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"So … this is that place."
This place … was the Origin Spirit's base.
Lin's exploration of this place … was still ongoing.
Earlier, after Lin allowed the fake mayor to escape from this place, the Base Brain did not do anything special. It did not control the battleship to pursue the mayor, nor did it appear to be panicking.
All it was doing now was repairing the walls that Lin's fake mayor had blown up when he ran out.
Why was it not concerned about the mayor's escape?
Lin did not know the answer … because Lin did not stay near the Base Brain to sense its emotions. Instead, she used the soldiers that were left behind when the fake mayor escaped to explore.
These soldiers were all worm-type soldiers that could fly. They were very small, each only 10 centimeters long, but there were many of them.
Their specialty was their ability to drill holes. Lin studied the materials of the various walls of this base and found that these worms could drill holes through the walls. That was why they could move through the base unimpeded.
And now, these worms had arrived at a place deep within the base.
This place … also had white walls. The entire space was white. Lin believed that the Origin Spirits might like this color. Of course, Lin believed that the white Lin saw was not necessarily white in their eyes. In short, the white Lin saw was probably a color that made the Origin Spirits feel comfortable, or a color used to mark important objects.
In this white room, Lin could see 10 transparent hemispherical objects protruding from the wall in front of her.
These hemispherical objects were about 3 meters in size. Through the transparent shell, she could see … the creatures inside.
Their bodies were slightly smaller than the spheres they were in, and their appearance was very similar to the mayor. They had the appearance of caterpillars, but they had no limbs. At least, she could not see them now.
These creatures were the Origin Spirits … they should be the remnants of the Origin Spirits. It was said that after they activated the 'program' that created the mayor and the Base Brain, they sealed themselves away. They entered a state similar to hibernation, waiting for the mayor to succeed before waking up.
Why did they do this? Why did they leave everything to the Base Brain and not solve it themselves? Although the Base Brain appeared to be very 'loyal', there was no guarantee that it would not make a mistake like the mayor.
Lin felt that it was very strange …
While exploring the base, Lin had seen some new information. It was the kind of information that was recorded using a ball of string. It described many things about the Origin Spirits in detail, including the Origin Spirits' research on their past.
After reading the information, he could fully understand how Brain Spirits were born. At the same time. Lin also had many new speculations about these origin spirits.
Perhaps they were the same as the creatures Lin had seen in the Land of the Nucleus Protectors …
The dream energy in the Origin Spirit's brain should not be the same as its body. In other words, they were … symbiotic.
The dream energy of the origin spirits had a symbiotic relationship with their bodies, but they didn't seem to be aware of this. When these origin spirits died, the dream energy in their minds would 'leave' and become an independent creature.
However, unlike the various creatures Lin had encountered in the Land of the Nucleus Protectors, where the Dream Energy would quickly dissipate or split after the body died, the Origin Spirit's energy would actually forget the past after coming out and could even form a creature called a Brain Spirit.
This was a very strange feeling …
Therefore, Lin felt that micro-machinery was a similar situation.
When the energy of the Origin Spirits left their brains. Another thought would be formed and their collective consciousness would be disconnected.
Therefore, when they used their own dream energy to connect with micro-machinery and tried to better control them, those micro-machinery also came out and formed their own thoughts instead of the collective consciousness shared with the Origin Spirit.
However, the strange thing was that the Brain Spirit that had left the Origin Spirit was an individual thought, while the micro-machines were a group thought. The Brain Spirit was like an individual that had left the group, while the micro-machines were like a group that had left the original group.
In short, when the dream energy left the Origin Spirit, it would forget the past. Then it would form its own thoughts … Lin felt that the Origin Spirits later researched this point and used it to create the mayor and the base brain.
The Origin Spirit's dream energy was very special. At least, Lin hadn't seen similar energy in the Land of the Nucleus Protectors. Most of the energy creatures in the Land of the Nucleus Protectors couldn't leave the environment there.
The Origin Spirit's dream energy could not only live in a variety of environments. It could also separate and form its own consciousness.
Although they couldn't get rid of the vessel that carried them, Lin felt that this type of dream energy was very powerful and was more adaptable than most dream creatures.
However, after the Brain Spirits left the vessel, they lived like ordinary creatures, but after the micro-machinery left the vessel, they had been doing strange things.
Why was that?
Previously. Lin had chatted with a Peripheral Eye on a floating rock, and it told Lin about the micro-machinery.
