Wasteland Development Diary

Black Thorn carefully identified it and said, "It is indeed my fruit core, it should be an earlier one that separated from my body, earlier than the one in your hand."

Earlier?

Zhou Yi suddenly thought: "Could it be a Mud Tree person?"

Normally speaking, if someone else had obtained Black Thorn—this is a light-core body level vehicle, after all—they wouldn't just let it drift around in the Dead Sea.

Before, Black Thorn's activity area was located in the territory of the Overwhelming Duke. From a safety perspective, it shouldn't be thrown over there either.

The most likely possibility is a Mud Tree person.

That is, Black Thorn's original driver.

"I don't know."

Black Thorn said, "But don't bother with it, I'm not familiar with it anyway, and it doesn't have any real impact on me."

"The fruit core will become weaker and weaker over time, eventually losing its activity completely. Such frequent stimulation will only make the fruit core fail faster."

"Now, just having the fruit core can only summon me. My own decisions are the most important."

The fruit core is like a biological switch, and it also has a limit to the number of times it can be used.

Zhou Yi thought it over and over, and finally made a bold decision.

"Black Thorn, go bring it over here."

"Okay."

Black Thorn didn't ask why, it just flew into the Dead Sea again and disappeared without a trace.

In the evening.

It returned from the Dead Sea and flew all the way to the top of Emerald City.

The sea urchin-like shell opened from the middle, and a staggering, tall figure squeezed out.

This person looked astonished, seemingly completely unable to understand the current situation, and appeared somewhat dazed.

Zhou Yi sized up the other party.

He was about two meters and three tall, Yao Ming-like.

Physiologically, he didn't look much different from humans, with long limbs and a short neck. He had extremely wide hands and feet, especially his hands, one palm being the size of Zhou Yi's two, making him look very stable.

Apart from that, this person was not wearing clothes or armor, and his whole body was wrapped in a kind of brown vine plant, shaped like some kind of special mummy.

He looked like a man, with a square face, a strong body, and healthy wheat-colored skin.

Another strange thing was that this person had cut his hair into a pointed shape, like a cone.

Zhou Yi then realized that the Mud Tree people didn't have pointed heads, but they shaved their hair into this shape, which seemed to be a symbol of their own ethnicity.

The other party's eyes were full of vigilance and wariness, and several vines on his back raised their necks like snakes.

He lowered his center of gravity, posing in a posture ready to fight at any time.

Zhou Yi opened his hands, indicating that he had no malice: "Can you speak? Do you understand our language here?"

The other party frowned in confusion.

He made a kind of awkward, strange syllable, like rapping, each pronunciation short and rapid.

Zhou Yi reached out to him.

The other party took a step back.

It seemed that in his understanding, there was no such habit as shaking hands.

So Zhou Yi called Yuanxiao over: "Go get some food, preferably raw food."

The Death Angel quickly returned, carrying a box.

The box contained grapes, pears, and cherry tomatoes, which were fruits produced in the Tree Monster Territory.

In addition, there were some edible crops, such as radishes and Chinese cabbages. There were also a few processed foods.

Zhou Yi placed the box in front and made a gesture of invitation.

He first took a grape, put it in his mouth and ate it, gesturing: "You can eat it, try it."

The Mud Tree person on the opposite side observed Zhou Yi for a while.

Then he walked to the box and squatted down.

The Mud Tree person grabbed a grape, looked at it left and right, and smelled it. The vines on his back then drilled over flexibly, wrapped around the grape, and the leaves on it wrapped it up.

A moment.

Seemingly identified as non-toxic, he put the grape in his mouth, but he immediately frowned and spit it out.

Then he tried several other fruits and vegetables, but was not satisfied and spit them all out.

It seems that he is very picky about food.

Facing sweet potatoes and peanuts, the Mud Tree person looked curious.

After checking with the vines, he first broke open the sweet potato, skillfully peeled off the skin with his hands, took a bite, chewed slowly, and then began to gobble it up, devouring several pieces of sweet potato.

Then the Mud Tree person turned his attention to the peanuts. This time he shelled and ate the kernels and became even more excited, his eyes lit up.

Zhou Yi waved his hand.

Yuanxiao came over.

"There's some leftover rice from yesterday, heat it up in a steamer and bring it over for him to try. Also, get some bagged kimchi and pickled radishes, remember to get the bottled ones, from the God Era, not our homemade ones."

"Understood."

After a while, the Death Angel brought a bowl of steaming rice and placed it in front of the Mud Tree person. There were also several kinds of kimchi on one side of the bowl.

The Mud Tree person picked up the bowl, looked at it and checked it, but didn't know how to use chopsticks.

So Zhou Yi also took a pair and taught him, and the other party immediately mastered the tool of chopsticks.

After taking a bite of rice, the Mud Tree person's eyes widened, and then he started to slurp up the rice, without even adding kimchi, and directly ate a whole bowl of leftover rice.

Then he stood up and reached out to Zhou Yi.

It seems that he has been recognized.

The two shook hands for the first time.

At this moment, Zhou Yi input energy and turned on the frequency of consciousness.

"Nice to meet you, hello, visitor from the Mud Tree Civilization, my name is Zhou Yi."

The other party was overjoyed: "So this is how you communicate, I can understand what you mean, your ability is so amazing!"

