Wasteland Development Diary

In the Dead Sea, the explosive shockwaves continued to churn.

More brutal than the disaster were the pursuers.

The pursuers behind were relentless, with bursts of bullets and explosive missiles constantly raining down from behind. If not for the turbulent currents, which greatly interfered with various abilities and equipment, Kill-Lang would have been blasted into smithereens long ago.

It carried the Buddha-heart and ran wildly.

Its red fur was stained with purplish-brown blood, and large patches of its body were charred and ulcerated.

Kill-Lang had only one thought.

It had to deliver the Buddha-heart fragment of the Great Buddha to the East, into the hands of the Wasteland Development Company.

It had to make this happen!

… …

Kill-Lang was a member of a gang of Sea People raiders. He was ruthless, meticulous, and had a small reputation in the circle.

Not long ago, the boss told him: "You don't need to do the offshore work recently. Go and keep an eye on the Leshan Giant Buddha for me."

The Leshan Giant Buddha was a Transcendent who came from the East.

Rumor had it that it was a Light Nucleus Body.

Most Light-Nanos are like ants when facing this kind of creature standing at the top of the world.

"It has a huge weakness."

The boss said: "According to the intelligence provided by the Lawful Faction, the Leshan Giant Buddha's characteristic is that it needs to absorb external attacks to carry out some kind of cultivation. No matter how you hit it, it won't fight back. Of course, if it really wants to kill someone, then no one can escape."

"A rich client has offered a reward for collecting the latest intelligence and movements of the Great Buddha. The money is good."

The boss pointed to the top of his head: "Keep a close eye on it. There are eyes in the sky watching."

Kill-Lang was surprised: "Is the employer Star Cluster?"

"No."

The boss didn't shy away from it: "The Lawful Faction. They can mobilize several satellites now. They are the ones who want the information."

Kill-Lang understood.

Even the Western Continent knew that the Lawful Faction and the Wasteland Development Company were at odds.

The latter directly erased a large electromechanical city from the map, and the former certainly couldn't swallow this, so they were collecting enemy information, trying to find an opportunity to strike back.

However, the target was, after all, a Light Nucleus Body that only appeared in rumors.

Kill-Lang was very careful.

After finding the target, he found that there were people everywhere around the Great Buddha. There were Sea People like him, Bone People, packs of Mountain Dogs camping, Spider Cars of Mechanical Knights, banners of Bounty Knights, warships of Dead Sea Knights, lone wanderers, archers riding chariots…

The area around the Great Buddha was simply a small market. There were even Bone People selling telescopes, energy packs, and providing charging and refueling services. It could only be said that this group of them was indeed good at making money.

Kill-Lang watched coldly.

Everyone's focus was on the Great Buddha.

It was as strangely shaped as the rumors said, its eyes glowed, and its black coat shimmered with glowing text, but they were all in Eastern Continent languages.

There were challengers—or rather, attackers—every day.

Some rushed directly to the Great Buddha's face and punched and kicked it.

Some opened fire from a distance, using heavy sniper rifles and armor-piercing bullets to shoot at every part of its body, trying to find its weak point.

Others threw light-blocking oil and similar weapons, wanting to cut off the Dead Light energy in the Great Buddha's body.

But all of them were useless, unable to cause even a scratch.

It was not so much that the Great Buddha didn't fight back, but rather that it didn't care. How could a giant care about the challenges of insects?

Kill-Lang felt both envy and displeasure in his heart.

What he envied was naturally the power of the Light Nucleus Body. This kind of power that could break through the world's blockade allowed a life form to become transcendent and freely walk into other spaces.

What he was displeased about was that even though it was a Light Nucleus Body, it actually stayed in the Inner Sea, where the weak lived, and swaggered around. What was the point?

If you have the ability, go and fight the strong!

Try telling the Celestials to lay down their butcher knives!

What kind of skill is it to flaunt your power in front of ordinary lives!

Kill-Lang quickly realized that the Great Buddha's target did not seem to be ordinary lives.

Whether it was Light-Nanos or electromechanical life forms, it almost only adopted a defensive posture, allowing them to attack like a tide of ants. It was like an elephant facing mosquito bites, just moving forward.

The Great Buddha's glowing eyes were always fixed on the front, in the depths of the Dead Sea.

It stepped into a high-pressure field.

Everyone stopped.

