Chapter 12 Exploration

The basal cells are constantly dividing, relying on the fat cells transported back by Lynn, and they are filling the entire hollow shell of the Buckler worm.

The arthropods are filled with muscle cells, the heart and blood vessels are assembled in the center, and the joints of the arthropods are filled with cells with enhanced flexibility. Lin also made an almost identical esophagus in the mouth, but the esophagus was filled with cone cells and cells. The acid injector has a similar structure to the mouth of the phagocytosis. This esophagus is controlled by muscle cells and can be extremely contracted to crush what is swallowed.

After assembling the basic combination, Lin found that there are still many vacancies in the shell, especially the long tail of the threaded structure of the Buckler worm, which is basically empty inside, and this type of tail is not suitable for swimming. Lin believes that the Buckler worm should be It is moved by arthropods.

Since you don't know what to put, let's leave it empty first. It can be used to store fat cells or something. In addition, Lin also found that except for the mouth, there are many cracks and small holes in all parts of the Buckler worm's body. I don't know if it is What are they used for, so they are blocked with hardened cells.

After the cells were completely in place, Lin tried to make the Buckler worm move, and the feeling of covering the whole body with hard armor was indeed very 'safe', but the movement was not very flexible. At first, Lin was not very used to it. But after practicing for a while, I basically understand how to move the body of the Buckler worm.

Lin mainly used the Buckler Worm as the escort of the aircraft carrier, so she named it 'Guardian'.

Then Lin asked the 'Guardian' to leave the ice cave and climb to the side of the aircraft carrier. With it, if she encounters a round shield worm or similar creature next time, Lin will not be afraid at all.

Turning back to the aircraft carrier, after Lin solved the starfish, she found that not only the starfish, but also many other wild cells were attached to the cortex of her aircraft carrier. Knowing why they did this, Lynn ate them all.

At the same time, Lin is still attacking other leafworms. These sandbags provide Lin with a lot of food, and this is not like a single-cell war. If you fight for a long time, the enemy will definitely have some cells or abilities that can restrain her, but Lin Having killed many leaf beetles so far, they have never developed any resistance to Lynn's attacks.

It seems that the evolution of multicellularity will slow down a lot.

Maybe even if there are changes, it is difficult to quickly reflect on such a large combination.

After eating a lot of amoeba, Lin's aircraft carrier has been more than three times larger than before. Lin has added two extra swimming tentacles. Now Lin feels that it should not continue to grow. It must ensure enough food to continue to grow without restraint. If you eat it, it will eat up all the leafworms. If you can't find other food, it will be bad, so Lin starts to use the 'lifespan' program to eliminate some old cells, slow down food consumption and overall growth speed.

At the same time, Lin began to compose a new cell combination, named 'Nurturer', which is mainly in the shape of a transparent sphere. It uses the tentacles around the body to move, and the function is to feed the green cells. Because they can move around, they can Find the most well-lit place to raise them, but Lin usually lets them swim around the aircraft carrier.

With these preparations, Lin is not too afraid of lack of food.

At the same time, Lin is also preparing to create some structures about the starfish, but Lin doesn't quite understand one thing. Although the injected teeth of the starfish are very useful, there are such hard creatures around them, and their teeth will definitely not penetrate, then It should be useless, and Lin's unconscious starfish's movement and speed can attack the joint part of the Buckler Worm.

Could it be that there are other creatures with soft bodies that are suitable for starfish to attack?

Lin's aircraft carrier slowly swam to a higher sand dune. Looking around, all the creatures on the beach except leafworms were disc-shaped super hard things, and there were no other creatures infested.

Maybe Lynn should look at the whole area,

Take a look at where these biomes extend, and then figure out how far you should grow and stop.

Indeed it should be.

Thinking about it, Lin started this operation after waiting for the guards to arrive.

