Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi looked at the bizarre-looking puppet beside him, his gaze unwavering.

They stared at each other for a moment.

The puppet slowly turned its face forward: "To be honest, before I said that just now, I did think about it."

"Whether consuming my own body, plus all the puppets on this ship self-destructing, could inflict a fatal wound on you? If so, I could annex the entire Development Alliance area."

"But that's probably impossible."

"The aftermath would be an endless stream of trouble."

"So, that idea only appeared for a fleeting moment..."

Its wooden eyeballs rolled, observing Zhou Yi with a sidelong glance.

Zhou Yi said, "Stop talking nonsense."

"..."

The puppet was stunned for a moment: "Few dare to speak to me like that."

"I don't like it when my people are fighting desperately in front, and someone is holding them back from behind."

Zhou Yi said coldly.

He had now integrated into the wasteland order. As long as he continued to become stronger, the environment he was in, the treatment, and the opportunities he received would only get better.

If it really came to a fight, he wouldn't be afraid either.

Zhou Yi was now more focused on the battle ahead.

At this time, Yuanxiao had switched to monster form, her entire body covered in white fur, and in the center was a huge red crystal—Zhou Yi used to think it was a large eyeball, but it was actually a special semi-solid structure formed by the aggregation of all the bodily fluids in Yuanxiao's body. This allowed all the power in the body to be concentrated and released instantly; the human form was not really suitable for combat.

As "Death Transformation" unfolded, localized distortions appeared around the Death Angel.

The broad Sashimi Man also revealed its true form at this time.

Its entire body was pitch black, like a three-meter-tall human, with long arms and legs, and a pointed head, its body surface covered with dense, spiky shells. Those spines were long and thin, giving the feeling of being pierced by ten thousand arrows, like a combination of a sea urchin and a human.

Zhou Yi thought, no wonder it's called Sashimi Man.

The beast-form Yuanxiao continued to approach the Sashimi Man, as if stuck in slow motion. The Sashimi Man emitted layers of ripples around it, and this strange force field left Yuanxiao mired in a quagmire.

The white fur on the Death Angel's body gradually dried up, broke, and fell off, but new white fur grew and was born.

The blood-red crystal in its core was constantly vibrating and shaking, as if bearing tremendous pressure.

The Sashimi Man's actions were also a bit strange for approaching outsiders.

Its two hands—if they could be considered hands—were stretching upwards, but the movements were very slow.

Like swimming... or raising both hands in surrender?

Is it an illusion?

Zhou Yi frowned as he watched, and couldn't help but ask the Overturning Duke beside him, "What is the origin of the Sashimi Man?"

"Who knows."

The puppet's head turned slightly: "The most common theory about them is that they are life forms from another world."

"Because they cannot be conversed with or communicated with, and their behavior shows no purpose. They clearly possess extremely strong abilities and strength, but have no need for reproduction, no need to seize resources, and not even any desire to attack..."

"They are an invincible, incomprehensible, and indescribable life form."

Zhou Yi suggested, "Is it possible that it is a human that has undergone some kind of mutation or transformation?"

"Humans? Admittedly, its form is somewhat similar to humans, so it's called Sashimi Man. But it's merely superficial; I'm more inclined to believe that they are another kind of human life form from another world."

The Overturning Duke said, "But this time, we'll just drive it back. It seems that relying on the Death Angel alone is a bit difficult, so I'll help too."

As he spoke, his body split open from left to right, and he reached into his body and pulled out a pitchfork.

The Overturning Duke waved the pitchfork: "Go, create some trouble for the Sashimi Man."

Then several puppets ran out of the cabin, their forms looking like children. They were loaded into the ship's cannons and fired one after another, heading straight for the area where the Sashimi Man was.

Flying into the Sashimi Man's ripples, these child puppets exploded one by one, and streamers burst out of their bodies.

Although these streamers were frozen in place, they formed a strange interference with each other, causing the surrounding ripples to also show a burst of localized pulling and intermittence.

"The Sashimi Man's strength is too high, and energy blocking can only be maintained for a short time."

The Overturning Duke's tone was full of regret: "Unable to enter deeper areas."

Zhou Yi also turned on the [Radio] and adjusted it to channel 5.

Target, Sashimi Man.

The result was a complete silence.

It was as if the Sashimi Man itself had not emitted any signal.

Zhou Yi looked to the side: "Get closer."

The Overturning Duke did not answer, but the ship began to move further towards the location of the Sashimi Man, but stopped after advancing about 50 meters.

"Can't get any closer, it's too dangerous," said the Overturning Duke.

This distance was already enough.

Zhou Yi said silently in his heart: "Mike, grab the Sashimi Man."

"Yes."

A moment later.

Mike replied: "Chairman, it's empty inside, no continuous consciousness was found."

An empty shell?

Zhou Yi was stunned.

In other words, the Sashimi Man was not an intelligent life form, but a device or prop.

It could not only store items, but also had strong self-preservation capabilities, and would enter a stronger second stage after being activated once... The technology to create such a thing was definitely not wasteland technology.

Considering that the Celestial's technology tree was an assembly, they were developing various extensions based on their own gemstone structure.

Then the Sashimi Man could basically be determined to be a special container created by another civilization.

Since it was a prop.

