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Chapter 587 Familiar Name

"The Eternally Thirsty?"

This name suddenly awakened Mo Ling's dusty memories.

He quickly remembered that he had heard this name when he was helping those wishing creatures fulfill their wishes in the Sea of ​​Creation.

"Those are the Thirsty Ones... they will never stop."

"The desire for knowledge is an insatiable desire. They will pursue higher wisdom and use the knowledge they devour to destroy more advanced civilizations. Then they will continue to devour and destroy, and the cycle will continue..."

Information about the Eternal Thirst kept appearing in Mo Ling's mind, and he immediately realized that this creature had long been notorious, and this invasion of the Huasheng Islands must be just one of the evil things they had done.

However, the Eternally Thirsty ones he saw now seemed to be different from those in Mo Ling's memory.

Although they all look like straws, their current appearance is obviously more bizarre. They are floating in the cracked void and call this place the "library". Why is that?
Faced with Radi's questioning, these Eternally Thirsty seemed not to care at all.

The hollow stone was floating like a straw, and the prying eyes were still staring at the two people on the scalpel unscrupulously.

“We are exploring knowledge.”

The sound of tearing paper rang out again, vaguely, as if there were many voices overlapping each other, and countless hollow stones were answering the same question together.

"Do you want to steal the knowledge of the Huasheng Islands?" Radi asked directly.

If they are the Eternal Thirst, they can do anything. Invading the Huasheng Islands in order to steal knowledge is in line with their style.

Mo Ling suddenly remembered that when those doctors were trapped in the maze, there was also a voice that kept asking them questions. Those questions included all kinds of knowledge. When the doctors did not answer, the voice began to steal their memories.

Now it seems that these actions are also consistent with the motivations of the Eternal Thirst.

"They are trying to steal knowledge from healers."

However, faced with irrefutable evidence, these Eternally Thirsty began to defend themselves:
"It's not stealing, it's exploring."

"Knowledge is stored in the minds of living things. We just dig them out, just like mining..."

After hearing this explanation, Radi became completely enraged, and the scorching flames completely engulfed the surrounding void.

"You treat other creatures as mines?" Radi asked in disbelief.

"Is there any difference between living things and minerals? They are just aggregates of naturally occurring substances. Minerals are hidden in the mineral veins. As long as we dig up the mineral veins, we can find precious minerals. Knowledge is hidden in the thoughts of living things. It is just waves of reverberating electric currents. We just take out this current."

"But knowledge can be exchanged..." Radi immediately found the loophole in the Eternal Thirst's logic: "You could have used a gentle way to acquire knowledge, but you chose the most extreme way, using invasion and destruction to acquire knowledge!"

After hearing Radi's words, the Eternal Thirst fell silent.

The hollow stone that was like a straw floated around, surrounding the scalpel in the center, and gradually combined into a larger stone group. Then, an illusory light was projected from the center of the stone group.

"You are too naive. The acquisition of knowledge has always been bloody. This is the experience we have gained on the road to knowledge."

"Living things are like stubborn stones. Only a hard pickaxe can break open the selfish shell..."

On that projection, pieces of their history gradually emerged.

……

The Eternally Thirsty, as the name suggests, is a life that is eternally hungry.

They were born in the deep sea of ​​the third layer of the abyss and were originally just some unconscious soft-bodied creatures.

The nutrient-rich water flows through their straw-like bodies, leaving the nutrients, while the useless water flows out the other side of the straw. At some point, they developed wisdom, and at that time, they developed an endless thirst for knowledge.

"What is the sea?"

"What is water?"

"What am I?"

"This is where?"

Countless question marks appeared in their minds. Their desire for knowledge even exceeded their need for food. Not only that, in their perception, everything around them was also a question mark.

There are a bunch of question marks on the rocks on the seabed, there are a bunch of question marks on the starfish on the rocks, there are a bunch of question marks on the tentacles of the starfish, and there are still a bunch of question marks on the protruding particles on the tentacles...

The world is a chaos full of question marks. These question marks that suddenly flooded into their perception made them completely confused, and what followed was a crazy desire for knowledge.

However, at that time, they did not know how to acquire knowledge.

Until one day, a deep-sea creature with question marks all over its body swam to the stone and bit off one of the tentacle of the starfish.

As the turbid liquid sprayed out, some question marks on the starfish's other tentacles were replaced, and the Eternally Thirsty finally saw clearly what was beneath the question marks.

"It can be cut off."

"soft."

"It's starfish meat."

“It tastes bitter.”

“It will float away with the current.”

"..."

Countless question marks were like opened locks, and with a burst of golden light, they revealed their original appearance. The endless ocean of knowledge opened a door for the Eternally Thirsty at this moment, and they were able to feel the sweetness of knowledge in this bloody scene.

"It was delicious."

When the world becomes clear and is no longer an illusion obscured by question marks, this feeling is so delicious, more delicious than any food.

Under the spray of debris, the Everthirsty felt the wonder of knowledge for the first time, and thus they opened Pandora's box.

From then on, they began their journey to unlock the question mark.

They explored the underwater world ignorantly. Everything was so new and interesting. Watching the question marks open one by one and revealing the contents underneath, the desires of the Eternally Thirsty were also satisfied.

Not only that, they also found that the question marks were related to each other. Sometimes when some question marks were unlocked, the question marks next to them would also be unlocked, and even the question marks on other objects would be unlocked together.

This is the relevance of knowledge.

So, they unlocked the question marks faster and faster...

However, as more and more question marks were unlocked, they found that unlocking the question marks became increasingly difficult.

At first, it might only take one “touch” or one “shake”, but later, this gentle interaction will completely fail, and you can only use “destruction”, but in the end, even destruction can’t unlock the question mark.

The Everthirsty were smart, and they soon realized that their means of interaction had reached their limit, and they needed a more powerful method of interaction.

(End of this chapter)