Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 197 403 Agreement
The secret room was pitch dark, and filled with some kind of misty gas.

Zhou Yi heard a hissing sound of air being released.

Then a door opened in front of him, a large amount of gas gushed out, and the vision suddenly became clear.

Only after walking out did Zhou Yi realize that he was in a white spherical cabin.

The spherical cabin is the center of the place, and the ground and walls are made of white square bricks.

There is also a huge mirror fixed to the wall.

Zhou Yi looked in the mirror.

He has now become a dog-headed man, with a long mouth and pointed ears, thick hair of wild animals, and a tail behind his buttocks. But he seems to have no discomfort walking upright, and his physiological structure is completely different from the canines in his memory.

He looked down at his arms. His slender upper limbs were covered with yellow hair, and at the front were two broad claws. The claws were as flexible as his fingers, and were round, blunt and strong.

A mechanical and electrical life came quickly from outside.

"Dear guest, welcome. I am Snowman from the Coral Mouth Program Department and I am your exclusive receptionist."

The snowman is just as its name suggests, with a big head, a round body, and is completely snow-white. The lights on its head form a kind smiling face.

Zhou Yi looked at the receptionist who was a head shorter than him and asked, "Where is this place?"

"This is the landing capsule built according to Protocol 403. It is the exclusive room for the honorable celestial beings."

"Elaborate on the 403 protocol."

"Yes."

Snowman said: "The 403 Agreement is a confidentiality agreement established by Tianren and Jidian Life, and its main contents include three principles."

"Principle 1. Only the gods have the right to view and use the 403 protocol."

"Principle 2. Mechanical and electrical cities have an obligation to search and locate firewood mounds and abnormally strong signal response areas for the heavenly beings."

"Principle 3: Mechanical and electrical cities must not harm celestial beings or stand idly by when they are harmed. Accessing and investigating celestial beings-related information and data is prohibited."

Zhou Yi's heart sank.

It seems that the celestial beings are not only the behind-the-scenes rulers of the Kingdom of Heaven, but the mechanical and electrical cities are also subject to their constraints.

Zhou Yi asked: "Will you record every time we come?"

"Please rest assured that this is all covered by the confidentiality agreement."

The snowman's eyes glowed slightly and turned into two small dots: "Any arrival of a celestial being and their identity and image will be kept secret. After the celestial being leaves, all related data will be permanently deleted."

Zhou Yi felt relieved.

"Bring me some clothes."

"Yes, please wait a moment."

Soon, the snowman came in with a tray on his head, on which were folded and clean four-piece sets.

After Zhou Yi put it on, the image in the mirror suddenly changed.

The dog-headed man wore a white linen robe, a black cloak, and a wide-brimmed hat on his head - the hat was just big enough for his ears to stick out, and it was obviously a specially made custom-made outfit.

It looks much more low-key and normal.

A thin steel wire like hair emerged from the snowman's head, with something that looked like a headset hanging on it.

"This is a classified transceiver."

Zhou Yi clipped it on his left ear.

The included microphone is fixed to the side of the mouth. Due to its small size and the cover of the hat, it is not easy to be discovered.

The snowman can communicate with Zhou Yi one-on-one through the transceiver.

"In the past ten years, no signs of firewood mounds have been found around the coral mouth. Two strong signals nearby were also finally confirmed, one of which was the building life "Yalong Bay" and the other was an A-level light burst. "

Zhou Yi nodded: "Tell me the complete 403 protocol."

Snowman immediately opened up with a detailed reply.

The 403 Agreement is very large. It is more like a code with numerous detailed rules than an agreement.

Zhou Yi directly summoned Unit 2 to take notes.

After reading it, Xiaofu said, "This message text has a lot of restrictions, almost all of which are unilateral requests and orders. It seems that it is very wary of mechanical and electrical life."

"Such strict restrictions are only imposed on groups that pose a potential threat."

"In cases like this, either the electromechanical lifeforms have special abilities that cannot be replaced, or they themselves are difficult to completely eliminate."

Zhou Yi also found it strange.

The bodies chosen by the celestial beings are almost all flesh and blood. Logically speaking, whether in terms of strength, stability or ease of transformation, electromechanical life has a huge advantage.

"You have ever rebelled against us?"

The snowman replied: "The Mechanical and Electrical City has never taken the initiative to carry out any acts that disrupt order, nor has it ever offended the gods."

Not for this reason.

