Chapter 182 Materials

"Let those who are lost...no longer be lost."

They have been working all the time, striving to build a 'lighthouse' so that they won't get lost.

Lin gained an in-depth understanding of these 'guinea pigs'.

They've been making sculptures of Sharlene here all this time, which is a very...kind gesture.

This is true for some normal void creatures that come here.

Normal void creatures will slowly lose themselves in this void, and eventually drift to places like this Lost Cemetery.

The statue of Sharlene that the guinea pig placed on the sphere of debris at the center of this cemetery has an effect of restoring the senses of creatures that are lost here.

Any creature that comes here and whose mind is almost lost will regain its spirit if it sees Sharin's statue, and remember everything that happened in the normal void.

This will quickly restore their mental stability, and they will be able to continue...surviving.

Although I don’t know when I will get lost again.

These guinea pigs are working towards the well-intentioned goal of restoring the spirits of living creatures.

This can also be said to be their "belief".

It is because of this belief that these guinea pigs can live here and continue to survive.

But what exactly do they have to do with Sharlene?

Lin is still trying to understand further, and currently only knows the purpose of their doing so, because these creatures are difficult to understand.

This group of guinea pigs are often good at committing suicide, and they will attempt suicide if they are caught.

In fact, this can be considered a kind of "self-protection mechanism", because not only Lin, but many creatures in unpredictable places are... very good at understanding the thoughts of other creatures.

In a normal void, two different kinds of organisms... for example, cellular organisms and non-cellular organisms, have fundamentally different thinking structures, so it is very difficult for them to understand the thinking of another organism. If they are ordinary organisms, it is difficult to understand even if they are the same cellular organisms.

But the situation in the unpredictable land is a little different. It is relatively easier for one creature to understand the thoughts of another dream creature.

This has resulted in a number of organisms that have the ability to gain an advantage over a species by analyzing the thinking of that species.

This 'advantage' may be the ability to hunt or control the analyzed organisms more easily.

In short, when guinea pigs face an overwhelming opponent, they resort to immediate suicide to try to avoid being understood, which in turn allows their own population to survive more effectively.

Therefore, Lin used another way to analyze them, which was... to imitate them.

In the other world, Lin created some soldiers that looked very similar to these guinea pigs - hamster-type soldiers.

Then use these hamsters to go to the wrecking ball and do the same thing as the guinea pigs - chew out the statues of Sharlene and place them around.

At first, these guinea pigs ignored the hamsters, but after seeing them more often, some of them ran over and tried to communicate with Lin's hamster.

Their initial communication was mainly to Lin's hamster... expressing their opinions.

For example, Lin is not very good at knocking away the dream creatures that touch the statues, nor is she very good at taking back the touched statues and chewing them up and recasting them.

Even the materials Lin used to construct the statue were considered not of the 'best quality'.

These guinea pigs made various comments about Lin's hamster and strongly urged Lin to correct its behavior and achieve perfection.

It is said that statues touched by dream creatures will slowly lose their effect.

They will be 'contaminated' by the thoughts of dream creatures, making the statues impure.

If it remains there, it will have no awakening effect on the lost creatures that come here, so it must be taken back and reconstructed.

Lin discovered that the guinea pigs' strong obsession affected the surrounding dream energy.

Some special dream energy will float towards them, and they can absorb this energy with the "hair" on their bodies.

The more they absorb, the more golden their fur becomes.

Of course, they don't have to find food for themselves, and this kind of thinking is the source of their survival.

But they will go looking for materials for the statue, which is also the most dangerous thing for them.

Generally speaking, they will recycle the materials of the statues indefinitely, but these materials will always become less during long-term use, so they will go out to look for them every once in a while.

Because they came to communicate actively, Lin also learned a lot from the hamster troop.

These guinea pigs don't usually like to chat, all they like to do is keep making statues of Sharlene.

So Lin asked for a long time and finally found out why they constructed the statues, but they didn't tell us about their relationship with Sharin.

Of course they also asked... why Lin's hamster also wanted to build statues.

Originally they thought that hamsters had the same purpose as them, so they were very surprised when Lin asked them.

