Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 705 Insufficient Ammunition
The building in front of Zhou Yi resembled a giant cross, its surface covered with dark red mantle fungus, like solidified thick moss.

Among the company's unusual employees, St. George's Church is the one most easily overlooked.

Other architectural lifecycles each have their own important missions.

Emerald City is committed to solving the housing problem of our time and has been continuously expanding and producing and releasing various types of public housing.

Maria Hospital treats many patients every day, the viaduct is the main artery for maintaining regional traffic, and Yalong Bay is home to numerous factories and the Pan Tree industry.

Only St. George's Church is relatively quiet; it is positioned by the company as a tourist attraction and a place to inspire residents with the creed of the Messiah.

So Zhou Yi sent it to be the first architectural life form to participate in the special training.

He further confirmed: "You are already a Transmuter?"

"No, Chairman, I am still a light core. It's just that I'm now connected to time-based beings, and they shield me from external observations."

St. George said.

The ancient church suddenly began to blur, as if it had turned into a mirage.

But when Zhou Yi observed carefully and attentively, he could only see a blurry gray-white outline. St. George was like ink mixed into water, swirling and tangling, unable to take shape.

It turned into a giant four-dimensional fish.

Zhou Yi was somewhat surprised: "How could it be so fast? The bone fish and the others haven't been able to utilize the time-traveling creatures yet."

"They are not big enough."

St. George retracted his four-dimensional state, restoring the red building to its original appearance: "According to Mr. Earth Ghost's standards, the cosmic heart needs to be reshaped first, which means that the mantle bacteria grow from inside the body to outside, and the supporting network that spreads throughout the body grows from the heart as the core. It must reach the strength of the light core to support the long-term attachment of the time-based organism, otherwise the organism will collapse."

"The bone fish are still absorbing energy through mantle bacteria, and their bodies need to expand further. The higher the level of the light core, the more it can support the time creatures. The higher the life strength, the shorter the interval between each use of the time creatures' power... Even the strongest bone fish, Big Mouth, can only use it once every 30 days."

"Thanks to your special permission, I was allowed to eat as much solid cloud tincture as I wanted. So I ate 18 LV5 cloud tinctures in one go until I was stuffed."

At this point, St. George's tone revealed a hint of pride: "With your and the company's support, I had already reached LV3 in one go, and then surpassed others."

"This is also due to the special structure of architectural life itself, which naturally possesses a large physical framework. Mr. Di Gui said that the greatest advantage of architectural life is actually the realm of consciousness. Each one has at least hundreds of thousands of mature consciousness entities, which is the most precious legacy left by the old human civilization."

"Our consciousness expansion is easier than that of most life forms. As long as there are conscious beings willing to join, we can achieve synchronous fusion and maintain the integrity of the individual."

"External factors can help accelerate the expansion of the body, but the plasticity and growth rate of the consciousness are innate."

"The absorption of time-based beings also follows special rules. They are always matched one-to-one with consciousness entities, and a consciousness entity will only be bound to one time-based being. Everyone has their own concept of time and rhythm of time, which is a manifestation of this relationship."

"Therefore, Mr. Earth Ghost said that building life has an inherent and unique advantage. Because each of us has hundreds of thousands of consciousness entities, theoretically we can accumulate more than 100,000 time-related beings. Of course, the more numerous we are, the greater the burden on the organism..."

"The more time-based beings we have, the more power we can invoke in the time dimension—or rather, the longer we can use it. When invoking this power, it cannot be observed or selected in this three-dimensional space."

Zhou Yi suddenly realized.

No wonder the Earth Ghost said that building life is a killer of gods and men, a gifted talent.

That's what happened.

He then thought, "You said that time-based beings are bound one-to-one with consciousness, so what about the giant bone fish?"

"Mr. Earth Ghost, like us, possesses a large number of consciousness entities."

Zhou Yi's gaze sharpened: "Is it an aggregate of subterranean bone fish?"

"Yes."

St. George said, "Mr. Earth Ghost accidentally connected with the Time Creatures and discovered their interaction with music."

“The other bone fish are unwilling to leave the underground, but their consciousness will wear down and die. So the earth ghost can only find them when they are on their deathbed. Only then will they be willing to follow it to find a way to survive, and their bodies will connect and merge with each other.”

"By constantly collecting the dying underground, Mr. Earth Ghost is able to summon more and more time-related creatures."

