"According to the Void Law, when something major happens in the void, we must face it together. You are asked to do a lot of things, so don't be too slow. Move faster."
This place was … Atlan's Void City.
Now, the Atlans were staring at the screen closest to them with a blank expression, looking at the content on it.
Because they had become emotionless, the screens hadn't played anything for a long time, only some announcements were played occasionally.
Therefore, there was only one channel left on the screen, a channel known as the Void Channel.
The channel didn't just play the announcements from the leader, it would also play some messages from other beings … such as the Mutants.
Now, in the screen, a Mutant that looked like a piece of meat wriggled its body and spoke a series of words.
The general content of the words was … some 'major problem' had happened in the ruins recently. The problem would greatly affect the Mutants and the Atlans. According to the decision of the Void Law, all Atlans and Mutants were required to participate in the incident.
"We reject your request."
At the same time, the Atlan leader's voice sounded. At the same time, its figure appeared on the screen and occupied half of the screen.
"You didn't give any detailed description of the major incident," the Atlan leader said. "You must show us any direct evidence related to the incident, otherwise, we will assume that you are trying to scam our race."
The Mutant said, "I don't have any evidence, but if you don't act quickly, all of you will be finished. Do you understand?"
"Your words won't make us trust you, so we won't do anything," the Atlan leader said. "Unless you can show us more effective evidence, now, please leave this channel. If you continue to occupy this channel, you must pay a sufficient fee."
After that, the Atlan leader's voice disappeared, and the Mutant didn't continue. After this short conversation ended, none of the Atlans cared. They continued to be busy with their own things.
In the entire Void City, the only being that cared about the incident was Erin. Lin's mechanical octopus was the only one.
The mechanical octopus had been staying in the screen, so it could clearly see the development of the incident … it seemed like the Mutants thought something had happened recently.
The Mutants had been broadcasting to the Atlans since a long time ago, asking them to help with something. According to the decision of the Void Law, if something major happened … such as a disaster or something like that … They had to face it together, and they couldn't ask for anything in return.
The xenogeneic said something similar had happened recently, but he didn't explain it in detail. So, Atlan wasn't willing to work for the xenogeneic.
Lin, on the other hand, wanted to know … what was the thing the mutant was talking about? Was it related to … what happened in the gravitational sphere?
Lin was currently continuing her exploration of the gravitational sphere. The mechanical spiders' base was growing larger and larger, but Lin's main concern was the Lightchasers.
One of Lin's mechanical spiders was still inside the Lightchaser's … cave.
The cave could also be considered the 'nest' of the Lightchasers, where they lived their lives.
Just like the name Lin gave them, these creatures indeed lived a life of chasing after light … to be precise. It should be a chase explosion.
Lin has been observing their lives here recently. Lin found that their main source of food is some high-temperature materials.
There would occasionally be explosions on the surface of the gravitational sphere. There were many reasons for those explosions, but the Lightchasers themselves did not care about the reasons — they were only concerned about the … substance that was produced after the explosions.
That substance was unique to the surface of the gravitational sphere, and after the explosions, it would assume a luminous liquid form.
There would be a lot of it in some places, and a little in others. Regardless, there would always be some after the explosions. And the Lightchasers lived by chasing after those substances.
As soon as they sensed an explosion, they would immediately move out and search for the edible high-temperature materials at the explosion site, and quickly leave once they were done. They would return underground to 'digest'.
Because Lin had yet to examine their bodies, she wasn't sure about their digestive process. Still, it was clear that the Lightchasers were completely dependent on the substance produced by the explosions.
Even so, they never seemed to explode on their own. Instead, they would chase after the random explosions outside.
Lin believed that the substance produced by the explosions was enough to keep them active for a long time, and it didn't matter even if they didn't explode for a long time.
As for the reproduction of the Lightchasers … it was quite interesting. They would dig out a small part of their body and 'knead' it into a sphere, before injecting some luminous substance into the sphere. The sphere would then be considered a cub, and the cub would slowly grow through the high-temperature materials brought back by the adult Lightchasers. However, the cub would not leave the cave until it was fully grown.
