"There … … it's that place!"
This place was … … the back of the Capturer's Warship.
A mechanical octopus and an Atlan were standing on the edge of the Warship. Looking at the vast void before them, the Atlan known as Rosalie appeared quite surprised.
Because what appeared before them was the place it called 'ruins'.
Just as its name suggested, this place was made up of countless wreckages. The number of types of wreckages was quite high. There were metals and rocks, soft and transparent substances, things that appeared to be corpses, and also things that were moving and looked like living creatures.
Among all of them, the most eye-catching one was the Tumbler at the back.
On the surface, its terrain was complicated. Its surface was mainly brown and there seemed to be many mountain ranges, holes and other structures. It appeared to have no atmosphere. However, it had … … ruins.
The ruins were like a layer of … … membrane on the surface of the Tumbler. They enveloped this brown world. Observing this world through the floating wreckages gave off a rather wondrous feeling.
"Do you all live here?" Lin's mechanical octopus asked Rosalie.
"Yes … … yes! We live here. But I never thought I would be able to return here! " Rosalie's emotions had reached a considerable level. Although she had only briefly described her life and those of her kind in the diary, she was in fact very concerned about it.
Even Lin did not expect the Warship to arrive so quickly.
Naturally, the Warship did not fly here. Rather, it was … … teleported here.
Back when they were capturing the Void Bus cub. Lin saw it. In an instant, the Warship had appeared at another place. It was in the vicinity of the ruins.
After arriving here, the Warship maintained its speed and flew toward the ruins.
At present, the Warship was still some distance away from the ruins. If it continued at this speed, it would hit the floating objects within the ruins.
However, before reaching there, Lin wanted to conduct some other research. For example, the cub they captured earlier.
The cub was now in a state of deep sleep. Its current position was still within the Stargazing Gallery. Lin had the mechanical spiders build a … … 'cage' around the cub.
The cage was only there to hold it in place. If it woke up, it could still escape. However, Lin believed that she should be able to detect something while it was asleep.
Looking at the approaching ruins in the distance, Lin quickly began the inspection process.
Although cell detection was not allowed here, they could still send all kinds of information back for detailed analysis.
Lin discovered that there were indeed many … abnormalities in this cub's body. It was different from any other cub Lin had seen before. First of all, it was relatively … precocious.
Usually, a cub of this size would have liquid in its body, and this kind of liquid would easily 'deteriorate' under high temperatures. That was why the fledglings of the Void Bus were afraid of heat.
On the other hand, the infant had very little liquid in its body, with most of it being solid organs, just like the Void Buses that were 'sub-adult'.
Subadult referred to the Void Buses that had already turned into balls and floated in the air. They were very small in size and were not considered adults, but they were not afraid of heat.
The cub seemed to be growing inside its body, but it hadn't developed outside its body. Fortunately, although the changes were great, it still couldn't resist the anesthetic.
Otherwise, it would be very difficult to catch it.
However, although the structure of its body matured quickly, its volume did not increase, so it could still maintain its mobility.
Moreover, Lin also discovered that it had some additional structures that it didn't have before, such as its tentacles …
There were many small sawteeth inside its tentacles. These small sawteeth had the function of teeth, and were used to crush the flesh and bones it ate, as well as armor fragments and so on.
These things that it ate would also be sent to a new structure … for digestion.
This thing could be said to be something like a stomach. Its original digestive organ was still there, but it had grown an extra organ. This organ was specially used to digest multicellular organisms, and its digestive efficiency was very high. It could quickly dissolve the tissues of these organisms.
However, the cub didn't use these nutrients. Lin noticed that the nutrients of the cub were piling up next to its digestive organ, swallowed and stored by a group of cells similar to 'fat cells', and not transferred to other organs.
Because this large pile of cells was gathered here, it looked like a very large ball of meat. Perhaps if it continued to eat, this ball would continue to grow.
Moreover, the cub's own immune system didn't care about these things, so it was obvious that the cub was seriously ill.
