Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 682 The Third Proxy Curse
A stellar passage is essentially a way to quickly travel across regions using four-dimensional space.

In four-dimensional space, time is visible and omnipresent, like countless cells in a spatial organ.

Yuri hitched a ride through the area.

This has led to a lot of confusion.

After gaining a new understanding of time, Zhou Yi turned his attention back to Yuri's conscious memories.

A shortcut through four-dimensional space.

Yuri's one-dimensional consciousness arrived in a completely new galaxy.

Fortunately, after the dimensionality reduction, the things that can be observed and recorded were not crippled; they only lost their initiative.

This galaxy has three stars: the weakest, Proxima Centauri, and two binary stars orbiting each other, with an energy density far exceeding that of Earth.

Yuri travels between planets here, repeatedly refracting light through one-dimensional spatial holes.

The source of this circular flow is the larger star in the binary system; the other two stars only play a role in refraction and reflection.

But that's enough to drift through the entire galaxy.

Yuri eventually landed on a planet filled with an atmosphere.

There is abundant liquid water here, as well as an inorganic life form.

They are somewhat similar to rock nuclei, both existing in the form of rocks and minerals, but their movements are limited to geological movements such as uplift and collapse, like playing whack-a-mole.

These mountain-like lives engage in the actions of emerging, shrinking, and squeezing, seemingly always in the same manner.

They continuously release conscious information, communicating and thinking with each other, only the entire process is extremely slow. They're like a group of mountain-shaped sloths.

Zhou Yi could not be confirmed.

Are they individuals, or part of some kind of living organism?

So he asked the golden tree.

【I don't know either. 】

The Golden Tree only knows the situation within its own radiation range, which is Proxima Centauri's territory; only it knows the specifics.

However, if it's a visit or trip undertaken with a one-dimensional consciousness, it won't affect any particular place because it can't interfere with local activities. So, there's no need to worry about these things; you'll understand once you've explored the area more.

Also.

The most urgent task is to transform the celestial bodies; Proxima Centauri is already a neighbor outside the Milky Way.

As the saying goes, you have to clean the house before you can welcome guests.

This miraculous journey greatly boosted Yuri's confidence, and he stated with great certainty, "I will vigorously promote and systematically improve immortality."

"The Dead Sea Park and the Stellar Passage are both essential conditions for immortality, which has proven that it is possible to leave the Milky Way and enter the outside world in a short period of time."

"I want to first familiarize the older humans with this process."

Zhou Yi readily agreed.

……

Over the next two months, the collaboration with the three agents will proceed simultaneously.

Thanks to the company's sound and comprehensive infrastructure, as well as the agency's mature technology and capabilities, the two parties quickly completed the integration of their strengths.

among them.

Special effects food factories are the most effective.

The gem technology patent granted by Taotie Gong requires more than 4 gems to support it. Its appearance resembles a giant snail shell, and inside are three production lines, corresponding to enhancing defense, life, and energy properties respectively.

Gemstone factories are prone to overheating and overloading in certain areas. To prevent excessive wear and tear on the gemstones and to avoid over-processing of food into radioactive materials, the factory needs to shut down for 12 hours every 72 hours of operation.
The yield rate of commercially viable products is approximately 78%.

After obtaining the relevant technical specifications, the company immediately deciphered them through Electromechanical Life, with 703 playing a crucial role in the process.

Because it is a light core electromechanical life form with gemstones as its element, and is deeply bound to the second artificial sun, it possesses the advantages of both gemstone and electromechanical life forms.

After calculation and simulation, 703 optimized and corrected many of its defects.

After its improvement, the gemstone factory can achieve a yield rate of 95%, and the stable operating cycle has been increased to 950 hours. It only needs to stop for one day every 40 days for maintenance.

Ten factories were built on the side of the legal front.

The production of special food items skyrocketed.

Common ingredients, whether they are the most basic dried mushrooms, wheat cakes, beans, sweet potatoes, or various meat products and canned fruits, can all be enhanced through special effects to become high-quality foods that can improve the physical qualities of various life forms.

By increasing sales volume, prices can be further reduced.

Taotie was very satisfied with this: "Mass production of special-effect food has always been something I wanted to achieve. Mass production means widespread availability and ultimately globalization, just like what the old humans did in the past. This will make this product an indispensable necessity for everyone in their daily lives."

