Chapter 21 Eyeballs

Although I'm trying to see if I can write more words in a short period of time... But 12,000 is unlikely...

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Lin named the huge semi-circular shield she built as 'cell wall', and the cell wall is composed of three layers of cells. The outermost layer is called 'cortex' by Lin, which is the thickest and most flexible. the first floor, inside

The two layers of the layer are called the middle layer and the inner wall. The thickness is not as strong as the skin layer, but if the skin layer is damaged by some factors, the inner layer will harden quickly to prevent any further threats from outside.

But there is nothing to threaten Lynn now, so it starts to create something on the outermost cortex.

That's the trap.

Lin began to use cells to form some cylindrical structures on the cortex. These cylinders were hollow in the center and had an opening at the top. Some plaster was placed at the bottom as a lure. The inner walls of the cylinders were covered with cones like cone cells. As long as any cell is lured in, the cylinder will immediately squeeze inward, smashing the prey with countless sharp cones.

In addition to this deadly cylinder, there is also a tentacle-type structure, which is not as large as the giant tentacles in the center. They are all relatively small, slender structures composed of a small number of cells, which grow on the body of this small tentacle. Full of Needle Cells, it can shoot anyone who comes near it.

Lin also discovered an interesting thing, that is, things that emit light also attract other cells to approach. This was discovered by chance, especially in the dark night, a little light can attract a large number of cells, so Lin began to blast the flashing balls. Put on the ends of some small tentacles to attract prey.

When it was dark, the word "beautiful" appeared in Lin's mind. Above the cortex, a large number of glittering small tentacles swayed in the dark, attracting the swimming cells to approach, but they did not know that it was a terrifying trap. As long as they touched the tentacles, they would be instantly poisoned by the needles. Killed by the needle.

The current acupuncture cells will know how to shoot poison needles according to the actions of Lin's cells, instead of firing them at will.

When the night passed, Lin relied on the deadly cylinder to prey. Those ignorant cells were attracted by the white paste in the cylinder, and they would be instantly smashed by the closed cylinder and the cone-shaped thorns in it. Any cell can escape.

The giant tentacles in the center use instant phagocytosis to directly swallow the cells that pass by, and then use the internal acid injector to decompose and melt the prey.

Relying on these kinds of traps, Lin can get a lot of food other than white paste, because the foreign cells are infinite, and Lin's community has begun to grow continuously...

Moreover, after Lin knew how to combine cells, she never encountered any opponents that could threaten her. After that, she also encountered crystal bacteria, ghost fog bacteria or some opponents she had encountered before, and Lin could easily crush them. they.

There was even a time when a huge amoeba floated onto Lin's cortex. The size of this amoeba was more than 10,000 times that of Lin's basic cells, but Lin still relied on a large number of tentacles with stingers and huge tentacles to kill her. it.

The only troublesome thing is the virus, because the tentacles that grow on the cortex cannot move and are easily attacked by the virus, but the virus cannot penetrate the cortex, so even if a few tentacles are destroyed, Lin can immediately dispatch the acid injector to dissolve it. Deal with the virus.

Regarding the virus, Lin still kept the few infected people who were dyed bright red, but Lin never let the number of them exceed ten.

Countless nights have passed... Relying on constant hunting, Lin's community has grown tremendously, and it begins to feel that it is already an invincible existence, because it has never seen any other kind of cell that has the ability to combine like it.

Lin's colony has now been several times larger, and the tentacles on the cortex have become denser and thicker. Lin no longer uses the trap cylinder.

Instead, relying solely on the tentacles, it feels more effective that way.

Using the 'lifespan' plan, Lin constantly replaces old cells, so that the cells remain in the most dynamic state, but Lin has one cell that she will never replace.

That is the observer.

Even though the current colony is so huge, Lin still has only one cell with vision.

This cell is too small to observe the entire colony, so Lin needs to have several larger vision holders.

Lin knew that the observer could see something not only because it had eaten a strange hard object, but mainly because of the presence of light.

Vision is mainly born by absorbing light.

That is, if Lynn's other cells can also receive light, they should also have vision.

But how?

That's right, according to the old method, Lin formed a group of cells into a large group, and then gave them the thoughts to receive light and gain vision.

It was unsuccessful at first, and the mass of cells did not respond.

However, when Lin merged the observer into this group of cells, the group of cells had a wonderful change. Those on the surface first changed the color and shape of the body, and those on the inside also changed at the same time, but But completely different from the superficial ones, they thin the body into a more mesh-like structure.

The evolution process was not controlled by Lin. In fact, Lin never controlled the evolution of cells. At most, she just sent her thoughts to "what should they evolve into". As for the more detailed process, the cells automatically generated them.

For this, Lin also felt incredible.

The cells will do some things automatically. For example, when Lin asks the digger to attack an enemy, it will automatically twist its body and use the saw teeth on the surface to saw the enemy. It does not need Lin to carefully control how it runs and twists its body. Action, other cells are similar, but if the ball explodes, Lin must control them to absorb water and explode.

At first Lin thought that the cells would only perform simple actions automatically, but now it seems that this is not the case, they can do very complex things.

For this, even though the community is already so huge, Lin's intelligence is much higher than before, but Lin still can't understand it.

why?

Lin couldn't see it from her current perspective, but the cells were still changing. The cells on the surface began to turn themselves into hexagons, while the cells on the inside changed from the previous mesh structure to a large sphere. Hexagonal cells appear to be inserted on top of this sphere.

Lin felt that the speed of their changes was slowly slowing down, which meant that they were approaching the completion stage, and Lin also began to feel it.

vision.

A bigger light poured into Lin's mind, which was exactly the same as the previous vision, but different from Lin's narrow field of vision before, this time it was very broad, because this was a giant eye that Lin used 6,000 cells to form.

Because Lin is formed in the water outside the cortex, as long as it looks down a little, it can see the dense fluff-like tentacles it has formed on the cortex.

However, there are no muscles in this large eye, so it cannot move, so Lin combined some tentacles to form a larger tentacle, and used this tentacle to connect the eye from the back.

In this way, Lin can see in all directions just by swinging the tentacles, which are also called eyeball tentacles by Lin.

Lin then detached the observer from the eyeball. Unless Lin's cells seemed to be completely fused together like the cells of the cortex, they could be separated after being combined.

After Lin's observer came out, her eyeballs still had vision, and this time Lin was finally able to see what the so-called eyes were like.

Two different images were in Lin's mind, but Lin didn't feel any incongruity. She could still clearly observe all the details in the two images.

The surface of the huge eyeball is like a large number of hexagonal crystals. Lin did not expect that the cells could become such a shape, but other than that, there is nothing special.

Lin's cells, whether combined or single, are generally transparent except for the core, but this eyeball is a bit gray, and it's hard to see the structure inside clearly.

It was also the first time that Lin saw her observer's appearance. The observer's body was the same as the basic cell, but the outer membrane had a sphere that looked like a crystal.

It was probably the hard object that was eaten at that time, right?

Lin didn't know why it could gain vision from this thing, and Lin had never encountered a similar object again.

……why? Even though the group is huge, Lin still has a lot of questions she doesn't understand.

In short, if you are successful, then continue to grow.

In Lin's thoughts, the word 'future' appeared.

What will the future look like?

Lin doesn't know, even if it has such huge eyes now, but looking into the distance, there is only boundless dark blue... Although Lin already considers herself invincible here, but in this world, there must be more unknown and Be mysterious...