Chapter 13 The Eve of the Storm

Lin stayed on the beach quietly, observing this strange scene.

First, the leafworm squirts out a large number of cells in its body, then these cells fuse together in a wonderful way, and then a group of disc creatures with long tentacles are attracted by these cells.

Lin was very puzzled. Why did the leafworm spray so many cells into the water? Wouldn't this consume a lot? It has attracted so many strange creatures.

Those strange flying disc-shaped creatures, Lin didn't want to mess with them, but planned to observe the situation first. After preliminary calculations, these disc-shaped creatures should be easy to deal with. Their disc-shaped bodies must be soft. Rapid expansion and contraction to swim, although the tentacles are many but very thin, the strength is definitely not large.

But these creatures are very numerous. They swim in the group of cells ejected by the leafworm, and the tentacles on their bodies keep expanding and contracting, as if they are drawing their prey into their bodies.

'Jellyfish'.

The new word that appeared in my thoughts indicated that these Frisbee and tentacled creatures seemed to be called this, which was not satisfactory, but Lin didn't have to think of a new name.

Lin is thinking about trying to attack the jellyfish. If they are easy to deal with, there will be another food source.

At this time, Lin suddenly found that the surrounding light was slowly dimmed.

This is... dark night? Are you coming? Lin has almost forgotten about the dark night, because after she woke up from the oxygen crisis, it has never been in the dark night, but it is true that this time the dark night seems to come much slower than before, I don't know why?

Falling into the dark is not a good thing. The flash balls are too small to illuminate the entire aircraft carrier, and because there has never been a dark night, Lin has not made too many flash balls.

Lin first asked the cultivators who raised green cells around to return to the aircraft carrier, and then let the guardians and the aircraft carrier stay together on the sand, ready to face the darkness.

As the surrounding light dimmed, the floating jellyfish slowly showed a blue light, and they even illuminated the waters as the surrounding became darker.

It's beautiful... are they somehow related to the light fungus?

The word 'beauty' had not appeared in Lin's mind for a long time. She watched the shimmering jellyfish group floating in the water, and suddenly she saw a jellyfish floating over, approaching the position of the aircraft carrier and the guardian.

Do you want to attack?

The shining jellyfish was swimming on the sand in front of Lin. If Lin wanted to attack it, it would be quite easy. The only thing Lin worried about now was that if she attacked this one, would the jellyfish on it attack in groups?

Just when Lin hesitated, the jellyfish suddenly changed direction and floated over, and it didn't look like it was about to attack. It just slowly swam past Lin's aircraft carrier, but its tentacles lightly brushed the edge of the aircraft carrier. A small piece of cortex.

it hurts!

Lin felt a strong pain in the touched cortex that kept spreading from cell to cell, and even began to enter the blood vessels connecting the cortex!

Is this a virus? No, it doesn't seem the same? Should be... Venom? In short, it must be interrupted urgently!

Lin sent out a strong thought, causing all the cells in the circle around the pain point to die by itself, the heart stopped beating, and the invaded blood vessel also ruptured in an instant, preventing the venom from continuing to penetrate.

Lin no longer felt pain, its emergency response worked very well, and then Lin temporarily blocked the section of the blood vessel, and the heart began to beat again, and then dispatched the Devourer to see the injured part of the cortex.

Is this... a stinging cell?

The devourers found on the cortex that a large number of cells were sticking to the necrotic cortex. They all had a hole in their body. There was a silk thread in the hole, and the tip of the silk thread was a needle stick. It seems that it is how they injected the venom into it.

These venoms are circulated between cells according to their nutrient-sharing architecture,

However, as long as Lin stops the life activities of the surrounding cells, they can't pass it on.

Fortunately, only a small piece of cortical cells was injured. This kind of small injury is very simple to repair, but even if it continues to spread, these venoms will become more and more sparse, and eventually they will become unable to kill cells. After all, it is not a virus. can keep growing.

However, Lin is sure to kill the jellyfish now.

The jellyfish is still nearby and hasn't traveled far. Let the guards try it first. Lin also wants to see if this resurrected front Buckler worm works well, and if it is attacked by the opponent, its hard shell will probably be able to protect it.

Thinking about it, Lin let the guards slowly climb over, and when it climbed under the jellyfish, Lin discovered a problem.

Defenders can't use pincers to hold a floating jellyfish in the water for the simple reason that its limbs can't bend upwards.

Well, forget it, let's do it directly.

Lin let the aircraft carrier swim towards the target and slammed the jellyfish's disc-shaped body with a slam.

The hit jellyfish spewed out a large piece of air bubbles, and at the same time its body was knocked out and landed on the beach not far away.

Lin immediately let the guards rush up, grabbed the tentacles of the jellyfish with pliers before it started to swim again, and then pressed it all over, tearing its body apart.

It's quite simple, and the jellyfish around are just as Lin thought, without any movement, they don't seem to know that a companion has been killed here, which means that there should be no communication between them.

Lin released a large number of Devourers, and Lin planned to look at the structure of the jellyfish before eating it.

The devourers approached the jellyfish. After careful observation, Lin found that there were dense holes in their tentacles, and each hole had a spiked cell. The density made Lin almost feel a little scared. If she was touched by a lot of tentacles, Lin might have to take off the entire cortex of the aircraft carrier.

Could Lin also use her own stinging cells like this? However, Lin's stinging cells are not as penetrating as those of jellyfish, so Lin has not used them for a long time.

This is the first time that Lin has encountered single cells that can penetrate the cortex of an aircraft carrier. Although they grow on multicellular organisms, it seems that the cortex has to be hardened again. For example, the carapace of the guardian is completely no problem.

The body structure of jellyfish is quite simple. There are no blood vessels, only some pouches. These pouches are also full of tentacles with acupuncture cells. Lin found that these tentacles also secrete lysing fluid. It is estimated that these pouches are used for For decomposing food, other than that, there is no complicated structure, which is far from the super-complexity of starfish.

But on the contrary, simple jellyfish, leafworms and other creatures are so much larger than starfish, why?

Is it only simple to grow bigger? But Buckler worms are also large and should be complicated.

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Except for the part with stinging cells, the jellyfish was eaten up by Lin. At this time, the surrounding area was completely dark. In this water area, except for the light of the jellyfish, everything else was pitch black.

Lin paid close attention to the surroundings, but fortunately, no jellyfish floated over. It had repaired the wound on the cortex, and let some cells swallow a small amount of residual venom, trying to make them evolve into resistant individuals.

The jellyfish seemed to have eaten almost the cells ejected by the leafworms. Lin found that their numbers were slowly decreasing, and many jellyfish swam far away.

Every time a jellyfish is missing, the surrounding environment becomes dim, until they all leave, Lin can no longer see any light and objects.

Pure darkness, it seems like I haven't felt it for a long time... It seems that I really need to get a large light-emitting combination.

"Gu..."

Suddenly, there was an abnormal vibration in the water.

what is that?

There was a feeling on Lin's sensory tentacles, and the fluctuations in the water had changed significantly. It felt like...some kind of huge thing was shaking.

In the shaking of the water, there are countless small vibrations. Lin knows that it should be the feeling of the gravel being turned up. Could it be that some kind of creature has drilled out of the sand?

No, the surrounding sand is shaking!

Lin hesitated for a moment, and then let the aircraft carrier swim upwards slowly, but the guards who couldn't swim could only stay on the beach.

The Guardians have no eyes, but have tentacles for detection, so they can also feel the vibrations in the water.

The shaking of the whole beach started to become more and more obvious, and it seemed that something was about to happen.

………………………………………………………………Thank you for the reward~

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