Chapter 308 Cognition

“Those things don’t seem very simple.”

After the device in the sky was activated, every city on the surface was engulfed in flames.

Except...the city where Lin is.

The Ershi people here watched in horror as violent explosions exploded one after another in the sky, but they did not affect the surface at all.

Lin’s main task is to control these explosives so that they explode before they approach the surface.

It was easy to make the bombs explode by affecting the chaos inside them, and after the explosions continued for a while, the ammunition of the doomsday device was completely consumed.

But this is not the end yet.

When the city was saved from destruction in the explosion, a huge object fell from the sky.

It was not actually a whole object, but a huge silver fog.

The thick fog contains densely packed micro-machines, but they are not extremely micro, each one is at least one centimeter in size.

This is the second weapon used by the Doomsday Device when it detects that the city has not been destroyed after launching the explosive bomb.

Because if the city is saved from destruction, the device will determine that there must be Ershi people in the city who have produced anti-missile weapons and destroyed all the falling bombs.

Although any weapons were taken away or dismantled when all the Ershi people retreated underground, it is still possible for the Ershi people on the surface to assemble some weapons.

Even though the possibility of producing a weapon capable of intercepting sky missiles within a year seems low, the doomsday device is still prepared.

The device rains down these microscopic machines and uses them to break down the city.

But Lin could still solve them easily.

Because there are also Lin's micro-troops in the air. After the mechanical rain falls, they invade the inside of these machines and slightly change the programs inside, so that the machines inside can only fall to the ground and cannot move.

So the city was saved again.

So what to do next?

There didn't seem to be anything special to do, so Lin continued to live here with Veronica and them while studying Chaos.

During this period, the chaotic space was slowly and completely occupied by the Mid Void.

Although it is completely occupied, there are actually still quite a few... empty spaces left.

Although the things inside are assembled into various shapes, these assemblies only occupy a small part of the space, which makes the entire chaotic space feel like a normal void without the starry sky.

Even though it only occupied a small position, it seemed that Mid Void had gained control of the chaotic space.

These two voids... are currently moving in the same direction together.

Just like traveling in space, the Mid Void seemed to be traveling to somewhere far away.

In addition, many new species have appeared in the Mid Void, which is deeply related to the influence of chaos on them.

Lin thinks that for now it is better to study the details of chaos first.

The essence of chaos is information. The Ershi people in the chaos battleship are "specially made". They have the technology to control chaos, but they can only control a small part of it.

So, Veronica lived in the Chaos battleship and did research...several years passed quickly.

The life of the Ershi people here is quite ordinary. Because they were worried about another bomb falling, they moved to the edge of the city, started farming, and lived a good life.

The influence of Xing Ji is still there, and it always gives hints through different places to let the Ershi people end their short and painful life.

Of course, it will also deal with these Ershi people by controlling some things. The early launch of the world-destroying device is the masterpiece of Xingji.

So...what exactly is Xingji?

In fact, the essence of Xingji is also a masterpiece.

To be precise, it was a work from a certain civilization. The longer Ershijiu "observed" Xingji, the more he recalled...about his previous research on Xingji.

The earliest source of Star Silence was a product created by a certain civilization.

Of course, this civilization itself is not a common individual biological civilization. Ersh does not have many memories about them, and he roughly knows that this civilization may have come from another void.

They believe that an end called 'cognitive doomsday' will come.

To put it simply, if the intelligent creatures in the void continue to use various sensory organs to perceive the normal void and continuously think about the various phenomena in it, the "doomsday" will approach.

Finally, the end of the world will bring everything to silence.

In this case, let them be quiet in advance.

This civilization intends to keep all other civilizations away from their understanding of reality. After a long time, they have developed this creature called Star Silence.

The essence of Xingji is similar to some creatures in unpredictable places, and is also similar to the Ershi people's understanding of "God".

Simply put, it is a collection of beliefs.

When a large group of creatures begin to enjoy spiritual pleasures and ignore reality, a certain kind of "energy" will be generated.

This energy will slowly influence the entire civilization, causing them to have consistent ideas.

The outside world is full of helplessness and pain and has no meaning, but in the virtual dreamland there can be eternal happiness.

There is not just one Xingji, but a large number of individuals. When a civilized creature has such thoughts, Xingji will parasitize in its thinking, which is quite like the Brain Spirit.

However, unlike the Brain Spirit which has its own ideas, Star Silence is more like a tool that guides civilization towards virtuality.

Under the influence of star silence, a large number of civilizations fell into silence.

Because it cannot parasitize group consciousness, Xingji cannot influence species with division of labor.

In fact, only the civilization of individual creatures is affected. The civilization that created the Star Silence also believes that these individual creatures will cause the cognitive doomsday to appear.

Ersh feels that cognitive doomsday might be a collision of the void.

Then Ersh destroyed Xingji, and the method he used was relatively simple, which was chaos.

Chaos can kill Xingji, or in other words, it can reconstruct the brain of a creature. Ersh can use chaos to "cleanse" a creature's thinking structure through some methods, and the cleansed creature will no longer produce Xingji.

Of course, the desire to enjoy happiness forever will still exist, but the difference from before is that emotions will not affect the entire civilization.

I don't know why the civilization that created the Star Silence believed that there would be such a doomsday. How did they know about it? Is it true? Why didn't they take the approach of destroying these civilizations to avoid the doomsday?

Ersh doesn't know either, so he needs to test it.

In addition to being used to destroy the stars in the void outside, the Chaos Battleship is also used to confirm the cognitive doomsday.

If cognitive apocalypse is not a void collision but something else, then it is possible that it will manifest in the Chaos Battleship.

Because these Ershi people in the Chaos battleship have actually been recognizing this world.

Although the cognitive process is not long, they obtain a lot of information.

Because there is...chaos.

Ershi "condensed" all the things that happened in the void for a long time into the Chaos Battleship. When the Ershi people understood the chaos here and studied and utilized it, they were gaining cognition.

However, Ershi didn't know whether this kind of cognition by these Ershi people would trigger the "doomsday" as that civilization called it.