4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
Chapter 15 Infected
Lin has been observing the strange cell that was infected. Although the membrane of this cell has become obscured, when you look closely, it seems that you can see some round things floating in the body of the cell.
Are those viruses?But why didn't they kill the cells?Just stay in it?
Lynn is curious, should it let this cell live or kill it to avoid any danger?
Lin doesn't want to kill it directly. Lin would like to study how the virus works. Maybe it has value in use?
And the next aggression is about to take place soon. Lin intends to attack the cells of a large community nearby and eventually control the entire rock.
If this virus has some useful properties, such as those that damage other cells but not Lin, then Lin can use the virus to fight other cells.
So Lin decided to keep it and try it, but the acid-injector would stay by his side and pay attention, and Lin must also see how it behaves differently from ordinary cells.
Under preliminary observation, the infected cell can still eat like ordinary cells, and Lin does not feel any improper control over it.
However, it seems that there will be some problems when dividing. The cells divided by this cell are also infected, that is, the whole body is bright red, and its division process will produce some viruses, but not many, only a few.
These viruses appear to be small circles, with bright red colors like infected cells, only 1% of the size of the cells.
Lynn killed all the viruses that came out of the split with acid injectors. It didn't want her entire community to turn red.
But at present, these viruses do not pose a great threat to Lin's community.
Then it is time to prepare for the next war.
Lin's cell community has exceeded the number of any cell here, and the huge rock community that occupies 50% allows Lin to easily destroy other cells living here.
But Lin is not dealing with general cell communities this time.
Lin ’s vision looks far away. On the rock, there is a group of cell colonies called caterpillars. This group of cell communities is very strange. They are like filaments growing on the ground, densely spread over a large area. It was like covering the rock with fluff.
These filaments can catch food flowing out of the crack, or capture other cells in close proximity, wrap them up, and tighten them, using pure winding force to squeeze each other into pieces.
Trichophyta is not very satisfied with the name Lin, but it can't think of any other good name ... huh?Maybe it's more appropriate to call it "dead algae"?
Why do I care about this?Lin felt strange about her thoughts. In fact, as the community grew larger and Lin's thoughts became wider and wider, Lin always came up with some strange thoughts.
In short, the caterpillar is a very strange thing. Their filamentous body and strong winding ability prevent the digger and cone cells from attacking, but the biggest disadvantage of the caterpillar is that it does not move, so Lin intends to use the note directly Acidists clean them up.
The caterpillars are densely covered with rock surface, it is difficult for Lin to estimate their number, but according to the area, they only occupy about 10% of the whole rock.
The solution of Lin's acid-injector is obviously enough to cover such a large area.
Lin directly sent the acid-injectors to swim over the unreachable caterpillars and sprinkle the dissolving liquid, killing this group of caterpillars in large swaths.
Because the caterpillars could not move, Lynn was not afraid that they would run away from injury, and then split and evolve new individuals with resistance to the lysate.
This seems to be a one-sided slaughter. No matter how the caterpillars are sprayed by the dissolution solution, they can't pull their bodies from the rocks to attack the acid injectors in the high places.
Although I was a bit curious about how trichomonas worms usually split and reproduce, Lin had no intention of showing mercy. Soon, Lin almost cleaned them up, and the trichomonas rotted and collapsed in a large piece of dissolving solution. There is no influence of the dissolving solution in the small area.
In general, Lin will eliminate them directly, but Lin suddenly feels that it is too boring, so she wants to try new things.
Lynn let the virus-infected, bright red, and basal cells step forward, deliberately getting entangled by these surviving caterpillars, and see what would happen.
Trichomonas worms, as they normally encounter prey, entangled the infected cells close to each other, and the strong entanglement made Lin feel a novel sense of pain.
Finally, the infected cells were squeezed under the entanglement of the caterpillar, and a large amount of small red virus and cell debris were scattered in the water.
These viruses can penetrate into the trichomoniasis as long as they are in contact. Just like the infected cells, the entire filamentous body of the trichomoniasis is stained red. Not long afterwards, all the trichomoniasis around it was infected. Dyed red.
But the red-colored caterpillars are not as safe as Lin ’s cells, they seem to be twisted painfully, and then hang down lifelessly, then the dead caterpillar corpse slowly begins to split, A large number of viruses emerged from it.
This is an obvious manifestation of being fatally infected by the virus.
But why these viruses can kill the caterpillars, but it has no effect on Lin's cells.
Lin didn't know the secret, but it was obviously a good thing.
Now, all the remaining caterpillars are dead due to virus infection. A large amount of virus released from the corpse floats in the water, dyeing the water a bright red.
Lynn let some basic cells swim over and let them swim in the swarm of viruses, recovering these viruses into the body.
Sure enough, although Lin's cells will be infected with redness, there is no problem, it will not affect the action, and it will not be fatal.
Lynn called these cells infected, and a new type of cell was born with powerful destructive capabilities.
If used properly, the virus may easily destroy huge cell populations, but there are also problems.
The biggest problem is that the cells killed by the virus cannot be eaten.
Just like caterpillars, they are only left with some debris from the outer membrane, and almost no useful part is left.
Even those who are acid-injected are corroded and decayed, but most of them can eat.
And those infected people, even if they seem to have no problems now, do not know whether they will have problems in the future.
Then, Lin also did some tests on the infected person. The infected person can indeed eat ordinary food, but the speed of movement will become slow, and most of the food they eat is actually owned by the virus, because when the infected person eats, The rate of growth and division is obviously much slower than other uninfected cells.
And infected people can no longer be transformed into other types like the original basic cells.
In this way, the infected person can be said to be a tool of the virus. The infected person can only carry the virus all the time, and then let the virus spread along with the behavior of cell division.
Lynn knew that it was not a good thing that the virus did not harm its cells, but just wanted to find a host to use as a tool for continuous reproduction.
Therefore, Lin will not let the number of infected people be too much. Only a small part of the infected cells that have absorbed the virus will be left behind, and most of them will be treated by Lin to get the huge crack that spouts hot water.
Lin left ten infected people. If there is any crisis in the future, Lin can also use this virus as her last trick.
However, what Lin was going to face next seemed not a living opponent.
Lin noticed from a long time ago that the small groups of cells that often appeared in this rocky area looking for food no longer appeared.
But that's not because Lin dominated most of the area, but other reasons.
Lin, who has enhanced her sense of touch, can clearly feel the whole cell group ... The water is shaking,