Zhou Yi's mind suddenly became active.

Was there a way to capture it whole?

While thinking.

Zhou Yi suddenly realized that Yuanxiao was only about two meters away from the Sashimi Man.

But at such close range, she herself seemed to be facing great pain, a large amount of white fur was rapidly breaking and falling, white smoke was constantly rising from her body, and cracks and dryness appeared in the crystal.

This situation looked a bit dangerous.

He had to go on stage himself.

Zhou Yi took out the Light N納匣 he carried with him.

Light seed absorbed.

White Suanni, give me some points!

This time, he absorbed all 450,000 light seeds he brought in one breath, adding all points to his health, directly increasing his health by 4.5 million points.

Zhou Yi slowly opened his eyes: "I'm going over, wait for my signal, prepare to respond."

"Okay," the Overturning Duke nodded.

Then Zhou Yi jumped off the ship and approached the target.

After walking less than ten steps forward, he had already clearly felt the pressure.

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Life decay had already begun.

After walking another ten steps forward, the invisible repulsion had become substantive, and every step forward was extremely difficult.

Life decay further increased.

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Arriving at the cliff where the Sashimi Man was, less than twenty meters apart, but at this time, life decay had become -100 per second, and at the last ten meters, it was already -1000 per second.

In short, there were only 75 minutes left, and if he failed, all 450,000 light seeds would be wasted.

What Zhou Yi didn't expect was that Yuanxiao had fallen behind him when he was only one step away from the Sashimi Man.

What's the situation?

He grabbed the Death Angel's white fur and turned on consciousness synchronization.

Yuanxiao was shocked: "Chairman, why aren't you feeling any pressure at all?"

"Your body hasn't even been damaged by this high pressure?"

"What exactly is going on with your body..."

Zhou Yi understood immediately.

White Suanni had made a contribution.

"You retreat first, I'll handle it."

"Okay... I'm sorry, I'm too weak to help."

The Death Angel quickly retreated.

Zhou Yi focused his attention on the front.

The human-shaped sea urchin-like Sashimi Man stood quietly on the cliff, its body slowly stretching, swaying with the air currents of the Dead Sea, looking like it was doing a super slow-motion version of health exercises.

If you look closely, you can also find that the Sashimi Man's body has almost muscular contours, but it lacks reproductive organs.

The manufacturer must have deliberately made it into a humanoid form.

Zhou Yi brought his hand close to its long spines.

The whole process took ten minutes.

The moment his finger touched the spines, Zhou Yi turned on consciousness synchronization.

However, just like Mike's judgment, this communication sank into the sea, and it was indeed empty inside.

Zhou Yi suddenly realized a problem.

The Sea God was not there, and there was no way to do fire seed life transformation.

But to send the Sea God to such a close distance, I'm afraid that this kind of repulsion alone would be enough to destroy and shatter it.

The more realistic question was, how to get the treasure from the Sashimi Man.

Zhou Yi fell into deep thought.

The manufacturer must have considered this point, there should be some mechanism, is it to directly break it open? Really like dismantling a sea urchin?

Just as he was thinking about whether to give this humanoid prop two punches, the Sashimi Man suddenly split open vertically from the middle, as if it had opened its chest and abdomen.

Inside was a ball of light.

It seemed that as long as you touched it, you were qualified to take the treasure.

Zhou Yi tried to put his right hand into the ball of light.

He felt like he had grabbed something, and his hand was immediately squeezed out.

He took a closer look.

In his hand was a dried brown clay tablet.

A round dot was engraved on the clay tablet, and next to it was a huge two-legged monster, stretching out its long-necked huge head to devour the dot. The painting style was wild and the brushstrokes were abstract.

That's it.

Under the alert perspective, this clay tablet was also unremarkable.

There was neither an energy reaction, nor could he even crush it with his hand, and there was no interlayer inside.

It was just a clay tablet painting.

Zhou Yi was dumbfounded.

No.

Brother, I worked so hard to smash half of my fortune, and you give me a chick pecking at rice picture?

Are you bullying honest people!

What's the difference between this and thank you for your patronage!

I don't want your abstract painting! Give me the treasure, the treasure!

At this time, the Sashimi Man was constantly wriggling and twisting all over its body, emitting dazzling light, repelling him outwards.

Zhou Yi was now extremely angry, and for a moment, evil grew from his courage, and he reached out and grabbed into the Sashimi Man's split chest again.

Draw again!

The moment he touched it, he only felt that the bones and muscles of his entire right arm were torn apart and crushed, and every blood vessel was cut off, and the overly intense and sharp pain made his brain blank.

He just held the ball of light tightly.

Then the sky was spinning, and Zhou Yi felt as if he was stuffed into an extremely small washing machine and started to be frantically rotated and dehydrated...

Coming back to his senses.

The Sashimi Man had disappeared without a trace.

Zhou Yi looked at the things in his hand, stunned.

On his thin, charred bones that could no longer be called a right hand, he firmly held a... yellow banana.

After calming down, he only had regret left in his heart. Very regretful.

Blind boxes are really addictive.

He stubbornly paid for one hand, and took advantage of the Sashimi Man's transformation into a light core body to forcibly open the box again, and the result was another loss.

Zhou Yi could only think of suffering as fun.

I hope this priceless banana is delicious.