Chapter 38 Eating too much barbecue is not good for your health

The evolution of the moss gave Lynn hope of restoring the glittering woodland, but only one moss remained.

This moss alone cannot reproduce, but Lin can't find more live moss, and ordinary plants can grow new ones by cutting off a section, or can grow a new seedling near the main body to reproduce, but this moss doesn't seem to have this ability, which makes Lin feel a little strange......

However, it doesn't matter if you don't have moss, you just need to twist the tree, like the trees of the Dark Plains, don't they all grow well without moss?

Lin then used the same method to experiment with the Twisted Tree, allowing the Twisted Tree to evolve immune cells, and because there was no way to test it underground, she tried it on the ground.

The twisted trees of the Glittering Glades were almost burned to the ground, but the trees in the Dark Plains were still fine, and in the process of realization, Lin discovered that they had already evolved immune cells.

The trees of the Dark Plains are completely untouched by fungi or flames, and they seem to be much more powerful than those in the Glittering Glades.

Aren't they of the same kind?

Lynn rarely discerns the type of plant, but the trees in the Dark Plains are indeed a little different, and in that case, the threat of fungi should have been removed, right......?

Next, Leviathan returned to the base, but there was always a strange feeling as he looked at the charred forest.

Either way, we have to keep observing.

Upon returning to base, the Head Worm shouted to the Leviathan, "Fire, food!" ”

The head worm especially likes food that has been roasted by the flames, according to its thoughts, it is 'delicious', and the last time Lin brought some back to the base to feed it, it completely liked it.

However, Lynn didn't bring food this time, so it kept calling out these two words, and kept following Leviathan, and after Lynn asked some of the troops to go to the charred woodland to dig up some charred arthropods for it to eat, it stopped calling.

For the rest of the day, Lynn continued to live her old life. Stretching the green carpet. Looking at the changes in the scorched woodland, there are many creatures digging barbecue every day and night, and the barbecue seems to be very tasty for them, and the head worm is also one of them, but it can't dig it by itself, so it has to let Lin dig it.

Lynn had been researching the scorched woodlands, so it didn't matter if she brought some along the way.

But. There was always a bad feeling in Lynn's thoughts, because after all this time, the charred woodland was still the same, and since the ashes could be used as food, there should be plants growing up.

Lynn discovered that plants not only absorb light for nutrients, but they also use their roots to absorb nutrients from the soil. So since most of the ashes are plant detritus, they can absorb them as well.

However, nothing has grown in this charred woodland......

Already in the ashes, Lynn found many twisted tree pupps, which if they were plants, they should be called 'seeds', surrounded by a sturdy hard shell, unaffected by the flames. It's all alive inside. However, these seeds did not grow. They don't grow when they're soaked in water or in the ashes, and Lynn doesn't know what's going on......

As the days and nights passed, the blackened twisted trees could not resist the wind and sand blowing from the direction of the desert, and the endless sand and dust slowly covered the blackened woodland, and the originally beautiful glittering jungle was now a strange place that was half black and half sand, and the creatures who were always digging for barbecue food began to come here very little.

The river between the two woodlands also began to narrow and flowed less.

"Dust, cracking, death." The head worm lay on its stomach next to the cave at the base, gnawing on a charred arthropod leg as it looked at the charred woodland.

Although it seems to be eating happily, its emotions are in a state of agitation.

Indeed, it may not be good to go on like this, the sand and dust will flood this woodland, then the whole glittering woodland will disappear, and they will no longer be able to regenerate, although the twisted jungle is still very large, but it is always a pity to miss this glowing forest belt.

"Goo......!" The head worm suddenly let out a strange cry, which Lynn hadn't heard, but it was probably not a word, but a cry of pain.

Leviathan is also next to the head worm, Lin saw an extra spherical protrusion on the back of the head worm, in fact, Lin had noticed it a long time ago, and began to think that it was something she looked like and didn't care, but recently it seems to be getting bigger and bigger, in this case it may squeeze the organ, but because it is all brain, it is possible to squeeze the brain.

Lynn thinks this strange phenomenon should be studied and why it grows such protrusions for no apparent reason.

Leviathan brought the head worm back to the base, and the head worm seemed to be very painful, so it didn't object at all, in fact, it didn't like Lin to make all kinds of real things for it in the first place.

Lynn puts a miniature scout into the body of a brain bug, which is usually a multicellular combination, because it is not very afraid of immune cell attacks, so that it can better study the situation in the opponent's body.

This is really ...... It's weird.

