Chapter 357 Consciousness

It woke up.

After believing the words of the granular creatures, some interstellar devourers approached the stellar pipeline and flew into the pipeline.

This action caused the stellar pipeline to... wake up.

The particle creature didn't know why this happened. In fact, it wanted to let all these devourers study the stellar pipeline... and then be killed by the pipeline.

In fact, it has seen similar incidents before.

In this cognitive doomsday space, there are not only granular creatures, but also some other creatures in a dormant state.

Over such a long period of time, the granular creatures have seen some sleeping creatures wake up.

After they wake up, they usually float around, and soon these creatures will be attracted by the stellar pipeline.

Because it is also the only...light in this darkness.

Once attracted, they will try to approach the star tube, and finally they will try to fly into the tube.

Generally speaking, nothing special will happen. If these creatures can withstand high temperatures, there will be no problem even if they go in.

That is, when there are many awakened creatures, "accidents" may happen.

When there are enough organisms, some will often try to enter the stellar pipeline while others will stay outside.

At this time, the stellar pipeline will kill the creature inside the pipeline and all of its peers outside.

The granular creature has seen this phenomenon several times and believes that this may be the creature triggering the automatic defense system of the stellar pipeline.

This attack is very precise and will only kill invaders and their counterparts outside, without harming other species.

So the particle creatures want these devourers to trigger the defense system of the star pipeline, and then the pipeline can kill these creatures.

Although the particle creature itself is inside an interstellar devourer, it is not worried that the stellar pipeline will kill it.

Because each time the stellar pipeline will accurately destroy the invader's neural structure.

Although it was not clear how the stellar pipeline did it, the particle creature could only gamble and see if the stellar pipeline could accurately kill these devourers.

However, the granular creatures found that things were different this time.

When the pipeline triggered the defense system before, it also thought that the pipeline had come alive, but it soon discovered that this was just the pipeline's... an automatic defense.

In the past, after the stellar pipeline killed the invading creatures, it would stop moving.

This time, the stellar pipeline seemed very different and did not look like an automatic defense system.

It started moving and kept flying in one direction.

When the remaining Devourers discovered the Star Pipe's behavior, they immediately chased after it.

The speed of the stellar pipelines is much faster than that of the devourers. Although it is difficult for them to catch up, they still follow the target until... the edge of this space.

The stellar pipeline stopped at the edge, and the five space devourers that followed were more than 100,000 kilometers away from it.

There are also five Interstellar Devourers inside the star pipeline. No one knows what has happened to them at the moment, and the five outside dare not approach them at will.

The particle creature can also "see" the situation outside from inside the Interphager. Of course, this is allowed by the Interphager to see.

The Devourers didn't ask why the pipe looked like this, they just kept observing.

At this moment, the granular creature suddenly felt some...information.

“It worked.”

This information... makes the granular creatures feel that it is information coming from the star channel.

Next, the granular creatures sensed more information.

In general, the stellar channel tells it...what the source of stillness is.

The Source of Stillness...is actually its 'same kind'.

After the body dies, the consciousness survives.

What is special is that this consciousness is always pursuing stillness, pursuing complete stillness.

Its ultimate goal is for everything to cease moving.

In order to achieve this goal, it worked hard for a long time, and at the same time turned stillness into a disaster that spread in the void.

Stillness was actually a certain empty "natural phenomenon" and not a disaster. However, under the "efforts" of this consciousness, stillness slowly became more and more dangerous.

That is, the source of stillness is actually a consciousness that pursues complete stillness.

It began its action long ago, and stillness spread rapidly with its action, changing the ecology of the void.

But in fact, its impact range is not as huge as the entire void, and may be within the range of a "galaxy".

That is the distance that light travels in 100,000 ersh years.

In short, because of the spread of stillness, it seriously distorted the environment within the range as well as the various void phenomena and creatures within it.

At the beginning, the civilization of granular creatures and many other civilizations perished because of this.

But granular organisms and a few other organisms are exceptions. It's not that they can resist stillness, but that the source of stillness needs to use them to spread stillness farther.

The Source of Stillness is an inactive consciousness, but like particle creatures, it can influence creatures and some things in the void.

Through this ability of influence, it turns some creatures into 'Pioneers of Destruction' and begins to spread stillness in the void.

Stellar Pipeline was also trying to combat this spread at the time, but it found that it had no way to do it.

No matter how many Heralds of Doom it kills, the Source of Stillness will always continue to spread.

Finally, the stellar pipeline found this space of cognitive doomsday, which was actually created by the source of stillness.

It is mainly used to reserve troops and serve as a "command room". Originally, the Source of Stillness wanted to select a certain creature to serve as the commander of the troops and continue to spread stillness.

And the stellar pipeline found this place and attacked it.

Although the granular creatures did not see it at the time, the stellar pipeline had actually cut off the connection between this space and the source of stillness.

As a result, the source of stillness can no longer sense what is happening in space.

But the Stellar Pipeline also stopped moving at this time because it noticed one thing.

Although stillness spread over a wide area,... no living things died as a result.

They always find ways to survive, adapt to the environment and continue to grow.

Of course, this is also because the effect of stillness is not actually that rapid, giving organisms an opportunity to take advantage.

The Source of Stillness has been trying to create a completely still environment using various methods.

It creates space to store moving things, destroys civilizations by influencing the thinking of organisms, and creates its own warriors.

That is, a creature like the Devouring Star.

The source of stillness actually created many 'holes' that were scattered throughout the galaxy, spreading stillness all the time.

This action would have continued until no creature was able to move.

But it gave up.

It seems that it is because... the granular organisms are constantly resisting.