A gray barren land, a sky filled with stars …
This was all the information that had been inputted into her memory. The vast ocean had been completely occupied and replaced with a new world …
However, this was not the dream.
The moment the spy cub opened her eyes, she found that she was no longer in the same place.
This was another place, exactly the same as the occupied world in the dream, but Lin was sure that this was indoors and not outdoors. The starlight in the sky was all shown by images.
However, with the vision of ordinary Voidfolk, it was difficult for them to distinguish these differences.
In this place, there were not only spy cubs, Lin found that there were many other cubs around. The light above shone on their bodies, and Lin felt that these cubs seemed to have become a little strange.
They seemed to have become much more energetic, and none of the cubs were crying.
Some of the cubs even used their hands to support their bodies. Before this, they should not have had the strength to do so.
Was this the effect of the information injected into their brains?
There were dozens of cubs gathered here. Lin did not know if it was all of them, or if there were only a few left. They now looked like … wild creatures, using curious eyes and thoughts to explore everywhere. Some of the cubs were even crawling around to explore.
Moreover, the most important thing was that these cubs had something on their heads. This thing looked like a sharp thorn, and half of the thorn seemed to have pierced into the cub's head. The cub did not seem to feel anything.
The spy cub also had one on his head, if one looked at it from the inside. It could be seen that this thorn had already pierced half of it. And it was entangled with the nerve lines in the brain. But it cleverly did not hurt the brain.
Lin also found that the breathing devices on these cubs were missing.
The Voidfolk's cubs had to wear breathing devices after leaving the hospital where they were born. However, the air here did not seem to be polluted, so it did not matter if they took it off.
'Buzz —!' Suddenly, a sound rang out, and all the cubs gathered in one place as if they had been summoned.
These cubs who did not even know how to crawl before. Now, their crawling speed was actually quite fast. Could it be done just by changing the brain and not the muscles?
The cubs gathered under a large rock and squeezed out a large amount of paste from the bottom of the rock. The cubs lay there and ate the paste.
Lin had the spy eat some of it as well, and found that the paste seemed to be mixed with nutrients suitable for the growth of hatchlings, but it tasted terrible for Voidfolk.
On the other hand, the cubs here were still eating very excitedly. It was not only because of the image in their brain, but also because they were already very hungry.
After eating, they lay on the ground and slept.
These babies felt like they were being reared …
Were they going to live here forever? What was the point of the Black Metals' raising 'them like this?
Let's observe for a while first.
After that, five days and nights passed.
Lin discovered. Just as Lin had guessed, the cubs here seemed to be raised here. They get up every day and night to eat and then go to sleep.
Food would pop up from under the surrounding rocks, but the position of the food would be different every time. The cubs also had to crawl around to eat it.
This was the only exercise they did.
However, in this life of being reared, Lin discovered something very strange …
The cubs' food for the first two days and nights was basic sticky and nutritious food, but later on, Lin discovered that a new ingredient was added to the food …
It was a strange kind of crumbs.
The composition of the food remained the same, but the crumbs were newly added. These crumbs were extremely small and did not have much of an effect on the taste. However, they were substances that Voidfolk could not digest. Some of them were like small metal fragments.
In the beginning, Lin did not know what the purpose of these crumbs was because they would be discharged. However, after studying some of the cubs around her, Lin discovered the purpose of the crumbs.
It seemed to be used to grow the thorns on their heads.
That's right, they were the thorns that pierced the heads of the Voidfolk cubs. They seemed to be glued to the brains of the Voidfolk cubs. After the cubs ate the crumbs, they would be absorbed and then transferred to the brain as nutrients through the blood vessels. While providing the brain with normal nutrients, the crumbs would also be glued to the thorns in their heads, increasing the size of the thorns …
Lin also discovered that a new type of cell had appeared in the brains of the cubs. These cells should be called 'stinger cells'. They had only one function – to collect crumbs and glue them to the thorns.
In short, the thorns on the heads of the Voidfolk cubs would grow together with their heads due to these cells, as long as they continued to eat the crumbs.
However, this phenomenon did not occur in the spies' bodies. Lin believed that the spies' bodies were not controlled by the brain. The brain was basically an 'ornament', so naturally, the spies' digestive system was not under the control of the brain, so the crumbs would not be sent to the brain as nutrients.
