Chapter 320 Conversion
"They seem to be saying there's nothing they can do."
The cards believed that cognitive doomsday could be transmitted to all parts of the void through Sharin, so at the beginning they wanted to destroy Sharin very much.
But now they feel there is no point in doing so.
In fact, from the moment Sharin and Lin entered here, the impact of cognitive doomsday had begun to spread.
Now, they have no way to stop it, and they have already... decided to give up.
That's why I decided to tell Sharlene about these things.
In fact, they wanted to see if Sharin could solve it herself.
Lin thought these cards were interesting because they seemed to be considerate of other civilizations in the void.
Of course, the reality is that these cards believe that if those civilizations were destroyed by cognitive apocalypse, there would be very few rare events they could record.
"So..." Sharlene asked the cards, "How exactly are you doing research on cognitive apocalypse here? Why do you know so much about it?"
The cards only shed a little light on this.
The reason they know so much detail is mainly because their manufacturing technology actually comes from a civilization that was deemed to have perished at the end of its ways.
The civilization that created the cards had access to the technology to make them... but that's about all the cards say.
However, they said they could let Sharin and Lin see the ruins created by the cognitive apocalypse.
Of course, Sharlene said she wanted to take a look.
After Sharin said that, Lin found that the environment outside began to change.
The gravel and other things floating everywhere began to slowly disappear. They looked like they were dissolving, first turning into a paste bit by bit, then getting smaller and smaller, and finally disappearing completely.
It's not just like this here.
Lin discovered that the incomplete Ersh that she had perceived was also disappearing bit by bit, and from here she could see that the surface land masses in the distance were also dissolving.
At the same time, some new structures... are also slowly being generated.
"They told me that this cognitive doomsday space stores the knowledge of various creatures. It leaves these knowledge as data in the space and can reconstruct them at any time."
Many fragments of matter appeared and formed new objects around them.
This process lasted for quite a long time, so Sharin continued to ask the card more about cognitive doomsday.
They seemed unwilling to say too much, so they asked about the Skull of All Changes instead.
In fact, the Skull of All Changes is a... very ancient creature. It is said that it came to this space a long time ago.
It has a special ability to allow a creature's cognition to remain normal to a certain extent, unaffected by cognitive doomsday.
Therefore, all creatures that enter this space will eventually gather here at the Skull of All Changes, and the purpose of the Skull of All Changes itself is... to eat these creatures.
It also survives in this way. The reason why the Skull of All Changes has such a large size is basically because it has been decomposing organisms for a long time and accumulating the substances in its body.
The Skull of All Changes usually does not attack creatures very early, but allows them to live in its body for a period of time. Therefore, some creatures will build various buildings and even cities here, but in the end they will all be eaten by the Skull of All Changes.
In essence, the Skull of All Changes can be said to be a very ordinary...'wild animal'.
It didn't think about doing anything special, it just wanted to use its special ability to eat the creatures that strayed here.
But how it gained the ability to resist cognitive distortions is unknown.
The same was true for the cards before. After they entered the space of cognitive doomsday, they were attracted by the Skull of Everlasting Change and came to the interior of the Skull of Everlasting Change.
However, the cards were not eaten like other creatures. Instead, they killed the Skull of Change and transformed its body into a controllable vehicle.
Since then, they have been under attack from cognitive apocalypse.
It is called an attack, but in fact it is just throwing a large amount of debris here. This kind of attack is not a threat.
The card indicates that the real threat will arrive soon.
Now we can see around that the originally incomplete Ersh has disappeared, and many new things have appeared.
This is not controlled by the cards. The cards indicate that this place will be transformed into a 'doomsday scene' every once in a while.
The doomsday scenes are the ruins of destroyed civilizations. Part of them will appear here, while the original incomplete scenery will disappear.
Every time a doomsday scene appears, it is also the most dangerous time for this space. This usually does not last too long, but the Skull of All Changes will usually choose to hide at this time.
Although the changed scenery around is not much different from before, they are all large, stone-like objects.
Most of these stones are hundreds of meters in size, and many of them have various building-like objects on them.
This kind of ruins looks quite ordinary. Lin controlled the Skull of All Changes to approach a stone and carefully observed the buildings on it.
These architectural styles are quite similar to cylinders, and are almost solid inside with only some small channel structures.
It feels like the builders of these things are creatures similar to coral polyps.
The stones around here are similar, the builders are very small, and the building is quite huge.
After flying out of this area, you can find more various stones with different buildings on them.
It can be seen that they come from different civilizations. When Lin observed these stones, she suddenly found a strong light in the distance.
Is that a... star?
However, its shape is a bit strange. It looks like a huge pipe and is not as big as a common star.
It is more than 60,000 kilometers long, emitting a shining red glow as a whole, and the inner diameter of the pipeline is more than 3,000 kilometers.
It looks like a star...grown into the shape of a pipe.
I don't know if this has anything to do with Midgard.
When Lin was thinking this, she found a black object flying towards the star pipeline.
The black thing flew directly into the interior of the star pipe, and then it... disappeared.
It looks like it can't withstand the high temperature.
But since it flew over there, Lin felt that this pipeline should be related to Midgard.
Maybe the main purpose of Midgard is not to transform this place or occupy it, but to find something like this star pipeline?
In any case, Lin decided to go over and take a look.
Although the black object disappeared just now, Lin did not detect any high temperature when she approached, but she saw...
Civilization building on this stellar pipeline.