This appeared to be a world of darkness. There was no light, almost no gravity, and the temperature was enough to turn oxygen into liquid … and the air was filled with dust.
Not too long ago, Lin had passed through … the door.
According to the description, this was the 'Third Door'. The spare warship had arrived at the door … and behind the door, a world of darkness appeared before Lin's eyes. She had yet to discover what kind of creature lived here.
Even though there was no creature to be seen, the thing that brought Lin in appeared to be very afraid.
"You must reject it. Do not move forward, return quickly!"
The AI machine was very afraid of this place. Even though its main body was in the camp of the Voidfolk, it was very afraid of the world of darkness and wanted to leave as soon as possible.
Because the warship was too big to fit through the door, Lin had it control a small part of the warship … and in fact, it was not the AI machine that controlled it. Instead, it controlled a group of Memory Seekers. Then, the Memory Seekers piloted a small ship to fly away from the main warship and into the door.
Then, Lin had a few pompoms follow the small ship.
Just like that, the people who piloted the ship were actually a group of Memory Seekers. The AI machine did not even need to control the ship's movement and it already felt great fear and wanted to leave this world of darkness as soon as possible.
Lin thought that this was rather interesting.
Because Lin wanted to test whether it was more afraid of the world of darkness or the small protector.
"Do you want to move forward or become something that cannot be protected?" Lin sent this message to the AI machine. And then …
The AI machine seemed to have fallen into a very … uncomfortable state. It replied to Lin, "Judgment: Feeling great pressure, do not continue this behavior."
"You must make a choice." Lin told it, "Otherwise, you will be given a random choice."
"Current status: Feeling great pressure, must counterattack, must fight, must end the pressure … must … must choose: Continue moving forward."
It appeared that the AI machine still felt that the small protector was more terrifying. If that was the case, moving forward in this world of darkness … should not be too much of a threat.
The Dream Eater was here. Lin could feel that its energy was scattered in the darkness, but she could not determine where it was.
As for the Inca army … she did not know where they were either. There were no traces of them so far.
Lin's velvet ball was moving slowly behind the Memory One's flying machine. The machine was about three meters long … and it looked like it was made of parts. It mainly relied on the spiral ejectors at its tail and on both sides to fly, and its forward speed here was not bad.
The light from its head swayed in the darkness in front of it. It could not illuminate the surrounding environment, but it made the darkness in front of it even more terrifying.
That was indeed the case for the Memory Bearers who were driving inside. They observed everything around them with fear. They were clearly creatures that were not used to the darkness.
The Memory Keeper was also a creature that relied on vision, so they were very uneasy about not being able to receive light.
However, based on the memories in their minds, they still tried their best to control the aircraft and slowly moved forward.
One of Lin's pompoms was lying on top of the aircraft, while the other two pompoms were flying beside it.
Under the control of the intelligent machine, the Memory Keeper believed that the pom-poms were their 'allies', so the presence of the pom-poms would increase their sense of security, although it was not enough to remove their fear.
Although they all looked very scared, they hadn't encountered any danger yet …
Just like that, the exploration of the World of Darkness slowly progressed.
This place … did not seem to have anything special.
The exploration lasted for tens of thousands of seconds, from the beginning until now. Lin found that the aircraft had been moving in the dark environment, and there were no creatures around at all.
This included microbes, non-cellular creatures, or … dream creatures.
In fact, it was impossible to determine if there were any non-cellular creatures because there was a constant sandstorm in this place.
The wind was not very strong, but it was mixed with a lot of debris. However, Lin did not find anything among the debris that she felt was a living thing.
As for the energy of dream creatures … she did not feel it here. This seemed to be a very barren environment, and the ground was almost all rock structure.
As the journey continued, Lin discovered that the fear she had towards the intelligent machines was slowly diminishing. It seemed that it began to think that there was nothing here that could scare it.
However, Lin still found some clues.
Because the sandstorm was getting stronger, the aircraft flew close to the ground. During this process. Lin found some traces left behind by creatures on the ground.
