Chapter 18 The Multicellular Path

In fact, when Lin entered the rift, she had already begun to think about fighting the current.

This is similar to resisting the hot springs at the entrance of the rift, as long as the cells are combined to form a huge shield, which can block the impact of the current.

But to block the strong current outside, a stronger and larger shield is needed. Lin believes that no matter how many cells get together, they will be blown away.

The cells have to be connected in some way to form a solid that cannot be easily dislodged.

Like hooking each other with the digger's sawtooth? But that would probably hurt.

But Lin thinks that there should be other ways to connect the cells together. After all, the cell membrane is soft and can change shape, and the two cells were originally one body, but only split, so they should be able to be combined again...

And how do cells divide? Why do they split? Instead of growing big in the first place?

It seems to be very complicated. Lin doesn't like to think about complicated things, so she plans to start the experiment directly. It first squeezes two cells together, makes them wrap each other with cell membranes, and keeps inputting the idea of ​​'combination'.

However, this seems to be unsuccessful. After all, Lin's cells are different from amoeba. At most, they stretch out some small bumps on the surface of the cell membrane, and there is no way to grasp each other.

So let them evolve into amoeba and see? Lin thinks that the shape of the amoeba should be formed in places where they often like to drill through narrow crevices.

Thinking of this, Lin began to ask a few basic cells to find the narrow cracks and other places in the cave to drill, trying to see if they could evolve the appearance of amoeba after a long time.

But Lin didn't want to wait here, so it immediately started another experiment.

It is to try to stop the cell division.

When cells divide, they first divide the core into two, and then slowly split the cell membrane to form two cells.

All Lin has to do is stop the division when their cell membranes are about to end, so that there will be two connected cells.

Lin's colony has been eating constantly, so soon a cell to divide appeared, which happened to be a basal cell.

Lin immediately did what she thought and waited for their nuclei to divide into two. At this time, the membrane of the cell began to split from the center, and the two nuclei moved to the sides.

When the membrane in the middle was about to break completely, Lin suddenly gave a thought of 'stop'.

Stopped!

The dividing cells actually stopped, they have almost divided into two cells, and only a little bit of the cell membrane at the end is still connected.

Although it is successful, it is estimated that it will break if you pull it.

Lin then began to let them strengthen the connection, and then maintained this appearance.

After a while, Lin felt that the connection should be reinforced a little, because the connected cell membrane was obviously thicker.

Then Lin began to try to let one of the cells drag the other, or let both of them go in different directions, even with the greatest strength, it did not break.

It seems to be successful, then Lin has a new cell type, but what is it called?

'connector'?

It feels very ordinary...but forget it, then Lin can use the connector to make a huge wall that resists the current!

Lin began to let the connectors eat more food, and then let them continue to divide, of course, not completely divided as before, so that these connected cell clusters would grow larger and larger.

Lin found that the cell group composed of connectors can easily surpass giant cells such as storage or blasting balls, and they also have a feature that they do not need to eat each, as long as one of them eats, energy can be transmitted to all the connected cells. cells together, which is quite convenient.

But there is still trouble,

If the cell mass starts to grow, it will start to become difficult to move, after all, it's all stuck together.

Therefore, Lin directly moved them to the bottom of the crack, and then made them grow upward in a rotating direction, forming a huge cylinder composed of a large number of cells, and the interior of this cylinder was hollow, which could supply Lin's other cells. Enter, and then an opening was opened at the top to allow Lynn's cells to exit from the top.

This column grows upward through the continuous division of the cells at the top, and finally can protrude the exit of the crack and reach the outside.

Lin also found an interesting point, because this pillar is composed of basic cells, so Lin can still make them evolve.

Lin can make these cells evolve into diggers, and can turn the solid shell with serrations outward, and the fragile part inward, so that there is no need to fear external attacks, even viruses can't get in.

Watching the cylinders of cells grow, Lin gave them a new name: 'Giant Tentacles'.

But Lynn still wanted to be able to combine the scattered cells directly, rather than through this cumbersome way.

Thinking about it, Lin found two more basic cells, made them stick together, and then gave the idea of ​​​​the combination.

I saw that the cell membranes of the two cells were directly bonded together, and there was no crack, and it looked like two connected spheres.

Um? Did it work this time?

Lin was a little curious, why is she able to think of a 'combination' now?

Is it because the cells understand what 'combination' means after preventing division before?

It feels good, so that Lin can build a 'wall of cells' anywhere, without deliberately interrupting cell division, and then letting them grow slowly, how troublesome...

But for now, one giant tentacle will suffice, and the rest of the walls will wait until outside before deciding where to build them.

What Lin has to do now is to slowly eat and grow. After all, it is not so fast for a tentacle to grow from a cave deep inside the rock to the outside.

At this time, the darkness outside had fallen, but Lin's massive flash balls kept the cave still bright...

Lin also saw the group of light bacteria still shrinking in the corner, but a few bold ones had already come out to try to find food.

bold? What is guts?

Lynn was puzzled by the new word again, but it also didn't think much of it as usual.

There is more white paste in the cave than outside, and it will continue to grow. Lin's colony can't be eaten even if it is twice as large, so Lin doesn't really care if the group of light bacteria is eating.

But Lynn won't let them grow too much.

In the following time, Lin just watched the giant tentacles grow, and the basic cells that squeezed the body through the narrow cracks gradually had an evolutionary effect. Their bodies became very flexible and could be squeezed in a large amount. compression and deformation.

But this is not enough, Lin wants them to be exactly the same as the amoeba so that they can change shape at will.

Time passed slowly, and Lin's giant tentacles had grown close to the exit of the rift, but the hot water there prevented it from growing any further.

At this time, Lin let some of the storage cells with high heat resistance be combined in circles at the top of the tentacles, and continued to grow upward. Finally, the huge tentacles almost occupied the entire channel of the crack. Those on the wall of the crack The small slit from which the hot water was sprayed was also blocked.

When the tentacles grew out of the gap, Lin switched back to using basic cells.

This huge tentacle is composed of hundreds of thousands of cells, thanks to the abundant food in the cave below.

At this time, the situation outside was a little different from before. The water flow seemed to have stopped. Because of Lin's departure, a large number of other types of cells gathered here.

What a pity, Lin still wanted to see if the tentacles could resist the flow of water.

However, whether it is this tentacle or the method of combining cells, it can play a huge role in Lin's future growth.

Lin's cells emerge from the cave through the hollow tentacles, and Lin intends to take back its territory again...