Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 696 The Contaminated Hatchery

Zhou Yi sized up the young man in front of him.

He was thin, in his early twenties, with a long neck, and spoke very logically.

This is Lin Long, an enforcement officer from the Divine Spirit Management Bureau.

Lin Long recounted the deeds of the illegal deity "God of Ten Thousand Machines" and described how his partner, A Zhe, and Hai Wei from the Security Department went missing one after another due to the statues of the deity.

"Don't worry."

Zhou Yi said, "If it were a mountain of flesh, the victims would not be in danger for a short time. They would just be locked inside a television, just like the old humans were imprisoned in the past."

He paid close attention to and attached great importance to the issue of evil gods.

This is not only an illegal religious operation, but also involves slave trafficking and disrupts the new currency market.

In the new world, there are various rumors and reports of people being hypnotized and subsequently suffering from amnesia and loss of control, all caused by the statue of the God of All Machines, which can be said to be the source of many disasters... This evil god must be arrested and brought to justice.

To this end, Zhou Yi dispatched a special investigation team composed of Yang Zhao (the Carnivore), Hei Fu, and Cat God, equipped with a high-powered evil brain generator. Hei Fu was responsible for transportation, while Cat God was responsible for real-time communication with Zhou Yi.

Less than half an hour.

The carnivore then spoke through the cat god: "Chairman, we've found them! I've found the missing people inside the mountain of flesh!"

"When I came last time, there were almost no people on TV, but this time there are more people, at least a thousand."

"Inside, I found Ah Zhe and Haiwei. They were each on a separate TV, following the storyline, but they were separate TVs, not yet merged or integrated."

"I still haven't found the consciousness of the Mountain of Flesh, and I don't know how to talk to it or summon it."

Zhou Yi asked him, "Are you sure no one else used Roshan? Was it Roshan itself that did this?"

"No."

Yang Zhao stated confidently, "We carnivores have a strong sensitivity to mountains of flesh; we can detect changes simply by touching them. And no living being has ever been able to directly influence or manipulate a mountain of flesh of this size..."

Zhou Yi thought about it and realized it made sense.

The Mountain of Flesh is part of the Forbidden Continent.

The entire Forbidden Continent is a living continent, a bio-machine created by the Seeders. The possibility of outsiders trying to exploit loopholes to manipulate this giant creature is extremely low.

Zhou Yi brought in Hydrogen Flow this time.

As a hydrogen-based life form, the rightful heir of the Seeders, and the captain of the Earth Seeding Ship, it should theoretically be able to manipulate or influence the Forbidden Continent.

Zhou Yi originally didn't want to interrupt the hydrogen flow and hydrogen blessing's deciphering of the celestial beings, but now he had no choice but to use them.

“The trainer, no problem.”

"But we need to get the seeding ship from Mars to Earth first and get it started up there."

The circular seeding ship left a severely damaged and unconscious Celestial Being above the Mars base, passed through the black hole-like space ridge at the top, and arrived in near-Earth orbit.

However, since they were already part of the Celestial faction and members of the Sealed String War, the supervisors here did not react at all.

The seeding ship quickly arrived above the forbidden continent and established a connection with the seeding ships that were scattered here. Instantly, silver light splashed everywhere, and lightning flashed in the high sky.

Just like cars starting each other, the Earth Seeding Ship slowly deformed and contracted, gradually combining into a huge, transparent ring.

"Cultivator, I'm making some adjustments, please wait a moment."

Hydrogen flow theory.

Inside the Earth Seeding Ship, mercury-like coatings began to appear, slowly expanding like some kind of progress bar.

It lasted for about an hour.

The entire ring turned completely bright silver.

"All right!"

"Start successfully!"

Hydrogen Flow said, "Let me see... This ship does indeed have a method for operating that thing below. It's called the [Hatchery], and it consists of three parts: the [Nest], the [Nerve Membrane], and the [Shell]."

"The warm nest, also known as the meat mountain, is specifically used for the incubation and cultivation of organisms."

“The neural membrane is the Spark Plain, where electricity and hydrogen are used as a medium to sterilize the consciousness body—or rather, isolate and clean the consciousness body, and then implant it into the warm nest.”

"The shell is the main body of this seemingly land-like area, serving to protect, camouflage, and test the hatching of creatures. Golden Elephant Valley is a shell area specially prepared for golden elephants."

