Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 268: The Mercy of Heaven

The earliest scene in Tietie’s memory is life in the mountains.

She lived a simple life, hiding in a cave during the day and coming out at night to collect resources, picking fruits, catching mice and birds every day.

The whole village lives like this.

There is a local tradition that the messenger of God will come to look for sacrifices. If someone is chosen, the sacrificed person will ascend to the kingdom of God, and the village that produced the sacrifice will also be protected by the messenger of God.

One day, the messenger of God came to the village where Tietie lived.

He descended from the sky, wearing a golden mask that revealed blood-red eye sockets, a long beard on his head, and a long tail on his back.

Zhou Yi recognized it at first sight.

Golden-faced Guard.

These are the guards of the gods.

The Golden-faced Guard holds a crystal ball with a gem fragment inside.

He tested it on children one by one, and when the crystal ball was brought close to a person, the white gem inside would emit a partial green light. When it was brought close to iron, the gem fragments inside would turn emerald green.

The Golden-faced Guard pointed at Tietie's brow and designated her as the sacrifice.

The villagers were very happy, because it meant that the messenger of God would protect the whole village and the monster would not dare to come again. The only ones who were disappointed were Tietie's blacksmith parents, because their daughter was leaving them.

More than ten years later, Tietie had grown into an adult woman. The Golden-faced Guardian appeared again, with another dot between her eyebrows.

When he woke up again, Tietie had arrived at a crystal palace, and was then transformed by a celestial being.

Unlike Li Mo and Tengu, her transformation used an emerald that Zhou Yi had never seen before.

The emerald is filled with a large amount of liquid, which is soaked with tree-shaped glass fibers.

The key to Tietie being transformed into a glass man is this emerald.

When a piece of glass fiber in the emerald entered the woman's body, her entire body became transparent, her internal organs gradually disappeared, and strips of glass fiber extended from the surface of her body, as if it were frozen.

Finally, the celestial being placed her in a large white gem, completing the encapsulation.

……

Zhou Yi then realized that the artificial glass man was made through special transformation of emerald, using white sapphire as a container.

The follow-up is consistent with what Tietie said.

She was asked to give birth independently, failed, and then was sent to the jewel chain.

During this part, Zhou Yi noticed a point that Tietie didn't mention.

The gem chains were in a criss-cross pattern, and in the center was a pair of giant eyeballs with green pupils—the pupils were made entirely of emeralds.

Both eyeballs are made of gemstones and are connected to each other by gemstone lines, somewhat like two fruits growing on a twig.

But they operate independently of each other.

The two pupils focused on different areas, looking at each artificial glass man on the chain.

Under the gaze of the two gem eyes, Tietie, a cyborg fixed in a white gem, looked like a pendant on display.

"Why didn't you mention this part?" Zhou Yi asked her.

"I forgot……"

"..."

Zhou Yi soon understood what was going on.

The Gem Eye is doing the screening.

They have some special recognition ability, and the artificial humans that are favored by them will glow all over.

Then a huge tubular gem body will extend from the darkness, pick up the target and suck it in, sending it all the way to the end of the darkness.

This is exactly the same as the tube that Zhou Yi saw in the ruby where the young celestial being was fed gems.

What is left in the end are unqualified artificial humans.

Tietie and the others just need to build the Sun Wall, just to do hard labor.

This is also the part that Zhou Yi is most interested in.

In Tietie's memory, the place where she worked should be a marginal area. There were white gems floating in the air, and she and other artificial glass people needed to pick the gems and then use them to piece together the gem wall.

During the whole process, she needs to extend her own glass fibers - or blood vessels, to fix these gems with her body, waiting for the gradual change from far to near.

The newly installed white gemstone will gradually change into a sapphire, and then the connection between the gemstones will be completely stabilized through blood vessels before she can start to assemble the next one.

This work is accompanied by intense physical pain and a cold, stinging sensation, as if the wounds on your body are exposed to extremely cold weather.

The glass men at work are all numb.

Tietie was unconscious while working, and during the installation he mistakenly connected three white gems and one blue gem into a ring, causing a surge of energy to be transmitted to this side, causing an explosion.

Fortunately, she was blown away and did not die.

The gods did not punish her, but simply demoted her.

……

When Tietie fell, he had lost his normal physical senses such as sight and hearing, and was replaced by the perception of energy flow.

This perspective is very similar to that of cross-border people.

The world is made up of black and white, Tietie itself is white, the local life is black, and the background is a light gray. Their forms are constantly changing, just like shadows constantly changing under the light.

Tietie landed accurately on the floating island, which was actually a firewood mound. The skeletons around her were just moving black monsters in her eyes.

She tried hard to open her eyes, but could not see anything. She felt very frightened because she did not know what she was facing.

