Chapter 111 Attack

"This thing...seems to be destroying the city."

"We must stop it with all our might!"

This is... the Hanging City.

The data room, which looks like a crown-of-thorns starfish, is lying next to the wall of the Hanging City.

Around the giant starfish in the data room, there are twenty crown-of-thorns starfish similar to the ones in the data room. Their sizes range from ten meters to one hundred meters.

These starfish are actually some system devices of Dream Ersh.

They can also be said to be the seeds of the device. They cannot yet perform the functions of various devices. Lin first constructed them into the shape of starfish so that they can move and obtain decomposition energy.

When the time is right, Lin will assemble them together to form a...mini dream world.

Of course, it’s not the right time yet. These devices must have combat capabilities, because Lin discovered that there are... a lot of creatures outside.

These creatures are all very large.

In fact, they are also legged creatures. These creatures are up to ten meters tall in total, with a thick body like a bucket and three legs under the body.

Lin had never seen this kind of huge legged creature before, but there were a hundred of them here.

They gathered about a kilometer away, and the earthworm was among them, with the broken part of it not growing out yet.

However, this does not prevent it from attacking Lin together with such a large group of legged creatures...Lin can feel that these creatures are communicating continuously.

They mainly thought that Lin would destroy the city, so they decided to try to stop Lin.

Lin was very curious why these creatures had such thoughts.

While Lin was observing them, they launched an attack. These "leg barrels" suddenly rushed towards the data room in full force.

They don't run very fast, taking about three seconds to run a hundred meters.

As they ran over, Lin also attacked them, and the thorns on the surface of the data room shot out like arrows.

They quickly flew through the air and stabbed the barrel-shaped bodies of the leg barrels.

The thorns directly pierced through the outer shell of the leg barrels, and a large amount of mist-like substance gushed out from the wounds of these pierced leg barrels.

It felt as if their blood was in the form of mist, but the pierced legs did not stop, they ran even faster... directly increasing their speed from one hundred meters in three seconds to one hundred meters in two seconds.

But it didn't last long. When they approached within a hundred meters of the data room, these leg barrels fell to the ground one after another.

As they struggled, more misty 'blood' gushed out from the wounds.

Their bodies quickly deflated and finally became a flat barrel, with the three legs underneath still struggling slowly.

Seeing this, some of the legs that were not stabbed at the back did not continue to charge forward, but instead spread out to both sides, as if they wanted to surround them.

But since there was no cover on the surface, Lin could easily stab them no matter where they ran. Lin did not attack them but just wanted to see if they had any special moves or... the possibility of communication.

Because when they appeared, Lin sent some communication signals to them, but they ignored them.

"Bang!" Then, Lin fired some more thorns.

This time the thorns were densely packed, with dozens of them stuck in the same leg barrel, which could cause them to fall down instantly.

After Lin shot down several leg barrels in a row using this method, the remaining ones were... motionless.

There are ten leg barrels left, and they are more than three hundred meters away from the data room.

This distance was beyond their reach, and of course they had no way of escaping.

When they didn't know what to do, Lin sent them some communication messages again.

But these leg barrels still didn't respond at all. Although Lin could sense their communication signals, what should she do if they were communicating?

Lin could also imitate their signals and send them information, but they completely ignored it.

Lin felt that there might be something strange here.

Thinking of this, Lin sent them another signal.

This signal imitates a thundercloud.

Of course, Lin doesn't understand the thinking structure of thunderclouds yet, but Lin can learn their "frequency" to influence the surrounding energy.

Lin found that the leg barrels responded to this signal.

"It seems to be communicating with us...? How is this possible? Why can it communicate with us?"

After chatting for a while, these surprised legs tried to send some messages to Lin: "Are you communicating with us?"

And Lin also sent some messages in response to them: "That's right."

"Why can you do this?" asked a leg barrel.

"Why do you want to protect this city?" Lin asked them back.

"..." Leg Bucket didn't say anything, but Lin told them. Lin knew the general operation of the Hanging City.

These leg barrels seemed surprised that Lin knew so much. They said... as long as Lin told them about her origins... they could also tell her about their situations.

So Lin agreed.

As for the fact that Lin shot and killed many of their kind... they seemed to completely ignore the matter, and then started a very friendly communication session.

Lin told them her general origins, that is, she was a traveler from the normal void.

There are also some about Dream Ersh, and the general process of finally arriving at this abandoned place.

Lin didn't hide anything because she felt... there was no need to hide anything.

And these creatures also told Lin about their situation.

They are indeed protecting the city, because the main reason they can maintain their current mental state is their inseparable relationship with the Hanging City.

This story begins a long, long time ago.

This is why the city was destroyed.

The main reason for the destruction of the Hanging City was that the city builders who lived on the top level disappeared.

This builder is the key maintainer of the entire city.

This means that the builder is not a colorful cloud, but another kind of creature.

The departure of the builders was the main reason for the city's collapse.

The collapse of the city was mainly caused by... thunderclouds.

These thunderclouds can do their job well while their builders are still there.

However, after the builders leave, they are less able to complete their work and often exhibit strange behaviors.

For example, they occasionally destroy some hanging buildings.

Sometimes, they also kill some creatures with great imaginative potential.

Some thunderclouds would even hit each other, and their combined conditions caused the city's...foundation to become unstable.