Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 410: Electromechanical Monk
Zhou Yi asked the carrot monster to give him a formal name.

After all, he is a land management officer and is already a formal member of the company.

You can't keep calling me carrot monster.

"Chairman, I don't know how to name something, and I don't know what name would be good."

The earthbending creature said, "Please help me find one."

Zhou Yi thought for a moment and said, "Then let's call him Robo."

"I'm Robbo now!"

The earthbending creature happily accepted.

After discussing with the God of Land, Zhou Yi confirmed the basic duties of the land management officer.

Robbo's job is to identify the real-time condition of the land, including whether its fertility is depleted or its energy is sufficient, and report it in a timely manner.

As for other alienated lives born in the suspended layer, Robo needs to register them and educate them on company policies, and manage them in a unified manner to prevent them from affecting farming on the land.

In fact, the area of the First Ring Road is very large, and it is not easy for Robo to patrol such a vast area alone.

But the carrot monster was very happy and willing.

"Robo, make sure you complete the mission!"

"I am full of strength now. The power of the land is with me! On this land, I am strong!"

In that case, Zhou Yi let it do it alone first.

Next is the new material: radish tendons.

This thing has high potential.

The carrot monster is the best. As long as its roots or body are wrapped with tendons and the other end is wrapped around other people's heads or brains, it can have a simple consciousness conversation with other people.

But currently it is limited to one-on-one wired calls.

Further development is difficult.

The entire wasteland society has always been struggling with the research in the field of consciousness. Except for some people with special abilities and conceptual life forms, there is no real technology that can achieve the controllable and stable use of consciousness.

Radish tendons are a special material born from natural alienation. They can carry and absorb consciousness and are a natural channel for consciousness.

But whether it was the programming department, the hospital or the data center of Recursive City, they all had no idea where to start with it.

703 said bluntly: "Chairman, although we have obtained this high-quality material, there is absolutely no precedent to follow. We must find the way ourselves in the dark. This process may take a long time, and it is unlikely that there will be any progress in a short time."

“The realm of consciousness is like a completely enclosed black room, in which we cannot find any reference.”

"On the other hand, consciousness will have an impact on any life, and it is difficult to judge which consciousness is benign and which is malignant. For such an indescribable and ineffable thing, we must proceed with caution, otherwise it may cause consciousness trauma to researchers, or even cause consciousness death."

"Based on this situation, it will not have breakthroughs in all aspects as quickly as electric cats, and may take many detours. But to promote its progress, it requires continuous light and a lot of manpower investment... This is the objective problem we face."

For this research, the robot dog changed its previous aggressive attitude and became extremely cautious and conservative.

Zhou Yi expressed his understanding: "There is no rush. But we must do this and make plans for long-term investment. Now we have radish tendons as a starting point, which is a good start. We will take our time."

Regarding the research project on radish tendons, Zhou Yi named it "consciousness nerve".

He invested the first phase of 50 special funds for light seeds, which were jointly developed and promoted by the Program Department, Maria Hospital, and Recursion City.

……

One day later.

Good news came from Shuanghe.

Nige and Wuyi have completed the incubation of the local space tree. The space bubble there is of a higher level, and the energy and matter ejected from it far exceed that of the Sand Harbor area.

The Shuanghe Space Tree is in the shape of a large black mushroom cloud, with an area nearly 1/4 of Shagang and 4 times the size of the Moon Landing Area, and its highest point reaches 700 meters.

This area was named "Dushan District" by the emperor.

Getting such a large piece of land out of nowhere made the Governor of Heaven laugh out loud in the communicator.

“This technology is simply miraculous…I didn’t expect that land could be acquired in this way.”

"I plan to use this land specifically for the production and processing of some risky things, including electrolysis towers, liquid batteries, metallurgy and other projects."

It has already started planning: "Water delivery is a big problem. This place has no water source. Fortunately, the Dead Sea Channel you built before is very useful. You can build a spiral Dead Sea Channel through the river at the bottom of the Dead Sea to bring water up. I asked Wu Yi to help test it, and the effect is very good."

