Chapter 2571 Now

"After that... the population never recovered."

Although we defeated the powerful enemy, we paid a heavy price...

The channel brain disappeared.

The population of sand balls collapsed at that time and never recovered.

Although they had not developed much originally, they still had a considerable number. But after this incident... their population could never recover.

They have lost the ability to reproduce and can only slowly become extinct.

Of course they will not really become extinct, because... the sand balls have become the consciousness of this channel.

So to be precise... their original shapes slowly disappeared and turned into something like an 'invisible' form.

The spherical shape that the sand-guarding ball currently uses to communicate with Lin is just a temporary "incarnation" it created...it is not its original shape.

It means that its consciousness can actually permeate throughout the channel.

And after the sand-guarding ball became the consciousness of the channel...it did the same thing as the channel brain did before.

That is to give creatures a 'mission'.

This was mainly to train a successor, because the moment he became conscious, Shousha Ball felt that he would dissipate sooner or later.

This can be said to be the feeling of having foreseen the date of one's own death when one is born.

And the first successor trained by Shoushaqiu is... Pioneer.

After the pioneers arrived here and discovered the situation of the channel consciousness, the sand guard ball guided these creatures to do the "task" just like the channel brain did before.

The purpose of this mission is mainly to allow future successors to live here long enough and be fully synchronized with the channel.

This synchronization actually causes their bodies to change, slowly turning them into a very special kind of creature that can be said to be a "channel creature."

Although the changes will not have any impact on them, it is said that many channel-specific...substances and the like will be mixed into their bodies, making them more and more dependent on the channel.

Of course, what is mixed in does not necessarily have to be a substance, but it will produce various effects anyway.

It's like after the pioneers have lived here for a long time, their 'thinking area' will become ineffective when they leave the passage.

As for why we must force creatures to do things they don’t want to do… For example, let pioneers help other creatures…

In fact, the Sand Guardians don't know this either. They just discovered that they can make creatures do some things to increase synchronization... but these things are usually very difficult for these creatures.

Shoushaqiu believes that this is a rule set by the channel brain, but the reason is unknown.

And they have no right to change the rules. Although the sand ball has become the consciousness of the channel, it still has some... 'unreachable' places.

That is, some deep rules cannot be modified.

But no matter what, Shoushaqiu just watched the pioneer develop.

The Pioneer can be said to be a creature that makes the Sand Ball feel...surprised, because the Pioneer is a very persistent creature.

Many creatures have gone through this passage before and have undergone this very difficult assimilation task. The species that managed to last the longest only lasted for a few hundred fluff-ball years.

Either these creatures gave up on their own or collapsed before the end for various reasons...the longest time they could hold out was much shorter than that of the pioneers.

The Pioneers lasted far longer than those species.

Although the pioneers themselves had the idea of ​​giving up, the majority of them still wanted to control the channel.

Also, they are...very powerful in themselves and it is difficult for them to be destroyed by various factors.

The fact that the Pioneers were such a persevering race did surprise Shoushaqiu, but... what Shoushaqiu didn't know was that while the channel itself established the Pioneers as the future successors, it also 'secretly' established another successor, the Stellar Phoenix.

Not only the pioneers were unaware of this, but even the sand ball guard was not clear about it.

Although they knew the star existed, they did not notice that the star itself was also involved in the mission.

However, later, when the influence of the star gradually increased and became stronger, Shoushaqiu realized this.

But the sand-guarding ball does not think that the channel brain itself is still "alive", but that it is because of some of the settings they set that it is like this.

The sand ball guard doesn't really care, and with more candidates for succession... that way there's more security.

And as Lin knew...the Pioneers have been working hard until now.

The sand ball guard just watches them, while preventing some illegal actions of the pioneers, punishing their violations, etc.

It seems that guarding the sand ball has completely become a feeling of...living for the passage.

It didn't try to do anything... After the Sand Ball became the consciousness of the channel, it was actually able to do a lot of things.

For example, it can study the channels, modify the rules of those depths, or expand the channels and move the channels to travel elsewhere in the void.

The sand-guarding ball had become a very... powerful creature at this time, but it did nothing and just continued to guard this place according to the method of the channel brain.

It doesn't matter whether it is the Phoenix Star or the Pioneer that occupies the channel, because it has been so long, and the Sand Guardian Ball believes that there should be a new successor, although it will still take some time before it "dissipates".

But this is what Shoushaqiu doesn't want to see happen now.

The Sand Guarding Ball originally had the ability to attack the Death Battleship troops outside, but because the synchronization of the Star Phoenix was almost full... most of its control was replaced when it synchronized with the channel.

Therefore, the sand ball had no way to fight back, and Phoenix was passive and planned to transfer its consciousness and escape.

Because the Mid Void has eroded the channel after the Phoenix transferred its consciousness, the Sand Ball has no way to control the channel back even after the Star Phoenix transferred its consciousness.

So it can only... ask Lin for help.

Because Lin will not be affected by negativity, as long as she has a non-negative mindset, she can resist the negative influence of the Mid Void, and then... she can fight back like she is doing now.

However, the current situation is not very optimistic.

Although a counterattack was launched, Shoushaqiu believed that the channel was actually unable to fight against the opponent.

The counterattack is just to remove the erosion, but they are still in great danger.

So the sand ball defender decided to use an all-out attack to eliminate the opponent in one fell swoop.

If you don't destroy the opponent, you will be destroyed.

Although Lin felt that this was unlikely, but... Shoushaqiu said there was no other good way.