Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 576 Consciousness Writing
Zhou Yi shifted his focus back to his own abilities.

Even B-rank beings have a chance to fight back against A-rank beings, and they also have a chance to win when facing opponents of higher ranks.

The abilities that emerge from the transformation of the light core are completely different, possessing a mechanism-based suppression of lower-level life forms.

As long as he has enough consciousness as consumable material, he can even tamper with and distort the thoughts of hundreds of millions of people.

This ability to rewrite the consciousness of others was named "Consciousness Writing" by Zhou Yi.

Xiaofu offered many suggestions on skills development.

It first corrected Zhou Yi's misunderstanding of this characteristic.

“Da Zhou, the consciousness you rewrote can only last for a short time because it is too rudimentary and weak.”

"As you old humans say, one lie requires a hundred lies to cover it up."

"You need to construct a whole set of fictional consciousness to make the target believe that all of this is their own heartfelt thought and deep desire, rather than an abnormality influenced by the outside world."

"Whether it can be perfectly implanted into fiction and combined with the target's existing behavior to build common sense and consensus determines the strength of the consciousness shaping system."

“You ancient humans are very good at this. Cities, countries, and religious beliefs are all excellent applications of this system.”

Based on Xiaofu's understanding and experience, this is like programming and scriptwriting: finding connections in existing consciousness, then fabricating a series of connections, and finally arriving at a result that the performer wants to guide.

It's somewhat similar to dreaming.

Zhou Yi immediately consulted Canghai Jun, without concealing his abilities and characteristics.

"The chairman is quite similar to us."

"Please demonstrate the effectiveness of your abilities."

After experiencing it, Canghai Jun fell into deep thought.

a long time.

He then said, "If a precise and flawless clue to consciousness is written, then the person being written about will find it difficult to break free from it."

“Creating dreams involves connecting fragmented information to find gaps in the dreamer’s subconscious and filling those gaps, which are his instinctive desires, impulses, and regrets.”

“We manage to fill in the gaps, to fit their own needs, which is why they don’t want to wake up from their dreams… Your ability is similar, the key is to fragment the connection and find the target gap.”

"As long as the technology is strong enough, it can create an endless loop. Those who are in it can only go around in one modified consciousness maze after another, unable to distinguish what is real and what is fake."

"There is one problem."

"The more powerful the mechanism, the higher the requirements for its operation. It may take you a long time to become proficient and hone your skills until you reach a stage where it is difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion... In our case, it takes at least several decades for a dream demon to learn how to create a complete dream."

"Due to the mechanism of your ability, it takes longer to activate, but the effects and potential are also more astonishing. Even a light core body, once affected by this ability, will find it difficult to distinguish between reality and fiction, becoming a puppet in the user's hands."

Zhou Yi asked, "How long does it take to be effective against the light core body?"

In my opinion.

Canghai Jun adjusted his glasses: "It will take about 300 years before you can leave the mountain with your abilities."

"..."

Zhou Yi's eyelids twitched.

It takes three hundred years to forge a sword.

This trainee period is a bit too long.

As the company's chairman, it's difficult for him to dedicate the time and energy to honing his specialized skills like a professional soldier.

It's a bit tricky.

A sudden flash of inspiration struck Zhou Yi.

correct.

There's a guy who doesn't know if it'll work.

After half an hour.

Zhou Yi began his tests in the Twin Towers region beneath the moon.

The Celestial Gemstone Body was indeed emitting concentric ripples.

However, there were no words in these ripples.

Because its own consciousness has died, it no longer has the ability to move on its own; it is only controlled by the Night God through a specific columnar structure within its body.

Zhou Yi tried to write on it using his consciousness and neural pathways.

I am a puddle of water, spread out, flowing, flowing.

[Flow is...]

The gemstone, which was originally suspended in the air, suddenly scattered and flowed slowly across the rocky ground, transforming into a shimmering, moving lake.

The Night God beside him stared in disbelief: "What are you doing? That's not right, I clearly had control over it, what did you do to it? How did it become like this..."

Zhou Yi said, "Don't rush, let me test and confirm first, then I'll tell you."

He continued writing.

I am a ball, rolling, rolling.

The orthographic projection of a sphere onto any plane is always a circle of the same size...

The originally spread-out stream of gems quickly converged again, forming a sphere that rolled aimlessly on the ground.

I am a tree, a tree that is growing.

