Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 59 Under the Dunes
It was snowing heavily outside the window and the cold wind was howling.

The interior remains bright and warm.

Zhou Yi sat on the soft leather sofa and turned to the latest page of his notebook.

——Establish a base camp and reclaim the nearby area (crossed out).

——Find rice and wheat and plant them to achieve self-sufficiency in rice and noodles.

The first point has been basically achieved.

The second step still needs to be carried out step by step. Currently, sweet potatoes and peanuts are being planted first, and it is in progress.

He marked the new target on the bottom line with a felt-tip marker.

——Strategy on Snake Island Hospital.

But this has to be done step by step.

Winter in the wasteland is a turbulent season. After Zhou Yi came ashore, he didn’t know enough about the land, so he currently focused on defense and observation.

The focus of this period will be the assessment of young spine hunters.

Zhou Yi had a brief chat with Lie Hai and also asked about its mother's situation.

It said: "Perhaps he has gone to explore or conquer other worlds."

However, this is what the hunter was thinking.

——０×, I can’t tell anyone about my mom. If it knew that my mom was dead, it probably wouldn’t take me in.

Zhou Yi just told the other party: "You have to tell the truth to me."

"I love telling the truth."

"How did your mother die?"

Lie Hai was stunned.

It immediately became dejected: "So you, Chairman, already knew..."

"Mom was eaten."

"Two years ago, my mom took me hunting in the Dead Sea in the east in the winter. Usually we would go into the middle and lower layers of the sea, where the chinchillas hunt, but for some reason that day, a big hole appeared in the sea."

"That hole seemed to appear out of nowhere in the Dead Sea. It was like it tore the space apart. Looking from above or below, all you could see was a black hole."

"Mom seemed to know that person and told me to run immediately."

"A huge black monster came out of the cave and came straight towards us. I was so scared that I ran away as fast as I could. I ran very far away... When I came to my senses, I couldn't find my mother anymore."

"I waited for a long time, but my mother didn't come to find me, so I went back to the cave."

"The hole is still there, but I can no longer feel my mother's scent."

"Only in the fog of the nearby Dead Sea did I find some broken bones and blood of my mother... She was eaten."

"I was trash, I didn't fight, I ran."

The light of the Ridgehunter was dim.

Zhou Yi judged from its inner thoughts that it was telling the truth this time.

In the Dead Sea, even the B-level creature, the Ridgehunter, will become food for other monsters.

Zhou Yixin said, "Hongshun, check what's in that hole."

In fact, he had encountered similar things.

There was also a dark hole under an overpass outside an uninhabited area. But unlike what Liehai and the others encountered, that hole was calm and nothing came out of it.

After a few seconds.

"According to the description of the spine hunter, that should be the 'dark zone' of the Dead Sea. A special high-energy space is formed when the death light is highly condensed. These spaces will use the death light as a medium to connect to other high-energy areas, and then use light as a medium to complete mutual projection..."

The drone gave a detailed description.

Zhou Yi omitted those difficult and lengthy nouns and summarized them.

The other side of the Dark Domain is connected to other worlds. Only those with Class A mechanical strength can safely pass through the Dark Domain and explore the projection of the other side. It can be said that walking in the Dark Domain is the exclusive privilege of Skywalkers.

Similarly, powerful life forms from another world will also be projected here through the dark domain.

However, there are differences between these dark areas.

Advanced dark domains only exist in high-density dead light areas. They have stable projections and a large coverage area, and are also commonly used by powerful life forms.

The dead light density in the seabed area is lower, and the one under the viaduct belongs to a low-level dark area. It is less chosen due to its instability and narrow projection range.

After listening to this, the Spine Hunter was silent for a while.

"Dark Realm...Skywalker..."

"I probably will never be able to reach that level in my lifetime, and I will never be able to avenge my mother. I don't even know what kind of monster is responsible for this in the other world..."

Zhou Yi just said: "Just live well now, it may not be impossible in the future."

Lie Hai suddenly asked: "Chairman, aren't the Dead Sea aliens unable to communicate? Why can you talk to me and humans? Are you a special species among them?"

"First of all, I'm not the Dead Sea Alien." Zhou Yi corrected: "I am me, Emerald City is Emerald City, and it's me who's talking to you, not it."

