Black dots …
They looked like flickering sparks, but they were black. ☆ →
The Rock Spider was now in the Dream World.
However, this Dream World … overlapped with the real world. It was not a separate world.
Therefore, the changes seen here would also be directly reflected in the real world …
The Rock Spider had already walked through the gap in the wall into the once massacred rugby town. The pile of corpses in the town looked like a hazy, faintly glowing fog in the Dream World.
It seemed that after these creatures died, they would not appear in the Dream World. Instead, they would appear in another form.
However, most of the creatures would not appear in the Dream World.
Now Lin had discovered that the only things that were exactly the same in the Dream World were most of the buildings, ground, stones, trees, and so on. The other living creatures in the real world were either shadows or did not appear at all in the Dream World.
Of course, there were also some strange things like cocoons that appeared in the Dream World. But no matter what, they were different from the real world.
As for the trees, Lin guessed that only the bark would appear, and the insides would be empty.
These stones and buildings also looked hazy, as if there were many shadows swaying around them. Lin felt that if a creature like the Voidfolk entered this Dream World, they would soon faint.
Lin now looked at the hazy pile of corpses. In the real world, they should have emitted a strong smell, but in the Dream World, there was no smell.
However, she could see a lot of small black dots.
These black dots were emitting light … a black light. This phenomenon could only be seen in the Dream World. Like a large group of glowing bugs, they flew to the pile of corpses. Then, they landed on it.
Where did they come from?
Lin did not know, because the Rock Spider had seen these black dots when it came here. But Lin felt that their identity was the same as the rugby balls on the corpses in the real world … a group of cubs.
These were the cubs of the rugby balls' shadows, the energy creatures that lived in symbiosis with the rugby balls. Lin had wondered before, when did the rugby balls' shadows begin to live in symbiosis with them?
It seemed to be quite early, not long after the cubs were born. They would have appeared soon.
However, they should have appeared earlier because rugby cubs could rely on their incomplete brains to perform simple actions such as devouring the corpses around them, but they could not perform complex actions.
Before the stench of corpses attracted more scavengers, the shadow had to live in symbiosis with them so that the rugby ball could gain complete intelligence and control over its body. Only then could they escape in time.
It seemed that this breeding process had evolved over a long period of time. Perhaps this breeding method was the main breeding method of rugby.
In the beginning, these shadows were about the size of a baby. They were just floating black dots, but Lin couldn't tell where they came from.
In the meantime. Lin also wanted to know if there was a way for an adult rugby player to escape from the shadow. What if he continued to live in symbiosis with another shadow?
This might not be possible, otherwise, they wouldn't be so afraid of death.
Whether it was because the shadows did not want to coexist with the adult rugby ball, or because there was no way to coexist with it, the adult rugby ball was almost doomed after being deprived of the shadows in its dream.
Now, Lin saw the small black dots of the shadows flying to the pile of corpses and then slowly wriggling on top of them.
These slowly wriggling black dots should have succeeded in coexisting with the cubs. Their movements were beginning to synchronize with the rugby ball cubs.
The speed and location of the rugby ball cubs in reality could also be seen from the black dots here.
At first, the black dots were basically moving at a wriggling speed, but some of them began to move faster.
Lin felt that they were floating. It seemed that after coexisting with the cubs, they quickly gained the ability to control their bodies. However, even if they were flying, they didn't seem to intend to leave.
These rugby balls were still on top of the pile of corpses. Perhaps they were still reluctant to part with the large amount of food...
Just as Lin thought so, she suddenly saw a black dot flying down from the pile of corpses at an extremely fast speed, and then flew into the distance...
Its movement seemed to have affected the other black dots. Then, all the black dots scattered at the same time. After a moment, there were no more black dots on the pile of corpses.
'Bang — —'
Then, Lin heard a sound. The thick fog that symbolized the pile of corpses suddenly scattered in all directions. It looked like it was scattered by something.
It seemed that something had happened in reality, but I can't see it here... Right, I just have to move to reality to observe it. With that thought in mind, Lin woke up.
The moment she woke up, everything around her became clear again. The sun shone from the horizon, and it felt like she had just come to the surface from the depths of a dark cave. If it were other creatures, they would feel very comfortable at this moment.
