Chapter 237 The Age of Connection

"There are many phantom creatures...

“But they are just byproducts, or surplus products.”

“They are gathered here and slowly processed.”

Sharin's clone told Lin some things, perhaps about these...illusionary creatures.

Hallucinations are not essentially living things, they are a very special kind of thing that can be called a 'cognitive phenomenon'.

Simply put, a creature needs to have some knowledge of them in order to see them.

This cognition is quite complicated. It does not mean that you can see it immediately once you know that such an illusion exists.

You still need to go to some places to get information in order to start this kind of cognition.

Once it is activated, you can see more illusions by increasing the depth of your cognition of illusions.

The clone said that the illusion itself... was created by Midgard, and there are many illusions in many spaces in the Collapsed Void.

There are quite a lot of them, but generally speaking they are the history of the Collapse of the Void.

These illusions record a long period of time, and all the creatures, things, and other things that appear during this period are recorded.

The meaning of the illusion itself is to allow Midgard's consciousness to be in different...times at the same time.

Lin knew that Midgard would be in a state of "eternal observer" after death. After Midgard's death, its consciousness would transform into a state where it would not cause direct interference to the void, but would be able to "watch" the void all the time.

There are some differences between the Midgard that died in the Shattered Void.

It also entered the eternal observer mode, but its state was different from that of other Midgards.

It is in a different time.

Simply put, this Midgard is "observing" the void of different eras at the same time, and these illusions are what it sees.

The "cognition" of other creatures actually creates a certain connection between their own minds and the state of Midgard, so they can see these illusions.

The deeper your understanding, the more you can see.

But in any case, we only see a little bit...these illusions are actually much more complicated than what we see now.

This is what the clone said, but there are still many questions.

For example, why other creatures can connect with Midgard and why they can see illusions in this way.

I don't know whether this was designed by Midgard itself or for some other reason.

The clone didn't know why, but it was now certain... these illusions, a mixture of scenes from various eras, were what Midgard's eternal observer state 'saw'.

Perhaps after entering the Collapsed Void, Midgard discovered some miraculous properties of the void, and then entered such a special state of eternal observer here.

It seemed as if the investigators had not noticed this. The clone said that only it, which was an illusion, could understand illusions.

So the next question is...what exactly is the illusion?

Are they really images from a bygone era, or are they just something Midgard created?

The clone told Lin...it was hard to tell what it was.

Illusion is actually a very interesting state. In the earlier memories of the clone, everything around it was normal... or real, without any sense of illusion.

But at some point, the clone suddenly... discovered something.

Then it found that everything around it became illusory and vague, just like the illusions Lin was seeing now, becoming vague and uncertain.

At the same time, these things are no longer from the time of the clone, but from a mixed era of the future and the past.

At the time, the clone thought it was very special, so he did some research.

Finally, after a detailed investigation, the clone discovered that it could return to its true state in the past.

Simply put, from that time on, the clone noticed that its "world" had become two-sided.

On one hand, everything is real, and this real world is the era in which one lives. There is nothing abnormal here.

On the other side is the world of illusion, where everything is erratic and flickering, and all things are a mixture of various eras.

At that time, the clone had a way to enter and exit the 'real world' and the 'illusion world'.

It thought it had entered some special space, and the way the clone entered the illusion world was to use a crack in the void.

One time, the clone decided to investigate the illusion world in depth, so he entered the illusion world for a long time.

Later, the clone found that he could not go back.

When the clone returned to the entrance of the real world, he found that the entrance had disappeared.

And to its surprise, it saw... itself here.

When the clone enters the illusion world, he can see illusions of various eras, including the present and the future, but these illusions... are not of his own era.

And now the clone sees the illusions of the era in which it lives, and even sees itself in these illusions.

This made the clone feel very strange, but it had no way to communicate with these phantoms and could only watch them do things in their own era.

Because the clone found that he could not return to the real world, he began to travel around in this illusory world.

It wants to investigate and understand this place.

There is no such thing as "distance" when traveling here. Simply put, no matter how far you fly, you can only see various illusions.

However, the clone discovered that it could travel through time.

That is to say, if it 'moves' to a certain place, the illusions it sees around it are all scenes of the future.

On the contrary, it can also make the surrounding illusions show the scenery of the past.

So the clone did some tests and found that the illusion of the past had limits.

The illusion can show some very ancient scenes and creatures, but after showing a certain group of creatures, it will not show more.

After determining the 'past upper limit' of the illusion, the clone tried to find the future upper limit.

The clone said…it seems that there is no limit to the future.

The era that Lin and Sharin are living in now is the farthest future for the clones.

However, everything in this era is still progressing.

For example, the clone can now see Lin coming to this hollow tumbler to investigate, which means that the future it sees... will not stop at a certain position but will be ongoing.

It's just that the future can't be revealed as quickly as before.

To be honest, Lin's era is the farthest future for the clone.

When the clone saw Lin's era, it began to want to communicate with the creatures of this era in the farthest future.