Of course, the 'stinger cells' did not appear either …
Lin believed that these cells were born from some kind of virus. When the spies' heads were pierced and injected with information, many viruses were mixed in with them.
Generally speaking, it was normal for a large number of viruses to enter the wounds, so Lin did not pay too much attention to it. However, Lin recently studied some of the viruses that entered the wounds at that time. Lin discovered that there was a virus among them that would cause special effects on the cells of the Voidfolk cubs …
This virus did not multiply through cells like normal viruses. After it entered the cells, it would use its own nuclear information to modify the cells, turning the cells into 'stinger cells'.
The stinger cells would divide and multiply on their own. As long as one of the cells was infected and became like this, there would be a group of these cells in the Voidfolk cubs' bodies. Moreover, these cells were not under any control, nor were they attacked by the immune system. The stinger cells would gather in large numbers in the brain and constantly repeat the task of assembling crumbs onto the thorns.
They would not multiply excessively, so it would not affect the normal development of the cubs' brains.
This feeling … was really strange.
Why did they create this thorns and let them grow together with the brain? It was not just to control these cubs. There was no need to make it so complicated just to control them.
They should have some kind of purpose, but what was it? What were they trying to do by using the thorns that grew together with the brain?
Lin might have to wait until the cubs grew up before she could see the problem.
She did not know how long it would take for her to discover it. Moreover, the growth rate of Voidfolk was too slow. Many creatures needed to hide from predators when they were born, and Voidfolk were still considered cubs after ten years.
However, she should let the spy try to see what problems would occur if it continued to grow like this.
Lin let the spy's digestive system transfer crumbs to the brain, then she created some cells that mimicked the stinger cells and assembled these crumbs. Just like the cubs, she let the thorns slowly grow.
After trying this … Lin found that this did not seem to have any effect on the brain. Ordinary Voidfolk would not be able to sense it at all, but if it was in a dream, it would be able to see the changes.
The dream in the spy's brain had now completely transformed into a world with gray rocky lands and a sky full of stars.
And on this rocky land, Lin found that there were some strange things.
In the center of the rocky land, there was a huge boulder that towered like a mountain peak. This boulder was transparent and looked like it was made of 'glass', a kind of thing made by Voidfolk.
And at the top of this boulder, there were some strange flashes of light.
A ball of light about ten centimeters in diameter was in the middle of this piece of glass.
It felt very strange because in her entire memory, there was only one such ball of light here …
Lin later tried to enter the dreams of other cubs, and sure enough, she found something similar in the brains of other cubs.
Could it be like this?
Later on, Lin continued to observe the ball of light. Just as Lin had expected, the ball of light would slowly grow. Every time the spike in the cub's head grew larger, the ball of light would also grow a little larger.
If the cubs grew to adulthood, according to her calculations, this ball of light could become a sphere with a diameter of tens of meters.
Although size did not mean anything in the dream, this kind of change could also indicate its growth. It gave Lin the feeling that a ball was planted in the cubs' brains.
What was it doing? What did this ball of light mean?
Lin felt that this ball of light should be using the cubs' brains to grow.
Its growth seemed to be related to the size of the thorns, but in reality, the thorns were absorbing something from the cubs' brains.
When the thorns' cells increased in size, the cubs' brains would also have some strange reactions, as if something was being transmitted to the thorns.
But there was no way to know what it was at the moment. Generally speaking, using brainwaves to search the cubs' brains could be detected clearly, but Lin found that if she used brainwaves, the small metal microbes nearby would react and gather around.
And recently, Lin felt that the Black Metals might have started to suspect that there was something wrong with the spy cubs.
Although they did not directly appear, Lin felt that they were 'suspicious' …
There was no way to do detailed experiments here. Lin had to think of a way to get one of the cubs with thorns on its head out.
But if it was just a spy, it would be difficult for her to get out …
However, there was still a chance because the Voidpeople's army had gathered nearby. If he could make use of them, he should be able to do it …
PS: Thank you ~ Fantasy Erosion's Distortion Barrier ~
Thank you ~ Annihilation Blade ~ Qian 'er and the Zerg ~ for the reward ~
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