It came from a faraway place.
Its past life and what the place was like … All of these were mysteries because it was said that almost no creature here had ever been to its hometown.
It was only after it came to this place that it became known to many creatures and was given the name 'Fear'.
However, very few creatures knew why Fear had come here. It had not come here willingly, but had been brought here by … a very special creature.
This special creature lived in a world that seemed to be covered by an ocean. Fear did not know much about this group of creatures.
But it knew that this group of creatures was doing … research.
This group of creatures believed that in this void, any activity of anything was caused by another thing.
For example, if a stone moved, it was because a creature was pushing it, and the reason the creature pushed the stone was because its brain issued a command.
Everything moved because of the influence of another thing. This group of creatures believed so.
Then, they made a decision … They wanted to be the influencers of everything. Simply put, they wanted to command everything in this void.
They wanted everything to change, grow, and move according to their will, creating what they thought was … the most perfect world.
Although it seemed simple, it was an unattainable goal. But they had been researching in this direction and kept doing all kinds of research.
This research process was very long, and they never gave up on the idea.
For them. Creatures were much more interesting than other food. So they set their first target on creatures. They used many methods to modify all kinds of creatures in the Void, and kept all records of the modifications in their world covered by the ocean.
At some point, they used some method to find a faraway place.
This group of creatures had been to many places, and they were surprised when they found this place because they found that they could not reach this place.
This place was called the Unforeseeable Land.
Although it had this name, this group of creatures still used various methods to … spy on that place. And to observe all kinds of things there. It was at this time that they found … Fear.
At this time, fear was not called fear. It did not have a name. At first, this group of creatures called it 'energy for spreading'.
It was better to use fear as a name.
The fear of the Unforeseeable Land … The creatures thought that fear could provide useful help, so this group of creatures brought fear to this void.
After fear came, this group of creatures poured a lot of their own … will, or their own thoughts, into the fear and modified it.
After everything was dealt with, the group of creatures released their fear. Their original purpose was to let fear affect the creatures around them.
According to this group of creatures' plan, some other creatures that were touched by fear would be affected. Then they would be modified into the form they expected.
But this kind of thing … did not happen.
After fear left the world covered by the ocean and was called the water ball, it lost contact with the water ball. It did not do what the water ball expected it to do.
After that, fear no longer had any contact with the water ball. Instead, it kept floating in the void … moving around.
This was a very long period of time. It was only at this time that it slowly gained the name of fear.
Because most of the creatures that came into contact with it would feel a strong sense of fear and try to escape or do something crazy.
During this period, more and more creatures noticed fear. Some tried to ignore its influence and get close to it to study it. Some tried to use it as a weapon.
Fear did not care about these creatures. It was not bound and continued to drift around in the void.
And the drifting of fear also led to the … destruction of many creatures. Its influence was too strong. Some creatures, or some civilizations, died after coming into contact with fear.
Therefore, many creatures wanted to destroy fear. It was a huge threat to many creatures in the void.
And fear did not care that it was a threat. Or rather, it never had this kind of … thought about what it was. In fact, fear almost never showed any 'thinking'. It would not think about anything. Even when it saw so many things in the void, it would not have any special reaction.
It would only think about a few things. One of them was … when it was maintaining its' life '.
That was because fear was not eternal. It would be … consumed little by little, just like how an object would be worn down when it was moving.
Fear found something similar to itself in the void. It would devour these things to replenish itself.
Although there wasn't much of a problem in maintaining its' life ', Fear didn't intend to stay in the Void because there was something else that would cause it to have thoughts.
This was something that fear had been looking forward to … to return to the Unforeseen Land.
It had been working hard with this goal in mind. But it did not return to the water ball. Although it knew that it came from the water ball, because it was … afraid of the water ball.
This was an interesting phenomenon. A thing that could make countless creatures afraid … also had a target of fear. It was just that the fear towards the water ball … was not clear about the reason.
It did not delve into this question. In fact, other than maintaining its life and returning, it would not delve into anything else.
Fear had been floating around, looking for any possible way to return. In the long journey, it occasionally learned from some creatures … about the collapse.
The collapse was transmitted from the Unforeseen Land to here. Fear wanted to use this' phenomenon 'of the collapse to return to the Unforeseen Land. Because of this, fear began to have more complicated thoughts.
It thought of some ways to trigger the collapse, but it was difficult to achieve …
Fear could not do anything by itself. It could not directly affect many things in the void. So … it needed the help of some creatures to realize its plan.
It found such a … 'creature'.
They were very small things. To be precise, they were not normal creatures. They were … 'machines'. Of course, fear would not classify them.
These small machines had killed their creators. That was mainly because they had their own 'consciousness'. This' consciousness' came from a type of energy.
A type of energy that was very similar to fear … Fear used to devour this energy to replenish itself.
But now, it did not devour the energy of these machines because this energy was given to the machine's consciousness.
The energy of fear slowly infected the energy of these machines and controlled them. The machines' consciousness was still there, and their thoughts began to align with fear … which was to let fear return to the Unforeseen Land.
This group of micro-machines seemed to accept this idea as a matter of course, and did not think that something was controlling them.
Then, the return of fear continued.
Before the micro-machines were completely controlled by fear, they had already arrived at a place. This place was the site of the last collapse. Now, the collapsed Star Bus had turned into countless floating rocks.
But there was still something hidden here.
Something that fear could use to trigger the collapse and return.
However, the micro-machines could not move freely here because they had reached an agreement with … a creature here, the gel creature.
This agreement stated that the micro-machines could only move in a fixed place and could not leave this range. Leaving would be a violation of the agreement and would be attacked.
The miniaturized machines had always been doing one thing, which was to bring all kinds of creatures from the void to the floating rocks. This was what they were doing on the surface, but they were also secretly doing many things, which was to secretly transform many floating rocks into bases.
There were two types of bases: one was an active base, and the other was an inactive base. The inactive base was in a standby state and would not attract any attention, but could be activated at a critical moment.
The micro-machines had been creating these bases with the intention of using them to wage war against the gel creatures at some point in time.
And after fear took control of the micro-machines, it allowed them to continue doing these things … it needed the army of micro-machines to help it occupy this place, so that it could trigger the collapse.
Then, fear also realized that the creatures with different personalities gathered by the micro-machines were somewhat … special.
Fear believed that it could use them as … carriers to head to the Unforeseen Land.
After preparing various things, fear finally began to move in earnest, because a new collapse was about to unfold, and it would happen … in the connected world.
This new collapse would not allow fear to return to the Unforeseen Land, because the Star Bus there was not collapsing together, but one after the other.
Still, fear had a way.
It had the micro-machines head to various parts of the Void and began to lock onto the position of many Star Buses, while also locking onto the connected world … and the last Star Bus that collapsed.
Fear could 'infect' its collapse to the Star Bus elsewhere in the Void, and then trigger a large-scale collapse, so that it could return to the Unforeseen Land. (To be continued.)
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