Chapter 109 Transaction

"This is Dust No. 1, Dust No. 1."

"This is number two. Who wants to trade number two?"

"Here is a rare treasure. Exchange it for any kind of dust."

Lin's Veronica was walking slowly on the streets of this small town.

Because Lin was mainly looking at the short-legged creatures around her that were hawking their wares.

What they sell are mainly residues found in dreams. Lin translated these different residues according to numbers.

Although they look like similar organisms, their nutritional requirements are slightly different.

For example, a spherical creature with short legs needs residue No. 1. Although it can also eat residue No. 2, its utilization efficiency is not very good.

Then a short-legged creature with a triangular body needed number two, but it went outside and didn't find number two, only number one, so it traded with the spherical creature that needed number one.

These short-legged creatures constantly exchange scraps here, and eat them immediately when they find something suitable.

Once all the residue on their bodies has been replaced, they will leave the town to dig for residue.

And they don't just exchange for scraps, they also pick up all kinds of strange things to trade.

Even if they don't know what this thing does, as long as they think it is a rare item, they will want to trade it.

"What scraps do you want to exchange for this?" Veronica now walked to a hemispherical creature with four legs.

The creature had something in front of it that looked like... a hand.

To be precise, it was Er Shimin's hand, similar to Veronica's, and belonged to the hand of a younger Er Shimin.

"Where did you get this?" Lin asked it.

"Don't ask." The short-legged creature said, "Just tell me how much you're going to use and what kind of residue you're going to use to exchange it for this. This is a rare treasure, and you can't find it yourself."

"Do you want this?"

Veronica stretched out her hand, and a large number of tiny particles emerged from her hand like a spring.

These particles are stored in Veronica's body as nutrients. Veronica stores a lot of them in her body.

However, these particles are not residues, but are mainly obtained by decomposing other organisms, such as gray legs and unconscious growths.

"This... this is the residue of number zero!" The short-legged creature instantly became very excited.

Residue No. 0 is said to be a kind of residue that is edible by all living things and has some special uses. It can be considered a very expensive item among them.

This is also what Lin heard when she was wandering around the town.

However, I didn’t expect that the particles decomposed by Lin could also be considered as No. 0 residue.

"Give it to me! Give it to me!" The short-legged creature became more and more excited, so Lin said to it: "I want to exchange more than just that thing."

"What else do you want?" The short-legged creature said, "I... I just have this treasure!"

"I want you to tell me what you know," Lin said.

When Lin came to this town, she asked many questions to the creatures here, but these creatures did not want to communicate and only cared about trading.

Now, driven by its desire for the residue of Zero, the creature was finally willing to answer Lin's questions.

This place is actually not an ordinary small town.

Those house-like buildings around them...are not buildings either, or rather, they were not built by them, and they don't live in them.

This is a place that can be called a 'spiritual station'.

Because they are all semi-conscious creatures, and if they get close to this place, their thinking will slowly return to normal.

If they leave here, their thinking ability will rapidly weaken and they will become semi-conscious creatures again.

That is, the wandering gray legs that Lin saw... and the creatures gathered in front of the Hanging City.

Those creatures that gathered in the Hanging City mainly received some suggestive signals that made them obey the orders of the thunderclouds.

If you leave here for too long, you will become a semi-conscious creature like that, wandering in the wilderness or going to the Hanging City.

Therefore these short-legged creatures generally live around spirit stations.

They will go out and explore for a while and then come back. While they are recovering their minds, they will also trade what they found outside.

They have always lived like this. As for when this life began or the history of the Hanging City, the creature said it had no idea.

It seemed that it didn't know much, so Lin exchanged the hand with "Residue No. 0" and left.

Then Lin examined the hand and found that it was in a very interesting state.

This hand comes from a creature similar to Lin, that is, a creature whose entire body is a thinking core.

Moreover, it is in a 'suspended' state, with the structures inside completely stopped functioning and no signs of activity.

This made Lin feel very interesting.

Lin thought that this creature must have encountered something that caused its body to split apart.

The consciousness of the split body part will slowly dissipate... It seems that it has stopped functioning through some method and thereby maintains the consciousness inside.

Having said that, Lin doesn't know whether there is consciousness inside unless she restores it to function.

And Lin felt that this hand... might be related to the creature that taught Fragment Shadow.

Lin felt that she should investigate it thoroughly and try to see if she could get it back in operation. If she wanted to restore it, Lin thought... she could use some of Dream Ersh's devices.

Next, Lin continued to wander around this mental station. It seemed that the creatures here didn’t know much.

Lin mainly wanted to know the history of this place, such as what the Hanging City had experienced and why these legged creatures lived in this state.

And this spiritual station, and where did the earthworm come from?

In order to investigate these things clearly, Lin decided to go back first.

So, taking the hand that Lin had obtained, Lin first returned to the Hanging City, and found the disc to ride in the jungle of proliferating creatures under the Hanging City.

Sui Suilin then boarded the disc and ran quickly in the return direction.

Nothing special happened during the trip except seeing some gray legs.

Lin returned to...the data room.

The data room is now fully constructed...it looks like a hemispherical fortress on the ground.

Next, Lin entered the central hall of the data room, which was also the main control room.

Using the same activation method as before, Lin stretched her hair to the surrounding animal statues to control the movement of the entire data room.

As for the target of the data room, it is of course... the Hanging City.