The mutated residents had a strange memory. ¥f.
No, it was more accurate to call it … a thought.
Just now, Lin caught the mutated bug that was eating the seedlings. Although it had turned into a giant crab, it was not that strong, which was why Lin caught it easily and checked its memory.
Lin found that its thoughts were filled with a desire for … meat.
Not just any meat, but the meat of the gelatinous lifeforms, including the seedlings that grew underwater and the floating meatballs. They were all things that it wanted to eat.
Therefore, it had almost no intelligence and only knew how to eat. When it saw Lin's mechanical octopus, its first reaction was … whether it could eat it.
However, the metallic appearance of the mechanical octopus made it lose its appetite, so it did not attack.
Why would it want to eat the gelatinous lifeforms so much? This was reflected before it completely mutated, but it should have never eaten this kind of thing before.
And the sudden thought of eating the gelatinous lifeforms might be a 'coincidence' due to its mutation.
But Lin felt that … it was more likely that its desire to eat the creatures was not a coincidence.
Apart from wanting to eat the gelatinous lifeforms, it also had other thoughts about them, and that was … to stop them.
The bug's brain had a very impulsive emotion. If it saw a group of gelatinous lifeforms doing something, such as what Lin saw before, where a group of meatballs surrounded a piece of meat and tried to decompose it.
If the mutated bug saw the gelatinous lifeforms doing something similar, it would rush forward to stop them without regard for its own safety. It was purely to stop them and not to hunt for food, and would even throw its own life to the back of its mind at that moment.
Lin was quite surprised when she found such thoughts in its brain. At the same time, it also had another thought. It believed that if it could stop the gelatinous lifeforms' actions, it could stop the warship.
However, with its current intelligence, it could not understand what 'stopping the warship' meant. But in its memory, there was a record of it, and when it accomplished such a thing, it would obtain a great sense of satisfaction.
The mutated bug had already stopped some gelatinous lifeforms. According to its thoughts, the gelatinous lifeforms' strange actions were related to the warship's movement.
If it stopped them, the warship would stop.
Although they didn't know why their strange movements were related to the movement of the warship, the mutant bugs were desperately trying to stop them.
If that was the case, it meant that … there was someone who didn't want the warship to move. This' who 'seemed to be very obvious. It was the main culprit behind the mutation, the water ball.
Perhaps the reason it mutated this place was to prevent the gel-like creatures from taking away the wreckage of the warships and aircraft?
This was only Lin's initial conjecture. She needed more evidence to prove the truth of the situation.
Lin let go of the mutated bug first. Although its head was pierced by Lin's spear, it did not suffer much damage because only a small part of its body had been pierced. Lin noticed that its body's regenerative ability was very strong, and it would probably continue to hunt for gelatinous creatures here.
Lin wanted to know if the Gelatinous Creatures would react. She had not seen them fight back yet. Would they continue to evade capture?
Lin felt that catching more meatballs would trigger more … memories. As long as these meatballs were placed together, the information source within the meatballs would send out new commands.
Lin felt that it was possible to understand them through this method. As for analyzing the source of the information, it was more difficult and would take a long time.
In short, she decided to observe for a while.
With that in mind, Lin let the mechanical octopus let go of the bug and continued to wander around here.
Soon, Lin found the group of meatballs again. They were surrounding another piece of meat and using the method of creating a whirlpool to decompose it.
When they saw it again, their reaction was much faster. The meatballs seemed to know that Lin's octopus had caught them before, so the moment it approached, they all fled.
Only the piece of meat that was not completely decomposed slowly sank to the bottom of the water. Because this time, the remaining piece was bigger. The meat did not turn into a seedling. Instead, it just sank there and did not move at all.
The mechanical octopus swam over and poked the piece of meat that sank to the bottom of the water. Suddenly, with a 'pop' sound like before, it exploded.
When the mechanical octopus was flushed away, it also uprooted a large number of seedlings around it. However, its fragments formed a large number of new seedlings here.
Lin felt that this self-destruction was some sort of … protection mechanism.
The piece of meat did not want to be examined by other things, so it had a 'setting'. As long as it was touched by something, it would explode. Moreover, the exploded pieces would immediately transform into another form. This made it very difficult for Lin to study it.
