Chapter 74: Generation

Wherever the light shines, things change.

For a long time, the 'mentor' remained in the huge corpse.

Of course, this is not a corpse. The only concrete thing has a new name.

It is called 'consciousness embodiment'.

Although the names seem similar... Anyway, this name was given by some creatures active around.

The mentor has been using some of the special structures it has grown to influence distant environments.

These structures feel like a 'long-range light'.

It can illuminate very long distances.

It is much farther than when it was alive before it became 'concrete'... Of course, what it radiates is not light, but 'consciousness'.

Things that are exposed to the radiation will undergo some abnormal changes and may become something completely different from their original state.

The mentor has been controlling the effect of this "consciousness irradiation".

It is difficult to say whether the instructor’s own ideas will affect the irradiation effect, because the objects or organisms that are irradiated will produce some very strange mutations.

The impact on organisms is different from the previous control effects, it is just a mutation.

As the 'consciousness manifestation' grew longer and larger, the range it could radiate became farther and farther, and the mentor himself seemed to find this very interesting, or there was some special purpose, as it kept radiating everywhere.

This has had a significant impact on many organisms.

Some creatures are irradiated by it and mutated into strange shapes without knowing what's happening.

Some creatures...want to find out what is going on.

Some sufficiently powerful creatures can notice where this radiance of consciousness is coming from, and it is coming towards a specific location.

The mentor also knew that some powerful creatures were coming, and it began to prepare to deal with these creatures.

It shapes some of the concrete parts into weapons.

In fact, it does not create it by itself, but it gives some signals to the concrete object, allowing the concrete object to grow weapons by itself.

These weapons... are very powerful, so powerful that the mentor can kill many creatures that come here.

Then, it uses the corpses of these creatures as nutrition for the concrete to absorb, further strengthening the concrete's irradiation ability.

Then... it continued to shine everywhere, attracting some powerful creatures again and again.

Kill these creatures...absorb these creatures.

As the image becomes more powerful, the creatures it attracts become more powerful.

Finally, it attracted its most powerful opponent... a creature called 'Distant Shadow'.

The Distant Shadow didn't actually come directly over.

Like the concrete, it has the ability to influence other things from a distance, and it can also "radiate" its consciousness onto the concrete.

The concrete form began to slowly collapse under the influence of the Distant Shadow, and it was unable to resist the Distant Shadow.

So, the mentor began to integrate the whole image.

Originally, only a few organs in the concrete body had the ability to radiate consciousness, so the instructor began to try to quickly transform the concrete body.

It wants to turn the entire concrete image into an organ with irradiation capabilities in order to counter the distant shadow.

However, the mentor found that it was not transforming as fast as it was collapsing.

Soon the representation will completely collapse, and it can only transform a small part at that time.

There was nothing it could do at the time, but something wonderful happened.

The distant shadow... stopped attacking.

After the other party's consciousness irradiation stopped, the mentor didn't care about the reason, and quickly transformed the entire body of the entity into a huge "consciousness irradiation organ".

This can also be seen as a weapon that is hundreds of kilometers in size.

The mentor thinks it should be able to deal with the opponent.

At this time, the instructor discovered a problem.

That is when it wanted to fight back, it suddenly realized... it didn't know where the distant shadow was.

The distant shadow itself did not come over. Although it "illuminated" here from a distance, the mentor did not know its location.

Therefore, the tutor can only start searching, but no matter how he searches, it is difficult to determine where the other party is.

After searching, the instructor found a 'possible location'.

It found that there was a bigger reaction at that location, but was not sure if it was the location of the distant shadow.

Just as it was hesitating, it suddenly materialized itself and used... illumination.

This was the first time that the embodiment used consciousness irradiation without the control of a mentor.

This is also the last time.

Because after it was used up, this concrete body collapsed, and it turned into a pile of... fragments like a piece of rapidly rotting meat.

And it never recovered, as if it had completely lost any signs of 'life'.

After this, the mentor disappeared.

No one knows where it went, and no one knows what it is doing.

Until much, much later.

