Boom!
An explosion that only Lin could hear resounded in the void of space.
The Predator's battleship finally approached the place called the ruins. Its huge body collided with the wreckage at the edge of the ruins.
The collision caused the battleship to tremble, but it was safe because the battleship's speed was quite slow. The wreckage was knocked around, but the battleship itself did not suffer any damage.
"Finally … we're going back."
The Atlan named Rosalie was still standing at the back of the battleship. Although it was dangerous for the battleship to enter the ruins, she did not care.
She was now staring at the slowly flying Void City in the middle of the ruins. She was now filled with the desire to go back.
But Lin did not care if she was thirsty or not. Lin was now communicating with a creature. This creature was … a meatball.
"We are going back to that place, to our distant homeland …"
In fact, it was not a pompom, but a group of meatballs. They had appeared here not long ago, and they were carrying something called a 'radio player'.
The sound that this thing released could be received through the communicator. The meatballs were now using it to play a … song.
The song was mainly to express their nostalgia for their homeland. The meatballs took this thing and kept playing it.
They seemed to want to express their feelings of returning. So, Lin tried to communicate with them here, but it seemed to be difficult.
Because they did not respond to Lin's message, Lin understood their brain structure, so she could send them messages that they could understand.
But even if she sent them a message that they could understand. They still did not respond. So Lin thought …
Boom!
Lin suddenly felt a violent tremor. Looking at the source of the tremor, Lin saw that a large object had crashed into the battleship. This object was about a hundred meters in size and looked like a rock. At this moment, the meatballs that Lin was communicating with immediately flew in that direction.
"We saw our homeland! We're going back there! "And as they flew, they played a very … compatible song.
Lin saw this and immediately chased after them, but these meatballs seemed to be much faster than usual. They flew out of the edge of the battleship and onto the huge rock.
Lin's mechanical octopus quickly flew up and caught the slowest meatball, but the other meatballs all scattered and flew into the surrounding void.
Lin didn't chase after them, because she felt that … this one was enough, because this meatball had a complete set of memories, unlike the previous meatballs that needed to gather a few more memories.
And this memory … described some of the meatball's thoughts.
Their mission, as Lin knew, was to move the battleship here. And let this warship become a part of the ruins.
Now, their mission was complete. They planned to leave.
Lin also discovered that the memories mentioned that this group of creatures had been carrying out a similar task for a long time, which was to collect the remains created by the water spheres.
Then they would bring the various remains to this place. For this purpose, they had been using various methods to approach the water sphere.
Those things included groups of creatures, civilizations, and whatnot. As long as they could be destroyed by the water sphere, the gelatinous creatures would try to approach them.
Before they were destroyed, they would blend in with them, wait for the entire group to be destroyed by the water sphere, and then bring the remains back.
This was what the gelatinous creatures had been doing all this time … but it wasn't because they liked to do it, it was just a mission that was' set '.
But the creature that set the mission for the gelatinous creatures … was already dead.
Lin discovered this memory here. The gelatinous creatures knew that their mission giver had died a long, long time ago, but they still carried out these missions.
Although there was no reason given, Lin believed that these missions had been engraved into their 'information source', so they would continue to carry out these missions.
And the gelatinous creatures seemed to be dissatisfied with this phenomenon. Lin found many similar emotions in the memories. They didn't want to carry out these missions, but they couldn't disobey, they had to carry on.
Therefore, after completing the mission and returning, they would feel happy, just like … now.
While Lin was looking at these memories, countless … meatballs appeared around her.
These meatballs flew out in groups from the back of the warship. They were originally inside the warship, but now that the mission was over, they all flew out of the warship.
Their numbers … could be in the tens of thousands. Lin watched as they flew over the warship's back and spread out into the surrounding ruins. Some of the meatballs kept swaying or spinning as they flew, showing that they were happy.
As the meatballs flew out, Lin also felt the warship trembling slightly as it crashed into more things. At the same time, the warship became slower and slower, and finally … it came to a complete stop.
It seemed that the warship would not move anymore. Lin believed that if nothing unexpected happened, it would stay here forever, just like the other wreckage here.
The gravity here worked in a mysterious way to maintain the balance of all objects, so they rarely collided with each other and would not fall into the gravitational sphere they revolved around. This situation was very similar to the floating rocks.
The rocks there also maintained a floating state, and Lin believed that it was because of something, probably related to the bus-type creatures.
"What are these …" Rosalie looked at the large number of meatballs flying by and said in surprise: "Why are they all flying out?"
"Ignore them for now." Lin's mechanical octopus flew down from the rock and came to Rosalie's side: "Now, we can go take a look at your place."
"… Yes! Since it stopped, let's go! "
Rosalie became very excited when she heard that. Then, she immediately … flew back into the warship's room.
Because they were still quite far away from the place called Void City, she thought that she should prepare, so she went back to prepare some weapons and strengthened her armor. She also carried a lot of 'necessities' on her back. After everything was ready, she returned to the back of the warship.
"You're not going to prepare anything?" Rosalie looked at the mechanical octopus and asked curiously.
"This is fine," the mechanical octopus said.
"Is that so? But this place is very dangerous … but forget it, it's not that far away anyway. "
Now that they were about a thousand kilometers away from Void City, it was indeed quite close. Lin and Rosalie began their journey here.
When the mechanical octopus began its journey, Lin's mechanical spiders were still in the warship.
They wanted to dig out the warship's concentration point and have a look, and they were also creating more troops. When the number is enough, they can send them to the surrounding ruins to explore.
At the same time, Lin was also … 'collecting' the mutated residents.
After the meatballs flew away, the mutated residents changed their appearance. Before, they were chasing after the meatballs crazily, but now they became uninterested.
Although there were still gel-like creatures left here, such as the bright red seedlings growing in the pool, and many other things that looked like meatballs, the mutated residents were no longer interested in them.
It's not that they were completely uninterested, but they just didn't like to eat as much as before, and Lin also found that they began to hunt each other.
Before, the mutated residents didn't attack each other except for the swollen monsters, but now they often fought each other.
Lin thought that they were very interesting, and seemed to have different personality changes in various situations, so Lin decided to catch them and carefully study them.
At the same time, Lin also wanted to know how they mutated.
The reason for their mutation … Lin now understood a little bit, it could be temporarily called a 'temporary signal'.
The mutated residents were some kind of multicellular creatures, their growth and development were mainly controlled by the data recorded in the cell nucleus.
The structure inside the cell would first read the data in the nucleus, and then construct it. Usually, this was the case.
The water ball used a certain method to let the structure of the cell receive other data, which caused the mutated residents' cells to undergo new changes.
Lin guessed that this should be the case based on the examination of the mutated residents.
It was similar to the virus, but the water ball didn't inject the mutated residents with the virus. Instead, it used a certain … special method to let the structure of their cells receive other information, forcing their bodies to undergo changes.
This was much more efficient than the virus, and it could perfectly control these creatures, which was why this environment was created.
First, it used the swollen monsters to provide nutrients, then created a large number of mutated residents, and made them do different things at different times.
Although it didn't succeed, the series of plans were … perfect. This method allowed the mutated residents' cells to undergo changes on a regular basis, and the virus had too many uncertainties, so it wasn't easy to achieve this effect.
Now that it had reached the final stage, Lin believed that they would transform into a special 'ecosystem', where the weaker mutated residents would continue to feed on the corpses, swollen monsters, and the remaining gel-like creatures, while the stronger ones would control this place, and they would use the entire warship as their living quarters until the basic nutrients were used up.
All of this was because the water ball used a certain method to give the mutated residents' cells additional 'evolutionary instructions'.
How did they do it? (To be continued.)
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