Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 600 The Nightmare Problem
Once the terms were agreed upon, the atmosphere immediately became more relaxed.

Mayfly took a sip of tea and suddenly said, "Mr. Zhou, Ocean Monarch went missing fifty years ago. Was it already working for you back then?"

Regarding the other party's indirect questioning.

Zhou Yi stated frankly: "I found Canghai Jun from the evil brain and brought him out of it. Because we got along well and recognized each other, Canghai Jun joined the company."

"Oh?"

Mayfly looked thoughtful.

Canghai Jun, standing nearby, spoke up: "The chairman doesn't like beating around the bush. Just say what you want to say. That way, we can save each other's time."

Mayfly nodded immediately: "Then I'll get straight to the point."

He looked at Zhou Yi: "When Lord Canghai disappeared, it was the first time in history that a Weaving Lord had gone missing while in office. But there was no trace of him anywhere, nor any distress message."

"We used the Great Holy Spirit to turn this world upside down, but still found nothing. We finally located the last place where Canghai Jun appeared, but we couldn't find any clues there."

"In the same year, our screening revealed that the number of nightmares going missing that year also far exceeded the usual number."

“We accept the loss of some ethnic groups. Because there will always be nightmares who mess with the wrong people, get into trouble they can’t get out of, get caught, hunted after being discovered, or even be modified... It’s all normal, and we respect individual fate.”

"But starting from that year, the number of nightmares going missing increased year by year."

"Last year, the missing dream demons accounted for 1.7% of the total dream demon population, which is an astonishing number."

Mayfly's expression also turned serious: "The birth of a dream demon takes a long time and is highly dependent on the number of consciousness entities within the Great Holy Spirit. The majority of the population in this world is human, and their numbers are at a bottleneck, making it extremely difficult to create new dream demons."

"No matter how unfavorable the overall environment is, the number of people who have gone missing is abnormally high."

"Our investigations over the years have revealed that this is not a coincidence, but rather stems from the emergence of a new type of monster on the material side. These monsters hunt and devour dream demons, preventing them from returning to the Great Holy Spirit and the consciousness side."

Mayfly raised its finger and tapped it.

A moving image appeared in the air.

It was an underwater mountain range, its surface pitted and uneven, as if covered with coral.

Upon closer inspection, Zhou Yi realized that what he saw were not corals, but brains with fine grooves. The volcano was covered by these brains, giving it an indescribable eerie feel.

"This is the evil brain you bought from the Lord of Soldiers."

Mayfly said in a deep voice, "There are not just one of them, but tens of thousands. They prey on a large number of dream demons. They have an innate and strong restraint on our race. The mechanism is unknown, and even Weaver has no way to deal with it."

"We consulted the Great Holy Spirits but couldn't find any records about them. So we asked for help and spent a huge amount of money to capture and destroy two evil minds. However, there were too many of them, and they had an extremely powerful ability to capture and control consciousness, making them extremely dangerous."

"The most troublesome thing is that they are social beings. These evil brains gather together and amplify each other's power. Now they have reached a scale, all of them have reached the light core level, and we are helpless against them."

Zhou Yi was not surprised to see this scene.

When he bought the Evil Brain, he had thought that since the Usurper had entered this world by piloting the Brain Ark, it was definitely not a lone force going deep into the world. The swarm always acts collectively.

Now it seems that's indeed the case.

Zhou Yi asked, "So many evil minds, and there was no warning beforehand?"

Mayfly smiled bitterly.

"Their location is special."

"These evil minds reside in this underwater mountain range, located beneath the Dead Sea beneath the Forbidden Continent. The Great Holy Spirit cannot record the situation of the Forbidden Continent; that space is like a blind spot in this world. That place is a high-pressure zone because the power of the Forbidden Continent and the power of the Dead Sea compress each other, forming an area that is difficult to survive in."

"Their brain strength is A-level, but their consciousness strength has reached the light core level... We don't know how they were formed, but we speculate that they are monsters created by the Forbidden Continent."

"it's not true."

Zhou Yi told the other party, "The essence of the evil brain is a creature called a usurper..."

After hearing this, Mayfly's expression became even more solemn: "No wonder we couldn't find any information about them. They're invaders from another world. Using brains as boats, sailing the Dead Sea, their swarm form is really troublesome... It seems that more brain arks will enter from the other side. We need to make plans early, as their nests will definitely continue to expand outwards."

