Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 520: Fire Picker

Zhou Yi tries to talk to the White King in his mind.

"What is a Fire Picker?"

"...Fire Picker...Is the sun of this world also going to be destroyed..."

It just repeats this sentence.

The second half does not sound like an answer, but more like a thought or a sigh.

Zhou Yi endured the discomfort of having his five senses separated and dislocated, and asked his husband about the detailed origins of King Bai.

"Fire Picker? I haven't heard of this name."

"The White King is a remnant I found in a destroyed world, just like what you see now. There is a sharp angular structure on the top, like a crown, and it is all white, so I call it the White King."

Xiaofu said: "At that time, it was severely damaged and only one of its three arms was still usable, but it was still building a special kind of stone tower. Those stone towers were scattered all over the surface of that world. They were highly similar to the White King, made of the same white material and with a crown on top, but they could not move."

Zhou Yi asked: "Are both it and those stone towers made of amber material?"

Wherever the upstreamers go, there must be circular current impacts, and what is easy to obtain and has strong energy properties is amber.

Those white square stones look very similar to the amber ceramic skeleton of the wasteland armor.

"Yes."

Xiaofu continued, "At first I couldn't see the purpose of those stone towers, because they looked like replicas of the White King's, but they were missing some key structures, resulting in them being just special buildings standing in the same place. They are evenly distributed on the surface and keep a certain distance from each other, but other than that, there is no other difference."

"I named it the White King because it built watchtowers everywhere, just like guarding and patrolling the land."

"It took me a long time to find a way to transform the White King into a fire life. It is a very special life form, which is somewhat similar to the building life here."

"In each of the White King's cornerstones, there is a consciousness. These consciousnesses and cornerstones constitute the entire body. They can work together in certain circumstances. For example, when building a sentry tower, they are completely united in mind and work closely with each other."

The Stream Tracer said, "But those consciousnesses are not complete. I don't know what happened in that world, because the Great Holy Spirit was completely annihilated. Perhaps only those consciousnesses are left, so only one White King can be born, and it cannot replicate itself."

"The White King's strength is a LV4 light core body, but the energy there is too thin, plus it is constantly consumed. When I encountered it, it had already fallen to the level of an A-level Skywalker. In addition, most of those simple consciousness bodies did not respond to my transformation. I could only use the circular flow device to test them one by one to confirm that they did not object to avoid problems during the transformation."

"Even so, it still took a very long time. About two hundred years to complete the transformation of the White King there."

“That’s when I knew.”

"It builds sentry towers to measure and search the sun."

"There is no sun in that world anymore."

Zhou Yi's five senses had become extremely confused at this time. He saw a buzzing sound, heard colorful sounds... his whole body felt distorted and his perceptions were mixed up.

He tried hard to suppress this strong feeling of discomfort: "Why is there no sun over there? Without the sun, can the circular flow still exist?"

"It's in the ebb tide period over there. If you think of the Circular Current as a kind of ebb and flow, then when it erupts it's a high tide, and then the Circular Current will cover the entire world, forming a stable connection with the source of the transmission, the sun. But if the sun itself disappears or is destroyed, then the Circular Current will enter a period of evaporation, with less and less energy, and gradually dissipate."

"The entire world will lose its external energy supply and gradually fall into complete silence and coldness."

“It’s like that over there.”

Xiaofu said: "So when I first entered, I was shocked. In places where the tide is low, people who go upstream usually leave quickly. But for various reasons, it was not easy for me to open that space channel. It was previously blocked very tightly, so I think there must be something special or a force there."

"In the White King's world, it is the only one that still exists. The local civilization seems to have disappeared for many years. The White King carried the last mission of this civilization, to find the nearest sun and then look for a passage to that side... Unfortunately, he never found it."

Xiaofu paused.

"Later, I transformed it into a fire life and took it with me on my travels. Only then did the White King slowly recover."

"Wait a moment."

Zhou Yi asked: "Isn't King Bai a light core body? How come he has reached the level of a transmuter now?"

"Because of the fire-shaping platform."

Xiaofu said: "The fire-shaping platform has a great effect on its life force, or in other words, it has a great effect on the life force of any fire species."

"Something's wrong...something's wrong..."

"It stands to reason that after so long, the fire-shaping platform should have been lit... What on earth is going on?"

The upstreamer suddenly murmured.

Zhou Yi also managed to contact Cat God with great difficulty.

There came a response from the other side.

"Chairman, the situation here is very strange. I have been trying to light the fire, but it seems to be suppressed by some force, so it cannot be completely ignited."

“I’ll keep trying!”

Suneo snapped back to his senses: "It's the White King! This guy! Damn it! It's refusing us to take back the fire-shaping platform!"

This was the first time Zhou Yi heard it swear.