On the edge of an unpredictable place, the two creatures, Puppet Star and Scale Ball, appeared again, and no one knew why they appeared.

They don't care about themselves, they only care about the present life.

However, some puppet stars began to study their own history.

This actually has something to do with the creatures they control. When the Puppet Stars control creatures, they will be more or less affected by the emotions of the creatures.

For example, if they control some creatures that like to record history, then they may also like to study history.

Some puppet stars have discovered some past history through research.

In fact, they controlled some relatively ancient creatures, and following the traces of history, they found the "concrete" remains.

After the concrete object was exposed to the final irradiation, it died.

And its remains have remained there, with almost no creatures eating it, keeping it in a relatively intact state.

These puppet stars wandered around here and investigated, but they didn't find any useful information.

Just when they were about to leave, they discovered...the 'mentor' had returned.

The mentor told these puppet stars who liked to study history his own...adventure stories.

After its concrete form collapsed, it began its long journey in the void.

It later even went to another void...that is, the normal void and the solidified void.

In those two voids, it encountered things it had never seen before, but also some familiar things.

It discovered that there were some creatures in the normal void that might have been formed by the final conscious illumination of the 'concrete'.

After a long journey, it returns here.

In fact, it didn't come back here by itself. It went on a trip and didn't come back.

It probably died somewhere in the solidified void.

But it still found a way to send its consciousness data back.

The mentor that the puppet stars see now is a new individual generated here, but its consciousness is the same as the previous one.

Moreover, it decided to embark on a new journey again.

This time it is not going to another void, but intends to go into the depths of an unpredictable place.

It didn't give any reason, and all the puppet stars supported it very much.

These puppet stars all seem to want to follow their mentor.

Then, the instructor told them that they needed to occupy a "vehicle" to start the journey.

Of course, this means of transportation is Dream Ersh.

At that time, Dream Ersh had just been created...and they interfered with the data of Dream Ersh.

Their goal is not to collapse the Dreamland, but to turn it into a suitable means of transportation for them to travel.

Their eternal allies, the Scale Balls, are also involved in this.

Later, with the help of some signals from afar, their data interference failed, and Dream Ersh remained in a damaged state.

At that time, the instructor said that if it were left in this state, abnormalities would still occur after a period of time.

But this state lasted for quite a long time.

However, the mentor and those puppet stars did not care about that. They seemed to be waiting very patiently.

Until something special happened to them.

That is now...Lin's arrival.

They sensed that Lin had started to repair Ersh's damage, and they immediately reacted and came to stop her.

Because they live in scattered areas, there is no large-scale army coming at once, but rather they come in batches little by little.

The puppet star that Lin captured is considered to be a relatively strong one.

Lin doesn’t know all the information from it, some of it comes from... this dream Ersh database.

In his dreams, Ersh had made some records of these creatures, and the information in this database was not investigated by Ersh himself, but was obtained from certain creatures.

As Lin's repair progressed, Mini-Ersh said it remembered more and more information.

It feels a lot like Ersh's amnesia.

It seems that this tutor should be quite interesting, and Lin also wants to meet him.

But we need to do some countermeasures next, because... if we want to continue repairing, they will probably attack again.

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"So... they want to take over our world?"

Lin told the leader of the Ershi people roughly what she knew.

It mainly talked about the news that the "mentor" was preparing to attack here.

"They are difficult to deal with, but we have to repair this world..." The leader was obviously very determined to repair this world.

"Let's put it this way." The leader said, "We will suspend the repairs for now... We need to unite all the people in the pit and form a large defense army to fight against these creatures."

"Okay." Lin said.

Then they started to move quickly.

As long as repairs are not carried out, it seems that the Puppet Stars will not be able to sense the situation here.

Lin felt that some signals would be transmitted during the continuous repair process, and creatures such as puppet stars or scale balls would come over immediately after receiving the signals.

But it seems that there are many other kinds of creatures besides these two.

Perhaps some other creatures have joined the mentor's camp.

