Wasteland Development Diary

While the snowman prisoner in the transparent castle held secrets, there was something even more important at hand.

Zhou Yi said, "Where are those 12,117 electric cats now?"

If so many wild electric cats were released and started causing trouble everywhere, it would be a disaster sweeping across the land.

"Don't worry, Chairman, they're fine."

Cat Da Li said confidently, "I've settled them all on the floating islands near the company. There are our company's power facilities there, used as temporary footholds. They really like electrolytic cat boxes and large cat houses, it's just that the number of electric cats is a bit too large, causing some crowding."

"It's difficult for electric cats to survive in the Spark Plains, otherwise they wouldn't have followed me out."

"The light-core electric cats monopolize the thunderclouds in the core layer, frantically exploiting ordinary electric cats. They regularly stuff some electric cats into the transparent castle, where the electric cats have to keep running and discharging electricity to barely maintain their survival characteristics, becoming castle slaves."

"These castle slaves supply the very core of the castle, which is that white creature."

Zhou Yi was a little surprised.

This was something he didn't know before.

"The electric cats you brought out are all castle slaves?"

"Yes! Chairman, you understand me!"

Cat Da Li said indignantly, "If the electric cats there can't become light-core entities, they'll eventually become castle slaves, generating electricity inside until they die. It's just that the electric cats outside can't see and can't know their tragic fate."

"The savior creed I made is to help and save those who are unfortunate and bullied. But our kind are suffering the same fate in the Spark Plains, and those who oppress them are even higher-level members of our kind! Don't you think that's infuriating? I can't turn a blind eye!"

"So after I finished investigating there, I rushed in directly and released all the electric cats who were imprisoned in the castle as slaves."

"I told them, follow me! I'll take you to the free world outside! And there's a way to evolve into light-core entities! Ordinary electric cats didn't believe it, but those imprisoned slaves followed me all the way out, and then there was the pursuit of the light-core electric cats…"

Zhou Yi listened silently.

The whole picture was basically clear.

Cat Da Li took away the slave cats imprisoned in the castle, which triggered its savior creed, gaining a crazy power boost, almost ascending into the light-core stage.

"After rescuing this group of slave electric cats, I was chased all the way by the seven light-core electric cats, and I was almost beaten to death. In a fit of anger, I moved their core castle away during a thunderstorm. Although this must have had a great impact there, the entire transparent castle group didn't collapse."

Zhou Yi looked at Cat Da Li again, "Where is that transparent castle?"

"I hid it inside the Wuhu overpass. It can shield external detection, and it's a dry cave insulation environment. The overpass learned of my emergency situation and let me put it there first."

Zhou Yi said, "Okay, you go to Mars to avoid the limelight first. The coordinates of that space bubble are at…"

Cat Da Li hesitated for a moment, "Chairman, I want to take those brothers to Mars together."

"I brought them out, and I said I would find a way out for them. I can't leave them alone."

"I'm the company's electric cat, but they're not. If I take them to Mars, they can avoid conflict with the Spark Plains. I'm a light-core entity, and I should be able to lead them there, even if it's just to mine for the company."

"If they stay here, they haven't received any training, and they're used to the casual freedom of the Spark Plains for many years, so it's difficult for them to adapt to the company's standards."

"Once they go to Mars, the electric cats can migrate between dust storms, and we can directly transport and mine the light-seed ore inside. Maybe we can find a more effective way to improve from the Mars electric cats. My path should be difficult to replicate."

Cat Da Li said very frankly.

Zhou Yi thought for a moment, "Alright. You can take them there to mine. Refer to the treatment of the Mars electric cats we hired, but everything there must listen to Curling. You have to manage such a large number of electric cats, and you have to lead them safely to work and come back safely every time."

"Yes, Chairman! Please rest assured, I will definitely do it well!"

Cat Da Li immediately guaranteed.

Speed is of the essence.

Half an hour later, Cat Da Li led tens of thousands of refugee electric cats through the space bubble into Mars. Due to the electric characteristics of the electric cats, it directly connected the electric cats into its body, making it safe to enter and exit.

After confirming that everything was correct there, Zhou Yi entered a secret hut built in the Dead Sea under the overpass.

Inside was a transparent house, about 15 square meters in size, a bottle-shaped single room. There were circular connection ports on both sides, with sealed door structures on them, which could maintain a sealed state.

Inside, there were transparent pipelines, as well as diamond-structured anvils that were mutually coated and rotating, as if applying some kind of pressure inside. It looked more like a special machine tool made of glass, with precision far exceeding a cat house.

There was just one problem.

