Chapter 83: Shattered

"It keeps crying... all the time."

This is... a piece of broken land.

It has a diameter of more than 600 kilometers and looks like a huge rock floating in the void.

The surface of the rock is peeling off bit by bit, turning into small pieces of debris floating into the surrounding void.

Lin drove a detector here not long ago.

This detector looks very much like a... puppet the size of an Ershimin, which was also made by Lin Xin.

Now Veronica can control a lot of things in the telescope tower, so she doesn't need to explore everything she encounters personally.

However, the control of these things cannot leave buildings such as telescope towers, so it is still a bit troublesome.

Lin is currently exploring the huge objects around her that are constantly breaking apart.

Just after approaching an object, Lin discovered a familiar creature.

This creature is also made up of normal void creature data...it is a creature that Lin calls 'Flame Stone'.

It is a 'mutated species' of cold stone creatures, and Lin thinks this creature is quite interesting.

Cold stone creatures are relatively common compared to many other creatures in the void. Generally, cold stones are creatures with solid shells and their bodies are mainly composed of very low-temperature liquids.

Flame stones are very different. They have no liquid in their bodies and are hollow inside.

But they did not die. The shell of the flame stone continued to grow, but very slowly.

Because most of its organs, including its internal organs, are operating at an extremely slow speed inside the shell.

Flame stones have an interesting property, which is that if they float long enough... usually more than ten thousand fluff ball years, they will 'burn'.

The temperature in their bodies will rise sharply, and all their internal organs will start to work at an extremely fast speed, converging into a very hot "brain" inside the body.

This brain will recall everything it experienced during the drifting stage, generally speaking, various scenes in the void.

Although they float for quite a long time, they usually don't encounter anything interesting.

Then, it died.

After the flame stone forms a brain, its life span is only about a thousand seconds.

In fact, during the previous drifting stage, the empty things it encountered were stored in the shell in some form.

Only at the last moment of life can it read this information.

It doesn't just recall this information, the Flame Stone also thinks about the content of the information in various ways.

When their brains are generated, they already have a certain amount of common sense and emotions, such as knowing what the void is, feeling a sense of admiration when recalling spectacular things, feeling fear when recalling terrifying things, and so on.

In a thousand seconds, Flame Stone's brain will experience its own journey over the past ten thousand years.

Then its brain will cool down rapidly, and its entire body will stop moving and die completely.

Lin has studied a lot of flame stones and found that they seem to be mutants of some kind of cold stone creatures.

Of course, Lin has not observed the complete life stage of a flame stone, but in some places in the void, many flame stones of different ages can be observed.

Lin found their final death very interesting, even though it seemed meaningless from the perspective of life.

Lin didn't know what the meaning was.

The existence of flame stone may have been designed by some other creatures.

The last brain of the Flame Stone did not live for more than a thousand seconds. The last moment of these creatures was to immerse themselves in their own memories, lamenting everything they had encountered, and then die...

But there is an exception here. In this place... Lin met a dream creature made up of flame stone data.

It is in a state of having a brain.

And it has maintained this state.

This is quite strange, because the creatures here that are made up of normal void data... such as the Ershi people, they don't stay fixed like this.

Whether it is the Ershi people, the skeleton dragons, or other creatures... their "bodies" in the unpredictable place are almost the same as those in the normal void.

They will slowly grow from birth to adulthood, and then slowly grow old and die.

This process is the same as normal void.

Dream energy forms their dream bodies completely according to their normal ecology. When the Ershi people grow old and die, the dream energy that constitutes them will also disperse.

But this flame stone is a little different. Its life form is fixed in the final stage, and it has never died.

The probe sent by Lin can also communicate with it, and it also likes to communicate.

Lin could find out that it had come to this place a long time ago... Every Flame Stone knew that he would almost die after recalling his own experience.

It originally thought so, but it found out...it had not died yet.

Then it drifted around and explored on its own, and finally arrived at this place unknowingly.

In fact, it had no control over how it arrived here.

Because the brain of the Flame Stone... has no ability to control the body's actions, the main function of their brain is to experience memories.

There is no control over body functions, and this has been perfectly inherited.

But the function that died after the experience was not inherited, so it floated to this place.

It didn't know how it floated here...it seemed to be in the space of hope.

It told Lin that the huge floating islands here were connected together and there were "bridges" between them.

These bridges connect all the large floating islands, and all the floating islands revolve around one...signal source.

The source of this signal is the distant shadow.

But Yanshi had never seen it.

Because when it floated here it got stuck on a floating object and couldn't move.

But it can always observe the phenomena here, and various signals are always sent out from the location of the signal source.

It doesn't know what's in those signals, but it can sense that they're being sent.

Every time a signal is sent out, the floating island here will undergo some changes and a different environment will appear on it.

It has also always been primarily about observing these environments.

And recently, it discovered that the source of the signal was constantly sending out...sad signals.

It seems that the source of the signal has encountered something very sad, so it continues to send out this signal.

The sad emotion signal has a negative impact on the surrounding environment. Yanshi discovered that all the 'bridges' connecting the islands collapsed under the influence of the signal.

Then the islands themselves are slowly breaking apart.

Although there have been no signs of sadness recently, the fragmentation of the island has not stopped.

If this continues, all of this may disappear completely.

While communicating with this flame stone, Lin also saw the situation of the signal source.

Because the dream Ersh was always moving forward, Lin discovered that the source of the signal... seemed to be a very small... creature.

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