"According to the Void Law, when something major happens in the Void, we must face it together. You have been asked to do a lot of things, so don't be too slow. Move faster."
This was Atlan's Void City.
Now, the Atlans were staring at the screen closest to them without any expression, watching the content on it.
Because they had become emotionless, these screens had not played anything for a long time, only some announcements were played occasionally.
Therefore, only one channel was left on these screens, a channel called the Void Channel.
This channel did not only play the announcements from the leader, but also some messages from other creatures, such as the Mutants.
Now, in the screen, a Mutant that looked like a piece of meat was wriggling its body and saying a series of words.
The general content of the words was that some major problem had happened in the ruins recently, and this 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 this incident.
"We reject your request."
At this moment, the Atlan leader's voice was heard. At the same time, its figure appeared on the screen and occupied half of the screen.
"You didn't give any detailed description of this major incident," the Atlan leader said. Atlan said, "You have to show us any direct evidence about the incident, or we can assume that you are trying to scam our species."
The Mutant said, "I don't have any evidence, but if you don't act quickly, you will all be done for. Do you understand?"
"Your words can't make us trust you at all, so we will not 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 did not continue speaking. After this short conversation ended, none of the Atlans cared. They continued to do their own things.
In the entire Void City, the only creature that cared about this was Lin Ling. Only Lin's mechanical octopus.
The mechanical octopus had been staying here, so it could clearly see the development of this 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 there was any major incident, such as a disaster or something. 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 the xenogeneic was talking about. Did it have anything to do with what happened on 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.
This cavern could also be considered the lair of the Lightchasers, where they lived their lives.
Just like the name Lin gave them, these creatures did indeed live a life of chasing after the light, to be exact. 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 various 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.
This material was unique to the surface of the gravitational sphere. After the explosion, this material would take on a luminous liquid form.
Some places had a lot of it, while others had very little. Regardless, some would always be produced after the explosion. And the Lightchasers lived by chasing after these substances.
As soon as they sensed an explosion, they would immediately move out and search for edible high-temperature materials at the explosion site, quickly leaving after collecting them. They would return underground to digest.
Since Lin had yet to examine their bodies, she wasn't sure about their digestive process. However, it was clear that the Lightchasers were completely dependent on the substance produced by the explosions.
Even so, they seemed to never self-detonate, and would instead 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 there were no explosions for a long time.
Furthermore, the Lightchasers' reproduction method was quite interesting. They would dig out a small part of their body, mold it into a sphere, and inject some luminous substance into the sphere. The sphere would then become 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.
Furthermore, Lin also noticed that although the Lightchasers were very conspicuous and would immediately appear whenever there was an explosion, no living creature would attack them. Furthermore, the Lightchasers didn't capture other living creatures either, and only ate the substances produced by the explosions. Lin believed that was how they had always lived.
Aside from that, the Lightchasers also did something else, and that was to raise a bunch of fungi.
The Lightchasers would collect edible substances from the outside world, then bring them back to the cave and accumulate them there, allowing the fungi to multiply in large numbers.
However, the fungi themselves didn't bring any benefits to the Lightchasers, which meant that the Lightchasers were raising the fungi for other purposes, such as to communicate with mutants.
However, Lin had yet to see them do anything like that.
Although they would give the mechanical spiders a bunch of fungi, Lin had never seen them try to give them to their captors or other living creatures.
They had given the mechanical spiders a bunch of fungi many times, but most of them were repetitive. Currently, 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 these things, but they hadn't shown anything so far. However, Lin believed that they had brought back the Star Bus's organ from the underground world of the gravitational sphere.
It seemed that the reason they had brought back the organ was simply because it contained nutrients suitable for the fungi, and there was no other purpose.
However, Lin was also able to tell from this where they had brought the organ back.
The Lightchasers often went to the surface of the gravitational sphere, but they rarely went underground. It seemed that this was because there weren't many explosions underground, and Lin believed that they would go underground about once every ten times.
So, was this map of the underground world drawn by the Lightchasers themselves, or did they only know how to collect the fungi and not understand what it meant?
Regardless, there was something very wrong with the interior of 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 thought that what the mutants wanted to say to Atlan might be related to this.
The entire area had always maintained a certain balance, and without it, everything here would fall into chaos like a storm.
Perhaps the mutants had received the message from the Lightchasers through some other method, and that was why they were so nervous and went to find Atlan to deal with this matter. Perhaps they were only going to find Atlan out of convenience, and were mainly preparing to do something. That was why Lin sent out her troops to ask the mutants about it.
However, the mutants had been particularly vigilant lately. They had always liked to wander around the ruins in small groups or as individuals, and it was relatively easy to capture one of them.
But recently, they had only been moving around the residential area in groups of over a hundred, and they were quite hostile towards the mechanical spiders, attacking them as soon as they approached.
Compared to their casual attitude before, it seemed that the mutants' behavior had changed greatly.
If that was the case, Lin would have to gather a large force to capture them, but Lin didn't think that was necessary, so she decided to observe first.
Either way, she should first take a look under 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 didn't have any objections to that, and they treated the mechanical spiders like how they would treat their young: they would protect them, but would not pay too much attention to them.
After Lin had built a new base near the Lightchasers' cave, she began to prepare for the next step of her exploration.
It was a good spot: they could reach the surface of the gravitational sphere by thirty meters or so, while they could reach its interior by sixty meters or so.
The interior was a huge hollow, but there seemed to be floating debris similar to the ones outside, as well as creatures that lived there.
That 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 into 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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