Chapter 219 Capture

The young of the small pipes...are usually tens of meters in size.

They were discovered by the overlappers during their continuous tracking and observation of the small pipes.

Although these cubs are very small, they are covered with many building-like structures like the 'adult' small pipes.

The activity range of young juveniles is very small compared to that of adults. They generally move around in areas called "residual areas" by those who overlap.

These remnant areas are actually the remains of some drifting civilizations.

At that time, there were quite a few of these drifting civilizations around the overlappers. They all left their original living areas for various reasons and drifted in the void.

The remains of these civilizations left behind in the void are where the young ones gather.

These cubs gathered around the ruins, constantly searching for remaining information inside...mainly some historical records of civilization, or stories of creation or something like that.

The young ones are pretty much the same as the adults, they'll look for this information... they seem to be able to decipher the languages ​​of quite a few civilized creatures and stuff like that.

They are mainly looking for information about 'biography'.

If it is a civilization of individual creatures, their historical records usually contain many stories about great individuals. The goal of these cubs is to find these stories. As long as the story describes the life of a great individual in detail... it will record this information.

Then based on the information... he created a creature in the building on his body that was almost identical to the protagonist in the story.

Because these young ones are so small, the creatures they create are also very small, usually only a few centimeters in size... and then these creatures will live on them as residents.

Since the personality memories and other settings of these created creatures come from recorded stories of various different individual creatures, it is difficult for them to adapt to life in the little pipe cubs.

Despite this, the cubs continued to try to obtain records of these civilized creatures and tried to create a large number of residents on their bodies.

They don't care whether the creatures recorded in the records are suitable for their own environment. Once they find a story, they start creating it.

These cubs behave similarly to adults, except that they do not plunder information from overlappers and have no power of their own.

In order to gain understanding of the small pipes, the overlappers captured a large number of young for research.

In the study, the researchers found that these pups... didn't seem to grow up.

Although the overlappers call them cubs, they don't seem to have any ability to grow.

Although they have the same lifestyle as adults, due to their abnormality, the overlappers cannot find any clues from them that can help them defeat the adult small pipes.

However, since the overlappers firmly believe that these cubs are the key, they still... raise the cubs and try to find a way to defeat this creature through observation and research.

The adult larvae continue to attack them.

The continuous attacks made the overlappers try various methods to investigate the cubs, because the adult small pipes have the ability to move over ultra-long distances, similar to teleportation, and can also repair themselves very quickly. The cubs do not have these abilities, and they want the cubs to develop these abilities so that they can know countermeasures.

Therefore, the overlappers found a way to make their young grow. At first, they fed the young with a lot of food...which was a kind of debris in the void.

Also, they thought the cubs might grow in certain special locations, so they did a lot of testing.

And the overlappers finally discovered how the cubs grew up.

This actually... has to do with what they've always done.

When the young have gathered enough information and created enough inhabitants on themselves, it will 'grow'.

This condition is rather difficult, because the residents there must form a sufficiently prosperous city.

Most of the residents died when they were created because they could not adapt, and the few who survived would continue to fight with other residents.

If enough residents survive and occupy at least 80% of the buildings on the cubs... they will "expand" themselves.

Including adding buildings, increasing your own size, etc., so that you can accommodate more residents.

After the increase, even if all the creatures living on it die, it will not reduce its size.

After discovering this, they began to try various methods to help their cubs grow.

The overlappers mainly try to give the cubs... various stories.

These stories are specially designed by the overlappers themselves, and the characters in the stories are very suitable for life in the cubs.

The cubs themselves are very picky. They need to discover information about the lost civilization on their own, and they don't want stories deliberately created for them by the overlappers.

So the overlappers tried to disguise the stories they created as being obtained from the relics of other civilizations. They needed to completely imitate the languages ​​of those civilizations, etc. Although the process was difficult, the works they created in the end were successfully accepted by the cubs.

These cubs will accept these works even if they are trapped by overlappers, but they have a strong ability to distinguish.

The overlappers made their works extremely similar to those of other civilizations...that's how they fooled these young ones.

Then they also watched a cub grow slowly under their 'nurturing'.

When the cub grows to a certain size, it has some powerful abilities.

And the overlappers discovered miraculously that these abilities were not developed by the cubs themselves, or not entirely.

But...it was caused by its residents.

Because the cubs use the story characters created by the overlappers, they can live well in the cubs and even develop.

Then, these residents will begin to explore the resources on the cubs. The cubs have many special "substances" that can create wonderful effects.

Using these materials, these civilizations created things like teleportation devices and devices for detecting space.

When they create these things, the young themselves directly control the devices.

This allows them to move long distances on their own.

Finally the overlappers also discovered...the same was true for the adult little pipes.

All of their powerful abilities were 'invented' by the inhabitants of them.

It's just that these residents died for some reason, but these devices still remain on them.

Their main powerful abilities come from these things.

After learning this, the overlappers figured out a way to deal with the small pipes and launched attacks on the small pipes that kept attacking them.

This battle was also the main reason why the Overlappers learned about their own 'Full Space Integration Plan'.