The bright sun shone on the ground of the real world, but the dream world was still hazy. The rock spiders were crawling quickly on the slope of a mountain. Crack.
The hillside here was very steep, and there were basically no plant-like creatures. However, in the real world, there were many creatures. They looked like caterpillars with fat bodies. Each of them was about a meter in size.
They were multicellular creatures and seemed to be living a good life on the mountain. These caterpillars didn't even need to hunt to have a lot of food.
These caterpillars had a lot of hair on their bodies, and the hair was very sticky. They would stick to things in the air.
After climbing up the mountain, Lin found that the air here was very humid and had a lot of microbes. The caterpillars relied on their hair to catch microbes in the air to live.
However, their lives weren't very 'comfortable'. Although there was food everywhere, there were also natural enemies here.
"Rumble …"
While she was thinking, Lin heard a noise. A huge rock rolled down the hill from above.
The rock spider immediately jumped to the side to avoid the rock. The rock rolled past and hit a caterpillar behind the spider.
When the caterpillar was hit, it burst out a lot of liquid and rolled down the slope with the rock. It didn't stop until it hit an even bigger rock.
The caterpillar was almost a bloody mess.
The rock just now wasn't an ordinary rock. It could be said that it was a subspecies of 'tumbleweed', but it liked to roll on hills. Its outer shell was also a lot harder.
Its inner shell was made of flesh and blood. Its outer shell was like a rock shell. It could be used as a disguise, but if it wanted to hunt, it would roll down the slope and smash the target into meat paste. Then, it would slowly extend a small 'mouth' from the shell to eat the meat around it.
This hunting method was very effective. In the dream, Lin found that there weren't many creatures on the slope, but there were still huge 'Dream Wings' flying in the sky.
They seemed to be very widespread, and she still didn't know what the Dream Wings ate. However, Lin had already discovered that the misty and corporeal Dreamscape creatures loved to hunt, while the light and shadow Dreamscape creatures rarely attacked other creatures.
It was like the relationship between carnivores and vegetarians.
The carnivores in the dream, like the 'eels' Lin saw before, seemed to have a special hobby. They liked to attack the light and shadows that lived together with real creatures, and rarely attacked other dream creatures.
There was a complicated relationship between them, and this was one of the problems Lin wanted to study. But for now …
She had arrived.
The rock spider climbed to the top of the mountain. The shape of the mountain looked like a volcanic crater. There was a large amount of water in the crater, forming a huge lake.
Perhaps it was the creature that the rugby ball talked about. It was in the lake.
While she didn't know if 'souls' would gather here, Lin did see many … Light and Shadow Dreamscape creatures.
From the perspective of the dream, he could see many light and shadow creatures on the surface of the lake.
There was a strong difference between light and shadow. Shadow-type creatures were pure black, while light-type creatures generally emitted sparkling light. However, they seemed to have a good relationship as they mingled together and flew around the lake.
The creatures of light and shadow were the ones that were the most different from the creatures in the real world.
The fog creatures could form a shape similar to real life creatures, but the light and shadow creatures had no shape. They mostly drifted around like clouds.
In the real world, there didn't seem to be any large creatures in the lake.
With that in mind, Lin had the rock spider jump into the water.
In the water, Lin saw a dark space. The water here was very turbid, and there was almost no sunlight in the water.
The reason the water was so turbid was because there were a lot of microorganisms in it.
Most of these organisms were single-celled, but there were also multi-celled organisms mixed in. Lin felt that these microorganisms might be sprayed out under certain circumstances, which was why the air on the mountain was moist and full of microorganisms.
Looking at it from the perspective of a dream underwater, it wasn't that blurry.
Although everything was hazy, they could see the entire lake clearly, as well as the creatures that wandered in it.
In the dream in the lake, there were some huge creatures. These creatures were like huge black shadows with a diameter of more than ten meters. They swayed their bodies like slime worms and swam in the water.
Under these huge shadows, there were a lot of glowing objects.
These were the energy creatures closest to the brain that Lin had seen here. They swam in the water, as if trying to get close to the depth of the water. But they only got close a little and quickly swam back up.
It was as if they were afraid of something.
