Chapter 73 Fusion

"The anomaly must be erased. It's interfering with our connection."

Countless things made of thick fog flew down from the sky and landed heavily on the ground.

When countless pits appeared on the ground, they also gathered towards the pit where Lin was.

There are a lot of them.

But it's not very difficult to deal with.

After a burst of intensive gunfire, many fog creatures disappeared.

But some Ershi people also died because some of the fog creatures fell directly on their heads.

The entire Ershi people's team had more than three hundred people when they set out, but now there are only more than two hundred left.

In order to prevent their numbers from decreasing further, they are fighting hard.

Lin Ze had been paying attention to the situation in the sky from the beginning, the creature that just said it would destroy this place.

Because Miniersh also expressed his recognition of it.

From repairing many damaged points to now, Miniersh has hardly said anything, just giving Lin some suggestions on data content.

And now Mini Ersh is a little excited.

"It should be the thing that affected this place at that time." Mini Ersh said, "Maybe it was the thing that made this place...unfinished and even almost collapsed."

"Then we need to take a closer look." As she said that, Lin took out the 'cognitive bomb'.

This was what Lin asked for from Ershimin. Lin simply used her hair to throw the bomb into the sky.

The huge ball of fog in the sky didn't react at all. After being hit... Lin found that its shape had hardly changed.

It just changed from a condensed fog to a slowly rotating fog.

If it looked like a cloud before, now it looks like a fog tornado.

"Destroy it!"

At this moment, Lin felt the signal it sent out...and all the monsters around pounced towards Lin at this moment.

Most of these monsters have been hit by Ersh civilian cognitive bombs, and they have transformed into shapes from horror works.

In front of Lin there were several monsters that looked like a large number of maggots gathered together.

But Lin didn't need to do anything. When these monsters rushed towards Lin, they were beaten all over their bodies and fell to the ground.

Since they all tried to bypass Ershimin to attack Lin, this actually relieved a lot of pressure on Ershimin.

The thick fog in the sky could not accept this result.

Lin found that it was spinning faster and faster, and then a huge bolt of lightning struck Lin's position.

But Lin dodged.

After all, it was not real lightning, but a monster that looked like lightning gathered together.

It flashed brightly and made crackling sounds like real electricity, but its shape was never fixed.

But it was pierced by Lin the next second.

When piercing it, Lin didn't feel anything related to electricity, it just felt like piercing ordinary flesh and blood.

But in the next second, Lin discovered that the pierced lightning monster emitted a very dazzling flash of light.

Its light seemed to obscure everything around it... or to be more precise, it allowed Lin to only sense it for a short period of time.

This lasted for a short while, and when the flash ended, Lin discovered that... Veronica was no longer on the ground.

Veronica is now in the fog that is constantly swirling in the sky.

However, Lin did not rotate with the surrounding fog. Instead, she felt a powerful force imprisoning Veronica, making it difficult for her to move her whole body.

“It needs to be completely crushed.”

Suddenly, a small piece of Veronica's skin separated from her body and floated into the thick fog.

After a second, the skin completely turned into powder and disappeared.

Next, the same thing happened to Veronica's skin all over her body.

They were peeled off from all over the body at a very fast speed and then completely shattered...so that Lin could not put them back together.

Veronica herself couldn't escape from here, but...

"Bang!"

The whole mass of swirling fog suddenly shook violently.

At any moment Veronica's 'disintegration' also stopped.

Because the thick fog was hit by... a thick tree root, which came out of the ground below.

And not just one.

Many tree roots also emerged from the surrounding ground. They attacked the surrounding monsters and helped the Ershi people escape from the encirclement.

At the same time, it also gave Lin's Veronica an opportunity to escape.

When the thick fog was hit by the tree roots, Lin felt that the force that was imprisoning Veronica had become much weaker.

So Lin immediately used a lot of hair to stab...the core of the thick fog.

In fact, it is the part where it has been talking. Although it looks like mist, that position is actually the core.

The creatures here do not speak through vocal organs or the like, but speak directly from their thinking organs.

To pierce the part of its body where it speaks is to pierce its thinking organ.

