Posted on 2018-08-23 by wyhcwe

Last chapter recap: Lin found some tubeworms and its protector was attacked by an unknown organism

This chapter has been brought to you by me, and WanderingGummiOfDoom .

Chapter Twenty One – Settling and Traveling Afar

After Lin acquired new terms, it started to be able to understanding some of the meanings represented by these terms . So it called this new being a “cutter sh.e.l.l” because it had cut the protector into two pieces .

The protector had hard armor, and the part that was pinched was where the tail connected to the body . The tail of the protector was already inside the sh.e.l.l . Lin released a large number of devourers so that they could swim into the opening between the cutter sh.e.l.l’s two halves .

Lin could see the two halves of the sh.e.l.l tightly gripping the protector’s body . The part showed large cracks due to the force . Countless small tentacles inside the cutter sh.e.l.l wrapped around the protector’s tail . The head of these tentacles were sharp and they created many small holes on the thinner parts of the sh.e.l.l . They seemed to be trying to suck in the cells inside the protector .

But they could not eat anything as it was empty inside .

While Lin had put many exploding b.a.l.l.s and acid ejectors in the tail of the protector, they only took up a small amount of s.p.a.ce . When the protector was caught, Lin had them retreat .

The cutter sh.e.l.l might have been puzzled over why the interior was empty, so it did not completely cut off the protector’s body .

Lin started its attack . The devourer tore at the small tentacles inside the sh.e.l.l, and Lin’s mothers.h.i.+p released more troops that burrowed into the sh.e.l.l to attack it .

The little tentacles inside the cutter sh.e.l.l didn’t seem to have any ability to fight back against other organisms . The devourers easily tore them apart . The giant teeth devourers could easily bite them off . The injectors pushed large numbers of multipliers inside .

The cutter sh.e.l.l suddenly moved one of its sh.e.l.ls and sprouted a

powerful jet of air when attacked . It spat out all of the devourers and the protector’s tail at the same time . Then it closed its sh.e.l.l and quickly spun to try to burrow back into the sand .

Lin immediately had the mothers.h.i.+p stretch out its tentacles and wrap around the cutter sh.e.l.l to stop it from spinning . It pulled the cutter sh.e.l.l out of the sand .

Lin had modified the mothers.h.i.+p’s sprout . Now the sprout could curve in all directions and the mothers.h.i.+p could retreat, turn and make other movements . It could pull the cutter sh.e.l.l out of the water .

The prerequisite being the mothers.h.i.+p had to be stronger than the enemy … . .

Even though the mothers.h.i.+p used all of its effort to blow out water to pull back, it could not pluck out the cutter sh.e.l.l from the water, and was actually slowly being pulled in .

Lin found that a very large part of the cutter sh.e.l.l was buried deep in the sand . The bottom sh.e.l.l of the cutter sh.e.l.l was a round pillar covered in roots . As a result, it was firmly entrenched in the sand .

But this was just its last struggles .

The multipliers had invaded the cutter sh.e.l.l in large numbers . They burrowed deeper into the cutter sh.e.l.l from the blood vessels in the tentacles . They started to furiously absorb the cells of the cutter sh.e.l.l and increase in number . At the same time, Lin released a large number of exploding b.a.l.l.s from the mothers.h.i.+p . They smashed onto the cutter sh.e.l.l’s outer sh.e.l.l and created explosions .

The outer sh.e.l.l of the cutter sh.e.l.l had a thin and transparent coating . It had the attribute of resisting corrosion . This was to be expected as the dissolving fluid was the greatest danger to hard sh.e.l.ls .

Then Lin had the exploding b.a.l.l.s gather on the mothers.h.i.+p’s hammer . A new kind of hammer took form . This was … … the exploding hammer!

The great force produced by the enormous hammer tentacle broke though the cutter sh.e.l.l’s protective coating . The exploding b.a.l.l.s’ acid directly affected the cutter sh.e.l.l’s

sh.e.l.l’s unprotected sh.e.l.l . Lin could create a hole on the sh.e.l.l with one blow .

Lin easily opened the cutter sh.e.l.l’s outer sh.e.l.l that was once thought to be “unable to be broken . ” While Lin would explode all of the exploding b.a.l.l.s with each blow, and had to replenish the exploding b.a.l.l.s, it had enough exploding b.a.l.l.s it wasn’t a problem .

On the other side, the multiplier experienced attacks from the cutter sh.e.l.l’s cells inside . These cells could consume and digest the multipliers with their large bodies .

These should be the cutter sh.e.l.l’s immune cells . The multiplier’s advance slowed down and even lost ground as they appeared .

However, the multipliers had caused damage against the cutter sh.e.l.l . The cutter sh.e.l.l stopped trying to burrow into the sand but Lin did not stop attacking . Under the successive attacks of the exploding hammer, the cutter sh.e.l.l’s sh.e.l.l showed a large hole . In the next moment, countless devourers attacked it again .

