In the Void.
It was 7.7 billion kilometers away from the Midgard Pipeline.
This place was an ethereal void, and there was almost no dust or debris in this place. However, this was something that happened a second ago.
The next second, there was a flash of light in this cold space. A rusty metal-like object appeared here.
Then, a second piece, a third piece, and more and more pieces of metal appeared in the Void.
They didn't float forward. Instead, they stayed where they were. As more and more pieces of metal appeared, they all piled up together.
Soon, they formed a floating metal mountain in the Void. And it grew bigger and bigger.
A hundred seconds after the first piece of metal appeared, the 'mountain' had grown to nearly ten kilometers in size. And it was still growing.
However, they didn't stay like this for long. After a thousand seconds, the metal mountain scattered.
All the scattered pieces of metal moved quickly and combined with the other pieces of metal around them.
All the pieces of metal had different shapes. Therefore, they could be combined with other pieces of metal to form a bigger piece of metal. And then … they continued to combine.
Finally, all the pieces of metal came together to form a circular … huge metal platform.
At the edge of the metal platform, countless pieces of metal were added to it. This made the circular platform bigger and bigger. And then …
It scattered.
The rusty pieces of metal that made up the platform all separated at this moment. They returned to their scattered state and floated in the Void. And after a few seconds, they began to combine again. This time, it wasn't a platform but a cylindrical object.
"… What are they doing?"
Thirty thousand kilometers away from the rusty pieces of metal, a ball of fluff was watching the situation.
In fact, the moment the pieces of metal appeared, the ball of fluff had been watching this place. This could be said to be the location closest to Midgard.
They didn't seem to want to go any further. Instead, they began to act here and began to perform this strange … combination.
To be precise, they were combining and dispersing. They were repeating this process over and over again.
Now, Lin had seen them forming a huge cylindrical shape. Then, they began to disperse and then continued to combine into something else.
Because of the increasing number of pieces of metal, they would be bigger each time they combined.
Lin didn't know if they would have a 'final form' or if they would continue to combine. She wasn't sure if she should do something about these pieces of metal.
They were Transpirators, but they weren't as' advanced 'as the Transpirator Lin encountered before.
Simply put, their evolution level wasn't that high.
Most of these pieces of metal were about ten meters in size. But the difference between them wasn't only in size, but also in evolution level.
In the research lab, Maya and the others found clues about the Transpirators' evolution. These pieces of metal were the 'intermediate' stage 'of the Transpirators' evolution process.
The current Transpirators that were tens of kilometers in size were the newest Transpirator species, and this small intermediate species was very different from the newest ones.
. In this stage, they were a type of creatures..
Although they could move independently, they could also combine to form some kind of huge structure to accomplish things that couldn't be done alone.
Although each of them was small, with such a large number of them combined, they could form something much bigger than the newest Transpirators.
Lin didn't know why the Transpirators had such a strange evolution stage. There wasn't much research on their evolution. This information was found in the research lab, and the records weren't very detailed.
However, it seemed that in every evolution stage, there was one ability that was always present, and that was decomposition and recombination. This ability … seemed to have never been forgotten.
So … what should she do now?
Lin looked at the pieces of metal that were recombining and decomposing. She decided to investigate them first. With that in mind, the ball of fur moved towards the pieces of metal.
As it moved, the ball of fur accelerated faster and faster. The distance of thirty thousand kilometers became shorter and shorter. The ball of fur approached the recombined pieces of metal.
This ball of fur was relatively large, with a diameter of fifty meters. But now, it was facing a pile of cube-shaped objects that were hundreds of kilometers in size.
Just as Lin thought, the pieces of metal that were recombined into this shape began to disperse not long after.
And at that moment … they seemed to have noticed the ball of fur.
The ball of fur also noticed it. It had noticed it a long time ago … The pieces of metal were constantly emitting some 'interference energy'.
They turned a large area around them into an area where teleportation was impossible. To be precise, it was an area where only they could teleport.
The pieces of metal were still being teleported over, but the ball of fur could no longer teleport after entering this area. Lin didn't want to teleport at first, she just wanted to ram her way through.
When the ball of fur was only ten kilometers away from the nearest piece of metal, with a 'pop', the ball of fur instantly exploded into powder.
Of course, there was no sound.
When the ball of fur exploded, Lin could feel that this was a very … old-fashioned trick. The metal pieces of the Transpirators instantly created countless' forces' around the ball of fur, tearing it apart.
But this wasn't enough to completely tear the ball of fur apart. When the ball of fur exploded, it would scatter into smaller balls of fur. Almost all of Lin's soldiers were like this.
And these little balls of fur didn't seem to be noticed. They quickly approached the cube-shaped objects.
The cube-shaped objects were still fluttering about. They had almost completely dispersed and were beginning to recombine into new shapes.
Lin had these tiny cell-like balls of fur attach themselves to some of the cube-shaped objects. Then, she performed some tests on them and recombined them together.
During this process, Lin discovered a few things.
Sure enough, this combination of cube-shaped objects had a certain purpose. It should be some sort of 'test'.
They were constantly testing their 'suitable' form. If they found a suitable form, they would no longer change and decide to … attack.
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