Chapter 8 Residents

"We must...protect this place!"

"End...the invasion..."

These grains of sand... have very strong thoughts.

They have a core made of dream energy where their thoughts can be detected.

This grain of sand... was originally a resident living in this passage bridge created by the Doomsday Tunnel.

They themselves are a kind of creature that is a mixture of dream energy and physical matter, and this type of creature is actually quite common.

But they who live here have a special mission.

That is to protect this place from being invaded.

This place is not a bridge to the normal void as the Summoner said.

The Doomsday Tunnel is not a creature that longs to travel to the normal void, at least... that's what the residents think.

The main significance of this place is actually to block the connection of normal void.

It seems that in history there have been many creatures or other things in the normal void that have tried to connect to...unpredictable places like the Sea of ​​Creation.

And this tunnel is used to block these connectors.

It seems to be blocking quite a few connecters.

Since the moment they can remember, the residents here have been told that they have a mission - to kill all invaders.

Some of the gravel that Lin detected had already experienced several battles in what they called the 'Connection Wars'.

When there is something like space in a normal void connected to this void, there will usually be many invaders.

Their mission is to fight these invaders.

Usually they kill all intruders and then disconnect both parties.

If they encounter an invader they cannot defeat, they will begin to implement their 'doomsday plan', which is to destroy the entire place.

But generally speaking, they don't need to make doomsday plans.

When the residents are unable to defeat the invaders, they will be taken back and transformed into a more powerful form.

It’s just like the current situation of the Sea of ​​Creation.

When the consciousness space of the Sea of ​​Creation connected here and tried to spread here, the residents here fought against it but failed.

The failed residents will retreat to a certain location to undergo transformation, which means they will be transformed into their current white gravel form.

It's not that they deliberately transformed themselves into the size of sand, but that the residents here were originally this small.

They will then form into a desert or giant sandstorm to attack the invader again.

At the same time, some residents who did not have time to evacuate were also picked up.

Originally, they were planning to fight directly against the spreading ocean of the Sea of ​​Creation.

However, after meeting the Summoner, the Summoner told them the details of the Sea of ​​Creation.

This made them very nervous, and they no longer planned to fight, but instead planned to disconnect the space urgently.

The desert made up of these residents feels that they cannot fight against the sea of ​​creation...but it will take a long time to carry out the "Doomsday Plan".

By that time the consciousness of the Sea of ​​Creation may have spread very deeply, or various new tactics may be used to stop them.

So these residents decided to just… disconnect.

In fact, directly disconnecting the space is similar to the doomsday plan, but this emergency disconnection will cause them to die here as well.

But even so, they are intended to perform an emergency disconnect.

It seems that what the convener thought is very different from what Lin has discovered now.

The convener thought that the Doomsday Tunnel was connected to the normal void, but in fact this tunnel was to prevent things from the normal void from invading.

However, all we know so far is the thoughts of the residents living in the tunnel.

As for what the Doomsday Tunnel itself is thinking, it is still unclear.

But it was obvious that these residents...now the white gravels, wanted to do the same thing that Lin knew.

They are to be disconnected in an emergency.

These resident gravels are not species with specialization of labor, but Lin also discovered that they are not ordinary individual creatures.

They can be considered a kind of "warlike creatures". The thoughts of these creatures themselves are dream energy, so they can feel what the creatures around them are thinking.

They originally had many different ideas, and when they found that the ideas of their peers around them conflicted with their own, they would start a... battle of consciousness.

They will try to defeat the other party's consciousness in the battle of consciousness. Lin thinks that the specific method of defeat may be similar to what she saw in the dream space.

As long as the battle is over, the loser's thoughts will be the same as the winner's.

For example, if the resident sand that wants to "disconnect urgently" defeats the resident sand that "does not want to disconnect", the resident who does not want to disconnect will also want to disconnect, and it will also attack other residents who do not want to disconnect.

When an idea gains the upper hand, it spreads quickly to the entire population, making them think alike.

They are not like this normally, but when they encounter an emergency, they will engage in a large-scale battle of consciousness to unify the consciousness of the entire group.

After being unified, they can coordinate their actions perfectly like species with division of labor, and it is easy for them to form sandstorms.

Then, after the emergency is over, they slowly regain their personalities.

But this time they may not have a chance to recover, because now the idea of ​​'urgent disconnection' wins.

And the Sea of ​​Creation... is trying to stop them.

After firing a large number of water cannons in succession, Lin found that it seemed to be planning to take more direct action.

…The whole sea began to move.

Lin discovered that after the water cannons stopped firing for hundreds of seconds, the sea suddenly turned into a raging tsunami, and it moved entirely towards the desert.

At this moment, the desert began to tremble even more crazily.

Whereas the previous one looked like an earthquake, this time it looked as if something was grabbing the entire desert and shaking it madly.

All the sand in this desert is jumping wildly, which makes them look not like a desert, but like... a giant sandstorm.

What they did had a very good effect. Countless cracks opened up between the two, and the crazy radiation spread to the surroundings.

The moment the huge waves of the Sea of ​​Creation submerged these cracks, Lin discovered that a large amount of "sea water" was constantly pouring into the cracks.

This will cause the crack to become smaller and smaller until it disappears.

Although it consumes a lot of water, it is almost insignificant compared to the entire ocean.

The ocean eventually covered all the cracks and approached the desert.

At this time, the sand stopped beating and turned back into a very normal-looking desert.

And this desert was swallowed up by the violent waves in the next second.

The sea water washed away all the sand and gravel frantically, swallowing them all in the water.

However, the sea water this time didn’t seem to have the same effect as the previous water cannon…it didn’t stop the sand and gravel from moving.

Every grain of sand is in the water... struggling constantly.