CHAPTER 54: CHAPTER 51: IS THIS THE APOCALYPTIC WASTELAND STYLE OF OLD SHANGHAI BEACH?

Zhu Zhengwei set foot on the entire island.

Under his feet was a lush green lawn, blooming with flowers.

He gazed into the distance, where a large group of Immortal Herbs had landed.

"Just leave them there for now, let them enjoy the view collectively. They were meant to appreciate the wallpaper anyway, we won’t need them for now."

After all, their main task was to be miners.

Using brain power to mine.

The primary goal has already been achieved, let’s set them aside for now.

And how much space could two thousand small plants occupy on the island?

A sixty square meter area, the size of a two-bedroom apartment, would suffice.

Zhu Zhengwei took a deep breath. "Next, it’s time to transform the old ruins, and the old ruins will be based on the ’birth residence’ brought by Zeng Ciwen as the main map!"

Just like Zhu Zhengwei created a Bamboo Scenic Village as a birth village, he also needed to create a birth village for Zeng Ciwen here.

Where was he born a hundred years ago?

Zhu Zhengwei searched through Qian Du Encyclopedia for the life of this elderly man.

He was born nearly a hundred years ago on Old Shanghai Beach.

"That means I need to recreate the place where he was born, a part of the city from a hundred years ago on Shanghai Beach, on this island...as a prehistoric shelter!"

Zhu Zhengwei kept calculating,

"Also, I need to start using some of the core permissions of dream creation to modify Zeng Ciwen’s Root Dream data and alter the worldview of his birth residence."

Zhu Zhengwei looked at the phantom of an old man.

Rustling.

Scenes flashed by like a revolving lantern.

His Root Dream unfolded before his eyes, a series of life events.

Zhu Zhengwei gave hints to this life dream:

"You were born in an ancient, mysterious prehistoric civilization shelter. Although the structure here is like Shanghai Beach, it is your birth scene, with concessions, mansions, foreigners, a blend of East and West, with intertwined social conflicts, intense gang wars...but it is a shelter! Humanity’s last hope, the world’s last pure land, everyone is here fighting for resources!"

"The initial construction era of this shelter is beyond anyone’s research."

"You only remember that you need to transcend the long civilization and reach the next era when Spiritual Qi reappears. Decades ago, a batch of ancestors awoke during a long civilization winter, hibernating successfully in special biological pods into the distant future. Through the reproduction of these ancestors, the population exploded over decades, and the entire sanctuary became more chaotic, with various gangs established, competing and feuding."

"Because this sanctuary city is ultimately temporary and inadequate for long-term reproduction."

"The humans of the old era also tried to venture out to the island for a look, but dared not go further to the coast. People chose to live in a cage."

"Here, reform is needed, urgently needed!"

"You come from the Old Days, heading to the future!"

"A new seed of civilization must be found to adapt to the unknown new world!"

Though still born on Shanghai Beach, Zhu Zhengwei input this segment of setting.

This method is very convenient!

By directly changing the dreamer’s core data, it thereby alters the entire map of the soon-to-be-generated birth residence.

"Almost done."

"It’s fascinating, shifting the weight with a light touch, quickly generating a map of the desired place in this way!"

Zhu Zhengwei’s expression turned peculiar,

"But it’s quite unreasonable."

"Because the Republic-era civilization and technology couldn’t support a self-looping shelter, I need to remodel some parts... Well, since the knowledge of this elderly man is so vast, I’ll move some modern technologies he encountered in later years, power plants, new daylight lamps to substitute for the sun, to his birth period, as prehistoric shelter’s black tech."

Cough cough cough.

Zhu Zhengwei felt he was getting more and more outrageous with the modifications.

Is this still his Root Dream??

Somewhat unrecognizable!

But in a sense, wasn’t it meant to be a brand new Otherworld life? Isn’t that right?

This is the world of the Witch Era, and he’s merely changing some of his birth environment and insignificant background settings, while the people and residences inside remain, which is enough.

"Let’s start it over there!"

Zhu Zhengwei stretched out a hand, pointing below the island.

Boom!

The entire world seemingly turned illusory.

Under the island, it was as if a dwelling of the Dream World, countless buildings covered it, slowly unfolding.

Like two images slowly overlapping, from blurred to real.