It seemed that it was not surprising for them that a creature with the same purpose as them suddenly appeared.

Lin said that she just thought it was fun to watch them do it and decided to learn to do it.

These guinea pigs still said that no matter what the reason is, they have to do it perfectly.

So, Lin, who had established communication with them, began her...adventure with them on this wreckage ball.

It's actually about finding the 'best' materials.

The finest material is very difficult to come by, and according to the guinea pigs, there are many dangerous creatures near that material.

They usually live in safe areas and are rarely touched by dangerous creatures.

The entire debris ball is filled with scavengers. Guinea pigs don't call them scavengers... but have a fun name: 'Lost Pleasures'.

The purpose of these creatures here is not to be scavengers, or to be more precise, it is not the usual scavengers, because they generally do not eat the debris here. Although many creatures dig up the debris, they mainly eat the... past of creatures.

Many creatures have been lost and died here. There is a strange effect on the creatures that die here, which is that their memories are generally retained on their bodies.

The main goal of the 'Lost Pleasures' here is to mine these memory data.

They have different ways of digging.

Some of them just looked like they were digging at the remains of the body using their sharp body structures, while others just lay there without making any movement.

And they are actually absorbing the memories from the body of this lost creature.

These memories usually contain the creature's past experiences, such as various experiences and life in the normal void.

These memories will be stored in their remains in a special state of dream energy. After the "pleasers" dig them out and absorb this energy, they will fall into a very happy state.

Then they continue digging.

Because they won't dig out complete memories, they usually just get some memory fragments or something.

But no matter how small the fragments are, they will absorb them.

Therefore, the various wreckages here are occupied by various "pleasure seekers".

Lin thinks they can also be called spiritual scavengers. Generally speaking, they are still scavengers, so Lin will just call them that.

However, since the parts without memory data were not eaten, the remains of the creatures are still largely preserved and piled up here.

This is how the debris ball was formed.

Today, these scavengers continue to try to dig out fragments of memories from the wreckage.

Even if they are weak, they still want it.

Therefore, quite a lot of species can be seen here.

These memory-mining creatures are mostly harmless, but there are some dangerous ones.

The dangerous creatures essentially gave up on mining the memory fragments from the wreckage and went to hunt the creatures that ate the memory fragments.

This is how you get the fragments.

It can also be said that those who usually dig up the wreckage are vegetarians, while the dangerous ones are carnivorous creatures.

And there is one type that is the most dangerous, and that is the dream creature that occupies the best places.

Lin discovered that when they said this, it could be seen that the goals of this group of guinea pigs were in conflict with the materials they used to make the statues.

Many lost creatures will come here, and when many lost creatures just die, that is undoubtedly the time when their memories are the richest.

Many scavengers want to get close to the dead creatures, but there are too many competitors. Some scavengers have great strength and will kill other approaching creatures one by one in order to occupy the dead body.

Guinea pigs also need freshly dead bodies because these are what they call 'prime material'.

The lost creatures would not die here if they saw their statues regain consciousness, and they need corpses to build statues.

They hope to prevent living creatures from getting lost, but they also hope that there will always be statues to be made.

After all, making statues is the meaning of their lives.

Therefore, this conflict...is ignored by the guinea pigs.

All they do is keep making statues and collecting the finest materials.

As for the final result, whether it would be to make the lost creatures disappear completely or not, it seemed like they hadn't thought about it.

In short, they will continue.

Currently, Lin's group of hamster troops and a group of guinea pig troops form a team to collect materials.

They go to the premium material area to get the best materials.

Because there are a lot of images of Sharin in that materials area, Lin plans to go over and take a look.

Another goal, of course, is to continue observing this group of guinea pigs... and to understand this place.

There were ten hamsters and ten guinea pigs in total, all of about the same size, and after getting ready at the entrance of the cave...these creatures began to sprint.

They were running at high speed through the wreckage, and Lin's hamster also showed a sense of gravity and followed them closely.

The speed was very fast, and soon Lin left what they called the 'safe area' and came to... a very dangerous place.

Here you can see some creatures that are a little different from before, and they all look quite aggressive.