Chapter 110 Devouring
Lin saw this city again...the Hanging City.
But this time it was not seen somewhere else, but in the floating data room.
Not long ago, Lin turned the data room to maximum power and flew to this place at the fastest speed.
The state of the Hanging City looks similar to before, and the colorful clouds above are still immersed in enjoyment and have not awakened.
It seems that Lin or something else must wake them up before the earthworm-like creature will launch an attack.
Thinking of this, Lin controlled the data room and flew over.
Lin did not land directly on the platform of the Hanging City, but landed on the edge of the augmented jungle below.
The shape of the data room is a little different from before. It now looks like a creature called the "Crown of Thorns Starfish".
This kind of starfish has many tentacles and is covered with spines all over its body. Lin has now transformed the data room into this look.
The data room looks like a starfish with ten tentacles covered with spines.
Of course it is very large, with a diameter of three hundred meters.
When Lin threw the recovered dream energy into the room for the data room to decompose, she also set its changing form.
Now, the data room climbed onto the jungle of growths like a starfish, pressing these soft creatures down with its thick tentacles.
The spines under each tentacle are hollow, allowing them to penetrate growths and quickly absorb them.
Soon, the huge growths were absorbed by the data room and became smaller and smaller, until they disappeared completely.
In fact, they were all absorbed into the data room and broken down into... nutrients.
Using these nutrients, the data room can grow bigger and bigger, and even grow other dream structures.
Lin currently wants to build the data room into a larger army, and then look for more nutrients.
These augmented creatures here are actually formed by the creatures that have gathered to enter the city.
After being rejected, these creatures will wander around outside the city because they have been given implicit instructions...so they will not leave here to look for food, but will wander around until they die.
After death, their corpses turned into growths that grew near the Hanging City.
This is also the reason why there is such a large jungle here. The growth organisms seem to be able to survive for a long time even without any nutrients.
The Hanging City should be sending signals to the outside world all the time, and many semi-conscious creatures that receive the signals will gather here.
Then the scene of people queuing in front of the door that Lin had seen before would appear. Since most creatures were rejected, they would wander outside until they died.
Now, Lin can absorb all of these things without wasting them.
Lin let the starfish-like data room slowly devour the growth organism, and wherever it passed turned into a flat sandy area.
The data room slowly moved towards the city entrance, and when Lin approached the entrance, she found that the thunderclouds at the entrance were floating towards this side.
"What on earth are you doing!?"
The thundercloud that floated over sent a very angry message to the huge data room: "You can't do this! You are destroying what has grown here... with so much effort!"
Leiyun had indeed said before that they were trying to restore vitality. After learning about the situation from Caiyun above, Lin felt that Leiyun was just speaking casually.
After all, these growths are not really living things, because they cannot grow for long.
"Everyone said you... No! You can't go in!"
After talking for a while, the thundercloud realized that the creatures in the queue had run in when it was away, so it quickly floated to the entrance to stop these creatures.
After that, the thundercloud did not come out again to hinder Lin.
Lin also slowly let the data room devour large areas of growth organisms.
The growth area of these growths around the Hanging City is more than three kilometers, so the data room cannot eat them all at once.
Instead, it eats a part, then absorbs and grows, and then continues to eat.
Although the thunderclouds would occasionally come out to protest against Lin's behavior, they would not do anything.
However, in addition to the thunderclouds, Lin also discovered a more unexpected creature that seemed to have an opinion about Lin's behavior.
That's... earthworms.
Because Lin had installed a transmitter on the earthworm before, Lin could detect that it was moving towards this side quickly.
The earthworm stopped when it reached a location about one kilometer away from the data room. Then Lin found that it drilled out of the ground and started eating the residue and gravel on the ground just like before.
Then, it fired a cannonball at the data room after it solidified inside its body.
Although these stone shells could kill Caiyun in one blow, they did not cause any damage to the data room.
They would just shatter and scatter if they hit the surface of the data room, being completely useless.
Lin had the data room aim at the earthworm and shoot a thorn at it.
All the thorns covering the body of the data room can be fired... This thorn hit the target at an extremely fast speed and pierced the body of the earthworm.
The earthworm suddenly twisted wildly on the ground. During the twisting process, Lin found that the part above which it was stabbed was separated from its entire body.
It left behind the part that was stabbed...actually a part that was more than three meters long, including the head used for launching.
The rest of the body burrowed into the ground and quickly escaped from here.
Lin felt that his reaction was really similar to that of a real earthworm.
So, Lin controlled the data room and crawled to the part left by the earthworm, and swallowed this part with its tentacles.
Lin examined this part of the earthworm and found that this creature... was indeed made up of normal void data.
And it is likely to come from a cellular organism.
Of course, this alone is not enough to tell us more, such as why it attacked Caiyun and Lin.
So Lin continued to let the data room devour more augmented creatures here.
During this devouring process...the earthworm never appeared again.
At the same time, there was no other danger, which allowed Lin to easily obtain a large amount of energy.
Then, Lin used this energy to construct more Dream Ersh devices.
Lin built her own...base around the Hanging City.
However, Lin did not affect the Hanging City's attraction to creatures. Lin felt that this city was quite interesting... so she wanted to continue observing it for a while.
At the same time, Lin also felt that she could create a system similar to the Hanging City, that is, a system that uses semi-conscious organisms to obtain nutrients. As long as they are kept in a state of constantly imagining themselves in a perfect living state, it seems that the usable parts of the residue will continue to be attracted.
In addition, Lin also discovered that there seemed to be more creatures that had opinions about Lin's behavior.