Chapter 18: The Multicellular Path

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In fact, when Lynn entered the rift, she had already begun to think about fighting the current.

It's similar to a hot spring at the entrance to a rift, as long as the cells are combined to form a huge shield that will stop the impact of the water.

But to block the strong currents outside, a stronger and larger shield is needed, and Lynn believes that no matter how many cells come together, they will be blown apart.

The cells have to have some way of joining together to form a solid that doesn't easily wash away.

Like hooking each other with the digger's serrations? But that would probably hurt.

But Lin thinks that there should be another way to connect the cells together, after all, the cell membrane is soft and can change shape, and the two cells are originally one, but they are only divided, so they should be able to be combined again......

And how exactly do cells divide? Why do they split? Instead of growing big in the first place?

It seems to be complicated, and Lin doesn't like to think about complicated things, so she plans to start the experiment directly, it first makes two cells huddle together, let them wrap each other with cell membranes, and keeps entering the 'combination' of thoughts.

However, this does not seem to work, after all, Lynn's cells are different from amoebae, they can at most stretch out some small bumps on the surface of the cell membrane, and they can't grasp each other.

So let them evolve into amoebae? Lin thinks that the amoeba form should be formed by their frequent preference for burrowing into narrow crevices and other places.

Thinking of this, Lin began to ask a few basal cells to find narrow cracks and other places in this cave to drill, to see if they could evolve into amoeba after a long time.

But Lin didn't want to wait here, so she immediately started another real yàn.

It's to see if you can stop the cell from dividing.

When cells divide, they split the core into two, and then slowly split the cell membrane to become two cells.

All Lynn had to do was stop the division near the end of their cell membrane splitting, so that there would be two cells connected together.

Lynn's colony was constantly eating, so soon cells were about to divide, which happened to be a basal cell.

Lynn immediately waited for their nuclei to split into two, as she thought, at which point the cell's membrane began to crack from the center, and the two nuclei moved to both sides.

And when the membrane in the middle was about to break completely, Lynn suddenly gave a 'stop' thought.

Stopped!

The dividing cells actually stopped, they had almost split into two cells, and only a little bit of cell membrane at the end was still connected.

Although it was successful, I guess it will break if I pull it this way.

Lynn then began to have them reinforce the connection, and then maintain it.

After a while, Lynn felt that the connection should have been strengthened a bit, as the membrane of the connected cell had become significantly thicker.

Then Lynn began to try to have one of the cells drag the other, or make both of them go in different directions, even with the best of her strength, without breaking.

It seems to have succeeded, so Lynn has a new cell type, but what is it called?

'Connector'?

It feels very ordinary...... But forget it, then Lynn will be able to use the Connector to make a giant wall to resist the current!

Lynn began to ask the linkers to eat more food, and then let them continue to divide, not completely as before, as before, so that the clumps of cells that were joined together would get bigger and bigger.

Lin found that the cell group composed of connectors is very light, which exceeds the huge cells such as reservoirs or blastballs, and they also have a feature, that is, they do not have to eat each of them, as long as one of them eats, the energy can be transferred to all the cells connected together, which is quite convenient.

However, there is still a problem, if the cell mass starts to get bigger, it will start to become difficult to move, after all, it will all stick together.

So Lynn directly moved them to the bottom of the rift, and then made them grow upwards in a rotational direction, forming a huge cylinder of large cells, and the inside of this cylinder was hollow for Lynn's other cells to enter, and then an opening at the top allowed Lynn's cells to go out from the top.

This cylinder divides and grows upwards through the cells at the top of the guò, eventually protruding through the exit of the fissure and reaching the outside.

Lynn also found it interesting that because the column was made up of basal cells, Lynn could still make them evolve.

Lynn can make these cells evolve into diggers, and can face the sturdy serrated shell outwards and the fragile parts inward, so she doesn't have to fear an outside attack, even if a virus can't get in.

As the cylinders of cells grew, Lynn gave them a new name: 'Giant Tentacles'.

But Lynn still wanted to be able to put the scattered cells together directly, rather than in the cumbersome way of going through guò.

Thinking about it, Lynn found two more basal cells, made them stick together, and then gave out the idea of combining.

I saw that the membranes of the two cells were directly glued together, and there was no crack, and it looked like two spherical joints together.

Well? Succeeded this time?

Lynn was a little curious, why was she able to 'combine' her thoughts now?

Could it be that after preventing the division, the cells understood what 'combination' meant?

It feels good so that Lynn can build a 'wall of cells' anywhere without having to deliberately interrupt cell division and then have to let them grow slowly......

But now a giant tentacle is enough, and the rest of the walls will wait outside to decide where to build them.

What Lin has to do now is to eat and grow slowly, after all, it is not so fast to make a tentacle grow from the cavern deep inside the rock to the outside.

By this time, darkness had fallen outside, but Lynn's massive glitter balls kept the cavern bright......

Lin also saw that the group of light bacteria were still cowering in the corner, but a few bold ones had already come out to try to find food.

Daring? What is a gall bladder?

Lynn was puzzled by the new word again, but it didn't think much of it as usual.

There was a lot more white paste in the cave than outside, and it kept growing, and Lyn's colony couldn't be eaten twice as big, so Lin didn't care too much if the group of photofungi was eating it.

But Lynn won't let them grow too much.

In the following time, Lin watched the giant tentacles grow all the time, and the few basic cells that went to narrow the cracks and squeezed the body slowly had an evolutionary effect, and their bodies became very flexible, and they could be greatly squeezed and deformed.

But that wasn't enough, Lynn wanted them to be exactly like amoeba and change shape at will.

Time passed slowly, and Lynn's giant tentacles had grown close to the exit of the rift, but the hot water there prevented it from growing any further.

At this time, Lin let some heat-resistant reservoir cells combine one after another at the top of the tentacles, and continued to grow upward, and finally the huge tentacles occupied almost the entire passage of the rift, and the small cracks in the walls of the rift hole were also blocked.

When the tentacles grew out of the crack, Lynn switched back to using basal cells.

This giant tentacle is made up of hundreds of thousands of cells, thanks to the abundance of food in the cavern below.

At this time, the situation outside was a little different from before, the water seemed to have stopped, and because of Lin's departure, a large number of other kinds of cells had gathered here.

It's a pity, Lynn wants to see if the tentacles can resist the current.

However, whether it is this tentacle or the method of combining cells, it can play a huge role in Lynn's future growth.

Lynn's cells swam out of the cavern through the hollow tentacles, and Lynn intended to take over its territory again......