Chapter 325: The Original Stillness

Solidified void...it wasn't solid a long time ago.

The creatures there live in a way similar to that of the normal void.

But things were different after the silence spread.

The granular creatures observed a part of the space of cognitive doomsday.

Ever since the Star Channel completely ceased functioning during the Cognitive Apocalypse, the Silence has never been blocked, and its influence continues to spread.

Many civilizations have disappeared, and the way they disappeared is a little different from before.

But this is a little different from before.

All things in the void are slowly stopping their activities.

Whether it was living creatures or various things in the void, they were all completely still.

However, the space of cognitive doomsday has not been static, so the granular creatures inside can continue to observe the changes outside.

In fact it didn't see much.

Because after the stellar pipeline stopped at this place, the 'perspective' of cognitive doomsday began to become a little strange.

It was originally following the Vanguard of Destruction troops, but after a period of time it stopped following those troops and instead looked around, and finally stopped completely.

To be precise, the perspective of cognitive doomsday has always stopped at a few tumblers.

Therefore, the granular creatures can only observe the situation on these tumblers.

There are only destroyed civilizations on these tumblers, and there has been nothing special for a long time, but since it can only see these places, it has to keep watching.

Everything at that time... stopped. It could not feel the change of time, as if everything was fixed.

Until a very long time had passed.

It noticed that a slight change had occurred... At first it was just like a tiny crack in a stone, but this small change also made it very excited.

Of course, this change is also very slow, and it may take hundreds of years for a little bit to appear.

But even so, it will make it feel that time is no longer fixed.

Then the small changes slowly began to increase, and it noticed that something was moving.

These things are very strange. They move a little and then wait for a very long time before stopping. These things look like stones, but it slowly noticed that they were different from ordinary stones.

They are...living things.

These may be the earliest solidified organisms, and they are very "long" organisms.

Hundreds and thousands of Ersh years are only active for a few seconds and then stop immediately. The granular creature does not know why they were born, but it understands the life patterns of these creatures.

They are basically able to take advantage of an environment where everything around them stops.

The moment they move slightly, there is energy and nutrients around them that they can absorb. After absorbing this little bit of energy, they will stop and then wait for a long time for new energy to arrive.

Since they can't see what's going on inside their bodies, the granular creatures don't understand how they work.

But these creatures that were born on the ruins that had already stopped...slowly increased in number.

They were all very slow things at first, and that lasted for a long time.

They have maintained this lifestyle.

Perhaps for these organisms themselves, their lives are continuous.

Because everything is paused...including their thoughts, they cannot feel the change of time, but can only feel each moment of waking up.

And these creatures have not undergone any 'evolution'.

However, it is not just these creatures that can move while stopped, but also the "energy" that these creatures eat.

At first the particle creature did not notice this energy, but later it changed its way of observation.

It discovered that by adjusting its cognitive abilities in some ways, it could observe some foods that it had not noticed before.

This kind of food looks like floating dust. It is not produced by these tumblers themselves, but floats here from the "void" outside. It takes a very long time to appear.

The reason why it is called energy is that this thing will occasionally change its form and appear somewhat unstable. In fact, no one knows what the granular organisms are, but they can sustain the lives of these organisms.

But if they could stop themselves completely, they shouldn't need life support.

What is the meaning of their lives? Is it just for the moment of waking up?

Granular organisms have a similar concept of general organisms as cellular organisms, and believe that life should have the characteristics of growth and reproduction.

Although these earliest solidified organisms allowed it to see some biological characteristics, it was still wondering... Are they real organisms? If so, why were they born, why do they continue, and why do they continue like this?

This thought has been with it for a long time, in fact, it thinks about these things most of the time.

Because it cannot fall asleep on its own, and there is nothing else it can do.

However, boredom does not make the granular creature feel uncomfortable, so it can spend a very long period of boredom.

Under its observation, these creatures would neither reproduce nor change. Although their numbers increased, it did not know why...and this continued for a long time.

Until it discovered some faster creatures.

This kind of creature was not born from this tumbler, but came from far away.

The intervals between their activities are much shorter and more intense than those of the earliest slow creatures. When they first came, they were hit by something like a meteorite, and the fragments that crawled out of the impact object were this group of new creatures.

Compared to the original creatures of this tumbler, they are more like living things, with limb-like structures that allow them to crawl on the ground.

Although they are in a dormant state most of the time, they wake up once every few decades.

They also feed on that kind of 'energy', and after waking up they will move quickly, spending tens of seconds chasing that energy.

And these organisms... granular organisms can see their internal structure.

It found that there were some things it could 'see through' and some it could not.

Through observation, it found that this 'energy' was not actually the nutrition that sustained their lives.

It can be said to be a fixed...'time bomb'.

When energy is absorbed into a living being, it is stored in a special organ and then falls into a state of 'sedimentation' where the energy becomes completely still.

Then, the creature will also stop as the energy stops.

After dozens of Ersh years, this stored energy may suddenly burst out like an explosion. The explosion will consume this energy, but it will also allow creatures to move for tens of seconds.

They will frantically collect energy during the activity, waiting for the next burst.

If it cannot be collected, the creature will fall into eternal stop and will never move again.

The granular creatures then discovered that these creatures were not collecting food themselves, but only collecting in order to be able to move next time.

They themselves do not need to eat, or it can be said that they are unable to eat... But on second thought, this energy can also be said to be food.

The earliest organisms were of this form, and later they became more and more complex.

They form a unique ecology that seems difficult to understand for granular organisms.