"The most difficult part about consciousness is that if it is forcibly captured and merged, it will become an obstacle and hidden danger in the consciousness field. It is necessary to voluntarily connect with the memory core to maintain stability."

Hearing this, Zhou Yi couldn't help but feel a little strange.

So this is how giant bony fish completed their primitive accumulation.

Even something as powerful as it has obvious flaws.

In comparison, the Flow Tracers are more like an advanced civilization, possessing the Circular Flow technology to collect fire seeds and create a fire seed civilization.

It can only be said that the habitat of the bony fish limited its vision and thinking. This led it to develop in a relatively primitive way, with a long cycle and slow development.

With Suneo's help, the giant bone fish would probably have already soared to great heights.

Upon receiving Zhou Yi's praise, Xiao Fu said with a touch of arrogance, "Great Zhou, I'm not bragging, but if I had helped it, things definitely wouldn't be like this now. At least, it wouldn't be a problem to gather a group of bone fish to establish a nation on Europa."

"But then again, the giant bone fish is unlikely to trust me either. It's different from you; it's very conservative and finds it hard to trust unfamiliar races. Plus, with the Celestials posing a threat, it only trusts the bone fish it's familiar with."

The traveler lamented, "Even if I went to seek refuge there, it would treat me as a suspicious enemy, either killing me or expelling me."

"This is the deficiency of not having a cultural heritage. It has the strength but cannot use it, cannot find the right direction, and has no experience from predecessors to learn from."

"The Great Zhou is far behind you in terms of openness and acceptance of new things. If it were you, with the strength of the Giant Bone Fish at the start... you would have ended the rule of the Celestials long ago."

Zhou Yi was speechless. Xiao Fu's boasting skills had become increasingly refined over the past few years.

He waved his hand: "No, no. Let's end this most fantastical episode and talk about something practical."

"Just for comparison."

Suneo continued, "Now that the Golden Tree can draw upon the power of Proxima Centauri, and with our mastery of the music that drives time-manipulating beings, coupled with our solid and powerful industrial foundation on Earth, we are officially going to war against the Celestials. That's why the Giant Bone Fish accepted our offer and is willing to cooperate with us."

"At least in terms of training warriors to deal with the Celestials, it will spare no effort."

“Da Zhou, right now we’re sending more alien employees to the Giant Bone Fish so it can help train and strengthen them.”

This week, we agree.

He then looked at St. George's Church in front of him: "Can you use the time dimension now?"

“Yes, Chairman. I can now travel 12 minutes and 07 seconds in the time dimension every 24 hours.”

"So it means you can go back in time to a previous space?"

“Ah, no. It’s just walking through time…” Zhou Yi understood after St. George’s explanation.

It turns out that the methods of using Giant Bone Fish and MR Bean Peg (Tarzan Knight D) are different.

The latter is able to return to a spatial position several seconds earlier, which is a point-to-point dimensional jump.

The former, however, moves within the dimension of time—like a character in a comic book suddenly jumping into a three-dimensional world, entering a new page of a book from the outside. This is more free and manipulable, but requires the user to be at least a light core body, making the operation more complex.

The key difference lies in the use of music.

Zhou Yi asked a question that concerned him: "The giant bone fish has the ability to enter the time dimension, so why doesn't it use this method of infiltration to assassinate the celestial beings one by one?"

Logically speaking, celestial beings cannot use the dimension of time; this alone should be enough for them to rampage through the dark.

"That's impossible."

St. George said this with a hint of sullenness: "Because time cannot directly kill celestial beings, or rather, the power of time that we can use is not yet capable of doing so."

"When Mr. Earth Ghost assassinates a Celestial Being, he first infiltrates through the dimension of time, and then uses the powerful string light he has collected to break through a Celestial Being and destroy them instantly."

"This tactic was first used during the surprise attack on Io, and it was extremely effective. Mr. Earth Demon instantly killed two Celestials there and destroyed the Celestial assembly site."

"Later, after a period of recuperation and observation, Mr. Earth Ghost killed a celestial being who was intercepting the string light on the outer side of the sun, and also killed a celestial being who was acting as a sentinel on Europa."

"But apart from the first time, the next two times were more difficult than the last, because the Celestials learn very quickly. Mr. Earth Demon's deadly weapon is string light, which made them vigilant and change, equipping them with a large hemispherical gem device that can resist, refract, and even capture string light."

