4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
Chapter 41 Hard Shell Evolution
The water surface is slowly getting lower ...
It is getting closer and closer to Lin. Lin can clearly feel the pain on the cortex. The light of the day is destroying its cells and hurting its life.
Lin tried to escape, but she couldn't find her way.
The row of boulders is actually a huge ring shape, they just enclose all the crystals in it, and also trapped Lin.
Non-living objects, their positions should be irregular, why do they just form a ring?When Lin came, it was night, restricted by her vision in the dark. It didn't notice the weirdness of this area, otherwise Lin would definitely hesitate.
It's too late to regret now. The lowering of the water level makes Lin nowhere to go. It only faces the threat of ultraviolet rays directly.
Fortunately, Lin was not unprepared.
Ultraviolet rays, Lynn just knew that there was this word, and knew that it could kill cells, but did not know what it was actually. The eyeballs couldn't seem to see ultraviolet rays, and Lin now believed that ultraviolet rays should be a kind of light, or brought by light. Something that is lethal, so you only need to protect it from light.
Lin has seen some kinds of cells in the body can produce a strange, liquid or solid substance, this substance can cause light reflection, interference, scattering or absorption and other effects, the word is "pigment".
Although the principle of its production is unknown, pigments are very effective for light. For example, green cells should rely on pigments to absorb light energy.
But Lin's cells cannot make green, it only has black, white, gray, and non-pigmented 'transparent'. During the experiment, Lin found that 'white' is the most suitable for reflecting light.
Under Lin's thoughts, the cortical cells began to slowly turn white. At this time, Lin could feel that the pain of the cortex was significantly smaller, and then Lin quickly repaired the damage of the cortex and covered them completely A layer of white.
Lin also created a white shell over the eyes of the tentacles, so that the eyes can continue to observe the surroundings without being injured by the light.
After this series of changes, the light can hardly damage Lin's cortex, but the water surface continues to decrease. Without the protection of water, ultraviolet rays may instantly destroy Lin's cortex, even if it turns white.
Now Lin can only swim above a rock crack. If the water level drops to a certain level, Lin will open a channel under the aircraft carrier, allowing the cells in the body and the devourers to swim into the gap to avoid danger.
The guard's hard shell makes it completely unaffected, which makes Lin want to evolve a similar hard shell.
Lin's sledgehammer is composed of hardened cells, which is a little different from the hard shell composed of non-cells. Lin hopes to make this non-cellular, thick and hard composition.
After Lin's research on some shell organisms, it was found that although the shells of these organisms are different in hardness, they are all composed of very similar substances, and are secreted by a cell that can be called 'gland cells'. Powder or liquid, if gland cells cover this secretion in large amounts on the cortex, various hard shells will form.
The water level is still falling slowly. Lin can feel the pain that can be called "burning" and is slowly returning. As the water surface approaches, the effect of the light on it is getting bigger and bigger. Lin has already done well to let the aircraft carrier The troops and cells inside are ready to escape.
However, when the water level dropped to a short distance from the aircraft carrier, it stopped.
Are you okay?
Lin did not dare to take it lightly. It did not know whether the water level would rise or fall next. It quickly began to perform the next action and evolved 'gland cells'.
It is not difficult to make glandular cells. The question is what is inside the glandular cells, what substance can make the cells dissolve, and then reassemble into a strong shell to cover the cortex?
Perhaps the answer lies in the cell's usual food.
Since it is a non-cellular substance, it should be obtained from food. Perhaps the "white paste" that Lin had previously eaten was mixed with a substance that can produce carapace.
Of course, it must be white paste. Lynn has seen other wild cells devouring various things, such as debris on sand, powder on rocks, etc. Perhaps the key to making carapace is mixed in.
Lin opened the opening under the aircraft carrier and dispatched a large number of burst balls to let them look for various similar substances in the cracks of the rock. After swallowing them, Lin will let them try to dissolve these substances in the body and cover them outside. On the membrane.
Now we only have to wait, as long as the water level does not continue to decrease, Lin will soon be able to successfully create a hard shell.
In fact, Lin should have tried to manufacture the hard shell earlier, but because she didn't encounter any problems, the hammer was also powerful enough, so she never made the hard shell.
The blasters swim between the dark cracks in the rock, and Lynn lets some small devourers follow them. As soon as they see the right substance, the blastball will swallow it, and after dissolving, reorganizing and other procedures in the body, it will It becomes a suitable shape to cover the body.
Lin does not know what the specific transformation process is in the cell body, but the cells will run automatically, and Lin only needs to give them the thoughts to execute.
Lynn let the blasters find a lot of things in the cracks of the rock that seemed to be likely to make the carapace, tiny gravel, black sticky matter, scrapes scraped from the rock, the solution of the blaster can dissolve most of the sand and Debris, but after dissolving successfully, Lin found that the cell could not completely reassemble it.
Because sand and debris are composed of different substances, some of them will destroy the possibility and integrity of the overall reorganization.
Lin calls these parts that destroy the overall integrity "impurities", which need to be removed. This is a very troublesome process, because Lin's cells don't seem to understand the idea of "removing impurities", Lin must operate by herself.
Lin ’s thoughts can perfectly control every part of a cell from the core to the outer membrane, but it has never tried to directly manipulate the synthetic system in the cell, so this is a very long and complicated process.
The synthetic system in the cell is a very complicated thing, and there is no vision inside, Lin ca n’t observe the situation inside, but there is a 'feel', just like a sense of touch, if Lin needs it, it can feel To the 'tactile sense' of different objects contacted by the internal structure of the cell.
Relying on this strange ability, Lin can carry out the work of expelling impurities.
Lin believes she can succeed.
Just as Lin tried to remove impurities, some uninvited guests appeared in the surrounding water. These flat creatures suddenly appeared in this water in large numbers. They quickly swimed in the water, swallowing the rocks and cracks. Wild cells and small creatures shot by ultraviolet rays everywhere.
These are flatworms. Lin found that they have become a little different. Each flatworm has a layer of sand stuck to it. They seem to be able to secrete sticky substances on the surface of the body, so that these gravel stick to the body to prevent ultraviolet rays Exposure to them.
It turns out that they didn't run away before, but they went back to the beach after sticking sand and swimming back?
There are many gaps between the ring-shaped boulders trapping Lin, and the flatworms can be drilled through.
The flatworm's mouth is very suitable for swallowing various cells, including Lin's burst ball in the stone crack.
Lin is now doing the job of removing impurities for the blaster. Once it succeeds, the blasters will be able to remove the impurities themselves later.
But this is a slow process, and the flatworms have begun to swim around Lin ’s aircraft carrier. They have drilled into the cracks and started to kill Lin ’s burst!
Lin dispatched the injector, and only the injector's water spray device could catch up with these fast-moving flatworms.
Once the flatworm is hit by the needle of the injector, a large number of surgers will be injected into the body, which is a kill for a small flatworm.
Flatworms use a flexible figure to escape the injector, because it is difficult for the injector to turn during the sprint, Lynn should add tentacles to control the direction of swimming ... but now there is no that idle!
As the chasing battle in the rock crack started, Lin was also constantly accelerating the work of removing impurities. It had already distinguished the various substances in the burst ball, and it was about to ... succeed!
Lin succeeded in removing useless impurities from the body of the blaster, and the remaining substances were successfully combined together. Lin let the blaster secrete it from the outer membrane and successfully produced a thin shell.
Now, its successful message is transmitted to every burst, and now all of Lin ’s bursts have this ability to dissolve and form a carapace!
Just then, Lin felt the burning pain again, and she found that the water surface had dropped a lot again ...
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