Chapter 71 Repair

"I've found the target... Chase him! And then use cognitive bombs!"

In a dense jungle, a team of Ershi people was moving quickly.

They were all wearing sophisticated armor and running quickly through the woods with weapons such as guns or swords in their hands.

This group of Ershi people have been chasing a target ahead.

This target is a 'monster'.

It looked like a thick fog moving through the jungle at a very fast speed.

"I'm getting close to it!" An Ershimin who was running in the front took out a bomb from his belt and threw it at the target.

'boom--!'

The explosive bomb flew behind the target and exploded violently, and the creature made of mist seemed to be blown away, its whole body scattered.

And beneath the fog, a huge creature appeared.

This creature looks like a huge Ershi people, its body is wrapped in bandages... and it has four hands on its shoulders, each holding a long knife.

"This is a terrifying realization... Not good!"

The Ershimin who threw the bomb was about to dodge when the creature suddenly rushed in front of it and the long knife in its hand pierced its body.

"Shoot!" All the Ershi people around started shooting at this moment. Large bullets hit the creature one after another, but even the bandages wrapped around its body were not broken.

"Awareness...is not enough! Retreat!"

All the Ershi people retracted their weapons at this time, and the creature leaped up again, and the long knife in its hand directly cut an Ershi person in front of it into two halves.

It seems... that this hunting was not going well.

From the tallest tree here, Lin's Veronica observed the battle.

"They encountered a creature that was too powerful... It was basically a matter of luck."

Veronica was holding the small Ersh that she had met below before. Its size was even smaller than the one Lin had seen before, and now it was only thirty centimeters in diameter.

It became so small so that Veronica could carry it out, because it could only move in the 'sea' below.

Once outside, it can't move, just like an ordinary ball.

The main reason for this is that data corruption occurs.

In fact, there are still many damaged parts on this Ershi, and those potholes are manifestations of the damage.

Originally, this place was generated because of Ersh's data. The data was originally set very perfectly...almost all the details were taken care of.

Such data constitute the original 'Dream Ersh'.

If the data is damaged due to some other influence, damage will occur in the dream.

If the impact is too great, the entire dream may even be destroyed.

This small Ersh originally had the ability to move on the surface, but it could not fly into the 'void'.

To be precise, it is impossible to fly above an altitude of more than 100,000 meters above the ground.

After Dreamland Ersh was damaged by other influences, its range of movement also became problematic.

As a result, it can only move underground and cannot move on the surface.

To date, this range glitch has not been fixed.

It expected Lin to fix its mistakes.

Because it believes that after the dream Ersh was affected and damaged, it received a signal from the depths of an unpredictable place.

This signal contains data about Ersh.

Therefore, a part of Ersh was repaired so that Ersh did not crash.

It felt that the signal was sent by Lin.

Although Lin thought that Lin Bing did not send any data, but... that's how it felt.

In this dream, Ersh has part of Ersh’s memory, so of course he also knows Lin.

Lin has always had many questions about its formation.

It seems that even if it understands the history of its birth, it has not yet solved the mystery of the 'future Ershi people'.

Because it was born after the Ershi people here.

The history of the Ershi people here began from the space of hope, and then continued to travel to the edge of the unforeseen land.

After reaching the edge, they kept waiting... and now this dream star was born during this period of waiting.

It can be said that this group of Ershi people were born earlier than the Dream Ershi, and their birth remains a mystery.

It’s just that they now think that this dream planet is the real planet, so they live on it.

In short, Lin felt that these doubts could be solved slowly.

So now Lin returned to the ground and tried to repair the damaged points of the mini-planet that Ersh mentioned.

It wanted Lin to start repairing the small damaged points first, and repair the huge pits where the big cities were located more slowly.

As Lin was moving towards the damage point, she also discovered the hunting team led by the 'leader'.

Hunting monsters is an activity they often hold... generally speaking, it is to deal with monsters that are too close to the pits.

Now there is a new goal, which is to obtain the monster's brain.

However, dealing with these monsters is a very troublesome matter... In order to deal with them, you must first "recognize" them.

These monsters are all in misty, translucent, or erratic states.

Only a few monsters have physical form, and their attacks are very difficult to detect.

Some monsters' attacks are simply... invisible to them.

It is common to die suddenly when fighting these monsters.

Of course, their weapons can still hurt these creatures whose shapes are difficult to identify, but it is very difficult to fight them.

And they recently invented a new method, which is to change the 'cognition' of monsters.

