Vol 8 Chapter 366: pipeline
The particle creature can no longer see the situation in the solidified void, it can only observe the normal void now.
Observe where those...pipes are.
There are not many creatures like pipes, but each one can have a huge impact on the surrounding void.
For many civilizations, they are terrifying disasters, while for a few civilizations, pipelines can bring a brand new future.
In any case, these pipelines always carry many civilizations, wandering in the void.
After the ‘collector’, the granular creature has observed two pipes in total.
Rather...it can only observe pipes.
In the ‘cognitive doom’ space, you cannot look anywhere in the normal void, but you can see the environment around the pipe.
As long as there are pipes in the normal void, it is possible to ‘connect’ the perspective of these pipes.
The second channel, called "the end of the world" by the granular creature, is different from collectors in that it will not deliberately approach the civilization in the void unless the civilization actively attacks it.
It will also collect various civilization information in the void, and then construct these civilizations in the body.
It's just that the civilization it constructs is not a stable civilization, but... a civilization that is about to collapse.
According to collectors, civilizations constructed generally start from primitive times and will go through a long and complete process.
The civilization it constructs is usually the last stage of this civilization.
It will simulate a scene where a civilization is about to die due to war, resource consumption, disasters and other reasons. This is true for all civilizations in this pipeline.
So it is called ‘the end of the world’.
It is full of civilizations in the doomsday desperate situation, but this does not mean that these civilizations have been maintained for a short time.
In fact, these civilized creatures are always struggling, and the end of the world will also do something to prevent them from perishing quickly.
These civilizations always reach a certain balance in the doomsday, so they can continue to struggle.
Why to torture them so?
The granular creature doesn't understand the way of pipes, but it thinks that these pipes collect civilization... and its ‘consciousness’ has a deep connection.
Because it found some special feelings when studying the consciousness of collectors.
It feels like...civilization.
In many civilizations, the thoughts, concepts, knowledge and memory of all the creatures in them seem to merge together in an instant. Granular creatures occasionally feel this feeling when studying the thinking of collectors.
This gives the granular creatures an idea, and it is possible that the thinking of the pipeline comes from the thinking of all civilizations...a ‘fusion’ produced.
It has the knowledge, memory, ideas and concepts of all living things.
However, the pipeline itself must be conscious before creating civilization, because the granular creature has seen pipelines without civilization in their bodies before.
But the particle creature feels that the consciousness of the pipeline may be able to grow through the thinking of collecting creatures, so it is necessary to continuously collect various civilization information in the void.
In general, the pipeline consciousness should be a synthesis of all civilized thinking and consciousness, which has the ideas of all civilized creatures.
The same is true at the end of this world.
Maybe it prefers to collect extreme thoughts, such as the extreme behaviors of various creatures in the apocalypse, which are hard to see in the peaceful period of civilization.
By maintaining the doomsday environment, it can collect a lot of extreme thoughts.
However, these are all speculations of granular creatures. Perhaps the pipes are only for fun to torture these civilizations.
Although the end of the world has this name, its impact on the surrounding civilization is much smaller than that of collectors.
It rarely destroys those ‘wild’ civilizations in the void, but only suffers torture of its own creations.
These civilized creatures in the apocalypse are much more stable than collectors. They always regard survival as their first goal, so they rarely think of going outside to see in the void.
At the end of the world, it finally ushered in its own end.
After a long journey, the civilization in it slowly ushered in the true end.
It seems that the end of the world suddenly stopped maintaining these apocalyptic environments, and the originally very fragile environment quickly collapsed after it stopped maintaining.
After the mass extinction of these civilized creatures in the doomsday, the end of the world has also come to the space of ‘understanding the doomsday’.
It stopped its activities here like the collector, and then the body slowly fell apart.
Compared to collectors who have gone through various fierce wars, it behaves very... calmly.
The same goes for death.
Just like last time, the granular creature immediately began to investigate the situation at the end of the worlds, and it was quickly found inside this pipeline; it created the same ‘thinking space’ as the collector.
These spaces are connected to the neural structures of all civilized creatures, allowing the pipeline to acquire everything in their thinking at any time. This situation also makes the granular creature think that the main goal of the pipeline is to collect the thinking of these creatures.
At the same time, when they die, they will return everything they have gained in life...to the mind of the stellar pipeline.
Maybe this continues, and the stellar pipeline will be resurrected at some point.
But it must be very long.
Then, the granule observed the third pipe.
This channel is called a ‘rejector’.
Compared with the previous two civilizations, the civilization on it is much more developed, mainly because these civilizations are not subject to any restrictions.
At least not on the surface.
They are not separated, nor are they restricted to doomsday or other environments.
These civilizations have a considerable degree of freedom. They can develop quickly, leave the pipeline at will and fly into the void.
Generally speaking, the result of allowing development in this way will turn a large number of civilizations into one civilization, but in fact there have always been many civilizations in this pipeline.
These civilizations have reached a check and balance relationship. Of course, they also have weak civilizations, but these civilizations are usually regarded as ‘animals for viewing and research’ by powerful civilizations and will not be eliminated as a real threat.
Although they can leave, they never go far.
Because these civilizations all believe that they cannot find a better and more suitable environment for their lives in the void than in the pipeline.
In fact, they have never been found.
The most powerful civilizations can control the direction of the pipeline to get the pipeline close to the destination they want to go. If the target has suitable resources, they will all take it away, and if there is something to resist, it will be destroyed.
But they never move to other places like Tumblers to live, they always treat the pipe as their home.
Together they guard this homeland and go on a long journey in the void.
However, the above-mentioned characteristics of civilization are not the reason why this channel is called a rejecter. It is called this name purely...because it rejects the same method of death as other channels.
Refused to return to the stellar pipeline.
