Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi asked Red Falcon to notify the relevant technical staff to attend a meeting in room 3101.

Initially, Tuozhu was somewhat unwilling.

It grumbled, "Chairman, this is my closely guarded secret. If I reveal it now, won't everyone know?"

Zhou Yi asked, "Do you think it's more important to complete the experiment as soon as possible and prove the existence of the Electric Cat, or is secrecy more important?"

"This… of course, the Electric Cat is more important."

"Then that's settled."

"But, we could also proceed quietly, right? For example, you could allocate more funds to me, and I'll buy more batteries to try. If it doesn't work, we can talk about it then."

The panda-man still wanted to handle this matter alone.

Zhou Yi could only patiently enlighten it, "How does the Electric Cat compare to the Floating Heart?"

"It definitely can't compare… The Floating Heart is a technology that can change the entire electromechanical life group, and it's also our company's trump card."

"Since you know that, then you must understand that although the Floating Heart was invented by Liu Lao and Chen Lao of our company, the reason it was able to be applied and produced so quickly is inseparable from the production, optimization, and massive trial-and-error feedback from Yin Shang, Shenwei, and the Railway Company."

Zhou Yi said, "It's difficult for one person to be comprehensive. Mobilizing the intelligence and experience of more people can open up ideas and find better directions."

"In addition, the Electric Cat is essentially a technology replication, not our original creation. The creator of the Curved House has already mastered it."

After an in-depth conversation with Tuozhu, Zhou Yi finally understood.

There was a reason why the panda-man wanted to do it himself.

"When my dad was normal, everyone was very polite to me. Everyone greeted me with a smile. As for the Citizen Department, whether I wanted to be born or not, no one would bother me about it."

The panda-man said with a nostalgic expression, "Back then, when I was short of money, I would ask my dad for it. Because I liked designing and building, my dad sent me to the Heavenly Kingdom's Imperial Design Institute."

"I was a designer in the Innovation Research Center there. There was a lot of money there, and everyone had connections. No matter what you designed, you could build it. Some people even created xenomorphs, although it was just burning money and didn't produce anything useful."

"That place was very comfortable. There was unlimited food and drink every day. You could eat whatever you wanted, as long as the Heavenly Kingdom had it."

"Every day, when we had nothing to do, we would drink tea together, play mahjong, play billiards, play cards, smoke a couple of…"

Zhou Yi was stunned, "Wait a minute, you played mahjong?"

He gestured as if shuffling mahjong tiles.

"Yes. Entertainment from the Divine Era was very popular among the upper echelons of the Heavenly Kingdom. Billiards, mahjong, playing cards, chess, and even ping pong, basketball, and football, all had many enthusiasts."

The panda-man sat cross-legged on the ground, speaking casually.

Zhou Yi remembered that Qin Xie had also said that the higher-ups of the Dead Sea Knights liked to play ping pong, so he practiced this skill to cater to their preferences.

"That period was very comfortable."

"After my dad returned from his pioneering mission, he became demented. He was sent to a sanatorium, and my treatment became completely different."

Tuozhu took a sip of tea, his eyes filled with melancholy within his dark circles, "Everyone's attitude towards me visibly worsened. They nitpicked and found fault with me in every way. I was quickly transferred out of the Imperial Design Institute to the Imperial Construction Department, where I ran around construction sites all day… I couldn't stand it, so I quit and returned to my home in the Autonomous Region."

"After that, I applied for funding to develop the Electric Cat, but it also failed. The Citizen Department also began to frequently ask me to perform mandatory mating…"

Zhou Yi expressed his understanding, "That's how it is when you lose your backing."

"Chairman, I just want to prove myself and show everyone something. I, Tuozhu, didn't disgrace my dad, and I'm not a useless person!"

The panda-man said with righteous indignation.

Zhou Yi seized the opportunity and said, "Then shouldn't we make something even more? In the future, your name will be left as the inventor, and that would be the best effect."

"Okay!"

The panda-man immediately nodded.

Then, the Electric Gallbladder meeting was held.

Sigma, the representative of Recursive City, spoke first, "Our city has generators, and we have 12 in stock, all of which are small and medium-sized."

"In fact, many electromechanical cities have been trying to use electricity to alleviate the energy shortage problem. After all, the cost of energy packs is still high, and electromechanical life and light-printed equipment consume them quickly."

"Electricity is a clean, storable, and transferable energy source. It was frequently used by the old humans, and everything can use electricity."

"But after field testing, we discovered many problems."

Karting said, "The energy intensity of electricity is insufficient, not as good as energy packs, and cannot provide strong enough power. Electricity cannot support light-printed equipment such as reinforced ships, excavation equipment, and refining devices."

"Moreover, electricity has very high requirements for supporting facilities. It needs a series of related infrastructure such as power plants, generators, transformers, transmission lines, power distribution networks, substations, energy storage equipment… to form a power system."

"Building these requires strong manufacturing capabilities, and converting electrical energy is also a big problem."

"Basically, electricity is only limited to experimental use, as a comparison reference, and not considered for large-scale deployment and application."

Zhou Yi was not surprised by this.

The technology tree of the wasteland era is imprinting, which is essentially the utilization of Dead Sea energy. All equipment, technology, and tools are based on this.

It is a completely different technology system from the old human era.