As long as you change your cognition, you can transform them into shapes that are familiar to you.

Like turning into a common animal or something, and its attacks will become clearly visible.

Depending on the strength of the monster itself, the form in which it is 'recognized' by the Ershi people will also be different.

Weaker monsters will become weak creatures in the eyes of the Ershi people, such as plants.

Stronger monsters might turn into something out of a horror movie, like the one just now that was wrapped in bandages.

But no matter what, monsters will always be easier to deal with after understanding them.

Although it seems that they are not going to deal with this monster now and are planning to escape from this place.

The group of Ershi people retreated quickly, and the monsters chased them closely.

Lin felt that they could probably get rid of this monster. After watching them chase for a while, Lin left this place.

Lin continued to move towards the damaged location, using her hair to jump at high speed among the trees, and soon Lin arrived at the target location.

This place looks like a... ruin.

A large number of abandoned buildings appeared in front of them, occupying an area with a diameter of nearly one kilometer.

But these are not the buildings of the Ershi people.

They are termite buildings.

From the outside, they look like a bunch of earth mounds more than ten meters high. There are a lot of them, and many of them are in a semi-destroyed state.

"Is this the damaged area?" Lin asked Miniersh while looking at the termite mounds.

"Yes, this is the smallest damage point," Miniersh said. "You can feel the damage here."

So, Lin's Veronica walked into the termite mounds.

Lin found that each of them had some damage, but of course there were no termites inside.

Just like Miniersch said, when Veronica's hair touched the termite mounds, she could feel some strange sensations.

This feeling is like a very 'regrettable' feeling.

It's like a perfect piece, but something is missing.

If she felt it for a while longer, Lin could feel that this perfect thing... was indeed this dream Ersh.

Lin felt here that this dream Ersh was more like a "tool" specially created to explore this place than the dream form of Ersh itself.

It is specially equipped with many functions for detecting unforeseen places, and even some functions for sending signals outward.

Simply put, Lin felt that this place might have been designed by Ersh intentionally, rather than being the product of accidentally bringing the data here.

But Lin couldn't feel too many details here.

Of course, many parts of this exploration tool are currently damaged.

Its inability to function properly causes many anomalies, and it is quite easy to repair these damaged parts.

That is to find enough material and then input the data.

The material, that is, the dream energy, or more precisely, the 'imagination material'.

The Ershi people have been using this material to construct things along the way.

The imaginary material belongs to a very special kind of dream energy. It is said that there are a lot of them nearby, and the Ershi people here have been collecting this energy.

The material part is relatively easy to deal with, the main issue is the lost data.

Lin wants to...guess what this part of the data is.

It's not like what you see on the surface is a pile of termite mound data. The missing data is probably "weapons".

That is to say, under normal circumstances, Ersh would place some kind of weapon here. Because the weapon's data was damaged, some abnormal scenes were displayed here.

Although termite mounds are essentially normal things, having so many of them piled up here is not normal.

Lin decided to discuss the details of the data here with Ersh.

Next, Lin continued to go to several nearby damaged sites with Miniersh.

These damaged points do have common characteristics, and they all look like abnormal places.

To repair these small damaged spots...Lin feels it is relatively easy.

After inspecting many different damage points, Lin also discovered what they were originally. In fact, they were some... small devices installed on the surface.

Others are very ordinary, simple surface environments.

However, even in a normal environment, abnormal conditions will still occur after the data is damaged.

But it seems difficult to detect what those huge holes are.

Small damaged spots can be 'felt' to know what they were originally.

This feeling is actually quite magical, like a continuously extended object with a small piece missing in the middle. It is easy to guess what the missing piece looks like.

But those that are missing a considerable amount are hard to know.

Therefore, Lin decided to repair the smaller damaged parts first.

After checking the surroundings, Lin returned to the city of holes.

Lin asked the leader to collect and transport the materials for repair.

However, Lin found that the journey back seemed... not so smooth.

Although Lin saw some monsters on the way here, she was not attacked by them.

On the way back, Lin also saw some monsters.

Lin discovered that these monsters...all seemed to have been "recognized".

They are all animal shapes from Ersh. What makes them different from ordinary animals is that... they are surrounded by mist all over their bodies, so they are easy to recognize.

And these monsters look very angry.

They are looking for targets to attack here and there... Although their emotions cannot be sensed, they appear to be very aggressive.

