Chapter 4844 Layers

"No matter what... there is no way to recover what has been lost."

The Crystal Tumbler that Lin was riding on was flying deeper into the Root of Hope. As it moved, Lin also saw many illusions.

The visions of these roots of hope reveal what this place was like in the past, and it seems that there was once quite a bit of civilization built in this place.

But there is no "native" civilization in this place; all civilizations were brought here from far away.

Lin discovered that these illusions did not only show one era. Sometimes they would change and show an earlier era. In these changing illusions, Lin could see some scenery that was created by early civilizations that moved here.

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The first civilization came from the depths of the void. Like the common drifting civilizations, they boarded huge life ships. When they landed at the Root of Hope, they looked very... distraught.

Their fleet seemed to have encountered some danger, with many signs of damage on its surface, and the residents of this fleet were in a similar situation.

They had many scars on their bodies, as if each of them had suffered varying degrees of damage. After landing, they began to quickly move supplies and started building.

After a period of time, they dismantled their fleet and converted all the materials into a capital city built on the surface.

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This civilization developed very smoothly because they discovered a lot of resources on the Root of Hope and were not troubled by wars or other issues.

But they developed more and more slowly, until at some point they stopped altogether.

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That's because they have all lost their desire.

Every individual in this civilization slowly became unwilling to do anything and spent most of their time wandering the streets aimlessly.

Moreover, the scars on these creatures became more and more serious. During their development, they kept trying to heal the scars on their bodies, but there was absolutely no way...until finally they seemed to no longer care.

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Their loss of desire is also related to the scars on their bodies. Lin discovered that as their scars increased, their thinking became increasingly atrophied.

In fact, many creatures can achieve this effect by modifying their brains, and this group of creatures seems to be a race infected with a certain disease. Of course, Lin now knows that they should be the body's "matter" that is being transformed into "energy" and being extracted.

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The strange thing is that this did not cause their death. Although they looked scarred, each individual could still move normally, but their thinking became slow.

Initially, this group of creatures thought they were sick, but later they discovered that it was their own "energy" that was being lost.

The group of creatures made one last effort and created something highly intelligent, similar to micro-machines, and launched them out.

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The purpose is to find out where their lost energy has gone.

After these machines were launched in large numbers, they did not return for a long time. The creatures of the entire civilization entered a state of dragging their incomplete bodies on the streets, and slowly perished. The remains of their civilization also formed the first layer of civilization ruins on the Root of Hope.

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Not long after their demise, the machines returned.

These machines did not find anything, but they seemed to have awakened their own thinking, that is, they believed themselves to be civilized creatures, and then established their own civilization on the destroyed capital of their manufacturers.

The buildings they built were very small and densely packed on the ruins of the first layer of civilization, and these micro-machines also perished after developing to a certain extent.

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The cause of their demise is the same as their makers, and these machines are slowly becoming devoid of desire.

They also tried to deal with this situation in various ways, such as transforming themselves, creating new thinking modules and so on, but it seemed that no matter what method they used, their thinking would always slowly disappear.

The machines' last ditch effort was to lure out the invaders.

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They try to use various methods to send signals to the outside world, indicating that they have powerful military forces and are ready to invade other civilizations.

Of course, they have no way of knowing whether other civilizations can understand their signals. They just try to use these signals to attract invaders.

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It seems that these machines believe that if other creatures are attracted, their minds will return to normal, that is, the effect of the loss of mind will be transferred to the new creatures.

After sending for a while, there was indeed a response from the depths of the void. Some huge land masses flew over, arrived on the surface of the mechanical creatures' city and began a large-scale attack, and finally destroyed the entire civilization of the mechanical creatures. Until the end, the machines did not know whether the arrival of outsiders could restore them to normal.

There are also many creatures on these landmasses. They built their own civilizations on the destroyed mechanical civilization, and then they continued to develop until their own destruction.

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And when they perish, they also lead to the emergence of the next civilization.

Lin discovered that these overlapping civilizations seemed to have this kind of relationship. When the previous one was about to perish, they would use various methods to bring out the next one. This method continued, and the way they perished was similar.

Finally it continued to the top civilization.

The top layer has no direct connection with the layers below it, and it belongs to a more special civilization.

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Lin thinks they can be called "Smoke Gatherers". They seem to be here to process the "energy" of these layered civilizations.

The demise of those civilizations that were layered on top of each other was due to the fact that they were slowly transformed into "energy". However, not all of this energy floated away, some of it continued to remain on the root of hope.

The 'Smoke Gatherer' gathers these residual energies and constructs something.

The buildings of the Smoke Gatherers are like a mass of paste that seems to absorb and process the energy remaining in the layers of ruins, gathering it together before handing it over to the Smoke Gatherers for processing.

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The Smoke Gatherers used this energy to build some...space ships.

In fact, they are aircraft made up of space. They gather the energy into the constructed space and then activate the space to fly far away.

This "far away" is actually the center of the root of hope, which is also the place where the root of hope first grew.

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The tumbler that Lin is riding now is also heading towards this place. Now that it is quite close, this place looks very... complete.

At least, unlike other places which were just disjointed ruins, there seemed to be something operating continuously here.