"My name is Niger."

The Mud Tree person said: "Your food is great, it tastes very good! This white fruit, and the previous small purple-red fruit, and the large long fruit, are all very good!"

"But the heated white small fruit is the best, very delicious, it's the first time I've eaten it."

As a nation living on trees, they have no basis for planting rice and sweet potatoes. Normally, Mud Tree people have never seen crops that need to grow in the soil for a long time.

But he also said: "It's just that the previous fruits are not good, too sour, not sweet at all, and lack enough flavor. We have this kind of fruit everywhere, even the birds don't eat such bad ones, only the insects will gnaw on them."

"……"

It sounds like they have a very high level of achievement in fruit cultivation, which makes them extremely picky about taste.

Food brought the two sides closer and reduced their hostility.

Zhou Yi asked him: "Are you the only Mud Tree person here?"

"I'm the only one, I haven't found any of my kind. But it's hard to say, maybe not yet..."

The other party suddenly came back to his senses: "Why is my Black Thorn out of control? Why is it completely out of order now, unable to be controlled by the fruit core, how did you do it?"

"You said, this Black Thorn was originally yours?"

"Yes."

Niger said matter-of-factly: "I drove it from our world. There are also my personal items inside, there are portraits of my family, and my personal portraits, and the bananas I use to avoid brain degradation, you can tell at a glance."

Zhou Yi took a single clay painting board from Yuanxiao's hand.

He compared the person with the painting.

The Mud Tree person made the same pose as on the clay board, clenching his fists, as if he was going to give the person in front of him a double-peak ear punch.

The postures are consistent.

The capture of facial features is also very similar.

Zhou Yi already believed it by seventy or eighty percent.

He also asked: "Why did you leave Black Thorn?"

"I was surveying the geological features, other things are inconvenient to disclose."

Niger continued to ask: "What did you do to my Black Thorn?"

"Nothing."

Zhou Yi told him: "I just healed it."

"Healed? It wasn't injured, I've always been very careful to control it, I didn't even scratch it... What's going on?"

The other party looked at Black Thorn with doubts in his eyes.

Zhou Yi said softly: "Simply put, it is to repair the originally broken consciousness of Black Thorn, so that it has the self-awareness that it should have."

Niger's eyes widened: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"Black Thorn itself has no consciousness... It's just a modified fruit, a vehicle, how can there be self-consciousness."

"We have used Black Thorn for many years, and this has never happened."

Then, Black Thorn flew up from next to him and slowly floated behind Zhou Yi.

The Mud Tree person was speechless.

"You should already understand, right? Why you can't control it with the fruit core, and why it brought you here, the reason lies in this."

Zhou Yi said: "The current Black Thorn is an independent life, it has its own ideas. It is no longer a biological tool that can be manipulated at will."

"Why is this happening..."

The Mud Tree person was still a little unwilling, he kept pressing the fruit core in his hand, wanting to call Black Thorn over.

Black Thorn didn't move.

The Mud Tree person continued to press frantically.

Black Thorn flew directly over, turned on the light-core body form of the third stage, and the black shadows all over his body directly absorbed the fruit core back into his body, and then circled back to Zhou Yi's side.

"This guy is really annoying, he keeps shouting in my ear!"

Black Thorn was impatient.

Niger froze on the spot, with an unbelievable look on his face.

He suddenly knelt on the ground and cried loudly: "No!!!"

"Black Thorn, Black Thorn! You can't do this, come back, come back!"

"How can I live in this world without Black Thorn!"

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

Zhou Yi didn't expect that the other party, a two-meter-tall man, would collapse directly after losing Black Thorn.

The Mud Tree people are really fragile.

Zhou Yi said: "Aren't you living well now?"

"This world is very dangerous."

Niger said somewhat listlessly: "I am also an outsider, and I don't know the specific situation here. There are a large number of powerful monsters in the Huanliu alone. Without the strongholds established by Mud and Trees, it is impossible to resist the attacks of other powerful creatures."

"Although Black Thorn is a fruit, it has always been an important partner of our Mud Tree people. Without it, we can hardly survive in these alien worlds. Either we will be hunted, or we will have no place to stand..."

Zhou Yi suggested: "Since you have nowhere to go, why not stay in our Wasteland Development Company? We can ensure your safety here, and you can just work for the company."

"……"

Niger suddenly became vigilant: "You already have Black Thorn, what do you want me to do?"

"I am very interested in the Mud Tree Civilization."

Zhou Yi smiled slightly: "And I have always felt that everyone has their own field of expertise, and as long as they can find the right field for them, they can bring their talents into play."

"I am an explorer of the Mud Department."

Niger said: "Do you lack explorers?"

"Yes."

Zhou Yi's [Alertness] had already seen that Niger exuded purple light, and was an out-and-out A-level powerhouse.

The Mud Tree person frowned and thought for a long time: "You want me to explore and survey for you everywhere, okay. But I also have a condition."

"I need Black Thorn."

"I will try my best to talk to Black Thorn and let it cooperate with you."

"Not this."

"What I'm talking about is, there is another Black Thorn in this world."

The Mud Tree person said: "The current Black Thorn is no longer the Black Thorn I am familiar with, and I cannot control it. I hope you can help me capture another Black Thorn."

Zhou Yi immediately responded: "I will try my best."