Chapter 2557 Sleeping Period

Finally, the entire Empire left the White Passage and entered a period of collapse due to the final actions of the Forerunners.

In fact, the Pioneers never provided them with any teleportation devices.

They are mainly achieved by controlling the white channel of a...

The function can be called "swallowing", which can swallow things near the channel into the channel and expel them from the other side of the channel.

Of course, on the other side, where the stars are, they throw everything they swallowed to the stars to be "digested".

However, they cannot devour the entire empire at will. The things they devour must be placed with a device for "positioning", and this positioning device is the device that the Pioneers told the Empire is a teleporter.

Later, the Forerunners nearly destroyed the entire empire, but the Empire realized that it was them who did it, and fought back.

This is what the pioneers did not expect, that is, even though they closed the entrance to the passage, the Empire still found... some way to enter the passage and come to the model sand sea.

The Pioneers had no way to attack the invading Imperial troops, so they could only kill some of them.

However, the Empire thought they had killed most of the Pioneers, but in fact that was not the case...there were still more Pioneers scattered throughout the channel.

And they have never discovered these pioneers, and only a few of them have ever come into contact with the empire.

Faced with these imperial troops that came to attack them, the Pioneers of course decided to destroy them completely.

So, as Lin knew... they made the empire think that it was all their fault, leading to the complete destruction of the empire.

Of course, as Lin knew, many records were left behind.

Throughout history, many species have suspected pioneers, and the way they leave records is similar, that is, a team that is not "disturbed" by anything keeps the records.

There is one most critical requirement for the members of this team, which is that no one wants it to die or wants to harm it, etc.

As long as there is such an individual, the pioneers usually can't do anything about it.

Of course, not all creatures throughout history have discovered the characteristics of pioneers and specifically used this method to deal with pioneers.

Sometimes it just happens that some creatures that the Pioneers have no way of doubting the Pioneers.

In short, these creatures used various methods to preserve some recording devices, objects, or languages ​​and texts, etc., recording the process of their race being destroyed by the pioneers.

Because these recording devices are also what the creatures do not want to be destroyed, even after the creatures die, the pioneers will not be able to dispose of these things.

Unless...some new creature wants it destroyed.

Later, the Empire's investigation team found many records of these past creatures and learned about the characteristics of the Pioneers.

But many more records...had been destroyed during the Empire's occupation of the passage.

By the time Lin arrived here, there were only a few records left...

The little red tumbler that Lin saw was one of them.

After the destruction of the empire, the Forerunners entered a long period of dormancy, but they were not completely dormant. A small number of Forerunners remained awake and continued to manage the channels.

In fact, they originally wanted to sleep as a whole, but because the Void Empire suddenly entered the passage, they became a little alert, so they left some awake individuals.

This will slow down the assimilation process, but there is no other way, they have to do this.

At the same time, during this period, these awake individuals also found ways to clear some of the recording devices left behind by previous creatures.

After that, nothing special happened, and the individuals who stayed behind fell asleep after realizing that nothing was wrong.

Until...now.

After a long sleep, they are almost synchronized.

It just takes... about ten balls of fluff days and nights.

But, at this moment... Phoenix forcibly opened the tunnel of the passage because of the war with the captain-like creatures and arrived at this place.

This moment... shocked the pioneer.

Yes, because they had originally closed all the entrances to the passage, but they were forced open by the Phoenix.

In fact, during their long slumber, the pioneers did not notice that a creature called the Phoenix was born on the star.

There was another reason why they were shocked, and that was that the Phoenix... could almost be considered a species with division of labor.

Although they did not seem to have much division of labor on the surface, their extremely united nature was detected by the pioneers not long after they entered the channel.

In fact, throughout history, pioneers have been trying their best to prevent such species that will not...fight among themselves from entering the channel.

If they had already discovered the creatures outside the passage, it would not be difficult to avoid them.

But once the creatures enter the passage, it becomes very difficult to avoid them.

Creatures that don't fight among themselves are too difficult to deal with, and there were even several times when the Pioneers were almost extinct, which led the Pioneers to develop a method.

That is something called the method of expulsion.

This method mainly uses some methods to influence the thinking of creatures, so that they do not want to approach the model sand sea.

At the same time, it will have no interest in the pioneers. This "expulsion method" can be regarded as a kind of "energy" that spreads throughout the channel.

It is particularly effective for species with division of labor, because the entire population has a common mindset and the effect will be passed on.

Although the Phoenix isn't really a species with division of labor, it seems to work well for them.

However, using this approach will also... reduce their synchronization.

The synchronization that was about to be completed was forced to be extended because of the entry of the Phoenix... This is a very uncomfortable thing.

However, if approached by a Phoenix, it would most likely destroy them. A creature like the Phoenix, which is extremely united and full of...suspicion, would quickly discover the characteristics of a pioneer.

And because after entering the final dormant period, the Pioneer cannot synchronize growth by helping creatures...all you have to do is wait until a certain period of time.

Therefore, they have no way to help the Phoenix complete the remaining synchronization before the Phoenix discovers it.

They must...drive away the Phoenix.

And they also noticed another creature.

That's Lin.

The pioneers discovered that they had no way to expel Lin.

And they have no way of calculating...what impact Lin will have on them.

So Lin approached the sea of ​​sand, and then...

Just like the situation now.

To be honest, Lin’s influence on them seems to be... quite big.

Mainly because Lin conducted some tests during the investigation.

In short, the impact caused by Phoenix and Lin slowed down their progress considerably.

About a hundred pompom-years.