However, if they saw the creatures in front of them, perhaps they would feel safer in their dreams.
The pile of corpses in front of her was no longer covered in fog. Lin could now accurately smell the smell. This smell was stinky to creatures whose immune cells couldn't fight against the carrion fungus. It was nothing special to Lin, but to scavengers, it was sweet and delicious.
Lin saw a large creature lying on top of the pile of corpses. It had four membranous wings like those of a pterodactyl, and a sharp, spear-like structure at its mouth.
Its wingspan should be more than ten meters. Just now, it had swooped down from the sky and crashed into the pile of corpses, scattering the corpses and scaring away the cubs.
Looking around, Lin could see many rugby cubs floating around the pile of corpses. They seemed to want to eat more, but they didn't dare to come close.
Lin looked at the creature with the 'spear-like mouth'. Its mouth was obviously not suitable for catching these cubs. Lin thought it should be more suitable for piercing other creatures at high speed in the air, so Lin decided to call it a 'flying needle'.
Lin didn't see it in her dream just now. It should be a creature without symbiosis. This kind of creature had a complete brain. Obviously, the creatures in this world had many evolutionary paths, and they didn't necessarily need to symbiosis with energy creatures.
And energy creatures didn't necessarily need to symbiosis with physical creatures either. They just happened to 'overlap' with each other in this world, so there was this phenomenon of mutual influence.
This' flying needle 'was using its sharp mouth to jump the rugby ball's corpse. Lin found that it seemed to be secreting a dissolving substance, melting the corpse into a paste and then sucking it in.
It seemed that even with this mouth, it could still eat scavengers …
However, compared to this, Lin also noticed another strange thing.
When Lin woke up from her dream, she didn't see the stone spider in her dream. Instead, she saw another stone spider beside the pile of corpses.
Because there was already a stone spider here observing.
As for the Rock Spider in the dream, Lin could see it here, but if Lin wanted to focus on it, she would immediately enter the dream and see the hazy world from before.
In other words … after Lin's stone spider came into contact with the statue in the distant town, its' consciousness' didn't just enter the dream. When Lin made it move in the dream, its body in the real world also moved and ran to this position.
This was the first time she saw this phenomenon. When she entered the dream before, the body in the real world didn't move in sync, and was usually in a state of deep sleep.
This feeling … was quite interesting.
So before entering the dream, she had to keep the stone spider hidden. Otherwise, if it ran around here, it might be attacked by a real creature without knowing.
So, how could the stone spider wake up?
It seemed that it couldn't wake up directly. The only way Lin knew now was to return to the original place and come into contact with the statue. Only through the statue could she go back and forth to the dream world.
Or rather, it should be said to go back and forth from the 'dream' perspective.
But this way, Lin could keep multiple stone spiders moving in both the dream and reality at the same time.
Now, Lin planned to go back to the big town. There were still many things that she hadn't studied there, such as the cocoon and some of the things that Lin had confirmed before.
Of course, the stone spiders here didn't go back. They still had to stay here to observe the situation of the pile of corpses and the baby rugby players. Other stone spiders had already run to the big town.
There was still a lot of information there.
Lin found that the surviving rugby players kept going to the statue in the center of the town. The cocoon didn't get tired of letting them pass again and again. Now Lin knew that the tree-shaped statue should be something like a god to them.
These rugby players would 'pray' to the statue.
The content of their prayers included their happiness that they were alive, and also included various kinds of sadness for their dead counterparts.
These rugby players were very primitive. They didn't seem to have a full understanding of their own death and their symbiotic companions. They thought that death was their 'soul'. In short, their words could be translated to a similar meaning.
They thought that their souls were 'taken away', and they also knew that they could rely on the act of building a clay wall to protect themselves.
The clay wall had some special characteristics. In the dream, it looked like a giant wall, but because the 'giant clam' ate part of it, the wall couldn't completely protect them.
At the same time, they mentioned some more important things in the process of praying.
Mentioned a more important thing.
The rugby players thought that after they died, their 'souls' would fly to a certain place.
There was a huge creature in that place, and it would receive all the 'souls'. Floating astronomy.
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