Chapter 9 Stem Cells

In fact, Lin has thought about this question more than once.

Each of its cells has a certain number. If they all die, how can we have them again?

Do the same thing again as before? For example, can the acid injector be evolved by letting the cells phagocytose the lysate again?

But why the cone cells evolved, Lin still doesn't understand.

But that's not the point, the point is that it has to be such a cumbersome step to get them again?

Lynn didn't think so.

Lynn will find a way.

Thinking of this, Lin's diggers have eaten half of the amoeba, and the number of digger cells has surged, reaching 699.

Lynn started to implement her idea, first of all, the storage of energy and food. Lynn began to try to keep a digger so full that he was about to split, and stop it from splitting.

How to stop the split? Lin didn't know either, the splits were generated on their own, so Lin just kept controlling it in her thoughts and forbid it to do things that were not in line with Lin's thoughts.

Seemingly successful, the digger did not split, but continued to feast on amoeba corpses there.

Next, storage, Lynn started trying to get it to stop digesting the food and instead keep the food in her body.

If it succeeded, the food inside the digger was not digested, but was piled up in one place.

I didn't expect it to be so simple, and Lin felt a little happy.

Next, Lin let this cell keep eating, digesting only the part that it needs for its activities, and the extra is not used for division, but stored in the body, which also led to the cell's growing body size. It grows bigger, and after eating for a while, it has almost twice as many other cells.

However, storing this food also makes the cell very inflexible and slow, making it difficult to perform even the action of sawing the food.

This will make it difficult for it to even eat, but this problem can't be easier for Lin, let other cells help it, use ordinary diggers to help this food storage cell collect food, and this cell Just be responsible for eating.

Slowly, this cell produced interesting changes.

As it continued to eat and not work, the serrations on its outer membrane began to slowly disappear, a phenomenon Lyn knew was called degeneration.

At the same time, its body size has become very hypertrophic, almost three times that of other digger cells, and the fragments of the amoeba stored in its body are also decomposed, but not digested, but converted into a kind of water-like, but more viscous liquid.

Lyn knew that these liquids were called oils.

This cell converts the food eaten into oil and stores it in the body. These oils are easy to carry, seem to contain more energy, take up less space, and are more effective than storing food directly.

Lin doesn't know how they form, it's not Lin's control, but what happens to the cells themselves.

Lin is not 100% controlling the cells. Some behaviors such as division, etc. are all operated by the cells, and the oil is also made by themselves. It seems that there are some deeper mysteries in the cells, things that Lin does not know. .

With gradually increasing wisdom, Lin can fully grasp all of this.

Lynn gave this type of cell a name - the Reservoir.

Lynn can also split the hoarder, but the new cells split by the hoarder have no oil in their bodies, and need to eat food to convert them into oil.

It's a good feeling, as long as there are more, then you won't be afraid of hunger, but you can't have too many of these cells, after all, you can't fight, and the speed of action is very slow.

The feeding continues... After a while, only about 10% of the amoeba's corpse remained. Lin's cell community almost recovered to its original number, and the number of depositors also increased to 30. A lot of oil in their bodies It is possible to make Lin's colony travel a considerable distance without food.

But what Lin wants most now is to regain acid injectors and cone cells.

Lin first tried to make the digger evolve into one of the two, using the old method, and kept imagining in her mind to make this cell become that way.

But it didn't work, and the excavated cells split out of the excavated cells.

Ke Lin did not give up, it continued to experiment, for example, asking the digger to do some actions similar to cone cells, or simply trying to squeeze a cell into a cone with other cells.

Of course, they all failed. In the end, Lin Du felt that her method was stupid...

But Lin never stopped letting them evolve in her thoughts, and eventually, a cell responded to it.

That's the basal cell, the original, the kind of cell that doesn't have any function.

Such cells can only be divided from the only cell with sight: the observer.

The observer has not been involved in any activity, so it retains everything except vision, and the cells it divides have no vision.

These cells are called basal cells by Lin, and they usually evolve into diggers soon after working with diggers, but this time, this cell received Lin's signal before it could become diggers.

Like a miracle, after this cell has digested the food it has just eaten, its body begins to grow slowly, and then grows a long conical mouth like a conical cell, which is covered with spiral serrations... …

Exactly the same as the original cone cells.

Next, Lin tried to make the basic cells evolve acid injectors, and the result was very simple.

It turns out that, that is to say, although the basic cells have no functions, they will evolve?

But can it evolve into something else?

Lin thought so, trying to make basic cells evolve into amoeba or monster cells.

……no response.

It seems that only cells belonging to the Lin community can change the basic cells. They do not have any evolutionary ability, but record the information of this evolution.

But how are they recorded? Does it have something to do with the observer watching?

Lin didn't know, but now that the main problem has been solved, Lin feels very happy.

Next, is to go to the vast world again, to explore all the unknown things!

The amoeba had already eaten everything, and with 1233 cells, Lin swam into the boundless dark blue...

Lin has no goal, and it can't see any goal in this dark blue, but there is something that attracts Lin.

That is warmth.

Swimming in this direction, Linneng felt more and more that it got rid of the previous cold, and the water became warmer and more comfortable.

This direction seems to be above.

The closer it gets, the brighter and warmer the waters become. Lin swims faster and faster. The warmth seems to give her cell community a boost. This is the exact opposite of the cold curling up feeling. Comfortable.

At this moment, the observer swimming in the front position found fresh food.

Above Lin's colony, countless purple creatures appeared.

They are oval in shape, and their bodies are covered with dense cilia, which are only about half the size of Lynn's cells, but they are very numerous.

There are many, covering the field of vision that Lin observers can see.

Preliminary calculations, probably more than 10,000.

This is another kind of cell, and Lin didn't know what they were called, so she simply called it "purple cells".

These purple cells don't care about the appearance of Lin's colony. Even if Lin's cells are close to them, they will not attack or react at all, but they are all rushing to swim in the same direction.

It was in the same direction as the warm place that Lin originally wanted to go to.

If that's the case, let's take a look.