It was difficult to move in the high-pressure field, and the body's defense would also be permanently reduced. The longer you stayed inside, the greater the loss.

Kill-Lang saw that the Stone Buddha opened its wide arms.

The entire high-pressure area began to emit a dull tremor. A large number of particles glowed red after being ignited, like hundreds of millions of fireflies flying.

Strands of strange colored light began to spread here, as if strips of silk had been pulled out of the huge curtain of the Dead Sea. They flowed in all directions, like fireworks with long trails.

The Great Buddha slowly closed its arms little by little.

Kill-Lang watched in stunned silence.

He could clearly sense that the high-pressure area was being dismantled by the Great Buddha. This slow-moving disaster area that could not be set foot in was forcibly restored to flow after being evacuated by it.

The Great Buddha slowly put its palms together.

The front, which was originally frozen and difficult to cross, was now unobstructed.

The crowd behind rushed over and began to collect information about the situation here as soon as possible.

Kill-Lang immediately sent a message to the boss through the Thorn Bird.

—The Great Buddha has broken the high-pressure area.

Next, the Leshan Giant Buddha began to focus on dealing with the Dead Sea disaster area. High-pressure areas were cracked by it, and the currents were forcibly changed by its arms.

Kill-Lang discovered that the Great Buddha did not change all the Dead Sea phenomena.

Only those close to the living areas and land, and which would pose a great threat to the nearby life, would it take action to reverse.

As a Sea Person, Kill-Lang knew the Dead Sea environment extremely well.

The three major disasters of the Dead Sea were currents, high pressure, and light bursts.

Not all disasters were one-sided threats. They would cause a large number of deaths, but also bring about new life and opportunities.

For example, Light-Sucking Monsters and troublesome Light Squid lived in some high-pressure areas.

The Great Buddha selectively transformed the disasters, removing the extremely dangerous parts.

This series of actions also caused a lot of discussion among the followers.

Kill-Lang suddenly understood in his heart.

The Great Buddha's opponent was the Dead Sea disaster.

Not long ago, Kill-Lang was following behind the Great Buddha when a ball of spherical white light suddenly rose in front.

It was a light burst.

But a large number of black lines, which Kill-Lang had never seen before, wriggled in the white light, looking particularly strange.

The Great Buddha looked as if it was facing a formidable enemy.

In an instant, its whole body became as flawless and white as jade, and a flame-like halo lit up on the Buddha's head.

The surging power it released made Sha Lang feel like a grain of sand swept into a giant wave.

Frenzied black lines accompanied the light explosion, streams of light piercing and dismembering any matter they touched, and terrifying energy shockwaves swept across the Dead Sea.

White walls rose beneath the Buddha's feet, completely blocking the light beams.

The high walls trembled and clanged incessantly from the impacts, with some parts even melting and flowing onto the ground, containing strands of bright red paint, like blood flowing from the Buddha.

"Something's not right! This intensity... it's a light-core level light explosion!!!"

"The Great Buddha can't hold it!"

The Bone Men were the first to react.

However, after a portion of people were scared away by them, the Bone Men did not leave.

They used their respective vehicles and containers to frantically collect the white, waxy substance with traces of red flowing on the ground.

Was it light amber?

Sha Lang only felt absurdity; although light amber was valuable, it wasn't worth collecting in such a dangerous place.

Were the Bone Men really like the jokes said, valuing money over their lives?

It inquired with a Bone Man who was picking up things.

One of the Bone Men responded to its question, cackling, "If it were light amber, doing this would indeed be foolish. But these are 'Xin Qiu' using light amber as a carrier, just as valuable as the Sky Pearls from the Outer Sea."

Sha Lang's mind was shaken greatly.

Xin Qiu, the essential catalyst for Domain Lords to step into the Sky Walker stage! A strategic item enough to make all Domain Lords fight madly for it!

Coming back to its senses, Sha Lang realized it had also become one of the collectors. It was also using its own portable box, using its hands to scoop the red and white clay into it.

Mad greed overwhelmed the fear of danger.

On the other hand.

Seemingly, everyone believed that even facing a light-core level disaster, even these calamities that were enough to destroy all life in the vicinity in the past, would be blocked by the Great Buddha's large palms.

The power of the light explosion became weaker and weaker.

This proved that everyone's thoughts were correct, and one by one, they lowered their heads to collect treasures.

However, years of crawling through life and death had given Sha Lang a strong sense of unease.

