Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 699 Artificial Evolution
Mars base.

Inside a laboratory built with celestial gemstones, a large, grayish-white creature sat crouching.

It is the size of an adult bull, with a rough, rock-like skin and a small, pointed head, somewhat resembling an oversized rock-shelled pangolin.

"Chairman, these are the Martian killer rats we've domesticated."

The figure resembling a boy doll, Miedinggong, explained from the side: "The Electromechanical Team has named it 'Fire Rat No. 1'."

"The reason it can be domesticated is because of its natural personality advantages. Fire Rat No. 1 has a strong desire and appetite for Martian wheat. It is lazy and slow, making it one of the very few high-quality targets that can be domesticated."

Zhou Yi asked, "Do Martian Killer Rats have innate personality differences?"

"Yes, they have no physiological basis for thinking and act entirely on instinct. Most of them are irritable and easily angered, but there are also a minority like Fire Rat No. 1 who can be approached."

Zhou Yi asked curiously, "Is it something you were born with, or is it influenced by your environment?"

The most righteous explanation: "It's mainly due to the living environment."

"The ferocious and aggressive killer rats are usually born near small dust storms. When they encounter a dust storm, they become extremely excited, as if a hormone switch has been turned on, and they will attack all kinds of life."

"A very small number of killer rats are born around large, long-running dust storms, or even giant dust storm areas. These are like Fire Rat No. 1, with stable and lazy personalities."

According to Hung Fu, who has long studied killer rats, the reason is that killer rats near large and giant dust storms die far more frequently than their peers. They may die hundreds of times in a single day, and their fragments of consciousness will be completely shattered by the power of the large dust storm, which is equivalent to a complete rebirth.

"Death can modify and change organisms, just as the reproductive instinct is suppressed under the threat of hunger and death. So these killer rats actually died too many times in a short period of time and were reborn repeatedly, and their behavior patterns were forcibly improved by the great power of nature."

Zhou Yixin said.

It still comes down to the harsh punishment of Father Nature.

The sowers make various modifications to life, but ultimately, the pirated version can't beat the original, and will eventually be restored by nature to a life form that suits the environment.

Zhou Yi turned his gaze back to the killer rat.

According to the Extinction Master, taming is achieved using Martian wheat and the evil brain motor.

Martian wheat is easy to understand. As a staple food that Martian creatures crave, and a homologous life form produced in the hatchery, it's also a rare species, delicious and addictive.

But the evil brain motor is a bit hard to figure out.

"Is such that."

"Chairman, please take a look," said the Duke of Mieding.

The boy doll faced the lying Martian creature, its wooden lips moving up and down: "Open your head."

Inside, a large amount of silicate sand slid off the head of the killer rat, revealing a transparent skull.

Inside the skull, a white, light-colored ceramic support frame is clearly visible, supporting the pinkish-white biological brain. Traces of worms can be seen on the brain tissue, and some chips and electrode devices are attached to its surface.

The Duke of Mieding gestured: "Chairman, this is the biological external brain we created under the guidance of Hydrogen Fu."

"The Martian Killer Rats have highly fragmented consciousness and rely entirely on instinct, unlike the situation on Earth. Therefore, after we domesticated Number One with food, we implanted a demonic brain motor to guide and reshape its consciousness, thus dominating its activities."

"However, I only take full control of the killer rat's body when I'm working. At other times, I mainly collect data, observe the killer rat's physical condition, and regulate its emotional impulses."

"And an external brain."

It walked to the Killer Rat's transparent skull and said, "It's connected to the New World again, turning it into a biological vessel. We can project a consciousness into the New World to operate the Killer Rat's body and participate in its daily work and activities."

Zhou Yi suddenly realized.

The new world has become a consciousness repository from which company employees can be dispatched to remotely enter the Killer Rat's body and operate this light-core bio-vehicle.

"The one currently operating this killer rat is Deng Jian, a new human employee of our Mars Affairs Department."

Miedinggong explained, "He was originally a mutant from the Free Army, following Zhang Zhi. Later, he came to our side and was among the first batch of people to join the Mars Affairs Department."

"Deng Jian has been involved in the observation and research of killer rats. He is bold yet meticulous, and his operations are very steady."

“Initially, we wanted to use the Evil Brain Motor to control and observe the Killer Rats. Deng Jian volunteered to try operating it directly himself. The Evil Brain Motor itself is a projection device. Since it can project people into the New World, then from a mechanics point of view, it is no problem to project from the New World into the Killer Rats that have been implanted in it.”

