So that's how it was. It had been living here for a long time. +
Lin's Rock Spider and Crystal Lizard were together in a … building.
Not long after, Lin learned about the … history of this place.
A group of creatures that traveled through the void were attracted by the signal. The way of life of these creatures was very similar to that of Atlan's.
Although they did not mention how they lived or how many of them there were in the description, she knew that these creatures had a huge fleet. Moreover, the resources of this fleet were about to run out, so they came here.
It seemed their experiences were very similar to Atlan's.
However, this might be because of that 'God'. They might like to let other races travel through the void.
After various things happened, the number of creatures that came here seemed to decrease. In the end, a small group of them left this place.
The vehicles and the like were all left behind from their battles with the creatures here. There was a considerable number of them and they seemed to be very suitable as food for the creatures here.
Thus, there should only be one of these creatures left here. It was the one who was trying to study this world and was called a 'friend' by the main character of the story.
She did not know if it was still here. Perhaps this' friend 'was still here, continuing his research?
Because they did not mention the name of their race, Lin decided to temporarily call them 'Travelers'. Lin decided to study … what they were studying before.
Thinking about that, Rock Spider turned off the machine that was playing back the sound.
This was a room inside the building. It might be a recording room. There were many machines here that could be called … 'Recording Machines'.
These machines only needed to be poked once. A sound would be played. However, most of them were damaged. What she heard just now was only a few that were fine.
This building was one of the camps set up by the 'Travelers'.
In addition to this recording room, there were many other rooms. However, most of them were places called cultivation rooms. The 'Travelers' raised a type of creature in these places as food.
So far, she had not seen the creature they were raising. However, judging from the equipment, they seemed to be raising a type of fungus creature.
Presumably, they were using the temperature here to obtain nutrients from other places to cultivate. These fungus were their food.
After poking all the machines in the recording room, Rock Spider walked out. Then, he walked out of the recording studio. The moment he walked out, he could hear all sorts of sounds coming from outside.
This was because there were many creatures in this building. They were constantly making noises, and the most common one here … was a can-shaped creature.
There were many of these cans outside the building as well. Lin believed that they could be called 'magnetic cans' because they emitted a magnetic force that allowed them to roll along the ground and 'jump'.
However, the most important thing was … They could be … multicellular organisms.
Now, not far in front of the Rock Spider, there was a magnetic can. Without warning, it rolled until it was only ten meters away from the Rock Spider.
Suddenly, the Rock Spider rushed out and grabbed the magnetic can in an instant.
The magnetic can began to struggle, but its' strength 'wasn't very strong. Unable to break free from the rock spider's grip, the rock spider tore open the can's shell bit by bit.
Inside the can, there was a rather complicated mechanical structure. When the Rock Spider dug to the deepest part, there was a small space inside.
In this space, there was a creature lying there.
Lin could feel … its emotions that were filled with fear.
Sure enough, there was a creature inside. When Lin approached these cans earlier, she could faintly feel the emotions of multicellular organisms coming from inside.
There really was a creature here … this creature had a lot of tentacles. It looked like an ancient squid, but these tentacles had skeletons. Its body was also very small, only five centimeters long. It seemed to be using these tentacles to operate the can.
Why would there be such a creature here? Lin was very curious about them … for now, she would just call them 'squids in a can'.
The Rock Spider stretched out its forelimbs and pulled the creature out. The moment it pulled it out, Lin found that it was already … dead.
Was it because of the air outside? Or was it something else? However, this didn't stop Lin from studying it. The Rock Spider swallowed it and began to analyze it.
So that's why …
This creature had a rather large brain. Lin felt that the cause of its death was due to excessive shock. Because its body secreted a large amount of 'fright hormone', its brain was under too much pressure in an instant.
It turned out that it was only because Lin caught it. Its body was able to adapt to the air and environment here. Of course, it could also adapt to the environment inside the can.
At the same time, Lin also studied the can in which it lived. The can's contents were also quite complicated.
Although it was only a thirty-centimeter can, it was divided into many parts. There were many openings on the side of the can. These openings could be considered its' mouth '. It used these openings to collect resources from the outside. These resources would then be transported to an' analysis room 'inside the can. In the analysis room, these resources would be analyzed.
Excess waste and debris would be discharged, and resources that could be turned into food would be transported to the 'heating room' next to the storage room to be heated. Then, they would be processed into food and placed in the final storage room.
In addition to these food processing parts, there was also the energy room. This thing was responsible for the overall energy and power. There was also the mechanical decomposition room. This was responsible for decomposing the collected metals from the outside and processing them into the components of the can.
Although the can was small, it had a lot of complicated structures. It provided a comfortable living environment for the ancient squid-like creature inside.
However, the main thing was that it needed to find food.
It seemed that these 'squid-like creatures' mainly collected the fungus creatures here and processed them into food. However, when Lin checked the squid-like creature's memory, she found that it had no memory of making these cans. It seemed that since birth, it had lived in the can and had been operating the can all the time.
Moreover, its behavior made Lin feel very strange. Although it could operate the can to do various things, that was all. It only knew how to use the can to find food. It didn't have any other intelligent behavior.
These creatures made Lin feel quite puzzled. How did they appear?
Therefore, Lin decided to continue investigating the secrets of this place.
In this building, there were still some places that she hadn't been to, and that was the upper floor.
The lower floor was basically the cultivation room. Although the cultivation room here was abandoned, it was still very rich in fungus creatures. All the squid-like creatures basically relied on these fungus.
However, these fungus would quickly be exhausted. By then, they would have no more food. The squid-like creatures should have been brought in from the outside. However, there was no mention of them in the records.
Now, the Rock Spider had reached the upper floor of the building. The upper floor seemed to be the living area. There were many rooms here, and there were a lot of daily necessities in the rooms.
Judging from the size of the living things and the building, Lin thought that these travelers were about half the size of Atlan. Although the things they built were very big.
There didn't seem to be anything special in these living areas.
The Rock Spider circled around each room but didn't find anything to record. However, Lin found that there were a lot of microbes in their living areas.
Obviously, although the travelers had left, the large number of microorganisms they carried with them had stayed behind and fed on the various resources left behind.
After the resources were exhausted, they might go extinct.
This was …
The Rock Spider now seemed to have reached a special room. There were no daily necessities here, but a lot of mechanical fragments.
There was a complete machine in these fragments. There were many buttons on the surface of the machine, so the Rock Spider immediately crawled over and poked a few times.
"Your mission can no longer continue. You're done."
The moment the buttons were pressed, Lin heard a voice. The voice was emotionless and spoke in the language of 'gods'.
"I know … You wanted to do this meaningless thing from the beginning. You've been using us!" This was a very excited voice, as if it was talking to the emotionless voice.
"It doesn't matter whether you think it's meaningful or not." The voice was still emotionless. "Don't try to contact us again."
"What?" The excited voice shouted, "You told us to do this, and now you've abandoned us! You can't be called gods! You're just a bunch of disgusting … "
Click.
The call was cut off.
This was interesting.
Lin guessed that it was a traveler talking to their god.
What was this god? Lin was very interested in it. Lin didn't think it was a creature like the travelers or Atlan. However, gods might like to find creatures with personalities and … use them?
If there were records here, there might be more records in other places.
Perhaps this would be useful too?
Lin rummaged through the pile of mechanical fragments and pulled out a complete machine … with a lot of buttons.
Lin originally thought that she would find information about these gods in the ancestral land of Atlan, but she didn't expect to find it here … Anyway, it was enough to understand them.
With that in mind, the Rock Spider pressed a button on the machine …
"I finally did it!"
A voice suddenly came from the machine. Floating astronomy.
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