Spring temperatures rose day by day, and by the end of this second month, even light clothing felt oppressively hot in the sun.
Thankfully, a downpour mitigated the extre high temperatures slightly.
But the temperature still hovered between 26 and 28 degrees Celsius, heralding an aggressive sumr ahead.
teorological satellites had issued early warnings.
The Program Departnt also compared the last 20 years of temperature data and provided a simulated estimate, reminding all regions of the Developnt Alliance that this sumr would bring extrely high temperatures, and rainfall might be below the average. It called for early water conservation, preferably by constructing Dead Sea Channels, to ensure a sufficient supply of water for daily use.
Near Jade City, with its well-developed infrastructure, this was not a concern. At the beginning of the year, Gongsun Bao had just specially constructed a third Dead Sea Channel for the rice paddies.
Afterward, he was invited by Lord Sand Sea to construct the fourth Dead Sea Channel for Sand Port City—to resolve their water supply and irrigation issues. Gongsun Bao further established a supporting clean water reservoir, separating drinking and irrigation water.
Zhou Yi was most satisfied that the rice cultivation, which the Agricultural Machinery Brothers had begun preparing for since last year, had finally beco large-scale rice fields this spring. Blocks of lush green seedlings were a comforting sight.
If all went well, rice could be harvested in July and August, and they could taste the new rice grown by the company.
Zhou Yi had waited five full years for this day.
He felt emotional.
Having a bowl of rice was proving harder than dealing with Duke Destructive.
On this day, Zhou Yi was strolling through the rice paddies.
The fields gave him a sense of calm and peace, a symbol of the Sand Port people's transformation of nature, and it was a place Zhou Yi now enjoyed visiting.
Red Kestrel flew in hurriedly.
"Zhou, Recursive City sends the latest news; Shangyang has completed the reorganization and integration of chanical City, officially establishing the Legal Front, and through legal review, enacted the 'Resource Concentration and Allocation Act.'"
The Legal Front was a coalition of many operators of chanical City who governed by law.
Different cities adjusted policies and regulations under the law, but the fundantal system was consistent.
Rather than calling it a special form of governnt, it was closer to a special programd ideology.
"Currently, the Legal Front totals 106 chanical Cities, all of which have completed the necessary physical equipnt construction and installation."
The drone reported with a serious tone: "The 32 chanical Cities that did not join were either swallowed by other forces or remained independent, all mid-to-small-sized cities."
"The most important is the 'Resource Concentration and Allocation Act,' which involves resource control and distribution thods across cities, with many specific policy details."
"I've summarized it."
"This act mainly consists of five parts."
"First, unify control over all industries' production and distribution to avoid the fluctuations and uncertainties of the market economy."
"Second, control the prices of goods and wages of workers to ensure the progress of various industries and social stability."
"Third, establish a job allocation system to ensure stable employnt for residents of chanical City and reduce the waste of labor."
"Fourth, prioritize military and agriculture. Military industries will be mass-produced and undergo continuous research and developnt, driving the turnover of civilian goods. Agriculture will be fully urban collective, unifying the promotion of agricultural production, distribution, and exports."
"Fifth, promote labor competition among cities, with rewards ranging from 100 Light Seeds to 10,000 Light Seeds to enhance worker productivity."
Red Kestrel said with so concern: "The trial of the resource act has been very effective."
"During the one-week internal trial, 11 economically distressed cities stopped their losses, and over 100 unemployed or job-seeking chanical Lifeforms were reabsorbed into cities for redistribution and reemploynt."
"The change this ti is unprecedented… especially the focus on military and agricultural sectors will not just be an industrial shift, but will ultimately lead to further external expansion and military threats."
Zhou Yi took so ti to digest this information.
The reforms Shangyang made to chanical City, from these specific asures, resembled that of a planned economy.
But considering the special nature of chanical City, and that the real rulers are now legal programs, it's akin to the city's operation being entirely entrusted to AI, relying on the data centers of chanical City to make decisions and take action.
This path might be the most suitable for them.
The emphasized developnt of military and agriculture, the forr boosts their inherent strengths, and the latter complents the weaknesses they previously displayed.
The war is not over; it has just transford.
Zhou Yi couldn't help but recall the Warlord's warning.
—chanical Cities have never been defeated.
They tend to be overlooked, but they are actually the core C-position of the forr resistance.
What the company defeated was rely the general protocol form.
Zhou Yi asked, "What moves has the Legal Front made externally?"
"They've purchased seven Human Cities from nearby sea lords, all adjacent to chanical Cities."
"Human Cities?"
"Yes."
Red Kestrel said, "Those cities have a lot of barren land, now transford into military factories and farms. They need land and are still buying continuously."
Zhou Yi stroked his chin.
The Legal Front, now holding the Light Seed savings of hundreds of chanical Cities, are bona fide financial giants. Just throwing money around is enough to purchase the land they want.
