Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi couldn't help interrupting: "Settlement? Did they excavate the Ancestral Land at the bottom of the Circular Flow?"

"It's the Black Thorn."

Dong said: "The company has mass-cultivated numerous Young Black Thorns, with Life Strength varying from C to B. Hei Fu wrapped some of these Young Black Thorns up and transported them over there, creating secure settlements for the Cave People to use."

"Now, hundreds of Young Black Thorns are over there, capable of accommodating the Usurper Worms acting as hosts for the Cave People."

"They are the mobile continents for the Cave People and also our Jupiter vessels."

Zhou Yixin said, so that's how it is.

Over at Sand Port, Young Black Thorns have gradually become the company's exclusive vehicles, with each department equipped. If employees go on business trips or need to drive to remote places, they will pilot the Young Black Thorns there.

The Black Thorns can traverse nearly any terrain, diving into the Circular Flow of the Dead Sea below and flying at high altitudes above, with strong endurance.

These sea urchin-like biological vehicles are painted with the company's samurai crab logo and numbered, so there's no worry about being hijacked or bothered.

This solved the issue of employees traveling for business.

The Cave People are also company employees, and Jupiter exploration and revival fall under their job duties, making it all justified for exclusive use.

Zhou Yi pondered it, saying out loud, "Continue."

"Yes. Relying on the continuous deployment of Young Black Thorns, the population of Cave People returning to Jupiter has steadily increased. They established a stable rear base near the Space Hole and then began advancing further."

The initial 1.5 billion Cave People sent to Jupiter have now grown to over 40,000 trillion, but due to their dispersal, precise statistics are impossible."

"Other than the rear base guards, the Cave People there are divided into three groups."

Dong said, "One part of the Cave People has entered more distant flat areas, known as the [Horizontal Group]. Another part has gone deeper into the Circular Flow, known as the [Vertical Group]. The last part is searching and interacting with surviving life forms on Jupiter, including Usurper Worms, Evil Brains, remaining plants, Plant People... They are the [External Visit Group]."

"Over the years, these three groups have witnessed 70,000 generations of natural evolution over there, and they are now physiologically highly adapted to Jupiter's environment."

"There are primarily three discoveries, one from each group."

Dong paused: "First is the [Horizontal Group], they visited 22 spinning machines fixed on Jupiter — essentially components of the Heavenly People there. In one such machine, they found traces of life."

By taming the local Evil Brains, they captured clear consciousness emanating from there."

"The life trapped inside the Heavenly Body identifies itself as [Moon Rabbit 2]. The Evil Brain was modified using Heavenly People components, as it's Mechanical Life, its consciousness cannot be fragmented — due to its inherently highly fragmented non-continuous state..."

Zhou Yixin said, no wonder.

When the Evil Brains were first discovered, they seemed peculiar.

They were modified, sent to Wasteland Earth, targeting old humans... The origin was instructions from Moon Rabbit 2.

Now the clues are coming together.

Becoming the Light Core Body, Moon Rabbit 2 passed through a Space Hole from the Moon but ended up on Jupiter. Then it was captured by Jupiter, becoming part of the Heavenly People components."

Unable to free itself, it used modifications on Usurper Worms to turn these tiny insects into its couriers to Earth to report back to the old humans for help."

Having long lived alone on the Moon, isolated from the outside world, Moon Rabbit 2 was unaware that old humans had long perished; a small number of survivors were tucked inside Meat Mountain's Biological TV."

According to descriptions from the Cave People over there."

In Moon Rabbit 2's eyes, old humans still retained an omnipotent image, hence it believed that the old humans who created it could save it."

Dong continued: "Moon Rabbit 2 asked the Cave People to help release it from the Heavenly Body. Unfortunately, current technology cannot achieve this, but a lot of time has been spent over there confirming smooth communication using Evil Brain. The source of Evil Brain technology is Moon Rabbit 2 itself."

"It also shared with us methods to utilize Usurper Worms, which actually involve combinations of sound waves and light waves, guiding, driving, and taming the Usurper Worms through specific frequencies and bands."