In short, after sensing something, they will just come over by themselves without notifying their companions, and it seems that they will not notify their instructors either.

As long as Lin doesn't repair it, no new ones will come.

The leader of the Ershi people went to several other huge pits, and the process of getting there was quite easy.

Although there are many monsters on the road, the new weapons can easily deal with them.

After arriving, the leader also told other pit leaders about the general situation.

Lin discovered that the other pit leaders were most interested in the power of their weapons.

So just like before...Lin asked their elite troops to input detailed data into Lin.

The people in other caves were obviously also very surprised by Veronica's death.

However, they still accepted the data input obediently.

At the same time, they also expressed their willingness to join the defense battle.

There are a total of ten large pits suitable for living on this dream planet Ersh.

Hundreds of Ershi people were dispatched from each pit, and when they gathered together, the army looked very large.

Of course, they don't just use individual weapons, but also some weapons such as tanks.

It took many days and nights to gather them together. When everything was done, this huge group of Ershi people protected Lin Veronica along the way and repaired many small damage points.

When repairing minor damage points, quite a few monsters did gather here.

But they were all easily dealt with. Some of them fell from the sky, but were... shattered before they hit the ground.

It seems that gathering their troops does have a lot of use.

Soon, Lin arrived at a new large damage point.

This damaged spot is actually larger than any of the potholes, but is not suitable for living.

It looks like a desert.

This desert occupies an area of ​​about ten kilometers in diameter. Since it is surrounded by jungle, this desert in the center of the jungle looks very strange.

This point also has a huge amount of missing data.

And it was difficult for Lin to guess what was missing.

When Lin was checking the situation here...something strange happened in the sky again.

"Watch out! Those things are coming out again!"

Most of the Ershi people on the ground pointed their weapons at the sky.

This time, what appeared in the sky was not thick fog, but a... star.

In fact, it is a large ball of light that looks like a star. It emits dazzling light and slowly descends in the sky.

"Creatures from...far away." The ball of light spoke.

Lin discovered that it was speaking the language of the Ershi people.

Then it began to flicker continuously, and as it flickered it changed into the shape of a star.

Its diameter is more than 30 meters, and there are many small stars around it.

"It... should be the mentor." Mini Ersh, whom Veronica had been holding, said this.

Is this... the instructor?

Lin felt that it shouldn't appear so soon, but since it appeared... Lin wanted to communicate with it.

"Why do you want to use this place to travel?" Lin asked it.

"This is the last place," said the large star. "It belongs to Concrete. It belongs to us."

"Destroy them."

The moment it finished speaking, Lin found that all the stars in the sky began to twinkle.

As they flashed, a gust of air suddenly blew up around them.

Before it looked like there was nothing around these star shapes, but now each of them was surrounded by a swirling mist.

These star shapes wrapped in air currents slammed down, landed among the Ershi people, and directly swallowed up many of them.

It was similar to Lin's previous situation. The flesh and blood of these Ershi people who entered the swirling fog were instantly peeled off and shattered.

The entire nation collapsed in a matter of seconds.

This scared quite a few of the Ershi people, but it also made them fire more fiercely.

Most of the barrages were bounced away by the swirling fog, but some of them still shot into the fog.

But if the bullet didn't hit the puppet star inside, which was more than ten centimeters in size, it would just go through the other side...without causing any damage.

However, quite a few puppet stars were still killed.

Because, Lin's Veronica was also holding ten small pistols at this time... using her hair.

This is of course also a weapon that Lin made for herself using imaginary materials.

It mainly depends on precise settings in imagination to create weapons with extremely powerful power.

Although it looks like a pistol, Lin can accurately hit the puppet star in the swirling fog every time she fires.

But it is still not easy for Lin alone to kill them, as the thick fog of the Puppet Star can only deflect a limited number of bullets.

When these Ershi people continue to attack them and their defense mechanism is pushed to the limit, Lin can take the opportunity to attack directly and smash the puppet star.

The moment the puppet star is pierced, the thick fog surrounding it will quickly dissipate.

Moreover, the ground also cracked at this time.

