Stone after stone flashed past her eyes, and the creature was running between the stones.
It was really running, just like Lin's Star Surveyor. It was rapidly jumping and moving from rock to rock.
It seemed to be very good at this kind of movement. Its vision would occasionally look at its own body, and Lin noticed that it mainly moved with four pairs of limbs.
Lin now knew that the creature had four pairs of limbs, and each pair of limbs had three 'fingers' and retractable claws at the end. Each pair of limbs was exactly the same, and there was not much difference. In the previous cave, it mainly relied on the last pair of limbs to move, but now it was using all of them.
These limbs helped it to hold onto the stones around it, and the thing it was wearing seemed to be able to keep it warm and maintain a certain amount of air.
However, its ability to store air did not seem to be ideal. Lin sensed that the creature was full of anxiety. It was worried about running out of air, so it wanted to reach its target as soon as possible.
That was the stone where Lin was now … After it came here, how did it decompose its body and put its head in ice? This was very interesting …
But Lin was more concerned about where it came from.
Lin believed that this creature didn't live here from the beginning. It must have lived on top of a Tumbler with air and a good environment. Then, for some reason, it came here and dug a hole in the rock to preserve the air inside.
It used microbes or some other method to maintain air. Lin felt that its muscles were very weak, mainly because it came to this very low gravity environment.
The creature also had a very long tail, which was useless in a non-gravitational environment. However, a gravitational environment was able to keep its huge body balanced.
So, Lin was sure that it came from a certain Tumbler. Where was it? Was it the moon? They ruined the moon's environment. Did he escape to this place?
Or did it come from somewhere else? Was it the red Tumbler that the moon was currently orbiting?
There was no air on it, and the situation was much worse than the moon. But this also seemed to prove the creature's previous despair, and its thoughts indicated that there was only one left.
Perhaps it was the only one left in the entire tribe …
And, how did it come here? It couldn't have jumped here, could it? Could it be that they could also create flying objects like the Leviathan?
However, they didn't see anything similar in the vicinity, nor did they find any remains. They didn't look like a species with a division of labor. Lin thought the creature looked like a creature with a personality, so how did they combine to form such a structure?
Maybe I can find the answer by following it.
It jumped among the meteorites for a while. Finally, a huge rock appeared in its field of vision.
It jumped up and looked around, and found a protruding rock. Then it took out a strange thing and inserted it into the top of the rock.
Lin saw the rock move, then move away, and a tunnel appeared under the rock.
The tunnel was more than a meter in diameter. The creature had shrunk its body, and it seemed to have some difficulty entering. After its body was completely inside, Lin heard a soft sound. "Da da da."
It seemed to be their language. Although it sounded like a clack, Lin knew that it meant that the rock behind it had closed up.
These creatures seemed to be very good at creating these kinds of mechanisms.
Then a sound came from the tunnel. It seemed to be filled with air. The creature took off the hood on its head.
After it went through the tunnel for a while, the door that looked like an ice cube appeared. Just like before, the door opened automatically.
Sure enough, this tunnel was the one Lin found earlier. However, Lin smashed the rock and the door to enter …
After entering the cave, Lin saw … a very complicated place.
There were quite a lot of strange things here. Many plant-like things grew on the ground. They opened up like flower petals, and their surface was light blue.
Below these plant-like things was a one-meter square. They seemed to be growing on the square, and the square itself was fixed to the ground.
Were they using these plants to create air?
The creature ignored the plants and walked deeper into the cave. From its perspective, it could see that there were many strange things in the cave. For example, there was a large white cube placed on the wall, and there were transparent jars filled with liquid floating everywhere.
Lin guessed that it was water. Other than that, there were many other unknown things, which were generally white …
Why didn't Lin find any of these things when she was digging? Did it throw them all away?
It took off its equipment and walked to a corner of the cave. There was a strange square object floating there. Its surface was densely packed with protrusions. It reached out a claw and pressed on one of the protrusions.
