Recap: Lin defeated crystal microbes with exploding cells and took over a food source.
The destruction of the crystal microbes brought Lin endless wealth.
Lin completely consud the corpses and took over all the food cracks that they had. Lin started to furiously divide and increase in number.
Right now, Lins cell group was more than thirty thousand, with significant numbers of every type. There was a relatively smaller number of exploding balls as this type of cell had no use except in battle.
Lin possessed over 50% of the area on the entire rock. It could be said to be the strongest group on this area. While there were still large cell groups in the surroundings, Lin did not plan on attacking them but to work on the biggest problem at present.
Perception.
Lin only had one observer from the start. This cell could not watch the entire cell group even if it swam around from higher up. So there was a large part of the cell group that Lin could not know about.
There was only the sense of touch. While that was enough to feed, it was difficult to response if the cells were attacked, especially when it was viruses. Then what was Lin to do?
Lin needed more perception.
But how to obtain more perception? Lin thought of what it had seen from the stinger cells. The stinger cells would automatically shoot when the enemy ca close. Then how did they know? The stinger cells did not have eyes, but it could discern the enemy.
That was by perception and an extrely powerful ability of perception.
After Lins cell group expanded over thirty thousand, it finally started to ponder questions of this kind.
When a cell moved, it would affect the flow of water around it. The ripple would carry for a long distance but would decrease in strength. However, it was still possible to detect it, and also the slight differences between ripples.
Lin did not know how to increase its perception. It had two basic cells train. One would remain motionless and the other would furiously move to create water turbulence.
The motionless cell had to detect the flows of water. When it managed to do so, then the moving cell would swim further away and continue to move. The motionless cell would still stay in its spot and try to detect the flows.
It was a very strange thod but Lins experint was successful. The basic cell successfully gained perception that was much stronger than just perception by touch. Then, as Lin experinted further, its range of perception beca about the sa as the stinger cells.
When basic cells divided, they would still have their abilities, and would even have these abilities when they evolved into other types of cells. However, so were less capable, such as the diggers and the cone-shaped cells. Maybe it was because their hardened surfaces affected feeling but the problem was not major.
Now Lins cell group was even stronger. Due to this, Lin did not fear going into the darkness any longer.
Lin had co into contact with darkness a few tis. That feeling was the sa as when it did not have the ability of sight. Everything in the surroundings was in pitch black and Lins sight was useless.
In an environnt like that, Lins cell group could only gather together and stay motionless. Fortunately, this kind of darkness would only occur for a ti and then light would illuminate everything again.
At the beginning, Lin did not understand what this phenonon was but now there was a term that described this in its mind night.
This seed to be a regular phenonon. Light would continue for a ti, and then change to dark. The night would last for a while, and then the light would illuminate everything.
Lin only felt terror and helplessness every ti t was in darkness in the past. But now that Lin had a new perceptive ability, it did not have to fear the arrival of night again.
Lin thought, it was close to that ti.
The light in the surroundings had started to beco dim. Just like Lin had predicted, night would always co at this ti.
The light gradually disappeared from the water. Lins field of vision gradually beca smaller and when Lins sight completely disappeared, it felt that the temperature in the water also beca colder.
The cell group over thirty thousand in number seed to be in a void. Lin could not see them, but this ti, it still felt them ntally. The cells could feel the movent of its fellows in the surroundings, the little flows of water out of the food cracks and the food that shot out.
Lins terror was much less than when it first encountered night but it still had to treat it carefully Even though Lin had a new perception, it could not be careless in the darkness.
Lins thoughts covered every single cell. It could know the feeling of every single cell. Lin already knew which flows of water ca from the cells that were closest to it and which were not.
Among the nurous feelings, there was a tiny feeling that was not the sa as Lins own cells this tiny thing gradually neared the outermost group of Lins cells.
Lin did not know its precise size because it had never tested what kind of turbulence was related to size. But this almost imperceptible feeling ant that it should be extrely small.
If this tiny ripple did not co from an outsider object, it was a piece of sothing. Lin chose to avoid it. It was not willing to take the risk. Lin had the cells that were closest to the thing move far away from it.
Lin had a bad feeling.
At this ti, a stream of water flowed by. Lins feeling of this little thing disappeared. Almost at the sa mont, Lin felt pain. Then Lin clearly felt the little thing was on the cell mbrane and was intending to burrow into it!
This was a virus!
Lin imdiately had the cells nearby move away from the cell that was being invaded. Lin also had the acid ejectors hurry over. Only they could kill viruses.
The cell that was being attacked by the virus felt just like the ti before. First, there was an enormous pain, and then Lin gradually lost control of the cell. When Lin lost complete control of the cell, Lin was sure that the cell was dead.
Lin had to reach the cell before that happened.
All of the acid ejectors were swimming. Just before Lin lost complete control of the cell, they imdiately sprayed large amounts of dissolving fluid towards this infected cell.
At this ti, Lin had no feeling of the infect cell. It probably had died.
Lin could not see nor feel anything. Lin felt so unsafe for the very first ti. It did not know if the acid ejectors had killed the virus or not.
The acid ejectors had almost finished sprouting all of the fluid when Lin stopped. It carefully felt for any movent of the virus among the flows of water.
Lin suddenly received a strange feeling.
It was not the movent of the virus, but the cell that should have died from the infection. Lin could once again control it.
What did this an?
Lin could not feel any great pain from this cell as though nothing had happened to it.
But Lin was still unable to see what the situation was. Had this cell not exploded?
If that was the case, then the dissolving fluid of the acid ejectors might not have hard it. Lin had been planning for the acid ejectors to dissolve the large amounts of viruses that ca out after the cell broke apart.
But that did not occur. Had this cell just lost consciousness for a while?
What was lost consciousness?Was this another special state other than dead and alive?
It was the first ti Lin knew this term but Lin could understand that losing consciousness could temporarily break off thoughts.
Lin didnt know what to do next or whether it should allow this cell to keep living.
Lin could only wait until the night passed. Then it could use its sight to see the situation. Now, it could just use the acid ejectors to guard the cell.
When the light ca
Ti slowly passed. Lin did not dare to slack off. Hundreds of acid ejectors surrounded this cell until the night completely passed.
Light once again ca and illuminated everything in the surroundings. Lins sight could once again be used. The terror of night completely disappeared.
Lin imdiately examined the cell that had been infected by a virus but was still fine.
But after seeing it, Lin felt puzzled.
This cell was a basic cell. Basic cells usually had a transparent outer mbrane and a grey nucleus. However, this infected cell was completely bright red.
Other than that, there was nothing special Lin could feel
Translator Ramblings: I couldnt find any short videos on cells spewing acid and looking at pictures of stomach ulcers is not pleasing.
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