Chapter 70: Deep Space Underground

"Click... click..."

This place sure looks weird.

Although there was no need for a submarine, Lin still assembled it.

The only difference is that the assembled appearance no longer looks like the previous canned submarine, but more like a shark.

The brain of this shark is the monster brain.

Lin's Veronica sat on the shark and rode it towards the bottom of ten thousand meters.

At present, Lin has replaced Veronica's original senses with fragments of the "imagination display". After touching the line connecting to the monster's brain, Veronica feels the scenery that the monster's brain sees.

Moreover, Lin doesn't need to be in contact with the monster's brain all the time.

Because Lin can keep the display fragments in a 'working state' of contact with the monster's brain.

In this way, you can use the "monster perspective" to observe the surrounding environment for a long time... In fact, this display itself has the function of sensing the external environment and converting environmental conditions into data that can be understood by living things.

Contact with the Monster Brain will cause the sensing portion of the display to change to 'Monster' mode.

It's not that it analyzed the monster's thoughts, but that its perception mode became similar to the monster's senses.

Lin discovered this not long ago, so just keep it in 'monster' observation mode.

If... Lin changed her senses, the surroundings would instantly turn into magma.

Even so, the original monster brain was still useful, so Lin put it into the body of the submarine that Lin modified.

That is the shark that Lin is riding now.

It can move like a real shark, but Lin needs to give it signal commands frequently.

Lin made it like this mainly because she wanted to have an object that could be separated from Veronica and fight independently.

Now, Lin didn’t see any danger, but a lot of strange things, like a group of...teeth.

There are a lot of these things that look like the teeth of the Ershi people here, and they are flying around in groups.

Sometimes they would bump into each other and make a clicking sound.

These things don't look dangerous. Could they also be considered creatures from unforeseen places?

At this time, Lin discovered that a large... translucent object appeared in the distance ahead.

It is slowly approaching here. This thing looks a bit like a jellyfish without tentacles, or it can be said to be like Ershimin’s plastic bag.

It had a diameter of more than ten meters. It was originally moving very slowly, but as if it had discovered Veronica, it suddenly sped up and rushed towards this side.

Lin felt that this thing was a bit dangerous, so she immediately turned around and swam deeper.

And this huge "bag" was thrown farther and farther by Lin... Although it was very fast, it was not as fast as this shark.

After swimming for a while, Lin felt that the distance was almost 12,000 meters.

There is actually no water here, and of course no water pressure, so it doesn't matter how deep you dive.

But there is gravity here. Although there is no water, it feels like being in the water.

Any object here that does not swim hard will slowly fall down.

At this time, Lin also discovered that a large...village appeared below.

This looks similar to the architecture of the Ershi people, a small village mainly consisting of wooden houses and wooden bridges between the houses.

Here...why are there such Ershimin things?

The deeper you go, the more things you see are out of touch with Ersh, but here... it seems like we're back.

Lin rode a shark to the small village and could see that the wooden buildings here seemed to be severely rotten.

“Squeak…”

At this time, Lin discovered that the door of a small house not far away was opened, and a...slug crawled out from inside.

In fact, they look like the group of mutants that came with Lin at the beginning. Their lower bodies are similar to slugs, and their upper bodies are still Ershi people.

"This is... could it be..."

It exclaimed when it saw the shark Lin was riding, and then almost all the houses in the village opened their doors.

Lin discovered that the people who emerged from inside were all mutated creatures, and they gathered together while making surprised sounds.

"Who are you...how did you get here? Who are you?" "Are you a resident up there?"

These Ershi people asked Veronica a lot of questions.

Lin also asked them some questions, such as... why they lived in this place.

After communicating with them, Lin discovered that they were the mutants who "cursed" the surface of the earth.

Of course they themselves don't think it's a curse.

Because they were besieged by normal people and had no way to retreat, they began to try to hide in underground caves and other places.

Later they all fled into a cave, where they found a strange 'device'.

This device can be called a 'deep space exploration device'.

This is also a device made by Ersh.

Its main function is to explore unforeseen places.

Since this place contains many unknowns and dangers, it cannot be explored directly... That's what Ersh thought.

So it adopted another way of exploration, attracting less dangerous creatures here, and then gaining a general understanding of the unpredictable place through the thinking of these creatures.

Once you know enough, start exploring.

