Chapter 4 Thinking

“This place is always changing…”

“It’s never been stable, but it’s never been unstable either.”

"It...was preserved."

Some relevant information was detected in this organism that Lin temporarily called "Night".

That's about this place.

The mixture of normal void and unpredictable land... is in a state of constant change as you see now.

The various things here often change their position, shape, structure and everything else.

But they are also stable, meaning they continue to change between multiple different states.

It's not like some non-existent form will suddenly appear.

It's just that the timing of the change is random.

Generally speaking, when one thing changes, the things around it will immediately change as well, achieving a joint change effect.

Lin found this change quite interesting.

For example, if there is a ball, a square and a disc in a mixed area, the ball may change into a square at some point, and the square will immediately change into a ball when the ball changes, and the disc will change into a square.

This is just a metaphor. In fact, there are a lot of things in the mixed land. When one of them changes, it will cause a series of changes in many surrounding things. Therefore, the series of strange phenomena that Lin saw before appeared.

Only 'related things' will change together, unrelated objects will not change together.

So the phenomenon that Lin saw before was not that everything was changing.

However, it seems difficult to judge what is related. The creature that Lin tested cannot determine the correlation between all objects.

Although it knows a lot about the mixed land.

Another interesting thing is that Lin discovered that it is a living thing only part of the time.

Because the objects here will constantly change their forms, and so is this 'night'.

It has ten forms, but only one of the ten is conscious. In other forms, it has no thoughts.

In fact, it's not just that it has no thoughts. It seems that when it transforms into another form, the internal structure of its body will completely... become something else.

It feels like an Ershi citizen turning into a pile of water.

Only in this form among the ten can it act as a 'living being'.

And it cannot control its own transformation, because the transformation is completely random.

Only when it occasionally changes into a conscious form can it pay attention to everything around it and take some actions.

But it itself does not feel any discomfort about this. In fact, it has been living in this state in the mixed zone for a long time.

In its original thinking, it also believes that the constant changes in everything around it are normal.

It was only at some point later that it suddenly felt that this was not normal.

That's because...it came here.

The place where 'Night' itself lives is a mixture of normal void.

Therefore, it also experienced the first Void War.

Of course, it was not a participant in the battle itself, it just... watched part of the battle.

There was no special information about the course of the war, only a lot of flashes and explosions.

And because it does not always maintain a conscious form

However, Lin could find that there were more interesting things happening later.

That is to say, after the war...the mixed land was not completely destroyed.

Instead, it is stored as data.

Of course, this was done by the Ocean of Creation.

The Sea of ​​Creation has also been recording the data of the mixed land while the war is going on.

It seems that the data of the mixed land is very difficult to record for some reason, so the Sea of ​​Creation only recorded a very small part of it at the beginning.

However, this part already includes the data of the creature 'Night'.

Then, a long time later... this small amount of mixed data was reconstructed.

The location of reconstruction is here, on the 'bridge' built by the third consciousness of the sea of ​​creation.

In other words, the Dark Night that Lin is encountering now is not the one that originally lived in the mixed land, but the one reconstructed by the Sea of ​​Creation using data.

However, it has memories of previous dark nights.

At first it knew nothing and didn't know why it came here.

However, when this place was first reconstructed, there was a creature called the 'Reconstruction Observer'.

It should belong to the creator population, and is mainly responsible for observing the situation after data reconstruction here.

This creature responsible for observation had no communication with the Night at first. In fact, the Night did not even realize that it was a living creature.

I just think it's one of those new and wonderful things here, too.

Later, the observing creature suddenly died at some point.

And its corpse exudes a large amount of dream energy.

The night absorbed the energy of the dream...which made it suddenly "awaken" to a lot of knowledge.

This includes things like understanding the void.

Although the night had experienced a lot before, it had no idea what had happened before.

But after gaining this knowledge, it recalled the wars and other things it had experienced before.

And I also know that I was reconstructed in the consciousness of the sea of ​​creation.

Since then, it has been trying to escape from this place.

In fact, it doesn't want to escape the control of the Sea of ​​Creation or anything, it is just purely interested in the void outside.

It wants to see an environment that is not changing all the time and can be stable in the long term.

That kind of environment is very wonderful for it.

However, it has no way to leave because it does not have the ability to move.

The actions that Lin had seen it press down before were not done by itself.

It cannot perform any actions on its own... although it can observe its surroundings.

But because of this, Lin can learn a lot from it.

Generally speaking, the edges of mixed areas undergo the most dramatic changes, probably because the mixing is not complete.

Having said that, they are also able to maintain a state of change without collapsing.

The deeper you go, the more stable it will become, and eventually there will be no changes.

Arriving at such a place means that it is already well mixed.

Lin also learned from Hei Ye...how to move in such a changing place.

Because these changing things will constantly adjust their positions, you can quickly reach some places by riding on the changing objects.

However, Lin also found that it seemed impossible to take 'Maya' or other creatures here with her.

In fact, they are all a kind of changing objects, so they will often change with the surrounding environment.