Chapter 9 Leaving the Ice

After the blood vessel was constructed, it worked fine, but Lynn found some small problems. The cells inside the blood vessel had difficulty getting oxygen, so the movement became sluggish.

And Lin couldn't make holes in the blood vessels, so that the contents inside would flow out, but the cells in the blood vessels did not move by themselves but moved quickly by the water flow inside, so Lin didn't care that much.

Lynn's devourers have also been updated. They have vascular structures but no hearts. Instead, there is a storage sac composed of muscle cells deep in the mouth and connected to the blood vessels. At this time, the sac will contract, and the food and water inside will be squeezed into the vascular system, and the nutrients will be transmitted to the whole body after being decomposed by the cells in the blood vessel.

The excess water circulates in the blood vessels back into the sac, where it is expelled the next time the phagocytor opens its mouth.

The plan to revive the Buckler worm was temporarily shelved, because Lin couldn't make so many cells to fill the shell of the Buckler worm, and the construction of the heart and blood vessels had consumed a lot, and it needed to find more food.

But the cold this time lasted for a long time. Although it had no effect on Lin, it meant that other cells would not appear, so there would be no food. Although the fat cells were enough for Lin to last a long time, If you make another thing about the size of an aircraft carrier, it will consume more than 70%. Lin doesn't want to consume so much reserves. What should I do if I encounter any danger again?

Maybe it can digest the carrier itself and build a new base in the shell of the Buckler Worm?

No, Lin doesn't want to rely on other creatures like this. It wants to grow such a hard shell by itself. If it lives in it, it will be difficult to evolve a high hardness outer skin.

So what to do now?

Going out to find food?

Do you dig it out with a giant digger?

That seems to be too slow, Lin hopes to get some more powerful ice-digging structures, like the Buckler Worm, which digs very fast...

By the way... The Buckler Worm does not use its arthropods to dig through the ice, but it seems to use the semicircular carapace of its head to smash the ice, but that requires huge size and strength.

In this case, only the aircraft carrier is modified.

Lin's aircraft carrier itself has a cylindrical body, which is very suitable for collision, but Lin didn't want to use the aircraft carrier itself to collide, but formed two huge tentacles on both sides of the aircraft carrier's body. Shaped and with serrated structure, its name is 'hammer head', the tentacles are composed of a large number of muscle cells, which can exert powerful force and break the ice layer.

Originally, Lin thought of this structure for a long time, but because the continuous swing of the hammer will consume a lot of muscle cells, the energy replenishment time is too long, and the efficiency is not very high, but with the vascular system, Lin can swing the tentacles at the same time. It continues to replenish energy to muscle cells, and the efficiency is much stronger than before.

After the construction was completed, Lin started to start the aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier itself has two tentacles for swimming, and there are huge water spray holes at the back end, so it can move very quickly. can't hurt it.

After leaving a part of the cells in the shell of the Buckler worm, Lin started the ice crushing journey.

Before the aircraft carrier swam to the ice layer, the tentacles with hammer slammed into the ice wall. Under the huge force, not only a hole was punched out of the ice wall, but there were also numerous cracks around it.

It's really effective, and it feels almost the same as when the Buckler worm digs.

Lin asked the aircraft carrier to continue swinging the hammer, completely smashing the ice crystals in front of her, and smashing out a channel for the aircraft carrier to move.

Following that, Lin also hardened the head of the aircraft carrier, so that it could not only smash ice with a hammer, but also hit itself.

Lin refused to do this before because she was afraid of hurting the vascular system in her body, but now it doesn't seem to be a problem, because there is also a vascular system in the hammer tentacles, and it didn't hurt when she swung it just now.

The big eyeball on the head of the aircraft carrier was degraded by Lin,

It was changed to form several small eyeball tentacles on the side of the aircraft carrier's head for observation.

This time, it is much easier to advance through the ice.

Should it continue to move down? Lin felt that those wild cells should hide in the sand below, maybe it was too warm and the ice couldn't freeze there.

