Capítulo 39: Chapter 39
Lin's wounds had already healed, but she was still stuck in the lightless darkness, unable to see anything.
This time, the darkness lasted for an extremely long time, just like how Lin noticed that the daytime lasted for an extremely long time, the duration of both light and darkness had been extended at the same time.
But why was that?
There were too many questions that needed to be considered … not even this large colony of cells could understand it, just like how it couldn't resist the water flow from before.
Lin needed to be bigger and stronger in order to face these unsolved mysteries.
If this was the previous Lin, she would have stayed still in the water, waiting for the darkness to recede …
But this time was different. She wanted to no longer be passive in the darkness, and she didn't know how long this would last, so she needed something that could emit light.
Not only did Lin have the Flash Burst Orb, she had also eaten a jellyfish before. She noticed that some of the jellyfish's cells were specialized in emitting light, the membranes of these cells were transparent and contained a kind of glittering powder. On the other hand, the Flash Burst Orb was a kind of glowing branch-like structure that grew inside its body after eating the light bacteria, the two of them were quite different.
Regardless, Lin could have the Flash Burst Orb consume the powder to become even brighter, then recombine them to create a glowing structure that would allow the aircraft carrier to see its surroundings.
Since the Flash Burst Orb no longer exploded, Lin felt that it would be better to call it a 'Light Orb'.
It was relatively easy to do this. Lin simply split more orbs of light and recombined them into a large spherical structure, connected by a tentacle, and named it after the new word in her mind, 'Lantern'.
The 'Lantern' was located at the head of the aircraft carrier, with several blood vessels providing it with nutrients. The light it emitted could only illuminate a small area in front of the aircraft carrier. While it couldn't compare to daytime, Lin could at least move now.
Lin swam downstream, intending to meet up with the Protector on the beach.
This was Lin's first time moving through the night. Under the light of the lantern, she could see all sorts of oddly shaped fragments, single cells, and even the remains of unknown creatures drifting past her. Lin's eyeball tentacles had been modified, aside from the largest eyeball, there were six other eyeballs of different sizes around her, which she used to observe objects of different sizes. Lin wouldn't miss a single thing, even a virus that drifted past her could be seen clearly.
After swimming for a while, Lin saw more and more debris in the water. Among them, there were also many cells. Although they did not have eyes, they seemed to be able to sense the light emitted by Lin, and they all gathered around the 'lantern'.
Right, the light would attract other creatures. Perhaps jellyfish hunted by glowing like this.
Lin released the Devourer to devour all the cells that had gathered on the lantern and continued forward. Soon, she reached the beach at the bottom of the sea.
When the lantern's light touched the sand, Lin saw many small creatures gathering on the sand. Unlike the single-celled creatures that were attracted to light, they immediately swam away and disappeared into the darkness.
Were these all multicellular organisms? Why was he afraid of light instead?
In the dim light, Lin couldn't see them clearly, but she felt that they looked like round shield worms, but they were extremely small, about the size of a starfish.
Lin slowly swam across the beach. She noticed that there were many more creatures at night than during the day, especially at the beach, where there were floating cells everywhere. Some of them were afraid of light, while some liked it. Lin had already created a Devourer with a lantern on its head and released them to hunt for food. Lin didn't want to waste this food.
Lin swam as she ate. She felt that she was about to reach the Protector's location and meet up with it. Suddenly, she noticed a strange creature in front of her.
The creature looked like a giant black tentacle, its body was about the same length as an aircraft carrier, and its body had a circular spiral structure. It wriggled on the sand as if it was feeding on the cells.
Lin had never seen this creature during the day, so she named it the 'Dark Worm'.
Lin observed the creature. The lantern's light just happened to illuminate its entire body. Lin was trying to determine how strong this' Dark Worm 'was. Was it a threat? Or was it food?
The Dark Worm was only wriggling on the sand at a very slow speed. Lin slowly swam closer and closer. When Lin reached the top of the Dark Worm, it suddenly twisted its body and rushed forward at an extremely fast speed.
