Chapter 22 Explorers

Lynn's life is still the same.

On the rock, the countless tentacles growing on the cortex kept waving, and the needle cells on their bodies did not spare any approachers. They hunted and killed these cells that were swimming or just passing by. Lin was growing slowly and continuously. w...

Lin didn't know what to do next.

Although the number of these passing cells is endless, it seems that there is no way to eat it, but it is very random, and it is possible to appear in the thousands after the first night, and nothing appears on the second night.

Those white pastes that have been coming out of rock cracks or caves have also begun to slowly decrease.

If one of these two food sources fails, Lynn's vast colony will collapse.

Lin's current community, if you count the cells that combine to form tentacles and cortex, there are tens of millions in total. Although Lin has various methods to reduce food consumption, and has a large number of fat cells to store food, Lin does not want to. There is a problem with the food source.

Want to leave?

Leave this rock and return to the endless deep blue.

It feels... very risky, although Lin should be able to rely on tentacles to swim, individual cells can also ride on the cortical structure, and do not need to be scattered like before.

But Lin didn't know what would be in the deeper water, and Lin didn't really want to leave this comfortable place.

After all, with food popping up all the time above and below, what better place to be than here?

Lin did not act, but began to plan to dig the rock under her body.

It is looking for the secret of why the white paste came out.

Lin used her strong muscle cells to penetrate into the cracks of the rock, and through continuous splitting, she squeezed and tore apart the solid stones.

Some rock cracks were torn open by Lin, and more white paste came out from inside.

But Lin wanted to do more than that. It also had to make a bigger hole in the rock, so that he could drill into it and see how the white paste came out.

Muscle cells alone are not enough.

Lynn's diggers can't dig up rocks, but what about giant diggers? Lin combined some of the diggers into a spherical shape. The surface of the sphere was covered with serrations, and it looked like a giant digger.

This huge digger has thicker and sharper serrations, and it can easily dig up the rock as long as it sticks to the rock and twists its head.

Although Lin has been able to dig the rock now, considering the size of the rock, it is impossible for it to dig deep within a short period of time.

However, digging up rocks seems like a lot of fun.

Lin began to like digging rocks, so she put the things she was about to leave out of her mind.

What it didn't expect was that staying in this currently comfortable place would usher in the road of destruction...

Countless nights passed again, and Lin's excavation progressed deeper and deeper.

It is mainly excavated in the cave, so it feels closer to the white paste inside, but Lin has dug a large hole, and there is indeed a lot of white paste hidden in the rock, almost every giant digger uses sawtooth Once scraped on the rock, countless white paste and rock debris drifted out, but Lin still couldn't understand how the white paste came out.

strangeness……

There was a sudden doubt in Lin's mind, but this was not caused by the excavation.

Lynn's observer watched the progress of the excavation from the hole, while the eye tentacles watched everything outside from the outer cortex.

Seven dark nights have passed, but the surrounding waters are still calm, without any cells or even viruses swimming past.

This phenomenon has never happened.

Even if no cells appeared at some point, they would pour out in large numbers after a single night.

Lynn has a lot of fat cells, so many can make it safe for a long time after completely cutting off food sources,

But Lin couldn't stand this strange phenomenon.

Something happened.

Something Lynn didn't know.

Although Lin didn't want to go out to take risks at the moment, she didn't want to wait here either.

Lin started to move. It used basic cells, fat cells and muscle cells to form a tentacle. This tentacle body is long and flat, and it can swim in the water by swinging its body left and right. The head of the tentacle is transparent and oval, and the interior is hollow. Yes, because of the placement of some fat cells, and Lin's observer also entered, so that the tentacles have vision.

Lin calls this tentacle a 'explorer'. Although Lin won't mobilize the entire colony, Lin can let a tentacle set off to explore other waters that it has not been in contact with for a long time.

Thinking about it, the explorer began to swing her body. It was the first time that Lin used the combined cells to swim. The movement at the beginning was a bit clumsy. Not only did she not swim up, but the water that was aroused washed away the surrounding large groups of cells.

But Lin immediately knew what to do, and the explorer quickly swam in the water.

After swimming a few laps inside the cortex, Lin felt pretty good. This way, the cells swim much faster than normal cells.

After finishing the preparation, Lin began to swim out, and the muscle cells on the cortex slowly contracted, opening the way to the outside for the explorer.

The explorer is not large, even smaller than the tentacles covered with acupuncture cells outside the cortex, so it can enter and exit the small holes in the cortex.

Countless tentacles swayed slowly on the cortex, but unfortunately, if there was no prey, they would be of no use.

Lin left the rock that had been there for a long time, and the explorer slowly swam towards the unknown waters...

Lin placed the observer on the head of the explorer, and as the explorer swayed its body, it could also observe all the surrounding environment, but after swimming for a while, Lin felt a little disappointed, and the scenery was continuing except for water. .

Perhaps, we should swim back to the place where the huge white cream used to be.

Lin still remembered the area that was once frozen. Although there were no road signs in this ocean, Lin still knew how to get back there.

Seems like a lot of strange new words have popped up?

Lin doesn't care much about these new words now, she cares more about what happened to cause no cells to appear.

As the explorer swims, Lin can feel the changes in the surrounding waters.

cold……

The water here is much colder than the previous places, and the further the explorer swims, the more this feeling becomes, but Lin has found a way to resist the cold.

It is through the cells that keep shaking the body, so that the body can be kept from being invaded by the cold. Lin calls this method 'shivering'.

However, trembling will consume more energy. Lin expected this situation, so she brought some fat cells, but the number is not large. If this continues, I am afraid that it will not last long, and the explorer will be frozen to death.

In that case, Lin will not give up, it will combine a larger explorer to come.

...it seems that there is no need for that.

Moving forward in the colder and colder waters, Lin now finally sees something other than water, which is... ice crystals.

Countless ice crystals floated in the water. They were of different sizes, but the largest was no bigger than Lin's explorer. These ice crystals were all over the water. Lin remembered that this was once the location of the huge white cream. Later, when the water froze, the The white paste was also frozen into ice cubes, but why are there only these floating ice crystals left now?

It's strange... Could there be something so huge that it shattered the frozen white paste?

I'd love to know...

Curiosity drove Lin to continue exploring. When it was swimming among the ice crystals, it suddenly felt that the temperature here seemed to be slowly rising, and the sense of coldness decreased, so that Lin's explorers did not have to continue to tremble.

Lin swam away with this warmth. In the warmer waters, the ice crystals became smaller than before, until she finally left the area full of ice crystals, and the water temperature here returned to normal.

At this moment, Lin asked the explorer to turn her head to look and saw a large piece of ice crystals floating above her. So, are you going downstream?

The concept of 'down' was only recently clarified by Lin. When Lin used cells to combine into something bigger, she could feel a certain force pulling it in one direction, although she easily overcame this force. , but Lin couldn't help but wonder what this power was?

The new word for this force is 'gravity', which seems to be some kind of peculiar force, the more obvious the effect on the larger the object.

Since then, Lin has classified the direction of gravity as 'below' and the opposite is 'above'.

Lin is a little strange. The top is always warmer and closer to the light. Why is the bottom warmer this time?

Just as Lin thought about it, a strange sight that had never been seen before appeared in front of it.