Chapter 1561 Original Ingredients
They are moving here, and Lin is watching them.
This is a space that looks like a cave, but in fact this is... the underground of the shopping mall. Lin found this place not long ago.
This place is the nest of those small gray-black creatures with hairless tails, which breed and grow in large numbers in this place.
However, they were not the only ones active here. Lin saw occasionally something like worms crawling among these small creatures.
These worms are more than a meter long, but they are not really worms, but... transpirators.
To be precise, they are a type of primitive transpirators. It is not clear how they became like this. Maybe it is to facilitate activities in places like caves.
These transpirators now seem to live alongside these furry little creatures, and they are the main raw material suppliers for food-making devices.
The primitive transpirators here send the... ingredients collected here to the manufacturing device. This is why the food device can produce real food.
The raw materials of these ingredients are mainly fungi. There are a lot of fungi in this cave. The reason why these fungi are produced is... corpses.
There are countless furry little creatures here. These creatures don't seem to eat the corpses of the same kind, but pile the corpses together, thus producing a large number of fungi.
The transpirator will collect these fungi and send them to the food making machine to be used as ingredients.
However, the evaporator will not continuously send these fungi to the manufacturing machine, because the manufacturing machine is not always started. If it is not started, the evaporator will send the fungi to a cold storage inside the mall. Store a large amount of fungi there and wait until the manufacturing machine is started before sending them over.
To put it simply, the food eaten by the Ershi people here is made by the fungi that grow here. If they knew about it, they might... not want to eat it.
However, they don't seem to have any problems eating them so far, because almost all harmful ingredients are eliminated during the manufacturing process of the food making machine.
But the little creatures here seem to have appeared recently. Maybe before that, the primitive transpirators collected ingredients elsewhere.
Lin also discovered that these transpirators did not transfer the fungi to the manufacturing machine or cold storage by themselves, but used the transfer system here.
This project site, like the others, has a 'built-in' teleportation system, and these primitive transpirators have access to this system.
Lin has been observing them for some time, and Lin found that the intelligence of the primitive transpirators is... very low. They can only do some very simple things here, which is to collect fungi and their own food.
Ingredients are given to food makers, and they themselves eat some of the materials in the ground.
This kind of transpirator indeed has nothing to do with the current transpirator, but Lin discovered that they are related to... the ghost cubs.
Because they all follow a life pattern, which is not their original life pattern, but imposed on them by other creatures...
This creature is the ghost cub, which has been controlling the transpirators here and letting them feed... the residents of Ersh.
Therefore, Lin planned to ask what its purpose was, but it didn't seem to be easy to find.
Lin thought it would be easy to find before, because traces of it could be found everywhere in the mall, but now it seems like they are just traces.
Every transpirator here has some traces of... ghost cubs left on them.
Because there are a lot of primitive transpirators, this is also the reason why Lin detects a large number of ghost baby signals in the mall.
But the ghost cub was not among the transpirators. Lin searched almost every place in the mall where there were original transpirators, but found no trace of the cub.
In fact, the transpirators are only in the underground and icehouse of this shopping mall, and no clues about the ghost cubs have been found in these places.
So what should we do? Lin felt that maybe she should look for clues from the original Ershimin.
Although most of the food produced here has traces of ghost cubs, only the Ershi people had a strong desire to make skeleton machines. The other Ershi people did not have this idea.
So it should be a relatively important role, and this important role is now under serious threat.
If the ghost cub cared about it... it might care about the current situation.
Lin's pom-pom has now flown to the first floor of the mall, where you can see countless small gray and black stuffed creatures moving around, gnawing at everything here as if they are going crazy.
However, the main target is the room enclosed by the Ershi civilian container. These little creatures are already densely packed outside the container, and their number has reached a very terrifying level.
Moreover, Lin discovered that they really chewed up the metal containers. As they gnawed, there would always be countless dust particles scattered with the gnawing sound.
It won't be long before they bite through the container and get in. In this case, the Ershi people inside will probably be torn apart.
The container seemed to have run out of power because it never discharged.
"They are coming in? What should we do?" "There is no other way, we can only make final preparations..." "Do we really have to do it like this?"
Lin heard voices coming from the container, the voices of Er Shimin and his two companions.
It has several companions living with it. Two of them came back before, and they seem to be planning to do something now...
"Open!"
Suddenly, Lin heard a shout and saw the cabinet that had been converted into an automatic door slowly open.
And those little creatures suddenly squeezed into the open gap, like water...
But in the next second, Lin saw them all fly out, and a strong air flow surged out from behind the opened container.
Almost all the little creatures crowded at the entrance could not stand, and they were blown away in pieces.
After the container was fully opened, Lin saw inside the room... there were several large things that could be called fans.
The diameter of these fans is nearly two meters. They rotate at extremely fast speeds, and the strong wind they blow out makes it impossible for countless small creatures outside to enter. They can only keep running towards the entrance, and then are blown away again.
This is quite interesting. When Lin came here before, she hadn't seen many such big fans here, and...
What about those Ershi people? Where did they go? (To be continued.)