4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
Chapter 26 Departure
Lin's new body is not far behind the previous one.
The main body is a spherical structure. The outer skin is covered with tentacles of thorny cells, which can be used for hunting or swimming. The middle of the body is hollow, which is used to house loose cells. Lin at the front of the body forms an eyeball , Although smaller than before, much larger than the observer.
There is an elliptical tail formed mainly by muscle cells at the back of the body. The end of the tail has an opening. Under the action of muscle cells, it can quickly absorb and spray water. This structure allows Lin to accelerate and move in an instant.
The whole is only about 30% of the size of the previous base. After all, the caves and rocks have nothing to eat except for some wild cells. The white paste that has been constantly emerging has been cut off, so Lin can only make such a large combination. .
Lin decided to call it a "Walker", which means that Lin decided to travel a long distance to find new food and things.
Lin, thinking about it, started swinging the tentacles of the body of the voyager, leaving the rock for which she did not know how long she was staying, and marching towards the ocean.
The scenery in the water was still the same as Lin was familiar with, and there was no change. The vastness and nothingness made Lin feel uneasy. However, this feeling soon disappeared.
The waters in this area seem to be warming up, and the surrounding light is getting brighter and brighter. Lin then found that it was moving upstream unconsciously, and the more it went in the opposite direction of gravity, the more the temperature and brightness of the water increased. The more obvious.
The outer skin of the 'Walker' has hardened, and the harder the outer skin is, the slower it feels to the outside world. This made Lin understand the temperature changes in the surrounding waters, the fluctuation of the water flow and so on.
At this time, the big eyeball on the front of the far walker found something. These large green pieces in front immediately attracted Lin's attention. It was something that Lin was very familiar with ...
Green cells.
These devastating oxygen-releasing gadgets gathered in the water in front of Lin, and Lin also noticed that the light there seemed special ... bright.
The green cells themselves have little attack power, but the oxygen bubbles they release have terrible fatal energy, but now Lin is not afraid of oxygen, so now the green cells have only one meaning for Lin ...
food.
Lin shrank the tail of the voyager violently, and the body of the voyager rushed towards the large group of green cells. It waved its tentacles and began to hunt the surrounding green cells!
The green cells do not have any resistance, and their speed is far less than that of Lin's faraway. Lin rushed into their group and only a wave of tentacles can kill a large number of green cells.
There is a mouth that can be opened and closed under the eye of the far traveler. After killing many green cells, Lin opens the mouth against the dead green cells, sucks their debris, and then uses the note in the body of the far traveler. The acidic person decomposes the wreckage, and then some tentacles composed of fat cells in the body are swallowed.
These steps seem a bit complicated, but in fact they are done very quickly, and the nutrients obtained can be quickly passed on to the entire body of the traveler.
After eating a group of green cells, Lin rushed to a group. There are quite a lot of green cells in this water area. Lin estimates that there are probably millions of them. If you eat them up, Lin can add a lot of communities.
The green cells will avoid the arrival of Lin in groups, but their movements are very slow. For Lin, they are just twisting their bodies in place. Most of the green cells are almost killed by Lin before they can move. Tentacle poisoning.
Of course, thanks to Lin ’s ability to use oxygen, the speed is much faster than before.
Constantly engulfing these cells, Lynn began to use nutrients to increase the body size and fat cells of the wanderer, preparing for the next hunting spot.
While hunting for green cells, Lin also raised some questions. What on earth do these green things feed on?Although it is relatively warm here and the light is very bright, Lin did not see any other cells or food like white paste. Why are they still piled up in this place in groups?
Do they feed on light and temperature?
The last small group of green cells was in front of me. Lin almost ate them, and the surrounding waters that had been dyed green by them also recovered empty and void. Now, this small group of cells is only about 1,000, and they form a mass. Piled together, no escape, no counterattack, which reminded Lin of the previous light bacteria.
But this time Lin didn't feel anything like compassion.
