In this airless environment, the sound of the explosion still echoed in Lin's mind. [][]..[]
Lin named this place the Star of Healing Stones. As the name suggested, this was the place to find healing stones, but until now, Lin still hadn't found a way to leave this place.
A large cavern … The pompom that teleported here was trapped inside. Through the exploration of the small team, Lin already knew the size of this cavern. This was a place with a diameter of tens of kilometers, and there was no air at all.
Everything here was made of rock, and there were some healing stones at the center of the cavern. There weren't many of them, but Lin felt that she could get at least a few thousand tons.
It felt … not enough, but she had to take them back first. Lin wanted the Lost Star's cub to teleport, but she was currently communicating with it.
Unlike the Voidfolk's cub, the Lost Star's cub seemed to be more difficult to communicate with. It couldn't understand many of the meanings Lin expressed. Perhaps the difference in environment caused their intelligence to be different?
However, this cavern didn't have any exit, so this was the only way.
Boom-! The pompom fired a large number of bombs from its body. These bombs emitted a dazzling light when they hit the rock wall. When the rocks scattered, Lin also felt the thickness of the rock wall, as if there was a way out.
Boom-! Another bomb was fired, but this time the explosion was even more powerful. The cracked rock wall began to collapse, and the scenery behind the rock wall appeared in front of Lin's eyes.
The pompous ball flew out of the hole that was blasted open and flew outside.
After flying outside, the first thing it saw was … an endless starry sky. It seemed that this was the surface of this Rolling Stone.
The terrain outside was very similar to the inside of the cavern. There were rocks everywhere. It seemed to be a barren world, an ordinary Rolling Stone without air or life. On the surface, it was indeed so.
What was unusual was that … there didn't seem to be any stars nearby. Was this also a wandering Rolling Stone? Lin felt that this kind of wandering Rolling Stone should be much rarer than non-wandering Rolling Stones … although that might not be the case.
In short, Lin came here to find healing stones, but she didn't know if she could find them on the surface.
But, more importantly. The Void Bus cub told Lin that it could now sense the pompom and could teleport.
It seemed that for some reason, its senses had been 'blocked' in the cave. Could it be that the walls of the cave had some special function?
If that was the case, then perhaps it would require some research.
So now, I'll go back first … Wait a minute.
Lin suddenly stopped the thought of teleporting back, because the pompom had discovered something special in the wasteland ahead. He could see a small hill rising from the ground.
It was not strange for a hill to appear in such a place. What was strange was that the color of the hill was different from the surrounding rocks. It was … pure white, just like … snow.
This strange hill was particularly conspicuous on the black rocky ground. Lin felt that she should investigate it, so the pom-poms flew in that direction.
Flying in front of the hill, the pompom first stretched out its tentacles to examine its surface. The surface was very smooth to the touch, completely different from the surrounding rocky ground.
However, Lin was very familiar with this feeling.
Because … it felt like the outer shell of the Void Bus.
When she saw this white hill, she already felt that it was strange … but when she touched it, she was certain that this was … a Void Bus.
The outer shell of the Void Bus was like this, some were like ice, white and relatively sturdy. They also had a very good healing ability, which was why they generally looked intact without any cracks.
This Void Bus was unknown how big it was. The part that was exposed above the ground was tens of meters tall, and it looked like most of it was embedded in the ground.
And it was not moving at all. What was going on? Was it sleeping here?
With that in mind, the pompom began to move, using a special 'drill tentacle' to dig at the surface. It was not easy to deal with the outer shell of the Void Bus, but Lin had already grasped its characteristics and knew how to drill through its outer shell. This time, she mainly used high temperature to drill through.
At the same time, the tentacles shot out some small troops into the hole for detection.
The inside of this outer shell … was very similar to the common Void Bus, with a complex tunnel. Some of the worm-type troops that Lin released had already begun to explore the tunnel. This was the same as a normal Void Bus, the only difference was … there were no living creatures inside.
There were many creatures inside the Void Bus, possibly multicellular creatures or other kinds of creatures, but there was nothing inside.
As the troops explored deeper, Lin could basically calculate the size of this Void Bus. Based on the hill outside and the tunnel inside, this Void Bus was probably one kilometer in diameter.