The aircraft carrier was swimming at a higher position, and the guardian was crawling on the sand. This empty shell may be because it was not filled. The crawling was much faster than that of the former Buckler worm, and the two maintained the same speed. Moving on the beach, watching the surroundings by the way.

There are many creatures around, but almost all of them are amoeba and disc worms. Lin occasionally sees some starfish. These starfish are not the same as what Lin has seen before. They have six tentacles, the color is very similar to the sand, and they are not on the sand. Stop turning the sand, Lin thinks that they may be feeding on the cells in the sand.

Lin ignored them and continued to advance on the beach. After a while, Lin found that the number of creatures around her began to slowly decrease, and the dense distribution became scattered in this place.

Immobile creatures such as leafworms should all feed on the cells that flow through. It seems that there are relatively few cells in the water here, and I don't know why.

Um?

After Lin crossed a dune, a different creature appeared not far in front of it, but it was different in shape rather than appearance.

It was a huge leaf beetle, about five times bigger than the leaf beetle I had encountered before, and a little bigger than the aircraft carrier Lin had grown up with, but it didn't look any different from the previous leaf beetle.

There are quite a few large leaf-shaped insects around, and the small leaf-shaped insects like before are no longer seen here.

Is this a gathering place for large leafworms? Lin swam in front of a large leaf-shaped insect, stretched out a hammer and knocked on it.

It doesn't seem to be much harder than the small leafworm, why is it so big? By the way, knock it out and see if the structure inside is different.

As Lin was thinking, the giant leafworm suddenly swayed its entire body, and then shot out a huge amount of white liquid from the 'leaf tip' at the top of the body.

what is that? Venom? When Lin saw the liquid sprayed by the leafworm, her first thought was to retreat immediately, but the liquid did not sink to Lin's position, but floated into higher water. At the same time, Lin also found that all the leaves around The worms spray the liquid into the water.

What are they doing? The leafworms were constantly spraying these liquids, and even dyed the surrounding waters white, but Ke Lin couldn't understand the significance of their behavior.

Lin let the aircraft carrier and the guards stay on the beach to avoid contact with these liquids, and then Lin dispatched some small devourers to swim up to see what the liquids were.

Is this... a cell?

When the devourers swam close to the ejected liquid and observed it carefully, Lin realized that the white liquid was actually composed of small cells.

When Lin was eating leafworms, she found these cells in their bodies. These cells were stored in a sac near the end of the leafworm's body. At the time, Lin didn't know what the cells were used for. , and now it is even more puzzling.

They actually squirted out a large number of cells out of the body? What's the point of this?

Obviously not used to attack themselves, because these cells are completely incapable of attacking, they have two types, one is a small needle-shaped cell, and the other is a white round cell, which is larger, but there is no harm on them. The structure of the force, Lin also let the Devourers eat some, and they have no toxins in their bodies.

Um?

Lin suddenly found that if those smaller needle-like cells touched the white ball cells, they would burrow into the ball cells, and then the ball cells would turn yellow, and the outer membrane seemed to be hardened, and the other needle cells would reappear. If you touch it, you can't get in.

What the hell is this doing? I don't understand it at all! It was the first time that Lin saw this kind of inexplicable behavior, and she didn't know how to explain it.

However, Lin has no time to care about these wonderful cells now.

The devourer's eyes saw other creatures approaching slowly from a distance, these creatures were not single cells, but multicellular behemoths.

The bodies of these creatures are disc-shaped, but they are not the hard guys buried in the sand. They look very soft and float slowly in the water. There are dozens or even hundreds of them under the disc. With slender tentacles, the body of the disc is about one-tenth the size of Rin's aircraft carrier, but the length of the tentacles is equal to that of the aircraft carrier.

There are quite a lot of them. Lin's devourer looked around in the water and found that there were at least hundreds of them approaching here in all directions. These creatures seemed to be attracted by the large number of cells sprayed by the leafworm in the water. Come on, some creatures that have swum into the cell swarm have already started waving their slender tentacles to prey. ………………………………………………………………………………

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