Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 388 The Mystery of Building Life and Excrement
As a new Skywalker who was visiting the Great Holy Spirit Surfing for the first time, Zhou Yi felt both nervous and excited.

"What do I do now?"

Reisuke said, "Here are the nodes you can access."

An electronic image appeared in Zhou Yi's mind, with many glowing spots on it.

What surprised him was that this map only had the Development League and a few surrounding areas, and the accessible areas were very limited.

The Kingdom of Heaven in the north is in a state of fog, and the Mechatronic City area to the west is completely inaccessible.

Zhou Yi was puzzled: "Why can we only visit such a small area? Why can't we go to other places?"

"I'm sorry, because your consciousness is only strongly connected to this area. Although it is accessed through the Great Holy Spirit, your own consciousness is equally important. If the connection is too low, or the consciousness cannot affect certain areas, it will be difficult to access."

Reisuke told him, "For restricted access areas, please come back to explore later."

"..."

Zhou Yi was helpless.

However, originally the consciousness side and the material side are two sides of the same coin and influence each other.

The Kingdom of Heaven expands its territory to maintain its dominance, and conceptual life forms such as the Night God expand their influence and spread. They take two different forms, but ultimately end up in the same place.

The battle for the realm of consciousness is also very important.

Zhou Yi turned his attention back to the areas he could access.

To the southeast of the Shagang area, there is a public node that emits green light indicating the operating status.

It’s you.

After Zhou Yi made his choice, the surrounding environment suddenly changed.

He came to a mountain.

The mountain is made up of black and white stones. A large number of stones and fragments are piled up like dumped abandoned building materials to form this huge mountain.

There is no water, no blue sky and white clouds, only this mountain that looks like ruins.

The border is covered by gray fog, and the line of sight cannot extend further.

Zhou Yi saw that there were many dark figures from Conan standing here, but their bodies were blurry.

He asked Reisuke, "What is that?"

“Visitors like you. In public nodes, visitors are anonymous and hidden, so they cannot identify each other, which makes it easier for everyone to move around.”

4399 said: "Time is precious, don't you want to mine?"

"Mining?"

"It is to obtain the required fragments of consciousness from the nodes. Visitors who come here are all here for this purpose."

"How to dig?"

Zhou Yi looked around and saw the dark shadows standing there, motionless.

This is how I look in their eyes.

"With my hands, of course."

“If you need tools to improve your efficiency, we have those, too.”

A price list appeared in front of Zhou Yi.

[Pickaxe 33/33]: Mine hard blocks of consciousness.

【Shovel 25/25】: Digging.

The number after the tool represents its durability, that is, how many times it can be used.

Both of these things are very expensive.

The price of a pickaxe is 3300 light seeds, and the price of a shovel is 2500 light seeds, and the prices are linked to their durability.

One wave gives 100 light seeds.

Zhou Yixin said that the cost of mining for Skywalker was too high.

He planned to try what it felt like to use his hands first.

Zhou Yi began to clear the black and white stones under his feet. He found that these were fragments of the consciousness key, but for some reason, they were extremely heavy and it was very difficult to lift and move them.

It was all collected manually, and after searching for a long time, he didn't find anything useful.

The spiritual guide said: "There are valuable fragments of consciousness here. If you touch them, there will be a strong reaction. As long as you take them apart, you can get the information inside."

"But only fragments related to your consciousness will react this way."

“If it’s something you’ve never come into contact with, even if it’s of great value, you won’t be able to sense it.”

Zhou Yi flipped through it for a long time.

He asked Lingjie to tell him the time.

After more than half an hour of work, moving more than a dozen consciousness keys and searching through handfuls of fragments, I found nothing.

Zhou Yi gritted his teeth and said, "Give me a pickaxe and a shovel."

"Ok."

Reisuke said, "We will settle the bill after the end. Just drop the light seed into any entrance. Of course, if you forget or refuse to pay, you will not be able to visit the Great Holy Spirit again."

The two tools are slender in shape, with black and white stripes like zebras, and they feel heavy in the hands.

Although the price is expensive, it is really useful.

Zhou Yi easily shoveled out a large amount of debris with one shovel. After three shovels, he found a glowing spot inside.

He picked up the glowing fragment and read a message from it.

[Gerbils have a special habit that is rarely known. They are born with a desire to mate with other species. This tendency is more likely to break out on a large scale when the number of individuals in the group is larger. The fewer gerbils there are, the easier it is to suppress the tendency. This is the result of my experiment.]

