Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 69: Residents Support Buildings
Emerald City will continue to expand, with new residences built along the beach until it is fully staffed with 12 high-rise buildings.

Zhou Yi originally wanted to use these houses to attract talent.

In the era when he lived, many cities used this method to build talent apartments and let the recruited talents live there for free, or even give the entire house as a gift after they completed a few years of service.

The Emerald City has water and heating, is spacious and bright, and has its own C-level access security. It is considered a high-end residence in the wasteland era.

The only disadvantage is that the surrounding facilities are a bit poor.

The residential area is close to the Dead Sea and is nearly 30 kilometers away from the nearest town of Jitou. There are no shops or restaurants around, so you have to bring everything you need if you live here.

However, Emerald City's words completely changed this policy.

"Commissioner, Building 2 is a brand new unit and is in urgent need of occupants. The higher the occupancy rate, the better."

"Now I know clearly that the residents are of great significance to me. My body structure is closed, and it is difficult for me to grow in my cognition and judgment of the outside world. I can only get updates when I communicate with you. I need the residents to help me improve further."

“The dialogues and actions within my body will provide important support for my improvement, and even break through the existing structure and enter a higher level of the body.”

Only then did Zhou Yi realize that after the building's life consciousness is formed, it can continue to grow and evolve through symbiosis with human residents.

Just like the reason for their birth, the residents within the life of the building are the red blood cells of their metabolism, driving the movement of their own fixed consciousness bodies like plant cells to accumulate and increase capacity.

The activities of the residents - especially continuous exercise - are nutrients that promote the growth of Emerald City.

Emerald City added: "It is difficult to change the existing functions of this original machine. This is the consciousness structure left by the earliest occupants. Whether it is pricing or occupants, they must be based on the original rules."

"Building No. 2 is different. It is a brand new building expanded based on the resources provided by you, the Commissioner. No rules have been set. Whether it is access control requirements, the identity of the residents, or the housing price and supporting requirements, new standards can be established..."

Although the expression of Emerald City is still awkward and stiff, Zhou Yi grasped the key.

Building No. 1 is locked by the administrator.

Building No. 2 has a brand new program. As an administrator, I can even open it to the outside world without restrictions, which provides a lot of room for manipulation.

So Zhou Yi decisively changed the [Talent Introduction Plan] to [Emerald City Trial Living Promotion].

The residents are the driving force behind the evolution of Emerald City!
So he first let the residents of Changu Town move into Building 2, and then let them promote Building 3 which was under construction.

The light blockers and matching antifreeze oil purchased from Qiansu played an important role. One medium-sized and five small light blockers were running at the same time, allowing Feicui City to work at full capacity to build Building No. 1 - it is also an 5-story high-rise building.

Emerald City said: "The daily charging rate is 8%, and it can be built within 33 days."

The advantage of low-rise buildings is that they can be built quickly.

It takes time for potential residents to wait and consider, and a month is not a long time during the long winter.

Zhou Yixue used to be a real estate developer, so he just painted a small pie in the sky.

It is advertised that you can move in within a week.

……

Various thoughts flashed through his mind, and Zhou Yi called the Rat King Nemo to ask about the situation: "How is the communication with the gerbils?"

"Chairman, they are actually very familiar with humans. They just need to guide the route and warn of danger. Some simple actions are enough."

"As long as humans don't catch and eat them, a gerbil can carry a person safely to Jitou Town and back in a maximum of one day. It only takes three days to send a person to the farther Sand Port and then return."

Kestrel repeated it in a robotic synthesized voice.

This was said to Gong Zheng who was standing next to him.

Nemo lacks a voice module and can currently only communicate with Zhou Yi through synchronous consciousness.

The drone acts as a makeshift repeater.

Zhou Yi turned around and asked: "How's your progress?"

Gong Zheng also smiled and said, "Chairman, everyone has actively signed up to do this job. I will lead the residents of Changu Town through the death dunes to let them feel that the area has become safe."

"Working with gerbils is not new. There used to be scavengers who raised gerbils and relied on them to find some good things in hidden places."

"The main reason is that living in Building 2 is so attractive to them. They are willing to do anything to live in such a luxurious house."

He pulled a stack of papers from his bag.

"Chairman, here are some sample drawings I made."

Zhou Yi selected some and shook the papers in his hand.

"That's it."

This piece of paper has a stick figure style, depicting the Emerald City bombarding the Dead Sea monsters, sending them fleeing. Downstairs in the Emerald City, a few little people are still making snowmen.

