Chapter 128 Cognition

"How is this possible..."

Lin and Abu are now moving slowly on a ground that is made up of something like dark red crystals.

After walking here for a while, Lin didn't see anything interesting.

This is a place where there are no living creatures, only very flat and smooth crystalline ground.

But the feeling of moving here is very different from that of other places.

This whole place has always been filled with great... horror.

This kind of terror is similar to the previous one. It feels like I am already dead, or almost dead.

This kind of death feels like a dreamless sleep, but you will never wake up.

Walking around here, you can feel as if you are always on the edge of eternal sleep.

But Abu is a little different. He doesn't feel this kind of horror, but feels another feeling.

"No...how could it..."

This caused Abu to talk to himself all the time and run around by himself during this period.

Lin didn't ask it why, but just followed it to see where it would go... Abu was not affected too much when he first came here, but as he stayed here longer, he became more and more... out of control.

"It's over there!" Suddenly Abu shouted and rushed in one direction, and Lin immediately followed.

Abu ran across the ground at an increasingly faster speed, and Lin kept following it... for a long time.

Abu kept running, and this place seemed to have no edge, the vast and empty scenery continued.

After running for almost a thousand seconds, Abu finally stopped.

"I feel it." At this time, Abu turned to Lin and said, "I feel it... Leader."

"Team leader?" Lin asked in doubt, "Is it in this place?"

"Maybe..." Abu said, "Maybe it is this... the Abyss of Abandonment itself."

The moment Abu finished saying this, Lin suddenly discovered that the crystals below became brighter.

The dark red light that was almost extinguished turned into a bright and dazzling red at this moment.

What does this change mean? Does it mean that what Abu said is... true? Is the leader really abandoned?

"Finally it has appeared, the true knower, you have completely recognized it!"

At this moment, Lin suddenly found a large cloud of smoke gathering above her. This was the smoke-like creature that had previously claimed to have formed the Forgotten Guardians.

"I'm not sure..." Abu said, "but I have this feeling, it is..."

"You, you must know something!" Abu looked up at Yanyun and said, "Tell me everything you know. What exactly is this Abyss of Abandonment?"

"We've been trying to understand this," Yanyun said, "but everyone is dead except me... all dead."

Then, Yanyun told a...story.

This is about itself. It originally established the organization of Forgotten Guardians for the same reason that Lin had learned from Caterpillar or Jianyun before, which is to make this place forgotten.

However, this plan has never been successful, and Yanyun is increasingly doubting whether their forgetting plan can succeed.

It was also at this time that Yanyun noticed another point, which had never been forgotten but had never been truly recognized.

Many creatures were interested in this place and investigated it, but they only obtained some superficial information at most.

Although the Forgotten Guardians also contributed to this, most creatures were hunted down by them after a little investigation, but some creatures successfully avoided them and studied a lot of things.

As the leader, Yanyun's abilities are much stronger than those of other members of the organization. Initially, it was hunting creatures that escaped the attacks of ordinary members.

And at some point, the smoke and cloud spared a few creatures.

These creatures have strong escape abilities. Although they did not escape the detection of the smoke and cloud, the smoke and cloud did not attack them.

It suddenly had an idea to try observing them for a while.

As their investigation progressed, the creatures delved deeper and deeper into the wreckage of the builders.

In the end, they all died.

The reason is quite simple, it is because it is unbearable to feel the 'terror' deep inside.

The deeper you go, the more terrifying things you will encounter. This room with a crystalline structure on the surface is... a very terrifying place.

Then, Yanyun began to observe instead of killing those creatures with strong hiding abilities.

After that, it also observed a lot of creatures. Some of these creatures were curious, and some simply hoped that studying the builders would help them find a way to leave the abandoned land.

But they all died when they were studied to a deeper level.

This gave Yanyun an idea, maybe... there was no need for them to establish an organization like the Forgotten Guardians.

After all, any living creature will die in the end after investigating.

However, their organization does not seem to be completely meaningless. After all, there is an endless stream of creatures that may come to investigate, making it difficult for this place to be forgotten.

Yanyun still had a question at that time...that was what exactly did Abyss of Abandonment want to do.

If recognition can make the Abyss of Abandonment grow, then why is it so difficult to recognize?

In fact, the difficulty of fully understanding it seems to be almost the same as completely forgetting it.

The reason why Yanyun had this idea was mainly because it had always believed that the Abyss of Abandonment was a creature waiting to be revived.

In fact, there are quite a few such creatures in unpredictable places. They are not completely dead after death. They will reassemble under certain circumstances.

The abandoned land seems to be avoiding being recognized and also avoiding being forgotten.

Later, Yanyun broke away from the organization it had established, or rather, hid itself.

At first, many members were wondering where it had gone, and as the organization's members changed, the new group of members were unaware of Yanyun.

Then Yanyun began to study cognition.

What would happen, it wondered, if it could fully comprehend the Abandoned Abyss? Would it instantly revive it? Or would something else happen?

It itself cannot be studied, although its resistance to 'terror' is higher than that of ordinary creatures.

Therefore, it has always been trying to understand the Abyss of Abandonment through other creatures.

If a creature with a higher probability of being discovered is discovered, Yanyun will try to guide it to conduct more research.

Of course, it has never been successful until now, when it sees the possibility.

It finally found... the true potential knower.