Chapter 11: Small and Complex
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After eating the second phyllomorph, Lin had already received enough nutrients to resurrect the Round Shield Worm.
Lynn has put together a multicellular structure that can be described as 'streamlined', which swims fast in the water, and Lynn calls it a 'transporter', mainly transporting a large number of fat cells back to where the Round Shield worm is, because it doesn't want to go back and wants to continue to eat some foliomorphs here.
Lynn assembled ten transporters, each composed of more than 100,000 cells, each with a circle of small flat tentacles swimming around in the middle of their bodies, and after packing the fat cells in the hollow interior, they swam back in the direction of the ice cave.
Then, Lin once again set her eyes on a leaf insect not far away.
The food that doesn't move is amazing.
Lynn happily swung the tentacles of the aircraft carrier, and just as it was about to swim, it suddenly felt something was wrong, and the sensation of some cells on the cortex disappeared, but Lynn did not feel pain.
Died without feeling pain? It's weird......
Lynn unleashed the Devourer from the carrier to investigate the place where the senses had disappeared, which was presumably attacked, and Lynn could only know that it was the rear near the spout.
The body of the aircraft carrier is too large, it contains hundreds of millions of cells, and it is impossible to fully observe the entire body with the two eyeball tentacles at the front end, and the hardening of the cortex also dulls the sensation on the surface of the body, although there are two small tentacles dedicated to sensing the fluctuations of the water current, but like the eyes, they cannot take care of the whole body.
The Devourer swam along the carrier's cortex to the back of the carrier, and immediately saw the cause of the incident, close to the location of the carrier's spout, there was a strange creature attached to the body, this thing's body looked like a combination of five thick and flat tentacles, it was attached to the carrier's cortex, and Lin could feel that the part of the cortex cells it was attached to was disappearing.
'Starfish'.
The name wasn't given by Lynn herself, but came to her mind, and Lynn felt like it was a good fit for the creature.
Is this starfish eating the cells of the cortex? But why doesn't Lynn feel pain?
Maybe the creature has some way to make the cells not feel pain, so as to achieve the purpose of 'stealing food', but Lin can still feel the cells disappearing, so it can be said that the creature's plan has failed.
Thinking about Lynn unleashing a large number of Devourers, allowing them to attack.
This 'starfish', which is about ten times larger than a devourer, still looks soft on the surface and can move at will, which means that it does not have a hard shell and should be able to deal with it lightly.
The Devourers bit down on each of the starfish's five tentacles, then stepped back forcefully, hoping to pull the starfish off its cortex.
The starfish was clinging to the carrier, unable to pull it down, no matter how hard the Devourers tried, and the combination of cone-shaped cells in the Devourer's mouth could not scratch its skin.
The starfish's skin looks soft and can move freely, but in fact the surface of the skin is very hard, which seems to exert the 'flexible' characteristic very strongly, and there are many small spike-like protrusions on the skin, which undoubtedly makes it more difficult for the devourer to bite it.
What a nuisance stuff.
If it weren't for Lynn's hammer-shaped tentacles not reaching this position, it would have been easy to knock it out.
However, Lynn is not just one type of phagogue, the cone cells in the original phagocytos' mouth are all monomeric and not very combined, so that they can effectively bite other cells.
Since the Round Shield Worm incident, Linga has increased the number of large phagogues, which are intended to be used against other multicellular organisms, and some of the phagogens have been specialized, and Lin has assembled many curved and long, sharp-ended hardened structures in their mouths, called 'giant tusks', which have much larger teeth in their mouths than the previous phagogues, so they are not suitable for biting single cells, but they are very suitable for dealing with such multicellular organisms.
Lin asked the ordinary Devourer to get out of the way and let the Giant Tooth Devourer attack the starfish, the Giant Tooth Devourer bit on the tentacles of the starfish, and the huge fangs full of fangs suddenly pierced into the tentacles of the starfish under the pressure of the muscles all over the body, and then Lin immediately let the Giant Tooth Devourer loosen his mouth, and the starfish's cells poured out of the wound in large numbers.
