Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 223 History of Atmospheric Creature Hunting

Zhou Yi asked: "After you explode, will you also become atmospheric creatures?"

Shi Gandang replied: "No, it's just a powerful bomb that brings a large-scale strong radiation like a light explosion."

"In other words, the key is that the building life itself can be transformed into atmospheric life, rather than the explosion creating atmospheric life."

"Correct."

Shi Gandang continued, "But whether it is the electromechanical city or the kingdom of heaven, their understanding of atmospheric life is very limited."

"Atmospheric creatures can hardly be killed completely, they can only be greatly weakened and seriously injured. Their physiological structure has a very low density and is extremely ductile and retractable, but they can absorb and lock a large amount of death light energy. They are extremely dangerous offshore creatures."

"The one who knows them best is Xingshu. The Kingdom of Heaven has conducted deep excavations on land and in the Dead Sea. Due to the confrontation between the two sides, we are unable to obtain more intelligence. We can only carry out difficult independent research."

Zhou Yi's mind moved: "What is Xingshu's attitude towards atmospheric creatures?"

"In terms of attitude... it should be said that they are neither hostile nor have any in-depth contact. Judging from the large amount of confidential intelligence provided to us by the Kingdom of Heaven, Xingshu is more indifferent to atmospheric creatures."

"Don't care? Is it because of the height?"

"Yes, they both exist at different altitudes. The Nexus is far above the outer sea."

Zhou Yi thought that the Star Hub was composed of a group of satellites and was indeed far outside the atmosphere.

Wait.

Atmospheric life, atmosphere, open sea...

He asked, "Atmospheric life cannot survive without the open sea, right?"

"Based on the known information, this is indeed the case, so we call them atmospheric creatures."

The robot vacuum cleaner said: "Before the earliest Skywalkers entered the open sea, atmospheric creatures already lived there. The early atmospheric creatures were different from those now. They were more gentle and less aggressive. On the contrary, it was the Skywalkers that hunted the atmospheric creatures in the beginning."

This aroused Zhou Yi's interest: "Tell me in detail."

"There are some video records of Skywalker's hunting of atmospheric creatures, but they are not released to the public. We watched them during our research."

The optical printing expert described: "In that video, the atmospheric creatures seemed to have no sense of attack or defense at all. They were trapped by Skywalker's ability and then captured with special equipment. The whole process was no more difficult than capturing ordinary B-level creatures."

"It was not until they were locked in a special gas tank that the atmospheric creatures began to struggle, but by then it was too late. The gas tanks that locked them were specially built with high pressure and sealing oil. The inside and outside were fixed by electromechanical optical printing, which quickly cooled and froze the atmospheric creatures, putting them into a dormant state..."

"The main reason is that atmospheric creatures are unaware of the danger and will be attracted by the light seeds into the gas tank, just like a bird caught in a simple trap."

"It was discovered that the captured atmospheric creatures could not be used to extract combat seeds or genetic seeds, so they could only be used to extract light seeds. They themselves have very high energy levels and are treated as living minerals in the open sea."

"But this process didn't last long. The atmospheric creatures gradually became smarter. They were no longer easily fooled. They would not fall into the gas tank because of light seeds and curiosity. Instead, they would drive away the terrestrial life that captured them."

Shi Gandang paused for a moment and said, "The situation completely changed when the atmospheric organisms 'itch' appeared."

"It is the first atmospheric creature to actively hunt Skywalkers. It has extremely strong combat capabilities and ate three Skywalkers and seven Sea Lords in a short period of time."

"Soon the atmospheric creatures discovered that it was not difficult to hunt for terrestrial life in the open sea. The situation immediately turned around."

It recalled: "The Skywalkers in the outer sea became targets of hunting, and the atmospheric creatures began to hunt everywhere. Later, the Skywalkers consumed a huge amount of resources to build the Cirrus Mountain to deal with the atmospheric creatures."

"The so-called Cirrus Mountain is an artificial island created with Class A electromechanical optical printing, surrounded by "light banners" that have a restraining effect on atmospheric life."

"If an atmospheric creature gets close to Mount Cirrus, these light banners will continue to mix into its body, causing discomfort and physiological abnormalities in the atmospheric creature, causing them to experience various pains... It can be understood that they are extremely poisonous to them."

Zhou Yi listened patiently and said, "Is the light banner a man-made substance?"

"No. It's a natural phenomenon in the open sea."

Shi Gandang explained: "They look like streamers, with highly compressed energy structures. Some are large, some are small, but they have a strong attraction to the surroundings and can draw all kinds of energy into them... Some are like rapids in an inland sea."

"But its main body moves slowly and can last for a long time. In fact, whether it is a skywalker or an atmospheric creature, it is dangerous to encounter a light banner. Once caught in it, they will be completely torn apart and converted into energy."

The robot vacuum cleaner said, "It's just that compared to the large atmospheric creatures, the Skywalkers are more likely to avoid the slow light banners. So placing the light banners around the Cirrus Mountain will form a natural barrier."

"It's just that moving the traction light banners consumes a huge amount of energy. The Skywalkers also spent a lot of manpower and resources before they finally set up the light banner array to block the atmospheric creatures."

