Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi activated panoramic reading through the Cat God.

The inky black giant hand displayed [Light Core Entity LV1 - Unknown].

[This unit lacks intelligence and possesses weak consciousness; it has been modified into a tool.]

It really is a Light Core Entity.

Zhou Yi was a bit dazed.

Wait.

The Lawful Faction has only been in power for half a year; how could they have developed a Light Core Entity already? Does the Mechanical City have a built-in characteristic of growing stronger when faced with stronger opponents?

The battlefield escalated.

The black lines extending from the giant hand缠wrapped and locked onto the golden core of the Ice Teapot, solidifying a layer of ice crystals on its surface, forcibly shrinking the Ice Teapot's mist-like structure by a large margin.

It was pulling the atmospheric creature downwards, attempting to capture it.

The two sides were temporarily locked in a stalemate of power.

Zhou Yi issued an order to the Cat God: "Support the Ice Teapot."

He thought to himself that it was fortunate he had dispatched a lineup of dual Light Core Entities and a Focusing Entity; otherwise, it would have been difficult to take down this large city.

"Chairman, Ice Teapot says this level is not a problem."

The Cat God reported back: "It is testing the opponent's strength and energy properties to confirm the source, so it is defending."

"The mission is unaffected; the entire city is still informationally cut off from the outside world."

"Oh? Wait a moment."

"Ice Teapot's consciousness analysis is complete. That thing is not a true, complete life form; its consciousness is empty, without self, only the purest killing and attack commands."

"It unleashes pure consciousness attacks outwards, with extreme destructive power. However, Ice Teapot has a massive number of consciousness bodies and a special golden elephant flag structure that can pull and consume the opponent; otherwise, it would indeed be difficult to deal with."

"That thing needs to charge. The intensive firing of missiles and anti-aircraft guns earlier was to buy it charging and activation time. That large, upright device is the control panel, projecting it outwards through a series of operations."

Zhou Yi stared at the source of the 'Giant Killer,' the wide umbrella-shaped structure at the top of the mechanical jellyfish, where a ring of transparent crystalline structures formed a pillar.

The more he looked at it, the more familiar it seemed.

Isn't that a Celestial's gem cell?

Zhou Yi was too familiar with these basic units because he often manipulated gem bodies.

The Lawful Faction used Celestial gems as a foundation to create such a Light Core Entity device, capable of releasing a Giant Killer to launch powerful consciousness attacks.

Heavenly Country holds some gems; the Mechanical City that surrendered first apparently had them too.

At the same time, the Cat God also confirmed the information through the electric cats.

"Chairman, that mechanical jellyfish is 'David.'"

"It is a controlled strategic-level device, reaching A-grade strength, capable of being equipped with many high-risk weapons."

"'Giant Killer' was only when we issued the ultimatum that the electric cats received city orders to cooperate with this weapon in attacking and delaying us."

"The entire city is supplying energy to support the Giant Killer; it will probably be difficult for Ice Teapot to defeat it."

"The electric cats have been persuaded by me; they have already controlled the mechanical spiders to retreat into the Dead Sea."

Zhou Yi frowned as he listened.

He glanced at the Black Water Ghost on his left wrist.

Only three minutes remained on the countdown.

According to the information provided by Red Falcon, the number of mechanical residents in Clockwork City was approximately 20,000.

Although after the atmospheric creature revealed itself, the flesh-and-blood lifeforms here ran away the fastest, very few mechanical lifeforms left.

The vast majority of mechanical residents stayed in the city to fight.

On the battlefield, they were the enemy.

The time was almost up.

There was no point in dragging it out any longer.

Zhou Yi ordered: "Don't wait any longer. Drop the bomb."

"Yes!"

The Cat God immediately transmitted the order.

High above, the crystals outside the golden sphere shattered piece by piece, triggering circles of airwave vibrations, and the black lines were also being suppressed and lowered step by step.

A regular dodecahedron crystal slowly precipitated from the golden sphere.

It was now covered with a layer of golden streamer.

[Solidified Cloud Tincture] fell straight down at high speed.

The Giant Killer controller seemed to realize something was wrong and used black claws to capture and block the energy block, but as soon as it approached the golden streamer, the numerous black lines were directly melted and dissipated.

The Cat God's perspective was filled with dazzling golden light.

When his vision returned, Zhou Yi found that the city below had disappeared.

The center of the explosion was a giant crater with a diameter of 1 kilometer and a depth of over 100 meters.

Within a 5-kilometer radius, all buildings were completely destroyed; factories, streets, and a large number of above-ground and underground fortifications were razed to the ground.

There were no signs of life.

Only large patches of glass-like material, melted by the high temperature, remained on the ground, reflecting strange colorful light in the sunlight.

The entire city was wiped out.

Zhou Yi had a direct understanding of the power of a LV4 Light Core bomb.

This thing was a genuine heavyweight nuclear weapon.

As long as one was dropped and detonated, it could instantly destroy a large city.

Zhou Yi ordered again: "Strategic objective achieved. Retreat."

The three employees of Armed Rights instantly transformed into streamers of light and disappeared into the sky above the ruins.

A long while later.

Two drones approached and began to survey the steaming ruins of the city, with red lights scanning back and forth to seek out all kinds of data.

...

Only 2 minutes had passed since the entire incident.

Lord Extinction immediately contacted him: "Clockwork City has completely disappeared from the satellite maps. Rumor has it that you did it?"

"It was me."

Zhou Yi admitted.

"Good, good, good! This has created an unprecedented history!"