"Beep." Lin heard a sound.
The next moment, the place suddenly lit up. Lin turned her vision and saw that the white square on the rock wall changed color, and a … picture appeared on it?
However, it didn't really count as a picture. It was almost completely black, and there were many white symbols on it.
"Tap." The creature pressed on the protrusion on the object again. This time, a symbol appeared on the picture.
So it could work like this? [This is really interesting …]
The creature quickly pressed on the protrusions, and the symbols on it kept increasing. Lin thought that it was' writing words', and the symbols on it were its words.
And what it was doing now … seemed to be recording some information. However, rather than recording information, it was more like it was expressing some meaningless' moaning '.
Lin was able to obtain some of its thoughts from its thoughts, and she translated them into words that she was familiar with.
"Loaded the bomb." "Nothing to do, nowhere to go." "I'm going to die." "They abandoned me." "They're all dead. I'm the only one left."
What it recorded was basically these things, and the creature felt quite desperate.
Then, it recorded the last line of information. "I can't do it anymore."
It pressed on the last button, and the symbols on the rock wall instantly disappeared, returning to the original white board.
Lin thought that this effect … might be related to electricity.
Then, the creature walked to another corner of the room and took out a strange cylindrical object. This cylindrical object was connected to a string.
It pressed the larger 'head' of the cylindrical object against its skin, and then opened the white board …
At this time, the outline of its body appeared on the white board, and there was a beeping sound. The picture changed, and then a sphere full of spikes appeared.
Lin recognized this sphere. It was the virus that infected the creature. There was a lot of text around it, which seemed to be describing the characteristics of the virus.
Lin could basically guess what had happened to it. Sure enough, it was feeling despair because its companions were all dead and it was trapped here.
Its companions might have died because of the virus, and now it was the only one left, and then it was infected …
It was basically staring at the screen in a daze. Then, it casually pressed a few buttons, and another strange object appeared on the screen. It looked like a cone-shaped object, and there were many different parts and other things on it.
From its thoughts, Lin knew that this was something like a 'flying object'. There was a line of symbols below it, which meant: What object can't be made?
So that's it, it was trapped here and couldn't leave.
What made Lin even more interested were the things it said it could use. Lin had never seen such things before, and she had initially felt that their appearance was inconceivable. Previously, Lin had thought that if something could fly out from the Rollers, it would definitely be something like the Creator … or an Inca insect swarm.
Not this kind of creature with personality …
In the past, Lin thought that creatures with personality wouldn't be able to piece together something too complicated.
Just like how the Leviathan's shell could only be pieced together with very fine manipulation, Lin usually used a mixture of many kinds of shell fragments, piecing together a large number of extremely fine fragments little by little, and then using a special method of bonding to create something.
This kind of crustaceous material allowed the Leviathan to resist all kinds of impacts when it rushed out of the Rollers. Lin's muscles also used the new high-toughness structure, but in fact, the Trailblazer's shell was the strongest. It could continuously drill through the very hard rock formations underground.
Because the ability of creatures with personality was limited by the size of their limbs, it was impossible to perform fine manipulation.
… But …
Lin thought that there were some other ways to piece things together, like how the White Skeleton Dragon used melting to create metal products …
So that's it. Because of the size of their limbs, they would use high-temperature melting methods to synthesize things. This method didn't limit them, and they only needed to turn the object into a liquid and then reassemble it.
And this should only be the foundation. Lin thought that they could mix in many things, or use pressure and other things to strengthen various aspects of their creation.
As long as she thought in this direction, Lin could come up with a large number of manufacturing methods. Fuel could also be created through similar methods. This way, as long as these creatures used something else, they wouldn't be limited by the size of their limbs.
As long as there was time, there would be complexity.
Although the method of synthesis was still different from Lin's, the effect … seemed to be quite good. Floating astronomy.
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