Chapter 194 Data

"These voids are all very small voids."

Lin and Sharin have now come to the previous location of the "Observatory".

This place is not only used to call back Sharin, it also has many other uses.

For example, detecting the surrounding void environment.

There is nothing special to do now as we are waiting for Sharlene's 'travel data'.

Lin continued to ask Sharin various questions while following it to see what it wanted to do.

Now Lin and it are detecting the situation in the surrounding void.

It is mainly to detect some... data, the dream energy of the surrounding void environment.

In the dream energy of unpredictable places, sometimes other void data is mixed in.

To be more precise, it is the thoughts and ideas of other void creatures that occasionally affect the energy of the void and cause a small change in the energy.

This 'observatory' can detect these impact data from other voids.

"This is really high." Sharlene looked at the twinkling 'starry sky' around her and said, "It's much higher than before."

"Yes." The blond manager was also here: "It has increased recently, almost 30%..."

Sharin and Lin had said before that these influences from other voids are usually less than 0.1%, which would hardly cause anything.

If it is above 1%, the dream energy will undergo some changes, such as producing other phenomena that only exist in the void.

Of course, it will take 100% to produce a completely complete phenomenon, but 30% can already cause a significant impact.

"Is this a change caused by the Sea of ​​Creation?" Lin asked.

"No, it existed before it." Sharlene said, "This value seems to have been increasing for a long time."

"These impact data all come from those smaller voids." Sharin said, "It seems that many small voids are approaching this place."

"These small voids..." Lin asked, "How small are they?"

"They vary in size." Sharin said, "Generally, they are around one light year in size. Most of their 'rules' are similar to normal voids, but there are also some voids with strange rules. The reason for their formation is generally believed to be... splitting."

"There are many reasons for the formation of voids. Splitting is one of them. It can be said that a large void is decomposed into many small voids." Sharin said: "Because there is a void in a state of collapse, I think it should all come from it."

"...collapse?" Lin asked.

"Well... it's similar to the collapse of the void tunnel." Sharin said: "If you want to say it, the void tunnel can also be considered a... small void."

"Most voids are very small... As far as you know, there are three large voids." Sharin said, "And there are actually more than three of these large voids."

“…Then how many are there?” Lin was quite surprised by this.

"I know very little about most of the situations, because these large voids are quite far away..." Sharin said, "But there is one... I know more about it."

"This void is called the 'collapsing void'. It collapsed and shattered bit by bit a long time ago... Many small voids were generated this way." Sharin said, "Now there are many influences from these collapsed small voids."

"The influence of the creatures inside." Sharin said, "This is quite interesting. Maybe we need to investigate it. Do you want to go there and take a look together? Sharin?"

"Go to those small voids that collapsed?" Lin asked.

"Well... actually there is no direct way to get there." Sharin said, "You have to enter the normal void first, and then... you can get there."

“Is it easy to get there?”

"It's not very easy. You need to go to the normal void to find out." Sharin said: "If you want to come, of course you can go together."

"……certainly."

In the following period of time, nothing seemed to happen.

Lin and Sharin have been staying here the whole time. In addition to continuing to ask some questions, Lin just looks around and discusses the creatures with it.

Many of these creatures were indeed discussing things such as changes in void data, while others were discussing them in a secret manner.

The secretive method... is that you can't see what they are discussing. They don't emit a large number of fragmented images like other creatures. It looks like just a few creatures gathered together and not moving.

Sharin said that if they were discussing like this, they were probably discussing something about occupying this place.

In fact, there have always been creatures that want to occupy this "boundless conference room".

They just never succeeded.

Some are solved by managers, and some are solved by other creatures.

During the previous inspection process, Sharin and Lin discovered that there are some creatures now who are plotting bad things against this place.

Since there was nothing special to do right now, Sharin decided to take care of them, and of course Lin followed her.

"This... is an abandoned meeting area."

At this time, Lin and Sharin came to a...relatively dark place.

Other conference areas gave Lin a very "bright" feeling, but this place was very dark and roughly looked like the ruins of a medieval town.

According to Sharin, although the creatures here generally do not like to become the structures of the Ershi people, they quite like the town environment of the Ershi people.

There is no real light or dark in unpredictable places. If you see a dark-like scenery, it is usually due to energy interference.

