Chapter 6 Amoebas

Is it to face the boundless water world again? Or continue to stay in place to eat and eat?

Of course, continue to eat, why leave? If you leave, there are too many uncertain factors, and Lin doesn't want to take risks.

So Lin decided to swallow this huge piece of food completely, so that its colony should be in the thousands, no, maybe it can reach more than 100 million.

Lin couldn't imagine these numbers before, but now as the community grows, the information she can think of in her mind is increasing.

But Lynn didn't think about one thing—

future.

Lin's cells began to devour huge amounts of food, starting from around the hole they dug, the acid injectors kept dissolving a large amount of food, while the remaining cells were digging, shredding, and tearing. , by all means to devour food as quickly as possible.

Lin's colony began to grow continuously. When the colony exceeded a thousand, the field of vision of Lin's observer cells could hardly fully accommodate them.

Lin was once again puzzled, why can't this sighted cell divide into another sighted cell? The cells split by the observer are still only the most basic ordinary cells.

And these ordinary cells will slowly evolve into diggers because of the way they eat, and eventually they still have no vision.

Just when Lin was distressed, a special object appeared again in its field of vision.

A huge, blue object, lying on the vast white plain of food, seemed to be alive, its body constantly moving.

However, its movement did not cause any damage to the food under it. Lin judged that it should not be eating, and this creature looked very strange. Its body seemed to have no fixed shape, but was constantly changing, like ...

Slime?

Lin didn't know why the word popped up in her mind, but it found a more standard name in the next moment...

amoeba.

Very figurative word.

Lin had no idea about this amoeba, because its size was too big, probably Lin's thousand cells were piled up in piles, and it was not half the size of it, which made Lin give up the plan to attack.

But why do you have to attack when you see another creature?

But what can you do without attacking?

Lynn doesn't understand.

Lin continued to observe the constantly moving amoeba, and suddenly it found that some small things were slowly swimming over not far from it.

Those little things are about the same size as Lin's cells, but they are oval in shape and greenish in appearance. These are probably also cells.

However, when these green cells approached, the amoeba suddenly reacted, and many tentacle-like things suddenly protruded from the surface of its body, reaching out to those green cells,

No, rather than sticking out tentacles, it's turning parts of its body into tentacles.

The green cells don't seem to be evading, they are easily caught by the tentacles, and then those tentacles are like cells phagocytosing objects, sucking all the green cells in, and the swallowed green cells are slowly sent along the tentacles. into the center of the amoeba's body.

The amoeba's body is pale gray and highly transparent, so Lynn can see what's going on inside the amoeba with these green cells.

I saw that the cells were all concentrated to a point in the amoeba, very close to a black circular object, which was probably the core of the amoeba, and then the body of these green cells began to shrink slowly, and finally disappeared.

It seems to be digested? But Lin couldn't see what digested them.

Speaking of which, the same is true when her own cells digest food. The food inexplicably shrinks and disappears in her body. Lin can't see what is working to digest the food.

There were many green cells floating by, and the amoeba only caught some of them,

A large number of green cells floated towards Lin's cell group.

Although they didn't pose any threat to Lin, what made Lin nervous was that the huge amoeba moved towards this side following these floating green cells.

So fast.

Lin only had this idea about the speed of the amoeba. The huge body kept moving the amoeba, and the speed was much faster than Lin's cell swimming speed.

run away? Fight back?

Lin is not going to run away, it has gone through many battles, and its cell community is now very strong.

Hit it head on.

Now the number of acid injectors is as high as 97, and Lin's self-confidence is also very sufficient.

The acid injectors rushed up under Lin's control. At this time, the amoeba seemed to know that something was approaching it, so it accelerated.

Lin is a little curious about this perception ability. The amoeba obviously has no vision, otherwise it would have seen this side long ago, so how does it know the location of the food? Obviously not by touch, because it knew those green cells were coming before it touched them.

The previous strange cells also reacted to things that approached.

Lin has the idea of ​​getting this ability, after all, it still can't split more observers.

The amoeba felt the approach of the acid injector, and it launched the first attack. It split apart a large piece of seemingly soft body above, divided it into countless small tentacles, and grabbed the acid injector.

When the tentacles approached, the acid injector spurted a large amount of dissolving liquid on the cone-shaped mouth. The moment the tentacles of the amoeba came into contact with the dissolving liquid, a festering reaction suddenly occurred, and the amoeba also seemed to feel pain. shrink back.

At this time, Lin's second attack was launched.

It is composed of 300 cone-shaped cells. These cells are constantly drilling holes in the food, and their 'cones' have become quite sharp, even those with high hardness that can only be dissolved by the lysing solution. Some food, they can now easily drill through.

The amoeba didn't stop there either. After it found out that the opponent would fight back, it gathered all the small tentacles into several huge tentacles. These tentacles would still fester when they touched the solution, but they wouldn't give it that much. Melt clean.

Relying on the large tentacles, the amoeba caught some acid injectors and sucked them into the body, and the liquid of the acid injectors also caused some damage to the amoeba's body, but it didn't seem to be a big problem.

At this point, the cone cells have approached the amoeba, piercing the amoeba's outer membrane with sharp, serrated cones, and then begin to spin.

The action of rotation was discovered by Lin by accident. This set can saw food faster, and some cells that have rotated too much have even evolved a few elliptical fins at the back of the tail to help speed up the rotation.

The amoeba's outer layer was sawed off by countless fragments of these cells, and it still did not flinch, but extended its tentacles in the old way, trying to devour the cells that drilled in it.

However, with the serrations with powerful cutting power, some cone cells can drill a hole and escape even if they are swallowed.

But a lot of them were still swallowed. Although the cells that were eaten could clearly feel their touch, it was as if they were frozen by something and could not move.

When digestion started, it was pain, and when it was over, Lin couldn't feel it at all.

Nearly half of the acid injectors have now been eaten, and there are only more than 200 cone cells left.

Lin found that her attack behavior seemed wrong. Even if they could hurt each other, it was still impossible to hit something more than 2,000 times bigger than her.

But... keep attacking.

This time, Lin even made the diggers stop eating and participated in the battle against the amoeba together.