Chapter 2394 No Pause

"Since that time, we have been living in total darkness...!!!"

"All living things slowly turned to dust."

"Only we and a few other creatures managed to survive..."

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It seemed that Lin could almost guess what had happened to them.

Anyway, the Phoenix came to this world to carry out the 'Phoenix Transformation Plan', but the plan failed and only turned the creatures into dust instead of turning them into phoenixes.

The Phoenix then took them into the solidified void, trying to solidify them to halt the dust transformation process.

But... after entering the solidified void, they were not solidified.

The actual situation of the dragon fruit is not clear, but after that, they have been living in a dark environment.

It's not completely dark, but there is no light source like sunlight or starlight.

There are quite a lot of species in this world that rely on light, although dragon fruit is not one of them.

Anyway, the most fatal thing to them is... the "dust" phenomenon caused by the Phoenix. This phenomenon originally only occurred in creatures that were... transformed into Phoenix.

But later they discovered that this phenomenon would spread to many other species, and then the world began to experience a large-scale extinction event.

The pitayas survived because they discovered that using essence could prevent them from turning into dust... but even for themselves, there was not enough essence, so it was impossible for them to share it with other creatures.

Moreover, many other creatures were also competing with the Phoenix for essence and trying to survive, so the Phoenix also killed many creatures at that time.

The pitaya elder has been able to maintain its life because of its long-term use of essence, but its population has changed for many generations.

There are only a few powerful individuals among them who can use the essence, and these individuals have reached an agreement, that is... not to tell their descendants about the Phoenix, and to tell them that turning into dust is a phenomenon similar to a "curse".

And then... they have been living like this until now.

Recently they finally saw the light again, and for some unknown reason, they left the solidified void and returned to this place.

The Phoenix reacted strongly to this, and they launched many resident balls over... but it is still unknown what they want to do specifically.

The phoenix was not willing to reveal more things to Lin, and Lin thought that maybe she should catch one and torture it.

But catching one in the realm of stars isn't actually that easy.

They may appear to care about nothing, but they are actually monitoring all platforms.

So if you want to catch one, you need some complicated methods.

However, Lin felt that she could find out more by asking the dragon fruit elder. During the "chat" with it, it mentioned the situation of biological dust here.

Because a large number of organisms turned into dust and became extinct, and the dust they turned into is a substance that cannot be decomposed.

Simply put, it is not edible.

Although it was transformed by living organisms, almost all living organisms cannot digest this dust. Therefore, at the time of large-scale biological extinction, the world became like a desert... the whole world was covered with dust.

But after a certain time, all the dust in the world disappeared.

They seemed to disappear, decreasing little by little, and finally the surface became clean again.

And after that, the gas giant began to occasionally emit emerald green light, especially when a storm was blowing.

There seems to be something magical about gas giants.

And this world itself has many weird points.

So Lin plans to conduct more in-depth research.

In short, first create more soldiers to explore here, and also create some aircraft to fly into the gas giant to take a look.

And this Pitaya Elder... didn't seem to know anything more, so there was nothing to ask further.

However, Lin still got some miniature soldiers to stick on it for observation.

After that, the elder returned to its group. Its current task was to gather the tribe to fight against the invasion of the Phoenix.

That is the resident ball launched by Phoenix.

Now there are continuous inhabitant balls landing all over the world, and creatures that look like they are made of mud are constantly crawling out of them.

After communicating with the elders about these "mud creatures", Lin discovered that most of them were creatures originally from this world.

To be precise, it is a kind of...structure molded according to the original creatures here.

It is something similar to a machine. Although it looks like mud on the outside, it is actually made up of a large number of tiny parts.

At the same time, these mud creatures were fed with the behavioral programs of their prototypes.

That is to say, they will act according to the original biological activities of this world, and they are not actually used to attack.

It seems that Phoenix knew that the creatures here were almost extinct, and then launched a large number of these mud creatures to...fill the ecology here?

Of course, these mud creatures are now regarded as invaders by the dragon fruit, and they plan to kill them all.

The mud creatures themselves have no fighting ability. Although they will fight back, they are very weak compared to the dragon fruit that has eaten a large amount of essence.

But what Pitaya has to worry about is the resident ball itself.

Because these resident balls are still equipped with the previous "Phoenix Transformation" function.

It will turn the dragon fruit that comes close to it into dust...

What exactly are those phoenixes trying to do?

In this way, the arrival of the resident balls continued... Although the dragon fruit was doing its best to kill the mud creatures it brought, their numbers were still too large and they soon spread throughout the world.

During the period of observing them, Lin also built the aircraft.

In fact, Lin dismantled some of the inhabitant balls and reassembled them into a larger spherical aircraft... After it was completed, she launched it towards the gas star.

Because we are still unsure about the environment of gaseous stars, we just randomly launch one to see.

While flying into the void, Lin saw... something rather interesting.

That's another satellite.

There are also two other relatively small satellites, with a diameter of more than 3,000 kilometers.

Of course, Phoenix also fired a large number of resident balls at them.

Lin noticed that there was a satellite...it was constantly shooting down the approaching inhabitant spheres.

There seems to be a very powerful defense system there, and no inhabited planet can approach within 10,000 kilometers of it.

It uses an interception system similar to a light weapon, which seems to be quite powerful.

Out of curiosity, Lin decided to launch some aircraft there to take a look.

And this spherical aircraft... still needs to fly into the gaseous star.