Chapter 20 Air Storage and the Immune System
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The journey on land was not without meaning, and although there was hardly anything on land worth reminiscing about, it gained some useful knowledge.
Take air, for example.
Lynn had long since discovered that the air in the water would float upwards, and Lynn had not paid much attention to this until now, why did they go up instead of down? Can they defy gravity?
It's not like that, it's just that the air is lighter than water, so they are squeezed out by the water, so the land at high ground is all air.
Now Lynn has slowed down the carrier by covering the carapace, and she is not swimming as nimble as before.
But...... What happens if you add air?
Lynn created an oval-shaped sac-shaped composition called an air sac inside the carrier, which was filled with oxygen, which made the carrier much lighter, even if it was covered in armor.
The air sac has two small tubes, one is connected to the blood vessels, which can oxygenate the blood vessels, and the other sticks out of the small hole in the cortical carapace, this tube is usually closed, and when Lin floats to the surface, it can control the expansion of the air bag to inhale.
Lynn also created a small assemblage of cells, called the Air Reservoir, which looks like a small air sac swimming outside the body, relying on the small tentacles around the body to swim and suck up small bubbles in the water with hollow tentacles.
The gas reservoir also has a hard shell on the outside of the body, and can swallow grains of sand to balance the weight of the body.
When the aircraft carrier is fully covered with a hard shell, oxygen intake becomes more difficult, and when the air reservoir is full of oxygen, it can return to the aircraft carrier to release it, and it can also directly inflate the air bag when Lynn does not want to float to the surface.
However, the current situation is that although Lin has added an air bag, she has not added a full-body shell, because the reserve of chitinous material is completely insufficient.
At the same time, Lin added an air bag to the guardian's shell, but even then it failed to float, only a 'levitating' Cheng dù.
In addition, Lynn has covered the inner layer of the Guardian's hollow tail with a large number of blasters and acid-infused ones, which were originally empty and are now used to dissolve and combine various carapaces.
The combined chitins are then taken out by a new class called the 'Painters' and transported to the carriers, and the Painters can also directly coat the chitins in various places to form carapaces.
The Guardian is now more like a factory that makes carapaces.
Lynn was still thinking about attacking with gas, but she didn't have any good ideas right now.
The carrier swam slowly with its escort, and Lynn was observing her surroundings, and the sandy beaches at this depth were full of single cells, whether in the sand or elsewhere, and the life here was so vibrant, in stark contrast to the barren land.
There seem to be a lot more single cells than there used to be, and there was no such thing as being everywhere in the water before, so there are many creatures that are motionless in the water, waiting for the cells to float over and feed them.
As she thought so, Lynn spotted multicellular organisms that looked like tubes stuck in the sand, with tentacle-like bodies sticking out of the tubes to capture the single cells floating around.
It's called a 'tube worm'.
Sensing Lynn's approach, its soft tentacles instantly retracted into the tube below, and Lynn knocked on the tube where the tube worm was hiding, and found that it was hard, and it must have been made of chitin.
Lynn's amount of chitin, which is extracted from food, is at least 1% or even non-chitin in some non-shelled creatures, and if she wants to quickly make a set of armor, she must go into the gravel to obtain raw materials or attack those with shells, and this tubeworm is an ideal target.
The next moment, Lynn's hammer slammed into the tube worm's shell.
The tubeworm is very thin and not very hard, and the shell is only beaten once, and cracks appear.
Lynn didn't care if the other person's shell was hard or not, because it dissolved and reconstituted the chitin, adjusting the carapace to her ideal hardness.
Click......
The tube worm's shell shattered under Lynn's blow, revealing the soft organs inside.
Next, it's the work of the Devourers, who bring back the crumbs of their shells to Lynn, tearing the tubeworm's soft body to shreds and recycling nutrients and chitin.
The structure inside the tube worm is quite simple, and Lin is not even interested in researching.
The small chitins were sent directly to the guardians to dissolve and reassemble, and Lynn's carrier turned to attack the nearby tubeworms.
It would take about ten tube worms to make a carapace that would cover the entire aircraft carrier.
The tentacle of the aircraft carrier is not going to be covered, that will affect the flexibility too much.
When Lin hit the next tube worm, the tube worm didn't retract, but twisted its body and squirted out a large amount of cyan liquid.
These liquids are made up of countless tiny particles, which are unmistakably revealed under Lynn's peculiar eyeballs.
…… Virus?
The fluid contains a large amount of filovirus and a small amount of tubeworm cells.
Do tube worms release viruses to attack? No, it could be that this tubeworm is infected with a virus.
In today's environment, viruses are actually not common, although they can destroy miè cells, but the cells will also kill the virus in turn, and in an environment with a large number of cells, the virus is suppressed.
Only individual multicellular organisms like this tubeworm will cause a large-scale outbreak of the virus, after all, they can eat whatever they come over, and it is not surprising that they can eat the virus.
Lynn's aircraft carrier never directly obtains nutrients, no matter what it is, it is transported back by other arms, so there is almost no possibility that the aircraft carrier will be invaded by the virus, and Lin has already thought of a good way to deal with the virus.
Lynn would have the gas reservoirs take turns moving outside to get oxygen, so there would always be some gas reservoirs dangling around the carrier, and some viruses would float in with the air reservoir's inhalation tentacles and burrow into the cells lining the tentacles.
The virus burrowed into the cell, and Lynn could feel it immediately, so she immediately covered the cell's body with a kind of chitin, which hardened rapidly, and sealed it completely before the virus divided.
Finally, the hardened cells are removed, and it is easily solved.
In addition to this, it is also a good idea to let the cells die immediately, as the virus seems to only be able to multiply within living cells.
Lynn enlarged the vascular structure and allowed the glandular cells to swim in it, so that they could deliver chitins to the whole body at any time, so that cells anywhere could quickly absorb chitins and harden, which could effectively isolate viruses or other small organisms from invading.
Ignoring the virus's attack, Lynn easily destroyed the tube worm completely and recovered it without waste.
Next......
Lynn was about to attack the other tube worms when suddenly an urgent signal entered its thoughts, and the escort lying behind the carrier was attacked.
Lynn felt the Guardian being dragged by a force far greater than itself, and when the carrier turned around, all she saw was a bunker.
Pulled into the sand by some creature?
Lynn regretted that she hadn't put eyes on the Guardian, and now she could only accept that the Guardian was being held down by that force, and could not get out no matter how hard she struggled.
It should be a multicellular creature that is about or more powerful than the Round Shield Worm, otherwise it wouldn't be so easy to pull the Guardian down.
Do you want to try to dig it out?
The Guardian was not dragged any deeper, and should still be in a shallow position.
Lynn hesitated, no matter what, it was a priority for the safety of the aircraft carrier.
But...... It seems a shame to lose the Guardian.
Eventually, Lynn approached the bunker and dug up in the center with the carrier's tentacles, and after removing some of the sand, Lynn was able to see the body of the Guardian.
The second half of the Guardian's body was sandwiched between two layers of huge disc-shaped hard shells, and under the intense pressure, Lin could feel the Guardian's body almost break off.
Lin remembered that there were many of these creatures in the past, and their shells were very hard, but Lin had never seen them move, could it be that they were very powerful predators?
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