The long journey in the void had made us tired …
How long had it been? I only remember that we had been flying, flying in an endless space …
However, our resources were not endless, and they were about to be used up.
However, our journey did not end there. It was all because of a signal. We suddenly received a signal, and after analyzing it, we were able to determine which direction the signal had come from.
When our resources were about to be used up, we had no other choice but to head to the point where the signal had come from.
Then, our entire fleet turned around, because there might be resources at the point where the signal had come from, or there might be a system error, or there might be nothing there, or we might be in danger.
No matter what, we had already flown there.
"I don't even know how we got there. All I remember is … … we entered a large cloud of dust and all the instruments malfunctioned.
However, the dust soon dissipated, and the instruments resumed working. A world appeared before our eyes. This world seemed to be covered in thick clouds, and I believed that there were useful resources hidden in it.
We cheered. That was probably the happiest moment of our long journey. We ate most of the food and landed on this world.
No matter what kind of world it was, we would be able to obtain a large amount of resources.
However, this world was … different from what we had imagined.
Its surface was made of metal. We had never seen a place like this before, but we still landed on it. We chose an open area.
When we tried to excavate the metal that made up the land. When we tried to obtain resources from it. Unexpectedly, we found an 'entrance.'
This entrance seemed to lead to the depths of this metal world, and we were surprised to find that there was air in the space inside the entrance.
At first, we thought that this world might have been created by a civilization, and that the creatures of this civilization might still be living inside the entrance.
So, we quickly formed a team to explore. I was the leader of this team.
Under this location, we found many wonderful things. There were many machines that we did not know what they were for, but they were always in operation.
A friend of mine told us what he thought. He believed that this entire world was a giant machine, and that we were somewhere in this machine.
At first, I thought that his words were nonsense …
However, I soon received news from the surface. Some of our people were still on the surface. They observed something strange. They said that they saw some huge holes, and those holes would disintegrate anything that fell into them.
It was as if … it was eating.
I didn't pay much attention to it at first because we were exploring deeper and deeper underground. The temperature underground is much warmer, and we have set up many camps here. And try to grow food here.
However, just as I was setting up the latest camp … we were attacked. It seemed to be a creature.
A mud-like creature. They seem to be made of liquid, but they have intelligence. They steal and use our weapons.
In the battle with them, we suffered heavy losses.
But at least we chased them away. But at that moment, we received news that other camps were also under attack.
Something else had attacked them.
I quickly rushed to the other camps to help them fight those creatures.
During the fight, I found that these creatures were of different shapes and sizes. Some were huge, some had strange abilities, but they were all very different from us. Their composition was fundamentally different from ours.
The originally empty underground space seemed to have become a lively city. All kinds of creatures appeared in an instant. Under their constant attacks, our camp could not be established.
We gathered all the camp members to fight those creatures and tried to escape from this place.
Because those creatures were too strong, I thought that it was impossible to escape … but my friend gave us a new suggestion. He believed that those creatures were not attacking us. They were just 'wild creatures' here. As long as we were careful, we would be able to avoid them.
His' nonsense 'was surprisingly accurate. At first, all of us thought that those creatures were the' weapons' of the civilization here. Those creatures appeared to attack us.
But under my friend's suggestion, we began to study those creatures. We understood their habits and found that there was indeed a way to avoid them without fighting them. We even found that some creatures could get along with us.
In the end, we successfully left this underground space.
But when we returned to the surface, we found that our fleet … had disappeared.
In fact, when we were underground, I had not been able to contact them. Only now did I realize the reason. It was not because of signal interference, but because they had all disappeared.
They … where did they go?
They were eaten.
That was what my friend told me.
After that, we relied on the remaining resources and companions to survive in this metal world. Because of the harsh environment on the surface, we had to move underground. This way, we could save a lot of resources.
But this also meant that we had to live with those creatures.
Because we understood their habits, we were able to successfully avoid them. But occasionally, there would be mistakes.
Because of these mistakes, our companions fell one by one. They were basically killed by the creatures here … and my friend … he had been doing some research.
He was researching how to communicate with this world.
He believed that he could do it. He told me that this world had purposely attracted us here to eat us. The initial signal was a trap.
I did not care what he said.
Even if he was right, it was meaningless.
We needed to find a way to leave this world. So, I had been trying to build a flying machine.
In the end, I succeeded.
A few of my surviving companions and I decided to leave on this flying machine. But my friend insisted on staying.
I did not ask him to stay. And he did stay, together with this metal world.
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