"Just like dried mushrooms, a very common food, their low price is actually an advantage. Even now, many market towns still use mushrooms as currency for market transactions."

"I just didn't expect that your company has such a high level of expertise in gem technology... It's truly amazing."

"I wish I had come sooner."

Taotie Gong grinned.

Then came Yuri's training in immortality, and those who pursued this path were officially named "Drifters." Ultimately, they would drift in the cosmic currents as one-dimensional beings, entering the billions of stars of the universe.

Drifters can gain boundless freedom, but they also face the possibility of having no way to return home.

Countless unknowns await on the road ahead.

Having experienced it, very few pandas are willing to pursue this professional path. In heaven, although they are no longer royalty, they still live a comfortable and peaceful life with plenty of food and clothing.

The old humans were very active and engaged in this.

Perhaps because he has been trapped in false memories for too long and has been forcibly confined to his home for many years, he now has a desire for revenge by traveling.

The risks of consciousness are naturally much lower than those of flesh and blood, and it is also more relaxed to drift, which quickly became a trend among the old humans.

In the past, travel involved wandering around and eating. Now, people have become conscious beings, traveling in twos and threes on cosmic journeys, which is essentially a form of tourism.

Proxima Centauri has become a popular rafting destination.

Finally, there is mean solar time.

After Newbell synchronized with this location, Zhou Yi dispatched Black Water Ghost to City 404 to participate in the search for the Time-Accumulating Chamber.

The day.

Verne responded quickly: "Chairman, we have indeed located the exact location of the time-retention chamber using mean solar time!"

"It continues to move slowly in the Earth's core, and sometimes it enters the mantle. We are currently moving closer to it. Once it enters the mantle, we will have a chance to capture it."

"However, we also discovered something else."

“Deep within the mantle, there are also some special timers that are active. We need to avoid the area affected by them, as they will interfere with time and motion.”

Zhou Yi was not surprised by this.

As the Golden Tree once said, Earth is part of Time's body. Time, a kind of life form, originally entered the Earth's core and gradually decomposed into forms that this space could accommodate.

The two incomplete four-dimensional organs that he had previously captured from Shi Weng's body had both become ineffective after two years, clearly having synchronized with the three-dimensional space and been decomposed into other forms.

Zhou Yi subsequently fished out two more damaged clockwork devices, which he continued to supply to the company to accelerate the cultivation of cave dwellers and pan-tree cells.

……

The proxy forces have almost all become part of the same interest group as the company.

Of the seven agents, only the newest, the third agent, remains independent. Zhou Yi hadn't initially paid much attention to it.

After all, even if it is a staunch supporter of the gods, it cannot change the current situation.

However, Jue Mingzi, who was in charge of supervision, issued a serious warning.

"Chairman, the Third Agent is currently engaged in an extremely dangerous activity and is attempting to expand it into a global terrorist attack campaign."

"According to simulations, if left unchecked, it may overturn the stable pattern between the Eastern and Western continents, causing unpredictable chain reactions of chaos and war."

Only then did Zhou Yi begin to pay attention to this new acting agent.

This man is named Basil, a tavern owner in a city on the western continent, and is 33 years old.

He had a kind face and always greeted people with a smile. Even if someone didn't pay their debts or caused trouble, he was always able to resolve the issues with tolerance.

Basil's main business was smuggling alcohol and weapons.

After passing the brutal selection process and becoming the third agent, he continued to run the tavern, but with an additional business.

Turning people into weapons.

Basil transforms ordinary people into living bombs through a series of modifications. These modified bombers can choose to self-destruct at any time, causing at least Class C damage, and up to Class A damage.

Most importantly, any ordinary person can become a bomber.

Jue Mingzi said, "Basil first chose those ordinary people who always swallowed their anger and were bullied in order to make a living. He believed that this was a way to balance society."

“If someone continues to oppress them, they may choose to resort to extreme measures and retaliate.”

"This can also serve as a deterrent to others."

“Basil has been in the arms and liquor business for many years, and he genuinely believes that weapons are the key to peace. If everyone possesses powerful weapons, then even if there are localized attacks and explosions, everyone will generally maintain a certain level of restraint.”

