These things … were all empty. ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ Little ↓ ↓ said.
This was the underground of the Dream Weaver World. In the huge underground cavern, there were many … Core Protector crystals.
According to Lin's inspection, these crystals did not have any dream energy, they were all empty …
However, Lin could detect that they were …
'Bang!' The pompom was suddenly hit by a force, and it was sent flying … hitting the rock wall behind it.
At the same time, Lin saw the creature that hit the pompom? It looked more like a skeletal machine.
This skeletal machine was the smallest one Lin had ever seen. It looked like … a dwarf's skeleton, like the dwarves on the dinosaur continent. It had four limbs and a large 'skull', and there was a big hole in its skull. The attack just now came from that hole.
It used … a weapon similar to an 'air bomb', but it didn't seem very powerful.
The pompom flew up from the rock wall, and the moment it did that, this … skeletal dwarf seemed to be frightened and immediately turned around to run back.
It mainly used its four limbs to run, and it instantly ran into the crystal cavern's exit. The pompom also immediately chased after it.
Lin found that it was running down the underground passage.
The pompom immediately chased after it. The skeletal dwarf noticed that the pompom was following it, and it ran even faster. However, the pompom was closing the distance between them little by little.
However, Lin felt that there was some … movement around her.
'Bang!' Just as Lin was thinking this, the mud around the passage suddenly exploded, and five skeletal dwarves rushed over from different directions. They instantly pounced on the pompom and used sharp objects to attack it.
These sharp objects stretched out from their 'hands', and not only were they sharp, they were also quite … hot.
The sharp objects pierced through the pompom's outer skin and penetrated its internal organs. With the cooperation of the five skeletal dwarves, the pompom with a diameter of more than one meter was instantly torn apart.
These things … were quite powerful. Mainly in terms of strength, they were enough to tear apart the pompom used for exploration. Moreover … they were not like the skeletal machines that could only move in a fixed manner, they had their own … thoughts.
When they tore apart the pompom. The pompoms also released a lot of miniaturized soldiers that stuck to their bodies. Now, these miniaturized soldiers were moving with the skeletons.
The Skeletal Gnomes seemed to be … living in a rather deep place. They kept moving down, and after about 60 meters, the Skeletal Gnomes stopped.
Lin discovered. After reaching this position, the surrounding temperature became higher and higher. It was still very cold above, only slightly better than the void.
But here, the temperature was so high that the ice was about to melt.
It seemed that there was a high-temperature object nearby, causing the temperature in the entire passage to be very high.
Now, the skeletal gnomes had stopped moving, as if they were resting … So, Lin moved first. Lin had the miniaturized troop class slowly drill into the gnome's' skull '.
There seemed to be a complicated mechanical structure inside … It was very different from ordinary skeletal machines.
Normal skeletal machines had a 'dream energy sensor' to receive signals from dream energy, but the skeletal gnomes didn't have such a thing.
Lin's miniaturized soldiers did not need to search every corner of the skull to detect if they had any sensors.
But … the more detailed parts required more research.
Although the Skeletal Gnomes were very aggressive earlier, they didn't react to the miniaturized soldiers moving around in their skulls. So, Lin carefully studied them.
This gnome …
It was indeed very different from other skeletal machines, even though they were made of the same material.
But its internal control core was very different. It was completely different from other skeletal machines. Its control core had a completely different structure. It was unable to receive dream energy, and it was controlled by … the brain.
The main control core of the Skeletal Gnomes was … a spherical object.
This spherical object contained an organ. That was … the brain. The brain of a frost-type creature looked like a liquid, and it was protected by the spherical object.
There were pipes and other things connected to the spherical object. It should be used to provide nutrients for the brain, and the brain's function was to give orders to the body.
It seemed that this Skeletal Gnome had its own thoughts … because it was controlled by the brain. Lin decided to further investigate its brain.
But if she casually drilled in, it might cause the Skeletal Gnome's … death.
Their brain could not be exposed to the air, even if it was just a small hole. So … Lin decided to go in through their nutrient system.
At the same time, Lin checked out their other structures. Inside their skulls, there was a … weapon. This weapon was the 'air bombs' that had been used to attack Lin earlier. Their power was very … weak.