Obviously Lin was also one of their targets, but Lin found that most of them were ground-moving creatures, so Lin could still quickly avoid them and jump over them from the high altitude of the tree.

But while jumping in the canopy, Lin also discovered some flying monsters.

These monsters look much scarier.

At least that's the case from Ershimin's aesthetic point of view.

They look very much like the Ershi people, with only the upper body and no hair.

They have bat-like wings, and there are a lot of these monsters in the air... and they all focus their eyes below, as if they are constantly searching for their targets.

Lin felt that the hunting team might have done something that caused these monsters to enter a state of being recognized and angry.

At this moment, Lin suddenly found a monster in the sky rushing directly towards her.

It obviously discovered Lin, but Lin also noticed that the monsters around it did not react at all.

Lin did not directly confront the monster that was rushing towards her, but instead jumped towards another nearby tree.

The moment Lin jumped over, the monster suddenly crashed into the tree where Lin was originally standing.

The seemingly solid tree trunk turned into flying debris the moment it hit it. At the same time, the monster turned sharply and pounced towards Lin again.

As expected, this monster has very strong power.

As it turned and pounced, Lin also pierced its skin with her hair.

But it felt like it hit something hard, and Veronica's hair didn't penetrate the target very well.

So Lin immediately jumped up again.

The monster slammed into the tree trunk, which was as fragile as the previous one and shattered in an instant.

But at this time Veronica also fell from the air and landed directly on the monster's back.

Lin directly hit the monster's head with the Mini Ersh.

Because Lin, this mini Ersh is much harder than the monster.

As it smashed down, the monster's entire body tilted and fell to the ground.

At this moment, Lin immediately jumped up, grabbed the branch of a distant tree with her hair and swung over.

At the same time, Lin discovered that the monster that Lin hit... suddenly turned around.

It turned towards Lin and flapped its wings twice, and Lin felt a great pressure coming from the surroundings.

It felt like something heavy was pressing down on my whole body, as if it was using some kind of mysterious power.

Veronica was frozen in the air by the "pressure". Then the monster made a strange noise and opened its mouth to bite Veronica.

And it was at this moment…Veronica’s hair ran through it.

Lin didn't use just one piece of hair, but a large amount of hair twisted into the shape of a drill and drilled through the entire monster from head to toe.

After the monster was drilled through, Lin also felt the pressure around her disappear, so Lin dragged the monster's body and swung to a nearby tree.

Then Lin carefully examined the monster and dug out its brain.

After throwing away the body, Lin continued to move forward.

As for these creatures, Lin found that there is currently a lack of methods to understand them in detail.

Although Lin could detect the dream energy composition inside it, she had no way of knowing the main functions of these parts.

After that, Lin did not encounter any biological attacks and returned to the city.

but……

When Lin stood on the edge of the huge pit and looked down, she found that the city... had been destroyed.

There are many monsters in the city attacking the Ershi people everywhere.

Most of the Ershi people were running away screaming in terror, only a few were fighting with weapons.

These monsters were similar to the ones Lin had seen in the jungle. They seemed to have ignored the previous rule that they could not enter the pits and came here.

Miniersh told Lin that the reason the pit didn't let monsters in wasn't because there was something blocking the monsters, but it was an effect similar to... suggestion on them.

That is to make them feel that they shouldn't come here, or there is no need to come here.

Lin found this very interesting because it seemed to indicate that... Ersh understood the thinking of the creatures in this place before he created the dream.

Mini Ersh also said that there are indeed some data about monsters stored here, and some of the data was there at the beginning, when Dream Ersh was created.

Since it's only a hint, some creatures still occasionally enter the city, so defense forces are needed to deal with them.

Now that the effect of the suggestion has disappeared, these creatures have begun to actively attack the Ershi people here.

Because each monster is difficult to deal with individually, and now there are so many of them here, the Ershi people can only flee in terror.

And the leader, Lin discovered that it had built a new submarine.

The submarine is very large, more than thirty meters long, and is parked above the lava lake.

The leader is on this submarine, and he is also calling on a group of Ershi people to jump onto the submarine.

It looks like it plans to let some Ershi people escape from here by submarine.

But it obviously couldn't save all the Ershi people.

It would be quite troublesome if it weren't for this group of Ershi people.

Because Lin only has one Veronica, it would take a long time to collect the materials by herself.

Plus they have other uses.

So Lin decided... to help them.

Thinking of this, Lin's Veronica jumped directly into the huge pit and rushed towards the nearest monster.