Chapter 18 Preparations for Landing
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The 'glandular cells' had already evolved, and as the water level dropped, Lynn had them divide quickly and combine into the cortex to begin making their own carapace.
Lin found that the food she usually ate, including various wild cells or other multicellular organisms, contained substances that could make carapaces, and she didn't have to look for materials in rock cracks.
These substances were originally considered waste, and Lynn would squeeze the remaining waste from digestion to the surface of the cortex and discharge it, but it seems that it has to be left behind.
There are many kinds of substances that can form shells, but because it is urgent now, Lin randomly chose one to combine.
The water level lowers very slowly, and Lynn's cells move the opposite, they will cover the cortex with a white chitin, although not as strong as other hard-shell creatures, but it is very good enough to protect against light, because it is not composed of living cells, and no matter how much UV light shines, it will not make Lynn feel painful.
The chitin, which will slowly harden after being secreted, makes the aircraft carrier cover the whole body with the same chitin, as for the tentacles for swimming and the tentacles of the giant hammer, Lin makes them retract into the aircraft carrier, Lin does not want to add shells to the tentacles, which will greatly reduce flexibility.
By the time it was done, Lynn had no pain at all, and the carapace was very effective at protecting against UV damage.
But now that the water is still falling, Lynn is not in danger yet, and she doesn't want to be completely exposed to the water, so she doesn't know what will happen.
As the water level decreases, the temperature becomes higher and higher, probably because of the crystals that absorb the heat from the light that affects the waters.
Flatworms swim around the area, preying on wild cells in the water that have been killed by ultraviolet rays, which used to hide in the crevices of the rocks, and as the water temperature rises, the cells swim out and become food for the flatworms.
Lynn looked at them, and an idea popped into her mind.
Won't it ...... This annular area was made by flatworms?
Originally, Lin was a little suspicious, ordinary stones could not form such a neat shape, there must be something wrong in it.
Thinking about it, Lin immediately activated the water spout behind the aircraft carrier and rushed to a boulder in front of her!
Countless stones collapsed under the impact of the aircraft carrier, and the boulder was directly knocked out of a huge depression by Lin.
Sure enough, yes.
Flatworms can use slime to stick sand grains to their bodies, and they can also use slime to combine other things, these boulders are actually made of countless small pieces of stone!
Lynn didn't look closely at first, but now she knew that getting out was actually quite easy.
Then, Lynn asked the Guardian to come, and with its arthropods, it easily dug a hole in the boulder that was large enough for the carrier to pass through Guò.
Lynn managed to escape, but fortunately the water had not been lowered to the point where the carrier could not move.
After exiting the boulder circle, Lynn saw a distinctly downward slope leading directly into deeper water.
It seems that he accidentally came to this position very close to the surface of the water in the dark night.
The water is high at night and low during the day, and the flatworms are supposed to make these boulder circles at night.
Perhaps they made the zuò bouldering circle to keep predators away, or perhaps to allow the crystals to heat up easily, or to design a trap for large creatures like Lynn to enter and then be shot alive by ultraviolet rays so that they would have plenty of food.
…… The third reason seems unlikely.
Lynn slowly shook her tentacles and swam down the slope to the deep water, feeling that the trip had been rewarding, and that if it hadn't been for this, Lynn herself might never have tried to evolve the carapace.
The carapace is a rather peculiar thing, and Lynn found that the original food contained many kinds of substances that could make up the shell, which were collectively called 'chitiny' by Lynn and changed the way the chitinite was combined, and Lynn was able to change the hardness, toughness, hardening time after secretion, and many other different effects.
This aspect is quite complicated, and Lynn still needs to be studied, but after a successful combination, it will be much simpler in the future.
It turned out that Lynn's hammer also contained chitin, and at that time it was just a combination of hardened cells, and Lynn didn't know how to separate the shell from the cell.
Successful isolation of cells and shells now increases a lot of stiffness without exposing the cells to direct attack.
As she thought about it, Lin had swam back to the deep sandy area, and the cold water and dark light made Lin feel at ease again.
But Lynn won't give up like that, she will go back and evolve a perfect way to fight UV rays.
Now, let's eat more first.
During this trip, Lynn saw the abundant biological population around her, and she no longer had to worry about food shortages.
Lynn observed the surrounding sand, which was home to a fair amount of various creatures, including Lynn's familiar phyllomorphs, as well as some creatures she had never seen before.
The creatures that have never been seen come in all shapes, but they all have one thing in common...... It's small.
Lynn began unleashing Devourers to hunt down these creatures, while the Carrier and Guardian were responsible for dealing with larger ones, such as the Phyloid Worms, and more.
Lin devoured these creatures while increasing the shell of the aircraft carrier, Lin found a lot of problems during this period, the thicker the shell, the greater the burden on the aircraft carrier, no wonder the round shield worm with a thick shell can only crawl on the ground.
Moreover, if the hard shell is covered all over the body, the hard shell itself cannot be enlarged with the aircraft carrier, which is also quite troublesome......
How do creatures like leaf worms or round shield worms keep their carapace and body growing at the same time?
In addition, it is also troublesome for the discharge of waste materials.
When the cells digest food, they always produce something that cannot be digested, which will allow it to pass through the nutrient exchange system of the cells and eventually send it to the cortex and discharge it into the water, but it is difficult to squeeze it out when the shell is covered.
In the end, Lynn decided to cover the carapace only on top of the carrier, using the original combination of hardened cells underneath, and the tentacles not covering any carapace to maintain flexibility.
Of course, this is for the aircraft carrier itself, and for the new class, Lynn can make a terrible thing with full armor.
But Lin had only strengthened the green cell breeder by adding two layers of openable shells on either side of its transparent center, controlled by internal muscle connections.
As for other combinations with armor...... Let's wait until night.
In this way, Lynn hunted and fed on the creatures on the beach, and waited slowly, until when night approached, Lynn swam again towards the place before.
Lynn calls it 'shallow', which means a place close to the water.
Although it was not yet completely dark, Lynn had already raised the lantern, and it swam across the sand, through the rocky areas, and soon saw the boulders in a ring again.
One of the boulders had been knocked out of a hole by Lynn, and it could now be seen that the flatworms were repairing it, collecting sand and debris from around it to fill in the gap.
It seems that the repair work is progressing quite slowly, and it has been less than half of the day.
Now, I'm afraid they'll never be repaired.
Lynn rushed forward, smashing the hole it was repairing to pieces, and it unleashed a mass of Devourers to hunt down the flatworms around it.
The flatworms moved much slower as the day receded and the water became cold, and the devourer was able to capture them easily.
Lynn's aircraft carrier and guardians completely destroyed the entire boulder ring around it, and the flatworms fled into the distance.
Instead of chasing it, Lynn stopped the aircraft carrier near a piece of crystal, and at the same time began to study a new combination in her thoughts.
Lynn wanted to create a new combination of cells, which needed to be resistant to ultraviolet rays and have a sturdy carapace, and Lynn wanted to use the whole organism for a special project.
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