Chapter 3

After learning about the existence of the word 'danger,' Lin began to cautiously continue its journey to find food.

Now with thirteen cells, Lin no longer spread them out in a circle as before, but kept them very close together, following the observer cell that moved at the front.

Lin was considering what to do if it encountered those spiky balls again?

Run? Keep running? But Lin remembered that just one of those spiky balls could burst into over thirty once inside its cells.

What if it was surrounded by a large number of spiky balls and couldn't escape?

...Fight back?

How to fight back?

Can't think...

Lin needed more food.

Lin continued to move forward, and its observer cell discovered a strange, huge object in front of it.

The object was white and extremely large. With Lin's current vision, it couldn't see the edges, whether looking up, down, left, or right. The object extended into the vast blue, like a huge white wall blocking the path of Lin's cell cluster.

This time, Lin first let one cell touch the surface of the object to see what it was.

This soft, fluffy texture is...

Food?

Is this huge wall food? Such a huge amount of food?

If it eats this, Lin's cells will have an unimaginable number.

Incredible...

Lin made its cell membrane open, gently took a piece from it, and swallowed it.

The observer could see, and Lin could feel, that the piece was slowly being digested inside the cell...

This is indeed food, no different from the soft, small pieces of food it encountered before.

Like discovering a treasure, all of Lin's cells rushed over, devouring the huge, boundless food, while the observer remained still, looking around for any danger.

Lin would never forget what happened before and the pain it felt, even with such a huge amount of food in front of it, it didn't act recklessly.

Although the food was huge, it was too soft. Just by rubbing the cell membrane on it, a large amount of debris could be scraped off.

Using this method, Lin's feeding began. Its cells continuously rubbed the food to scrape off pieces, then swallowed them, and split after eating to a certain extent.

By eating this way, Lin's cells, like groundhogs, dug deeper and deeper into the huge food, creating holes.

Groundhogs?

Lin was puzzled by this new word in its thoughts, but unlike before, groundhogs seemed to be something very difficult to understand. Lin couldn't comprehend their extremely complex structure at all.

Forget it, don't think too much.

After a while, the huge food had been eaten into a large pit by Lin's cells, and the number of cells had reached thirty. Lin noticed that some of the cells that had dug deeper had some special conditions.

Because no matter how soft the food was, the cell membrane would eventually wear out from continuous rubbing. When these slightly damaged cells split, they produced a special type of cell.

These newly born cells were not only harder but also had small saw-like protrusions on their membranes, making it easier for them to scrape off debris from the food.

The new cells were named 'Diggers.'

Lin felt that this new name was quite good, though not very loud.

Now, its cells had split into fifty, ten of which were Diggers.

Continuing like this, even this boundless food, it was confident it could eat it all.

However, things were never that simple.

The observer cell, which had been floating higher up and watching the cells eat, suddenly saw several strange, oval-shaped things.

These strange things were also enclosed in cell membranes, but they were about three times the size of Lin's cells, and their bodies were covered with dense holes, giving Lin a strange feeling.

The rapid increase in Lin's colony instantly made it realize that these strange things were another type of cell. There were five of these strange cells, and they slowly swam toward the food. Indeed, they were also there to eat.

The way these strange cells ate was also very strange. They sprayed green liquid from the holes on their bodies, and the food would dissolve into white debris upon contact. These strange cells then absorbed the debris to eat.

Lin noticed that one of these strange cells had approached one of its cells, and the green liquid it secreted had slightly touched Lin's cell.

It hurts.

Lin felt the pain again, seeing the cell membrane of this cell slowly rot under the green liquid, turning into debris, and being completely absorbed by the strange cell along with the food debris.

Lin felt the danger again, and countless thoughts flashed through its mind.

Fight, fight, fight, fight, kill it, kill it, kill it

Kill it!

Anger, this fresh word, made Lin's cells surge forward, surrounding the strange cell.