Chapter 120: Builder

"Explore... its limits."

The Hanging City is a city with many purposes.

The first purpose... is to thoroughly absorb all the resources of this place.

The second purpose is to conduct a 'reverse test'.

The Abandoned Land, this place was supposed to be a forgotten place, full of abandoned things.

All living consciousness will slowly weaken here, living alone, searching for scraps to survive.

This is the 'nature' of the abandoned land, which means that everything here appears to be abandoned.

The Hanging City is a city that goes against the grain of this place.

It attracted a large number of creatures whose minds were becoming increasingly weak, and restored their minds by using hints to make them constantly imagine.

This also makes these creatures become "useful" rather than abandoned.

If you do something here that is contrary to the nature of this place, something interesting might happen.

This is what the builder of the Hanging City originally thought, but it was discovered...it seemed to be wrong.

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“It’s disconnected here.”

Lin's Veronica and Abu are still located on this disc-shaped site.

After solving those blocks...Lin and Abu continued to look at the "texts" on the ruins here to learn about the builders.

From here Lin could learn that after the builder came here, he first observed this place for a long time.

It noticed that the creatures here were in a very 'lonely' state.

Most of the creatures here wander the debris desert all day long. They hardly interact with others of their own kind or not. They just wander, look for food, and then die.

After death, the corpse will grow into some augmented creatures, but there are no other creatures to eat it.

The augmented creature will slowly... wither and die, and then this creature will be completely forgotten, dead in this world, and of no use at all.

The longer creatures live here, the more they will be in this state, as if everything has been abandoned and forgotten.

So the builder had an idea. What if he created an opposite environment? He wanted to challenge this environment that made everyone forget everything.

This is also one of the original intentions of building the Hanging City.

But it is mentioned here that the builder found that it was wrong, as if the abandoned land was not that simple.

And Lin could only see this.

Lin found that she couldn't get any information by continuing to look, even though there were many "words" drawn on the ground that Lin hadn't seen yet.

But no matter whether you read the parts you haven't seen or the parts you have seen, you can't get the follow-up.

"This may be because they crashed into this place just now." Abu was standing in front of the hole made by the silver cube just now.

"The data storage function here has been damaged to some extent." Abu said, "It may not be repairable."

"..."Lin also walked to the front of the pit and took a look at the situation in the pit.

Indeed, when looking at this pit, one can feel a lot of intermittent signals, but there is no way to know what the specific meaning is.

It seems that... there is no way to understand further.

The question is why those 'abandoned' would attack the creatures that came to see the ruins.

Also...if they didn't want anyone to see the ruins, they should have destroyed it from the beginning.

But before that it was complete.

It's quite strange here.

"There should be other ruins." Abu said, "We can go look for them."

"That's it."

Then, Veronica and Abu returned to the starfish, activated it and flew away from the place.

Now Lin flew towards a direction farther away from the Hanging City, looking around to see if there was anything interesting along the way.

This 'outer area' doesn't look anything special, it's still just a landscape made up of debris and gravel.

But I didn't see any legged creatures or anything like that here.

"There... should be too."

As Abu was speaking, Lin also noticed something appearing on the sand in the distance.

These things have various shapes, some are square, some are tower-shaped, and some are spherical... Each of them is tens of meters in size, and there are a lot of them. So far, more than a hundred have been seen, and most of them are half-buried in the residual sand.

They seemed to have nothing to do with the previous discs, but the surfaces of these things were also covered with that kind of "text".

So Lin drove the Starfish to the edge of these half-buried buildings, and then started from the building at the very edge.

This building is a crooked tower-shaped building. When Lin observed the words on it in the starfish... she found that it recorded things about Caiyun.

The colorful clouds are not creatures that came here from afar, but imaginary creatures that were created.

There were no colorful clouds when the Hanging City was first built. The birth of the colorful clouds was related to the beautiful imagination of the suspended creatures.

Caiyun is a creature that the builder created using beautiful imagination as basic data, and is purely for pleasure.

Although they are not just about enjoying themselves, because they can turn into very unstable things like thunderclouds.

The main function of the colorful cloud is to further transform the dream residue into more useful energy, and then...

'boom!'

Lin was attacked again.

This time the attack came from underground.

A violent explosion went off beneath the starfish, sending it high into the sky accompanied by flying dust.

I saw a huge object emerging from the ground below.

Abu said: "This is... the creature that attacked me before."

This creature looks a bit like a... cloud creature.

But it doesn't look like a thundercloud or a colorful cloud, but more like a "sword cloud".

Because it is just a ball of gray fog with a diameter of more than ten meters, and there are many sword-like sharp objects sticking out from the fog.

It really looks weird the way it is.

"It's dead." Just when Lin thought that this 'Sword Cloud' would attack like the previous thing, it sent a communication signal.

"What did you say it's dead?" So Lin also sent it a signal of questioning.

"The person you want to know about." Jian Yun said, "He's dead. It's over. Don't know him. Stop trying to know him."

"If you continue to understand... you will be destroyed."

After saying that, Jianyun rushed up at an extremely fast speed, and the 'swords' stretched out from its body began to rotate as it moved.

This makes it look like a vortex of swords.

But it didn't rush up, because Lin found that it rotated for a while... and all the swords in its body flew out and fell on the ground around it.