Chapter 11: Symbiosis
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Lynn had the observer swim to the heights, trying to find something to attack the Acid Injector, and Lynn remembered that the pain from the fallen Acid Injector had come from below, and that the attack must have come from below.
Lynn noticed that there were many protruding black stone grains on the rock surface beneath the acid injectors, which were very inconspicuous in the rock area, and the acid injectors were floating very close to these stone grains, and Lin felt that the attack was sent from the stone grains.
Disguise...... A creature disguises itself as something common in an environment to ambush its prey.
Although she had never seen such a situation, Lynn knew in her mind that there was such a thing.
So Lin planned to fight back directly, and the acid injectors immediately aimed at the stone particles under them, and a large amount of dissolved liquid sprayed on these stone particles, and those stone particles were really moved by the damage of the dissolving liquid, but not only one of them, but all the stone particles in the entire area made a strong tremor, and then, the entire ground covered with stone particles slowly rose.
Lynn didn't anticipate this, and she quickly dispersed the acid-infusing creatures, and as they moved away, the creature hiding underground revealed its form.
Its whole body is black and gray, exactly the same color as the surrounding rocks, and its body has many protruding stone grains, a bit like the serrations on the surface of the digger's body, and a large number of flagella under its body, but its body is more than fifty times the size of the digger, and after it floats, a large defect appears in the rock below.
Rock worms.
Lynn gave the large, disguised creature a name and decided to kill it.
Lin asked one of the acid injectors to come forward again, because Lin didn't know the attack method of the rock insects, so she didn't dare to rush to let all the acid injectors move.
When the acid injector approached the rock insect, it also reacted, and Lin clearly saw this time that a small stone particle on the rock insect's body shook slightly, and a tiny sharp object that was almost invisible shot out of it, and this sharp object instantly pierced the body of the acid injector.
Then Lynn felt the same pain as before, and then there was no response.
It was a terrible attack, but Lin could see clearly that there was something sharp hidden in the stone-like protrusions on the rock worm's body, and that thing contained some kind of liquid that could quickly destroy the nucleus in the body of the acid injector.
Poison?
Although it was a new word, Lin felt that it meant something similar to the dissolved liquid of the acid injector, a liquid with extremely strong damage capabilities.
The rock worm shifted its massive body and slowly turned around and swam towards the corpse of the downed acid injector.
When the rock worm turned around, Lynn saw a strange black protrusion at the top of its mouth, which was quite large and shimmering like ice crystals, unlike the stone grains.
Eye......
Although she hadn't seen it, Lynn realized what it was, and it was the first time she had seen that there were other creatures besides her own observer who also had sight.
Curious.
Lynn began to become more and more curious about the rock worm, not only its eyes, but also its strange way of attacking, if Lynn could have the cells as well, it would be interesting.
So, Lin didn't plan to let the rock worms go.
The rock worm had swam up to the body of the acid-infused man, and it opened its cavernous mouth and slowly swallowed it, but instead of swallowing it completely, it tore the remaining part open with flagella and threw fragments of the corpse at the stone grains that grew on it.
Do the stones also need to be eaten?
Curious, Lynn didn't stop, and almost at the same time, Lynn had the Acid Infers attack again.
Although the Rock Worm has a powerful attack, Lin noticed that the number of stone grains is not very large, about 20, which cannot be compared to the number of acid inflicters in it.
As long as Lin has a basal cell, it can grow new acid injectors infinitely, so Lin hardly has to worry about the loss of attack.
The acid injectors rushed forward, and in the face of a huge opponent, they spewed out a large amount of dissolved liquid, and the surrounding water was suddenly stained green.
The body of the rock worm is not only color-like a rock, but also very strong in its sturdiness, and only the surface layer has been corroded and scarred by the dissolved liquid of the acid injector.
The rock worm launched a counterattack, and a large number of sharp thorns shot out from the stone particles on its body, and several acid infused people were killed in an instant.
Although the Acid Injectors evolved from cone-shaped cells, they have not used their bodies directly to dig for things for too long, so their hard body shells have degraded and are unable to withstand such attacks.
However, Lynn had to attack with acid injectors, because apart from them, Lynn estimated that no other cell would be able to tear through the outer membrane of the rock worm.
The rock worm twisted its body as if it was in sharp pain from the dissolving fluid, and it began to swing its flagella beneath it, as if it wanted to escape.
But the Rock Worm wasn't fast, and was only about the same as Lynn's oil-covered Reservoir cells.
It's not because of the huge body, it seems that because of the habit of hiding and camouflaging for a long time, the ability to move has begun to deteriorate a little.
At this time, Lin asked the cone cells to step forward to participate in the attack, and hundreds of cone cells instantly surrounded the rock insects, and Lin asked them to stab the corroded wounds on the rock insects with the cone horns.
