Chapter 190 Return

"Go to that distant place... and finally reach its end..."

Lin's Veronica... is in this place that looks like an 'observatory'.

Here in the observatory, Lin could indeed feel Sharin's...feelings.

I felt like I was continuously moving forward in the boundless void, drifting towards the depths of the void.

Countless scenes flashed around Lin. They appeared and disappeared in an instant.

This feeling continued and only slowly stopped after a long time.

Lin discovered that Veronica was standing in a pitch-black space, which was quite similar to the scenery in the void.

And in front of Veronica was the figure that Lin had always been looking for.

...Sharin.

It was looking at the darkness ahead, stretching out its hand and touching something unknown.

Seeing this, Lin slowly floated over, and Sharin seemed to react to Lin's arrival.

"Sure enough, it was you who found me." Sharin suddenly stopped, slowly turned around and looked at Lin.

"Are you... the real one?"

This Sharin gave Lin a very different feeling from the one she played in the storage point before. Simply put, it was a very "familiar" feeling... as if it was a part of her own thinking.

But Lin still tried to ask.

"...Yes." Sharin said, "You should know this yourself. You should be able to feel it."

"However, although I have guessed it, I am still a little surprised to see you here..." Sharlene floated in front of Veronica, looked at her carefully and said, "I can also feel that you have grown a lot."

"You really are..." Lin also looked at Sharin carefully. After looking for a while, Lin reached out and poked its face.

Indeed, it had a... sense of familiarity that Lin had never felt before, a feeling that seemed to lead directly to the depths of her consciousness.

"Why, do you want to feel it more carefully?" Sharin grabbed Lin's hand and said, "That's totally fine."

"So, what are you doing here?" Lin continued to ask.

"This is the end of the void." Sharin said, looking at the darkness behind her, "I have been traveling in this direction."

"I didn't expect to actually reach this place, the farthest point of this void." Sharin said, "I've experienced so many things, but what surprised me most was that this place actually has an end."

"Of course, you are not coming to the end to talk to me now. It's just that if you... go to the 'Boundless Conference Room'... it will activate a part of my consciousness that remains there. You are now talking to this part of consciousness."

"No matter which part of consciousness it is, you can treat it as me." Sharin said, "You came here to learn about me, right? You can ask anything."

"Really..." Lin said, "Then I want to know...the details about how you created me."

"Well... you should know most of this now." Sharin said, "I put almost everything in the storage point, but it's not complete... Let me see how much you know first..."

Sharin stood there motionless for more than ten seconds, then Sharin said, "I see, what you know is almost the same as what you have stored."

"Hmm? How do I know? Our thinking is somehow common, so to speak..." Sharin said, "Then I will tell you something you don't know yet or don't quite understand."

"If you must classify yourself as a 'species', you belong to a unique void creature."

Sharin said: "This creature constructs its own independent void and can also affect other voids... Although it may feel very similar to some species living in a separate space, there is still a big difference."

"Your consciousness was mainly born from the 'collision' between the distant shadow and my consciousness. In addition, some special things were added." Sharin said: "That is Ersh."

Lin asked doubtfully, “Ershi?”

"Yes, Ersh." Sharin said, "You should have encountered... part of it, or you can say one third of it."

"Three tumblers." Sharin said, "This is Ersh itself... Hmm? You call the planet a tumbler? That's interesting. Are you still using the words I gave you before?"

Sharin seemed to be able to feel that Lin would translate some of the information it sent into familiar words.

"Those words..." Lin said, "They are quite interesting."

"Is that so?" Sharin smiled. "Then let me continue. Ersh is not just a bus creature."

"...They actually call them buses, is that so funny?" Sharin said, "Anyway, Ersh is a kind of... very ancient hybrid creature. It is much older than ordinary bus creatures and appeared before them."

"The bus creatures mainly originated from the collapse of the void tunnel... It seems that you already know about the relevant events, and Ersh appeared before that. To be honest, I don’t know how old it is. After all, we haven’t had much communication."

"It itself represents three worlds, three worlds, and one consciousness." Sharin said: "Although its consciousness seems to be only in one place, in fact, the three worlds are closely connected."

"You should all know these three worlds. One is Ershi, and the other is the fluff ball world. Do you call it a fluff ball? This name is also... well, let's get to the point. The third world should have been destroyed."