"He took the risks and tested it himself, providing a lot of operational data and feedback, which enabled us to figure out this technology in the past two months."

The Emperor looked at Killer Rat: "What are you doing, keeping quiet? Greet the Chairman."

At that moment, a voice came from the transparent head: "Hello, Chairman, I am Deng Jian!"

"Hello."

Zhou Yi nodded and smiled, "Well done, thank you for your hard work."

How does it feel to control the Killer Mouse?

"Replying to the Chairman, it feels very strange and interesting."

"How old are you?"

"16."

Zhou Yi exclaimed, "Truly, heroes emerge from among the young."

“I’m not young anymore, Chairman. I’m already married… Originally, I just had this idea and was talking about it with my colleagues in private, but Minister Mieding took it very seriously and asked me for details.”

Deng Jian said, "I never expected that my sudden idea would lead the minister to invest so many resources in me and let me try it... Actually, the testing process did not go smoothly."

"During the experiment, I broke six evil brain generators. I wanted to give up at the time, but the minister kept encouraging me, saying that even you, Chairman, didn't have a smooth journey back then..."

"The minister said that when you first invested in and nurtured the life of architecture, you also encountered many failures and setbacks. First, you failed to introduce retiree-enhanced individuals, and then, because you opposed promiscuity and the supremacy of money, and were unwilling to abandon ordinary people and the poor, you rejected the quick monetization of high-end luxury homes through commercialization..."

"After a lot of trials and errors, you found the value of the buildings and developed them in depth, which also led the company into its golden age."

"The company was built on the foundation of architectural life, and all its rise and rapid development are based on the unique use and advancement of architectural life... The minister told me a lot about your past, which helped me to stop being impatient and persevere."

He has a frankness and directness that is unique to young people.

These words left Zhou Yi somewhat dazed.

Seeing the company's unstoppable momentum now, few people could imagine that ten years ago, the company had only two dilapidated shipping containers for office and accommodation, and even daily water supply was a problem.

At that time, the company's important assets also included piles of manure outside, as well as large amounts of hay and branches. At one point, they had to go to the Dead Sea to catch bonefish to supplement their income.

When Zhou Yi encountered Emerald City, he barely managed to scrape together a down payment of 3101... The hardship and poverty of his life seemed like just yesterday.

Zhou Yi gathered his thoughts and looked at the killer rat's transparent skull: "What are you mainly doing now?"

"We mainly go to conduct surveys outside the base."

Deng Jian said, "The dust storm covered more than 45% of the Martian surface, which is also known as the dark zone, making it impossible for satellites to see. In addition, the killer rats in the wild are photonuclear and attack various life forms, making them very dangerous. In the past, it was very difficult to conduct explorations outside the Martian surface, as we often encountered natural disasters and attacks by killer rats."

"Now that I'm piloting Fire Rat One, I don't have these problems. As long as I avoid the dust storm's kill zone, I can go to most areas. Killer Rats don't attack each other, and as long as we keep our distance, it's safe."

"The only troublesome part is underground, with underground salt lakes and ice layers. Some places may also be inhabited by killer rats, so you need to dig carefully and avoid these groups once you find them."

"However, I have now grasped the basics. By gradually recording the Martian mineral map and using the electromechanical life system to calculate and reconstruct it, we can obtain a more detailed 3D map."

"One is the ability to track and monitor dust storms in real time. In the past, we could only focus on small and medium-sized dust storms because large dust storms had too wide a radiation range and could not be approached without the intensity of a light nucleus. Now, however, we can focus on and track them."

"That's about right... that's it."

The man next to him added, "Deng Jian made another discovery while observing large and giant dust storms."

Under the minister's prompting, the Killer Rat operator finally came to his senses: "Oh right, the minister is right. Um, Chairman, I discovered a stratum entirely made of silicates in the Martian mantle through Fire Rat No. 1."

"No matter how the geological movements occur, that salt rock layer remains tightly connected, like a huge sponge net, enveloping a large area underground."

"However, we don't know what each stratum represents, but we suspect that it is the main body of the Salt Library. It is a record book left on Mars by the Seeders."

"Later, it was handed over to Mr. Hydrogen Flow and his team to analyze that layer of rock."

Zhou Yi immediately contacted the hydrogen flow in the seeding ship to inquire about the details.

“Breeder, we have completed a partial deciphering using the seeding ship. However, to decipher it further, we need not only the seeding ship but also the hatchery, which is a limitation set by the seeder.”

