Chapter 2788 Understanding

"No...you can't do that!"

The fear of death is an emotion that this creature has never experienced in its long life. It has never been afraid of death. Novel .

This seems to be a matter of course.

After all, why should a creature that can be reborn again and again be afraid of death?

But it is very scared now. To be honest, it is not afraid of death, but it is afraid that its current...interest has disappeared.

It has always been very fond of distortion and of seeing the impact on the surrounding things after extracting the hidden content of the cell nucleus information.

Even if its consciousness disappears...Lin can still continue to study these huge bones and the devices inside.

At the same time, Ersh could also confirm what kind of creature it was.

This made killing it seem like a more necessary thing, but before that, Lin still wanted to confirm with it... something that happened a long time ago.

That’s when it was born.

Although it felt that many of its past memories became clearer after Ersh, the memories that were too far away were still not clear.

Among its older memories, there are memories of creatures called primitive buses... those primitive bus creatures that appeared when the tunnel collapsed.

However, its specific knowledge about bus creatures was not learned from those primitive bus creatures.

But I learned it from a...star bus.

At some point in its long life history, it encountered a star bus.

This is similar to Ersh's situation. A group of individual creatures on this bus have unified their beliefs to form a collective of beliefs.

The faith collective was soon noticed by the bus, and the buses that were interested in it began to communicate with the collective.

The collective was in a 'powerless' state at the time and didn't want to do anything on its own, but it would still respond to information from other creatures.

While communicating with the collective, the bus kept trying to inquire about its origins.

When the collective communicated with the bus, something similar to what is happening now happened, and it clearly recalled what happened in the past.

However, I didn't recall it immediately, but slowly recalled it during the communication process.

Maybe it was because it was a long time ago, at any rate it could recall the original bus creature more clearly at that time.

When the collective mentioned the original bus, the bus creature that was communicating with it became very interested... and kept trying to learn more.

During the communication, the collective also learned some information about the bus creature, and knew that they were probably evolved from the primitive bus creature.

They didn't communicate for too long afterwards, as the collective's situation wasn't very stable at the time.

It died quickly.

Then when it is reborn, it is no longer in the body of the bus creature, and the cycle of reincarnation continues generation after generation.

Until now.

When the collective was angry at Ersh, it said that Ersh was an original bus and that consciousness was stolen by it.

This is actually how it mimics bones.

Bone and Ershimin are very similar in one thing, which is that they like to say that they are the other party's elder in order to humiliate the other party.

A creature's respect for older individuals can also make it think that younger individuals are of lower status, with less experience, knowledge, and intelligence... and are short-sighted. Calling oneself the other person's elder is equivalent to saying that the other person is stupid and inferior.

Many organisms have this idea... and bones are no exception.

However, the collective does not have this idea and does not think that being older is anything special.

Even though it had developed many new emotions after becoming interested in Distortion, it was still the same... it was just that it often saw Bones humiliating its own kind in this way.

So it followed the bones' way and described itself as an older, more... more ancient being than Bilsh. It thought that doing so might be an insult to Ersh.

Although...it actually has no effect.

After figuring out these seemingly interesting things, Ersh felt there was no need to keep it.

Kill it quickly so that it can return to its cycle and let Ersh... track its thoughts.

It's also easy to kill.

That is to cause some... damage to the signal sending parts of these giant bones, so that its thinking will be gone.

It doesn't seem like a species with division of labor. For example, when an Inca swarm splits, its group consciousness disappears, but its original thinking will return after the swarm merges.

Once the collective thought is separated, there is no way back and it will move to the next place.

Ersh believed that this was some kind of special creature, so he needed to confirm it by tracking it.

In that case, Lin ordered a large number of micro-troops to drill into the signal organs inside these huge bones.

Then start dismantling the massive structures inside it.

"Stop, you can't do this!"

During the disassembly process, Lin could find that its mind was very opposed to this kind of thing, and it didn't want to go back to its past state.

But in addition to its thinking itself, Lin also discovered another signal.

Originally, the collective's thought signals were transmitted between these huge bones, but Lin noticed that from a long distance...

There's another signal going to the signal organs in these bones.

Of course, Lin could also feel it when the micro soldiers were dismantling the organs.

The signals all said the same thing: "Stop, can't kill it, can't let it end."

"Otherwise…it will never end."

Lin was very curious about this, so she asked some questions.

In fact, it was just stuffing Lin's inquiry information into its signal organ, and the signal from afar was also discovered, so it gave Lin some interesting explanations.

"It's still some time."

It said that if the collective was killed now, it would definitely be reborn somewhere.

We must let it live for a while longer... The information also stated... It is normal for a collective to live without sexual desire. It is abnormal for it to have emotions. This is the same as what Lin thought.

As long as it is allowed to live in an abnormal state long enough, it will completely die.

There will be no rebirth.

Of course, there will no longer be a unified belief among individual creatures, but similar beliefs will still appear.

However, things like the Faith Collective will never be summoned again.

In fact, the distortion itself is a trap.

To make it interested... to generate emotion... and finally to destroy it.

There’s only a little time left, maybe a few more pom-pom years.

It’s said to be a little bit, but actually it seems a bit long.

Anyway, if we kill it now...the plan that has been going on for so long will fail.

So it tried to communicate with Lin and Ersh to stop Lin from killing it.