4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

Lin made the observer swim to a high place, trying to find something that attacked the acid-injector. Lin remembered that the pain of the fallen acid-injector just came from below, and the attack must also come from below.

Lin found that there were many protruding black stones on the surface of the rocks under the acid injectors. They were very inconspicuous in this rock area. The acid injectors floated very close to these stones at this time, Lin I feel that the attack came from the stone.

Disguise ... A creature pretends to be something common in an environment to ambush its prey.

Although I haven't seen such a situation, Lin knew that it happened.

So Lin planned to fight back directly. The acid injectors immediately aimed at the stone particles underneath. A large amount of dissolving liquid was sprayed on these stone particles. Those stone particles were hurt by the dissolving liquid and they moved, but not only one was moving. Instead, all the stone particles in the whole area shook strongly, and the whole stone-covered ground slowly rose.

Lin didn't anticipate this situation. It hurried to disperse the acid-injectors. When they were far away, the creature hidden under the ground also showed its shape.

Its whole body is black and gray, just like the color of the surrounding rocks, and there are many protruding stones on the body surface, a bit like the saw teeth of the digger's body, and there are a lot of flagella under it, but its body shape However, it is more than fifty times the size of the digger. After it floated, the rock underneath also showed a large defect.

Rock bug.

Lynn gave the huge and disguised creature a name, and then decided to kill it.

Lin once again brought an acid-injector forward, because Lin didn't yet know how the rockworm attacked, so she didn't dare to rush all acid-injectors out.

When the acid injector approached the rock worm, it also reacted. This time Lin clearly saw that a small stone grain on the rock worm swayed slightly, and a little sharp object that was barely visible was ejected from it. The body of this acid-injector.

Then Lin felt the pain like before, and then there was no response.

It ’s a terrible attack, but Lin still sees clearly. Some sharp things are hidden in the rock-like protuberances on the rock worm, and there is some kind of liquid in it, which can quickly destroy the body of the acid injector. Nucleus.

poison?

Although it is a new word, Lin feels that it means the same as the dissolving solution of the acid-injector, and it is a kind of liquid with extremely powerful damage ability.

The rock worm moved its huge body, slowly turned around, and swam towards the body of the shot down acid injector.

And when the rock worm turned around, Lin saw a strange black protrusion on the top of its mouth, which was different from the stone grain. This protrusion was quite large, and it felt like a crystal of ice crystals.

eye……

Although she hadn't seen it before, Lin realized what it was, and it was the first time she saw other creatures with vision besides her own observer.

curious.

Lin began to be more and more curious about this rock bug, not only its eyes, but also its peculiar way of attacking, if Lin ’s cells can also be possessed, it must be interesting.

Therefore, Lin did not intend to let go of rock bugs.

The rock worm was swimming next to the body of the acid-injector. It opened its big cave-like mouth and swallowed it slowly, but it did not completely swallow the body, but tore the remaining part with flagella Open, throwing the fragments of the corpse to the stones growing on him.

Does the stone need to eat?

Although curious, Lin's movements did not stop. At about the same time, Lin made the acid injectors attack again.

Although the rock worm has a powerful attack method, Lin notices that the number of stone particles is not very large, about 20, which cannot be compared with the number of its acid injectors.

As long as Lin has basic cells, it can grow new acid injectors indefinitely, so Lin hardly needs to worry about the loss of attack.

The acid-injectors rushed up and faced huge opponents. They sprayed a lot of dissolved liquid, and the surrounding water was suddenly stained with green.

The body of the rock worm is not only a color like a rock, but also its strength is very strong. When it is contacted by the dissolving solution of the acid injector, only the surface layer is corroded with some scars.

The rock worm launched a counterattack, and the stone particles on its body shot a lot of sharp thorns, and several acid-injectors were instantly killed by a blow.

Although acid injectors evolved from cone cells, they have not used the body to dig things for too long, so the hard outer shell has degenerated and cannot resist such attacks.

However, Lin had to attack with acid injectors, because apart from them, Lin estimated that no other cell could tear the rockworm's outer membrane.

The rock worm twisted its body as if it felt a sharp pain because of the dissolving fluid. It began to sway the flagella under it, and it seemed to want to escape.

But the speed of the rock worm is not fast, and it is only similar to that of Lin's storage cells full of fat.

Not because of the huge relationship between the body, it seems that because of the habit of hiding and disguising for a long time, the mobility has begun to deteriorate somewhat.

At this time, Lin let the cone cells come forward to participate in the attack. Hundreds of cone cells immediately surrounded the rock bugs. Lin let them use the cone angle to stab the corrosion scars on the rock bugs.

The rock worm was unable to resist this time, and the thorns on it seemed to have been shot.

