Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 623 404 A Lifetime Story
Zhou Yi opened a can of beer and took a sip.

Yagami fiddled with the gem cube in his hand, saying, "It seems the Celestials don't want Verne to read this part of their memories, so they've put up special shielding. Without knowing the internal structure, it's impossible to disassemble it from the core area of ​​City 404, nor can it be touched to read it."

Her pupils flashed with black and red, and she quickly deciphered it.

The ruby ​​was removed.

Zhou Yi reached out to touch it, but found a strange barrier inside that prevented him from reading it.

"This is a complete ruby, with relatively complete records and a closed structure that cannot be activated by non-gemstone structures. Unlike the incomplete pieces we obtained before, those closed structures have been broken."

"That'll be fine."

Night God grabbed Zhou Yi's hand.

From her perspective.

The gem's internal memory has finally been unlocked.

……

From a first-person perspective, Zhou Yi finds himself in a scorching world filled with volcanoes, the ground a mix of yellow, red, and white, dry and riddled with ravines.

The volcano continued to spew thick smoke, while a magnificent mirror-like surface hung in the sky, covering the entire heavens.

The mirror continued to draw in the rising smoke and dust from the ground, and then spat out some translucent minerals like rain, which fell into a super-large volcano directly below Zhou Yi's perspective.

It is a mirror-shaped celestial being.

The volcano below represents the celestial beings [Yu] whose consciousness later escaped to Earth.

Zhou Yi immediately realized what was happening.

This is Io, the cradle where celestial beings nurture their offspring.

404 City was indeed once a paradise.

Zhou Yi continued to observe.

My perspective gradually rose, getting farther and farther away from the ground, and then stabilized at a certain height.

At this time, 404 was very small, and its overall shape resembled a crystal-clear six-pointed star, with an emerald at each point.

Numerous gems rose from the volcano, like pipes, connecting to the hexagonal shape of 404. Subsequently, large amounts of white, blue, and black gems continued to spew out from the pipes, connecting to the gem body.

Throughout the process, 404 slowly rotated, and its size continued to increase.

Until it was about the size of a volcano.

The initial gem filling is complete.

Then, the mirror-shaped celestial being formed streams of liquid methane into curling raindrops and injected them into 404's body.

With the addition of fluid, the gemstone began to move more frequently and smoothly.

The originally irregular shape gradually transformed into a sphere during the movement.

This seems to be the scene at the very beginning of the birth of the celestial beings.

Zhou Yi focused his observation on the seven people with fibrous tissue and discovered that they all had their eyes closed and their bodies were highly fibrous. The fibers were slowly changing, constantly stretching and contracting, like some kind of organ or limb.

Let's broaden our perspective further.

Zhou Yi observed that part of the emerald was composed of gemstone fibers, while another part consisted of linear vein structures that had not yet fully fibrousized, with fine lines meandering throughout.

This reminded him of the light core arm armor [Langgong] on his right arm.

Those lines and the cave-dwelling corpse look too much like them.

"Can we pause?" Zhou Yi asked silently in his mind.

"what happened?"

Although he couldn't see the Night Goddess, she was right beside him, a fact Zhou Yi clearly remembered.

"I want to call the Dong family in and use their knowledge to make some judgments."

"can."

Night God said, "As long as it resonates with your consciousness, it can join in."

Zhou Yi's heart stirred.

There was an additional consciousness beside him.

"Dong Shi, take a look. Are those fibers inside this Celestial Emerald really from the corpse of the Dong person?"

Observe for a moment.

Dong replied, "Yes, Mr. Zhou, although they are different from our group, they are indeed Dong people."

The little doctor inside the brain immediately said, "So the basic unit of the Celestials is a combination of humans and cavemen. On a macro level, humans are the main body, but on a micro level, cavemen are the support... This is equivalent to another form of the Gemstone Evil Brain."

"The Celestial Being is a product of enclosing this brain within a gemstone structure."

Inside the emerald, the caveman's corpse was rapidly crystallizing and transforming into gemstone fibers, seemingly completing the final step of its transformation.

Zhou Yi also observed.

As 404 slowly rotates in the air, the surface of the spherical gemstone becomes smoother and smoother, and the flow of the gemstones becomes even smoother.

slowly.

The first ruby ​​gradually evolved from inside the gemstone.

The moment the ruby ​​was born, all seven glass figures opened their eyes.

However, they are very different from normal people. First of all, their eyes are dull, as if they are daydreaming. Each emerald produced a continuous stream of black and red light, which gathered in the black and red gemstones respectively.

The flow of these lights is like the formation of some kind of neural network.

Xiao Fu continued, "Great Zhou, my previous judgment was flawed. I originally thought that the basic unit of the Celestials was the Glass Man, but now it seems that I was wrong." "Below the Glass Man, there is a secondary unit, which should be the Intelligence Core. The Intelligence Core is needed as a foundation, combined with the human as a carrier, to construct the Glass Man, this second secondary unit. Only then can the complete Celestial be assembled."