Zhou Yi suddenly thought of a possibility.

"The art of printing light is what we pass on to mechanical and electrical life, right?" The celestial beings' gem organs can transform living bodies through fibrosis and give them light-printing structures. This is an innate ability.

The origin of printing light technique lies in electromechanical printing, that is, electromechanical city.

Zhou Yi boldly speculated that the celestial beings were secretly supporting the mechanical and electrical life forms, allowing them to develop this technological system to serve the celestial beings.

"You got it the other way around."

The snowman replied: "We were the first to discover the Yin Guang technique, and then shared it with the gods."

"..."

Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment.

Why is it different from what I thought?

The other party explained: "According to the visible historical records protected by the 403 protocol, we were the first to discover and successfully apply the Yin Guang technique, and then shared it with the gods and jointly analyzed the principles behind it."

"Of course, although we are the inventors, our precision and energy level are totally incomparable to those of the celestial beings."

Zhou Yi felt a little magical for a moment.

It's like the indigenous peoples teaching nuclear fusion technology to a group of powerful settlers.

But he thought again, maybe it was because of the development of technology by electromechanical life that the celestial beings saw their potential. So through layers of constraints, they were unable to become enemies of the celestial beings, and worked and served the celestial beings.

Such creative labor is very useful to the boss behind the scenes.

Zhou Yi said: "Show me your city."

"Yes, distinguished guest."

……

After leaving the spherical cabin, Zhou Yi discovered that outside was the city center of Coral Mouth.

It is located on a high tower, and looking down, you can see the entire city.

Shanhukou is a port city.

A large port was built in the northern part of the city, deep into the Dead Sea, and a lighthouse emitting green light was erected to dispel the surrounding fog.

There are docks, piers, and docks where many ships dock, transfer, and transport goods. Even from a distance, you can see the crowds of people there.

Further into the land to the south are neatly arranged factories and huge cooling towers emitting white smoke.

The main roads on the ground are almost all railway tracks, with freight trains constantly running on them, carrying all kinds of goods and connecting the north-south trunk lines.

On the branch roads, mechanical and electrical life forms were busy, some repairing the roads, some cleaning up the garbage, and some maintaining public facilities. You could also see some light nano species and humans, but they were in the minority.

There are drones patrolling the sky.

Zhou Yi noticed it quickly.

This electromechanical city is made up entirely of various modular blocks, which construct houses, factories, docks, roads, bridges... It's like an enlarged Lego city.

Zhou Yi asked the snowman next to him: "Are all electromechanical cities built with this kind of blocks?"

“This is a T-shaped brick.”

The snowman changed to a smiling face: "This is a building material made from the mud at the bottom of the Dead Sea. It is both stable and light, and can withstand the impact of the deadly light. It is a very high-quality new material."

"By covering the surface of T-shaped bricks with soot, we can construct a light-printing structure, turning the entire city into a huge light-printing base. It will be more convenient to expand or delete, and it will be easier to develop and expand."

“Shanhukou is the first electromechanical city built entirely with T-shaped bricks. It has been proven that this has greatly improved the operating efficiency of the entire city. The only drawback is that the initial investment cost is very high.”

Zhou Yi gained a lot of experience this time.

The entire coral mouth has become mechatronic, and optical printing structures can be placed everywhere, which really brings out the advantages of mechatronic life itself.

Accompanied by the snowman, Zhou Yi began to walk in the city.

He boarded the local train and took a tour of the city.

He saw long queues of electromechanical life forms at repair sites and energy stations, visited large-scale planting bases, entered factories and docks for observation, and went to the physical test center to check the strength of the dog-headed men... This benefited him a lot and he saw how the electromechanical city operated.

Human cities are highly dependent on human and animal power, but here we have entered the industrial age and there is a real technological gap.

I visited there for a whole day.

Zhou Yi felt that the time was about right.

"I have an appointment with Zhou Yi from Emerald City. I need to go to his place. Please prepare a vehicle for me."

"Yes. The business jet will be able to take off in half an hour. Please follow me."

Get on the plane.

Zhou Yi sat by the windowsill, looking at the coral mouth getting farther and farther away below, with a lot of thoughts in his mind.

The celestial beings have shown through their actions that they are optimistic about the development prospects of mechatronic life.

Mechanical and electrical cities do represent the most advanced productivity in the wasteland era.

The company still needs to continue its efforts to bring the Shagang area to catch up with here.

(End of this chapter)