The energy of a conscious mind might require another consciousness to be created.
That was what Lin believed at the moment.
These 'Brain Spirits' might be creatures that were born from a single consciousness and lived independently …
And the Voidfolk's offspring might be the key to creating them.
As long as there was a brain and a spike, they should be able to create a 'Brain Spirit'.
That should be the main reason why they caught the offspring. Although Brain Spirits could live independently, they should be born from a brain, just like Susumi.
In Lin's opinion, the specific situation was like this: They would capture the young of the Voidfolk, then pierce the young's brain with a spike. This spike would slowly grow together with the young's brain, slowly absorbing something from the young's brain.
And this thing would grow into a Brain Spirit.
What exactly was it that they were absorbing? Perhaps it could be called 'consciousness'. Just like how plants absorb nutrients from the ground, this spike would also absorb the consciousness of the Voidfolk's offspring.
This' consciousness' was not the same as brain waves. It was something else, a type of energy that had yet to be fully discovered.
As the offspring grew, it might absorb more and more until it finally formed a Brain Spirit.
This might be how Brain Spirits reproduce. They would absorb the consciousness of other creatures' brains and 'make it independent'.
This method was very similar to how Lin transferred the consciousness of Susumi and the others. However, Lin was still unable to create an independent consciousness. There must be something special about this that had yet to be figured out.
If that was how she thought. Perhaps only creatures with personalities were more suitable to create Brain Spirits. Moreover, different creatures would give birth to different kinds of Brain Spirits.
Those Brain Spirits that invaded other Voidfolk's brains might be 'low level species', and they might have 'high level species' Brain Spirits commanding them from behind.
If that was really the case …
Then this race was quite interesting … but also quite dangerous. They could not be dealt with using normal methods.
Other than moving around in the Illusory Dream World, they had also created quite a number of weapons in the outside world. They liked to use that kind of flash. It could be temporarily called 'Stellar Flash'. It was a type of high-temperature material commonly seen in stars. It was unknown how they produced it. Perhaps they simply heated something to a very high temperature and then imprisoned it. When necessary, they would fire it? This aspect must be researched as well.
In addition to stellar flashes, they also emitted another type of high-temperature material. Although it looked very similar to stellar flashes, it was actually completely different.
This type of attack would not cause excessive damage and was suitable for dealing with specific targets.
Moreover, they could also identify Lin's troop types and cells. Lin speculated that the 'brain spirits' could even separate themselves from the brain-like container, which was how they had discovered the spy. A Brain Spirit came out alone to investigate and discovered that the spy's cells were different.
But Lin thought they might not be able to be alone for too long.
Come to think of it … Perhaps this was the reason why they invaded the Voidfolk mother sphere. They wanted to use the Voidfolk to create more Brain Spirits. Those fledglings from before were probably just a test. If they succeeded in conquering the Voidfolk mother sphere, they would probably use a large number of fledglings to plant Brain Spirits.
Why do they need cubs? It was probably because the adult Virtual Person's brain had already matured, and there was too much noise in it, so it was no longer suitable to plant a brain spirit.
Only the young ones had very 'pure' brains.
In short, all of this was just speculation. In fact, Lin did not know what was going on. Lin needed to see the entire process to fully understand what was going on. Therefore, she needed to let the spy's brain and the thorn on his head grow together to see the results.
Before that, she needed to let the thorn continue to grow.
The thorn's composition was not found on the Voidfolk mother sphere, so it should be a metal-like substance. Although Lin had found some similar substances on other rollers, such as the Lost Star, it was impossible to bring the spy's head to the Lost Star here …
Then, how about capturing a fully matured Brain Spirit?
Lin thought that the Black Metal Mercenaries used a certain method to inject a Brain Spirit into the Voidfolk who joined them, and then the Brain Spirit would guide the Voidfolk to do things.
Therefore, it was possible that every member of the Black Metal Mercenaries had a Brain Spirit in their head.
Although Lin did not think this method was very good, because even if they captured a 'living' Brain Spirit, they would not know how to study it. Lin wanted to see the growth process of the Brain Spirit, so that she could better understand them.
However, it was fine to capture one and take a look.
And now, Lin had arrived at their base.
A Voidfolk stood under a huge building. This Voidfolk was a spy. Lin had now spread a large number of pompoms in various cities, looking for nutrients that could be used to create more spies and pompoms.
