Chapter 38 Eating Too Much Barbecue Is Bad for Your Health

The evolution of moss allowed Lin to find hope to restore the glittering woodland, but there was only one piece of moss left.

This kind of moss alone can't reproduce, but Lin can't find any more live moss. Ordinary plants can grow new ones by cutting off a section, or they can grow a new seedling near the main body for reproduction. But this moss doesn't seem to have this ability, which makes Lin feel a little strange...

However, even if there is no moss, it doesn't matter, just twist the tree, like the trees in the dark field, don't they grow well without moss?

Lin then used the same method to test the twisted tree, and let the twisted tree evolve immune cells. Because there was no way to test it underground, she tried it on the ground.

The twisted trees in the Glittering Woodland were almost burnt out, but the trees in the Dark Plains were still healthy. During Lin's experiment, Lin found that they had already evolved immune cells.

The trees in the Darklands are completely free from fungus or fire, and they seem to be much stronger than the trees in the Glitterwoods.

Aren't they the same kind?

Lin seldom distinguishes the types of plants, but the trees in the Darkness are indeed somewhat different. In this case, the threat of fungi should have been lifted...?

Next, Leviathan returned to the base, but there was always a strange feeling when looking at the burnt black forest.

No matter what, you have to keep watching.

After returning to the base, the headworm called to Leviathan: "Flame, food!"

The head worm especially likes food that has been grilled by flames. According to its thoughts, it is 'delicious'. Lin brought some back to the base to feed it last time, and it completely liked it.

However, Lin didn't bring food this time, so it kept calling out these two words and kept following Leviathan. Lin asked some troops to go to the scorched woodland to dig some scorched arthropods for it to eat, and then it stopped. call.

For the next time, Lin continued to live her previous life, expanding the green carpet, watching the changes in the scorched woodland. Every day and night, many creatures were digging for barbecues to eat, and barbecues seemed to be very delicious for them. The worm is also one of them, but it can't dig it by itself, so it has to let Lin dig it.

Lynn's been doing research on the scorched woodland, so it doesn't matter if you bring some of it along the way.

However, there was always a bad feeling in Lin's mind, because after so long, the scorched woodland was still the same. Since the ashes can be used as food, there should be plants growing.

Lin found that plants not only absorb light to obtain nutrients, but also use their roots to absorb nutrients from the soil, so since most of the ashes are plant debris, they can also absorb it.

But nothing grew out of this charred woodland...

As early as in the ashes, Lin found many juveniles of twisted trees. If they were plants, they should be called 'seeds'. They were surrounded by solid hard shells and were not affected by the flames. They were all alive. However, these The seeds didn't grow, whether they were soaked in water or in the ashes, they wouldn't grow, and Lin didn't know what was going on...

Day and night passed slowly, and the charred twisted trees could not resist the wind and sand blowing in the direction of the desert. The endless sand and dust slowly covered the charred woodland. The originally beautiful flashing jungle has now become a strange place that is half black and half sand. , the creatures that always dig up grilled food are starting to come here less often.

The river between the two woodlands began to gradually become narrower, and the flow of water was not as much.

"Sand, cracked, dead." The head worm lay beside the cave at the base, gnawing at a charred arthropod leg while looking at the charred woodland. ….

Although it seems to be eating happily, its mood is in a state of anxiety.

indeed,

This may be very bad. The sand and dust will flood the woodland, then the entire flashing woodland will disappear. They have no way to regenerate. Although the Twisted Jungle is still very huge, but without this glowing forest belt, the total I feel a little pity.

"Gu...!" The head worm suddenly made a strange cry, which Lin had never heard before, but it was probably not a word, but a painful cry.

Leviathan was also next to the head worm. Lin saw that there was a spherical protrusion on the back of the head worm. In fact, Lin had noticed it for a long time. If it is big, it may squeeze the organ in this case, but because it is full of brain, it may squeeze the brain.

Lin believes that this strange phenomenon should be studied and why it grows such protrusions for no reason.

Leviathan brought the head worm back to the base. The head worm seemed to be very painful, so there was no objection at all. In fact, it didn't like Lin to do various experiments on it.

Lin put a miniature scout into the body of the head worm. The scout is usually a combination of multiple cells, because it is not afraid of immune cell attack, so it can better study the situation in the opponent's body.

This is really... weird.