Zhou Yi smiled and said, "I can help you handle it."

The other party asked, "Mr. Zhou, do you have a solution?" "I do have a solution, but I can't guarantee it."

"So, what are Mr. Zhou's requirements?"

Zhou Yi said, "I want to see the complete information record of the circular flow that occurred when the old humans were destroyed, to see exactly what happened back then."

Mayfly looked helpless: "It's not that I don't want to give it to you, it's just that that part of the information cannot be recorded, and we don't have it."

Zhou Yi frowned: "Cannot be recorded?"

The other party explained, "At that time, a large number of nightmares were instantly shattered by the burst of the circular flow, but a few survived. However, the witnesses could not remember what happened at all. An unknown force made all the information from that time disappear."

Zhou Yi felt a pang of disappointment.

"What we can record is all after the Circular Flow erupted. At that time, the Celestials first descended and sent out the earliest Light Core Giants. These giants could not adapt to this world and were instantly corroded by water and air and collapsed into dust."

Mayfly recalled, "After that, the surviving species continued to change and evolve, slowly becoming what they are today."

"However, if Mr. Zhou is very interested in that part of the information, there is one thing he would be interested in."

"After the circular flow erupted, there was actually a great deal of turmoil underground."

"At that time, the Dead Sea was gradually taking shape and stabilizing, and crustal movements became very frequent, with large amounts of energy erupting from underground and being transferred to the surface. Because of the Dead Sea environment, energy from the material side seeped into the consciousness side, and the nightmares gradually became stronger. At that time, some of the nightmares went underground to investigate and obtain energy, discovering incredible things..."

The fat nightmare paused for a moment, then said solemnly, "From the ocean—I mean the normal ocean currents—it's closer to the underground. Ten kilometers underground from the seabed is the mantle, where there's a mixture of solid and liquid matter, about 3000 kilometers thick. All the nightmares that went there have lost contact."

"That was the earliest large-scale loss of contact. In the old human era, the succubus was not strong enough to penetrate the material world deeply."

"A small number of nightmares stopped at the outer edge of the mantle and escaped unharmed."

"They described a strange phenomenon: when you get close to the mantle region, you can't perceive time. Sometimes you feel like you're getting younger, and other times you feel like you're about to die, falling into an extreme time disorder."

Zhou Yi's heart stirred upon hearing this.

Time is disordered, jumping between birth in the past and death in the future.

This is very similar to the characteristics of the organs of the septum.

Mayfly continued, "At the outer edge of the mantle, this force is only affecting the surrounding area. If it continues to penetrate deeper, it will never be able to find its way back and will disappear completely."

"According to the Nightmare's judgment at the time, the deepest source of matter in this world is beneath the mantle. Such things and forces existed in the Earth's core before the Circular Flow erupted. It was only the appearance of the Dead Sea and the dramatic changes in the outside world that triggered this force to enter the mantle."

It revealed a look of reminiscence: "Later, a giant bony fish emerged from beneath the mantle, seemingly gaining some kind of power within, perhaps the strongest life form in the world at that time."

"Because the Nightmare had not yet developed a light core at that time, we did not know its strength, but Weaver could not enter the mantle to withstand the power there. So we later deduced that the Great Bone Fish was at least close to the level of a Transformer."

“The reason why City 404 was excavated and dug deeper and deeper along the path created by the surfacing of the bone fish was probably to obtain that kind of underground power.”

Zhou Yi immediately had a plan in mind.

The giant bony fish must have fused its organs underground, which is why it was able to move in and out of the mantle and even the core.

I just don't know why the power of Zembo exists in the Earth's core.

Mayfly said, "This is all we know, and we've already told you everything."

Zhou Yi immediately said, "Thank you. I'll try to deal with those evil minds, but as I said before, the result is not guaranteed."

"It's already very kind of you to offer your help."

Mayfly laughed.

Zhou Yi thought to himself.

The value of the evil brain has already been fully demonstrated. It can repair the brain and stabilize the consciousness. It is an essential ingredient for treating the phytomorphs on Jupiter and the carnivores here.

This group of evil minds arrived just in time.

Dude, I'll take it!

The cave dweller taming team is ready to depart!
(End of this chapter)