The air in the world … began to thin after that.
For some reason, the manufacturing device no longer used common things like houses to make models, but turned to … air.
And the place where the model was placed was not in this world. Although it was not known where, the air in this world began to thin rapidly from that time.
And the entire 'flying brick' civilization began to be completely destroyed from that time.
After all, they could still live without houses, but without air … they were almost helpless.
In the end, they tried to store air, but the air eventually disappeared completely little by little, and the world ushered in an era without air.
In the end, only a small number of flying bricks survived.
What saved the last remaining batch of flying bricks was a … disease.
At least before the apocalypse, they were treated as a disease, and this disease was called 'petrification disease.'
In fact, it was a kind of microbial infection. This microbe would live on the skin of the organism and slowly mold a large amount of … solid matter.
Their habits were a bit like corals. From the appearance, the infected organism seemed to grow a layer of rock-like solid shell from the skin, and it grew thicker and thicker …
In the beginning, when this disease occurred, the flying bricks would quickly be treated, so there was no danger. But in the apocalypse … there was no such good treatment conditions. Many flying bricks could not be treated and could only lie on the ground and wait for death.
In the end, they did not die.
To be precise … some of them died, but some of the flying bricks survived. At this time, the flying bricks were completely covered by the rock-like shell, but they noticed something special.
The microbes did not cover their limbs, which were the wing-like structures, so they could still move.
Although the whole body seemed to be covered by a layer of rock, the substance secreted by this layer of microbes was actually a very light substance.
This allowed them to move quickly, although it was more difficult than before.
But more importantly, these microbes made a big change in their lives.
The microbes could absorb food located on the rock shell to obtain nutrients, which was why some of them survived.
Because these sick flying bricks were lying on the ground waiting for death, and the physically weak ones starved to death first, but there were many who were too hungry to move, but did not die, lying on the pile of corpses.
These starving flying bricks originally thought that their time of death was coming, but they felt less and less hungry.
This was because their rocky shells were filled with microbes, so when they came into contact with the corpses of their own kind, these microbes began to absorb the corpses as nutrients.
In the end, the microorganisms also transported nutrients to the flying bricks in the shell, allowing them to obtain nutrients and come back to life.
Therefore, they were no longer hungry and could move as they lay among the corpses. Of course, they did not know that this was caused by the nutrients provided by the corpses of their kind.
The microbes even made a lot of changes to their bodies. These microbes could produce the air nutrients they needed … This allowed them to not need to breathe. The microbes also did another thing, which was to adapt their bodies to a low-pressure environment with thin or no air.
In short, this microorganism, which was originally thought to be a disease, had miraculously transformed the flying bricks, allowing them to live in the post-apocalyptic world again.
Although the Flying Brick civilization had been wiped out, leaving only a small group of individuals wrapped in stone shells and having difficulty moving, they still survived because they soon discovered that when various nutrients — including corpses and expired food — were placed on their bodies, those foods would be rapidly absorbed by their shells, with the microbes sharing the absorbed nutrients with their bodies.
This allowed them to not directly eat corpses or expired food, and the microbes also filtered out the harm of these spoiled things, which allowed the flying bricks to live and try to rebuild their population.
Because their sensory and reproductive organs were only exposed on the 'wings' outside the shell, they could still move and reproduce.
At that time, they could not have the name 'flying bricks'. First, they could not fly, and second, they did not look like bricks.
The shells that the microbes made for them were obviously irregular in shape, and at first, they were shaped like a stone with wings.
In fact, those wings were not real wings, they could not be used to fly, only to crawl.
As for the fact that they could turn into bricks and fly … that was another matter altogether.
After the manufacturing device created the end of the Flying Brick civilization and sucked out all the air, it stopped moving.
It did not use anything to create models, or to be precise … it did not directly create models.
Before that, the manufacturing device seemed to directly create models by itself, which was to send those buildings away bit by bit and make them into models to throw back. Only in a few cases did it use the collection device.
And after the air was gone, they no longer directly created models, but completely relied on … the collection device.
When the remaining flying bricks coexisted with the microbes and tried to recover some of their past technology … they noticed the appearance of the collection device.
These collection devices appeared in the remaining ruins of the city, and what they did was similar to what they did in the past.
It was to collect some things and then pile them up in a place, and after a while, the pile in this place would disappear.
The reappearance of the collection device caused great fear in the flying bricks, so they immediately tried to fight against these devices.
At first, there was nothing they could do, they could only watch the collection device work.
Generally speaking, whether it was the collection device or the manufacturing device, they would not harm living things, but now it was different.
The flying bricks found that they would be collected by the collection device.
This might be because they had a rock-like shell, and after they were collected, they were usually thrown in places where they could not escape, such as a pit. In the end, the collected flying bricks would disappear with other collected objects.
Where did they go? Were they also made into models? No one knew, and no one wanted to try.
But the flying bricks found a very special place, and that was the collection device … it did not collect things that were square.
They did not know why the collection device avoided square objects.
So, they began to try to make everything square.
This was mainly because they found some large former factories underground, and these factories could still be started.
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