Chapter 53: My Own Hope

"They...appeared!"

Countless boneless dolls are fighting with a large group of standing scorpions.

These dolls are good at sieges with large numbers, but this tactic is not very effective in the underground world.

After all, the underground tunnels are not spacious, and a large number of boneless dolls are blocked in different tunnels by groups of scorpions.

Using their bladed limbs, they frantically hacked and killed all the approaching dolls, and the dolls behind had to wait until their counterparts in front had been chopped off before they could squeeze through.

These standing scorpions are just as Lin thought... they can last longer than the skeleton dragons on the ground.

During this period, Lin was looking for the invasion point of these dolls, so Lin let the ball of fluff come to the depths of the rift.

There are a large number of boneless dolls everywhere in this place, and it seems that there are entrances and exits everywhere.

But in fact, they only have one exit, and after coming out of this exit, they quickly disperse... and run in the canyon for a while before climbing up.

I don't know what the meaning of their actions is. Maybe it is to conceal the entrance they came here.

This does have some effect, because now there is a strong sense of despair everywhere.

However, Lin's ball of fluff can still carefully detect where the despair is more intense, and Lin's ball of fluff has now confirmed a location.

This location is a quagmire in the rift valley.

There aren't any boneless dolls crawling out of it here, they're just milling around.

But Lin felt that this place... was where the boneless doll appeared.

Now it just needs to be confirmed.

Thinking of this, Lin let the ball of fluff fly directly downwards, but when the ball of fluff got close, Lin suddenly found that a special individual flew out from the group of boneless dolls.

It hit the ball of fluff hard and knocked it away in an instant.

After spinning in the sky, the ball of fluff stabilized its body and could clearly see the special figure that suddenly appeared.

Lin only noticed it now mainly because it looked exactly the same as the dolls around it. It was not until it made a move that she realized that this doll... had very special abilities.

It noticed Lin's invisible pom-pom and attacked.

However, it couldn't stop the ball of fluff, because Lin flew towards the mud again.

Although the doll hit her again, Lin dodged it and fell into the mud.

The moment she flew into the quagmire, Lin found that the place was filled with despair.

However, it is quite different from the despair I felt before.

The despair here is mainly... the despair of each doll.

Although Lin could detect the thoughts of those special dolls before, she could not detect the thoughts of ordinary dolls.

And here... you can feel the emotions of these common stock dolls, they are all in complete despair.

Although it seems normal, it is actually not normal.

Because this is their own consciousness and it is also desperate.

Although they feed on the 'energy' generated by despair, normally speaking, their consciousness is not despair.

The special boneless dolls do not have desperate thoughts, but they act with a goal in mind.

As for these ordinary boneless dolls, Lin could feel that they were all in despair.

They felt like they were in pitch darkness, wandering in the darkness with a large group of their kind.

Occasionally they would see a little bit of 'light', and then they would instantly focus on it and devour the target.

Then their mood would become less desperate, but would soon become desperate again, and then they would anxiously search for new...'light'.

In fact, the 'light' they perceive is other creatures.

So they will attack any other creatures around them that are not of the same species.

Targets like Tucker are very bright for them, so they will attack Tucker.

When they arrive at a new place, they can only sense a very small area nearby. During this period, they will run around or stay in the same place.

After a while, their perception ability will become stronger and stronger, and finally they will sense where Tucker is and gather there.

This is what Lin currently senses as their 'thoughts'.

This gave Lin the feeling that they were a group of very simple creatures that just attacked when they sensed other creatures.

As for how they complete other more complex tasks, I don't know.

At this time, Lin had reached the other side of the quagmire.

As soon as she arrived here, Lin saw a large number of...red pompoms.

They floated around in the dim sky, and Lin found that they looked like balloons.

Because there is a very long 'string' under each red pompom... and at the end of the string there is a boneless doll holding it.

It looks like these dolls are floating around in the sky holding balloons.

As for the ground here, there is also a large group of dolls...The entrance that Lin came in through was a big hole in the ground, but the dolls' attention was not on the big hole, but they were all paying attention to the sky.

They seem to care a lot about the red pompoms floating around.

If one of the dolls flies lower, the dolls below will immediately become excited. They will try to jump up and pull the doll that is holding the string down and then grab it themselves.

This looked very interesting, so Lin also approached a red ball of fluff and touched it.

Lin discovered that these red balls floating around like balloons could be considered "hope" for the boneless doll.

Because the boneless dolls themselves are always in despair, but when they come into contact with these red pompoms, their... despair can be alleviated.

So they all scramble to touch it.

This is also where it gets interesting.

Because of these red pompoms, what is conveyed to these boneless dolls is the hope of faith in pompoms.

Generally, boneless dolls do not have the same "values" as other creatures, nor can they feel the hopes of other creatures.

But this red ball of fluff used some method to allow them to directly feel the same feelings as those skeleton dragons who believed in the ball of fluff.

This is a very comfortable emotion that allows them to indulge in it.

Lin was very curious, what was the point of them doing this?

And what exactly is this red pompom?

Every time Lin sees it, it appears in a different "identity", and Lin feels that they should be the same.

Maybe he is planning something wonderful, and this thing requires the use of faith in Lin.

But what exactly is it intended to do?

In any case, Lin still plans to continue with her previous plan.

That is to allow the boneless doll to be directly connected to the space of the Doomsday Tunnel.

Let them come into contact with the sea of ​​creation.