Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 687 Space Mobile WiFi
In the spring of the ninth year, a bountiful harvest finally arrived.

This season, the yield of strange radishes on both the Eastern and Western continents is astonishing. The company alone purchased 8 million radish tendons and 1.7 million roughly processed consciousness nerves from Heaven.

Purchases were 16 times higher than the previous quarter.

The production of all kinds of grains has also increased dramatically.

Besides favorable weather, another key reason for the bumper harvest was that after the Dead Sea began to be cleared and demolished, large tracts of buried land were brought back to light. Much of this land was converted into agricultural land, directly increasing the base amount of arable land.

And beneath the land.

There has also been a good milestone in the exploration and excavation of the mantle.

The company has successfully domesticated the mantle bacteria and officially launched it on a large scale for use in symbiotic relationships with bone fish.

This improved mature strain was named [Safulin-Fish Type].

The A2 virus created by Saffolin caused a global biohazard disaster, and he will basically spend the rest of his life in jail in City 404. However, the improvement and domestication of the new strain, including years of experimental data and behavioral studies, were mainly provided and ultimately promoted by it.

The case authorship rights were still granted to it, and that's how it got its name.

Sha Fulin told Zhou Yi, "Chairman, the biggest difference between fish-shaped and natural mantle bacteria is that they have a natural compatibility with bone fish and bone humans, and can even be integrated from the fry stage. This allows bone fish to deeply understand the characteristics of mantle bacteria, and may truly become part of its body organs."

"One of the progenitors of the fish-type is the Europa mantle fungus transplanted onto the bodies of the giant bone fish [Earth Ghost]. Therefore, the fish-type also possesses a highly efficient utilization of cosmic rays, with a utilization rate 37% higher than that of the original mantle fungus."

"The biggest change is that the fish-like growth pattern can be artificially guided. This includes the use of animal power at the caveman level, and the culture medium we make with ingredients such as LB-7 tryptone—through directional food absorption, we can keep them stable and guide them into the growth direction we need."

"This is the result of generations of artificial selection and intervention, finding individuals that tend to stably attach to bones and then reproducing them."

Zhou Yi had a feeling of being impressed but not quite understanding.

He asked, "Now that fish-shaped mantle fungi are spreading so widely, will they affect the ecology of other species?"

“Normally, this situation wouldn’t occur. Mantle bacteria themselves have an extremely low metabolic rate and rely on inorganic chemical reactions; only bone fish and bone humans can support them.”

"But whether entirely new strains will emerge in the future is unpredictable."

Shaflin said, "Mr. Chairman, it's time to release the bone fish on a large scale. Please let them go into space."

"The future definitely belongs to bone fish and mantle bacteria. They will spread large amounts of mantle bacteria to other planets... completing the sowing of the bacterial world and the expansion of civilization!"

Zhou Yi selectively ignored the last sentence.

The solar system is still full of problems, the Celestials are still weighing on it, and the String Civilization has turned the sun into Pandora's box.

Let's focus on the present first.

The mantle bacteria breakthrough led to a large-scale renewal of the bone fish's life forms.

With the help of veteran bonefish employees like Quickfoot and Bigmouth, the new generation of bonefish quickly adapted to the symbiosis with mantle bacteria, efficiently absorbing cosmic ray energy, and their life strength also increased significantly.

This further facilitated the ascent of the fishbone.

The number of bone fish in the satellite orbit has increased rapidly.

Bone fish possessing mantle bacteria thrive in the space environment, gaining access to more direct energy. Here, cosmic rays are not intercepted or weakened by layers of atmosphere or the open ocean.

Based on the symbiosis of mantle bacteria, the two branches of bony fish have also begun to further refine their application capabilities.

Traditionalists transform mantle bacteria into the "heart of the universe," making them heavily armored warriors like Big Mouth, capable of unleashing high-energy rays to disintegrate and destroy targets.

The innovative approach involves distributing it evenly across the skin's surface, creating a "skin radar."

They act as communications soldiers, much like the founder Quickfoot, using their mantle-like outer skin to communicate instantly with other fish of their kind; a single bony fish can cover an entire planet. This transforms the bony fish into biological base stations and mobile Wi-Fi networks in space, making them communication hubs for the company's expansion into the solar system.

In terms of specific training, Zhou Yi sought the opinions of bone fish trainees such as Fastfoot, Bigmouth, and Ancient Tyrant.

Their stance is clear.

"Since I am a company employee, I will definitely obey the company's arrangements."

"Chairman, whatever you say, we'll do. Both directions are good."

Zhou Yi still let the Bonefish employees choose for themselves.

Although most of them are not very intelligent, only at the level of a few-year-old child, they can still distinguish what they are interested in.

If you enjoy combat, become a heavy armored warrior.

Those who love chatting and are willing to travel for work become communications soldiers.

In fact, in real company missions, soldiers and communications soldiers always work together.