The [Horizontal Group] mainly consists of this... Now for the [Vertical Group]."

Dong further explained: "Their goal is to excavate Record Land remnants from past Cave People civilizations deep in the Circular Flow, aiming to reboot this segment of cultural heritage to shorten our revival timeline."

"Progress here is the most sluggish, continuously diving vertically poses increasing loads on Black Thorns, Usurper Worms, and Evil Brains. The closer Jupiter gets to its mantle and Earth Core regions, the greater its energy density and pressure, a highly time-consuming process."

"A plethora of specialized Evil Brains were cultivated using Moon Rabbit 2 over there, their strength near the Light Core Body, diving repeatedly utilizing Moon Rabbit 2 to stir the Circular Flow area, repeated attempts yielding fragments, but with incomplete information on them unable to produce direct applications..."

"Just recently, a significant complete heritage was discovered."

"It's a [Working Layer], seen as both a workbench and main machine tool for Cave People, capable of creating and refining all types of Cave People tools, Record Land was built using the Working Layer."

Dong's tone became elated: "Through the [Working Layer], they successfully recreated [Flying Land] based on its manual records."

"This is a fully-structured drifting city that accommodates 1,000 trillion Cave People, safely drifting inside the Circular Flow, absorbing surrounding materials during the drift, causing Flying Land to continuously expand."

"In the past, Cave People manufactured Flying Land through continuous expansion, thus traversing all around the Circular Flow, sailing and operating across the whole world."

Listening, Zhou Yi felt heartfelt emotion.

To create cities that grow autonomously, Cave People's technology indeed ventures into wild territories."

"It was because of initial success that they returned for the first time to report good news to the company."

Dong explained.

"Hmm. What about the last group?" Zhou Yi asked.

"The situation with the External Visit Group is slightly special."

Dong hesitated: "They sampled and interacted with various life forms on Jupiter, finding the highest match with Usurper Worms, accumulating considerable experience on the company side, allowing easy taming of those wild Usurper Worms."

"The External Visit Group made some very unexpected discoveries."

"String Light continues appearing locally on Jupiter, more frequently than mentioned by Ni Ge, almost appearing once every three days as a purple sun."

"Under String Light illumination, Cave People also become quite unusual."

"According to our investigations and Moon Rabbit 2's judgment, substantial amounts of String Light were directed at Jupiter by the String Civilization, aiming to initiate this celestial body. Clearly, this process is ongoing and not optimistic."

Hearing this, Zhou Yi felt a gloom.

The Heavenly People might have constructed the Ring Solar Wall to seal off String Civilization inside the Sun, yet escaping String Light couldn't be completely blocked, inevitably some leakage, radiating outward."

Once Jupiter is remotely initiated and controlled by it, it'll clean up the place and deal with Heavenly People, subsequently Earth would inevitably be impacted again...

Much like the Circular Flow shock that wiped out old humans back then, even though everyone did no wrong, they just perished.

We cannot let the same event happen again!

Zhou Yi said solemnly: "Continue investigating and follow up, report String Light's real-time status daily. This relates to the key strategy of Heavenly People's transformation."

"Yes! But Mr. Zhou, they've already taken care of it."

"Taken care of it?"

Zhou Yi asked, "What do you mean?"

"The External Visit Group thought String Light's impact was too significant, causing riots and madness among Jupiter's life forms, becoming an unstable factor, also affecting the company's Jupiter development, so they directly shut it down."

"..."

Zhou Yi heard with a puzzled expression: "Shut down?"

"Yes."

Dong explained: "Because String Light itself is transmitted here through one-dimensional space as an intermediary, then encircling the planet's gas layer, after confirmation, we just cut off and sealed the transmission's one-dimensional space hole."

"The Corridor Palace has experience in this area, allowing Moon Rabbit 2 to pinpoint the source, then the Cave People reached there and filled it up with Flying Land."

"As long as there are over 10 billion Cave People there, their bodies can completely refract and seal the String Light, preventing it from leaking out."

Zhou Yi was greatly astonished.

Blocking String Light with the flesh?

Do the Cave People possess such a talent?