Lin found that the newly grown protrusions of the head worm are filled with a large number of cells, and it can be said that the protrusions are almost all composed of these cells.

And these cells have a problem look, they don't seem to be useful at all.

Generally speaking, every cell in an organism has a purpose and is a huge group of division of labor and cooperation, but the cells in this protrusion seem to have no role, that is, a pile of meaningless cells, just piled there without It stops absorbing nutrients and grows, forming a meat ball, and squeezing other organs, which will eventually kill the entire organism

It's really strange, why does this happen?

Lin asked the scout to expand the search range, and it found that such 'meaningless' cells appeared everywhere in the head worm. The task of this kind of cells seemed to be to keep proliferating, and finally squeeze out other normal cells.

Moreover, Lin found that it seems that because the head worm likes to eat scorched food, there is a substance in the scorched food that makes some cells in the body become so abnormal.

In fact, it doesn't look abnormal, but it looks like a "return to the ancestors", that is to say, these cells have become the most primitive form, constantly absorbing nutrients, constantly multiplying, regardless of anything else.

However, according to some 'primitive cells' found by Lin in the head worm, their division speed is quite slow, and they will also be recognized and killed by immune cells. It takes more than a year for the protrusion to grow, but it has only been a dozen days and nights since the head worm started eating barbecue. How could it grow into such a small protrusion so quickly?

Maybe it will speed up reproduction when it reaches a certain part of the head worm.

When Lin thought of this, it found that some of its troops also produced some of these cells in the body. After all, scorched food is readily available, so Lin also let some collectors eat a lot, but these collectors have very few of these cells in the body. , is far from enough to form a meat ball, and Lin's mind can still direct them to return to normal working conditions.

But the brainworm's mind obviously can't direct every cell, even if its brain is that big, so it will be affected.

This kind of cells not only squeezes the organs, but also produces various toxins and wastes due to the digestion of nutrients, and will erode and attack other cells, which will seriously affect the circulatory system in the head worm. If you leave it alone, it may not take long. die.

These cells don't seem to be a part of this creature anymore. They have become a new species on their own, and have reproduced their own army in the body of the head worm.

In this case, help it kill these cells.

It is quite simple to deal with these primitive cells. Although the immune cells of the head worm are not easy to solve them, Lin's scouts are not the same. They have a lot of ability to target single cells and can easily kill a large number of these abnormal cells. cells.

Soon, the protrusions on the back of the head worm disappeared. After Lin killed those cells, normal cells could grow back quickly.

The brain cells of common organisms do not proliferate, but the brain cells of the head worm can proliferate. This creature is quite special.

After three days and nights after the solution, the head worm began to regain its energy and swayed around. Lin gave it a 'advice': "Fire, food, death."

The head worm seemed to understand it. Since then, it has never eaten those scorched things, but Lin has eaten more. It mainly wants to study why those scorched substances can make cells primitive.

But this research is more difficult, Lin believes that there should be some kind of change in the cell body, but even Lin's smallest eyeball, the observer, can't see the situation in the cell body.

In fact, Lin couldn't combine eyeballs as small as cells, let alone smaller than cells. Ordinary single-celled organisms have no vision at all, only a simple structure similar to a small eyeball that perceives light.

Only the observer is different, and Lin has never created a second observer.

Not only in the big world, but even in the tiny world, there are quite a few secrets...

The substances produced by the scorched things that affect the cells seem to be called 'carcinogens', but Lin felt that the name was not good, so it was called 'betrayal'.

Well, this feels a lot better. It seems that this is the first time that Lynn mentioned the word 'betrayal', which seems to mean that something has strayed from the structure it originally belonged to, and will attack or appear other bad things about it. Behavior.

But Lin is more concerned about the bigger changes now.

The airflow from the desert was affecting the forest, and the sand and dust they brought slowly flooded the entire jungle. By the thirtieth day and night, most of the glittering woodland was covered with sand and dust.

Although it is a pity that this scorched forest has disappeared, the relationship is not very big, but what Lin cares about is that the spread of sand and dust does not seem to stop, and they are even spreading to the darkness.

The river was almost dry, and Lin tried to clean up the dust, but the sand from the desert was endless, and the twisted trees in the Darkness were also affected, and their bark was stuck with a lot of sand, and Lin also The troops must be dispatched to sweep away the sand and dust for the green carpet, and the land not covered by the green carpet has been covered with a thin layer of yellow sand...