Zhou Yi remembered it silently.

The geographical environment of the open sea and the inland sea is indeed very different. There is no land there at all, and people have to build mountains artificially and defend themselves against natural dangers.

"Let's get back to the experiment itself."

Shi Gandang said: "Because atmospheric creatures are extremely powerful and difficult to deal with, the Kingdom of Heaven must hope to cultivate controllable atmospheric creatures."

"A large number of experimental results have proved that this is impossible."

"But our experiments did reveal another thing: atmospheric life continues to evolve due to hunting."

"They hunt Skywalkers and Sea Lords in the open sea. Their main purpose is to obtain the consciousness of other lives to supplement their own. This kind of hunting can only obtain incomplete consciousness, but it can allow them to obtain a lot of information, thus becoming smarter."

"So as the two sides confront each other, atmospheric creatures grow rapidly. They gain experience and knowledge accumulated by their prey through hunting."

Zhou Yi frowned when he heard this. The atmospheric creatures became stronger and stronger, fighting to support themselves, and replenishing the most needed brain link, so Skywalker was a bit difficult to deal with.

Shi Gandang added: "But atmospheric creatures also have weaknesses. They all live and act alone."

"They also attack and hunt each other. Because they have a highly divergent consciousness, they often act on their own accord, and it is impossible to predict their next move."

"Otherwise, if they gather together, even Cirrus Mountain will find it difficult to stop them."

In order to obtain the firewood from the outer sea, the Skywalkers had to compete with the atmospheric creatures there.

Fortunately, atmospheric life cannot survive in the overly thin inland seas.

Various thoughts flashed through Zhou Yi's mind, but he quickly regained his focus: "The core of the Light Explosion Angel is to keep it secret."

"Yes."

Shi Gandang said: "All the light printing experts at that time, whether they signed the agreement to keep secrets or not, were made into light explosion angels. Only in this way can the kingdom of heaven ensure that the secrets will not be leaked."

"The Kingdom of Heaven has never given up on transforming atmospheric life, and research in this area is bound to continue."

Zhou Yi asked, "What about the celestial beings?"

Shi Gan just said, "I don't know."

Zhou Yi summoned Unit 2 again and asked for Suneo's opinion.

"Atmospheric life is actually a kind of phenomenal life. It can only exist in a specific environment, and it is not a big threat in itself. I didn't expect that architectural life could evolve in this direction... These guys really have a high growth potential."

The Stream Tracer said, "In my opinion, Da Zhou's plan is more suitable for them. Architectural life is formed by the gathering of many consciousnesses, and its own body can complement the divergent consciousnesses. This is not just a constraint. If there is a chance, we can capture an atmospheric creature and see what is going on."

Zhou Yi thought, that would be a long time later.

For now, we still have to focus on the inland sea.

Let those sea gods fight each other.

Shi Gandang's words woke Zhou Yi up. The biggest competitive advantage of the outer sea is the salary hill there.

In the world of the Dead Apostles, there is also ample salary.

Now that the company has two A-level employees, it's time to consider looking over there.

……

at the same time.

The atmosphere in the meeting room in Shuanghe District was particularly depressing.

Everyone else said nothing.

General Shirahoshi was smoking a cigarette.

Ringo gritted his teeth and said, "The Light Explosion Angel was stolen this time... I investigated the scene and compared many traces. I basically confirmed that it was the two A-level life forms of the Wasteland Development Company who did it."

"The focused energy instantly destroyed the warning system, and the bone man's dust ability dismantled the container of the light explosion angel. I thought they had internal conflicts and had fought here before, but I didn't expect them to cooperate so well... From this, it can be concluded that the Wasteland Development Company has a high degree of control over its employees, and can make A-level life forms faithfully and quickly execute orders."

Others remained silent.

Ringo had no choice but to continue: "Now that the Light Explosion Angel has been stolen, we have lost a vital strategic deterrent."

"Zhou Yi is using this method to warn us. Considering that the logistics and strategic reserves are already somewhat insufficient, I suggest that we discuss a ceasefire and peace talks."

Another local official in charge of production said: "I agree."

"The war with the Development Alliance has resulted in us being sanctioned by Coral Bay. We are now unable to use the trade and transportation channels there, and costs continue to rise. Exports to the southern region have been declining rapidly in the past two months, and market share is being taken away by other regions. Once this loss deepens, it will be irreversible, and we are likely to lose part of the market permanently."

Another electromechanical lifeform also spoke up: "The rebels have been resurrecting recently, and mutants have been found among them. This is worthy of high vigilance. I think we should concentrate more troops on the rebels, as they may attack our inland areas."

"Do not."

General Shirahoshi rejected all objections and said, "Continue fighting."

"This war of honor must be fought until the Lord returns. A ceasefire will put us in danger."

"As long as the war continues, the parties watching from behind will not come to an end."

It exhaled a puff of smoke and said in an unquestionable tone: "The meeting is adjourned."

Ringo understands.

It was just worried that it would further anger Zhou Yi and the Wasteland Development Company... and didn't know what the situation would turn into.

This winter is really dangerous.

(End of this chapter)