Wasteland Development Diary
Chapter 705 - 165: Child of Star Dust
[Your role has been determined, you will support life cultivation for the sealing war against the string civilization.]
[The main focus is to enhance and re-engineer the life cycle of the Transformer and to find new foundational life units. Just concentrate on this aspect, we have clear and distinct divisions of labor, and other fields are supported by other individuals.]
[Detailed information has been transmitted to your Seeder Ship, you can review it yourself.]
Venus Heavenly People announced the appointment.
They do not provide answers to every question.
[Role-related information is power and responsibility. Each functionary focuses on their segment, which effectively reduces errors and anomalies. This is a stable approach that has been optimized over hundreds of millions of years of testing.]
[You can access all information related to the life aspect.]
[I won't know more than you about unrelated parts.]
[As for the way Transformer information is managed and stored, I don't know and cannot answer that.]
Qin Fu asked, "Then what is your name, how should I address you?"
[Transformers were previously marked by numbers, but this is the string civilization's coding method. We ourselves do not require names; our coordinates in the cosmic space are our identifiers.]
"Can I call you [Creator]? Your function is to manufacture gemstone foundational units, how about using this name?"
[I have no objection.]
"Mr. Creator, what exactly does your 'Child of Star Dust' mean? I can't understand, the information provided to me doesn't have related explanations, only mentioning it as the core life unit of the Transformer."
The amount of information obtained was too large for Qin Fu to synchronize in time.
Zhou Yi could only glimpse through the dialogue between Qin Fu and the Heavenly People.
He listened patiently.
[Child of Star Dust is the most basic life unit of the Transformer. You hydrogen-based life forms are typical material and consciousness composites, requiring a stable fusion of cosmic consciousness and hydrogen, but the Child of Star Dust is inherently an Energy Body, being both matter and consciousness.]
Creator explained this.
[Child of Star Dust is produced by the collision of giant celestial bodies, during which a large amount of dust and debris is generated, hence the name Child of Star Dust, or simply Star Child. Star Child has no mass but exists in the universe. They have extremely high penetrability and cannot be directly observed. Typically, Star Child moves with light, so their speed is the same as the speed of light.]
[In theory, Star Child can penetrate any matter, whether it's a planet or a star, and space holes are even easier.]
"So, you are actually Star Children, and then you stabilize yourselves by wrapping in gemstones and sub-units?"
[Yes.]
"Since you can penetrate even the Sun, why not directly pass through and eliminate the string civilization trapped inside?"
Qin Fu's question was also Zhou Yi's thought.
[That is not possible.]
[Objective conditions do not allow it. Penetrating a star requires a large amount of energy, and various high-energy reactions inside the star would affect and alter our trajectory. Additionally, energy tides generated between stars would ultimately cause us to revolve inside them.]
[In theory, one could penetrate a single star, but in reality, one might face energy tides produced by dozens or even hundreds of stars, making it extremely difficult to achieve energy alignment, a task of enormous complexity, beyond precise calculation.]
[The string civilization is a life form that evolves to a higher stage from Star Child, its utilization of light and energy surpasses the Transformers. Regarding the use of energy domains and light, we appear primitive before it.]
Qin Fu continued, "So, sealing it off until the Sun is destroyed?"
[Yes.]
[Until the day the Sun naturally destroys itself, all energy and matter will erupt, and the core Energy State will be reformed into a Shattered Star. This is a natural cosmic reaction furnace, completely obliterating the string civilization and reconstructing it as a Shattered Star.]
[During this process, even the Breaking Dimension will be reshaped, fully transformed into a new chaotic state, thus eliminating the danger.]
Zhou Yi raised an eyebrow as he listened.
He actually heard about Shattered Star again, the life form the White King on the Moon was engineering is evolved from Shattered Star.
The Heavenly People originally intended to refine the string civilization directly using the Sun.
[There was another plan to transform Jupiter into a second Sun, crashing it into the natural Sun. The collision would decompose and revert the string civilization back into Star Children, scattering them into the universe, which is also a solution.]
[Unfortunately, the Jupiter strategy failed. It must be activated with string civilization. We Transformers and you Seeders, as well as other dormant vassals, are barred from entry; any approach would result in capture and transformation into a megastructural plug-in.]
This explanation by Creator enlightened Zhou Yi.
It turns out that Heavenly People had this reason for waging an offensive against Jupiter.
Intending to turn this megastructure into a true small star, using it as a high-energy weapon to collide and eliminate the string civilization.
[Therefore, we need your ability and technology to help our Star Children find a new vessel to support everyone in continuing to use current material body tools.]
[The sealing war against the string civilization must be conducted at the material level, which is entirely entrusted by the string civilization to the Transformers. It holds no control in this domain, which is crucial for restraining it.]
