The End of the Paleozoic Era Chapter 2207: Fragments of the Old Era

In the solidified void...Lin continued her journey.

The Nautilus was floating over... a city.

This city...

It seems to be an Ershimin city called "Twisting Waist", with quite a large number of residents, and is considered one of the most developed cities.

But... there are no residents in this city right now.

When the Nautilus flew over the city, it could "see" that the streets were empty. Although the transportation was still there, there were no Ershi people here.

Rather than wondering where the Ershi people had gone, Lin was more concerned about why this city was here.

In fact, this city belongs to Ershi's "clone", that is, the fake Ershi... After it was swallowed by the pipeline, it was divided into a large number of fragments and attached to the pipeline wall like other cities and all Ershi people.

In the following time, most of the Ershi people lived on the walls of the pipes, and after that... Lin didn't know what happened to them.

And now, this city appeared here, does it mean that Midgard dropped them here?

With this thought in mind, Lin stopped above a building, smashed the window of the building with her tentacles, reached in... and took a look.

This seems to be a very ordinary office, but the situation inside is a little different.

Because Lin saw that the video device inside was turned on, and some content was displayed in the three-dimensional picture.

The content is about a group of Ershi people who seem to be living a very miserable life. They live under buildings made of stones. They look very primitive, but they wear clothes of modern Ershi people.

They looked miserable and their bodies were very thin. Many corpses could be seen on the ground, but no one cared.

It seems that they live in a very cruel environment, but why is this kind of content being played here?

When Lin was thinking this, the door of the office opened. Lin noticed... the moment the door opened, it returned to normal, but as the door closed, it solidified again.

At the same time, a... creature appeared behind the door.

This creature... had flames burning all over its body, and seemed to be the kind of 'Phoenix' that Lin had seen.

But it is much smaller, about the same size as a chicken, and it looks like a chicken, so it can also be said to be... a burning chicken.

The creature stayed in the doorway for a few seconds before turning and running away.

Lin spit out two...cat-shaped mechanical soldiers from the end of the Nautilus's tentacles and quickly caught up with the burning creature.

Because the Nautilus itself has an anti-coagulation coating, Lin gave the original anti-coagulation oil to these soldiers.

These small soldiers can last a long time, which allows them to run quickly in the corridor and catch up with the...chicken-shaped phoenix in front.

It did not fly, but ran by relying on its sharp claws to grasp the ground.

This is quite strange, because the 'Phoenix' that Lin had seen before did not have this kind of claw structure, but it does.

However, Lin could be sure that it looked to be the same species as the previous phoenix, although it was much smaller.

After running in the corridor for a while, it came to the elevator. There was no door at the entrance of the elevator, and there was no elevator inside.

It jumped straight into the elevator shaft.

There is no gravity here, so you can also say that it flew in.

It went all the way down the elevator shaft, and Lin thought it might be trying to escape to the first floor.

However, halfway through the flight, it was caught by Lin's cat-shaped soldiers.

The cat-shaped soldier is larger than the burning chicken. Lin made it by dismantling the original Ershi people's armor.

They brought the struggling burning chicken back to the top floor and then followed the Nautilus' tentacles into the interior.

Now the interior of the Nautilus does not look like the place where the Ershi people live, but rather like the interior of a living creature.

Lin placed it in...a sac-like structure and began to test and investigate it.

Obviously, although the creature was burning all over, it was not wrapped in flames, but in a harmless substance.

...It seems that many of the creatures Lin encountered here are like this. Although they look like flames, they are not flames.

However, this burning chicken is not a solidified creature, but comes from the normal void.

The two void creatures have very different basic structures, which makes them easy to distinguish.

And this burning chicken itself also comes from the normal void. In fact, Lin feels that it is related to Midgard.

It also has "anti-coagulation oil" in its body, so it can move in this environment, and Lin discovered that it also carries... another anti-coagulation substance.

I guess it's what keeps the imaging device on.

However, Lin has no way to find out where its thinking part is through testing. This creature... is very strange.

So, Lin tried to communicate with it to see if she could get some information from it.

Lin tried many ways of communicating, including using sound and bus signals, but it didn't respond.

However, Lin discovered that there was a way that it could respond, and that was... to simulate the 'matter' emitted by the original Phoenix.

The first time Lin saw the "Phoenix-like creature" was when Midgard was sailing into a star.

At that time, many 'Phoenixes' fell on Midgard, and when they fell and flew, they released... a lot of tiny substances.

Lin can simulate and create similar substances and then sprinkle them on the burning chicken.

Lin was just testing it, but... the burning chicken reacted to it. Whenever Lin sprinkled this substance on it, it would react and emit a light.

It itself did not respond to the spilled matter, but instead changed the light emitted from its body to respond to Lin.

All in all, it looked quite like the 'whirlwind creature' that Lin had encountered before.

So, Lin continued to try to communicate with it for a while, and understood something... If creatures like these actively communicate, they will sprinkle substances, and the passive response is to emit light.

But even if you understand this way of communication, it is still difficult to understand...what it actually means.

So, Lin took Er Shimin's imaging device.

Lin discovered that it would not write words on the screen, but it would... open the various pictures stored inside to express its meaning.

Then through these exchanges... Lin discovered that they were indeed a kind of...

Creatures that originally lived inside stars.

In fact, all the phoenixes Lin has seen so far are of the same species, including this burning chicken, but their original... composition is very different from now.