Last chapter recap: Lin makes a new kind of cell whose primary trait is the ability to divide continuously and encounters a segnted worm chased by another organism.
That was a darkness worm?
Lin found that the organism chasing the segnted limb organism was another darkness worm, and one slightly smaller than the one Lin had just killed.
The segnted leg organism quickly ran to where Lin was and lured this darkness worm towards Lin.
The motherships enormous hamr imdiately rose and struck the darkness worms head, killing it in one blow.
The segnted limb organism escaped but Lin had obtained more food.
So interesting.
Lin looked in the direction the segnted limb organism fled in, and suddenly thought, maybe it could use the other organism to capture more darkness worms?
Alright, that seed to difficult to do.
However Lin hadnt expected so many surprises in the dark night.
Lin had the devourer start to deconstruct the darkness worm. These were true worms without outer shells. The devourer could easily tear off large cell structures. The devourers quickly consud the two darkness worm. Now, Lin had replenished the nutrients it expended in the water current, fighting against the jellyfish, and in making the lantern, and had extra as well.
After feeding, Lin continued to advance. It found the protector in a sand pit. They finally t up.
Then where to go now?
Continue to hunt darkness worms? Or
Lin had a great amount of fat storage. The need to search for food did not seem to be great. Maybe it should explore this dark night and see if there were anything interesting.
After the easy victory against the darkness worm, Lin beca confident. The feeling of danger in its mind was replaced by curiosity and excitent. Even though the range of the lantern was only two tis the length of the mothership, Lin still started this journeying in darkness.
Lin found a random direction and moved. The light wavered in the darkness. Small organism swarms appeared occasionally at the periter of light. So were unicellular, others multicellular, but they were difficult to see clearly.
Lin arrived at an unfamiliar area without any leaf worms, no familiar scenes. Even the sand below it had slowly grown larger in size, they could be called rocks.
Lin had never co to this place before.
Lin had left behind the sand, and the large rocks here replaced sand. Many unicellular organisms gathered in the crevices of the rocks, and a kind of small jellyfish floated around.
The small jellyfish were about the size of the devourer. Lin could easily grip them by having the protector reach in with the segnted limbs.
However, Lin only took a look and them threw the jellyfish away. Jellyfish were an unprofitable organism. Their bodies looked big and swollen, but they were really just a few thin layers, and Lin would have the danger of being pierced by toxic stingers. The jellyfish were organisms not worthy of being eaten.
Lin continued to advance. It found the rocks were becoming larger and larger. Rows of tall and enormous rocks appeared up ahead.
Lin swam above the giant rocks. Suddenly, its lantern swept a strange thing.
This object was about the size of the mothership, and its surface was as clear and transparent as the ice with many rhombus protrusions.
This thing was not ice because it was not cold upon contact. Lin tapped it and found it was far harder than ice. This was sothing that could be described as Crystal.
Lin was certain it had seen sothing similar before.
A long ti ago ..
Yes observer.
The only single cell with vision. While Lin stopped using it after learning how to make eyes, the observer was still inside Lins mothership. The observer had a piece of crystal exactly the sa inside its body.
The crystal in the observer was extrely small, but if Lin looked closely, it could see the similarities.
This crystal gave the observer vision.
But why was this object special? Why could it give the observer the ability to see?
Lin swung its hamr to strike the surface of the crystal. So small fragnts fell off and Lin had the devourers take these pieces back into the mothership.
Lin had the devourers turn the fragnts into smaller fragnts until single cells could envelop them. Lin planned to have basic cells eat these fragnts and then repeat the order it had made at that ti: Receive light, see everything in the surroundings. Then Lin would see if these cells could obtain sight.
No effect. The basic cell that ate the crystals did not react at all.
While it had been a long ti ago, Lin still rembered the initial situation clearly.
It had proceeded completely according to those steps, but why were there no effects? The only explanation was this crystal seed similar but was not the sa kind as what the observer had consud.
