Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 336: Hunting for Atmospheric Creatures

The arrival of atmospheric creatures instantly became the absolute focus of the battlefield.

In the sky, reconnaissance aircraft and early warning aircraft were circling around the atmospheric creatures like moths encountering flames, conducting multi-angle observations and calculations.

The spherical fighters and shuttle-shaped attack aircraft plunged into the gaseous life, firing at it crazily and even launching self-destructive attacks.

The fleet on the Dead Sea also turned its guns synchronously.

Thick and long gun barrels were pointed towards the sky, tongues of flames burst out, and densely packed light bullets were poured onto the life in the air.

Zhou Yi saw through satellite images that the B+ destroyers had finally launched the Guangyin missiles.

These round-nosed missiles have greater firepower than drones. They soar into the sky, leaving straight trails, emitting bright explosion circles, and blasting out circles of shaking ripples in the clouds.

Numerous explosions continued to flash in the clouds.

Atmospheric life is completely unaffected.

Its body, shaped like a cloud chamber, covered everything around it, causing the drones trapped in the inner layer to instantly lose their ability to move, as if they were frozen in the cloud.

Then they fell from the sky like scrap metal and landed in the Dead Sea.

There was only one A-class cruiser left. At this time, a silver columnar platform was erected on the deck, and a ball of light quickly condensed on the platform.

The light around the cruiser began to twist and stretch, and the ball of light enveloped the entire ship.

A straight beam of white light shot up into the sky, piercing through the atmospheric creatures from bottom to top.

The beam of light blasted out a strange black area, but it quickly disappeared and returned to normal.

"It's a death ray weapon!"

"This is an extremely powerful death ray weapon, with an accuracy of E-5! Otherwise, it would not create a light track!"

The Kestrel seemed a little anxious.

Zhou Yi was puzzled: "Light track? Is it the black area?"

"Yes. Zhou, only when extremely high intensity and density of dead light evaporates instantly can the light track phenomenon be created. Even if this intensity does not reach the light core body, it is not far off."

The drone was worried.

Zhou Yi was not worried.

The curling stone seemed to be pierced and torn apart. However, it was an atmospheric creature with extremely low density. Without a specific container or targeted ability, it could not be restrained or killed.

Just as he expected, after being shot through by the front of the death ray weapon, the curling stone gradually returned to its cloud house appearance, unscathed.

It began to actively descend from the sky, like a waterfall from the sea of clouds falling to the ground, pulling the A-class cruiser that had no time to escape and several surrounding frigates directly into its body.

The surrounding ships were originally moving and interweaving attacks, but they suddenly froze on the spot, as if they had completely lost control.

The satellite signal also turned into a full-screen mosaic.

The feedback of [No Signal] appeared above.

Zhou Yi ordered the Emerald City to fly towards the center of the battlefield.

Emerald City said, "Commissioner, it's dangerous ahead."

"The fragments of consciousness there are being sucked into the atmospheric organisms, which are devouring and hunting the surrounding consciousnesses."

"If I get any closer, I will also be affected and suffer losses, and perhaps not be able to maintain flight attitude."

Zhou Yi ordered to stop.

The front has completely become a signal blank area.

They were 5 kilometers apart, and the naked eye could not penetrate the cloud house built by atmospheric creatures, so they could not see clearly what was happening over there.

Zhou Yi suddenly remembered that he had another solution.

He immediately turned on the radio and activated channel 5.

Acquire signal imaging.

Then Zhou Yi saw it.

On the Dead Sea, the sea surface area covered by atmospheric creatures was emitting cold white mist, as if a cloud mountain had descended to the ground. A dozen or so ships nearby all remained still, frozen in the clouds.

Further away, a large number of drones and surviving ships were all fleeing in panic, like small animals facing a giant beast's prey.

Zhou Yi felt a bit complicated.

Although he guessed that atmospheric creatures should be useful, he did not expect that the suppressive power would be so strong.

The mechatronic army had no way to deal with it and was completely hunted one-sidedly.

But atmospheric creatures have not reached the level of photonuclear bodies, so why are their lethality far greater than that of A-level life forms such as the light-concentrating bodies and Skeleton Five One?

In response to this question, Hong Jian gave a reply: "Zhou, don't forget. In the open sea, atmospheric creatures prey on skywalkers. Their abilities and structures are inherently suppressive and destructive to other life forms."

This is true.

There is nothing special to counter them, atmospheric creatures are indeed unstoppable and undead monsters.

The huge sea life slowly rose up and flew to Zhou Yi's side, forming a towering cloud house.

"I can't stay here long."

"The energy density of the death light here is too low, causing my body to continue to dissipate and disappear. I am not fit to move around here. Chairman, please convert me into an energy state."

It did not leave, but asked to return in a very polite manner.

Zhou Yi asked: "Why are all the electromechanical lifeforms not moving?"

Curling added: "I have captured and absorbed the consciousness of these lives, so their bodies have lost their ability to move."

Conscious body?
Zhou Yi was puzzled.

The mechatronic army is composed of combat units of light-printed machines, and they are actually controlled by the mechatronic commander in the rear. So how should this consciousness be understood?

After repeated communication with the curling ball, Zhou Yi finally understood.

