Chapter 324 Spread
That happened a long, long time ago.
Known as the silent doomsday, it swept away all civilized creatures in the void.
Although we don’t know the exact scope of the incident, it did have a significant impact.
The granular creatures...saw the development of this event.
Many creatures who claim to be survivors have been trying to escape the influence of silence, and most of them will eventually become... driven crazy, thinking that they are the pioneers of extinction chosen by silence.
Once these creatures have this idea, they do seem to join the silence. First, they will be more likely to encounter similarly thinking creatures.
During the operation, it is also easier to encounter civilized creatures that have not yet been affected.
However, they are also more likely to encounter creatures that resist them.
In addition to the stellar pipelines, many creatures have discovered these extinction pioneers and believed that all the changes were caused by them, so they began to fight against them.
If the creatures of the Extinction Pioneers die in battle, there is a certain chance that... they will not die.
They will be "stored" in a space like cognitive doomsday.
It is said that most of the stored creatures are in an unconscious sleeping state, but some of them will wake up.
This is the case with the granular creature that Lin encountered. It woke up during this period, and at first it just wandered around without knowing what was going on, maintaining its life by eating its companions who had not yet awakened.
Then it seemed to go somewhere by accident.
This position...it can 'see' what's happening outside.
It is somewhat similar to Lin's control of the Skull of All Changes. It can directly feel everything outside the space here.
At that time, Cognitive Doomsday had been in constant contact with various Vanguard forces of Destruction. Of course, those creatures were unaware of this connection.
Cognitive doom protects creatures that have been fatally wounded in combat but whose mental structures have not been greatly damaged.
It will import these creatures into space and keep them here.
Leaving these creatures behind might be for some use in the future. Based on this, the granular creatures also believe that silence is not some strange void phenomenon, but something with a goal and purpose.
After Cognitive Doomsday recycles these creatures into space, it will slowly repair their bodies and then leave them here.
However, for a granular creature that suddenly wakes up, cognitive doomsday does not seem to cause any interference to it.
So it has been observing... this situation.
The group of Extinction Pioneers has been growing continuously. They keep absorbing large numbers of companions and destroying those opponents who resist them...while also being destroyed.
Therefore, the space of cognitive doomsday gathers many recycled extinct pioneer creatures, while also preserving many things like the civilization buildings of that time.
The particle creature had been observing the development of events, and in fact it had begun to prepare for when it would be sent out to fight again, but it had never been sent out.
There are no other creatures that were recycled either.
They remain completely within this space.
The particle creature could only keep observing... During the period of its observation, many creatures and civilizations perished under the influence of silence.
As the destruction progresses, the influence of silence is also expanding. At first, it can only affect some civilized creatures, but slowly it can affect all creatures, and even some... non-living things.
For example, stars.
Occasionally, a granular creature would see an entire star slowly 'extinguish' under the influence of silence.
As for those civilizations, they have no way to resist such a terrible influence. However, what is more special is that only those civilizations that cannot be defeated by the extinction pioneers will be affected by silence.
As for those that can be defeated by the Extinction Vanguard, Silence will not have a direct impact on them.
It seems that as long as civilization is destroyed...it doesn't matter.
The only thing that can keep resisting is the stellar pipeline.
Although it is made of stars, the silence does not affect it, and it continues to destroy those creatures.
Whether it is the pioneers of destruction or the survivors, they are all its targets.
The stellar pipelines continue to kill these creatures, and no creature can resist the stellar pipelines.
But it can't kill them all.
There are too many of these creatures, and the extinction vanguard group to which the granular creatures belong is only a small part of the countless extinction vanguard forces.
There are also a large number of creatures that become survivors or pioneers of extinction, spreading everywhere in the void.
Even if the stellar pipeline continues to destroy them, there will always be more creatures joining.
However, the stellar pipeline at least "protected" some civilizations, preventing them from being destroyed so quickly.
The granular creatures also noticed one thing, that is, if creatures such as the pioneers of extinction or the survivors are completely destroyed before they come into contact with a civilization, that civilization will usually be fine.
It seems that silence is indeed extending in the void with the help of these creatures. Stopping these creatures can stop the spread of silence.
Regardless of whether there is an idea of fighting for silence, as long as a creature has experienced the demise of civilization due to silence... it will have the effect of helping silence spread.
Although the granular creatures knew the general workings, they did not know what silence itself was.
It was like a disaster spreading to the entire void.
And Stellar Pipeline...maybe knows.
Later at some point, the stellar pipeline discovered the location of the cognitive doomsday space and entered this space.
Then, it began to slaughter crazily...all the living things here.
The cognitive doomsday space at that time was filled with a large number of civilized buildings and various sleeping creatures.
These organisms are so numerous that through long-term storage there may be more than trillions.
And most of them were destroyed by the stellar pipelines.
Even if they were able to resist, they would be quickly destroyed, not to mention that none of them here would move... Of course, the stellar pipelines also destroyed many of the various civilization buildings here.
The granular creatures felt that the stellar pipeline might completely destroy this place, and perhaps it was possible that it could eventually stop the silence completely.
In this way, the disaster spreading in the void might be over.
But when it thought so, it suddenly found that the stellar pipeline was not moving.
It just stayed in the space of cognitive doomsday and never moved again.
And then... the journey of the stellar pipeline ended, and no living creature could stop the spread of silence in the void.
At least that's what the granular creatures see.
Lin found the more interesting part in it.
That's what all this is...it's not happening in the normal void, but in the solidified void.
Or to say, solidified void... when it hasn't solidified yet.