The Spine Hunter was suspended at a height of 31 floors, maintaining the form of a glass ball, and its two red eyes blinked.

"I understand, Chairman."

"I won't talk nonsense, don't worry."

But it thought in its heart.

——What an amazing secret! This is the secret of the Dead Sea alien!
——No wonder other colleagues said that the chairman just returned to the Emerald City...

——The Dead Sea Aliens themselves are incomplete, that is to say, the Dead Sea Aliens found on land are all incomplete bodies without brains. In their huge bodies, there is a consciousness core similar to the brain. But the bodies entered the land, but the brains were left in the Dead Sea.

——That's it! The Dead Sea Aliens are headless creatures. They need their heads to return before they can unleash their true power.

——No wonder my mother was able to talk to the chairman in the past, because her head was still there at that time. Later, the head should have returned to the Dead Sea to recharge.

Zhou Yi was a little amused and helpless about Lie Hai's groundless associations.

Although Lie Hai is timid, he has a big imagination.

To a certain extent, we are not afraid of it causing trouble because it does not have the courage to do so.

……

Zhou Yi sat on the sofa, thinking that if there were no problems this winter, he could sign a contract with Liehai for next winter and let it continue to serve as a patrol guard.

Having such a Class B creature hovering over the company's industrial zone will have a good deterrent effect on the outside world.

At this moment, a strong light suddenly appeared outside the window.

A glowing meteor was rushing towards this side.

It stopped immediately upon approaching the Emerald City.

It's sea hunting.

"Chairman, we have made a great discovery!"

A Jin on Lie Hai's back shouted excitedly: "Under the Death Dune, there are a lot of tunnels and storage rooms, like a huge tomb!"

Zhou Yi was stunned.

Is there really something under the sand dunes?

He immediately sent out Red Falcon, and together with Lie Hai and A Jin, they arrived at their excavation area.

Through the drone's high-definition camera, Zhou Yi discovered that the sand dunes were covered with large pits, with sparse shell remnants and fragments next to them.

He asked through the Kestrel: "Have you killed all the stinging antlions here?"

Lie Hai's two red eyes shrank slightly into two dots: "Ajin said that the thorny ant lions are harmful monsters that damage the environment anyway... they will destroy the arable land and hinder us from digging for underground treasures, so I will kill them and eat them. You won't blame me, right?"

That's a good thing.

The Death Dunes are considered a passage.

Zhou Yi saw that there was a special hole under the sand dune.

The cave is very deep, with a long corridor under the sand made of stacked stones, as well as small storage rooms built with stones and soil. Although the workmanship is simple and narrow, it is not difficult to see that this is only part of the underground construction.

There were a large number of chicken feathers and chicken bones in the underground fortifications, which were obviously used to drive away the spiny ant lions and avoid being attacked by these monsters.

There were a lot of branches, hay, feces and dried mushrooms stored in the storage room.

The more Zhou Yi looked, the more surprised he became.

Could there be another group of new humans living under the sand dunes?

“Keep digging.”

Zhou Yi mobilized 10 hammerhead soldiers. This group of warrior crabs were good at engineering and were very skilled in dismantling, digging and unloading drills.

With the addition of professional engineers, underground excavation became faster.

The warrior crabs used their claws to dig through the sand and snow, gradually revealing the simple buildings buried deep underground.

Just the excavated part includes 5 underground tunnels, 17 storage rooms, 2 areas covered with hay that looked like nurseries, and 1 large space like an underground meeting room. The tunnels extend all the way to the oasis.

However, the residents inside disappeared without a trace.

There are still some scattered traces left underground.

The most eye-catching thing is a small granular black substance that almost filled three of the storage rooms.

Ajin jumped in, grabbed one, smelled it, put it in his mouth to taste it, and spit it out.

He raised his head and waved at the Red Falcon: "Chairman, it's gerbil feces, that's definitely the smell. This should be an underground city built by gerbils!"

Zhou Yi felt something was wrong.

The sophisticated underground city built under the sand dunes, with special toilets, storage rooms, nurseries, and underground tunnels that extend in all directions, is a bit too complete.

Where does this rat come from?
"Red Falcon, get me the detailed information of the gerbil."

(End of this chapter)