Chapter 33

 The blood vessels worked well after the construction, but Lin found some small problems. The cells in the blood vessels had a hard time getting oxygen, so their movements became sluggish.

It was impossible for Lin to open a hole in the blood vessels, so the things inside would flow out. However, the cells in the blood vessels did not move on their own, but relied on the water inside to move quickly, so Lin did not mind.

Lin's devourer was also updated. It had a blood vessel structure, but no heart. Instead, it was replaced by a storage sac made of muscle cells in the depths of the mouth that was connected to the blood vessels. The devourer could store crushed food into the sac. At this time, the sac would shrink, squeezing the food and water inside into the blood vessel system. The cells in the blood vessel would break down the food and transmit the nutrients to the whole body.

The excess water would circulate in the blood vessels back into the sac and be discharged the next time the devourer opened its mouth.

The plan to resurrect the round shield worm was temporarily put on hold because Lin could not fill the round shield worm's shell with so many cells. Besides, the construction of the heart and blood vessels had consumed a lot, so she needed to find more food.

However, the cold this time lasted for a long time. Although it did not affect Lin, it meant that the other cells would not appear, so there was no food. Although the fat cells were enough for Lin to last for a long time, if she were to make another thing about the size of an aircraft carrier, it would consume more than 70% of her fat cells. Lin did not want to use up so much of her reserves. What if she encountered danger again?

Maybe she could digest the aircraft carrier and build a new base in the round shield worm's shell?

No, Lin did not want to rely on other creatures like this. She wanted to grow a hard shell. If she lived in it, it would be difficult to evolve a hard outer shell.

So what should she do now?

Go out and find food?

Dig out with the giant excavator again?

That seemed too slow. Lin wanted to make some more powerful ice digging structures, like the round shield worm's digging speed …

Right … the round shield worm did not dig out the ice with its limbs. It seemed to smash the ice with the semicircular shell on its head, but that required a huge body size and strength.

In that case, she could only modify the aircraft carrier.

Lin's aircraft carrier itself had a cylindrical body, which was very suitable for ramming. However, Lin did not want to use the aircraft carrier itself to ram. Instead, she formed two huge tentacles on both sides of the aircraft carrier. The front end of the tentacles was formed into a solid circular shape by Lin, and it had a sawtooth structure. It was called a "hammerhead." The tentacles were made up of a large number of muscle cells, and they could exert great strength to smash through ice.

Lin had originally thought of this structure a long time ago, but because continuously swinging the tentacles would consume a lot of her muscle cells, and it would take a long time to replenish energy, the efficiency was not very high. However, with the vascular system, Lin could continuously replenish energy to her muscle cells while swinging her tentacles, the efficiency was much higher than before.

After the construction was completed, Lin began to activate the aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier itself had two moving tentacles and a huge water jet at the back, so it could move very quickly. If it was not for the ice around it, the round shield worm would not have been able to hurt it.

After leaving a part of her cells in the shell of the round shield worm, Lin began the journey of the broken ice.

The aircraft carrier swam to the front of the ice layer, and the tentacles with the hammer slammed into the ice wall. Under the tremendous force, not only was there a hole in the ice wall, but there were also countless cracks around it.

It was really effective. It felt almost the same as when the round shield worm was digging.

Lin ordered the aircraft carrier to continue swinging its hammer, completely shattering the ice in front of it and creating a passage for the aircraft carrier to move.

Then, Lin also hardened the head of the aircraft carrier. This way, not only could it smash the ice with its hammer, but it could also ram itself.

The reason Lin didn't want to do this before was because she was afraid of damaging the vascular system in her body. But now, it seemed like there was no problem because the hammering tentacles also had a vascular system, and they weren't damaged when she swung them around just now.

The large eyeball on the aircraft carrier's head was degenerated by Lin, and it was replaced by several small eyeball tentacles on the side of the aircraft carrier's head for observation.

With this, it was much easier to move forward on the ice layer.

