Chapter 16 Signals of Year 0

What if a creature continues to grow?

There may be no end to that.

An organism can grow forever as long as the nuclear information allows it, but what if an organism does not rely entirely on the nuclear information?

From this starfish, Lin can find quite a lot.

It is a heterostructured creature, and this title will be used to refer to non-pompom creatures in the future, which means that this starfish has a completely different body composition from virtual people and common pompom creatures.

Lin recently put some miniature troops into the starfish's research room for observation. It also preys on worms. The worms mince and decompose the food it eats and convert it into pure nutrients for the starfish to absorb.

This conversion process is quite complicated. The worms use a variety of special substances and methods to convert the substances that Lin was familiar with into completely different substances. So far, the conversion process has not been completely understood. Might be a great inspiration.

The starfish here is also like a jelly starfish, with a pile of jelly-like substances in its body, but the difference is that it has a structure that can be called a core, which is like an olive and is located in the center of the starfish.

It seems to be completely sealed. The micro-arms have not yet found a place to drill in. Because there may be unforeseen consequences, Lin did not dig a hole and drill in.

Here, it seems to be the key to the start of the transfer.

According to the records of the virtual people, when the teleportation is activated, an unknown energy will be released from the center of the starfish, and then the teleporter will start to react and transmit.

There are two types of transmission. Send the teleporter to a fixed area. Or pull things back in the area.

The phantoms have invented sophisticated instruments to guide this teleportation. Now that they have full control over the target of the transmission, they have also found a way to transmit the signal back near the transmitter, so that they can communicate over long distances without having to initiate the transmission.

However, it is more troublesome to start a large-scale teleportation. The virtual people have to use some methods to stimulate the starfish and let it release the teleportation.

At first, the starfish would occasionally teleport the teleporter to a distance, but then the virtual citizen used something to predict in advance that it wanted to teleport and prevent its unauthorized teleportation.

For this creature, add what is currently known about the Voidbus. Lynn can make some summaries...

The Voidbus is supposed to be a multi-hybrid creature,

That is, it has a body composed of a part of the body that is different from the pom-pom creature, but also has a pom-pom-like creature's composition, but this state is not reflected in its puppy period.

Cubs are obviously completely 'heterostructure' and can only live in low temperature environments. Although they are not suitable for the Void Cue Ball, they are very suitable for the void. Its adaptation temperature is the same as the normal temperature of the void. .

And in the process of slowly growing, its adaptation range will gradually increase, such as this one in the virtual people's cue ball. It is said that it has almost adapted to the normal temperature.

Xumin has been controlling it by temperature, limiting its range of activities. Or stimulate it, etc. If it adapts to normal temperature, it will be much more difficult to control.

At first it should only be more than ten meters in size, and it doesn't look like a starfish, but after growing for hundreds of years in an environment where there is no shortage of food, it has grown more than three times, and it feels quite slow...

The growth of the Void Bus may be a very slow process, like growing into a behemoth with a diameter of 30 kilometers. I don't know how long it will take... Moreover, even a giant Void Bus has the potential to grow larger.

But apparently at a very young age, it seemed to have the ability to teleport.

Recently, Voidlings also need more teleporters. Generally speaking, teleporters are randomly generated, but Voidlings seem to want to stimulate its production in some ways recently.

For this, Lin felt a little strange...

This teleporter is produced by it. It seems to consume a lot of energy each time it is produced, and it makes it very tired. Why does it produce a teleporter?

However, in the starfish in the jelly area, they don't produce teleporters, and they don't even have a "core" for teleportation in their bodies, but they are indeed the same creature, except for teleportation, other aspects can be said to be exactly the same.

So why? Is this starfish trying to produce a teleporter for virtual civilians?

Lin thinks it may be the complete opposite, it hates these imaginary people...

Although I don't know why Starfish was placed here by the Void Bus as a cub, it is obviously very uncomfortable with the current situation.

"It's time to clean up now, watch out for newbies visiting, don't go over the soldiers!"

Now, the spy is walking into the room where the starfish is with a group of virtual people. It is maintained in a very low temperature environment with various refrigeration equipment, so you must wear cold-proof armor when you come in.

Voidlings generally drop food from above, but sometimes come in to clean up, which requires the protection of a group of Voidling soldiers, wearing thicker armor and standing in a row with 'heat sprayers' in hand.

When they came in, they turned on the sprayer to shoot the starfish. When the starfish came into contact with the hot air in the sprayer, it suddenly cooed and backed away, and the cleaners immediately stepped forward to clean up the place it got out of the way.

"Oh... that's amazing..." Several newbies were dumbfounded as the huge starfish retreated, while Lin was thinking about related issues.

Starfish has been producing teleporters, perhaps to... 'call for help'?

Although the virtual people feed it, but trap it in a small place, activate teleportation and do various things at the same time, they will stimulate it in many ways.

For these ways, it feels quite uncomfortable.

However, this is just speculation at the moment. Lin hasn't seen what intelligence it shows, but it's not impossible, and in fact intelligence has nothing to do with calling for help.

There are many plants that emit scents when attacked by insects, attracting predators to prey on them.

So this starfish cub may be because the behavior of the virtual people has stimulated its ability to ask for help, making it try to transmit information to the void, attracting creatures that can save it...

The virtual people seem to have not thought of this at all, and they continue to do their experiments.

However, it seems that the cry for help for hundreds of years has not received any response.

Is it because the phantoms control its teleportation? Or some other reason?

But a hundred years is only a short moment for the Void Bus, and it may not be encountered because of wandering in the Void.

Because the general wants to build more warships recently, the virtual people plan to use new methods to stimulate the starfish to make more teleporters...

Lin felt that this might cause some problems. (To be continued..)