4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
Chapter 21 Eyeball
Although I'm trying to see if I can write more words in a short time ... but 12,000 is unlikely ...
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Lin named the huge semi-circular shield she built as a 'cell wall', and the cell wall is composed of three layers of cells. The outermost layer is called the 'cortex' by Lin, which is the thickest and flexible Layer of the inside
The two layers of the layer are called the middle layer and the inner wall, and the thickness is not as strong as the cortex, but if the cortex is damaged by certain factors, the inner layer will quickly harden to prevent any threat from the outside from going further.
But now there is nothing to threaten Lin, so it started to build something on the outermost cortex.
That is a trap.
Lin began to use cells to form some cylindrical structures on the cortex. The centers of these cylinders were empty, with an opening at the top, and some plaster was placed at the bottom as a lure. The inner wall of the cylinder was covered with cones like cone cells. As long as any cell is attracted, the cylinder will immediately squeeze inward, piercing its prey with countless sharp cone angles.
In addition to this deadly cylinder, there is a tentacle type structure, which is not as large as the giant tentacles in the center. They are relatively small, slender structures composed of a small number of cells, and grow on the body of such small tentacles. Filled with acupuncture cells, you can shoot any people close to you.
Lin also found an interesting thing, that the light-emitting things will attract other cells to come close, this is accidentally discovered, especially in the dark, a little light can attract a large number of cells, so Lin began to burst the flash ball Place at the end of some small tentacles to attract prey.
As soon as it was dark, Lin's thoughts added a word called 'beautiful'.Above the cortex, a large number of gleaming small tentacles swayed in the dark, attracting the cells passing by, but they did not know it was a terrible trap, as long as they touched the tentacles, they would be instantly poisoned by the needles Killed by a needle.
Now the acupuncture cells will understand that according to the actions of Lynn ’s cells, they will shoot out the poison needles instead of firing them at will.
When the night passed, Lin was relying on the deadly cylinder prey. Those ignorant cells were attracted into it by the white paste in the cylinder, and they were instantly crushed by the closed cylinder and the cone thorns in it. Any cell can escape.
The giant tentacles in the center use the instant to directly swallow the swimming cells, and then use the acid injector inside to decompose and melt the prey.
Relying on these kinds of traps, Lin can get a lot of food except white paste, because the foreign cells are infinite, and Lin's community has begun to grow ...
Moreover, after Lin understood the combination of cells, she never encountered any opponents who could threaten her. After that, she also encountered crystal bacteria, ghost fog bacteria, or some opponents she had encountered before. they.
There was even a huge amoeba floating on Lynn ’s cortex. The amoeba was more than ten thousand times larger than Lyn ’s basal cells, but Lynn was still killed by a large number of stinging tentacles and giant tentacles. it.
The only troublesome thing is the virus, because the tentacles that grow on the cortex cannot be moved and are easily attacked by the virus, but the virus cannot penetrate the cortex, so even if several tentacles are destroyed, Lin can immediately dispatch an acid injector to dissolve Deal with the virus.
Regarding the virus, Lin still keeps those infected with bright red, but Lin has never let them exceed ten.
Countless nights have passed ... By virtue of constant hunting, Lynn's community has grown very strong, and it starts to feel that it is already invincible because it has not seen the ability of other types of cells to combine like it.
Lin ’s colony is now several times larger, and her tentacles on the cortex are becoming denser and thicker. Lin is no longer relying on the tentacles but relying on the tentacles. It feels more effective. .
Using the 'lifetime' plan, Lin constantly replaces the old cells, keeping the cells in the most active state, but Lin has a cell that it will never replace.
That is the observer.
Even though the current community is so huge, Lin still has only one cell with vision.
This cell is so small that it is far from being able to observe the situation of the entire colony, so Lin needs a few more vision owners.
Lynn knew that the observer could see things not only because it had eaten a strange hard object, but mainly because of the light.
Vision is mainly born after absorbing light.
That is to say, if Lin's other cells can also receive light, they should also have vision.
But what do you do?
That's right, according to the old way, Lin formed a group of cells into a large group, and then gave them the thought of receiving light and gaining vision.
It was unsuccessful in the beginning, and there was no response from this group of cells.
However, when Lin merged the observer into this group of cells, the group of cells had a wonderful change. Those on the surface changed the color and shape of the body first, and those inside also changed at the same time, but But it is completely different from the surface. They thin the body and form a more network-like structure.
Lin did not control the evolution process. In fact, Lin has never controlled the evolution of cells. At most, he only thought about what they should evolve into. As for the more detailed process, the cells automatically generated it.
For this, Lin also felt incredible.
Cells will do something automatically, for example, Lin asks the digger to attack an enemy. It will automatically twist the body and cut the enemy with the sawtooth on the surface. It does not require Lin to carefully control how it operates to twist the body. The movement is similar to other cells, but if you burst the ball, Lynn must control them to absorb water and explode.
Lin initially thought that the cells would only perform some simple actions automatically, but now it seems that this is not the case, they can do very complicated things.
Regarding this point, even though the community is already so huge, Lin ’s intelligence is much higher than before, but Lin cannot understand now.
why?
Lin ’s current perspective cannot be seen, but the cells are still constantly changing. The cells on the surface begin to turn themselves into hexagons, while the cells inside change from the previous network structure to a large sphere. The surface The hexagonal cells seem to be inserted into this sphere.
Lin felt that their rate of change was slowly slowing down, which meant that she was nearing completion, and Lin also began to feel it.
vision.
A greater light flooded into Lin's mind, exactly the same as her previous vision, but different from Lin's narrow field of vision before, this time it was very large, because this is Lin's huge eye composed of six thousand cells.
Because Lynn is composed of water outside the cortex, as long as she looks down a little, she can see the dense, fluffy tentacles on her cortex.
However, there is no muscle in this large eye, so it can't move. Lin combined some tentacles to form a larger tentacle, and used this tentacle to connect the eyes from behind.
In this way, only by swinging the tentacles, Lin can see all directions, and this tentacle is also called eyeball tentacles by Lin.
Lin then disengaged the observer from this eyeball. Unless Lin's cells looked like the cortical cells completely fused together, they could also be separated after the combination.
After Lin's observer got out, her eyes still had vision. This time Lin could finally see what the so-called eyes look like.
Two different images are in Lin's thoughts, but Lin has no sense of disobedience. It can still clearly observe all the details in the two images.
The surface of the huge eyeball is like a large number of hexagonal crystals. Lynn did not expect that the cells could change into this shape, but nothing else was special.
Whether Lin's cells are combined or single, they are generally transparent except for the core, but this eyeball is somewhat gray, and it is not easy to see the structure inside.
Lin also saw her own observer for the first time. The observer's body is the same as the basic cells, but the outer membrane has a crystalline sphere.
Was it probably the hard thing eaten at the time?
Lin didn't know why she could gain vision from this thing, and Lin had never encountered a similar object again.
……why?Even though the community is huge, Lin still has many problems.
In short, if it succeeds, then continue to grow.
The word "future" appeared in Lin's thoughts.
What will the future look like?
Lin does not know that even though it has such huge eyes now, but looking far away, there is only an endless dark blue ... Although Lin has considered herself invincible here, there must be more unknown and Mysterious ...