Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 117: A Gift for Lord Sha Hai
Following the curtain of light, Building No. 1 of Emerald City headed north.

The building life keeps running at a slow speed. In this mode, the interior lighting is intact and the bumps are almost imperceptible.

Zhou Yi sat on the sofa in front of the French window and said to the two people next to him, "Don't be restrained. Although this trip is for official business, you should eat and drink as needed. Be casual."

On one side of the table next to it were drinks such as cola, orange juice, milk tea, and sparkling water, and on the other side were small snacks such as bags of French fries, melon seeds and almonds, dried tofu and spicy strips, and beef jerky.

Qian Su was the least shy. She had already started eating almonds and macadamia nuts.

"These two are delicious! There aren't many opportunities to enjoy Dead Sea delicacies...Mr. Zhou is really generous."

Zheng Tao observed the unpacked melon seeds: "They look similar to red melon seeds. Melon seeds should be good if they are fried at high temperature. There are very few kinds of nuts on the market, mainly peanuts, beans and dried fruits."

He sniffed again. "This smell is from roasted spices. Using just a little bit of spices can add a lot of flavor, which can increase the price and flavor of food. We can do the same in the future. Then we can cook the melon seeds and sell them in the market."

While chatting, the Emerald City crossed the oasis belt and arrived at the territory of the Northern Claw Pig.

Faced with the huge alien, even the clawed pigs with a strong sense of territory gave way one by one and hid far away with their cubs in their mouths.

After coming ashore, Zhou Yi's range of activities was actually very narrow.

After confirming that Emerald City had good mobility, and that he had a second machine and new combat types, he conducted a field survey of the surrounding area.

During this trip, Zhou Yi asked the Poseidon to accompany him in the Dead Sea, and also invited Zheng Tao and Qian Su to go along.

Zheng Tao is the company's agricultural consultant. On-site observation of the wild is helpful for him to make agricultural layout.

Qian Su is a businessman. The final destination of this trip is to visit the sea lord in Shagang City. Taking her with him can inquire about the situation of several towns along the way.

At the northern end is a large forest area, where two types of light-absorbing creatures live: forest sheep and red-eyed vultures.

The Forest Sheep is a small, dark brown creature that looks like a mutant sheep.

They can climb and jump to the treetops, and then move between trees, so it is not easy for clawed pigs to catch them. Usually they will jump to the treetops to absorb the dead light, and only come down at night - that is when they are vulnerable to attacks.

The red-eyed vulture is a common scavenger that can be found wherever there is a corpse.

“It’s a very intelligent species.”

Hong Jian emphasized that: "Red-eyed vultures are widely found in various environments. They have strong endurance. The special structure of their photoreceptor organs allows them to digest and absorb various rotten flesh and obtain residual energy from it, which gives them an innate survival advantage. However, they only like to eat the corpses of photoreceptors."

"We live in this forest so that we can eat the carcasses of forest sheep."

Zhou Yi remembered that when he first met A Jin, he killed two clawed pigs, and the red-eyed vultures were watching from a distance, wanting to come over to share a piece of the pie. But in the end, they were very sensible and did not approach, and only pounced on the leftovers on the ground after he left.

Very survival wise.

In addition to them, there are many small birds living here, and many of the birds that previously harassed farmland came from here.

Further north is the Dead Sea.

The trees in the south of the forest were normal, but the trees in the north had strange shapes. They were like plastic that had been twisted by high temperatures. The closer to the Dead Sea, the drier and more twisted the trees became.

After observing, Zheng Tao said: "This place is not suitable for agricultural planting, but it is suitable for animal husbandry."

Zhou Yi was puzzled: "Animal husbandry?"

"Yes."

Zheng Tao pointed to the forest below through the glass and said, "Chairman, the company needs clawed pigs, so we might as well increase the number of forest sheep so that they have food to hunt in winter. The number of forest sheep is closely related to the size of the forest, so as long as the forest area is further expanded, it will help them to reproduce and grow further. Although there is a Dead Sea barrier in the vertical direction, there is no problem with horizontal expansion."

"It's just that the cycle is relatively long. It will take at least several years for trees to grow to a certain size." He thought for a moment and said, "In terms of cost-benefit, there is a lot of uncertainty."

