41 Chapter 41

 The surface of the water was slowly lowering …

It was getting closer and closer to Lin. Lin could clearly feel the pain on her skin, the light of day was destroying her cells and harming her life force.

Lin wanted to run, but she couldn't find a way out.

The row of rocks was actually a giant ring, they perfectly encircled all the crystals and trapped Lin at the same time.

Inanimate objects should be randomly positioned, so why would they form such a perfect ring? When Lin arrived, it was night time, her vision was limited in the dark, so she didn't notice the strangeness of this area, or else Lin would have hesitated.

But it was too late for regrets, the lowering of the water level left Lin with nowhere to run, she could only face the threat of the ultraviolet rays directly.

Fortunately, Lin wasn't completely unprepared.

Ultraviolet rays, Lin only knew the term and knew that they could kill cells, but she didn't know what they actually were. The eyeball seemed to be unable to see ultraviolet rays, so Lin now believed that ultraviolet rays were a type of light, or something that was brought about by light to cause damage, so all she needed to do was to protect herself from the light.

Lin had seen some types of cells that could produce a strange substance, either liquid or solid. This substance could reflect, interfere, scatter or absorb light, it was called a 'pigment'.

Although she didn't know how it was produced, pigments were indeed very effective against light. For example, green cells probably relied on pigments to absorb light.

But Lin's cells couldn't produce green, they could only produce black, white, grey, and 'transparent' without pigments. During her experiments, Lin discovered that 'white' was the most suitable for reflecting light.

Under Lin's train of thought, her skin cells began to slowly turn white. At this time, Lin could feel that the pain in her skin had clearly decreased by a lot. Then, Lin quickly repaired the damage to her skin and covered it with a layer of white.

At the same time, Lin created a layer of white shell above the eyeball, allowing it to continue observing its surroundings without being harmed by the light.

After this series of changes, the light couldn't harm Lin's skin anymore, but the water level continued to drop. Without the protection of water, the ultraviolet rays could instantly destroy Lin's skin, even if it turned white.

Lin could only swim to the top of a rock crevice. If the water level dropped to a certain level, Lin would open up a tunnel underneath the aircraft carrier, allowing her cells and the Devourers to swim into the crevice to avoid danger.

The Protector's hard shell made it completely unaffected, and this made Lin want to evolve a similar hard shell even more.

Lin's sledgehammer was made of hardened cells, it was different from the non-cellular hard shell, Lin hoped to create a non-cellular, thick and hard shell.

Through Lin's research on some shelled creatures, she found that although the shells of these creatures varied in hardness, they were all made of a very similar substance. It was a powder or liquid secreted by a type of cell called a 'gland cell'. When the gland cell covered a large amount of this secretion on the skin, it would form all kinds of hard shells.

The water level was still slowly dropping. Lin could feel the 'burning' pain slowly returning at the same time. As the water level approached, the influence of the light on it grew stronger. Lin was ready to let the troops and cells in the aircraft carrier escape.

However, when the water level dropped to a small distance away from the aircraft carrier, it stopped.

. is..

Lin did not dare to let her guard down. She did not know if the water level would rise or fall, so she quickly carried out the next step, evolving a 'gland' cell.

It was not difficult to create a gland cell, the problem was the substance inside the gland cell. What kind of substance could dissolve the cells and reassemble them into a hard shell to cover the skin?

Perhaps the answer was in the food that the cells usually ate.

Since it was a non-cellular substance, it should be obtained from food. Perhaps the 'white paste' that Lin had eaten before was mixed with the substance that produced the shell.

Of course, it did not have to be the white paste. Lin had seen other wild cells devouring all kinds of things, like the debris on the sand, the powder on the rocks, and so on. Perhaps the key to producing the shell was mixed in.

Lin opened up a tunnel underneath the aircraft carrier and sent out a large number of explosive orbs. She had them search for similar substances in the crevices of the rocks. After swallowing them, Lin had them try to dissolve the substances in their bodies and cover the outer membrane.

