"You … … what are you trying to do?! This place forbids all kinds of creatures … … Argh! "
… … So that's how it is.
They were still in the same room in the old district. However, other than Lin's mechanical octopus, there was another Atlan here.
This Atlan was the Atlan that was guarding outside earlier. Since there were no surveillance devices here and it was just standing there, it was easy to capture it.
After capturing it, Lin performed an examination on its brain.
This Atlan's brain was very special … …
According to their leader, they had become like this after consuming the medicine made from the 'silver thread'. However, Lin found that this Atlan's brain was not damaged in any way.
The structure of their brains was slightly different from normal Atlan. In simpler terms, their brains did not have a region that dealt with 'emotions'.
Basically, this Atlan's brain did not have the emotional region of a normal Atlan. Thus, they would not have any feelings of anger, sadness and the like.
However, they still had a goal to pursue. It was like what Lin knew before. The Atlan here all desired to increase their status, to become stronger than … … their own kind.
They had always been pursuing this goal. Thus, they kept trying to obtain more resources to increase their status.
That also led to a situation … … this group of Atlan was no longer united. Their way of thinking was mainly based on 'self-interest'. There was no such thing as … … a group mentality.
In simpler terms, they had no companions. Friends and the like. They would not do anything 'for free'. No matter who it was for, they would do things for a reasonable reward.
They would refuse to do anything they felt was unreasonable. Even if their own kind died in front of them, they would not do anything if they did not get enough benefits.
Many unique creatures would help their close companions for free. However, this group of Atlan would not do that at all … …
Lin was very concerned about how they raised their young. Were they willing to raise their young 'for free'? Or … …
Speaking of hatchlings, Lin also noticed that these Atlans were different from normal Atlans. Their growth rate was much faster than normal Atlans.
For example, this Atlan that Lin examined. Its age was only that of a young Atlan. However, its body had already grown to the size of an adult.
Perhaps this was the reason why they … reproduced so quickly. If they had reproduced at their original speed, even if they had given birth to a lot of babies, most of them would still be babies, far from reaching adulthood.
Moreover, Lin also wanted to know if they were willing to give birth to babies for free. After all, the process of giving birth required a large amount of energy, especially for the female Atlan.
Perhaps the Atlan that Lin tested was too small and did not have the thought of breeding. Lin really wanted to know their attitude towards these things because they had abandoned all feelings. Therefore, they became a rather … interesting group.
At the same time, they had a completely compliant attitude toward the laws they set, not allowing even the slightest violation of the laws. But what Lin found strange was how they set these laws with such a mindset …
What Lin was more concerned about was, if this kind of emotionlessness was really caused by the drug, why would their descendants be the same? However, what Lin found in their brains wasn't the effect of drugs, but that their brains were originally like this …
Meanwhile, the original leader of this place didn't care about the fact that these Atlans had lost their emotions. Instead, it was because … they no longer cared about their own kind.
They had become completely disunited and only cared about benefits. Because of that, the leader felt very … uncomfortable.
That was why it recorded everything that happened in the past through these video screens in the old district. The main reason it did so was not to let others understand. It was just … a kind of 'venting'.
However, in order to prevent these emotionless Atlans from seeing its recording, it also added some special effects.
Previously, when Lin clicked on the screen, there would be continuous flashes of light. The emotionless Atlan's brain structure was rather unique, they would feel a sense of fear towards these flashes of light, and it would also cause them to not want to come close to this place anymore.
The original leader must have discovered this by accident, which was why it added the flashes to these video screens.
There were still many questions for the Atlans here, but Lin also discovered something else. After the leader's words, Lin saw something related to Ershi.
This was also recorded by the leader. However, it did not use a voice to describe it. Instead, it directly placed the information on the screen. The information on the screen indicated …
These Atlans did indeed come from a place called 'Ershi'.
After the leader was removed from its position, it had been investigating everywhere in the old district. It said that at first, it wanted to find a way to restore these Atlans. After that, it continued to investigate all sorts of things. There were also places like a library where many things were recorded.
And the leader accidentally discovered their origin.
Could it be that they had never discovered it before? That seemed to be the case, because the leader said that this information was hidden in a very secret place. Only the leader's … cell nucleus information could be used as a 'key' to open that secret place.
It seemed that the leaders here had a system of succession, where they would directly let their descendants succeed them. However, none of the previous leaders had ever opened this place. Only the leader had found this place.
Then, it discovered this information … the information described them as coming from a very … beautiful world called Ershi. However, there was not much description of Ershi.
And the reason they came here was indeed as they thought. They drifted here. It seemed that at first, they were like the residents of Mars, who tried to fly into the void to explore. However, after flying into the void, they could not return. The description here was that when they flew into the void, Ershi suddenly disappeared, and their surroundings fell into darkness.
It felt as if they had been teleported away.
After that, they began to live in the void. However, this drifting life did not last for long. After … more than 30 pom-poms years, they came to this place.
Then, they built a base here and began to live here. Because there were many resources here, they lived a good life here. Their main way of life was through scavenging.
Until a certain time, the second-generation leader of this base suddenly received a signal.
This signal indicated that it was from … Ershi. The signal also indicated that there was a way to let them return to Ershi.
However, it could only be done when … what could be temporarily called a 'void docking'. At that time, the Atlans here would have a chance to return to Ershi.
However, that would take some time, and it would also require the cooperation of this base to collect various items in order to complete this' docking '.
The second-generation leader was very surprised, but it still believed the signal because it believed that since the signal came from Ershi, it must have been sent by its own kind.
So, it did as the signal asked.
To complete the 'docking', it mainly needed to collect some special items here and then assemble them into a machine. After that, it would go to a certain location to activate it, and then it would be able to return.
The signal also explained why they came here. It described that they came here through some kind of 'void', and the docking machine would allow them to return through the void.
Then, the second-generation leader started to collect materials to build the machine. There were many materials, so it was not easy to collect them.
There were also many materials that were only mentioned briefly. The main purpose was to let the Atlans of Void City search everywhere. After they came back with various items, the second-generation leader would contact the signal to ask if the materials were correct.
This was mainly known to the leader and some of its close subordinates. The ordinary citizens of Void City did not know. The ordinary citizens only knew to scavenge.
This was also what the signal from Ershi wanted to do … It asked the leader not to tell most of the citizens about this. Although the leader felt that it was not a problem to tell them, it still did so.
This special collection work continued just like that, and it was a very long process.
After the second-generation leader died, the collection progress was only 30%.
Of course, it asked the next leader to continue this work, and the current leader's collection work was much slower.
Originally, the second-generation leader would specially order more unknown objects to be brought back to test if they could be used as materials to build the machine. The third-generation leader mostly asked to collect useful materials and did not test if useless materials could be used to build the machine. However, this was mainly because the message from Ershi was rarely sent.
The citizens of Void City had changed several generations, and their impression of Ershi had faded. Some had even completely forgotten about it.
Later, when the leader was changed, the third-generation leader did not tell the next leader to collect materials to build the docking machine.
This matter was forgotten just like that, but the information was kept by the third generation leader, and it was found by the current leader. Because it felt that it was very important, it was placed in this record, even though it didn't seem to be of much use now.
After this information, there was nothing else in the record. Lin felt that it was still possible for them to complete this task, but what she was more concerned about was … the message from Ershi was not sent by Atlans.
It was from Ershi himself. (To be continued.)
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