Chapter 139 Integration

"Finally, I survived..."

In order to collect a large amount of 'abandoned' emotions, the builder transformed his body into a place similar to hell.

Each level is more... terrifying than the previous one.

A large number of colorful clouds were put into this place, and they died one after another as they continued to go down.

And there was a colorful cloud that reached the deepest layer.

Although it felt great terror in the process of moving forward, it survived, and even when it reached the deepest place, it showed no signs of dying.

This colorful cloud made the builder suspicious. He thought that the horror he imitated might be different from the Abyss of Abandonment.

So, it threw the surviving Caiyun to a place where she could feel the true horror of the Abyss of Abandonment.

And this colorful cloud... is still alive, and it doesn't seem to be afraid of this horror.

The builder found this very interesting. After a careful investigation of the colorful cloud, he believed that this colorful cloud was a particularly mutated species.

Caiyun itself has many mutants. In fact, the thundercloud and swordcloud that Lin had seen before were both mutants of Caiyun, and this Caiyun that was not afraid of terror was a new mutant.

The builders call these colorful clouds 'joy catchers' and they are very good at finding joy in any environment.

Caiyun lives on the Hanging City, using the dream energy coming from below to create countless things she wants. This new mutant Caiyun lives a much happier life than those around him.

They like to observe other colorful clouds, think about why they are so happy, why they like the things they create, why they get bored after a while, and then create something new to play with.

After long-term observation of their own kind, this colorful cloud discovered that their happiness was mainly accumulated from countless short-lived little joys. Although each colorful cloud could use dream energy to create a large number of entertainment items, the use time of each entertainment item was not long.

After long-term observation, they created a new way of happiness that belongs to them.

This kind of happiness is not short-lived, but long-lasting.

This makes this mutated colorful cloud much happier than its peers.

Then after it was placed in a terrifying place by the builders, this colorful cloud did not die immediately from the terror... Instead, it was able to calmly observe the environment under this terror and try to create its own happiness here.

Even though it cannot control the dream energy here, it can still find some happiness. For example, observing that its fellow creatures around it are easily killed by terror and watching them die in various tragic ways is also happiness for it.

When it reaches the deepest level and can feel nothing, the colorful cloud will think that it would be nice to just float around without doing anything.

It was also the first time that the builders discovered that creatures were not necessarily killed by terror.

As long as they identify with this horror and find pleasure in it, their thinking will not collapse so easily.

Such organisms can be called 'adaptive organisms'.

Most of the creatures that Lin encountered that could move in the deep layer belonged to this category. They had developed the ability to adapt to terror.

But this does not mean that they will not be swallowed by the Abyss of Abandonment, it just means that they can get closer to the Abyss of Abandonment than ordinary creatures.

If you get too close, their light will still go out.

This first colorful cloud that can resist terror...is the colorful cloud that Lin is encountering now.

The Builders kept it and continued their project to contact the Abyss of Forsakenness.

The Builder had collected what it considered to be enough 'emotions of abandonment', so it placed its body in a position where it could feel the abyss of abandonment.

That is the current location.

Then it fills its entire body with the vast amount of emotions it has collected.

In fact, the relevant records of these emotions are placed everywhere on every floor.

The Builder then begins to see if his or her body begins to approach the Abyss of Abandonment because of these emotions.

Its test was considered a success. Under the influence of a large amount of abandoned emotions, the builder's body was getting closer and closer to the abyss of abandonment.

The builder had already separated half of his body before, and this half had already moved away from the place where it was abandoned.

Somehow it watched from a distance as the remaining half of its body approached the abyss of abandonment.

During the observation process, it does not feel the horror of approaching.

The builders believed that this would allow them to reach the Abyss of Abandonment without being affected in the slightest.

And, it did make contact.

This half of the body, filled with the emotion of abandonment, finally touched the abyss of abandonment.

The Abyss of Abandonment was the same as before. It merged the half of the Builder's body that touched it into it. After that, this half of the body became part of the Abyss of Abandonment.

However, the Builder's consciousness is in the other half of its body that has left, and it can continue to observe its half of the body that has been merged into it in some way.

Through observation, it understood some of the circumstances of the Abandoned Abyss, which was what Caiyun had told Lin before.

The Builders learned about the void seen from the 'perspective' of the Abandoned Abyss itself.

Everything is pitch black, and the creatures that perceive it are represented as points of light.

No light has ever been able to touch it, except for the team members.

At that time, the builder came up with an idea that this place was created by the team leader.

The builder thought the leader might have thought so.

When they were traveling in the void before, the leader told them about the unforeseen place... Many team members were very interested in this place, including the builders themselves. When they asked, the leader also told them a lot about this place.

What the builders were more concerned about was that the leader mentioned at the end: "If you go to an unforeseen place... you may end up getting lost there."

Later, the leader did not explain what this meant, and after encountering the Abandoned Abyss, the Builder thought that this might be a place built by the leader to 'shelter' them.

As long as they get lost here, they may be absorbed into the Abyss of Abandonment and become a part of it.

On the contrary, the team members who have not yet lost can feel the horror of the Abyss of Abandonment and stay away from it.

The builder was very curious about why the leader did this, but when it was about to continue its research, it found that the horror of the Abyss of Abandonment was extending towards it.

Even though half of its body was already far away, the horror still crawled towards it and began to devour it.

Later, the builder escaped, and it was said that... it escaped to the normal void.