Vol 9 Chapter 59: survivor

They are also one of countless civilizations that fear extinction.
However, they seem to have had better luck than many civilizations.
The civilization of 'Survivor' has a wonderful ability to continue. Their ruins were first discovered in a certain space tunnel. Those civilizations who found 'Survivor' naturally studied the situation in the ruins, and finally considered the survivors. already perished.
There are many technologies worth learning from the ruins of the survivors, and this civilization has developed them rapidly through continuous research.
In the process of development, some more wonderful events have occurred in this civilized creature. Compared with some intelligent machines made by them, they say that they are survivors inexplicably, and some sects that worship survivors have also appeared in their society. The wonderful organization of the species, or their historical archives have inexplicably more civilization records about the survivors.
These situations are mostly ignored because there are no dangerous events, except for survivor-worshiping organizations, whose members often appear to know survivors well, and their techniques for studying survivors are faster, but They themselves don't know what's going on, as if they were born with a feeling of admiration.
However, whether it is this civilization or the survivor organizations in them, their understanding of the civilization of the survivors is actually very limited, and only a small part can really be used, but in any case, this organization is trying to discover more Things about survivors, whether they can understand it or not, are always preserved using various methods, and there are even attempts to make things about survivors trendy.
Finally, this civilization, like most civilizations, also perished due to wars and other reasons. After their perishment, many ruins were left behind. In addition to their own civilization heritage, there are many related survivors in these ruins.
The ruins of their civilization remained until they were discovered by the next civilization, and then this civilization began to investigate the ruins, and then they also appeared in a similar situation to the previous civilization, and a lot of things related to the survivors appeared wonderfully.
Whether it's a cult, or materials about survivors, or a trend that treats survivor culture and unearthed antiquities as artistic trends, after the civilization found its ruins, the survivors seemed to be attached to their civilization. .
And after their demise, these related survivors' things are also preserved, and they remain in the ruins of civilization and continue to be left to new civilizations.
Survivors have perpetuated many civilizations in this way.
But how exactly does it do it? It seems that no civilization knows this, not even that the survivors are continuing.
However, this continuation of survivors is not a bad thing for various civilizations. It will not cause any harm to the affected civilization, but it will only use them to continue itself.
Although these civilizations eventually perished, they have nothing to do with the survivors, and are some very common causes of extinction.
Slowly, the survivors also spread in this way, and there are traces of survivors in the remains of many space tunnels.
Each civilization has different degrees of research on survivors or the degree to which they are influenced by survivors, but as long as they have been in contact with survivors, there will always be some survivors in their ruins.
Survivors can be said to continue to live in the void in this form, and they have not had any substantial impact on other civilizations, nor have they truly 'survived'.
Until...the birth of 'Void Shadow'.
There seems to be some kind of wonderful factor in the birth of Void Shadow.
Initially, many civilizations that had the technology to build space tunnels perished, and the space tunnels they built were just abandoned, and they were essentially ordinary spaces.
But from some point on, something went wrong in these spaces.
The previous space tunnels required some space connecting devices to be connected into a large enough tunnel. When the civilization perishes and these devices are damaged, the space tunnel will also collapse and become multiple separate spaces.
After a long time passed, under the influence of that wonderful factor, these spaces were connected again.
However, after the connection, it did not turn these spaces into tunnels that could be used for long-distance travel in the past, but slowly 'sinked' into the depths of the void.
As for where the 'deep' is, the giant whale has not been described in detail. According to the information returned by the giant whale, it is not outside the void like 'nothing', but is inside the void, but it is in a A state that is detached from the essence of the void, similar to the 'shadow' of the void.
So it's really fitting to call this series of abandoned space tunnels Void Shadows.
It is the survivors who have noticed this phenomenon, who themselves are still living in the remains of various space tunnels.
When a ruin has not had any visitors for too long, there will be some 'movement' in it, usually some machines come to life and start to wander around.
These machines don't have much consciousness, but after a long time they will try to find various small parts to transform themselves, and finally slowly become... creatures with enough thinking.
They generally make some modifications to the local ruins after thinking, such as sending some signals to the outside, making it more likely to attract civilizations to explore.
If nothing has happened in the past period of time, these machines will further improve themselves, they may make more of their kind, try to send more signals, and they will also build some detection devices to investigate whether there is any civilization nearby.
At this time... different ruins received signals from each other.
Because generally speaking, there are very few relics with survivors 'awakening', and they usually need to have some well-stored intelligent machines in them.
Therefore, different relics are usually in different spaces, and they can receive signals from each other, which means that the spaces are connected.
At first these machines cannot understand this kind of thing, but over time they will slowly improve their intelligence and eventually restore the survivor's mind almost completely.
The machines then began to communicate with each other and began to study the surrounding space, and soon they discovered the anomalies of these spaces.
They found that these separate spaces were connected together to form a large whole, but their entrances and exits to the void were also closed, so there was no outside civilization to explore these ruins.
Knowing this, they began to try to connect the space to the void again, so they also discovered that the shadow of the void was constantly 'sinking'.
(End of this chapter)