Chapter 970 Chasing Light
'boom--'
……here we go again.
The light of the explosion shone in front of Lin's eyes again. Looking at the light, Lin made the mechanical spider move again.
They ran out from under a piece of hidden debris and rushed to the place where the explosion occurred as quickly as possible, because it was safer near the explosion crater than elsewhere.
On the surface of the gravity ball, Lin's mechanical spiders have spent three pom-pom days and nights.
This area is a wonderful place. Just like other areas in the void, it has always been covered by darkness and cold, but it is also different from other areas. It often lights up with light and warmth.
On the ruins in the sky, 'missiles' often fly in. These cylindrical objects about ten meters long are filled with explosives. Most of them will hit someone before hitting the ground. Debris fragments exploded, but some were able to successfully hit the surface of the gravity ball, causing a loud light and blasting a huge hole in the ground.
There is always some high-temperature liquid material emitting bright light in the crater inside the explosion. Sometimes the entire crater is filled with light, and sometimes there is only a small amount of this substance in the crater. There is such a kind of creature... that likes this substance very much.
They were the ball-shaped objects that had protected the mechanical spiders before. Lin decided to call them 'Light Chasers'.
The body of the Light Chaser is spherical, with a hollow inside, used to store high-temperature substances. As long as an explosion occurs, they will enter the explosion pit, absorb the high-temperature liquid substances inside, and store them in the sphere.
And they also have a strange personality, that is, they have a... protective behavior towards Lin's mechanical spider.
Lin's mechanical spider is now almost running to the explosion crater. Behind the mechanical spider, there is... something, chasing the spider.
It looks like a creature called an angler, with a big mouth, but the 'debris' itself is made of a rock-like structure and is not as soft as a real angler.
When Lin encountered this creature before, she found that it was eating the surrounding debris into its mouth. And crush the wreckage and spit out the remains.
Rather than wreckage, it prefers to chase moving things, such as Lin's mechanical spider. Therefore, while the mechanical spider was running, the 'Ancho' also chased after it.
However, when Lin approached the explosion crater, its movements stopped.
Because when the ‘Light Chasers’ in the explosion pit discovered that the mechanical spider was nearby,
They will run out of the explosion pit. Then they all rushed towards the angler.
The angler obviously didn't want to confront the light chaser, so he turned around and flew away, so Lin's mechanical spider was safe.
But this safety is only temporary. After the light chasers eat the things in the pit, they will run away. When darkness returns to the surroundings, the situation of the mechanical spiders will become dangerous again.
There are many creatures lurking on the surface of the gravity ball, and they all seem to have a strong sense of attack. The mechanical spider's combat capabilities are quite weak, and it is difficult to kill almost any kind of creature here.
Lin needs to find a safe place to create more troops.
Just when Lin was thinking about it. The light chasers seemed to have eaten up everything in the pit. They surrounded the spider as before, then used their forelimbs to spit out a ball of soft material containing fungi to the mechanical spider, and then ran away.
Lin wanted to know what their behavior meant... Before, Lin thought that this seemed to be a behavior similar to feeding, but in fact it was not. It should be that these fungi contained 'language'.
The language needed another way to explain it, and that's actually what Lin stumbled upon.
Because in the ruins, Lin is still continuing... to capture some alien species for investigation. Because Lin felt that they might have more secrets, and it was still possible to know the location of organs through them.
Lin recently caught a lone alien species. The area where the alien species moved was quite far from their living area, and after testing it. It was found that fungi were also living in its body.
The types of these fungi are the same as those given to the mechanical spiders by the Light Chaser.
Moreover, Lin also discovered that this kind of fungi will not be attacked by the alien immune system. They can live symbiotically near the alien brain. The alien can also command these fungi, and its brain can send out some... signals. Guide the fungi outside the body.
In fact, they use this fungus to communicate.
This alien species has not returned to their main residence, which is the place with many floating rocks, for a long time. Instead, they have been wandering outside for a long time and formed a small group.
This small group of them has a special task, which is to 'contact' with the surface of the gravitational sphere.
This kind of communication behavior is to guide the fungi in the body to the outside, wrap the fungi with a layer of meat-like material, and then throw them in the direction of the gravity ball.
It's like... sending a letter.
This 'fungus letter' will then be received by a certain creature in the ruins. This creature will interpret the information in the letter and then respond to the alien species.
They also use fungus letters to reply, and the alien species have a 'translation device', which is also a thing that looks like a piece of meat, to interpret the reply letters.
This alien species that Lin recently caught has sent a lot of letters, and the contents of those letters... it doesn't even know.
The alien species have a special 'habit' of discarding their memories regularly, and they may store these memories in...some other places.
But this is not very important, what is important is their translation device.
Now, Lin can find the same number and type of fungi from this heterogeneous body as those given to Lin by the Light Chaser. Then she only needs to put them into the translation device and translate them to know what the Light Chaser is saying.
The translated content will appear in the memory of the alien species. When translating, the translation device also needs to be placed in the body of the alien species... And after Lin completed all this, Lin also discovered the Light Chaser...
It's talking about...a map.
What those fungi describe is mainly the appearance of a map. This map should be the map on the gravity ball. It has the terrain of a large area and various details on the terrain, and some areas are specially 'marked'. out.
The main thing reflected in the alien memory is that it will make them pay special attention to these areas.
It seems that the map information in this fungus was specially given to the alien species by the Light Chasers. I don’t know why they gave it to the mechanical spider, but with this map...Lin should be able to move safely on the surface of the gravity sphere. (To be continued.)