Chapter 2899 Extraction

Lin is slowly "extracting" the consciousness of the molten chain.

but……

The process was not very smooth.

Everything went smoothly at first, but Lin found that the extraction speed was getting slower and slower as time went on.

It seemed that the Pain Bus was preventing this process, but Lin found that it was not necessary to extract all of it.

The small amount of consciousness energy extracted so far is enough to allow Lin to communicate with Ronglian.

During the communication with Ronglian, Lin learned...some things about it.

Just as Lin knew before, the Molten Chain was constantly being infused with painful information by the Pain Bus.

All of this pain comes from the painful feelings of all living things throughout the ages, which is very...horrible.

The most important thing is that it won't die from it.

It was conscious that it would be able to survive no matter how much pain it was in, but it realized that it would probably suffer forever, so it had to send out a distress signal.

It cannot save itself, it has no way to escape from here.

Lin was more interested in knowing why the bus did this to it...why it caused so much pain.

Meltlink calls it 'shaping consciousness', or creating... 'emotional creatures'.

It is said that a long, long time ago, a creature with the emotion of fear was born.

This creature... should be the 'fear energy' that Lin knows.

It is said that the source of fear energy... is a 'curse'.

After the war, some bus creatures "cursed" most of the remaining enemy forces, causing them to remain in a state of... intense fear.

This will make it impossible for these creatures to live normally, until they slowly become extinct.

And a creature...the Creator saved these cursed creatures.

They transformed the bus's 'fear curse' into an energy creature, allowing these creatures to get rid of the 'curse' and thus be saved.

After the energy of fear was born... it thought that it was a creature from an unpredictable place, and did not know that it was born in the void here, so it kept trying to find ways to go back.

This is... what Ronglian told Lin.

In fact, it mainly gets this information from this bus.

The reason why this bus did this was to create an 'energy creature' similar to the energy of fear.

That is the 'pain energy'.

This kind of emotional creature is not as "simple" as fear. It can be said to be a concentration of all the pain in the mind... a terrifying thing.

Everything it touches dies in excruciating pain.

What was the purpose of Bus creating this creature? Maybe it was to create a weapon... or there was some other purpose, but Ronglian was not sure about this.

And this manufacturing process makes living things feel pain...that is, the generations of creatures that appear on the surface of the bus.

These creatures are constantly forced into pain.

What is more bizarre is that this bus did not create a bunch of creatures that only have the sense of pain and no other feelings, but instead created a lot of normal creatures, and then forced these normal creatures to only feel pain and not happiness.

Maybe this is needed to create 'pain energy'?

In the end, it is to 'collect' the painful emotions of these creatures.

The painful emotions of a creature will be placed in a special place underground... Lin hasn't found this place yet.

These painful emotions cannot be directly transformed into 'painful energy'. It is said that they also need a... carrier.

The carriers are various 'powerful' creatures.

To be precise, they are energy-thinking creatures.

Similar to bus creatures, or dream creatures... creatures whose thinking is related to dream energy.

The Pain Bus has been attracting such creatures to its surface.

The attraction used a strange method, and Ronglian was not quite sure what it was.

In short, any creature that approaches it will have some abnormal thinking.

Just like the creature that Lin had learned about before... after it came to the surface of the bus, it developed... sympathy for the creatures on the surface.

Although it has some compassion, it is not that strong and it does not want to stay here to help the creatures.

But its compassion was particularly strong at that time, so it stayed here trying to help the creatures until it was unable to escape.

The same is true for the melting link.

When Molten Link met the bus, it felt that its emotions were 'magnified'.

It was very excited and had no rational thoughts at the time, so it didn't try to dodge until the bus floated in front of it.

Until it crashed onto the ground.

Apparently, the creature and the molten chain were both regarded by the bus as 'carriers of pain', and the bus was preparing to transform them into painful energy.

But it seems that it has never been successful.

In addition to them, the bus has captured many other creatures, but the bus has never succeeded in creating painful energy.

At least that's what Molten Chain felt from some of the bus's thought information when it was injected with pain.

The bus has been trying to make it, but it has never been successful.

Another point is that this bus can recognize its own kind.

It will not catch creatures of its own kind to inflict pain, that is, creatures like the Dream Hunter will find the bus scary when they spot it and want to escape quickly.

But this also presents a problem.

That means this bus has indeed lost its normal consciousness.

Otherwise, it can choose which creatures to catch and which to let go. There is no need to make the dream hunter feel... scared and run away from the beginning.

Lin felt that this bus might have been completely "automated"... or in other words, it had entered an irrational state.

It will automatically emit information, and creatures of the same kind will sense this information and stay away from it...but creatures of other kinds will approach it unknowingly, and then be dragged underground and injected with painful emotions.

This is a completely automatic process, which means that the bus cannot make judgments and decisions based on its own consciousness.

So when Lin tried to do some 'little moves' it didn't react.

Because the bus's 'automation' cannot deal with people like Lin.

In that case...Lin thought she could continue investigating.

If the bus still had its rational mind, it might be able to stop Lin.

But everything in its body is automated, or if it is irrational, Lin can use various methods to investigate all its information.

Just like now.

Thinking about it, Lin decided to continue to bring out the consciousness of the molten chain.

By using some new... methods, Lin felt that she could get it all out.

Then it’s time to test its nervous system.

This bus still has some final nerve structures that have not hardened. Although it has lost its rationality, it should contain the final... and most comprehensive information.