Chapter 246 Filming

"It rushed in... and attracted a lot of 'things'."

This happened a long, long time ago.

Once, Midgardt entered the interior of this star.

Midgard itself has the ability to fly into a star... the same is true for this.

Midgard's appearance did not have any impact on the star, at least not from the outside.

Then, it left.

At some point after Midgard left, something rather strange happened to the star.

So many things... gathered together.

Most of these things look like pieces of stone or something like that, common floating objects in the void.

There are so many of them, as if they were attracted by a star, and these floating objects flew in large numbers from far away in the void.

But most of them did not fly into the stars. Instead, they stopped after approaching the stars and floated around the stars at a certain distance.

The number of these floating objects became larger and larger, and some of them merged together to form larger solid bodies.

Then, some strange things began to 'grow' on these larger solid bodies.

They are called 'star shooters'.

In fact, it is the same type that Lin has seen, but this earliest star-shooting device is more... primitive than the ones we see now.

The original Star Shooter looked like a... tentacle.

Its specific form is a spherical body covered with spikes. This body is fixed underground, and a tentacle-like structure extends from the body to the surface.

What this star-shooting device does is to aim this tentacle at the stars. After a period of time, various traces will appear on its spherical body below.

These traces are actually records of the environmental changes on the stars that it has observed during this period.

Finally, its spherical body will completely transform into a star-like shape, and then the tentacles at the top will detach from the body and crawl away.

Then, the end of the tentacle will slowly generate a ball again, and then bury the spherical part underground, starting a new round of recording stars.

This is the earliest star-shooting device.

As large amounts of floating matter are attracted to the star, they sometimes merge to become larger, sometimes collide and shatter, and all the while these star-shooting devices continue to appear on these floating objects.

They are all relatively simple machines, and generally have the functions of self-maintenance and recording the status of stars.

As the floating objects around the stars change, these star-shooting devices also constantly change their shapes to adapt to the changing environment and continue to take pictures.

After a long period of time, these star-shooting devices 'evolved' like living organisms.

To be precise, there are many types. Some of them are just like the beginning, staying on the surface of some floating objects, and are simple devices that carve the observation content on the surrounding stones.

And some…become very large.

They are like a floating piece of land, moving around the stars in a fixed orbit, and constantly and carefully recording all the states of the stars.

But no matter how they change, their purpose will never change... which is to observe and photograph the stars.

The larger the star recorder, the more complex its recording method is. Primitive star recorders would only record what they saw by carving on stone, while large ones would have very complex structures constructed inside.

For example, creating a simulated small star inside the body.

In short, the bigger it is, the better it can be recorded.

These star-shooting devices should also have been made by Midgard, although we don’t know what their exact functions are.

Because according to Lin's understanding, the changes in this star recorded by the star camera throughout its history... are not much different from those of ordinary stars.

This star is not a very special star... or are they recording something special?

Something special happened with the star-shooter itself.

That was... the birth of the Gatekeeper.

Creatures called Gatekeepers were originally born inside star-shooting devices that were hundreds of kilometers in size.

The main reason they came into being is because the star shooters made them.

These giant, star-orbiting telescopes don't just record a star's current state; they also make predictions about its future.

Such as predicting what will happen to stars in the future, what changes will occur, etc.

And it's not just the changes in the stars themselves, there are also external influences, like... signals.

As long as the star camera is complex enough, it will observe stars in multiple ways, of course not just visually... They can detect stars through many kinds of perception methods that Lin knows.

The perception capabilities of some star cameras are so strong that they can pick up things that are not stars.

There was a star-shooting device...that received a distant signal.

This signal came from the depths of the void. Initially, this signal was just some meaningless information to the star camera.

But after the star camera received the signal continuously for a long time, it began to try to analyze the signal.

The star camera began to modify its internal system to allow it to better interpret these signals. The star camera seemed to behave in this way because the source it discovered was getting closer and closer to the star.

This thing coming from the distant void may approach the star and have some impact on the star, so it has been trying to understand the source of the signal and may even send some information back to see the signal source's reaction.

All of this is done to understand what effect the signal source might have on the star.

Gradually, the Star Camera gained more and more understanding of the source of the signal. It discovered that the source of the signal was a group of creatures traveling in the void, and they were slowly approaching the star.

Before this group of creatures arrived, this star-shooting device had already created many models inside itself of the impacts their future arrival would cause.

In the end, even these creatures themselves... Although they had never met each other, the star-shooting device still made judgments based on the information it had been analyzing and created them.

This time it is not just a model, the star-shooting device is made completely according to real creatures.

Of course, no one knows whether this kind of creature is real, because this group of creatures did not come to the star as predicted by the star camera.

They may not have come for some reason, or there may not be such traveling creatures at all, and the star camera just thinks that there are such creatures through distant signals.

But no matter what...the creatures created by the Star Shooting Device are alive.

After they were created, they found themselves inside the star-shooting device, and then they began to live here...