Lin was slightly disappointed but this was not sothing major. It quickly dismissed this matter, moved around the large crystal and continued its advance.
Lin found many similar crystals in the surroundings. They stood among the rocks of various sizes, but they didnt seem different compared to the surrounding rock. The nearby organisms did not pay attention to them.
At this ti, the surrounding darkness slowly faded. The light of the lantern beca less obvious. This ant that dayti was close.
The night was slightly shorter than dayti Lin rembered how long dayti and night took. Next ti, it would be prepared.
As the surroundings grew bright, Lin could clearly feel the temperature slowly start to rise. It withdrew the lantern back into the mothership, and released the rearing pen holding the green cells. At the sa ti, the organisms in the surroundings started to retreat into the crevices in the rock. It seed they only moved and hunted during night.
At this ti, so small organisms did the opposite. They ca out of the crevices in large numbers and swam in the brightening waters.
Lin found these organisms were small but unique in appearance. Shaped like leaf worms, they could also use their flat bodies to swim in the water.
Lin called them flat worms and released devourers to eat a few. The organisms structure was similar to the devourer but above their esophagus was a round and hard structure that connected to the tail. Lin didnt know what it was for.
Also, they each had a split in their side filled with many soft tentacles. These tentacles would absorb the gas bubbles that floated towards them. They seed extrely useful. Lin considered if it should make one similar.
When dayti fully ca, the surrounding crystals seed to absorb the light and beca extrely blinding. The flat worms that swam out of the rock crevices gathered towards these crystals and glued their round and flat bodies to them.
What were they doing?
Lin swam over curiously and touched the surface of the crystal with a tentacle. It found that these crystals had beco warm. Did the flat worms attach themselves onto the crystal to increase their body temperature?
Pretty interesting.
Lin wasnt afraid of the cold after experiencing freezing multiple tis. Even in the coldest of tis, Lin could move quickly. These flat worms, due to staying in the darkness for a long ti, were slow in their mont. After warming up on the crystals, their movents would beco rapid.
They would attack Lins rearing pen, but they did not eat Lins rearing pen. They desired to attack the green cells inside. However, the flat worms did not have teeth. They could not penetrate the rearing pens transparent outer layer.
Lin imdiately released large numbers of devourer to hunt the flat worms that were still on the crystals and hadnt ward up completely. It also had so devourers guard the rearing pen against attacks.
The flat worm and the devourer were about the sa size, but, when completely ward up, they were faster than devourers and had eyes. Lin had to capture them before they finished warming up.
After hunting for a while, Lin ate hundreds of flat worms. However, there seed to be many more in the surroundings. They also had finished warming up and it was difficult to catch them.
Lin planned on releasing the injectors but the flat worms suddenly did sothing strange. They quickly swam in one direction as though they were fleeing sothing. In a few monts, they completely disappeared.
The direction the flat worms ran in was the direction Lin had co from. Lin was puzzled when he received a strange pain in his thoughts.
This feeling was from the motherships ectoderm. The surrounding devourers could also feel this on their outer mbranes. Lin rembered this feeling. This was similar to when temperatures were too high and the cells were being damaged.
The protector did not feel this. It had to do with its hard outer shell.
This kind of pain ca from above. Lin looked up. Through the surface, it saw the light from the gas realm.
So dayti above the water was this bright unlike the starlight of night, this was a pure light, so bright it terrified Lin.
Water surface?
When did the water surface beco so close to the bed of the ocean?
Lin finally realized. The surface of the water had neared the mothership at so ti. Due to this, the ultraviolet light penetrated through the surface and damaged Lins outer mbranes. Lin imdiately moved its devourers away and sped back the direction it had co from.
However, enormous stones appeared in front of Lin and blocked its path.
This was the enormous stone that it had encountered when it had co? Lin hadnt cared back then. But now, these rocks were above the water surface!
Translator Ramblings: There isnt any kind of characteristic for to speculate what kind of rock the crystals are. But soft enough Lin could hamr a piece off maybe it is salt?
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