Lin found that the newly grown protrusions of the head worm were filled with a large number of cells, and it can be said that the protrusions were almost all composed of such cells.

And these cells have a problematic look, they don't seem to be useful at all.

Generally speaking, every cell in an organism has a purpose, and it is a huge group of division of labor and cooperation, but the cells in this protrusion do not seem to have any effect, that is, a bunch of meaningless cells, just piled up there to absorb nutrients and then grow, forming a ball of flesh, and squeezing other organs, so that it will eventually kill the whole organism, right?

It's really strange, why is this happening?

Lynn asked the Scout to expand the search, and it found that these 'meaningless' cells appeared all over the body of the head bug, and the task of such cells seemed to be to multiply and finally squeeze other normal cells to death.

And Lin found that it seems that it is because the head worm likes to eat burnt food, and there is a substance in the burnt food that makes some of its body cells become so abnormal.

In fact, it is not abnormal, but it is like 'atavism', that is, these cells have become the most primitive form, constantly absorbing nutrients, constantly proliferating, and ignoring anything else.

However, judging from some of the 'primitive cells' that Lynn found in the brain worms, they divide quite slowly, and they will also be recognized and killed by immune cells. If a cell grows into a lump of flesh, it will take more than a year to form a small protrusion on the back of the head worm. But it has only been a dozen days and nights since the head worm started eating barbecue, how could it grow into such a small protrusion so quickly?

It may not be necessary that it will speed up reproduction when it reaches a certain part of the head worm.

Thinking of this, Lin found that some of its troops would also produce some of these cells in their bodies, after all, roasted food was readily available, so Lin also let some collectors eat a lot, but these collectors had very few such cells in their bodies, far from enough to form a meat ball. And Lynn's mind could still command them and restore them to normal functioning.

However, the mind of the brain worm obviously cannot command every cell, even if its brain is that big, so it will be affected.

These cells not only squeeze the organs, but also produce various toxins and waste products due to the digestion of nutrients, and can attack other cells. It will affect the circulatory system in the body of the head worm, and if left unchecked, it may not be long before it dies.

These cells, as if they were no longer part of the creature, had become a new species of their own, multiplying their own army from the body of the head worm.

In that case, let's help it kill these cells.

Handling these protocells is fairly straightforward, and while the immune cells of the brain worm don't easily deal with them, Lynn's scout is different. It has a large number of capabilities that target single cells. It's easy to kill a large chunk of these abnormal cells.

Soon, the protrusion on the back of the head worm disappeared. After Lynn kills those cells, normal cells can grow back quickly.

The brain cells of common organisms do not proliferate, but the brain cells of brain worms do, and this creature is quite special.

After three days and nights had passed, and the head worm had begun to regain its spirits and wander around, Lynn gave it a 'piece of advice': "Fire, food, death." ”

The head worm seemed to understand, and it hadn't eaten the burnt stuff since, but Lynn ate more, and it mainly wanted to study why the scorched material made the cells primitive.

But this study is more difficult, and Lynn thinks that there must be some kind of change in the cell, but Lynn cannot see what is going on inside the cell, even the smallest eyeball, the observer.

In fact, Lynn can't combine eyeballs as small as cells at all, let alone smaller than cells, and ordinary single-celled organisms have no vision at all, only a simple structure that perceives light, similar to a small eyeball.

Only the observer is different, and Lynn has never created a second observer.

There are quite a few secrets not only in the big world, but also in the small world......

The substance produced by the burnt substance that affects the cells seems to be called 'carcinogens', but Lynn thinks the name is not good, so she calls it 'betrayal'.

Well, it feels a lot better, and it seems that Lynn mentions the word 'betrayal' for the first time, as if it refers to something that has departed from the structure it belonged to, and will attack its original belonging or behave in other bad ways.

But Lynn is now more concerned about the bigger changes.

The air currents from the desert were affecting the forest, and the dust they brought with them slowly flooded the entire jungle, and by the thirtieth day and night, the glittering woodland was mostly covered in sand.

It's a pity that this charred forest is gone, but it doesn't have a lot to do with it, but what Lin cares about is that the spread of sand and dust doesn't seem to stop, and they are even spreading towards the Dark Plains.

The river was almost dry, and Lynn tried to clean up the dust, but the sand from the desert was endless, and the twisted trees of the Dark Plains were affected, their bark was stuck with a lot of sand, and Lynn had to send out her troops to sweep away the sand for the green carpet, and the land that the green carpet did not cover was already covered with a thin layer of yellow sand...... (To be continued.) )

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