4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

"Here ... that's there."

Lin's 'clog' is advancing in the soil. Through the nerve structure of the soft creatures trapped in the clump, Lin can feel ...

Not far in front, there is an area where all molluscs are connected, and that area is called by Lin as the 'main consciousness zone'.

But what is that place?

Lynn is about to see ... If you understand the situation here before the war begins, everything will become easier.

When Lin was thinking about these things, she had reached the "consciousness zone".

After digging a pile of dirt in front, Lin saw a gray ... rock wall.

The area of ​​consciousness is just behind this rock wall, and there may be something like a brain in it that is continuously sending signals to most mollusks ...

However, not for all molluscs, Lin feels that there should be only a part, no matter how advanced it is, let's take a look and say it.

This rock face is quite strong, because it can be regarded as a kind of bone ... the bone of the stellar bus.

But there is nothing in the stellar bus that can really be considered as a skeleton function. This solid structure is generally used in some special areas, not for protecting organs, but for stabilizing the underground environment, and sometimes used for ... .

These structures are usually completely sealed, and even the smallest microorganisms are difficult to pass, but Lin knows that it is not as dead as the one sealed here.

Lin let the soil dug more than twenty centimeters to the right, and she could see an opening in the solid bone wall.

The opening is just about the size of the clod, so Lin let the clod drill in, and after entering the hole, the passage inside is also about the size of the clod, about 60 centimeters in diameter.

Lynn can already feel the surroundings here ... 'consciousness'.

They are constantly transmitting information to the molluscs inside the soil, and these trapped molluscs are also struggling more violently.

However, Lin felt very wonderful. There seemed to be no molluscs in this passage ... Although so, Lin could also feel that there are quite a few molluscs in the mud outside.

In fact, when Lin's clod came here, all the surrounding mollusks gathered in large numbers, but Lin arrived here faster than them.

Lin feels that they may have some other more powerful arms, which may be dispatched when Lin arrives at this place, so you need to check the secret here before they arrive.

Walking between the passages, Lin has detected the surrounding walls ...

The walls here are made of a relatively soft substance, which is completely different from the outside structure, and the amount of microorganisms is much less than outside.

Generally speaking, if there is no microorganism in this place, but a hole is suddenly rotten, there will definitely be a lot of creatures flowing into it.

But there are very few microorganisms here, it seems that they are expelled, and there are only about 0.1% less than the outside.

This also seems to be due to the 'consciousness' here.

On the walls of the passage, there are nerve structures that are very much like tree roots. These nerve structures are not stellar buses, but more like ... multicellular organisms.

It's like the brain structure of a normal creature, except that Lyn found that the cells on the nerve structure are quite 'fierce'. They will quickly engulf the surrounding microorganisms and grow slowly.

And these neural structures have no ability to think. They are used to send information. Lynn can feel that they continue to send signals to soft creatures. When they are close, this feeling is more clear ...

Just study this ...

'Guru ...

While Lin was testing, she suddenly heard a sound from the depths of the front channel, and the sound was approaching here at a very high speed ...

That's ... a large group of molluscs?

These molluscs are each only a few centimeters in size, but they come together to form a large group of sixty centimeters, which just blocked the entire passageway, and rushed over to Lin.

However, they did not directly hit the clod, but stopped before the clod.

Lin looked at this group of molluscs suspiciously. They were constantly wriggling as if they were going to do something ...

After about ten seconds, suddenly Lin felt they sent a lot of signals to this side.

These signals are similar to brainwave signals, but they do n’t have any special meaning, but just as they initiate signals, Lin feels that the nerve structures on the surrounding walls start to move.

They twisted and broke free from the wall, and then slammed into the soil like a spear. After an instant, the soil was penetrated by several spears composed of these neural structures.

It seems that this is very powerful. Before, molluscs have been unable to penetrate the outer shell of the soil, but these nerve structures like tree roots can penetrate directly ... They have a function of accelerating the ejection.

