Chapter 16: Strange Crystals and Shoals
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Is that...... Dark Bug?
Lin discovers that chasing the arthropod is another dark worm, a little smaller than the one Lynn had just killed.
The arthropod quickly ran to Lynn's location, luring the dark worm chasing it to Lynn as well.
The aircraft carrier's giant hammer rose and fell instantly, and the dark worm was directly hit in the head by Lin, killing it with one blow.
The arthropods escaped, but Lynn was given more food.
That's a lot of fun.
Lin looked in the direction the arthropod had fled, and it occurred to her that she might be able to use it to catch more dark bugs.
…… Forget it, it seems that it is difficult to actually operate.
But...... I didn't expect so many surprises on a dark night.
Lin asked the Devourer to begin to decompose the Dark Worms, these creatures are real worms, there is no hard shell, the Devourer can easily tear off large pieces of cell structures on them, and the two Dark Worms are quickly devoured, so that the nutrients that were previously consumed in the water, jellyfish, and zuò lanterns have been replenished, and there is a lot more.
After eating, Lynn continued on her way, and eventually Lynn found the Guardian in a bunker and finally managed to meet up.
So now, where to go?
Do you want to keep catching the Dark Bug? Or is it ......
Lynn already had quite a few fat stores, and it didn't seem to make much sense to pursue food now, maybe she should look around in the dark of night, and maybe there might be something more interesting to discover.
The easy victory over the Dark Bug made Lynn complacent, and the sense of crisis in her thoughts was replaced by curiosity and excitement, even though the lantern only shone within the range of two aircraft carriers, Lynn still began this dark journey.
Lynn casually found a direction and began to move, the light of the lantern flickering in the darkness, tiny groups of organisms appearing and disappearing at the edge of the light, some unicellular, some multicellular, but difficult to see.
Lynn found herself in a strange area, where there were no foliomorphs, no familiar scenery, and even the sand beneath her was slowly becoming so large that it could be called a 'stone'.
I've never been to this place before.
Lynn had stepped out of the sand, where thick rocks had replaced gravel, and in the cracks in the rocks had gathered many single-celled organisms, as well as a small jellyfish.
The baby jellyfish were about the size of the Devourer, and Lynn could easily get the Guardian to reach into the crack and clamp them.
But Lynn just looked at it and threw it away, jellyfish were a very inexpensive creature, their bodies looked bulging and large, but they actually only had a few thin layers of skin, and they had to risk being stabbed by a stinger, a creature that was completely unworthy of eating.
As Lynn moved on, it noticed that the rocks were getting bigger and bigger, and there was even a row of very tall boulders in front of it.
Lynn swam past the boulder, and suddenly, its lantern shone on something strange.
The object was about the size of an aircraft carrier, with a surface as clear and shiny as ice crystals, and many diamond-shaped protrusions.
It wasn't ice, because it wasn't cold to the touch, and then Lynn knocked it and found that it was much harder than ice, which was probably something that could be described as 'crystalline'.
Lynn was pretty sure it had seen something similar before.
Long ago......
That's right...... Observer.
The only single cell that possesses vision, although Lin didn't use it after she was able to synthesize the eyeball, it still remains in Lynn's aircraft carrier, and there is an identical crystal in the observer's body.
The crystals in the observer's body are quite small, but if you look closely, you can see the similarities between the two.
It is this crystallization that allows the observer to gain vision.
But what's so special about this thing? Why do you allow the observer to have vision?
Lynn swung the hammer again, slamming it into the crystalline surface, scattering tiny debris under the blow, and Lynn told the Devourer to catch the debris and bring it back to the carrier.
Lynn had the devourer crush the debris into smaller pieces, small enough for a single cell to swallow, and Lynn intended to have the basal cells eat the debris and then repeat the instructions at the time: "Get the light, see the qiē around you." "Let's see if they can get vision.
…… It didn't work, and the basal cells that swallowed the crystals didn't react at all.
Why?
Although a long time has passed, Lynn still remembers the original situation, and it is still very clear.
It does exactly what it was supposed to do, but why doesn't it work? The only explanation is that although this crystal looks similar, it is actually not the same as the one swallowed by the observer.