However, after the transformation, Tietie has become a super mutant, and all her organs have been transformed into crystal structures. The radiation she carries is enough to kill the surrounding skeletons. In fear, she desperately releases her radiation power.

"Don't come over here! Don't come over here, don't come over here!"

She screamed inwardly.

While reading the memories, Zhou Yi asked Tietie: "So you disrupted the consciousness time of other lives."

"Huh? I don't know."

Tietie said: "I can make others forget my existence, that is, they don't remember anything related to me. The shorter the time span, the more effective it is. I call it [selflessness]... This is also the power given to me by the gods."

"It's just that I was weak and hungry when I was released, so the effect was very poor."

Xiaofu couldn't help but interrupt and said, "This is an ability related to time. Consciousness itself cannot be erased or tampered with at will, but it can be hidden and disrupted through time."

"This is very useful in some special circumstances, for example, when we go to excavate civilization heritage in the future... For ordinary skeletons, the shock to their consciousness alone is enough to make them fall into a coma."

But since Tietie’s ability is not combat-related, how was the skeleton killed and his memory cleared?

Zhou Yi felt confused.

He continued to look down.

When Tietie landed on the firewood mound, two strange white shadows appeared in the sky.

They were obviously different from the skeleton groups on the ground.

The two white shadows were of the same type as Tietie from a visual perspective. They had a fixed outline, two whiskers on their heads, and a tail behind them.

Two gold-faced guards.

The white light they released covered all the black shadows, and then these shadows gradually shattered and disappeared.

Zhou Yi understood.

It was the Golden-faced Guard who killed the skeletons on this island.

Then they left.

Zhou Yi told this to the skeleton man next to him.

Wu Yi was stunned for a moment: "At that time, it turned out to be like this... In other words, everyone is still dead."

Zhou Yi wanted to say something to comfort her, but in the end he couldn't find the right words.

"..."

The skeleton looked at his watch and said softly, "Actually, I had an idea in my mind before. I knew that there was a high probability that they could not be saved. But I still had a glimmer of hope and wanted to give it a try."

"Resurrection from the dead is an impossible thing after all."

At this time, Xiaofu suddenly spoke: "Da Zhou, you can tell it that resurrection from the dead is not impossible. You just need to enter the Great Holy Spirit, and through the Great Holy Spirit, you can find the consciousness of these dead people."

"I've heard that some civilizations can even define their own order after death, allowing consciousness to enter a specific area to start the next life journey and construct a special inner and outer cycle. Memories and knowledge can be preserved and retrieved. All of this can be done."

Zhou Yi relayed Wu Yi's original words.

"Really? Chairman?"

"real."

Zhou Yi told it: "Everything depends on human efforts. As long as you become strong enough, you can bring them back to life."

"To be able to do such a thing..."

The bone man immediately rekindled his hope: "I understand! Chairman, I still need to become stronger!"

Then Zhou Yi turned his attention back to Tietie.

He continued to read his memories.

Subsequently, the firewood mounds in the form of small islands evaporated, and the iron also sank further into the Dead Sea.

The memory time for this part is very short, but the amount of information is quite large.

When she crashed into the floating island, Tie Tie's physical damage was extremely severe. She learned a lot in an instant, and began to use the surrounding materials to create quartz crystals to wrap herself to avoid further collapse.

Tietie himself couldn’t explain it either.

"It was like someone suddenly taught me. I felt like I was going to die, my whole body was melting... I was shouting for help in my heart."

"Then I will."

Xiaofu said, "It's the Firewood Hill. If I'm not mistaken, the Celestial Being deliberately landed her on the Firewood Hill precisely so that she could read the information in the Firewood Hill and select the part that can be used to protect herself."

“And that’s exactly what happened.”

"The two guards sent here were also here for her. They made sure she landed safely and eliminated the witnesses around her before leaving."

Zhou Yi frowned: "Why? If you value her words so much, why do you ignore her completely after the launch?"

"Da Zhou, would you care about a gerbil that you released?"

Xiaofu made an analogy: "In the eyes of the celestial beings, Tietie and Li Mo are their pets. Abandoning or releasing them for various reasons is just a trivial matter to the celestial beings."

"In the eyes of higher life forms, lower life forms are just like this. If they have nothing to do with you, they are just wild monsters that can be destroyed at will. If you are interested in raising or taming them, then you will help them."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but think of Li Mo's experience.

When facing weak and humble lives, celestial beings will show generous compassion and kindness.

But when they encounter competitors or rebels like upstreamers, they will destroy and strangle them without hesitation.

The key is whether there is a threat.

Zhou Yi immediately ordered: "Everyone, return home."

(End of this chapter)