There are two slogans written next to it.

【Buy a house with confidence, rent a house with less worries. 】

【Live in Emerald City, you are not afraid of day or night. 】

This painting is simple and easy to understand, even illiterate people can understand it.

"Then I will ask Brother Yuan Tong to draw more flyers with me." The whole plan was prepared for half a month and was finally officially launched.

On that day, Zhou Yi saw residents of Canggu Town walking out of Building 2 of Feicui City in a line, carrying torn bags and covered in dust.

Each of them had dried mushrooms and leaflets in their bags, and was equipped with a gerbil assistant, whose fur was painted with a specific number so that they could be paired with the townspeople with the same number.

They were divided into 10 groups, with 12 to 20 people in each group, and set out together.

The patrols of the spine hunters prevent the Dead Sea monsters from showing up.

The clawed pigs shrank, the thorny ant lions were wiped out, and it became unobstructed to reach Jitou Town from here.

Relying on the huge local underground intelligence system, gerbils can obtain help and reminders from gerbils in different areas, which can mainly guard against thieves and add an extra layer of insurance.

This was also the first time that the residents of Changu Town went out to work in groups during the day. They had to reach Jitou Town before night, as that was when the residents of the town were active, and they needed to advertise when there were the most people.

The people in Shangu Town were more or less not used to it. Some were afraid of the light, some were nervous, and some looked around. But soon, they relaxed as they talked to each other and imagined their new lives, and headed towards Jitou Town.

Taking advantage of this time, the Red Falcon also took the Rat King Nemo all the way to Recursion City for transformation and upgrading.

……

Zhou Yi sat on the sofa and suddenly felt empty.

When I'm busy, I work day and night, but when I'm free, I have nothing to do.

Going out for a snowmobile ride?
Or go hunting in the Dead Sea?
Zhou Yi finally decided to surf the Internet.

He picked up the drone remote control, tapped the screen with his finger to enter the Jizhan network platform of Recursive City, and found [Entertainment] among the many columns.

I still don’t know how electromechanical life can entertain itself.

After opening it, a bunch of news popped up.

"The S17 Winter Rally officially kicked off, and our city's checkpoints are running well"

"MR. Doujuezi releases newest music album, which ranks among the top three on the digital music bestseller list"

"Countdown to the Electromechanical Masters: 29"

……

Zhou Yi clicked them one by one from top to bottom.

That winter rally was divided into three groups: sea, land and air. The total length was more than 31100 kilometers. The groups were divided according to the weight and volume of different electromechanical life. It seemed to be an evergreen sport.

The second one, Mr. Bean Peg, reminded Zhou Yi of the Pea Shooter, except that he had a head of bean-peg-like braids and seemed to be a popular musician.

The Mechanical and Electrical Masters Competition is the part that Zhou Yi is more interested in.

This is a fighting competition involving electromechanical life forms, including 1v1 duels and team competitions, and it is very popular.

The event also features a 15-second promotional video.

Inside, a strong mechanical boxer was fighting against a slender cyber warrior. The high-frequency bombardment from both sides caused sparks to fly from their metal armor.

Finally, the two pulled apart, a fire dragon rose from the mechanical boxer's swinging fist, and the cyber warrior flew into the air with ripples all over his body. The scene stopped when the two were about to launch their ultimate moves, and the logo of the Mechatronics Masters Tournament was printed on it.

There is still one month until the start of the competition.

Zhou Yi couldn't help but think.

Recursion City seems to be no different from past human cities, except that the prehistoric humans with flesh and blood have become mechatronic citizens of the wasteland era.

Compared with new humans, electromechanical life is more like the successor of human civilization.

By chance, he saw an inconspicuous little piece of tofu.

【Fundraising Help】

Below it says "Every life longs to be continued."

Waterdrop Fund?
Zhou Yi clicked and took a look.

There are indeed some electromechanical life forms whose bodies are damaged or on the verge of collapse due to various reasons. They are all citizens of Recursive City, hoping to get help through the city platform.

However, these citizens also promised various reports, mainly selling their own labor, and were willing to sign labor service agreements lasting decades or even hundreds of years, and the procedures were bound after recursive city notarization.

The amount of funds they raised was not small, with the minimum being 1000 and the maximum even reaching tens of thousands.

This made Zhou Yi think of it.

This seems to be a way to get cost-effective employees.

There is still a little over 1 yuan in the account, so it should be no problem to hire a special employee.

He started studying it immediately.

(End of this chapter)