Chapter 181 Carving
It does feel very familiar.
This is a... jungle.
Objects of various shapes stand here. Some of them look like metal, some look like rocks, some look like flesh and blood structures, and there are also things like glowing energy columns.
Of course, they are all 'corpses'.
The corpses of those lost creatures piled up together to form a forest of corpses, and many "scavenger" creatures wandered in this jungle.
Most of them were not interested in Lin's troops exploring the woods, but were focused on what was happening in front of them.
The type of troops that Lin came here to explore were not the tree-shaped troops on the surface of the alien world, but another one was sent out.
This type of soldier looks very much like a mechanical scorpion and is over ten meters in size.
It is not actually one of Lin's troops because it is made of dream materials, and Lin can control it in another world.
The entire alien world is currently more than 20,000 kilometers away from this "corpse ball".
Because some of the scavengers above seemed quite dangerous, we didn't get too close.
The scorpion's own goal is also to find...something.
Now Lin has found that this is Sharin's body.
It looks relatively intact. It is about the same size as an ordinary Ershimin and lies quietly on a metal structure.
This metal structure may be a fragment of something, it looks quite smooth.
And Sharin's body... showed no signs of activity at all, so Lin first conducted some tests on it.
Soon, Lin discovered that this body itself was not a living creature. It was constructed into this shape using some dream materials and could not move... Simply put, it was a statue.
If that's the case, there must be some creature here that created this.
Hu Lin looked around and suddenly found a mass of something approaching at high speed.
Finally it slammed into Lin's scorpion, and the powerful impact sent the scorpion flying.
At the same time, Lin also noticed that this thing was a creature covered with golden fur.
Its shape is somewhat similar to a creature called a guinea pig, and it is also more than ten meters in size.
This creature is obviously different from the surrounding scavenging dream creatures. It should be a normal void creature.
Just when Lin wanted to ask it some questions, the golden "guinea pig" ran to Sharin's "statue", bit the statue's head and took it away.
It is very fast, much faster than Lin's scorpion.
However, Lin did not need to chase it, because when it hit the scorpion just now, it had already been stuck with a tracker specially made by Lin.
The creatures that are stuck with this tracker can be carefully observed by Lin from a distance using a simulation device.
This golden 'guinea pig' is now moving quickly through the complex terrain, and is obviously very familiar with this place.
Finally, Lin found that it had bitten the head of the statue of Sharin and drilled into the hole.
This hole seemed to be dug specially by it, and you can see that the walls of the hole are covered with some soft "substance".
After running through a narrow cave, it came to a relatively large space deep underground.
The walls of the cave here are also covered with soft, feather-like stuff.
The most important thing is that there are a lot of guinea pigs and...statues of Sharin here.
There are a thousand of these guinea pigs. In this underground space with a diameter of more than three hundred meters, some seem to be sleeping, while most of them are... sculpting.
They were all holding a piece of stone-like thing and gnawing on it constantly, just like very skilled sculptors. The stone became more and more refined as they gnawed, and finally it turned into... the shape of Sharin.
Moreover, the postures in which they gnaw on the statues are all different. There is also another group of guinea pigs, and when their companions have finished gnawing on the statues, they will... paint the statues.
The way they paint is by chewing up a piece of something colored, then applying the paint to the unpainted statue.
It seems that these creatures all retain the concept of color.
But the most interesting thing is... why did they build these statues of Sharin here?
Although Abu can see various images of Sharin's past here, there are no images of these guinea pigs.
The guinea pigs took all the finished products out, including the one Lin was tracking.
It placed the statue that Lin had touched in the cave, then picked up another statue and carried it out of the cave.
Lin found that it ran out of the cave, and after running outside for several kilometers... it came to a place that looked like an oil lake.
There is a lake here that is made up of black mucus and is about one kilometer in diameter.
There were many large creatures moving around in the lake, but the guinea pig ignored them and took the statue to the center of the lake.
It just...ran across the lake, and then placed this statue with one hand pointing to the sky in the oil lake.
