Vol 9 Chapter 109: lamination

"No matter what... there is no way to get back those lost things."
The Jingjing Roller that Lin was riding was flying deep along the 'Root of Hope', and as it moved, Lin also saw many illusions.
These visions of Roots of Hope reveal the past here, and it seems that quite a few civilizations were once established in this place.
But there is no 'native' civilization in this place, and all civilizations have been moved from afar.
Lin discovered that these illusions do not only show one era, they sometimes change to show earlier eras, and in these transformed illusions, Lin can see some scenes of early civilizations moving here.
The first civilization came from the depths of the void. Like the common drifting civilizations, they boarded huge life ships, and when they landed on the Root of Hope, they looked very...dejected.
Their fleet seems to have encountered some danger, and there are a lot of signs of damage on the surface, and the residents in this fleet are also in a similar situation.
There are many scars on their bodies, and it seems that each of them has been damaged to varying degrees. After landing, they began to quickly move materials and start construction.
After a while, they dismantled their fleets and converted all these materials into capitals built on the surface.
The development of this civilization is very smooth, because they have unearthed a lot of resources on the root of hope, and there are no troubles such as war.
But they develop more and more slowly, until at some point they stop altogether.
That's because they all lost their desire.
Every individual in this civilization slowly becomes inactive and spends most of their time wandering the streets with nothing to do.
Moreover, the scars on these creatures became more and more serious. During the development period, they always tried to heal the scars on their bodies, but there was no way at all... until finally they didn't seem to care much.
Their loss of desire is also related to the scars on their bodies. Lin found that as their scars increased, their thinking became more and more shrinking.
In fact, many creatures can achieve this effect by modifying their brains, and this group of creatures seems to be infected by a certain disease of the entire race. Of course, Lin now knows that they should be the body's "matter" being transformed into "energy" Pulled out.
The only strange thing is that this did not cause their death. Although it made them look scarred, each individual can move normally, but their thinking has become sluggish.
At first, this group of creatures also thought that they were infected, but later they discovered that their 'energy' was losing.
This group of creatures made the last effort. They created a highly intelligent, micro-machine-like thing, and launched these machines.
The purpose is to find out where their lost energy went.
After a large number of these machines were launched, they did not return for a long time. The creatures of the entire civilization entered a state of crawling on the streets dragging their incomplete bodies, and then slowly perished, and the remains of their civilization also disappeared. The first layer of civilization ruins on Root of Hope was formed.
Not long after their demise, the machines returned.
These machines didn't find anything back, they seemed to have awakened their own thinking, that is, they thought they were a civilized creature, and then established their own civilization on the capital city of their extinct creators.
The buildings they built were all small, densely laid out on top of the ruins of civilization on the first floor, and these tiny machines also perished after they developed to a certain extent.
Dying for the same reason as their creators, these machines slowly became desireless.
They also try to deal with this situation in various ways, such as transforming themselves and creating new thinking modules, but it seems that no matter what method they use, their thinking will always slowly disappear.
The final struggle of these machines is to try to attract intruders.
They try to use various methods to send signals to the outside world, indicating that they have a very strong military force and are ready to invade other civilizations.
Of course, they have no way of knowing whether other civilizations can understand their signals. They just try to use this signal to attract intruders.
It seems that these machines think that if other creatures are attracted, their minds will return to their normal state, that is, the effect of this lost mind will be transferred to the new creatures.
And after sending it for a while, there was indeed a response from the depths of the void. Some huge land masses flew over, came to the surface of the city of mechanical creatures and started a large-scale attack, and finally destroyed the entire civilization of mechanical creatures. The machines don't know if the arrival of outsiders will restore them to normal.
There are also many living creatures on these land blocks. They established their own civilizations on the ruined mechanical civilizations, and then they continued to develop until their own extinction.
And when they perish, they also lead to the emergence of the next civilization.
Lin found that these stacked civilizations seem to have this kind of relationship. When the previous one is about to perish, they use various methods to lead to the next one. This method has continued, and their demise methods are similar. of.
In the end, it continued until the topmost civilization.
The topmost layer is not directly related to the lower layer, it belongs to a rather special civilization.
Lin thinks they can be called 'smoke gatherers', and they seem to be here to deal with the 'energy' of these layered civilizations.
Those civilizations stacked together, their demise is because they are slowly transformed into 'energy', and not all of these energies have drifted out, and some of them still remain on the root of hope.
The "smoke gatherer" is to gather these residual energies and build something.
The Smoke Gatherer's building resembles a large mass of paste that seems to absorb and process the energies left in the cascading ruins, pooling them together for the Smoke Gatherer to dispose of.
The Smoke Gatherers used these energies to build some... spaceships.
In fact, they are aircrafts made of space, they gather these energies into the formed space, and then activate these spaces to let them fly to distant places.
This 'distance' is actually the center of the root of hope, which is where the root of hope first grows.
And the tumbler that Lin is taking now is also going to this place, and it is relatively close now, and this place seems to be very...complete.
At least it's not like other places are just intermittent ruins, there seems to be something that continues to operate here.
(end of this chapter)