Chapter 8

Cold, that's the only message in this water.

Lin's acid injectors and cone cells have all been sacrificed in the spreading freeze, and only 91 diggers have survived. They form a circle so that Lin's observers are not troubled by the freezing.

On the outside of this circle, it was already a world of ice. Through the transparent bodies of these diggers, Lin could see that, unlike the blue and deep liquid water before, it was a still and bright realm.

Lin's community suffered heavy losses under this seemingly beautiful crystal. Although I don't know how the diggers were not frozen in the end, Lin no longer wanted to stay here.

Lin asked the diggers to start moving, and try to see if they could find a way out of here.

A few of the diggers were stuck to the ice, but they could come off with a little twist.

These diggers seem to have evolved, and the cells of the past would freeze instantly with just a little contact with ice, but they are much better.

However, when they moved, Lin could clearly feel the cold touch of the outer cell membrane touching the ice crystals...

This seemed to be a pain, but unlike ordinary pain, it didn't make Lin feel a strong desire to get rid of the pain. Instead, it made Lin feel like she wanted to shrink into a ball and not move.

However, this feeling did not affect Lin's activities.

This area was frozen, and the rest of the water that could swim was only the small place where Lin's ninety-two cells were located. All the surrounding water was frozen into impassable ice.

Maybe dig it out?

Lin tried to let the diggers use the saw teeth on the surface to scrape off the ice crystals, but this move didn't help except to create some ice chips. It was almost impossible to break the ice that had frozen the entire water.

Lin didn't know what to do.

The large reduction in the community has made Lin's intelligence much lower again, and it is unable to think about overly complicated things.

But in fact, even if Lin had the wisdom of more than 1,000 communities at that time, there was nothing she could do. At this time, she could only wait.

luck or death.

I don't know how long it took, although Lin knew the word time, but didn't know its concept, but Lin felt the influence of time.

The first is... hunger.

Lin felt hungry for the first time, and there seemed to be a feeling in her mind, calling it to find food to supplement the energy loss caused by activities.

Lin told the diggers to stop sawing the ice layer and reduce energy consumption by reducing activities, which she could still understand.

However, motionlessness does not mean a pause. The cells are still losing energy, even if they are much slower than when they are moving.

Lin continued to wait. It did what every creature should do. When it couldn't do anything, it stopped moving and waited to see if there would be something around it that it could do.

In the process of waiting, a few diggers experienced energy exhaustion, which is a special pain, different from other pains, in the case of energy exhaustion, the cell membrane and core will begin to slowly shrinks, becomes dry and small, and finally dies.

Lin let other cells eat these energy-depleted cell corpses, and their death bought other cells more time.

The phenomenon of starvation gave Lin a new idea in her mind.

Each time the cells eat food, they digest it quickly, then divide, and they quickly use up the energy they get.

But what if there was a way to store energy? If there is a way to store a large amount of energy in the cells, you won't have to be afraid if you encounter this situation again.

Lynn thought of a new word...fat.

Although I don't know the exact meaning, the word seems to mean stored food.

Then, you must try it next time to see if you can store food.

If I can get out alive...

With this thought in mind,

Lin is still in a state of motionless, all cells are the same, quietly floating in the water.

The cold is killing Lin's will, and the feeling of cold makes Lin more and more want to sleep like this forever...

But Lin won't give up. Although the wait is long, luck will come sooner or later...

Lin's observer cell found that a crack appeared in the ice layer in front of her.

Warm, Lin felt a different feeling than cold. This new-born feeling awakened every cell in Lin. Lin found that the cracks on the ice were increasing...

Under Lin's gaze, these ice crystals slowly shattered and cracked, becoming countless huge ice cubes, and these ice cubes also began to shrink slowly, just like the process of food being digested, they became smaller and smaller, and then completely disappeared into the water...

These ice crystals appeared out of thin air, froze everything, and then disappeared instantly. If there were still some incompletely dissolved ice crystal debris floating around, Lin almost felt as if all this had never happened.

Lin's cells, there are 77 remaining cells, including the observer, they have survived this crisis.

They have strong cold resistance. Although this disaster almost wiped out Lin's colony, Lin has also become stronger.

Lin's first task now is to find everything she can eat and restore the original community. Now these cells have become slow and fragile due to the loss of a lot of energy.

Lin's colony was swimming in the water. Although the ice was almost completely dissolved, the water was still cold. Lin arrived at the place where the huge food was before, and saw a layer of ice formed on the white food, which seemed to be icy clean. also affected here.

Lin asked the diggers to try to dig up the ice layer above the food, but no matter how they twisted, they could only saw some ice chips on it, and it was difficult to cause any effective damage to the ice layer.

Why isn't the ice here melting and it's so hard...

Lin didn't know the reason for this, but she felt it again, and it began to become cold again slowly, and the ice debris floating in the surrounding water seemed to have a tendency to become larger.

Maybe here will freeze again.

After this thought appeared in Lin's mind, it immediately left here with all the cells, Lin didn't want to see the previous situation again.

Lin's only hope is to go to the endless blue again to find new food and a new warm place.

warmth……

Lin felt it and swam in one direction, where the water began to be different from the previous cold, but made it comfortable and warm.

By the way, this is the direction in which the amoeba escaped before.

It didn't take long for the cell group to swim, and Lin found the figure of the amoeba. This behemoth did not escape the crisis of freezing. It was covered with ice sheets, and the entire huge body slowly floated in the water, without the slightest anger. .

It doesn't seem to be waking up anymore, although it's warming up to thaw now.

Lin asked the diggers to come forward. The frost on the amoeba was very fragile and brittle. The diggers sawed it open easily, and the still soft amoeba body was exposed in front of Lin's eyes.

eat.

Lin only had this idea.

The diggers began to devour the body of the amoeba. They used the old method to cut countless debris with sawtooth, and then slowly eat it. After replenishing the energy, the cold damage to the cells began to disappear slowly, and they became full of vitality again. .

Then came the split, and the number of surviving diggers began to slowly increase.

But Lin did not forget her previous thoughts.

To store energy, Lynne needs something called fat to keep cells alive without food for long periods of time.

there's one more thing.

Lynn hopes to find the acid injectors and cone cells that have completely disappeared in the freezing crisis.