Chapter 64 Collection

"We're always collecting these creatures and getting them to the right place."

The creature talked a lot to Lin.

It can be called 'desert collector'.

Of course, this is also the name translated by Lin... They are specifically responsible for receiving lost creatures here.

The "mouth" that Lin had seen before had the main function of solidifying any creature that approached.

Generally, the creatures that have just arrived in this area from the original zone are translucent and have not yet determined their shapes. They need to live here for a long time before they can take shape.

However, almost all living things do not live to reach their full form; for various reasons, they always die prematurely.

One of the biggest reasons is the inability to eat.

It is said that amorphous creatures cannot eat...so many of them will starve to death.

That 'mouth' is there to help these miserable creatures. It can shape the creatures in advance... without them having to live for a long time.

But there is a small problem, which is that it will make creatures...unsatisfied.

This method of forcibly solidifying the form of an organism in advance will usually cause the organism to become a form that it does not like. Usually, after seeing its new form, the organism will panic and run around.

And the 'Desert Collector' is specifically designed to look for these panicked creatures.

This place is called the 'Eternal Dark Desert', which is already within the range of unpredictable places, so the lamp has no effect.

Lin felt that it might take some time to officially enter the unpredictable land, but now it seems that it is easy to enter.

However, like many void environments in the normal void, this is a place with few living creatures, no food... only a few useless things floating around.

Most creatures that get lost here will die, just like this group of Ershi people.

Desert collectors set up a lot of 'food' in many places where there is a possibility of creatures passing through.

In fact, it is a kind of dream energy that is molded into the shape of food. When creatures see it, they will think it is food they know.

And that's how it collects these creatures.

It felt very surprised about Lin's appearance, because it felt that Lin had a solidified form, but also not a solidified form.

In short, these two feelings kept circling in its mind when it discovered Lin.

Lin also asked it... What is the purpose of collecting these creatures and solidifying them in advance? Why collect these creatures?

It is said by Lin that they are 'kind-hearted creatures who help the miserable creatures'.

Because Lin didn't think it was the right reason, she asked more questions and it told her more specific reasons.

Originally, they collected these creatures mainly to use them as 'ecological fillers'.

They live somewhere on the edge of the desert, and the biological population in that place has been decreasing rather than increasing.

If this continues, the ecology there will collapse, and they will continue to look for large numbers of organisms to fill the ecology.

But that’s all in the past.

Their ecology has returned to normal and there is no need to collect creatures as filler anymore.

However, in the process of collecting creatures, they were affected by the emotions of these creatures and thus developed emotions such as sympathy for them.

Therefore, they are still helping them very "simply".

Although it said so, Lin felt something strange.

However, these Ershi people would die if they continued to stay here, so Lin still let the collector see them.

When the Collectors saw them, they created some edible dream energy.

And the starving Ershi people ate it excitedly.

Although they don't have a mouth, they can eat by flattening the food with their hands and then smearing the food crumbs on their heads.

Looks... quite interesting.

Although this group of Ershi people had some doubts, they were too hungry and quickly ate up the food given by the collectors.

Then after discussion, they decided to follow the collectors to that place, at least to leave the desert.

At the same time, they also asked the Collectors a lot of questions, the most important of which was whether they could change back.

The collector said it was possible, but it would require some 'testing' at its location.

So...a new journey began.

This seemed easy since they all rode on the Collectors.

The Collectors now look like a big...cake, and they are sitting on this cake.

Although the Collector was not sure of Lin's form, it decided to take Lin to that place with it.

During the journey, some...small cakes would pop up from this huge cake from time to time.

These small cakes can be eaten as food for the Ershi people...of course Lin can eat them too.

The journey in this desert lasted for a long time, and there was indeed nothing interesting around.

After nearly thirty Ersh days and nights, the Desert Collector finally said... that he had reached his destination.

"Is that... the destination?"

All the Ershi people found the destination very strange.

Because it looked like a very small... building.

It looks like a small hut of the Ershi people, and it just floats there alone.

"This is the place." The Collector said, "You can reach our place by going in there."

"Is it really... here?"

These Ershi people were all very suspicious, but one of them floated towards the hut.

The moment it opened the door of the hut and stuck its head in to look, it suddenly exclaimed: "This place is huge... This place... is huge!"

After it exclaimed, the other Ershi people gathered around.

Lin followed them into the hut.

After entering, what Lin could see was... a tumbler.

This tumbler has a diameter of more than 10,000 kilometers, and it looks very strange, with many huge holes all over its body.

It looked as if it had been dug by something huge.

At the same time, there are many similar huts floating around this tumbler, and there are several Ershi people around these huts.

To be precise, it is the same Ershi people as Lin's group of Ershi people who have been forcibly solidified into strange forms.

Could it be that there are actually a lot of these Ershi people?

“This is where you live.”

At this time, the Collector, who had turned into a huge cake, also squeezed in from the previous door.

"Although the ecosystem here is already saturated, it can still accommodate many new organisms. You can live here."