Chapter 14 Pain and Hope

“Suffering… affects hope.”

The Tunnel of Doom is also very clear about how the energy of pain appeared here.

The initial painful energy appeared along with those 'space-time invaders'.

These energies surround the invaders, causing them to feel intense pain, which also makes the invaders' attacks more crazy.

After killing these painful invaders, the inhabitants of the space will also be infected by the pain.

These distressed residents experience feelings of despair so intense that any treatment is completely ineffective.

They can only execute those residents who are in excessive pain.

But after these residents died, the energy of pain did not disappear, but flowed to their "land of hope".

However, this is not an automatic flow, but the reason is these residents.

Because the residents here have a traditional custom.

Whenever a companion dies, they will 'pray' for it. They believe that this prayer will guide the consciousness of their deceased companion to the land of hope, allowing them to live there forever.

This group of space residents are now different from before. They are no longer divided into dream creatures and real creatures, but have become completely hybrid creatures.

That is to say, like some creatures Lin had seen before, the dream part and the real part completely overlap. The dream part mainly provides thinking, while the real part provides a carrier.

In short... the dream part and the real part have completely merged into one creature.

The prayers of these residents were indeed effective.

They can guide some of the dream energy that remains after death to the land of hope.

However, this habitual prayer also directed the energy of pain to the land of hope at the time.

The initial painful energy accumulated there slowly.

If the painful energy is somewhere else in the space, it will slowly dissipate... and turn into 'ordinary' dream energy.

But after entering the land of hope, the energy of pain will remain for a long time.

Therefore, the energy of pain slowly accumulated more and more, and finally even began to affect the entire Land of Hope, constantly squeezing the scope of the Land of Hope.

But what is special is that the residents of space cannot detect the effects of painful energy.

Every time they entered the Land of Hope, it was actually the same as when Lin entered. What they saw was a place full of hope.

Because when Lin entered, the pain had almost completely swallowed up the Land of Hope, so the area she could see was very small.

But in the past, the Land of Hope was still very large... and the residents felt almost no effects of pain after entering it.

Later, when the pain accumulated more and more, they could only feel it occasionally.

These painful energies seemed to have consciousness and were not noticed by the residents.

Even the Tunnel of Doom was not discovered.

However, it also told Lin that the Doomsday Tunnel was not actually always paying attention to this place.

It often goes to other places to "travel" or do various things, and it originally believed that the residents here could live well.

The same is true for these residents. Although there are many speculations and doubts, they finally established...faith in the Doomsday Tunnel.

At the same time, they also mastered many fighting methods.

For example, transforming their bodies into the current 'sand' was also developed during their long-term fight against invaders.

However, their most powerful way to fight the enemy is to use despair to fight.

Plans like 'Emergency Disconnection' and 'Doomsday Plan' were implemented by them out of desperation.

In reality, neither solution would completely ruin the space.

It will only cause part of the space to collapse, and they can use hope to repair the space.

However, it seems that most space residents are not very clear about this and they think that space will be completely destroyed.

So a lot of the sand and gravel that Lin had detected before, they all thought that implementing the doomsday plan would destroy the space.

But in fact, a small piece of space can be left, and this small piece can 'grow' back to its original size.

At the same time, the Doomsday Tunnel will also help them with some space repairs and temporarily arrange some places for residents to live when the space becomes smaller.

This made their belief in the Doomsday Tunnel even stronger.

They also believe that if any irresistible disaster occurs, the Doomsday Tunnel will definitely save them.

For example, the invasion of the Sea of ​​Creation.

The energy of pain has mixed into the Land of Hope...and they have never noticed it.

Some residents discovered something unusual about the Land of Hope, but their attempts to investigate yielded no results, and they didn't really care.

This is also the reason for the Land of Hope, because after entering the Land of Hope, they will feel a strong sense of hope, which makes these residents ignore the occasional pain they feel.

Hopefully it helps them, but it's not all helpful.

At the same time, due to the characteristics of the Land of Hope, the environment in the memory of random creatures will be displayed.

These environments vary in size, so they didn't initially realize how much of the Land of Hope had been eroded by the energy of pain.

The energy of pain really began to devour the Land of Hope, mainly after the invasion of the Sea of ​​Creation.

Of course until the end…the residents didn’t notice.

Their contact with the Tunnel of Doom requires them to use the channel of dream energy to pass through the Land of Hope before they can contact the tunnel.

But because the Land of Hope had been almost occupied by the energy of pain, the channel directed the energy of pain towards them.

This led to the situation that Lin is seeing now.

So……

What should I do next?

The Doomsday Tunnel said that it told Lin these mainly because it believed that Lin might belong to some kind of creature from an unforeseen place.

These creatures are extremely powerful, and their "power" can pass through huge gaps in the void and affect another void.

This creature can also be called the 'Distant Shadow'.

The Doomsday Tunnel also stated that it actually didn't know whether it was a living creature or some kind of "phenomenon". There were many strange phenomena in unpredictable places, and this "distant shadow" was one of the things it had always wanted to understand.

It thought it was more likely to be a living creature, and that's what it thought after it came into contact with Lin.

And I also know something about the Sea of ​​Creation and the Tunnel of Doom.

It believes the Sea of ​​Creation is an 'anomalous relic'.

For example, the 'distant shadow' it just mentioned only appears in unforeseen places.

Although it affects the normal void, its 'essence' is only in unforeseen places.

In addition to the Distant Shadow, there are many other wonderful phenomena, and the Sea of ​​Creation itself is also an unpredictable place...this kind of wonderful phenomenon.

But the location where it appears is normal void.

Perhaps a long, long time ago, some creature, or some reason, transferred the strange phenomena in the unpredictable place to the normal void, which is also the source of the birth of the Sea of ​​Creation.