Chapter 296 Dryness

This thing... seems impossible to expel.

Lin thinks that this 'Ershi' should be called a dead star, because it looks like a tumbler without water. Its surface looks like a pure desert, composed of dry rifts and mountains.

The moment it appeared, all the warships of the Custom Ring fired repulsion beams at it.

These beams of light fell on the surface of the dead star like thin lines, without causing any effect.

Lin could see that even the gravel and rocks on the surface did not react when exposed to the light.

Lin thought...it was quite interesting.

So Lin also decided to land on the surface and take a look.

The Withered Star continued to move, and it looked like it was chasing the Chaos Nerve-controlled aircraft, while the warships of the Custom Ring were also attacking it.

Light beams are constantly shot at the aircraft, and the aircraft is constantly moving to avoid these beams.

Just by looking at it, Lin felt like the Chaos Nerves were driving the aircraft to dodge... but it didn't keep hiding.

A beam of light suddenly hit the aircraft, and the aircraft disappeared in an instant.

It did not flicker like the previous branches when hit, and it was not expelled from the bubble area.

When the aircraft appeared again, Lin found that it was on the surface of the dead star.

The Customized Rings were a little surprised by this situation, but they quickly continued their attack... They used beams to shoot directly at the aircraft on the surface.

But after being hit by the beam several times, the aircraft did not respond at all. It seems that once it reaches the surface, it will not be expelled again.

In fact, Lin felt that the appearance of the withered star changed the 'rules' of the bubble area.

Then...the withered star did not stop, it continued to fly towards this side.

The warships of the Customized Ring also stopped attacking. They seemed to have entered a wait-and-see state and did not continue attacking.

The speed of the dead star gradually increased, and it flew into the ruins area where crystal branches were floating. Lin discovered that it produced a... very strange gravity.

Some of the crystal branches flew towards the dead star, then fell heavily to the ground and shattered.

But some branches did not react at all. They just stayed next to the dead star without being attracted at all.

While a large number of branches smashed into pieces on the ground...there was one branch that did not break when it hit the ground, and it slowly fell to the ground.

This branch, which is more than 100 meters long, has actually been modified by Lin and has been transformed into a structure similar to that of an aircraft.

When it landed on the ground, it released a large number of Lin's soldiers, most of which were fluff balls. They quickly dispersed and began to explore the place.

The environment here looks very ordinary. There is no air, and all matter on the surface is made up of normal void matter.

Lin had been wondering whether this withered star was a chaotic creature. Now it seems not to be, at least it has retained most of the normal parts.

At the same time, Lin also saw many murals during the exploration.

Large stones can be seen everywhere in the vast desert, and on many of the stones there are various murals. They are almost the same as the paintings of the Ershi people, all of which are paintings of four-limbed creatures in various postures.

Lin thinks... this should have been drawn by the wild folk, although no such creatures have been found here so far.

After exploring for a while, Lin discovered some caves on the surface.

After letting the fluff ball go in to explore, we found that they were all quite deep, and the strange thing about these holes was that they had air.

All of this air is 'bound' at the hole and will not leak out.

As Lin flew deeper and deeper inside, she also saw a fairly large underground space.

Lin's ball of fluff saw a large underground cave that was more than two hundred meters high and more than ten kilometers wide. There were small houses everywhere in this place.

These huts are several meters high and look like they are made of clay, and between the huts there are many... residents moving around.

However, they were not like the savages that Lin had known before. They were more like dwarfs, very short, less than one meter in height.

Their eyes are very large, taking up most of their head, and their black pupils completely fill the eye sockets.

Their skin is like dry bark, tightly attached to the skeleton, revealing the shape of the bones.

From the perspective of the Ershi people's aesthetics, they are very terrifying creatures.

Lin thought that they should be the savage people's...close relatives of the species. When they saw the fluff ball flying in, these short savage people screamed. They took out some sharp stones or stone spears and threw them at the fluff ball.

It seems that they still live a very primitive life.

So, Lin asked the ball to randomly find one that seemed older, and flew to its head to pierce its head with its fur to test it.

This creature... is quite interesting.

The one Lin detected has lived for about thirty years, and his daily life is to stare blankly here.

Because there is no food for them to find and no land for them to cultivate.

The dead stars seem to be in the bubble area most of the time, and as long as the dead stars are in the bubble area, they are in a daze.

If the withered star leaves the bubble area and goes into the chaos, these dwarf savages will come out in droves.

They expose their bodies directly to Chaos, at which point their bodies undergo changes.

This change has many results. Sometimes it will make their bodies bigger and taller, their skin will become fuller and not as dry as it is now, they can fly, and even gain some super powers.

Some will change into an indescribable mass, which is no different from death, as they can no longer move.

Others will not change.

The last one is the inferior change, which is becoming shorter, drier and weaker.

No matter what changes occur, if they can move again after being immersed in the chaos for a short period of time, they will hide back in the burrows.

Because staying in chaos for a while will fill their stomachs, it seems that chaos provides them with nutrition.

They therefore do not need to find food.

Then we just have to wait for the dead star to sail to the next bubble area.

Once they reach the new bubble area, those that have undergone powerful changes, such as the ability to fly, will all leave the withered star.

They want to use their new abilities to live outside, while those who can't leave will continue to squat in the cave and wait for the next time the withered star flies into chaos.

Of course, those murals were also painted by them. When they were immersed in the chaos, they would pay close attention to observing their peers around them.

For any of their kind that have undergone good changes, their postures before the changes will be recorded by the surrounding dwarfs, and then painted on nearby stones. They plan to adopt the same postures next time in order to obtain good changes.

But most of them are useless.

Just like the one Lin tested, it miraculously survived for so long without any good or bad changes.