Lin had also noticed that despite the Lightchasers' high profile actions and the fact that they would immediately appear whenever there was an explosion, no living creature would attack them. Moreover, the Lightchasers did not capture other creatures either, and only ate the substances produced by the explosions. Lin had a feeling that they had always lived such a life.
Aside from that, the Lightchasers did something else as well … and that was to rear a bunch of fungi.
The Lightchasers would collect edible fungus substances from the outside and bring them back to their caves, allowing the fungus to multiply in large numbers.
However, the fungi themselves would not bring any benefits to the Lightchasers. In other words, the Lightchasers were rearing the fungi for other purposes, such as … communicating with mutants.
Even so, Lin had yet to see them do anything of the sort.
Although the Lightchasers would give the mechanical spiders a bunch of fungi, Lin had yet to see them try to give it to their captors or any other living creatures.
They had given the mechanical spiders a bunch of fungi many times, but most of them were repetitive. At present, there were only two types of fungi: one was a partial map of the surface, and the other was a map of the underground 'world'.
Lin wanted to find out how the Lightchasers knew how to make those things, but they had yet to show it. However, Lin believed that they had brought back the Star Bus's organ from the 'underground world' of the gravitational sphere.
It appeared that the reason they had brought the organ back was simply because it contained nutrients suitable for the fungi. There was no other purpose.
That being said, Lin could also tell where they had brought the organ back from.
The Lightchasers would often go to the surface of the gravitational sphere, but they would rarely go underground. Perhaps because there were fewer explosions underground, Lin believed that they would go underground once in every ten times.
As for the map of the underground world, was it the Lightchasers themselves who had 'drawn' it? Or could it be that they only knew how to collect the fungi and did not understand what was inside?
Whatever the case may be, there was a huge problem inside the gravitational sphere …
It could be seen from the map that there seemed to be an abnormality in the gravitational balance inside. The ruins outside were maintained quite stable, but the interior was not the same. In many places inside the gravitational sphere, ruins and debris were floating everywhere, no longer maintaining a stable state.
Lin was thinking … that the mutants' message to Atlan might have something to do with that as well.
The entire region had always maintained a considerable balance. Without that balance, everything here would be like … a storm, falling into chaos.
Perhaps the mutants had received the Lightchasers' message through some other method, which was why they were so nervous and went to Atlan to deal with the matter. Perhaps they were only looking for Atlan in passing, and were mainly preparing to do something … That was why Lin had sent out her forces to try and find the mutants and ask them about it.
However, the mutants had been particularly vigilant of late. They had always liked to wander around the ruins in small groups or as individuals, and catching one of them was relatively easy.
But recently, they had only been moving around the residential area in groups of over a hundred. They were also quite hostile towards the mechanical spiders that approached them, and would immediately attack as soon as they approached.
Compared to their casual attitude of 'forgiving' before, it appeared that the mutants' behavior had changed drastically.
If that was the case, Lin would have to gather a large force to capture them, but she did not think that it was necessary, which was why she decided to observe first.
Either way, she should first take a look beneath the gravitational sphere.
To that end, Lin had even brought more mechanical spiders to the cave where the Lightchasers were. She had also dug out a cave next to their cave so that the spiders could stay together with them. She had also moved the factory and everything else to that location.
The Lightchasers had no objections to that. Their attitude towards the mechanical spiders was similar to how they would treat their cubs: they would protect them, but would not pay too much attention to them.
After establishing a new base near the Lightchasers' cavern, Lin began to prepare for the next step of her exploration.
It was a good spot: they would reach the surface of the gravitational sphere by thirty meters or so, while they would reach its interior by sixty meters or so.
There was a huge hollow inside, but there appeared to be floating debris and debris similar to the ones outside, as well as living creatures that were similar to the ones outside.
It was quite curious. Could it be that the gelatinous creatures had once brought large amounts of debris into the interior of the gravitational sphere?
Even as Lin thought about it, a small group of ten mechanical spiders had begun to advance towards the interior of the gravitational sphere. The spiders avoided any potentially dangerous creatures and dug out a straight path that led directly to the 'surface' of the gravitational sphere.
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