Chapter 284 Structure

This seems to be the ruins of that ancient civilization.

Lin is now riding in the captain's cabin which is like jelly, moving slowly in the bubble area.

Lin had previously learned from the communication between the captain and its "shadow" that this ancient civilization was in this place.

And it has perished.

The shadows did not explain how they perished, but at least they gave a general idea of ​​what kind of civilization it was.

This civilization...Lin thinks it can be called 'condensed civilization'.

It is a civilization similar to 'God and His people', that is, there was a God from the beginning, who created countless people, and these people worshiped Him in this form.

However, it is also different from the situation of ordinary individual creatures.

The appearance of this 'god' itself is very much like branches made of white crystals. A large number of such branches are intertwined and entangled together to form a body of the 'god' that is thousands of kilometers in size.

Between these branches, there will be luminous objects tens of meters in size, which look very much like jelly. They are the main inhabitants of the civilization.

Their daily lives are spent trying to understand the world around them.

Each individual will constantly absorb external information, and then classify, analyze, shape, etc.

Unlike many cellular organisms whose brains 'automatically' form the world they see after birth, the environment around the residents of the frozen civilization is pitch black to them.

Although their sensory systems can obtain information about the surrounding environment, it does not appear in their minds.

Therefore, they need to decide for themselves how this information should appear, that is, to construct the world they see.

What is special is that even though they have never seen anything except darkness since birth, they can still imagine all kinds of complex scenery to construct their own world.

Every time a new generation constructs its own world, the same kind around it will start to communicate with it and exchange their "worldviews" with each other. Finally, they will reach a consensus and form a world that is a fusion of the ideas of multiple individuals.

Although their opinions may conflict, they will gradually merge over time.

And their development is mainly carried out through imagination.

For example, what effect will occur if this thing is added to that thing, or what will happen if this energy collides with that energy.

They often come up with this idea and then test it.

This is similar to the way individual organisms usually develop, the difference is that all individuals in their entire population will constantly try to combine various new things, rather than just a small number of individuals engaging in this activity.

What is more special is that no matter how they perceive the surrounding environment and assemble new things, they will regard the things that create them... like crystal branches, as their gods.

As for the god that gave birth to all of them...the shadow didn't even say what he was.

It does not participate in any activities of this civilization, but just like a tree continues to produce these jelly-like residents.

In short, this "condensed civilization" has been developing here for a long time. The place where they initially developed had a lot of resources, allowing them to reach... a very high level.

Then they can find resources from the chaos.

Because of their characteristics, they will not directly "see" the countless flickering chaos. They will store the environmental information they obtain, and then make specific modeling settings for this information. However, if they enter the chaos, they will still feel countless information merging into their storage, and finally cause them to... explode.

Therefore they cannot act directly in Chaos either.

The Customized Ring was the last thing they invented and the one that had traveled the longest in Chaos.

According to the previous communication between Shadow and the Captain, it seems that this civilization is doing quite well in the end. They are still developing and trying to create various new things.

So how did they perish?

From Lin’s current location, she can see many...remains of this civilization.

These huge "branches" are tens to hundreds of meters thick. They appear to be made of crystals, with a glittering outer shell and bark-like texture. The overall shape is also very similar to branches, with many branches branching out from the huge trunk.

It is said that they were originally grown together, but now they have broken apart and are floating here.

Lin approached to examine the structure of a crystal branch and found that the materials on it were mainly normal and solidified voids, as well as some special substances.

It seems that this is made up of resources found in chaos.

Because everything will be assimilated by chaos in chaos, but the time of assimilation is different.

To condense civilization is to search for resources that have not yet turned into chaos and drag them back for use.

Maybe at first they were purely normal void creatures, and then slowly mixed with other substances.

Although they come from different sources, these substances can be combined well together.

It seems that the resources collected by this condensed civilization are mainly integrated into their "gods".

Lin examined the epidermis for a while and found a crack that could lead to the interior, so she controlled the captain's room and drilled in.

The captain's room can take many forms. After entering the "branch", you can find that it looks like a... very ordinary cave.

The inner wall is black, unlike the outer skin which is white crystals.

However, there are many strange things inside. You can see some...very small creatures scattered everywhere in the cave.

These creatures are chaotic creatures, and they look very similar to the black and white balls that Lin had seen before, but they are much smaller.

That is, a group of dozens of black and white spheres more than ten centimeters in size, moving quickly along the wall.

Lin directly grabbed some spheres for testing and found that they were indeed the same creatures as the black and white balls.

These creatures can be considered a kind of 'solid' chaotic creatures, with relatively fixed forms and internal structures that constantly change.

But what Lin wanted to know most was how they kept changing. It seemed that these creatures were not changing through a teleportation-like method as Lin initially thought.

But through... a method to stabilize chaos.

Chaos itself is something that cannot be touched, but it seems that after being stabilized in some way, it will become something that can be touched by normal matter.

This civilization itself is very familiar with chaos, and Lin can conduct research through them.

Now... let's find the captain first.

It didn't seem to be in this cave, but Lin found some clues to it.

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