movement is not flexible after donning the armor, as if being blown by a strong wind. That's because the Dead Sea energy intensity on the Moon is too high, 81 times that of Earth. The natural slow flow creates an impact. Returning to the Earth's Dead Sea, this armor feels very light now."

"Let me tell you, there's also a type of Moon-2 wasteland armor that comes with the latest secret device, allowing it to run very flexibly, even achieve short-time flight!"

Zhou Yi, of course, knew about this.

The so-called secret device is the Heavenly People Gem.

On the Moon, Heavenly People Gem technology has already begun to be applied in various fields.

The Moon-2 armor is equipped with four gemstones, one black, two white, one blue, arranged in a T-shaped structure. It's encased and filled with Light Amber Ceramics and Light Soot, looking like a white backpack.

This four-gemstone base structure enables the armor to maintain balance at all times, acting like an anchor.

Moreover,

the T-shaped structure can also provide thrust. By converting through the supporting Light Imprint Device, it can propel the wasteland armor to hover and fly in the Dead Sea.

When the gemstone device is activated, the Moon-2 armor will be surrounded by a faint light film, enhancing speed, agility, explosiveness, and load capacity by more than one level.

Blue Gemstone can now be charged through the pupil-shaped body,

which also makes the gemstone recyclable.

Zhou Yi mastered an effective method to transport Heavenly Corpses, each corpse containing billions of gemstones.

So, in the long run, the widespread adoption and upgrade of Moon-2 is only a matter of time.

After completing outdoor walking and experiments,

Zhou Yi returned to the camp vehicle and traveled back to the Guanghan Palace's Moon Affairs Department.

The employees each held onto railings, drifting lightly back to the warehouse, where they took off their heavy armor, stored the equipment, and completed the final checks and registrations.

Zhou Yi then found the person in charge, Jacob: "The armor is stuffy and uncomfortable, and there's the indoor gravity issue; is there any solution?"

The Bone Man Minister scratched his bald skull: "Chairman, we've thought about this for a long time. Previously, we considered using lighter materials and completely restructuring the Light Amber Ceramic Exoskeleton, incorporating an air circulation system inside. It has passed several rounds of internal testing, but the cost is very high."

"But now there's a more excellent overall solution."

"If the wasteland armor is replaced with Moon-2, due to the energy supply and balance power, the cumbersome components can be substituted with lightweight, highly controllable gemstone device, reducing the weight by 30%."

"Additionally, while maintaining sensitivity, the load capacity will increase by 300%, with a significant speed advantage."

"The current biggest problem is that this transformation might be limited to the Moon. Even after environmental adjustments, it can only be applied to Mars, as Heavenly People Gem is a sensitive material, and it's too risky to use on Earth."

Zhou Yi pondered: "Then use this model on the Moon and Mars, and stick to traditional methods on Earth. Optimization of the exoskeleton must not stop; we need to do it even though it's costly. We must have a two-pronged approach."

"Yes, Chairman."

Jacob further mentioned: "As for the artificial gravity issue, there's a lack of existing technology."

"In the Old Human World, mature artificial gravity technology has yet to be applied to actual missions in space, only some related experiments were conducted."

"The first widely recorded solution is centrifugal simulated gravity, using the rotation of spacecraft or space stations to generate centrifugal force and simulate a gravity effect."

"This method, with large rotating structures, cannot solve the dizziness problem caused by Coriolis force, has high engineering complexity, balance, and sealing issues, and requires the ground city to be completely rebuilt, manufacturing into a rotating structure."

"Another direction is a project we collaborate on with Guanghan Palace's mechanical-electrical experts, which is creating continuous thrust. Simply put, it's generating constant acceleration through continuous propulsion to simulate gravity."

The Bone Man explained: "In the past, the Old Human World couldn't achieve long-term stable high thrust due to excessive fuel consumption. But now, because the pupil-shaped body can massively absorb and convert the energy from the Dead Sea, this biggest problem no longer exists."

"Currently, trials are already underway in some areas, simulating operational data and continuously analyzing and observing through mechanical life forms. After ensuring there are no safety risks, large-scale renovations can begin."

"Also, regarding the utilization and research of the Dead Sea, we've already achieved some small results..."

Overall, things are smooth on the Moon.

Under the premise of safety first, various technologies and new attempts are steadily being advanced.

Zhou Yi spent three days of vacation on the Moon.

After that, he returned to Sand Port.

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