Chapter 10

4 . 6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution Volume One Chapter Ten “Rock”

Last Chapter Recap: Lin learns about stem cells and follows some newly-discovered purple cells somewhere .

Chapter Ten Rock

Lin’s cell group swam together with the purple cells . The surroundings became brighter and warmer . Suddenly, a bright light came that caused Lin to want to retreat .

But Lin did not do that, but looked in the direction of the light . The light was shining down from the top to the bottom, and there wasn’t just one ray . Countless rays of light pierced the icy blue water and gave this place warmth .

Sunlight … …

Lin knew the name of the light but it was the first time it saw such a unique scene .

Feeling extremely interested, Lin tried to chase these rays of light . So it continued to swim in the direction of the light .

The closer Lin got to the lights, the brighter Lin felt . Soon, Lin wasn’t even able to see the surroundings clearly .

In the surroundings, other than light, there was nothing … …

But Lin did not stop and still swam towards the direction of the light .

Suddenly, Lin’s foremost digger seemed to feel something . That was a feeling above warmth, yes, it was called … … burning heat .

That feeling was not better to feel than warmth but caused Lin great pain instead .

The burning heat that came immediately killed this cell . Lin jumped in fight and hurriedly had the cell group retreat back . Lin retreated until it could see the surroundings clearly before it was reassured .

So, the origin of the light had a burning heat … …

Now, Lin didn’t dare to go too close to the rays of light .

However, a new phrase appeared in Lin’s thoughts … … ultraviolet light .

What had killed the cell just now was a kind of light called ultraviolet light . But Lin did not understand what ultraviolet light was .

So it would study this phenomenon later .

At this time, Lin looked around and found that large amount of purple cells gathered among these rays of light . Lin found that they were not eating or doing something, just purely waiting under the sunlight .

Should Lin eat them?

Lin had this thought . These purple cells did not seem to have any offensive abilities and seemed extremely weak .

However, Lin should first wait and see .

Lin watched for a while . It saw that these purple cells would start to move after staying in the light for a while and once again swim towards the darkness of the deeper waters .

Lin was very curious about their actions so it also took its own cell group and followed closely .

These purple cells that returned to deeper waters took Lin to a completely new place .

This was … …

The thing that appeared in front of Lin was enormous and completely took over Lin’s vision . The surface of this thing was covered in uneven bumps and holes . The object was black, but there were other colors mixed in . Most of those colors were grey, and white .

This was called … … rock?

Lin received a new term .

These purple cells swam in large numbers onto the rock . They started to split up and appeared to be searching for food . Kin found that it wasn’t just the purple cells . There were large numbers of all kinds of cells spread out on the surface . It was the first time Lin saw so many different living beings gathered in one place . There were also new cells constantly swimming here from other places .

Lin looked at them and had a thought .

Of Lin’s present cells … … there were 100 acid ejectors, 129 cone shaped cells, 30 cachers that stored fat, and the rest were all diggers . Lin’s cell group had more variety of cells than the other cell types . Even though some cells had more numbers than Lin, but they were all one kind, and not many kinds mixed together like Lin .

Lin’s cell group slowly swam near the rock . They first landed on a protruding rock pillar . There were no cells gathered here and Lin planned on working from here .

What to do? Of course, it was to eat . This rock was covered in food that Lin had seen before, that soft white stuff . Many of the cells gathered here also seemed to like eating food of this kind . However, Lin did not plan on gathering these normal food, but … …

Attack other cells! Make them food!

After experiencing a few battles, Lin’s thought started to become more offense-oriented .

Lin first had the cone-shaped cells go . They swam along the rock pillar and their goal was a small group of beings under the rock pillar .

This group seemed to be shapeshifting cells, and could change their form at will . However, they were very small and were only half the size of Lin’s cells . They could not compare to the one previously encountered .

The little shapeshifting cells were gathering some white food and completely didn’t notice the cone-shaped cells getting close . One of the shapeshifting cells that was consuming food was completely pierced through by the cone-shaped cell . Then the cone-shaped cell quickly twisted and used the denticles to tear this shapeshifiting cell into pieces .

The other little shapeshifting cells felt danger and started to flee . However, before they could swim far, they were run through by the cone-shaped cells that continued to charge .

Watching as its cells easily achieved victory, Lin couldn’t help but feel smugness .

The remaining shapeshifting cells seemed to detect danger from above and started to turn and flee downwards . They made their bodies narrow and flat so they could burrow into the small cracks on the rock .

The cone-shaped cells were too large and they had hardened tops . They were unable to enter these tiny cracks at all . The rock was also very hard and they could not dig into it .

Very smart … …

But Lin decided to keep chasing . This time, Lin had the acid ejectors move out and spray large amounts of dissolving liquid at those little cracks . The little shapeshifting cells that were hiding in the cracks had nowhere to escape to and were dissolved into powder . Then the acid ejectors waited on top to suck in the powder that floated up .

Not long after, Lin completely killed off all the shapeshifting cells .

For some unknown reason, Lin felt that this wasn’t quite right . It should not kill all of them .

Whatever .

Because Lin did not know the reason .

Also, Lin quickly turned its attention . It found that it was not the only one eating here .

The observer was floating high up and observed everything in the surroundings . Lin saw that several cells of enormous mass were doing the same thing as Lin at a valley nearby on the rock .

These few cells were about ten times as large as Lin’s cells . There were many ruffles on the surface of these cells and these cells seemed to be able to suck in . The purple cells that Lin had encountered before would be sucked and caught between the ruffles . The purple cells appeared to fight but they were unable to escape . They were sucked alive into the ruffles and then sucked into the bodies of the ruffled cells .

Lin might not be able to see what happened inside but they were certainly digested . This method of feeding was pretty unique .

The ruffled cells did not search for the next food after eating but stayed motionless where they were . However, when other cells came near them, they would capture through suction .

Kill!

LIn’s following action was very simple

The acid ejectors were the foreguard this time . Lin had them go near the ruffled cells . These ruffled cells felt the acid ejectors come close and immediately started to suck . But at this time, the acid ejectors sprayed out large amounts of dissolving liquid . The dissolving liquid was sucked into the body of these ruffled cells .

A ruffled cell that sucked in dissolving liquid painfully twisted its body . After a while, it stopped moving and then sank slowly .

It was very easy!

Lin started again and used the same method to kill the several other ruffled cells nearby . Just when it was planning to attack the last ruffled cell, a strange kind of pain suddenly came from one of the acid ejectors . Then this acid ejector seemed to lose all strength and sank .

Lin hurriedly looked around the surroundings to find the cause but it could not see any attackers nearby . It didn’t know who or what had attacked this acid ejector .