Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 111 All They Lost Was Their Freedom

"The Stream Tracer uses the power of the Circular Flow to encapsulate and compress the target life, connect it to its own body, and then call upon the information of the Spark Life."

Xiaofu was a little panicked at this time, and spoke quickly: "But the prerequisite is that the fire life itself is willing. If the other party's consciousness field resists, the connection cannot be completed through the consciousness key."

"The consciousness bond is the medium that connects different consciousnesses. If any side is not aligned - that is, not fully connected, it will not work."

Zhou Yi looked at the black and white structure that looked like piano keys under his feet.

The tracers also explained the difference between the two colors.

Black represents consciousness output, white represents consciousness input, and the input and output form a basic cycle.

Xiaofu said: "Consciousness wealth - or in other words, the amount of consciousness information accumulated far exceeds that of the same group. The tracers will focus on such individuals. Sometimes, although it is impossible to obtain the other party's consent, they will first convert it, and then slowly try to persuade..."

Zhou Yi sneered: "What a good way to slowly convince others. It seems that there are many cases like Hong Xun."

The upstreamer did not dare to refute, but only tried to explain his perspective: "From the individual scale, this is indeed a violent act of forcibly restraining free will, but on the scale of civilization, all individuals are the basic units of civilization. The upstreamers survive by drifting on the scale of civilization. By collecting as many high-quality civilization units as possible, they have the opportunity to preserve as many fragments of civilization as possible."

"What they lose is only their freedom, and what they gain is the eternal continuation of coexistence with civilization."

This sentence pattern sounds a bit familiar.

Although the tracers are trying their best to beautify and downplay the entire so-called collection process, its core is still that the strong dominate the weak.

Zhou Yi went up and slapped him with a big dice, making the upstreamer dare not say a word.

"Then I am doing the same thing. In terms of civilization, every upstreamer is the cornerstone of my transformation of this world, so you should be obedient and move wherever I tell you to move."

The other party nodded: "Of course."

"So you want to completely transform this circular world. Then your ability and significance are above ours."

"Great!"

"It seems that you are of a higher level than us. We are collecting and continuing civilization, while you are directly transforming and rebuilding on the spot. I feel very honored to be able to participate in a great process at a higher level!"

This made Zhou Yi stunned.

It is not known whether those who follow the current are consistent in their words and deeds or just conform to the situation.

Xiaofu added: "Although we coexist in the same body, my authority is not as good as yours, and I cannot bypass you to connect to this body. You can directly block me or temporarily close my consciousness key connection. You can directly call me when you need me. This is more valuable than destroying me. I can play the unique role of a current tracer."

Zhou Yi tried it and found that it was just as it said.

Although I can't control Suneo's every move, I can read a huge amount of information from it.

It's like opening a small account.

Zhou Yi finally felt relieved.

When the consciousness keys are connected, information is transmitted between the two consciousnesses extremely quickly. Except for a small part of the individual's self-memory that cannot be called upon, other information is clear at a glance.

"That's the life core."

Xiaofu also explained this situation: "The 'life core' is a component of the 'memory core'. It records the unique life information of an individual and cannot be disassembled. It is the basis for maintaining the self. If it is forcibly disassembled and read, the consciousness will lose its self-structure and completely become a scattered information flow."

In other words, the life core is the self-marker of each individual, which contains some private information.

This is also what the Boundary Breaker wants to collect.

Zhou Yi understood.

Even if you share an account or rent a house together, you still need some privacy.

One thing Zhou Yi was concerned about was that he searched for a lot of information about those who followed the current, and found that more than 90% of the records either described drifting in the circular current, or were dormant and fell into a black screen-like stage... There was very little useful information.

He frowned as he watched, "Where is the fire that was supposed to be collected to continue civilization? How come there is not a single one in sight?"

"I succeeded before, and my life core has basic records, but later I was besieged by some high-intensity life forms."

Suneo said: "So I had to give up the last body and enter the circle again. The part of the recorded spark life was also lost with the body..."

