Chapter 9: Retreat

"Retreat...leave here..."

The waves are raging on the desert.

The scene still looks spectacular.

The waves of the sea of ​​creation quickly swallow up all the sand.

Although these gravels can still struggle after being swallowed into the water, they cannot make any useful movements.

Because sea water can affect their thinking and control of the body, although it does not make them treat friends as enemies like before, it still makes them unable to move normally.

Under the invasion of sea water, Lin discovered that the desert began to do some special things.

It...broke apart.

A huge crack suddenly appeared between the back and front halves of the desert, splitting the entire desert into two at this moment.

Then, the second half of the desert quickly retreated into the distant dark depths, allowing the sea water to swallow the first half of the desert.

After the sea water swallowed up the desert in front, it did not continue chasing. It stopped moving and seemed to be preparing something.

At present, Lin has learned from the memory of the resident Shali that the general way of occupying the Sea of ​​Creation is to first use this ocean to occupy the deeper parts at a certain speed.

The location it occupies will begin to be "digitalized" after a period of time, that is, it will no longer look like an ocean, but various...creatures will appear.

That was the environment that Lin saw when she first came in.

Perhaps if the ocean stopped moving it would mean it was becoming 'digitalised'.

And Lin can use this time to see... where the sand and gravel will retreat to.

Because Lin already has a lot of micro-troops landed in the desert, and these micro-troops will not be hostile.

Lin had tested a lot of residents’ gravels before and had a pretty good understanding of their perception systems.

Therefore, Lin can create "spy" troops targeting them, which will be recognized as friendly forces by them.

It is also possible to create soldiers that are invisible to them.

There are now quite a few miniature troops in the desert in the second half of the retreat.

Lin looked at the vast desert as if it were a battleship, sailing quickly in the dark space channel.

They were getting faster and faster, and they even "jumped" several times along the way.

That is to say, it moves over long distances similar to teleportation.

Finally, after moving almost a billion kilometers, the desert stopped.

This place no longer seemed to be completely dark, and many large objects similar to "snails" could be seen floating in the surrounding void.

These are actually the buildings they originally used to live in, but they are shaped like snails.

Each of the snail-shaped buildings was nearly one kilometer in size, but the sand did not fly back into their buildings. Instead, it started a discussion within the complex.

Their discussions consist mainly of generating ideas in their minds and then sharing them with others of their kind.

Because Lin's spy soldiers also have dream energy that imitates their brains, they can sense what they are thinking.

In this desert with a diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers, countless ideas suddenly emerged from the countless grains of sand.

But these ideas are all close, which is...what should be done?

Their plan to urgently disconnect the space has failed.

In fact, they can only be disconnected urgently at the location just now. If the ocean has flooded that location... then there is no way to make an emergency disconnection.

So they came up with two other plans.

One is to carry out the 'Doomsday Plan'.

The doomsday plan requires them to prepare in this space for a certain period of time, which seems to be thirty fluff days and nights.

During this time, the ocean may continue to expand, and something may be sent to attack them and disrupt their plans.

It can be said that this is a rather risky plan.

In the past they had often been successful, for no invaders had they ever faced been as formidable as the ones they faced now.

In addition to the Doomsday Plan, they have another plan, which is... calling on the Doomsday Tunnel itself.

They haven't carried out this plan for a long time, and usually they don't need to contact the Doomsday Tunnel.

In fact, because there has been no contact for such a long time, the Tunnel of Doom is like a legend to these residents.

They don't even know if they can make contact.

Of course, they still have ways to contact you.

Next, they began their 'battle of consciousness'.

Mainly, the two groups of gravel with different ideas, one decided to implement the doomsday plan and the other decided to contact the tunnel, started a battle.

The battle lasted only a short time, and soon Gravel, who had the idea of ​​connecting the tunnels, gained the upper hand.

Because there are more of them.

When the idea is filled with all the sand, they immediately begin the 'ritual' of connection.

When the ceremony began, some wonderful changes began to occur throughout the desert.

Lin discovered that tall towers began to rise from the sand.

These towers are of course made up of sand and gravel, which continue to gather until the tower reaches a height of nearly three hundred meters.

Hundreds of such towers were erected in this desert in a short period of time.

After they were erected... Lin also discovered that the top of the tower was shooting something like a beam of light into the dark depths in the distance.

This strong light continued to shine deeper into the depths, and Lin could feel that it was something like a "dream channel".

Its main function is to guide dream energy.

They should use this to contact the Tunnel of Doom?

Tens of seconds after the light beam was emitted, Lin suddenly felt... a very strong... uncomfortable feeling.

At this moment, all the grit was also felt.

Since Lin's troops were connected to their minds, they also participated in their conscious battle just now.

So now I can clearly feel that almost all the sand is screaming.

Their minds felt intense pain.

This pain felt similar to the painful energy, and Lin discovered that it came from the beams of light they emitted.

The pain soon spread throughout the desert.

Every grain of sand in the desert is in a state of painful 'wailing'.

The towers they formed, as well as the desert, began to collapse. They had originally been tightly held together to form the desert.

And when they let go of their companions, the desert began to collapse.

Although those towers have long been dispersed, this painful feeling is still in the consciousness of every grain of sand.

In addition to pain, they also have a strong sense of emotion.

That's the 'why'?

They seemed to agree that this was the Tunnel of Doom punishing them and trying to kill them.

The grains of sand are constantly trying to find the cause of punishment and trying to avoid pain.

But in fact, they don't know what the cause of pain is.

It is not clear whether this is related to the Doomsday Tunnel. Lin found that many gravels could no longer bear the pain and began to die.

Therefore, only Lin can help them investigate the reasons.