Wasteland Development Diary
Chapter 675 - 135: Ripple of String Light
Considering the safety risks, Zhou Yi ordered that the experiment should be conducted far from land.
Fortunately, there is a large area of rapids north of Sand Port. When attacking the Steel Refining City and Shell City controlled by Duke Baili, Yalong Bay had made a huge detour from here along its original route.
At night, the Death Light is not active, but the light currents in this area are still turbulent.
The Artificial Sun began to descend.
Above the Dead Sea.
Zhou Yi sat on a chair on the surface of Hei Fu, while the Warlord stood on a small floating rocky platform.
Both silently observed.
The Artificial Sun in hibernation mode stabilized at a position about 1,000 meters above the Dead Sea, with gems on its surface lighting up one by one, subsequently forming a halo.
The Dead Sea below, surging with rapids, was suddenly pulled by some force, causing the light fog to curl.
Very soon, gigantic waves of light fog were forming, gathering into clusters of glowing streamlines, resembling a time-lapse photograph of a starry sky mural.
Zhou Yi looked down.
The frenzied rapids drew circular trajectories on the ground, highlighted by the Death Light, making it look beautiful and magnificent.
Beside him, the Warlord asked, "Is this similar to tidal effects?"
"Yes. The Artificial Sun has amplified the area's Death Light to ten times its strength, creating a unique energy movement phenomenon."
Zhou Yi said, "Similar to Jupiter's Great Red Spot or Mars' dust storms, it essentially stems from unequal energy distribution, resulting in high local energy density that manifests externally."
This was also mentioned by Turing's side.
The Cat God acts as a wireless WiFi, able to connect every employee within the radiation range of the company, allowing Zhou Yi to communicate with them easily.
"I see."
The Warlord nodded.
Beneath his feet, a large number of metal lines suddenly sprang upright on the floating platform, with spheres atop them, resembling a bizarrely structured super cushion brush.
These metal spheres began to emit light continuously, displaying red, yellow, and green colors flowing on the cross-shaped platform, as if performing some calculations.
Zhou Yi couldn't help but be curious: "Is this decoding the Dead Sea rapids?"
The Warlord nodded: "This is the Commanding Platform's Military Strategy Sand Table, specifically used for deciphering, simulations, and modeling, previously also used by the Golden Elephant for repeated simulations."
"The changes in the Dead Sea are complex. We need to filter out the natural and random parts so that what remains is of real interest, which is why the process takes a long time."
"If attacked with ordinary A-level weapons, the feedback from the three catastrophes of the Dead Sea would be extremely weak, barely analyzable. If not for Bai Bi's accidental discovery, I wouldn't have realized that the Dead Sea Master might also be releasing some kind of signal."
"So, it requires the power of a Light Core Level weapon, persistently altering the three catastrophes of the Dead Sea to obtain relatively clear feedback."
"But this is very stringent. Because there are too few Light Core Bodies in this world, and no one would waste their power on natural disasters. Doing so would trigger strong directed attacks from the Dead Sea Master, placing themselves in extreme danger."
He concluded: "Therefore, I think few people have done this in the past, making it difficult to discover the hidden signals within the three catastrophes of the Dead Sea."
Zhou Yi deeply agreed.
The Leshan Buddha serves as a ready example.
The Big Buddha withstood the three catastrophes of the Dead Sea, but was instantly slain by the Dead Sea Master... few would do such a thing, and those who did likely found it difficult to escape from the Dead Sea Master's grasp.
Normal Light Core Bodies probably wouldn't do such a thing.
The power of the Artificial Sun was quickly ramped up to Light Core Level 5, which is also its current limit.
Even the original Gem Sun in 404 City only reached this peak strength.
According to the Green Gemstone technology manual, a larger Gem Sun possesses higher strength, but it requires the entire Heavenly People to be transformed into a Gem Sun, and thus unable to move—akin to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter.
No samples or specific technical specifications exist for a Transmutator Level Gem Sun.
Fortunately, the current size is sufficient.
Zhou Yi cast his gaze onto the Warlord's sand table.
At this moment, some sporadic purple light spots appeared, jumping back and forth on the metal spheres.
"Just as expected."
A hint of joy appeared on the Warlord's face: "Using such large-scale Light Core Level weapons on the Dead Sea continuously works better than my Commanding Platform."
"Look, these light spots, their movements are actually an external manifestation of some rhythm, energy appearing and disappearing in different spaces."
"If you consider space as a thick city wall built from numerous bricks, then these strings of light are the echoes resulting from knocking on different bricks."
"Furthermore, they also gather some special consciousness fragments. However, these fragments cannot be read alone. I have also asked Concept Life for help, but they too were unable to read them."
"It seems that combining the strings of light with certain aggregated consciousness fragments is necessary to reveal their meaning."
