Chapter 8: Cold spring

Cold, this is the only information in this water.

Lin's acidifiers and cones have all been sacrificed in the spreading ice. Only 91 diggers survived, and they form a circle, so that Lin's observers are not plagued by freezing.

On the outside of this circle, it is already the world of ice. Through the transparent body of these diggers, Lin can see that it is different from the deep blue liquid water, but a static and bright environment.

Lin's community suffered a lot in this seemingly beautiful radiance, although I don't know how the last diggers were not frozen, but Lin didn't want to stay here.

Lin asked the diggers to start moving and try to find a way to get out of here.

Some of the diggers are stuck to the ice, but they can be detached with a little twist.

These diggers seem to have evolved, and the previous cells will freeze as soon as they are slightly exposed to ice, but they are much better.

However, when they act, Lin can clearly feel that the outer membrane of the cell touches the ice crystal, the cold touch...

This seems to be a pain, but unlike the general pain, Lin did not let Line have a strong desire to get rid of the pain, but let Lin feel like trying to shrink into a ball, not moving.

However, this feeling does not affect Lin’s activities.

This area was frozen, and the rest of the waters that can swim are only the small part of the ninety-two cells of Lin. The surrounding water is inaccessible.

Maybe you can dig it?

Lin tried to get the diggers to scratch the ice crystals with the serrations on the surface, but this kind of action didn't help except to make some ice, and it was almost impossible to break the ice that frozen the whole water.

Lyne doesn't know what to do.

The large reduction in the community has made Lin's intelligence much lower, and it cannot think about things that are too complicated.

But in fact, even if there are more than a thousand communities at that time, there is no way to be smart. At this time, they can only wait.

Luck or die.

I don't know how long it took. Although Lin knew the word time, she didn't know the concept, but Lin felt the impact of time.

The first is... starvation.

When Lynn felt hungry once, there seemed to be a feeling in her thoughts, calling for it to find food to supplement the energy loss caused by the activity.

Lin let the digger stop the sawing layer and reduce the energy loss by reducing the activity. This knowledge can still be understood.

However, if you don't move, it doesn't mean a pause. The cells are still losing energy, even if it is slower than moving.

Lin continues to wait. It does everything that every creature should do. When nothing can be done, stop the activity and wait for the surrounding to see what can be done.

In the process of waiting, there are several diggers who have exhausted energy. It is a special kind of pain. Unlike other painful feelings, when the energy is exhausted, the cell membrane and the core will start to slowly. The shrinking, changing and dry, and finally died.

Lynn lets other cells eat up these energy-depleted cell bodies, and their deaths allow other cells to gain more time.

The phenomenon of starvation has caused new ideas in Lin’s thoughts.

Each time the cells eat the food, they quickly digest and then split, and they quickly consume the energy they get.

But what if there is a way to store energy? If there is a way to save a lot of energy in the cell, you won't be afraid to encounter this situation again.

Lin thought of the new word... fat.

Although it does not understand the detailed meaning, the word seems to represent the food stored.

Then, you must try it next time, can you store food.

If you can go out alive...

With this in mind, Lin is still in a state of motion, all cells are the same, quietly floating in the water.

Icy is killing Lin’s will, and the cold feeling makes Lin want to sleep so forever.

But Lin will not give up, although the wait is long, but luck will come sooner or later...

Lynn's observer cells found a crack in the ice layer in front of them.

Warm, Lin feels different from the cold feeling, this new-like feeling wakes up every cell of Lin, and Lin finds that the cracks on the ice are getting more and more...

These ice crystals slowly shattered and cracked under the watchful eyes of Lin, and they became countless huge ice cubes, and these ice cubes began to shrink slowly, just as the food was digested, they became smaller and smaller, then Completely disappeared into the water...

These ice crystals appear out of thin air, freezing everything, and then disappearing instantly. If there are some ice crystal crumbs that are not completely dissolved around, Lin almost feels like this has never happened.

There are 77 left in Lynn's cells, including observers, who have survived this crisis.

They have strong cold resistance, and although this disaster has almost killed Lin's community, Lin has become more powerful.

Lin’s first priority now is to find everything that can be eaten and restore the original community. Now these cells are also slow and fragile because they have lost a lot of energy.

Lin's community swims in the water. Although the ice is almost completely dissolved, the water is still spreading cold. Lin arrives at the huge food before. I saw that this white food has a layer of ice on it. It seems to be ice-clean. Also affected here.

Lin asked the diggers to try to dig up the ice on the food, but no matter how they twisted, they could only saw some ice on them and it was difficult to cause any damage to the ice.

Why is the ice here not melting, and it is hard...

Lin didn't know what the reason was, but it felt it again, and it began to slowly become cold again, and the floating debris floating around the water seemed to have a tendency to become bigger.

Maybe it will freeze again here.

After Lin’s thoughts appeared, it immediately left all the cells, and Lin didn’t want to see the situation again.

Lin’s only hope is to go to the endless dark blue again, find new food, and warm new places.

warm……

Lynn felt it, swam in one direction, where the water began to differ from the previous cold, but to make it comfortable and warm.

By the way, this direction is the direction in which the amoeba escaped.

Not long after the cell group swam, Lin found the figure of the amoeba. This huge monster did not escape the freezing crisis. It was covered with a piece of frost, and the entire huge body slowly floated in the water without any anger. .

Although it has warmed up and started to thaw, it seems that it will no longer wake up.

Lin let the digger come forward, the frost on the amoeba is very fragile and fragile, the diggers are easy to saw, and the soft amoeba body is exposed to Lynn's eyes.

eat.

Lynn only has this idea.

The diggers began to smash the body of the amoeba. They used the old method to cut innumerable debris with serrated teeth, and then slowly ate it. After the energy was added, the cold damage of the cells began to slowly disappear and became energized again. .

Then there is the split, and the number of surviving diggers is slowly increasing.

But Lynn did not forget the previous thoughts.

It stores energy, and Lynn needs something called fat to ensure that cells can survive without food for a long time.

there's one more thing.

Lin hopes to once again find the acidifiers and cones that have completely disappeared during the freeze crisis.