Then, the molluscs in the front also moved. The mollusks gathered in a group quickly dispersed, and climbed one by one into the penetrated soil, and drilled into the cracks on the soil.

Do they want to go in and rescue their companions?

Lin didn't pay any attention to them, and the soil remained immobile, because Lin had already sensed ... something from the nerve structures that penetrated the soil.

These neural structures are all connected to each other, and they are also connected to a rather large structure behind the wall, which should be called a 'neural network'.

They are like cobwebs spreading around the area with a diameter of about a hundred meters, but the most important thing is ... they are all connected to a huge structure below.

That huge structure is where the consciousness originated. In this case, then look at it in the past.

A small pinprick protruded from the body of the soil, and the needle stuck into a nerve structure that penetrated inside the soil.

At the moment of digging in, a large amount of micro-arms were put into the nerve structure by the acupuncture. The minute these micro-arms were attacked by the cells inside the nerve structure.

Therefore, Lin let the miniature arms swallow them, as their own nutrients, began to grow and move along the nerve structure.

They will reach the location of the huge thing underneath through this neural structure, and Lin feels that this will not be smooth.

But so far so good, Lin's miniature arms have transformed themselves into a worm shape, which is suitable for continuous advancement and swallowing in many places.

The cells in the nerve structure are constantly attacking and becoming Lin's nutrients, and soon Lin's arms move a long distance.

The molluscs that are attacking the soil do not seem to have noticed that a certain nerve structure has been attacked. They dragged the molluscs caught in the body of the soil and tried to dissolve the body of the soil. Every part of it.

While they were doing these things, Lin's arms had advanced more than ten meters in the nerve structure, and as its size increased, its speed became faster and faster.

The huge thing under the ground is about sixty meters away, and it will soon reach the place where the target is.

While advancing, Lin can also feel that there is a lot of information in the neural structure that is "echoing", these messages indicate ... they are very nervous about Lin's worm arms.

When the worm advances to the position of more than twenty meters, many new types of troops have been deployed in the nerve structure, such as multi-cell arms, but they will still be swallowed and decomposed by the worm.

Those molluscs also sensed that Lynn had invaded a nervous structure, and they all looked nervous, but ... it seemed they could do nothing.

Lin ’s worm continues to move forward. It now grows to almost ten centimeters long. The cells engulfed in the nerve structure are almost directly used as parts of the growing body. They do n’t even need a 'digestion process'. Their structure is very much. Suitable for.

As Lin advanced to more than thirty meters, Lin suddenly found that ... she was disconnected.

It seems that this nerve structure is broken in order to prevent Lin from going forward, similar to the survival method of octopus-like creatures who cut off their tentacles.

But it didn't make much sense to Lin. Lin let the worm drill out of the nerve structure directly into the soil, and then continue to drill into the front section from the soil, and continue to move forward along this nerve structure.

After discovering that this method didn't work, Lin felt that the information around her was surging even more. It was constantly sending a lot of 'interference waves' to the worm.

Lin feels that this name can be used. It should be used to drive other creatures away, so that they do n’t come close to it. Therefore, the microorganisms outside are extremely dense, but the number in the will area is very small, because they send these signals. Enough to cause damage to the internal activity systems of those microorganisms.

Even so, there are still some microorganisms living here, so the cells on the nerve structure are full of aggressiveness, used to solve those stubborn objects.

But Lin, the worm, has been too stubborn. In fact, even if their cells are all made of metal like a micromachine, it is ... difficult to stop Lin.

Now, Lin has almost reached the depth of sixty meters. On the way, they have begun to adopt ... a last resort. The surrounding cells no longer attack, but begin to dissolve themselves. Restricting Lin's continued growth, and also dispatched a large number of ... Acellular arms began attacking Lin's worm.

These non-cells are molluscs, these species are much smaller and somewhat different from the outside, as if they were only at the end.

But they are also difficult to stop the very powerful worms that have grown up, of course ... they will not care about this, but will only attack frantically.

Lynn didn't keep going. When the worm was surrounded by more and more molluscs, it finally couldn't move forward, and it exploded with a pop.