As for how it only attracts less dangerous creatures...that's not clear.

This low level of danger only applies to Ershi, but it is still quite dangerous for the people of Ershi.

The Ershi people can use some special equipment to hide deep in the magma underground, and when the attraction effect disappears, they can return to the surface.

This group of mutants discovered this device and thought it was their tool to reverse their victory.

Because they also discovered equipment that allowed them to hide deep underground in the magma.

Then, they activated the device, attracting a large number of dangerous 'monsters'.

It was just that the device had a delay in activation and did not attract the monsters quickly, so most of the mutants were killed at that time.

Only a few hid underground.

Since monsters will not go underground, they think that the monsters will clean up the normal people on the ground, and then they can go back after the effect of attracting monsters disappears.

Obviously what they didn't expect was that the monsters in the huge pits on the surface of Ersh would not enter, so normal people could live well there.

As for these mutant people, they can only stay underground miserably.

The main reason for their misery is that the things here are very weird.

There are also those 'imaginary materials' that can be used to make various things, but there is something wrong with these materials.

That is, nothing that is produced is normal.

It seems like the buildings that are produced are damaged and incomplete.

The food produced is rotten and tastes bad.

Finally, they found that this kind of wooden house was the only option, because although the wooden house was rotten after it was built, it was complete.

Other types of buildings are often full of holes after they are built, or are even half-finished.

Feeling the pain here, they have been looking forward to returning to the surface, but having waited too long, they have lost confidence.

They mainly understand the surface conditions through the environment here.

Many strange things often appear here, and these things are actually the imagination of the monsters on the surface.

Everything they have seen and learned in unforeseen places may appear here.

Therefore, as long as something continues to appear here, it means that the monsters on the surface are still there.

After waiting for quite a long time... they finally saw new changes, that is, Veronica appeared here.

They were initially very happy about Veronica's arrival.

Because they thought... all the residents on the surface should be dead, and Veronica was one of the residents who escaped.

There was actually no basis for their idea. After all, Veronica seemed to have come down to explore rather than escape.

It’s just that this group of Ershi people still hope that something has happened to the normal people above, so they immediately have this idea.

After discovering that the residents above were actually fine, they were all very...surprised.

"No! This is impossible! How could nothing happen up there!" "You must have escaped!"

After Lin told them about the situation above, this group of mutants seemed very excited.

"Kill it quickly!" At this time, someone shouted, and Lin found that several mutants immediately threw wooden spears towards this side.

They use such simple weapons...and they can live here?

Lin dodged the spears they shot at her and drove the shark straight towards a mutant.

The moment she approached it, Lin immediately stretched out her hair, wrapped it around it and grabbed it.

Then, Lin began to test the condition of this mutant's body.

It was pretty much what Lin thought...all the sensory organs in this mutant's body had actually been replaced.

It was replaced with something similar to the "imagination display fragment" that Lin currently has, which allows them to observe this place from the perspective of a monster.

However, what Lin was more concerned about was that it could discover the location of the "deep space exploration device" from its memory.

The device is somewhere on the surface, and you will know how to use it as long as you touch it.

In fact, the effectiveness of the device should have expired long ago, and all the monsters should have left.

But the monster is still attracted to the surface, and it will take long-term activities of the Ersh animals to make the attraction disappear.

This is very strange.

In addition to this information, Lin also knew that they seemed to be able to live here without any weapons at all.

Because all the strange things that appear here have never hurt them.

So that's why they can live here so well.

In that case...

It seems that there is no need to care about them.

Next, Lin did not find anything more inside the mutant's body, so Lin threw it back... and then moved in a deeper direction.

After getting away from the rotten village, Lin saw many strange scenes again.

These things... it feels hard to say what they are.

There are various shapes, various colors, and many things that are difficult to describe.

Moreover, some of them do look dangerous.

When some things notice Lin passing by, they will rush over very quickly, but they will stop chasing after a while.

But it was not as dangerous as the leader described and it was impossible to move forward.

Avoiding these strange things...slowly reaching a depth of nearly 20,000 meters.

This seems to have reached the bottom.

Because Lin saw the ground.

The ground here looks and feels like a huge, flat...screen.

Countless strange images appeared on this huge screen.

In fact, not all of them are strange images. Some are scenery on Ersh, but most of them are weird and distorted... It's hard to tell what they are.

