Vol 9 Chapter 62: end of tunnel

There was a period of 'life burst' in the shadows of the void, when many shadow creatures appeared.

Most of them are not threatening, and the existence of these creatures is not noticed by civilized creatures who generally live on the ruins.

Survivors have been investigating and classifying the creatures.

They find creatures in the shadows of the void... the randomness is very large.

After these creatures are born, there are quite a variety of possibilities, some will just wander aimlessly somewhere, and some have special goals.

Their goal is generally not to reproduce or eat, but to do something as if they were on a mission, such as specifically attacking certain creatures, or going to a certain location.

Of course, these shadow creatures seldom choose the civilization creatures on the ruins as targets, and they generally operate at the edge of the space in the shadow of the void.

Although they are very different, they all have one thing in common is that the shadow of the void will sink, but the impact of a shadow creature is much smaller than that of a civilized creature in the ruins.

Therefore, although there are very few civilized creatures, they can pull the shadow of the void, barely standing in a state of 'contest'.

As the shadows of the void continue to grow, the number of these creatures has become larger and larger, and the survivors can control them at the earliest, by transforming these shadow creatures or directly killing them. Not so much, but then it gets harder and harder to control.

The survivors themselves can't make so many ruins and civilized creatures to pull back the sinking void, they think this is because the shadow of the void is still growing.

I don't know why, the shadow of the void has always been merging with the various small spaces scattered in the void, becoming a larger and larger area. They suspect that this is caused by some creatures, but the shadow of the void itself is too large to explore. too difficult.

And they choose to face this difficulty head on.

Survivors at that time produced a lot of exploration vehicles to conduct large-scale surveys of the shadow of the void. In addition to finding many shadow creatures that were not found before, they also noticed some special places.

That is, some areas in the shadow of the void that have just 'grown' out. These areas are actually formed by the integration of scattered small spaces in the void.

Therefore, these areas are very 'normal' in nature, that is, compared to other parts of the shadow of the void, which are already deep, these new areas are much shallower.

If the shadow of the void is likened to a tunnel underground, the new area is the part closest to the surface.

Although these parts are not creatures, they also have the effect of pulling the shadow of the void to slow down its sinking. Every time the shadow of the void melts into a new space, its sinking speed will slow down, and the effect of adding the ruins has actually begun. It levitated.

But these newly merged spaces will soon sink into the depths, and then the Void Shadow will resume its previous sinking speed.

It's caused by some kind of creature.

This creature only appears when the shadow of the void melts into the new space, and leaves after a short time.

When they are in the space, they will quickly change the new space, making it impossible to affect the Void Shadow sinking soon.

This kind of creature, named by the survivors as 'The Sunken', they also have another name 'Twisted Domain'.

The latter name is taken by some civilized creatures who know them, and they have this name because they are a kind of 'creator-type' super creature.

The creatures themselves had no 'appearance', or the survivors at the time couldn't investigate what they actually looked like.

The appearance of the 'sinkers' is relatively obvious. Every time they appear, they are accompanied by a spherical 'field' with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers. If you enter the field, you can feel that the flow of time inside is slower than that of the outside world. .

But other than that, nothing will be found, even if you search the entire spherical field, there is nothing in it.

Maybe the entire spherical field is the 'sinker' itself? Survivors think they are something hidden inside, but have yet to find it.

There is another characteristic of the sinkers themselves, that is, they are sometimes grouped together in large numbers to form a giant field. There will be many things in this large group of fields, sometimes it will be some floating stones, sometimes It is a small star that rotates at a high speed, sometimes a large number of creatures, and a whole thriving biological civilization will appear.

But this is short-lived, as the sinkers generally come together after a period of time, usually dozens of pom-pom years, and everything within them falls apart.

Some civilizations have observed this phenomenon, so it is believed that there is some kind of "distortion" in the void, showing some kind of illusion.

But these things inside the sinker are not illusions, they are real things, and when the sinker disperses, the things inside will also 'pour' out.

If there happens to be a civilization or something nearby, what they pour inside can have a devastating effect on it.

Some creatures who have observed this phenomenon believe that the sinker created a 'world' full of creatures in a very short period of time but did not want to maintain it, but allowed it to collapse and destroy.

In general, no living being can know the truth about the Sunken.

Of course, the biggest point for the survivors is that these sinkers will run into the shadow of the void and make the shadow sink faster.

They don't have to do anything, as long as they appear in the spaces that the shadows of the void are newly integrated into, they can speed up the sinking of these spaces, so the survivors initially attacked the sinkers directly as usual.

It's just that the sinkers are different from the previous ones. They don't have an obvious "ontology". Although the survivors can use some methods to get rid of their spherical fields, they will appear in other places after a while.

After finding that it had no effect, they began to investigate how to eliminate this creature using various methods.

Slowly they discovered one thing, and that was that these sunken people... seemed to be shadow creatures too.

They are very ancient and existed before the survivors were born.

At the same time, the large number of aircraft released to explore the shadow of the void also responded to the survivors, and they found some very ancient areas.

These areas are not formed by the fusion of ordinary space tunnels that are common in the void, but have existed a long time ago and are directly connected to some spaces in the 'deep void'.

It seems that it is also because of their existence that the shadows of the void continue to grow.

Before that, the survivors also investigated the shadow of the void, but they have never found these places, which is related to the sunken.

(End of this chapter)