4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
Chapter 8
Cold, this is the only information in this water.
Lin's acid injectors and cone cells have all been sacrificed in the spreading ice. Only 91 diggers have survived. They form a circle, so that Lin's observers are not bothered by the freezing.
Outside of this circle, there is already a world of ice. Through the transparent bodies of these diggers, Lin can see that it is different from the blue and deep liquid water before, but is a static and bright state.
Lin's community suffered heavy losses under this seemingly beautiful crystal. Although it is not known how the diggers were not frozen in the end, Lin no longer wants to stay here.
Lin asked the diggers to move and try to see if they could find a way to leave here.
Some of the diggers are stuck to the ice, but they can be detached with a little twisting.
These diggers seem to have evolved. The previous cells will be frozen instantly as soon as they touch the ice, but they are much better.
However, as they moved, Lin could clearly feel the kind of cold touch that the outer membrane of the cell touched ice crystals ...
This seems to be a pain, but unlike the ordinary pain, Lin did not have a strong desire to get rid of pain, but instead made Lin feel like wanting to shrink into a ball, without moving.
However, this feeling did not affect Lin ’s activities,
This area was frozen, and the remaining swimming water was only the small place where Lin's ninety-two cells were located. All the surrounding water became ice impassable.
Maybe it can be dug?
Lin tried to let the digger use the sawtooth on the surface to scrape the ice crystals, but this action did not help except to create some ice chips. It was almost impossible to break the ice that frozen the whole water.
Lynn didn't know what to do.
The large reduction of the community has made Lin's intelligence reduced again, and it can't think about too complicated things.
But in fact, even if Lin had more than a thousand communities of wisdom at that time, it would be useless. 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, Lin felt the influence of time.
The first is ... hunger.
Lin felt hunger for the first time. There seemed to be a feeling in her thoughts, calling it to find food to supplement the energy loss caused by the activity.
Lin asked the diggers to stop sawing the ice layer and reduce energy loss by reducing activity. It can still understand this knowledge.
However, immobility does not mean pause. The cells are still consuming energy, even 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 its activities and waited for the things around it that it could do.
In the process of waiting, several diggers experienced energy exhaustion, which is a special kind of pain. Unlike other pains, when the energy is exhausted, the cell membrane and core will begin to slowly Shrinks, becomes dry and small, and eventually dies.
Lynn let other cells eat these dead bodies of energy, and their death allowed other cells to fight for more time.
The phenomenon of starvation caused a new idea in Lin's mind.
Each time the cells eat food, they digest it quickly and then divide it. They quickly consume the energy they get.
But what if there is a way to store energy?If there is a way to save a lot of energy in the cell, you wo n’t have to worry about this situation again.
Lynn thought of a new word ... fat.
Although I don't understand the detailed meaning, the word seems to represent stored food.
So, next time you must try to see if you can store food.
If you can go out alive ...
Holding this idea, Lin is still in a state of motionlessness, all cells are the same, floating in the water quietly.
The cold is killing Lin's will, the cold feeling makes Lin more and more want to sleep like this forever ...
But Lin will not give up. Although the wait is long, luck will come sooner or later ...
Lin ’s observer cells found a crack in the ice in front of her eyes.
Warm, Lin felt a feeling different from the cold. This new feeling awakened every cell of Lin. Lin found that there were more and more cracks on the ice ...
Under the watch of Lin, these ice crystals slowly shattered and cracked into countless huge ice cubes, and these ice cubes began to shrink slowly, just like the process of food digestion, they became smaller and smaller, and then Completely disappeared in the water ...
These ice crystals appeared out of thin air, frozen everything, and then disappeared instantly. If there were some incompletely dissolved ice crystal debris floating around, Lin almost felt as if this had never happened.
There are 77 cells left by Lynn, including the observer, who survived this crisis.
They have strong cold resistance. Although the disaster almost made Lin's community extinct, Lin also became stronger.
Lin ’s primary task now is to find everything to eat and restore the original community. Now these cells have become slow and fragile because they have lost a lot of energy.
Lin's community swims in the water. Although almost all the ice is dissolved, the water is still spreading cold. Lin reached the huge food before, and I saw a layer of ice on the white food, which seemed to be clean. Also affected here.
Lin asked the digger to try to dig up the ice layer above the food, but no matter how twisted they were, they could only saw off some ice chips on it, making it difficult to effectively damage the ice layer.
Why is the ice here not melting and so hard ...
Lin didn't know what the reason was, but it felt again, and it started to get cold again, and the ice chips floating in the surrounding water seemed to have a tendency to become larger.
Maybe it will freeze again here.
As soon as this thought appeared in Lin's thoughts, 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 dark blue again, looking for new food and warm new places.
warm……
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 direction is the direction that amoeba escaped before.
Not long after the cell swam, Lin discovered the figure of the amoeba. This giant did not escape the crisis of freezing. It was covered with frost, and the entire huge body slowly floated in the water, without any anger. .
Although it has warmed and started to thaw, it seems that it will not wake up anymore.
Lin asked the diggers to come forward. The frost on the amoeba was very fragile and fragile. The diggers sawed easily, and the still soft amoeba body was exposed in front of Lin.
eat.
Lynn only has this idea.
Diggers began to gnaw on the body of the amoeba. They used old methods to cut countless debris with zigzags, and then slowly ate them. After replenishing energy, the cold damage to the cells began to slowly disappear and became full of vitality again .
Then there was the division, and the number of surviving diggers began to increase slowly.
But Lin did not forget her previous thoughts.
To store energy, Lin needs something called fat to ensure that cells can survive without food for a long time.
there's one more thing.
Lin hopes to retrieve the acid-injectors and cone cells that have completely disappeared during the freeze crisis.