"The level of this equipment is getting higher and higher. Every Celestial Being is equipped with it, and some even have several... By the third kill, Mr. Earth Ghost was already extremely exhausted. He risked injury and overexertion by using the Time Dimension beyond its limits to barely break through the Gem Hemisphere's defense and annihilate that Celestial Being."

Zhou Yi immediately realized: "A string-like curved surface?"

"That is?"

St. George's main focus is on tourism and culture, and he knows very little about technology and production.

Zhou Yi explained it to it and shared relevant parts of its consciousness information.

"Yes, yes, this is it!"

The alien employee immediately said, "That's it. Mr. Earth Ghost showed me its video footage. It's this thing. But that one is bigger and stronger... String Light can't break through its defenses with less than 12 beams. To kill the Celestial, String Light needs to be at least 32 beams to have a good chance of success."

"12 beams of string light?"

Zhou Yi asked curiously, "Is this the standard that the giant bone fish uses for string light?"

"Yes, Chairman."

St. George explained, "A single beam of string light is a complete ring of string light, which looks like a purple halo. To collect the string light, you need to use the power of the time creatures to lock it within their bodies."

It immediately demonstrated the entire process.

Through the transmission of consciousness, Zhou Yi could see it very clearly.

In the memory.

In a dark aquatic environment, a black behemoth with four crimson eyes slowly stretched out its body, its surface covered with four-dimensional time-space creatures like blooming flowers.

This makes it appear obscure and its shape constantly twisting and changing.

It is clearly a giant bony fish.

Its body was facing a spatial hole, and the time-space creature on its body surface produced a special reaction with the spatial hole.

Visible to the naked eye, tiny purple sparks are gradually taking shape—or rather, emerging from the shadows, and then becoming a thin, curved ray of light that stretches outwards from the lens of the camera with no discernible pattern.

The giant fish slowly intercepts the light with its body, refracting and absorbing it through the biological processes on its body surface, causing the light to circulate and twist around its surface.

Zhou Yi understood.

Time-traveling beings are key; they can gather the string light and form it into a loop. This process is extremely slow and appears to take a very long time.

St. George continued, “Chairman, it takes a lot of time to gather a single beam of string light, ranging from a few months to several decades. Mr. Earth Ghost has been collecting and accumulating for many years to accumulate some string light.”

"However, the depletion of resources during the several battles against the Celestials was significant, and insufficient inventory was also a major reason why we could not sustain the offensive against them."

"After the sun was sealed off by the Celestials, the amount of string light that could leak out was already very small. Mr. Earth Ghost had collected a considerable amount of string light on Earth over many years, and chose Europa as the base because of its higher density of string light. However, as the collection progressed, the string light became increasingly difficult to collect. Meanwhile, the Celestials' string light curvature was further enhanced, so it turned into a long-term logistical tug-of-war..."

Zhou Yi understood now.

It turned out that insufficient ammunition limited the giant fish's attack.

Therefore, it can only focus on collecting bullets everywhere, while the Celestials' defensive equipment is also being upgraded, clearly indicating that it has entered an arms race phase.

However, this is the field of engineering that the Celestials excel at.

The giant bony fish was at its peak in the early days, but now it is difficult for it to pose a fatal threat to the Celestials.

Zhou Yi pondered.

This is probably the core reason why the giant bone fish took the initiative to show goodwill to him after learning that he was going to take action against the Celestials and that he had powerful external support – he could no longer reverse the situation on his own.

Zhou Yi suddenly thought of something.

The string civilization is locked in the time corridor within the sun. The string light is constricted by time-based beings, but the time dimension does have a restraining effect on the string civilization.

Right after the successful transformation and enhancement of St. George, Zhou Yi dispatched his second alien employee—the Leshan Giant Buddha.

After its body was repaired by the energy block, this special architectural life form, which had reached the LV3 level of light core, embarked on a special training and study journey in extraterrestrial space.

Another month has passed.

Once all the required deuterium has been collected, it will be sent to Mars.

Hydrogen flow has officially broken through and become a photonucleus.

same day.

Hydrogen Flow remotely sent a message to Zhou Yi: "Cultivator, I know the secret of the Celestials! I have confirmed the true forms they protect and hide using the Intelligence Core as a carrier! Please come and take a look!"

(End of this chapter)