1519 1519 Death and Reproduction (1/2)
”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.