Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 674 Artificial Sun Explosion Incident
Zhou Yi has been a bit annoyed lately.

The first issue is the resettlement of residents displaced by the Dead Sea.

Initially, everything went smoothly. The Light-Nass species in the Dead Sea area near Shagang had developed a tacit understanding with the company over the past few years. The number of intelligent and self-aware individuals was small, consisting only of a few Sea People and Bone People.

Zhou Yi proposed two compensation plans.

Option one is to get a local resettlement house, or to go to the artificial inland sea in the sky.

Option two is to buy out the property in one lump sum through demolition compensation.

Many local residents have opted for resettlement housing. Shagang boasts well-developed infrastructure and convenient surroundings; accustomed to the long-term stability provided by their companies, most are finding it difficult to adapt to other, less comfortable environments.

Some also cashed out and left the market.

Then a group emerged that defrauded people of their demolition compensation, including sea people, bone people, and long-necked crocodiles.

Cao Dayuan, who was in charge of the Dead Sea demolition, was furious: "Chairman, this matter must be dealt with seriously. This is just a pilot project for the company's partial demolition of the Dead Sea, and it is related to whether the large-scale rollout will go smoothly in the future."

“If those fraudsters get a taste of success and don’t get enough punishment, they will become more and more imitators, making it difficult to carry out follow-up work.”

Zhou Yi agreed and handed over the review and investigation tasks to the security department.

The Department of Protection is headed by the Spine Hunter, Sea Hunter. It has patrolled the skies above Sand Harbor for years, possesses extensive Dead Sea hunting experience, and has a thorough understanding of various light-evolving species.

This department was established two years ago.

As the company becomes more attractive, the number of immigrants migrating to Shagang continues to increase, and the region's permanent population has exceeded 10 this year. The coexistence of humans, nano-lifeforms, and mechatronic life forms has also caused considerable conflict and friction.

Self-discipline and coordination alone are no longer enough to maintain order; stronger law enforcement agencies are needed to intervene.

The Security Department was thus established.

This department's responsibility is to safeguard the company's interests and achievements, as well as protect every law-abiding resident in the Emerald City area.

The law enforcement officers of the Security Department include humans, sea people, skeletons, electromechanical lifeforms, electric cats, and even the recently joined Martian electric spirits.

Multi-ethnic law enforcement officers are better able to understand the conflicts between different groups and are more convenient at resolving them. However, when going out, they are now uniformly required to wear law enforcement armor and body cameras at all times.

The hunters at the sea quickly reached a conclusion.

It reported: "Chairman, the security department has confirmed the identities of the five members involved in the subsidy fraud."

"Two of the giraffes were hired by two executives of the Sea People's Association Friendship Society. However, this matter has nothing to do with the Friendship Society itself; it is their private activity, using the Friendship Society as a front. We have confirmed this through a series of methods, including informants, fund flows, and identity verification."

Consciousness verification is a deep utilization of the wasteland armor's [Emerald Eye] technology by the Security Department. The high-powered Emerald Eye is used for interrogating suspects.

Because the Emerald Eye can read the consciousness released by the other party.

Therefore, as long as the questioning continues in large numbers and the time is extended, it will eventually be difficult for the other party to completely hide their true thoughts, and they will be able to read them. It's somewhat like a special device version of mind reading.

Zhou Yi also went to observe the scene and could clearly see it through the consciousness ripples; the effect was very good.

Nowadays, professional hypnotherapists are also employed.

The Security Department has five Psychedelic Butterflies whose ability is to induce hallucinations. They can weave illusions and, in conjunction with the Emerald Eye, make it even harder for interrogated suspects to guard against them.

Speaking of the psychedelic butterfly, its chief hypnotist was also a prisoner of the company for several years. He was the only survivor of the group that participated in the hijacking on the glider that Panda Man Tuozhu was using to pick up his father Tuohai. He was later imprisoned by the company for a long time.

Liehai later applied to have it released so that it could atone for its crimes by working in the security department.

Its hallucinogenic abilities came in handy, so the security department later recruited four more employees of the Psychedelic Butterfly.

"...The other three fraudsters all acted alone, two of whom were skeletons. One was a bankrupt businessman, and the other had a criminal record in Heaven. They hid in the nearby area, hoping to make a quick buck."

The Spine Hunter recounted, "The last one was a professional fraudster named Hai Ren; it was all an individual act."

Thanks to the strong crackdown and arrests by the security department, the unhealthy practices were quickly eliminated, and the subsequent demolition work became much smoother. The Dead Sea around Shagang visibly receded.

In fact, with the speed of the artificial sun, it could have been completely eliminated within a day, but to avoid unpredictable risks, the operation team still used a gradual cleanup method.

on the other hand.

Problems have also been encountered in scaling up the production of artificial suns.