Lin's acid-injector will also use up the dissolving solution, but it can easily supplement this shortcoming with quantity, but the rock worm can't do it. With the cooperation of the acid-injector and the cone-shaped cells, the rock worm's huge body is finally out Immobile, the outer membrane simulating the color of the rock was torn into pieces by cone-shaped cells in the water ...

Only 15 acid-injectors were lost this time. Rockworms had many thorns on the same acid-injector, so the loss was much less than Lin thought, but if you eat the rock insects, Lin can split immediately Hundreds came out.

Lin can finally check the part that she is curious about, the first is that eye. It paid special attention to it before, so that the acid-injector does not corrode the rock bug.

The eyes are particularly large, about twice the size of Lin ’s cells. Lin let the cone cells dig it out of the rock worm ’s corpse. Because the cells are too large, the general cells ca n’t be eaten, so Lin especially let the storage people eat Look.

The storekeeper slowly swims over. In order to store more food, the fat cells become very soft, and the body is increased to five times the size of the normal cells, even if the rock bug is swallowed. The eyes are more than enough.

After the storekeeper swallowed the eye of the rock worm, Lin immediately conveyed the message in her thoughts.

This information is exactly the same as when Lin first wanted to gain vision. Lin tried to make this cell use this eye to gain vision.

But it failed, the storer didn't respond at all, but the eyes were slowly decomposed and digested like other foods being swallowed, and converted into fat for storage.

Is there no way?

Never mind ...

Lin turned the next target into small stones that shot deadly spikes.

If you look closely at these stones, you can see that there is a small hole on it, and the spikes containing the poison are shot from the hole.

According to Lin ’s previous experience, if a cell is damaged by poison and survives to divide successfully, they may be resistant to the poison, and then let the resistant cells eat the poison, then it may be secreted. Although the ability to poison does not understand the principle, this is how the acid injector evolved.

It's a pity that none of Lynn's cells survived being hit by a poisonous spike.

If you let them eat directly like this, it is likely that only a few more cells will die, and Lin feels a little worried.

Just then, Lin suddenly saw a stone cracked and drilled a small round creature out of it.

The surface of this creature has a structure like a cover. From its transparent body, it can be seen that under the cover, there are very long and coiled tentacles, and the end of the tentacles is a small needle stick.

Did it shoot the poison needle just now?

Lin looked at this creature curiously. It was obviously different from the rock bug, but another type of cell.

What is its relationship with rock bugs?Just like yourself, there are many different kinds of cells in a group?

If that's the case, now approaching the thorn cells should attack themselves, but they don't respond.

Lin thought, letting a cone-shaped cell poke at the stinging cell. The stinging cell suddenly felt like a shock, opened the cover of the body surface, and the tentacles inside stood up instantly, shooting the sharp spike at the end.

Although she didn't hit, Lin was taken aback.

However, Lin immediately had a new idea.

This thorn cell may be useful for Lin ...

After a period of observation, Lin found that these tiny thorn cells are about one-tenth the size of Lin ’s cells. They seem to collect the fragments of the rock, gather the fragments to surround themselves, and then stick to the ground to disguise It looks like a stone and has a small hole at the top, which is obviously used to shoot acupuncture.

Such cells should normally be disguised as stones to ambush other cells, but why are they related to rock bugs?And their attack instructions seem to be controlled by rock worms.

But no matter what, Lin can use them like rock bugs.

Lin tried to put these stone particles with needle-punching cells on a digger. The digger can hold the small stone particles with the saw teeth of the body surface. In this way, the digger is equivalent to having a jet stinger Ability.

Maybe these thorn cells just fell on the rock worm, they probably reached a common consciousness after the exchange, so they helped ...

Communicate?

Lin has never tried to communicate with other creatures, which seems to promote a special relationship, that is ... symbiosis.

Although Lin had n’t tried it, she knew it was.

Lin now began to wonder, why does it know so many things by nature?Shouldn't these things be discovered little by little?

Lin began to feel strange about this, but it was still the same, and if she couldn't figure it out, she stopped thinking about it.

So, Lin turned her thoughts back again.

Now that he has acquired thorn cells, Lin intends to learn to treat them like rock worms, give them food, and then use them as a means of attack.

However, Lin didn't know how to feed them, so she took some food fragments like rock bugs and put them in the hole of the stony cells.

In response, the thorn cells suck in the food debris from the hole.

However, Lin does not yet know how to direct these thorn cell attacks, so for now they are only carried on several diggers.

Next, Lin let the cells eat the huge body of the rock worm, which made its community grow a lot. Then, Lin turned her vision to the various creatures in this area.

