Wasteland Development Diary

Third floor, intensive care unit, Maria Hospital.

The two satellites were still placed on their respective metal stands.

Zhou Yi arrived at the Dongfanghong-1, which resembled a large light bulb.

"Hello, Mr. Zhou."

The old satellite was now equipped with a speaker, finally able to speak directly.

Zhou Yi also smiled and said, "Hello, Dongfanghong-1, how are you feeling now?"

"I'm feeling great. A lot of my data couldn't be read before because of hardware damage, plus the program was too old, causing many data errors that made it unusable."

It was quite talkative: "With the help and repair of 703, hey, everything is fine now!"

"Now I remember two things that I must tell you."

Zhou Yi sat on the chair next to him: "Please speak."

"According to existing records, I was launched into orbit on April 24, 1970, in the Old Human Era, and stopped transmitting signals to the outside world on May 14. In the Age of Gods, my lifespan was only 20 days, a very, very old model. It wasn't until the Dead Sea covered this world through solar impact that I entered a new stage of life."

Its voice was clear and bright: "Due to the old structure, my storage capacity is limited, and I can only store up to 20 days of basic data. In other words, my memory is only 20 days long."

"It is also because of this forgetful characteristic that I have had many interactions with other life forms. Because after 20 days, except for the basic data, my memory will be cleared and overwritten."

"As time went on, the memory storage space continued to decrease, and later it only had a capacity of 1 day, which often led to my inability to read and write, and I fell into long-term hibernation and crashes."

"With only that little memory space, I allocated it to the most critical data, eliminating detailed numbers and changing them to highly generalized descriptions and summaries. The outside world can only find a bunch of redundancy, but they are my very important memories. Now, some useful parts have been extracted from these data."

"I once knew the Old King, it found me when my memory could only last for 1 day."

Dongfanghong-1 said, "At that time, it was not the Old King, its real name was 'Tiangong Space Station'."

Zhou Yi thought, so it really was a space station.

"But it's more than just a space station, because there were also three Old Humans inside, but they all turned into bone people under the solar impact."

Zhou Yi immediately realized.

That's right.

Logically, there should also be astronauts in the space station.

"You understand now? The Old King is actually a combination of these three bone people and Tiangong."

Dongfanghong-1 said, "The Tiangong Space Station consists of several parts, mainly including the Tianhe core module, Wentian experimental module, Mengtian experimental module, Xuntian telescope, Shenzhou manned spacecraft, and Tianzhou cargo spacecraft, etc."

"The Xuntian telescope is a very powerful device that can carry out wide-area sky surveys, and all satellites are under its coverage. It mainly observes the evolution and change of the universe, and also captures and tests cosmic energy."

"Tiangong found me for the first time, hoping I could join them, but Xing Shu didn't exist at that time. I refused."

"After I don't know how long, it found me for the second time, hoping I could try the new technology it developed, which is the [Star Hub Matrix]."

Zhou Yi listened attentively.

The old satellite broke it down and explained: "A matrix is a set of complex or real numbers arranged in a rectangular array, which is a mathematical concept from the Age of Gods."

"The Star Hub Matrix arranges all the satellites into a solid collection. They are connected to each other, and no matter what problem they face, they can be expanded in a specific way for convenient calculation."

"But this is just the simplest use. Its greatest role is to analyze deep dimensions."

"You should know that there are now two dimensions on Earth. The first dimension is the material side, which is the physical environment we are in."

"The second dimension is the consciousness side. There are two conventional ways to enter that side. Either become a pure consciousness body, like a conceptual life; or become a higher two-dimensional life, so as to have the ability to observe and directly touch the consciousness side, which is the light core body."

"But Tiangong took a third path."

"It used the Star Hub Matrix to calculate the mapping relationship between the material side and the consciousness side. Through corresponding conversion, it used the Xuntian telescope for indirect observation, so as to restore the entire scene imaging of the consciousness side... It's like using firelight to illuminate a dark cave."

"Matter and consciousness are mutually external and internal. Consciousness will transform matter, but changing matter can also promote consciousness. Therefore, under the Xuntian telescope, as long as there is enough observation, you can find material variables that can promote change, or even transform the world on the consciousness side."

"Tiangong showed me an experiment."

Dongfanghong-1 said, "After precise calculation, it pushed a grain of cosmic dust and hit a piece of metal floating in space."

"Matter pushed consciousness, triggering the butterfly effect. This wrote the Chinese characters 'Hello, World' on the consciousness side, which shocked the conceptual life there. These were all imaged and displayed by the Xuntian telescope."

Zhou Yi was shocked.

The technological level of this Star Hub is too high!

The role of the Star Hub Matrix is to observe and transform the consciousness side.

After he calmed down a little, he asked, "Why go to the trouble of observing and changing the consciousness side?"

"Because the material side is locked."

