"Looks like we've reached the edge …"
Under the bright sunlight, a few machines stood on a cliff and looked at the vast environment before them …
The Hero, the Scholar, and … the Cryopteris and the Gnomes. While Lin was observing the crust on Mars, they were also continuing their journey in this world.
"Look at that thing …"
The hero pointed his sword at the bottom of the cliff. There was a huge creature moving on the ground below. It looked like a huge worm made of many rings stacked together. Its body was more than 30 meters long, and the ring at its tail was the smallest. The ring that extended toward its head grew larger and larger. The ring at its head was more than six meters in diameter, and it also looked like a round mouth. Now, it raised its head high, and its mouth emitted a dazzling light.
There were many mounds around the worm, and the mounds were filled with small holes. If the Hero activated his telescope, he would be able to see many small things flying around the mounds.
"Those are the 'refugees', right?" The Hero looked at the mounds and said, "We've found them. Should we … tell it?"
"No." The Scholar also looked at the mounds and said, "It wasn't easy for them to escape slavery and start a new life here, so we shouldn't let them return to slavery. Look, they're living so happily here …"
"Coo …" Before the Scholar could finish, the ring worm beside the mound made a strange noise. Its head that was raised suddenly bent down, and its circular mouth covered the one-meter-tall mound.
Then, the worm's body shook violently. This lasted for about a hundred seconds. Then, the worm raised its tail, and a large amount of sand sprayed out from the tip of its tail.
Then, the worm raised its head as well. The mound that it covered earlier had disappeared.
"It looks like the refugees aren't living happily here," the Hero said.
"Er …" the Scholar said, "Okay, it's true that there are many dangers everywhere."
"At least their lives are fulfilling," the Cryopteris said. "Few creatures can experience so many cycles of birth, aging, sickness, and death."
"It's just that they have many different memories," the Scholar said. The Scholar said, "These creatures … these refugees give me a very strong … hmm, tactile feeling."
The 'fugitives' that the Scholars mentioned were actually 'Memory Keepers'.
Not long ago, they had seen the Memory Keeper's never-ending war. Later, the scholar heard about the overall situation of the Memory Keeper, and then proposed to communicate with the intelligent machine that controlled the Memory Keeper.
The machine was happy to communicate with Scholar, and it told Scholar many things. Scholar and the machine talked for a long time, and from there, Scholar learned about the Memory Keeper.
The scholars were also very interested in the various … ideas of this intelligent machine. It thought that intelligent machines were just like how living beings used machines to do things, and it could use living beings to do things for it.
However, the Memory Keeper was not perfectly controlled, the AI told the Scholar.
Many Memory Collectors were constantly engaged in battles everywhere, but these Memory Collectors were not in the warships after all. Instead, they were outside, so there would occasionally be some … fleeing situations.
It was said that these escaped Memory Keepers went to a certain place and started a new life. They were also called 'fugitives.'
The AI knew that the Scholar was traveling and exploring this area, so it asked the Scholar to inform it if it found an escaped Memory Keeper. As long as it succeeded in capturing them, the AI would give it something in return.
Then, the ones that the Scholar found were the escaped Memory Keepers.
This group of Memory Keepers lived on the plains under the cliff and built a building that looked like a mound to live in.
But their life did not seem to be very smooth. Just now, the Scholar also saw that they had been eaten by the 'ringed worms'.
However, it only ate one mound, and there were many mounds nearby. The Scholar was curious why they chose to live in a place with such dangerous creatures.
For example, this ring worm could easily eat the entire mound, which was equivalent to killing all the Memory Keepers living in it.
Moreover, the worm seemed to have a very strong processing ability. It seemed to be able to expel all the excess sand and other debris and absorb all the nutrients inside.
It looked like that, so the Scholar planned to study it. At the same time, it did not plan to tell the AI the location of these Memory Keepers.
After all, it did not seem easy for them to escape …
"Do you plan to study them?" the Hero asked the Scholar. "I also think these things are a bit crazy. Why would they live in such a dangerous place, but … "
The Hero looked at the giant worm moving between the mounds and said, "I want to cut it down, or test a new … weapon."