Zhou Yi used the consciousness key to read again.

We did find relevant records, although very few.

However, due to the truncated beginning and end, a lot of information was lost.

The enemies are marked as "celestial beings", and there are 3 of them in total.

From the appearance, two of them are human. The first one is covered from head to toe with a layer of white cloth, on which are painted two round eyes and a mouth with a protruding tongue, just like the classic costume of a ghost in Halloween.

The second man had large black tattoos on his body and a fierce look on his face.

The last one is a fat panda wearing a conical hat and walking upright.

There are only a few moments of their appearance in the entire record.

After that, Xiaofu was drifting in the Dead Sea again.

It was after this that the Poseidon was found.

"When the consciousness bond is cut off and the body is stripped away, the tracer will completely eliminate all previous traces to avoid being tracked further. So I now have no idea about what happened before, nor the fire seeds I collected."

Xiaofu said: "But after experiencing such a dangerous experience, I became more cautious. At least the Celestial Beings were paying attention to me. Even after I found the Poseidon, I rarely left the safe zone. In the end, I chose a native life form here, the Skeleton Man."

The skeletons' bodies are fragile, and their consciousness can be easily tampered with. However, they have decent intelligence and cognition, so they were chosen as spokespeople by the Trackers.

If all else fails, you can erase the information recorded in their skulls and let them start over.

But there are limits to the number of times consciousness can be deleted or modified.

Most of the skeletons in Poseidon died due to repeated deletions and revisions.

The upstreamers try to educate them in a closed environment and let the skeletons serve them. The skeletons will remain stable and obedient at first, until they become familiar with the environment, they will slowly begin to question and explore.

Eventually the Skeletons will attempt to escape.

After many failures, the Stream Tracer changed its mind and used the Skeletons as bait to give them a chance to escape by pretending to be dormant, creating gaps, or even pretending to have internal malfunctions.

However, these baits will be modified by it to varying degrees, with key parts hidden, like Jacob's skull, which it also left intentionally.

The skeletons who left spread the legend of the sea god, which in turn attracted new life individuals, making it easier for those who traced the river to screen and see if they could find fire.

The Yalong Bay base is the natural safe haven it has found.

After figuring out the mechanism, Xiaofu created a state in which Poseidon was unresponsive and occupied a cave in Yalong Bay for a long time.

"This kind of architectural life is a collection of consciousness. It is composed of many incomplete consciousnesses, but without an absolute core. It has a strong docking and absorption instinct."

The Stream Tracer said: "If I rashly transform the connection, my memory core will likely be disturbed by them and become scattered... They are a very dangerous group."

Zhou Yi's communication with Emerald City, Maria, and Yalong Bay was limited to the same frequency of consciousness, but not as thorough as that of the Current Tracer.

Compared with the crazy information interaction generated by consciousness key docking, consciousness synchronization is much slower, but also safe.

Making friends is a slow process.

Zhou Yi turned to examine the new panel he had.

……

【Unit 2】

Health: 102507
Defense: 0
Energy: 4033
……

Apart from anything else, you can let Xiaofu act as a meat shield at critical moments.

After all, it has 10 health points, so it can take some damage.

What Zhou Yi found strange was: "Where are your skills? Why is there no information displayed?"

The Tracker explained: "This requires the construction of an operating environment and the installation of a specific energy structure before it can be deployed. I have already completed the construction and installation of the previous Poseidon, but unfortunately I can't go back. For this new machine, I have to start all over again..."

"You need to build the [Light Wheel Well] to identify the Fire Seed, and install the [Circular Light Instrument] to complete the encapsulation of the target life and transform it into a Fire Seed life."

Zhou Yi was shocked.

I thought it was a built-in skill, but it turned out to be a circular technology device.

Zhou Yi thought for a moment: "Does that mean the Poseidon still has these two devices, and they are still effective?"

Xiaofu said, "Yes, but we need to operate it. Because this is a technology exclusive to the current tracers, and only the current tracers can use this system."

That's no problem.

Next comes the practical part.

(End of this chapter)