"Wait! Did you even plan this?"

"..."

Zhou Yi touched his chin when he heard this.

So this is still possible?
The Dead Sea Canal was originally built around a mountain, but now the mountain has been turned into a space tree, so it is indeed no problem to pump water up all the way around.

You can copy this part of Miedinggong's homework.

"But now there are flies buzzing around, quite a few of them."

Miedinggong continued, "People from the Kingdom of Heaven, other governors, some drones, independent forces... are all eyeing my Dushan District, trying to get the secrets from me. They don't dare to bother you, but many of them are looking for me."

"Originally, I was thinking of looking around to see if I could buy some nearby space bubbles, or at least get the locals to give them up. But now it seems that's not going to work. They're watching me too closely."

"I can only work on the infrastructure of Dushan District first and wait until this period of hype is over before I do anything else."

"Unfortunately, Dushan District is too far from Shuanghe to be directly connected, so we can only build ports and routes from scratch. Food, clothing, housing and transportation for the residents who move there are also a problem. The Emerald City three-piece set is really useful at this time. After laying the land, mushroom houses can be planted directly. Emerald Soup and Goblet of Fire are also very convenient and practical."

"It would be even better if there were cavemen's mobile space bubble technology..."

Zhou Yi felt deeply moved when he heard this.

When they first met, Duke Mieding was cold and arrogant. He threw all the people's problems to the local official Ringo and only regarded resources and population as numbers.

Now it is focusing on infrastructure and people's livelihood, and attaches great importance to it.

Because Emerald City’s achievements made it very jealous, many fields are following suit.

Attaching importance to infrastructure and people's livelihood issues has now become a distinctive feature of the wasteland company system.

……

It took only one week to complete the Wuhu viaduct connecting the moon landing area.

The viaduct was connected to an A-level electric cat [Shining 49], who officially became an electric driver. This also made the viaduct a natural guide network trunk, which could provide various electric cats with free running and shuttling.

The next step is to further extend the viaduct to complete the ring road coverage. The reinforced vehicles and electromechanical bulls transported various power equipment to the moon landing area, and then they were assembled by power engineers and workers.

Generators, electrolytic towers, substations, and conductor networks using the floating heart as energy sources are gradually being built.

The Dead Sea Channel led by Gongsun Bao was also built in the Moon Landing Area. The channel here will take water from the river at the bottom of the Dead Sea nearby as a water source, and then use it for drinking and production after purification.

Zhou Yi observed for a few days and confirmed that the progress there was smooth, then turned his attention back to the company headquarters.

The Emerald City also welcomed an unprecedented visitor.

Hong Jian introduced: "This is Hui Mai, the electromechanical monk from Xue County."

"It has come from afar, hoping to travel and practice with us for a while."

Zhou Yi looked at the mechatronic monk in front of him.

Its main body is an electric scooter, which is hard to associate with the profession of monk.

There is a silver metal hemisphere structure on the handlebar with a string of digital codes on it.

This is the monk code, similar to its ordination certificate and identity certificate.

As long as it is connected to any machine stack, its identity can be verified by the code.

Mechatronic monks are a special, independent class that seeks out new knowledge and ideas for the entire mechatronic life community.

Unlike other mechanical and electrical life forms who are employed by cities, monks have no employment or labor relationship with cities. They do not belong to any city and travel between regions to practice.

Mechanical and electrical cities are also willing to provide this group with the necessary survival resources.

The environment and conditions in Xue County are most suitable for monks to learn from each other and debate with each other, so the monks live in groups and it became famous because of this.

Zhou Yi discovered that there was a little boy about seven or eight years old next to Hui Mao.

He was wearing a dirty long gown and a pair of old cloth shoes, and looked a little shy.

Hui Mai said through the loudspeaker: "His name is Shuzi, and he follows me to practice."

Zhou Yi nodded: "Yuanxiao, take this child to change into clean clothes and give him something to eat."

