Wasteland Development Diary

"But speaking of it, the Giant Bone Fish is also unlikely to trust me. Unlike you, it's very conservative and has difficulty trusting alien species. Coupled with the threat of the Heavenly People, it only acknowledges the Bone Fish it knows."

The Reverse Flow sighed, "Even if I go over and pledge allegiance, it would treat me as a suspicious enemy, either killing or expelling me."

"This is the flaw of having no civilized inheritance. It has strength but can't use it, can't find the correct direction, and lacks the experience of predecessors to learn from."

"Da Zhou, when it comes to openness and accepting new things, it lags far behind you. If it were you, with the life strength of the Giant Bone Fish beginning... the rule of the Heavenly People would have ended long ago."

Zhou Yi was speechless, seeing Xiao Fu's praise for technology becoming increasingly refined over the years.

He waved his hand: "No, no. Let's end this most fanciful episode and talk about something practical."

"Just making a comparison."

Xiao Fu continued: "Now, the Golden Tree can channel the power of Proxima Centauri. Combined with our mastery of the music driving the time creatures, and a stable, strong industrial base on Earth, we are officially starting a war on the Heavenly People, which is why the Giant Bone Fish agrees to cooperate with us."

"At least in terms of cultivating warriors to deal with the Heavenly People, it will spare no effort."

"Da Zhou, right now we are sending more alien employees to the Giant Bone Fish, letting it help with cultivation and enhancement."

Zhou Yi agreed to this.

He looked at the Saint George Church in front of him: "Can you now use the Time Dimension?"

"Yes, Chairman. I can now walk in the Time Dimension for 12 minutes and 07 seconds every 24 hours."

"Does that mean you can backtrack to previous spaces?"

"Ah, no. It's just walking in time..."

After an explanation from Saint George, Zhou Yi understood.

It turns out there's a difference between how the Giant Bone Fish and Mr. Dou Jiezi (Taishan Knight D) use it.

The latter can jump back to a previous spatial position, which is a kind of point-to-point dimensional layer jump.

The former, however, moves within the Time Dimension—like a character in a comic suddenly jumping into the three-dimensional world, from the outside entering a new page in the book. This is more free and operable, but it requires at least the life strength of a Light Core Body to operate, making it more complex.

The key lies in the different uses of music.

Zhou Yi asked a point he was curious about: "The Giant Bone Fish has the ability to enter the Time Dimension, so why doesn't it use this infiltration method to assassinate the Heavenly People one by one?"

Logically speaking, the Heavenly People can't use the Time Dimension, just this alone should allow it to kill them in secret."

"That can't be done."

Saint George felt somewhat stifled at this point: "Because time can't directly kill the Heavenly People, or rather, the time power we can use can't achieve that."

"Mr. Earth Ghost, when assassinating the Heavenly People, always infiltrated first through the Time Dimension, then used collected powerful String Light to breakthrough a Heavenly Person, instantly destroying and breaking it."

"This tactic debuted during the surprise attack on Jupiter's moon, with excellent results. Mr. Earth Ghost instantly killed two Heavenly People there and destroyed the Heavenly People's assembly site."

"Later, after a period of recuperation and observation, Mr. Earth Ghost killed a Heavenly Person intercepting String Light on the outside of the Sun, and also killed a sentinel Heavenly Person on Jupiter's moon Europa."

"But apart from the first time, each successive instance was more difficult because the Heavenly People learn very fast. Mr. Earth Ghost's lethal weapon, String Light, made them cautious and they made changes, equipping a kind of large hemispherical Gem Device that can deflect, refract, and even capture String Light."

"The grade of these devices is getting higher and higher, each Heavenly Person will equip one, some even have several... By the third killing, Mr. Earth Ghost was already extremely strained, overusing the Time Dimension at the risk of injury, only managing to penetrate the gem hemisphere defense to eliminate that Heavenly Person with difficulty."

Zhou Yi immediately realized: "String Light Surface?"