Now, she could only wait. As long as the water level did not continue to fall, Lin would soon succeed in producing the hard shell.

In fact, Lin should have tried to produce the hard shell earlier, but because she did not encounter any problems and the hammer was powerful enough, she did not try.

The explosive orbs swam between the dark crevices of the rocks. Lin had a few small devourers follow them. As long as they found a suitable substance, the explosive orbs would swallow it, dissolve it in their bodies, reassemble it, and other processes to form it into a suitable shape to cover their bodies.

Lin did not know what the specific transformation process was like inside the cells, but since the cells would operate on their own, Lin only needed to give them the thought to carry it out.

Lin had the explosive orbs search the crevices of the rocks for materials that seemed to be able to produce the shell, such as tiny sand particles, black sticky substances, and debris scraped off the rocks. The explosive orbs' solution could dissolve most of the sand and debris, but after successfully dissolving them, Lin found that the cells could not completely reassemble them.

This was because the sand and debris were made up of different substances, and some of them would destroy the possibility and integrity of the whole body.

Lin called these damaged parts' impurities', which needed to be removed. This was a very troublesome process, because Lin's cells did not seem to understand the concept of 'removing impurities', so Lin had to do it herself.

Lin's thoughts could perfectly control every part of a cell, from the core to the outer membrane, but she had never tried to directly manipulate the synthesis system inside a cell, so this was a very long and complicated process.

The synthesis system inside a cell was a very complicated thing, and since there was no vision inside, Lin could not observe the situation inside. However, she could 'feel' it, similar to the sense of touch. If Lin wanted to, she could sense the 'sense of touch' of different objects that the cell's internal structure came into contact with.

By relying on this strange ability, Lin could carry out the task of removing the impurities.

Lin believed that she could succeed.

While Lin was trying to remove the impurities, some uninvited guests appeared in the surrounding water. These flat creatures suddenly appeared in large numbers in this area of water. They swam rapidly through the water, devouring the wild cells and small creatures that were killed by the ultraviolet rays on the rocks and in the cracks.

These were flatworms, but Lin noticed that they had changed. A layer of sand was stuck to each flatworm's body. They seemed to be able to secrete a sticky substance on the surface of their body, allowing the sand to stick to their body to prevent the ultraviolet rays from hitting them.

So, they were not trying to escape earlier, but had swum back to the beach after sticking to the sand?

There were quite a few cracks between the ring-shaped rocks that trapped Lin, allowing the flatworms to easily squeeze their way through.

The flatworms' mouths were very suitable for devouring all kinds of cells, including the explosive spheres that Lin had hidden in the cracks.

Lin was currently removing the impurities from the explosive spheres. Once she succeeded, the explosive spheres would be able to remove the impurities on their own.

However, this was a very slow process. The flatworms had already reached Lin's Mothership, burrowed into the cracks and began to hunt down Lin's explosive spheres!

Lin mobilized the Injector. Only the Injector's water spray could catch up to the fast-moving flatworms.

Once the Injector's syringe hit the flatworm, it would inject a large amount of explosive particles into the flatworm's body. This was a one-hit kill for the small flatworms.

The flatworms used their nimble bodies to evade the Injector, as the Injector would have a hard time turning while sprinting. Lin should add tentacles to control the direction of their swimming … but she did not have the time to do that!

As the chase unfolded in the cracks, Lin continued to speed up her work of removing the impurities. She had already separated the various substances within the explosive spheres. She was about to … succeed!

Lin had successfully removed the useless impurities from the explosive spheres. The remaining substances were successfully combined together. Lin had the explosive spheres secrete the impurities from their outer membrane, successfully creating a thin layer of shell.

She had successfully transmitted the information to every single explosive sphere. All of Lin's explosive spheres now possessed the ability to dissolve and form a shell!

At that moment, Lin once again felt a searing pain. She noticed that the water level had dropped quite a bit …

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