Chapter 81 Before the Shortcut

Lin's 'shadow train' is moving forward in the dark space.

In the surrounding void, there are many things floating, most of them are seemingly abandoned creations of civilization, some look like aircraft, some look like cities, and some other things, and some look like marine life.

Lin discovered a creature with a diameter of more than 300 meters, which looked very much like a starfish, lying on a flying vehicle that was twice its size.

This 'starfish' was covered in flashing spots of light. It used a flashing 'tentacle' to pierce through the place that looked like the cockpit of the aircraft. Then other tentacles began to move. Under its continuous attacks, several large holes were punched in the aircraft. Lin found that some things that looked like escape pods flew out of some of the holes.

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They shot up into the air, but were quickly attacked by something else.

There are also some spear-shaped objects tens of meters long flying around the starfish. When they find something escaping, they will immediately fly over and pierce the object.

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The situation was similar around. Lin found that many creatures grabbed aircraft and other creations of civilization and slowly destroyed them. Lin also noticed a floating city with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers. There were many carrot-like creatures moving around on it. They rolled on it with their bodies that were hundreds of meters long, crushing one building after another.

When Lin's train passed by, these creatures that were destroying civilization did not care and continued their actions as if they did not see the train.

The residents of the destroyed city noticed this situation, and a large number of cylindrical escape pods flew out of the city destroyed by Radish.

These escape pods were destroyed by a large number of small creatures that gathered around them during takeoff. Only a few flew out of the city and headed towards Lin's train.

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Lin's train passed through the city, and the second carriage was less than a thousand kilometers away from the city.

These escape pods flew directly towards this side, and after being destroyed by some creatures during the flight, they landed on the surface of the second carriage.

Thousands of escape pods took off, but only three arrived in the end. The escape pods were more than ten meters in size, and they fell into the dense jungle on the surface of the carriage.

After landing, the escape pod automatically disintegrated into a pile of debris, with only the creatures inside still standing. Lin discovered that there were different creatures in each escape pod.

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One of them looked very much like the Ershi people. It had four limbs and was covered in white armor that shone with a metallic luster. Another one looked like a floating ball, and another one was a six-limbed creature that looked somewhat like an insect.

They are all about the same size, about two meters tall, and they wear exactly the same armor, which looks like a layer of white metal.

After these creatures came out, they quickly fled their original locations. The creatures that had been intercepting them in the air did not chase them to the surface of the carriage. Lin thought it might be related to the fact that they disintegrated the escape pod.

When the three creatures were moving in the jungle, Lin also conducted some tests on them and found that they were actually a kind of... mecha.

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There are a large number of mechanical structures inside their white armor, and among these structures are some square "cabins", and inside the cabins are "drivers" that are more than ten centimeters in size.

These drivers look somewhat like brainworms, with an ellipsoidal brain, inside which they drive white armors of different shapes.

This feels quite interesting.

When Lin's train passes through this "battlefield", a large number of escape pods will fly out from the destroyed cities or aircraft around it. They all target Lin's train, as if they are not afraid of any danger on the train, and they all seize the opportunity to take off in large numbers at once, which makes it difficult for them to be completely destroyed at once, and some of them will always fall on the carriages.

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After the shadow train moved forward for a while, thousands of creatures on the carriages had successfully landed.

At the same time, Lin also noticed that these creatures all looked like "white mechas" on the outside, but the "drivers" inside were different. They all had a "brain" of several tens of centimeters inside to drive them, and these brains were not of the same species.

Some are cellular organisms, some are various species, creatures that Lin has never seen before, and what is more special is that the driver inside a mecha is a small green shadow.

Of course, its performance is exactly the same as other mechas around it. After landing, they will first dismantle the escape pod, and then look for places to hide, find a safe place to stay, and look for food.

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The surface of the carriage is not so safe for them because there are many creatures that Lin brought from the maintenance land, and they will attack these white mechas.

Overall it's much better than wandering outside.

Lin tested the memories of some creatures in the mechas and found that they had almost no memories. The brain in each mecha basically only had a few ideas, which were to avoid those dangerous creatures and escape to a safe place. As for why they did this, they didn't know.

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As for those large creatures that were destroying cities and aircraft, Lin discovered that they were species that she had never encountered before. Their internal structures were supported by a strange "force", which was similar to the "force" that controlled the combination and decomposition of matter in the previous sinker's space.

But they are not as versatile as the Sunken Ones, they can only support the creature's physical activities.

Lin was not completely unfamiliar with this kind of creature. In fact, they were recorded in the survivors' information.

These creatures are a type of shadow creatures, called Wanderers by the survivors. They are harmless creatures that will not actively attack anything, at least that was the case in the survivors' era.

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As for why they are attacking these 'white mechas' now, it is unclear. Their thoughts are much more difficult to detect than those of ordinary creatures.

As for the source of the white mecha, Lin already knew it, and now the train was moving above this source.

A large number of land masses seem to be squeezed together. They are adjacent to each other and form a strip of land masses in space that is tens of thousands of kilometers wide.

This is somewhat similar to the previous maintenance area, except that the land masses here are not neatly arranged, but simply squeezed together.

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Moreover, there were aircraft or other things flying out from many land masses, and they also became the main targets of attack.

These land masses extend for more than 100,000 kilometers into the distance, and its end extends right into Lin's target location... the 'shortcut' to the dark void.

The shortcut is a huge dark hole, which makes the land mass look like a 'carpet' extending out of the hole.