"That … and this! These buildings can still be used! "
Under the blurry sky, a group of 'Mars' were working quickly. Under the captain's command, they replenished the energy of many buildings so that they could move. (.)
The houses rumbled and then slowly moved forward on the sand.
However, they were not moving the buildings back. After all, the entire town was still in the sand pit. They were only moving the most useful buildings to a certain location and then contacted the rest of the team to take them away.
This was also the main purpose of the team following the pompom here: to retrieve the abandoned buildings.
"…" Among the team members who were working quickly, Atlan held the figurines in one hand and looked at them with a worried expression.
Previously, many of the team members tried to communicate with Atlan, but they gave up because of the language barrier. Now, they ignored Atlan and focused on their own work.
Therefore, Atlan was not worried about them, but about himself. Was he going to be abandoned here by the pompom? What should he do from now on? Should he join their group?
"… Ah! I'm finally back! " Suddenly, Atlan saw a white sphere appear in the sky. He quickly waved his hand and said, "I'm still here! Don't forget me! "
"…" The pompom did not say anything. Instead, it slowly floated over. Atlan then realized that there were two more pompom behind the pompom. These two pompom were using their fur to wrap around a metal sphere with a diameter of one meter.
The three pompom flew to Atlan's side. One of the pompom said to Atlan, "Touch this with your head and see."
"What is this?" Atlan touched the metal sphere with his head in confusion. He did not see any special reaction from the metal sphere.
"Looks like there's no reaction." The pompom said to Atlan, "Are you going to stay here? Or go back? Be careful, I won't bring you here again after I bring you back. "
"You won't?" Atlan was a little surprised, "But …"
As he said that, he looked at the buildings in the distance with a 'reluctant' look. There were many small statues in those buildings that he liked the most.
Unfortunately, its armor was already full, and it couldn't fit any more. It didn't dare to open its mouth and ask the pompom to help it take more.
"… Alright, let's go back." Atlan finally made a decision in disappointment, and the two pompoms took him away from the place.
Only the pom-poms and the metal ball were left in the same place.
The team members passing by looked at the pompoms and the metal ball that was obviously Ershi's model, but they didn't say anything as they were busy working.
Lin hadn't dissected the metal ball yet. However, Lin had already sent some of the miniaturized soldiers inside to examine the structure inside. The structure of the metal sphere wasn't very complicated, and there were some … discharge devices inside.
As long as a creature's brain touched the ball, it would emit a weak electric current. These electric currents did not have any special effects, at least not to Atlan.
Although it was wearing a helmet, Lin adjusted its helmet to a state where it could conduct electricity when it touched it.
However, when the rock skin touched the ball, the electric current would stimulate the microbes in the rock skin, causing them to do something they normally wouldn't do.
For example, sharing memories with Rock Skin.
That way, the rock skin would have memories of the history of the previous ability users …
At the same time, Lin found that the energy of the metal sphere was not infinite. However, there was a place on its surface that could be opened, and from there, the metal sphere could be 'charged', allowing it to maintain energy.
The rock skin knew how to charge it. They mainly used … stones.
A special type of stone could charge the metal sphere, and the metal sphere itself consumed very little energy. Even without charging, it could still be used for a long time …
However, that was not what Lin was concerned about. What Lin noticed was that the electric current emitted by the metal sphere seemed to activate a certain part of the nuclear information within the 'rock skin microbes', causing them to change their behaviour.
Other electric currents had no effect …
Lin was now investigating how they worked. Lin had a feeling that these microbes might have more than just a little bit of information.
Lin had a feeling … that the information they recorded might not only include the plan for the birth of ability users, but might also contain more secrets.
Because the creature that gave them memories might not be an ordinary Ershi resident. Instead … it was a Star Bus.
"What is this? Did you find it in the factory? It's much bigger than the others … "
While Lin was thinking, a creature suddenly stood in front of Lin. It was the captain.
It was looking at the Ershi model next to the velvet ball in confusion, probably because the velvet ball purposely called Atlan over to show them the information. It seemed to think that the velvet ball was easy to talk to, so it came over to ask.