For a Void Bus, this was not very big. It was probably in a state of 'just taking off'. Although Lin did not know how big they were before they could take off, it should be around a few hundred meters long. Those that were tens of kilometers long had lived for a very long time.
And this Void Bus … why was it embedded in the surface of this Tumbler?
In order to investigate this mystery, Lin released more troops, and they quickly spread through the Void Bus, reaching all parts of its body through the tunnel.
But … Lin still could not find anything.
Whether it was the cabin where the symbiotic creatures should have been or the place where the internal organs should have been, they were all empty. The troops quickly crawled through an area of about one kilometer in size, and Lin's conclusion was … this was an empty shell.
The same went for the inside of the shell. Normally, when the outer shell of the Void Bus was drilled open, it would quickly heal, but when the pompom drilled a hole on the surface, it showed no signs of recovering.
Lin believed that the Void Bus's outer shell and internal organs were a separate system, and that it could be maintained for a period of time after the internal organs died. But now that the outer shell was no longer 'alive', it meant that this Void Bus was completely dead.
It felt like the shell of a snail or a shellfish, only the outer shell was left, and the 'meat' inside had disappeared. Because she could not find any clues, Lin called back the troops.
Then, the pompom slowly flew up and looked at the wasteland in the distance.
The Void Bus … was not the only one. On the wasteland in front of the pompom, there were many protruding white 'hills'. Each of them was several hundred meters to several kilometers apart, and many of them could be seen from high up.
Considering the size of the Void Bus, this was quite a dense area, and this place was like …
A graveyard for the Void Bus.
Why were there so many Void Buses embedded in the ground, and why were they all empty? Despite thinking this, Lin still had the pompom confirm it. The pompom flew to the exposed part of the Void Bus, drilled open its outer shell, and inspected the insides.
Just as Lin thought, almost all of the Void Buses were empty.
Why 'almost'? Because Lin found that some of the Void Buses had frozen organs, but it was impossible to tell what these organs were originally used for.
The Void Buses here seemed to have been … hollowed out.
In fact, it was unknown whether they were hollowed out or not, because there were no signs of damage on their outer shells, and from the existing traces, it was impossible to tell what had happened.
Perhaps, they did not encounter any danger, and this was just a place where they 'shed' their shells?
The possibility of this was relatively small, after all, some of the Void Buses still had a small amount of internal organs, and they should not shed their shells.
In order to obtain more clues, Lin had the pompom continue to explore the other Void Buses. Lin had only explored a few so far, perhaps she could find something from the other buses.
Perhaps, the large number of Void Buses here was related to the fact that the larvae felt that this was an 'unknown place'?
And so, Lin continued to explore the situation here …
Several pompom days and nights passed just like that. Lin had seen many Void Buses, and they were all empty shells.
At the same time, Lin also learned about the environment here. There was actually a star here, but its luster was a bit strange, and it just so happened that it was' night 'when they arrived, so they could not see it.
Moreover, there was more than one Tumbler here. While observing the stars, Lin found that there were many Tumblers nearby, and they all seemed to be revolving around the star.
In general, their operation was normal, and she wondered if she could find more healing stones on the other Tumblers.
Aside from the Void Buses, there was nothing else on the surface here, but she wondered if the healing stones were mixed in with the rock formations on the ground …
And within the rock formations, there was an entire Void Bus trapped inside.
These Void Buses were quite strange, although they were embedded in the ground, there were no traces of them drilling or digging.
It was as if they had been there from the beginning, and they were 'perfectly' embedded in the ground.
The exploration had to continue, and at the same time, Lin wanted to send the healing stones back first, so she split the pompom in half. One half would teleport back, while the other half would stay here to explore.
Moreover, since it was difficult to teleport troops from the outside, the remaining pompom had to create more troops here, and there were a lot of nutrients in the rock formations here that could be used to grow.
After creating more troops, some of them would have to fly to the other Tumblers to take a look. Lin still could not find the place where the Tumbler was torn apart when it was teleported. Lin felt that it was a gaseous Tumbler, and it might be very far away.
In short, this place was full of strange components, and she needed to study it slowly, but the main goal for now was to cure that … Star Bus. Floating astronomy.
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