"Gulp …"
It seemed to be very delicious?
Before Lin's eyes, there was a thing that was continuously devouring the food …
This thing could be considered the Star Bus's' eating organ '. Like the other systems, it was located very, very deep. It looked like a large worm, and it was continuously chewing the object in front of it — the healing stone.
The worm, which was tens of meters long, used the blunt teeth of its mouth to grind the healing stone bit by bit, and then swallowed it into its stomach. This had been going on for a long time.
Lin wasn't sure how long it would take for it to finish eating, but it certainly wouldn't stop until it was done.
But was it enough to eat?
Not long ago, Lin had the split half of the pompom bring a piece of healing stone back to the Star Bus, and then brought it deep underground to feed the Star Bus.
When the Star Bus chewed the stone, Lin's miniaturized troops were also chewed along with it. The miniaturized troops would be swallowed along with the crumbs, so that they could observe the process of the Star Bus decomposing the food.
Lin wanted to see how the Star Bus decomposed this wonderful material, and then how it transformed it. Perhaps the healing stone would no longer be needed after figuring out the process.
While watching it, Lin also thought about what happened before. Lin had the split half of the pompom teleport here with the healing stone, but the process … wasn't that smooth.
The teleportation location should have been on the surface of the Frost Roller, but it was teleported to a place far away from it, and … it brought back a strange object.
It was … an empty shell of the Void Bus.
In fact, it was only a small piece of the shell, which was tens of meters in size, that appeared beside the pompom when it was teleported here. Lin had no idea how this thing came to be.
The larva of the Void Bus didn't know either. In fact, it couldn't sense the shell at all.
There were indeed many problems with teleporting to that unknown place. Lin didn't know what would happen next time, so she wanted to experiment a few more times, so she had to create more troops to teleport here.
Although there weren't any more teleportation devices there, Lin could find materials to create one. There were many suitable materials in the 'Void Bus Graveyard'.
"Gulp …"
While Lin was deep in thought, the worm in front of her had already finished eating the healing stone. After eating the healing stone, it began to move. It was still looking around as if it was looking forward to eating more.
Meanwhile, Lin was observing the changes in its body …
A large number of troops were swallowed down the worm's' esophagus'. It felt similar to the digestion process of ordinary creatures, and they were squeezed deeper into the ground. As they were squeezed, they were continuously squeezed, causing the fragments of healing stones to become smaller, more like … gravel.
The gravel from these healing stones was sent to a place and piled up there.
This place seemed to be a temporary storage space. Lin's probing miniaturized unit, the 'Penetrator', was moving around a large amount of debris. He observed his surroundings.
Lin felt as if she was in a huge desert, with a large amount of debris piled up here. If it followed the steps of ordinary biological digestion, it would secrete a solution to dissolve the debris.
But … that didn't seem to be the case. In fact, this place didn't look like an internal organ, but more like a rock cave. The cave didn't seem to secrete any solution at all, because there was no strange smell here.
But on the top of the cave, there were a large number of strange thin needles. They were densely packed, like the surface of thorns.
While Lin was thinking, the needles on the top of the cave suddenly moved. They stretched down from the top of the cave, and when the needles touched a piece of healing stone, they immediately shrank back.
At the same time, the piece of healing stone was also stuck to it.
So that's how it was … 'digested' this way?
Lin saw a large number of needles reaching down from the top of the cave. After sticking to a small amount of healing stone, they shrank back into a small hole on the top of the cave, and then came out again after a while to stick to it again.
Lin found that they had a very strong ability to distinguish between things. If they were stuck to something else … such as ordinary stone fragments or other debris mixed in during the process of eating, or Lin's soldiers … these spikes would immediately throw them away and stick to them again.
They began to pick out the fragments of the healing stones from the pile of debris. As the spikes continued to move, Lin noticed that the pile of debris was gradually decreasing. Soon enough, almost all the fragments of the healing stones had been glued to the ground, leaving behind a pile of debris and some impure healing stones.
Even the healing stones weren't completely stuck. The needles seemed to be specifically picking out the purer fragments. The pure fragments looked brighter, while the impure fragments were obviously mixed with other rock components.