"Thank you for your kindness, but it's not necessary."

Hui Mai said: "Practicing cultivation only requires the necessary survival guarantee, and keeping a clear mind and few desires can reduce the interference of material desires on thinking."

Zhou Yi no longer insisted.

This was his first time to come into contact with the group of electromechanical monks.

After a conversation, Zhou Yi felt that they were quite different from traditional electromechanical life forms.

Most electromechanical lives revolve around their own responsibilities. Work is their greatest self-worth and the main theme of their lives. They are extremely particular about efficiency and procedures.

Hui Mai is not like that.

It showed a strange sense of relaxation, spoke slowly and calmly.

“The mission of monks is to seek knowledge and ideas.”

“We complete our self-cultivation by observing, learning and thinking everywhere.”

"Different monks also have their own themes of thought."

“The main theme of my lineage is the issue of race.”

The electromechanical monk preached: "Since the founding of the electromechanical city, there has been an ancient debate."

“Can different races really understand each other?”

"To date, this question remains unanswered."

"Based on existing experience and results, most mechatronic life forms believe that it is difficult to communicate with and understand other species. As long as mechatronic life forms themselves remain internally consistent, they can solve most problems in their survival."

"But in recent years, this view has been broken. One of the sources is the multi-racial integration advocated by your company. The Wasteland Company has humans, aliens, electromechanical life, light species, skeletons, and energy life."

"Take the example of the Wasteland Company. The collaboration of multiple races has created amazing vitality. In contrast, the Electromechanical City has stagnated for many years and has fallen into a long-term decline."

“Nowadays, the legal system is also trying to integrate multiple ethnic groups to promote the development of the city.”

"It is precisely because of this that I took the liberty of visiting, hoping to find the answer here."

Zhou Yi doesn't know much about racial issues.

The company’s model is that if you can do the job, then you do it.

It doesn't matter if you are a skeleton, a new human or a cat. Everything starts from the actual work.

However, the monks' visit sent a positive signal.

Representing the electromechanical life group, they began to study and research the Emerald City.

Hui Mai added: "In addition, there are monks who are very worried about the development alliance led by you. The following is the part about them asking me for help."

"In the electric cat system you recently introduced, those electric cats are considered extreme weapons against electromechanical cities."

Hui Mai said: "Because electromechanical life itself is extremely sensitive to electric current, excessive current and voltage can cause an electromechanical life to immediately go dormant or die. This also makes many electromechanical cities very nervous. Can you talk about this issue?"

Zhou Yi laughed in silence. "Due to the characteristics of electric cats, they do have a natural killing power against electromechanical life forms, and the same is true for humans. However, if you only use them as weapons, you are really underestimating them and belittling them."

"Electric cats are energy life forms, but they are no different from humans like me and electromechanical life forms like you. Electric cats feel happy when they are taken care of, and get angry when they are offended. They are friendly to their friends and send electric shocks to their enemies."

"We develop and train electric cats so that they can become our company's employees. By building the guide network, the areas covered by our company will become more convenient, safer and more livable."

"Of course, electric cats have good fighting ability. They will never show mercy to their enemies. But if they are friends, there is nothing to be afraid of."

The electromechanical monk added: "I have another question, which may be a little sharp. Do you think that the electromechanical city is the enemy of the company?"

"of course not."

Zhou Yi shook his head: "We are not enemies of one or the other. On the contrary, I have always believed that electromechanical life and electromechanical cities are an indispensable and important part of this world."

"Survival in this world surrounded by the Dead Sea is already difficult. Transforming the environment and using technology to make life easier should be the consensus of every living group."

"I am not good at public speaking or debate. Master Hui Mai, please confirm these things through observation. We also sincerely hope to reduce mutual prejudice and eliminate these untrue and malicious rumors."

Hui Mai said, "Sorry to bother you then."

It paused for a moment and said, "There is one more thing I need to trouble you with. My disciple, Shuzi's situation is rather special..."

(End of this chapter)