Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 46 There is really a mine at home
Emerald City officially announced: "30% of the energy has been charged to support large-scale reconstruction."

A new stage in the life of a building has begun.

Zhou Yi didn't feel any changes in the room, just continuous tremors and noises, just like when he lived in an elevator building in the past, he always heard drilling and thudding sounds for no apparent reason.

But he could clearly see through Kestrel's perspective that the Emerald City was undergoing a surgical self-transformation.

The square structure on the far left of the 30th floor was neatly cut and slowly squeezed out, then captured by a steel arm and placed steadily in the material area next to it (that is, the place where Zhou Yi piled concrete bricks and other building materials).

Then the steel arm grabbed a gray-brown newly built house structure on the ground and inserted it into the gap just left. It also separated densely packed metal fingers to reinforce and correct the connection gap, aligning and connecting the contact surfaces of the two. The whole process flashed a bright white light like welding.

Finally, they achieved complete fusion, fitting together so seamlessly that they seemed to have been one.

Through this process of extracting and replacing building blocks, the Emerald City is repairing its own body.

Some houses were severely damaged, so Emerald City simply crushed them into slag and dumped them in the material area. The gaps were filled with steel bars as the skeleton, and then the muscles of concrete and broken bricks began to grow along the steel bars to complete the repair and covering.

Emerald City explained: "Cutting and replacing consumes less material and energy, and only specific structures can be directly replaced."

“Partial remodeling consumes a lot of energy, but the advantage is that the fit is better.”

“Commissioner, does your house also need to be rebuilt?”

Zhou Yi was alert: "Are there any reconstruction and repair costs?"

"Only 100 light seeds are needed."

"Need not."

"pity."

Zhou Yi's wallet has been tight lately.

He would not waste his light seeds on such things.

As long as the house is liveable, it's fine.

There is no need to waste money on replacing a new house at this stage.

What Zhou Yi was concerned about was that Emerald City actually showed a rare bit of self-emotion. It felt sorry for itself for not wanting to change and renovate the new house, which was obviously more lively than the cold and icy floor manager-like expression before.

I don’t know if it’s because of the energy recovery.

Zhou Yi got down to business: "Can you still sense the energy pool in the mushroom forest?"

"can."

The Emerald City defies precise and detailed description.

The Red Falcon found the answer based on the characteristics and structure of the natural environment.

The drone said: "It had encountered a 'dead light deposit', a rare natural resource worth a fortune."

"The death ray will penetrate the geological layers of this world and react with the minerals and water underground to form sediments. The sediments are connected together by the death ray, and after a long period of evolution and accumulation, they become a sedimentary belt buried deep underground."

"The sedimentary belt can be seen as another form of micro-death light gathering place. Unlike the Dead Sea, the sedimentary belt is very stable due to the adsorption of strata, and there is almost no catastrophic phenomenon such as rapids and light explosions."

Zhou Yi thought.

This dead light sedimentary zone can be understood as dead light oil or coal.

It is a mineable solid or liquid dead light ore.

He asked again: "How to collect and purify it?"

Emerald City has directly absorbed the death light in the sedimentary belt. Personal experience shows that there are too many impurities and the absorption efficiency is low. After inhalation, it will also cause confusion and confusion, which is toxic in the energy.

If it cannot be purified, it will cause addiction and severe side effects, not to mention ordinary light nano seeds.

Hong Shun responded: "The dead light deposit zone requires professional excavation, collection and refining equipment, and eventually it will be converted into energy packs for use by electromechanical life or optical printing devices."

"Recursion City is supported by the service industry and does not involve construction and mining. If necessary, I can contact another electromechanical city, Energy Storage City, which is engaged in energy technology, related collection and manufacturing services."

"If the construction is handed over to the energy storage city, whether we directly lease the sedimentary belt to them to collect rent, or entrust them to make energy packages and sell them, we can create huge wealth."

The Red Falcon's attitude is clear.

A small workshop can’t handle this, it needs professionals to come in.

“I have never heard of life being able to directly transform sedimentary belts.”

Drone was skeptical: "This needs to be verified."

……

Zhou Yi rode the warrior crab all the way to the mushroom forest.

The reclamation of the farmland nearby has begun to show results. The soil has been turned soft and flat, and small ditches have been dug beside the fields to connect with the river water in the oasis belt for easy irrigation.

Tender green seedlings have been planted on the cultivated ridges.

Two sprinklers were extended from the iron horse body, watering the soil. The bronze bull was moving slowly along the edge of the field, inserting a device that looked like a carbon rod or an iron rod into the soil, checking something.

They were so engrossed in their work that Zhou Yi did not bother them. When they arrived outside the mushroom forest, two black hand mushrooms came over and stood up straight: "Hello, Chairman!"

