Chapter 8 New Nutrient Systems

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Lynn had already circled the Round Shield worm, and there was little edible to be found in the worm's body, except for the multicellular assemblages that looked like tubes.

These tubes are all over the whole body of the Round Shield worm, including the arthropods, and every corner of the body, except around the esophagus, but Lynn believes that the esophagus must have been destroyed by the virus.

And all the pipes were connected to the huge thing in the middle, and Lynn didn't know what the point was at first, and after observing it for a while, Lynn gave up and started eating them.

It wasn't until Lynn's devourers bit through the pipes that Lynn slowly began to understand what they were for.

There are not only a lot of blue cells in the tubes, but also a lot of fats, fats, various food crumbs, and a lot of immune cells.

These immune cells are not the same as what Lynn had seen before, they are very small, only slightly larger than the virus, and they are probably the reason why the pipes are not affected by the virus, and they secrete a sticky substance that prevents the virus from approaching.

But why were other organs in the body of the Round Shield worm destroyed by the virus? Lin thinks that this immune cell may only be responsible for the defense of the pipeline, and the immune cells responsible for the defense of other organs are blocked by Lin's forces, so the other organs are completely destroyed.

Lynn didn't know why the immune cells stayed in the pipes and didn't go anywhere else, but that wasn't Lynn's main concern.

Lynn was mainly concerned with the use of these tubes, to see how the composition of the round shield worm differed from the composition of its own cells.

These tubes are supposed to be mainly used to transport nutrients, so they are found in various areas of the body.

This effect of transporting nutrients feels very good, Lynn's method of transporting nutrients is just to connect the combined cells to the fat cells, and then let them pass to each other on their own, which is much slower, like some of the larger devourers take quite a long time to fill up the nutrients.

And what made Lin feel the most powerful was the huge thing connected to the center of these tubes, which Lin found after eating a part of it, almost all of them were composed of cells similar to its muscle cells, which meant that this thing could contract or expand, like a pump, so that the nutrients and cells in all the tubes could flow quickly to all parts of the body.

What is a 'pump'?

Regardless of this inexplicable word, but this construction is indeed very good.

That's right, just combine these tubes into a structure that can circulate, and then form a place to place food at one point, and then as long as the central muscle structure keeps contracting, the cells circulating in the tubes can continue to transport nutrients to the body.

There must be a part of the worm that holds food connected to these pipes, but Lin didn't find it, probably because it was destroyed by the virus.

But this structure is so effective.

Lynn's devourer is composed of pure muscle cells and pure lethal cells in the mouth, which is very strong in terms of damage and power to single cells, but it is also consumed quickly, and it is easy to enter a state of fatigue, so it takes a long time to replenish before it can be active again.

The outer skin of the aircraft carrier is a relatively hardened type of cell, because the hardening cannot move, so it does not consume energy, but the tentacles of the mobile aircraft carrier are also pure muscle structures, and it is easy to get tired if you continue to move.

However, with the addition of this structure, the muscles may be a little weaker than before, but they can move for a long time and repair the damaged areas quickly.

It feels very good, although the part it ate is not enough for Lin to repair 30% of the aircraft carrier, but it feels that it is worth killing this worm, so that it can learn a lot, if the other parts are not destroyed by the virus, it is estimated that it can learn more.

Next time, you must not use the virus again.

As Lin thought this, the cells almost ate up the remaining qiē in the Round Shield Worm's body.

The surrounding ice is slowly melting, and Lin is almost repairing the aircraft carrier, although there is very little left of the part that the round shield worm can eat, but Lin herself has stored a large number of fat cells, which is completely enough to repair the entire aircraft carrier.

The group of green cells in the 'feeding circle' on the outer skin of the aircraft carrier also escaped this crisis, because they were just on the other side, the round shield worms did not eat that position, and Lynn found that they were doing well, and as the light shining through the ice, they split more.

Lynn was thinking about whether to get more feeders.

But now the most important thing is to figure out the structure of the circulation pipe.

After repairing the carrier, Lynn began to construct the pipe structure she had learned from the Round Shield Worm in the hollow body of the carrier.

The first is the central part of the muscle cell that is able to contract and expand rapidly, and Lynn found it with a new term to describe this area.

'Heart'.

The heart is divided into two main layers, the upper layer is responsible for sucking in the water from the pipes, and then squeezing it to the lower layer to release it, so as to achieve the purpose of circulation.

Then there is the pipe structure, and Lynn has the basal cells make up these pipes, which are all interconnected and connected to various locations on the inner wall of the aircraft carrier at the end, so that they can deliver nutrients to the entire aircraft carrier at any time.

Lynn's practice was to form some tentacles in the second half of the aircraft carrier to absorb nutrients, which mainly devoured food and then passed from cell to cell, which was not as efficient as this water flow to transfer nutrients.

The word for pipe construction is called 'blood vessels'.

It felt a little strange, but Lynn decided to go with the name anyway.

Lynn wasn't going to put as many cells in her veins as the Round Shield worm did, so that there was more room to transport food.

When it comes to food, Lynn has assembled an oval structure called a 'sac', which can be opened and closed and connected to the blood vessels, and the general food is placed in the sac, and the food in the sac is taken away by the blood vessel cells passing by, and then brought to other places to replenish nutrients, and at the same time, fat cells can be thrown into it.

Lin usually finishes the idea and the time when the combination is completed, and now the body of the aircraft carrier looks like a pipe vertical and horizontal space, but this structure Lin also feels that there are shortcomings, once the blood vessels are damaged, the contents inside may gush out uncontrollably, in this case, Lin can only stop the heart from contracting, and wait for the blood vessels to repair before resuming the circulation.

Therefore, Lynn must have a stronger defense to prevent the enemy from attacking these blood vessels.

When it comes to defense, that's Lynn's biggest pain point.

Although it is now composed of cortical structures that can prevent all kinds of attacks by individual cells, including spikes, venom, etc., it is easily torn off by the round shield worm.

The Round Shield Worm's shell is extremely hard, and although its movements are not as flexible as its tentacles, no amount of attack can damage anything other than its joints.

Not only did Lynn have to study the inside of the Round Shield Worm, but she also had to learn more about its exterior.

How did it grow such a hard shell? Lynn's cells are completely incapable of reaching this hardness, neither diggers nor cones.

Maybe it's possible to evolve this ability by digging through hard objects all the time like before?

But Lynn didn't want to wait that long, she wanted to know how these hard shells were made now.

Whether you look at it or bite into it, it doesn't feel like a cellular structure.

I can't understand it, I can't eat it, I can't break it to see what it's made of.

In that case, Lynn decided to put it to use, perhaps using it to help her evolve.

How to use it?

Very simple.

Wouldn't it be okay for Lynn to let her cells live in this carapace? The virus only destroys the cells in the worm's body, but it does no harm to the shell.

…… That's right!

Lynn might be able to animate it again, just like it did when it was alive!

Just put the cells together yourself! If you put muscle cells in the arthropods so that the muscles can move, and then put the structures of the heart and blood vessels into the shell......

Although she didn't know what the other organs of the Round Shield Worm were, it didn't matter, Lynn knew that muscles and nutrients were the basis of activity.

As long as you put a certain number of cells, you can 'resurrect' the entire Round Shield Worm!