Chapter 69: Under the Lava

“Gurgle—”

Although this place is not magma, it is also... liquid.

Lin's Veronica is in a submarine.

This submarine is very small, only about three meters long, and its shape is very similar to a can.

There are no windows inside to see what's happening outside. There is only a small screen and a bunch of buttons under the screen.

This is the operating device.

The screen displays the scene outside.

Although the submarine is currently swimming in the magma, it can be seen from the picture that the outside is not magma, but a dark blue... liquid.

To put it simply, it looks like the ocean.

At the same time, Lin could also see many strange large objects floating in it, and now one of them was floating past the front of the submarine.

These objects were more than ten meters long and had many small holes on their sides, like the creatures called hagfish.

At present, Lin has only dived to three hundred meters. According to what the leader told Lin, there is no danger to creatures at this depth.

At about a thousand meters, the creatures there would be in danger, but the submarine's speed would allow it to avoid it.

Now, Lin is diving slowly.

The first creatures looked like creatures from the Ershi Sea magnified many times, but when they reached one thousand meters, Lin could see a lot of strange things.

These things feel very much like 'parasitic deformities', or abnormal sea creatures.

Many parasites can cause the host's body to become deformed, such as growing an extra leg or having multi-forked fins.

The creatures that appear here look like parasitic and deformed creatures, and they become aggressive. They will ram towards this side when they see a submarine.

While avoiding these creatures, Lin dived to a depth of six thousand meters.

The place was almost completely dark, and some huge glowing objects could be seen floating.

These glowing objects no longer looked like Ersh creatures, but rather like the various floating objects seen when one first entered the unpredictable place.

They didn't seem to be living things, they didn't make any movements, and they didn't respond to the submarine, they just floated there.

Lin Ting wanted to open the submarine and go out to see what the environment outside was like.

However, the leader of the Ershi people also told Lin this...it must not be opened before reaching the cave.

As long as there is a tiny gap, or any way to see the outside environment directly other than through the screen, the submarine will be destroyed by the magma in an instant.

The submarine must use the "monster brain" installed inside the submarine to recognize the surrounding environment so that it can move here without damage.

Lin just thought this was very interesting and needed to examine the 'monster brain' carefully.

But now, let's go to that cave first.

…seems to be that place.

Now it has reached a depth of more than 10,000 meters, and here, Lin can directly see the entrance to the cave.

It floats in this deep sea-like environment like any other floating object.

Driving the submarine, Lin rushed directly into the entrance of the cave. The moment she entered, she found that the surroundings had become... a very ordinary cave environment.

At this time, Lin opened the hatch of the submarine and walked out.

After leaving, Lin looked towards the cave entrance.

Sure enough, the entrance to the cave was covered in magma... and from the perspective of other creatures, it all looked like magma.

But... maybe if I change my mindset to that of a 'monster', I'll be able to see a different view.

However, Lin decided to check the cave first.

This place... does seem to store a lot of information.

Mainly the surrounding rock walls and stones, which store a lot of scattered information.

This information does contain the memories of many creatures, and Lin feels that there is much more than what the leader described.

The memories here also include the memories of many of the Ershi people here, such as information about their daily lives in this pit city.

Most of them are indeed useless, but Lin can discover through this that they are indeed living here... quite happily.

Because they hardly have to do any work, their food mainly falls from the sky.

It often rains where these potholes are located, but of course this is not real rain, but a kind of 'imaginary material'.

In other words, for these Ershi people, it is a material that can be eaten and can be changed into any appearance through imagination.

Basically, apart from waiting for food to fall from the sky, they just entertain themselves and rest. They try to create all kinds of entertainment...including watching mutants fight animals and get eaten.

Some memories of bus creatures can indeed be found here.

These bus creatures... live in certain places on the surface, and the Ershi people have never seen them.

Of course, they are actually all dream creatures, just constructed to imitate some small bus creatures.

They... don't seem to be anything special. They don't know they are in a dream. They just live a very ordinary life.

Lin was just wondering why their memory information was gathered together here.

A large amount of this information is mixed together, as if the thoughts of many creatures have been transmitted here.

In the process of continuous exploration, Lin also discovered some interesting thoughts.

Like the thinking of the leader of the Ershi people.

This seems to be a new addition, because when Lin talked to it before, it did not mention that its thoughts were here.

You can feel here that it has always wanted to do something, but has not done it.

It has a strong desire.

But what it wants is not to revive Ersh, but to... explore the deepest part.

Although the last exploration made it feel too dangerous to continue, it still wanted to continue the exploration very much, so it began to build a new submarine.

The submarine that Lin was on was old and very small. It was not because it was intended to be built so small, but because the monster's brain could only support a submarine of this size to dive in.

If you want to build a bigger one, you need a bigger... or more perceptive monster brain.

It seemed to be preparing to form a team to capture that monster.

So that's how it is. If that's the case, why didn't it tell Lin about this?

Regardless of it for now, Lin continued to test here for a while.

Lin could indeed detect some of Ersh's memories. It felt like detecting the real Ersh's thoughts...but she couldn't tell what Ersh's state was during this memory.

It can be said that these memories are just a small part of its thoughts.

It seemed like it felt like it was going to die, and Lin also felt these thoughts that Lin would come here.