As Sharin spoke, she tapped the front three times with her hand, and a tumbler appeared in each place it tapped.

"The third tumbler, I originally thought it was destroyed because the consciousness of the distant shadow saw the connection between them, but that's not the case." Sharin said: "It was Ersh who hid it, and I didn't find it at the time."

"The specific situation is that Ersh used some method to 'compress' the consciousness on the third tumbler, and had some influence on the original consciousness of the distant shadow."

"To put it simply... before my consciousness collided with the consciousness of the Distant Shadow, Ersh had some influence on the Distant Shadow. You can also say that you mixed the consciousness of the three of us." Sharin said: "Then you were born like this."

"You are also the third world itself." Sharin said, "In fact, this is also one of the main reasons why you can use 'cells' as a carrier."

"In fact, the 'body' of the third world itself should not have been destroyed, at least not in the past...it's just that the connecting consciousness on it was transferred away." Sharin said.

"Then..." Lin said: "Why did Ershi do this at that time?"

"I don't know." Sharin said: "Ershi... likes to calculate the future and imagine various possibilities of the future."

"The place where I was first born, 'Dream Ersh', is what it calculated its future appearance. And it calculated more than just this, it has been calculating various things all the time."

"Like what will happen in a void future or something like that," Sharin said, "maybe it also calculated your future."

"It likes to see something happening in your future, and that's enough to make it start taking action." Sharin said, "It's a very interesting creature, isn't it? When ordinary creatures communicate with it, they think about the present, but it thinks about the future. It stands in the future and sees what impact everything in the present will have from a certain point in the future."

"It's a creature that's always in the future," Sharin said. "It's hard to say what it's for."

"But if it's just speculation, I think there is a purpose..."

Sharin asked: "Cellular organisms, do you know when they were born?"

"I don't know either." Sharin said, "But I think it was created by Ersh, a fragile creature with a special...'recording function'."

"It seems that this is also the reason why the Sea of ​​Creation has chosen cellular organisms." Sharin said, "And the focus is on you."

"You may also have... a close connection with all cellular organisms." Sharin said: "This is probably why Ersh 'created' you."

"Close connection?" Lin asked.

"Hmm..." Sharin said, "You may be the one who can truly extend consciousness to all cellular organisms, not the Sea of ​​Creation. But it's hard to say... In short, Ersh didn't create you by himself, but we did it together."

"Do you understand the Sea of ​​Creation?" Lin continued to ask.

"Well, it was created by the collision of voids a long time ago... You know this, right?" Sharin said, "Its current goal is to make the voids collide again, and not just two voids, this time a third void is included."

"I also want to know what the final result will be. There will definitely be many new things, but maybe there will be some big disaster."

Sharin said: "Ersh has always taken an active attitude to stop the Sea of ​​Creation, and the Sea of ​​Creation is also hostile to it."

"It seems that the Sea of ​​Creation is in an advantageous position now." Sharin said, "I just don't know if Ersh has taken this into account. It has always been standing in the very distant 'future' and looking at the present."

"Shalin, are you really here?"

At this time, another voice sounded.

It was actually the voice of the blond manager from before.

The surrounding environment disappeared instantly and returned to its previous state as the observatory.

"Ah, you're back." And Sharin and Lin's Veronica stood here together.

"You..." The blond manager was standing at the entrance of the observatory. He looked at Sharin in disbelief and said, "Really..."

"Ah, Zi, long time no see." Sharin greeted the manager.

"A long time... Do you know how long you have been out? Come to think of it, your personality doesn't seem to have changed at all." said the manager.

"It's not that long, I just don't know how many billions of years it has been." Sharin said, "And I was sleeping most of the time, so it didn't feel like a long time... And I used some methods to keep myself original, my personality won't change!"

"It's good that it hasn't changed." The manager said, "I didn't expect it would really bring you back."

"Hmm..." Sharlene said, "What about here? Nothing has changed?"

"It's about the same as when you left." The manager said, "It's incredible. So much time has passed. Of course the creatures here are very different from before."

"Is that so? Let's go take a look..." Sharin took Lin's hand and said, "Come on, Lin."

"I..." Before Lin could say anything, Sharin said, "If you have anything to ask, you can ask while we walk."

Having said that, Lin followed them out of the observatory and said hello to the other managers.

