This seems to be … almost over?
In front of Lin … was a city. This city was located underground, and its buildings were mainly made of some transparent materials. She could see the various structures inside from the outside.
However, she could now clearly see that the buildings were empty.
Because everything inside had been … cleaned up by the micromachines.
After that, Lin cleaned up the miniaturized machines. Now the place was empty, but it wasn't completely empty.
She could also see some creatures with transparent bodies gathered under their transparent buildings. These were the surviving individuals. They should be discussing how to rebuild their kingdom.
Lin had conducted this kind of battle many times.
In the connected world, Lin found many micromachines that were invading civilizations and then dealt with them one by one. After every battle, Lin would count their numbers.
Now, Lin had almost cleared all the mechanical fog clusters with a diameter of two kilometers, but Lin felt that they would not stop multiplying here, so … it should be more than that.
However, the micromachines' behavior was indeed strange. Other than killing the natives, they did not touch anything here.
They did not increase their numbers by using the things here as' food ', and they did not dig elsewhere. All the micromachines limited the battlefield to one civilization's territory.
The battle did not extend to other places, and after the battle ended, they stayed in one place and did not leave.
It seemed that the mission of this group of micromachines only ended after occupying the civilization's territory, and there was no follow-up mission.
Or the follow-up mission would take a long time and did not require any preparation, so they could do nothing during this period?
Lin was very curious about this. Lin had destroyed most of the micromachines' strongholds … At present, there were only two points left.
Now, Lin planned to … not attack them for the time being. Instead, she would observe them.
It was difficult to observe the micromachines. It was quite easy to be discovered if one mixed in with them. The reason was simple. The area they were in was covered by the energy of the Sea of Fear. If there was something without fear energy mixed in with them, it would definitely be discovered.
It would not work no matter how similar it looked.
However, just like how Lin had sneaked into the brain spirit's battleship before, there were still some ways to sneak into them.
Now, Lin's small troop class had sneaked into a group of micromachines …
This place … was also underground. It originally belonged to a small biological civilization. Now that it had been completely occupied by the miniature machines, Lin was watching them, waiting to see if they would make their next move.
Lin's unit was known as … Imitation Stone.
It was a very simple name, and its composition was also very simple. It was like a stone with a diameter of only about one millimeter.
However, the 'meaning' of this troop class itself wasn't simple, because it was a … hybrid troop class created by Lin. It didn't have much of a cellular component, and Lin had mixed in some other components.
The dividing line between cellular creatures and non-cellular creatures was not very obvious. Cellular creatures were usually mostly composed of cellular substances.
But in fact, they don't necessarily need cells to form a body. It didn't matter if he had a body with a different structure, as long as he could use his brain to control it.
Therefore, it was the same for Lin.
If it was to send commands through cells, then controlling non-cellular components such as metals or other components would be … very simple. Many of Lin's battleships were like this.
Lin had always wanted to replace some of the internal parts of the cells with non-cellular components that could be directly controlled by Lin's' thoughts'. So far, Lin had only been able to use her thoughts to directly control her own cells. What would happen if she replaced them with other materials?
Lin had done a lot of tests. At first, there were many failed tests, but this' imitation stone 'was one of the successful tests.
Lin had replaced a part of its internal structure. However, she hadn't been able to use her thoughts to directly control the non-cellular components. Instead, she had used the original cellular components to make them operate according to Lin's thoughts.
However, Lin felt that she was about to discover how to directly use her thoughts to control the non-cellular components. After completely controlling it. She would be able to create a non-cellular troop class.
This was mainly through studying the 'bus' creatures. Also, Lin recently felt that … if she studied the gel creatures, she would be able to understand more about them.
Lin had already studied some of the gel creatures' troop classes before, but Lin found that they had different structures. Some of them were very similar to Lin's idea.
In short, this' imitation stone 'that Lin had created was very difficult to discover. It mimicked the feeling of a real rock.
However, a real rock wouldn't move. That was why Lin moved the rock here during the war between the micro-machines and the creatures here. At that time, Lin only needed to pay attention to hide to avoid the micro-machines that were busy fighting.
After they were done fighting, the micro-machines would begin to search the surrounding environment. At that time, the imitation stone would enter a static state to observe the micro-machines' activities.
Just like what Lin was doing now.
The entire underground civilization's kingdom was about 100 meters in diameter. Lin had placed a lot of pseudo-stones in many places, and they were observing the micro-machines.
Right now, Lin could see a large number of micro-machines gathering in the huge cavern.
Because this civilization didn't have any buildings, they basically used their bodies to hold on to each other. That was why there was a lot of empty space here.
Of course, this space was now occupied by the micro-machines. They looked like they were floating in the air, but they were actually stuck together.
Each micro-machine … held on to each other and gathered into a cluster. This cluster was very small, so from a distance, it looked like particles in the fog.
Then, with a small number of individuals, they formed 'bridges' that connected these clusters to each other. These 'bridges' could only be seen from the perspective of microorganisms.
Because of that, although they usually looked like floating fog, every particle in this' fog 'was actually connected.
They could quickly disperse and reassemble new connections to connect different individuals and move around. This was something that they often did. Lin also noticed that they often … assembled with each other.
A group of micro-machines would constantly modify a group of their own into a different appearance, and then the modified group of micro-machines would modify them in turn.
The method of modification was usually to install a large number of things that looked like armor or weapons on their companions, but … sometimes, they would modify each other back to their original appearance, dismantle everything, and then reassemble.
It felt like practice. In short, Lin saw that they were all doing this and nothing else …
While observing, Lin also noticed that there were many types of micro-machines.
One of them was more like a machine. It had many limbs, and its combat style relied on these limbs to attack and dismantle the opponent.
This type would often dismantle each other's equipment and install new ones, then remove and reinstall the original ones. This behavior looked like practice, but in fact, it was meaningless.
There were also some types that were used for transportation. They were larger, could store things, and were equipped with some explosive weapons.
However, the most common type here was something like … a slime that did not have a fixed shape and size.
These 'slime types' were also seen in the Floating Rocks, but there were not many of them. But here, almost all of them were slime types, and the other types only accounted for about 20% to 30% of the population.
There were also some types that Lin saw in the Floating Rocks, but they did not appear here.
Generally speaking, micro-machines should be able to quickly modify each of their own individuals and have them do different jobs according to different needs.
But Lin did not see this happening here. They had never transformed one species into another.
Aside from this place, Lin was also observing another group of miniature machines, and they were in a similar situation.
Even after Lin got rid of so many of their companions, these two groups of micro-machines that occupied the civilization's territory did not look like they wanted to reinforce, nor did they look like they wanted to increase their numbers. They just stood there, as if waiting for Lin to attack them.
Lin continued to search for other civilizations that had been attacked, but she couldn't find any at the moment because these civilizations were easily discovered when they were attacked.
But now, there were only these two groups of micro-machines. Lin believed that she had dealt with all of them.
But even the last remaining group did not do anything special at all. This meant …
Lin had such a thought.
The civilization's attack this time was probably just … a distraction.
Yes … to make Lin target these micro-machines that attacked the civilization.
Because, although they did not know that Lin had been here before, they knew that Lin might chase after them through the teleportation point. So, these micro-machines came here to deliberately attack various civilizations to attract Lin's attention.
There must be another group of micro-machines doing something else. Lin believed that should be the case.
Otherwise, it would be strange for these micro-machines to do nothing.
If that was the case, it would not be easy to find them. If they deliberately hid …
But, Lin felt that it was easy to guard against them. (To be continued.)
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