"This … seems like it's almost done."
The hazy sky, the white ground, the air was filled with countless powders at all times. This was a world of fungi.
Ever since it was captured by the fungal beetles, this Atlan had been in one place, which was a huge and vast flat ground.
The ground here was also covered by a fungal carpet, but it was much thinner than other places. There were no fungal structures like giant umbrella mushrooms growing in this area. Most importantly, it could hear the roar of machinery that kept echoing in this place.
A large number of its kind were moving in front of it. They all operated some machinery and used these machinery to carry many things.
These things were all carried to the center of the open space. These things were constantly assembled into a huge … block.
The Atlans quickly operated the machinery. Huge lifting machines lifted the various things they brought over next to the block. Then, they moved these things to the unfinished block and assembled them.
They all seemed to be working very enthusiastically, but if one looked closely, one could see that these Atlan's eyes were dull and emotionless. It was as if they were in a very 'trance' state.
Only the only Atlan had normal emotions as it watched its kind work.
It was also the only Atlan that did not need to work. What it needed to do here was to command its kind. And command was a very simple thing.
"Hey, something fell over there!" The Atlan called out to one of its kind in the distance. In the distance, one of the Atlan dropped something in its hand on the ground in the process of moving something. And it continued to move forward without realizing it.
This Atlan's job was to correct its behavior. After it said that. That Atlan would pick up the thing and continue moving.
This seemed to be the effect of the fungal infection. Although these Atlan's brain and body were basically intact, there would occasionally be some strange actions, such as what happened just now, or driving the machinery into other places and so on …
Its command was to correct these actions. At the same time, it was also responsible for observing that most of the parts in the block were placed in the right place.
It was holding a block of 'design' in its hand. The design looked very simple and easy to understand, at least for it. So, it was easy for it to find the wrong parts.
"Well done." At this time, a beetle appeared beside the Atlan and said, "Soon, we will achieve our goal."
"What exactly … is your goal?"
Atlan had been with these fungal beetles for a long time, but they rarely communicated with each other. Occasionally, the beetles would come over to observe them, but usually, they would not see them.
Atlan had tried to escape when they were not around, or escape with his companions, but he found that his companions would ignore his escape instructions, and he could not escape himself.
The beetle did not try to catch it, but every time it left the place, the beetle would try to catch it. After running into the fungal forest for a while, it would always return to the same place. It found that it couldn't leave at all. Therefore, the only thing he could do now was to complete the beetles' mission and see what would happen …
The beetle did not answer but crawled away.
Atlan glanced at Beetle and continued with his work.
It would be great if it and the other Atlans could return to their normal lives after completing this mission, but it did not think that would be the case.
Cube's completion rate … was still 10% away.
Just like that, a few days and nights passed.
"Alright, that's the last one!"
As if putting together something called 'building blocks', the last part of the block was placed on top of it. Now, the perfect shape of the block was displayed before Atlan's eyes.
Meanwhile, his companions who were in charge of building the block were so tired that they were either sitting or sleeping on the ground.
However, their expressions were still absent-minded, as if they had not recovered at all.
"Very good … it's done." Just as Atlan thought, Beetle appeared beside him again. Beetle said to Atlan, "With this, we can achieve …"
"I've heard you say that many times," Atlan interrupted Beetle and said, "What are you going to do? What should we do next? "
"Of course, we're going to activate it," Beetle answered Atlan's next words, "Activate it and bring us away."
"How do we activate it?"
Although Atlan had put together the block, he did not know which part of the block was used for which purpose. He did not even know how to activate it. Of course, there was no cockpit or anything like that inside the block.
In the first place, this was the technology of the brain spirits. The mechanical technology of the brain spirits was completely different from that of normal living creatures. The dense structure inside could not accommodate any extra parts. Furthermore, all the parts were ready-made. All Atlan and his companions did was to put it together. They did not go through the process of manufacturing the parts.
"You don't know …" Beetle suddenly spoke in a strange tone, "Why don't you know?"
"I … Of course I don't know," Atlan said, "This is not our technology to begin with."
"You don't know …" Beetle continued as if he was talking to himself, "You don't know …"
After that, he quickly ran away.
"What is he doing?" Atlan was puzzled. He thought that he would be done after assembling the machine. However, Beetle seemed to want him to control the block.
"We have to finish that thing!"
Suddenly, the beetle came running from far away again. It seemed that it was carrying something.
"What is this?" Atlan saw that Beetle was carrying a white board. Beetle threw the board to the ground and used his limbs to poke it a few times.
An image appeared on the white board. In the image, there was a blurry scenery. It seemed like the place in the image was also covered by a large amount of dust.
"We need to go to this place," Beetle said. "We just need to reach this place."
"But I don't know how to activate it now," Atlan said. "Since you can find the blueprint, you should be able to find the operation manual or something."
Although that was what he said, Atlan did not think that the brain spirits' machine would have any operation manual. However, the source of the blueprint was indeed strange.
Logically speaking, it should not have been possible.
"You have to learn how to activate …"
Before Beetle could finish his words, he suddenly stopped and looked up at the sky.
Atlan also looked at the sky as if there was something there, but he saw nothing.
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