They were all very surprised to see Sharin come back...Then Sharin went with them to visit the place.

"There have been a lot of changes here." After leaving the pure white place, Lin and they came to a place that looked like an 'umbrella forest'.

There are a large number of umbrella-shaped objects standing everywhere here. They are more than 100 meters high, mostly dark red in color, and are slowly rotating.

The ground is made of rock and looks quite ordinary.

"It's completely different from when I left!" Sharlene said as she looked around, "There wasn't a place like this before."

"Of course." The manager said, "The environment and other things have changed many times, but the 'function' here has never changed."

"Oh? Is that the Drifter?"

At this time, several things like red clouds appeared not far ahead, some of which looked like cloud-like creatures that Lin had seen before.

These creatures also gathered together and sent large amounts of image fragments to each other.

"The Wanderer?" Lin asked Sharin.

"It's a large creature... that roams in this void." Sharin said, "It seems that it is discussing the affairs of the Sea of ​​Creation here."

"These are also large creatures." Sharin pointed at the other thick fog around and said, "They are discussing the Sea of ​​Creation here."

"What exactly are they discussing?" Lin asked.

"...data stream." Sharin said: "The Sea of ​​Creation has transmitted a large amount of data into this void, and this data has attracted the attention of many creatures."

"It seems that... other creatures here are also discussing related events."

As they talked, Lin, Sharin and the others walked around and found that there were indeed many creatures around discussing things.

It's just that they didn't discuss what should be done, they just discussed where these data streams appear and what impact they will have.

They didn't seem to be planning to take action.

"It seems that they are not very sure whether this phenomenon is good or bad," said Sharin.

“…”

Lin then asked Sharin some questions about the creatures in these unpredictable places.

Sharin said that the creatures here themselves are not worried about drastic changes in the environment, and some of them even like changes in the environment.

So generally speaking, they probably won't take any action, but there are some exceptions.

Most of the creatures that come here are representatives of a certain civilization, or they are powerful creatures that live in the void.

However, since they actually live quite far from each other, they are divided into many small groups, and each group discusses matters within its own living area.

After walking for a while, Lin and Sharin left the umbrella forest and came to a place that looked like a small town.

This place is similar to the medieval town of the Ershi people, but the people wandering around the streets are not the Ershi people, but various other creatures.

It is said that the creatures that come here...most of them will choose simple floating shapes, and almost no one will choose the Ershimin shape.

"Indeed, it's the same as before, so peaceful here." After arriving at a bar, Sharlene found a place to sit down and said, "So what should we do next?"

"You finally came back..." the manager asked, "Are you going to do nothing?"

"I didn't come back on my own." Sharin said, "It was Lin who activated me to come back. It seems that this place doesn't need me to manage it here, so...Lin."

Sharin said to Lin, "You probably have a lot of things you want to ask."

"...Yes." Lin said: "A lot of questions."

"We can continue discussing these things, and after this... I might want to go to the Normal Void with you."

Sharin said: "Although I have traveled here for a long time, I don't know much about the situation there."

"Okay." Lin said, "But we need to continue traveling here."

"Well..." Sharin said, "You want to know what's going on here. I can tell you a lot. After all, I've traveled to... the end."

"Of course, I don't actually understand everything. Everything here is constantly changing." Sharin said, "The things here... are really interesting. Thinking is the foundation here and constitutes everything."

After finishing speaking, Lin continued to ask it many related questions.

Lin does have a lot of things she wants to ask...but if she thinks about it carefully, it seems hard to find anything she particularly wants to know.

After all, I have learned a lot before, but I still have a lot of questions I want to ask.

In short, Lin still asked a lot of questions about unforeseen places.

Such as the history of this void and the general situation of various creatures.

And Sharin also answered these questions from Lin.

At the same time, Lin was still concerned about Ersh's affairs and continued to ask some questions.

Sharin seemed to be not very clear about Ersh's amnesia and the details of the war, mainly because of its clone in the normal void, which itself was also on the "end journey" of the normal void.

It’s just that this journey is not as smooth as here, because there are many dangers in the normal void, and these dangers are inherently more... difficult to avoid.

The trip here was actually not very smooth. It encountered many things... but it also learned a lot of things.

Like the origin of the void, Sharin said it knew something about it.