Information is consciousness.

The information and instructions continuously transmitted from a remote end are also a kind of consciousness, but they are just slightly different in form. The consciousness of normal life is continuous and precise, with various complex changes.

The remote command of electromechanical life is composed of instructions one by one. Compared with normal consciousness, it is more like the result of a large number of consciousness fragments assembled in chronological order.

But consciousness is consciousness, and it is an object that can be captured and swallowed up by atmospheric creatures.

Therefore, it captured all kinds of consciousness nearby - that is, information. As a result, the satellite signal was interrupted, and the remote control command of this army was completely intercepted and digested, and these steel machines were directly scrapped.

Zhou Yi suddenly thought: "Are these light-printed units still intact?"

"Yes, Chairman. I just cut off their consciousness. They have no independent consciousness and are more like puppet tools."

Zhou Yi's eyes lit up: "In this environment, can you hold on a little longer?"

"Yes, but it can't last too long because my peripheral parts are already dissipating, and my life and consciousness are continuously being depleted."

Curling said.

Relying on its information shielding ability, Zhou Yi immediately ordered the skeleton men Wu Yi, Ni Ge and Yuan Xiao, who had escaped from the trap, to participate in the transportation of the spoils.

The warships that lost contact on the sea, especially the A-class cruiser equipped with death ray weapons, must be brought back. Even if they are sold in full, they can make a profit and recover the losses in the war.

Everyone was busy at a rapid pace.

Emerald City carried the 200-meter-long cruiser all the way back to Yalong Bay, placed it in a cave for storage, and then continued to fly back and forth to transport it.

The concentrator then used its measuring capabilities to lock onto the two combat command aircraft hidden in the sky.

They look just like ordinary early warning aircraft, but are measured to have extremely high energy levels.

Although they were defeated on the front battlefield, they did not leave. They obviously wanted to rescue and command the fallen ships and drone swarms, trying to give them orders to fight or return.

Then it was pierced and destroyed by the light sword used by the focusing body to prevent future troubles.

The entire loot recovery process was done quickly and efficiently.

Kestrel said: "Current recovery has been completed."

“无人机上，捕捉E-1级小型侦察机5架，E-2级的预警机1架，E-2级的战斗机1架，E-3级的攻击机2架。”

"In terms of ships, we captured one A-class cruiser, one B+-class destroyer, two C-class frigates, and three comprehensive supply ships."

"These are the complete parts. There are many more incomplete or damaged parts that we haven't had time to count and need to go into the Dead Sea to salvage."

"The Manufacturing Department has worked with Qian Gu to remove their signal transceivers. These units are now very safe and stable. All they need to do is to modify or reset them, and they will become ships and aircraft that we can use."

"Our counterattack this time was a great success!"

The drone concluded happily.

Seeing that the situation has been determined.

Zhou Yi then entered the Dead Sea, summoned the Poseidon, and consumed 12 light seeds to transform the curling stone into fire life again.

This time the consumption was 2 more light seeds than last time.

He muttered to himself.

No matter how powerful atmospheric creatures are, the cost of deploying them once is more than 100,000 light species, and fighting a war is really expensive.

Fortunately, I got a lot of spoils, otherwise it would have been a pure loss.

Zhou Yi finally had time to ask Binghu: "You could have left here and entered the open sea. Why did you choose to stay?"

By releasing the atmospheric creatures to fight, he had actually already prepared for the losses that might occur.

"I can indeed sense that there is a strong energy reaction in the sky. There should be an extremely dense area of dead light there, which is more suitable for me to survive."

"But I work under you. Although I have transformed from a building life form into an atmospheric life form, I still believe that I must have basic professional ethics."

“What needs to be done must be done well.”

Curling said: "Besides, the situation in the open sea is unclear. It is safer and more stable here. I said, I am not a fighter. I am better at refrigeration and storage. The barbaric and disorderly environment is not suitable for my survival."

"But after you released me this time, I found that I could obtain quite a few consciousnesses through hunting, and they grew much faster than in the past construction life stage."

"For example, this time, although the consciousness bodies I captured were almost all fragmented, the number was very considerable, reaching 20% of the total number of consciousness bodies I had previously captured."

“It will just take some time for them to be fully integrated and usable.”

It is still well-organized and has a clear self-awareness.

Zhou Yi sighed inwardly.

It is my good luck to meet such a good employee.

This can reduce a lot of ineffective communication and temptation.

Zhou Yi has always been the case that if you respect me one inch, I will respect you one yard.

He told Curling: "If one day you want to go out and do it on your own, tell me and I'll let you go. Let's part ways in peace."

"Yes, Chairman."

Curling said: "If there is such a time, I will definitely tell you, and I will never leave without saying goodbye."

Zhou Yi was very satisfied.

At this time, Jiong Hecang sent another message: "The movement of the mechanical and electrical army was discovered in the distance. They are gathering here again. It seems that a new round of offensive is being prepared."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but frown.

Endless and endless.

He asked, "Where did the troops that attacked us come from?"

Hong Xun said: "In Energy Storage City, the United Guards all assembled from the port over there and then headed over here."

Zhou Yi felt a chill in his heart.

If you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust.

Energy Storage City! Wait for me!

(End of this chapter)