Chapter 6

 Should it face the endless water world again? Or should it continue to stay in place and eat?

Of course, it should continue to eat. Why should it leave? If it left, there would be too many uncertainties, and Lin didn't want to take the risk.

So Lin decided to devour this huge piece of food. This way, its community should be in the tens of thousands, no, perhaps even over a hundred million.

Lin couldn't imagine these numbers before, but now, as the community grew, the information it could think of increased.

But Lin didn't consider one thing-

The future.

Lin's cells began to devour the huge food. Starting from the hole it dug, the acid-injectors dissolved a large amount of food, while the rest of the cells dug, cut, and tore, devouring the food as quickly as possible.

Lin's community began to grow, and when the community exceeded a thousand, Lin's observer cell's field of vision could barely accommodate them all.

Lin was once again puzzled. Why couldn't this vision cell divide into another vision cell? The observer cell's division was still the most basic of ordinary cells.

And these ordinary cells would slowly evolve into diggers due to the way they ate, but in the end, they still didn't have any vision.

Just as Lin was distressed, a special object appeared in its field of vision again.

A huge, blue object was lying on the vast white plain made of food. This object seemed to be alive, and its body was constantly moving.

However, its movement didn't cause any damage to the food under it. Lin judged that it shouldn't be eating, and this creature's appearance was very strange. Its body didn't seem to have a fixed shape, but was constantly changing, just like …

Slime?

Lin didn't know why this word appeared in its mind, but in the next moment, it found a more standard name …

Amoeba.

A very vivid word.

Lin didn't have any thoughts about this amoeba, because its body was too big. Even if Lin's thousand cells were piled together, it wouldn't be half its size. This made Lin give up on attacking it.

But why did it have to attack every time it saw other creatures?

But what can it do if it doesn't attack?

Lin didn't understand.

Lin continued to observe the moving amoeba. Suddenly, it noticed that there were some small things slowly swimming towards it from not far away.

These little things were about the same size as Lin's cells, but they were oval-shaped and green in color. They were probably a type of cell.

However, when these green cells approached, the slime suddenly reacted. Many tentacle-like things protruded from the surface of its body and extended towards the green cells.

No, rather than saying that it was extending its tentacles, it was more accurate to say that it had turned part of its body into tentacles.

The green cells didn't dodge and were easily caught by the tentacles. Then, the tentacles sucked in the green cells like cells swallowing objects. The swallowed green cells were slowly sent to the center of the slime's body along the tentacles.

The slime's body was light gray and very transparent, so Lin could see what happened to the green cells in the slime's body.

The cells were all gathered at one point in the slime's body, very close to a black circular object. That was probably the slime's core. Then, the body of these green cells began to slowly shrink and finally disappeared.

It seemed to have been digested? But Lin couldn't see what was digesting them.

Speaking of which, it was the same when her own cells digested food. The food inexplicably shrank and disappeared in the body. Lin couldn't see what was working to digest the food.

There were a lot of green cells floating by, and the slime only caught a part of them. There were still a lot of green cells floating towards Lin's cell group.

Although they didn't pose any threat to Lin, what made Lin nervous was that the huge slime was also moving towards her with these floating green cells.

So fast.

Lin only had this thought about the slime's speed. The slime's huge body kept moving forward, its speed was much faster than the swimming speed of Lin's cells.

Escape? Counterattack?

Lin didn't plan to escape. She had experienced many battles, and her cell group was now very strong.

Let's face it head-on.

Now, the number of acid injectors was as many as 97, and Lin was very confident.

The acid injectors rushed up one after another under Lin's control. At this time, the slime seemed to know that something was approaching it, so it sped up.

Lin was a little curious about this perception ability. The slime obviously didn't have vision, otherwise, it would have seen this way long ago. Then how did it know the location of the food? Obviously, it didn't rely on touch, because it already knew that the green cells were coming before it came into contact with them.

The same was true for the strange cells from before, reacting to things that were close to them.

Lin had the idea of obtaining this ability. After all, she still couldn't split into more observers.

The slime felt the approach of the acid injectors and launched the first attack. It split a large piece of the seemingly soft body above it into countless small tentacles and grabbed at the acid injectors.

When the acid injectors' tentacles approached, a large amount of dissolving liquid gushed out from its conical mouth. The slime's tentacles immediately festered the moment they came into contact with the dissolving liquid. The slime also seemed to feel pain and retracted its tentacles.

At this time, Lin's second attack was launched.

It was made up of 300 cone-shaped cells. These cells kept drilling holes into the food, and their 'cones' had become quite sharp. Even the high-hardness parts of the food that could only be dissolved by the dissolving solution could now be easily pierced through by the cells.

The slime didn't just stand there. After it found that the other side would counterattack, it gathered all the small tentacles into several huge tentacles. These tentacles would still fester when they came into contact with the dissolving liquid, but they wouldn't melt completely in such a short time.

Relying on the large tentacles, the slime caught some acid injectors and sucked them into its body. The acid injectors' liquid also caused some damage to the slime's body, but it didn't seem to be a big problem.

At this time, the conical cells had already approached the slime. They pierced the slime's outer membrane with their sharp cones full of serrated teeth, and then began to rotate.

The rotation was discovered by Lin by chance. This set could saw the food faster, and some of the cells that rotated more even evolved a few small oval fins at the back of the tail to help accelerate the rotation.

The slime's outer layer was cut into countless pieces by these cells, but it still didn't retreat. Instead, it used the old method to extend its tentacles and tried to swallow the cells that drilled into its body.

However, the conical cells relied on their serrated teeth with powerful cutting power. Even if some of them were swallowed, they could still drill out a hole and escape.

However, there were still many that were swallowed. Although Lin could clearly feel the touch of the cells that were swallowed, they seemed to be frozen by something and couldn't move.

When the digestion began, there was pain. When the digestion was over, Lin couldn't feel it at all.

Now, almost half of the acid injectors had been eaten, and there were only two hundred or so conical cells left.

Lin realized that her attack seemed to be wrong. Even if they could hurt the other side, it was still impossible to hit something that was more than two thousand times bigger than them.

However … she continued to attack.