The cub's own source of nutrients was the armor fragments it ate when it ate various organisms … These armor fragments would be sent to the normal digestive organ for digestion. Because the armor contained nutrients for the Void Bus, the armor was the main thing that 'filled the stomach'.
Lin now felt that the cub was being … parasitized by something.
This parasite was trying to take over the cub's body and change its habits. The pile of fat cells that grew in its body was like a parasite.
However, Lin felt that it wasn't that simple. These structures might have been in the cub's body for a long time, and only recently erupted. The timing of the outbreak should be the same as the time when the residents here mutated.
This new digestive organ had a structure similar to a nerve wire, and it extended to the Void Bus cub's nerve structure … This nerve wire should be used to send hunger signals to the cub.
As long as the digestive organ was empty, it would send a signal to the cub, causing it to feel hungry and have no choice but to keep eating.
Lin felt that this was the overall 'setting' of these things. After the Void Bus had eaten to a certain extent, the pile of fat cells would begin to convert nutrients and form some sort of … organism.
Then, this organism might take over the Void Bus cub's body or crawl out of it, but there was no telling what it would do.
At the same time, Lin also noticed that the cub didn't have a teleportation organ. Its teleportation organ seemed to have disappeared, and the place where the organ should have been … was empty.
Therefore, the cub couldn't teleport, and could only escape by smashing through walls.
Now, Lin could see that its nerve structure was normal. It wasn't altered or 'contaminated' by anything else, but the nerve wire of the new digestive organ was connected to it.
Although the nerve wire was made of cells, the cub could still receive the information it sent. The Void Bus's nerve structure wasn't made of cells, but some other mixed substance.
In order to examine the cub's nerve structure, Lin specially created a 'Dream Needle'. This needle was very similar to the small cube from before, and it could be used to receive the Void Bus's thoughts.
However, it couldn't detect its memories unless it wanted to 'release' its memories, just like the Void Bus that was cut in half before.
After a brief examination, Lin found that the cub's emotions contained a lot of uneasiness, fear, and panic.
Moreover, this feeling had probably been affecting it for a long time, and it wasn't caused by Lin's sudden attack.
It seemed that it had been in a very nervous state before, probably due to the influence of these strange substances in its body. The cub might have been in a state of confusion all this time.
Perhaps it knew that it didn't eat the corpses of those multicellular organisms, but under the influence of its appetite, it had no choice but to eat.
Lin felt that she should stimulate it a little. Perhaps it would be stimulated to recall something from the past, and it might know … the reason why it became like this. But how should she stimulate it?
She could use the cube from last time.
With that in mind, Lin brought the cube over. The memories of the Void Bus inside the cube were obviously … very effective on the cub.
Although the effect was temporary, the cub's nerves would be greatly stimulated the moment it came into contact with the cube.
Previously, it was already effective when it came into contact with its outer shell. Now, Lin connected the cube to the mechanical spider that Lin used to detect the cub's' contents' through the spider's spikes and directly guided it into the cub's nervous system.
This way, perhaps …
… it would appear.
As expected, the cube that contained the memories of the Void Bus was able to greatly stimulate the cub's nerve structure.
Right now, the cub's mind was in an extremely unstable state of fear, and as soon as the cube came into contact with it, it would immediately stabilize its emotions and allow it to recall certain things from the past.
It would recall the time when it was a real Void Bus. While it was directly recalling these things, Lin was also able to see these memories.
A long time ago, it was the same as the other cub here, happily living in the growing area that their captors had built for them.
It had been eating 'jelly' all this time, and nothing out of the ordinary happened. Until one day …
It was suddenly attacked by two creatures.
These two creatures were equipped with explosives and were about to self-destruct, but they didn't directly hit the cub.
However, it wasn't that they didn't hit it at all. Lin discovered that in the cub's memories, it was injured by the 'shrapnel' that was shot out from the explosion.
Those shrapnel weren't normal shrapnel, but rather a very small and sharp object that resembled the kind of needle that Lin used to inject anesthesia.
They pierced into the cub's body, and while it didn't seem to have any effect at first, something else … happened. (To be continued.)
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