Last chapter recap: Lin managed to create eyes from its cells.
Lins life went on so.
On the rock, the nurous tentacles that grew on the ectoderm continued to dance. The stinger cells that grew on them did not let go of anything that ca near them. They killed these cells that swam close or were just passing by. Lin continued to slowly but consistently grow
Lin didnt know what to do next.
The cells that passed by seed to be endless as though it could not consu them all. However, it was all random. It was possible that tens of thousands would appear in one night, and on the second night, nothing would appear.
The white gel that ca from the cracks in the rock or the cavern gradually decreased.
If anything happened to these two sources of food, then Lins great cell group would collapse.
Counting the cells that made up the tentacles and the ectoderm, Lins present cell group was millions of cells. While Lin had ways to reduce the demand for food, and had large amounts of fat cells storing food, Lin did not want any problems to occur to food sources.
Did it have to leave?
Leave this rock and return to the endless deep blue.
It felt very dangerous even though Lin should be able to swim relying on the tentacles, and the single cells could co along with the structure of the ectoderm and not be scattered around like before.
However, Lin did not know what was in the deeper waters, and did not want to leave behind this comfortable place.
With food constantly appearing from above and below, where would be better than this?
Lin did not act and started to plan to dig on the rock underneath it.
It was going to search for the secret of why the white gel would co out.
Lin used the strong muscle cells to reach into the cracks of the cavern. By constantly dividing, it started to tear apart the strong stone.
After Lin opened so of the cavern cracks, there was more white gel that ca out.
However, this did not achieve what Lin wanted to do. It wanted to make bigger holes on the rock. This way, it could burrow deeper, and see how the white gel ca out.
The muscle cells were not enough.
Lins diggers could not dig apart the rock, but what about larger diggers? Lin had so diggers form a ball. This enormous sphere was filled with denticles on the surface, and looked like an enlarged digger.
This enormous digger had even thicker and shaper denticles. It only had to touch the rock and twist in order to easily split apart the rock.
While Lin could excavate the rock now, from the size of the rock, it could not dig to the deeper parts in a short amount of ti.
However, digging at the rock was very interesting.
Lin started to lick digging at the rock, and threw the matter of leaving out of its thoughts.
What it did not expect was that staying at this place that looked very comfortable right now would be a path of destruction
Countless black nights later, Lins digging had developed deeper and deeper.
It primarily dug from the center of the rock. It felt that this was closer to the white gel inside. Lin had dug out a considerably deep hole. There had been a lot of white gel hidden in the rock. Almost every ti the enormous digger used its denticles to scrape the surface of the rock, nurous bits of rock and white gel would float out. However, Lin still did not understand how the white gel ca out.
So strange
Lin suddenly felt puzzled in its thoughts. However, this was not created by a matter relating to the digging.
Lins observer was in the hole looking at the developnt of the digging, and the eyeball antenna was on the outside of the ectoderm looking at everything outside.
Seven nights had passed, but the water was still calm. No cells, not even viruses, swam by.
This phenonon had never occurred before.
Even if no cells appeared at a certain ti, after another night, they would co in great numbers.
Lin had many fat cells. So many that it could grow and be safe for a long ti after it lost its food source completely. However, Lin could not tolerate this strange phenonon.
Sothing had happened.
Sothing that Lin did not know.
Lin did not want to go out and be in danger but it did not want to wait here.
Lin started to act. It used basic, fat, and muscle cells to form a tentacle. This tentacle was long and flat. It could move through the water by twisting its body left and right. The top of the tentacle was a transparent oval, and the interior was hollow to store so fat cells. Lins observer went inside. This way, the tentacle had vision.
Lin called this tentacle explorer. While Lin would not move the entire cell group, Lin could have a tentacle go explore the other regions of the water it had not gone to for a long ti.
As it thought, the explorer started to move its body. It was the first ti Lin had combined cells move. The movents were clumsy at the start. The tentacle didnt swim, but the water current it stirred up washed away the cells around it.
However, Lin imdiately knew what to do. The explorer quickly started to sim in the water.
After swimming a few circles inside the gastrula, Lin felt it was good. This was much faster than normal cells.
After the preparations were finished, Lin started to swim outside. The muscles cells on the gastrula contracted, and opened a path towards the outside for the explorer.
The explorer was not large. It was even smaller than the tentacles where stinger cells grew on the outside of the ectoderm. Therefore, it could exit through the little holes in the gastrula.
Countless tentacles slowly moved on the ectoderm. It was a pity there was no prey and they were useless.
Lin left this rock it had stayed for a long ti on, and the exploder started to slowly sim towards unknown waters
Lin had the observer at the head of the explorer. As the explorer whipped its body, it could observe the environnt outside. However, after swimming for a while, Lin felt slightly disappointed. Other than water, there was only water.
Maybe it should swim back to that place where there had been that enormous piece of white gel.
Lin still rembered that area that had been frozen by ice. While there were no signs in this ocean, Lin still knew how to return to that place.
It seed that many strange new terms were coming out?
Lin did not care too much about new terms. It cared more about what had happened that caused no cells to appear.
As the explorer swam, Lin could feel the changes in the surrounding water.
Cold
The water here was colder than the place before. As the explorer swam forward, this feeling grew. However, Lin had a thod to resist the cold now.
The cells could resist being pervaded by the cold by constantly vibrating their bodies. Lin nad this motion shiver.
However, shivering would expend more energy. Lin had predicted this situation, so it had taken along so fat cells. However, there were not many. If this continued, Lin probably would not be able to stand for long before the explorer froze to death.
Even so, Lin would not give up. It would create a bigger explorer to co.
it seed there was no use.
As Lin moved towards the increasing cold regions of water, Lin finally saw sothing other than water ice crystals.
Countless pieces of ice floated in the water. They were of various sizes. However, the biggest was just the size of Lins explorer. These ice crystals filled this region of water. Lin rembered that this was the location of the enormous white gel. When the water had froze, the white gel had also been frozen into ice. However, why was there only ice crystals left now?
So strange had sothing gigantic smashed the white gel that had frozen?
It really wanted to know
Curiosity drove Lin to continue exploring. As it swam among the ice crystals, it felt the temperature here seed to be slowing increasing. The cold decreased, and Lins explorer did not need to shiver.
Lin swam along the warm flow. In the water that grew warr, the ice crystals grew smaller until Lin finally left the region of water filled with ice crystals. The water here was at a normal temperature.
At this ti, Lin had the explorer turn its head. It saw an enormous region of ice floating above it. In other words, was it swimming downwards?
Down was a concept that Lin recently understood. When Lin used its cells to create bigger structures, it could feel that there was a certain power pulling it towards one direction. While Lin easily subdued this power, Lin was still curious. What was this power?
The new term that represented this power was gravity. It seed to be an unique force and was stronger the bigger the object.
After that, Lin called the direction that gravity pulled in down and the opposite direction up.
Lin felt strange. Before, up had always been warm and close to light. Why was it that the down was warr this ti?
Just as Lin was thinking about this, an unique phenonon it had never seen before appeared in front of its eye.
Translator Ramblings: And we just jumped a couple of billion years into the future to Issac Newton and the discovery of gravity.
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