Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 385: Innate Cat Body
It took the company half a month to create the prototype of the dragnet.

A special pipeline has been added to the ground in Shagang. It has a rubber hose on the outside and metal cables inside. It is installed on the central dividing strip of the Wuhu viaduct.

The wires extend along the viaduct, connecting the town of Sand Harbor and Emerald City to ensure basic coverage in all populated areas.

After reaching each residential area, the wire conduits are laid under the main streets to facilitate further upgrades.

The two core construction areas are Emerald City and Shagang City.

Take Emerald City, for example.

A series of wires were built near the company's headquarters, connecting to the power plant in Yalong Bay for energy supply, and covering the farmland, mushroom forest, Guangqi Dam and other centralized work and living areas.

The first group of people who were allowed to walk alone included four electric cats, namely Pikachu, Night Claw's Thunderbolt 5, Liang Xing's assistant, and the Bite Cat from the Programming Department.

They fly around in the form of cat-headed lightning balls.

Soon people became familiar with electric cats and wanted to come into contact with these strange creatures like lightning. However, electric cats were too fast, and no one could touch them unless they wanted to.

Regarding whether to allow electric cats to move freely, Zhou Yi also sought the opinions of Pikachu and Minister of Electricity You Ai.

Pikachu's attitude was clear: "Electric cats don't like being locked up. The electric cats on Sparkling Plains grow fast and have a wide range of activities. It's not a bad thing to let them run around."

You Ai said: "Chairman, the electric cats we breed have a certain level of intelligence. Intelligent beings have a strong sense of self and hate being restrained."

"Now there is one thing that must be determined first."

“Are electric cats biological tools we have created, or are they special energy partners? This characterization will affect how we treat them.”

"If it is just a biological tool, then there is no need to give it freedom. It should even be locked in a cat house for a long time. Tools do not need to think independently, they just need to complete their functions. If the tool is unqualified or abnormal, it will be destroyed directly."

“But if we treat them as working partners, we must give them basic recognition and respect. As their intelligence improves, they will know what we are doing and what they are doing, and will have a lot of independent ideas. It will be much more difficult to manage, but there will also be higher growth potential.”

The problem with robots is acute.

Zhou Yi said without hesitation: "The cats are employees of the company, there is no doubt about that. They have their own ideas, and we also need them to have their own ideas."

"Okay, Chairman."

The Minister of Electricity added: "According to your definition, they should be allowed to move around autonomously. This is good for the growth of the cats and for them to become familiar with our environment, recognize and mark every resident and employee."

So there are four electric cats wandering around.

Zhou Yi's focus was on the sky.

Now whenever he has free time he looks up at the sky.

A special glider is suspended in the sky above Yalong Bay.

Its wings have been modified into a more stable disc shape, like a small flying saucer.

Its cabin is equipped with a floating heart generator, with multiple sets of generators running alternately to provide continuous power and prevent the motor from being damaged by overheating.

In addition, an electromagnetic induction coil is installed as a transit station for electric cats.

It would be more accurate to call it an aerial charging station.

Such flying saucers hover at different altitudes.

Surrounding them are metal electromagnetic induction coils that have been sprayed black by flying silk.

They are ring-shaped and look like a string of black smoke rings rising from the ground and expanding into the sky.

These can ensure that the electric cat has a larger high-altitude activity radius.

In the black smoke rings in the sky, you can now see the electric cats flashing continuously.

In addition to Yalong Bay, there are similar high-altitude structures in Shagang, but they are built above a mountain to avoid residential areas below to prevent the risk of falling objects.

Although this technical method looks crude, it is simple and effective.

Electric cats can use these high-altitude pedals to shuttle around under electromagnetic induction, traveling between the sky and underground of Shagang.

Lord Sha Hai visited Zhou Yi several times specifically for this purpose.

It basically all revolves around one question.

"Give me more electric cats, Mr. Zhou, I'll do anything!"

"Really, I'll do whatever you tell me to do!"

The sea lord, who looked like a big seal, had a look of longing on his face.

"..."

Zhou Yi was a little confused.

Although Lord Shahai had always been humble before, he had never been so humble.

Even when threatened with annihilation, it still maintained its basic dignity.

Is this awkward?
"Hasn't one been assigned to you?"

"We need to develop rapidly in Shagang, but we cannot do without electric cats!"

"What do you need so many electric cats for?"

"They are natural warriors, Class B and Class A, with unlimited future. Raise them sooner and enjoy the benefits sooner! They are as powerful as lightning and as swift as the wind!" It gestured with its claws.

"Speak the key."

