Under the starry night sky …
Everything was very noisy. Rustle.
The forest at night was filled with the sounds of various creatures. It was no different from the noisiness of the pompom forest at night.
However, there was another strange phenomenon here.
When Lin wanted to study the statue in the middle of the rugby town, she found that something had happened to the 'massacred' town.
Lin thought that the dead rugby balls could only wait for the scavengers to come and eat them. Unexpectedly, they … came back to life.
However, they did not come back to life under normal circumstances. They did not return to their original state.
"Wu …"
Now, there were several rugby balls that had come back to life in front of the Rock Spider. However, they were completely different from before. They could no longer float. Instead, they could only crawl on the ground using part of their limbs.
The Rock Spider crawled forward and caught one of the squirming rugby balls. It then examined it.
This … was very interesting.
Lin found that the rugby ball's brain, which should have stopped functioning, had begun to move again. It controlled the body and began to move. This time, the body's performance was completely consistent with the brain.
Because the rugby ball and other similar creatures had a 'damaged' brain. They could not control the body completely. However, they were able to move perfectly.
However, these rugby balls that came back to life after the 'massacre' displayed the performance of a damaged brain. They could only use part of their limbs to move forward. Moreover, they could not control their ability to float.
Because this brain area was not capable of handling so many complicated functions. Their current performance was completely 'normal'.
After Lin's examination. She did not find that they were infected with any special parasites or viruses. The actions of these creatures were completely 'spontaneous'.
What would these rugby balls do after coming back to life?
Lin found that they were not wandering around aimlessly. Instead, they were all gathering in one direction. That direction was … the central square of the town.
A large number of them piled up there, wriggling non-stop. Each of them tried to climb on top of their companions. In the end, they slowly formed a small mountain.
This process continued until late at night.
At first, they were very active, and under the constant crawling, they began to crawl. After that, they slowly exhausted their strength and stopped moving.
However, these creatures were still alive. Their tired bodies were still trying to move. Lin felt that this might be a special … method of reproduction.
The Rock Spiders continued to observe these creatures until the dawn arrived. In this world, night and day did not last long. It was faster than the Pompom.
When the day came, Lin could already smell the faint stench of decay. During the night, almost all of these creatures died of exhaustion. Some of the faster rotting fungi had already begun to devour their corpses.
Presumably, they wouldn't come back to life this time.
However, it wasn't the fungus that devoured the corpses. It was … their own kind.
The Rock Spiders approached the pile of corpses. Some small creatures could be seen crawling on some of the corpses.
They drilled holes in the rugby ball's skin and quickly gnawed on the meat around it.
And these very small creatures were rugby league's … cubs.
They were exactly the same as rugby balls, except that they were very small and could not fly. However, their movements were very fast. They fed on the corpses of the 'seniors' around them and grew rapidly.
Last night, the rugby balls that came back to life were piled up together for the purpose of reproduction.
After giving birth to a large number of rugby league cubs, they would die and let the cubs eat their corpses to grow rapidly. This method could also be seen in some of the creatures on the Pompom.
But the question was … why would they need to 'die' once before they could get up and reproduce?
Those healthy rugby balls from before were clearly terrified. If they had to reproduce like this, it meant that they were afraid of reproduction …
Afraid of reproduction? I've never seen such a creature before. I didn't expect to see such a creature.
Or perhaps rugby balls don't usually reproduce in this way?
That might be possible. Lin let the Rock Spiders observe these cubs. If the number of cubs that survived was high, this method of reproduction should be very important.
While she was observing, Lin also began to move on the other side.
This was a bigger rugby city. In the city, Lin could see many kinds of creatures living here. Rugby balls made up the majority of the creatures here. There were a few other creatures in smaller numbers.
However, they seemed to occupy the center of the city.
In the center of the city, there was a statue. The statue looked like … a tree trunk.
Just like the tree trunk that looked like the creator tree he saw in the jungle before, this was also carved out of rock. The various details on it, such as small lumps, were carved very carefully.
So, Lin thought that this one and the one in the jungle were carved by the same sculptor. It might be the creature that was currently guarding this statue.
