On the surface … … they had detected something.
Now, Lin was paying attention to the situation underground … …
Earlier, some of Lin's fluff had flown past the layers of protection of the Order's creatures and micro-machines and arrived at the location of the hill they were protecting.
The reason for coming here was mainly because of the synthetic pom-poms that Lin had used earlier.
As the synthetic pom-poms ran in the protective circle they formed, Lin was also paying attention to the actions of the Order's creatures. They were constantly attacking the synthetic pom-poms … … and these attacks allowed Lin to determine their detection abilities.
Every part of the synthetic pom-poms' body had different 'properties'. To put it simply, one part was' invisible 'and the other part was' visible '.
Lin had studied the Order's creatures before, so she knew their perception ability and could create things that were invisible before them.
However, Lin was not sure if the perception ability of the fully equipped Order's creatures here would be different, so she had to use this method to test it.
As the pom-poms ran, Lin noticed that the Order's creatures would first attack the visible part, and their reaction to the invisible part was slow.
When there were too many micro-machines covering the invisible part, they would attack the invisible part.
At this time, Lin was completely certain … … the detection ability of these Order's creatures was a little stronger than those she had seen before.
However, they were still very slow to detect invisible things. Lin only needed to improve slightly and she could completely hide in front of them.
Then, these fluffy feathers could fly to the small hill they were protecting and slowly crawl up the slope of the small hill.
These fluffs also avoided the detection of the micro-machines. In fact, the detection ability of the micro-machines was easier to analyze and understand. After all, they were not controlled by fear energy. They were just a group of machines that had been set up.
However, if they touched them, they would still attack, so now they had to move forward carefully.
Because on the hillside. It was also densely packed with micro-machines.
The fluffs twisted their bodies and slowly moved among the micro-machines like worms. They were looking for a target.
A path that could be drilled into the hill … …
This hill looked like it was mainly made up of square stones stuck together. These stones were all of different sizes, and their placement did not seem to have any pattern, so the whole hill looked very strange.
Some of Lin's fluffs reached between the stones, found some gaps, and drilled into them.
But after drilling for a while, most of the hairs found that the gap did not extend all the way to the inside, except for one strand of hair.
It found a small hole in a stone.
This small hole could be used to allow something inside … for example, a micro-machine to come out. Soon, the other fluff also found similar holes leading to the inside.
There were some micro-machines in the small hole, but there weren't so many that it was completely blocked, so it was still able to enter … After entering this small hole and crawling in for about a meter, the furry hair that was the fastest saw … the internal space.
The inner space … seemed to be a corridor.
The inner wall of the corridor was rather flat, and it was over three meters tall. When Lin entered … she happened to see a creature of the Order passing through the corridor.
This creature of the Order … was of a normal size. It was only three meters tall, while the ones outside were more than five meters tall.
It didn't have any equipment on it, and most importantly … it didn't have any Fear Energy.
It seemed to be an untainted creature of the Order. Could it be that the ones outside grew bigger because of the influence of fear energy?
Thinking of this, Lin let Fluffy jump onto the body of this Order creature, sticking to its body to observe its movements.
It didn't notice the fluffy hair. If it was the kind that was controlled by fear energy, it would have noticed. After all, it had already touched it.
But this … its perception seemed to be weaker.
Lin watched as it moved through the corridor. It made two turns, and after walking for tens of meters, it arrived at a spacious room.
There were ten creatures of the Order gathered in this room. Including Lin's, there were eleven of them. They formed a circle as if they were doing something.
Lin thought that there was something special in this small mountain. She didn't expect there to be so many creatures of the Order that didn't have fear.
The creature of the Order that Lin stuck to also joined their group. The eleven of them formed a circle together. They all seemed to be staring at the thing in the center of the circle.
"We shouldn't have agreed to this."
Lin noticed that one of the creatures of the Order moved. It raised the tentacles on its body. It poked a few of its kind next to it a few times.
