Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 563 A World Divided in Two
Xu Yuhang felt like he had recently fallen into a dream that resembled a TV series.

It was a world divided in two by a mirror, and the people in both worlds could only stay in their own spaces.

People in the mirror world will seek help from this side, asking how to solve many problems.

For example.

It was displayed on the giant screen between the two worlds.

Do you know how to terraform the moon?

Xu Yuhang felt a little helpless.

No, I'm just a 13-year-old middle school student.

You ask me how to terraform a planet?
I filled in for others in junior high school, okay?

You guys really dare to ask that.

He told his friend Egg Yolk about it.

Egg Yolk commented, "Old Xu, as they say, what you think about during the day, you dream about at night. It seems you're thinking of becoming something like a time traveler to the future or a savior. My assessment is that you've been playing too much Civilization, my friend. Don't get addicted to games; pay attention to real life."

He was playing Honor of Kings while he was talking.

After nightfall.

Confused and disoriented.

Xu Yuhang returned to that dream that was split in two. His side was warm and bright, while the other side of the mirror was leaden gray, blurry and hazy everywhere.

The huge electronic display screen on the border line was still lit up, displaying Chinese characters.

Are you really just a student?

Xu Yuhang told the other party, "That's right, I'm just a genuine first-year junior high student, I can't help you with anything."

Even though this is in a dream.

But he felt it was still necessary to make things clear.

The text on the screen lit up one by one again.

Are there still many old-timers in the space you live in?

According to these monitor robots, in their era, the old humanity had long since perished, and human cities had sunk into a dead sea composed of some kind of energy. Human civilization was inherited by these electromechanical life forms, and the surviving humans lost their former technology.

It calls itself "LUMI" and has a high-resolution Earth system model, 64 cores/CPU, 10240 GPUs. It is a supercomputer that survived and awakened.

Xu Yuhang couldn't help but wonder if he had traveled to the future in a dream?

He said, "Everyone is still alive and everything is normal."

The other party continued to ask.

What is the specific year in the Gregorian calendar when you live?

"April 2025... Today is the 6th, right? The Qingming Festival has just passed."

Xu Yuhang sat cross-legged on the ground.

He brought his hand close to the invisible dividing line in front of him and immediately sensed an insurmountable, immense force.

The outside world was still shrouded in mist.

Xu Yuhang asked, "Could you turn on the light? I want to see what you have over there."

[Sorry, our lighting system is actually on continuously and we don't lack energy. However, due to technical limitations, we need to focus the lens to communicate, which results in the outside world being blurred.]

Xu Yuhang was in a relaxed mood. It was just a dream, so it didn't matter how it went. At worst, he would just wake up.

He tried to immerse himself in the dream world of the game: "None of what you said can be proven."

"Don't you have a screen? You can let me see what's outside through the screen, right?"

A string of ellipses appeared on the screen.

It seems the other person is thinking.

After a while.

【If you'd like, of course you can.】

The screen stretched, revealing a dynamic image from above.

It was a world shrouded in mist, with a sea of ​​gray-white clouds everywhere. The whole world looked like it was on fire and emitting smoke, with very little land.

There were also some lightning and glowing areas in the thick fog, which looked like some kind of deadly weapon being deployed.

Xu Yuhang squinted at the screen: "Lummy, zoom in, let me see what's happening on the ground."

【as you wish. 】

The camera suddenly zooms in, focusing on the nearest land city.

The city is quite free, with some low wooden and stone houses, and some people even live in tents and caves. The squalor and disorder are just like the slums on TV.

A building with an elevator stands out prominently among them. Its high wall bears a crab logo and reads "Emerald City No. 277," suggesting it belongs to the local real estate developer.

The gap between the rich and the poor is huge.

There is also a terminal-like building where many airships are docked, and peculiar gliders take off from there.

Outside the city was a dock with some simply designed boats moored there, and two of them were sailing in the fog.

Xu Yuhang focused his observations on the city. The residents were mostly human; they transported various goods, busied themselves in the fields, and there were also police officers maintaining order.

There are also some monsters in the city. These monsters seem to be of high status, and humans avoid them from a distance.

He asked the monitor, "What are those monsters?"

[Light-Bearing Seeds, a powerful life form of this era...]

Similar to a mutated, specially intelligent monster.

Xu Yuhang looked at it for a while: "Is this the case in all cities?"

This is Shagang City. It's a member of the development alliance and is considered relatively developed and stable among cities.

[There are exceptions.]

The scene then shifts to another city. It resembles a steel factory, filled with dusty, dirty workers, billowing smoke, and a filthy environment.

They were constantly operating the equipment, producing and assembling parts, with something like a timer nearby to supervise them.

If the efficiency is not up to standard, the workers will be marked with a red mark.

Once they accumulate a certain number of marks, they will be captured by monsters and sent to even harsher environments to do hard labor.

If they can't do anything right, these people will eventually become living test subjects, having their blood drawn, drugs fed to them, injections administered, and even dangerous substances used on them.

