Chapter 245 Assembly

“There’s a lot of… stuff here.”

A flying vehicle more than three hundred meters long was slowly approaching its target.

This is an interesting looking star.

It illuminated the surrounding void with a dazzling white light, and some small tumblers floated around it.

The largest one is only one thousand kilometers. Lin’s aircraft has now landed on the tumbler closest to the star.

The surface temperature of this tumbler is kept high by the constant scorching of its star, but there's something special here, too.

Lin called them 'star shooters'.

From the outside, these things look very much like the vehicles of the Ershi people, but they do not use wheels, but move with their limbs, and they are also covered with a gray shell that gleams with metallic luster.

Lin called them this name because their main job is... to photograph stars.

Occasionally, white stars in the sky will experience a powerful 'flare' where they brighten for a short time and then quickly return to normal.

Whenever a flash occurs, the star cameras will flash along with it. When the flash ends, they will spit out a lot of... recording images from under their bodies.

These recorded images show various details on the surface of the star when it flashes, but it is not an ordinary picture... On the surface, it looks like a disk composed of spherical and prismatic particles of different sizes.

In addition to mining resources on the surface of the Tumbler to maintain itself, the "Star Shooter" is responsible for photographing stars.

They are not living creatures, but look like photographic devices placed here by a civilization in order to understand the state of the stars.

It’s just that no one knows where that civilization has gone, and the devices they placed are still here constantly filming.

Although no one knew where that civilization had gone and it was very likely that it had already perished, Lin knew what kind of civilization they were.

In fact... it is the civilization of the Gatekeepers.

Like the Gatekeepers and alien creatures, the miniature individuals seen in the Hollow Tumblers are simply imitations of real creatures.

The Gatekeepers themselves are a real civilization. These star-shooting devices were created by them, and the records left by the star-shooting devices are the language used by the Gatekeepers.

Lin had detected the thoughts of the micro gate guards in the Hollow Tumbler, so she knew that this was their language.

However, I don’t know what happened to their civilization. Of course, what Lin cares about most is not this, but the... recording images of these star cameras.

The different shapes of varying sizes above represent the activity on the star's surface, but special structures can be seen in some of the recorded images.

Normal recording images are spherical and prismatic structures, but some recording images show a very strange structure.

This structure is irregular in shape, like a randomly shaped rock, and this shape has only been seen in a few records left by "star cameras".

So, Lin continued to stay here and observed the 'strobe' phenomenon several times, and the star camera would take a picture every time.

Only a few star cameras left records showing strange structures, and the star cameras that produced such structures were all aimed in a certain direction.

After getting a general understanding, Lin launched a large number of miniature soldiers in the direction where they were shooting.

These soldiers flew into the void and headed towards the stars... After flying for a while, they detected a kind of 'force'.

This is the condensation of nothingness.

A small area with "cohesion" is located more than ten kilometers below the surface.

It did not condense any dust or anything like that, but it still remained here. In fact, this was the part of the heart that Sharin had lost.

After checking it for a while, Lin decided to bring Sharin's assembled body to this place.

Sharin's body had been dismantled a lot by those tiny alien creatures, but Lin quickly found all the parts, reassembled them and brought them to the vicinity of this star.

Then... testing begins.

Lin used a group of fluff balls to bring Sharin's body to a cohesive position in the void.

Then, he pieced together the missing part of Sharin's body at the heart and the small piece of cohesion in the void.

The moment it was assembled, the surrounding scenery suddenly shook violently, and a large number of things appeared out of thin air.

Lin discovered that these things were mainly constructed around this star... This reminded Lin of the platforms built around stars like those built by Phoenix.

The scenery that appears now is also very similar. They look like many lands floating on the surface of the star. There are many bridge-like structures connecting these lands together. There are so many of these lands that they cover the entire surface of the star and almost block most of the star's light.

But all this is not actually real, but an illusion.

Although this place does not belong to the scope of the illusion world, it seems that assembling Sharin will make them appear.

Lin felt that the scope of the illusion world might be larger than what the clone could perceive.

But Lin originally thought that after the assembly was completed, Sharin would wake up, but she didn't expect to trigger this effect.

So, Lin continued to observe and found that this civilization... was a "stellar civilization."

Their structures are primarily built around stars and rely on the energy of the stars to function.

However, they are not purely dependent on stars. Lin discovered that they would send aircraft to fly into the void and then drag back some large stones.

These stones are hundreds of kilometers long, and they will drag them over a piece of land with a huge artillery battery.

The battery itself does not fire normal ammunition; whenever it fires, it somehow creates a small localized explosion on the surface of the star.

The turret will then direct and fire the 'energy' of this explosion, smashing the rocks that have been dragged back.

Then they begin to collect the broken rocks.

Lin didn't know why they obtained materials in this way. After all, there was no way to test it directly.

This is how this civilization lives, they always drag back huge amounts of rocks to break them up, and then harvest resources from the energy of the star itself.

Of course, this civilization is actually the civilization of the Gatekeepers.

Sometimes they drag back some larger rocks and do not break them up, but place them at a distance from the star, making them similar to satellites.

The same is true for the area where Lin is now.

This civilization seemed to have nothing to do with Sharin, but Lin could see that there were many aircraft where Sharin's body was originally assembled.

These aircraft are being assembled...in the shape of a statue.

The statue looks just like Sharlene.