"It's over, it's over..."

"Retreat, Da Zhou, retreat first!"

"This guy is not right now!"

Zhou Yi advised, "Don't worry, it has no ill will towards me. Otherwise, it is a transmuter, and I can't escape even if I want to."

He had a vague feeling that it wasn't the White King who was interfering.

The behavior displayed by the White King has a strong sense of incompleteness.

If it is a kind of life, it is a person with serious memory and intellectual disabilities. Only in its own field of research and construction does it maintain a strong degree of autonomy and work flow.

"Are there any other fire-generating lives on the Fire Shaping Platform?"

"No."

Xiaofu said firmly: "Because after the Fire Seed Civilization that I hatched and nurtured defected, I became very cautious. Also because of the White King's incomplete and stable characteristics, he was the one guarding the Fire Shaping Platform."

"The Spark Civilization defected?"

Zhou Yi was surprised: "Is there such a thing?"

"We'll talk about that later when we have time. Now let's just get through this first."

Xiaofu gradually calmed down at this time: "Da Zhou, you are right, it should not be the White King, it is not that smart, I have to think about what went wrong..."

Zhou Yi turned his attention back to King White.

At this time, this strange life wearing a huge crown has restored his five senses.

Instead, it began to study Zhou Yi's hair.

The White King plucked out his hair with follicles in clumps and sucked them into a roller device, where the hair was broken into tiny specks of dust that spun around inside the device.

Xiaofu said that the device is called the Speed Grinder, which can analyze the composition of substances by grinding them.

The White King continued to pull out his hair and grind it.

Zhou Yi was really a little panicked at this time.

If you keep going like this, you’ll become a bald man!

I'll accept it if you punch me twice, or if you suck my energy dry, that's fine, but I can't tolerate turning me into a bald head!
He tried his best to activate the synchronization of consciousness.

"White King, I am the Fire Picker, stop, I command you to stop!"

"..."

"I am the Fire Picker. Do you understand?"

"..."

The White King said nothing, but just pulled her hair.

I'm fucked!

Zhou Yi was really anxious.

He thought of a clever idea and shouted: "I will take you to find the sun. I will help you find the sun. The sun is right here."

The rotating drum equipment came to an abrupt stop at this moment.

On the White King’s huge crown, five eyes focused on Zhou Yi.

"Fire Picker..."

"The sun, the sun..."

Sure enough, there was a reaction!
The key word in Zhou Yi’s mind is definitely the sun. This guy is extremely craving for the sun.

"sun."

"The sun exists."

Zhou Yi continued to try new trigger words: "Build a sentinel tower, and I will guide the sun for you."

"The sun, the sun..."

But soon, the White King returned to his dull and mechanical formulaic response.

Zhou Yi felt there was no hope, and in a hurry he said, "Bai Suanni, do you know?"

The white king's eyes glowed red.

"White Suanni, White Suanni!"

"White Suanni!"

"The White Suanni that took away the sun!!!"

"The one who picks up the fire! The White Suanni!"

For a moment, it seemed to be crazy, with flames burning all over its body.

Zhou Yi was stunned.

Is Bai Suanni your real name?
No.

What happens if the sun is picked up?
"Fire Picker!!!"

The five pupils of King Bai stared at Zhou Yi, making him feel a little creepy for a moment.

Could it be that it has some grudge against Bai Suanni... or that the destruction of the world has something to do with Bai Suanni...

"Reshaping the Sun."

"Reshape the sun, pick up the fire!"

The White King said, "Please, reshape the sun."

Zhou Yi was stunned.

"I, reshape the sun?"

"please."

what.

The situation seems to be turning around.

"Fire-shaping platform."

Zhou Yi tried to say: "Help me light the fire-shaping platform, and I will help you reshape the sun."

"please."

It still replied in the same way, but I don’t know if it understood what I meant.

The White King's body deformed and returned to its original tower shape, with its three arms retracted into its body. A beam of light shot up from its body, and the entire stone platform was instantly filled with starlight.

The Cat God suddenly said, "Chairman, it's lit! It's lit! The circular structure on the fire-shaping platform has finally stabilized! I have entered it and activated the complex structures inside!"

at the same time.

Zhou Yi saw that the circular ash cloud above his head had turned into a huge fire ring. At this moment, the bright flames were burning fiercely and slowly rotating, which was completely different from the previous decayed and dilapidated appearance.

King Bai just looked at Zhou Yi.

"please."

"Reshaping the Sun."

Zhou Yi knew that King Bai had put a lot of effort into solving the problem of the fire-making platform not being able to be ignited.

He also responded seriously: "I will reshape the sun."

Although it doesn't know what happened in the world where the White King lives, it believes that it can do it, so it will try its best.

(End of this chapter)