Chapter 137 Cognition

"…You're right. Now there are only two of you left."

"You are the last knowers, and you belong to a relatively special group of knowers."

"That means once you kill it, it's all over."

"Or... you can welcome it."

This place is the lowest level of the Builder's body. Lin jumped here not long ago.

The bottom layer... was completely dark. After coming here, Lin felt a bit like she had entered solidified void.

I can't sense anything around me, there is nothing.

However, this situation did not last forever. After Lin floated for a while, she found that light spots and other things would occasionally appear here.

They just flashed for a moment and then disappeared without a trace.

This scene lasted for a long time. Lin found that she could not get close to any of the light spots. Some of them would last longer, but would disappear the moment she approached.

But in the end, Lin still found something that would not disappear, that is... a colorful cloud.

It looked exactly like the colorful clouds above the Hanging City. When it spotted Lin, it floated over on its own initiative.

"Do you feel it? This is how it feels." Caiyun said to Lin, "It has been like this for a long, long time."

"It?" Lin asked in doubt: "You are..."

"I can tell you what it is like."

Then, Caiyun introduced herself.

It said it was an 'ordinary' rainbow cloud, and like other rainbow clouds, it originally lived on the Hanging City.

But unlike other colorful clouds, it was not just enjoying the life there, but was always trying to understand the...true meaning of this place.

Finally, it succeeded in understanding the essence of this world, which is the Abyss of Abandonment.

It told Lin that Lin had indeed succeeded in causing a mutation here, and currently only Lin and Abu knew about the Abyss of Abandonment.

Of course, the root of all this still has to start with what the Abyss of Abandonment is.

The Abyss of Abandonment... It can also be said that the Land of Abandonment itself is a 'concentration place for thinking'.

There are actually many such places in unpredictable places, that is, the strong thinking of living things... will have an "attractive" effect on the surrounding energy.

This is a bit similar to gravity. Some places continuously gather a large amount of dream energy attracted by certain emotions, and finally create a unique environment.

This is how the abandoned land was formed.

Various creatures that want to discard their waste come together to form this area.

This kind of concentration of thought can itself be regarded as a natural phenomenon. Many of them just create a special environment and do not cause any special behavior.

Some places are different, like the Abandoned Land, which can be said to be a living organism in itself.

That is, it has its own thoughts, and will continue to grow. Ordinary thoughts will not grow when they are concentrated, and will not last long.

But the Abandoned Land is always growing and always trying to do things.

Caiyun said that it wanted to struggle... to leave its current situation.

In fact, the 'earth' part of the abandoned land is considered the body, and the 'abyss' part is considered the mind.

All in all, this whole place is a huge creature, Caiyun said...The Abyss of Abandonment is always in a state of painful struggle.

All it had wanted to do for so long was to be able to sense its surroundings.

Caiyun said that the creature in the Abandoned Abyss is completely unaware of any situation in its surroundings, which means that no matter what time it is, it always feels like it is in endless darkness.

For a long time, the Abyss of Abandonment has been trying to get rid of this state, the state of not being able to perceive anything.

Although it was trapped in the darkness when it was still able to think, it was aware that this darkness was not normal, so the Abyss of Abandonment had been trying to find a way to get rid of it.

But it never succeeded, and it also dragged many other creatures into its mind.

To the Abandoned Abyss, it itself is like a consciousness floating in the endless darkness.

But this darkness is not complete, some glowing objects will appear in the darkness.

Whenever it sees a glowing object, the Abyss of Abandonment will try to approach it quickly, but before it can touch the target, the object will be swallowed up by the darkness and disappear completely.

It was similar to Lin's previous situation. If she saw any light and tried to approach it, it would disappear.

The luminous creatures are actually creatures that have recognized the Abyss of Abandonment.

As long as they have some knowledge of the Abandoned Abyss, they will become "spots of light" and appear in the dark world of the Abandoned Abyss.

At this time, the Abyss of Abandonment tried to approach the light spot, which was the creature that recognized itself.

But this will only drag the creature into its darkness, and the disappearance of the light spot means that the creature has been completely swallowed by terror.

This kind of terror can be said to have caused living things to fall into an endless darkness where they could not perceive anything, just like the abyss of abandonment.

Of course, the creatures trapped will die soon, and they will not become companions of the Abyss of Abandonment.

The Abyss of Abandonment has always been chasing these points of light.

These successive points of light never completely disappeared, but it never managed to get close either.

Until...sometime.

The Abyss of Abandonment gave up the pursuit, it stopped moving on the spot, but those spots of light... would move towards it.

This also indicates how well those creatures understand it.

The higher the creature's awareness of the Abyss of Abandonment, the closer the light spot is to it in the eyes of the Abyss of Abandonment.

Then it ended up the same way, disappearing completely into the darkness.

However, some spots of light always remain at a certain distance from the Abyss of Abandonment and do not approach it.

These are creatures that know the horror of the Abyss of Abandonment and do not want to approach it.

But Abyss of Abandonment found himself slowly approaching them. Even if he had no intention of chasing them, the distance between them would still narrow little by little.

This spot of light will also try to escape, but in the end it will not be able to escape.

This can also be said that any creature that recognizes the Abyss of Abandonment will inevitably die.

And at some point, the Abyss of Abandonment discovered a glowing object that could approach itself.

This luminous object was not like other spots of light. It approached and touched the Abyss of Abandonment, but it did not disappear.

This glowing object is actually a... team member.

The other light spots can be said to be ordinary dream creatures. They can feel terror, and the more they know about the Abyss of Abandonment, the more they will be swallowed up.

Team members can then approach the Abyss of Abandonment safely.

A team member came here a long time ago, and it was the first creature to come into direct contact with the Abyss of the Forsaken.