This was their usual way of communicating. Generally, they would use communication devices to send messages over long distances. However, when they met each other, they communicated by touching each other.
From their information, Lin also understood how they communicated, and it could be translated into a meaning that Lin was more familiar with …
"But we can only do this." The two creatures of the Order began to communicate. They obviously had different opinions. These creatures were very individualistic.
Although in the historical description, the creatures of the Order that Lin saw and the ones with individualistic personalities … were not the same.
"You must accept it. It can become one with it and become stronger." A third creature of the Order joined the discussion.
"But do we also have to become like that? No, we won't become like that … We can still maintain our original appearance, as long as we do … "
They seemed to be hesitating about something. Lin still didn't know what they were talking about, although Lin thought it should be related to fear energy.
Lin planned to let the fluffy hair continue to observe their communication here. At the same time, she was also paying attention to the other fluffy hair.
There were also many fluffy hair that came to the interior of the small mountain. After entering, they all saw … almost identical corridors for the first time.
It was just that the positions were different. Then, these fluffy hair randomly crawled along the corridors in a direction.
There were almost no micro-machines in the corridors, only a few sporadic ones. Although there were layers of defenses outside, there were no special defenses here.
One fluffy hair had found a room, and the scene in this room seemed to be quite interesting. There were many creatures of the Order neatly arranged in this room.
They were in groups of five, and there were a total of ten rows. These creatures of the Order were all motionless, as if they were frozen.
Although they were not afraid, there was something that contained fear.
This thing was moving on the ground.
It looked like … a shark with three pairs of limbs. It was one meter long and only about thirty centimeters tall. It was quite small compared to these creatures of the Order.
However, it was much bigger than Lin's fluffy hair.
This shark-like creature was the one that attacked the maze stone. In the records of the maze stone, there were many of them, but only one was seen here.
This one was full of fear energy. It was obviously completely 'contaminated'. Moreover, it seemed to be 'contaminating' the surrounding creatures of the Order.
It now crawled under the feet of a clerical creature and touched the creature with its head.
Then, Lin could feel the fear energy being transmitted from this creature to the Order's creature.
The fear energy slowly transferred to the brain of the Order's creature. Then, the creature ended the contact, turned around, and crawled out of the room.
It seemed that it only infected one creature at a time.
As for the infected Order's creature, it was no longer motionless. The tentacles on its body began to move, and its body was constantly trembling.
It seemed that it was undergoing some kind of change … After a while, Lin noticed that the entire body of the Order's creature began to slowly expand and become bigger.
Could it be … it will become like the Order's creatures outside?
In order to confirm this idea, Lin had been observing here …
The scene in front of her was the same as what Lin thought. In the next few thousand seconds, the Order's creature continued to grow. As if something was blowing in its body, its entire body continued to expand.
However, the expansion was quite … uniform. There was no place that was too big.
The armor covering its legs also shattered when it began to expand, revealing the soft structure inside. This way, its legs could also expand with its body.
In the end, this Order's creature had the same size as the one outside … It was more than five meters tall, and this size almost squeezed its frozen companions on both sides.
It seemed that the fear energy had activated something in its body, causing it to grow rapidly in a short period of time.
This also made it unable to leave this place because neither the entrance of the room nor the passage outside were designed for creatures of this size.
However, it also had its own way out. The fully grown Order's creature walked to the center of the room. Then, Lin saw the ground sink in. This seemed to be a structure similar to an 'elevator'. It rode the downward ground and moved deeper into the room.
Lin did not let Fluffy follow. She felt that it was likely to go outside and be with the Order's creatures outside the hill.
This place should be some kind of factory. The fear energy here transformed the Order's creatures into huge individuals.
However, there were many normal Order's creatures here. They did not want to become like this, so they were now hesitating. They were hesitating whether to do something.
While watching the Order's creature expand, Lin also learned a lot from the eleven chatting Order's creatures.
They were deciding whether to 'betray' their 'faith'. (To be continued.)
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