This creature looked like a cocoon. It was one and a half meters tall, and its whole body was wrapped in white silk threads.
So it looked exactly like a cocoon. It had small legs that allowed it to move its body. When it wanted to climb to a higher place or move quickly, it would shoot out new silk threads from the gaps of the silk threads, stick to the target, and quickly pull itself over.
This strange creature seemed to live in the center of the city. They lived in the innermost layer. According to the rules of the Emerald Dragon, they were 'nobles'.
Their buildings were like themselves, made of silk threads. At the same time, they were also responsible for guarding more important things.
Just like this tree-shaped statue.
Lin observed for a while and found that if other creatures wanted to get close to the statue, they would have to get permission from the 'cocoon' guarding the statue.
The cocoon would let them pass, but it would also reject some creatures. Most of the creatures that approached the statue were rugby balls, especially the rugby balls that escaped from the massacre in the small town. Almost all of them had been here at least once.
After they were allowed to get close to the statue, the rugby balls only touched the statue a few times and then floated away. They did not do anything else.
Lin's Rock Spider was now in front of the statue.
The cocoon did not notice it at all, but Lin was a little curious. What if it did not allow creatures to get close to the statue? Would it kill it?
Lin would see what the cocoon was made of later. For now, she would study the statue.
Lin felt that this statue might be something that could be connected to the Dreamscape. Because the Dreamscape energy here was very … dense, it should be able to enter the Dreamscape through it.
As she thought about it, the Rock Spider climbed on top of the tree-shaped statue. It extended a small tentacle from its head and touched the statue.
At that moment, the world around the Rock Spider … changed.
However, it did not change much. The surrounding scenery was still the same. It was completely different from the usual world that one would enter after entering the Dreamscape.
The surrounding scenery was still that of the small town, and the position of the buildings did not change. Lin felt that this was not a dream at all.
But she had indeed entered the Dreamscape again. Because the surroundings were not completely unchanged.
If one looked up, they would see that the sky had become a gray color. It was somewhat like the polluted sky of the Voidman Origin Sphere. There was no sunlight shining down, and there were no clouds.
Looking down, the creatures moving between the buildings had all become blurry shadows. These shadows moved slowly, and they would occasionally flicker a few times.
The cocoon guarding the statue had also become something else, but it was not a shadow. It looked like a lump of flesh, but its shape and size were very similar to a cocoon in reality.
This situation … was very close to what Lin had guessed.
Suddenly, Lin saw a shadow floating over from the distance.
Everything looked blurry from here, but it would become clear as they got closer.
But no matter how clear it was, a shadow was still a shadow. It floated in front of the statue and stopped in front of the lump of flesh that should be the cocoon in reality.
At that moment, Lin immediately woke the Rock Spider up. The surrounding scenery instantly became clear, and the swaying shadows turned back into living creatures, including the cocoon, and …
The thing that should have been a shadow in front of it had also turned into a rugby ball, and it was communicating with the cocoon.
After the communication was over, the cocoon moved aside. The rugby ball flew in front of the statue and reached out its forelimbs to touch the statue …
So that's how it is.
Lin thought as she returned to the Dreamscape. She could see that the shadow was attached to the statue, and it was also transmitting some emotions.
These emotions were easier to understand than they were in reality, and Lin could almost understand what they were saying.
If translated into some language, this shadow was saying: "Attacked … arrived at a new place … must report to 'something' …"
'Something' meant something like a name. Lin did not know what it was referring to, but it was obviously reporting to 'something'.
The creatures here might have one thing in common, and that was that in the Dreamscape, they had a different appearance. This Dreamscape was completely synchronized with reality, and the movements of the shadows here were the same as the creatures in reality.
In the Dreamscape, the creatures here would show a different state, a different appearance …
The 'massacre' earlier was the result of the rugby ball's' shadows' being killed in the Dreamscape, which was why they became like that. These shadows should be similar to brain spirits …
They were energy creatures. Floating astronomy.
PS: Thank you ~ Shangguan Phoenix ~ Zongzi ~
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