Chapter 5 Acid Noters

The cone cells damaged by the lysate split, this time the cells are the same size as the cone cells, but darker.

It seems that as long as these cells have the resistance to the lysate, the color will become darker.

Next, Lin let the cone cells devour the lysate of the monster cells.

Because the front part of the conical cells becomes conical and hardened, it is difficult to swallow things in large pieces like the original cells. It can only open a small hole at the front end of the cone, and the speed of eating food is quite slow.

Can it be replaced by other fast-eating cells?

How to replace it?

Lin flashed these two thoughts in an instant, but unfortunately she didn't write any more.

This happens when Lynn's intelligence is not enough, and the only way for her to increase her intelligence is to expand her community.

Lin let this new, resistant cone cell eat a lot of lysate, but there was no sign of damage. It seems that this is the most resistant cell so far.

Then, let it go into the hole you just ate, and use the solution to melt those hard foods.

Or……

Lin looked at the remaining few monster cells, and she suddenly had the idea of ​​killing them all, so that it might be able to split into more resistant cone cells.

just forget it.

In Lin's mind, a new word called 'sympathy' seemed to pop up.

Lin took the new cone cells back to the depths of the cave. After reaching the deepest and hardest part of the food, Lin asked the cone cells to spray the dissolved solution that she had eaten. Sure enough, the harder food was easily dissolved. Lost.

Although the dissolved food bits are mixed with the lysing liquid, they can still be eaten by other ordinary cells, causing some damage at most, but not fatal. Using this method, Lin can make these damaged cells split into lysing liquid resistance. cells.

Lin also found an interesting point, that is, the cone-shaped cell that has eaten a lot of lysate, its body will turn green when it is full of lysate, and after spitting out all the lysate in the body, the color of the body surface also changes. It had to fade, but after it rested for a while and ate something, its body began to slowly turn green again.

Lin tried it, and sure enough, the conical cell sprayed out the lysate again.

what does that mean? Can this cell produce lysate on its own? Can it use the abilities of monster cells?

Is this also... evolution?

Lin had absolutely no idea how the institutions inside worked.

However, when wisdom is high, you will know.

So Lynn gave the new cone cell a name.

"The Acid Injector"

With the help of the acid injectors, Lin's cell community continued to eat and dig into the depths, expanding the community. With the continuous division of cells, Lin's community had reached 331 cells.

There are ten acid injectors, 300 diggers, 20 cone cells, and the other is a sighted observer. Under the continuous mining and evolution, there are almost no basic cells of the original kind. .

Lynn found a problem.

When the colony is small, it can increase a lot of intelligence by simply increasing the number, but as the colony grows, the increase in intelligence is slower.

If you use numbers to explain, that is to say, for a colony with only 20 cells, each additional cell Lin can gain 1 point of intelligence, and for a 200-cell colony, ten cells are added to get a point of intelligence.

why?

Lin often felt that her intelligence was insufficient, and now it is, and she has no idea why.

But what Lin is most concerned about now is that it has dug through this huge piece of food.

After the last layer of white food in front was dissolved by the acid injector, Lin saw the boundless blue again in her vision.

Water again.

Where is the end of this water?

Lin originally thought that there was something interesting under this huge piece of food, but it was disappointed.

Just keep eating and finish this piece of food.

Just as Lin looked at the vast ocean, something suddenly rushed into its field of vision.

This thing was only about one percent of Lin's cell size, but it still couldn't escape its sight.

Grayish-white color, long tail, with a spherical head structure.

what is this?

Lin found that this thing approached a digger cell along the flow of water.

It first bypassed the serrated, harder part of the digger, but went around to the fragile cell membrane behind it, and then tied it with its long tail.

Curiosity drove Lin to watch, without making any move.

This thing used its tail to poke a small hole in the cell membrane, and then I saw that the spherical head of this thing slowly shrank and became smaller, and I saw that some gray liquid was injected into the cell through its tail.

pain.

Lin's first reaction was pain, as if a strange liquid had been injected, and the digger cells sent out a severe pain response.

By the way, I know what this thing is.

Lynn's current size of the colony made it smart enough to understand this weird thing injected on its cells.

This thing is called... a virus. By the way, the thorn ball I encountered before is also a virus, but they are not the same kind.

Unlike cells, viruses are weird things, but Lin has no way of understanding them in detail.

The tail of this virus is hollow, and after tying the tail to the cell, it can inject some kind of fluid from the head into the cell.

Lin still doesn't know what these liquids are, but it's obviously not a good thing. After all, it hurts, and Lin also knows how to describe this phenomenon.

"Infect."

What Lin understands so far is that after a virus infects a cell, it causes persistent pain, eventually kills the cell, and then releases a large amount of virus on the cell's corpse.

It is a very dangerous and difficult thing to deal with.

But this time Lynn won't run away.

Under Lin's command, ten acid injectors surrounded the virus-infected digger cell.

After the evolution of acid injectors for a period of time, a small hole has appeared on the serrated tip of their original conical head, which can spray a large amount of dissolved liquid at one time.

From the outside, it can be seen that the original transparent cell membrane of the infected digger cells began to dim, and the inside seemed to be filled with strange white threads and liquids, which caused Lin to feel severe pain, and slowly began to find it difficult to control this cell. .

However, Lin still did not move, it wanted to witness the whole process.

After a while, Lin had completely lost control over the excavator cell, and the cell seemed to be dead, and the whole thing was cloudy.

At this point, the cell membrane began to slowly crack some gaps.

This virus didn't burst the cells like the thorn balls before, but these little cracks started to pop up, and then the viruses gushed out from the cracks!

This time, there are probably hundreds of them.

However, the moment these viruses appeared, a huge amount of acid shrouded them. The amount of dissolved liquid sprayed by the acid injectors was extremely large. Even if the number of these viruses increased tenfold, they would not be able to escape. go out.

The virus that touched the acid instantly turned into pieces, and these little things were very fragile.

The acid injector was still spraying continuously, until the corpse of the digger behind him was dissolved, and Lin just let it go.

The joy of victory?

This time, the feeling was not as strong as when the monster cells were defeated, but Lin still felt it.

However, it is true that there is no joy in just defeating some weak viruses.

Lynn, its goal is a never-ending evolutionary path.