Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 706 The True Form of the Modifier

Zhou Yi rushed to the Mars base.

Through the passageway in the hall, he saw many base residents looking up at the seed-planting boats in the sky.

The seeding ship has now changed its shape. Based on the original ring shape, a new disc-shaped halo has been added that is perpendicular to it, making it look as if part of the silver ring has melted into another planar layer.

Its shape is exactly the same as a black hole seen through the sun's eye.

Zhou Yi couldn't help but think.

The essence of a metamorphic being is a biological black hole.

It appears that the Seed Ship has now officially entered Transformer mode.

Hydrogen Flow said, “Cultivator, I can now bring you in. Would you like to project your consciousness inside and take a look? It’s a lot of fun in there.”

"it is good."

Zhou Yi readily agreed.

The seeding boat projected a ring that landed on him.

The next second, Zhou Yi found himself in a silver world, where everything was a smooth metallic surface.

The ground and sky curled up, and in the center of this almost tubular space flowed a dazzling stream of golden light, sparkling like fireworks.

“Cultivator, you have arrived.”

A silver metallic figure emerged from the ground. It had no facial features and its surface was extremely smooth, reflecting Zhou Yi's slightly surprised face.

Its body surface had concentric ripples spreading and moving, a sight that Zhou Yi found familiar.

"Hydrogen flow?"

"It's me. Flowing, flowing!"

The metal figure swings its arms like a bird.

Zhou Yi looked around: "Where's Qingfu?"

"It's busy. Hydrogen is currently conducting further analysis of the basic units of the Celestial Being, repairing the Celestial Being's intelligence core, and trying to find new alternatives or repair materials. Once there is enough deuterium, I will take over its work so that it can also complete its evolution."

"That's what the hydrogen flow says."

"Oh. This is the interior of the seed ship?"

Zhou Yi looked around and saw identical silver metallic surfaces everywhere, except for the golden river in the sky.

Where are those facilities and places that nurture life?

"Right at your feet."

The hydrogen flow points towards the ground.

Zhou Yi looked at the silver metal floor and noticed that there were many fine gold threads flowing inside, but they were not very conspicuous in the bright environment.

These lines weave together areas on the ground.

Some areas look like some kind of special device in operation, with light constantly twisting and transmitting, drawing more light into other areas.

Some of them are like cells, slowly swimming around inside, like a petri dish.

Others surround various tissues, including cells of all kinds, inorganic substances with geometrical structures, and some existing blood vessels and muscle fiber tissues, all of which are undergoing various fusion processes.

……

However, all of these activities took place entirely on the silver metal surface, not underground, making it appear as if a flat, dynamic video was being played.

Zhou Yi exclaimed in surprise: "This is a two-dimensional structure?"

"Yes, breeder."

Hydrogen Flow raised its silver arm, which stretched out and connected vertically to the ground: "Previously, I relied on the Gem Transformer to start the seeding ship. But now that I have officially entered the Light Core, I can finally start the seeding mode of this ship. It can spontaneously analyze and combine the various life forms collected. I only need to select the options I need from those large combinations and results."

“In the seeding mode, the seeding ship can call upon spatial ridges, and its internal structure will be flattened and connected in parallel with nearby two-dimensional spatial holes, thereby reducing the dimensionality of the ship’s internal area and obtaining a space almost like a planet. This can save a lot of space and facilitate the connection of different areas, presenting the entire process on a two-dimensional plane, which is convenient for recording and replication, and can also be stopped at any time to block and destroy dangerous species.”

"You see, it's very simple to intervene internally."

As Hydrogen Flow spoke, semi-transparent lines extended from the ends of its arms that connected to the ground, probing into each two-dimensional area.

These lines touch the organisms inside, examine the equipment, and move the cellular tissues... flexible and delicate, like the tip of a pen drawing or writing on paper.

Zhou Yi and Qing Liu both squatted down and looked at the ground beneath their feet.

For a moment, he felt as if he had returned to his childhood, watching the ants running around on the ground with his friends, just like he was now.

The hydrogen flow was displayed with an air of self-satisfaction.

Clearly, they wanted praise and approval.

"Not bad."

Zhou Yi gave a thumbs-up: "Well done, that's very strong."

"Hehe. It's alright, it's alright."

The hydrogen flow immediately looked comfortable, and the ripples on its body trembled and danced.

However, Zhou Yi was not surprised that Xiao Fu, the Flow Tracer, could also achieve this kind of dimensional reduction using circular flow technology.

What interests him more is: "Have any new species been discovered?"

