Chapter 31
Chapter Thirty One Vibration
The vibrations continued . The base grew closer and closer to the water surface … …
The mothership swam as fast as it could . Lin had to make it leave this area to avoid being exposed out of the water .
That was … …
An enormous crack appeared on the sand in front of the mothership . This seemed to be called a “fault . ”
The powerful vibrations split the sand into two . The place where the base was continued to rise while the other part sank down .
The beach which had been on the same level separated into cliffs . If Lin did not flee, it would face the fate of dying by the ultraviolet light above the water .
“Fate?”
While this was a tense moment, Lin still split its attention to pay attention to this interesting term . This term seemed to represent something that could decide the past, future and everything .
Was there really such a thing? Of course not!
Lin quickly turned its attention back . The vibrations grew stronger, and the upward rise accelerated . The base was close to the water surface and Lin had the giant shield tentacles wrap around the base .
However, the mothership might not be able to escape in time .
Boom … …
Suddenly, the entire region of water shook . The surrounding water suddenly rose up due to this force, pushed out of the water surface to form an enormous wall of water .
Lin’s mothership was inside this wall of water, and a term could describe this phenomenon … …
This was a “tsunami?” This seemed to mean a phenomenon where water rose above the surface and formed a wall of water .
The wall of water that charged out of the water surface moved in one direction due to the vibrations . The mothership couldn’t move being caught by the strong currents but it could see the direction the tsunami was travelling in .
That was … … ground?
The mothership’s eyeball could make out the tsunami was heading towards a desolate desert which was clearly on the land .
The tsunami rushed rapidly onto the land, the powerful collision mixing water with sand . The enormous wall of water continued to charge onto the land . As it left behind a large track of water in its wake, the entire wall of water slowly shrank and then completely spread apart, turning into countless puddles of water on the desolate land .
Caught within the tsunami, the mothership was thrown onto land . Powerful ultraviolet light baked its body, and the pain of every cell passed onto Lin .
Half of the mothership’s cells died instantly .
It could not survive … …
The mothership did not have the ability to move on the land, and now it had been washed by the tsunami to this place .
Was its only choice to give up?
The ultraviolet light had killed the cells in the mothership’s ectoderm . The interior structures and organs started to collapse . Water flowed out of everywhere, and the mothership’s end was decided .
Was this the so-called fate?
Lin would not pay attention to something like this .
Lin quickly created a kind of black chitin substance at a small part of the mothership which wrapped around several small cells,
including a few fat cells, and Lin’s first cell–the observer .
This cell had always been inside the mothership . It hadn’t been useful because Lin had the eyeballs, but Lin felt that it had some special meaning so Lin protected it .
Lin would bring the observer back when it had the opportunity .
On the other side, the base was not inside the water either . The entire area had risen above the water surface due to the vibrations .
But unlike the mothership, the giant shield tentacle protected the base well .
The ectoderm of the giant shield tentacles didn’t have eyeballs nor cells . It only had a thick shell . The giant shield tentacle relied on a few muscle cells inside the shell to move . The shell seemed thick enough that ultraviolet light could not penetrate through .
Wrapped up, the base was completely dark . This mean that no light penetrated the outer shell of the giant shield tentacle . But if Lin opened the giant shield tentacle, the structures inside would be exposed to the UV light and immediately killed .
Presently the base was completely exposed out of the water . Lin had to wait for night in order to act .
However, it may be difficult to move the base into the water from above the water . Should it try to live on land? If it had the green cells, food wouldn’t be a problem .
No matter what, Lin would wait for night to see .
Lin’s study of the green cells had progressed slightly . It had finished the first stage of “making things that could absorb and store light . ” Actually, these substances were contained in all kinds of food . Now, Lin was at the second step, mixing the light, the gases and water together to make those edible crystals .
This was the most difficult step . Lin’s cells had automatically completed the previous step but for this step, the cells could not act on their own . Lin had to test by itself . Lin didn’t know how long it would take, but this was just a problem of the ratios involved . Lin would complete this sooner or later .
If Lin completed this, Lin would be able to give all bases the ability to eat light . This meant Lin didn’t have to worry about food . While Lin wasn’t worried now, no food source was as steady as light .
The light grew dimmer, and night finally came . The giant shield tentacle around the base opened slightly and revealed a small hole . Dim light shone in through the hole . This almost dark light didn’t cause any feeling of burning . It appeared that this was not dangerous .
The base’s reproduction chambers created ten warheads like the ones the Leviathan made . Lin had them climb out of the base and explore the outside world .
When the first warhead climbed out of the small hole above the base, Lin once again felt the emptiness in the air . The light of the stars illuminated everything in front of it . The beach that had previously been in the water was completely exposed out of the water, and water still lingered between the sand granules and stones .
This area had truly risen above the water . It seemed this place should be called an “island . ”
The warheads’ segmented limbs had many curved hooks so it could climb even on land .
They climbed down the enormous rock where the base was down to the sand beach . Then the warheads scattered to explore the surrounding environment .
Lin found many organisms that hadn’t fell were trapped in the water between the cracks of sand . Most of them were unicellular while a few were multicellular .
Even in such small puddles, they lived well . However, when the wind blew, countless drops of water would be blown away, and the water would dry sooner or later . At that time, this place would become dry and desolate just like normal land .
Other than these small organisms, there were the corpses of the larger organisms that couldn’t hide in the cracks and were killed by the ultraviolet light . Most of them were sea stars as they were slow movers .
Lin had the warheads climb towards the edges . They climbed for a long time before they reached the edge of the “island . ” Lin found that this place was a far distance from the water surface . Looking down, Lin felt it was a cliff . Lin feared it would be troublesome to return to water .
Would it have to deconstruct the organs of the base and then create a cell type to move them back into water?
After that, Lin had to return to the corpse of the mothership on land to get the observer .
That was far away from this place . If Lin moved the base first, and it would take a long time to complete, Lin felt it was troublesome . It was better to leave the base here . Lin decided to create a new structure and try to have it live on land .
As it thought, Lin had the warheads return to the base . It started to create a new type primarily for creating things on land .
However, Lin could not open the giant shield tentacles much . Otherwise, the water inside the base would spill out . With the resources it had, it could only make smaller things .
As Lin was feeling hampered by this, it found something unique had appeared in the vision of one warhead .
[1] Editor’s comment: … I edited the wrong chapters ! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
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