Lin's rock spider had already sunk to the bottom of the lake. The bottom of the lake gave Lin a feeling … … like a plain. There were no aquatic plants here, and no dream creatures.
Everything was moving close to the surface of the water. Even the number of microorganisms here had decreased. But … … it seemed that except for one place.
The Rock Spider quickly crawled to the center of the lake. In the center of the lake, there was a very suspicious large hole. The hole was more than 10 meters in diameter, and around the hole, Lin could see that there were many dream creatures surrounding it from the perspective of the dream.
These dream creatures were all glowing. They were only about 30 centimeters in size, but there were a lot of them. They surrounded the hole at the bottom of the lake in circles.
They seemed to be lining up.
Lin observed them for a while and found that one of these creatures would fly into the hole every 10 seconds or so, then the one at the back would move forward a bit to fill the spot of the one who flew in.
The rock spider ran to the hole and looked down. These glowing creatures didn't notice the rock spider, but Lin saw something that seemed to be wriggling in the depths of the hole.
Looking down in the real world, she found a lot of mud-like things in the hole.
After looking for a while, the rock spider jumped into the hole. Soon, the rock spider landed on top of the mud. In the dream, the rock spider landed on top of a huge object.
It was hard to tell what the object's structure was, but it was very similar to mud. However, it was blue in color and had a lot of glittering fragments on its surface. It looked quite beautiful, and its shape was consistent with mud in the real world.
It seemed that this wasn't the creature that Lin was looking for. But Lin felt that it was very special, so she decided to study it.
At this time, Lin saw a ball of light floating down from the hole. This was a creature that had been lining up there before. After it flew in, it suddenly exploded like a bomb.
The explosion of the light scattered a large amount of debris, which sank into the mud.
This gave Lin the feeling that … the ball of light had been eaten. At this time, Lin saw another ball of light flying in.
The orb of light, on the other hand, seemed to be completely fine as it flew above the mud. About 10 seconds later, it flew off in another direction. Lin noticed that there was another exit on the eastern wall of the cave, and it flew out from there.
This feeling … was very similar to what the rugby ball said.
The rugby ball believed that after death, their souls would arrive here. Many souls would be 'punished', and only souls who prayed often would be forgiven and have a chance to be reborn.
Although these little balls of light were completely different from the rugby ball's shadow, their experience was indeed very similar to what the rugby ball said.
Lin observed for a while and found that 50% of the balls of light that flew in directly exploded, while the rest flew out.
But what was the point of this? Why would the exploded balls of light willingly come to their deaths?
More and more mysteries appeared here. Lin had the rock spider spread out on top of the mud to see if there was anything special in other parts of the hole.
This feeling …
While Lin was thinking, she suddenly sensed a signal coming from the mud under the Rock Spider's feet. This signal … could be understood.
But this signal was not the mud talking to Lin, it was more like … a trigger mechanism. It was triggered because the rock spider poked a certain part of its body.
And this signal was very simple. It meant: "Leave this place."
But when this signal came, Lin had a familiar feeling. This feeling … should be the Core Protector.
It seemed that they had set up this signal here, but it didn't seem to make any sense.
Because Lin didn't leave because of this. Instead, she stayed here to observe and look for clues about the Core Protector.
In this way, Lin had the rock spider observe here for several days and nights. Lin found … something special.
Most of the nearby Dream Creatures had visited this place during this period of time, and Lin believed that they had to pass through this mud-like thing in order to reproduce.
Speaking of which, Lin had never seen a dream creature reproduce before. But when some dream creatures approached this place, they would multiply, just like how the ball of light from before exploded. It didn't die, but rather split into many smaller ones.
But that was only one of the methods of reproduction. Lin also saw other methods of reproduction, but what was special was that some of the dream creatures left without reproducing.
They didn't seem to have reached the time to reproduce. These dream creatures didn't know when they would reproduce, so they came in to take a look. Lin thought so.
This seemed to be a very big discovery …
Dream creatures were composed of a kind of dream energy. It seemed simple, but it was hard to understand how they gained 'consciousness'. Lin believed that this mud … might be the key to creating dream creatures. Lin had always wanted to create a non-multicellular creature.
Perhaps this could be used … to study astronomy.
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