The rock worm was powerless to resist this time, and it seemed that the thorns on its body had already been shot.
Lin's acid injector will also use up the dissolved solution, but it can easily supplement this shortcoming with a small number, but the rock worm cannot, with the cooperation of the acid injector and the cone cell, the huge body of the rock insect finally no longer moves, and the outer membrane that simulates the color of the rock is torn into pieces by the cone cell and scattered in the water......
This time, only 15 acid injectors were lost, and many of the rock worms were shot on the same acid injector, so the loss was much less than Lin imagined, but if Lin ate the rock insects, Lin would be able to split hundreds in no time.
Lynn was finally able to examine the parts she was curious about, first of all, the eye, which had been particularly careful to keep the acid injector from corroding the rock worm's eye.
The eyes were very large, about twice the size of Lynn's cells, and Lynn asked the cone cells to dig it out of the carcass of the rock worm, but because it was too big for ordinary cells to eat, Lynn specially asked the stockkeepers to eat and eat.
The storer swam over slowly, and the fat cells had become so soft that they could store more food, and their bodies had grown to five times the size of normal cells, more than enough to swallow the rock worm's eyes.
As soon as the Reservoir swallowed the Eye of the Rock Worm, Lynn immediately relayed the message in her thoughts.
This message is exactly the same as when Lynn first tried to get her vision, and Lynn tried to get the cell to use the eye to get her sight.
But it failed, and the Reservoir did not react at all, and the eye, like any other devoured food, was slowly broken down and digested, converted into fat and stored.
Is there no way?
Never mind......
Lynn converted her next target to the small boulders that shot deadly spikes.
If you look closely, you can see that there is a small hole in the stone, and the spikes containing the poison are shot from the hole.
According to Lynn's previous experience, if a cell is injured by poison and survives to divide successfully, it is possible for them to be resistant to poison, and then if the resistant cells are allowed to eat these poisons, it is possible to obtain the ability to secrete poison.
Unfortunately, none of Lynn's cells survived the poisonous spikes.
If they were allowed to eat it directly, it would probably just kill a few more cells, and Lin felt a little worried.
Just then, Lynn suddenly saw a stone grain crack open, and a small round creature emerged from it.
The creature has a lid-like structure on the surface of its body, and from its transparent body, it can be seen that under the lid is a very long, coiled tentacle, and at the end of the tentacle is a small needle prick.
Did it shoot the poisonous needle just now?
Lynn looked at the creature curiously, it was obviously different from the rock worm, but a different type of cell.
What is its relationship with rock worms? Is it that there are many different cells in a group, just like yourself?
If that's the case, now so close to the stinging cells should attack themselves, but they don't react.
Lin thought about it, and let a cone cell poke the stinging cell, and the stinging cell suddenly opened the lid on the surface of the body as if frightened, and the tentacles inside instantly stood up, shooting out the spikes at the end.
Although it didn't hit, it startled Lynn.
However, Lynn immediately had a new idea.
This stinger may be useful to Lynn......
After a period of observation, Lin found that these small stinging cells, which were about one-tenth the size of Linn's cells, seemed to collect rock fragments, gather them around themselves, and then stick to the ground to disguise themselves as stone grains, and cut a small hole at the top, apparently used to shoot needles.
These cells are usually supposed to disguise themselves as stone grains to ambush other cells, but why do they have anything to do with rock worms? And their attack commands seem to be controlled by rock insects.
Either way, Lynn can use them like a rock worm.
Lynn tried to put the stone grains containing the needle puncture cells on the body of an excavator, who could clamp the small stone particles with the serrations on the surface of the body, so that the digger would have the ability to spray stingers.
Perhaps these stinging cells just landed on the rock worms, and they probably reached a common consciousness after communicating, so they helped ......
Communication?
Lynn had never tried to communicate with other creatures, and it seemed to foster a special kind of relationship, which was ...... Symbiosis.
Although Lynn hadn't tried, she knew there was such a thing.
Lynn is now starting to wonder why she was born to know so many things. Shouldn't these things be discovered little by little?
Lynn started to wonder about it, but it was still the same as before, and if she couldn't figure it out, she wouldn't think about it anymore.
So, Lynn turned her mind back again.
Now that she has acquired the stinging cells, Lin plans to treat them like a rock worm, give them food, and then use them as a means of attack.
However, Lynn didn't know how to feed them, so she did the rock worm and put some pieces of food at the hole in the stone grains of the thorn cells.
In response, the stinging cells suck food crumbs into the hole.
However, Lynn didn't know how to command these stinger attacks, so she only took them with a few diggers for now.
Next, Lin had the cells eat up the huge body of the rock worm, which made its colony grow considerably, and then Lin turned her eyes to the various creatures in the area.
There were many cells gathered on this rocky area, most of them were massive, and they were of a species that Lin had never seen before, but Lin did not attack rashly, the cells had so many wonderful attacks, it was better to be careful.