"Since the birth of Mechanical Cities, never has a large Mechanical City been destroyed by external forces!"

Lord Extinction immediately became excited: "Tell me about the defense system of a large Mechanical City. How strong is it?"

The Focusing Entity had conducted detailed observations in this regard.

Zhou Yi told it: "In terms of cohesion and organization, it is not at the same level as small and medium-sized cities. They have more people, more resources to utilize, and a very strong dispatching ability; perhaps they also have the advantages of the Lawful model."

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"In terms of city defense, they have at least 10 medium and large launchers that can launch long-range missiles, a dense array of anti-aircraft guns, and more than 400 aerial interception drones."

"In terms of high-end combat power, the core of Clockwork City is the 'Giant Killer,' a special weapon modified from Celestial gems with extremely strong destructive power."

"The Giant Killer is activated by charging, and can reach the Light Core Entity level with the energy supply of the entire city. It is installed on the A-grade device 'David' and controlled by mechanical lifeforms..."

Lord Extinction listened very carefully, occasionally asking for specific parameters and form patterns.

After listening, it said somewhat heavily: "The adjustment and optimization capabilities of Mechanical Cities are really too fast; they have obtained a lot of combat data just from the Energy Storage City battle. Under normal circumstances, even the atmospheric creature would not be able to break through this city this time, and may instead be seriously injured and captured."

"There is indeed a reason why Black Emperor has been vigilant against Mechanical Cities for a long time."

Zhou Yi also deeply agreed.

Lord Soldier had also said that Mechanical Cities have great potential, and if they become enemies, they will be extremely difficult to deal with.

Lord Extinction asked again: "By the way, why did you get rid of Clockwork City? Was that city trying to subvert and poach company employees?"

Zhou Yi said: "It's armed rights."

"Armed rights... what do you mean?"

The other party was puzzled.

Zhou Yi explained it.

"..."

Lord Extinction was silent.

After a long time, it said: "Although the reason sounds a bit ridiculously fake at first glance, I believe you."

"That's good too."

Lord Extinction said: "The Mechanical City group may not care about the loss of an Energy Storage City; that was still under the general agreement model at the time."

"But the size, scale, and influence of Clockwork City are completely different. There are less than 30 such large cities, and they have a strong voice in the Mechanical City group, and the weight of the data center is also extremely high."

"If large cities cannot protect every resident, then the safety rating and comprehensive evaluation will drop significantly. This will become an overall evaluation decline affecting the entire Mechanical City system."

"It takes a long time to build confidence and public common sense, but destruction and decline are instantaneous."

"I estimate that the destruction of Clockwork City will bring two results."

"The first is that the Lawful Faction should come to you to discuss patent fees. Compared to the risk of a large city being destroyed, paying some patent fees is like public safety expenditure."

It said: "The second is that more residents will realize that large Mechanical Cities are not absolutely safe places. Risk assessment will influence their decisions, and some mechanical lifeforms will consider settling elsewhere. Population emigration is inevitable; it just depends on how the Lawful Faction remedies it and how much emigration there is."

Zhou Yi didn't think so much.

He had only one purpose from beginning to end.

You will pay me your patent fees!

Reasoning with you properly is respecting the rules, but if you don't give me justice, then I will use my own method to find justice.

15 minutes later.

The Armed Rights team returned to Emerald City and gave Zhou Yi a detailed report.

Jiong He Cang, who had been watching the whole process, said: "I conducted continuous high-precision observations on Clockwork City, and there are many missile launchers below this city, with a large number of B-grade missiles stored inside."

"The nearby high-altitude drones conducted a large amount of data sampling on Ice Teapot, which is a hidden danger to us. In the future, atmospheric creatures will be increasingly targeted and restrained when facing Mechanical Cities."

Zhou Yi nodded: "So we also need to improve the diversity of our operations and be prepared for danger in times of peace."

"Also, Chairman."

Jiong He Cang continued: "Clockwork City was equipped with a lot of new recording equipment, which recorded the entire process of our strategic strike, held by mechanical spiders and robot dogs, which they tried to record and then escape. However, like those launchers, they were all destroyed in our strategic strike. I have also eliminated all the scattered escapees."

"In addition, Ice Teapot and I conducted cross-observation in the fields of energy and consciousness, and found that the local mechanical lifeforms did not not want to escape. It's just that the Lawful Faction stipulates that residents have an obligation to protect the city, and will be urgently conscripted to serve in extraordinary times, participating in the defense of the city's main body and everyone's public property."

"So most of them cannot leave. The only ones who evacuated were disabled residents exempt from service, those who were too weak to use tools, and those in special occupations."

"A total of 17,811 residents of Clockwork City participated in the battle, and 17,811 died. There were no survivors."

Zhou Yi's brows relaxed.

So that's how it was.

The Lawful Faction has a mandatory rule of universal conscription, no wonder the mechanical residents were so united this time.

This mechanism has obvious advantages and disadvantages.

It forcibly allows all residents to be transformed into warriors at any time, directly participating in the battle, which can enhance the city's defense and cohesion.

But when encountering this Light Core-level bombing, it will only cause all the residents to be buried with it.

The battlefield is always cruel, and people will die.

What Zhou Yi didn't expect was that instead of waiting for someone from the Lawful Faction, the envoy of Heavenly Country came to visit first.

"Mr. Zhou, long time no see, you are still so high-spirited."

"This time, I am here on the order of His Majesty Black Emperor to pay a special visit."

The visitor was Feng Che, the Heavenly Country's ambassador to the Shuanghe region.

The address had also changed from 'you' to 'you'.