Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 192 Developing Giant Mushrooms
The number of orders at express delivery centers has skyrocketed, but the number of couriers has increased very limitedly.

Qian Su said to Zhou Yi: "With the help of Zheng Bo, we have established a trainer mechanism. Trainers headed by Bone Man Jacob will provide systematic training for new Bone Fish couriers so that new members can quickly join the work."

"We currently have 14 bonefish couriers, traveling with 28 viper pilots. I request to expand the cultivation space for bonefish. There is a great demand for small-package deliveries, and we need more and more couriers."

Zhou Yi looked at Zheng Tao and asked, "Can you spare some breeding area for bone fish at Zhanjiang Bay No. 1?"

Zheng Tao shook his head: "Chairman, the breeding platform has allocated 6 breeding areas for training bone fish couriers. It cannot exceed this."

The Minister of Agriculture was very firm: "For the self-cultivation of bone fish, we can only use our previous successful experience. It may seem that breeding does not require much technology, but in fact, a little difference can make a big difference."

"From the fry to the bone fish stage, a large amount of white clams and corrugated clams need to be fed in a specific ratio. If this part of food is insufficient, it may cause the bone fish's temperament to change. If a large amount of shellfish is purchased from outside, it may cause other problems."

"Increasing the number is important, but first we have to make sure that we train the bone fish employees that the company needs. So I can't make further changes on this basis. At present, I can only ensure that 6 bone fish can be born every month. This is the current limit."

Qian Su looked distressed, and took out a light box and said, "Zheng Bo, those are all light seeds. If you make less profit, you will lose more..."

Zhou Yi made the decision: "Let's do as Mr. Zheng says."

But he was also prepared to try and see if there was any other way.

"Old Zheng, go to Zhanjiang Bay No. 1 and take a look."

"Everyone wear the fog masks made by Da Vinci and stay safe."

……

The Ridgecutter carried the three people through the fog and arrived at the offshore aquaculture platform.

Zhou Yi came here again and found that the carpet fungus on the deck was already thick and dense. In the bad weather, the black hand mushrooms were still working hard.

"Hello, Chairman."

"Chairman!"

They stood up straight and saluted one by one.

"Hello, stay safe."

"Yes."

"We pay attention!"

Zhou Yi walked into the main control room of Zhanjiang Bay No. 1, which contained a variety of instruments and devices, none of which he recognized. However, the room was wiped clean by the black hand mushrooms, and no stains were seen.

He had thought in the past about letting Red Falcon take over this large platform using an extension.

The drone said: "Although it is a semi-civilized body, its consciousness has not disappeared. In this case, the machine stack extension mode cannot be used, which will cause signal conflicts and internal disorder."

"Semi-civilized beings are a special type of electromechanical life. Using extension signals is a forced enslavement of them and an infringement of their autonomy. Electromechanical life that abides by the rules will never do such a thing."

So Zhou Yi had no choice but to give up.

Even if the consciousness is in sync, it is impossible to communicate with semi-civilized bodies.

Now he's ready to try a new approach.

[Radio], channel 5, on.

The element capabilities cover the entire Zhanjiang Bay No. 1.

The first thing I heard was the conversation between the black hand mushrooms. They talked about the weather, the company, Zhou Yi, and the bone man Sun Chonglai... They seemed to enjoy talking to each other.

Apart from this, there was no other sound.

Could it be that the semi-enlightened body has no signal at all?
Just when Zhou Yi was suspicious, he suddenly heard a voice.

"Zhanjiang Bay No. 1, requesting to return."

"Request to return."

His eyes suddenly lit up.

There is a play.

"The starboard side is damaged, there are cracks on the bottom of the ship, and seawater is intruding. Please repair it."

Zhou Yi silently noted down the two damaged points.

Then the voice suddenly changed.

"Who am I? Where am I? What is this place?"

"Let me out!"

……

After a while, Zhou Yi finally pulled himself out.

With the power of the radio, he finally understood why the semi-civilized bodies were unable to communicate.

Their consciousness is fragmented and discontinuous.

In normal life, all kinds of thoughts will be gathered together into a decision and finally transformed into action. But in Zhanjiang Bay No.1, thoughts are just thoughts, everyone has their own opinions, actions are all based on instinct, and consciousness and body are completely independent of each other.

They can receive and hear external sounds, but the feedback they give is fragmented and scattered, making it difficult to restore their complete meaning.

Zhou Yi turned on the synchronization of consciousness and tried patiently.

"Besides the damage to the starboard side and the cracks in the bottom, is there anything else I can help you with?"

The consciousness information was passed on.

He was looking for feedback in the other person's complicated thoughts.

It wasn't until half an hour later that I finally found a few answers.

"Marine organisms have attached to the bottom of the ship, causing marine biofouling."

"..."

"The ballast tank is seriously corroded." "..."

"The ballast tanks were damaged."

Then Zhou Yi found Qian Su, who was familiar with the equipment, and Yuan Tong, who had worked in a shipyard, and went with them to inspect the interior of Zhanjiang Bay No. 1.

Do not check, I don’t know, I’m scared.

The complexly structured ballast tank was not only severely corroded with multiple areas of peeling skin, but also had a rusty spiral horn about 4 meters long inserted in it, causing multiple damages.