The statue also stood on the viscous liquid and did not sink.
Then the guinea pig ran to the lake and lay there without doing anything.
After a while, Lin discovered that the statue in the center of the lake... was approached by a creature.
At this moment the guinea pig suddenly moved, and the moment the creature touched the statue, the guinea pig rushed out.
This is very similar to the scorpion that attacked Lin before.
The creature looked a bit like a ball of floating mud. After being knocked away by the guinea pig, the guinea pig immediately bit the statue's head and took it away.
Lin found that it brought the statue back to the cave again, and then... this time Lin saw a slightly different scenery.
They are dismantling the statue.
Many completed statues, including the one brought back by the guinea pig that Lin was observing, were piled up in a corner of the cave, and then some guinea pigs were responsible for gnawing on these statues.
This is quite interesting.
These may be statues that were touched by other creatures outside, and then brought back and dismantled.
Lin didn't see them being dismantled before, apparently because the statues had to be piled up to a certain size before they could be dismantled.
In this way, the guinea pigs dismantled the finished statue into pieces.
These fragments are piled up in one place, mixed with some mucus-like substance, and stirred together by a group of guinea pigs.
Eventually, the fragments of the statue were stirred together into a rock-like structure.
Next they began to use the rock to gnaw out new statues.
It looks like they are being recycled, but for some reason after being touched... they have to be brought back and reshaped.
Then, Lin observed them for a while.
Lin also discovered that these guinea pigs did almost nothing except making these statues of Sharin.
Unless they encounter danger, like outside they will be attacked by some dream creatures. If the number of deaths is too large, they will start to reproduce.
They reproduce in the same way as real guinea pigs, with 'female' guinea pigs giving birth to many offspring at a time.
These offspring will start chewing on statues as soon as they are born, and then grow slowly while chewing on the statues.
At the same time, Lin also discovered that this "wreckage ball" has no gravity, which is the case for the dream creatures living here.
Therefore, the creatures here are generally floating around.
But for guinea pigs and the statues they make, there is gravity.
They can fall from high speeds, run steadily on the ground, and of course the statues can be placed firmly on the ground without floating away.
Guinea pigs spend their entire lives working as sculptors, which would be incredible in a normal void.
In a normal void, it is difficult for a cellular organism like it to have a 'dream'.
Just like the Ershi people, they always have a lot of things they want to do as they grow up, but after they become adults... they will find that they have to do some jobs they don't want to do at all in order to survive, and they are getting further and further away from their dreams.
This is also true for many organisms; what they want to do is generally in conflict with their desire to survive.
In unforeseen places the opposite seems to be the case.
If a creature consistently and persistently does what it wants to do, it will usually live better than the average species.
Many "civilizations" developed because of some kind of obsession, such as the guardians of order and members of the parliament.
In this void, hope is... the strong foundation of life.
Simply put, these strong thoughts can influence the surrounding dream energy activities and provide them with resources.
These guinea pigs felt the same way.
They seem to be completely helpless, but in fact, it is their strong obsession that allows them to survive here.
Although they don't seem to be living any better than other species, it is a miracle that these creatures, which almost completely follow the normal rules of the void, have not become extinct here.
Because Lin couldn't see any normal void creatures here except them.
There may be some creatures that originally came from the normal void, but they do not follow the rules of the normal void.
Since these guinea pigs didn't want to communicate at all, Lin sent some troops to capture some guinea pigs.
These creatures were very uncooperative. Lin found that as soon as she caught them, they would try to commit suicide.
And even if they are affected by the 'violation of rules' effect of the Lord of Destruction, they will commit suicide.
They have an extremely efficient way of committing suicide, similar to brain self-detonation, which can make the thought structure explode in an instant.
Lin thought they were so crazy...there must be some interesting reason.
Because the creatures here don't just come up with beliefs and hopes to believe that there is a source of energy.
They must truly and completely believe in their minds that what they are doing is perfect and correct.
It seems difficult to capture them at the moment, because Lin found that there seems to be no way to put them into a coma.
So Lin thought of another way to understand them.