Chapter 493 - 336: The Age of Eco-Industry
Wang Yi was overjoyed.
The original Eco-Entanglement was already quite powerful. Wang Yi’s version, Enhanced to +8, directly provided three thousand years of entangled causality. It could also influence the Building Rooting technology, instantly causing the corresponding building to grow seven times!
This was essentially like being given a three-thousand-year head start on its development.
’Why not give it a try?’
With a thought, Wang Yi first summoned a Fantasy Avatar, letting the Monkey King continue the assault on Da Hai City with the Ten Thousand Celestial Soldiers. Then, he opened his territory management panel, consumed Ten Thousand Points of Eco Energy, and activated Eco-Entanglement on the Gourmet Processing Plant.
The Gourmet Processing Plant was the first special building Wang Yi had obtained. Its function was extremely powerful, operating like an assembly line to produce all sorts of gourmet food.
In Wang Yi’s view, it was a marvel of advanced technology.
After activating Eco-Entanglement, vines quickly sprouted around the Gourmet Processing Plant. The vines burrowed into the factory, and soon, weeds began to grow from inside it, making the place look as if it had been abandoned.
Suddenly, the ground swelled, bursting through the roof of the Gourmet Processing Plant. Something like a giant rhizome shot up, taking the form of a bamboo shoot. It was crystal clear, like jade, and in just a few breaths, it soared to a majestic height of fifty zhang.
Immediately after, another plant began to grow, wrapping around the giant bamboo shoot. It was a type of vine with wide, emerald-green leaves. Its main stalk was golden-yellow and grew rapidly, lengthening and thickening at a rate visible to the naked eye.
In a matter of breaths, the main vine’s diameter exceeded two zhang. It twisted and coiled around the massive, jade-like bamboo shoot, slithering like a living creature. It looked just like a Divine Dragon ascending to the heavens as it wound around the shoot’s exterior.
At the very top, a huge flower slowly bloomed. The blossom resembled a raised dragon’s head, with numerous tendrils hanging down from its "neck."
"A Golden Dragon Jade Pillar... This plant is truly extraordinary..."
Wang Pingyi appeared before the strange, giant vine. He watched with curiosity as the vine continued to grow, getting larger and larger.
Eventually, the Gourmet Processing Plant vanished completely. In its place stood only the strange, giant vine coiled around the massive bamboo-shoot-like jade pillar. The entire structure was as large as a mountain, a truly spectacular sight. Around the base of the giant vine, a multitude of smaller, similar vines quickly sprouted.
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Name: Gourmet Vine (Eco-Entangled)
Description: This is the Gourmet Processing Plant in its Eco-Entangled state. Its true form is a giant Eco Earth Deity vine that has already grown for three thousand years.
The Eco-Entangled Gourmet Vine allows for the natural reassignment into the following classes: Eco-Chef, Food Critic, Gourmet Processor, Gourmet Researcher, Food Deliveryman, Ingredient Seeker, Health Manager, and Eco-Liaison. It also possesses an automatic cooking function.
When the Gourmet Vine is in operation, professionals are integrated into the production line. They take root in the main and branch vines and are automatically equipped with ecological tools. The main vine serves as the primary production line; ingredients flow through it, are cooked by the Power of Nature, and upon reaching the mature flower at the top, fall into the Giant Bamboo Warehouse, completing the production cycle.
Function 1: Eco-Industry
Function 2: Natural Cooking
Function 3: Ecological Reassignment
Function 4: Natural Packaging
Function 5: Knowledge Advancement
Note 1: The Gourmet Vine can process most ingredients and has a memory function. It can identify and ecologically process spoiled ingredients, non-food items, and large living entities through decomposition, pulverization, absorption, recycling, and more. Further details are left to your own exploration.
Note 2: The Gourmet Vine offers natural reassignment for various professions. Those who undergo this reassignment can dwell within the vine, participating in the creation, modification, and packaging of gourmet food. In doing so, they will gain work experience, acquire ecological knowledge, and be able to level up. Further details are left to your own exploration.
Note 3: Under deep entanglement, the Gourmet Vine exhibits clustering characteristics. It will slowly grow more Gourmet Vines in its vicinity, gradually forming an eco-industrial park. The Gourmet Vine’s functions will also change dynamically as the Eco-Entanglement persists and the territory’s ecology evolves.
Note 4: Both the offshoots of the Gourmet Vine and the seeds from its mature flower can grow into new Gourmet Vines. A vine’s power is related to its environment and growth duration; typically, the longer a Gourmet Vine grows, the stronger it becomes.
Note 5: The Gourmet Vine is a unique type of Earth Deity that possesses both animal and plant characteristics, as well as a degree of self-awareness.
Note 6: The Giant Bamboo Warehouse serves as both the Gourmet Vine’s repository for finished products and its Reincarnation Hall. Unless specifically designated by the Lord Player, ordinary people wishing to reassign to a Gourmet Vine-related profession must enter the Reincarnation Hall and perform the Eco-Synchronization Ceremony.
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Wang Pingyi read through the information about the new Gourmet Vine. A look of understanding dawned on his face. He glanced to the side, where a dozen or so workers from the former Gourmet Processing Plant were staring blankly at the new structure, their faces filled with astonishment.
"These subjects are all employees of the Gourmet Processing Plant. Now that the factory is gone, they’ve lost their jobs... Gourmet Vine, can you reassign them for me?"
Wang Pingyi spoke to the Gourmet Vine. He wasn’t the Lord himself, but as a Divine Body, he was Wang Yi’s representative and possessed a certain degree of authority over the territory.
The enormous Gourmet Vine clearly acknowledged Wang Pingyi. A few coin-sized leaves drifted down from its main stalk. Each leaf seemed to have a life of its own, flying directly into the foreheads of the workers and quickly melting into their skin.
The workers’ bodies immediately began to change. A leaf-shaped mark appeared on each of their foreheads. They had just completed the Ecological Reassignment, becoming Eco-Chefs, Food Critics, Gourmet Processors, Gourmet Researchers, and other professionals exclusive to the Gourmet Vine.