Lin immediately swung the aircraft carrier's tentacle to chase after it. Under the dim light, Lin noticed that the Dark Worm seemed to be chasing after another creature.
Lin raised the lantern to illuminate the area further. She saw a small creature with a round body and appendages on both sides running away from the Dark Worm, but it wasn't as fast as the Dark Worm.
The Dark Worm opened its head and bit down on its target. Lin swam in front of it and saw that the Dark Worm's head was actually a mouth with a circle of sharp teeth that curved inwards. It was currently wriggling the muscles on its mouth and using its sharp teeth to squeeze the creature it caught.
Lin observed for a while, then smashed the Dark Worm's head with her hammer.
The Dark Worm swung its head in pain and spat out its prey. The appendage creature didn't seem to be injured and ran away in an instant.
Lin didn't care, her target was the Dark Worm.
Although the Dark Worm didn't have eyes, it knew that it was Lin's doing, so it wriggled its body and rushed towards Lin.
* Bam! *
Another hammer strike landed on the Dark Worm's head, this time sending it crashing into the sand. At the same time, Lin opened up the aircraft carrier's skin and released a new group of 'troops'.
Lin had learned the principles of the starfish's injection teeth and created a new type of creature called the 'Injector'. This creature had a streamlined body with a long needle with a hole in its head and a jet of water behind it. It could instantly accelerate and stab the needle into its target's body, then shrink its body and eject the thing inside.
The Injector ejected a type of virus-like cell, which Lin called the 'Spiker'. It was a new type of cell that Lin had evolved using cone-shaped cells. Each Spiker's mouth was a hollow needle-shaped tube, which wasn't used to eject anything, but to pierce into the target's cells and suck them dry.
As long as they received enough nutrients, they would immediately divide several times faster than normal cells. Furthermore, they would already be full of nutrients before they were injected into the target's body, so even if they didn't suck, their numbers would instantly multiply several times.
The Injectors could swim at high speed for a short period of time, they would charge towards the Dark Worm's body and pierce its skin with their needles, then inject several tens of thousands of Spikers.
The Spikers didn't have vision, so Lin had them attack at will. They would immediately insert their needles into anything soft, suck it in, and then divide. They would repeat this process over and over again, although their division speed wasn't as fast as a real virus, it was still very fast.
Attacked by a large number of Injectors, the Dark Worm began to writhe in pain and rolled around on the sand. It seemed that many parts of its body had been destroyed.
At this time, Lin had the aircraft carrier swim over and viciously smash the Dark Worm's head.
Even if it had immune cells, it was useless because Lin's attack was a combination of internal and external attacks.
The Dark Worm quickly stopped moving.
At this time, Lin had the Spikers stop dividing and automatically kill themselves. Their remains would be collected by Lin without any waste.
Next, it was time for a feast.
Lin had the Devourers enter through the Dark Worm's mouth and began to convert it into their own nutrients. Of course, this also included studying the creature's structure.
The Dark Worm had a structure that seemed to be its esophagus from head to tail. Near its head, there were eight circles of sharp teeth that curved inwards. At the center of the esophagus was a large pile of sand and the hard shells of other creatures.
The Spikers mainly attacked the tail, where a large number of damaged cells had appeared. The esophagus at the tail had also rotted away.
The Dark Worm's blood vessels were attached to the outer layer of the esophagus. There were many hearts from head to tail, but they were all very small, like lumps on the blood vessels. In addition, there was a large ganglion near the head.
Apart from that, the outer layer of the Dark Worm's body was muscle structure, which was definitely used for rapid movement.
There wasn't much learning value, it was just food.
After coming to this conclusion, Lin immediately had the Devourers eat. This Dark Worm could provide them with a lot of nutrients.
Suddenly, a creature entered the range of Lin's lantern.
Was this the arthropod creature that the Dark Worm was chasing before?
Lin saw the creature quickly running towards the aircraft carrier. Just as Lin was about to smash it with her hammer, she suddenly saw a large creature chasing after it.
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