Chapter 2380: Creatures From the Past

"It seems... the time to choose has come."

This is... a place called a cellular platform.

In fact, only Lin calls it that. The creatures here have many names for this place.

Not long ago, Lin wandered around here for a while and got to know many of the creatures here.

Among the creatures that live here, many are solidified creatures, while others are normal void creatures.

There are also very few...cellular organisms, and Lin has only discovered two so far.

There are tens of thousands of creatures living on the entire honeycomb platform, and now most of them have gathered in the center of the platform.

Lin's ball of fluff is also here, watching the situation in the sky with a large group of creatures floating around with remote controls.

In the center of the platform, there is a hexagonal object more than 30 meters in size floating.

This is actually a... 'housing platform design installation'.

The honeycomb structure of this residential area was not designed by Phoenix, but by some creature here.

At certain times, the creatures here will gather here and use this device to design the shape of their living platform.

Then the creatures here will vote to see which design is better, and that’s what the platform will look like.

However, Lin came here not just to watch them design the platform, but mainly to see... the Phoenix.

It is said that when they were designed, some phoenixes came to observe the situation here.

Lin became interested in the phoenix because she had talked with many creatures here. According to their descriptions, the phoenixes here seemed very...special. In addition to the many species, their abilities also varied greatly.

Generally speaking, the weakest ones are the 'inferior phoenixes', which are the ones that Lin had seen skating before.

The inferior ones all need to learn to control the gravity here.

And in addition to the inferior ones... there are also stronger types that are born with the ability to control the gravity here.

It is said that the most powerful of these phoenixes can exert enormous...power.

However, the creatures here don’t know how big it is, but some creatures said that they have seen it move a large number of platforms.

Therefore, Lin was very curious about how they controlled it... Although bus creatures could also control gravity, they could not do it so delicately.

To be precise, it is impossible to distribute gravity to so many different creatures. Lin wants to know what kind of wonderful system the phoenix here uses to do it.

In short, it should not be their own ability.

Now the design has begun. First, there is a creature that looks like... a centipede. When it lies on the design device and designs, the device also shows the image of the platform it designed.

It seems like it wants to change the current honeycomb shape into...something like a platform covered in trees.

At the same time, the device will also emit signals to let the creatures here understand all the details of the platform it is designed for.

Then, the creatures here began to vote... and almost all of them rejected this platform.

It seems that it is not very successful.

Then he changed to other creatures and continued designing, while Lin watched from the side.

Lin discovered that... when designing, all creatures like to set them up according to their own living habits, and at most they would consider their neighbors.

So the settings of these creatures...most of them don't get much votes, and three votes is considered a lot.

Lin chatted with the nearby creatures and found that this honeycomb structure only had six votes at the time.

But I was elected because I had the most votes in the audience.

Lin then watched for a long time and found that no creature could successfully get more than three votes.

Because there are tens of thousands of creatures taking turns to design, this period of time... is very long.

Therefore, during this period, Lin also looked at another thing that Lin cared about.

That's where the comet drill is.

Lin had two other pompoms that had already gone to where they were placed.

This place is a place for storing waste, and the whole is a platform with a diameter of more than ten kilometers.

But when it comes to placing waste... Lin hasn't seen any waste yet.

This is an empty platform, and the only object placed on the smooth ground is the comet drill.

There are also some creatures around the drill, they look like small phoenixes.

They were about two meters in size, and there were five of them in front of the drill entrance.

They seemed to be commenting on the look of the drill.

"It might work. It's hard to say for sure. But it does work, doesn't it? It goes in there."

These phoenixes seem to want to send the drill somewhere.

They speak a language of their own, communicating by throwing out tiny bits of 'dust'.

"Where are you going to put it?" So Lin let a ball of fluff jump directly to them and communicate with them.

"What are you? Where did you come from? We need to put it at the energy point."

"Where is the energy point?" Lin found that these phoenixes seemed to be able to communicate well, so she continued to ask.

"It's where we absorb energy. We are always absorbing energy from stars, and this object may be used to increase the absorption."

Lin asked in doubt: "…Why do you think it can increase absorption?"

"It just might be useful." said a phoenix.

Another phoenix said: "Or...it has no use, so it needs to be discarded."

"It's really hard to tell. Let's leave first."

Suddenly, all the phoenixes flew up and left.

Lin felt that they... seemed very strange, and they behaved very... casually.

But let’s not worry about that for now. Lin thinks the more important thing is to get those substances from Ersh.

If it is left here forever, you won’t know when it will be abandoned by them.

"Are you a creature of time?"

Suddenly, Lin discovered that a phoenix that had originally flown away came back and landed behind the ball of fluff that was about to enter the drill.

"What were the creatures like at that time?" asked the ball of fluff.

"It was before..." Phoenix seemed to hesitate how to describe it. After more than ten seconds, it said: "It was before the push."

“Before pushing?”

Lin talked to it carefully and found that this phoenix... seemed to know more about the past.

According to it, a long, long time ago, this star caused a huge... gravitational fluctuation.

When gravitational fluctuations occur, they have very large effects.

It pushes away all the orbiting matter around the star, and in the end, only the star itself and the surrounding... platforms are left.

And what this phoenix said was... it felt like the fluff was a former resident of a world that had been pushed away.