Chapter XXVIII
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By the time the night had passed, there was nothing left of the hookworm's remains, and Lynn had completely converted it into body nutrients.
However, I feel that when I attack with a 'blast bomb', although it is powerful, it seems to be a bit wasteful, and if I blow it up, I can't recover it, so next time I'll use a class that doesn't self-detonate.
Think about it next time, now Lynn is most concerned about the situation below, and it doesn't see clearly until daylight.
The lava that erupted before was now gray-black, and it remained frozen at the bottom of the ocean in the shape of its previous diffusion flow, much like what Lynn had seen in the trench before.
Why does lava solidify?
Because it's cold, right? The temperature in the water is very low, and since the low temperature makes the water hard, it also makes the lava hard.
It's a lot of fun.
Leviathan swam slowly above the solidified lava flow, and Lynn touched the black surface of the lava flow with her tentacles, but felt no heat.
Is it completely cold? As if it was fake before it warmed up the whole waters.
'False'?
What a weird word, as if to mean that things are not necessarily what they feel...... Where exactly do these words come from? It's not the first time Lynn has doubted this question, but she hasn't gotten an answer.
So it turned its attention back again.
Although the lava caused great damage and killed many creatures, many more creatures were attracted to it, and a large number of single-celled creatures came here as fast as they could, burrowing into the cracks in the solidified lava, seemingly looking for something to eat.
Could it be that there is a similar edible substance in the trench smoke column here?
Curious, Lynn released the Collector to burrow into the lava rift, and sure enough, found edible material inside.
Presumably, this place will attract a lot of creatures, and this place needs to be occupied.
Thinking about it, Lynn put a base seed in this location.
Let's take a look at that place.
Leviathan swam to the mouth of the lava eruption, where the water was filled with exotic debris and bubbles that, if inhaled, would cause the cells that came into contact with the gas to die.
Toxic Gases......
Perhaps useful, Lynn could store these gases in the air sacs of the gas reservoir, as long as the cells were not inhaled.
If they are injected into other organisms, they will not be able to absorb them controllably, because they will not be able to command every cell perfectly.
Further down the cave has been sealed with solidified lava, so I wonder if there will be any more lava spews.
This place is a bit dangerous, and it is indeed correct to put a base here to observe, and maybe there will be another outbreak in the future.
So, it's time to leave......
As the Leviathan swam out of the hole, it suddenly saw some large multicellular organisms swimming in this direction from a high place.
It's a hookworm.
There were three of them, and they were apparently not interested in the single-celled creatures floating around, and instead swam towards the Leviathan from the start, they did not attack directly, but circled around.
Hookworms have brains and are much larger than flatworms, but if you follow the proportions, they should be smaller hookworms.
They swim quickly in the water with their leaf-like appendages on their sides, which makes them very nimble even when covering their carapaces, and it is estimated that there will be some losses when dealing with three at a time.
That's good.
Lynn inhales the gas reservoirs and swims towards the hookworms.
These hookworms did not eat the trap as stupidly as the last one, and when they saw the poisonous gas reservoir, they all ducked to the side.
Intelligence is noticeably different from that of night...... Or is it a difference between individuals?
Lynn then created a small sphere, only a hundred cells in size, invisible to hookworms, with an outer layer of eyeballs, a hollow syringe and a tentacle that was extremely sensitive to vibrations.
It's called the 'Infection Ball', which can swim with a spray of water, which is a method of infection that Lin Xin came up with, mainly targeting brained creatures, and he wants to see what effect the virus can do to the brains of various creatures.
The bulb of infection slowly swam closer to one of the hookworms, closer to its gills, which had some small tentacles like 'filters', but they only stayed there passively to intercept them, rather than purposefully catching intruders, and Lynn could easily dodge these filters and follow the hookworm's oxygen system into the blood vessels.
The hookworm's brain is in the center of the body, and the infection ball is only in one of the countless blood vessels, and Lynn has no idea where it is, but relying on the tentacles of the infection ball, it can sense the brain signal and swim in the direction of the brain.
The hookworm's blood vessels are filled with all kinds of cells and various nutrients, waste materials and other things, including immune cells, and Lynn must now avoid the immune cells and enter the hookworm's brain to inject the virus into the brain cells.
Immune cells attack an invading object, but the bulb of infection is wrapped in a hard shell, and it moves much faster than the cell, and this blood vessel just flows downstream, so it didn't take much effort for Lin to leave the besieging immune cells behind.
The feeling ahead was getting stronger, and Lynn thought it should have reached her brain.
Next, it inserts the injection port of the infected bulb into the wall of the blood vessel, injecting all the virus in the body into it.
And then the infect ball is useless? No, its mission is not over, the bulb inserts the injection port into the wall of the blood vessel to fix itself from being washed away by the bloodstream, and at the same time, its shell outside the body fades, and the cells inside it begin to divide until it is large enough to block the entire blood vessel, and then secretes chitin, and completely plugs the blood vessel with a hard shell.
This is mainly done to block the immune cells, which may have a way to break the blockage sooner or later, but by then the virus has already divided in large numbers.
Let's just wait and see the interesting things.
The three hookworms did not attack the Leviathan because of the poison gas, but kept swimming nearby, and Lynn kept an eye on the hookworm that had been infected, watching it change......
At first, nothing changed, but after a little time, its behavior changed significantly, first its body began to twitch a little, and then its speed and movements became much faster, but its movements were no longer regular, but it seemed to be crazy.
It seems that 'crazy' is the word used to describe when a creature with a brain can't control itself.
The infected hookworm makes a strange move, it rushes and attacks its nearby kind, it grabs its companion's tail with its thick curved forelimbs, and tears it off with force in an instant.
The hookworm's muscles don't have the strength to tear off the tail attached to the carapace, but is it possible that the strength has increased after infection?
The torn hookworm had no way to continue swimming, it could only twist its body and sink to the bottom, while the other one swam quickly and fled.
The infected hookworm spun around the water a few times and then swam quickly in the other direction.
Lynn thought it would have hit rocks or something, but it was funny, it didn't seem like the virus had harmed its brain cells, otherwise it would have been dead by now.
The virus has driven it crazy, and I wonder how long it can live. Viruses are such an interesting thing.
Leviathan swam close to the struggling hookworm sunk on the solidified lava and stretched out its tentacles to roll it up.
Can 100 cells be exchanged for one? It feels good, viruses are very valuable for research.
The research is really an interesting thing, not only the virus, but now Lin suddenly found that the research on the base of the sea covering green cells has also progressed.
After the regulation and synthesis of the 'pigments' in the cells, they are already able to make green color.
But...... The light is green, and it doesn't seem to be of much use.
But Lin already knows how to adjust the 'pigment'.
As if chitins were adjusted, they are made up of a substance in the body of the cell, which is capable of producing a variety of different colors if controlled.
If needed, Lynn is able to sense a variety of different substances in the cell, so it can adjust to this substance as well.
This seems to be called ......'taste'?
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