"It requires integrating the power of Earth, Mars, and Io, obtaining the method to tame the killer rats, having access to the hatchery, and control of this area to access this information. According to the Seeder's plan, this means completing the cannibalism among their own kind and inheriting the legacy here."

Hydrogen flow paused for a moment: "That layer of rock salt is called 'Salt Brain,' and it records the breeding methods, life characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages of killer rats and electric cats on Mars."

"The salt layer also contains detailed records of how hydrogen-based life forms grow, and this information is particularly valuable."

"Simply put, by cultivating various forms of life, the growth cycle can be significantly shortened."

"Hydrogen flows and changes among various life forms. The evolution and continuation of life can enrich a large number of exotic isotopes of hydrogen. These isotopes include common deuterium and tritium, hydrogen-4, hydrogen-5... and hydrogen-11, which is said to be the rarest by the sowers so far."

“The Seeders cultivate and sow life on various planets, allowing these lives to grow continuously in order to collect those extremely rare hydrogen isotopes in the universe.”

"Through this method, the sower can go to various sowing sites to harvest the necessary isotopes, absorb the isotopes, and shorten the growth process, which only takes tens of millions of years to grow into a transmutator."

For hydrogen-based life, this is already an incredibly fast rate of evolution.

Under natural conditions, their growth takes hundreds of millions of years.

But this scale of tens of millions of years...

Zhou Yi couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

A distant solution can't quench a nearby fire, and this time is far too long for me.

"Cultivator, this is incredible information!"

Hydrogenflow was very excited: "In other words, as long as we can artificially produce a large number of hydrogen isotopes, we can shorten this process rapidly and achieve artificial evolution."

"Based on the quantitative evolution table provided by the sowers, it is entirely possible to produce this quantity of isotopes within a few years!"

"Because we currently have no shortage of energy, there is a large number and variety of life, we have several planets available, and we can also collect energy using an artificial sun!"

Zhou Yi slapped his thigh.

Yes.

This is a subtle intersection and blind spot formed by differences in the technology tree.

As planet-builders, the Celestials are like civil engineers and Predators on a cosmic scale, but in the realm of consciousness and biology, they are practically illiterate.

The Seeders follow a biological incubation technology path, using Celestial Gems as external aids. Due to the nature of their approach, they lack the concept of industrialized production and processing elements. Instead, they use planets as pastures, spreading seeds everywhere, adopting a free-range approach to space farming and the methods of bioengineers.

The absolute core of industrialization on Wasteland Earth is undoubtedly the group of electromechanical life forms.

Large-scale production and manufacturing are their comfort zone.

Zhou Yi immediately called Juemingzi and 703 to discuss the matter.

I heard about the production of isotopes.

Both of the photonuclear-level electromechanical lifeforms stated that there was no problem with it.

Jue Mingzi said, "In the old human era, taking the most common industrial production of deuterium and tritium as examples, the annual production of deuterium was about 500-600 tons, mainly using the heavy water method and electrolysis method. The annual production of tritium was 400-500 grams, mainly using reactors and accelerators."

"However, we are not currently limited by the existence of the old humans because of the controllable use of circular energy and the energy collection of the solar eye system... If these two production processes are started, production can be fully started within a month."

"Using the Dead Sea Park as a dedicated production site, we conservatively estimate that the annual production of deuterium could reach 800 tons, and the annual production of tritium could reach at least 1000 grams. After a year, with a large amount of production data and experience to support it, this figure can be increased by at least 10%."

Upon hearing this, Hydrogen Flow was overjoyed: "That's enough!! If it's just about evolving into a light nucleus, one isotope will suffice. The Seeders gave us data indicating around 3700 tons! We can achieve that in just 5 years!"

"A second isotope is needed to become a transmutator!"

Zhou Yi immediately made the decision.

They began building a factory to produce hydrogen isotopes, propelling two hydrogen-based life forms into the photonucleus stage.

Once you enter the photonucleus stage.

They no longer need to stay in the seed boat all the time, which means they have moved from being swaddled babies to being able to run around everywhere!

The key is.

Hydrogen-based life forms have bodies composed of hydrogen, allowing them to easily and safely pass through various spatial cavities (since they are all composed of hydrogen and helium), and are also unrestricted in entering and exiting higher-dimensional worlds.

At that time, it would be no problem for them to enter Jupiter or even the body of the Time Elder.

To further understand the celestial beings, string civilizations, and time-based beings, we need to rely on hydrogen flow and hydrogen blessing!
(End of this chapter)