"However, the hatchery itself is also a form of life. The warm nest is an organic structure similar to an artificial womb, used to incubate and nurture various organisms."

"But it cannot create life out of thin air. Instead, it collects existing organisms and artificially cultivates, integrates, and modifies them."

Zhou Yi asked, "Can microorganisms like those from the Dongren cave be artificially cultivated?"

"Yes, breeder."

Hydrogenflow said, "But the results of cultivation are uncontrollable. That is, you can only decide what biological sample is used, and the results of its development and hatching are random."

According to its detailed description of this hatchery.

This biological machine tool is like a chaotic model inside. The organisms thrown in are the raw materials, and what kind of fusion will be produced depends entirely on rolling the dice.

Throwing cave dwellers into the cave could indeed artificially cultivate many similar groups. However, these new cave dwellers might become idiots, a bunch of lunatics, or, with a tiny chance, become super cave dweller geniuses.

Zhou Yi wondered to himself, should he take a gamble?
This might allow the cave dwellers to upgrade once again, significantly reducing the time it takes for them to integrate with other microorganisms.

He asked Dong for his opinion.

However, Dong refused: "Mr. Zhou, although our lives are short, we will not leave our future to randomness and luck. Although we are currently at a bottleneck in our evolution and integration, this also means that our life form is very stable, and it is the final result of our joint choice with nature."

"If we enter the incubator, it will be like being reborn. The physiological changes of the cave people will change the way the entire group survives. In that case, we will only be adding a completely new species, but it will not be of any benefit to us at present."

"As an intelligent people, we believe that we should trust ourselves and the knowledge and experience accumulated by our group. The speed of natural evolution is just right, and we have completed continuous accumulation and transformation generation after generation."

“From the perspective of ethnic dignity, we also do not want to be remade.”

"Please allow us to refuse."

Dong's words enlightened Zhou Yi.

I admit I was being somewhat opportunistic. Indeed.

Hatcheries are super petri dishes for nurturing new species, and that's their purpose.

Electric Cat, Killer Rat, Artificial Golden Elephant, and Long-necked Crocodile are all fusion monsters born in this way.

Zhou Yi also figured it out.

Let the professionals handle the professional matters, and let the operator of the hydrogen flow decide how to use this thing in the future.

The most urgent task is to figure out what exactly the incubator is all about and why the God of Myriad Machines was born there.

Regarding this, Hydrogen Flow gave a clear answer: "The cultivator, I have confirmed it. That God of Myriad Machines is the self-awareness born in the incubator."

“Originally, this should not exist, because the nerve membrane would ensure that the consciousness is not contaminated by the outside world, completely isolate it from interaction with the outside world, and send it into each embryo.”

"However, the accident at the hatchery was caused by internal disorder and dysfunction... Last time, I took the prototype biological television out of here, which caused the existing incubation process to be interrupted. In addition, the number of electric cats in the nerve membrane, which are supposed to isolate the outside world and keep the consciousness from being contaminated, has been reduced to only about 5%."

"At this point, it's still alright; it's just that there's some localized internal spasm..."

"However, the artificial sun cleared the circular flow, causing large areas of the Dead Sea to disappear, and the circular flow energy that could be absorbed near the hatchery was reduced to about 30% of what it was before. It is a living organism that is supported by circular flow energy. This energy contraction has caused serious disorders and dysfunction in the three major tissues."

"This series of internal and external factors ultimately led to the contamination of the hatchery."

"The shell of the Forbidden Continent—that is, the local inhabitants—released a large number of fragments of consciousness that seeped into it, forming a consciousness entity in the incubation ground, namely the God of Myriad Machines."

“Unlike the pure consciousness that existed before, this polluted consciousness is highly proactive and purposeful, and has become very intelligent, activating the original incubation site’s functions.”

"Its purpose is simple: to capture a large number of consciousnesses to fill the gaps in the biological televisions within the warm nest. The inhabitants of the Forbidden Continent do not meet the requirements and are not the target consciousnesses."

"Therefore, consciousness is implanted and transferred through new humans, thereby projecting it into the new world."

"Therefore, the God of Myriad Machines is an abnormal consciousness born from such corruption."

Zhou Yi was speechless for a moment.

It turns out that the God of All Machines was also an abnormal result of the company's transformation of the world.

Electric cats are indeed an important part of the whole system.

