"Where … are we going?"
They were high up in the sky. A city was slowly flying in the sky.
Most of the residents in the city were holding onto the fact that they had escaped death. Although they were celebrating, they were also somewhat fearful.
This was because the violent wind was blowing through the entire city. Some of the lighter machines might be directly blown away … and then, who knew where they would land.
While most of the residents were hiding in a safe place, only one resident was courageously standing on the east wall of the city.
That was the Brain Spirit.
Beside the Brain Spirit, there was a furball that didn't seem to be a resident here.
They were together on the wall, looking at the sand floating in the sky and the constantly moving ground. The Brain Spirit told the furball many things it was worried about.
For example, where would the city fly to? And … would those black things cause any problems?
Looking down, not only could they see the hazy ground and the sky full of sand, but they could also see many black objects floating in the sky.
These objects came from the black fragmented river at the bottom of the canyon. After the city flew up, the river exploded, causing a large amount of black objects to float into the sky.
Why did it explode? When the city flew up, it caused the walls to crack further, and many rocks fell into the canyon. This was a big reason.
But another reason was the waste released by the city.
Under the city, there was a huge nail-like structure. This nail-like structure had always been deep underground. Apart from its stabilizing function, the waste produced by the city was piled up in the nail-like structure. Most of the nail-like structure was hollow inside.
When the city flew up, this nail-like structure … shrank back.
It could stack up and shrink until it was almost stuck to the city, but the waste inside couldn't shrink together with the nail-like structure, so a large amount of waste was automatically released.
The waste poured into the canyon, and at this moment, darkness erupted.
Fortunately, the city flew into the sky before it was touched by the black fragmented layer, but … it was hard to say what would happen next.
Because these black objects, which were the fragmented layer, didn't fall back into the canyon after the explosion. Instead, they floated around in the air.
According to what he learned from the evaporator, the fragmented layer was … something with unstable behavior. When it was greatly "stimulated," it would fly around and not stay in the same place. It was possible …
Boom! A series of explosions rang out beside Lin and Brainling. They saw a 3-meter-wide black layer of debris smashing into the nearby city wall.
The part of the city wall that was hit instantly turned into powder and drifted away with the wind. The layer of debris suddenly rose dozens of meters and flew into the distance.
This thing … its behavior was really very unstable. Currently, he couldn't figure out why it was moving like this. Was there something attracting or controlling it? Or was it purely moving at random?
Most importantly, they would be able to catch up to the city.
Lin convinced the residents here that the city could fly, and allowed the city to fly, but where it flew, and how fast it flew … these details appeared to be out of her control.
If more fragmented layers were to fly here ….
Boom!
While Lin was thinking that, a loud noise came from afar. Lin saw that it seemed like the cluster of debris from earlier had smashed through the wall of a pipe.
"They're moving this way!" The brain spirit saw it too, but it quickly turned its attention … outside the city walls.
This was because more fragmented layers could be seen flying toward them from below. These things came in all kinds of shapes. Most of them were spherical, while others were square, whirlpools, long sticks, and so on.
Although many of them were flying in other directions, a considerable number of them were moving towards the city. This gave Lin a feeling that the city was attracting these fragments.
"We have to make this city … fly higher!" the brain spirit said. "If this continues, we'll be hit by those things!"
"We can't control this city now."
Previously, Lin had tried to control the movement of the city by implanting the residents' imaginations … but there was no response.
Lin thought that perhaps the city's intelligence was deteriorating. In fact, it could only respond to the residents' thoughts by flying.
As for what would happen after flying, there was no way to control it.
"This … won't do. We have to find a way to control it!" After saying this, the brain spirit quickly left the city wall.
It left by calling for a … helicopter to take it away, as if it wanted to return to the control room.
Lin thought that the brain spirit was quite strange. At first, Lin thought that it was protecting the city so that it could control it completely.
But now, Lin thought that … the brain spirit's protection of the city seemed to be mixed with some 'emotions.' This was indeed very special for a brain spirit.
Boom! The trembling sounded again. The fragmented layers collided again in the distance.
Lin looked at the place where they collided and then outside the city walls. More fragmented layers were flying over … but there weren't many of them overall.
At least, it was much less than what the Evaporator had predicted. These fragmented layers weren't enough to turn Midgard's Tomb into a dangerous zone filled with fragmented layers.
All in all, they'd stopped the Evaporator's plan, but for the city, it was still far from safe.
Boom! Lin suddenly felt the city shake again, but this time, it wasn't caused by the fragmented layers. Instead, it was …
The city's flight pattern suddenly changed.
The city had been moving westward, but now … it was rising vertically. This caused Lin to see that the ground below was getting farther and farther away.
What was going on? Was there a problem with the AI? Actually, the AI had automatically decided where to fly, and it didn't follow the residents' thoughts.
Now, it seemed to have suddenly changed to flying upwards …
Even though it was far away from the ground, it would get closer and closer to another surface.
Looking up, one could see a blackened world mixed with orange. That was … a melted zone.
"Success!" At that moment, Lin suddenly heard the brain spirit's voice. It had given the ball a communicator, saying that it could contact it at any time.
"I can make it move upwards and avoid those things!" The brain spirit seemed … very happy. Did it do this?
"Stop ascending" Lin said: "You might run into … another world" (To be continued)
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