Chapter 11 Small and Complex

After eating the second leafworm, Lin had already obtained enough nutrients, and now she could resurrect the round shield worm.

Lin combined a multicellular structure with a rounded front and a rear tip, which can be described by the word 'streamlined'. This structure swims faster in water. Lin calls it a 'transporter', which mainly transports a large number of fat cells. Transport it back to where the Buckler worm was, because it doesn't want to go back, and wants to continue eating some leafworms here.

Lin combined ten transporters, each of which is composed of more than 100,000 cells, and there is a circle of flat and long small tentacles in the middle of their bodies to swim. Swim back in the direction of the ice cave.

Following that, Lin once again turned her attention to a leaf insect not far away.

These immobile foods are amazing.

Lin happily swayed the tentacles of the aircraft carrier, but when it was about to swim, it suddenly felt that something was wrong, and the feeling of some cells on the cortex disappeared, but Lin did not feel pain.

Die without pain? It's weird...

Lin released the Devourer from the aircraft carrier to investigate the place where the feeling disappeared. This situation was probably attacked, and Lin could only know that it should be the position near the water spout in the rear.

The body of the aircraft carrier is too large, and it contains hundreds of millions of cells. The two eye tentacles at the front cannot fully observe the entire body, and the hardening of the cortex also dulls the feeling of the body surface, although there are two special The small tentacles used to sense the fluctuations of the water flow, but like the eyes, they cannot take into account the whole body.

The Devourer swam along the cortex of the aircraft carrier to the back of the aircraft carrier, and immediately saw the cause of the incident. On the cortex near the aircraft carrier's spout, there was a strange creature. The body of this thing looked like five thick flat The combination of tentacles, it is attached to the cortex of the aircraft carrier, and Lin can feel that the cortical cells in the part where it is attached are constantly disappearing.

'starfish'.

Lin didn't come up with the name herself, but came up in her thoughts. Lin felt that it was quite suitable for this creature.

Is this starfish eating cortical cells? But why doesn't Lin feel pain?

Maybe this creature has a way to make the cells not feel pain, so as to achieve the purpose of 'stealing', but Lin can still feel that the cells are constantly disappearing, so it can be said that this creature's plan has failed.

Thinking that Lin released a large number of Devourers and let them attack.

This 'sea star' has about ten times the size of a large devourer. The surface still looks soft and can move at will. This means that it has no hard shell and should be able to deal with it easily.

The devourers bit each of the starfish's five tentacles, and then stepped back forcefully, hoping to pull the starfish off the cortex.

However, the starfish was tightly attached to the aircraft carrier, no matter how hard the devourers tried, they couldn't pull it off, and the combination of cone cells in the devourer's mouth couldn't scratch its outer skin.

The skin of the starfish looks soft and can move at will, but in fact the surface of the skin is very hard, which seems to exert the feature of 'flexibility' very strongly, and there are many spike-like protrusions on the skin, which undoubtedly increases the How hard it is for the Devourer to bite it.

What a hassle.

If it wasn't for Lin's hammer-shaped tentacles that couldn't reach this position, it would have been very easy to smash it.

However, Lin does not only have one kind of phagocytosis, the cone cells in the original devourer's mouth are all single cells, and they are not combined very much, so that other cells can be effectively crushed.

Since the Buckler Worm incident, Linga has increased the number of large-scale devourers to deal with other multicellular organisms, and some devourers have been specialized, and Lin has combined many curved and elongated shapes in their mouths, Hardened structures with sharp ends, called 'gigantic tusks', have teeth in the mouth that are much larger than those of previous phagocysts, so they are not suitable for crushing single cells, but they are very suitable for dealing with such multicellular organisms.

Lin let the ordinary Devourer get out of the way, and let the Giant Fang Devourer attack the starfish. The Giant Fang Devourer bit on the starfish's tentacles, and the huge fangs in his mouth suddenly pierced into the tentacles of the starfish under the pressure of his muscles. , Lin immediately let the Teeth Devourer let go, and the starfish's cells poured out from the wound in large numbers.

