18 Chapter 18 The Road to Multicellular (1/2)
In fact, when Lin entered the rift, she had already begun to consider fighting the current.
This is similar to the hot spring that resists the entrance of the rift. As long as the cells are combined to form a huge shield, it can prevent the impact of the water flow.
But to block the strong currents outside, a stronger and huge shield is needed. Lynn believes that no matter how many cells get together, they will be blown away.
The cells must be connected in some way to form a solid that is not easily washed away.
For example, use the saw teeth of the digger to hook each other?But that may hurt you.
But Lin believes that there should be other ways to connect the cells together. After all, the cell membrane is soft and can change its shape, and the two cells are originally one, but only split, so they can be combined again ...
And how exactly do cells divide?Why do they split?Instead of growing very big at the beginning?
As if it were very complicated, Lin didn't like to think about complicated things, so she planned to start the experiment directly. It first squeezed the two cells together, wrapped them in each other with cell membranes, and kept inputting 'combination' thoughts.
But this seems to be unsuccessful. After all, Lin ’s cells are different from amoeba. They can at most stretch out some small bumps on the surface of the cell membrane, so they ca n’t hold each other.
Then let them evolve into amoeba look?Lin believes that the shape of amoeba should be formed by the places where they often like to drill narrow cracks.
Thinking of this, Lin started to let a few basic cells look for the narrow cracks in this cave to drill, try to see if they can evolve amoeba after a long time.
But Lin didn't want to wait here, so he immediately started another experiment.
Just try to stop the cell division.
When cells divide, they will first divide the core into two, and then slowly split the cell membrane to become two cells.
What Lynn has to do is to stop the division when their cell membranes are cracking to the end, so that there will be two cells connected together.
Lynn's community has been eating non-stop, so soon there will be cells to divide, which happens to be a basic cell.
Lin immediately did what she thought, waiting for their nuclei to split into two, at which time the cell membrane began to split from the center, and the two nuclei would move to both sides.
And when the film in the middle was almost completely broken, Lin suddenly gave a 'stop' thought.
Stopped!
The dividing cells actually stopped. They have almost divided into two cells, leaving only a little cell membrane at the end connected.
Although it is successful, it is estimated that it will break when you pull it.
Lin then began to let them strengthen the connection, and then maintain this look.
After a while, Lin felt that the connection should be strengthened, because the cell membrane of the connection was obviously thicker.
Then Lin began to try to drag one of the cells away from the other, or let both of them go in different directions, even with the greatest strength, and did not pull it off.
It seems to be a success, then Lynn has a new cell type, but what is it called?
'Connector'?
It feels ordinary ... but forget it, then Lin can use the connector to make a huge wall that resists the flow!
Lin started to let the connector eat more food, and then let them continue to divide. Of course, they did not divide completely as before, so that these connected cell clusters will become larger and larger.
Lin found that the group of cells formed by the connectors easily surpassed the huge cells such as storage or burst balls, and they also have a feature that they do n’t need to eat every one. The cells together are so convenient.
However, there is still a problem. If this cell mass starts to grow, the action will start to become difficult. After all, it will stick together.