Chapter 1
Recap from last chapter: Lin encounters oxygen and its enormous base on the rock is destroyed as a result .
Chapter One After the Sleep
An unknown amount of time passed .
After that calamity, Lin used a great number of cells to block off the entrance to the cavern and never opened it .
Through the transparent cells, it could see that the gas bubbles floating outside had never decreased even though there were no more green cells .
Lin tried to have the cells evolve immunity against the gas bubbles but every cell that absorbed the gas bubbles would immediately die . There were no cells that could successfully survive, and divide into cells with immunity .
Lin could only focus on the cavern entrance, watch as day and night switched back and forth, and hope for a day that it could once again return to the water outside .
But the cells constantly appeared outside and obstructed Lin … …
However, the food that was called the white gel inside the cavern was not endless .
The white gel that came out of the cavern walls gradually started to decrease . This process was slow and long . At the start, it did not affect Lin greatly but accumulated over time, the white gel was unable to sustain Lin’s cell group . In the end, there wasn’t one bit left .
When Lin finished eating the last of the white gel, the entire cavern became a normal rock cavern .
Lin tried to dig down, but no matter how much it excavated, it could not uncover any white gel . It only found rock under rock, and there was no more white gel in the rock .
Also, in the last excavation, Lin even dug out a few gas bubbles . This caused Lin to stop digging .
At the start, Lin first ate the luminescent microbes that were still alive, and then started to use up the fat cells in its cell group . These cells allowed Lin to survive for a very long time .
However, it was useless . The gas bubbles outside did not decrease, and showed sings of increasing .
Against Lin’s will, the fat cells were used up and Lin started to use up the other non-fat cells . In other words, killing those cells and using the corpses to support the remaining cells .
It was not a good idea to eat one’s one cells to survive . Lin’s once prosperous cell group started to wither and decrease dramatically . After a period of time, Lin’s cell group dropped from the millions to only a few thousand .
That layer of cells in front of the cavern entrance had died long ago, but their bodies were still there, stopping the gas bubbles from floating inside .
Lin knew that this was a long process of dying .
Lin had never stopped trying to have some cells go outside to evolve immunity against the gas bubbles, but none of them succeeded .
Could it only wait for death?
… … It was not like that .
In the last moment, Lin gathered all of its remaining cells into a sphere, and the observer at the center .
Lin had these cells connect together, and then hardened the outer layer .
This sphere was at the center of the cavern . Lin called it a “cocoon . ” After forming the “cocoon,” it proceeded to the next step that it called “hibernation . ”
In the state of “hibernation,” the cells would completely stop moving . In this state, it would almost not need any food . This was a state used for a long wait . Lin thought that in this state, no matter how long it had to wait, it would not die .
But after hibernation, Lin’s consciousness would sink into darkness . This would cause it to be completely cut off from the outside . It would not be able to feel anything, not know how long had passed, not know the changes outside, and not know when it should recover its consciousness .
Lin did not overthink . It could only hope that the future would be better .
Thinking this way, Lin slowly sank into hibernation . The image from the observer slowly became blurry in its consciousness and then completely sank into darkness … …
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Time continued to pass . As day and night switched countless times, the surrounding world changed greatly . However, Lin did not detect this . It was still in the state of hibernation . Lin did not set a time for itself to wake up because it did not know what time would be safest .
However, other than Lin’s consciousness, its cells had the ability to judge the world around them .
This was Lin’s thought, have the cells judge for themselves when to wake up .
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After an unknown length of time passed, Lin finally received a message to wake up .
Had it succeeded? Was there no more danger in the surroundings?
The observer slowly swayed its body . When Lin’s consciousness woke up, light once again filled its thoughts .
The hard layer of the “cocoon” slowly fell off as Lin woke up . The cells hidden inside once again swam out and came into contact with the outside world .
At first glance, Lin could see the surrounding cavern . This was still the same as when it had entered hibernation . There almost weren’t any changes .
However, Lin saw something that terrified it–those gas bubbles were everywhere in the cavern!
But Lin did not think about escape . Since it woke up, there definitely had to be a reason .
Lin watched as one cell came into contact with a gas bubble . Just like before, the gas bubble was absorbed into the cell and then … …
Nothing happened .
The gas bubble did not kill the cell like before . Lin was certain that these gas bubbles were the thing called “oxygen . ” This thing would destroy the nucleus and give Lin great pain, but there was no feeling now .
Had it evolved?
Yes, it was evolution . Lin had evolved immunity towards these gas bubbles while it didn’t know how much time had been spent and how many cells had died .
But as long as it could live, everything was worth it .
Then now was the time to become alive again!
Lin found that there were all kinds of little cells on the surrounding cavern walls . It was not strange for other cells to enter the cavern during Lin’s hibernation, and this was all free food to Lin .
What was “free?” Such a strange word .
Who cares that much?
Lin felt very good right now . Almost all of its surviving cells were basic cells . There were some stinger cells and other cells . Lin was very happy they were alive .
Lin immediately had the basic cells change shape . Some became diggers, some acid ejectors . After they finished changing, they quickly started to hunt the wild cells in the surroundings .
These little cells did not have any abilities to fight, and then quickly became Lin’s food to come back to life .
In the process of hunting these cells, Lin found some interesting things . The cells that absorbed the gas bubbles did not have anything happen to them .
Unlike in the past, the cells that absorbed the oxygen gas bubbles became even faster and stronger than before . They seemed to have increased in all of their abilities .
Why? Did these cells not just get the immunity to oxygen, they could use it to strengthen themselves?
This was really … … unique .
But why? Did oxygen have some wondrous power?
Lin was unable to understand it right now .
Lin’s cells that had obtained new energy quickly killed the surrounding cells and then rapidly divided . Lin decided to recover the former prosperity of its cell group .
However, Lin did not want to wait by a tree stump for a hare 1 . It decided to form something that could swim quickly to move through the water and hunt .
Wait … … what were “tree stump” and “hare”?
Why would it have these strange words? While Lin understood “wait,” what were “tree stump” and “hare?”
I don’t want any of these strange terms appear again!
Lin thought this, but it still thought that these terms would still appear .
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After a small detour, Lin started to assemble its cells .
Lin found that these cells grew and divided faster with the help of oxygen, and it was even quicker for them to assemble .
Lin quickly assembled something unique .
Able to help it travel … … a body .
Translator Ramblings: The hibernation part I can accept with question … … sort of … … the spontaneous adaptation to oxygen levels … … well, it’s a story .
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