"… …"
"… Seems like we've arrived at a strange place."
Everything around her …
Was in a state of complete darkness.
However, this place … was also illuminated. In front of Lin's eyes was a pulsating mass of light.
It was a square object that looked like a rock, one meter in length, width, and height, and there was a pulsating flame on top of the square object.
It looked like a flame, but it was white and didn't have any heat.
It illuminated an area with a radius of about 10 meters, which was also the area that Lin could currently see.
Outside the 10-meter radius of the light was pure darkness. There was no way to see, and no way to … use any of the fur ball's sensory organs to sense the illusion outside.
It was as if the darkness outside was an area with nothing at all, like the edge of the Dream World.
But in reality, the darkness could be entered, because … Lin could see that the leader 'Norm' was currently at the edge of the light.
Its lower body was bathed in light, while its upper body was in darkness.
And so, Lin floated to its side and used her fur to probe its skin, finding that it was … still alive.
And it wasn't injured, which meant that the explosion earlier didn't hurt it.
However, its cells were in a strange state, all of them were operating very … slowly.
Whether it was blood flow, organ activity, or the symbiotic bacteria on its body … everything had slowed down.
Lin felt that this was probably the case … Thinking so, Lin pushed it into the darkness.
Lin found that, as expected, the closer its body was to the darkness, the slower its body's operation became.
But when it was pulled into the light, its body's operation began to return to normal … After Lin dragged it into the light, it woke up.
"This place … we're in?" After waking up, Nono looked around and soon noticed the square with the 'flame' burning in front of him.
Norm said: "So that's why, it's because of this …"
"Where is this place?" Lin asked.
"This place is the entrance to the frozen void" Norm stood up: "We were touched by the crack at the time, so we came to this place"
"Us objects in the void can't … move here, but …"
Saying so, Norm looked at the square in the middle: "Because it happened to be where we entered, we can … move here"
"What is this?" Lin also examined the cube a little, it seemed that everything within its illumination range was normal.
"I call it the Furnace Flame" Domino explained: "It's a type of creature that lives around the entrance to the frozen void"
"The 'entrances' refer to the places where it is easiest to come into contact with our void," Nuo said. "At the entrances … the figures of these creatures can often be seen."
"It can make the surrounding void … return to its normal state." "In truth, most of the creatures that can freeze the void have this ability, but there are also a few that don't."
"In the 'entrance' area, there are a lot of creatures without the ability to move freely," said Noel. "We count as one of them."
"What do you plan to do next?" Lin asked.
"There's nothing we can do. Let's just wait here," Nuo said. "Perhaps something special will happen."
After that, it sat down on the ground and stared at the 'flame' that was dancing in the middle, as if it was … in a daze.
But according to what it said, it seemed that it couldn't do anything other than stare blankly.
Originally, it wanted to use the bus to help them enter the frozen void, but now that it had accidentally entered and couldn't leave the illumination range, it meant that … there was nothing it could do.
Lin, on the other hand, did some tests in the following time.
The main test was to test the … freezing of this place. Just as Lin already knew, as long as one entered the darkness, all bodily movements would slowly slow down.
Interestingly enough, the slowing down of one's movements wouldn't cause them to feel cold or anything like that. To be precise … they wouldn't feel anything at all.
In fact, their thoughts wouldn't even be able to sense that they had slowed down.
But there were still some ways to know that they had slowed down, because they could see that the objects within the light had sped up.
However, not being able to sense slowing down was based on a creature's own nervous system. For example, Lin's own fur ball … wouldn't be able to sense it, but Lin's' consciousness' could clearly sense that the fur ball had slowed down.
This was a very interesting place.
Then, Lin also noticed that while entering the darkness would cause one's entire body to slow down, the objects that came into contact with the body wouldn't. For example, when Lin pulled Nuo out earlier, only the outer layer of his skin wouldn't be affected.
But if Lin put cells into Nuo's blood vessels to test, the cells that went in would slow down as well.
It seemed that there was a very strange … judgment effect.
Then, Lin tested the … creature in the middle that Nuo called 'Furnace'.
According to Nuo, most void creatures wouldn't be affected by freezing. Some of them relied on their own body's composition, while some of them wouldn't be frozen here.
Some of them relied on energy or other strange things, and even Ershi didn't fully understand them.
The 'Furnace' was mainly able to emit an effect called 'anti-freezing field'.
This allowed it to not be frozen within a certain range.
The anti-freezing field was emitted from the cube, and as for the dancing flames on it … it was a kind of luminous substance that mimicked the effect of burning flames.
As for the purpose of doing this, it seemed to be to show how large the range of his freezing field was.
Some of the solidified creatures … including Midgard, had this anti-freezing field ability. Nuo believed that a considerable number of creatures that couldn't resist freezing relied on this ability to survive.
Lin believed that if that was the case, she could take one of the Furnace apart to study how the anti-freezing field was formed. Then, she could use it on herself.
But attacking it now might cause … the anti-freezing field to shut down, causing her to be frozen.
To study it, she had to wait … for the second Furnace to appear.
As long as the two Furnace overlapped, it wouldn't be a problem to take one apart … Nuo indicated that she could wait for this opportunity to take a look.
There were many Furnace at the entrance, so it was possible for two to run into each other.
But before that happened, she couldn't do anything but stare blankly.
Or … see if other solidified creatures appeared.
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