With the self-rationalizing completion of the dream, Zhu Zhengwei saw a huge underground managed shelter gradually generated, even extending to the surface entrance, there were seven or eight entrances in total.

And on the surface of the underground entrance, some farms, breeding stations, gradually appeared.

At the edge of the island, a port was generated.

"This Root Dream is gradually generating with the human brain’s subconscious auto-rationalization."

Zhu Zhengwei saw this scene and couldn’t help but say,

"Equivalent to installing a map plugin, embedding a MOD prehistoric island module, this is simply a miracle! If others saw this scene, they’d be amazed beyond words!"

However, this is also a unique feature of the Mobile Dream Net!

But at this moment, Zhu Zhengwei only felt the massive world compute power rapidly depleting.

The newly added two thousand servers, which should have expanded the world map energy by two times, now were extensively consumed here, with 70% of the energy.

"Tremendous loss."

Zhu Zhengwei sighed,

"Far more than the demand of my Bamboo Scenic Village! But it’s understandable, back then I gathered a bunch of local servers, saving compute power, and here? You can’t find century-old miners, had to rely on sheer volume." As Zhu Zhengwei thought of this, he felt a bit regretful.

Crack!

Zhu Zhengwei stepped into the underground, entering the entrance of the prehistoric shelter.

"Let me see, in your Root Dream world, the buildings and scenery during the era of chaos a hundred years ago, on Old Shanghai Beach."

...

A rickshaw ran past in front of him.

Zhu Zhengwei walked down the street, there were foreign-style mansions along the road, Oriental classical buildings, and he could see hawkers selling, passersby in long gowns and round hats, just like the Shanghai Beach scenes in movies from the last century.

Western concession, Eastern concession, public concession, forming the entire underground shelter’s structure, this was the last harbor built by the collective effort of all of humanity’s civilization.

The major foreign chambers of commerce, Xia Country chambers of commerce, and local gangs conspired, the Qing Bang, Hongmen, Xingzhong Association, Recovery Association...forming the most chaotic era of Old Shanghai Beach, brawls, armed fights, seizing control of water purification plants, power plants, export pier logistics, deep-sea harbor pier logistics, exploiting shelter’s humans.

Even the impoverished couldn’t afford a meal, while the affluent in the shelter indulged in revelry, intoxicated in the nightlife, in the famous Ten-Mile Foreign Field, decadence beyond measure.

"Shot at the market gate..."

"Heard they tried to sneak into the surface entrance, attempting to steal pork, a grave crime!"

A group of people gathered curiously.

Zhu Zhengwei followed them to the market gate.

Bang bang bang bang!!

At the market gate, a row of death row prisoners knelt, swiftly falling into pools of blood after dozens of gunshots.

Zhu Zhengwei’s pupils slightly narrowed.

Ignorant superstition, war and slaughter, class feudalism, Zhu Zhengwei seemed to see the slave society of the Hundred-Stone City before was also like this.

Some emaciated men secretly bribed executioners, taking some blood, "Heard that blood-soaked buns can cure coughs, my kid’s been coughing lately and can’t get better."

"Indeed, it works, heard it can also boost health."

...

Seeing the blood buns, Zhu Zhengwei’s face immediately turned sour.

Blood buns really match the Republic era, but combined with the shelter style, it’s too cyberpunk, isn’t it?

Although he knew dreams are originally disorderly, bizarre, and fantastic.

He had also reconstructed the Root Dream, re-completing part of the dream-world’s worldview...

But this before his eyes??

"I suddenly consider whether to overthrow and reshape it, regenerate this map again." Zhu Zhengwei had a poor expression on his face.

But this new world edge map had already formed, integrating into the whole large world, not easily dismantled upon his will, the process is complex.

"Before, I also wanted to wait for this Old Days civilization shelter, for that memory reshaped biological engineering giant to come, to research the new world outside’s Zhu You technique, research Immortal Herbs, develop new Witchcraft modifications, elves, fairies, Tree Demons, magic-modified creatures..."

But this apocalypse shelter’s Old Shanghai Beach, the style is already skewed, plus the Zhu You technique outside, how catastrophic would that be?

This is directly leaning towards a Bronze Steam Country style!

"Outrageous." Zhu Zhengwei shook his head, turning and leaving this market.