Is this the end?

Or... this ground is also something floating in this "sea".

"You finally got here."

When Lin's Veronica jumped off the shark and landed on the ground, Lin heard a voice.

I saw a star... Ersh floating over from a distance.

Its diameter is more than one meter, and it can be said to be a smaller version of Mini Ersh.

"You are... Ersh?"

When Lin asked the question, it also answered Lin.

It says: “We created this place together.”

"We?" Lin asked.

"It's us." The small Ersh said, "It's your thoughts and mine that constitute this world here, as well as the various creatures that accompany this world, but it's not functioning properly now."

"It's very abnormal..."

After saying this, the mini Ersh disappeared.

At the same time, Lin also discovered that the strange scene on the ground began to change.

The original weird and distorted images disappeared, and a clearer picture appeared.

That's a tumbler.

But it's not Ersh, at least it doesn't look like it... because its surface is completely covered with green.

It looks like it is covered with green plants.

The tumbler first appeared as a small dot at Veronica's feet, and then quickly enlarged.

It also felt like Lin was approaching it very quickly.

After more than ten seconds, the picture came to the surface of the tumbler.

You can see that the surface of this place feels like it is covered with a thick layer of snow.

The only difference is that this snow is green, and the entire tumbler seems to be in this environment.

What did this scene and the small Ershi just now represent? Lin felt as if it wanted to tell Lin something...but it didn't say it directly.

Then, Lin discovered that the green surface suddenly began to change its state.

It became… normal.

Terrains such as rocks and deserts appeared, and the original green snowfield slowly disappeared without a trace.

Eventually, it became just a very ordinary rock tumbler.

But this normality did not last long, because the rock surface seemed to have been hit by an earthquake and bombing, and a large number of...cracks, potholes and other damages appeared.

Moreover, these scars became more and more serious, and the most serious one almost cut the entire tumbler in half.

After a while, the scars began to slowly recover and returned to their original normal terrain.

"This is the final form." At this time, the little Ershi appeared again.

"What does this mean?" Lin asked.

"It's undergoing... changes."

The moment it finished speaking, Lin felt some very complicated information.

This is about the formation of this 'Ershi'.

The green tumbler that Lin saw was actually the original form of Ersh. It initially looked like it was covered by a green snow field, but it was actually in an unfinished state.

Later it slowly approached completion.

However, in the beginning it was not actually Ersh, but something called the 'Dream-shaped Earth'.

'Dream-Shaped Land' is a giant floating object that floats on the edge of an unpredictable place. Little Ersh doesn't know where it comes from.

But it knows the function of the dream-shaped earth.

The Dream-Shaped Land is essentially something that changes according to strong 'thoughts'.

That is, it is similar to those dream materials and will change its form according to the thoughts of the creature.

However, the Dream-Shaped Land itself will not be affected by...small creatures like the Ershi people.

This has to do with the richness and detail of their thinking.

The Dream Land will only be affected by some giant creatures... like Ersh.

It can also be said that Ersh did envision a "future self" at some point in the past, and he thought out some specific states of himself in the future, including the surface environment and so on.

At some point, the Dream-Shaped Land obtained this kind of 'setting data' of Ersh.

Then, it began to deform in this direction, but some problems occurred during the deformation.

Maybe it was affected by other data or even organisms.

Ershi suffered a lot of scars when he was changing, and the whole process almost collapsed because he was affected by something else.

And then it slowly stabilized and formed completely... This small Ersh said that it was due to the stable signal.

From the depths of the void, a special signal was sent.

This signal is very similar to Ersh’s original signal, that is, it contains various data of Ersh.

Because of this new data, it stabilized again and became what it is today.

This small mini Ersh was also born at that time.

It represents the 'consciousness' part.

However, its control over this entire "body" was very low. Later, some things happened here again, causing the Ersh to be seriously damaged again.

In the end it became this full of holes, but at least it wasn't completely ruined.

Then, this small Ersh serves as the consciousness here...it has been trying to maintain stability and normality.

However, it means that this place is still slowly collapsing. If you want to keep it stable, you need

And this small Ersh confirmed one thing.

That is to maintain stability here in the end, Lin's consciousness is necessary.

Because the message that calmed Ersh down before was believed to have been sent by Lin.