Within the frozen void … Lin continued her journey as she had always been.
The Nautilus was floating … above a city.
This city …
It seemed to be a city of Ershi Min known as the 'Twisting Waist'. It was one of the most developed cities in the world.
But … there were no residents in this city right now.
As the Nautilus flew over the city, Lin could 'see' that the streets were empty. Although the vehicles were still there, there were no Ershi Min here.
Compared to where the Ershi Min went, Lin was more concerned about why this city was here.
In fact, this city was an 'avatar' of Ershi, the fake Ershi … After it was swallowed by the pipeline, it, like the other cities and all the other Ershi Min, was split into a large number of pieces and attached to the wall of the pipeline.
After that, the Ershi Min mostly stayed on the wall of the pipeline. After that … Lin didn't know what happened to them.
And now, this city had appeared here. Did this mean that Midgard had thrown them here?
With this thought in mind, Lin stopped above a building. She squeezed her tentacles through the window of the building and reached in … to take a look.
This seemed to be a very ordinary office. But the situation inside was somewhat different.
Because Lin saw that … the video device was turned on. Some content was displayed on a 3D screen.
The content was about a group of Ershi people who seemed to be living a very miserable life. They lived under a building made of stone. They looked very primitive, but they were wearing modern Ershi people's clothes.
They looked miserable, and their bodies were very thin. There were many corpses on the ground, but no one cared.
It seemed that they lived in a very cruel environment. But why was this kind of content being shown here?
While Lin was thinking this, the door of the office opened. Lin noticed that … the moment the door opened, it returned to normal. But when the door closed, it froze again.
At the same time, a … creature appeared behind the door.
This creature … its whole body was burning with raging flames. It looked like the 'Phoenix' Lin had seen before.
But it was much smaller, about the size of a chicken. It also looked like a chicken, so it could be said that … it was a burning chicken.
The creature stayed at the door for a few seconds, then turned around and ran away.
Lin spat out two … cat-shaped mechanical soldiers from the end of the Nautilus' tentacles and quickly chased after the burning creature.
Because the Nautilus had an anti-solidification coating, Lin used the anti-solidification oil on these soldiers.
These small soldiers could be used for a long time. This allowed them to run quickly in the corridor and catch up to the … chicken-shaped Phoenix in front.
It didn't fly. Instead, it relied on its sharp claws to run.
This was rather strange, because none of the 'phoenixes' Lin had seen before had such a claw structure, but this one did.
But Lin was sure that it was the same Phoenix from before, although it was much smaller than the Phoenix...
After running in the corridor for a while, it came to the elevator. There was no door at the entrance of the elevator, and there was no elevator inside.
It jumped directly into the elevator shaft.
There was no gravitational force here, so it could be said that it flew in.
It went all the way down the elevator. Lin thought that it might be trying to escape to the first floor.
But halfway there, it was caught by Lin's cat-shaped soldiers.
The cat-shaped soldiers were bigger than the burning chicken. Lin made them by dismantling the original Ershi Min's armor.
They brought the struggling burning chicken to the top floor and followed the Nautilus' tentacles into the interior.
The interior of the Nautilus did not look like a place where the Ershi Min stayed. Instead, it looked like the interior of a creature.
Lin placed it … inside a sac-like structure. Then, she began to examine and investigate it.
Although the creature's body was burning, it was not wrapped in flames. Instead, it was wrapped in a harmless substance.
… It seemed that many of the creatures Lin encountered here were like this. Although they looked like flames, they were not flames.
However, this burning chicken was not a solidified creature. Instead, it came from the Void.
There was a big difference in the basic structure of the two Void creatures. It was easy to tell them apart.
As for this burning chicken, it also came from the Void. In fact, Lin felt that it was related to Midgard.
It also had 'anti-solidification oil' in its body. That way, it could move around in this environment. Lin also found that it carried … another anti-solidification substance.
It was probably the thing that kept the imaging device lit up.
However, Lin was unable to find out where its thinking part was. This creature … was very strange.
So, Lin tried to communicate with it to see if she could get some information from it.
Lin tried many methods of communication, including voice and bus signals, but it did not respond.
However, Lin found that there was one method that responded. That was … to simulate the 'substance' emitted by the original Phoenix.
When Lin first saw the 'Phoenix creature', it was when Midgard drove into a star.
At that time, many 'Phoenix' fell on Midgard. When they fell and flew, their bodies would release … a lot of fine substances.
Lin was able to simulate and create similar substances. Then, she sprinkled them on the burning chicken.
Lin was only testing it out. However … the burning chicken reacted. Every time Lin sprinkled the substance on it, it would react and release a light.
It did not respond to the substance that was sprinkled. Instead, it changed the light it emitted to respond to Lin.
In short, it was similar to the 'whirlwind creature' that Lin had encountered before.
And so, Lin continued to try to communicate with it. She understood something … for creatures like them, if they took the initiative to communicate, they would sprinkle substances. Passively, they would respond by emitting light.
But even if she understood this method of communication, it was difficult to understand … what it meant.
So, Lin brought the Ershi Min's imaging device over.
Lin found that it did not write words on the device. Instead, it would … display various pictures stored inside to express its meaning.
Then, through these interactions … Lin found that it was indeed a type of …
A creature that originally lived in a star.
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