"Yes, yes! Breeders!"

The hydrogen flow seemed to have been waiting for this statement, nodding repeatedly and pointing to something in the two-dimensional plane.

These are horseshoe-shaped cells. They bump into each other like bumper cars in the culture area, looking rather silly and energetic.

Instead of taking it out, the hydrogen flow fiddled with it in the plane and said, "Last time, Minister Mieding said that we could consider developing the Celestial Virus."

"Cultivator, look, this is a special microorganism we cultivated using cave dwellers and gerbil cells—an ultra-small bacterial virus called 'Horse Vanguard.'"

“It uses mantle bacteria as a host, can multiply rapidly, and can drive the ‘resurrection’ of cavemen corpses. Through this characteristic, they can repair, connect, and even extend the broken corpse structures.”

Zhou Yi was astonished: "There's such a thing? Tell me more about it."

"Is such that."

Hydrogen flow, through the semi-transparent lines extending from its arm, guided a pawn on the silver ground into another square frame that resembled an experimental area.

Then it took out a translucent gray, grid-shaped substance—this Zhou Yi recognized; it was the corpse of a caveman.

Compared to the cave dwelling corpse, the horse vanguard appears very small, less than 1/20th the size of the former.

It crashed into the other side like a bumper car and quickly burrowed into the corpse.

After a while.

The caveman's corpse began to move. At first, it was a little clumsy, but it gradually became more agile, swimming back and forth in the petri dish, still in the posture of a pawn, looking rather clueless.

Zhou Yi asked, puzzled, "What is the purpose of this?"

"They can directly read the information recorded in the caveman's corpse without being detected by the modifier. They can use the caveman's corpse to replace the dying glass man, allowing the modifier who was originally on the verge of death to restore the activity of the life carrier. For the modifier, this is like... life-extending stem cells."

Zhou Yi hissed upon hearing this.

Damn it.

We asked you to analyze the celestial beings, and you actually found a medical procedure to prolong their lives... "And there's more!"

Hydrogen flow used lines to poke the pawn forward, excitedly saying, "It was by cultivating the pawn and implanting it into that critically injured and dying cyborg that we were able to crack the cyborg."

"The cyborgs call themselves stardust particles, a kind of life form created by the collision of giant celestial bodies. That is indeed true, but their form of existence is very special. The closest thing to them is the graviton described by the old humans. They have no mass, travel at the speed of light, cannot be directly observed in existing dimensions, and have the penetrability to penetrate almost all matter."

Zhou Yi repeated it again: "Their essence is gravitons?"

Although he didn't know what a graviton was.

"You can think so."

Hydrogen Flow continued, "Therefore, stardust particles are both matter and consciousness, a special energy state of life."

"This is where we need to talk about chords together."

“A string is a one-dimensional structure; it is a vibrating filamentous energy body and also a basic building block of matter.”

“Cultivator, did you know that gravitons are a type of string? Just like the string light we saw before.”

However, there are two types of strings.

"The first type is the open string, which means that both ends are free. Electromagnetism and strong and weak forces can be regarded as different vibration modes of the open string."

"The second type is a closed string, which is ring-shaped. Gravitons are the lowest energy state vibrations of closed strings."

"Gravitons are described by particle units. When they gather in large numbers and vibrate, they become gravitational waves. The relationship between the two is like that between water molecules and water waves. The former is the microscopic basis, and the latter is the macroscopic phenomenon."

"The life form of stardust particles can be seen as gravitational waves. They form closed loops in large numbers, spreading ripples in the universe, maintaining continuity, and giving birth to life consciousness through contact and interaction with various energy bodies."

"Stardust particles, acting as gravitational waves, continue to reverberate throughout the universe, bouncing back and forth between various energy bodies and celestial matter like billiard balls. If enough closed strings are captured and gathered, an energy network can be created that covers all regions of the universe, possessing an astonishing spatial coverage and positioning capability. At the core of this network are the earliest stardust particles, which control the entire string network. This is the string civilization."

Zhou Yi's gaze turned serious as he sorted out his thoughts: "The graviton is the initial form, also known as a closed string. Then, a large number of gravitons formed gravitational waves, and stardust particles were born from these waves. A large number of stardust particles connected with each other to form a string network, which eventually gave birth to the string civilization."

"Yes."

"In other words, the string civilization itself is actually a string network composed of a large number of stardust particles, but the original stardust particle dominates everything. The string civilization is the entire string network, but its ruler is that original stardust particle, which is the essence of the string civilization."

"Yes, breeder, that's what it means."

