4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

Chapter 5 Acid Injectors

The cone cells damaged by the lysis solution split. This time the cells are the same as the cone cells, but darker in color.

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

Next, Lynn let the cone cells engulf the lysate of the strange cells.

Because the anterior segment becomes conical and hardened, it is difficult to devour large pieces like the original cells. Only a small hole can be opened at the front of the cone, and the speed of eating food is quite slow.

Can you replace it with other fast-eating cells?

How to replace?

Lin flashed these two thoughts in an instant, but unfortunately no more.

This happens when Lin is not smart enough. The only way to increase her intelligence is to expand her community.

Lin let this new, resistant cone cell eat a lot of lysate, but showed no signs of damage. It seems that this is by far the most resistant cell.

So, let it go to the hole just eaten, and use the dissolving liquid to melt the harder food.

Or……

Lin looked at the remaining few strange cells, and it suddenly came up with the idea of ​​killing them, so that it might split more resistant cone cells.

forget it.

In Lin's thoughts, a new word called 'sympathy' appeared.

Lin returned to the cave with new cone cells. After reaching the deepest and hardest part of the food, Lin let the cone cells spray the lysate that was eaten. Sure enough, the harder food was easily dissolved. Lost.

Although the dissolved food mince is mixed with the lysate, it can still be eaten by other ordinary cells, causing some damage at most, and it is not fatal. In this way, Lynn can make these damaged cells divide into lysate resistance Cell.

Lin also found an interesting place, that is, this cone-shaped cell that eats a lot of lysate. It will appear green when it is full of lysate, and the color of the body surface will change after all the lysate in the body is spit out. It had to fade down, but after it rested for a while and ate something, its body slowly began to appear green again.

Lynn tried it, and surely the cone-shaped cell spewed out the lysate again.

what does this mean?Can this cell produce its own lysate?Is it capable of using strange cells?

Is this also ... evolution?

Lin didn't understand how the institutions inside worked.

However, when the wisdom is high, you will know.

So, Lin gave the new cone cell a name.

"Acid Injector"

With the help of acid-injectors, Lin's cell community continued to dig deep while digging, and continued to expand the community. Under the constant division of cells, Lin's community had reached 331 cells.

There are ten acid-injectors, three hundred diggers, twenty cone-shaped cells, and one is a visual observer. Under the constant evolution of mining, there are almost no original basic cells. Too.

Lynn found a problem.

When the community is still small, as long as the number is slightly increased, it can improve a lot of intelligence, but when the community is larger, the increased intelligence becomes slower.

If it is explained by numbers, that is to say, there are only 20 cells in the community, and every additional cell will gain 1 point of intelligence, and if the 200-cell community is increased by 10 cells, only one point of intelligence will be obtained.

why?

Lin often feels that she lacks intelligence, and it is the same now, and she has no idea why.

But Lin ’s biggest concern now is that it has dug up this huge piece of food.

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

It's 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.

Only continue to eat, and then finish eating this piece of food.

Just as Lin looked at this piece of Wang Yang, something suddenly rushed into its field of vision.

This thing is only about one-hundredth the size of Lynn's cells, but it still can't escape its sight.

The grayish-white color, the long tail, has a head structure like a sphere.

what is this?

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

It first bypassed the digger's serrated, harder part, but around the fragile cell membrane behind it, and then tied it with a long tail.

Curiosity drove Lin to watch all the time without making any move.

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

pain.

Lin's first reaction was pain, as if a strange fluid had been injected into it, and the digger cell sent out a violent pain response.

By the way, I know what this thing is.

Lin ’s current size of the colony gave her enough wisdom to understand this weird thing injected in its cells.

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

Viruses are different from cells, which is a weird thing, but Lynn has no way of knowing their details.

The tail of this virus is hollow, and after sticking the tail on the cell, it can inject some liquid in the head into the cell through it.

Lin is not clear what these liquids are, but it is obviously not a good thing. After all, it hurts, and Lin also knows how to describe the phenomenon.

"infection."

Lin currently understands that after the virus infects the cell, it will cause persistent pain and eventually kill the cell, and then release a large amount of virus on the cell's body.

It is a very dangerous and difficult thing.

But this time Lin will not run away.

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

After this period of evolution, acid injectors have a small hole in the serrated tip of their conical head, which can spray a large amount of solution at once.

From the outside, it can be seen that the original transparent cell membrane of the infected digger cells began to become dark, which seemed to be filled with strange white silk threads and liquid, and it made Lin feel very painful. Too.

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

After a while, Lin had completely lost control of the digger's cell, and the cell seemed to be dead, and the whole was muddy.

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

This virus did not explode the cells like the previous thorn ball, but these small gaps also began to grow, and then those viruses poured out of the cracks in large quantities!

This time, there are probably hundreds of them.

However, at the instant these viruses appeared, a huge amount of acid covered them, and the amount of dissolved liquid sprayed by the acid injectors was extremely large. Even if the number of these viruses was increased by ten times, they could not escape. Go out.

The virus that hits the acid liquid was instantly broken into pieces, and these little things were very fragile.

The acid-injector was still spraying non-stop, until Lin and the body of the excavator behind him were also dissolved, Lin was willing to take it easy.

The joy of victory?

This time the feeling was not as strong as when he defeated the strange cell, but Lin still felt it.

But it's true that it's just not a joy to overcome some weak viruses.

Lynn, its goal is the endless evolutionary path.