And pure darkness...is caused by the absence of anything within the perceptible range.

"These places are what was left after the battle." Sharin said, "Some creatures wanted to occupy this place... which led to some fierce wars. The area after the battle has been abandoned, which means..."

'Bang!'

Suddenly, Lin found that Sharin took out a pistol and fired several shots at the side.

The bullets hit a nearby wooden door that was hanging precariously on the door frame.

"Gah..." The moment the wooden door was hit, it instantly twisted and deformed, turning into a creature that seemed to have four limbs, and quickly ran away.

"What is that?" Lin asked.

"Creatures produced by battles." Sharin said, "After the battle, many unique species were born here and have been living in this environment. They are quite interesting."

“Squeak, squeak, squeak!”

Suddenly, Lin discovered that the "wooden door" that had run away before had run back again, and it brought many...companions with it.

Its companions are medieval furniture such as cabinets, boilers, stoves, etc. that have grown a few limbs.

It feels really fun.

"Ohhhh, so many of these creatures are besieging us, which means there must be some creatures with bad intentions nearby!"

Sharlene said as she fired multiple shots at the creatures.

All the creatures that rushed over were also shattered at this moment... These bullets were very different from the first shot it just fired, and were much more powerful.

Then, Sharin walked over their fragments, and Lin examined the broken creatures.

They don't seem to be anything special, just disguised as furniture here.

As you walk around in the ruins, you can find many similar creatures.

They pretend to be in the surroundings and attack when Lin and Sharin approach.

But they were all solved easily.

The moment Sharlene's bullets hit them, cracks quickly spread from the wounds all over their bodies.

Lin also asked Sharin about the structure of dream materials... What Sharin told Lin was basically the same as what Lin discovered.

In short, the more complex the construction idea, the greater the "power" of a structure.

At the same time, ideas can be used to give the structure different "properties".

For example, we can imagine that after the material is formed, it becomes a solid object, or energy, various phenomena, and so on.

As long as your thinking ability is strong enough, you can make the dream material show many different "properties".

“It should be right there.”

Sharin and Lin came to a building with the word "Library" written on it. The building looked like a hemispherical wooden building.

This building looked much more complete than the others. Sharin waved her pistol and fired a shot at the door of the library.

The moment the bullet hit the door, Lin saw a strong vortex exploding at the impact point.

It turned into a huge tornado in a short period of time, and the entire library began to fall apart under the destruction of the tornado.

"Through different ideas, we can create more than just solid objects." Sharin said to Lin: "Lin, this should be easy to do. After detailed settings, the materials can show quite a few different effects..."

'boom!'

Before Sharlene could finish her words, the library suddenly exploded.

In the explosion, a large number of books flew up and attacked Lin and Sharin directly.

“These should be it itself.”

Sharlene shot directly at each book with her gun, and the books broke into two halves the moment they were penetrated by the bullets.

Every time a book was shattered, Lin could "hear" a lot of scream-like sounds coming from inside.

In the end, all the books were taken down by Sharlene.

When it hit the last book, its scream was the loudest, and most importantly...

It didn't crack.

The book was hit and simply fell to the ground intact.

Lin walked over and took a look at the book. On its cover it was written "A Great Secret Treasure".

"This looks like a comic book I've read before." Sharin also came over, opened it and took a look.

This is the story of... a ship.

The ship was constructed on an island and then it was determined to go on a big adventure.

It sailed all the way to the end of the world, sinking countless other ships and destroying countless islands along the way, until it finally reached its destination.

And then... it was over.

Although it is said very simply, the whole story is quite interesting.

During the journey, the ship encountered many complex species, including the Ershi people, and developed various relationships with them.

There are many creatures that are hostile to it, and there are also many creatures that become its allies.

Each companion does not stay with it for very long. Every time a companion dies, it assembles the companion's body on the boat and continues to move forward.

Until the end, the ship looked like a... death ship.

Almost identical, a battleship formed from the wreckage appears at the end of the story.

"I see, it put itself in this story." After reading it, Sharin said to Lin, "Many creatures here have this ability. You know, as long as there is 'data' in this void, it can form a complete... no matter if it is a creature or something else, so some creatures will commit suicide directly when facing danger, and store their own data, waiting to be 'constructed' again at some point."