The hydrogen flow nodded.

Zhou Yi asked, "Wait a minute, so currently the string civilization is constantly emitting string light outwards from the sun. Is it emitting stardust particles that it controls, or gravitons?"

"It's a graviton."

"Oh."

Zhou Yi frowned slightly: "So, the reason why the string light killed the Celestial was actually because it forcibly triggered the closed string with gravitons, destroying the closed string structure of the stardust particles?"

"That's it! You seem to understand everything."

Hydrogen flow said happily.

"not at all……"

Zhou Yi stroked his chin: "String civilization uses assembly structures to transform stardust particles into modifiers."

"Yes."

"So, the core of intelligence within the basic unit of the modified human's body, which is the organic-inorganic mixture formed from the caveman's corpse and the ancestral land, is used to store and stably hold stardust particles. If the modified human collapses and dies, then the core stardust particles within the body will leak out?"

Hydrogen Flow nodded: "That's right. They will be swept away by the energy tides of the universe in an instant, and it is impossible to determine where they will be sent. Without the String Network with the String Civilization at its core, they are like people in the ocean who have lost their land and ships, and can only drift with the current."

Zhou Yi discerned something: "So they are actually pure energy entities, unable to separate matter and consciousness?"

"Yes."

"Their strength and their weakness lie in this," Hydrogen Flow said.

"Stardust particles cannot be observed. They are one-dimensional energy bodies that can travel through various spaces. They have no mass and do not decay or dissipate. They are naturally immortal."

"But similarly, their characteristics also prevent them from staying in any one space. From the moment they are born, they must keep moving and traversing, and they will be pulled into various spaces and dimensions by the gravitational pull of energy tides. They cannot control themselves. They are like travelers in countless energy beams scattered throughout the universe."

"They are one-dimensional, only able to move forward and backward, with no other options. So once captured by the string net, they cannot break free and can only operate on its track, just like a train on a railway track."

"The String Civilization created the Transformer as a material carrier to better utilize and store the properties of stardust particles... This method is similar to how humans use fire. Only the fire used by the String Civilization is a living life."

Zhou Yi understood this time.

Due to their immortality, the Stardust Sprites must seal and imprison the String Civilization, otherwise the String Civilization will endlessly enslave them.

Death is the most feared thing for most people.

But when faced with the String Civilization, immortality turned into the Stardust Children's painful despair.

"That's probably what happened."

The silver-metal man said, "Breeder, we can now heal the severely injured cyborg using the vanguard. Shall we do that now?"

Zhou Yi pondered for a moment: "Can we completely control the vanguard?"

"Yes. This is a creature we specially developed and cultivated to deal with the physiological characteristics of the modified humans. As long as there are cavemen and mantle bacteria, we can issue commands to them by emitting consciousness waves."

Hydrogen flow gave a thumbs-up—it really liked the gesture it had learned from Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi immediately said, "Then let's treat it. Let's observe it first and see what happens next."

The pathogens have been successfully introduced into the celestial beings!
In the past, Zhou Yi deeply hated Shafulin, who caused the large-scale spread of the virus.

But when facing the heavens and man.

Then there's no need to talk about chivalry or honor.

Use whichever works best!
……

after one day.

Above the Mars base, hovering beside the seed ship, the severely injured Celestial suddenly began to slowly accelerate the rotation of its gem-like body. Numerous gems flowed and circulated across its surface, gradually transforming its pale white body into a rich, vibrant blue.

The spherical gemstone slowly detached from the seed-producing ship.

It spun around high in the air for a while, its surface flashing white, blue, black, and red, like a giant light ball adjusting itself.

Eventually, the skin returned to its original blue-white color.

The gemstone then slowly transformed into a human form.

The gem giant in the air raised its right arm, gave a thumbs-up gesture, then curled back into a sphere, instantly shrinking and disappearing into the air.

Zhou Yi and many other Martian residents witnessed this scene.

The crowd discussed what was going on and why the celestial beings were giving a thumbs-up to the high-altitude seeding ship.

Just a few seconds later.

Two more broken gemstone objects appeared outside the spatial ridge: one resembled a huge, shattered cluster of crystals, and the other looked like a large, shimmering light bulb.

The hydrogen stream said, "Cultivator, two more seriously wounded have arrived. The modders are very grateful to us, and are extremely happy and excited that we saved the member who was on the verge of death. They've asked us to continue helping to treat them. They'll provide everything we need as long as we help treat the wounded, and they've even brought many gems..."

Zhou Yi said, "Continue treatment and first collect more relevant data."

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)