Lynn was a little disappointed, but it wasn't a big deal, and she quickly ignored the matter and moved on around the crystal.
Lynn found a number of these crystals in her surroundings, most of them standing in rocks of different sizes, but they seemed to be no different from the surrounding rocks, and they were not taken seriously by nearby creatures.
At this time, the surrounding darkness has slowly faded, and the light of the lantern has become less noticeable, which means that the day is coming.
The night seems to last a little shorter than the day...... Lin made a note of the duration of the night and day, and she would be prepared for the next time.
As the surroundings became brighter, Lynn could visibly feel the water slowly begin to warm, and it took the lantern into the aircraft carrier's body and released the 'feeding circle' that nurtured the green cells, while the various creatures on the surrounding rocks began to hide in the crevices, and it seemed that they only acted and hunted in the dark.
At this moment, some small creatures did the opposite, burrowing out of the cracks in the rocks and swimming in the brightened waters.
Lynn found the creatures to be small but peculiar, shaped like leafworms, but able to swing their flat bodies and swim in the water.
Lynn called them 'flatworms' and released the Devourer to catch a few of them, these creatures have a similar structure to the dark worm, but above their esophagus, there is a hard, round structure that connects the head and tail, and it is unknown what it is used for.
In addition, they had a rift on each side of their body, and the rift was filled with many soft tentacles that could intercept and absorb the oxygen bubbles that floated by, which seemed to be very useful, and Lynn considered whether she should make one like one.
When daylight is fully reached, the surrounding crystals seem to absorb the light and begin to become quite dazzling. I saw that the flatworms swimming out of the cracks in the stone gathered towards these crystals and attached their flattened bodies to the crystals.
What are they doing?
Curiously, Lin swam over and touched the surface of the crystals with her tentacles, and found that the crystals had become very warm, and the flatworms had stuck to them, could it be to raise the temperature of the body?
Interesting, isn't it?
Lin has experienced many frozen relationships, and is not afraid of cold, even in extreme cold, they can move quickly, and these flatworms should have been in the dark for a long time, and their movements are very slow, and after heating on the crystals, they will move quite quickly.
They will attack Lynn's enclosure, but they don't want to eat Lynn's enclosure, but they want to attack the green cells inside, but the flatworms have no teeth in their mouths, and they can't bite through the transparent skin of the enclosure.
Lynn immediately unleashed a large number of Devourers and began to hunt down the flatworms that were still attached to the crystals and their bodies were not fully warmed, and asked some of the Devourers to guard the enclosure from attack.
Flatworms are about the size of the Devourer, but they swim faster than the Devourer when fully heated, and they have eyes that Lynn must catch before they are fully heated.
After a long hunt, Lynn had eaten hundreds of flatworms, but there were still many more around, and they were almost warmed up, and it seemed difficult to catch them.
Lynn was about to dispatch the injectors, but the flatworms suddenly made a strange move, and they swam quickly in one direction, as if they were running away from something, and in a moment they were all gone.
The direction in which the flatworm fled was the direction in which Lin had come, and when Lin was wondering, a strange pain suddenly came to her thoughts.
This sensation can be felt in the skin of the aircraft carrier, as well as in the surrounding phagogue cortex, and Lynn remembers this feeling very similar to the feeling of high temperature and damaged cells.
The guardian doesn't feel it, it must be a hard shell.
The pain came from above, and Lin looked up, and through the water, she saw the endless light that belonged to the gas realm.
It turns out that it is so bright on the water during the day...... Unlike the starry sky at night, it was a pure light, bright ...... Makes Lynn feel terrified.
…… Water?
When did the surface of the water get so close to the seabed?
It was only then that Lynn realized that the surface of the water did not know when it was so close to the aircraft carrier, so the ultraviolet rays seemed to penetrate the surface of the water, injuring Lynn's cortex, and it immediately retracted all the devourers and accelerated to swim in the direction of the attack.
However, in front of Lynn, a boulder suddenly appeared in the way of it.
This is...... The boulder you came across? Lynn didn't care at the time, but now the stones are above the water! ……………………………………………………………………………… Thank you ~ Queen SM ~ big me into ~ tipping ~