"They, they're going to start building the bridge."
"Building the bridge."
As the mayor said so, Lin saw the miniature machines begin to move.
A black tentacle slowly extended from the surface of the black fog.
The tentacle had a diameter of more than 300 meters. After it extended from the surface of the black fog, it grew rapidly. It should be made up of countless micro-machines, but its appearance did not look like the black fog of micro-machines, which had a distinct granular feel. It was a whole.
The reason why Rin thought the micro-machinery looked like a huge cloud of fog was because the micro-machinery inside had gathered into small droplet-like objects. Although she didn't know why they did that, the tentacle that stretched out was completely integrated, so there wasn't any gap between them.
It grew faster and faster, reaching towards the nearest floating rock. Lin watched as it slowly came into contact with the floating rock, then burrowed into the rock.
It seemed to be slowly breaking down the rock's surface and drilling into the rock.
Then, the tentacle completely penetrated the rock, drilled to the other side of the rock, and continued to extend.
"What's the purpose of building this bridge?" Lin asked the mayor while observing the situation.
"It seems to be expanding the range of the collapse," the mayor said. "It wants to expand itself."
Expand? It doesn't look like it's expanding.
Looking at the tentacle that continued to extend outwards, Lin decided to test it again. With that in mind, Lin had a cannon slowly extend from a distant rock and aimed at the tentacle.
The tentacle was now almost 20 kilometers long, which felt very long. But compared to the black fog, it was quite short, and she didn't know what would happen if she interrupted it.
A moment later, a missile flew out from Lin's rock. It went straight for the tentacle that extended from the black fog.
Boom! As usual, there was no obstruction. Without any defense, the missile directly hit the tentacle. The explosion of light caused the tentacle to explode in the middle, and the tentacle also broke in two.
At the same time, Lin also noticed that the miniature machines' mist began to glow. It seemed that hitting the tentacle was the same as hitting it, it would also trigger a counterattack.
But before the counterattack happened. Lin had already moved the rock she had attacked earlier, allowing it to hide behind the rock.
But this time, it wasn't just one rock that was hiding. Between the black fog and Lin's rock, there were a total of 100 floating rocks.
The miniature machines continued to attack.
When the ray of light sputtered out, it instantly hit the stone at the front of the line.
The light of the explosion turned it into a pile of debris, along with the five stones behind it.
They were only a few dozen meters apart from each other, and their diameters were less than 100 meters. However, the distance between the seventh rock and the sixth rock could be as much as 10 kilometers. Therefore, he wasn't affected at all.
Even if something blocked the target, the micro-machine would still counterattack.
But if it doesn't destroy the target, what does it do
That was it. A few hundred seconds passed.
The rock that Lin had attacked was still there. The micro-machine hiding behind the ninety-three rocks did not attack again, which made Lin feel very strange.
Could it be that the miniaturized machines had no weapons that could change direction? After missing the first time, they stopped attacking. This made Lin feel that the miniaturized machines' counterattack was an automatic defense system.
Every time Lin hit it, it would hit back, a kind of automatic behavior.
While thinking, Lin also looked at the tentacle that Lin had cut off. Right now, its broken part did not continue to grow, but remained as it was when it was cut off.
The same was true for the tentacle that was cut off. It didn't move, nor did it continue to grow. It looked a bit like an arrow that had pierced through a rock.
In response to this strange reaction, Lin decided to move on to the next action.
Boom!
Suddenly. Lin saw the flash of an explosion. The attacking rock that was hiding behind the ninety-three rocks exploded. It was attacked.
But this attack didn't come from the black fog of the miniature machines, but from another angle, which was why it could hit this location.
Which angle did this attack come from? Lin saw it from her perspective that was scattered among the countless floating rocks.
It came from a rock that was about 60,000 kilometers away. In fact, this attack was quite inconspicuous. It didn't have the dazzling flash from before, and before the attack, Lin didn't see any signs of movement from the rock.
Even the object it launched during the attack was almost invisible. It was a cylindrical object about 10 meters in length, and its color was almost impossible to see in this void environment.