But Zhou Yi thought it was an idea.

The main thing is not to waste too much energy. Just plant trees and don't worry about anything else. It's best to let the gerbils, who are good at planting trees, do this.

Then, Zhou Yi controlled the Emerald City to turn and walked on the sand towards the west.

There are a lot of barren land and some gently sloping hills along the way, which are extensions of the hilly area of Changu Town.

After crossing the Death Dune, it was already dawn.

Zhou Yi saw the second new human settlement.

Jitou Town is much larger than Changu Town. It is also built on the mountain, but there are open-air fences and stone drying platforms outside, and some leafy vegetables are planted in the surrounding soil.

There are several stone huts and a tall stone building that seems to be the landmark of this place.

On the base of the building is an elliptical sphere with a circle carved on each side and parallel lines like cat whiskers carved on the bottom.

Qian Su said, "That is the statue of Lord Sand Sea. The lords of the seas would erect statues to represent their respective territories. It can deter outsiders and make the ownership of the place clear at a glance. But I don't know what Lord Sand Sea looks like, because I didn't get the chance to visit him in person."

Originally, the people in Jitou Town rested in the cave during the day and came out at night.

However, the Emerald City's presence immediately attracted attention, and many people emerged from the cave. They looked frightened and panicked, and each of them was a little at a loss.

One of them bravely raised his hands and approached Building No. 1 of Emerald City carefully, shouting something.

The Red Kestrel lowered its flying altitude and finally caught his voice.

"Respected Lord of Emerald City! I am Tan Kai, the mayor of Jitou Town. I don't know how the town has angered you. Please calm down! As long as we can calm your anger, we will do our best to meet your demands!"

The other party knelt on the ground and apologized in a very skilled manner.

"Just passing by, don't be nervous."

Zhou Yi said something to comfort him through the Red Falcon, and then asked the drone to guide the mayor upstairs.

Qian Su next to him echoed, "Although this kind of market town has the protection of the territorial sea lord, it usually does not have garrisons. The defense forces are almost all in the city, so everyone wants to live in the city."

"When encountering external threats, the town must first spend money to ensure safety, and then report to the territorial sea lord to handle the follow-up."

"I'm afraid it's not as simple as losing money."

Zheng Tao next to him said softly, "If a Light Seed comes to a market town like this and can't get a Light Seed or an Energy Pack, and it's hard to catch them for human trafficking, then they'll basically go on a killing spree."

"There's nothing we can do about it."

Qian Gu said in a calm tone: "Who told us humans to be weak? If we are weak, we must abide by the rules of the weak and pay all the costs to survive. Live first, then consider other things."

What Zhou Yi was more concerned about was: "How dare the Guangna tribe rob the town of the sea lord?"

"There are still some."

Qian Su looked down at the simple and primitive market town. "As far as I know, two crazy red-haired monsters broke into this place in early winter this year. If the Tianjin Knights from Sand Harbor hadn't come to support us, I'm afraid there would have been many casualties."

"To some extent, Changu Town is safe. Since it doesn't have many resources, even the seed-rearing ones don't go there." At this time, Hong Shun had already brought Tan Kai to the top floor.

Zheng Tao opened the door and led him in.

Tan Kai is probably in his early thirties, with a bitter face. It seems that too many troubles have formed muscle memory on his face.

He bowed his head, not daring to look directly at Zhou Yi: "Well, I wonder what you, the Emerald City, need from Jitou Town since you are here?"

Zhou Yi raised his hand and gestured: "Please sit down."

The other party was a little nervous and sat in the corner of the chair.

"Our company is the closest to Jitou Town, and we had planned to come and take a look a long time ago, but a lot of things happened, so we can only make the trip now."

Zhou Yi said, "Relax, Mayor Tan."

"Yes Yes."

"I heard that Jitou Town raises chickens?"

"Yes, our specialty here is white-feathered chickens. This kind of chicken can be raised in a hole in the ground and fed with mushroom stems and millet worms to grow up. Sometimes we also let them run on the ground, so that the meat is better."

Talking about something familiar, Tan Kai felt a little relieved: "Would you like to try it?"

"Next time."

