This was … a map.
In the connected world, in the underground laboratory of the Hollow, Lin's velvet ball was looking at one of the walls of the laboratory.
Under the velvet ball's gaze, the wall slowly changed color to reveal a large … map.
This was a map of the Dark World. It was obvious from the map that the entire place was a barren wasteland made of rocks.
Lin had learned about this map from one of the floating skins. After the floating skin was attacked by the little Guardian's experimental weapon, Lin released it back to the Dark World, where it had been communicating with its own kind.
All the floating skins had this habit of 'sharing' with their own kind whenever they encountered something. If it was a good thing, they would warn their own kind, and if it was a bad thing, they would warn their own kind to avoid it. Being treated as something that couldn't be protected by the little Guardian was definitely not a good thing.
And so, it sent this information to … about seven thousand of its own kind. These floating skins' companions were spread out quite widely in the Dark World, so Lin had the velvet ball quickly come into contact with them while they were communicating. Through the floating skins' Dreamscape energy, Lin learned about their companions' locations, their surroundings, and so on.
Because when they contacted each other, each of the floating skins would report their location and the state of their surroundings, Lin would also know this information.
Then, Lin combined the information from the previous exploration and created a map of the Dark World. Indeed, most of this map was barren wastelands, but …
[Conclusion: That place is very strange. You should go and take a look. You definitely want to go and take a look.]
Next to the velvet ball that was looking at the map, there was a transparent jar that was currently communicating with Lin.
If one looked closely, they would see that the jar was filled with tiny machines. This was the Memory One's AI machine. In fact, Lin had already wanted to put it back before, as it said that it wouldn't attack the camp anymore. Lin also understood its situation, so there was no need for her to explore the Dark World with it.
So, there was no need for it to stay here.
However, this AI machine didn't seem to want to leave. Although it wanted to leave before, because it believed that Lin was intentionally trapping it.
But now, it didn't have such thoughts. Instead, it excitedly studied the Dark World's situation with Lin. What it wanted Lin's attention was the bottom right corner of the map.
The entire map was barren wastelands, but the bottom right corner was different. The ground there wasn't made of rocks, as for what it was made of … Lin wasn't sure. At any rate, it was a very soft substance.
Now, Lin was also investigating this most suspicious area.
On this side …
"Do you want to go down first?" In the dark environment, one of Lin's pompoms was floating in the air.
In front of the pompom was a tall and steep cliff. This location was the lower right corner of the map. Below the cliff was a wasteland that was not made of rocks.
Next to the ball of fur was a group of Void Cockroaches. The Inca swarm had arrived at the same time as Lin's fur ball, indicating that it wanted to go down first.
However, he still had to observe for a while.
The pompom and the Void Cockroaches came to the edge of the cliff. The pompom lit up and shone downward. The ground at the bottom of the cliff was like mud. It had a soft and sticky feeling, which was exactly what it looked like.
This reminded Lin of the place where the Void Bus pups lived, the plains filled with 'jelly', but this place looked more like a huge swamp.
Some levitating skins could be seen flying around the swamp. They didn't seem to have any objections to this strange environment. Lin, on the other hand, could feel that this place was filled with … a Dreamy Eater.
The Dreamy Eater should be here. If she followed this feeling, she would soon find it. At the same time, Lin also wanted to see if there were any creatures other than levitating skins in this swampy environment.
Except for the first world. There were too few creatures in the other worlds, so they weren't very interesting …
The Inca swarm began to move. The Void Cockroaches around the pompom climbed down the cliff one by one. After a while, they were all gone. Only a black shadow was left behind the pompom.
"Do you want to go down?"
The pompom shone the light behind it, illuminating the black shadow. It was a spare aircraft, the one with the Memory Bearers.
Now, the Memory Bearers inside had entered a very … special state. Their fear of the environment conflicted with the memories that the AI machine used to force them to explore.
On one hand, they wanted to go down. On the other hand, they didn't want to go down. They were in an extreme dilemma.
Unlike the AI machine that was controlled from afar, the AI machine's fear would slowly subside. However, the fear of the Memory Bearers who were in charge of flying the aircraft here was increasing as the journey continued.
Was it their fear that made them return? Or was it the AI machine's memory that forced them to continue exploring?
Lin found it interesting. Even so, Lin didn't keep looking at them … She let the pompom fly towards the cliff, and together with the Void Cockroaches, they arrived … on the swampy ground.
There was almost no gravity here, so no matter how soft the 'swamp' was, the Void Cockroaches could easily crawl across it.
Lin's pompom used its fur to check the composition of the swamp as it flew.
The composition of the swamp … was very similar to the levitating skins. Simply put, the levitating skins could eat the swamp as food.
This meant that they had a huge amount of food. This swamp was huge, and it extended to an unknown place.
However, there were no other creatures here.
Except for one … foreign creature.
"It seems to be here."
When Lin sent out the signal, the Void Cockroaches stopped.
Now, Lin and the Void Cockroaches had traveled about a kilometer, and the originally sparse dreamforce suddenly became … very strong.
The Dream Eater should be here. It was hiding under the swamp …
Boom!
Just as Lin was thinking about this, the ground below suddenly trembled violently as if it had been hit by a bomb. A large amount of mud exploded, and the Void Cockroach and the pompom were forced to retreat dozens of meters away.
At the same time, Lin saw a huge object slowly … … rising out from the exploded mud.
It looked like the Dream Eater … Yes, it was the same Dream Eater that Lin saw in the Creator's world. It was … a cloud of smoke.
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