Then, the Hero sheathed his sword. Then, he took out a small weapon from his waist. He studied it carefully in his hand and said, "How do you use this?"
"This weapon is …" The Scholar looked at the Hero's weapon with a surprised expression. "I remember … let me see."
Then, the Scholar took the weapon from the Hero's hand. There were some instructions written in Voidfolk on the surface of the weapon.
'This weapon can shoot out a small, sharp bullet. Once it hits, the person who is hit will become something that cannot be protected and will slowly go crazy and die.'
"Let's not use this for now …" The Scholar stuffed the weapon back into the Hero's hand and said, "I think there's something strange about this worm. Let's observe it for a while."
The Scholar took out something from his waist, but it was not a weapon. Instead, it was a circular object with a diameter of one centimeter.
"I can use this …"
Bang! Before the Scholar could finish, a loud noise interrupted her. The Scholar and Hero looked down the cliff and saw the worm that was formed by the rings … flying up from below.
"Wahhh!" The dwarf at the Hero's feet shrieked. It leaped off the cliff and jumped towards the worm, entering its mouth in an instant.
Gurgle! The Hero shouted loudly, but the worm did not slow down. It rushed up from below the cliff and laid its huge body on the edge of the cliff. It aimed its circular mouth at the Hero.
A moment later, the worm lunged at the Hero. The Hero took out the sword on his back and slashed at the worm.
Clang! There was the sound of metal colliding. The Hero's sword and the worm's mouth collided. The Hero, who was lighter than the others, was sent flying and crashed into a nearby rock.
When the hero tried to climb up from the cracked rock, the worm had already rushed over and bit down on him.
Bang!
At that moment, a sound rang out.
The worm suddenly stopped moving. The Scholar was pointing a small weapon at the worm from afar.
"This effect seems very powerful …" The Scholar looked at the worm that had stopped moving and said to the Hero, "Now's the time!"
"Got it!" The Hero jumped up from the rock and slashed at the worm's head with his sword.
Clang! There was the sound of metal colliding again, but the sword did not cause any damage to the worm's head.
"I don't want you to attack it!" the Scholar said. "Get out of the way. I need to study —"
"Goo!" The worm suddenly moved again. It swung its head and spat out the dwarf that it had just swallowed. Then, the worm fell to the ground and kept rolling.
It looked like it was in great pain.
However, this only lasted for a few seconds. Then, the worm went back to being motionless.
"… What's going on?"
The Scholar looked at the motionless worm and slowly approached it. In fact, she did not know the effects of the weapon. She did not expect it to cause such an effect.
"It seems to be fine." The Hero checked the gnome's condition. He noticed that there were many wounds on the gnome's body. Of course, the gnome could not feel any pain, so it did not seem to care.
"Maybe I can study it now …"
The Scholar walked up to the worm's head and looked at its round mouth. She hesitated.
"You don't need to hesitate," Cryopteris said from the Scholar's shoulder. "Moving forward is a better choice than hesitating."
"… Okay."
The scholar then came into contact with the worm. Since the worm had not moved, the scholar was able to study the inside of the worm very well.
Soon, the Scholar found that the worm was not ordinary. She spent a little more time studying it …
Moreover, the Scholar had more or less figured out why the Memory Keeper lived here.
The inner part of the worm's body was made up of many 'arms' of different sizes.
These arms would quickly decompose the object when the worm swallowed it. For example, the mound of the Memory Keeper could disassemble the entire mound and pick out the useful things. The useless things would be left behind.
However, the most important thing was that the worm did not select the Memory Keepers for food. There was a more complex system in their body. Some of the Memory Keepers could be selected and lived as' residents' in the worm's body.
Living in the mound was quite … good. So, these Memory Keepers built the mound specifically for the worm to eat.
That was what the Scholar thought. There were still some questions that she did not understand. However, the Scholar was also very concerned about … the effect of the weapon.
The weapon seemed to have made all the residents in the worm … crazy. (。)
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