As the land and sea were frozen, the creatures on the surface disappeared.
However, there were still many creatures deep underground … but they were also slowly dying …
It wanted to protect the creatures here. It wanted them to live.
Although these small creatures were like parasitic microbes to it, it wanted to protect them.
The life here … needed warmth in order to survive.
It knew this.
However, warmth was a luxury for a wandering world without a star.
Therefore, it thought of a way to raise the temperature underground so that some creatures there could survive.
However, no matter how it raised the temperature, it could not raise it to the original temperature. Therefore, not many creatures survived. However … it was enough.
It believed that these creatures could still recover, just like … in the past.
Just like that, the creatures here continued to live here. They were slowly recovering their population, and the world itself entered a state of deep sleep.
It had suffered some damage, so it needed to sleep to recover … and after it fell asleep, the Atlan began to slowly 'wake up'.
The Atlans lived in the underground shelter they built before the war. The leader of the exploration team who first proposed the construction of the shelter sealed all the exits of the shelter. However, they were not used to living in a narrow place. These Atlans were trying to find a way to leave.
Some Atlan found a way. They successfully opened the entrance and exit of the shelter and then went to explore the outside environment.
However, the Atlan found out. They could no longer return to the surface because the path to the surface had been blocked by a large amount of ice and snow. It was almost impossible to dig it out.
Thus, they headed deeper into the ground.
However, exploring the depths of the underground … was also quite dangerous.
Many Atlan went missing during the exploration. They found that exploration was quite difficult.
However, there were also some Atlan who found special places … such as the warm environment underground. They went there to live. However, they did not contact their companions in the shelter again.
And those Atlan in the shelter stopped exploring. They also stopped exploring and placed their hopes on a special group of Atlan.
That was because many Atlan knew about a special plan, the 'ecological recovery' plan.
'Shelter 109' was created for this purpose.
In fact, there were some shelters like Shelter 109. The equipment in this kind of shelter was more 'advanced'. It was specially made for some special researchers.
They were called the 'ecological recovery team'. They were responsible for restoring the destroyed surface environment after the war.
Therefore, what they had to do was to create creatures that could quickly adapt to the surface.
From the moment they started living in the shelter, they started their research. They studied all kinds of animals and plants. However, the creatures they used for their research were basically their own. They did not use the native creatures here.
Because the Atlan knew more about the creatures they brought with them. It was also easier to conduct research.
They created many creatures, and in the process of research, several generations of these researchers have passed. However, their descendants also inherited their knowledge, so they could continue to conduct research.
They also left the shelter, they tried to explore underground.
However, they were unwilling to go out on their own, so Atlan found a creature to explore on their behalf …
This creature is called Bi.
It is a creature that is well suited to living in an underground environment, and its skin can also keep it warm. They could even eat some underground plants. They were the perfect species to live underground.
In the beginning. The Atlan used these creatures to start exploring underground. At the same time, they also conducted research on new breeds of them. They tried to create creatures with higher intelligence to carry out more complicated tasks.
The general task was to equip them with equipment and then let them enter the environment that the Atlan did not want to enter to film and explore the environment.
In the beginning, the process was very smooth. They explored many areas. At the same time, the Atlan also let them bring some seeds of fungi or plants deep into the cave.
Some plants did not need light to grow. They used these plants to improve the environment in the cave.
And because the process was going too smoothly, something strange happened later on …
There were two main types of Canis, but they were all the same creature. They were originally called 'fruit canis', but for some reason, they did not have the word 'fruit' in their name.
One type of Canis was a four-legged type, while the other was a standing type. They could perform different tasks, but both had the same intelligence.
The researchers first found that their Canis became more and more obedient and could understand their orders. At first, they thought it was good. Then, they gave them more orders.
Soon, the researchers found that the Canis seemed to be getting smarter and smarter.
From the beginning, the Atlan thought that the Canis only needed to have a certain level of intelligence. They did not need to be too smart. Otherwise, they might do something strange.
However, even if the Atlan did not continue to try to increase their intelligence, their intelligence continued to increase.
In fact, this problem was noticed very late.
During intelligence tests, the Canis knew how to pretend to be stupid. It made it difficult for the Atlan to detect their intelligence. At the same time, they were secretly doing something.
For example, after they went deep underground, they removed the exploration equipment that the Atlan gave them and so on. They would also deliberately make it look like it fell down in an accident.
Those Canis who removed the exploration equipment went deep underground and lived there. They began to breed.
Originally, the Atlan had a firm control over the breeding of the Canis. However, as long as they bred outside, the Atlan would not notice.
Later, when the Canis bred to a certain number, they began to try to deal with the race that created them, the Atlan.
The Canis that bred in large numbers outside and the Canis in the research institute began to work together. They used 'tricks' to break into the Sanctuary and attacked the Atlan in the Sanctuary.
The battle was successful … for the Canis.
Almost all of the Atlan researchers were killed by the Canis. The Canis successfully rescued their own kind that were trapped in the Sanctuary.
The Canis did not return to the Sanctuary. They went to a new place to breed …
That was a place they found deep underground that was suitable for them to live in.
Of course, the Canis were not the only ones. There were originally many creatures in the Sanctuary. They also left the Sanctuary and followed the Canis to live in that place.
The place was very beautiful. There were all kinds of creatures. The small sun in the sky lit up the entire place and gave it a suitable amount of warmth.
This was the world … the environment that was built for the remaining life forms. Now, the Canis had joined this place and became one of them.
The Canis' initial life … it should be said that it was very smooth.
They built their own community underground. They were like a group of primitive creatures that knew how to make simple tools using all kinds of things.
Why did they not use the tools of the Atlan in the Sanctuary? Perhaps their intelligence had not reached that level, or they simply did not want to use them.
In short, they did not take anything with them when they left the Sanctuary. They completely built their own community.
Like a group of primitive creatures, they started by using simple tools and slowly built stone buildings. They were usually led by a leader and lived by finding edible plants and hunting as their main source of food.
As they developed, their community grew larger and larger, and they began to have a significant impact on the underground environment.
Because the creatures in the underground environment were almost all native creatures, the expansion of the Sanctuary began to oppress these creatures. Slowly, their numbers decreased.
At the same time, the Canis were not the only ones oppressing them.
There were also some creatures that left the Sanctuary with the Canis. For example, 'Monchi'. Although these creatures were small, they were very competitive.
Other than that, there were also some other creatures. They slowly took over the entire place.
And at that moment …
The world woke up.
But it was not a complete awakening. Only a part of its' consciousness' was awakened. This part of its consciousness would automatically check for foreign objects in the underground environment and eliminate them.
Only native creatures were not considered foreign objects. Other things … including the Atlan and the Canis, as well as the creatures brought by the Atlan, were all considered foreign objects.
They were included in the 'extinction list'.
With the awakening of this elimination function, the underground environment would also begin to change.
The environment would suddenly darken, and then countless terrifying creatures would appear.
These creatures would only target 'foreign species' and exterminate them to the last.
This phenomenon did not just happen once. It became a cycle. Every once in a while, the terrifying creatures would appear again and the place would darken …
But in reality, these creatures were some kind of organ of the world. They exterminated many creatures, including the Canis, because the Canis did not run fast.
They almost exterminated most of the foreign creatures … Only a few remained and struggled to survive in the regular cycle.
The Canis also discovered that these creatures had a certain fear reaction to light. Although light would not hurt them, they could avoid them by moving to a bright environment …
After that, the villages and buildings that the Canis built before fell apart. They could only live a life of hiding. Their reproduction speed was not fast, so their numbers dwindled …
Until now. (To be continued)
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