Lynn told the Devourers to quickly pick up the cells, and then together they rushed to the starfish's wounds, tearing through the soft structures of its exposed body.
The starfish would not continue to hold on to the aircraft carrier at this time, its injured tentacles were disconnected, and the body of the starfish with only four horns left fell off the skin of the aircraft carrier in a flash, and swam into the distance by a stream of water that happened to flow.
Cut off a part of the body and run away? It's naïve.
What is naivety? Although the word was inexplicable, it didn't stop Lin from letting the Tooth Devourers catch up with the starfish and tear it to shreds.
After the starfish left, Lin also saw her injured cortex, the starfish originally held a position as if it had been bitten off, and a large piece was missing, but it was possible to create this kind of wound but make the other party not feel pain? It seems that it is necessary to study this starfish carefully.
Although torn, the key parts were preserved, so it was still possible to study, and Lynn found that the creature had a large number of small tentacles beneath its tentacles, which ended in a semicircular hollow, as if it was glued to the carrier's cortex.
Is this a suction cup? It seems to be able to generate a lot of power, so that Lynn's group of devourers can't tear it off the skin, which is valuable for research.
Starfish have a hard shell under the skin, a non-cellular structure similar to the shell of a round shield worm, but softer.
However, Lynn was most concerned about the starfish's mouth, which was supposed to be a hole in the center of the five antennae, and there was a spike-like structure around the hole, which was quite similar to the mouth of the round shield worm, but most importantly, there was a small hole at the end of these curved spines, and Lin had the cells squeeze into the small hole to explore, and found that this hole had been connected to an area that looked like a sac inside the starfish.
The pouch is made up of a type of yellow cell that secretes a fluid that, when on contact with the cell, causes the cell to enter a strange state, where it becomes immobile and loses any sensation.
Not all of the starfish's curved teeth have holes attached to the pouches, and some of them have no holes in them, presumably purely to dig out the cells that have lost sensation and eat them.
This is a very powerful structure, piercing the opponent's skin with spikes and infusing the destructive liquid? Lynn seems to have seen certain cells have this ability before, but why didn't it think of making a similar multicellular combination?
Although the Acid Injector evolved from a cone cell, its spout is not hard or pointed, so Lynn may not have thought of this ability.
But now Lynn understands that she can make a similar combination.
In addition, the starfish also has blood vessels in its body, but Lin didn't find where the heart was, it may have been bitten by the devourer, and the blood vessels themselves and the cells inside have no ability to transfuse water, so the starfish should have a heart.
However, Lynn found something that resembled the heart, it was made up of a bunch of unusual cells, which were elongated and had many tentacles on the body, which were grouped together to form a small oval object, and were connected to it by tubes that spread throughout the body like blood vessels.
But what the hell are these pipes doing with no nutrients, there's nothing in them, and the elliptical object in the center doesn't move in any way?
'Ganglia'? The word popped into Lynn's thoughts, and though she didn't understand it yet, Lynn had a feeling that it was a thing that didn't serve it anything.
In addition, there are some strange combinations, such as a sac containing a large number of round white cells, this sac has a hollow tentacle attached to the outside of the skin, as if it is used to eject these cells, and there are some reticular structures, a large number of small tentacles put together, and the structure of thick hollow tentacles, which is very complex.
Most of the structures Lin didn't know what they were used for, but they didn't expect this starfish to be so small, but it was so much more complex than the larger phyllomorphs, and it was estimated that the round shield worm was also a very complex creature, but it was unfortunately destroyed by the virus.
But Lin doesn't care so much, she can beat them, that's the most important thing.
Lin only absorbs useful knowledge, and if she doesn't understand, she doesn't care about it, just eat it all.
While Lynn was studying the starfish, the 'transporters' had already transported the fat cells to the location of the Roundshield worm and were now working to resurrect them.
Lin believes that it will not be long before it will evolve again to the top of the Being.
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