Chapter 11 Overlapping Creatures

"This is what they do... they want to do this."

This is a very interesting place.

Countless scenes are constantly flashing.

The surrounding scenery seemed to be pieced together from a series of huge screens... and these screens were constantly flashing images.

Most of these pictures are...scenes of various civilizations.

There are scenes of bustling cities, wars between civilizations, and some creatures eating and sleeping peacefully. It can be said that everything that may happen in a civilization will be shown on it.

However, each picture only lasts for less than one hundredth of a second before disappearing instantly, and countless different pictures continue to switch at a very fast speed.

The 'Tunnel of Doom' is between these images.

From the appearance, it is a creature about the same size as Lin's dream ball, and it looks very similar to the Ershi people.

To be precise, it looks very much like Lin's 'Veronica', but there are many differences, such as her hair not being as long.

It is said that its shape is also changed according to Lin's memory information, but the constantly flashing screens around it are not.

The images flashing on the surrounding screens are mainly the "historical records" of the biological civilization living here.

It is said that it happened a long, long time ago.

To be precise, it was the era of the Convener.

Tunnel of Doom also mentions the purpose of creating this space.

In fact, it is not for going to the normal void, but mainly for... merging 'dreams and reality'.

The general approach is to attract a group of creatures from unpredictable places, and then attract a group of creatures from the normal void.

At first, neither of these creatures was aware of the other's existence. They built their own civilizations here and lived a completely undisturbed life.

But as life goes on, dream creatures will slowly "overlap" with normal void creatures.

That is, their way of thinking, behavior, and even body structure will become unified.

For example, the void creatures that come in are spherical, and the dream creatures are square. They initially live their own lives, but over time... the spherical creatures will slowly become like squares, and the squares will slowly begin to become like spheres.

Then, their shapes will become closer and closer until they are exactly the same and then stop.

Their living habits and daily behaviors will become almost identical. No matter which side the creatures are from, they will have the same behavior. For example, they like to build exactly the same buildings, even if the materials used are completely different.

However, their behaviors will not overlap completely. After all, there are still many differences between the lives of dream creatures and normal void creatures, but they will become very similar.

Moreover, they all have a kind of 'faith'.

This kind of belief is also shared by the Ershi people, who believe that after death one will turn into a vague energy body called a "soul".

Dream creatures also have similar beliefs. They believe that after death, they will solidify into a very solid "entity" substance, then remain dormant for a period of time, and wake up again at some point to become a new life.

Generally speaking, this idea is mainly caused by the fear of death of living things. They believe that death is not the end, but a new beginning.

So usually as civilizations continue to develop, they abandon this idea.

But the creatures living in this channel are different. As civilization develops, they become more determined in this idea.

Later on, people even tried to invent various things to investigate the existence of the 'soul'.

At this time, the Doomsday Tunnel will interfere with them.

It will forcibly 'separate' the two parties.

That is to say, let the species in the normal void return to the normal void, and the dream creatures return to the unpredictable place.

End this fusion of life in space.

As for what will happen after they go back, the Tunnel of Doom doesn't care.

It will establish a new space over time and then continue to attract species in.

However, this happened a long time ago...when the two voids were very close to each other.

When the distance of the void becomes farther, the Doomsday Tunnel can no longer attract creatures from the normal void into the space.

However, it then invented another method.

That is the 'Thinking Construct'.

Although it cannot bring the entities of normal void creatures into space, it can detect their thoughts in some way.

Then, it guides the thoughts of these creatures to certain substances in the space and assembles these substances into living things.

Then bring in the dream creatures as well, and you'll have the same effect as before.

Over the long years, the Doomsday Tunnel has been dealing with these creatures. When their overlap becomes high enough, it will separate these creatures and send them back to their respective voids.

Since the creatures behind cannot be sent back to the normal void, it transmits their thought information back.

In this way, certain creatures in the normal void will be able to sense the fate of creatures that have lived in the space.

But generally speaking, they can only obtain some memory fragments instead of all the information, so they usually just feel that they seem to have some strange memories, and they don't have too much doubts.

In short, the Doomsday Tunnel has been creating this kind of...space for a long time.

It didn't say its purpose, but it didn't continue to create this kind of space.

Because at some point, the Doomsday Tunnel discovered that many creatures from unforeseen places seemed to appear in the normal void.

Like the phoenix, the whirlwind, and various dream creatures.

After that, it no longer did this hybrid creature thing in space.

However, it still maintains the space it creates.

At that time, the last group of creatures were left in this space. These creatures... were the group of residents that Lin saw now.

At least part of it is.

Because the Doomsday Tunnel stopped "tearing apart" the creatures in the space, they stayed in the space and developed.

As they developed, they became more technologically advanced and began to explore space.

They originally developed on a piece of 'land' tens of thousands of kilometers in size.

They have a deep curiosity about the darkness around them, and only began to explore after developing powerful flying machines.

These residents originally had the same expectations for their surroundings as the creatures in the normal void had for the void, believing that the darkness around them had no end.

There are abundant resources and a lot of "wildlife" in the space, but it is much smaller than the real void.

During their journey of exploration, these inhabitants at some point discovered the edge of space.

Then the feeling of panic quickly spread among them.