Chapter 113 The Rest of Life

Even though there is very little left of the Hanging City and scrap resources are extremely scarce, these creatures are still trying hard to survive.

The last remaining creatures formed an organization and called themselves the 'Final Consciousness'.

These are the creatures that have experienced most of the war and have retained a sense of awareness of the last creatures in fits and starts.

Most of them are...'legged creatures'.

But they are currently facing a big problem, which is that they may find it difficult to maintain consciousness.

Of course, they wanted to maintain normal consciousness all the time. At first, this group of creatures had been using the old method, which was to enter the city and hang themselves.

And there is a special team that will see who has hung long enough, then attack the city and rescue their companions.

But there is a problem with this approach.

That is, every attack requires fighting with thunderclouds, and there will be a lot of casualties.

Because they cannot get rid of the thunderclouds. If they get rid of the thunderclouds, there will be no living creatures to manage the city.

Many of the mechanisms in the Hanging City can only be controlled by Thundercloud, and they cannot manage the city on Thundercloud's behalf.

Moreover, these thunderclouds are somewhat abnormal. They always reject many creatures and do not allow them to enter the city.

This makes it very difficult for the remaining creatures to find a member of their species that has regained consciousness.

As their consciousness became increasingly weaker, they finally figured out a new method.

That is... just go ahead and kill the creatures that hang around long enough.

They found that if the creatures that had been hanging long enough and regained consciousness were dragged out and killed directly, their corpses would generate a large number of growth creatures on the ground.

As long as they stay within the range of these augmented creatures, their consciousness will slowly return to normal.

This method of restoring consciousness on a large scale has solved the biggest problem for them.

This also means killing a companion who has finally regained consciousness while hanging.

Therefore, the members of the organization no longer tried to join the city for hanging themselves, but watched other creatures join in, and then dragged them out and killed them after hanging for a period of time.

The "leg barrel unit" that Lin saw was actually responsible for doing this.

They would periodically survey the area around the city to see if there was anything hanging around long enough.

Then they raid the city, snatch the hanging creature out, kill it, and bury its body somewhere in the wilderness.

In this way, the growths that grow around them will maintain their normal consciousness.

This kind of place that can maintain normal consciousness is the "spiritual station" that Lin encountered before.

Those things in the spirit station that look like buildings are actually growths produced by organisms that have been hanging for long enough.

The spiritual station is not only used by members of the organization, it also attracts many other wild creatures.

Because there are still many creatures that continue to appear in this abandoned place. As their consciousness continues to weaken, these creatures will gather at the spiritual station when they find it. There they will trade scraps with each other and try their best to survive.

However, a spiritual station cannot be maintained for long, and the number of augmented organisms there will gradually decrease and finally disappear.

Then, members of the organization will continue to attack cities and build new spiritual stations.

They don't just bring out one hanging creature in a raid, they often bring out several, so they also build many spirit stations in the wilderness.

The places they choose to establish themselves are generally those locations where there are residues suitable for the growth of spirit stations.

As for the earthworm-like creature, it has some special functions.

It is mainly used to prevent the formation of abnormal thunderclouds.

Thunderclouds are relatively normal nowadays, but if abnormal thunderclouds appear, it will cause great trouble.

The formation of thunderclouds is related to the colorful clouds above.

The earthworms can sense that when the colorful clouds change into thunderclouds, a mysterious energy fluctuation will be produced.

It can analyze whether this fluctuation is abnormal. If it is abnormal... it will resolve it by emitting condensed residue before it completely turns into an abnormal thundercloud.

The colorful clouds that were 'awakened' by Lin's influence would almost certainly turn into abnormal thunderclouds, so the earthworms would attack them.

They had been living...normal lives, but suddenly a lot of unexpected things seemed to happen.

One surprise was Lin.

Lin's sudden appearance made them feel very uneasy, thinking that Lin might harm the city on which they depended for survival.

They were not so uneasy when Veronica first appeared, but now that Lin is using the data room to chew on these augmented creatures around the city, they feel that Lin is likely to harm the city.

So they wanted to stop it.

In addition, the main reason why they don't eat these augmented organisms themselves is... eating the augmented organisms that grow from the dead semi-conscious organisms will accelerate the weakening of their consciousness.

Therefore, they have been working hard to collect edible residues and will not eat the many growths that grow here.

So that's it...Through these leg barrels, Lin learned most of the history of this place.

Of course, they actually only told Lin a small part of it very briefly.

Lin could understand all the contents clearly, mainly because she had detected the thoughts of those people who were shot to death by Lin.

Lin discovered that the mist emanating from the bodies of these dead leg barrels was not their blood, but their consciousness.

There were a lot of their thoughts and memories mixed in it. When Lin was communicating with this group of leg barrels, she found that the mist was floating around.

So Lin absorbed the mist into the data room and began to test it.

The data room contains a lot of thought pattern data of dream creatures, so the thought memories contained in the fog can be interpreted.

After learning about this place, Lin felt that she could indeed build a new dreamland here.

But Lin still has some other questions.

That is, Lin discovered that the range of activities of these creatures, all the places they had visited in their memory history, was not very large.

To be precise, their range of activities does not exceed 3,000 kilometers.

Of course, this abandoned land is not that small, its size is much larger than this range.

It’s just that these creatures have never gone further, and they never seem to doubt why they don’t go further.

They have lived around the Hanging City for a long time.

Lin thought that it might be because these creatures were affected by "suggestion".

Whether they are semi-conscious or almost conscious, they are actually affected by the suggestive signals.

Suggestive signals are signals that are constantly sent from the platform of the Hanging City, and they have been influencing the thinking of these creatures.

...Lin felt it necessary to investigate further.