This inexplicable palpitation caused spasms in all of its muscles, making it almost impossible to concentrate, as if something extremely dangerous was quietly approaching.

A small cracking sound rang in its ears.

Sha Lang saw that cracks were beginning to appear in the white high walls.

The cracks on the wall formed crooked symbols.

It was the writing of the West Continent.

— Escape!

— Run quickly!

Sha Lang's hair stood on end in an instant.

What exactly had the Great Buddha encountered?

What was it that even the Great Buddha felt unable to stop…

It wanted to shout, but could not make a sound, and could only desperately turn around and run wildly.

However, after running only a few steps, Sha Lang felt itself flying up like a rag doll.

Was it going to die?

Sha Lang barely managed to look back.

Behind it was only a dazzling halo and countless shattered remnants.

However, a piece of white matter was suspended behind Sha Lang, enveloping its entire body with a light membrane.

The energy impact caused a large number of sparks and ear-splitting cracking sounds on the light membrane.

Sha Lang's brain seemed to be solidified by some kind of force.

Recovering from that state of immobility, it found itself lying in a pile of dust, with ashes scattered everywhere.

A white stone the size of a head remained on the ground.

This was the thing that helped it.

It was a part of the Great Buddha's remains.

It looked like some kind of oval crystal wrapped in plaster, with a faint power pulsating inside.

It was the Buddha's heart.

The Great Buddha saved it.

Otherwise, under that second round of light-core level light explosion, it would have already become a part of the ashes.

Sha Lang picked up the Buddha's heart, wanting to return it to the Great Buddha.

But when it returned to the previous place, it found that the Great Buddha had long been fragmented, leaving only white gravel all over the ground.

The previous group of adventurers who collected Xin Qiu had all perished without a trace.

New gold diggers had already filled their positions, frantically picking up the Great Buddha's corpse pieces.

Someone immediately noticed the Buddha's heart in Sha Lang's hand and surrounded it.

"Hand over the Buddha's light core!!"

"Catch it!"

Sha Lang unhesitatingly transformed into a giant form and turned around to flee.

For the sake of the treasure, the pursuers clung on relentlessly.

It ran tirelessly all the way, but did not run towards its own organization's territory.

Sha Lang crossed high mountains, waded through rivers, passed through those strangely shaped Old Human ruins, and struggled to break free from the attackers along the way.

East, go east.

Give the Buddha's heart to the people of the Wasteland Company.

Repay its life.

Those who possess power usually use power to rule and dominate the weak.

Rarely is there a Great Buddha like this, possessing boundless great power, yet fighting against disasters. Facing the Dead Sea disaster stronger than itself, it also fought to the death.

The strong wields the knife towards the weak, the brave throws a fist towards the stronger.

The brave should not end up being dismembered and sold off.

Sha Lang held the Buddha's heart and said fiercely.

Give me a chance to live.

Live on!

Great Buddha, did you hear that! Make the heart beat!

Sha Lang suddenly realized that it could not move.

It was pierced through the body by a long spear and nailed to the ground, blood gurgling from the wound.

Behind it came the rustling sound of the air being torn apart and the sound of cannons.

Sha Lang's tired eyes saw that the area was completely covered by a rain of long spears, and further away, seven missiles were already rushing towards it.

It tried its best to throw the Buddha's heart in its hand into the distance.

Good luck to you, Disaster-Relieving Great Buddha.

Sha Lang closed its eyes; it was too tired.

The feeling of being smashed to pieces did not come for a long time.

It heard a voice in its ear.

"Fortunately, I'm not late."

It opened its eyes with difficulty.

A halo composed of lightning blocked in front of it; the arrows, shells, and various power structures attacking Sha Lang were all locked in the ring, all frozen inside.

A ball of electricity appeared before Sha Lang's eyes.

"Hi, I'm the Cat God of the Wasteland Development Company. Thank you for your hard work. Leave the rest to us."

The next second.

The entire area was shrouded in electric sparks; hundreds of pursuers were instantly penetrated by the electric current, one by one collapsing to the ground, charred, unable to even scream.

The air only had the scorched smell brought by the high temperature.

"Let's go, I'll take you to the company to see the chairman."

Sha Lang felt unreal for a moment.

This was the Wasteland Development Company that suppressed the Legalist Faction… the rumors from the outside world were not exaggerated at all.

Wherever the company appears, they are order.