"It's the same. Its data is in this book." Sharlene said, "It's just that it was easily discovered."

"What kind of creature is this?" Lin asked.

"Let's extract its data and take a look." Sharin opened the book and put it on the ground, then placed her hand on the surface of the book.

"You can try it, too."

After Sharin said that, Lin also put her hand on the surface of the book like it did.

After putting it on the surface, Lin could indeed feel the...data inside.

It can be found that these data represent the composition of something.

If this data is applied to some dream materials, then these materials will constitute corresponding things.

That is... the Death Battleship.

It can be said to be a flying vehicle that is very similar to the Death Battleship, mainly because it looks like a large amount of wreckage has been piled up.

However, it should not have a direct connection with the real Death Battleship because it does not have any other systems similar to the Death Battleship.

Its function is not to attack, but to collect.

This is similar to the test that Lin had conducted in the observatory before.

The observatory here can detect the "influence values" of various dream energies in the void.

At the same time, it is also possible to detect which void these impact values ​​come from and classify them carefully.

This thing that looks like a death battleship also has similar functions, but its main function is to find the source of influence of a certain void in the dream energy, and then extract detailed information of this influence.

Lin felt that...it might be related to the Mid Void.

"Then it's solved now." Sharin picked up the book and pressed her ear and said, "Zi, we found a creature hiding in the abandoned area. Find out when it came in."

"Okay, I understand..." At this time, the blond manager's voice also sounded. After dozens of seconds, it said: "This creature came here ten days ago. It had some discussions with various creatures in many areas, and then floated to the abandoned area."

"The content it discussed... was all about the influence of a void." The manager said, "The current dream energy has been slightly changed by the influence of the 'thoughts' from various voids. It was mainly asking other creatures if they had discovered the energy affected by a certain void."

"The void it was talking about seemed to be a very small void... After it asked many creatures here, one creature said that it had seen the influence of the void." The manager said: "After hearing this news, it hid in the abandoned area."

"Then it tried to conduct a large-scale detection of the surrounding void environment. This is why we discovered the anomaly."

Lin and Sharin had discovered some abnormal data when they were testing in the observatory, and this creature seemed to be the source of the anomaly.

This kind of anomaly can be said to be an anomaly of unstable data detection, that is, the data impact value of a certain void is unstable... sometimes high and sometimes low.

"I see." Sharin said, "That means it was very concerned about the influence of a certain void on this place, so it came here to investigate. After we discovered it, it resolutely committed suicide, but retained its data."

"Then let's take this data back first."

As she spoke, Sharlene placed the book on the ground, and also put down the gun that it had used to fire the gun.

Then the gun began to transform into a thing with many legs, which picked up the book and left.

"Okay." After watching the gun move the books away, Sharin looked at Lin and said, "Do you want to go back? Or continue to investigate this place?"

"Let's keep watching." Lin said.

"Yes..." Sharin said, "Then... let's keep moving forward!"

Next, Lin and Sharin continued to wander around these abandoned areas.

There are quite a lot of creatures here that are disguised as the surrounding environment. Sharin said that they originally lived a very ordinary life. If there are some creatures with bad intentions nearby... they will start to attack the arrivals.

This also means that this group of camouflaged creatures can be considered an "indicator".

They themselves actually have no connection with the creatures with bad intentions, but they will be affected by the emotions of those creatures.

Another interesting thing is that the creatures that try to harm the "Boundless Conference Room" always hide in the abandoned area.

No matter how long they've been planning or what they're planning to do, they always try to hide in here.

This also makes it easy to catch them... unless they are creatures that are too powerful.

So Lin and Sharin encountered some creatures again during their operation.

These creatures are also planning what to do here.

Some want to kill the creature in question, others want to blow up a certain area.

However, they themselves were not very strong and were easily dealt with.

This also made Lin realize that there seemed to be quite a lot of creatures trying to harm this place.

While wandering around with Sharin, Lin also visited several abandoned areas.

The conditions in these areas are generally the same, such as the ruins of the Ershi people... and there are also quite a few creatures here.

Lin also saw how those disguised creatures lived a 'normal life' without being affected.

During this period of exploration, the testing of the previous book was almost completed.

It is indeed something associated with the Mid Void.

It seemed to be specifically investigating the impact that the Mid Void had on some of the energy here.