Zhou Yi didn't find the snowman; it was empty inside.

Had it dissipated during the transportation process, or was it that this kind of life couldn't be sustained after leaving that vast transparent castle system?

The overpass said at this time, "Chairman, it's still here."

"Cat Da Li told me that without a large supply of electricity and energy from the electric cats, the extreme low temperature and ultra-high pressure inside the castle couldn't be maintained, and this white creature would immediately dissipate. But it wasn't destroyed; instead, it turned into gas, evenly distributed in this container."

"I can sense the consciousness of life, but it's very weak. This guy should be in a very primitive state. Or perhaps it should be said that it's still an embryo, not truly formed yet."

Zhou Yi remembered.

The snowman on Mars was walking around in the castle. It clearly had a more stable autonomous consciousness and should be at a more mature stage.

This one above the Spark Plains on Earth was still very small.

Zhou Yi placed his hand on the transparent machine tool.

Energy input was unimpeded, but the consciousness synchronization was like a stone sinking into the sea.

It was indeed impossible to communicate.

Zhou Yi immediately summoned Da Vinci and 703 over.

The two electromechanical lifeforms brought the latest equipment and carried out various measurements and experiments on the transparent machine tool in the sealed hut.

703 first released the conclusion, "The outer transparent material is neither glass nor diamond, but an amorphous material that has never been recorded before. The traditional glass materials we use daily are also a kind of amorphous material."

"It has a density similar to diamond, but the interior exhibits liquid characteristics, possessing both extremely high strength, hardness, elasticity, and toughness."

"The Vickers hardness of diamond can reach 10,000 HV, and this material is conservatively estimated to be above 70,000 HV. For the convenience of recording and description, it is tentatively called 7x Diamond."

"The program department simulated the relevant parameters, and it can easily cut single-crystal diamond, can adapt to extreme environments such as high temperature, low temperature, high pressure, and low pressure, and it can even isolate most of the radiation."

Zhou Yi thought to himself, as expected.

The prototype of the cat house was indeed not made of glass; it was just that glass was the only substitute material that could be imitated at present.

"Is there any way for us to replicate this material?"

"I'm sorry, we can't."

703 explained, "With only this finished product, we can't determine its specific process, as well as specific processing tools and material ratios. However, if there is enough time to experiment, we should be able to create a similar amorphous material, but the strength will be much lower."

Zhou Yi nodded.

Being able to produce a 20-point replica of something that is 100 points is still a kind of progress.

After all, he got a ready-made answer.

"Chairman, the sealed container structure constructed of this 7x Diamond itself also has extremely high technical value. It can maintain stable operation in extreme high-pressure and low-temperature environments, and there are many different modular parts inside, all made of this material."

The machine dog's electronic eye emitted a beam of light, hitting a channel opening in the glass room.

"You see, this device has an entrance. However, it requires materials of the same structure to be docked with it, and it needs to maintain the same pressure and temperature. The control method of pressure and temperature is very clever."

"According to our simulation and speculation, its internal components, such as the configured 42 7x Diamond anvils, are used for local pressurization. The transparent pipeline system is a conversion structure that turns gas into liquid, and the entrance also has a multi-stage compression architecture, similar to a multi-stage refrigeration compressor…"

Zhou Yi let most of the technical details go in one ear and out the other.

Mainly because he didn't understand it.

"…Our final conclusion is that this gaseous life will obtain some special gases through the bottled house, allowing it to continue to grow."

"These foreign gases need to be filtered and processed through extremely low temperatures and high pressures, and then turned into a part of it. External power is provided by the electric cats."

"7x Diamond is very special; it is a high-quality semiconductor and is itself a super-large phase-change memory. It can precisely control the entry and exit of electricity and record information."

The machine dog became more and more excited, "The gaseous life inside should also be related to electricity; it can transform between gas, liquid, and solid. Designing such a precise and complex device, using the electric cats of the Spark Plains as an organic power source, is to continuously supply this core area, allowing the life inside to hatch."

"It's extremely valuable! I suggest connecting the company's power supply to this device to continue to incubate this life."

After listening, Zhou Yi looked to the other side again.

Da Vinci's test had also ended, but it remained silent.

Zhou Yi said, "What's wrong? What's the situation?"

The electromechanical doctor slowly opened its mouth, "There is only hydrogen inside."

"In this special petri dish, only hydrogen exists."

"Although this conclusion is somewhat beyond our existing knowledge reserves, it should be a life based on hydrogen."

"To some extent… it's very similar to atmospheric creatures."

Zhou Yi stroked his chin.

After all this trouble, was this snowman prisoner a relative of atmospheric creatures?