4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

Chapter 18 The Road to Multicellular

In fact, when Lin entered the rift, she had already begun to consider fighting the current.

This is similar to the hot spring that resists the entrance of the rift. As long as the cells are combined to form a huge shield, it can prevent the impact of the water flow.

But to block the strong currents outside, a stronger and huge shield is needed. Lynn believes that no matter how many cells get together, they will be blown away.

The cells must be connected in some way to form a solid that is not easily washed away.

For example, use the saw teeth of the digger to hook each other?But that may hurt you.

But Lin believes that there should be other ways to connect the cells together. After all, the cell membrane is soft and can change its shape, and the two cells are originally one, but only split, so they can be combined again ...

And how exactly do cells divide?Why do they split?Instead of growing very big at the beginning?

As if it were very complicated, Lin didn't like to think about complicated things, so she planned to start the experiment directly. It first squeezed the two cells together, wrapped them in each other with cell membranes, and kept inputting 'combination' thoughts.

But this seems to be unsuccessful. After all, Lin ’s cells are different from amoeba. They can at most stretch out some small bumps on the surface of the cell membrane, so they ca n’t hold each other.

Then let them evolve into amoeba look?Lin believes that the shape of amoeba should be formed by the places where they often like to drill narrow cracks.

Thinking of this, Lin started to let a few basic cells look for the narrow cracks in this cave to drill, try to see if they can evolve amoeba after a long time.

But Lin didn't want to wait here, so he immediately started another experiment.

Just try to stop the cell division.

When cells divide, they will first divide the core into two, and then slowly split the cell membrane to become two cells.

What Lynn has to do is to stop the division when their cell membranes are cracking to the end, so that there will be two cells connected together.

Lynn's community has been eating non-stop, so soon there will be cells to divide, which happens to be a basic cell.

Lin immediately did what she thought, waiting for their nuclei to split into two, at which time the cell membrane began to split from the center, and the two nuclei would move to both sides.

And when the film in the middle was almost completely broken, Lin suddenly gave a 'stop' thought.

Stopped!

The dividing cells actually stopped. They have almost divided into two cells, leaving only a little cell membrane at the end connected.

Although it is successful, it is estimated that it will break when you pull it.

Lin then began to let them strengthen the connection, and then maintain this look.

After a while, Lin felt that the connection should be strengthened, because the cell membrane of the connection was obviously thicker.

Then Lin began to try to drag one of the cells away from the other, or let both of them go in different directions, even with the greatest strength, and did not pull it off.

It seems to be a success, then Lynn has a new cell type, but what is it called?

'Connector'?

It feels ordinary ... but forget it, then Lin can use the connector to make a huge wall that resists the flow!

Lin started to let the connector eat more food, and then let them continue to divide. Of course, they did not divide completely as before, so that these connected cell clusters will become larger and larger.

Lin found that the group of cells formed by the connectors easily surpassed the huge cells such as storage or burst balls, and they also have a feature that they do n’t need to eat every one. The cells together are so convenient.

However, there is still a problem. If this cell mass starts to grow, the action will start to become difficult. After all, it will stick together.

Therefore, Lin directly moved them below the rift, and then let them grow up in a rotating direction, forming a huge cylindrical shape composed of a large number of cells, and the inside of the cylinder is hollow, which can be used for other cells of Lin Enter, and then a mouth is opened at the top to allow Lynn's cells to exit from the top.

This cylinder will continue to divide and grow upward through the cells at the top, and finally can protrude the exit of the rift and reach the outside.

Lin also found an interesting place, because this column is composed of basic cells, so Lin can still allow them to evolve.

Lin can make these cells evolve into diggers, and can face the solid shell with serrations outward, and the fragile parts inward, so you don't have to be afraid of external attacks, even viruses can't get in.

Watching the cylinders of cells grow, Lin gave them a new name: 'giant tentacles'.

But Lin still hopes to combine scattered cells directly, rather than through this troublesome way.

Thinking, Lin found two more basic cells, let them stick together, and then gave the combined thoughts.

I saw that the cell membranes of the two cells were directly glued together, and there was no crack. They looked like two spherical balls connected together.

Ok?Was it successful this time?

Lynn is a little curious, why can the thought of 'combination' begin now?

Could it be because after the division was stopped before, did the cells understand what 'combination' means?

It feels good, so that Lynn can build a 'cell wall' anywhere, without having to interrupt the cell division deliberately, and then let them grow up slowly, how troublesome ...

But now it is enough to have a giant tentacle, and the other walls will wait outside to decide where to build it.

What Lynn has to do now is to slowly eat and grow. After all, it is not so fast to want a tentacle to grow from the deep cave inside the rock to the outside.

At this time, the darkness outside had already arrived, but Lin's massive flash bursts made the cave still bright ...

Lin also saw the light bacteria still shrinking in the corner, but a few bold ones had already come out to try to find food.

Bold?What is guts?

Lin was puzzled by the new word again, but it didn't think much as usual.

There are more holes in the white plaster than outside, and it will continue to grow. Lin's community can't eat twice the size of the community, so Lin doesn't care much about the light bacteria.

But Lin will not let them grow too much.

In the next time, Lynn watched the giant tentacles grow all the time, and the basic cells that squeezed the body to narrow the cracks gradually had an evolutionary effect. Their bodies became very flexible and could be squeezed greatly. Pressure and deformation.

But this is not enough, Lin wants them to be exactly like amoeba so that they can change their shape at will.

Time passed slowly, Lin's giant tentacles had grown close to the exit of the rift, but the hot water there made it unable to grow further up.

At this time, Lynn let some heat-resistant storage cells combine in a circle on the top of the tentacle, and continued to grow upwards. Finally, the huge tentacles almost occupied the entire channel of the crack, those on the wall of the crack. Small slits spraying hot water are also blocked.

When the tentacles grew out of the rift, Lin changed back to using basic cells.

This giant tentacle shared a hundred thousand cells of Lin, thanks to the rich food in the cave below.

At this time, the situation outside was somewhat different from before. The water flow seemed to have stopped because of Lin ’s departure, and there were a large number of other types of cells here.

What a pity, Lin also wanted to try if this tentacle can resist the current.

However, whether it is this tentacle or the method of combining cells, it can have a huge role in Lin's future growth.

Lin ’s cells came out of the cave through the inside of the hollow tentacles, and Lin planned to occupy it again ...