Chapter 329 Growth

The shattered landmass of the Tumbler... is now covered with corpses.

There were creatures wandering among the corpses, including the earliest ones...creatures that moved only once every hundreds of Ersh years.

As a very ancient creature, they have managed to survive.

Of course, because of the perpetual light, they don't need to wait hundreds of years before they become active, but because they are always active, their lifespan is very short.

There are some other creatures that don't have any special feelings about this disaster.

They just wander around aimlessly while going about their lives.

There were a few civilized creatures that survived, but their numbers were too small, and they were unable to produce offspring, so they could no longer establish civilization.

The granular creature discovered that since the explosion of the 'Eternal Light', it had not seen any new creatures being born.

The creatures on these land masses will always be the same, and every time one dies... there will be one less.

The perpetual motion light miraculously maintains its effect. According to the calculations of civilized creatures, it can only last for a period of time, and after that, these places will return to stillness.

But now the land mass has been fully active for a long time. According to the observations of granular organisms, it has lasted for about... ten Ersh years.

Although this does not seem very long, in fact, the creatures here would not have such a long lifespan if they were in a purely active environment. Most of them died one after another.

But there were still a very few left, including a civilized creature.

It discovered that... it is possible for living things to be born in an active state.

A large amount of corpse debris...began to move.

To be precise, they are growing, just like the way various organisms before them constructed new organisms, placing the internal organs and materials into a suitable body, and then placing this body in a space for movement, then it will grow and become a new organism.

The specific growth process is quite interesting. These internal organs will glue themselves together and start to grow the missing structures... and as they grow, they will also construct an immune system to resist attacks by microorganisms.

To use cellular organisms as an analogy, this is a bit like growing plants together.

Generally speaking, most of the internal organs used to construct a creature need to come from the same creature, and only a small amount of other creatures' internal organs and some other materials can be mixed.

At the same time, these small amounts of materials have a great influence on what kind of organism is constructed.

This is the first time that granular organisms have seen such a situation.

Most of the debris began to move as if it were constructed, gluing itself together and beginning to grow slowly.

And these corpses are indeed like plants. They have grown a large number of "roots" extending deep into the ground, as if they want to drill into the ground and do something.

The situation was the same on every landmass...all the corpses were connected and fused together.

They no longer looked like corpses, but more like a piece of skin covering the ground, moving slowly.

At the same time, they also extended huge roots to the surrounding land masses, which collided with each other and connected all the land masses together.

Finally, this creature made up of countless corpses... was formed.

The granular creature still doesn't know why it was born, and why those lifeless corpses suddenly grow.

It looks like a giant organism formed by a large number of land masses connected together.

The civilized creatures still alive here were very surprised by this phenomenon.

Then...it began its own experiment.

These civilized creatures have always believed that they fully understand the process of biological construction and believe that no living thing can be constructed without being in a static state.

But now this phenomenon of large-scale construction...gives it hope.

So, it began to try to construct living things. It used all kinds of materials it could find, including its own internal organs. It wanted to create some of its own kind and revive its own tribe.

But it couldn't build anything. No matter how it assembled the materials, nothing happened.

This is true even if there are no microorganisms now that are attacking the materials... there is nothing it can do.

Even a civilized creature that knew the structure so well could not comprehend the current situation. It tried to create many shells... and stuffed them with materials. However, since they showed no signs of activity at all, it finally gave up.

But it soon discovered something unusual.

The surface outside has become alive, with various 'roots' and other structures often extending out.

They don't just drill underground, but also grow upwards, but generally after growing upwards for a while they will retract, perhaps because they can feel that there is nothing above.

But this time it was different. The civilized creature noticed that some roots were growing towards the locations of the shells it had abandoned and were drilling into the shells.

Then, the bodies began to move.

The internal organs that had originally had no vitality began to revive. The roots connected them together and made them full of vitality.

These bodies were originally designed by civilized creatures in their own image. Their appearance does not change after they move, but... their behavior is completely different.

Civilized creatures tried to communicate with them, but they didn't respond at all. These shells just quickly gathered in one place and began to stare blankly.

Yes... they do nothing, even if they are hit with stones by civilized creatures, they will not react.

Later, the civilized creature tried again and found that no matter what it created, it would not react, but after being "touched" by the roots, it would move.

But they fell into a daze after not moving for long and could not do anything.

Civilized creatures...can't understand this situation.

It tried to study the differences between the shells it had built and the ones that moved, and tried to add various materials, or simply cut off the roots that grew and use them as materials, but to no avail.

What it made itself will not move at all.

Finally, the civilized creature gave up.

It no longer created anything and just spent the whole day beside those dazed bodies that looked exactly like itself.

It and these bodies...are always talking.

Like some lonely individual creatures would do, it treated these bodies as its own kind, chatted with them, and said all kinds of things. It talked about the history of its own population, past wars, and the use of perpetual light.

It also mentioned that their race recorded all of its history somewhere, but unfortunately no descendants could see it.

And when it finished saying this, the group of motionless bodies suddenly moved.