"How are you guys?" Zhou Yi asked.

“Everything is fine in Mushroom Forest.”

Then the two mushroom men started talking to each other.

"You are so strong! We saw that there were monsters causing trouble in the Dead Sea, and you blew them to pieces with your rain of fire! Everyone climbed up the giant mushroom to see it. What an exciting battle!"

"Someone actually dared to challenge you. It's simply courting death."

"Chairman, we are watching, but we are not lazy. We are all working hard to grow mushrooms!"

"Yes, yes, yes! We planted a lot of mushrooms. The lord said it's enough to feed the two people in the town of Shangu."

……

The black mushrooms were still talkative and energetic, chattering away non-stop, and considering their short stature and lifespan, they really were like a group of half-grown children.

Zhou Yi listened patiently.

Soon, the skeleton Sun Chonglai, wearing a red scarf, came jogging over.

"Chairman."

It also stands straight as if in a military posture.

This seems to be some kind of etiquette in the mushroom forest.

Zhou Yi asked Sun Chonglai about the sedimentary zone and the stone mushroom.

"This is the first time I've heard of what you said."

The skeleton thought for a while and said, "But this land is indeed different from the surrounding areas. The mushrooms in the central area grow very fast, while those in the periphery grow much slower. The black hand mushrooms are also born in the central area and rarely awaken from the edge. It seems to be directly related to the underground death ray deposits."

"Stone sac mushrooms are indeed very nutritious... but they can only temporarily increase energy and physical strength, causing a short-term excitement, but not directly increase energy. I can guarantee this."

Not a mushroom?
Zhou Yi suddenly thought of mushrooms that looked like soil...

Emerald City is talking about exploding mushrooms!
"Exploding mushroom? It does have concentrated, high-intensity energy. Unlike the normal method of stone mushrooms, its energy will continue to concentrate and further compress until it is triggered and explodes."

Sun Chonglai's voice was somewhat puzzled: "But the energy inside it cannot be directly extracted. The best we can do is cut it out of the ground and use it as a defense line for the mushroom forest."

Zhou Yi started the experiment immediately.

He asked Black Hand Mushroom to bring a few explosive mushrooms to the bottom of the company building, and Emerald City tried to test them.

Like a mushroom with a flat piece of soil stuck to a tall building, the Emerald City easily extracted it and turned it into a light seed and put it into Zhou Yi's light box.

Then came the second experiment, and the result was the same: light seeds were obtained.

The third time, the fourth time...

A large number of experiments have proved that the output of explosive mushrooms is very stable. Depending on the size of each flower, Emerald City can extract 1 to 3 light seeds.

After being extracted, the explosive mushroom becomes shriveled and wrinkled, like a piece of dehydrated moss.

After the Skeleton Man recovered them, he made a further discovery.

“They turned into carpet fungus!”

Sun Chonglai gestured with his long, thin arms excitedly: "Chairman, I understand. I understand everything."

“The basis of the mushroom forest is the carpet fungus, which has two branches.”

"The first branch is to become a stone capsule mushroom. Then it will either connect to the ground and absorb the underground sediment belt to become an explosive mushroom, or continue to grow upwards and absorb the death light in the outside air. In the end, there is a small chance that it will evolve into a death angel."

"The second branch is to evolve into black hand mushrooms, gaining a wider range of activities and further expanding the radiation and growth range of the entire group."

The Skeleton Man said excitedly, "I never understood why the Black Hand Mushroom could safely remove the Exploding Mushroom from the ground. If it were any other life or person, they wouldn't be able to do it no matter how careful they were. It turns out that they are actually from the same family!"

Zhou Yi also suddenly understood.

Carpet fungi are the heart of the mushroom forest.

Now that we have figured out the lineage and growth requirements of the explosive mushroom, the next step is to cultivate and plant it in large quantities.

"It's not difficult to cultivate explosive mushrooms. As long as there is water in the central area, they will grow quickly. It only takes 10 days from the appearance of the mushroom buds to the initial maturity, but it takes a total of 1 month to grow further to the stage where they can be transplanted. To grow to a larger and complete body, it will take another 1 to 3 months, and the longest is 4 months."

The skeleton pointed to the mushroom forest behind him and said, "However, only the central area can produce explosive mushrooms. Each of them needs a certain amount of independent ground space, otherwise they can't grow together. So we transplant the grown explosive mushrooms to the periphery for defense."

"The surface of the central area can support the growth of about 5000 explosive mushrooms at a time."

Zhou Yi was overjoyed when he heard this.

Even at the lowest calculation, 5000 light seeds can be harvested from the mushroom forest every month. As long as the dead light deposition belt has not been exhausted, there will be continuous profit!

Now there is really a mine at home.

(End of this chapter)