Chapter 916 Questions
"What do you mean we're prey?"
In a small space, a large group of creatures are staring at the round-headed tentacles in the center of the space, and one of the most 'brave' creatures is asking questions about this tentacle that has already killed several companions.
"You need to answer questions to understand."
With that said, the tentacle swooped down on the creature's head, then spread out to envelop it as before.
"Ahh! Help!"
The creature struggled violently, and the two creatures next to it, who seemed to be its very good 'friends', rushed up immediately after seeing this, trying to pull the tentacles away.
However, at this moment, two cracks opened on the roof again, and two other sharp tentacles pierced out instantly, piercing the heads of the two creatures.
"Resisters will be directly regarded as waste products." After the tentacle finished speaking, it continued to ask questions about the terrified creature it surrounded.
The questions it asks are very similar to the previous ones. The main question is to ask the creature's level of civilization and technology, and ask the creature to describe the technological products and weapons they often use.
When the creature speaks, the tentacle will further ask the details of the composition of these products and weapons, the manufacturing process, the materials used, and so on.
This creature, like the previous one, couldn't answer the details, because it wasn't specialized in manufacturing, so it belonged to the kind of individual who only knows how to use products but not how to make them.
Therefore, it was also treated as a 'waste' and dragged into the crack...
Seeing the scene in front of them, this group of creatures without any weapons didn't dare to have any thoughts of fighting back. They could only shrink there, and then the tentacles reappeared and grabbed the next creature.
The creature also appeared to be quite frightened, and Lin saw the reason for its fright not long after, and it was also treated as a waste product because it could not answer the details of the technical product.
Then, the tentacle continued to make similar movements, and the creature caught by the tentacle appeared calmer this time.
It answered the tentacle's question. But Lin found that the answers it answered did not match the actual situation. The technological products and weapons it described were completely imagined by itself. As far as Lin knew, there were no such weapons in the city on the other side of the Floating Rock.
"The answer of the target creature is false, and the target will be regarded as waste."
then.
The creature was also captured amidst screams.
After this, the tentacle stretched out and continued to search for the next target, this time, it defined its target as...scholar.
"It's coming..." The scholar immediately said to Lin: "I can tell the truth to it, I know the details of my civilization products. But..."
"You don't need to tell the truth." Lin said, "Just do what I tell you."
"But it..."
Before the scholar finished speaking, Lin interrupted it and said, "It can't detect whether you are telling the truth."
"Answer, the level of civilization." At this moment, the tentacles were already wrapped around the scholar's head, and it didn't seem to distinguish that the scholar was a pure machine rather than armor.
Then, Lin sent a series of answers to the scholar, and what Lin asked her to answer was just a series of imaginary civilization materials, including weapons and products, all of which were fake.
However, the technical level of this utopian civilization is similar to that of the individual creatures living in the floating rocks.
"Collecting information... The target replied that it was valid. It was recognized as a living creature." After hearing this, the tentacle let go of the scholar's head and continued to catch other creatures.
"Really can't detect it?" The scholar looked at the removed tentacles and said with some surprise: "How do you know this? And what happened to the information you just had, it shouldn't be the civilization of the emerald dragon."
"I figured it out." Lin said, "Leave this alone and continue to observe."
"..." The scholar didn't ask much after hearing the words, but Lin felt that it was thinking about something.
Then, the tentacles continued to catch other creatures. Many creatures became calmer after seeing the scholar's successful answer, but some were still terrified.
Either way. They were all grabbed by the tentacles one by one, and then asked questions one by one. Many creatures screamed and were caught, but some creatures survived.
The first living creature. Is a technician, because it is involved in various manufacturing work, so understand the details of various things.
Moreover, Lin discovered that there is a 'trick' to answering the tentacle's question, that is, when the tentacle asks about weapons or other things at the same time, it only answers one thing. Next, as long as you answer the details of this kind of thing, it will pass, and the tentacle will not continue to mention other things.
So even if you only know one manufacturing specialization, you can answer successfully.
It's just that some creatures didn't notice this, and said something like: 'I am this specialization, I don't know anything else', and they were treated as waste products.
In the end, more than a dozen creatures survived... only five, and if you include the scholar and Lin's mini Susumi, that's seven.
These five creatures all have manufacturing technology, and they seem to be very lucky to have chosen this profession at that time.
From the beginning to the end, the tentacle never came to ask the mini Susumi anything, maybe because it was too small?
They seem discreet, but seem to have a lot of... holes.
"Creatures that survived, you are eligible to join us." The tentacles said in front of all the creatures at this time: "Now...you will understand us."
After finishing speaking, the tentacles retracted into the gap, and the white wall on one side of the room suddenly made a rumbling sound.
With this sound, the wall slowly rose up, and behind the wall was a... huge 'platform'.
"here……"
Creatures, including scholars, left the narrow room with surprise and stepped on the platform.
The ground below them is a mainly white metal structure, extending all the way to the farthest point of view.
Lin felt that it should be more than hundreds of kilometers away, and what made Lin even more concerned was that several huge flying objects were slowly flying above this platform.
These flying objects are generally spherical, and their whole bodies are covered with an ice crystal-like shell, and one or two huge tentacles protrude from the shell.
They are... void buses.
Looking ahead, Lin then looked up, and a dense starry sky can be seen above, and under this starry sky, there are many flying objects, almost all of them are white, with various shapes , there is no fixed specification.
"We are hunting." At this time, the voice of the tentacles sounded again: "Look for suitable creatures, capture them, understand them, record them..."
"For...a victory." (To be continued.)