"It is a second-order assembly, but it actually has a three-layer structure. From macroscopic to microscopic, it consists of Celestial Beings, Gemstone Beings, and Intelligent Core Cave Beings."

Zhou Yi immediately understood its meaning: "You mean... inside the glass people, the Intelligent Core Cave People are controlling their behavior?"

"Correct."

Xiaofu said excitedly, "This answers a question I had before: why I always felt that the interests and values ​​of the Celestials and the Glass People were not aligned."

"It's like knowing that there's a danger of purple light on the surface of the sun, yet the Celestials still go there to investigate. But the Glass People die instantly if they are exposed to the string light. If the Glass People are the brains of the Celestials, they should control the Celestials to stay away from those dangerous areas."

"Now I understand, it's because the Glass People are not the core decision-makers; they are just a link in a secondary unit, and their brains are dominated by the Intelligent Core Cave People."

"Then could it be said that the Zhihe Cave people are the essence of the Celestials?"

Zhou Yi asked.

"I'm not sure about that; I'm just a follower."

This time, Xiaofu rarely showed humility or self-deprecation: "In lower civilizations, we are great beings who travel between worlds, but in the eyes of middle and higher civilizations, we are just a bunch of scavengers..."

"This is now beyond my understanding. Ask Mr. Dong; he has a better understanding of this."

Zhou Yi relayed Xiaofu's judgment and information to Dong Shi.

The Dong family said, "Mr. Zhou, we have never seen the Intelligent Core Cave People you mentioned, but if we can find their corpses, we can extract some information."

Corpse?

Zhou Yi immediately thought of it.

Of the seven bodies of the glass-like individuals, two remained undamaged.

He immediately broke away from the ruby ​​temporarily, found Lumi, and had her use the light core armor he had taken off to wrap the two gems.

Do it all.

Zhou Yi returned and grasped Ye Shen's hand.

Yagami couldn't help but complain, "You can finish watching it before you do other things. It's really annoying to have to pause and interrupt it all of a sudden."

"Sorry, sorry, that's mine. I won't interrupt again."

The memory of heaven and man continues.

……

After 404 was conceived, it began to rise further. The spherical gemstone was getting closer and closer to the enormous mirror-shaped celestial being in the sky. At that point, the body of the mirror-shaped celestial being began to turn into a ring.

The annular region attracted 404, causing it to spin rapidly and transform into a blue meteor that was thrown out.

Zhou Yi had witnessed this scene before.

However, on the surface of the sun, the same scene unfolds when the celestial corpse transporter throws the corpses of his kind onto the inner wall surrounding the sun.

After a brief period of high-pressure, dark space distortion, 404's surroundings relaxed again.

This is passing through a spatial passage.

Outside, however, a gigantic sun appeared, with countless burning mushroom clouds rising and collapsing, and numerous dark, shimmering lights appearing and disappearing.

404 is located in the inner wall region of the solar wall, in another ring-shaped region, and continues to rotate.

Zhou Yi strived to broaden his horizons and then made discoveries.

The inner walls, apart from the massive buildings with the same gemstone main body, resemble high walls and bridges side by side. However, at the center of some circular areas, there are individual celestial gemstone bodies rotating on their own.

They appear to be some kind of engine here.

From the 404 perspective, Zhou Yineng could clearly see that on the inner wall of the sun, intricate, net-like three-dimensional light structures were connecting each gemstone and were undergoing some kind of change and activity.

The celestial gemstone continuously guides these rays, allowing them to flow stably and circulate on their own. This is a visualization of the internal energy of the solar wall.

The entire energy system is vast and complex, with intersecting flow trajectories, yet it possesses a unique mathematical and geometric beauty.

They also have another task: to capture string light.

The celestial beings in the ring-shaped region used a hemispherical, giant gemstone structure—which was even larger and more imposing than the celestial beings themselves. With the spherical side facing the sun, they concentrated and manipulated the purple string light.

Zhou Yi then saw that those hemispherical string light collectors would eventually gather the string light into a purple laser beam wrapped in white light.

However, this purple and white light was also utilized, transformed into a ring of light that could project corpses into the outside world.

String Light actually possesses some kind of spatial ability.

The Celestials created artificial space tunnels using string light, allowing them to travel from the sun directly to the outside of the wall, to Io, and even to Earth.

It rotates 404 times in a row.

Because the process was too long and repetitive, Nox activated super-speed mode.

Zhou Yi clearly observed that the density of the string light eruptions was becoming increasingly higher.

Until it accelerates to a certain point.

Suddenly, an image appeared inside the gem 404—an image of the time-accumulation chamber.

In the scene, the time-accumulating cavity envelops some unknown light source, preventing the purple light from escaping and instead causing it to rotate around the cavity before being swallowed up.

Then City 404 was detached from its original location, transported to the skies above Earth, and then plunged into the Dead Sea.

Zhou Yi finally understood.

The plan is for the Celestials to excavate a time-storing cavity from underground to cope with the intensification of solar string bursts.

Therefore, 404 was dispatched to conduct underground operations on Earth.

(End of this chapter)