"I think it's here?"
This was a connected world. Under the bright sunlight, a few machines were slowly moving through the dense forest.
The Scholar was originally studying the complex micro-civilizations in the Ring City, but recently, it heard from the Cryopteris that they had a new mission …
It was to find some … signals.
'Beep beep …' The Scholar's mechanical brain rang with a confused tone. "That doesn't seem to be it …"
The signals in the connected world were very complicated. When moving through the dense forest like this, there would always be a large number of signals.
It was like standing on the streets of a Voidfolk city, but in the Voidfolk city, it was mostly electrical signals, but here, it was possible to receive many strange signals.
The Scholar's signal receiver was custom-made. It could accept many kinds of signals, but this time, the Scholar was specifically looking for … signals related to dream energy.
Many of the signals here were sent by micro-civilizations, and the signal the Scholar was looking for was the same. It was slightly different from normal signals, and some were formed by dream energy.
Once, the Scholar accidentally received a signal at this location. At the time, it recorded the various signals it received and sent them back to the base for future research.
At the time, it did not expect to have to find the signal again, and this was … Lin's mission.
In that case, the Scholar felt that it had to be completed because in the Scholar's mind, Lin was a very special existence.
Even though it would normally do what Cryopteris asked it to do, it felt very different …
Even so, the Scholar found this mission to be more difficult. Because it returned to this location … but it did not find the relevant signal.
This was very likely. After all, it did not know what was sending the signal back then.
However, this meant that it had lost the clue, and it did not know where to find it …
"Perhaps we'll find something if we dig a bit?" The Hero stood beside the Scholar and said. The signal receiver in the Hero's head was not that sensitive, so it could not detect anything.
Most of the time, the Hero used its eyesight to observe its surroundings. It looked carefully at the ground. The moss-like creatures on the ground kept wriggling. As they wriggled, many small things crawled onto the Hero's feet.
"They might not be hiding underground …" the Scholar said. "They might …"
"They might fight. What do you think?" The Hero said, "Didn't you say that a group of very small … machines or something like that escaped here from afar, and we have to find them?"
Then, Hero looked at the creatures climbing up the ground and said, "There are also a large number of small creatures here. Will they fight when they encounter each other?"
"Those machines aren't food. They shouldn't be attacked here," the Scholar said. "Don't talk about these meaningless things. We still need to find the signal … "
"It's only when we don't touch each other that we don't fight." Hero said, "Look at these creatures. If we touch them, they will still attack us. I think it's possible. If …"
"Yes …" The Scholar suddenly interrupted Hero and said, "That is a possibility. The tiny machines will come here and fight with the creatures. I just need to check the signal of war …"
War signals were usually different from other random signals of unknown use. This was a signal that could be transmitted over a long distance and was very clear.
This was the information that the Scholar had learned from her recent research on the Ring City.
If a group of microscopic civilized creatures was invaded by something. If they were at a disadvantage, they would try to send out a war signal. This meant that they wanted to escape.
Normally, they couldn't escape because the environment outside was too dangerous. Therefore, this kind of signal was sent to the Ring City.
The purpose was to call the City of Rings here and take them away.
Therefore, the war signals sent by the various microscopic civilizations were the same. Because they were all sent to the Ring City …
Moreover, the microscopic civilizations here were rarely invaded by anything. Usually, they would only send out a war signal when they were at a disadvantage and about to leave. Therefore, war signals were also very rare.
If this kind of signal was received, it meant that something very serious had happened to this civilization …
If the microscopic machines came here … They would definitely have a conflict with the creatures here. Of course, if they were ordinary creatures, it wouldn't be clear. However, if they had a conflict with a certain civilization, they would know immediately.
The Scholar believed that they might have a conflict with a certain civilization …
Because the Scholar had just received a war signal.
"In that direction!" Saying this, the Scholar quickly ran in a direction. Hero followed closely behind and said, "You found it?"
"That's right!" The Scholar said. "According to this signal, this civilization is in the middle of a fierce war. It might be … related to those microscopic machines."
After running for a few hundred meters, the Scholar and the Hero came to a stop.
"… It's there."
What appeared before them was a large hole in the ground.
The hole was about 30 meters in diameter. Standing at the edge of the hole, they could see that it was bottomless. On the walls of the hole, there were many protruding rocks.
Looking closely, they could see many small holes on the rocks. These holes should be a sign that there was a civilization living here.
Moreover, the Scholar could still receive the signal that he had been looking for … the signal about dream energy.
"Should we go down?" Hero stood beside the Scholar and looked at the bottomless hole. "I don't know why, but there seems to be … a feeling of fear?"
"I feel it too," the Scholar said. "This feeling of fear … I've heard that it's caused by a special kind of dream energy. It's also related to the microscopic machines."
"As expected, they're here … Then let's get rid of them before the Demon King comes!" Hero said as he jumped into the hole. Dwarf, who had been following him, didn't jump. Instead, he stood at the edge of the hole and shouted.
"Wait!" the Scholar said. "What … is here?"
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