Wasteland Development Diary
Chapter 693 - 153: Television Creatures
Zhou Yi pondered.
In other words, the essence of the long-necked crocodile is actually old humans dressed in monster suits, just like the Killer Rat, electric cat, and Golden Elephant.
"Apart from the long-necked crocodile, what other biological creations does the Forbidden Continent produce?"
"Just these few, Golden Elephant, Killer Rat, long-necked crocodile. Oh, and this."
Yang Zhao then unzipped the backpack on the ground and pulled out an old-fashioned television set from within.
"You'll understand when you see this, it has records inside."
Zhou Yi examined the old television in front of him.
Square-headed, with a black plastic frame, it was the ancestor of televisions he had seen as a child.
It looked somewhat familiar.
He remembered.
Previously, when he arrived at the Forbidden Continent, he had seen it in a shop. Such old televisions grow from the Forbidden Continent, and each time they are taken away, televisions will grow again on trees and the ground.
Previously, the TV he found because of the Ice Pot also had a Light Core Level Consciousness Fragment, continuously playing ads.
——Welcome to Taboo Paradise, now open to the public, offering Meat Mountain, Golden Elephant Valley, and Spark Plain. We sincerely invite visitors from all corners to enjoy the thrill of death.
The identical model.
The difference was that this television was fixed with a transparent glass device at the back. The screen did not show colored mosaics and snowflakes but had clear patterns.
Zhou Yi first looked at the glass device.
Inside were numerous delicate pipelines, gears, screws, pistons, cylinders, clips, rails, and sliders... It looked like a miniature transparent machine tool.
This high-precision structure and style were consistent with the Transparent Castle above the Spark Plain, undoubtedly created by the Seeder.
Zhou Yi asked Yang Zhao beside him, "Is this the only television connected to such a transparent structure?"
"Yes, Chairman."
The Carnivore nodded, looking somewhat proud, "It was at the very core of Meat Mountain, where the meat pulses and beats like a heart. All the wild televisions outside were grown by Meat Mountain based on this prototype."
"Because I took this away, Meat Mountain started moving more intensely, trying to find and retrieve this prototype. It took me a lot of effort to escape from Meat Mountain. This must be something good."
Zhou Yi was taken aback.
Biological cultivation was understandable, but could a television also be replicated by Meat Mountain?
"It can."
Yang Zhao seemed to find no problem with it, showing a matter-of-fact expression.
He adjusted the camera, fast-forwarding, and said, "Look here, I captured part of the process of wild television creation."
On the projection wall.
The scarlet mountain walls inside Meat Mountain gradually grew plastic lines and fine metal wires, which then intertwined and combined, gradually assembling into an old television.
The screen then lit up, not showing mosaics but playing an old western cowboy movie.
This television, trailing a long electric wire, slowly moved along the mountain walls towards the upper layers and outside.
Zhou Yi was utterly stunned.
Indeed, a television growing from flesh.
He snapped back to reality.
Though seemingly defying common sense, it actually made sense. Once the Transformer level was reached, energy could be used to transform and create matter.
In other words.
Meat Mountain is a Polymorphic Transformer Level biological factory.
Zhou Yi was still somewhat puzzled, "Why make these televisions? They're merely tools, unlike the long-necked crocodile and Killer Rat."
"They're alive, Chairman."
Yang Zhao corrected him.
"Televisions are biological?"
"Yes."
Yang Zhao seemed to have remembered something and exclaimed, "It's just that they die when leaving Meat Mountain... I almost forgot this point."
"Chairman, they're alive on Meat Mountain, able to sustain life through it, and they're quite active."
"Don't be fooled, they are the strongest form of life birthed by Meat Mountain, each one a Light Core Body. However, their bodies are fragile and unable to move, requiring constant external energy replenishment. Plus, Light Core Bodies consume a lot of energy, and without timely supply, they die quickly when away from Meat Mountain."
"But they are not appealing to Carnivores, their flesh is not tasty."
"The outside world just takes them from Meat Mountain, then lets them perish. I only figured it out completely this time."
Zhou Yi was bewildered, "Hold on, you said taken from Meat Mountain? But I saw the records of taking televisions, weren't they taken from the wild?"
"Ah, yes, the main area of Forbidden Continent is Meat Mountain, where meat accumulates is called 'the top', and where there isn't much meat is 'the bottom', that's how I refer to them."
Yang Zhao casually said, "In the past, my mind was bound by the Carnivore trait, often muddled and unable to think about these things or accurately recall and tell them. But after the company did surgery on me, my mind is clearer now."
"Actually, the entire Forbidden Continent is built on the foundation of Meat Mountain, other places are more like the shell and accessories. Like a plate of meat, with accompanying dishes and utensils."
Zhou Yi finally understood.
Meat Mountain is the true core of Forbidden Continent.
"Televisions are alive?"
"Yes. They're quite special, the television set is the body, and the Consciousness is inside. I'm not good with words, but watching the TV will make it clear."
Yang Zhao pressed the switch at the bottom of the television set.
The screen began to jump between frequencies, the upper right corner showing [Taboo Paradise-1-1].
On this channel, scenes of television manufacturing were being played, consistent with the footage Yang Zhao filmed earlier.
But the steps were more detailed, including internal views of the television set.
First, small humans were repeatedly sent into the television set, each one sealed in, eventually squeezing men and women inside like sardines in a can.
Then, these small humans began acting within the television set scenes. Various disasters occurred until each human died in different ways, leaving the last one standing.
The last survivor was usually abnormal.
Zhou Yi watched with a heavy heart.
These were indeed old humans; the bottled humans were the same frequency as biological televisions.
Seeders placed many old humans inside a television set, starting a real-life battle royale, with only one surviving.
After leaving Meat Mountain, a new group of humans must be inserted into the television set to start the battle royale anew.
In this system, humans act like the tokens required to play a game.
He recalled the looping advertisement within the television.
——Welcome to Taboo Paradise, enjoy the joy of death.
The last survivor of the battle royale will merge with the television set, becoming the eternal broadcaster inside, continuously narrating the story of each person's death and how they survived.
The television frequency channels included many small channels, each corresponding to the real-time situation of different television units.
Zhou Yi then switched to frequency 2.
This time it was the Golden Elephant.
The television switched to a dark red high-temperature zone, with the image somewhat distorted and stretched, golden creatures of vague shapes wandering inside.
The initial Golden Elephant cub was a blob of sticky golden fluid, not yet formed into a stable shape. After birth, a transparent device from above grabs it, injecting old human miniatures into its body, and the Golden Elephant cub is then rapidly matured.
Frequency 3 was for the Killer Rat, similarly birthed from lumps of flesh and stitched with old humans.
Frequency 4 was for the long-necked crocodile, similar to the Killer Rat. However, unlike the others, the long-necked crocodile was meant for external deployment, and images showed it having the ability for spontaneous reproduction.
There were only these four frequencies.
Zhou Yi observed repeatedly, still having some indistinct areas.
He took the television prototype into Chamber No.1, letting Qing Liu try to connect and retrieve more information.
The television set was placed against the Transparent Castle, naturally completing the connection.
A few minutes later.
The hydrogen-based life inside the transparent walls said, "Cultivator, the information inside this object is immense. I've extracted many peculiar contents..."
"The key ability of this television set is to allocate the old human Consciousness to each Meat Mountain area, encapsulating and reorganizing them into new biological creations. This process is recorded."
"It connects to the sky above Spark Plain, where the old humans are distributed by it into different areas."
"Using this, the locked old humans over there can all be released!"
Zhou Yi listened with great joy.
This was excellent news!