Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 49 Wasteland Technology
The night raid went smoothly.

The thieves were completely unaware of the Zhou Yi tribe that had sneaked in from the bottom of the sea.

As soon as the battle-hardened warrior crab boarded the ship, the enemy offered no resistance at all and knelt down and raised their hands in surrender very consciously.

The leader of the thieves was called Yuan Tong. He had half-white hair, a thick beard, black teeth, and the vicissitudes of life were clearly visible between his eyebrows and eyes. He was a genuine middle-aged man.

He wore a wide-brimmed hat and a belt with two metal buckles.

Later Zhou Yi found out that these two buttons were a little invention of Yuan Tong.

He required every crew member to wear it. When the Dead Sea was bumpy or hit by external forces, the rope that fixed the boat needed to be locked to the buckle. This way, even if they fell off the deck or were blown away, they would have a chance of survival.

Yuan Tong had a black leather belt tied diagonally on his head, covering his left eye.

He only has the use of his right eye.

With the help of the Red Falcon's [Bird's Eye View], Zhou Yi read Yuan Tong's mental activities in real time.

"Now I ask and you answer."

Yuan Tong nodded.

At Zhou Yi's signal, the warrior crabs first brought the other thieves to the stern for unified management.

So they were the only two left on the bow deck.

Zhou Yi placed his hands on the railing of the boat, gazing at the vast Dead Sea shrouded in mist.

"Tell me how you got into this business."

Yuan Tong began to speak.

Zhou Yi was a little surprised.

It turns out that the pirate leader used to be a shipyard craftsman and a technician.

Zhou Yi asked him, "Are there many cases like yours?"

"If they become leaders of a robbery group, there aren't many. Craftsmen only specialize in technology. But there are many who become pirates and can't get off the ship because they work as repairmen on the ship."

Yuan Tong pondered for a while and said, "Later, I learned that the shipyard had dealings with the robbers for business reasons. The depth of these dealings varied depending on the situation of the different shipyards."

"Most knights have their own shipyards, but pirates have to buy ships from outside, otherwise they can't enter the Dead Sea. With ships, they become pirates, and it's not easy for the knights to encircle and suppress them."

"The robbery group made up of thieves is actually an important customer of the shipyard. They just trade through middlemen, which is very secretive."

He added: "Pirates have their own territories and usually make money in their own areas. Most pirates will let ships pass if they can get a bribe, commonly known as a sea crossing fee."

"But when they don't give, they will intercept some small merchant ships and rob them of goods or ships. It's very expensive to start a reinforced ship to sail in the Dead Sea, and we need to balance income and expenditure."

"The looted ships will also be sold to some shipyards, and they can be sold after modification..."

Zhou Yi interrupted him: "The pirates are dividing the areas. Is this because of the request of the Knights of the Dead Sea?"

"It's not just them, but the bigger pirates all have backgrounds."

Yuan Tong's beard twitched as he spoke: "Some pirates belong to a certain city, some are backed by some merchant groups... There are also great differences between pirates."

"Small groups like us who have received money from the sea will provide ships with the latest movements of nearby monsters, mark rapid currents and light explosion areas, and prevent them from encountering shipwrecks."

"In the long run, if there are fewer merchant ships, pirates will earn less and less. At least that's what I think. With more merchant ships, we can survive even if we collect less money."

Zhou Yi looked at this technical pirate leader.

Before launching the surprise attack, he read the minds of these thieves and gained some understanding of the Yuan Tong gang's non-lethal robbery methods and the difficulty of retirement. Although his subordinates had some confusion and complaints about this boss, they were surprisingly supportive.

It now seems that Yuan Tong was indeed a good manager and had a deep understanding of the business of maritime plunder.

Zhou Yi asked him: "How do other pirates do it?"

"If it's a small group like ours, with one to three ships, there's actually a limit to what we can do. Basically, we rob some small merchant ships, or threaten medium or large transport ships that are obviously in a hurry, and get some money for crossing the sea."

"Some also go to the land, land near the Dead Sea, and rob ordinary people."

Yuan Tong paused and said, "But some pirates are different. There is a group of people in the sea not far from our area. They specialize in robbing women and children and being human traffickers. This is their main source of income."

