Chapter 280 Changes

“It structures us.”

When the Shadow People fully recovered, they turned back into their original creatures,

Despite this, Lin still called them Shadow People.

Because they are not actually normal void creatures, but pure chaos creatures.

Chaos space is a very... strange place, which is indeed the case compared to other voids.

The most obvious thing about this void is 'chaotic information'.

Any living creature, including chaotic creatures, will feel intense chaotic information, which will continuously "input" into their minds and make it difficult for them to act.

The nature of chaotic creatures... feels very different from normal void creatures.

From their most intuitive point of view, all chaotic creatures are a 'stable area'.

That is, an area where the changes are relatively less drastic. They can be of any shape, that is, shadows, and those black and white balls are all such "stable areas".

They act like a... thing that doesn't change much.

Some, like the Shadow, cannot be touched directly, or normal void objects cannot touch it... and some, like the black and white ball, can be touched.

What they all have in common is that they are in a state of slow change.

All structures in the body of a chaotic creature will change over time, similar to the information constantly flashing outside, these structures seem to be completely replaced by something else.

But no matter how it is replaced, the overall 'appearance' of this chaotic creature remains unchanged.

Although this "stable area" is not completely stable, it is very... comfortable compared to the chaotic environment.

So within large organisms like the Shadow Zha, a group of special creatures were born, like the Shadow People.

This is somewhat similar to parasites. They cannot adapt to the chaotic environment outside, but can live inside giant chaotic creatures.

It is said that the birth of the first chaotic creatures seems to be related to "stability".

A chaotic area that continuously flashes at high speed will sometimes mutate and slow down.

These slowly changing chaotic areas have turned into... chaotic creatures.

In fact, the detailed process is completely unclear at present. We only know that when a place slows down to a certain extent, it seems to come alive.

Giant chaotic creatures, such as Shadow, are not considered living creatures according to the standards of many normal void creatures. They are generally regarded as a...natural phenomenon.

However, they still show some characteristics of living creatures. They will move in a certain direction as if they have a purpose, chasing something, or going to a certain location to do something.

It was like Shadow was drawn in to attack.

In the past, Ersh must have discovered many characteristics similar to those of the creatures in his own ideas, and then he identified them as living things.

When the chaotic creature was born, the change in its speed did not stop.

It seems like Shadow changes the environment every once in a while, and the speed of this change is said to be getting slower and slower.

In the early stages, the changes may be within a few seconds, then increase to hundreds of seconds, tens of thousands of seconds, and longer and longer.

Finally, its changes may stop completely, becoming a fixed, no longer changing environment.

By that time, even if the chaotic creatures were already dead, they would become those 'bubble areas'.

They will permanently isolate an environment that does not change at all, and creatures like normal void can stay safely in it.

Generally, there are no chaotic creatures living in bubbles. Chaotic creatures like Shadow People themselves also rely on changes.

They rely on the ever-changing environment inside the Shadow to obtain 'nutrients'.

It can also be said that change is nourishment.

As long as a chaotic creature keeps changing, neither too quickly nor stopping, it can continue to live.

Creatures like Shadow People, which are born in the bodies of other chaotic creatures, will also change. They need to take the initiative to change, using the changing environment inside the Shadow Clan to trigger changes in their own bodies.

But what exactly is the change? It feels to Lin like the structure in her body is constantly being replaced.

These shadow people don't know this either. They only know that chaotic creatures can absorb other information to enrich the changes in their bodies.

It is possible that at a very early stage, the changes in the internal environment of the body are very monotonous and can only change between one or two types.

The reason why there are so many changes now is mainly because it absorbs a lot of other information.

This information may be various chaotic creatures, as well as intelligence from the normal void.

For example, if Shadow Zha discovers something in the normal void, such as a stone, it may put the information of the stone into its own changing content.

For chaotic creatures, Shadow uses a simpler method and simply swallows them up.

However, the Shadow Citizens have no idea how they obtain information about the normal void.

Shadow can even obtain information about living things. Some creatures that normally live in the void will be recorded in its body as changes.

This is how shadow people were born. The information recorded as changing content will become real creatures.

They can communicate with Lin, and their activity patterns are similar to normal Void species.

But there are still some differences, for example, they are born knowing that they need to rely on this changing environment to survive.

It seems that Shadow has arranged a lifestyle for them from the beginning. Every Shadow citizen needs to look for things he has seen in the normal void, otherwise they will slowly lose their ability to think. When they find enough things, they will have complete thinking.

Only after Lin helped these shadow people recover their minds did they remember that there had actually been many creatures in the past who had found all their memories and completely recovered their minds.

As long as these creatures are originally of high enough intelligence, they will always become curious about this place and begin to study it the moment they recover.

Through observation and research, some creatures understood the operating mechanism of Shadow, and some related knowledge was taught to them by foreign creatures.

And these recovered creatures cannot maintain normal thinking for long.

Because normally they won't be able to 'eat' anymore, which means they won't see any special changes in the memories.

Therefore, after a period of time, they will return to their original state of being surrounded by black flames, and then they will continue to look for those memories, repeating the process of recovering to normal thinking.

When they are surrounded by black flames, they cannot remember anything, but every time they recover they can remember what happened before, such as the various research they have done.

Some creatures that are lucky enough can recover many times without being swallowed by the flames and live in the body of Yingzha for a long time.

These are the ones Lin found, so she can learn a lot from them.