Zhou Yi also saw this through the Light Core Body.
In the conscious perspective, a reflective string of light appeared on the surface of the Dead Sea below. However, compared to beneath the mantle, here it was much more sparse, mostly like candlelight or fireflies.
It was uncertain whether these scattered string of light fragments came from the sun or underground.
Zhou Yi ordered the operations team to activate elimination mode.
The brightness of the Artificial Sun in the air suddenly increased, with its surface even turning bluish.
The fierce and powerful tides of the Dead Sea gradually became calm and tranquil, with only stable and peaceful mist and light permeating the area; the natural disasters in this region disappeared completely.
Zhou Yi was very satisfied with this.
This was another important use of the artificial sun.
Eliminating the three disasters of the Dead Sea.
Some areas in the Dead Sea were facing prolonged rapids and high pressure, making it impossible to approach or traverse. Such areas were abundant in the Dead Sea. According to the markings of the Star Axis satellites, they occupied almost 15% to 20% of the Dead Sea, which were undeveloped in the past.
If these three disasters can be solved, not only could more new lands be developed, but affected areas could also immediately rid themselves of natural disasters.
Previously, Sand Port had encountered heavy fog, causing large-scale dust pollution from the Dead Sea on land, resulting in many people getting sick. Shell City was once hit by a level 17 typhoon, resulting in heavy casualties.
Translating these scenarios to now, using the artificial sun to absorb and change the direction of winds and fog, disasters can be blocked within the Dead Sea.
This would not provoke the counterattacks from the Dead Sea Master.
For each settlement, this function is also the most practical.
Prevention is always much better than post-repair.
"Huh? This reaction is..."
The sound of surprise from the Warlord interrupted Zhou Yi's thoughts.
Zhou Yi looked over upon hearing the sound and noticed that on the Warlord's sand table, a different string light reaction suddenly appeared.
A circle of stable and clear ripples was emitted around the metal sphere, as if an invisible stone entered the purple string light surface, forming a circle of constantly spreading ripples.
The Warlord's eyes focused, "Indeed, the Dead Sea Master exhibits a self-awareness and ideology different from other Concept Lives."
"It never communicates because its way of communication is through this string light and consciousness fragments, rather than this world's Great Holy Spirit System."
"Zhou Yi, can you read its meaning?"
Zhou Yi shook his head, "Currently know too little about string light, only aware of its deadly nature to Heavenly People; still unclear about its origins..."
"What a pity."
The Warlord showed a somewhat regretful expression.
"Actually, there is a way."
Zhou Yi said, "There's a Heavenly People technology called the [String Light Surface], used by the Heavenly People to collect this kind of string light..."
Upon hearing this, the Warlord was overjoyed, "Then why don't you take it out quickly! You have so much stuff, come on, let me see, maybe we can read what the Dead Sea Master is saying."
"...This thing is very complicated and hasn't been made yet."
Zhou Yi felt a bit helpless, "Just the artificial sun alone consumed a lot of manpower and time, in terms of difficulty and size, the string light surface surpasses the sun. Whether it can be replicated is still unknown."
"No problem, as long as there is a solution."
The Warlord was very optimistic, "The hardest part is finding the direction."
He touched his chin, "When you finish making it, come find me immediately, I'll come and continue to decode it."
"The main matters are also concluded, I'm leaving."
He was indeed decisive in coming and going.
However, the Warlord suddenly remembered something, "Oh right. Almost forgot an important matter."
"There's big news from the Forbidden Continent; Meat Mountain suddenly experienced consecutive earthquakes. The mountains started moving, as if they had come to life, and no one can figure out what's going on. The entire Meat Mountain has become inaccessible."
Zhou Yi was stunned.
Company's dispatched employee Yang Zhao was still investigating there, no wonder he hadn't returned.
"Is it serious?"
"What do you think? It has already sealed itself off automatically, this is the first time in history, who knows what happened. In the past, the most developed area of Meat Mountain was Three Side Slope, but Lady Mei has also been missing for a long time. The outside world rumors her disappearance is related to the anomaly at Meat Mountain."
The Warlord said, "You mentioned going to Meat Mountain before, this is a time to delay."
With the Warlord's departure.
Zhou Yi could finally return home to rest.
"Even if the King of Heaven comes, don't wake me up."
Zhou Yi told Jade City and Yuan Xiao like this.
However, in his daze, he suddenly felt someone pushing him around, and it felt more like someone was kicking his arm and forehead.
Zhou Yi was furious.
Who had the courage of a leopard to dare attack me in my sleep!
Die!
He suddenly flipped over, entering a frantic combat stance.
Then he discovered.
The prosthetic leg was standing on his quilt.
Oh, it's you... then it's okay.