Chapter 107: The Hanging End

Living in this paradise of enjoyment, they have forgotten everything.

These colorful clouds have been living a life where they have everything they want...and this has lasted for quite a long time.

They don't get tired of this kind of happiness, but always like this kind of life.

Lin discovered that their happy life was the accumulation of countless short-lived joys.

This is similar to the way some individual biological civilizations seek pleasure at a certain period of time.

For example...the civilization of the Ershi people. When they developed to a certain period, their life and work became too busy, which made it impossible for them to engage in long-term entertainment activities, so they turned to short-term entertainment.

That is, watching a short but very interesting entertainment work, or playing a short-lived game but can bring great satisfaction, so as to quickly get a lot of quick and short-term happiness to relieve the stress of your life.

The happiness that these colorful clouds have been enjoying here is similar to this short-lived happiness.

They will constantly come up with a series of ideas about what they want to eat, what they want to play, what they want to do, etc., and then use dream energy to form them.

Each entertainment lasts only a short time before they move on to the next.

Although they do not have any life pressure like the Ershi people, they seem to have never engaged in long-term entertainment, but instead fill their lives with short-term entertainment.

The colorful clouds have been living in countless short-lived entertainments, and they feel very...satisfied with this.

As the happiness continued, they forgot about time and everything around them.

However, even in such a happy life, some colorful clouds still have "failures".

The happiness of a colorful cloud is mainly determined by how rich its colors are. For example, this group on the platform looks very happy.

But once they feel unhappy or get bored with this kind of entertainment, they will lose their colors.

The colorful clouds will slowly turn gray, and you will no longer be able to use dream energy to create what you want.

At the same time, their mood will become more and more irritable and angry.

What they have lost is the right to live in middle-class cities.

These colorful clouds will eventually be... exiled to the ground, which are the thunderclouds that Lin saw below.

Lei Yun's job is to monitor whether the Hanging City is operating normally. Although the entire city is almost automated, some minor problems still occur occasionally.

Thundercloud is designed to eliminate these problems.

But Lin had no idea how the thunderclouds voluntarily carried out these tasks. From this colorful cloud, she only knew that the abnormal individuals among them would be exiled and become thunderclouds working at the lower level.

Thunderclouds are said to always look uncomfortable with everything, but they are willing to keep working.

Caiyun regards these people as very stupid and despicable, and does not think of them as her own kind.

And there is another special creature in this city... They call this creature "Polluter".

Polluters are a group of very strange creatures. They move around in the hanging areas in the lower levels of the city. Within the range of their activities, those hanging creatures may return to normal.

The hanging creatures themselves are all "semi-conscious creatures", so they can hang.

The polluters will cause them to turn into more normal 'fully conscious creatures', and they will have some doubts about their current suspended state.

If the polluter's influence is allowed to spread, the entire city will collapse.

This kind of creature is mainly dealt with by a kind of defender from the Hanging City. Of course, thunderclouds will also help. Lin has not seen this kind of defender now.

Maybe it was destroyed along with the city.

Although Caiyun remembered the details about the operation of the entire city quite clearly, it did not know what happened in the city.

It only knew that it was enjoying itself the whole time, and seemed to pay no attention to what was happening outside, nor did it feel like it was being attacked.

It is constantly immersed in joy.

Until... now Lin appeared.

It said that Lin was a pollutant...which means a polluter, which is quite normal, because polluters are the only creatures that can possibly reach the middle level.

Of course, there are defenders on the middle level, so they will generally be destroyed immediately when they come up.

Lin was not attacked, so the colorful cloud noticed Lin... The moment it noticed Lin, it seemed to wake up instantly.

Then it realized... everything around it seemed to have been destroyed, and the once huge and glorious city was reduced to just this small piece.

Caiyun suddenly felt as if he had lost all hope.

It felt that the remaining small piece of the city might also soon perish, and if it hadn't suddenly 'awakened', it might have died without knowing it.

So, it told Lin about the city’s past greatness and glory. It wanted Lin to know what a wonderful place this place once was.

Now...it seems like there is nothing left.

Based on what it said, Lin roughly guessed that some powerful creature came to this abandoned land a long time ago, and at that time there were a large number of semi-conscious creatures wandering around in this abandoned land.

They should be creatures like the Gray Legs.

It then built a city on the abandoned land that used semi-conscious creatures and absorbed dream residues as energy.

The founders of the city might be the colorful clouds themselves. After building the city, they only cared about enjoying themselves and forgot everything else.

It could also be some other creature, because the colorful clouds are only in the middle layer.

In any case, the city seemed to be over, there was only this much left of it, but it was still functioning.

There is no telling when this operation will collapse.

Moreover, there were very few semi-conscious creatures moving around. In a large area, Lin only found the gray legs.

"Why..." As Caiyun said all this, its body shape was slowly changing color.

The color on its body was becoming less and less, and it looked as if its emotions were about to collapse.

"Why did the happiness and beauty that we were supposed to enjoy end like this..."

The colorful cloud became more and more angry... and finally its color disappeared completely.

The entire colorful cloud turned into a gray mass like the thundercloud below.

At this moment, Lin discovered something flying from the sky in the distance.

This thing looked like a stone. It flew directly towards the colorful cloud that was changing color... and hit the colorful cloud right on top.

The colorful clouds were instantly shattered by the stone.