Lin asked the devourers to quickly clean up these cells, and then rushed to the starfish's wound together, tearing the soft structure in its exposed body.

At this time, the starfish would not continue to hold on to the aircraft carrier. Its injured tentacles disconnected the body, and the starfish body with only four corners fell off the cortex of the aircraft carrier in a flash, riding a stream of water that just passed by. Swim to the distance.

Cut off part of the body and escape the main body? It's too naive to think.

What is naive? Although the word was inexplicable, it did not affect Lin's ability to let the Giant Fang Devourers catch up with the starfish and tear it to pieces.

After Hai Xing left, Lin also saw her injured cortex. The place where Hai Xing was clawed seemed to have been bitten off, and a large piece was missing. How could she create such a wound but make the other person feel no pain? It seems necessary to study this starfish carefully.

Although it was torn apart, the key parts were preserved, so it was still possible to study. Lin found that there were a large number of small tentacles under the tentacles of this creature. The ends of these tentacles were semi-circular hollows. It seemed that it used this thing to stick to the cortex of the aircraft carrier Up.

Is this the sucker? It seems to be able to generate a lot of power, so that Lin and a group of devourers can't pull it off the skin, and it has research value.

There is a hard shell under the skin of the starfish, which is a non-cellular structure similar to the shell of the Buckler worm, but it is softer.

But Lin is most concerned about the starfish's mouth, which should be a hole in the center of the five tentacles. There are curved thorn-like structures around the hole. This is very similar to the mouth of the Buckler worm, but the most important thing is that these curved There was a small hole at the end of the thorn, and Lin let the cell squeeze into the hole to explore, and found that the hole was connected to an area like a pouch in the starfish's body.

The pouch is made up of yellow cells that secrete a fluid that, when in contact with the cells, can cause the cells to enter a strange state where they become immobile and lose any sense.

Not all of the starfish's curved teeth have holes connected to the capsular bag. Some of the teeth do not have holes on them. It is estimated that they are purely used to dig out and eat the cells that have lost their senses.

This is a very powerful structure, piercing the opponent's skin with spikes, and then injecting a destructive liquid? Lynn seemed to have seen certain cells with this ability before, but why didn't it think of making a similar multicellular combination?

Although the acid injector evolved from a cone-shaped cell, its jet port is neither hard nor pointed, so Lin may not have associated this ability.

But now Lin understands that she can make a similar combination.

In addition, the starfish also has blood vessels in the body, but Lin couldn't find where the heart is. It may have been bitten by the devourer. The blood vessels themselves and the cells inside do not have the ability to carry water, so the starfish should have a heart.

However, Lin found something very similar to the heart. They are composed of a bunch of different cells. These cells are long and have many tentacles. These cells are gathered together to form a small oval shaped object and connected to it by ducts that run throughout the body like blood vessels.

But these pipes do not transport nutrients, there is nothing in them, and the elliptical object in the center does not move at all. What is the purpose of this?

'Ganglion'? The word popped up in Lin's mind. Although she still didn't understand it, Lin had a feeling that this was a thing that was of no use to it.

In addition, there are some strange combinations, such as a sac containing a large number of round white cells, this sac has a hollow tentacle attached to the outer skin, which seems to be used to shoot these cells out, and some The network structure, the structure of a large group of small tentacles, and the structure of the thick hollow tentacles, are very complex.

Most of the structure Lin didn't know what it was used for. I didn't expect that this starfish was so small, but it was so much more complicated than a large leafworm. It is estimated that the Buckler worm is also a very complex creature, but unfortunately it was destroyed by a virus.

However, Lin didn't care that much. If she could beat them, that was the most important thing.

Lin only absorbs useful knowledge, and those who don't understand don't care, just eat them all.

When Lin was studying the starfish, the 'transporters' had already transported the fat cells to the location of the Buckler worm, and now they are starting to revive them.

Lin believes that it will not be long before it can evolve to the top of existence again.

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