Chapter 119 Searching
"Where are the builders?"
"It's in a relatively far location. It itself is no longer here, but some of the things that were left are still there."
Lin decided to call it...Abu.
Because I asked before, it doesn’t have any special name. It is usually called the Omniscient by other members.
However, Lin feels that it is not very appropriate to call it that name now, because its body is like cloth, so let's just call it Abu.
Now Abu thinks that if Lin wants to understand this place, she should find the builder of the Hanging City.
The builder left something behind, which is actually the remains of the top floor of the Hanging City.
It is located more than 3,000 kilometers east of the Hanging City.
When Abu first came here, he went to the ruins. By searching the ruins, he found some information about the builders of the Hanging City, and thus learned more about the abandoned land.
However, during the investigation, it was attacked by a creature, causing it to suffer serious injuries.
Then, it became what it is now with the entire body split apart.
If the whole body is scattered, its consciousness is mainly in the head, and other parts are in a suspended state.
If Lin puts the other parts back together, it can control them again, but it won't work for too long.
In fact, now that Lin has found two hands, Abu can still be controlled. Moreover, after Lin installed two hands on it, it looks like a...leg head.
Although what is installed are hands, they can currently be used as legs, which makes it look like a leg-like creature.
It didn't know where the other body parts were, and it said there was no need to look for them specifically, so Lin planned to drive the starfish directly to the location of the ruins to take a look.
So, Lin ignored the ground creatures that were still trying to attack the starfish and flew directly back.
Lin first flew back to the location of the Hanging City. The data room has now attracted more creatures here.
This will also allow a large amount of nutrients to be obtained through these attracted organisms.
After Lin replenished some nutrients... and updated her weapons, she flew towards the target direction with Leg-Head Abu.
Three thousand kilometers is not very far. After a period of time, Lin approached her destination.
“…This is it.”
Abu could also sense the situation outside in the cockpit of the Starfish. Of course, it was Lin who let him sense it.
I saw a huge... disc-shaped platform on the sand in the distance.
This platform looks very similar to the middle platform of the Hanging City of Colorful Clouds. It has a diameter of more than one kilometer and is white in color.
Unlike the middle-level platform, this platform is densely packed with things that look like text.
They covered the entire platform.
"They don't seem to be around here." Lin flew the Starfish over the platform and slowly landed. During this process, Abu was always alert to the surrounding environment.
The creatures that attacked it were a group of 'abandoned'.
That is, it was forcibly thrown here by other creatures.
Unlike most of the legged creatures Lin had seen before, these creatures had accidentally entered here and had been reproducing here for a long time.
The Abandoned are a very dangerous group of creatures. To put it simply... they are very aggressive.
Generally, they would not approach within 3,000 kilometers of the Hanging City. As to why, Abu was not very clear.
It seems to be related to the hint signal of the Hanging City.
But this location is beyond the edge of the expulsion area, so there is a possibility that they will appear.
The starfish has now landed on the disc platform, and Lin's Veronica also carefully observed the "text" on it.
Abu told Lin that if you look at these text-like things for a long time, they will become information that you can understand.
No matter where you look at it, the information definitely starts from the beginning.
After looking at it for a while, Lin found that she could sense some information directly from it.
This appears to be the builder's... diary.
Here are some of the things it does while it's gone.
At the beginning it states that the city has completed its mission and it plans to leave.
As for this mission...
“There it is!”
At this moment, Lin suddenly noticed that something extremely fast was flying towards this side from the sky.
Lin immediately controlled the starfish to fly to the side, and these things hit the starfish's original position almost at the same time.
They smashed a big hole in the ground, and Lin looked over and found some square-shaped objects.
These square objects are silver in color, there are ten of them in total, and each is more than one meter in size.
When Lin looked at them, she found that they had all crawled out of the holes that were smashed.
Because these square objects have many tiny legs growing on the edges.
"Were they the ones who attacked you at that time?" Lin asked Abu.
"...It's not them." Abu said: "But these creatures should all be 'abandoned', they..."
Before Abu could finish his words, Lin noticed a block suddenly rushing out and hitting the starfish's tentacle directly.
Although it was small in size, its impact was very strong, and it instantly cracked the skin of the tentacle.
At this time, the other nine blocks also started moving.
This time, Lin did not hit them directly. When they were about to charge, Lin directly fired a few thorns.
These thorns collided with the ejected blocks. The thorns did not pierce them, but they also stopped them from moving forward.
After colliding with the thorns, the group of silver cubes fell to the ground, while the thorns... were shattered.
Lin didn't wait for their next move, but raised the starfish's tentacles and slammed them into the blocks.
The blocks that had been very solid before now seemed very fragile. The moment they were hit... they shattered completely.
However, not all the blocks were smashed. One block escaped the attack of the tentacles, and Lin found that it was flying away at a very fast speed.
'Bang! ' And Lin pierced it with a thorn.
It seems that the defense of these things suddenly became very weak, anyway...it has been solved.
The remaining fragments and the pierced cube will allow Lin to study what they are.
Lin felt that they were not living creatures, but rather some kind of weapons or something.
It was as if someone was controlling it from a long distance.
Lin let the starfish swallow some for testing. Lin found that these things were indeed like that. The reason they were so hard before was mainly because they stored some special energy when squeezed.
When the energy is exhausted, it becomes very fragile.