This is a motorcycle town.

It was a city where slavery existed.

Xu Yuhang felt a little uneasy after reading this.

The screen then panned to several other cities. Some were extravagantly luxurious, some were heavily guarded, some were dilapidated and gloomy, and some were lifeless and desolate…

What they have in common is that the people in this world all live very hard lives, belonging to the bottom of society. Their lives are difficult, many people can't even afford to eat, and they are beaten by the Guangna people. Many of them starve to death or die of disease on the roadside.

Xu Yuhang felt both upset and angry.

The better one is the development alliance.

It is said to be an alliance led by a wasteland development company, dedicated to revitalizing humanity.

Currently, the new humans are being gradually enhanced by transforming them into enhanced individuals, ensuring that they are physically on par with the Light Nars before pushing them to leverage their advantages in creativity, intelligence, and teamwork.

The monitor robot belongs to the company category.

The other party is typing.

We hope you can help us.

Xu Yuhang said helplessly, "I also hope to help you... but I don't know anything. I only got 61 points in math and 44 points in English in the midterm exam... I'm even a bronze-level player in games, how can I help?"

If I had to name my special talent, it would be my height. I was mistaken for a high school student when I was in elementary school.

"Besides, I can't get through here either."

A text appeared on the screen.

We want to conduct an experiment, placing you alongside another person from the same previous human species in the same condition. Do you agree?

"I agree."

Xu Yuhang thought to himself.

Being locked up here all by myself, only able to be a spectator, is quite boring.

【OK, just a second. 】

We are currently adjusting the equipment and refocusing.

Xu Yuhang waited listlessly.

Soon.

He suddenly heard a voice.

It was in Japanese.

Xu Yuhang turned around and saw a girl behind him.

The other person looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old, with a soft and slender body and legs, straight and smooth long hair, and bright eyes that were slightly wide open with curiosity.

She was wearing a Japanese-style black school uniform and looked very cute.

Japanese girl?
Xu Yuhang was startled.

Could it be... the kind of plot I'm imagining?
He was both excited and looking forward to it.

This dream was wonderful!

However, the other person was speaking entirely in Japanese, which he couldn't understand at all. The two stared at each other blankly and eventually had to communicate in English.

Since both sides only had basic English at the construction site level, their communication was very awkward. They could only use gestures and stammered, sweating profusely.

How did it become like this...?

Xu Yuhang complained to the giant screen, "Can't you even solve the language problem? At least give us simultaneous interpretation!"

【As you wish. 】

After a while.

Xu Yuhang heard a Japanese girl's clear voice: "...Eh, where am I? I've run into someone who only speaks English again, and my English isn't good... This is such a strange dream, is it because of my sleeping position?"

Great!
Xu Yuhang couldn't help but throw a punch.

Then, trying to appear calm, he said, "Hello, my name is Xu Yuhang."

The other person was taken aback for a moment, then replied, "My name is Kobayashi Haruna."

Hina was puzzled: "Why is there a Chinese person in my dream... Could it be that I secretly like foreigners?"

Did the other person also think they were dreaming?

A thought popped into Xu Yuhang's mind.

Could it be that we are connected to each other in the mirror world through dreams?
He was about to say something.

I was in a daze.

Suddenly, I was back on the bus.

Egg Yolk next to him shook his shoulder: "Old Xu, get up, we're getting off the bus. If you keep sitting, we'll be at the train station!"

Xu Yuhang suddenly woke up.

He hurriedly got off the bus with Egg Yolk.

The cold wind outside immediately sobered Xu Yuhang up considerably.

It's time to go home after evening self-study.

He couldn't help but excitedly tell Egg Yolk about his ordeal.

His friend just looked at him pitifully and said, "Old Xu, watch less porn, don't be so repressed. Do what you need to do, I know you've been under a lot of pressure lately."

The other person made a gesture that any man would understand.

Xu Yuhang cursed, "Bullshit!"

but.

This dream-like drama finally has a female lead! Following the usual plot, she should become his official love interest, and then the two of them will save the world together!

win!
But then Egg Yolk suddenly said, "By the way, how do you know about LUMI? As far as I know, you don't care about technology at all, do you?"

"LUMI? You mean Lumi?"

"Yes, this is a supercomputer built in 2022, spearheaded by Finland. It was incredibly powerful and ranked third in the world that year. Even this year, it's still in the top ten globally."

Xu Yuhang thought about it carefully and realized that he really didn't pay attention to these things. When did he first see the word LUMI?

"And all those parameters you mentioned... Holy crap, you actually memorized them all? Not a single one missing!"

Egg Yolk opened his phone and pointed to the webpage information he had found.

Xu Yuhang was taken aback.

The data displayed on the webpage was exactly the same as what I saw in my dream.

I'm the least good at numbers, so I've always been bad at math.

Could it be that.

Could that mirror world in my dream be real?

(End of this chapter)