Chapter 13: Concentrated Hope

"Gather your hopes... together."

Since civilizations always collapse in despair, their technological research also begins to tend towards this aspect.

Why does hope influence this space?

They have conducted countless surveys based on this.

During their investigation, they discovered how hope and despair affect this space.

The dream energy of this space was also discovered.

In fact, almost all objects in space are related to dream energy. It can be said that only with dream energy are they... normal "objects".

The emotions of living things can affect dream energy, causing objects to become unstable.

What they fail to understand is that it feels normal for emotions of despair to make objects unstable and even collapse.

But why does hope make objects more stable? Or make objects move more in the direction they want?

They have never figured out what is going on.

However, they did invent some interesting things, such as the 'Hope Storage Device'.

This storage device is made of some special materials found in space... and can be used to wrap up a creature full of hope.

Then the creature's emotion of hope will not spread out and affect other objects, but will be stored.

With this thing, they began to store up hope.

Of course, they have also built similar despair storage devices, which have similar effects to hope storage devices.

It’s just that the storage device cannot store despair for too long. Once it stores despair, the storage device will collapse sooner or later.

And hope can be stored for a long time.

Later, the residents here began to use storage devices to store large amounts of hope. Whenever their civilization was unstable... they would blow up these storage devices to let the hope inside bloom.

At the same time, they will also try various methods to maintain stability so that civilization will not be overwhelmed by despair.

Although they can last longer than before due to various efforts, civilization will still slowly move towards despair.

It seems that it is mainly because they are always trapped here and cannot get out, so they try to constantly develop entertainment.

At the same time, they also tried to communicate with the Tunnel of Doom. They thought that the Tunnel of Doom could take them out, but the Tunnel of Doom ignored them.

This is what Lin told him at the Doomsday Tunnel. If they figured out a way to leave on their own, it would let them leave.

But the tunnel itself is totally unintended to help them leave.

Therefore, after these creatures have developed for a long time, they still slowly collapse in despair.

Because no matter how much entertainment develops, they will find that the negative emotions of the entire civilization will gradually outweigh the positive ones.

However... there is still one thing that rekindles their hope.

That is... the invader.

Other creatures emerged from this space, and as soon as they appeared, they began to attack the local civilization frantically.

The residents here also began to fight back with all their strength.

Although they did not develop much in terms of weapons, they defeated their opponents because the invaders were not very powerful.

The victory gave great encouragement to their entire society. Not only was there joy in victory, but these invaders also brought... a lot of information from 'outside'.

This allowed them to know for the first time what the environment outside this space was like.

So where do these invaders come from? The normal void or the unforeseen?

Tunnel of Doom says something very interesting.

They are neither.

These invaders are called...'Time Invaders'.

They are some kind of creatures that once appeared in history and belong to a very distant era.

That is the era when the normal void was still close to the unpredictable place.

Appeared in space for unknown reasons.

In fact, these creatures are not that aggressive, but because their habits are very different from those of the current space residents, they can only fight when they meet and cannot live together.

Later, the 'time and space invaders' appeared here again.

The residents in the space also actively fought back, but in fact they didn't know that these were creatures from ancient times.

They just think that these invaders come from "outside", because their appearance always destroys a lot of things...so they must fight back.

And the greatest benefit that every battle brings to them is hope.

Not to mention the victory in the battle, just seeing the huge army gathering is a very exciting thing.

Of course, defeat and injuries will make them depressed, but every counterattack will bring them greater hope.

In general, the hope they gain from every battle is far greater than the despair.

They stored up most of their hopes and established a land of hope in a corner of space.

In fact, this is the place where Lin is now.

There is great hope here, and they often send desperate residents here for 'treatment'.

As long as you come here, even if you do nothing, you will feel that the future is bright.

Even if you are extremely depressed and want to commit suicide, you will be able to live a positive life after coming to the Place of Hope for treatment.

Thus, they began to stabilize the entire civilization.

Later, the greatest obstacle to their civilization was not despair but the invaders.

Not every invader is so easy to deal with, sometimes it is very difficult to fight.

At the same time, the despair of the invaders will also cause certain damage here.

In addition, these residents often try to study the cultural history of the invaders.

Many residents feel that they should learn the technology of creatures outside, while some feel that it is unnecessary.

They had many disputes over this, but in fact there were almost no disputes before their civilization, and civil wars were also very rare.

But with more exposure to outside information, disputes have become more frequent than at any time in history.

It was also at this time that they discovered the method of 'mind warfare'.

Initially, they put two individuals with different opinions into the 'Hope Storage' so that they could engage in a mental battle inside. The winner could influence the loser's consciousness and make it... agree with their own ideas.

Later, they gradually developed the ability to engage in direct mental combat without the need for storage devices.

This will not make them lose their individuality, and they can unite when necessary, which is very convenient.

Their civilization also remained stable for a long time.

Until... the painful invasion.

The Sea of ​​Creation... This place was actually discovered very early on.

And intend to invade here.

Of course, its destination should be an unforeseen place, but it intends to destroy the hope here first.

So we use the energy of pain... as a 'weapon' of invasion.