"What is that?"

Saint George, primarily engaged in tourism and culture, knew very little about technological production.

Zhou Yi explained it and shared the relevant part of the consciousness information.

"Yes, yes, that's it!"

The alien employee immediately said: "That's it. Mr. Earth Ghost showed me its video data, it's this thing. Although it's much larger and stronger over there... the String Light of less than 12 beams can't break its defenses at all. To kill a Heavenly Person now, the String Light must be at least 32 beams to have a bigger chance."

"12 beams of String Light?"

Zhou Yi was curious: "Is this the Giant Bone Fish's standard for String Light?"

"Yes, Chairman."

Saint George explained: "One beam of String Light is one complete String Light ring; it looks like a purple halo. To collect String Light, one needs to utilize the power of time creatures to lock the String Light within the time creature's body."

It demonstrated the entire process right away.

Through consciousness transmission, Zhou Yi saw it clearly.

In the memory scene.

It was a dark aquatic environment, a black giant creature with four bright red eyes slowly stretching its body, its surface covered with time creatures in a four-dimensional form, like a blossoming flower.

This made it mysterious and unclear, its shape constantly twisting and changing.

It was evident this was the Giant Bone Fish.

Its body faced a Space Hole, the surface time creatures reacted specially with the Space Hole.

Visible to the naked eye, some tiny purple sparks started forming—or rather appearing from invisibility, then becoming thin, randomly extending twisted lines reaching out of the visual frame.

In response, the Giant Bone Fish used its body to intercept the lines slowly, refracted and absorbed by the surface time creatures. Consequently, the String Light began looping and twisting on its body surface.

Zhou Yi understood.

The time creatures are the key; they can focus the String Light, forming it into a loop. Yet, this process is very slow and seems to take a long time.

Saint George continued: "Chairman, collecting one beam of String Light takes considerable time, as short as a few months, as long as decades. Mr. Earth Ghost had accumulated it for many years to have some String Light reserves."

"But the substantial consumption during several confrontations with the Heavenly People, along with insufficient reserves, was a major reason preventing sustained attacks on the Heavenly People."

"After the Sun was sealed by the Heavenly People, the amount of String Light leaking was quite limited. The String Light on Earth, Mr. Earth Ghost also collected over many years to accumulate some, choosing Jupiter's moon Europa as a base due to its higher String Light density. However, as collection continued, String Light became increasingly difficult to gather. Meanwhile, the Heavenly People's String Light Surface continued to strengthen, leading to prolonged logistical stalemates..."

Zhou Yi now understood.

It turns out that a shortage of ammunition limited the Giant Bone Fish's offensive.

Thus, it had to go around quietly collecting bullets, meanwhile the defensive equipment of the Heavenly People also strengthened, clearly entering a phase of arms race.

However, this is exactly the engineering field the Heavenly People are good at.

The Giant Bone Fish's highlight was at the earliest moments, but now it's hard to pose a fatal threat to the Heavenly People anymore.

Zhou Yi pondered.

This is likely the core reason why the Giant Bone Fish showed goodwill upon knowing a strike on the Heavenly People was planned with strong external aid—because it could no longer turn the tide by itself.

Zhou Yi suddenly thought.

The String Civilization is locked in the Time Corridor within the Sun; String Light will be gathered by time creatures, and the Time Dimension indeed restrains the String Civilization.

Just after Saint George's transformation and strengthening succeeded, Zhou Yi dispatched the second alien employee—Leshan Buddha.

After body repair with energy blocks, this special Building Life at LV3 Light Core Body level embarked on extraterrestrial special training and study.

A month later.

The needed deuterium was all collected and sent to Mars.

Qing Liu formally broke through to become a Light Core Body.

On the same day.

Qing Liu sent a remote message to Zhou Yi: "Cultivator, I know the secret of the Heavenly People! I've confirmed their true self, protected and hidden by the Intelligence Core they use! Please come review it!"