"This is how various gangs and organizations maintain a balance. As long as they have guns and high-powered weapons, everyone will be careful not to push the other side too hard."

Zhou Yi listened and muttered to himself.

This line of thinking seems somewhat familiar... New humans are still humans, and some of their ideas are indeed inherited from each other.

But it can't be said to be completely wrong.

Theoretical things still need to be verified through practice to be known.

"And then? What happened?"

"Initially, it did have some beneficial effects."

Juemingzi said, "In that area, there have been a series of suicide bombings. In order to prevent the situation from getting out of control, various organizations have made a series of adjustments to reduce pressure on the lower levels."

"Several surrounding cities have lowered their tax rates and have been advising bombers through various means to exercise restraint, hoping that everyone can return to negotiations and communication. Don't be too radical or extreme, and cherish your life and peace."

Zhou Yi was speechless.

The Western Continent has always been a land of warlord conflicts and various armed groups fighting each other. But when they encountered an even more extreme group of suicide bombers, they suddenly became conservatives and even called for a halt to the use of force... Indeed, the most ruthless are those who have no regard for their lives.

Jue Mingzi continued, "The Bombers are all selected by Basil, and the modification method uses gemstone fibers, so they cannot be identified by external means."

"Civilians who originally had no power to resist did indeed enjoy a period of leniency and friendliness."

Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long.

Its gem-like screen displays more than a dozen synchronized images.

Zhou Yi watched the recorded live footage.

Initially, Bomberman achieved a brief period of stability by relying on his unpredictability and self-destruction, but his role began to change later.

When an ordinary person becomes a bomber, they gain the power to instill fear and are no longer an ordinary person.

With a sharp weapon in the body, the murderous heart starts from the beginning.

Instead, it caused greater harm and destruction to other ordinary people.

Most people work hard every day just to have three meals a day and a place to sleep, but suddenly one day they are inexplicably blown to ashes along with their house, becoming helpless victims.

On the contrary, those who were attacked, mostly enhanced individuals, and were on guard, were less and less likely to be killed by self-destruction.

Ordinary people have become bombers, but they are killing even more ordinary people.

This is the harsh reality.

Zhou Yi's expression gradually became serious.

Basil turned many civilians into explosives, and these bombers were then captured by powerful individuals and turned into their own suicide weapons.

Chaos and terror are spreading to more and more places in the western continent.

Basil, however, continued to accelerate the production of bomb men—he believed that the current chaos was due to the fact that there weren't enough bombs, and that the effort had to be intensified to turn everyone into a bomb.

If things continue like this... the cities of the Western Continent will become impossible to govern, order will be impossible to maintain, and terrifying explosions could occur at any time.

Zhou Yi agreed with Juemingzi's judgment.

Basil's actions were no longer a typical case of disciplinary misconduct.

A powerful punch!

Zhou Yi pondered.

The Gem Transmutator is currently modifying the lunar atmosphere and can't move, so we need to find another agent to carry out the capture mission.

He sent HydrogenStream to pilot the seeding ship on a flight.

The seed ship itself is strong enough and is at the Evolver level, and it will not trigger stress in other overseers or even Celestials.

After positioning it.

The seed ship descended instantly, sucking Basil, who was drinking beer in the shop, directly into it.

The light nuclei were powerless against the seeding ship.

On Jue Mingzi's screen, Basil appeared in the body of the Gem Transformer, holding a wine bottle and looking bewildered. Next was the transformation of the Night God.

Get it done.

Although it's difficult to decide who will act in place of the executor, it's still possible to decide who is unfit to act in place of the executor.

Zhou Yi pondered.

This third proxy seems to be cursed, always causing trouble and going against me.

I don't know if it's a coincidence or some kind of mystical phenomenon.

Yagami was delighted: "Finally, a newcomer has arrived! I'm short-handed, so this is perfect timing! He can go and use methane to cool down and inspect the hot spots on the gemstone..."

It happened while I was chatting with her.

Zhou Yi received a message from the Golden Tree.

The artificial sun has merged with the transmutator.

【It works very well.】

With the help of that overseer, this sun has been elevated to the level of a Transformer.

Zhou Yi was overjoyed.

(End of this chapter)