But Lin also discovered some other ideas.

That is... about this piece of 'magma'.

Magma appears to be magma to most normal void creatures, but to native species, it is a 'deep sea of ​​space'.

This ocean reflects 'perceived reality'.

That is, monsters...these creatures come from unpredictable places. Everything they see and imagine may appear in this sea.

If you use the monster's thinking to observe this place, it feels like entering the deep space of an unpredictable place, and you can see many wonderful things.

However, only if there is enough depth.

Shallow areas... for example, from the surface to a depth of 10,000 kilometers is the 'Sea of ​​the Future'.

What you can see there are mainly some of Ersh's ideas about the future of his ocean, such as the possible creatures that may evolve.

Below ten thousand meters is the 'ocean of deep space', and below this depth one can see some unforeseen things.

It can be said that taking a journey underground in Ersh is like traveling deep into an unpredictable place.

What’s more bizarre is that these can only be seen by the monster’s brain. If it is a normal void creature like the Ershi people, all they can see is magma.

This is quite interesting.

How is this done? What is its purpose? And what exactly is this Ersh?

After Lin discussed this with Ersh outside, it told Lin that it had done something before.

This matter is about considering the 'future'.

It has thought about what to do next after completing all its goals.

It creates a mind of its own that is in a 'complete dream state' and then places this mind somewhere.

There are many more things it doesn't know yet.

But perhaps this thinking has something to do with the Ersh we see here now.

In short, more...investigation is needed.

This is all the information detected in the cave. Lin thinks it is time to start testing the submarine.

In fact, Lin had done a brief inspection before diving, but now, Lin decided to dismantle the entire submarine.

Lin walked to the front of the submarine and started to do the decomposition work with hair.

The whole process was quite quick. As the structural parts were removed one by one, Lin soon saw the monster brain installed in the submarine.

This brain looks like a piece of mud with many threads tied to it.

When Lin put her hair on this head, Lin found... she couldn't feel anything.

She didn't feel like it was a thinking thing at all. Unlike her previous encounters with dream creatures, Lin couldn't detect any "vitality" in this thing.

However, the Ershi people here... especially the leader, have done a lot of research on how to utilize the monsters' thinking.

Of course, it cannot sense the monster's thoughts, but there is another way to discover the thoughts inside.

That is, the connection is made using a 'common transmitter' and a 'display'.

The commonly transmitted object means something that looks exactly the same to the Ershi people and monsters.

Although there are few, they still exist.

Of course, the leader didn’t know at first which things looked exactly the same between monsters and the Ershi people.

So it took a lot of things for testing, and the testing method was to use this thing to pierce the monster's brain.

If this thing reacts by glowing or something like that, it means it is affected by the monster's brain.

Then, make this thing into the shape of a wire and connect the wire to the 'display', which is the screen in the submarine.

That screen is actually an 'imagination display'.

They don't have much television here, but they still find ways to create similar entertainment.

The Imagine Display was originally called the Dreaming TV because the Ershi people here still sleep and dream.

And when they sleep, they connect the dreaming TV to their heads.

Then when I wake up, even if I don’t remember anything and feel that it was a dreamless sleep, but when I turn on the TV, I can see many of my dreams.

They used this to create...a program, and one of their great entertainments is watching their own dreams every day.

Later, this group of Ershi people not only watched their own dreams, but also exchanged dreams with other companions, and they also created programs when they were awake.

They can create pictures in a TV by simply connecting it to their heads and using their imagination, so they have created many films with complex plots.

So the last one is called the imagination display, which is one of their main tools for entertainment.

Initially, the leader wanted to connect the imagination display to the monster's brain to see if it could display the monster's thoughts.

It found that it was useless to connect directly, but by connecting to the monster's brain through a 'common transmitter' and then connecting to a monitor... it could display what the monster saw.

And Lin found that it was indeed the case.

Although you can't feel anything by directly touching the monster's brain, if you touch the imaginary display, you can detect... some information inside.

Then when Lin touched the common transmission object, that is, the wires connecting the monitor and the monster's brain, Lin could still feel the information inside, but this information was much blurrier.

The information in the monster's brain can be transmitted through the transmitter and then analyzed by the display into information that the Ershi people can understand.

But how does it work internally?

Thinking about this, Lin began to try to make part of Veronica imitate the internal structure of the monitor.

But soon Lin discovered that this display seemed impossible to imitate.

In fact, Lin's Veronica's dream energy is not the same as its. Lin is just trying to construct it to see if she can achieve a similar effect.

But it seems not.

In that case, Lin will...eat the monitor.

To be precise, it is broken down into many pieces, which are then swallowed into the body and placed in different positions.

Some fragments are placed at the tips of the hair, while the rest are scattered in different locations throughout the body.

In fact, these clerical positions are not fixed, and Lin decided to replace them at any time.

Lin found that this approach was indeed effective.

Because Lin can directly use the contact line at the location where the fragments are, and then she can directly sense... the information from the monster's brain through these fragments in the body.

As long as one fragment comes into contact, all the fragments in Veronica's body will "resonate" and can sense the... information of the contact.

In this case, Lin felt that she would not need a submarine anymore, and she could dive directly into the deep sea by herself.

See what emerges from the depths.