In the past, the main issue was mutual checks and balances between cities, internal conflicts of interest; now, by switching directly to a planned group structure, the lethality displayed will far exceed the past.
Zhou Yi said, "What's Heavenly Kingdom's stance on this?"
Red Kestrel said, "There are no public moves yet. According to so information from the Guangna Species, the Heavenly Kingdom is mobilizing its defenses, sending more troops and strengthening military preparedness in areas adjacent to chanical City."
The response of the Heavenly Kingdom explained everything.
Zhou Yi knew in his heart that a new round of challenges, or even war, was likely not far off.
The company must accelerate the advancent of its industries during this last period of stability.
...
By the end of this spring, Zhou Yi still had not waited for the return of the revived Land God.
The suspended layers had been constructed batch after batch, looking like giant black Ganoderma that had grown from the Dead Sea, encircling most of the Sand Port Region.
Bone Man Wu Yi, after repeated attempts, found a viable way to connect them—the Wuhu Elevated Bridge.
By extending this Building Life toward the sides of the suspended layers, it provided circular pathways suitable for vehicles on the suspended lands above the sea, allowing vehicles to enter each suspended layer of farmland to transport crops and fertilizer.
The benefit of this thod was that the elevated bridge itself was strong and stable, allowing for the connection of various suspended layers with a relatively light weight. There was no need to calculate complicated construction thods.
Zhou Yi did not wait for Land God, but he received another piece of good news.
"Chairman, we've made it!"
703 rushed over excitedly, saying, "The Program Departnt has created the Electric Cat Transcoder!! We can now read information from the electric cats!"
Zhou Yi's gaze sharpened: "Confird?"
"Confird! The accuracy is very high!"
The robot dog, along with the chanical programrs Walker and Sai Nuojie, imdiately demonstrated this process to Zhou Yi.
They connected a wire to a copper coil of a cat house, the other end of the wire passed through a device that looked like an adapter, then connected to an oscilloscope, and finally to an enhanced controller.
703 raised its chanical claw and activated the cat house.
An electric cat sprang out, zipping back and forth along the wire, sparking arcs of electricity.
The robot dog explained, "Chairman, this is our Program Departnt's working electric cat, Flash Spirit 2, we call it 'Biting Cat.'"
"Although it likes to bite, it does not hurt much. However, it can cause slight electrical signal interference to our chanical life. It's actually its way of showing friendliness and wanting to play."
It approached the Biting Cat, lifted its tal forelimb, and the Biting Cat zapped it with an electric arc, causing the robot dog's body to stiffen for two seconds.
"…Just like this."
After 703 recovered, it pointed to the set up: "The electric signals emitted by the Biting Cat enter the oscilloscope through the transcoder, turning into recognizable signal waveforms. Then, through an improved program in the enhanced controller, we interpret the signals."
"Walker."
The humanoid robot Walker lifted the controller in its hand, turning the screen towards Zhou Yi, "Chairman, please look."
On the glass screen, an image of a simplified electric cat head appeared, with a speech bubble erging from it.
[Want to play with ? Co and play!]
"Then."
703 plugged its own connection wire into it.
Below the dialogue box of the cat head, a new square appeared.
Text began to pop up.
[Biting Cat, running back and forth.]
Then the electric cat began shuttling back and forth nearby, turning into streaks of electricity.
[Biting Cat, rolling around.]
The electric cat started rolling on the ground, like a spinning ball of lightning.
[Biting Cat, return to the cat house.]
It suddenly dived back into the miniature glass house of the electric ball.
Zhou Yi looked on in shock, "Has the company's program developnt capability already reached this level?"
The corresponding follow-up was a bit too fast.
"Thanks to Recursive City, the data center there is very impressive."
703 said happily, "The hardest decoding, compiling, and algorithms were all figured out by them. We just found an idea and conducted the final physical test."
"Actually, electric signal technology has a lot of data left over from the tis of the Old Humans, as well as a complex and vast program library. We obtained many usable parts from them, otherwise, it wouldn't be this fast starting from scratch."
Zhou Yi nodded.
Indeed.
Speaking of the field of electricity and the utilization of electric signals, the people of the Wasteland age have to study diligently and explore the technology of the Old Humans as a shortcut.
"With the Electric Cat Transcoder, we can chat and converse directly with the electric cats, and the transmission and reception of electric signals are very fast, almost without delay. Although there are so subtle parts that might have loss and errors when translating codes, the basic information transfer is not a problem."
703 continued, "The electric cats trained by the Electricity Departnt are already at baseline intelligence. Through chatting and conversation, they grow very fast."
"They will beco important partners for our various departnts!"
"Once the network of heaven and earth is established, the electric cats will be the best postn, guardians, and intelligence agents for the company!"
Zhou Yi imdiately said, "Start mass-producing the Electric Cat Transcoder, fit one for every departnt in the company, and... get one too."
"Yes, Chairman!"
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