There should be some way to study it.
However, the mechanical octopus could not do that, so it did not do anything for now. After that, Lin continued to explore this body of water.
This body of water was very wide and rich in content. Almost every part of the water was filled with bright red seedlings. Lin also encountered many meatballs that were using the whirlpool to decompose meat.
These meatballs were very good at avoiding Lin, so it was not easy to catch them. So far, Lin only managed to catch 10 of them.
Aside from the meatballs, Lin also encountered other mutated residents. They were all similar to the bug. Simply put, they were all creatures with carapaces.
Perhaps because these creatures were suitable for living underwater after mutating, this place was filled with these carapaces.
Just like the bug, they all had a fanatical love for the gelatinous creatures. At the same time, they also wanted to stop the gelatinous creatures' strange actions.
However, there were not many of them, so the meatballs were still able to carry out their work here. It was just that Lin Sanjiu did not know what would happen to them after they were done.
… No, she already knew.
Lin's mechanical octopus returned to the room and gathered the 10 meatballs together. Sure enough, some new structures had grown out of them.
Lin was a bit confused because these meatballs were originally gathered together. Logically speaking, they should have already grown these new structures. Why did they wait until Lin gathered them together before they grew?
However, Lin had also examined them and found that they should not have grown these structures before. This was because the growth of these new structures would cause a huge change in their bodies. Lin felt that these meatballs had not changed at all.
So it seems that they only began to grow after Lin gathered them together. Before this, they did not grow when they were mixed together.
Why? Did they purposely grow for Lin to see?
Lin felt that this was unlikely … Anyway, she decided to examine these newly grown structures first.
The newly grown structures were all brain structures. Just like before, there was a certain amount of memory in them at the beginning.
Because there were 10 meatballs, their memories were much more abundant. The main reason they did that strange thing was to place something here …
It should be called a 'mark'.
Lin Sanjiu did not know the 'principle' behind this. It seemed to be to let the decomposed meat pieces spread in the water. But wouldn't it be easier to just blow up the meat pieces?
Anyway, there was no such detail in these memories. It only meant that … the main reason the warship was moving was because they were placing these marks.
The more marks they placed, the faster the warship moved. The warship was indeed attracted to a certain direction, and the gelatinous creatures came from that direction.
It could be said that they purposely came here to collect … wreckage.
The memories also indicated that the gelatinous creatures were already here before the captors started the war against the water ball. But at that time, they only lived in various meteorites in the form of microbes.
After the water ball attacked this place, they began to multiply and lead the warship to a certain place.
Lin felt that this was the general situation.
As for the mutated residents, they were trying to stop the gelatinous creatures.
It seemed that the water ball really did not want the gelatinous creatures to take the warship away. But why did they not destroy the warship? That … was not clear.
Lin also wanted to know … Were the wreckage left behind by the water ball all taken away by the gelatinous creatures?
If that was the case, it meant that the water ball never succeeded in stopping them from taking away the wreckage …
But that was not necessarily the case. After all, the wreckage did not leave at a fixed time … It was possible that the gelatinous creatures did not succeed in taking away the wreckage that they would try a few more times if they failed once.
If that was the case, it appeared that they had a curious relationship with the water ball, and the creatures inside the warship could be divided into two 'camps'.
As for the mutated Void Bus cub, it preyed on multicellular creatures. Would it prey on the gelatinous creatures as well? Which side was the cub on?
Whatever the case may be, if Lin did something, it would certainly disturb the balance between the two camps. In fact, there was no balance between the two camps. At present, it appeared that the gelatinous creatures would decompose non-mutated creatures, but they would be preyed on by the mutated ones.
Either way, Lin would certainly disturb them, but she would have to see how she could do it.
Of course, Lin would think that it was a good idea, but the water ball and the gelatinous creatures would not necessarily like what she did.
Now, Lin had collected many materials for the mechanical spiders that she built, and more troops would be produced.
Since the manufacturing equipment in the room was too small, Lin decided to build a factory in a more spacious place. For example, an excavation site would be a good choice. (To be continued.)
PS: Thank you ~ The mouse is on the cat bed ~ for the tip ~
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