Chapter 112: The War to Maintain Consciousness

It is said that this is an abandoned world.

In fact, for some reason, a large amount of waste and creatures that imagine themselves to be abandoned have flowed to this place.

Then, some creatures noticed this place and deliberately threw some creatures here.

This abandoned land was also formed slowly.

However, just like the normal void, even the most basic things can be used. For some creatures, the residue here is not entirely residue.

Some of the creatures that come here have the ability to use these residues to survive.

For a long time, this abandoned land was filled with 'scavengers', creatures that survived by eating scraps.

They are all semi-conscious creatures, but they are not semi-conscious from the beginning.

The creatures that first came here had normal consciousness, but if they lived here for a long time, their consciousness would slowly be lost.

It is said that the process will be the same as coming here. The creatures living here for a long time will gradually become unwilling to think about anything.

They will feel that they are in complete darkness, without any hope or future.

Then their thinking ability slowly weakened and they became simpler creatures.

No matter how rich the thinking of a creature is, it will enter this state.

So this place is filled with semi-conscious creatures, or creatures with degenerated thinking, and their purpose in life has become... very simple.

They will just keep looking for waste to live in, and the entire abandoned land will remain in this state.

Until sometime, a huge 'machine' was built on the abandoned land, that is, the Hanging City.

The Hanging City is a huge device that uses the biological state here to transform energy.

It uses the semi-conscious creatures active here to collect the residue.

As long as the suspended creatures think "experiencing beautiful things", they will attract the usable parts of the residue.

This feels quite similar to the situation of the 'Permanent Parliament', where the Permanent Parliament gathers dream energy through parliamentary discussions.

Lin felt that perhaps the creatures in this place all had similar abilities... As long as they thought under certain circumstances, they would attract some dream energy.

The energy attracted by these hanging semi-conscious creatures is transported to the middle area and converted by the platform for the colorful clouds to enjoy.

But Caiyun is actually also a transformer.

Not all of these energy clouds are eaten, most of them are used for other recreational activities.

As long as it is not food energy, it will eventually be transported to the top floor and used by the builders of the city.

As for what it was used for... I don't know. Maybe in the end it had enough energy, so it left this place.

Originally, the thunderclouds seemed to be controlled by the builders, which was why they kept working normally. But when the builders left, they became more and more abnormal.

They have many abnormal behaviors, and the main reason for the collapse of the city is that they often destroy the hanging buildings.

After they destroy the hanging buildings, the creatures inside will of course be released.

If the creatures in a hanging building have been thinking good thoughts in the building for a long enough time, they will return to normal when they are released.

That is, it is no longer a semi-conscious creature, but a fully conscious one.

When these released creatures notice the situation in the Hanging City, they will try to release more of their kind, or try to restore their semi-conscious kind to normal.

The term "polluters" refers to these released creatures.

They not only release their hanging counterparts, but also try to climb to the middle level to attack the colorful clouds above.

Because they believe that Caiyun is the culprit who imprisoned them.

At that time, they also believed that Caiyun and the city deliberately put them into a semi-conscious state and then used them to obtain energy and enjoyment.

So these released creatures have been trying to destroy the entire city.

Their numbers are increasing, and coupled with the presence of many abnormal thunderclouds... the actions of these creatures are successful.

The most important thing is that the colorful clouds above don’t matter.

In fact, they won’t be able to sense danger if it’s a little far away from them. The perception range of a colorful cloud is about... three meters.

Even if the platform three meters away from them collapsed completely, it would not know about it.

Of course they can feel the tremors of the collapse to some extent, but they don't take it seriously.

Unless the collapse occurs within a three-meter radius of oneself.

Throughout the entire process, the city's defense was entirely dependent on thunderclouds and defenders.

The creatures first tried to find a way to deal with the defenders, and at the same time they developed some weapons to bombard the middle platform.

In this way, they destroyed the Hanging City bit by bit in the course of the ongoing war.

However, the war did not last until the end and was terminated midway.

This is because these creatures, freed from their hanging captivity, found that their minds were slowly weakening.

Those creatures that escaped first have almost all weakened to a semi-conscious state.

Then these creatures slowly discovered that...their ability to escape this state of weakened consciousness was actually related to the Hanging City.

The creatures stopped attacking the Hanging City.

But even though they stopped attacking...the thunderclouds did not stop.

It was said that there were a lot of abnormal thunderclouds at that time, and they attacked everything like crazy.

Under the damage of these thunderclouds, the destruction of the entire city became more and more serious.

The 'polluters' who initially attacked the city also began to protect the city.

They are mainly used to deal with abnormal thunderclouds, but cannot attack normal thunderclouds.

This puts us in a very contradictory situation.

Because thunderclouds will attack them regardless of whether they are normal or not.

At the same time, these creatures find that their consciousness is beginning to decline, and they will try to enter the hanging buildings to regain consciousness.

Of course, once you go in, you can't get out, so you have to ask your companions to help you let it out, and then you have to fight with the thunderclouds and defenders.

In short, this wonderful war lasted until the end... and it became what Lin sees now.

There was only a little bit left of the city.

All the defenders are gone. There is a fixed number of them and they will not be replaced.

As for the thunderclouds, they are all relatively normal; they will at least protect the city.

However, the small amount of cities that remain cannot allow the huge number of creatures to maintain normal consciousness.

As a result, many creatures weakened into a semi-conscious state.

Moreover, because the Hanging City had previously absorbed and consumed a large amount of dream residues, most of the remaining residues were useless.

Therefore, the originally huge biological population began to decrease in number, and finally only a far smaller number remained.