Chapter 2901 Hollow

"What do you want to find?"

"There's only pain and... suffering."

This place is a...hole in the neural structure.

Lin came here not long ago to dig out the hardened neural structure of the Pain Bus.

But if I must say... this place doesn't look like an ordinary cave, but more like a room.

The walls and floors here are all flat and smooth. The length, width and height of the entire room are thirty meters.

In this room...Lin can see a creature.

This creature's appearance is similar to that of a brain worm, and it itself is a white, fat, ten-meter-long bee larva.

In addition to it, Lin discovered that there were many microorganisms here.

These microorganisms are about half a millimeter in size and look similar to fleas. Their main function seems to be to maintain the room...smooth and flat.

Lin discovered that as soon as Lin's micro-troops drilled in, a large number of microorganisms surrounded them and repaired the holes drilled by Lin.

At the same time, they would also attack Lin, but after being eaten by Lin's micro-troops, they all ran away.

It seems that... the creature in the middle noticed Lin.

"Do you want to come here to seek pain?" This larva-like creature said to the location of Lin's micro-troops in the language of the bus: "You have finally escaped from the pain, why do you want to drill in? You should leave here. Although I think there is no way to leave, but at least... drill a little outside. Yes, the pain will be less if you drill a little outside."

"Escape from the pain?" Lin asked the micro-soldier to send a signal to it.

"Why are you questioning me? Could it be that..." The larva seemed stunned for a moment, then said, "This is impossible. This kind of thing..."

...After Lin asked it in detail, it told Lin.

It turned out that it regarded Lin as...'a fragment of a conscious creature'.

The consciousness of many creatures are trapped here... These consciousnesses are suffering themselves, but special situations occur occasionally.

Occasionally, a little bit of this consciousness will 'peel off' and attach itself to a microorganism.

The microbe then burrows throughout the hardened neural structure of the bus.

It initially had relatively 'normal' thinking, and because it was separated from its original consciousness it did not feel pain.

But during the drilling process, it will feel the surrounding nerve structures and the like filled with pain...

To use an Ershimin analogy, it was like walking in a maze filled with the screams and wails of one’s own kind.

Over time, this microorganism will slowly lose its normal thinking and become completely lost in the maze of pain.

This microorganism is called a fragment of consciousness.

That's what this larva-like creature is called.

Now the dense group of flea-like microorganisms that Lin found in this room were all "fragments of consciousness."

The larva said that it has been collecting them all the time, and it can control the fragments of consciousness that have lost their normal thinking to do some work for itself.

It also told Lin that these flea microorganisms were "native species" on this bus.

They appeared on the surface of the bus very early on.

After the creatures on the surface have gone through round after round of painful reincarnation, their populations are still alive.

The only difference is that their living area has shifted from the surface to underground... These flea creatures mainly live near the hardened nerves.

Lin didn't find this kind of creature when she was drilling before, and the larvae indicated that their number was not large.

But they are one of the very few creatures that do not need to feel pain and have emotions.

When this group of microorganisms lived in this place, they would occasionally be... affected by the consciousness energy imprisoned in the bus nerves.

...hence it became a 'fragment of consciousness'.

In fact, it is not the consciousness energy that controls the microorganisms...but the flea microorganisms are "stimulated" by the energy.

Sometimes the conscious energy in the hardened neural structure will attach to microorganisms, causing the microorganisms' nerves to develop rapidly.

At the same time, it will also generate some memories of its own, and these memories are the memories in the consciousness energy.

At this time, the flea microorganisms will feel that they are this creature, so they want to escape from here.

Of course they didn't know where to escape, so they could only hide in this place.

When they feel the pain in their peripheral neural structures, they become more and more...desperate, and finally completely lost.

There are many tiny gaps in the neural structure of the bust hardening that allow them to drill in and out.

Although Lin had not found these microorganisms all the way here.

If that’s the case… then what exactly is this larva?

It told Lin that it itself was also a fragment of consciousness.

...the fragments of consciousness of the Pain Bus.

The larva told Lin all this mainly because Lin sent it some... signals.

Each bus has its own special signal, which is similar to the 'accent' of the Ershi people.

You can express your identity when you send out this special signal.

It seems that when these bus creatures find out that it is Ersh... they will behave very "politely".

So Lin felt that she could continue to ask it many questions.

However, Lin also discovered that many of the things it knew were things Lin had guessed before.

That's when this pain bus has gone completely crazy.

The larva said it was a small part of the Pain Bus that was separated before it completely lost normal consciousness.

Its mission is to fix the abnormalities of the Pain Bus.

But it couldn't actually do anything...it was just stuck here, until now.

The larva said that it did not have any special abilities, for example, it could not teleport and had no effect on the surrounding nerves.

Although it can control these microorganisms, the effect of the microorganisms is not much...the main thing is that it cannot leave here.

Because this hole is a 'safe point'.

If it leaves here, it will probably be caught and filled with pain, so it has been living here ever since.

It also told Lin...not far from this room was the neural structure of the Pain Bus.

"I suggest you don't touch it," the larva said. "It may go crazy about everything."

Although the larvae said that, Lin still decided to dig over and take a look.

The larva did not stop Lin...it indicated that it wanted to continue living here.

What it wants to do now is to maintain the comfortable life here.

After talking to it, Lin let the micro soldiers continue to drill down.

Soon, Lin saw her target... the remaining neural structure of the bus that had not yet hardened.

The place where it is... Lin feels that it looks a lot like 'hell'.