The velvet ball looked at the captain, then took out something from its velvet ball and threw it on the ground. "Look at this"
"What is this?" The captain was shocked because it noticed that this thing could move, but upon closer inspection, it was only 10 centimeters long, so it relaxed and approached it to take a closer look.
It was a white … worm. It kept squirming on the ground, looking very fragile, but it did not die from the cold air and harsh environment of this place.
"This is the food of the rock skin microbes." The velvet ball explained. "They mainly raise algae and these creatures in the water to survive, so I'm sure you can eat them as well"
"Eat …" the captain looked at the worm with disgust.
It seemed that even after so many generations of breeding in this sandstorm, they still could not forget this' disgusting 'feeling. This was because this worm looked very similar to most parasites and poisonous creatures, which would cause a lot of creatures to feel disgusted.
This meant that there were many similar parasites on Ershi, but that was not surprising. This body type was very suitable for parasitism, but these were not parasites, they were what the rock skin microbes often ate. Their caves had plenty of water, and the water contained basic nutrients, so they raised a lot of algae and these worms, which relied on the rock skin to reproduce.
However, there was no similar place with sufficient water nearby, so the rock skin microbes were squeezed in the cave and did not spread out.
Otherwise … Lin felt that the rock skin microbes might 'rule' this world, after all, they were the most suitable to live here.
Although the captain was disgusted, he also knew the importance of this worm. If they could raise a large amount of this food that could adapt to the harsh environment, then it would be great.
So he took out a small bottle and put the worm inside. "Okay … Uh … Thank you, we'll take it back and have a look …"
Then, he suddenly remembered something and shouted. "Umm … Have you been to the 'rock skin' caves? Can you … tell me how many of them there are? "
"There's a lot of them." The pompom's surface changed color, showing the scenery it saw in the cave.
"What? So many of them! " The captain was shocked. He did not even care about how the pompom could change its surface and hurriedly said, "They …"
"They might attack this place soon." The pompom said directly. "You should leave quickly."
"… I know, but we're not running away, we're going back to find reinforcements." The captain said and quickly ran away.
It was easy to guess what it was thinking. When the captain saw the large amount of rock skin, other than shock and fear, Lin could also sense that the captain was feeling something else …
It was an emotion similar to 'greed'.
After seeing the large amount of rock skin, it should have realized that there must be a lot of water and food there. If they took over that place, then their group would become immensely powerful …
However, the rock skin was the descendant of an ability user, so it was not that much weaker. Instead, it was strengthened by the harsh environment.
So they would be very difficult to deal with …
And if the rock skin started to understand Ershi's technology and recovered its knowledge, then it might become a huge threat to the few groups here.
It was possible that they would wipe out the entire population and establish a 'Rock Skin Civilization' on the Rollers.
But the biggest problem with the rock skin was that they were not good at educating their descendants under the influence of the microbes, so it was hard to say whether they could build a 'civilization'.
How would it develop? Lin would not interfere with them. It would not be strange if they survived.
More importantly, Lin still wanted to see Ershi, so to find out where it went, she had to continue looking … at the memories of the rock skin microbes.
So far, Lin had captured quite a number of rock skin microbes. After studying them, Lin found that each microbe stored … a very small amount of memory fragments.
If it was only a single microbe that was stimulated by electricity and transferred its memory to the rock skin, then it was almost useless. But if there were multiple microbes, then it could 'input' longer memory fragments into the rock skin.
Of course, these memories would also overlap. Lin found that some microbes stored the same memory, but most of them stored different memories. They also had a common behavior, and that was that microbes with the same memory would consciously not live on the same rock skin. They would look for opportunities to spread out, and different microbes would gather together.
This was to ensure that the microbes gathered on a rock skin were all microbes with different memories.
The larger the memory microbes on a rock skin, the more complete the memory they gave to the rock skin. The rock skin Lin had captured earlier was one of the few with the largest memory microbes.
So it had the longest memory in its brain, and of course it was one of the most knowledgeable rock skins. It should know how to operate any Ershi's technology.
However, this memory wasn't complete enough … (To be continued.)
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