The bony fish truly transformed into biological satellites and began to fly out of Earth.

Two happy events also occurred during this period.

The first batch of seven company bone fish, including Quickfoot, Big Mouth, and Ancient Overlord, have completed the training and special instruction of giant bone fish and are growing at an astonishing rate.

They are at least Grade B, with the strongest, Big Mouth, already a Level 3 Light Core, while Quickfoot has also reached the Light Core threshold with the help of Giant Bone Fish.

Secondly, the giant bony fish was very satisfied with these offspring and began to teach them how to use time-traveling creatures.

Big Mouth was extremely excited about this: "Chairman, we'll come back and tell you as soon as we learn this skill, and then our company will be able to master this ability too! Don't worry, I will definitely not let the news slip by. I'm very tight-lipped, and Mr. Earth Ghost will definitely not find out."

Zhou Yi: "..."

He wanted to say a few words.

But Quickfoot, standing nearby, had already taken over the role of speaking for him: "Shut up! Think before you speak! Mr. Earth Ghost knows everything... he's just willing to teach us, he doesn't care if we spread this skill."

"Chairman, Mr. Di Gui's goal is very simple: to make the entire Bone Fish group stronger and, by teaching it his skills, enable the entire group to confront the Celestials head-on."

Zhou Yi nodded.

This is the purpose that the giant bony fish has never concealed.

Quickfoot said, "However, connecting with time-based creatures will cause the body to suffer immense pain. Even a creature with strong vitality like a bone fish needs to reach the Light Core stage to endure it."

From this perspective, electromechanical life forms are indeed exceptionally gifted, and therefore do not have so many limitations.

Zhou Yi asked, "Have you already started practicing?"

"Yes, Chairman."

Quickfoot said, "Time-based beings can be obtained from the fourth dimension. Mr. Earth Ghost brought them to us from there, and told us to maintain an equal and friendly attitude towards them. He said that we are borrowing their power, so we need to maintain awe."

"The specific method involves continuous vibration at a certain special frequency. Whenever connected to a time-traveling being, the skeleton needs to vibrate constantly. This is also a technique to keep the time-traveling being active and prevent it from completely shrinking and disappearing after falling into a deep sleep."

Zhou Yi immediately thought of it.

This is also a form of music-guided instruction.

The only difference is that the giant fish uses bone conduction, while D adapted the music himself.

Same way.

"However, the entire vibration is very complex, and it takes a long time to master the whole process. It is a special language of time, which is equivalent to communicating with the life of time through vibration and asking it to operate in the way we need."

Quickfoot continued, "Time language is divided into many parts. The basic language is the ability to connect with time-based beings and confirm their real-time status. It allows us to know when to return to hibernation and how to use it to enter the time dimension, thus avoiding many harms and risks..."

The giant bony fish's strategy is very similar to D's. Both involve determining when the time-traveling beings' bodies are about to collapse and decompose, then either separating them or sending them back to four-dimensional space. However, it can see the time-traveling beings' electrical charge.

The giant bony fish has a significantly higher level of understanding and precision in its use of time-traveling creatures.

The functions and features have been refined, and we can also try to get feedback from the time-traveling creatures.

D is like someone who has just learned how to make fire by rubbing sticks together, while the giant fish has already entered the stage of controlled combustion.

"Mr. Earth Ghost said that we must first learn the basic time language in the Light Core stage, and only after entering the Transformer level can we learn advanced languages. After that, we will use time creatures to collect string light, which is a special weapon against the Celestials."

"Once we master the use of time-based beings, we can threaten the Celestials through the dimension of time."

Quickfoot said, "Mr. Earth Ghost deduces that we will reach the Transformer level in as little as twenty years, or at most a hundred years. That will be the time for a full-scale counterattack."

A century of preparation.

Considering that the opponent is a Celestial Being, this time is already very short.

Zhou Yi nodded: "Study hard, but also pay attention to your health. Remember to come back to the hospital for regular check-ups. Your training intensity is very high, so you must always pay attention to your physical condition."

"Chairman, your advice is very similar to Mr. Di Gui's."

Quickfoot said happily, "Mr. Earth Ghost used to be indifferent to the company, even somewhat contemptuous. But after hearing about our medical and hospital services, as well as the regular physical therapy and free check-ups for the bone fish, he expressed his appreciation for the company for the first time."

"Learning the language of time and connecting with time-based beings puts a huge burden on the body. Even the light core is easily broken... It also makes us report to you and ask for help more often, because it is not good at healing and repairing itself."

Zhou Yi thought to himself.

This is a good sign.

The giant fish's favorability toward the company increases.

……

The bony fish made significant progress in its studies on Europa, and also profoundly influenced the modular families that began to become popular on the moon.

This family is based on bone fish and bone people. Originally, they were only connected to Lunarians, but now they have added mantle bacteria to their bodies or bodies, which has greatly improved the strength and stability of the entire family unit and completely made up for the bone people's weak weakness.

