Chapter 2 Gradient

"Forward! Roll! Forward!"

In the Bridge of Consciousness of the Sea of ​​Creation, Lin continued to move forward.

Lin originally thought that this should have been a rather lonely journey.

But now there are many...'companions'.

In addition to the convener who came in at the beginning, there was also 'Maya' who was discovered later.

After Maya, many other small creatures followed.

These creatures have various shapes, most of them are irregular in shape like stones, and have many arboreal-like legs.

The tissue structure in their bodies is similar to that of Maya, whom Lin met here. It can be said that they are all mechanical creatures.

And the way they appeared was the same as Maya's, they appeared after Lin touched the various "towers" here and they shattered.

These creatures are intelligent, but they are not the same 'twisted species' as Maya.

Lin doesn't know why they are here, and neither does the convener. Maya here believes that every creature is its companion, so every time she sees a creature, she invites them to join the journey.

Then Lin's team here became bigger and bigger, and now there are hundreds of creatures in the team.

Lin had chatted with most of them, and these creatures didn't know why they were here.

But they all felt that they should keep moving forward.

Now Lin and they have walked almost three hundred kilometers.

You can find that the surrounding environment is no longer the endless plain as before, but there have been many changes.

It seemed like there were many cracks on the ground, and some flowing light was slowly rising from these cracks.

At the same time, you can also see some very interesting floating objects here.

They looked like a pile of broken white stones, floating in the air half a meter high, with some flowing light flowing among the stones.

“The mixing will get deeper and deeper.”

The convener said so.

The creatures that Lin and it saw at the place where they first arrived, where there were those towers, was considered the 'initial mixing point'.

The initial place is where there is the least mixing with the unpredictable land, and the deeper you go, the deeper the mixing becomes.

For example, all kinds of slightly strange phenomena are occurring now.

It is said that if the mixing level is very high, everything around will look extremely... weird.

Lin really wanted to go and see what it was like.

“There’s something here!”

Suddenly, Maya rolled quickly under a floating object in front.

This floating object is a little different from the others. It looks like a living creature, very much like a trilobite.

It is more than ten meters in size and is completely white. It floats quietly in the air without moving.

But as Maya rolled underneath it, the creature suddenly moved.

It began to twist its body continuously as if trying to free itself from mid-air.

"Do you want to roll with me too?"

The moment Maya finished speaking, the "trilobite" suddenly broke free from its restraints, fell from the sky, and instantly crushed Maya below.

Although Lin discovered it before it fell, she did not try to save Maya.

In fact, it has died many times before.

It usually rushes to the front when discovering something, such as the cracks seen before.

This Maya had fallen into a crack and broken once, and had also been crushed by something else.

However, this is the first time I have been crushed by a living creature.

Every time it breaks, the Maya will be restored, and the structure that makes it up has the ability to automatically reassemble.

As long as it's not too broken it should be able to be put back together.

After this trilobite-like creature landed on the ground, it was surrounded by a large group of creatures summoned by Maya.

The group of creatures rushed forward like crazy, stabbing the trilobite-like creature with their limbs.

But their attacks were completely unable to penetrate the opponent's shell, and the trilobites continued to twist and roll, crushing a large group of creatures around them.

Finally, when all the creatures around it were almost shattered, it pounced directly towards Lin's ball of fluff.

But it didn't pounce on the ball of fluff, and its body stopped.

Because it was completely entangled by the large amount of fluff that stretched out from the ball of fluff, Lin used the fluff to pierce the joints of its limbs.

Like ordinary trilobites, its joints are also very fragile.

However, after Lin entered, she found that it was filled with liquid and was not the same species as the creature she had encountered before.

and……

"Bang——" It exploded.

All of its outer shells and the liquid inside instantly turned into flying debris, and at the moment it exploded, Lin also saw that the surrounding scenery became extremely different.

The cracks on the ground and the floating objects in the air were all 'distorted' within a few seconds.

However, this is not the kind of distortion that occurs in the Sea of ​​Creation, but rather it seems as if it was twisted into a spiral by a mysterious force.

This is very interesting. Does it have anything to do with the explosion of the trilobite?

And...why did this trilobite explode?

After Lin discovered that everything around her twisted into a spiral, they stopped moving again.

Now it looks like there are spiral objects floating in the air, and the ground is covered with whirlpool-like marks.

This is really... strange.

"This is quite common," the convener explained. "There are many unstable phenomena in the mixed area."

When it finished speaking, Lin found that Maya and the crushed creatures on the ground had begun to assemble.

But the process of assembling them is a little different from before.

Instead of being assembled back into their original form, the fragments of these organisms began to form new shapes.

These new looks...Lin discovered that they were all Maya's various types of soldiers.

For example, all kinds of different types of soldiers in the Mayan population can be seen here.

In the end, only Maya returned to its original appearance. As for the other creatures... they completely became Maya's troops.

"It seems like I can roll better now!"

After assembling, Maya looked at the soldiers around her and then continued to roll forward at high speed.

But it had only rolled a few meters away when Lin saw it fall into... the ground.

……I see.

Lin came to the place where Maya fell, and found that although the ground here looked exactly the same as the surrounding area, it was actually an illusion-like effect.

The ground is practically empty.

The main thing is that it's not just vision, but other senses also feel that the ground here is normal. Only when you fly here can you feel the abnormality.

Those soldiers immediately gathered together at this time, and they all drilled into the empty ground.

They seemed to want to go in and rescue Maya.

But...Lin felt that she shouldn't go in.