Furthermore, most detection methods couldn't detect it. This was an object with a very strong concealment ability, although Lin still saw it. After all, Lin's eyes were everywhere in this place.
It didn't seem to be very powerful, because Lin's attacking rock was only about 60 meters in size. The reason why she used it to attack was because it was small and suitable for hiding behind various large rocks, so when it was destroyed, the explosion didn't spread too far.
The rock that attacked Lin was about a kilometer in size. It looked no different from any other rock, with many small holes on its surface.
These holes also looked very natural, and the attack just now was launched from one of them.
Perhaps the miniaturized machines weren't just gathered at the center of the floating rocks, but were also scattered all over this place. However, the miniaturized machines in the surrounding area weren't as conspicuous as the black fog and were hidden very deeply.
Lin had already thought about this before, so Lin felt that it was unlikely that blowing up the black fog would completely destroy all the miniaturized machines.
If they were hiding among the floating rocks in the surrounding area, then how many of them were there? Lin had checked some of the rocks before, but she didn't find any abnormalities.
However, Lin didn't check all the rocks, so it was natural that some of the places where the miniaturized machines were hidden weren't discovered.
What Lin was more concerned about was why they were so conspicuous in the central area, but so deeply hidden in other places. Did they do this specifically to ambush Lin?
Lin felt that it was unlikely, there must be another reason.
"Is there any new information?" While thinking, Lin asked the mayor.
The mayor's mind was still undergoing a healing process, a small guardian was removing the Fear energy from him.
However, the purpose of this healing process was different from before, because Lin noticed that during the process of the guardian removing the Fear energy, the information in the mayor's mind would change.
As if it was caused by the removal of the Fear energy, new information about the miniaturized machines would appear in the mayor's mind.
"There's nothing new" the mayor replied: "But they seem to be constantly updating themselves, it's hard to describe"
Before the mayor could finish, Lin had already entered the mayor's dream to take a look.
"What are you doing here, I still haven't finished guarding this place"
As soon as she entered, Lin saw a small cluster of light flying back and forth in front of her. Lin ignored it and flew behind it.
"Ah, don't go there, I still haven't finished guarding that place"
When she reached the area behind the guardian that was still filled with Fear energy, Lin sensed that the miniaturized machines were indeed updating themselves.
The main content was more or less like this:
Plan 1: Disagree, remove.
Plan 2: Relatively good, but not perfect, remove.
Plan 3: Excellent, but implementation must be delayed, not removed.
That was pretty much it, the details of the plan weren't shown here.
But the miniaturized machines were definitely planning something. Lin then woke up.
"Continue to pay attention to their information"
After telling the mayor that, Lin turned her attention to the 1-kilometer-long rock in the void of space. Lin still hadn't done anything to it.
This rock was obviously the base of the miniaturized machines, but the fact that it was hidden here made Lin think of a lot of things.
Then, let's test out one of my ideas first.
With that thought in mind, Lin activated another attack rock.
This attack rock was about 10,000 kilometers away from the base of the miniaturized machines, a relatively close distance. Lin had the attack rock aim at it, then a spherical object flew out from the surface of the attack rock.
This spherical object was also one of the things that Lin created with a strong concealment ability.
When it was about 1 kilometer away from the target, the spherical object would emit a large amount of signal to the surroundings.
This signal could spread over a very long range, and it could also …
Boom!
Suddenly, the sphere exploded. The attack came from the base of the base, it seems the miniaturized machines were very concerned about this kind of signal.
But it was useless for it to explode the sphere because the signal had already been sent out.
And this signal could also be received by another kind of creature, and that was …
Sure enough, it was just as Lin thought. From a distance, Lin noticed a very large object appearing in the void of space.
It appeared to be a very soft object, but its size was over 700 meters in diameter, and it was quickly drifting towards the base of the miniaturized machines.
This was just as Lin thought, the reason why the miniaturized machines had to hide outside was because the gel creatures would attack them.
When Lin transmitted the signal of their location, the gel creatures would come to destroy them. To be continued …
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