There are many cells gathered on this rock area, most of them are huge, and they are the kind that Lin has never seen before, but Lin did not rashly attack, the cell has so many wonderful attacks, it is still better to be careful.

So Lin intends to increase the number of communities. One of the reasons why a large number of cells are attracted here is that the rock cracks here occasionally come out of food.

It was the kind of white and soft food before. Lin noticed that these foods seemed to come out of the cracks in the rocks. Most of them were crushed. If you let the cells close to the cracks, you can feel the weak. Water flow.

In other words, there is a lot of this kind of food hidden deep in the rock. For some reason, a stream of water sprayed the cracks that brought them from the depths to the surface, attracting a lot of cells.

Lin began to try to dig these rocks.

However, Lin found that this is a very difficult thing. Even if the acid injector is dissolved first, and then the cone cells are drilled with the cone angle, they can only peel off some stone fragments.

Lynn found that it didn't seem that there was any kind of cell trying to dig the rock, but there were some small cells going in and out of the gap.

Lin began to feel that it not only needed huge cells that can store food, but also all kinds of small cells that could penetrate into the gap.

However, Lin really couldn't figure out how to become smaller.

In short, Lin now has a new goal.

Blindly killing other cells is likely to meet a strong enemy and be fatally dangerous, so Lin plans to develop slowly first.

Lin's community grew larger, and her thoughts were also progressing step by step.

Occupy all the cracks spouting food around, so that there is an endless supply of food.

Thinking, Lynn let the cells spread out to occupy the surrounding food gaps and drive away some small cell groups that were originally around the gaps.

Soon, Lin took up hundreds of cracks around her. The strange thing is that these cracks are about the same length, and the amount of food sprayed out is about the same, so there is no place that deserves special protection, so Lin divides the cells evenly Every location.

Lin's observer has been floating in high places, with several cone cells and acid injectors as guards, looking for a better target.

Under the eyesight of the observer, Lin discovered something strange.

A huge crack. This crack is extremely spacious. On an empty rocky plane in the distance, it can fill hundreds of Lynn cells.

This huge crack occasionally spouts a lot of food, but strangely, there are no cells waiting to eat those foods, only some gray cells floating slowly around the huge crack, but they never Will rush to eat the spouted food.

Very suspicious.

Lin asked several diggers to try it, and when they approached a huge crack, Lin felt a familiar feeling.

Warm ... No, it's hot, and the water above this crack is quite hot.

Moreover, this crack does not maintain a small water flow like other small cracks, but it is intermittent, it will stop for a while after the eruption, and then erupt again!

Lin thought of this, and the few diggers were instantly hit by the jet of heat, and Lin lost her sense of them at once.

Can the erupting high temperature already kill the digger?

Although the loss of a few diggers is not a big deal when food is sufficient, Lin still feels a bit sorry.

At this time, I saw that the gray cells floating beside the crack slowly floated up, swam to the diggers killed by the heat flow, and slowly swallowed up.

It turns out so.

Lin knew it in a moment. Those cells were waiting to eat other cells that were killed by heat flow.

... then this heat flow belongs to me!

Those gray cells may be used to eating free food, and they have no fighting power at all. Lin's acid injector easily killed them, and then occupied their huge cracks.

Of course, Lin also gave this unusual crack a name, 'Requankou'.

Lynn thinks this hot spring will be very useful.

Then, continue to develop.

Lin needs more intelligence to figure out the puzzles it doesn't understand.

With a stable food source, Lin ’s community is constantly growing, and it also needs to occupy more food cracks. Usually Lin is to let ten or so cells guard the cracks. If it encounters a strong enemy, it will let the cells in other places. Going to increase the staff, fortunately, almost encountered no opponent who could threaten Lin.

Lin also asked the cells to continually drill rocks, trying to evolve a type that can dig hard rocks, but it seems to be quite difficult. The long-time diggers and cone-shaped cells are still aside from the sharpened teeth on the surface. Still can not cause any effective damage to the rock.

Those symbiotic spiny cells will divide when they eat too much. When they start to divide, they will swim out to make nests on the rocks. Lin had to let the digger grab them again. After a few generations, they know how to swim directly to nearby excavations The person fixed himself.

In this way, Lynn officially got the symbiotic relationship of the stinging cells, although it still did not understand how to order the stinging cells to fire stings.

In this way, Lynn gradually occupied the huge rock area that was full of food. When the rock occupied about 20%, Lin's community had reached 10,000.

However, it is difficult to expand anymore. The other areas are occupied by large cell communities. If Lin wants to attack them, she must concentrate her forces, but in this way, she has to give up a lot of crack guards.

Lin felt a little trouble, but the huge community allowed it to think about more things, Lin quickly found a solution.