Chương 9: Chapter 9
In fact, Lin had thought about this problem more than once.
There was a certain amount of each type of cell. If all of them died, how would he be able to obtain them again?
Carry out the same thing as before? For example, let the cells swallow the lytic liquid again to evolve into acid injectors?
But Lin still doesn't understand why cone cells evolved.
But that's not the point. The point is, do I have to go through such troublesome steps to get them again?
Lin doesn't think so.
Lin will find a way.
Thinking of this, Lin's diggers had already eaten half of the slime, and the number of digger cells had increased to 699.
Lin began to implement her idea. First, it was energy and food storage. Lin began to try to make a very full digger that was about to split continue to eat and stop it from splitting.
How to stop the splitting? Lin didn't know. Splitting was automatic, so Lin just kept controlling it in her mind, forbidding it from doing things that didn't agree with Lin's idea.
It seemed to be successful. The digger didn't split, but continued to eat the slime's corpse.
Next, it was storage. Lin began to try to make it stop digesting food and keep it in its body.
She succeeded. The food in the digger's body wasn't digested, but piled up in one place.
Lin didn't expect it to be so simple. She felt a little happy.
Next, Lin made the cell keep eating, only digesting the part it needed for its own activities. The extra part wasn't used to split, but was stored in the body. This also caused the cell to grow bigger and bigger. After eating for a while, it was almost twice the size of other cells.
However, storing this food also caused the cell to become very inflexible and slow, even the action of sawing food became difficult.
This would make it difficult for it to even eat, but this was a simple problem for Lin. All she needed to do was to let the other cells help it. She would use the ordinary diggers to help this food-storing cell collect food, and this cell only needed to be responsible for eating.
Slowly, this cell had an interesting change.
As it only ate and didn't work, the sawtooth of its outer membrane began to slowly disappear. Lin knew that this phenomenon was called degeneration.
At the same time, its body became very fat, almost three times the size of other diggers' cells. The slime fragments stored in its body were also broken down, but they were not digested. Instead, they were converted into a liquid that was similar to water but more viscous.
Lin knew that this liquid was called oil.
This cell would convert the food it ate into oil and store it in the body. This oil was easier to carry around, and it seemed to contain more energy and took up less space. It was more effective than storing food directly.
Lin did not know how they were formed. It was not under Lin's control, but something that happened to the cells themselves.
Lin wasn't 100% in control of the cells. Some of their actions, such as division, were all done by the cells, and the oil was also produced by the cells themselves. It seemed like there were some deeper mysteries within the cells that Lin didn't know about.
With the gradual increase in intelligence, Lin could fully grasp all of this.
Lin gave these cells a name: Hoarders.
Lin could also make the Storages split apart, but the new cells that came out from the Storages didn't have any oil in them, they needed to consume food to turn them into oil.
It was a good feeling. As long as there were more of them, she wouldn't be afraid of hunger. However, there couldn't be too many of these cells. After all, they couldn't fight and moved very slowly.
The eating continued … Not long after, there was only about 10% of the slime carcasses left. Lin's cell community had almost recovered to its original number, and the number of Storages had also increased to 30. The large amount of oil in their bodies allowed Lin's community to swim a considerable distance without eating.
However, what Lin wanted most now was to regain the Acid-Injector and the Cone Cell.
Lin first tried to make the Digger evolve into one of the two, using the old method, constantly imagining the cell to become like that in her mind.
But it didn't work. The Digger Cell divided into Digger Cells.
Lin didn't give up. She continued to experiment, such as making the Digger Cell do something similar to the Cone Cell, or simply trying to squeeze a cell into a cone with other cells.
Of course, they all failed. In the end, Lin felt that her method was stupid …
But Lin didn't stop thinking about making them evolve. Finally, a cell responded to her.
Those were the basic cells, the most primitive cells that had no function at all.
This kind of cell could only be split from the only one with vision: the Observer.
The Observer hadn't participated in any activities, so except for its vision, everything about it retained its basic appearance, but the cells it divided didn't have vision.
Lin called this kind of cell the basic cell. Usually, they would soon evolve into the Digger Cell while working together with the Digger Cell. But this time, the cell didn't have time to become the Digger Cell when it received Lin's signal.
Like a miracle, after the cell digested the food it had just eaten, its body began to slowly grow, and then it grew the long conical mouth of the Cone Cell, covered with spiral serrated teeth …
It was exactly the same as the original Cone Cell.
Next, Lin tried to make the basic cell evolve into the Acid-Injector, and the result was very simple.
So that's how it is. In other words, although the basic cell had no function, it could evolve?
But could it evolve into something else?
Lin thought. She tried to make the basic cell evolve into a slime or a monster cell.
… No response.
It seemed that only the cells belonging to Lin's community, the basic cell, could change. They didn't have any evolutionary ability, but recorded the information of this evolution.
But how did they record it? Was it related to the Observer watching from the side?
Lin didn't know, but now that the most important problem had been solved, Lin felt very happy.
Next, she would once again head into the vast world to explore all the unknown things!
The slime had eaten it all, and Lin swam into the boundless deep blue with the 1,233 cells …
Lin had no goal. In this deep blue, she couldn't see any goal, but something attracted Lin.
That was warmth.
Swimming in this direction, Lin could feel that she was getting rid of the previous cold, and the water was getting warmer and warmer.
This direction seemed to be above.
The closer she got, the brighter and warmer the water became. Lin swam faster. The warmth seemed to be able to give her cell community motivation, which was the opposite of the cold feeling of curling up. It felt very comfortable.
At this moment, the observer who was swimming in the front found fresh food.
Above Lin's community, countless purple creatures appeared.
They were oval in shape, and their bodies were covered with dense cilia. They were only about half the size of Lin's cells, but there were a lot of them.
There were so many of them that they filled Lin's Observer's field of vision.
Preliminary calculations showed that there were more than 10,000 of them.
This was another type of cell. Lin didn't know what they were called, so she simply called them 'purple cells'.
These purple cells didn't care about the appearance of Lin's community. Even when Lin's cells approached them, they didn't attack, nor did they react. Instead, they all hurriedly swam in the same direction.
It was the same direction as the warm place Lin wanted to go.
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