At the moment the organ was pierced, Lin also felt that the thick fog around her stopped swirling.

And Veronica just fell directly from the thick fog and returned to the surface.

A large number of plant roots on the ground stretched towards the sky, entwining the slowly expanding thick fog.

Although it looks like a ball of mist, it is impossible to penetrate directly from the outside. It feels like a transparent and solid... sphere.

But the roots have already tightly wrapped around it, and Lin thinks they should be able to solve it.

These roots are Ersh’s defensive weapons.

They had been in an inactive state before, so Lin thought there was some important mechanism in the pit.

So, Lin never stopped repairing the potholes, even when fighting.

Later, just as Lin had thought, the pit itself was indeed a device for launching weapons.

In fact, it is a 'detection device', that is, it is used to sense the enemy's position, and those weapons themselves do not have detection capabilities.

Lin had originally thought of this, believing that the weapon's detection system might be located somewhere else, but she was not sure whether this pit was a detection device.

Now it seems...the pit at this location is exactly the location of the detection device.

If it had been something else, Lin's Veronica would probably be dead.

It will be much more difficult to come here again. Lin must find a way to create more troops.

'boom!'

Suddenly, a violent explosion sounded in the sky.

The roots that were entangled with the thick fog were all blown into pieces and fell to the ground.

At the same time, Lin looked up at the sky and found that the thick fog... had become many times larger.

As if it wasn't so easy to deal with.

The thick fog began to rotate faster, but Lin paid more attention to some changes in the core part that was pierced by Lin just now.

A strong light began to emit from there, and then turned into a... shape that looked a bit like a twinkling star.

"That's...Puppet Star!"

Suddenly, an Ershi citizen cried out in surprise.

This thick fog...is it a puppet star?

Lin found this very interesting.

The star at its center was tiny, only a dozen centimeters across, while the entire mass of swirling fog had expanded to a diameter of more than thirty meters.

It was like a huge storm.

"Destroy... destroy them..."

At the same time, a large amount of information was constantly coming out from the star-shaped position, and all the Ershi people quickly raised their weapons when they saw this.

"Wait a minute!" The leader's words stopped them from continuing to fire.

It seems that this leader... knows a lot about this creature, because Lin thinks so too.

This thick fog is actually a creature controlled by Puppet Star. Just now, Puppet Star itself was pierced by Lin... but it did not die.

However, its control over the thick fog has decreased, and now the thick fog is expanding but not attacking immediately, which is a manifestation of its resistance.

"Quickly destroy..."

Now you can see the puppet star inside is constantly shaking, and after more than ten seconds it flies out with a bang.

Lin saw the Puppet Star...flying into the distant jungle.

The swirling thick fog in the sky immediately flew high into the sky and flew into the thick fog that covered the sky.

Then, the entire fog in the sky disappeared completely within ten seconds.

Lin didn't stand there for long, but ran quickly into the jungle.

After a while, Lin found the flying puppet star.

Lin found that it had landed next to a tree, and there were traces of it crawling on the ground.

It crawled about thirty centimeters before Lin arrived, and after seeing Lin, it immediately stopped moving.

After grabbing this puppet star...Lin prepared to conduct some tests on it.

"You must be destroyed. You cannot continue to stay here."

When Lin wanted to test it, Puppet Star said: "It will be... unstable... unstable..."

"Why is it unstable?" Lin asked it.

"It will destroy you...it knows you...it will come soon...Mentor..."

"Let me do some research."

At this time, Mini Ersh, who Lin had been holding, jumped out and rolled to the ground.

"When the weapon was repaired just now, I can move, but I can't fly yet." Mini Ersh moved on the ground by rolling and rolled to a position one meter in front of Veronica.

"Put it in front of me."

After Mini Ersh finished speaking, Lin also placed the Puppet Star in front of it.

Then, Mini Ersh suddenly rolled and fell entirely on the Puppet Star.

"Searching in progress..." Miniersh said, "Found the target...Touch me."

Lin touched Mini Ersh and felt that it sent a lot of signals to her.

This is information about the creature called Puppet Star.

Puppet Star...seems to be a very interesting creature.

