Vol 9 Chapter 64: degenerate

"What should I do next?" "I don't know." "Probably have to wait until death." "It will definitely degenerate." "What degeneration, what are you talking about?" "I didn't say anything?" "Yes Is it..." "This time the degradation must be very fast." "You said it again!"
This is an underground cave under a vast desert. The whale dwellers left the aircraft they had taken before and gathered at this location.
Not long ago they were constantly under siege by crustaceans that burrowed out of the sand, and while most of the whale dwellers survived, their flying machines were also preempted by the crustaceans.
The whale dwellers retreated to a nearby underground cave, where they gathered to discuss what to do next.
And in the process of discussion, they can also 'hear' some strange words.
These strange words come from themselves, that is, some whale dwellers will suddenly say something that they don't know they said, and the content is mainly to say "degeneration" and the like.
Lin found that these whale dwellers were mainly thinking that some kind of signal was suddenly transmitted, and this signal made them seem to be hinted to say a word, but they themselves did not know that they had said this word.
In the process of the whale dwellers communicating with each other, this condition appeared in many whale dwellers, so they became more and more panic.
Lin found that this phenomenon is not just in them, it can be said to be everywhere in this area.
Lin has already surveyed the entire place in general, and it doesn't look like a 'ruin', but like a... wilderness.
During Lin's investigation, it was found that many kinds of creatures live in this desert, and there are hundreds of species besides the crustaceans that attacked the whale dwellers before.
They are not the rebuilders of civilization, they are just pure wild animals. This should be regarded as a 'phantom ruins', but all this seems to have nothing to do with the ruins.
And most of the creatures here are like the whale dwellers. They will occasionally use their own language expressions to say a word that they do not notice.
For example, those crustaceans before, they mainly communicated in a way similar to brain waves, so they occasionally sent some strange brain wave signals.
The same is true for all kinds of wild animals here. Of course, these creatures basically ignore this situation compared to whale dwellers.
They're all in their own language with these weird words, but they're all talking about one thing, and that's 'degeneration'.
Lynn investigated the language systems of these creatures and found that whether they had seen the whale dwellers or not, they were discussing about the whale dwellers.
Although these discourses are scattered, they can still piece together the general meaning after collecting more, that is, they are discussing the situation of the whale dwellers.
All the talk revolves around how long and how the whale dwellers will degenerate.
The meaning of this 'degradation' can also be translated as the process of cetaceans becoming wild as a civilized creature, and these discourses suggest that cetaceans will soon become part of the wildlife in the desert.
In Lin's observation, it was found that this was indeed the case.
The whale dwellers spent several days and nights in the pom-poms in the underground cave, and Lynn noticed that their minds were changing rapidly.
At first they were very frightened and desperate about the status quo, but after a while they slowly stopped caring, and they began to focus on the current situation, such as starting to try to transform the cave to be more habitable, and also trying to capture the local some creatures to eat.
Moreover, these whale dwellers also became less communicative. Although they would gather together, they would not have any discussions. After a while, they would not use weapons and equipment very much, and began to move directly with their bodies.
This is actually because their brains have changed, and Lynn has found that their brain structures are becoming more and more simple, making it difficult for them to think about complex things.
At the same time, the words that pop up from time to time also begin to discuss how long the whale dwellers who 'stayed up' can last.
Each individual whale dweller changes at a different rate, and some remain quite sane and are very frightened by the changes of the same kind, and they also notice that the words that come out are discussing them, but they have nothing to do with it. There is no way.
And Lin's spy was not affected, but Lin also made the spy show similar changes.
Lin's weirder spies are completely imitated by whale dwellers, but their brains have not been invaded by any 'external force' to cause changes.
Then these whale dwellers did begin to wild, and their behavior became like the wild animals here, and when the last supported whale dwellers also changed, there was less and less talk about them.
By the end, it had almost completely disappeared.
It seems that these discussants are not very interested in the biological wildlife here, so Lynn did some tests next.
That is to restore this group of whale dwellers to their original appearance.
Lin adjusted their brain structures to the original direction, and these whale dwellers quickly recovered.
As they recovered, Lin noticed a strange 'force' trying to keep the whale dwellers wild.
This 'power' originally directly attacked the nuclear information of the whales to change their brain structure, so Lin tried to protect the nuclear information of the whales when they adjusted them back, in fact, let some micro When a unit detects anything abnormal, it immediately returns to its normal state.
After Lin did this, Lin found that the 'power' had a different form. It used some methods to distort the brain signals of the whale residents, that is, the nerves in the whale residents' brains could not transmit information, so that the whale residents could not transmit information. The effect of reducing intelligence and wilding.
And after Lin also took precautions against this situation, the influence of 'power' disappeared.
The whale dwellers returned to their original state, they continued to start to panic, and the words that had popped up by chance reappeared...and became much more intense.
Generally speaking, they have not seen this kind of change back, so they think this situation is very interesting, and they began to discuss it vigorously.
Lin also noticed that there were some words saying 'the rules were broken' or something.
At the same time, Lin also detected the source of these words.
It is mainly through some signals that suggest the biological brain and then emit these words. The source of this signal is difficult to detect at first.
Lin found out after this test that the signal came from some kind of creature here.
(End of this chapter)