Thinking about it, Lin moved forward and continued to smash the ice layer easily. Although the ice layer will have different hardness, it is not a problem under the attack of hammering tentacles. It probably won't take long to reach the bottom. beach.

strangeness?

After smashing a layer of ice again, an unusual scene appeared in front of Lin's eyes. The beach had not yet reached the location, but an ice-free area appeared.

This is an ice cave that is big enough to accommodate Lin's three aircraft carriers. There is no sign of being excavated on the surrounding ice wall. Lin doesn't know how this was formed. Lin slowly swam into the open space in this ice layer.

Weird place, why is there such a place? It is impossible for the ice to dissolve into this shape by itself. Could it be dug up by some kind of creature? But I didn't see that kind of creature.

When Lin was wondering why this place was formed, she suddenly found some moving dots on the surrounding ice wall.

what is that?

The eye tentacles on the side of the aircraft carrier could not be seen clearly. Lin dispatched the small devourers in the aircraft carrier. When they swam close to the ice wall, she realized that the moving dots were cells. They were almost the same color as the ice. easy to see.

These small cells are widely distributed on the ice wall, and Lin doesn't know what they are doing, but in short, it is food.

Without thinking too much, Lin let the Devourers start to hunt them, and at the same time, Lin asked the aircraft carrier to release more Devourers, ready to clean up these cells.

The devourer quickly devoured the cells on the ice wall. These cells have no defenses, they are also very ordinary and round, and they are small in size, but they can do strange things to escape the devourer.

They can drill directly into the ice, without relying on any digging method, but directly drilled into it.

The small hole drilled by the cell is completely inaccessible to the devourer, so he can only give up the hunt.

It's weird, how do they do it? Lin watched them carefully. From the eyes of the smallest devourer, she could see that this kind of cell seemed to secrete a liquid that could instantly dissolve the ice crystals around the body, so it could go in and out of the ice.

So that's how the hole was made by them? Then this kind of cell should be called... 'ice-dissolving bacteria'.

The ice-dissolving bacteria were hiding in the ice, and they seemed to be swaying happily there.

Bang!

The next moment, the giant hammer tentacles of the aircraft carrier Lin slammed into the ice wall, this time not only smashed the ice wall, but also knocked out the ice-dissolving bacteria hidden inside, and then the devourers quickly mixed these into the ice debris. The small cells in it are phagocytosed.

The ice-dissolving bacteria knew that it was not safe to hide in the ice, so they fled to the depths together, and Lin immediately shattered the ice again and chased in the direction they fled.

Although these ice-dissolving bacteria are said to be able to drill in the ice, they are actually very slow. They are not as fast as Lin's aircraft carrier in breaking ice. Almost every time Lin hits, a large amount of ice-dissolving bacteria can be smashed out of the ice. Zhilin directly let the large devourer swallow them and the ice chips into a powder.

Lin just hammered them out of the wall and moved forward. However, before Lin moved forward for a long time, it suddenly found that it had entered the water again, and there was no ice in front of it.

Into the ice cave again? No, not right.

This is an extremely wide water area, and Lin has left the frozen area.

what is that?

A strange sight appeared in front of Lin's eyes.

In the vast waters, it was still empty and empty, but in the sand below, there were many things that Lin had never seen before.

Most of these things are prolate or round in shape, with striped protrusions on the surface. Some of them are lying on the sand, some are standing in the sand. Lin looked for a while before confirming that they were creatures, because they were almost motionless. But when a stream of water passes by, their bodies begin to sway, and tentacles extend from their surfaces, waving them in the flowing water.

These creatures should also be a multicellular assemblage, they are very abundant, almost all over the beach, it seems that there is a reason why the Buckler worm doesn't eat single cells, it should be better at eating these multicellular organisms.

Where did these multicellular organisms come from? Lin has encountered single cells for so long. Since when have other organisms appeared multicellular?

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