Chapter 248 Erosion?

It's over...the war will soon be over.

When the war ends, civilization will also end.

The Gatekeepers and their counterparts who had transformed into Star Shooters did not achieve any results.

In fact, it is very easy for them to eliminate their own kind that have turned into star shooters, but they have no way to eliminate the phenomenon of becoming star shooters.

Even if they tried to change the material they are made of completely into foreign substances, it would be meaningless.

Many Gatekeepers continued to transform into Star Shooters until the entire civilization was destroyed.

After the Gatekeepers perished, their civilization's creations continued to operate for a while, because many of the things they created had the function of automatic operation.

It seems like some of the aircraft they built are still dragging rocks and other things from the void outside back for disassembly.

However, these things did not last long, and they soon stopped working one after another.

And the things built by the Gatekeepers, such as the land surrounding the stars, slowly disappeared over a long period of time.

Then there is the scene that Lin is seeing now. After a long time, there are still some floating objects here, but there is nothing left of the Gatekeeper civilization.

Of course, there are still star recorders left here, and these star recorders seem to be continuously recording over the long years.

At the same time, the history of the Gatekeepers is preserved here as an illusion.

And it is for this reason that Lin can understand their situation.

Lin could see the various histories of the Gatekeepers from the illusions that appeared around the stars, and could observe these histories through Sharinjiu.

But...what is their relationship with Sharlene?

This is because this star...it itself is also a 'star shooter'.

Of course, it is not photographing itself, but things in the surrounding void, which the stars will record as an illusion.

It includes the civilization of the Gatekeepers, as well as what happened around the Void after the Gatekeepers' demise.

After the demise of the Gatekeeper civilization, several new civilizations emerged here.

Almost all of these civilizations are "star-shooting civilizations."

Before the Gatekeepers were destroyed, Star Shooters did not appear in the form of living creatures. They were simply machines that performed repetitive tasks.

And behind the gatekeepers, there are some star-shooting creatures.

The main purpose of these creatures is to photograph and record the state of stars. They will put a lot of thought into this and build tools to help them achieve their goals.

However, these civilizations did not last very long, and in fact they can hardly be considered civilizations.

These star-shooting creatures will die out soon after they appear.

But some normal civilizations once appeared here.

These civilizations mainly came here from the outside void. They discovered the floating objects around these stars and were curious about the star-shooting devices that kept appearing here.

Some creatures will try to stay here.

And every biological civilization that stays here will be recorded by the stars. The stars not only create illusions... but also send the information of these creatures to the exit of the illusion world, the hollow tumbler.

Then corresponding...microorganisms will be born inside the hollow tumbler.

The microscopic gatekeepers that Lin saw were born in this way. They came from the stars' observation records of the surrounding creatures.

In addition to the gatekeepers, many microscopic creatures also appeared there.

These creatures were created by the Hollow Tumbler, but they soon disappeared.

That's because there is a 'judgment system' in the Hollow Tumbler.

This system only allows one type of created microscopic organism to live in it.

When other creatures are judged to be unsuitable, they will be 'eliminated', and the Gatekeepers have always been considered the most suitable creatures.

So there are only microscopic creatures like gatekeepers there.

Of course, their lives in the Hollow Tumbler are somewhat different from their lives around the stars, but their personalities have not changed.

These miniature gatekeepers that were created have lasted until now and are considered 'unsuitable'.

That is...Shalin's arrival.

For some reason, Sharin was recorded by the star. The most amazing thing was that the star "detected" some of Sharin's experiences.

That is, Sharin's past adventures in various alien worlds.

The star then regarded those alien creatures as civilized creatures living around the void and sent this information to the Tumbler.

The Tumblers then constructed these alien micro-creatures, believing that the alien creatures were a more suitable civilization than the Gatekeepers.

Although these alien creatures are not a single civilization, as long as the Tumblers receive information from the stars, they will think that it is a single civilization.

Lin was not very clear about the criteria it used to judge whether something was suitable or not. In short, once it felt it was more suitable, it would eliminate the gatekeeper.

And the alien creatures began their lives inside the Hollow Tumbler just as Lin had seen.

The most amazing thing here is Sharin.

Why were the alien creatures in Sharlin's memory read by Star and then used as data for creating micro-creatures?

Normally this star wouldn't do this kind of thing.

Because in its long history, the star itself has never done such a thing... and it won't capture living things and read their memories or anything like that.

The stars also have star recorders, which should be a kind of recording device specially set up by Midgard. Although it is unknown what their purpose is, they have not changed their behavior for a long time.

Lin thinks the most likely possibility is...that this was done by Sharin herself.

Sharin was not attacked, but it invaded the star's system in some way, causing...an error to occur inside it.

Sharin's body wasn't split apart by anything, but it did it itself.

But Lin doesn’t know the details yet... after all, Sharin hasn’t woken up yet.

But now Lin can see that Sharin is indeed affecting the star.

It seems that Sharin's 'shadow' has appeared in some of the illusions recorded in the stars.

Records of past illusions... like historical illusions of the Gatekeeper civilization, in which some Sharin-shaped buildings can be seen.

These buildings are not there when you first see the illusion, but they will appear as you see it a few more times, and they will become more and more numerous.

It felt as if Sharin was... eroding these illusions.

Lin thought that maybe Sharin had found some way to control these systems, but she just didn't know what to do.

Sharin's clone also didn't know Sharin's purpose. In fact, it didn't expect Sharin to do this.

So Lin wasn't entirely sure whether Sharin had done it herself.

I guess we need to go inside the star and investigate to understand it.