4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

After eating the second leaf-shaped worm, Lin had already received enough nutrients, and now she could resurrect the Buckler worm.

Lin combined a multi-cell structure with a front and back tip, which can be described by the term "streamline". This structure swims faster in water. Lin calls it a "transporter", which mainly consists of a large number of fat cells. Transported back to the location of the Buckler worm, because it does not want to go back, but also wants to continue to eat some leaf-shaped worms.

Lin assembled ten transporters, each of which consisted of more than one hundred thousand cells. They had a circle of small long tentacles in the middle of their bodies to swim. After the fat cells were installed in the hollow interior, they turned towards Swim back in the direction of the ice cave.

Following this, Lin looked again at a leaf-shaped insect not far away.

These immobile foods are really great.

Lin happily twirled the carrier's tentacles, and when it was about to swim, it suddenly felt something was wrong, the feeling of some cells on the cortex disappeared, but Lin did not feel pain.

Did you die without pain?It's really strange ...

Lin released the devourer from the aircraft carrier to investigate the place where the feeling disappeared. This situation was probably attacked. Lin can only know that it should be the rear position near the spout.

The body of the aircraft carrier is too large, and it contains hundreds of millions of cells. It is impossible to completely observe the entire body with the two eyeball tentacles near the front. The hardening of the cortex also makes the body surface feel dull, although there are two special The small tentacles used to sense the fluctuation of the water flow, but like the eyes, they cannot take care of the whole body.

The Devourer swam along the aircraft carrier's cortex to the rear of the aircraft carrier, and immediately saw the cause of the incident. On the cortex near the aircraft carrier's spout, there was a weird creature. The body of this thing looked like five thick and flat The combination of tentacles, it is attached to the cortex of the aircraft carrier, Lin can feel the part of the cortex cells it is constantly disappearing.

'starfish'.

The name did not come from Lin himself, but came out of her thoughts. Lin felt quite suitable for this creature.

Is this starfish eating cortical cells?But why doesn't Lin feel pain?

Maybe this creature has some way to prevent the cells from feeling pain, so as to achieve the purpose of 'stealing', but Lin can still feel that the cells are constantly disappearing, so it can be said that this creature's plan has failed.

Thinking of Lin releasing a large number of devourers, let them attack.

This 'starfish' is about ten times larger than a large devourer. The surface still looks soft and can move tentacles at will, which means it has no hard shell and should be able to deal with it easily.

The devourers bite the starfish's five tentacles, and then they retreat hard, hoping to pull the starfish off the cortex.

The starfish is tightly attached to the aircraft carrier, no matter how hard the devourers can pull it, and the cone cell combination in the devourer's mouth cannot scratch its skin.

The skin of the starfish looks soft and can move freely, but in fact, the surface of the skin is very hard, it seems that the feature of "flexibility" is very powerful, and there are many spiky protrusions on the skin, which undoubtedly increases The difficulty of the devourer biting it.

What a troublesome thing.

If it were n’t for Lin ’s hammer-shaped tentacles, it would be easy to knock it off.

However, Lynn has more than one kind of phagocytosis. The cone cells in the mouth of the original phagocytosis are singular, and there is not much combination, so as to effectively crush other cells.

Since the events of the Buckler worm, Lin has increased the number of large phagocytes and is prepared to deal with other multicellular creatures, and some phagocytes have been specialized. Lynn has combined many curved long forms in their mouths. The sharpened hardened structure at the end is called 'giant teeth'. The teeth of this kind of phagocytosis are much larger than those of the former phagocytosis, so it is not suitable for crushing single cells, but it is very suitable for dealing with such multicellular organisms.

Lin let the ordinary devourer give up, and the giant tooth devourer attacked the starfish. The giant tooth devourer bit on the starfish's tentacles, and the mouth-filled huge fangs suddenly penetrated the starfish's antennae under the pressure of his muscle In the meantime, Lin immediately let the giant-tooth devourer loose his mouth, and the starfish's cells flooded out of the wound.

