Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 315 The call from the distance

Sun Hao checked the black thorn.

"It was born severely maldeveloped, then torn and detached."

"The consciousness is completely fragmented and cannot form even a complete block. Fortunately, it is strong enough and has a special physiological structure. A large amount of energy maintains the most basic instincts. Otherwise, it should have died in this situation."

Every day Sun Hao came to treat Blackthorn, and when he was close to exhaustion, he would stop in time, and he did not fall into a coma due to overload like last time.

The repair lasted 14 days.

Sun Hao said: "Father, the treatment is complete. It is now like a newborn baby, its consciousness is just beginning to absorb information from the outside world, and its future growth will require its own accumulation."

"However, its body is very strong, but its consciousness is extremely limited, so it still needs to be restrained and taught."

Zhou Yi nodded: "Thank you for your hard work. Let me see your nightmare."

A huge shadow monster slowly emerged behind Sun Hao.

The nightmare was nearly 3 meters tall, with its two horns almost touching the ceiling, but when it noticed Zhou Yi, its little eyes showed fear.

Zhou Yi glanced at Meng Mo and handed Sun Hao a can of Coke: "Have a good rest."

"Yes, father."

The young man in black robe left with the Coke.

……

Zhou Yi turned his attention back to Blackthorn.

Its consciousness has been completely repaired and it is now capable of communicating.

Zhou Yi touched its spiky shell with his hand.

Energy input.

Consciousness is turned on in sync.

"How do you feel now?"

"feels good."

There is a response.

Zhou Yi was delighted.

Blackthorn without self-awareness is certainly a stable biological vehicle. But Blackthorn that has awakened itself has more possibilities.

"Do you remember what happened before?"

"Before? I don't know. There was nothing before."

Blackthorn is curious about everything.

"who am I?"

"You are Blackthorn, a special life form cultivated by the Mud Tree Civilization."

"who are you?"

"My name is Zhou Yi. I found you in the Dead Sea and brought you to the Wasteland Development Company."

"You saved me. I can sense that the scent that helped me has some kind of cross-relationship with your scent."

"Scents cross? What does that mean?"

Blackthorn gave a description of this.

It relies on light and smell to contact the outside world.

Photosensitivity means sensing the flow of death light.

Every kind of material life has its own flavor, that is, smell.

It sensed that Zhou Yi and Sun Hao had similar smells.

Zhou Yi couldn't help but wonder: "Are you sure?"

He himself is a human being. Although Sun Hao is his adopted son, he is essentially an angel of death, a life form evolved from mushrooms.

There are huge racial differences.

"I am sure."

Blackthorn insisted: "The smells will affect each other, and you have a high connection in smell."

Zhou Yi called Yuanxiao again.

"What about her?"

"…Yes, there is. You are related in smell! Your relationship is even closer! Your smells are intertwined! And there are special reactions!"

"..."

Later, Zhou Yi learned from Leonardo da Vinci that this was actually an interaction between organisms at the microscopic level. Life that lived together for a long time, or had deep contact with each other, would have this kind of exchange at the atomic or even more basic particle level.

Blackthorn can recognize this exchange and diffusion at the microscopic level.

Zhou Yi changed the subject: "Since you have awakened, it is time to tell you about the Mud Tree Civilization..."

After listening, Blackthorn just said: "I'm a little hungry, I want to eat some energy."

With permission, it soared into the air and dived into the Dead Sea.

After half an hour.

Blackthorn soared into the sky and then returned.

"I'm full, it feels so good."

It said: "Now my mind is clearer and I feel hungry easily. I didn't seem to have this feeling before."

This made Zhou Yi think of the semi-civilized body.

Some of the horned cattle in the cattle-taming tribe are unwilling to give up their semi-civilized identity because survival is easier and simpler this way.

As they transform into mechatronic cows, their energy needs will increase significantly, and their lives will become more complicated, requiring more energy and materials to survive.

What surprised Zhou Yi was that after awakening, Blackthorn's control over his own body was far more precise than before when he used the outside of the fruit core to control it.

“I have three states.”

"One is the current normal state, which consumes the least energy and does not activate [Insect Killing] and [Slow Fluctuation]."

“And then this is phase two.”

The black thorn emitted visible ripples all over its body, causing the light that shone on it to appear wavy and distorted.

Unlike in the past, this time it compressed the ripple range to an area of about five centimeters on the body surface.

Zhou Yi realized immediately: "Can you control the radiation distance?" "Yes. In fact, this ability consumes a lot of energy. It can only be activated for a long time in the Dead Sea. The energy of the dead light on land cannot meet the consumption of continuous activation."

Blackthorn added: "Finally, this is the strongest, the third stage."

The voice just fell.

Its entire body was surrounded by electric light again.

The long thorns all over the blackthorn body are softening and stretching, and it looks like it has turned into blue mud and ink. Its shape is difficult to describe.