Should I continue moving downward? Lin felt that the wild cells should be hiding in the sand below. Perhaps it was very warm there, and the ice couldn't freeze there.

With that in mind, Lin decided to head downwards and continued to shatter the ice layer with ease. Although the ice layer would show different degrees of hardness, it wasn't a problem for Lin to break it with her hammering tentacles. It wouldn't take long for her to reach the beach at the bottom.

Strange?

After smashing another layer of ice, Lin saw an unusual sight in front of her. She hadn't reached the beach yet, but she had arrived at an ice-free area.

This was an ice cave large enough to fit three aircraft carriers. The surrounding ice walls showed no signs of being excavated, so Lin didn't know how this place was formed. Lin slowly swam into the empty space in the middle of the ice.

What a strange place. Why would such a place exist? Ice couldn't have melted like this on its own, could it have been dug out by some kind of creature? But I don't see any such creature.

While Lin was wondering how this place was formed, she suddenly noticed a few small dots moving around on the ice walls.

What are those?

The eyeball tentacles on the side of the aircraft carrier couldn't see clearly, so Lin summoned the small Devourers inside the aircraft carrier. As they swam closer to the ice walls, they discovered that the moving dots were actually cells that had the exact same color as the ice, making them hard to see.

These small cells were spread all over the ice walls. Lin didn't know what they were doing, but they were definitely food.

Lin didn't think too much about it and ordered the Devourers to hunt them down. At the same time, she ordered the aircraft carrier to release more Devourers to clean up these cells.

The Devourers quickly devoured the cells on the ice walls. These cells didn't have any defensive capabilities, they had a very normal round shape and were quite small, but they were capable of doing something strange to escape from the Devourers.

They could drill into the ice directly without relying on any digging method. They could drill into the ice directly.

The Devourers couldn't enter the small holes created by the cells, so they had no choice but to give up.

How strange, how did they do it? Lin carefully observed them. From the eyes of the smallest Devourer, she could see that these cells seemed to be able to secrete a kind of liquid that could instantly melt the ice around them, allowing them to enter and exit the ice.

So that's how they created this cave? Then these cells should be called … 'Ice Melting Fungi'.

The Ice Melting Fungi were hiding in the ice. They seemed to be very happy as they swayed there.

Bam!

In the next moment, Lin's aircraft carrier's tentacles abruptly slammed into the ice walls. Not only did it shatter the ice walls, but the Ice Melting Fungi that were hiding inside were also knocked out. The Devourers then quickly devoured the small cells mixed in with the ice fragments.

Knowing that it wasn't safe to hide inside the ice, the Ice Melting Fungi began to flee into the depths of the ice. Lin immediately smashed the ice walls again and chased after them.

Although these Ice Melting Fungi were capable of drilling through ice, they were actually very slow. They weren't as fast as Lin's aircraft carrier smashing through the ice. With each strike, Lin managed to extract a large number of Ice Melting Fungi from the ice. Lin then ordered the large Devourers to chomp them into powder along with the ice fragments.

Lin continued to hammer them out of the ice walls while moving forward. However, not long after Lin moved forward, she suddenly found herself in the water again. There was no longer any ice in front of her.

Did I enter the ice cave again? No, that can't be right.

This was a vast body of water, and Lin had already left the frozen area.

What … is that?

A strange scene appeared in front of Lin's eyes.

The vast body of water was still empty and empty, but within the sand below, there were many things that Lin had never seen before.

Most of these things were flat, long, or round in shape with striped protrusions all over their surface. Some of them were lying on the sand, while others were standing in the sand. It took Lin a while to confirm that they were living creatures because they were almost completely motionless. However, when water flowed past them, their bodies would begin to sway, extending tentacles from their bodies and waving in the flowing water.

These creatures should also be a combination of multicellular organisms. There was a large number of them, almost covering the entire beach. It seemed that there was a reason why the round-shield worm didn't eat single cells. It was probably better at eating multicellular organisms.