Chapter 256 Escape

The pursuit...is continuing.

Lin's large number of troops were chasing a creature that looked a bit like a snail.

The overall shape of this creature is a disc covered with spikes, and its diameter is more than ten meters.

In the center of the disk there is an opening through which the soft structure can extend.

The residents here all look similar. They are creatures composed of a shell of various shapes and a soft body.

However, unlike cellular organisms such as snails, these organisms are very fast.

When they retract their shells, they can move forward at high speeds by flying or jumping.

The one Lin was chasing was no exception... It rolled as fast as a wheel, spinning forward at an extremely fast speed, jumping from one rooftop to the next.

Although it was moving very fast, Lin felt that it couldn't escape.

The troops that Lin was chasing after it were a large group of square-shaped troops, each of them was one meter in size.

There were tens of thousands of cubes in this group, and they quickly chased and surrounded this...wheel.

At this time, the wheel jumped onto a building, and Lin's blocks had completely surrounded the building.

All the blocks were stacked together, completely sealing the building inside, while also shooting at the wheels on the roof.

The cube launches a large number of micro-troops, which fly towards the surface of the wheel and try to invade its interior.

This wheel... is completely different from the previous black shadow. To be more precise, it is made of different materials.

However, they are controlled in the same way.

In other words, it is indeed Midgard that is controlling it. Lin can sense a feeling similar to a black shadow from it.

This is a feeling somewhat similar to the condensation of nothingness, and there is a special force controlling its activities.

It seems that Midgard can transfer this control to different objects, but it seems that it can only control one large object at a time.

It seemed that among so many little tumblers, Lin only found this one.

Moreover, the black shadow that attacked Sharin before did not move at all.

Lin feels that this kind of control... is very limited, and may increase with Midgard's "awakening".

But now it seems to be getting further and further away from awakening, because it can't get close to the star... Maybe it has some other way.

Lin mainly wanted to figure out...what was going on with Midgard's consciousness.

"Boom boom—"

When Lin was picking up the wheel, the entire little tumbler began to vibrate violently.

With the building where the wheel was located as the center, countless cracks suddenly appeared and spread in a web-like manner around it.

The buildings touched by the cracks shattered and collapsed one after another.

And the building where the wheel was located... has also been completely shattered, and many tentacles appeared where the original building was.

This feels quite interesting.

The skin of these tentacles looks silver and very much like metal, and they can twist very flexibly. They are more than ten meters thick and hundreds of meters long... at least that's how long the part exposed on the surface is.

When the tentacles came out, Lin found that one of them directly wrapped around the wheel and pulled it underground.

Lin launched a large number of micro-troops at the tentacle group, trying to detect it.

When Lin's large number of micro-troops boarded some tentacles, these tentacles also completely retracted into the ground and moved rapidly in the underground filled with high-temperature liquid.

Finally, accompanied by another violent earthquake, the tentacles penetrated the surface on the other side of the little tumbler...or to be more precise, retracted from this side.

Because, now these tentacles are not actually moving underground, they come from a huge object in the void.

The diameter of this object is over one hundred kilometers and its overall shape is ellipsoidal.

Lin felt that its surface was made up of countless twisting tentacles... These tentacles ranged from ten meters to several hundred meters in thickness, and were densely covered on the surface.

It's not certain whether there is actually a 'surface', as it looks like just a giant ball of tentacles.

The tentacles that just grabbed the wheel were some of the ones that stretched out from this huge group of tentacles.

They stretched out and directly penetrated the little tumbler, grabbed the wheel surrounded by Lin, and then retracted back into the group of tentacles. Moreover, they completely penetrated the little tumbler, which was still quite strong.

This tentacle ball should be Midgard's next plan. It appeared when the little tumbler failed to rush into the star.

What Lin found interesting was... these little tumblers and this huge ball of tentacles, they all appeared here suddenly.

But they were not teleported here. Lin felt that they were hidden here in some way, such as a special space or something.

Lin hasn't detected any space nearby yet, maybe it's hidden very deep.

"This is... Pantian City?"

At this time, Lin suddenly discovered that Shalin in the small space said this.

"Pan Tian City?" Lin asked.

"A creature I saw long ago." Sharin seemed to have recovered from the previous impact.

"I have seen a certain civilization before when I was traveling in the void." Sharin said, "When their cities are built to a certain extent, they will be lifted up from the ground by a huge tentacle and rise into the void."

"They regard the tentacles as gods, and have been constantly expanding their cities in order to be lifted up, and have been engaged in fierce wars with surrounding cities." Sharin said: "By the way, this civilization is only at the level of the Middle Ages."

"And the huge tentacles that hold them up gathered together in the void, forming this huge tentacle mass." Sharin said, "Using the huge tentacles that hold up the city as the foundation, countless small tentacles were born from it, and finally became larger and larger. I don't know much about this species because it was already on the verge of extinction when I discovered it."

"But... this is only the largest one I've ever seen." Sharin said, "It seems to be related to Middelt."

"Actually, you don't have to defend me." Sharin said, "It doesn't matter even if they all rush over."

"Really?" Lin said, "It doesn't look like that."

"I also want to try it out and see if this is the case," said Sharin.

"… Let's study it."

Having said that, Lin planned to let the micro soldiers begin the investigation.

Just now, many micro-troops stuck to the tentacles and followed the retracted tentacles back to the tentacle group of "Climbing Sky City".

Now they can be studied here.

But Lin also discovered that this tentacle group was not without any defense. It also had many miniature troops guarding against Lin's invasion.

However, Lin still has a way to invade its...core.