A large number of thick plant roots suddenly stabbed into the air. This time they adopted new tactics... because Dream Ersh's weapons can evolve.

After the entanglement method failed last time, they tried to stab directly this time... and were able to pierce through the swirling fog in an instant.

The pierced fog will temporarily stop rotating, and at this time, coupled with the barrage of Ershimin, the Puppet Star can be easily hit.

After killing several puppet stars in succession, Lin discovered that the largest one in the sky had reacted.

It hadn't moved before, but now Lin saw that it finally moved.

It did not attack downwards, but instead flew up into the sky at an extremely fast speed.

"Don't let the big one get away, shoot it down!"

At this time, all the Ershi people holding heavy weapons opened fire into the sky.

A series of explosions exploded around the huge star, and Lin found some glittering debris flying out from the explosion.

Was it injured by the explosion? If so...it might not be the Mentor.

When the smoke from the explosion cleared, Lin discovered that the huge, shining star was covered in cracks, and there were a lot of glittering fragments falling from these cracks.

It looked as if it had been seriously injured.

"Keep hitting it!"

After another round of salvos from Ershimin, it had turned into fragments flying all over the sky.

"Did we kill it?" "We succeeded! We saved this world!"

The people of Ershi began to feel happy, but some of them looked confused.

Lin's feeling was very similar to that of these confused Ershi people, because Lin also felt that this star shape should not be so easy to deal with.

“That’s…what is that!”

Suddenly, an Ershimin screamed.

I saw a large number of...objects appearing in the sky.

These objects all look like chunks of meat, but each one is at least a hundred meters in size.

Thousands of them appeared in the air and fell to the ground like a meteorite rain.

This is... the remains of 'consciousness embodiment'.

"Get out of the way!".

Seeing these huge objects, they lost the will to fight, and all the Ershi people quickly dispersed around.

A huge piece of meat first fell into the jungle hundreds of meters away. With a roar, the entire surface began to shake.

Lin felt that this was the aspect of the unpredictable place that was most like the normal void.

That is, huge objects...are always powerful.

"Bang——" Another piece of meat fell to the ground.

Not only did it crush a large number of trees, it also almost knocked all the Ershi people to the ground.

Both pieces fell far away, but now there is a piece of meat with a diameter of more than 300 meters, which is about to fall on the heads of the Ershi people.

This time, these Ershi people did not escape.

They all raised their weapons and fired wildly at the sky.

The barrage of projectiles continuously hit the surface of the meat, breaking it into smaller pieces.

And those fragments were further broken down into smaller parts amidst bursts of roars.

After a burst of fire, only some scattered parts of the piece remained scattered on the ground.

It seems that these concrete remains are very fragile.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Vibrations continued to come, and large pieces of meat fell everywhere in the nearby jungle. Although there were many of them, only a few of them hit the heads of the Ershi people.

As long as something flies over, the Ershi people will blow it into pieces immediately.

Even when the falling finally stopped, the Ershi people were still unable to breathe a sigh of relief.

Because they found that the surroundings were already filled with these large pieces of meat.

And the original forest was all... flattened.

"What on earth are these? Are they also... their troops?"

The Ershi people are now crowded in the desert in the damaged area. They are discussing whether to go around or wait and see for a while.

However, while they were discussing, Lin discovered that many creatures were crawling out from between the pieces of meat.

These creatures look a lot like...a creature called a stick insect.

It can also be said to be a bamboo pole with many legs.

They are more than three meters long, and white smoke like steam is constantly coming out of their heads and tails.

Lin knew that these creatures were a kind of...wild animals living among the concrete wreckage.

They are harmless detritus feeders.

Perhaps these wild animals were captured and used as weapons.

At this moment, these bamboo-like creatures suddenly pounced towards this side.

The Ershi people also immediately raised their weapons to fight back.

They're still... pretty fragile.

The weapons of the Ershi people can easily penetrate their shells, breaking or shattering them.

Lin did not participate in the battle.

Seeing these creatures appear, Lin suddenly thought of what the damaged point should have been.