"..." Lord Sha Hai then stammered, "That is... strengthening."

"strengthen?"

Zhou Yi frowned, realizing that things were not simple.

"I won't hide it from you."

Lord Sha Hai gave a flattering smile: "My ability is rather niche and can only be used in some very special circumstances."

"Put the chicken bones into the Dead Sea. After being irradiated and affected by the deadly rays, they will mutate into some bone fish fry under my ability."

"My ability [Catalysis] has a certain probability of causing alienation reactions in life, allowing more fry to survive. However, it only works in the Dead Sea and is highly related to the energy of the Dead Sea. Therefore, only species in the Dead Sea can be catalyzed."

"This ability will cause extreme physical pain to the person being catalyzed, so it could only be used to create fish fry in the past. If used on other life forms, even bone fish, they would immediately flee and go crazy, or even self-mutilate and die. The strong ones would directly attack me... The application is very limited."

It whispered, "But I found that electric cats don't feel pain. So when they are catalyzed by me, they don't have any discomfort at all."

"Then I catalyzed the electric cat you assigned to me, Thunderbolt 19. I named it "Shalihuo", you see."

Lord Sha Hai took out the electric ball and pressed it.

An arc of electricity burst out from inside.

Zhou Yi immediately discovered that there was something wrong with the electric cat.

From the [Alert] perspective, the electric cat is emitting colorful light all over its body, and it is still A-level just like when it was given to Lord Sha Hai.

But Sharihuo's form was not the cat-head electric ball as before, but it turned into a ring lightning with two layers, inner and outer, with dense electric arcs on the edge constantly expanding and contracting.

It looked like a lightning eye, with a twisted dark mass in the middle of the ring, and the inner circle was moving slowly, as if it was looking around with its eyes.

Zhou Yi felt that this thing was much more dangerous than the original electric cat.

Sha Haigong touched the edge of the lightning with his claws, and then the Eye of Lightning flew behind it, like some kind of holy light appearing on its back.

"Chairman, this is the "Sha Li Huo" after my catalysis. Everything else is normal. I tried it with a modem transcoder and the conversation was still very smooth."

"It only knows that it has undergone an alienation reaction and has become like this."

"But the abilities of this form of electric cat have changed."

"Look."

Lord Sha Hai pulled out a breech-loading knight's musket from his waist, opened the chamber, loaded a bullet into it, and then skillfully aimed it at the ring-shaped electric cat behind him.

Pull the trigger.

Bang!
There was a flash of fire from the muzzle of the gun.

In the smoke, bullets shot into rings of lightning.

Then the bullet was nailed in the inner circle of darkness, as if it had solidified. The lead bullet began to slowly rotate along the inner circle of lightning and decomposed rapidly.

Zhou Yi's eyes fixed on it: "A movement that can change energy?"

“It can’t be done to that extent.”

Sha Haigong said proudly: "This is a kind of ability that can absorb and stick the impact energy with the electric cat itself, and can radiate and decompose the force in all directions by heating the edges."

"As long as there is enough electricity, it can expand itself to a very large size... It's like a huge capture net that can dissolve all kinds of external attacks and artillery fire!"

"Is this worth it for you to give me two more cats?"

Zhou Yi was stunned.

I never expected that Lord Sha Hai was actually a natural cat-raising saint!

Zhou Yi immediately asked the witch hunter to conduct the test.

The witch hunter fired continuously at the circular structure of Sharihuo.

Each bullet is stuck to the inner ring, and the projectile rotates around the inner ring, as if there is a special gravity that fixes it in orbit.

It's just that the arc flashes around became stronger, the temperature around rose significantly, and created circles of heat waves.

Also useful for A-level attacks!

Zhou Yi brought it to Yalong Bay to increase its strength, and opened fire with [Life Shot] while holding the Witch Hunter.

This time he spent 10 light seeds, which was enough to deal 100 million levels of damage.

This is also the attack limit of curling - or atmospheric creatures.

The bullet hit the ring lightning.

This time no capture was made.

However, the bullet carrying the [Fatal Strike] was transformed into an outward-bursting energy shock by the high-speed rotation of the Sharihuo, and condensed into a dazzling beam of light that rose straight into the air!
Even damage of millions cannot penetrate the circular defense of the mutated electric cat and will be almost refracted and bounced away.

This is simply the absolute defense under the light core body!

Zhou Yi looked at Lord Sha Hai and said, "I'll give you 20 electric cats. Raise them well! Train them all into mutant electric cats! I'll give you 3 of them!"

"Okay!"

Lord Sha Hai was delighted when he heard this: "Just look at my abilities!"

(End of this chapter)