Wasteland Development Diary

The Divine New Clothes service of the garment factory was launched, and the territory lords of the Development Alliance came to customize them at the first opportunity.

Zhou Yi could understand the purchases made by the other lords as a way to facilitate business negotiations with the outside world, functioning as a business card with built-in attention-grabbing and lie-detecting capabilities.

However, the fact that the two mechatronics territory lords, Duke Bedu and Duke Steel Refining, also came to make reservations puzzled Zhou Yi.

Logically speaking, they had no need for this.

Duke Bedu explained, "Mr. Zhou, wearing Divine New Clothes daily can increase public attention towards us. In fact, most residents know very little about the territory lords. Attention leads to cohesion."

Duke Steel Refining also said, "There will always be residents in the territory who have opinions about us, but there are also those who support us, and those who neither support nor oppose us. Divine New Clothes can help consolidate the latter two groups."

Zhou Yi sighed, "You guys have really figured out how to make the most of these Divine New Clothes."

Duke Steel Refining was a mobile crushing station, which was also a type of mining cart, so a car cover was directly put on it.

Duke Bedu, on the other hand, was a warship, too large, so in the end, Xiao Chu could only make a flag for it.

At the same time, Pikachu and his group's eight-day vacation came to an end.

After reporting to Zhou Yi, they rushed to Mars again under the leadership of Curling to carry out the next round of light seed mine development.

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This summer was particularly long. At this time last year, the temperature had already dropped and autumn had arrived. But the sun showed no signs of weakening, instead, it directly entered a peak temperature of 40 degrees Celsius. The dry and sunny weather with very little rainfall still showed no signs of improvement.

Most of the company's employees worked indoors, which increased the consumption of refrigerants and led to the purchase of more iced drinks.

Previously, the agricultural department was the most affected by the high temperature and drought, as they had to work outdoors. However, with the installation of new irrigation equipment and the construction of indoor planting facilities, the workload of the farmers was reduced a lot, and the working hours in the morning and evening were also shortened.

Outside, however, there was a constant stream of bad news.

Heatstroke and infectious diseases raged in Glassburg, and the death toll this summer had already reached 200.

Cotton and linen fields suffered from widespread insect pests, resulting in massive damage to cotton and a sharp reduction in domestic grain production, causing grain prices across the region to soar fivefold.

The most outrageous thing happened in Overturning Cloud City, where the entire city was sold off at a low price by its territory lord to cash out, and then Duke Overturning Cloud himself resigned and ran away.

Zhou Yi was shocked when he heard this, "Is that even possible?"

"Although rare, it does happen."

"The local area lacks good transformation directions, and several attempts to change have failed, and the city's debt is increasing day by day. It is a common practice for territory lords to choose to cash out and leave."

"This summer's drought is severe, with a shortage of water and food, and a large number of people continue to flee, further accelerating this process."

The successor was an unknown enhancer named He Qiang.

He brought a group of people to take over Overturning Cloud City.

The drone said, "According to past experience, this He Qiang is very likely to have been the leader of a raiding group, who completed the initial accumulation of capital through looting. These people will transform and whitewash themselves in various ways. However, it is rare to see such a large investment in purchasing a city and managing it personally."

"But buying a city now is a good low-price opportunity."

Zhou Yi remembered the name He Qiang.

The continued high temperature and drought did not affect the further extension of the Wuhu Overpass.

It completed the cross-sea connection with the Tree Monster Territory.

At this point, the Development Alliance was left with only the distant northern Shuanghe area that had not been included in the cross-sea bridge system.

The Overpass said, "Chairman, the straight-line distance to my main body is too far, and I need to find multiple space holes as transit points. I need to ask Niger to build space trees along the way to ensure that this long-distance cross-sea bridge can be stable and solid for a long time."

"It is currently estimated that it will take 90 days to complete."

Zhou Yi told it to proceed step by step and not to rush.

"I have another idea."

The Overpass said, "The total distance from Emerald City to Shell City is 340 kilometers. Even with the highest speed of 80 kilometers per hour, it takes more than 4 hours."

"Even sitting in the car, passengers will feel tired after such a long time. They are prone to negative emotions, which also has a certain impact on my collection of consciousness fragments."

"So I plan to further increase the speed and add a 110-kilometer-per-hour express lane. I have to upgrade the bridge body to A-level to stabilize this speed supply. So it will take several more months to complete the reinforcement of these cross-sea bridges."

Zhou Yi was more concerned about: "Will the load be too heavy?"

"It mainly takes time to gradually strengthen and transform. The energy is fine, it can be obtained from the Dead Sea."

The Overpass said, "Chairman, I want to build some service stations along the cross-sea bridge, arranged on the space trees along the way, so that vehicles can temporarily stop and rest. Passengers can get off the bus to excrete, replenish supplies, eat, repair vehicles, refuel the floating hearts, charge the electric cats, etc."

"If a service station is built on each inter-regional bridge section, the long journey can be broken down into short journeys, reducing passenger fatigue and improving the riding experience."

"They can have a good experience traveling on the bridge, feel fun and positive feedback, which is also very important for my further improvement."

"Is that okay?"

Zhou Yi was a little surprised: "You came up with this yourself?"

"It was Guan Zhong's idea."

The panda man who partnered with the Overpass said, "Yes, Chairman."

"The idea of the service station is very good, just do as you said."

"Thank you for your praise. This is actually imitating the model of the old humans. During the God Era, there was a very dense road network, and the highways and bridges at that time had such a design. I just borrowed the wisdom of the predecessors."

Guan Zhong said, "Recently, after participating in actual work, I finally discovered why my previous judgment on you had a huge error."

"Tell me about it."

"When I was still Shang Yang, whether it was me or the legal principles, we all believed that Wasteland Company was an armed group that brought together aliens, mechatronic life forms, humans, and light-nano seeds."

