From their appearance, these creatures seemed to be very suitable for stars.
With a burning body and shining wings, nothing looked more like a creature that jumped out of a star than them.
… But in fact, they couldn't directly touch the star's environment.
These creatures had always been called 'Phoenix.' If they were directly thrown into a star, they would die in a very short time, just like cellular creatures.
They might be able to last longer than cellular creatures.
However, they did live in a star.
It told Lin … some of their history.
From the moment they were born, what they saw was a world that was constantly surging with flames … But these flames didn't hurt them at all because a 'transparent wall' separated them.
These 'Phoenix' species lived in this environment.
Simply put, they were inside a 'protective layer.' A wonderful … wall protected them from being hurt by the high temperature and various other factors in the star.
And this wall would occasionally seep out some ash-like substance, which they relied on to grow and thrive.
They never left the wall that protected them, and never knew where they lived … They just stayed like this, absorbing nutrients, and continued to stay, repeating this life.
Although they lived like plants, these 'phoenixes' still had very good mobility and all sorts of senses … they also had some 'feelings' and could communicate with each other.
Of course, they never thought about why.
Their natural way of communication was to throw dust and light to each other to express their meaning.
There was a certain 'class system' among the Phoenix. Some of the more senior individuals were 'leaders.' Leaders … could sprinkle a kind of 'command dust' to command other Phoenix to do things.
However, they never had a chance to use this ability. After all … Phoenix didn't fight, didn't reproduce, and didn't have any special ideas. They spent a long time … waiting.
Until a certain time … a huge pipe suddenly entered the interior of the star. Some phoenixes landed on this pipe out of curiosity.
Then the pipe left the star. After a long time, the pipe came back, and it also brought back some Phoenix that had followed it to the outside world.
When these Phoenix returned, they excitedly told their kind about the outside world. This made them all excited, and they all tried to go with the pipeline … to the outside world.
Many Phoenix left the star with the tube, including the one Lin encountered now … a creature that looked like a burning chicken.
After leaving with the pipeline, it found that its companions were all … gone.
However, it would occasionally meet some of its own kind, and these same kind of people would tell it that they went to many different places to do … many things.
And this burning chicken never had the chance to go anywhere else.
In fact, it didn't know how to get there, nor did it know why it had to go.
Until one day … it suddenly came here.
This was the Deathly Static Field.
It said that there were a few others of its kind who came here with it, and one of them was considered a 'leader'. It gave them a mission.
The mission was to … keep the Ershi Min tool running.
In the city called Twist Waist, the burning chicken was responsible for maintaining the operation of dozens of video cameras.
The specific content of its job was to run back and forth between the buildings, sprinkling some anti-solidifying substances on the video cameras inside to keep the images running.
Because the anti-solidifying substances would slowly lose their effectiveness, it had to be sprinkled continuously. After it was done, it would be able to get food.
And then … that was it. The burning chicken had been doing this job for a long time.
Its story was very … simple.
Lin also noticed that although they were curious about the unknown, they could also … endure doing the same thing without feeling bored.
Additionally … Lin also carefully studied them and found that they were indeed very similar to the 'whirlwind creatures' that Lin had encountered before.
Their body structure and method of communication were very similar. However, the basic substances that made up their bodies … were different.
This creature known as the 'Phoenix' was probably a species created by Midgard or something else, and was kept inside the star to be used when needed.
It appeared that this was the case.
They were generally larger in size, but there were also very small ones, like the size of this chicken.
If so … why would they keep the video cameras running?
The burning chicken told Lin that there were some interesting situations.
Because it had been taught how to use the Ershi Min's tools by its boss, it could also understand the contents of the video cameras. Thus, it would pay attention to the video cameras.
In the video cameras, almost all of them were the miserable Ershi Min.
For example, the one that Lin had seen before. They were living in a rock house and were starving due to the lack of food.
There were other videos as well … the burning chicken said that it had seen a large group of Ershi Min working.
They worked day and night in huge factories and other places without any time to rest. When they were exhausted, they would be kicked aside and replaced with a new one.
When they woke up from exhaustion, they would have to continue working.
Although the burning chicken did not know what the Ershi Min were doing, it still remembered this scene.
There were other videos, such as the Ershi Min that were constantly fighting and the Ershi Min that were shivering in the cold …
However, the burning chicken said that most of the videos were of them working. Only a few of them were of them suffering.
Lin felt that what it said was quite similar to the Doomsday Space that Ershi had created in the past.
However, the most special thing was …
The burning chicken once made a mistake, causing a video camera to be delayed in recovering.
At that time, the video camera was in a frozen state for about one Ershi day and night.
Then, when the burning chicken recovered the camera, it found that …
The Ershi Min that were originally living a very difficult life had all died.
This was quite special because although the Ershi Min in the video were living a very difficult life, they rarely died.
However, after the burning chicken's mistake, they all died. Moreover, no matter how hard it tried to prevent itself from being frozen, the Ershi Min in the video remained dead and did not move again.
Lin felt that this was a rather special situation … because these Ershi Min might be the ones in the fake Ershi.
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