"Two years ago, there was a group of pirates who specialized in capturing living people for evil sacrifices, digging out their hearts and offering them to the Heart-Eating Ghost. This made their ships faster and stronger. They were wanted by all parties, and no one knew where they ran off to." "I also heard that some pirates specifically attacked ships coming out of specific cities. At first I thought it was the instigation of the city's hostile forces. Later I found out that it was planned by a few businessmen who deliberately created panic to affect the market so that they could buy low and sell high..."

Zhou Yi listened carefully and tapped the railing with his fingers: "Tell me about this ship."

Yuan Tong blurted out: "This is a modified light reinforced ship. It can accommodate up to 11 people, 15 days of clean water, 12 days of food, and has a limited carrying capacity. The ship next door is basically the same."

"They can reach a maximum speed of 18 kilometers per hour, and their energy consumption is one energy pack per 1 hours. They do not have any weapons and rely on speed to harass and intercept."

Talking about the boats, he became a little eloquent: "These two boats were originally produced in Gaoling Shipyard in Xiaoyanling. They were processed by standard printing technology and the hull covering is also very regular. Although they have been in operation for 12 years, the hull is still in good condition."

"Just a year ago, I reinstalled E-class optical propulsion and optical flotation on both boats. Under normal maintenance conditions, they can still be used for another 4 years."

Yuan Tong stroked the side of the boat with his hands, his face full of reluctance and longing.

Zhou Yi remained calm but was muttering to himself.

What is light printing?
I seem to have heard it several times.

He thought to himself, "Red Falcon, retrieve the light seal."

After a while.

A synthesized voice sounded in my head: "Light printing is an applied technology developed by the "Light Printing Technique". Its basic principle is to imitate the light organs of various light nano species and replicate them in the form of light printing structures. High-precision light printing techniques can make the light printing structure infinitely close to its template, but it cannot surpass it."

"The light printing technique arranges and combines the dead light through a specific ring array, uses stable materials such as metal, wood, stone or ceramics as the carrier frame, and uses special processing technology to finally produce a workable light print."

"Light seal is a specific manifestation of the light seal technique. Different light seals have different effects, but any light seal requires the support of dead light energy. Its universal energy source is energy packs."

"The application scope of this technology covers all aspects, including strengthening the aircraft body, vehicle operation, weapon manufacturing, shell packaging... all of which are supported by the optical printing structure."

Zhou Yi thought of the dream-trapping bomb he had captured: "The shell is encapsulated with a light-printing structure?"

"Yes."

Hong Shun explained: "In the military field, common weapons such as swords, knight muskets, etc. have light print structures. The light print structures installed on ships, chariots and cities are even more complex and precise. Various artillery directly stimulate the death light energy through light prints to attack."

"The biggest advantage of the light-printed weapon is its stability. Once installed, it will be effective against targets within its range."

"But on the other hand, because the light printing itself is a bionic replica, it is extremely difficult to break through its existing limits. Whether it is to expand the range or increase the power, it requires a lot of calculations, research and repeated tests. The requirements for light printing technology are very high, and there are very few successful cases."

Zhou Yi understood.

Light printing is "artificial skill".

This is the core wasteland technology mastered by the new humans, and its essence is a replication of the "skills" possessed by existing light nano-species.

Zhou Yi thought.

No wonder when we saw the new humans first using flintlock rifles with lead bullets, then glowing cold weapons such as spears, then bronze bull rockets, and then the weird main guns of battleships with ridiculously short range... It gave people a confusing sense of disarray and distortion of the times.

Although the new humans have inherited some of the things left by the old humans, their technological path is completely different.

Zhou Yi was a little curious again: "What about the gunpowder?"

Hong Shun said: "Gunpowder is an inefficient and unstable way of using energy. It is a relatively backward technological means. It is only better than ordinary cold weapons and has many limitations when used. For light nano species of level D and above, gunpowder cannot even break through the defense."

"Its destructive power, explosive power, persistence, stability, and universality cannot be compared with the light print."

understood.

However, Zhou Yi was a little confused: "Since humans have mastered the Yin Guang technique, why are they suppressed by Skywalker and the Lord of the Territory?"

The drone immediately answered: "Because of this technology, electromechanical life is at the forefront, and the large-scale light nano-species forces headed by the Kingdom of Heaven are also conducting in-depth research and have achieved many results in the application field. Humans started late and developed slowly. They mainly process raw materials and parts, and make low-level light prints, and are at the downstream of the entire light print industry chain."

Zhou Yi exclaimed.

This kind of innate body has its own advantages.

Technology is still ahead.

The new humans are indeed a bit difficult to handle...

(End of this chapter)