Chapter 1

 Cell

On the endless blue and smooth sea, a small figure passed by at high speed.

"Haha, there are no multicellular organisms, but a planet with an ocean? It's rare, I don't know how long it took to find such a place. Now I can enjoy being a 'creator' ~ Although it's just throwing in some primitive cells from Earth … "

This figure had short blonde hair and a cute face, looking like a little loli. She stopped on the sea, waved her hand gently, and a large number of droplet-like objects fell into the sea.

"Then … add a little bit of my knowledge and … consciousness to one of the cells."

"Ah, yes, there's also this. If there's only a little bit of eye, isn't that the same as not being able to see anything? That's too pitiful ~ With this, you can use the vision of a normal human eye, even if it's a single cell. "

She sprinkled some powdery objects into the sea.

"Sharine, let's go ~"

A voice came from the sky, which made the little loli slightly stunned.

"I know, I'll be back!"

She casually replied, looked at the sea again, and said, "Then I'll be leaving, I'll visit you later."

"I'm really looking forward to it, what will it evolve into …?"

With that, the little loli's body slowly floated up, then turned into a light, and disappeared under the starry sky.

…

"Where is this? Who am I? "

This was its first thought. It had consciousness and tactile sense, but it didn't have the sense of sight or smell. It knew that it was in a liquid through its only sense.

This liquid seemed to be called water.

"I … am called a cell?"

It did not have a brain, but it knew the shape of its body. It was a thin, circular membrane. In the center of the membrane, there was a complex, precise structure called the core. It was because of the existence of the core that it could think, move, and live.

However, its thinking was limited to this. Such a small core couldn't let it think too much.

"Move … search …"

It controlled the outer layer of the membrane, and the outer layer suddenly swayed like a wave. This action allowed it to slowly swim in the water, looking for a target in the endless darkness …

Food.

Food was equivalent to energy. With energy, it had more knowledge, a larger body, and it could think more.

It kept swimming, and suddenly it felt that its outer layer came into contact with something.

Food?

It tried its best to identify what the object was, but other than the only information it could get, there was nothing else. That was the only way to further understand what the object was.

Devour!

It slowly surrounded this object with the membrane, and then swallowed it into the membrane.

It felt that this object slowly shrank in its body and finally disappeared, and at the same time, it felt that its body was slowly changing. The membrane around its body that seemed fragile began to slowly strengthen and expand.

This activity only lasted for a moment, but it knew that it was food.

It was food, it must get more … food!

It quickly, it's outer... It quickly swallowed it's swallowed

It was the same feeling as before. The thing that it had swallowed was slowly shrinking … This time, it thought of a word.

This was called … digestion.

After swallowing two pieces of food in a row, its body became a little bigger, and it became more powerful. Its speed increased, and all this meant that it could find more food and obtain more energy.

Devour, devour, devour.

It had almost devoured all the 'soft' things around it, and its body had almost swelled up by a large size.

However, it was still not satisfied. It kept swimming in the water, trying to devour more food.

When it swallowed the next piece of food, its body seemed to have expanded to its limit. After completely digesting the food again, it did not continue to increase its body size. Instead, it slowly split with its core as the center, and then completely split.

In the end, it became two bodies that were exactly the same. They had the same circular membrane and the same core. It had completely split into two.

However, its consciousness did not split into two.

Even though it had split into two cells, it still felt that they were like its own body. It could control these two bodies as it wished, just like how it controlled its hands.

"What are hands?"

Its thoughts seemed to have become richer. The double nuclei gave it more ability to think, but at the same time, it also had more questions.

"Speaking of which, who am I?"

"I should have a name …."

"And this name is …."

"Lin."

For some reason, that was the only word that appeared in its mind.

"Then let's call it this, Lin … it feels good."

Lin continued to move forward. The two cells slowly swam in the water, continuing to collect food.

This meant higher intelligence, more bodies, and more power.

Because Lin now had two cells, it was much more efficient at finding food. Soon, it allowed one of the cells to eat enough food to enter the stage of division.

When the cell completely divided, it meant that Lin had three bodies. Three identical cells, representing the existence of 'Lin'.

Lin could completely control them. Although the three cells were not connected together, commanding them was not as difficult as commanding one body. In fact, it felt easier.

Then, more questions arose in Lin's mind. It could think about more things, and it soon discovered the biggest problem.

Darkness.

That's right, it could not observe its surroundings. Although it could sense that it was surrounded by liquid, it could not know the details … so everything around it was endless darkness for Lin.

"Eyes …"

This word appeared in Lin's mind, but it could not understand it any further.

In order to understand this word, Lin tried to devour more food, but the soft food around it seemed to have been eaten up, so it decided to swim further away.

The three small cells that shared a common consciousness began their journey …

"?"

Suddenly, Lin noticed that the cell at the very front seemed to have touched something. Unlike the soft food from before, this thing was very hard, but smaller than the food from before.

Unable to analyze what it was, Lin had one of the cells swallow the hard thing.

"… Seems like it can't be digested."

The hard thing inside one of Lin's cells showed no signs of shrinking, it simply floated silently within the cell's membrane.

Seems like it's a useless thing?

Lin didn't care about that and continued to search for other food.

Around here, it found a lot of similar soft things, but no hard things.

Continuing to devour, one of Lin's cells was once again filled with energy and split.

This time, Lin had four cells, but it still felt that it wasn't enough, so it continued …

When the number of cells reached five, Lin's previous thought appeared again.

I want to see …

I want to see everything outside! I don't want darkness!

When that thought reached a certain point, the core of the cell that had just eaten the hard thing trembled slightly.

A tentacle-like object reached out from the core of the cell, lightly touched the hard thing, and slowly pushed it to the surface of the cell's membrane.