Regardless of how strong the cutter sh.e.l.l’s outer sh.e.l.ls were, they were not a match for the devourers . Lin only had to wait for the devourers to tear the cutter sh.e.l.l’s interior into pieces .

During this time, the cutter sh.e.l.l sent out a kind of glandular cell to battle the devourers . This kind of cell would spit out large amounts of chitin substances to surround and seal the devourers . However, before that occurred, the devourers tore them apart .

The cutter sh.e.l.l’s insides was a large and soft body covered in large numbers of small tentacles . It had all kinds of organs, many of which Lin had seen before .

Lin cared about the cutter sh.e.l.l’s sh.e.l.l .

The cutter sh.e.l.l’s upper and round sh.e.l.l stayed on the surface while the lower sh.e.l.l was a hooked structure that reached deep into the soil . The greater part of the cutter sh.e.l.l’s body was in here .

Most importantly, they were extremely hard . Lin could not create such a hard sh.e.l.l with its present chitin creating methods . Studying this would be useful for Lin .

Lin also found a kind of green cells on the upper sh.e.l.l of the cutter sh.e.l.l .

cutter sh.e.l.l . Theyexisted mostly in the s.p.a.ce inside the sh.e.l.l . The cutter sh.e.l.l had many cell pa.s.sageways connected in this area . The green cells would create extremely tiny crystal pieces that were about the same size as viruses . The cutter sh.e.l.l’s pa.s.sages were primarily for consuming the abundant crystals .

Those could be eaten?

The green cells Lin reared would also produce crystals . However, Lin had expelled them each time as trash . But the cutter sh.e.l.l ate these things?

Lin had to study this .

if the green cells could produce food, then Lin would not eat them as their reproduction rate wasn’t high .

Lin studied the cutter sh.e.l.l for a while and then it became Lin’s food . Even its hard sh.e.l.l wasn’t spared . Lin dissolved the great majority of it for chitin .

After obtaining the enormous cutter sh.e.l.l, Lin could cover the entire mothers.h.i.+p in armor and have full protection .

Lin used the painter to recover the cracks on the protector . It calculated it almost hadn’t suffered any losses in this battle . It should have achieved good success against an organism of similar size .

Then next … …

Where should it go?

Lin looked into the distance . It liked to go explore areas it had never gone to before . But it also wanted to settle down in a place with abundant food as it wouldn’t know what dangers it would encounter in its exploration .

But staying in one place was not interesting, and Lin didn’t know when the food would run out .

Couldn’t it do both at the same time?

Let the mothers.h.i.+p settle and then create some new “types” to explore!

It did as it thought . Lin started to search for a good place on the sand . It quickly found an enormous piece of stone upright in the sand . If Lin was on this stone, it could easily observe the surrounding area and wouldn’t have to worry about being ambushed by organisms that lived in the sand .

The top of the stone was flat and could hold ten mothers.h.i.+ps . Lin didn’t feel it wasn’t large, but it would first take over and change places when it found a

it found a larger one .

Lin had the mothers.h.i.+p floated at the center of the flat part of the stone, and then sent out all kinds of squads to create structures nearby . It primarily made some defensive and hunting tentacles that had stingers at the perimeter and created all kinds of organs at the center of the flat s.p.a.ce .

Lin desired to modify this enormous stone into a living base with a heart and blood vessels connected to the tentacles, sacs for digesting food, and “dissolving factory” for dissolving and combining chitin substances!

Lin did not plan to have the mothers.h.i.+p stick to the stone . The mothers.h.i.+p must maintain a state where it could move at any moment . Due to this, Lin had the mothers.h.i.+p stay afloat above the enormous stone base .

Lin tried and the crystals the green cells produced were edible and the nutrient effect similar to the white gel of the past . Lin needed to rear them on a large-scale basis .

Maybe it could form an enormous round stage to rear large numbers of green cells on top so that they could be exposed to more light . The more they divided, the more crystals they would produce .

The protector was responsible for searching for food . Lin had to create many types that could leave the base to hunt . Depending on just the devourers was not sufficient .

Lin planned to hollow out the inside of this enormous stone and shove more structures into it .

However, Lin was most concerned with the types that would go explore far away .

What should it do?

Editor’s notes: So much going on . First, mutant clams with hentai tentacles . Then exploding hammers of acid . Which I don’t get how it works, “spitting” out acid into the water would dilute it and it would be carried away by the current . Then we have an immune system and SUGAR! Talk about odd evolutionary development . I’m pretty sure immune systems are a much later development but sugar is the basis for energy production and should have been one of the first things to be addressed . Whatever I guess, magic of storytelling I suppose .