So Lynn plans to increase the number of colonies, and one of the big reasons why the large number of cells here are attracted is the occasional food coming out of the cracks in the rocks.
It was the same white and soft food as before, and Lin noticed that the food seemed to come out of the cracks in the rocks everywhere, and most of them were in the form of crumbs, and if you let the cells get close to the cracks, you could feel the faint flow of water.
In other words, there are many of these foods hidden in the depths of this rock, and for some reason a stream of water sprays them from the depths to the cracks on the surface, thus attracting a large number of cells.
Lynn began to try to dig up the rocks.
However, Lynn found that this was a very difficult thing to do, and even if the acid injector was allowed to dissolve first, and then let the cone cells drill with the cone angle, only some stone fragments could be peeled off.
Lynn found that there really weren't any cells trying to dig through the rock, but there were some small cells going in and out of the crevices.
Lynn began to think that it needed not only huge cells that could store food, but also all kinds of small cells that could burrow into crevices.
However, Lynn really didn't know how to get smaller.
In short, Lynn now has a new purpose.
If you blindly kill other cells, you are likely to encounter a strong enemy and be in mortal danger, so Lin plans to develop slowly first.
Lynn's community has grown, making its thoughts progress step by step.
Occupy all the cracks around you that spew food, and you'll have an endless supply of food.
Thinking about it, Lynn had the cells spread out, occupying the gaps around the food and driving away some of the small groups of cells that had been guarding around the gaps.
After a while, Lin occupied hundreds of cracks around her, and the strange thing was that these cracks were about the same length and the amount of food they spewed, so there was nothing special to guard, so Lin evenly distributed cells to occupy each location.
Lynn's observer, on the other hand, has been floating on the heights, with a few cone cells and acid injectors as guards, looking for a better target.
Under the eye of the observer, Lynn discovers something strange.
A huge fissure, this fissure was extremely wide, and in the distance on an empty rock plane, it was large enough to fill hundreds of Lynn cells.
From time to time, the huge crack would spew out a lot of food, but strangely, there were no cells waiting to eat the food, only a few gray-white cells slowly floating around the huge crack, but they never rushed forward to eat the food that spewed out.
It's suspicious.
Lynn asked a few diggers to try it, and as they approached the massive crack, Lynn felt a familiar feeling.
Warm...... No, it's hot, and the water above this crack is quite hot.
Moreover, unlike other small cracks, which maintain a fine flow of water all the time, this crack is intermittent, and after erupting once, it will stop for a while, and then erupt again!
As soon as Lin thought of this, the diggers were instantly hit by the spewed heat stream, and Lin lost her sense of them.
Can the temperature of the instant eruption be high enough to kill the diggers?
Although the loss of a few diggers was not a big deal with the abundance of food, Lynn still felt a bit of a pity.
At this time, I saw that the gray and white blood cells floating next to the crack slowly floated up, swam to the diggers who were killed by the heat flow, and slowly devoured them.
I see.
Lin immediately understood that those cells were waiting to eat other cells that were killed by the heat flow.
…… Then, this heat flow belongs to me!
Those gray and white blood cells may have been used to eating free food, and they had no combat power at all, and Lynn's acid injector killed them all, and then occupied their huge cracks.
Of course, Lynn also gave this unusual crack a name, 'Hot Spring Mouth'.
Lynn thought the hot spring mouth would be useful.
Then, let's move on.
Lynn needed more and more intelligence to figure out the puzzles she didn't understand.
With a steady source of food, Lynn's community is constantly growing, and it also needs to occupy more food cracks, usually Lin has about ten cells to guard the cracks, and if it encounters strong enemies, it will let the cells in other places go to increase its staff, fortunately, there are almost no opponents who can threaten Rin.
Lynn also had the cells keep drilling into the rocks, trying to evolve the kind that could dig through the hard stones, but it seemed to be quite difficult, and the diggers and cone cells that had been digging for a long time still couldn't do any effective damage to the rocks except for the sharper teeth on the surface of the body.
The symbiotic stingers would divide when they ate too much, and when they began to divide, they would swim out into the rocks to make nests, so Lynn had to let the diggers catch them again, and after a few generations, they knew how to swim directly to the nearby diggers to fix themselves.
In this way, Lynn has officially obtained the symbiosis of the Thorn Cell, although she still doesn't know how to order the Thorn Cell to fire the stinger.
In this way, Lin gradually occupied the area of the huge rock that gushed food everywhere, and by about 20% of the rocks, Lin's community had reached as many as 10,000.
However, it was already difficult to expand, and the other areas were occupied by large cell communities, and if Lynn wanted to attack them, she would have to concentrate her forces, but then she would have to give up a large number of rift guards.
Lynn felt a little troubled, but the large colony allowed her to think about more things, and Lynn quickly found a solution.