Chapter 172: Disappearance

"You should be able to control it."

As the 'Lord of Order' said this, Lin's Veronica also came to a place.

This place is also a tumbler located within the starry sky simulation device.

This tumbler is different from other alien worlds. There is nothing here. On the surface, it looks like an ordinary rock tumbler.

But if you look closely, you can see that the rock-like surface is covered with a large number of...paintings.

According to the Lord of Order, these are 'blueprints'.

Design a...map of the entire thinking area.

The starry sky simulation device has been designing things related to the thinking area, mainly constructing various alien tumblers.

The Lord of Order can sense the design of the simulation device, but it cannot control it.

It feels like the simulator has been designing these things using some of its ideas.

And every time a design and construction is carried out, its thought data will be preserved here, and finally form this... thing that looks very much like a tumbler.

It is said that the original starry sky simulation device would not do this, but after utilizing the thinking of the Lord of Order, it would form this kind of data aggregate.

The Lord of Order wanted Lin to test this data aggregate to see if she could sense anything.

It thought that Lin could also sense its own thoughts.

As long as Lin felt it, it could... commit suicide.

The Lord of Order said that its consciousness was only this last one left, and it had no desire for immortality at all.

Its only idea is to allow the design of this starry sky simulation device to continue.

It doesn't know why it has such thoughts, and it doesn't care.

It felt that its destiny was to disappear completely, completely... into silence.

"So, can you feel it?"

The "voice" of the Lord of Order echoed around Veronica, and Lin could indeed feel that there was something special about touching the surface here.

It's just that this feeling is very... weak.

"Really? But I don't want to wait any longer." At this time, the Lord of Order suddenly said, "The time has come."

The moment it finished saying these words, Lin found that the faint feeling... completely disappeared.

At the same time, the Lord of Order also disappeared. Before, Lin could feel that it was around here, but it seemed to have completely... disappeared in an instant.

Is it dead?

...Lin took some time to understand the situation here, and found that it seemed that everything here...had stopped.

Lin first went to the dreamland of Ersh, and then went to some other alien worlds to have a look. Lin found that all these places were in a state of... "extinguishing".

Although there are no stars here, every alien world has normal day and night.

Except for those worlds with unusual settings.

But now, these alien worlds have no light and no gravity, and the creatures on them are all in terror.

After investigating these places, Lin tried to enter the interior of the starry sky simulation device.

After finding the original entrance on the inner wall, Lin discovered that the interior of the starry sky simulation device... could be said to be extremely complicated.

It looks like the inside of a machine, with a large number of complex parts assembled together.

After Lin walked around for a while, she found that this place was indeed... not functioning at all.

It was as if everything had stopped.

The longer we investigate, the more we realize... this place is indeed not moving.

Whether it is the functions of generating other worlds or maintaining the normal operation of those worlds, all functions have stopped.

But this place is different from the normal void after all. Even if a tumbler stops rotating, the creatures on it will not die.

In fact, they will slowly notice the characteristics of unforeseen places.

Lin's main focus is on simulation devices.

Lin took a long time to almost completely investigate the entire simulation device. It can be said that there was no sense of any...active structure inside.

There is no thinking, consciousness or anything like that.

It seems that after the Lord of Order said he would self-destruct, this place has stopped functioning.

And Lin didn’t know how to start it, nor did she know whether it could be started again.

If you ask Ersh now, he also said he has no idea about the structure of the entire simulation device.

The Lord of Order had said before that he was not clear about many of the functions of the simulation device...whether they were set by Ersh from the beginning or they "grew" on their own after arriving here.

Even the goal of creating a thinking area may not necessarily be set by Ersh.

In short, everything here... has stopped.

As for the guardians of order and storage points, Lin discovered that after they were defeated by the residents of the alien world, those who were still alive had escaped.

And the storage point has gone crazy. It is in an abnormal state, moving around between different alien worlds.

It keeps flying from one alien world to another, repeating this seemingly meaningless behavior.

No matter what you say to it, it doesn't respond, which also means that it no longer abides by its own order.

It seems that once the Guardians of Order feel that their faith has collapsed, their intelligence will quickly decrease.

Thus transforming from a civilized creature into... a wild creature.

Just like its counterparts.

Lin ignored it for the time being and started making next plans.

However, since there are so many materials here, it is still very easy to create an original dream Ersh.

Or Lin can just use...the ready-made ones.

At the same time, Lin had another idea. She thought that it might be possible to refit the entire starry sky simulation device.

Although it is difficult to restore the original function, it may be possible to create a completely new one.

All we have to do is tear down everything here and rebuild it, using the method of constructing dreams.

But Lin is still not sure whether to reconstruct something that big.

Lin felt that she didn’t need anything too big to continue her journey in unpredictable places, but she could transform this place into... a base or something.

In that case, let’s do it this way.

Lin decided to look for the place where Sharin disappeared next.

That is the point at which it stops sending data to the storage point.

Although it has been a long time, we might find something there.

All we need to do is make a flying vehicle the size of a tumbler. Of course, its firepower must be stronger than before, so it cannot be defeated so easily.

And...Lin decided to leave part of her consciousness here.

Lin had never been able to separate her consciousness from Veronica and transfer it to different... types of soldiers like she could in the normal void.

And now, Lin has discovered a new method.