Qian Su recognized it quickly: "This is a whaling spear, used by the Knights to hunt whales in the Dead Sea. It seems that they made a mistake and mistook the breeding platform for prey... Fortunately, Zhanjiang Bay No. 1 is strong enough to remain suspended and stable under the influence of this foreign object."

After a careful observation, she began to use an electric saw to saw the whaling spear into several sections so that they could be disassembled separately to reduce damage to the hull.

Yuan Tong led his team to deal with the corroded areas first. He dug out the inventory of reinforced boats and applied a new coating to the aquaculture platform.

Zhou Yi also dived into the water and directed the warrior crabs to clean up the shellfish and attachments on the bottom of the boat.

It took me most of the day to finish the work.

The entire Zhanjiang Bay No. 1 also changed accordingly.

The windmills on the deck were all stationary before, but now they all slowly started to turn. The lights on the aquaculture platform were lit one by one, illuminating the surrounding sea and land with exceptional clarity, as if the entire platform had just entered working order.

The most crucial thing is another change. The 12 breeding areas of Zhanjiang Bay No. are surrounded by a faint white light, and the death light energy is gathered into the breeding areas.

The usually lazy fish fry inside also became active, swimming back and forth.

Zheng Tao looked delighted: "From this, it seems that the efficiency of the breeding platform will be further improved. There is still a lot of room for development here."

Qian Gu clasped his hands together towards the breeding area and said, "You guys better grow faster. The future of the express delivery center depends on you."

……

After finishing the breeding platform, Zhou Yi went to the mushroom forest next door.

There was thick fog and many shadows outside the forest, which looked a bit eerie from a distance.

In fact, it was Sun Chonglai who was growing mushrooms with the black hand mushrooms.

Zhou Yi then realized that he only needed to cut out a part of the mycelium and stalk of the giant mushroom in order to recultivate it.

"Chairman, let's plant them around the farmland first. It can protect against wind and stabilize the soil and water."

Sun Chong said: "They grow very fast because we have a lot of fertilizer here, and the Iron Horse and the Bronze Bull have taken good care of the land here."

"Take me to see the non-toxic giant mushroom."

"Yes."

The skeleton took Zhou Yi all the way to the mudflat area behind the mushroom forest. The giant mushrooms here were scattered and of varying heights, but the shortest was about 3 meters long and the tallest could reach 15 meters.

It is impossible to tell with the naked eye whether they are poisonous or not.

But there is no red poisonous fog floating around here.

Sun Chonglai walked to the nearest giant mushroom that was 3 meters high and 2 meters in diameter and said, "Look, this is just planted. It has grown to this size in 5 days."

It patted the straight and thick stem with its bony hands and said, "Look how strong and powerful it is. Just because it's hollow inside doesn't mean it's unreliable. This thing is very reliable."

Zhou Yi touched the skin of the giant mushroom. It felt like rubber, flexible yet strong.

It can still be torn apart, it is still a mushroom made up of strands of hyphae, but its structure is more special and tough.

“That’s how we usually use them.”

Sun Chonglai used his hand as a knife and cut down the surface of the giant mushroom twice, skillfully making a cut. He pulled apart the mycelium on both sides, and found that it was indeed hollow inside.

The mushroom is divided into two spaces, upper and lower, with a membrane in the middle, which reminds Zhou Yi of bamboo.

Sun Zhonglai loosened his hand again, and the giant mushroom's flexible body immediately united again. It smoothed the crack with its hand, and it was difficult to find without careful observation.

“You can put things inside. You can’t see it from the outside. It’s very useful.”

A bold idea popped into Zhou Yi's mind.

He pulled the mushroom apart with both hands and lowered his head to crawl inside.

There was no peculiar smell inside the giant mushroom, and it was surprisingly dry, but very dark. It was not stuffy at all, and there was no difficulty breathing.

Zhou Yi came out from inside.

"The inside of the giant mushroom is very breathable. It should be because the mycelium itself is not airtight. It seems possible for people to live there?"

This made Sun Zhonglai stunned: "Living... this... but the space inside is very small. Don't we have Emerald City? Although I don't go back often, it is really comfortable to live there, spacious, bright and warm. Mushrooms can't compare at all."

"A single room is enough. And doesn't the bigger the mushroom, the more space it has inside?"

"That's right... But, Chairman, this is not necessary?"

Zhou Yi had to explain to it: "Old Sun, the size of Emerald City is limited, and it is impossible to open it to everyone. More people still need to live in more popular houses. Mushroom houses are a good choice. They will continue to grow and provide enough vertical space. As long as the diaphragm inside is opened, people can go up and down with ladders."

"In addition, it is cheap, fast to produce, windproof and rainproof, and the core technology of planting improvement is firmly in our hands. For most people, this is the house they need. For example, in this typhoon disaster, a large number of houses collapsed, and mushroom houses can be used to quickly replace them to reduce subsequent damage."

The skeleton seemed to understand: "You want to use mushroom houses to build a new housing complex?"

"Correct."

Zhou Yi said seriously: "So the research on mushrooms cannot be interrupted. The Mushroom Forest is the hidden scientific research department of our company. The mushrooms spread all over the world are an important productive force in this wasteland world."

"Let's start by planning a community of mushroom houses outside Emerald City."

"Yes, Chairman, I understand what to do."

Sun Chonglai is ready to go.

(End of this chapter)