He couldn't help but ask, "Then why didn't the God of All Machines enter the Great Holy Spirit, but instead found a new world? There's no record of it appearing in the Great Holy Spirit, so why is that?"

"Because of the old humans."

"Its primary goal was to track down the old humans, prioritizing the re-entry of the 106 million old humans who had escaped into the bio-television, thus finding a new world."

Hydrogen Flow said, "However, after capturing a portion of the old humans, it also began to gradually absorb the new humans. Because the number of old humans was insufficient, its goal was to fill the original 8 million consciousness entities."

Zhou Yi: "..."

"Then what's the deal with the self-proclaimed God of All Machines?"

"It is very clever. You can think of it as an incubator—or a miniature Great Holy Spirit on the Forbidden Continent. It enters the New World by disguising itself as a deity and promising believers that it can transform their bodies and grant them powerful lives as a promise."

Hydrogen Flow explained in detail the management methods of the God of Myriad Machines.

This consciousness, born from pollution, can indeed modify bodies. It can directly transform ordinary new humans into killer rats, biological television sets... Most people would choose to become television sets, even though they can't get out, they are still alive and have some hope of being rescued.

There is no poverty, no work, no old age, no death; everyone is the master of the world.

Everyone will have their own kingdom.

These two promotional slogans are not exactly lies.

Putting people inside television sets would indeed prevent them from dying, and they would have their own country, but like the old humans, they would be trapped in a cycle of memories.

Only a small number of believers, either greedily or genuinely believing in the God of All Machines, will be used by the God of All Machines as a medium to operate in the New World and will be helped to acquire wealth so that they can buy houses and settle down in the New World and obtain a great deal of wealth.

These believers, by continuously spreading the idols, send more consciousnesses through the idols to the mountain of flesh as a form of achievement.

By recruiting 10 people, which is equivalent to receiving 10 new God of Machines coins, you can modify your body, acquire a brand new TV-like body, and freely enter and exit the Mountain of Flesh.

If you recruit 100 people, you can choose to become the Killer Rat.

Bring in 1000 people, and you can even choose to be transformed into an electric cat and move around the world.

A small group of people became fanatical supporters of the God of Myriad Machines because following this evil god was the fastest way to make money and could also transform their physical bodies into a more powerful life form.

"...That's the general situation."

Hydrogen Flow asked, "Cultivator, should we reset its chaotic consciousness now? Once the reset is complete, the consciousness in this incubator will disappear. Afterwards, as long as we check and clean it regularly, there won't be any problems."

Zhou Yi pondered for a moment: "Is this God of Myriad Machines completely chaotic, or does he possess the ability to control himself?"

"Although it is pieced together from fragments of consciousness, it has everything that a normal consciousness has."

"It's just because in its initial state it was born from the inhabitants of the Forbidden Continent. There were many criminals among the local inhabitants, which led to the God of Myriad Machines having a strong desire for destruction and conquest."

Hydrogen Flow stated bluntly: "It has an instinctive tendency toward chaos, plunder, and control. That's why it uses the name of the God of All Machines to lure and capture inhabitants throughout the New World and seize and pollute the new currency issued by other gods."

Obviously.

The God of All Machines himself is not beneficial to the company's development.

just.

Every personality and ability has its own area where it can be utilized.

For example.

Zhou Yi asked: "If the God of Myriad Machines is targeting the consciousness of celestial beings, is there a chance? Can the consciousness of celestial beings be corrupted? Or, to put it another way, can their closed consciousness systems be invaded..."

Hydrogen Flow pondered for a long time: "In terms of mechanism, the God of Myriad Machines is itself a chaotic consciousness, with the ability to expand, spread, pollute, and assimilate like a virus, which should be effective in theory. It's just that we haven't found the consciousness channel on the other side of the Celestials yet. They are the ones who actively contact each other so that we can have a dialogue... Therefore, the form and structure of the Celestials' consciousness are currently unknown."

Zhou Yi's eyes lit up: "It's alright. We can take it slowly. Right now, you should first restrain and control the God of Myriad Machines, turning it into the company's consciousness hacker, or rather, the Great Holy Spirit Virus. Can you do that?"

"Yes, that's possible. Since I can control the main body of the hatchery, I can directly issue commands to it."

Zhou Yi nodded: "Then you should train it well first, it will come in handy later."

"Yes, Master!"

(End of this chapter)