But Lin does not intend to finish them, but uses basic cells to form a semi-circular structure on the outer skin of the far walker. The size can accommodate thousands of cells. Lin calls it a "feeding circle" , The purpose is to catch these green cells and shut them inside.
'Feeding' seems to be a very fresh and useful word.
There is an opening controlled by muscle cells on the rearing ring, which can suck in the outside. Lin swims to the remaining small group of green cells and rushes them all into the rearing ring with tentacles.
The purpose of Lin's doing this is of course to study them. If the green cells really feed on light and warmth, then as long as Lin raises them up and keeps them splitting, it means that there is endless food.
Lin drove almost all the green cells into the circle. The outer layer of the feeding circle was transparent so that light could shine on them. Lin would soon know whether these cells could divide under the condition of light and temperature only .
Lin Lin in the feeding circle also assembled a small eyeball to observe the activities of this group of green cells, and also ensure that they will not make any rebellious moves.
After everything was done, Lin looked at the surrounding empty water again.
Where should I go?
If there are many green cells in brighter and warmer places, what will happen to deeper places?
Lin ’s curiosity drove it downstream. Although she said that the green cells should be kept in a place with sufficient light, Lin actually did n’t care much about whether they could successfully feed them. The desire to explore accounted for a larger part of Lin ’s thought .
Thinking, Lin turned the far walker's head down, swinging her tentacles towards the depths of the water.
As Lin thought, the more gravitational the downstream, the colder and colder the water temperature, but Lin still remembers the lava that she had seen before. Looking back, Lin still doesn't know what it is, but obviously it is Some kind of high temperature can heat the whole area.
If she meets again, Lin will definitely avoid it.
After going downstream for a while, the eyes of the far traveler brought Lin familiar thoughts into it.
Gravel and cells.
A variety of cells are gathered in this relatively cold water. Unlike the green cells seen above, the cells here are not of the same type, and they are gathering together in units of races, looking for They hunt for food or eat each other, and their place of activity is a vast beach.
These gravels are not the same as the gray gravel that Lin had seen before. These sands are white, thinner and smaller. The smallest ones are only a little larger than Lin ’s cells, and the largest ones are a thousand times larger. Swiming in the gap between, some are a large group piled on a large piece of gravel, they are so many, all over the beach where Lin looked at.
These cells are very good prey, Lynn's Ranger-its constituent cells are more than ten million, and even the largest cell community here pales in comparison.
Lin dares to make sure that there are no cells as its opponents, but because the Voyager is too large to move between the cracks of the sand, Lin needs a more suitable structure to hunt them.
Although it can build a base as before, and then attract other cells to kill them with flashing tentacles or the like.
But Lin thinks that is not active enough. If there is no cell coming, it will have to go hungry. Lin needs a more active way of hunting ...
Soon, Lin thought of a good way, but first had to refit the entire far traveler.
Thinking, Lynn began to modify the Voyager, and it expanded the Voyager ’s body even larger, and the whole was still an oval structure, but Lin degraded the tentacles that covered the body, leaving only two flat The longer used for swimming, the degradation method is mainly to let them die, which is a method similar to 'life'.
The swelling is mainly to allow the cortical cells to divide continuously, widen the entire body, and the transformation requires a lot of energy, but it is obviously worth it if there are so many foods below.
Then Lin began to make a number of holes in the cortex that were controlled by muscle cells and arranged neatly. They were of different sizes and were mainly used for accessing various forces.
What is a troop?
Lin is now assembling them in the Voyager.The so-called 'troops' are mainly small cell assemblies, but they are all composed of powerful lethal cells such as cone cells, thorn cells or acid injectors. Lin uses them to go to the cracks of the sand In the middle or swim to a distant place to hunt other cells, transport the loot obtained back to the body of the far walker, and store it as nutrients.
At this time, the far traveler is like a previous base, which serves as a storage point for resources, but unlike the previous "base" that can only passively wait for food to pass through the rock, this "base" can be moved and hunted Also more active.
At the same time, it shouldn't be called a far traveler anymore
Lin has a new word to name it ...
'Aircraft carrier'.