"After that … the population never recovered."
Although they defeated a powerful enemy, they paid a heavy … price.
The tunnel brain disappeared.
The Guardian Sandball's population also collapsed at that time and never recovered.
Although they didn't develop much, they still had a considerable number. But after that … their population could never recover.
They just lost the ability to reproduce and could only slowly go extinct.
Of course, they wouldn't really go extinct because … the Guardian Sandball had become the tunnel's consciousness.
So to be precise … their original forms were slowly disappearing, turning into something similar to an 'invisible' form.
Currently, the sphere that the Guardian Sand Ball was using to communicate with Lin was only a temporary 'clone' that it had created. It was not its original form.
It meant that its consciousness could actually spread throughout the tunnel.
After the Guardian Sandball became the tunnel's consciousness, it did the same thing as the tunnel brain.
That was to give the creatures' missions'.
This was mainly to train the successor. Because the moment it became a consciousness, the Guardian Sandball felt that it would disappear sooner or later.
It could be said that it had already foreseen its death.
And the first successor that the Guardian Sandball trained was … the Pioneer.
After the Pioneer came here and discovered the tunnel's consciousness, the Guardian Sandball guided the creatures to do 'missions' just like the tunnel brain did before.
The main purpose of this mission was to let the future successor live here for a long time and completely synchronize with the tunnel.
This synchronization was actually to make their bodies change and slowly turn them into 'tunnel creatures', a very special kind of creature.
Although the change wouldn't cause any changes to them, it was said that a lot of materials unique to the tunnel would be mixed into their bodies, making them more and more unable to leave the tunnel.
Of course, the mixed materials didn't necessarily have to be materials. In short, there would be various effects.
For example, after the Pioneer lived here for a long time, their 'thought zone' would become ineffective when they left the tunnel.
As for why they had to make creatures do things they didn't want to do … for example, making the Pioneer help other creatures …
The Guardian Sandball didn't know this. It only found that it could make creatures do things to increase synchronization … but these things were usually very difficult for these creatures.
The Guardian Sandball thought that this was a rule set by the tunnel brain, but the reason was unknown.
Moreover, they did not have the right to change the rules. Although the sand ball had become the consciousness of the passage, it still had … some 'untouchable' parts.
Only some of the deeper rules could not be changed.
But in any case, the Sandball Guardian watched as the Pioneer continued to develop.
The Harbinger was a creature that surprised the Guardian Sand Ball, because the Harbinger was a creature that was very persistent.
In the past, many creatures had tried to assimilate in this tunnel, which was very difficult for them. The species that lasted the longest only lasted for a hundred years.
Regardless of whether these creatures gave up on their own accord or collapsed due to various reasons, the longest time they could last was much shorter than the Pioneers.
The Pioneers had lasted much longer than the other species.
Even though the pioneers had thought of giving up, they still wanted to control the passage more than anything else.
There was also the fact that they … were very powerful, and it was difficult for them to be destroyed due to various factors.
The Forerunners were indeed a race with such perseverance, which surprised the Sandball Guardian. However, what the Sandball Guardian did not know was that while the passage itself had established the Forerunners as its future successors, it had also 'secretly' established another successor, which was the Star Phoenix.
Not only the Pioneers did not know this, but the Sandball Guardian also did not know this.
Although they knew that the Eternal Star was there, they did not notice that the Eternal Star had also participated in the mission.
But later, when the Eternal Star's influence slowly increased, the Sandball Guardian realized this.
However, the Sandball Guardian did not think that this was because the passage brain was still 'alive,' but because of some of the settings they had set.
The Sandball Guardian did not care much, and there were more candidates for the successor. This way, there would be more assurance.
Then, just like what Lin knew … the Pioneers had been working hard all the time until now.
The Sandball Guardian just watched them, stopped some of the Pioneers' illegal actions, and punished them for their violations.
It seemed that the Sandball Guardian had completely become … the feeling of living for the passage.
It did not try to do anything. After the Sandball Guardian became the consciousness of the passage, it could actually do many things.
For example, it could study the passage, modify the rules of those depths, expand the passage, and move the passage to other places in the Void.
At this time, the Sandball Guardian had become a very … powerful creature, but it did not do anything. It just continued to guard this place according to the passage brain's method.
Whether it was the Eternal Star Phoenix or the Pioneers occupying the passage, the Sandball Guardian did not care. Because after so long, the Sandball Guardian believed that there should be a new successor, although there was still some time before it 'dissipated.'
But the Sandball Guardian did not want to see this happening now.
The Sandball Guardian originally had a way to attack the Death Battleships outside, but because the synchronization of the Eternal Star Phoenix was almost full, most of its control was replaced when it synchronized with the passage.
Therefore, the Sandball Guardian had no way to counterattack, and Phoenix planned to escape after transferring its consciousness.
Because the Mead Void had eroded the passage after Phoenix transferred its consciousness, even if the Eternal Star Phoenix transferred its consciousness, the Sandball Guardian had no way to control the passage back.
So it could only … ask Lin for help.
Because Lin would not be affected negatively, as long as she had a non-negative mind, she could resist the negative influence of the Mead Void, and then … she could counterattack like now.
However, the current situation was not very optimistic.
Although there was a counterattack, the Sandball Guardian believed that the passage actually had no ability to resist the other party.
The counterattack was just to remove the erosion, but they were still in a very dangerous situation.
So the Sandball Guardian decided to use a … full-force attack to eliminate the other party in one go.
If it did not eliminate the other party, it would be destroyed.
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