The bone fish's journey into space will be the company's pioneering step in external exploration; this is already a predetermined strategic direction.

They have transformed from the weakest of the light-emitting species to become the hottest species today, with unlimited potential for the future.

Based on.

Bone-line families are springing up like mushrooms after rain, keeping the lunar marriage registry extremely busy.

Minister of Lunar Affairs Jacob gave a detailed report to 3101.

"Chairman, the development of skeletal families is becoming increasingly... out of the ordinary."

"Initially, it was a combination of [bone fish/bone person + moon person + mantle fungus], which is what we call a family of three in our area. But now it has developed into a family of four, five, and six..."

Jacob's skull displayed a complex expression that was hard to decipher, whether it was joy or worry; if one had to use a close descriptive word, it would be "tense."

Zhou Yi said casually, "If they want to form families and have multiple members get married, then let them. The company doesn't interfere with personal freedom, it's no big deal."

"You mean... this situation is a bit unpredictable..."

It struggled to find the right words, but ultimately gave up and said directly, "That's right, a family of three doesn't refer to three members, but rather three races."

"The later-appearing four-person family was an addition of electromechanical life forms. They believed this was the future trend and were happy to become family stewards, responsible for tasks that required precise calculations, such as managing finances and daily planning."

Zhou Yi said, "Does the electromechanical life that joins the home work remotely locally through an extension?"

"Yes."

That's good.

Electromechanical life systems are inherently suited for this kind of home office work, and their work efficiency is not affected.

"What about the other five?"

"A family of five would include a gerbil or a drill rat."

what?
Zhou Yi wondered if he had misheard: "You said gerbils and drill rats?"

"Yes."

The Bone Man Minister scratched his brow bone, which had been plucked until it shone, with his finger: "Here's the situation. Due to the lunar ecological transformation, with the support of the Gem Transformers personally overseeing the process, the atmosphere has begun to take shape and is still stabilizing. Against this backdrop, some Earth creatures are being transplanted to the Moon to supplement the overly barren ecosystem here."

"Among mammals, gerbils and their cousins, drill rats, were among the first species to be introduced. This is because they have extremely strong survival capabilities and very low requirements for their living environment. As long as there is water, a small amount of air, and food, they can survive even without light. Gerbils have always been the most important and commonly used experimental organisms in biological breeding experiments on the moon."

"They enter the bony fish's body. There is a special space there, equipped with a portable life support system that produces oxygen, water, and some food reserves. They can also move around inside normally, and there is also an emergency hibernation chamber. After entering the safe zone, they can come out and move around in the outside world."

Zhou Yi asked, puzzled, "Why?"

The previous ones could be described as a powerful alliance.

While gerbils and drill ferrets are highly capable of surviving, they are clearly no match for the bony fish that can travel through space on their own.

"They have an irreplaceable and unique advantage."

Jacob said in a solemn tone, “Chairman, they eat mantle fungi. This is the first confirmed animal to date that can digest and consume mantle fungi for an extended period of time.”

"..."

Zhou Yi was initially stunned.

Then it immediately dawned on him: "So, gerbils can adjust the distribution of mantle bacteria in the bony fish's body? And they can clean it up at any time, tailoring it according to the bony fish's needs..."

"Yes, Chairman!"

Speaking of this, the Bone Man Minister let out a strange, cacophony laugh: "This seemingly simple characteristic is of great significance for utilizing mantle bacteria."

"The gerbils have become the cleaners and tailors inside the bone fish's bodies. If the bone fish feel that there are too many mantle fungi or that they are too dense, they can have the gerbils take action to reduce their number and thickness, and even clean up the mantle fungi that have died and accumulated in certain areas."

“This used to be an incredibly tedious and difficult task. Once mantle bacteria attach to the surface of bones, they can penetrate each other at the atomic level, making it almost impossible to completely remove them.”

"So they can only grow layer upon layer. For bone fish, this is not only very uncomfortable, but it also dulls their bodies and reduces their flexibility. The changes in their bodies also affect their consciousness, making them more and more numb and indifferent, because their skeletal physical perception will continue to weaken and eventually turn to energy perception."

"We suspect that the aloofness of the giant bony fish is due to this physiological characteristic."

"But even with gerbils and drill mice, the bony fish are still bony fish. They remain lively and active, rather than lifeless and apathetic. They all love gerbil groups. So the importance of gerbils may be second only to mantle fungi; they form a complementary ecological balance group."

Zhou Yi felt a strange sensation in his heart.

Gerbils have surprisingly found a great use in the field of mantle fungi. Life is truly amazing; you never know when they will come up with their own unique abilities.

"What about a family of six?"

"Six mouths" usually refers to the cave dwellers joining.

Zhou Yi was shocked.

How did the cave people also join the skeletal family?

(End of this chapter)