Chapter 202 Slow Collapse

"Before I knew it... the world had fallen apart..."

"Our...world."

There once was such a civilization here.

In this crumbling void, there are many relics of civilization from the normal void.

These civilizations are extremely ancient, and almost all of them existed before the void tunnel.

The main reason why Lin knows this is that many of them are civilizations that Lin knows... In the collapsed space, these ruins are like copies of the ruins of civilizations in the normal void, and the two are almost exactly the same.

Lin also noticed some special civilizations here, which were not copied.

They may be a civilization that originally existed in the Collapsed Void.

What is special is that when they develop, the void collapses.

The 'rules' here are similar to those in the normal void, so the way creatures here develop is also similar to that in the normal void.

There is a civilization here that was originally born from... the corpse of a giant creature.

Lin calls them 'Eye Selectors'.

This gigantic creature is thousands of kilometers in size. It floats in the collapsing void, searching for various resources and food.

When this creature is alive, it has a lot of parasites on it, but when the creature is alive... the number of these parasites is kept under stable control.

And when it dies, these parasites... begin to grow explosively.

They spread and grow rapidly on the corpses like carrion fungi, while also competing with each other and fighting for more resources.

What these parasites didn't realize as they fought over the entire carcass was... that this giant creature was actually still alive. In fact, a small part of it was still alive.

The living part is the 'eye' of this creature.

To be precise, it is its sensory organ, which has a separate "life system". Even if the entire organism dies, it will not be affected and can continue to live.

At the same time, it shifts the scope of perception from the outside world to the inside.

This sensory organ will begin to sense the war in which these former inhabitants of the body are now constantly fighting for the resources of corpses...

After long-term observation, it will...select certain creatures and then exert some influence on them.

The intelligence and other abilities of the creature selected by the organ will increase rapidly, and after gaining an advantageous position, it will occupy the entire corpse.

This selected creature is called the 'Eye Chooser'.

They will slowly develop civilization, and eventually discover that their intelligence is directly related to the sensory organs in their corpses, which have been dormant.

When the resources on the corpse are about to be exhausted, the sensory organ will be activated again, and this civilization discovers... they can use this organ to discover resources floating in the distant void.

This civilization will do its best to use its remaining resources to build aircraft that can travel long distances, and try to reach the location of distant resources.

They usually succeed.

And when they arrive, they will find that the place they have arrived is another huge creature.

Of course, he is still alive.

This huge creature will easily destroy the "Eye Chosen" civilization that has finally found its way here.

It will then absorb all the knowledge of the entire civilization, and after it dies, it will put this knowledge into its sensory organ, and then just like the previous giant creature, this sensory organ will choose a new 'Eye Selector' on its own corpse.

The civilization knowledge contained therein will be passed on to this new generation of 'Eye Selectors'.

It does not directly input all the knowledge, but slowly allows the new generation of 'Eye Selectors' to acquire knowledge, which will also allow them to develop quickly.

It is not clear when this amazing way of creating civilization began.

And Lin can detect when it ends.

Because in this way, the civilization knowledge of each generation of "Eye Selectors" will be accumulated and passed on to the next generation, which will allow these Wanniemo's knowledge to accumulate more and more.

Although each new generation of eye selectors is similar in terms of intelligence, their knowledge and skills can accumulate and become stronger and stronger, and eventually break free from this... constraint.

When some Eye Chosen civilizations develop strong enough, they can better control their sensory organs.

The previous Eye-Chosen civilization could only discover the location of another giant living creature each time it used its sensory organs, and they could only discover it vaguely, without knowing what was actually there.

And once, there was a civilization of eye-selectors... that transformed their sensory organs.

They want to get clearer information from far away, so they keep trying to improve their organs. Finally, they transform their organs and become more powerful than before.

It can observe the situation in the surrounding void very 'clearly'.

Therefore, this Eye Selector civilization also discovered that there were more and closer resources around.

At this point, the Eye Selector became the first civilization to break away and began to live freely.

Their lives are completely dependent on detection devices made based on sensory organs. They constantly search for resources around them, and when the resources in one area are exhausted, they move to the next place.

To this end, they are also constantly strengthening their detection equipment.

And then before they knew it, they were at…the edge.

This is a 'wall' that is insurmountable for them.

The technology they had at the time was completely unable to explain what was happening at this edge, so they treated it as the edge of the void.

Then, they slowly discovered...their predicament.

The void where they live is a space with a diameter of approximately 10 billion kilometers, and they cannot leave this place.

They felt very surprised and strange about this.

Because they have previously detected signals, light, shadows, etc. from things far beyond this distance.

Later, the information sent from those distant places gradually disappeared, but they didn't pay much attention to it. Instead, they continued to search for resources around them and develop slowly.

It was not until now that they realized that their void... was so small.

Although 10 billion kilometers itself is not a small area, the resources contained in it are actually not that many.

This place is not like the normal void with many tumblers, stars, etc. There are no large objects floating in it, and the resources are floating everywhere like scattered fragments.

There are only so many resources in the entire range, and if these resources are exhausted, they will surely perish.

So in addition to constantly trying to increase the reuse of resources, they also keep trying to push through the edges.

It just hasn't been successful.

This is the case because their civilization developed during the void collapse stage.

In the early stages of their civilization development, the void seemed to have just begun to collapse, or it was not collapsing so quickly, so they could see things farther away.

After developing to the later stage, the void had already shattered into pieces.

This causes them to be unable to detect things further away and find themselves trapped in a space of this size.

But they are not completely unable to cross the edge of space.

They modify the detectors made from organs to detect situations beyond the edge of space.

To be precise, it is detecting other...spaces nearby.

As they continued to upgrade and improve their detectors, they discovered that there were many similar spaces around them.

Some are much smaller than the space they are in, while others are very large.

The most important thing is that there are a lot of resources in these spaces, so they always want to go to other spaces.

They tried every possible method to do this... Although they could clearly detect the situation in other spaces, they were unable to transmit the "real objects" over.

During the detection process, they also discovered strange phenomena in the surrounding space.

The surrounding space was mostly just some fragments floating there like rubble, and later they slowly discovered that... these fragments had actually changed.

The pieces began to 'automatically' fit together.

They turned into various structures that looked like buildings.

Under the observation of the Eye Selectors, they discovered that the void that was originally filled with only fragments floating around had constructed various huge...cities.

But there is no living creature inside, it is just a simple building.

This group of Eye Selectors were very surprised by the changes in the surrounding space, but what they cared more about was... whether they could go to those spaces.

What they observed was that the cities assembled 'out of thin air' in the surrounding void were actually normal void civilization buildings.

For unknown reasons, these buildings were generated one after another in these small spaces of the collapsing void.

The eye selectors observed almost the entire process, which was also very amazing for them.

There's just no direct connection to them.

Because they have not found a way to leave their own space until the sin.

At the same time, they also discovered that no matter how they recycled resources or how they tried to develop over the long term, their resources would always be exhausted.

Like most civilizations, war ensues when resources become scarce.

In the end, the civilization of the Eye Chosen slowly perished.

However, this Eye-Chosen civilization recorded the process of the Collapsed Void 'copying' the normal Void civilization, and these records were preserved intact.

These records were kept in their detector, and now Lin has also discovered this detector.

Lin discovered that this detector was still... alive.

It can also be said that it is always dormant, and it will wake up when something touches it. It is essentially an organ of a living organism.

After Lin and Sharin talked about this, Sharin said that she probably knew what caused this, and that the void itself... might have some special function.

At the same time, it also felt that it could use a similar method to restore the memory of its clone.