4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

"Goo ..."

Creatures living in the cold gathered together in front of Lin's eyes.

Here is a location similar to the 'central hall'. There is a table filled with fungal food. A total of five fluffy creatures are gathering in this place. They are discussing some things with each other here.

Although Lin didn't understand what they said.

But according to their emotions, these creatures seem to be in a state of tension.

"Cuckoo!" "Nano Nino!"

These creatures communicate in this voice. They have a lot of words and vocabulary. Through the emotions they express while speaking, Lin is slowly understanding their entire language.

These creatures are probably talking about loss.

There are not many of them, it can be said that they are very few. Before, Lin thought that most of them went out, but it seems that this is not the case.

Because these creatures can clearly feel the sadness of losing their companions in the process of talking.

Before, when Lin's disc was shopping here, she found that there were many empty rooms, and the creatures living in those empty rooms might have died.

what is the root cause?

It should not be because of lack of food, because they have a lot of food here, although there is only a single type ...

Lin found the place where these fungi lived before watching them meet.

These fungi are very much like a fungus on the pompon. They can live at a temperature that is almost frozen, and their hyphae can extend into the rock wall to absorb and find the nutrients inside.

Lin found that the stone walls here contain a nutrient that can be absorbed by multicellular organisms, so this fungus can grow very vigorously here, and also provide these long-haired creatures with rich food ...

If it is not lack of food, there may be other reasons for the death of the creature here, too cold?Or something, but I have n’t figured out why they ran out, because there is enough food here, they do n’t have to run out at all, but they can live here all the time ...

Probably because of insufficient energy, the most important thing in this underground cave is actually the temperature. On the surface of the tumbler, the temperature is almost the same as the void. It is difficult for any multicellular organism to live. Although it is deep underground, the temperature is still It's very low, so here is mainly to spread the warmth through a cave like a mushroom.

'Mushroom' is actually a mechanical device. Mushrooms everywhere in the cave lead to a heating device at the bottom of the cave. Lin has not studied it in detail, but it is obvious that the creatures here need to constantly add energy to the device to make it Continue to run ...

If there is no energy, everything here will be frozen and they cannot live in this place ...

But where are these creatures looking for energy?And is there anything to do with the 'snow mushroom' fragments they originally collected?

While watching them discuss there, Lin also slowly began to understand them.

However, the easiest way to understand their language is to look at their memories.

Lin already knows almost their body structure, but the strange thing is that they should breathe oxygen if they were living creatures with the virtual people once.

But they are not breathing oxygen, but a gas here.

This kind of gas is non-toxic and harmless to the virtual people, but it cannot be used as oxygen, but the long-haired creatures here can.

They depend on this gas to make a living.

This creature is quite mysterious ...

And their attitude toward the disc seems strange.

"Wow, oh?" When Lin thought, a creature came over.

Now, the disc is in a state of being captured. Before the disc checked a certain room, it caught a trap and was closed by a sudden cage ...

Lin wanted to see what the creatures would do when they caught the disc, so they didn't escape, and they carried the cage to the meeting place in the center, and then met in front of the disc to discuss.

They don't seem to care about the discs, but Lin also thought that since they will be traps, it means that some intruders will occasionally appear here.

Maybe there are other kinds of biological life here.

And now that they have finished the meeting, they seem to intend to ignore the disc.

Lin saw a long-haired creature come over, they are standing and moving, but when wearing armor, they move on their stomachs, and they feel like the virtual people ...

The creature walked to the disc's cage and took out something and handed it to the disc.

This is the 'fungi' formed by the fungus in their food, and they eat this part.

Now, they seem to intend to give this thing to the disc?

In fact, the appearance of the discs looks more like a machine made of metal. Will they actually treat the discs as living things?It feels amazing.

The disc didn't move. After a try, the long-haired creature discovered that the disc ignored it, and then it stretched out its hand.

And Lin's next action made it even more strange, it opened the cage directly.

They seemed to think that the disc was not threatening, so they opened it?Thinking, the disc flew out of the cage.

These creatures looked at the disc with a curious expression.

It seems that they really don't think the discs are harmful creatures. In this case, let's communicate with them in a common way ...

That's it, then Lin let the disc 'live' in this place.

After this, these creatures are free to move around here, although it is not much different from before.

Lin is here to continue to study these creatures, observe their life and so on ...

The life of these long-haired creatures is very ordinary. In addition to eating, they use some entertainment tools to play there. The things they play are very similar to the toys made by the virtual people.

But now the Void People do n’t play with toys much anymore. They have been using video installations to watch all kinds of things since they were young ...

These creatures do not have video installations. Although they have some mechanical items, they do not seem to create new ones themselves, but only use the original ones.

These creatures are individual creatures. In the process of getting along with them, Lin also slowly understood their language.

I feel that their language is very easy to understand, and it is simpler than the virtual people. Soon, Lin started to communicate with them.

"You ... speak?"

When the disc and they communicated for the first time, these long-haired creatures were quite surprised, but they quickly adapted and began to communicate with the disc ...

"You come from above? Does the above refer to the outside? Why does it come from outside? What do you come here for?"

However, these creatures that may be related to the virtual people do not seem to be as smart as the virtual people, and their thinking feels like ... cubs.

"We haven't seen a creature like you." "It's so interesting!" "Aren't you eating?" "Eat this one, it must be delicious."

A circle of long-haired creatures surrounds the disc. There are a total of fifteen of them, which is the largest number that Lin has seen here.

But there is no 'chief leader' among them, and they all live like cubs.

"Have you always lived here?" The disc did not answer, but asked questions about them.

"Yeah, we have lived here all the time." A long-haired creature replied: "We collect the food that grows on the wall, and you eat a little, it's delicious."

"Yeah, yeah, are you living outside? It must be terrible outside," said another long-haired creature: "We can only feel warm here, and you live here too, our companions are getting fewer . "

"Warmness ..." The disk asked, "Is that the machine that made the warmth made by you?"

"Manufacturing? We won't make it, that one was left before." The long-haired creature replied, waving its arms as if it was signing something: "Stayed a long time ago, we know, feed it, eat it, it Will keep us warm ... "

Another long-haired creature continued: "But ... the food it ate recently was difficult to find. If it didn't eat, it wouldn't warm us. We only continue to work hard to find, but ... many companions Was killed. "

Speaking of which, there is a sad mood among them ...

Sure enough, the situation here is exactly the same as Lin thought.

But why was it killed?

"We don't know, but we heard their screams and something is attacking us." The long-haired creature replied.

"We generally look for food in 'abandoned places', but since that kind of thing appeared, we haven't passed anymore."

"Abandoned land?" Disc asked, "Where is that?"

"That's under our residence. It is said that there used to be many companions." A long-haired creature said: "We can also find food there, but now we can't."

The disc hesitated, and then continued to ask: "Do you know then ..."

………

Then, Lin asked them a lot of things.

However, these creatures are completely unaware of their living history and why they live in this place. All they know is to keep replenishing energy to the heater and then collecting fungi on the wall.

I feel that their living conditions are getting closer and closer to ordinary wild creatures.

This reason is estimated to be related to the fungi they eat.

After carefully examining their brains, Lin found that the fungi they consumed had some effects on the nerves, making their intelligence more like cubs ...

So, a deeper investigation is needed to understand them ...

So, the discs flew to the place they described ... that place called the 'Abandoned Land'.