It appeared that the peripheral eyes of the Gel Creatures had the ability to sense Dream energy as well. They were aware that there were many of their kind in many places of the Void, just as they were aware that those machines were constantly 'creating' creatures of individuality that floated in the Void.
It was difficult to guess … what their purpose was. However, the Peripheral Eye also told Lin that the micro-machinery was very different in many ways from the beginning.
Mainly in the aspect of dream energy, there were many changes. At first, their energy was a type of feeling, and then suddenly changed to another type of feeling. That was what the Peripheral Eye said.
Although it couldn't describe it accurately, Lin knew what it meant.
The micro-machinery's original dream energy should have been the same as the Brain Spirits and the Origin Spirits, but later on, the micro-machinery's energy changed.
It became another type of energy … an energy filled with fear.
Lin felt that the micro-machinery had been contaminated by the energy of the Sea of Fear at some point, and that was why they had changed so much. According to the Peripheral Eye, the things they did before and after they were contaminated were quite different …
There were many strange things about this …
The Peripheral Eye said that the micro-machinery had only been contaminated when the first batch of drifting creatures with individual personalities came here.
The Peripheral Eye believed that the micro-machinery had wanted to do something to the individual personalities at that time, but after the energy contamination, they suddenly stopped.
The contamination had indeed changed the micro-machinery's way of doing things. They might have originally lured the individual personalities here to do something, but after they were contaminated, they did nothing and instead limited the individual personalities' development …
Their behavior of constantly teaching the individual personalities to travel the Void also stopped after they were contaminated. From then on, they did not increase the number of drifting creatures in the Void, but they would still 'communicate' with the original drifting creatures and guide them to this place.
In short, they had many questions, which was why Lin began her research … to see what the body structure of these Origin Spirits was like.
With that in mind, Lin had the group of worm-like soldiers walk in front of a sphere that contained an Origin Spirit. Lin was not sure what kind of damage would be done to the Origin Spirit inside after drilling into the sphere, but there were ten of them here, so breaking one … should not be a problem.
Moreover, they were all of the same type of soldier. Origin Spirits had many different types of soldiers just like other creatures that specialized in division of labor. Lin felt that these worm-like soldiers were probably responsible for reproduction, which was why they were kept.
But that might not be the case …
With that in mind, Lin had the worms climb up the transparent shell and find a suitable place to drill inside.
The most suitable place was the top. There was liquid inside the sphere, but it was not full. There was a small space at the top where there was still air. If Lin drilled in from there, the liquid inside would not spill out.
Now, the first worm had drilled out of the sphere's shell. The moment it drilled out, it could smell the wonderful smell inside.
At the same time, Lin could also confirm that the outside air should not be affected by mixing in.
Then, the worm jumped into the liquid and drilled in from the head of the Origin Spirit that was soaked in the liquid.
She began to examine the internal structure …
So that's how it is …
After probing for a while, Lin almost understood the structure of the Origin Spirit.
Its entire body was wrapped in a layer of soft 'armor'. The Origin Spirit's body was much smaller than it looked from the outside, but the most important thing was its brain …
This Origin Spirit's brain was complete, unlike the creatures Lin had seen in the Core Protector's Land. Generally, the brains of creatures that shared a symbiotic relationship with dream energy would be somewhat … incomplete.
However, the Origin Spirit's brain was very complete. It did not seem to need dream energy to help it think.
Perhaps the dream energy was only used to connect the Origin Spirit's consciousness. The main memory, intelligence, and so on were all in its own brain.
That would explain why the dream energy that left the Origin Spirit and became a brain spirit did not have its previous memories …
That was indeed the case.
Lin examined the other parts of the Origin Spirit. Lin believed that it did not have the ability to reproduce. It was not a soldier type that was used to reproduce.
Why were they left here?
And this Origin Spirit … was not alive.
It was already dead. The reason it did not rot was because the container was very good at keeping it 'fresh'.
But if that was the case, she would not be able to see its memories.
Lin then examined the other Origin Spirits. They were all in the same situation. None of them were alive.
Lin felt that … perhaps she was looking in the wrong place? This was just a place to store corpses. Perhaps there were other Origin Spirits that were still alive somewhere else.
In that case, she would look elsewhere. At the same time, Lin had another thing to do … transfer the creator's little Core Protector. (To be continued.)
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