Chapter 218 Small Pipeline

"They are...taking our..."

This small tube is also called an "experience predator" by the overlappers.

Small pipes have been attacking this group of overlappers.

These overlappers belong to a group of "drifting groups". They left the space where they originally lived and then drifted in the void, but the details of why and when they left are unclear.

After leaving, they encountered many dangers just like the creatures that usually float in the void.

And the biggest crisis they ended up facing was these small pipelines.

Small pipes... I don't know if they have any connection with Midgard, but they are a species that look similar in appearance.

Their sizes range from tens of meters to hundreds of kilometers, but generally only the largest species will attack overlappers.

The way they attacked was just as Lin had seen before, by absorbing their 'experiences'.

Each ball that makes up the body of the overlapper is their experience of living in the simulated space, but it is not entirely true.

When overlappers live for a long time, they may also store their experiences during this period in a ball.

And what the little pipes do is suck these balls away... somehow.

This method is said to be very strange, the small tubes can generate a gravity-like effect around the body.

This effect will only attract the ball of the overlapper and nothing else.

Every time a ball rich in experience is attracted to the small pipe, it will... come alive.

Because the Overlappers observed and studied why the small tubes plundered their...experience balls, they discovered that the small tubes could turn these balls into creatures that lived on the surface of their bodies.

After each ball is sucked through the small pipe, it will explode when it touches the surface of its body.

This is actually the small pipe reading the information inside, and then a...creature will appear in the building-like structures inside or on the surface of the small pipe.

This creature has memories and experiences since its 'birth', which are exactly the same as the information stored in the overlapper sphere.

However, the body structure of this creature is not similar to the memory.

Their body structures are generally constructed in accordance with the architectural style of the small pipes themselves. The architecture of each small pipe is different, and generally speaking, it is very different from the environment in which the original overlappers live.

So when they are born, they usually immediately wonder why they become like this, where they are, etc.

Sometimes they will start trying to survive on the little tube body.

Some will die quickly from various reasons.

In any case, the experience information plundered from the overlappers was constructed into living creatures on the body through small pipes.

They can also be considered as residents living in the small pipes. The overlappers believe that the fundamental purpose of the small pipes is to collect a large amount of experience information from the ball, and then create a large number of residents to form a prosperous...city.

Therefore, small pipes are always dissatisfied.

There are many small pipes that keep attacking them, collecting the experience balls of the overlappers... They try to fill the buildings on their bodies with these experience balls.

Most of the residents created using the experience ball don't live long.

Because they are the memories of overlappers experiencing various different environments, many of the residents created through these memories cannot survive because they find it difficult to adapt to the new body structure.

It is unknown whether the buildings on the small pipes were built by themselves or grew out of them. The overlappers have many guesses, because they have never seen the small pipes construct the buildings on their bodies, so they think that they may be "natural".

Although the little pipes can use the information in their balls to create living things, they have never adjusted those buildings.

The little pipes simply kept trying to use the information in the ball to create creatures and stuffed them into these buildings to live.

While they were not suited to the environment on the small pipes and kept dying, the small pipes were also constantly snatching the balls from the overlappers.

They didn't think of trying to adjust their environment to make it suitable for the creatures they created.

Just try to get more information, create more creatures... so that these creatures can fill all the buildings before they all die.

The constant attacks of these small pipes also kicked off the war between the two species.

Initially the overlappers fought back, using a variety of weapons to attack the small pipes.

The small pipes are not as powerful as Midgard. The overlappers can blast the cities on their surface into powder, and can also blow huge rifts on their bodies.

It's just that it's difficult to completely kill a small pipe.

Many times, the little pipe was beaten and bruised, and looked like he was about to die, and then he ran away.

After a while, they will come back intact, as if they have been repaired somewhere.

The reason why the overlappers slowly fail is that these small pipes recover faster than the overlappers.

The weapons of the Overlappers consume energy and need to be replenished after use.

If the replenishment is incomplete, the small pipes will return.

Of course, the small pipes themselves will also attack, and the tactics they use are somewhat similar to those Lin often uses.

It means to emit things on the surface of the body.

In other words, those buildings can be launched as missiles, and the damage they cause is only the impact of collision, and even explosions are rare.

But it can still cause some damage.

Another way for the little pipes to fight is "information disassembly", which is their most amazing ability. They can instantly disassemble... a lot of things containing information.

This includes the experience balls of overlappers, the brains of some creatures, various data storage devices, and so on.

Of course, whether or not something has information depends on different organisms.

The small pipes themselves have the ability to dismantle many of the devices used by the overlappers to store information, including themselves.

This disassembly is similar to breaking down the entire device into small particles at an extremely fast speed, and the small pipes can also obtain the information inside during the decomposition process.

Faced with these creatures, the overlappers are being slowly consumed.

The small pipes slowly devoured and plundered the various things of the overlappers over a long period of time, and always managed to escape.

The overlappers are therefore constantly upgrading their weapons in an attempt to completely kill these threats.

Finally... they found the 'baby' of the little pipe.

So these are the smaller pipes.

These smaller pipes… should be the key to their victory.