Chapter 67: Life in an Abnormal Land

"I know... we come from an abnormal time and space."

This Ershimin seems to be the...leader here.

Lin came here not long ago.

This place looked like a luxurious three-story house, and Lin's Veronica was now talking to it on the first floor.

This Ershi man was wearing a suit of armor that looked very high-tech, and he claimed to be the leader here.

It said it was one of the founders of this "pothole city" and it built and planned everything here.

But the most important thing is that it told Lin that it knew... their time was not normal, and it also knew that the real Ersh might be on his journey.

This huge tumbler is not the real Ersh, but rather it is an illusion of the 'future Ersh'.

At least that's what it thinks.

"We are the eternal guardians of the secret." The leader said to Lin, "My family... has been protecting this matter since a long time ago."

As she spoke, Lin noticed that it stood up from the sofa, walked to the side of the room and opened the refrigerator.

It took out a bottle of drink from it and then brought it in front of Lin.

"Here are our hidden secrets."

Lin looked carefully inside the drink bottle and found that the liquid inside was constantly churning. If she touched the bottle... she could feel the thoughts and emotions of some living creatures inside.

It seems that it has stored some of the Ershi people's consciousness... or ideas inside it, which feels very interesting.

So, Lin opened the bottle cap, then put her hair into the bottle and carefully tested the liquid inside.

Here Lin could indeed feel the emotions of many Ershi people.

Mainly the ancestors of the current leader, Ershimin.

This includes part of their memory, and of course each ancestor lived in a different era.

It seems that the leaders’ previous generations had not yet built the pit cities. They lived on the surface and were waging war.

The situation was different from what Lin knew before.

Because this war was a war between mutant people and normal people, the operation to cure Ershi was underway at that time...so many Ershi people returned to their normal form.

But there are also many who have not returned to normal, and then normal people begin to discriminate against those abnormal ones.

The main reason is that they have weak healing abilities, poor mobility, and most importantly, they are too ugly.

In these memories, Lin discovered that the mutated Ershi people were indeed very ugly from the perspective of normal Ershi people... many of the mutations could even be described as "horrible".

Although they cooperated at first, the normal people gradually began to distance themselves from the mutant people.

They don't want to stay with mutants. Almost all normal people have this feeling. They think mutants are very abnormal.

The mutants also began to decide that normal people should not treat them like this.

The two sides began to hate each other, and slowly it turned into a war.

"We initially thought... this was just a simple prejudice caused by aesthetics." The leader said to Lin, "But, in fact, it is not like that. Those mutant species... are rejected by this world."

The ancestors of this leader noticed that their changes were actually chosen by this 'Ershi'.

Although they don't know the main reason.

But they discovered... every Ershi person does have a 'value'.

When this value exceeds a certain point, the mutants will become normal people.

Otherwise it cannot become.

After becoming normal Ershi people, they will quickly increase Ershi's healing speed.

The first step to cure them is to look for other materials around and bring them to the surface, and then use them to slowly transform the surface environment.

But for normal people, they just need to throw the materials onto the ground. Even if they do nothing, these materials will slowly merge with the ground and change the environment.

However, if there is a mutant nearby, this "automatic fusion" will slow down or even stop.

This is also the main reason for their conflict.

Another reason is that they will emotionally hate mutants, even if they originally had a good relationship with them.

The leader thought it was caused by this 'Ershi'.

The normal Ershi people began to drive out the mutant people, and slowly it turned into a war.

At that time, most of the mutants were unwilling to leave, and they engaged in a fierce battle with the normal people.

In the war, normal people gradually gained the upper hand and killed a large number of mutants, but the mutants did not surrender.

They have always felt that this behavior of normal people is a betrayal, because they all worked together to get here.

Therefore, they fought to the end.

Those mutated Ershi people finally gathered at a certain location. When they were about to be killed, they did... one thing.

It's not actually clear what they did, the most common rumor is that they 'cursed' the place.