These were the traces left behind by the Inca insects.
They had moved here, but the traces were strange. They did not move in one direction, but instead turned in circles. It was very strange.
The shadowy creatures in the Void Dwellers' camp indicated that they could no longer contact this army. Generally speaking, the Inca insect army would be uncontactable when they were too far away, because they did not use dream energy to connect.
As for the AI machines and the imam, they were currently using dream energy technology. They could control their own troops from a long distance without losing contact.
However, this did not matter, because the Inca insect army would form a small 'consciousness'. Their personality, knowledge, memory and so on would be the same as the original Inca insect army, but their intelligence would not be as high as the original.
Therefore, they would not 'betray'. At the same time, when they returned to the insect army, the consciousness of this army would fuse with the consciousness of the whole army, and there would not be any major problems.
The problem now was … they did not know where they went.
These traces disappeared after a while, and they could only be sure that they did not die here. The Inca insects that came here could live in the void, so they were not afraid of the environment here.
However, Lin felt that they might have been attacked by something … as for what would appear, Lin did not know.
Currently, other than the first world that was filled with all kinds of creatures, there were not many creatures in the Dark World and the imam's world.
At least, there were not many found …
After thinking so much, the journey still had to continue.
In fact, Lin didn't direct the aircraft to fly in any direction, so they just flew around randomly. Lin would only correct them when they were on the same path. Otherwise, she wouldn't pay attention to their direction.
Flying around randomly like this, it was possible that it would encounter something.
… Just like that, another few tens of thousands of seconds passed …
[Unable to find any meaningful objects, darkness covers everything. Judgment and suggestion: end this boring journey. Next suggestion: let me leave, everything is fine.]
The journey in the Dark World continued as usual. After so long, Lin still did not see anything other than darkness and rocks, so the intelligent machine expressed that it did not want to continue.
It was much more stable this time, but it was still a little afraid, so it still wanted to leave. Of course, there was another reason … it did not want to be controlled by Lin.
The intelligent machine hated being 'commanded', which was one of the reasons why it resisted the Memory Keeper.
[Judgment: Target does not respond to suggestions, it will be taken as permission. I will leave, I will leave.]
As he spoke, the aircraft in the Dark World suddenly turned around and flew back on the way back.
"Don't you want to see the creature that controlled you?" Lin asked the machine.
[Judgment: Moving forward in fear, seeing the unknown is not worth it. Do not approach it. I will return, continue living, continue moving, bid you farewell]
Lin continued: "That thing can instantly affect your emotions, are you not curious about it at all?"
[Judgment and response: Too dangerous, not worth it, but I am curious. … Discovery: A new idea has been born, your theory has been approved. You should go and take a look. You should discover that thing. You should see it for yourself]
Suddenly, the intelligent machine changed its direction again. It no longer flew back, but continued on its previous path.
As if … it really wanted to take a look.
If that was the case, Lin did not need to forcefully control it because if she continued to do so, it might go crazy.
It might not go crazy, but it might use some extreme methods to escape from her control. But since it was willing to do so, there was no problem.
This intelligent machine's thoughts were actually very simple, and it changed very quickly. Lin could already see its personality from the previous history.
However … even though this small problem was solved, she still did not know where to go.
And so, like before, she continued her journey in the darkness.
Even though the intelligent machine felt like it should go find the Dream Eater, it did not know how to find its way. Lin noticed that it left the task of finding its way to the Memory Keeper on the flying machine. It did not do anything except observe through the flying machine.
So, how long would this journey last?
Time slowly passed as Lin pondered over this question … …
Lin did not see any more traces. There was no Inca swarm, and there was no Dream Eater.
In this darkness, it was as if there was nothing there …
But Lin did not turn her attention away.
Even though the thing she was looking for did not appear, there were other things that appeared. These things should be the … residents of this dark world.
Their bodies were very large, but they seemed to be very light.
Lin felt that these creatures might have some … clues. (To be continued.)
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