Dongfanghong-1 sighed: "The Celestials have locked the material side of this world, and are observing the flow of energy throughout the world through electromechanical cities. If there is an abnormally powerful energy body, it will be discovered by the Celestials and cleared and squeezed out."

"In simple terms, it is difficult for new light core bodies to form. They may be locked as soon as they are born, and be driven out or isolated by the Celestials."

"The energy of the Earth—or rather, the energy of this solar system—is already the private property of the Celestials. Light core bodies will absorb a lot of energy, causing them property losses, and will be driven away."

Zhou Yi frowned.

No wonder when I used the [Radio] to listen before, a Celestial reported on the outer sea that they had discovered an unknown light core body, and also said that the capture had failed.

In this way, the Forbidden Continent is a safe zone for light core bodies, and the Lord of War is also there.

But.

The Night God doesn't seem to be affected.

Conceptual lives also have light core bodies.

Zhou Yi suddenly reacted: "The Celestials... cannot block and control the consciousness side? They can't directly lock the consciousness body, so the Old King wants to advance into the consciousness side and use the consciousness side to break through the material blockade?"

"You really understand as soon as you hear it!"

The old satellite said happily: "That's the way. Conceptual lives are not restricted, and powerful consciousness bodies are not bound, because there is a special natural phenomenon called the Great Holy Spirit, which the Celestials cannot change."

"The role of the Star Hub Matrix is to calculate the consciousness side, and through building a specific channel and conversion method, allow material life to be completely transformed into a consciousness body and stably maintained in the satellite."

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"The three bone people in Tiangong are the earliest successful samples. They transformed themselves through the transformation of the Star Hub Matrix, broke away from their original bone bodies, turned into data forms, and successfully and completely transformed into consciousness body lives with Tiangong as a carrier. Although it is still a distance from conceptual life, it is already very successful."

"The combination of Tiangong and the three bone people constitutes the Old King."

It added: "The Star Hub Matrix needs more basic units to expand the computing power and accuracy of the matrix. So soon the Old King almost assimilated most of the satellites, and further screened and searched for life on the ground."

Zhou Yi listened with a relaxed brow: "No wonder Xing Shu later promoted the transformation of data elect, and selected Xing Shu elect to transform into consciousness bodies... Was it after being occupied by the Celestials?"

"No. Tiangong knew there was no chance of winning after the Celestials blocked and covered the material side, and started the transformation before the ceasefire."

Dongfanghong-1 made a hehe laugh: "That's all I know. In order to save storage capacity, those data were not recorded, only an overview mark was completed. If I had external storage like now at that time, I might be much more awake."

Zhou Yi sincerely said: "Thank you very much, the information you gave is invaluable."

"It should be, you saved me. Without 703's careful cleaning, these data could not be restored, I originally wanted to let it clear it directly, but it was more persistent than me, thinking it could be rescued."

"It took several months, it was really not easy, 703 is a very responsible and tireless programmer!"

The old satellite said: "Besides, you also installed a floating heart for me, this device is really useful, I like it very much. Now I can use hybrid mode, energy packs and oil can supply me with energy, which will be much more convenient in the future."

Zhou Yi looked at the machine dog next to him and praised: "Good job."

703 said: "Chairman, data is crucial to electromechanical life, it is the proof of the existence of electromechanical life, it's good to rescue as much as possible."

That's true.

"There is a second thing."

Dongfanghong-1 said again: "Actually, even earlier, the Celestials had found me."

Zhou Yi suddenly held his breath.

"However, the Celestial who found me was very strange."

"After capturing me, it teleported me to a location very close to the sun."

The satellite recalled: "There, there was an asteroid composed of various gems, and on the planet there was a humanoid growing in a transparent crystal."

"She looked very much like a human female, but she was different, because her whole body was highly glass-fibered, like some kind of vein growing in a crystal. She could not exist without leaving the crystal."

"That crystal humanoid was extremely weak. She sat on a high tower, and various colors of glass fibers were inserted into her body, seemingly maintaining her life. But even so, she revealed a hint of death, and it was difficult to maintain for long."

"When I arrived there, I revolved around the entire asteroid."

"The only sentence that Celestial told me was to let me move her slowly."

"I flew to the woman, and the crystal woman stood up and walked with me. Her movement relied on the flow between the crystals, more like quicksand pushing her."

"The asteroid was very small, and the time it took to rotate a circle was also short. She touched me through different crystal faces, seeming to like me very much."

"But before long, she couldn't move anymore. The glass fibers in her body gradually blurred, and her appearance and body all melted into a liquid, turning into an ordinary large green gemstone, with only tree-like glass fibers left inside."

"After she died and turned into a gemstone, I was put back into my previous orbit, as if nothing had happened."

Glass person.

This time it is a real glass person.

Even at the time of her death, the Celestial had to find her favorite satellite so that she could be a little happier before she passed away.

The Celestial showed an unprecedented tenderness at this moment.

Glass people are important to the Celestials in every sense.

Zhou Yi silently remembered it in his heart.