Chapter Ninety-Seven: Search and Avoidance
"When an anomaly occurs, they begin to look for anything that might cause the anomaly."
"But there are so many that it is impossible to directly identify, and there are a large number of reasons that make them difficult to find."
"So they're looking for new entrants."
"If you can't confirm it, but the number of targets is not large...... They will
…… The creator of zào, as I said before.
So, is that what happens?
Now, the dream world connection between the pompom and the black metal has been broken.
The extremely high temperature is eroding the pom-pom's body.
A large number of tiny scanners swam in the blood of the Void Citizen, and the heat they erupted from it collapsed and disintegrated everything around them, and when the blood stopped flowing, the Void Citizen's brain began to starve of oxygen...... Pom-poms have come out of their dreams.
Pom-pom could feel that the scanner was also burning Pom-pom's body, and it seemed that these small things had entered the body of the Void Folk in large numbers, and began to burn the entire Void Citizen.
No...... They don't seem to find pom-poms.
Beneath the burning sensation...... Lynn also noticed that the scanners that were wandering around the void were not targeting pompom attacks, but were attacking everything around them, and that the scanners were not emitting the light of the scans.
As it sees, they probably didn't find the pom-poms, as the creators said, and they probably just wanted to kill all the newcomers, in order to eliminate any threat......
In that case...... They may not yet know that pom-poms are in it.
Lynn let the pom-poms begin to disintegrate rapidly.
Each cell detaches itself from its original position and begins to dissolve the skin in a short period of time. The pom-pom 'digested' itself in the body of the void.
So. Pom-poms should not be detected. The black metal will also not notice that the pom-poms are connected in a parasitic way, so that they will not be able to guard against this method in the future...... bar.
I think so, but I'm not very relieved.
Next, you should think about other ways.
Soon, the body of the void where the pompom was located had turned into a pool of scorching minced meat, and the cells scattered by the pom-pom were also in this pile of minced meat...... Slowly dying out in the heat......
Lin thinks that the black metal may have killed the other newcomers at the same time. As well as some other new creatures, it seems that their previous actions did arouse their suspicions, and even caused them to kill all the new believers......
Although Lynn didn't know what use these believers had for black metal, if they could have a substantial effect on them...... Lin felt that it was also a good option to attack directly from the inside.
But then, it is necessary to act carefully.
In the midst of the warships of the Void People...... Lynn's pom-poms didn't all die, because there were already many small pom-poms flying in, and it was only one of them that had been connected to the dream before.
The rest were scattered throughout the battleship halls......
Now, they will continue to disperse. Before, the creator showed Lin something. It looked like a very strange shape, and it said that it could be connected into dreams.
So what is it exactly? And will it be discovered by black metal? It didn't have a chance to say any of these things.
At the moment, Lin felt that the parasitic connection method was the safest, but it was difficult to ensure that the same method would not be detected again, so she had to go and find that thing.
But until then, the pom-pom must be kept alive.
Just as Lynn was thinking this, a pom-pom was spotted by black metal.
In a brief scorching heat, the pom-pom came out of Lynn's thoughts...... Now, there are only eight pompoms left.
It seems that the situation has become a lot more dangerous.
They were scattered throughout the battleship hall, which resembled a jungle of metal, with a dense mass of stones of different shapes on the ground and metal vines crisscrossing the top.
Between these things, there are plenty of gaps and shelters to hide, but it's still not safe.
Because Lynn found that not only were there more scanners than before, but there was also a new kind of them, which Lynn called 'triangulation scanners'.
The scanners that Lynn had seen before were all purely round, so a new one would stand out, these triangulation scanners were usually pyramid-like shapes, only a centimeter in size, and less numerous than spherical shapes, usually mixed in with a large number of spherical shapes.
It can shoot a ray of light from the corners of its body, and when the pom-pom is hit by this light, it will be instantly spotted, and the previous way of hiding it is completely useless.
Lynn felt that it had a completely new detection ability that was completely different from the spherical detection method, so she was able to spot pompoms.
Just as I was thinking this, another pom-pom was in crisis.
