The End of the Paleozoic Era Chapter 2042: Inside the House

This seems to be a very interesting phenomenon.

A huge, sea cucumber-like creature crashed into a small stone house in front of Lin and Bilu.

At this time, Lin can see...

Among the debris of the stone house, there were many strange, mist-like things floating up from the debris of the house.

This is not smoke, but... a gray mist with mobility. It gathered into a ball and slowly rose into the air, then floated away into the distance.

Lin felt that this might also be some kind of creature...that originally lived in that small stone house.

The huge creature that looked like a sea cucumber didn't seem to intend to crash into other houses anymore, and it staggered away from the place.

"Veronica... everything here is so strange." Bilu said, "It feels like... the things we encountered before..."

"..."Lin didn't say anything, but walked to the wall of a small stone house nearby and knocked on it.

There is no doubt that these stone houses are made of local rocks, but Lin feels that there are some special substances mixed in them.

"Veronica, let's go... It feels too uncomfortable here."

Bilu really seemed to dislike this place... so Lin thought that they should hurry to a place where they could be teleported.

Thinking of this, Lin continued to move deeper into the village.

The structures of the houses in this place are similar, and there are small stones piled in front of the doors, and there is a face under the stones.

The more she walked, the more she wanted to know... what exactly was going on here? Was it related to the corpse maker bugs? Or...

This doubt continued until Lin saw this scene.

"What is that? Veronica-san!"

Lin and Bilu saw a group of short creatures appearing in front of them. They looked very much like a creature called... rats.

They are thirty centimeters tall and stand on two limbs... In fact, they only have two limbs. There are two structures that look like eyes on their pointed heads. They have no hair on their bodies, but they have very long tails.

Another local creature?

These creatures were made of stone. They were coming out of a stone house. As soon as they came out, they saw Lin and Bilu, and then... they just stood there motionless.

It seemed that they were looking at this side. Lin also tried to look at them, but... it was obvious that there was no way to see anything from the eyes of these unknown creatures.

"These are like white mice without hands or hair." Bilu said, "It makes me uncomfortable to look at them. Can I chop them up?"

The moment Bilu finished saying this, a "rat" suddenly moved.

It rushed towards them at high speed. Seeing this, Bilu immediately drew out the blade and slashed at the...rat.

It was not a cellular organism. Lin noticed that the inside of the mouse that was cut in half was filled with fillings like dust and gravel.

The rat was split into two halves and fell to the ground separately, but Lin saw a cloud of smoke rising from the fallen body.

Like the house that was knocked down before, this cloud of smoke was relatively small, and was very consistent with the size of a mouse... It also slowly drifted away... into the distance.

It feels like a soul is floating out.

Lin thought of the shadow floating from the corpse-maker worm. Maybe all the creatures in this place have this characteristic?

When the other 'rats' saw their companions being chopped, they all scattered and ran away. It seemed that they were not warlike.

Maybe I came here just out of curiosity.

Lin examined the corpse and found that this kind of rat... should be the same species as the corpse worm.

But... there is no liquid in its body, it is completely dry.

But the material composition of its body is almost exactly the same as that of the corpse worm...so they are the same.

Then, Lin and Bilu continued to move forward...but they didn't find anything afterwards.

There are only light mosquitoes everywhere here. Lin has caught the light mosquitoes and tested them... This creature is not the same as the corpse maker worm.

To be honest, the light mosquito is actually a machine, a small luminous machine that can fly. Lin thinks that the Ershi people’s technology is capable of creating this kind of...creature.

To be precise, it is an intelligent machine with some basic intelligence.

"Veronica-san! Look at that!"

After walking for a while, Lin heard Bilu's voice again... because a building appeared in front of them.

This building is much larger than the others, and it has a door at the entrance. The door looks like it is made of wood and seems to be able to open...and the building has no windows.

Lin and Bilu came to the door of the building. Lin first grabbed the door handle and pulled hard...

The door suddenly opened, and a large amount of air rushed out, which only lasted about a second.

Lin discovered that there was a second door inside, and Lin thought... this was quite similar to the common entrance structure of a void ship.

So Lin and Bilu walked in, closed the first door, and opened the second one.

"Who are you?"

Lin discovered that what appeared before her was a large space, filled with... Ershi people.

This place has enough air and temperature, and there are dozens of Ershi people staying here, all looking at this side with confusion.

"Wow, there are so many of them here!" Bilu said, "Could they have been abducted?"

"How... did you get here?" A tall Ershimin came over and asked.

"How did you get here?" Lin asked.

"I...I don't remember."

"Don't remember?"

Lin chatted with the Ershi people here and found out that they all had lost their memories.

Memory loss is quite common among cellular organisms. After all, any situation that occurs to the part that stores memory may lead to memory loss...

And Lin can restore their memories.

However, when Lin proposed this, the people of Ershi here all looked reluctant.

"No, we don't want to recover...it's too terrible." This is what Er Shimin, who first spoke, said.

"Why?" Bilu asked in doubt, "Are you unwilling to help you recover without charging any money?"

"No..." Ershimin said, "In fact, many of us have recovered our memories before."

"But every time they regain their memories, they will leave here immediately and die outside! You should have seen it when you came here. The small piles of stones in front of the house and the skins at the bottom... are all made of our dead companions."

"I see." Bilu said, "Wait, you've never been out, but how do you know there's a face under the rocks outside?"

"That's because we can occasionally see what's happening outside from here..."

"When is sometimes?"

“It’s coming… soon! Aaaaaaaah!”