Later, this group of mutants were killed.

Of course, not all mutants were killed. Some escaped from the surface, and some surrendered.

These surviving mutants were eventually driven away from Ersh and went to live outside.

The normal Ershi people thought that they could live well on the surface from now on, but... the curse also took effect at this time.

The effect of the curse is to attract many creatures.

These creatures are from deeper within the unforeseen land, and they come here without any major purpose.

It can also be said that they are just here to hang out, but they can pose a great threat to normal Ershi people.

They might attack and hunt the Ershi people, but the Ershi people found that these creatures would not enter the giant pit.

So they moved to live in the giant pit, abandoning the almost completely 'healed' surface.

They call the dangerous creatures on the surface "monsters" and often form troops to hunt them.

While they are successful in killing some monsters, they do little to reduce their overall numbers.

Later, this group of Ershi people noticed a method, that is, normal Ershi creatures would occupy the areas occupied by monsters.

They discovered this by accident.

After killing a large number of mutants, their corpses piled up like mountains, and they didn't want to eat them. At that time, some Ershi people came up with an idea.

They believe that the corpses of these mutants...can be used as nutrients.

Previously, the plants on this Ersh were all made of dream materials, similar to decorations.

However, as the number of normal Ershi people increased, this Ershi did produce some... plants that looked very much like real plants.

That is, plants that grow and wither.

Then, they buried a large number of mutant corpses in the ground as fertilizer to see if the plants would absorb them.

Later, they discovered something strange: a lot of animals appeared where the corpses were buried.

These animals are all species that have appeared on Ersh.

Although these animals are not very powerful, the monsters disappear within the range of their activities.

Because of the 'curse', this Ersh has an inexplicable attraction to monsters, which is why they come here from afar.

But the appearance of these animals...will make this attraction disappear.

The Ershi people found this very strange, so they began to investigate the cause.

They discovered that in fact it was not just these animals, but if they themselves lived on the surface for a long time, they could also make the "curse" of this place disappear.

But compared to other animals, the Ershi people are more likely to attract attacks from monsters, and they cannot live on the surface for a long time.

And those animals are all small animals. They can survive on the surface longer than the Ershi people. They can continue to avoid those monsters and live until the curse completely disappears.

The Ershi people soon realized that by using these animals... they should be able to regain control of the ground.

But how did animals come into being?

After research and investigation, they soon discovered that this was related to the corpses of the mutants.

After the mutants die, their thinking core...that is, the brain will change into one of the Ersh animals in their memory.

But this is a relatively rare case, and only a small portion of the huge number of corpses they buried turned into animals.

So they dug up the body again and carefully studied the changed conditions.

Although in the end, they did not figure out the principle of change... In fact, they were also vague about the operating rules of this void.

Ershimin's understanding of the void is limited to 'what I do will happen', and he has absolutely no idea about the details behind it.

But they still understood that if a mutant's brain was eaten by an animal, there was a high probability that the brain would remain intact after being excreted and would transform into some kind of animal.

Just knowing this... is enough.

They quickly captured a lot of animals and then let them eat the mutants' brains to create more animals.

In reality, these animals are capable of reproducing, but it is currently difficult to achieve.

Because...animals of the opposite sex rarely appear.

Like the brains eaten by the Megalania, they could turn into any animal in Ersh's history.

Maybe a Tyrannosaurus or something.

The probability of another Megalania appearing is extremely low, at least so far no two identical animals have ever appeared.

If another Megalania appeared, it would allow the two of them to reproduce.

Dream creatures do not have the reproduction method of cellular organisms, but these creatures from the normal void still retain... a large part of their previous ecological habits.

Therefore, the Ershi people can only use this method to continuously create more animals.

They will release small animals outside to live and occupy more space, while large animals will be kept as captives.

Soon the corpses of the mutants were eaten, and the Ershi people quickly came up with an idea... to attract the mutants in the surrounding void to come here and use them to create more animals.