4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

"We will pray for it ..."

"May its soul be redeemed ..."

This is ... rugby town.

More than a dozen days and nights have passed since the rugby ball was attacked by the fog-shaped creatures in the dream. The wall shaped by the rugby ball is now almost damaged.

Because there seem to be many creatures who like to eat that kind of clay, and rugby has no plan to repair the wall, they also seem to know that there is no danger recently, so they let the wall be slowly damaged and do other things in the town.

A rock spider of Lin observes a certain ritual in the town here. This ritual seems to have something to do with the slime in that volcano, because this can be said to be the 'burial' of rugby.

Some rugby balls have recently appeared in towns. They seem to have reached the end of their lifespan. Lin felt that these creatures could live to the end of their lifespan in this dangerous world.

Rugby also has some more complicated consciousness about the dead.

They are in a special town square, which can be called a "cemetery square", where they gather the rugby balls of death, and then pray in a circle around them.

Lin remembered that similar creatures in other worlds have similar rituals. They like to keep the corpses or use some method to make the corpses disappear, such as flames or the like. Few are willing to let the corpses be decomposed by natural creatures.

The Void People's most popular is the 'Void Funeral'. They fire those dead bodies into the void, but this is only a part, most of them are burned.

The rugby ball is relatively simple, piled together to pray.

However, from the perspective of dreams, it seems not easy ... In the hazy dream world, where you can see the accumulation of corpses, there are many black shadows.

They are also piled up like corpses.

But these shadows ... are still alive.

Although the real rugby ball is dead, it seems that the dream creatures are not dying so fast, they are still creeping slowly, as if ... wanting to get out.

"Let them receive blessings!" The real rugby balls are still praying, but they communicate through dreams, and the messages they send need to be received in the dream world.

That is, if it is a creature that does not coexist with the dream creature, there is no way to 'listen' to the rugby message, only to hear some meaningless sounds.

As the prayers of rugby proceed, Lin finds that these shadows move faster and faster.

It's been about a day and night since the death of the corpses, and these shadows have been left on the corpses. It seems that they haven't left until now.

Suddenly, Lin saw a shadow fly, and it detached from the position of the corpse pile, flying high into the air, and at the moment it flew, the shadow on the other corpses also flew at the same time.

These shadows gathered together and flew together in one direction.

The direction of their flight is ... the direction of the plain, are they really going to the volcano as rugby said?

Lin let the rock spiders keep up with them, these shadows are flying fast, and Lin found that they were indeed flying in the direction of the volcano, but just after a while, they began to turn and circle around the jungle outside the town, Without flying in any direction.

At the same time, Lin also found that their body began to become smaller and smaller during the process of turning around, and a large number of black dots scattered from their bodies and spilled into the jungle.

It turned out that ...

It seems that this is also the reproduction process of the shadow.

In the end, these rotating shadows gradually got smaller and smaller, and as the black dots scattered, they also disappeared.

However, the black spots they spilled are all over the jungle. Lin found that they can float around. It seems that not all dream creatures need the mud in the volcano to reproduce.

Lin speculates that these black spots will find a way to find symbiosis between the cubs of rugby ball, and before the symbiosis, they estimate that there will be no special 'intelligence', only that they will shake around.

This feels very interesting ... According to the current reproduction methods, rugby requires shadow death to reproduce, but ... shadow requires rugby death to reproduce.

Are these creatures really symbiotes?

It is true that they are both trying to keep the other party alive, but it is strange to have the other party die to multiply their own numbers.

Lin observed them for several days and nights. Many of those black spots were preyed by the fog-shaped creatures in the jungle, but because of the large number, many survived and hid in a hidden place.

Lin didn't follow them all the time, and estimated that they would have a lot of life until the next batch of rugby cubs.

In the previously slaughtered town, the rugby cubs did not leave there. After the scavengers ate the corpse, they continued to live there. They lived in those buildings. And collect food and the like nearby.

It seems that they intend to inherit this town rather than leave ...

Now it's basically clear how they live, so Lin intends to communicate with these creatures, ask about the nuclear protector, and some other things.

At the same time, Lin is also studying the mud mass of the volcano.

The creatures living near the volcano are all going to breed in the mud in the volcanic lake. Lin originally thought it was necessary, but it seems that it is not the case, but this mud-like thing is still very important.

In the preliminary research, Lin found that a special energy was hidden in it.

Lin can now feel the energy of the dream, so she can distinguish it, and it must all be "thank you" for the spirit of the brain to invade the pompon.

This energy seems to be a necessary substance for synthesizing dream creatures. Lin feels that there should be a way to extract some. Now Lin has let a rock spider eat a lot of mud and store this kind of thing.

The mud here does not seem to be a creature, I do n’t know what is special, but eating it does not seem to cause any special effects, but if it is removed too much, it may affect the reproduction of the creatures here.

So, where should we go next?There seems to be no clue.

Although there are many things to study now, Lin mainly wants to find a nuclear protector ...

In this case, use this thing.

In the void above the tumbler, the star wanderer floating there has opened a device in his body.

This device is a 'Void Signal Receiver', which can randomly receive a large amount of information. If you use it here, you may feel some special information ...