Chapter 24 The Gentle Way

"This is the 'Void'."

"Goo!"

"This is the 'Void Bus'."

"Goo?"

"This is 'dumb'."

...

Under the dark night sky, the city of the imaginary people is still brightly lit, and many imaginary people can't rest even when the night falls. They can only survive in this world by working non-stop.

And the virtual people in the research institute are the few virtual people in the world who can sleep until they wake up naturally, and they will never miss the opportunity to sleep.

Therefore, in the underground research institute, except for a few soldiers on duty, all the Voidlings are in their terrifying or wonderful dreams, which makes the place quite quiet, so quiet that Lin is teaching the starfish baby of the Voidbus. I know the pictures, they don't know...

The pom-pom with its ice-crystal-like shell changes color, and with each image, the pom-pom utters a word, just as it did with the head bug.

This education has lasted for many days and nights, and the starfish has changed from being indifferent to the pom-pom at first to being very excited when the pom-pom appears in front of it.

At present, it has learned a lot of things through pictures, and every time Lin speaks about the relevant sound, it knows what object Lin is talking about.

And when it was recognizing the picture, Lin was also observing its internal structure. The inside of this starfish would be active like an ordinary creature. Lin was observing which part was particularly active to confirm that it was the brain.

Lin found that near the core area of ​​the starfish, whenever the starfish was excited, there was a small piece of something that would be particularly active, that might be the brain... but it might also be the organ that secretes pheromones.

Recently, its newly produced teleporter has been sent to a battleship and assembled in the core.

Lin's education here has made the little starfish and the pompom get closer and closer. Lin felt that if the virtual people started to treat it like this, it should be no problem to call it autonomous teleportation later.

However, the virtual people never seem to have thought of doing this to it. They have always just wanted to control it.

Sure enough, it has something to do with their idea that only creatures similar to themselves are called intelligent?

No matter what, if it goes on like this, Lin can also slowly cultivate a Void Bus that has a good relationship with the pom-pom...

Moreover, it will be easier to do any research...

And while Lin was educating here, something happened on the other side...

Before. The spear that attacked the battleship released a huge number of small spheres, and Lin discovered later that there was a space for these spheres behind the spear.

There is air in it, as long as it is opened, the sphere will be ejected with the air and scattered in the surrounding void...

and then?

Then, nothing happened yet. Lin thought that these orbs might be summoning something related, so she kept monitoring it.

And Lin's battleship is approaching the Voidmin's safe zone, and Lin intends to directly teleport the entire battleship to the Voidmin's cue ball to see what special reactions they have.

But the most important thing is to feel the transmission energy.

Only by being teleported in person can you feel what's so special about this kind of energy, because the virtual people are not necessarily willing to teleport a strange battleship in, and Lin doesn't plan to hide her identity, so she needs to have a good relationship with the starfish.

However, Lin's teaching process will still cause a relatively large disturbance, so it is impossible to hide this group of imaginary people from the research institute for too long.

They soon discovered something was wrong.

"Headmaster...it's looking a little weird lately." At some point, the headmaster received a report from the phantoms in charge of surveillance, and many phantoms gathered around a nightly surveillance video.

They saw in the footage that the starfish made some strange moves, swaying its tentacles towards a corner of the room and making cooing noises from time to time.

In the video, they can't see the pom-pom, because the pom-pom also refracts the light hitting the monitor in a special way when displaying the image to the starfish, making the monitor unable to receive the image of the pom-pom.

"It's never done anything like that, Chief." said a researcher beside the Chief. "It may be that its armor has some influence on it."

"No, it looks like it's communicating with something." Another researcher said, "We should look into it."

"Don't worry about it so much." The chief said: "It looks very excited, which is a good thing. The general is going to conduct a teleportation test recently, and we must prepare for a new stimulation teleportation."

"Yes," said a researcher. "The stimulation device used with the armor has been made. This new device allows transmission without any delay."

"Through the latest research, we have decided to use the 'thermo-optic fusion method'." The phantom picked up a portable video device, which showed what it said was a new device.

"This device fits perfectly with the slots on the armor, and as soon as it is activated, they emit high-temperature lasers, which instantly stimulate the target, causing it to teleport back.

In hundreds of years of testing, Voidlings have figured out how to stimulate a starfish to use teleportation, and which parts to stimulate will make it use which teleportation.

Using teleportation is not as unstable as spawning a teleporter, the Void can control it to use both types of teleportation very well.

"Very well," said the steward. "Then let it hit the latest device."

".[,!]Wait a minute." However, a voice actor interrupted the manager.

"I don't think this kind of stimulation is inappropriate." A phantom said suddenly: "I don't understand, why do we have to use stimulation to make it do things? Why don't we use gentler methods, such as feeding etc. to lure it into using teleportation?"

"You're..." The manager glanced at the Xumin and said, "A newcomer?"

Lin found that virtual people usually seem to be like this. When they hear a virtual people speak, they first pay attention to the identity of the virtual people, and then the content of their words. In fact, the content of their words is not very important, basically. Identity is everything.

"Yes." Xumin said, "I'm a researcher intern who came here recently."

"Newcomers should study hard, don't ask any questions, and don't make any suggestions compared to your senior researcher." The manager said: "Okay, now prepare..."

"No!" said the imaginary citizen, "you should have seen the creature just now, it is so happy, so happy, don't torture it any more!"

The manager was stunned, and then asked a researcher beside him in a low voice, "Where did it come from?"

"Strange...there is no information."