Lin asked the devourers to quickly pack up these cells, and then rushed to the starfish's wound together, tearing the soft structure it exposed.

At this time, the starfish will not continue to pick up the aircraft carrier. Its injured tentacles disconnected the body, leaving only four corners of the starfish body to fall off the aircraft carrier cortex and ride a stream of water that just passed by. Swim far away.

Cut off a part of the body, the body escapes?Thinking too naive.

What is naive?Although the word is inexplicable, it does not affect Lin's ability to let the giant-tooth devourers catch up with the starfish and completely tear it into pieces.

After the starfish left, Lin also saw her injured cortex. The starfish's original position seemed to be bitten off as much as a large piece. Can it create such a wound but make the other person feel no pain?It seems necessary to study this starfish carefully.

Although it was torn, the key parts were preserved, so it was still possible to study. Lynn found that there were a large number of small tentacles under the tentacles of this creature. The ends of these tentacles were a semi-circular hollow. It seems that it was used to stick to the cortex of the aircraft carrier. Up.

Is this a sucker?It seems that it can produce a lot of power, so that a group of Lin devourers can't pull it off the skin, which has research value.

Starfish has a hard shell under its skin. It is a non-cellular structure similar to the shell of a round shield worm, but it is relatively soft.

But Lin ’s most concerned is the mouth of the starfish, which should be a hole in the center of the five tentacles. There are curved thorn-like structures around the hole. This is similar to the mouth of the round shield worm, but the most important thing is that these bends There is a small hole at the end of the thorn. Lynn let the cells squeeze into the small hole to explore, and found that the hole has been connected to an area like a sac in the starfish body.

The pouch is composed of a yellow cell that secretes a liquid. When this liquid comes into contact with the cell, it can make the cell enter a strange state. They will become inactive and lose any feeling.

Not all of the starfish's curved teeth have holes connected to the capsular bag. Some teeth have no holes. It is estimated that they are purely used to dig out the cells that lose sensation.

This is a very powerful structure, use a spike to poke the opponent's skin, and then inject destructive liquid?Lin seems to have seen certain cells have this ability before, but why didn't it think of making a similar multi-cell combination?

Although the acid-injector evolved from a cone-shaped cell, its jet is not hard or sharp, so Lin may not have thought of this ability.

But now Lin understands that she can make a similar combination.

In addition, there are blood vessel structures in the starfish, but Lin did not find where the heart is. It may have been bitten by the devourer. The blood vessels and the cells inside have no ability to transport water. The starfish should have a heart.

However, Lin found something similar to the heart. They are composed of a bunch of distinctive cells. These cells are elongated and have many tentacles. These cells are gathered together to form a small oval. Shaped objects, and there are pipes all over the body like blood vessels connected to it.

But these pipes don't carry nutrients, and there is nothing in them, and the elliptical object in the center does not move at all. What is this for?

'Ganglion'?The word came out of Lin's thoughts. Although she didn't understand it, Lin had a feeling that it was a useless thing for it.

In addition, there are some strange combinations, such as a sac containing a large number of round white cells, this sac has a hollow tentacle connected to the outside of the skin, it seems to be used to shoot these cells out, and some The net-like structure, a structure where a lot of small tentacles are combined, and the structure of thick hollow tentacles are very complicated.

Most of the structure Lin didn't know what it was for. I didn't expect this starfish to be so small, but it is so much more complicated than the big leaf-shaped insect. It is estimated that the round shield worm is also a very complicated creature, but unfortunately it was destroyed by the virus.

But Lin didn't care so much, she could beat them, that's the most important thing.

Lin only absorbs useful knowledge. Don't control those who don't understand, just eat them all.

While Lin was studying the starfish, the "transporters" had already transported the fat cells to the location of the Buckler worm, and now began to resurrect.

Lin believes that it won't take long for it to evolve to the top existence again.

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