The pom-pom was hiding in a crack in the metal vines, and the outside of the crack was filled with spherical scanners flying around.
Among the spheres, there is a triangular one that is slowly approaching here......
If it hits, it will definitely be discovered, and in that case, this is the only way to do it...... Thinking about it, Lynn aimed the pom-pom at the target......
'Whoosh! ’
Tiny spikes shot out from inside the pom-pom and instantly hit the slowly approaching triangular scanner, and after a small impact, it was knocked out.
This thing is fragile, it only scans, it doesn't attack, and its own defenses are also very fragile, if it comes over......
At this moment, all the surrounding spherical scanners moved, and as if they had been greatly frightened, they frantically rushed to the location of the pom-pom, and released hot liquids into it.
Now, there are only seven pompoms left.
Sure enough, the pom-pom's attack will also reveal where the pom-pom is, so you can only avoid them and move.
Thinking about it, Lynn asked the remaining seven pompoms to act in a different way, concentrating and mixing the fluff on their bodies to form 'limbs' around their bodies.
If you can't hide with concealment, you can only do it with speed.
However, flying is easy to spot, so it needs limbs to run, and just like that, the pom-poms with their limbs formed begin to run rapidly, dodging their tracking under the large number of scanners as fast as possible.
Under the light of countless scanners, these pompoms move extremely fast on the metal vines, and if they are illuminated by the spherical light, they must stop for a moment, and if the triangular ones come over, they must quickly run and dodge.
Running through the gap between light and darkness, the pom-poms left their original positions, observing as they ran, looking for places where scanners were scarce.
Here, compared to the dream, it is simply two worlds.
In the dream, Lin and the creator of the zào moved easily, and the avenues leading to the place did not even have a person in charge of patrolling, and even if something happened, it was not easy to be detected.
It can be said that it is a very 'loose' place inside, but on the outside it is completely different, and there are all kinds of scanners flying around all the time, and even a virus will be found and eliminated by them.
'Smack! Another pom-pom entered the scanner's encirclement, and it was instantly wiped out by the heat.
Now, there are only six pompoms left.
Although they can run fast, they will still fall into places where they can't move, because there are too many scanners, and if you shrink your size, you may be able to get through the gap in the scanning light, but the smaller size will also lead to slower speed, and you will not have time to escape.
The remaining pom-poms must be reached to a safe place faster.
But where exactly do you go now? Lin felt that she should find some virtual citizen.
Or the kind of thing that the creator described before, but because I don't know where to put it, it's easier to find other imaginary people.
While Lynn thinks that the Black Metal may have killed the new Void Believers just now, they shouldn't kill all the Void Believers...... It should be that those who entered here earlier will be retained.
But will those imaginary people be on this warship?
The smell should be able to tell Sù Lin the answer.
It's filled with air, but not oxygen, but of an unknown type of gas, and while it is not known why it is needed, it also allows the pom-pom to collect odor information.
A pom-pom climbed to the top of the hall, and as it ran, gathering information about the scents around it, Lynn noticed some strange smells.
These smells are multicellular organisms.
The pom-pom quickly ran in the direction of the smell.
More than a dozen scanners flew in front of them, and the pom-pom quickly flattened its body, allowing it to pass between the gaps in their scanning light, and then unfolded and continued to run forward.
It's just ahead...... The closer she got to this goal, the more Lynn sensed something strange about the smell.
Soon, Lynn saw the target, and the vines not far ahead coiled together, forming a platform-like structure.
And on the platform, there is a virtual citizen.
It was the same as the Void Folk that Lin had seen before, with a helmet on its head, and it seemed that it should belong to the more 'old' Void Folk with relatively 'old' qualifications, so it was not killed like the new believers, in fact, on the way here, Lin had already smelled a lot of burning.
The smell was obviously caused by the burning of the Void People, and there were many new entrants in this place, but there were also such 'veterans' here.
As long as you connect again, you can go back to your dreams.
However, before the past...... Lin felt that she should solve it first, the dense scanners around the void people.
They, all of them are triangular scanners, not even a round one, and the word airtight can be used to describe it. (To be continued......)
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