Is this a gerbil's sexual fetish?

Zhou Yi was a little confused. Although the gerbil was indeed related to him, this information was indeed a bit unpopular and useless.

I don't know who is researching this direction.

He shoveled a few more times and dug a hole.

But it was blocked by two cylindrical white consciousness keys below.

Zhou Yi swung the pickaxe, and after 4 or 5 swings he broke it into pieces.

He removed four consciousness keys in succession and saw a glowing object.

He picked it up and read it.

There is a lot of information this time.

[Did you know? Aliens also excrete, or metabolize and strip off some residues. Their residues and excrement will form a condensed form that is almost like stones and be buried deep underground by them.]

[These feces have been transformed and have radioactive radiation. They need to be dug out and buried somewhere else. Otherwise, if they accumulate, they will cause discomfort, illness, or even death to other nearby creatures.]

[However, these feces themselves are also very valuable research objects. They release energy in a way that is almost like decay. If this energy can be used, there may be new discoveries. Unfortunately, I have too few samples here, and I don’t have much time left, so I can’t conduct more in-depth exploration. What a pity.]

Zhou Yi was stunned.

Architectural life actually shits.

He still doesn't know anything about this.

The alien employees never mentioned it either.

But...even if there is excretion, they won't say, Chairman, I pooped today and it feels good.

However, this stone feces can actually decay and release a large amount of energy, so it can be further developed.

It is necessary just to collect it and prevent the radiation from affecting the surrounding residents.

Got a very useful piece of information.

Zhou Yi's enthusiasm for mining suddenly increased.

But for the next hour he found nothing. No matter how he dug the gravel with a shovel or broke up the hard blocks of consciousness with a pickaxe, he did not find any more glowing objects.

Perhaps the benefits for newbies end here.

The shovel and pickaxe were all used up.

After roughly understanding the situation, Zhou Yi temporarily ended his visit to the Great Holy Spirit.

……

When he opened his eyes again, Zhou Yi found himself still standing there.

Only 1 second had passed.

He first took out the light box, took out 5800 light seeds and stuffed them into the entrance of the patch version.

Zhou Yi immediately asked Emerald City about the problem of feces.

"Yes, Commissioner, there is excrement."

"They have a special type of radiant energy."

The Emerald City replied, "We usually bury it deep underground, away from surface life to avoid harm to other life."

“So please rest assured that there will be no harm to the company’s employees and nearby residents.”

Zhou Yi asked Shi Gandang again if he knew about this.

"knew."

The electromechanical expert who worked with Emerald City said, "We have recorded this in the past when we were experimenting in Heaven. The feces have strong radiation and are the product of the aliens' constant adjustment and continuous reorganization. It is not accurate to call them feces."

"More like a shedding."

"Their molting is different from flesh and blood life."

Shi Gandang said: "There are a large number of consciousnesses inside the alien. As time goes by, some of the consciousnesses will become abnormal, out of control or chaotic, affecting the entire alien body."

"So this part of the consciousness and the naturally decaying fragments of consciousness will be isolated and squeezed out by the aliens, and then carried and sealed with highly compressed matter and energy, and then separated from the body. It can be regarded as a process of self-detoxification and treatment."

"So the reason why it radiates outward is because there is a chaotic consciousness sealed inside, and the energy level itself is very high, which poses a high risk."

It turned out to be the case.

Zhou Yi was somewhat speechless: "Emerald City, how come you don't understand yourself as well as Shi Gan Dang?"

The alien employee said: "Commissioner, I am still learning. There is no end to learning and there is a lot to learn. I will try my best to understand myself like Shi Gan Dang."

"..."

Considering that architectural life itself cannot communicate with the outside world, knowledge accumulation and cognitive improvement both require a process.

That's it.

Shi Gandang added: "Chairman, this chaotic stone exfoliation itself is a dangerous substance. Just leaving it there will produce strong radiation. It cannot be used."

“Because our development and understanding of consciousness is so basic, electromechanical life has been slow to make progress in this area.”

"But as you said, some people have tried to push it in the direction of energy. In principle, it is possible."

"Although our current devices and equipment cannot make matter decay. But they can in Emerald City."

"By centralizing the management of the stone shedding, we can convert the heat they generate into electricity, which can save a lot of costs. This can be done, and because the energy level of the stone shedding is very high, it can be used continuously for many years."

Zhou Yi was overjoyed to hear this.

He immediately ordered.

"Emerald City, dig out the stone slough! Let me see it!"

"Yes, Commissioner."

(End of this chapter)