Chapter 2579 The Last Creature

The air in the world...began to become thinner after that.

For some unknown reason, the manufacturing device no longer uses common things like houses to make models, but instead uses... air.

Moreover, the location where the model was manufactured was not in this world. Although no one knew where it was, the air in this world began to become thinner rapidly from that time on.

The entire civilization of "Flying Brick" began to be completely destroyed from that time.

After all, they can still survive without houses, but without air... they have almost no way out.

In the end, they tried every possible way to store air, but the air eventually disappeared completely little by little, and the world ushered in an airless era.

In the end, only a small number of flying bricks survived.

What saved the last few remaining flying bricks was... a disease.

At least before the end of the world, they regarded it as a disease, which was called "petrification disease".

It's actually some kind of microbial infection that lives on the skin of living things and slowly builds up a large amount of...solid matter.

Their behavior is somewhat similar to that of corals. In appearance, the infected organisms appear to be growing a rock-like, solid shell from their epidermis, which grows thicker and thicker...

At first, when this disease occurred, Feizhuan would treat it quickly so there would be no danger. However, in the end times... there were not such good treatment conditions. Many Feizhuan could not be treated after getting the disease and could only lie on the ground and wait to die.

In the end, they didn't die.

To be precise... some of them died, but some of the flying bricks survived. At this time, the flying bricks were completely wrapped in the rock-like shell, but they noticed something special.

The microbes do not wrap their limbs, the pair of wing-like structures that allow them to still move.

Although the whole body appears to be covered with a layer of rock, the substance secreted by this layer of microorganisms is actually a very light substance.

This allows them to still move quickly, although it will be more difficult than before.

But more importantly, these microorganisms have brought about a major transformation in their lives.

Microorganisms can absorb nutrients from food located on the rock crust, which is why some of them survive.

Because these sick flying bricks were lying together waiting to die, and those with weaker physical strength starved to death first, but there were still many individuals who were too hungry to move but had not yet died, lying among the pile of corpses.

These starving flying bricks originally thought that their death was approaching, but they felt less and less hungry.

This is because their rocky shells are covered with microorganisms, so when they come into contact with the corpses of their own kind, these microorganisms begin to absorb the corpses as nutrients.

Finally, the microorganisms transported nutrients to the bodies of the flying bricks inside the shells, allowing them to obtain nutrients again and come back to life.

Therefore, they feel less hungry and can move again after lying among the corpses. Of course, they don't know that this is due to the nutrient supply from the corpses of their own kind.

The microorganisms have even made many changes to their bodies. These microorganisms can produce the nutrients they need from the air... This allows them to not need to breathe. The microorganisms have also done another thing, which is to adapt their bodies to the low-pressure environment where the air is thin or even non-existent.

In short, this microorganism, which was originally thought to be a disease, has made a wonderful transformation on the flying bricks, allowing them to survive again in the apocalypse.

Although the flying brick civilization had been completely destroyed at this time, leaving only a small group of individuals wrapped in rock shells and with difficulty in moving, they still survived because they soon discovered that when they put various nutrients... including corpses and expired food on their bodies, these foods would be quickly absorbed by the shells, and the microorganisms would share the absorbed nutrients with their bodies.

This prevents them from eating corpses or expired food directly, and the microorganisms also filter out the harmful effects of these spoiled foods, allowing the flying bricks to survive and try to rebuild their population.

Because their sensory and reproductive organs are on the only "wings" exposed outside the shell, they can still move and reproduce.

At that time, they could not be called "flying bricks" because, firstly, they could not fly, and secondly, they did not look like bricks.

The shells made by microorganisms for them are obviously irregular in shape, and their original shape is like a stone with wings.

In fact, those wings are not real wings. They cannot be used for flying, but only for climbing.

But if they take on the shape of bricks and can fly... that's another story.

The manufacturing device stopped moving after it created the end of the flying brick civilization and sucked out the air.

It didn't use anything else to make the model, to be more precise... it didn't make the model directly.

Before this, the manufacturing devices seemed to have directly made the models themselves, that is, they teleported the buildings away bit by bit and made them into models and threw them back. Only in a few cases were the collection devices used.

After the air disappeared, they no longer made models directly, but relied entirely on... collection devices.

The remaining flying bricks survived the symbiosis with the microorganisms and tried to dig out and revive some of their past technologies...then they noticed the emergence of the collection device.

These collection devices appeared in the remaining ruins of the city, and they do the same thing as before.

It means collecting some things and piling them up in one place, and soon the pile of things in this place will disappear.

The reappearance of the collection devices caused great fear to the flying bricks, so they immediately tried every means to fight against these devices.

At first they were helpless and could only watch the collection device operate.

Generally speaking, whether it is a collection device or a manufacturing device, they will not harm living things, but now it is different.

Feizhuan found that they would be collected by the collection device.

This may be due to their rocky shells, and after being collected they are usually thrown into a place where they cannot escape, such as a pit, and the collected flying bricks will eventually disappear along with the other collected items.

Where did they go? Were they also made into models? No one knew, and no one wanted to try.

However, Feizhuan discovered something very special, that is, the collection device... does not collect square objects itself.

Not sure why the collection device avoids square objects.

So they started trying to make everything square.

This is mainly because they have discovered some former large factories underground that can still be started up.

Using these factories they... make themselves and a lot of things into square shape.