Zhou Yi asked: "But why can't I buy chicken here? I see that all you sell are chicken heads, chicken head soup, and chicken skeletons."

"Because the chicken has to be sent to Shagang City and then sold to other cities through the port."

Tan Kai said: "There are very few people in the market town who can afford chicken. We send them to the city because people in the city have money. In the market town, chicken bones and mushrooms are used to cook chicken head soup, which is something that ordinary people can afford."

Zhou Yi consulted again in detail.

Unfortunately, I didn’t find the opportunity to pick up a bargain.

Steamed and tender chicken feet are popular in the city, while chicken wings are sold with the whole chicken - a chicken without wings or drumsticks is not acceptable. Chicken entrails are also popular dishes, cleaned and roasted or fried.

After dropping Tan Kai off, Emerald City continued on their way.

There is another market town called “Qingcong Town” in the south of Jitou Town, which is famous for growing green onions. It is said that many animals hate the smell of green onions, making it relatively safe there.

To the north is the "Oasis Town", located in the upper reaches of the Oasis River. It is also the area with the largest mushroom production in the Shagang area, and there are many cattails planted there. The young leaves and rhizomes of cattails can be eaten and have a refreshing taste. Its pollen is also a natural medicine that can stop bleeding and relieve pain.

Going further west is the core of this area, which is also the only city here, Shagang City.

Knowing that the difference between other towns and Jitou Town was mainly in scale and industry, Zhou Yi took control of Feicui City and headed straight for Shagang City.

A city on the ground can be seen from a distance.

Although it is not large in scale, it has square walls and high towers, neatly arranged wooden and stone houses, paved streets with stone slabs, and pedestrians walking around in the city during the day.

Finally seeing a decent city, Zhou Yi felt inexplicably moved.

But he immediately discovered that the city was filled with combatants, who were running hastily up the walls with shields, bows and arrows, and flintlocks.

He looked like he was facing a formidable enemy.

But the Emerald City did not approach there, but only observed from a distance via the Kestrel.

Zhou Yi zooms in.

Outside the city, there is a kind of slow-moving light-nano creature, some of which look like short-legged kangaroos without ears, and their long tubular mouths are spewing out deadly rays.

In addition, Zhou Yi also saw seven or eight electromechanical life forms in the form of cars speeding outside the city. They had high-speed cannons installed on top and were firing while speeding.

A large monster over ten meters tall slowly rose from the location where they concentrated their attack.

The monster was dark brown, with a huge inverted triangle head, two silver vertical pupils, and an absurdly wide mouth with sharp teeth. Its two thick claws were almost as big as its head. The numerous death ray attacks made it smile grimly, as if it was even more excited.

[Alert] From the perspective, its entire body is a dangerous red.

The strength is grade B.

Zhou Yi became excited instead.

As soon as I arrived, I encountered a monster that I could practice with.

Then I have to try my current full combat strength.

It can also be regarded as a gift to Lord Shahai.

Emerald City, speed up!
The tall building giant slid sideways at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour and rushed into the center of the battlefield. At the same time as the flying house bombing started, Zhou Yi jumped down from the tall building and instantly turned into a six-meter-tall virtual black giant.

Amid the smoke and dust of the explosion, Zhou Yi pounced on the monster that was caught off guard.

Between the electric light and flint.

The black fist smashed through the opponent's body with a bang!
A large amount of blue blood splattered and gushed out.

The monster slowly fell backwards in a daze, raising a large amount of smoke and dust.

The previous besiegers were also frightened and fled in all directions.

Zhou Yi clenched his fist in satisfaction.

A one-punch kill caused by 40000 points of life consumption.

This is the charm of life strike.

The monster lying on the ground gradually shrank in size, and it obviously lost its previous almost gigantic fighting state. Its body was white, and it looked like some kind of large seal.

The voice of Red Falcon suddenly rang in his mind.

"Zhou, things are a bit troublesome."

"What? Does it have a prominent background? Lord Shahai will handle it later anyway." Zhou Yi said easily.

The invaders have already reached Shagang City, and Lord Shahai will not pretend that nothing happened.

"It is the Lord of the Sea of Sand."

"..."

(End of this chapter)