Zhou Yi turned on [Alert], but only saw a ball of constantly changing colors.

Just staring for a few seconds made him feel very tired and dizzy.

Blackthorn switches back to the first stage of low-consumption mode.

"It's still more comfortable this way."

"Stage 3 is too tiring and makes you hungry easily."

It said: "My own capacity is limited, and I cannot store too much energy. I need to continue to absorb the dead light from the outside world. The absorption of dead light in the Dead Sea is not fast, because it has to be filtered and purified layer by layer, which is a slow charging process."

2 minutes is still the limit of Blackthorn Cut under the light core body.

After each third-level state ends, it takes a long time to recharge and light up the energy storage petals in the body.

An idea popped into Zhou Yi's mind: "In other words, if you can store more energy, you can maintain the third stage for a longer time?"

"According to the physiological structure, it is like this. It's just that this is the limit of my own ability."

So Zhou Yi immediately called Shi Gan Dang, an expert in optical printing.

After hearing about Blackthorn's situation, the robot vacuum cleaner was very excited: "The Mud Tree Civilization... actually has such a unique technological system!"

"To increase energy endurance, our method is to use specific light printing devices. For example, the 'energy pool' is a light printing device specifically used to store large amounts of energy."

"It's just that the energy pool has a heavy structure and is large in size, making it difficult to move and operate. It can usually only be used for medium and large equipment."

The energy storage technology of Yin Guang Shu has not yet developed to the point where it can be reduced in size for portable use.

But Shi Gandang proposed another idea.

“Chairman, when it comes to energy replenishment, the company is best and most skilled in Yalong Bay.”

“If Blackthorn can withstand the energy transmitted by the aliens - compared to the energy pack, this energy directly obtained from the Dead Sea is much more violent. But if we ignore these circumstances, it is almost a perfect energy supply.”

"It can be said that Yalong Bay is the best A-5 level super energy pool."

Zhou Yi was enlightened by its words.

How could I forget this?

He turned and described to Blackthorn the way the aliens transmitted energy.

"That's no problem. I can also absorb the death light directly. From this point of view, I should have some similarities with it."

It had no objection, but Yalong Bay raised a question.

"Chairman, if it is purely connected and charged, there is no problem. We can use the previous steel structure to do it. But it needs to remain active in order to demonstrate its strategic power, right?"

"Due to their structure, the buildings have a strong lifespan, but this happens to be an area where Blackthorn itself is inherently deficient."

"If it just needs to replenish energy, it can just enter the Dead Sea. But if it wants to get supplies while fighting or using energy intensively, the existing structure here cannot do that."

Zhou Yi calmed down immediately.

Yalong Bay is indeed a super energy pool that can quickly recharge Blackthorn.

However, if you are carrying out a mission or fighting a strong enemy, it will be exhausted quickly, and there may be no space and time to recharge safely.

"There is another way."

Yalong Bay proposed: "Chairman, use flying silk."

"It is a special substance that can transmit and act on death rays. Many gliders have been tested here. I have connected them with the flying silk and found that its energy transmission efficiency is extremely high."

"If I bind the flying silk to the black thorn, and then connect the other end to my transmission, it will have extremely strong endurance combat power on land - at least near the Emerald City."

Zhou Yi's eyes lit up when he heard this.

There is such a way!

He immediately took Blackthorn and conducted some experiments.

According to the Yalong Bay concept, two 100-meter-long flying wires were installed above the Yalong Bay cave.

In their natural state, they remain flying straight up into the sky, like a natural ruler.

After the black thorn was connected to it, its entire body was filled with white light.

"Yes! It really can!"

"So strong, so powerful! It's like I have endless power to use!"

Blackthorn excitedly entered the light core body form, and its body expanded further. The electric light all over its body almost turned into a halo layer, making it look like a small blue sun.

This strange phenomenon caused the residents of Emerald City to look up and talk among themselves.

After maintaining the light core body state for half an hour, it returned to its original state.

"No problem, no problem at all!"

“I don’t feel tired at all!”

Blackthorn remained active: "The power of Yalong Bay is so strong and pure, it is absorbed much faster than the Dead Sea!!"

Zhou Yi also felt relieved.

This creates a combat combination of Yalong Bay + Blackthorn, which can maintain combat in the light core form for a longer period of time.

The company has also further expanded its combat power ceiling.

Landing back to Zhou Yi, Blackthorn said again: "Just now in the third stage state, there was something strange."

"I felt something was calling me from afar."

"The induction is very strong and the frequency is very high."

"It must be some kind of life form that used my fruit core to let me pass."

Zhou Yi frowned.

Someone wants to seize control of Blackthorn.

He dared to have such thoughts from such a distance. If Blackthorn's consciousness had not been repaired, he would have really robbed my house.

Such cunning people must not be tolerated!

Must hit hard!
(End of this chapter)