Within two months, the third and fourth artificial suns were completed one after another, but a huge explosion occurred during the production of the fifth sun, casting a shadow over the mass production of artificial suns.

Zhou Yi rushed to the moon immediately to check on the situation at the accident site.

The explosion site was severely damaged. Although the explosion occurred in mid-air, the ground was still radiated by the LV5 photonic shock wave, creating a large depression.

The pupil directly below it, which powers the artificial sun, has been completely destroyed, and the White King is currently rebuilding it.

The core area is littered with broken gemstones, many of which melted under high temperatures, making more than 90% unrecoverable.

Zhou Yi frowned: "What's going on?"

Turing, who is in charge of the artificial solar project, said: "Chairman, based on the artificial solar debris and the on-site reaction, after launch, the plan was to gradually release energy, raising the energy level from LV1 to LV5. However, for some reason, it went out of control after reaching LV5 and continued to increase in intensity... ultimately resulting in an energy explosion."

"Fortunately, this time it was done entirely remotely, and there were no operators inside. This is a technological upgrade. We are so glad that this method was used, otherwise the operator would not have survived."

Zhou Yi asked in confusion: "You mean, even after reaching LV5 of the Light Core Body, its strength continued to increase, the Light Core level kept rising, and then it exploded on its own?"

"Based on the data analysis, that's the case, but we don't know why it developed into such an abnormal result." "I'm sorry, Chairman, we will investigate the cause as soon as possible."

Based on the explosion site, Electromechanical Life conducted data analysis and continuously simulated the entire process.

Meanwhile, 703, which was also testing an artificial sun here, made a discovery.

"Chairman, the rapid increase in energy level before the No. 5 explosion was not due to internal factors or lunar surface anomalies, but rather a sudden surge in energy from the sun during the energy convergence process."

Zhou Yi asked, "Is only number five like this?"

"Yes."

What's so special about it?

703 said, "I've brought in curling to help test this No. 5 machine."

Curling?

Zhou Yi asked in confusion, "Why bring curling over here?"

"Extremely high purity gold, reaching the level of a golden elephant, will react in a special way with the energy of the sun, increasing its energy level. This can reduce the number of artificial suns needed and save costs. This is the result of my survey. It should be due to the remains of the Golden Tree in the curling stone itself."

"I didn't expect the curling stone to come over and directly push the energy level to its limit... In just a few seconds, it increased the energy level of No. 5 by 150 times, breaking through 150 cores, and directly triggered a super explosion. Fortunately, the curling stone itself was completely unaffected."

703 explained the reasons.

Zhou Yi immediately summoned the curling stone.

The golden ball arrived in an instant. It usually moves in this posture, but only when it is fully extended does it take the form of a golden bonsai.

Upon hearing the question, Ice Curling said, "Chairman, I'm not sure myself. I can only feel a huge amount of energy being transmitted directly from the sun like a tidal wave."

"It must be the alignment with the artificial sun that created some kind of energy connection between me and the sun here, which is why I received a large amount of energy."

"My body has a limited capacity to withstand it, but gold itself does not annihilate, so most of the energy is converted into light and heat and dissipates. However, the gemstone body can highly compress energy, so an out-of-control explosion occurred."

It only sensed the connection at the energy level.

The general details of the bombing are clear.

703 attempted to use curling to enhance the artificial solar power, but the result was an explosion; this approach is currently uncontrollable.

In short, it's safe as long as curling isn't involved.

The construction of the new fifth artificial sun has resumed.

Zhou Yi then approached the White King, who was silently repairing the pupil, and asked, "Can it be salvaged?"

"The person who retrieved the fire is unharmed. The fire can be cleaned up and the structure rebuilt."

"That's good. Is the solar eye finished yet?"

"It's already completed."

The enormous white, three-armed giant answered as he worked.

"The 640 pupils required for the solar eye were completed last year. We are currently upgrading it, and the goal this year is to upgrade it to a secondary eye mode of 1280."

"The clarity and accuracy will be greatly improved by then."

Zhou Yi said, "Okay, then I'll come and experience it when the time comes."

"Ok."

"Fire collector. There's one more thing."

"You said."

The White King said, "After the initial completion of the Sun Eye, I continued to observe the sun here. I discovered that it has very strong energy fluctuations inside, and when I observed it, it was also staring back at me."

"it?"

Zhou Yi's gaze sharpened: "Xian Wenming?"

"No. It's this sun."

The White King said, "I observe it with my sun-eye, and it observes me as well."

"When the No. 5 artificial sun exploded, it transmitted a message to the sun's eye through that energy."

"what's the message?"

"A special energy channel."

"This passage can be observed through the sun's eye; inside it is a giant golden tree, located inside the sun."

Zhou Yi was somewhat stunned.

Golden trees have grown inside the sun?

(End of this chapter)