Then, Lin saw some large tentacles reaching out from both sides of the cave wall. They piled up the remaining 'debris' and sent it back to the esophagus that originally swallowed it. Finally, they were sent back to the mouth of the feeding worm and spat it out.
Lin calculated the amount of debris it spat out. It seemed that only about 30% of a healing stone was pure, and it didn't even want the rest …
It seemed that this creature's ability to decompose wasn't that strong, which was strange.
Regardless, Lin had already attached some of her soldiers to the pure healing stones. They followed the needles into the next area. Lin wanted to see how it decomposed the rocks.
The debris that was stuck to the healing stones were sent into a small tunnel. This tunnel also acted like an esophagus, wriggling to transport the food inside.
During the transportation process, the debris was also slowly decomposed.
Lin noticed that there were many smaller tentacles on the wall of the tiny tube. Their thickness was almost the same as a normal blood cell, but they were quite tough. They could pierce into the fragments of the healing stones and make them even smaller.
Furthermore, when they pierced through the healing stone, another type of tentacle would reach out and absorb the smaller fragments.
At this step, the soldiers that Lin had attached to the healing stone fragments were isolated.
These fine hairs would completely remove anything that stuck to the healing stone fragments. Even microscopic things like viruses couldn't be absorbed. They used a special method to only absorb the healing stone fragments.
However, there was another way for Lin to sneak in, and that was … disguise.
When it was using the needles earlier, Lin had some of the soldiers disguise themselves as gravestone fragments, so that they couldn't be distinguished and were stuck together ….. While they were being transported through the tube, Lin also had them split into smaller pieces, completely imitating other gravestone fragments, which were then absorbed by the soft tentacles.
After this step, Lin finally saw the decomposition process. After they were absorbed, they would be further decomposed by the cell-like things inside the fine hairs. It was very similar to a normal creature … In short, they were made smaller and smaller. However … Lin noticed that these small pieces weren't transported elsewhere.
In the end, they seemed to be stored as part of the cells inside the soft tentacles. They weren't supplied to other parts of the body as nutrients.
This was very strange. Because this part of the healing stone fragments was several hundred kilometers away from the part similar to the brain that the Star Bus was trying to repair, these debris just stayed there.
It felt like a creature eating, but the food it ate was only used as nutrients for its intestines and not sent to other parts of the body.
However, something strange happened.
On the other side, Lin was also observing the nerves of the Star Bus. These originally broken pieces were slowly growing back.
After the healing stone was completely absorbed, the broken pieces began to grow at a rapid rate. If one looked at them from a small angle, one could see some cell-like structures constantly dividing.
But … the healing stone wasn't transported to this side as nutrients, yet it was recovering?
In that case, it didn't need to absorb the healing stone at all. Instead, the healing stone had some kind of 'stimulating' effect? If that was the case, it would be very difficult to study this process …
But if that was the case, it shouldn't be difficult to cure it.
Because it only absorbed one piece of healing stone, all the damaged parts began to recover. Lin originally calculated based on the weight, but the healing stone wasn't enough to repair all the damaged parts.
Because the Star Bus had a lot of damaged parts, and the whole thing was quite … heavy.
But with this method, perhaps only a small amount of healing stones would be needed to fully recover …
Next, Lin continued to observe the changes here. Indeed, as long as the healing stone was absorbed from the other side, this side would begin to recover. And one piece of healing stone was able to recover all the nerves, about 30 centimeters in length.
That was a lot, because all the nerves added together … could weigh tens of thousands of tons, and that piece of healing stone was only a few dozen tons.
Lin found a lot of nerves under the Star Bus. Because it was such a huge creature, these structures were also quite big … the healing stone wasn't used to provide nutrients for the nerves. Instead, it had some other miraculous effect. In short, it was able to stimulate the recovery of the nerves …
From the looks of it, the amount of healing stones found in the unknown area was more than enough to heal the Star Bus.
In that case … send more healing stones over!
…
Just like that, some time passed.
Lin sent back a lot of healing stones, and the nerves of the Star Bus recovered very smoothly. Now, it was almost completely healed.
And its thoughts had almost reached the point where it was about to wake up.
What Lin wanted to know now was … what would it do after waking up? Floating astronomy.
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