'Drifter'. 【
That was what it had always called itself.
It didn't know when it started living in this place, this place with countless floating rocks.
Its first memory started from a certain rock.
This rock was not very big. It was about one kilometer in diameter. Its surface was smooth, and there was nothing special about it.
Why was it here? Why didn't it have any memories before it came here? Because it had considerable intelligence, it knew how to think about all kinds of things.
However, it also understood something that didn't require intelligence to understand … As a creature, it had to survive.
Living here is not an easy thing to do.
It was wearing armor that could protect its body, which allowed it to not suffer most of the environmental damage in the void. It didn't know how this armor came about.
But it knew some of the functions of this armor.
For example, it could control some mechanical limbs on the armor to move, which also allowed it to grab the ground and not float into the void because of carelessness.
But the first thing it had to do … was to find food. There seemed to be no food on this floating rock, but it could use this armor.
Its armor couldn't be opened, which meant its body couldn't directly come into contact with the outside environment.
However, it was not unable to eat. It found that it could let its armor stick to the ground. As long as it waited slowly, the 'hunger' in its mind would disappear.
It thought this method was the way to get food. Therefore, it used a similar method to get food after that.
However. It also found out. Not every place could get food. Some places had it, and some places didn't. It paid special attention to the places where food could be found and quickly distinguished the difference between these places and other places.
The composition of the rocks in those places where food could be obtained was different, so it specifically looked for these places.
Because the food in a place could be eaten for a longer time, and this rock was one kilometer in size. There were a lot of food on it that it could get by just lying on the ground …
As a result, it lived a carefree and boring life …
This life lasted for a long time. At this stage, in addition to eating, it was looking into the distance and watching the floating rocks.
Even with the help of the light of the stars, it could only see that the other floating rocks were large and dark objects that seemed to be full of danger. A strong sense of crisis made it dare not leave its floating rock.
However, after time slowly passed. It decided to leave here because curiosity slowly overshadowed the sense of crisis. It decided to travel to the nearest floating rock.
That rock was a thousand kilometers away from here, but it wasn't difficult to get there.
As long as it jumped on the ground, it would slowly float to the target, unless it bumped into something on the way.
However, it didn't bump into anything. Its first trip in the void was very safe and very stable …
After floating in the dark space for a while, it came to the target it thought of, another floating rock.
This floating rock was completely different from the one he had been on before. It was much larger, and there were countless objects of different shapes and sizes on the surface of the rock.
It knew these things. They were things that could be called buildings.
It controlled the mechanical arm of the armor to crawl forward. It had decided to start a new adventure here.
So, it walked into the nearest building.
This building was like a tall tower. The height of hundreds of meters made it extra conspicuous on the dark rock surface. Under the light of the stars, the armored creature slowly climbed up the tower wall.
It didn't know why, but it felt that it should climb to the top of the tower to see what might be there.
The top of the tower was a disc-shaped structure with a diameter of more than fifty meters. The outside was covered with metal, and there were many entrances that looked like windows for it to get in.
After it entered the top of the tower, it found that there were all kinds of things scattered inside. These things included a large number of metal parts, an incomplete aircraft, and some machinery.
Looking at these things, it had an incredible feeling.
It wasn't that these things made it feel incredible, but it found that when it saw these things, it felt that these things were quite … normal, ordinary, and nothing special.
It was clearly the first time it left the floating rock, the first time it came here, and the first time it saw so many new things.
But these things seemed to be things it had seen a long time ago … It felt incredible to itself.
However, this didn't stop it from continuing its investigation.
It tried to fiddle with the machinery on the ground. It found that some things could be activated. And in the activated machinery, there were 'words' that it could understand.
These words described the situation of the buildings on this rocky land.
These buildings were built by a group of creatures. These things described them … These creatures came from a very distant place. Before they came here, these creatures had been drifting in the void …
At that time, they had been longing for a safe place to live. Now, they finally found it.
However, they soon found that this place was not a safe place to live. There were many dangerous things here.
Later, this group of creatures was destroyed, leaving behind a large number of ruins on this floating rock … telling the sad history of this place.
…
After it saw this information, it finally felt something strange. It was interested in how these creatures were destroyed, although it didn't know what these creatures meant when they said that they came from the void outside.
Later, it left the tower and wandered around the ruins. It also found food here that could sustain its life.
Slowly, it walked through every corner of this floating rock and looked at every building. It found that the creatures that originally lived here had encountered many things. They might have been attacked or bombed by something.
However, it didn't find the specific reason why these creatures were destroyed.
Then it left the floating rock and flew off to some other place to continue its journey.
On the next rock, it met other 'wild creatures' that lived on the floating rock. These creatures had different personalities. Some ignored it, and some saw it as a target to be killed.
But at the same time, it also found that … there were some invisibility functions on its armor that could avoid those dangerous creatures. Therefore, it survived the attacks of various creatures.
During this journey, it encountered many dangers. Once, it was almost killed, and the armor on its body was damaged.
It originally planned to sleep and wait for death, but when it woke up, it found that its armor had been repaired and had some new functions …
It was very curious about this situation. Later, it found that its armor seemed to have an automatic repair function. It could also detect its previous weaknesses and become better than before.
After discovering this ability, it continued to do what it had done before … and continued its journey.
Later on, it went to many floating rocks, encountered many things, and saw many things.
Living here had allowed it to slowly grow up …
And at some point, its journey led it to a special place.
It was the 'edge' of these floating rocks.
Unknowingly, it traveled to the outermost floating rock and saw the endless void outside the floating rock.
It was … shocked.
Originally, it thought that the world was made up of countless floating rocks. These floating rocks would continue to extend without end.
But it didn't expect that it would reach … the edge.
This was enough to subvert its imagination and understanding of the world. In its great shock, it found that something had appeared in the void outside.
This thing looked like a very large rock, probably about ten kilometers in diameter. That rock slowly flew in front of its eyes and hit another floating rock of about the same size nearby.
The two huge rocks were destroyed in the collision. This phenomenon made it extremely frightened. It immediately left this edge area and returned to the depths of the floating rocks.
It found that it seemed to be filled with fear of the void outside. It didn't want to see that place again.
So, it continued its journey between the floating rocks.
During this journey, it found a group of creatures that could communicate with it. This group of creatures lived very close to the edge area.
It found that these creatures were the same as the group of destruction it saw last time. They came from the void outside.
However, this group of creatures was still alive. Although they were also on the verge of destruction, their lives were very difficult due to the lack of resources and other reasons …
It found that these creatures seemed to have a much higher demand for resources than it did, whether it was various things or food.
It communicated deeply with these creatures and learned about their civilization and history. But it didn't stay there for long. It soon traveled to other places.
In the process of traveling, it met other creatures that traveled from the void. These creatures seemed to be in trouble, but it also noticed that if these creatures were united, they might be able to get through the difficulties together.
So, it tried to let two different groups of creatures come into contact with each other and let them cooperate.
However, it didn't care how those creatures cooperated. Instead, it continued to travel to other places …
That was until it encountered something … That something seemed to have come from the void outside as well. Floating astronomy.
PS:
Thanks ~ Rainbow Bear ~ for the reward ~
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