Although the laws of the Voidfolk were almost unimaginable, crime was still rampant. Not to mention the individual crimes, there were also many large-scale criminal organizations. In the dark corners of various cities, there were gathering points for criminals, and this was one of them.
This place looked like a large warehouse, and it was very old. There were many pieces of metal that were used to repair it, and rust covered the entire building. Even in a densely populated city, not many Voidfolk would come to this place.
Therefore, it was very suitable for a 'hideout'. Recently, because the number of Voidfolk who joined the Black Metal Mercenaries had increased rapidly, there were places where they gathered everywhere.
The spy walked forward and knocked on the door at the entrance of the warehouse.
"Who is it? Say the code. " A voice came from inside, and at the same time, a small opening in the door opened. Lin saw a pair of eyes looking at her from inside.
The spy said, "A delivery man."
"Very well, you can come in."
At the same time, the door opened. Lin saw a Voidfolk in black standing at the door and saying, "Don't look around after you go in. Come out immediately after you're done, okay … Ahhh, what are you doing?"
The spy grabbed the Voidfolk's face with one hand and dragged it out of the warehouse.
"Ahhh! Let go! " The Voidfolk struggled desperately, but it was not strong enough. It suddenly pulled out a small weapon and fired a few shots at the spy.
Bang, bang, bang! After three shots, a few more holes appeared on the spy's head. The spy continued to drag it to the other side of the warehouse. Not far from the warehouse was the sea. After dragging it to the sea, the spy threw it into the sea and jumped in himself.
This was a rare place that did not have a breeding factory. However, Lin thought that the water here was too muddy, and even the factory's filtration equipment could not handle it.
The spy dragged it to a cave at the bottom of the sea. There was air in the cave, which Lin had dug out. In short, she would study it there first.
If it was a member of the Black Metal Mercenaries, it should have a brain.
On the other side, Lin was also looking for materials to grow the spines in the spy's brain.
Attacking the Black Metal directly? That was not very possible. There were not enough troops here. However, Lin found that there seemed to be another place.
That was … the Black Market.
The Black Market was a place that sold things that were forbidden on the market … Lin thought so. In fact, the extinction of many species on the Voidfolk Origin Sphere had a lot to do with this place.
Because some species were protected and prohibited from selling anything related to them, they were still bought and sold in the Black Market.
Lin's other spy also came here. There were many different kinds of Black Market. However, the place Lin went to was like its name, a small dark space.
The spy was holding a black stone in his hand. Lin was carefully examining it.
There were some substances on the stone that could be used as nutrients for the spines …
"Do you want this?" a Voidfolk standing in front of the spy said. "This is a top-grade item that we recently got."
"No, the content is too low," the spy said. "Let me see the other one."
"This is low?" The Voidfolk exclaimed. "But this is a very high purity one … Fine, you, go and get him the highest quality one."
"Yes." The other Voidfolk next to him walked away. After a while, he returned with another stone for the spy. "This is one of our treasures here, you can't find it anywhere else."
The spy accepted the stone and continued to examine it.
The content that Lin was examining was different from the purity of the Voidfolk. This stone was called 'Addiction Stone'. According to rumors, after being processed in a certain way, it could continuously radiate a unique 'sensation'. In short, this kind of radiation would give the Voidfolk an extreme sense of pleasure, and at the same time, cause them to become addicted.
Of course, the higher the purity, the better the effect. However, Lin only wanted to examine the 'Black Metal' inside, it had nothing to do with the purity.
The Black Metal could be used as nutrients to grow the spines, but this was too low. Every Addiction Stone seemed to contain a little bit of the Black Metal, but even if all of it was added together, it was still not enough for the spines to grow to adulthood.
The spy put the stone down and asked the two Voidfolk in front of him: "Where did you get this?"
"Of course it's from the Noir Mine," the Voidfolk answered. "It was directly transported from the mine to here, the original taste."
'So it's from there …'
"I don't want it anymore." With that, the spy walked out.
The Noir Mine was a place that the Voidfolk used to collect Void Ores, so there should be a lot of these things there. Then, if they went to the place of origin, they should be able to get a large amount of the Black Metal.
However, during the time that Lin was observing its growth, would the Voidfolk be able to withstand the attack of the Black Metal? (To be continued …)
PS: Thank you ~ Liuyan ~ for the tip ~
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
