Chapter 8 New Nutrient Systems

Lin had already circled the round shield worm, and there was almost nothing edible in the worm's body, except for those multicellular combinations like pipes.

These pipes are all over the whole body of the Buckler worm, including the arthropods, and they are found in every corner of the body, except for the position around the esophagus, but Lin believes that the esophagus should be destroyed by the virus.

And all the pipes were connected to the huge piece in the middle. At first, Lin didn't know what it meant. After observing for a while, Lin gave up and started eating them.

It was not until Lin's Devourers bit these pipes that Lin slowly began to understand their purpose.

There are not only a large number of blue cells in the pipeline, but also a lot of fat and oil, various food debris, and a lot of immune cells.

These immune cells are not the same as what Lin had seen before. They are very small, only a little bigger than the virus. They are probably the reason why the tube is not affected by the virus. They secrete a sticky substance that can prevent the virus from getting close.

But why were the other organs in the Buckler worm destroyed by the virus? Lin believes that this type of immune cells may only be responsible for the defense of the pipeline, while the immune cells responsible for the defense of other organs were blocked by Lin's troops, resulting in the destruction of other organs.

Lin didn't know why these immune cells stayed in the pipeline and not elsewhere, but that wasn't Lin's main concern.

Lynn was primarily concerned with the purpose of these pipes, seeing how the composition of the Buckler worm differed from that of its own cells.

These ducts are supposed to be primarily used for transporting nutrients, so they are spread across all areas of the body.

The effect of this kind of transfer of nutrients feels very good. Lin's transfer method is only to connect the combined cells to the fat cells, and then let them transfer to each other. The speed is much slower, like some larger phagocytic phagos. quite a long time to complete.

And what makes Lin feel most powerful is the huge thing connected in the center of these pipes. That thing was only discovered after Lin ate part of it. It is almost composed of cells like its muscle cells, which means this Things can contract or expand, acting like a pump to quickly flow nutrients and cells from all the pipes to all parts of the body.

What is a 'pump'?

Forget about the inexplicable word, but the structure is really good.

That's right, just combine these pipes into a structure that can circulate, and then form a place for food at one point, and then as long as the muscle structure in the center keeps contracting, the cells circulating in the pipes can continue to transmit to the body. nutrient.

There must be a food place in the Buckler worm connecting these pipes, but Lin couldn't find it, it was probably destroyed by a virus.

But this structure turned out to be so effective.

Lin's Devourer is composed of pure muscle cells and pure lethal cells in the mouth. To say that the damage and power to single cells is very strong, but it is also consumed quickly, and it is easy to enter a state of fatigue. It will take a long time to replenish before it can be active again.

The outer skin of an aircraft carrier is a relatively sclerotic type of cells. Because the sclerosis cannot move, it does not consume energy. However, the tentacles that move the aircraft carrier are also purely muscle structures. If they continue to move, they are prone to fatigue.

But with this structure, the muscle strength may be weaker than before, but it can move for a long time and repair the damaged area quickly.

It feels very good, although the part eaten is not enough for 30% of Lin's repair of the aircraft carrier, but it feels that killing this worm is worth it, so that it can learn a lot, if other parts are not destroyed by the virus, it is estimated that it can Learn more.

Next time must not use the virus again.

While Lin thought so, the cells almost ate up everything that was left in the Buckler Worm.

The surrounding ice is slowly melting.

Lin is also about to repair the aircraft carrier. Although there are very few parts that the Buckler worm can eat, Lin has stored a lot of fat cells, which is enough to repair the entire aircraft carrier.

The group of green cells in the 'rearing ring' on the outer skin of the aircraft carrier also escaped this crisis, because they happened to be on the other side, and the Buckler worms did not eat that position, and Lin found that they were doing well. With the light shining through the ice, they split even more.

Lin is considering whether to get more breeding pens.

But now the most important thing is to figure out the structure of the loop pipeline first.

After repairing the aircraft carrier, Lin began to form the pipe structure she learned from the Buckler Worm in the hollow body of the aircraft carrier.

The first is the central part of muscle cells that can rapidly contract and expand, and Lynn found that it had a new term to describe it.

'heart'.

The heart is mainly divided into two layers, the upper layer is responsible for inhaling the water in the pipeline, and then squeezes it to the lower layer to release it, so as to achieve the purpose of circulation.

Then there is the pipeline structure. Lin lets basic cells form these pipelines. They are all interconnected, and at the ends are connected to various positions on the inner wall of the aircraft carrier, which can deliver nutrients to the entire aircraft carrier at any time.

What Lin used to do was to form some tentacles for absorbing nutrients in the second half of the aircraft carrier. They mainly devoured food and then transferred cells to each other. The efficiency was completely inferior to this pipeline for transferring nutrients with water flow.

The word for duct construction is called 'vessel'.

It felt a little strange, but Lin decided to use this name anyway.

Lin didn't plan to put so many cells in the blood vessels like the Buckler worm, so that there would be more space to transport food.

Speaking of food, Lin put together an oval structure called a 'sac'. This sac can be opened and closed and connected to the blood vessels. Generally, the food is placed in the sac, and the food in the sac is formed by the passing blood vessel cells. Take it away and bring it to other places to supplement nutrition, and you can also throw fat cells into it.

Lin usually completes the concept when the combination is completed. Now the body of the aircraft carrier looks like a space with vertical and horizontal pipes, but Lin also feels that this structure has shortcomings. Once the blood vessels are damaged, the contents inside may be out of control. In this case, Lin can only stop the contraction of the heart and wait for the blood vessels to repair before the circulation can resume.

Therefore, Lin must have a stronger defense ability to prevent these blood vessels from being attacked by the enemy.

When it comes to defense, this is Lin's biggest pain point.

Although the cortical structure it consists of now can prevent various attacks of single cells, including spikes, venom, etc., it is easily torn off by the Buckler worm.

The shell of the round shield worm is extremely hard. Although its movements are not as flexible as its tentacles, no matter what the attack is, it cannot damage the places other than its joints.

Lin not only had to study the inside of the Buckler Worm, but also had to understand the outside in detail.

How did it grow such a hard shell? Lin's cells are completely unable to achieve this hardness, whether it is a digger or a cone cell.

Maybe it is possible to evolve this ability by digging hard objects like before?

But Lin didn't want to wait that long, it wanted to know how these hard shells were made of it now.

Whether it looks or bites into it, it doesn't feel like a cellular structure.

Completely incomprehensible, unable to eat it, and unable to break it up to see what it was made of.

In this case, Lin decided to use it, maybe using this thing can help her own evolution.

How to use it?

Simple.

Can Lin let her cells live in this carapace? What the virus destroys is only the cells in the Buckler worm, and it doesn't do any harm to the shell.

……correct!

Lynn might make it move again, just like it did when it was alive!

As long as you combine the cells in it yourself! If you put muscle cells in the arthropod, the muscles can move, and if you put the structure of the heart and blood vessels in the shell...

Although I don't know what other organs of the Buckler worm are, it doesn't matter. Lin knows that muscles and nutrients are the basis of activity.

As long as a certain amount of cells are put in, the entire Buckler worm can be 'resurrected'!

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