They are a species living on the edge of an unpredictable place. Since their birth, this creature has always had one pursuit, which is control.

They are born with some control abilities, mainly controlling the dream creatures around them.

They can directly input their consciousness into other dream creatures and then control them.

Generally speaking, a puppet star will constantly try to control increasingly powerful creatures, and it will also absorb the nutrients of this creature.

Since they often control creatures from the space of hope, they also have a certain understanding of the situation in the normal void.

Puppet stars are a threat to most species. Their characteristics make them hated and feared by many creatures like parasites of cellular organisms.

However, there is a kind of creature that is an ally of Puppet Star.

That's the fish scale ball...Lin thinks it's better to call it a scale ball.

The fish scale balls and blood scale balls that Lin had seen before are actually the same creature.

These scaly balls themselves are not controlled by the Puppet Star. They and the Puppet Star have a relationship of mutual "envy".

Because the scaly ball is good at controlling non-living things.

They are born with the ability to "project" their consciousness onto the surrounding dream energy, and then transform the target into the desired... form.

It’s similar to how the Ershi people use imaginary materials to make things, except that the scale ball can produce many more types of dream energy.

They cannot control living things, or living things.

If the scaly ball tries to control a living being, it will separate its body structure and cause the creature's death.

Of course, that was only for relatively fragile creatures. Relatively 'tough' creatures would not react when it was controlled.

In short, the Scale Ball cannot directly control the thinking of creatures like the Puppet Star to make them perform various actions in detail.

Puppet Star cannot control anything other than the biological thinking.

They both envied each other.

When most puppet stars see the scaly ball controlling non-living things, they will want to do the same.

On the contrary, the Scale Ball will have the ability to control living things in detail, just like the Puppet Star.

They both like each other's abilities, but they cannot have each other's abilities.

So the two species formed an 'alliance' long ago.

They will cooperate to deal with some powerful creatures, or engage in various friendly activities such as food trading.

It can also be said to be a symbiotic relationship.

However, this symbiosis was initiated by themselves, not because of any pressure from life.

But their friendly relationship is a little problematic.

To be precise, it was the Puppet Star that tried to do something secretly, and that was... the Scale Ball.

It is difficult to control the scale ball. If the opponent is prepared, they cannot invade the scale ball's mind.

But when the Scale Ball lets down its guard, they may be able to control it.

The relationship between most puppet stars and scale balls is very friendly, but a few puppet stars have been secretly trying to control these scale balls.

Because they pretended to be friendly contacts, some of the puppet stars succeeded in controlling the scaly balls.

But they were surprised to find that they had no way to control the abilities of the scaly ball.

When a puppet star completely controls the mind of a Scale Ball, it cannot command the Scale Ball to use its ability to control the surrounding dream energy.

No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't use this ability.

However, these puppet stars did not give up.

Because they want to control non-living things so much, they have been studying and strengthening themselves.

But no matter how strong their control is, they can control very powerful creatures but they still cannot command the scale balls to use their abilities.

Some puppet stars thought this was simply impossible and gave up.

Later, more and more puppet stars gave up control of the scale ball.

Of course, their actions were very secretive, and they continued to get along well with the Scale Balls, without causing any problems between the two races.

But it is said that there is such a puppet star.

It kept on researching... and finally, it succeeded.

The Puppet Stars themselves have some interesting hierarchical status, and they are ranked based on their control ability.

If their ranking is translated in the way of the Ershi people... it would be primary-secondary-intermediate-advanced-ultimate, and the strength of the species they can control will increase a lot at each stage.

And there is another ranking above the ultimate, that is 'mentor'.

A level that is only found in legends.

Because all puppet stars have to practice their own control abilities, other puppet stars will not teach them.

This is mainly because the thinking structure of each puppet star is different in details, and each puppet star has its own control method, which cannot be passed on to the same kind.

They certainly don't teach their kind this tradition either.

And the legendary mentor level... It is said that puppet stars who have reached this level can understand the thoughts of all their kind.

Its control ability has reached an unparalleled level, and it can teach all puppet stars to improve their control ability.