A tree is a life form that stretches upwards...

The giant gem sphere immediately stopped and began to grow into the air, transforming into a shimmering tree that quickly surpassed a thousand meters in height, like a gem-encrusted version of a towering tree. Zhou Yi tested over a dozen writing results, most of which were successful.

It works.

He then said to the staring Night God, "This is the effect of my [Consciousness Writing]."

Because the celestial corpse had no independent consciousness, Zhou Yi wondered if he could create a consciousness for it himself.

Like writing a program, it enables the gem hardware, which has no consciousness support, to function.

The actual test results were quite good.

However, when writing about the consciousness of a celestial being's corpse, a detailed description is needed. The more detailed and precise the description and definition, the more accurate the behavior driven by the consciousness writing will be.

Gem cells cannot understand complex expressions, so each concept, such as circle, tree, and water, needs to be defined and described.

More complex behaviors or instructions require continuous testing and research to ensure they are executed accurately.

Zhou Yi looked at Ye Shen: "You're an expert in gem cell manipulation, what do you think of this approach?"

"A very good development direction!"

Night God listened with great enthusiasm: "I just observed that the gem cells, under your influence, spontaneously began to operate in some ways. Combined with the 42 structural prototypes provided by Zhang Zhi, I can optimize and experiment with this..."

"This is equivalent to turning the celestial corpses, which could only be passively controlled like puppets, into beings with a certain degree of autonomy. They can work automatically, like mining or something... This will be very useful when there are more corpses in the future."

She exclaimed, "So, according to you, it's basically like writing code, right? Just described using scripts. That's something Electromechanical Life is best at."

"Why don't you just let them do this step for you?"

Zhou Yi also shared this idea.

However, he first needs to confirm with Night God whether the gem cells can function and write long-term memories.

The information code writing will follow next.

"no problem."

Yagami's eyes switched to black and red pupils as he stared at the tree-shaped gem: "It has no independent consciousness. It executes all the commands you implanted and does not delete them spontaneously. It can be considered a shallow layer of information code. However, if the commands themselves conflict, it will be unable to decide which one to choose, and then fall into a static state similar to a system crash."

Zhou Yi asked, "Should we add a layer of security password to it? Like a firewall, to prevent other light cores from controlling the Celestial Corpse through this?"

"That's not necessary."

Night God waved his hand: "Because its structure is synchronized with mine, it is actually a double verification between you and me. If someone else tries to change their consciousness, I can immediately detect, correct, and capture it."

According to her.

The modified Celestial Corpse is being verified by Night God for its gem hardware and by Zhou Yi for its consciousness program.

The two of them are enough to ensure that the operation of the celestial corpse is not affected by the outside world.

"However, we need more celestial corpses to conduct comparisons and tests in this regard."

"Shall we go find some more bodies now?"

Yagami made the suggestion.

Zhou Yi nodded.

……

Switch back to the perspective of the celestial beings.

Zhou Yi returned to the pitch-black void.

Unlike in the past, this time there are pumpkin-shaped gemstones around me.

"Hello? Can you hear me? This is Yagami. Please respond if you hear me."

"I can hear you..."

"There are indeed corpses everywhere here. We have to take them all back!"

"If you have rubies, that's best. If you don't have rubies, just connect the entire corpse to me and take it away. So many gem cells can be put to great use."

Yagami was extremely excited on his first visit to this place.

I can't wait to start the corpse-picking activity.

However, as an expert in this field, Zhou Yi still advised her: "Better safe than sorry. Let's be careful and take it easy. Safety first."

“You’re the expert in this area, so I’ll listen to you,” Yagami said.

Zhou Yi glanced around and locked onto his target.

"That's it."

The target he pointed at with his gemstone was a large corpse, about 30 times the size of Pumpkin Brother.

Based on past experience, even if such a large creature does not contain rubies, it will still contain a considerable number of sapphires.

Zhou Yi had wanted to take action against it before, but it was difficult for him to do it alone.

The Night God and he joined forces to surround and lock onto the large corpse.

Upon touching and examining it, Yagami suddenly exclaimed, "This gem must be very rare, right? Look at this!"

Zhou Yi turned his gaze toward her, and then immediately froze.

Yagami dug an emerald out of the giant's body.

Although the color is very dull.

But it really is an emerald!
This is the core of replicating the Glass Man.

(End of this chapter)