Zhou Yi stroked his chin as he listened.
In other words.
The key is actually maintaining the quantity and growth scale of this Assembly form of the Transformers, not the survival of the Heavenly People's fundamental Star Children.
If one considers the Star Child as a person, then the Transformers are akin to people operating Wasteland Armor.
Now they need to use their armor to seal, suppress, and destroy the string civilization.
The glass man as a fundamental unit is difficult to regenerate, causing them anxiety and panic.
Zhou Yi secretly felt relieved.
Thankfully, he remained steady in his grand strategy and didn't directly attempt such a risky move on the Heavenly People Gem Body.
Otherwise, it would have been over.
This time, Qin Fu joined the Heavenly People's camp, obtaining his function for the Seal String War.
Besides, the information domain received a significant expansion, acquiring Heavenly People secrets unknown to the outside world. He also obtained experimental materials and resources given by the Heavenly People group.
The Heavenly People also offered a special passage, crafted from gemstones, resembling a slowly flowing flat gemstone vortex, installed at the center of the circular seeder ship.
This device is called the "Circular Flow Port", capable of instantly delivering a large number of Heavenly People Gems.
Among them, the supply of white, blue, and black gems is abundant.
Intact rubies, Heavenly People also provided 3 pieces at one time for research in the life domain.
Unfortunately, these 3 rubies were either formatted processed or newly created, containing no memory records.
The most important gain was that Qin Fu obtained a dying Heavenly Person.
This Heavenly Person's Gem Body was severely decayed and falling apart, roughly one size smaller than the seeder ship, shaped like a large pitted meteorite.
Originally, there were seven glass people inside, and now only one survives, but is in a comatose and muddled state, possibly dying at any moment.
The Heavenly People gave Qin Fu the task.
"Find a way to extend this transformer's life."
"Seek new fundamental life units to accommodate the Child of Star Dust."
After completing the negotiation.
The seeder ship brought this Heavenly Person on the brink of death and traversed through the space hole, returning to the sky over Mars Base.
The newly arrived massive Gemstone Body sparked much discussion among the Mars Base residents.
Zhou Yi then informed the Old King about the truth of joining the Seal String War.
Because from the surface level, he counted as a genuine Heavenly People ally… infiltrated the enemy's interior.
The Old King listened in silence for two minutes.
"We are truly outdated... not even daring to think in such directions."
"How could it not be the case, without your groundwork developing Mars, laying the foundation, my subsequent progress wouldn't have reached today's stage, predecessors paving the way, future generations can then drive." Zhou Yi laughed.
"I never felt that what I did was meaningless, I just realized my vision was still too narrow and idealistic."
The Old King sighed: "I originally thought leaving Earth, pioneering other celestial bodies would avoid the Heavenly People's blockade and pressure, unexpectedly, the war had already spread throughout the star system. Nowhere to hide, nowhere to go."
"Current Mars mining has preliminarily solved the economic crisis, next step, I will deeply explore the interior of this planet, the salt contains much recorded content."
He turned back to the topic: "How can I cooperate with you?"
Zhou Yi thought for a moment: "Just continue as usual. As for the severely injured Heavenly Person beside the seeder ship, simply inform the base people truthfully, as this might not be able to be concealed. A lie always requires more lies to patch up, and the holes will increasingly grow, instead affecting our credibility and reputation."
"Just straightforwardly say, the space hole above Mars is a Heavenly People rehabilitation center, no need to explain too much... How do you feel about this?"
"Let's proceed like this." The Old King agreed: "But I have one question. How do the Heavenly People see us? I mean, all Earth life?"
Zhou Yi said: "It's hardly ever mentioned. In their eyes, there is a very clear civilization hierarchy division, string civilization and Time Master are more advanced forms, Seeder is an equal dialogue peer, Earth life is inferior life, merely biological material."
The original words of the Creator were like this—
"If you are interested in those inferior lives, feel free to fish, just maintain the renewable base. They once resisted, but now have been domesticated to be very docile, they are very quality biological materials."
Facing Earth life, Heavenly People are no different from the string civilization they deeply detest.
There's only the disdain and enslavement of the strong towards the weak.
"Truly arrogant as always."
The Old King evaluated: "However, from a power level, they do indeed have the qualifications for arrogance. The gap between us and them is still too vast."
Yet Zhou Yi softly said: "Soon, it won't be."
"You have a new strategy?"
The Old King was surprised.
"It needs to be tried to be confirmed." Zhou Yi looked up, gazing toward the silver circular seeder ship in the high sky. It was conducting experiments on the nearby comatose Heavenly Person Gem Body.
Qing Liu and Qin Fu had already provided feedback, saying the progress was very smooth.
Soon, there would be a final result.