Chapter 217 Relics

"...I can't die...in this place..."

Lin can see some illusions.

This is a void species...platform.

The huge black surface reflects the light of the starry sky. Its diameter is three hundred meters and it looks like a huge disk.

The ruins floating near this void are also made of similar materials. They are all black...materials that reflect light.

And around these objects, there are many illusions floating.

There are the largest number of illusions on this platform, so Lin mainly observes these illusions here.

Most illusions look like an object made up of a bunch of balls about ten centimeters in size, but the whole pile of balls is several meters in size.

They are actually 'overlappers'.

These overlappers generally look like a bunch of spheres gathered together like this.

The main reason for their shape seems to be that they store their "history" in these spheres.

After each overlapper experiences life in a space they have simulated, they will store their life experiences in a ball.

So the more balls an overlapper appears to be clustered together, the more... experiences it has had.

Among these balls there is something called the 'core ball', which is where its own thinking lies.

It is said that these spheres can be separated, and each sphere can become a separate consciousness, all of which have memories related to the experience data stored within.

As for their integration into a common group consciousness, that is, all the overlaps come together to become a huge... spherical aggregate.

At this time, it will connect all the experiences within the sphere and become a consciousness that knows everything and has extremely high wisdom.

Lin has not yet fully understood this kind of creature, and what she needs to study now is mainly their "plan".

This is what the clone said, the remains of the Overlapper Project.

The Overlapper never knew its complete plan to connect all the spaces... but at some point later, it suddenly recorded the entire plan in this relic, and then it saw the entire plan of the Overlapper in this relic through the Time Keeper's "future observation" ability.

The doppelganger said this in general, but did not elaborate.

At present, Lin has not seen anything about the plan, but can only sense the thoughts of these overlappers around her.

They are all in a state of imminent collapse.

They all think they are going to die, but they are still trying hard to hold themselves back.

It’s just… I don’t know what caused them to die, maybe they were attacked or something. They all showed very painful emotions here, and kept saying that they were going to die and couldn’t just die.

"Take it away..."

At this time, Lin discovered that a more special overlapper was approaching the ball of fluff, and the "words" it said were somewhat different from those of other overlappers.

"Can't you just do this? Give it to... bring it to..."

It suddenly stopped and looked towards the void in the distance.

Although it was impossible to tell where its sensory organs were, Lin could feel that it was paying attention in one direction.

The same was true for other overlapping people around, they looked in that direction.

At this time, Lin discovered that the "small pipe" that she had seen before appeared in the void in the distance.

This pipeline is hundreds of kilometers long. It is the same length as Midgard, but much smaller.

I didn't study it carefully before, but now it appears again.

The moment the small pipe appeared, Lin found that the illusions around her suddenly increased a lot.

It seemed like the illusion of the overlapper originally only appeared around the black floating ruins, but now it suddenly filled the surrounding void.

In addition to the huge number of overlappers, there are also many large...things that should be their warships.

These warships are all black, each is hundreds of meters in size and of different shapes, like a group of huge black stones.

Lin felt that the various ruins floating here were part of these warships.

They were all facing the small pipe that appeared.

The small pipe flew over quickly, and the moment it moved, all the overlappers and warships immediately began to... run away.

They didn't fight, and didn't seem to want to resist at all.

When all these overlapping ones dispersed, the small pipe also flew into their group.

Some overlappers who failed to escape in time were swallowed by the small pipe.

Lin could see that these overlappers that fell into the small pipe...the spheres that made up their bodies were dispersing at a very fast speed, and exploded after flying for a while.

It seemed that entering the small pipe would result in certain death.

The situation of those who were escaping around was not good either. The scattered overlappers had some spheres falling off their bodies.

These spheres fly quickly towards the small pipe and explode instantly when they touch the surface of the small pipe.

The small pipe did not intentionally chase the overlapping entities around it, but just flew between them... making many of the overlapping entities' bodies much smaller.

Those warships didn't seem to be affected at all, they just fled far away.

After the small pipe flew away, these overlappers returned to their previous state...a state of shouting to die.

And the special one from before continued to talk in front of the ball about what he wanted to take away.

But Lin didn’t see what it said it would take away.

Or just like when the small pipe appeared just now, more illusions will appear at certain times.

At present, Lin can't see the illusion of the thing it said it would take away.

“How… could this be…”

The overlapper continued to move forward, and finally it... touched the pompom.

Because it was an illusion, I just went straight through it.

But its mood suddenly changed, as if the pompom had some effect on it.

"So that's how it is. Only you can take it away."

As it spoke, Lin discovered that a ball on its body floated away from its body and flew to a location on the ground far away.

Then the ball disappeared.

Lin also noticed that a crack suddenly opened on the ground.

The crack expanded rapidly, finally reaching nearly a hundred meters, and then it slowly opened like a huge door.

The strange thing is... this is not an illusion.

But it was opened in reality...on the disc-shaped ruins where Lin's ball of fluff was located.

When it was fully opened, Lin found that there was a... smaller pipe inside.

This small pipe is only tens of meters in size and looks like a miniature model, but its shape is exactly the same as the previous one.