Chapter 2393: Only Ashes, No Rebirth

"Ahhh! What is this!?"

"No! I want the essence! Go to **Hua!"

“Ah… no!”

This seems to be a dusting phenomenon.

Not long ago, this group of blue pitaya-like creatures cut off all the mud that came out of the residential ball, and then planned to cut up the entire residential ball as well.

But as they were preparing to move, these dragon fruits suddenly began to...fall off a lot of debris.

It was as if their skin suddenly began to fall off bit by bit, turning into dust and falling to the ground.

This phenomenon caused them extreme panic. They no longer cared about the resident ball, but quickly fled back to the bamboo forest.

Apparently they were trying to extract the essence to cure this dusty state.

Lin is also very interested in dust formation, but because these dragon fruits are biological structures that Lin has never seen before, it is not very clear why they are turned into dust.

But I know a little bit about it.

They have a 'nucleus' that records their entire growth process, just like the 'nuclear information' of cellular organisms.

And their 'nucleus' was 'contaminated' at some point a long time ago.

To be precise, the growth information inside has been... rewritten. If they do not continue to absorb the essence, their bodies... will decompose on their own.

If it is a cellular organism, Lin can easily adjust the body state of an organism into this state, so these dragon fruits may have been made into this state by some organism that is familiar with their physiological state.

Lin felt...the answer should be found in the resident ball.

Now the resident ball was like an unfolding flower in the hole it had created. Lin let the ball jump in and began to test the ball.

Lin mainly investigated the ball's system to see if there was any information stored in it.

However, Lin did not find any useful information... The system of this ball only has an automatic navigation function. It does not contain any data, nor does it contain any information about the "mud creatures" around it.

While Lin was investigating...

“They are coming.”

Lin suddenly heard a voice behind her.

Standing at the edge of the pit was a huge...blue dragon fruit.

It is more than six meters high, while the ones Lin had seen before were only more than two meters high.

After this huge dragon fruit appeared, it looked at the resident ball with anger.

They have visual organs similar to eyes...Lin discovered this when she was studying them before.

This large pitaya seemed to know more, so Lin let the ball crawl to its side and asked it questions.

It looked at the ball of fluff beside it...suddenly it swept a leaf towards it and cut the ball of fluff into...two halves.

However, the remaining two halves of the ball continued to send it compulsory command signals from captain-like creatures, and only then... did it agree to answer.

It seems that these creatures are very...aggressive, but they are not very resistant to command signals.

To be precise, it's not as red as before.

After Lin asked, she found that this huge blue dragon fruit...

It seems to have lived for a long time.

It witnessed the changes of this world... witnessed the origin of everything.

………………

That was a long, long time ago.

But I don’t know how long it will take.

Because pitaya-like creatures mainly rely on some organisms rather than tools to record things and history.

Those creatures have long been extinct, so the only way they can understand the past is through memory.

In short, a long, long time ago... this world, the gas giant it was attached to, and the numerous tumblers were still revolving around the star at that time.

At that time, there were abundant species here... At that time, this giant pitaya was an individual that could be considered an 'elder' in its group.

At that time, they lived a fairly ordinary life, and one day... a fire appeared in the sky.

In the midst of the fire, a large number of phoenixes landed on the ground.

These phoenixes began to wander around the world, trying to communicate with the many creatures there.

This pitaya elder and its community are also one of the Phoenix's communication partners.

At first, it took Phoenix a long time before it could communicate with them without any obstacles.

After being able to communicate perfectly, the phoenixes began to discuss one thing with them... that was the plan of 'Phoenixization'.

This plan is just like its name, to put it simply, it is to turn them into phoenixes.

The pitayas in the entire community were very excited when they first heard the news... because the Phoenix was very much in line with their... aesthetic standards.

They all want to become a creature like the phoenix, with a shining body and the ability to fly in the sky.

The elders at that time also thought so, so they quickly agreed to Phoenix's plan.

Of course, the Phoenix did not just look for their own group, but also looked for almost all the intelligent creatures here to implement this plan.

Except for a few creatures that find the Phoenix ugly from an aesthetic point of view, most creatures accept it.

Then Phoenix began to install many 'Phoenix devices' in various places in this world.

The appearance of this device... is actually the current residential sphere.

Any creature that wishes to become a phoenix can enter the unfolding sphere and receive the 'Phoenix Irradiation'.

In fact, it is to enter the unfolded sphere and then be exposed to the green light shining from inside for about a hundred seconds.

Just do it once a day and you will become a phoenix after a while.

At that time, all the creatures, including the dragon fruit community, happily transformed into phoenixes.

After a period of irradiation, many dragon fruits found that their skin began to break into pieces and fall off.

At first they were very happy, thinking it was a sign of transformation into a phoenix.

The result... eventually these creatures' skin began to fall off, and finally they completely turned into a pile of dust.

It did not turn into a phoenix.

The elders had found Phoenix and asked why it had become like this...

Phoenix said the plan had failed.

And they have no solution, and they also say that if things continue like this, sooner or later all living things in the world will turn into dust.

However, Phoenix also said that they don't have to worry, Phoenix will first find a way to completely "pause" the life in this world, and then help them recover after they have a solution.

Without waiting for the elder to say anything, the phoenixes left.

Then, the 'sunshine' of this world disappeared.

From then on, there was no distinction between day and night in their world, and it was always in complete darkness.

It seems like it has entered solidified void.

But they are not 'paused', but... still able to move.