Its power of control is also extremely terrifying, and it is said that it can control all species it sees.

Such a puppet star... the only puppet star who successfully controlled the Scale Ball and made the Scale Ball use its abilities, was given the title of mentor.

Of course it's not actually as strong as the truly legendary mentor.

It's just that all the other puppet stars feel that it has achieved something that no star has ever achieved, so they think it is suitable to be the highest "mentor" level among them.

In fact, the 'mentor' itself is no longer a puppet star.

In this description, Lin discovered that the mentor was essentially like a new species.

It is a creature that is a fusion of a puppet star and a scale ball.

Generally, a puppet star can break away from the host it controls at will, but a mentor cannot.

It and the scaly ball it controls have completely merged together, and no Puppet Star knows how it did it.

Of course they don't care, they just think this mentor is indeed very powerful.

And this mentor did indeed do many wonderful things.

Creatures like Puppet Stars lead a very scattered lifestyle.

They do not have any form of civilization. When they occasionally meet each other, they will cooperate with each other, and then they will take care of themselves after they disperse.

They don't live in groups and have little desire to explore.

A puppet star spends almost his entire life honing his control techniques and always lives on the edge.

This mentor unified a large group of puppet stars and taught them how to control the scaly balls.

Actually it is to teach them how to merge with the scale ball.

The mentor himself thinks the same way.

It believes that the Puppet Star and the Scale Ball are the same creature, which may have separated for some reason a long time ago.

They should merge together again and become a unity.

Many puppet stars successfully merged with the Scale Ball, and due to their large scale, the Scale Ball race also discovered this.

And the scale balls...they themselves were not repulsive, they began to actively merge with the Puppet Star.

At the same time, the instructor also discovered a new way of integration.

That is, those individuals after fusion... can be fused again, turning two into one.

Later, the two populations continued to merge and became a very large creature.

This creature is called 'the only concrete being'.

It is invincible...at least it thinks so.

All living things that approach it will be controlled, and all non-living things will be distorted by it and transformed into the shape it desires.

Lin felt that this was quite similar to the distortion of the Sea of ​​Creation. The Sea of ​​Creation wanted to control things in the normal void so casually.

Of course, after the fusion, it only has one consciousness and one mind.

It wasn't trying to do anything special at the time, just wandering around in unpredictable places.

Its activities pose a huge threat to the surrounding organisms and have a significant impact on many organisms.

No living thing can stop it, and any living thing that knows about it tries to avoid it.

However, there was one creature that did not avoid it, but followed it.

That is...mentor.

The mentor did not merge with them, it stayed alone until the end.

Then it just followed the 'only concrete being' and observed its activities behind it, without doing anything special.

And the 'only concrete thing' ignored the mentor and kept trying to influence more things.

There is no powerful creature to stop it.

Or it didn't live long enough for a creature powerful enough to discover it.

Because this 'only concrete thing' has a short lifespan.

After being active for a period of time, it slowly entered a state of 'collapse'.

As if slowly rotting, its entire huge group dissipated and collapsed.

In the end, it completely became a corpse.

The two races, Puppet Star and Scale Ball, seemed to have perished.

Finally only the instructor was left.

The mentor lived on this huge corpse for a long time.

No one knew what it did, but something began to grow on the corpse of this giant creature.

This is a little different from before, this new way of growing is very much like a plant.

It is spreading slowly.

And the mentor also lives in this slowly growing corpse.

The corpse began to grow larger and larger, even exceeding the size of the previous fusion.

It’s just that it no longer has any magical abilities, or rather, this growing corpse cannot use special abilities.

It does not have any impact on other things, and it also attracts some wild animals to live here.

A long period of time passed like this and nothing special happened... It seemed that the mentor had used some method to extend his life so that he could live here for a long time.

Dream creatures like it also have a limited lifespan.

However, the limitation of their lifespan is more interesting, which is mainly related to their thinking.

After a long time... this huge corpse at some point grew some strange structures.

These structures can be called 'consciousness projectors'.

Its function is to... project the control effect on living or non-living things to a very far place.

Furthermore, only the mentor can use this 'projector'.