Chapter 191 Initially
“I’m always traveling.”
"I think... traveling can help me get the final answer."
“But maybe…travel itself is the answer.”
"The longer you live, the purer your purpose becomes: to seek the unknown and to witness the unknown."
"You are the same, right... Lin."
"I saw the answer to this void, it is... thinking."
“What do you think thinking is?”
"Different creatures and civilizations have different definitions of thinking, and this void also has its own definition."
"That is... the ability to imagine something out of thin air."
It is said that it happened a long, long time ago.
However, how long ago was the birth of a void... no one knows.
It itself is born from pure thought.
That is to say, it comes from the imagination of other creatures.
The source of the unpredictable place comes from the imagination of other void creatures.
It's not just the normal void, it also includes creatures from other voids, the thoughts of countless creatures, and their ideas about different things. These ideas may come from real things or may be pure imagination.
Sharin told Lin that there were not only the three voids that Lin knew about now, but also some other voids.
In fact, the void is a particularly huge space. As long as a space is huge to a certain extent, it can be considered a separate void.
Of course, its 'nature' will also become very different from that of ordinary space.
Countless imaginations, for miraculous reasons, converged into data somewhere, forming the prototype of an unforeseen place.
The void at that time was like a chaos, with countless imaginary aggregates mixed together, and everything... was difficult to describe.
Later, the mixture slowly became stable.
The main reason for this is because of the 'location' of the unforeseen place.
It is a very special void because it approaches other voids and also moves away from other voids.
When it approaches, things inside become chaotic, and when it moves away, things inside become more stable.
This is also the original condition for the birth of this void creature.
When the unpredictable land moved farther and farther away from other voids, the earliest group of thinking creatures were born.
These thinking creatures...they can only think.
It can also be said to be a group of "brains" that stay in place without taking any action but continue to imagine.
They are constantly imagining things.
Various things from other voids... continue to "wander" in their minds.
In fact, they don't react to these things at all. They just absorb the data around them and then think about all of this data.
Why did these earliest thoughts appear? Sharin believes that they were "naturally generated" after the initial chaos stabilized.
Maybe there is no special reason.
But some of Sharleen's friends have a different take on this.
The Unpredictable Land was still very unstable at that time, because it often approached other voids, and the chaotic things inside would "boil" at this time.
It's just that these initial thoughts have stabilized.
Regardless of whether the Unforeseen Lands are close to other voids, they remain normal.
And they are also making the chaos around them normal.
These earliest minds continually imagined and influenced the mixture around them.
The mixture itself comes from the imagination of a large number of other void creatures, which were originally all mixed together.
And under the influence of the earliest thoughts, these mixed imaginations began to separate and no longer mix together.
It is unknown how long this lasted, but under the influence of the earliest thoughts, these mixtures in the unforeseen place ended their mixed state and separated.
However, whenever the unpredictable place approaches another void, these separated imaginations will mix again... and everything will become chaotic again.
I don't know since when, there has been some kind of "protection" in unforeseen places.
It can also be said to be a mysterious force that greatly reduces the influence of other voids on unpredictable places.
And the imagination in the unpredictable land has become more stable under the influence of the earliest thinking, and the mixing phenomenon has become less likely to occur.
At this time, some other species were born.
A creature that is a figment of the imagination.
Simply put, they are similar to the characters that appear in the works of Dreamland and the Otherworld.
Imaginary creatures appear in unforeseen places, but the first ones to appear are also unstable.
They only appear briefly and then die quickly, and the earliest creatures were in this state.
There are many causes of death, generally because they were not perfect when they were formed.
It can also be said that there is a lack of content. For example, when the Ershi people imagine a creature, they will not set all the details such as the internal organs. The constructed creature will soon die due to the lack of these "contents".
Even creatures with detailed and complete settings cannot survive for long.
Because the environment of the unpredictable land at that time was not suitable for the survival of any other void creatures.
If they were born exactly according to the settings of the original void... they would not be able to survive.
After a long time, a small group of creatures still survived.
These creatures are in a rather strange state. Although they are also imaginary creatures, they can sustain themselves by absorbing dream energy.
That is, imaginary creatures that do not completely follow the normal rules of the void.
The lives of this initial group of creatures could be described as very... boring.
They have been floating in the void, not knowing what to do or how to do it.
Many creatures began to sense the information in the surrounding dream energy.
They can read the memories in the energy, and through these they know a lot of things about the normal void and other voids.
Later, some creatures noticed that their thoughts... would change the dream energy around them.
Things can be assembled through thinking.
Although there are many types of dream energy, they can generally be divided into two types.
One is ordinary "mindless energy", which does not form living things. Common dream materials use this type of energy.
Another kind of energy may have the potential to possess thoughts and give birth to living things.
Both types of energy can form various things through the influence of thought, but the second type has the possibility of turning into a living thing during the formation process.
After the first creatures discovered that they could assemble materials, they began to "carve" the void.
They keep trying to use various methods to decompose and reorganize the original dream energy, constantly testing the properties of the dream energies and testing their... limits.
They 'customize' all sorts of things.
Things like the various jump points, various materials, various environments, and many other things that we see in the normal void now did not exist at first.
These things are all constructed...
If things in the normal void are the natural arrangement and combination of matter, then things in the unpredictable place... are carved by thinking.
It is now very difficult to see the earliest dream energy. Almost all the dream energy that can be seen has been influenced by thinking.
However, it can also be said that "thinking" itself is the earliest dream energy.
These earliest creatures caused great changes to the environment of the Unforeseen Land, forming the prototype of the current Unforeseen Land.
They can construct not only 'objects', but also various phenomena and environments in other voids.
But these earliest organisms did not survive forever.
Creatures that were born later can be said to be pure dream creatures.
Early organisms all had some other empty...shadows, besides themselves, and the things they constructed as well.
Most of them come from other voids, such as normal void tumblers and solidification phenomena like solidified void.
Others are strange phenomena that mix multiple voids.
These constructed things formed the main environment of the unforeseeable place at that time.
It can also be said that the unpredictable places in ancient times were very much like a mixture of various voids.
Perhaps this can be used to judge what will happen after the three voids collide with each other?
The ancient unforeseen land This mixture did not last forever.
Some rather special things also occurred at that time.
It can be said to be a 'pure dream creation'.
This structure can be said to be... almost free from the influence of other voids.
That is, unlike any void object or phenomenon, it is a phenomenon that only appears in unforeseen places.
It is hard to say whether this phenomenon was constructed by these early organisms or was "born naturally".
Because they construct countless things, and these things react with each other to give birth to more new things.
Along with this strange phenomenon, pure dream creatures were born.
They do not possess any characteristics of other void creatures and are completely adapted to life here.
These pure dream creatures are the main creatures of this void.
There were few of them at first, but gradually their numbers increased.
At first, those creatures with other void characteristics became fewer and fewer, and finally almost disappeared completely.
Pure dream creatures have great advantages over those creatures with other void characteristics. Simply put, they can fully adapt to everything in the void.
However, this void is still constantly changing, so the creatures here are also changing.
Later, some big things happened, including some situations that can be called "void swallowing".
Just as the name suggests, it is a void... swallowing another void.