Vol 9 Chapter 104: combustion

"It seems to be over."
"Yeah, maybe it's time for the next round."
"But I...don't want to end it."
Lin's ball of fluff was floating on the snow-colored ground.
The ground here is made up of countless white particles, but it's not snow, it's all gray... or it feels like it's all gray.
There are also countless buildings around the pom-pom, all of which are hundreds of meters high, and the styles seem to be mixed with buildings of many personalities and biological civilizations.
Now, these buildings are burning.
Each building is covered with blue 'flames', and as these 'flames' beat, a large amount of white dust falls from the building and accumulates on the surface resulting in the formation of this white environment.
Of course these are not real flames, nor is this dust real dust, but a 'transformation residue'.
Those 'flames' are actually continuously converting the building into 'energy', but only some of them can be converted, and the rest becomes white dust sprinkled on the ground.
In addition to these 'burning' buildings, many creatures can be seen here.
These creatures roamed among the dusty buildings, and they also looked pure white, each several meters in size and most had a pair of limbs, some like legged and pure white Ershi people.
They were walking staggeringly between these buildings, and many creatures were also burning. They didn't seem to care about it, but continued to sway.
There are also some creatures discussing their current situation, and their language also releases some dream energy for discussion. The content of these creatures on the street is basically what they are about to destroy.
This is the city of Jingjing people. Lin came to this place not long ago. When Lin arrived here, there were still many Jingjing people here, but after Lin came, they all left.
The crystal stills usually look like crystalline structures, and when they leave, they will change into 'flames' and gather into a mass and drift into the distance.
And these white creatures here...they are not crystallids.
Lin didn't know what they were. Jingjing hadn't mentioned them when he was talking to himself on Lin's base before, which was also an interesting place.
Although these pure white creatures communicate in the same way as the crystal stills, they themselves cannot become 'flames' like the crystal stills.
In fact, the blue flame is the state in which the matter here is transformed into 'energy'. The crystallizer itself can control this change, and these pure white creatures cannot control this process. If they come into contact with 'flame', they will change their own Some of it is converted into energy, and the rest is scattered as dust that accumulates on the ground.
Lin's pom poms are wandering around here, and through the content they communicate with each other, Lin finds that they all think this 'fire' is going to destroy the place where they live, but they think it's a reincarnation, and it seems that something will come after the destruction take over from them.
There is no mention of the Crystallizers in their communication, as if this is their city and not the Crystallizer's city.
So Lin continued to let some troops track the fireballs that Jingjinger flew into the distance, and other troops continued to observe the changes in the city.
Those blue flames spread rapidly throughout the city. The city itself was built on a thousand-kilometer-sized land mass, and after three pom-pom days and nights, the flames spread throughout the city.
It feels like a normal fire, it burns every living thing, every building, transforming them into a state of 'energy'.
However, this energy does not last as long as the crystal still, and will quickly disappear without fuel.
So the entire city was covered in flames and soon only pure ashes were left, and they accumulated a very thick layer on the ground.
It would be better to say that the land mass where the city is located is itself made up of ashes. When there was no ashes at the beginning, these buildings were built directly in the void.
In short, according to Lin's current investigation, the communication with the pure white creatures here is indeed true, and there are many differences from the previous description by Jingjing.
And Lin's pom-poms are not affected by direct contact with these flames. Although Lin's pom-poms have many of the same components as the buildings and creatures here, they will not turn into 'energy' at all.
It was as if the flames that transformed them were acting on them selectively.
And after the flames stopped completely, Lin found that the ashes left behind also began to disappear.
It looked like it was evaporating, and each dust slowly drifted towards the height, and disappeared after floating a distance of more than ten meters.
After a while, there was nothing left in this place, just darkness.
But when Lin felt strange, the place changed again.
A lot of things suddenly appeared in the originally dark environment. At first it seemed like a lot of dust, but they quickly gathered together and turned into a lot of... matter.
They initially looked like semi-chaotic mixtures of all kinds, but as they continued to combine, they turned into ordered structures, and when these things finally stabilized, Lynn found the pom-pom on a pure white surface above.
This is a little different from the previous gray ground. The ground here is completely flat and is arranged by one-meter squares.
There are some pictures drawn on each square, and it is impossible to see what it is, and when Lin's pom-pom touched a square, the square suddenly glowed, and a burst of light burst out on the square. Bulk liquid.
This mass of liquid quickly gathered into a ball, and Lin found that it was the same as the previous Sea of ​​Creation Fragments, and could be regarded as a kind of… data aggregation.
When Lin wondered why it appeared, it spoke by itself, using dream energy: "It's not time to construct, but it must be constructed."
After discovering that it behaved like this, Lin also asked the pom-pom to ask it a question: "What are you?"
"Responsible for constructing things here." This is a little different from the previous fragment, and it quickly answered Lin's question: "This place has always needed to be constructed, but there has never been such an opportunity."
"I should have started the construction when I had this opportunity, but it ran ahead of time." The relatively small water polo said some strange words, so Lin continued to ask: "What are you going to construct?"
"A civilization that can go to the depths," it said, "but never succeeded."
"deep?"
"That's right, a disaster once broke out in the depths of this void. In order to avoid it, we siphoned off a lot of matter and left some systems to supervise here, in order to return to the place where the disaster occurred at some point. "