The End of the Paleozoic Era Chapter 2181: Hearth Fire

“…”

“…It seems like we’ve arrived at a strange place.”

Everything around...

Everything was in complete darkness.

However, there is also light here... There is a flickering light in front of Lin's eyes.

It was a square object that looked very much like a stone, one meter long, wide and high, and on this square object there was a ball of constantly jumping flame.

It looked like a flame, but it was white and had no temperature at all.

It illuminates the area with a radius of about ten meters, which is also the size of the environment that Lin can see at present.

Outside of its ten-meter light, there was pure darkness. There was no way to see, and no way... to use any of the sensory organs that the ball had to perceive the illusion of the outside world.

It seemed that the dark area outside was an area with nothing at all, somewhat like the edge of a dream world.

But in fact, darkness can be entered, because... Lin saw that the team leader 'Nuo' was now at the edge of the light.

Its lower half was in the light, while its upper half was in darkness.

So, Lin floated to its side, used her fluff to probe its skin, and found that it... was still alive.

And it was not injured, which means the previous explosion did not hurt it.

However, the cells inside it are in a strange state, where everything is moving very...slowly.

Whether it was blood flow, organ activity, the symbiotic bacteria in its body, or everything... everything slowed down.

Lin thought that was probably the case... Thinking of this, Lin pushed it into the darkness.

Lin discovered that the closer its body was to the black part, the slower it moved.

On the other hand, when it was pulled to a place with light, its body functions began to return to normal... When Lin dragged it completely into the light, it woke up.

"Here... are we coming in?" After waking up, Nuo looked around and soon noticed the block with "flame" burning in front of him.

Nuo said: "I see, that's the reason..."

"Where is this place?" Lin asked.

"This is the entrance to the solidified void." Nuo stood up and said, "We were touched by the cracks at that time, so we came to this place."

"Things in our void cannot perform any...actions here, but..."

As he spoke, Nuo looked at the square in the middle and said, "Because it is exactly where we entered, we can...move around here."

"What is this?" Lin also did some tests on this block, and it seemed that everything within its lighting range was normal.

"I call it furnace fire." Nuo said, "This is a creature that lives in the entrance area of ​​the solidified void."

"'Entrance' refers to the places where our void is most likely to come into contact with us." Nuo said, "At the entrance... you can often see these creatures."

"It can make the surrounding void...remain in a normal state." Nuo said: "In fact, most creatures in the solidified void have this ability, but some do not."

"In the 'entrance' area, there are a lot of creatures that cannot move freely." Nuo said, "We are considered to be one of them."

"So what are you going to do next?" Lin asked.

"There's nothing we can do. Just wait here." Nuo said, "Maybe something special will happen."

After saying this, it sat on the ground, looking at the flickering 'flame' in the center, as if in a... daze.

But according to what it said, it seems that there is no way to do anything other than daydreaming.

Originally, it wanted the bus to help it enter the solidified void, but now it came in by accident and there was no way to leave the range of light, which meant... it really could not do anything.

Lin did some tests in the following period of time.

The main purpose is to test the... solidification here. Just as Lin knew before, as long as it is in the darkness, all activities of the body will slowly slow down.

Interestingly, the reduced activity does not cause any feeling of coldness, to be more precise... you don't feel anything.

I don't even feel that my thinking has slowed down.

But there are ways to know that you are slowing down, because you can see that things in the light are speeding up.

However, not being able to feel the slowing down is also in line with the nervous system of the organism itself. For example, Lin's fluff ball's own brain... cannot feel it, but Lin's "consciousness" can clearly feel that the fluff ball is slowing down.

This is a very interesting place.

Then, Lin also discovered that although part of the body entering the darkness would cause the entire body to slow down, objects touching the body would not slow down. For example, Lin was able to pull Nora out just now, but the contact with the skin would not have any effect.

But if Lin puts the cells into Nuo's blood vessels for testing, the cells that enter will also slow down.

There seems to be a very strange...judgment effect.

Then, Lin examined the creature in the middle that Nuo called "fire".

According to Nuo, most of the solidified void species will not be affected by solidification. Some of them rely on the composition characteristics of their own body materials, and some substances themselves will not be solidified here.

Still others relied on energy or some strange things that even Ersh didn't fully understand.

The main feature of the 'fire' is that it can emit an effect called 'anti-coagulation field'.

This prevents the area around it from solidifying within a certain range.

The anti-coagulation field is emitted from inside the cube, and as for the dancing flame on it... it is a luminous substance that imitates the effect of burning flames.

As for the significance of doing this, it seems to be to indicate the scope of one's own solidification field.

Some solidified creatures...including Midgard, have the ability to create this anti-solidification field. Nuo believes that a considerable number of creatures that cannot resist solidification depend on them for survival.

Lin thought that if this was the case, then she could take apart a furnace and study how the anti-solidification field inside was formed, and then she could use it on herself.

However, attacking it now might cause...the anti-coagulation field to shut down, leading to a fall into coagulation.

To study it, you have to wait... for the second fire to appear.

As long as the two fires overlap, it doesn't matter if one is separated... Nuo said that he could indeed wait for this opportunity and see.

There are many fires in the entrance area, so it is possible for the two to collide with each other.

However, before this happens, you can't do anything but stare blankly.

Or... see if any other solidified creatures appear.

Because besides the fire... there are also many living creatures here.