"We also believed that you were a territory lord who took a different path, focusing on economic construction and people's livelihood research and development, which were less contested areas."

Guan Zhong said, "The problem lies here."

"Labor is wealth, which is the consensus of all territory lords. Therefore, only people with the ability to work have value."

"However, your purpose is completely different. From the company's various behaviors, it can be seen that you recognize that people themselves are wealth. Therefore, maintaining a larger population, more people can survive and have a high-quality life, is the goal pursued by the company."

Zhou Yi was a little surprised.

He hadn't carefully studied these outlines and theories himself.

No wonder Guan Zhong could come up with legal procedures.

Its sensitivity and insight are very strong.

Zhou Yi continued to listen.

"This error has caused a huge fallacy in the results and a fundamental error in direction."

"The current calculation mechanism of mechatronic cities cannot understand this level, and ultimately still takes labor efficiency and labor output as the core. Deducing from the data can only lead to conclusions in this regard."

"Therefore, whether it was the Universal Agreement stage or the Legalist Front period, the data center did not believe that Storage City and Clockwork City would be destroyed. Because a logical reason association could not be formed, it was because the source model was wrong."

Guan Zhong said in a deep voice, "In my opinion."

"Mechatronic cities—whether it is the Universal Agreement or Legalist rule—are essentially factories disguised as countries."

"Because the program operation of mechatronic cities is a factory-style and industrialized process. Mechatronic life forms abide by the program, and no matter how the process is adjusted, it is difficult to jump out of the existing main framework."

"The core rule of this type of city is to accumulate a large amount of wealth for the entire mechatronic city by continuously adjusting and improving production efficiency."

"This leads to rich cities and poor residents. No matter how huge and advanced a factory is, it is difficult to guarantee the interests of every worker, because the factory is just a factory after all, and it is only responsible for the processed products it produces."

"Our Wasteland Development Company, on the other hand, is a country disguised as a company."

"The company obtains a large amount of wealth through innovative research and development and commercial trade. But this wealth is used for the company's infrastructure construction, whether it is agriculture, medical care, housing, or education, which are the most important guarantees for the interests of employees."

"Factories are only responsible for the processed products they produce, but countries need to consider the survival needs of the vast majority of their citizens."

"These are two completely different paths, and data analysis alone cannot reveal the essence."

Guan Zhong said, "In the confrontation with the company, if the Legalist Front cannot quickly gain an advantage, it will be increasingly difficult to resist the further it goes."

"The reason is very simple. The reform of mechatronic cities cannot be thorough on its own. It cannot turn itself into something else. No matter how much it imitates the outside world and learns from the company's model, the core cannot be moved, and it is still essentially a factory model."

"Workers will become more and more tired under long-term labor and high-intensity competition, while citizens will get better and better conditions as the country grows stronger—even if the improvement is not much. As one waxes and the other wanes, the gap between the two will eventually become larger and larger."

"The current Legalist imitation and catching up with the company is both a bad thing and a good thing."

"The bad thing is that there is no doubt about the production capacity of the Legalist Front. They will create a large number of high-quality power equipment and facilities, occupying an important position in the market. Learning from the company also allows them to quickly keep up with the pace and not fall behind the current technological trends and directions, which will put some pressure and impact on us."

"The good thing is that the Legalist Front has calculated that learning the floating heart and electric cat system is the optimal solution. As long as they are in a state of following and imitating, they have already lost the technical right to speak—which was originally the biggest advantage of mechatronic cities."

"As long as this situation continues, the company's advantage will become greater and greater. The only possible way to reverse the situation is war, but it has been proven to be a failure not long ago, and Clockwork City was destroyed."

"The data center calculates that the odds of mechatronic cities launching a full-scale war are less than 51%. They use data as the core judgment and will not launch a war without more than 60% advantage in winning. As time goes by, the winning rate will only further decline, and internal pressure and security instability will also increase."

"In summary, we only need to continue to adhere to steady and steady progress, and the Legalist Front has fallen into a strange circle that cannot be jumped out of. As long as we enter the next historical cycle, the Legalist Front will fall into natural decline and collapse."

This analysis enlightened Zhou Yi.

It is indeed a professional who runs mechatronic cities.

Zhou Yi also didn't expect it.

The basic plan of the Legalist Front is light printing technology. As a result, after being impacted by new energy and new materials, they very quickly chose to follow suit and promoted the further reduction of the industrial value of light printing technology themselves.

It can only be said that success is also data, and failure is also data.

Everything calculated by the program is to make the data of mechatronic cities better.

For the uncertain future, the data center cannot calculate.

Therefore, they can only learn the safest and most successful model based on the current environment and directly copy the homework.

Before the establishment of the mechatronic cities, the mechatronic life forms led by the Titan Knights were less restricted and imitated nature to grope out light printing technology. Now that they have stabilized, they are also bound.

"There is already a problem within the Legalist Front."

"According to the framework I set, external information collection and manual intervention mechanisms should be activated now."

Guan Zhong said confidently, "Now that old problem will appear again. The interests of large cities and small and medium-sized cities are inconsistent. The more the economy declines, the stronger the siphon effect of the former will be, continuously absorbing the resources and residents of the latter. The contradiction between the two will further intensify."

"As long as the mechatronic administrator cannot create miracles and stabilize the existing order, this is inevitable."

Zhou Yi said, "Then there should be no miracle, it has been caught by me."

"Ah..."

Guan Zhong was stunned for a moment: "Then... it should be soon, the efficiency of mechatronic cities is very fast, success will be very fast, but the outbreak of contradictions will also be very fast."

"It depends on what form it breaks out in."

It said, "I have a suggestion."

"Chairman, would you consider annexing the mechatronic city group?"