"We defeated them, they failed, and we live off their bodies."
"Then, how did you defeat them?"
"Crawl inside … … crawl inside and control them!"
Lin and the blood worms … … began communicating.
After studying them for a while, Lin discovered that their way of speaking was quite similar to Phoenix's. It also fit the name Lin gave them.
That was to squeeze out some of their 'blood' from the surface of their skin. Their own kind would be able to quickly detect this blood. Thus, they communicated through blood.
This blood was the fluid used to hold their internal organs. After squeezing it out, they could suck it back … … thus, they were able to communicate through this method.
Thus, after some research and observation, Lin slowly understood the different meanings they used to communicate through their blood.
Initially, when they were caught by Lin's pompoms, they thought that they were doomed. However, when they discovered that the pompoms did not attack them and instead chose to … … communicate, they immediately decided to communicate with Lin.
From them, Lin learned some … … simple history.
They told Lin that in the past, there was a group of creatures living here. They created a large number of machines to serve them. Then, they made these machines more and more intelligent. In the end, these creatures were wiped out by the machines.
This seemed to be a very common situation. However, in the end, these creatures used some special methods to create a new group of creatures.
Those were the blood worms.
The blood worms defeated the intelligent machines of these creatures and transformed them into their own vehicles … … this was the situation that Lin was currently witnessing.
The surrounding buildings should be the original living quarters of these creatures that the blood worms mentioned.
These creatures should be creatures with a body size of around three meters. Their shape was most likely similar to an octopus.
The main reason for this was because Lin had yet to find any corpses.
The things in the buildings were relatively large, such as electrical appliances. There were practically no small things.
The blood worms did not know the shape of these creatures. They indicated that there were no records of these creatures.
Thus, it was hard to say whether these creatures were truly wiped out or not. It felt as though they had all left.
Although the blood worms sounded very powerful, they were actually living a very simple life of scavenging.
The blood worms' daily routine was to move around in search of food or materials to repair their vehicles. Then, they would continue to live.
If they could not find anything, they would die. They would never leave their vehicles. Blood worms of different vehicles would not communicate with each other.
This group of creatures had been living this way for a very long time.
The blood worms could reproduce in the vehicles, but if the vehicles ran out of energy, all the blood worms in the vehicles would die.
Therefore, they were in a state of slow death.
After understanding their general history, Lin examined the thought processes of all the blood worms.
Ershi had said that the aggregates of faith would not be resurrected immediately after coming here. Instead, they would be in a special state called 'drifting'.
In this state, the creatures here would be affected and would begin to unify their beliefs.
As long as it was a creature that was slightly affected, it could be detected through certain methods.
Although there would be almost no effect in the initial stage of the influence, it could still be detected with tools.
Lin's velvet claw had such a detection tool.
These soldiers could be tested by coming into contact with creatures to see if they were affected.
It seemed that the blood worms here were not affected at all.
Therefore, Lin continued to explore the entire bridge.
Right now, Lin's main concern was … an underground environment.
In this place that looked like an underground street, other than the shops and residences that looked like the underground street of the Voidfolk, there were a lot of gravel on the ground.
These stones … Lin called them the 'Midgard Stones'.
It was also the name that Lin came up with.
As the name suggested, these gravel stones were related to Midgard.
Midgard … was in the form of a pipe. It was a very complicated mixture.
Its body consisted of normal void matter and solidified void matter … Lin had seen most of the substances in the void before. She had also seen quite a lot of solidified matter after she started exploring the solidified void.
However, Midgard also had a 'substance' that Lin had not seen in any of the two voids before.
There was a 'unique' substance on it, but Lin had seen it here.
It was these … gravel stones.
Although they looked like stones, they were actually a strange mixture of normal void matter and solidified matter.
Did their appearance here have anything to do with Midgard?
Or were these things … not unique to Midgard, but Lin had only seen them outside the pipe.
Also, Lin thought of another possibility, which was … another Midgard.
Currently, the fragment that Lin recognized was still floating in its original position, nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
Lin had considered the possibility of encountering another pipe.
After all, she had only encountered one … an adult. However, as a species, there should be more than one adult.
In any case, these fragments should prove that there was something special here. At the very least, this place had come into contact with the solidified void.
And so, Lin continued to explore this place.
Most of the buildings on the surface were empty. Only a few things and blood worms were moving around.
However, the underground was quite interesting.
The troopers that explored the underground were able to find more … small living tools.
In some of the buildings, Lin found various small things that were originally used by the creatures here, including small weapons.
From these living tools, Lin could tell that these creatures … were indeed similar to what Lin had guessed.
However, there were still no corpses. Lin only saw many fungus-like creatures growing on a large scale underground.
The deeper one went, the more these 'fungi' there would be. This underground street was divided into many levels. The deepest level that Lin had explored so far was the tenth level.
This level was about 300 meters above the surface, which was the surface of the bridge. The fungus-like creatures had completely covered the street here.
Lin had also examined these 'fungi'. Clearly, they were not all affected.
However, when Lin was examining the fungi, she also found some reactions related to the aggregation of beliefs on the tenth level.
The creature that was affected by it was at this location.
However, Lin noticed that its position was constantly changing.
It was as though it was continuously teleporting without stopping.
Every time Lin tried to approach its position, it would immediately move to the next location.
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