Lin felt that there should be other uses for them.
At the same time, Lin also found their 'eating' part. There was a pipe connected to their brain and the 'mouth' outside their skulls. Through this pipe, she could enter their brain.
Lin's actions were hindered. When Lin's miniaturized soldiers drilled into the pipe leading to the brain, they found … miniaturized machines.
These miniaturized machines immediately attacked Lin's soldiers. However, Lin's soldiers were … worm-shaped soldiers. Thus, they were able to quickly catch the miniaturized machines and devour them.
While studying these machines, Lin found that these machines were almost the same as those on the surface. The only difference was that their mission was … different.
These miniaturized machines' mission was to protect the Skeletal Gnomes, attack any microorganisms that came in, break them down … and then throw them out.
Could it be that these Skeletal Gnomes had something to do with fear energy? They could actually use the miniaturized machines as' guards' to protect them.
They did indeed need some guards. Otherwise, it would be easy for a large number of miscellaneous items to sneak into this place …
The Skeletal Gnomes were still resting in this place. Lin had the pompoms that were exploring the underground gather together. Once again, they went to the cave where they found the crystal.
Lin had them stand by there while the miniaturized soldiers continued to explore the Skeletal Gnomes' brain. They had reached the inside of the brain.
This was … a typical brain of a Frost Stone creature. However, its nutrients were maintained by the surrounding mechanical devices. Additionally, there were also some miniaturized machines inside.
In addition to the task of removing foreign objects, these miniaturized machines also had the task of maintaining the brain. These tasks were very … detailed. Lin felt that if there was even the slightest mistake in these tasks, the miniaturized machines would break down the entire brain.
Within this brain, there were also many memories …
Lin checked the memories and found that the Skeletal Gnomes … were indeed different from real Skeletal Gnomes.
When they were born, they were still … normal Frost Stone creatures. However, after growing for a while, their brains would be taken out and placed inside the Skeletal Gnomes, turning them into the Skeletal Gnomes that Lin saw now.
They were the ones who dug out the underground tunnel here.
Naturally, they were the creatures that Lin was looking for earlier. They were the creatures that expressed their desire to stop the disaster of this world. They also appeared to be the only large creatures that could survive the Fear Energy apart from the Tunnel Eels.
There were many of them and they all lived in one place …
There was a 'city' nearby. Most of the skeletal gnomes lived there, and the few that Lin met were patrolling soldiers or something like that.
After being born, they were trained. Following that, they would often leave the city to patrol outside.
The reason they came out to patrol was because of the recent appearance of … some creatures.
It would appear that after the Fear Energy Extinction event, no other creatures other than the Skeletal Gnomes and the Tunnel Eels had appeared in this world for a long time.
Until … recently.
Recently, some creatures had appeared in the vicinity of their city. These creatures were very … cunning and dangerous. They would attack the Skeletal Gnomes. Sometimes, they would sneak attack the Skeletal Gnomes. Sometimes, they would form a large group to attack the edge of the city.
In order to deal with these creatures, they had to train a large number of troops to deal with these creatures.
Because these creatures were very similar to Lin's Pompom, when they met, they attacked her Pompom …
So that was the case. It seemed that they had a very simple reason. In that case, Lin felt that it was about time to go to their city and take a look.
These patrolling soldiers didn't know much about the history of their species. They only knew a little about it. Most of the time, they were training.
The main purpose of their training was to better control … their own 'bodies'.
In the beginning, when their brains were transferred to the Skeletal Gnomes, they could only perform some basic movements. It required a long period of training to perform difficult movements and use various weapons.
Civilians among them usually wouldn't undergo this kind of training, but soldiers would …
But what Lin was more concerned about was that they had previously said that they wanted to stop the disaster of this world. But now, it seemed that they didn't continue to do so. Instead, they began to live here.
Or were they continuing to do so? It was just that their progress was much slower than before? At the very least, these soldiers didn't know what kind of disaster they were trying to stop.
The disaster they were talking about might be the Fear Energy, or … the process of this world's continuous' evaporation '.
Lin felt that it should be the latter. (To be continued.)
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