Zhou Yi said, "What I want to determine now is whether we can take out the generator and convert other external energy into electricity."

"Although I am not specialized in this area, I have read many Dead Sea documents. They describe that water energy, wind energy, and fossil fuels can drive generators to produce electricity. Can we do it?"

This was a basic common sense of past humans.

"Yes."

Sigma gave a definite answer, "Mr. Zhou, please rest assured, if it is only used for experiments, there is no problem. Now the company has developed the Floating Heart, right? Through the transmission device of the Floating Heart, it can drive the rotor to generate electricity."

Zhou Yi looked at Chen Ruixiang, who was doing energy and power research.

This technical advisor pushed up his thick-bottomed glasses and said, "If it is transmission, it can be done technically. As long as the generator is still intact, the Floating Heart can drive the power generation."

The basic direction was determined, and everyone discussed the issues of wire transmission and electricity storage.

Recursive City is a city that provides external services and has a stock of various equipment to cope with occasional needs.

This is where it came in handy.

Four generators, a large number of cables and wires, protective devices, batteries, and other equipment were quickly sent to Yalong Bay.

Two Floating Hearts, as the core of energy conversion, drove the transmission device to operate at high speed, converting electrical energy through the motor and transmitting it to the Curved House.

In the glass room, the brightness and intensity of the electric light were visibly greatly increased.

Zhou Yi saw that a large number of electric arcs in the Curved House formed bubble-like objects, and they became numerous, wandering and flickering everywhere.

The panda-man said, "Chairman, these are electric galls. Their birth and disappearance are instantaneous. Every electric gall seen every second is different from the previous second."

"These guys are even shorter-lived than light-sucking monsters."

"Zema said that a huge number of electric galls are needed to hatch an Electric Cat."

But after seven consecutive days, except for burning out two cables and a small generator, no results were obtained.

The electric galls were still constantly being born and dying.

Zhou Yi was relatively calm about this experiment.

Failure is the norm.

In the early days, he wanted to use Emerald City to implement a pension strategy, but it failed. He tried to re-employ retired strengtheners, but failed again. Later, he cultivated high-quality silver needle fish, but it is still a failure to this day.

Success is built up through repeated failures and corrections.

Not long after, Zhou Yi went to SH City again.

Because Overlord proposed to build a large hangar to further expand air routes to the outside world.

It said, "I am preparing to open a line from Shuanghe to Motor City, and then go north to Bai Xiao Plateau. Overlord has agreed. In this way, the cities along the way can go to these two places to take planes, which can directly reach any area of the alliance."

"This is good."

Zhou Yi expressed his support.

There, he saw the armed glider modified by Overlord.

This is based on a manned glider, transforming the manned cabin into a launch cabin. The aircraft is equipped with one gunner and one scout, equipped with E or D-level light-printed artillery, which can deter most flying light-nano species.

Zhou Yi sighed, "You are still good at playing with the air force. With this militarized modification completed, the strength of the air force will increase significantly at once."

The young puppet rarely showed a modest expression, "This is not worth mentioning. The Floating Heart is a destructive weapon."

"We have been testing the installation of Floating Hearts on gliders. But there are various problems, such as the difficulty in ensuring balance, the significant decrease in shooting accuracy after accelerating flight, and the problem of stability…"

"I wonder if we can go to Sandport for technical exchanges and visits? The final modified fighter species will be sold externally, and we will split the profits 50-50, how about it?"

"No problem."

Zhou Yi nodded, "You are welcome at any time."

"Better to choose a day than strike it, I will go with you now. Ringo, call those core backbones, bring our complete set of materials and prototypes, and go to the company to learn technology."

Overlord was extremely concerned about this.

On the way back, it also revealed an important message, "The Heavenly Kingdom is mediating the external military operations of the electromechanical city groups. Their attitude is still very tough and they refuse to recognize electromechanical knights and [Key] and other technologies. Plus the new [Lao Tzu] and [Zhuang Tzu] were born…"

Zhou Yi said, "They will not be willing to give up their power."

"But now we have to be careful. Reliable news is that they have found City 404. What measures that city will take is still unknown."

Zhou Yi's eyes narrowed.

Behind City 404... is Tianren.

"Tianren are going to end?"

Overlord shook his head, "They won't care about these things. As long as this world is still maintaining a large number of available lives, they won't care. Would you care about the disputes between cats and dogs in your own yard?"

"That is?" Zhou Yi frowned.

"City 404 is sleeping some extremely dangerous electromechanical lives. This time, in order to cope with the challenge of the electromechanical knights, they may activate some of them."

"How dangerous is it?"

"Let's put it this way."

Overlord's upper and lower jaws opened and closed, "The most dangerous X-level among them has even killed light-core bodies."

Zhou Yi's heart shuddered.

He came back to his senses, "Are you so eager to launch fighter species? Is there also this consideration?"

The puppet nodded, "The biggest advantage of gliders is that they are not light-printing devices and are not subject to technical restrictions and control. Some targeted weapons can directly invalidate light-printing."

"So I am preparing to gradually promote partial de-light-printing in the Shuanghe area and use new technologies to replace it. Avoid this kind of risk and loophole in the future."

Zhou Yi thought to himself.

Overlord's posture of facing a formidable enemy shows that the electromechanical city groups' counterattack will begin soon.