Having decided that I would be able to find some information in the interface that would help me understand what was going on in General, and how I lived up to this life, I spent a lot of time digging through the menu.
As I understood, although the cursor is not here, but the interface follows the look, though there is nothing to click and you need to mentally say a command like "open". You can also immediately say, for example, "open status" or" open skills" and they will open, with more complex commands have not yet experimented ― not before.
Icons under the console were respectively: 3 bars-menu, magnifying glass-encyclopedia, book-status and skills, 2 twisted lines (as I understood ― this is DNA) - different tools for creating a creature and its development, and the hammer ― was empty, although as I understood it should appear here sometime craft. I know this because I've flipped through the encyclopedia. It would take many hours to read everything carefully, and this is despite the fact that most of the encyclopedia is closed to me-apparently, so that I do not cheat and find out everything myself. As I understood from it, new data will be available with increasing the level, obtaining skills, reaching new levels of evolution,in addition, all the information received will be opened/entered here.
So far, I have limited myself to reading the most burning topics at the moment: how to survive and develop here. In addition, with the knowledge gained, I picked up the tools for creating the creature.
In the end I figured out the current situation: I have become the most primitive form of life, all I can do is almost diffuse to absorb the substances I need-the cell itself contains minimal and simplest elements: the wall, DNA and ribosomes-everything. But the place I was in seemed to allow even me to live. The evolution tools were represented by 3 tabs: the first one had a development tree of various improvements for the cell and an inactive tab with a development tree for the organism, and in the first one nothing was discovered. The next one was the editor of the cell, but since nothing could be improved, it was not interesting yet, so there was also an inactive tab "editor of the organism". The 3rd tab was the most difficult and difficult to understand-it was the DNA browser. Yes stupidly the DNA sequence. No, of course, there was a mode that converts letters into a sequence of commands-genes, but this does not make it easier ― you still need to be able to figure it out. Although from this I realized that at the moment my body-cell lives strictly according to this algorithm and if I want to drive, I will need to have a brain, which is impossible to do on the scale of a single cell.
While I was dealing with my new knowledge, I suddenly realized that something was happening, as the surface beneath me began to move. Looking at the cause of my movement, I saw that a ball similar to the ones around me was separating from me.
"There can be no doubt about it, I am a unicellular organism" and no matter how much I ran from the inevitable, this event killed my last hope.
Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that the strips of life and energy had sunk a lot, and the numbers there were 0.05 and 0.025, respectively. And in the console I noticed a lot of messages, squandered at the beginning of the division I started to read them:
― Before the division left 10 minutes, due to your features "control evolution" you can make changes in the future being.
― Division begins.
― Spent 0.05 units of energy.
― Your life and energy will be divided among your descendants.
― Mutations: thanks to your "accelerated evolution " feature, the probability of mutations increases by 10 times.
― Mutation: the new improvements are not obtained.
― Mutations: thanks to your "evolution control" feature, the genome change is blocked and the changes are converted into evolution points.
― Received 132 evolution points.
― The duplication of DNA: ready.
― Cell division has begun.
― Lost 0.05 units of life.
― 0.025 energy units lost.
― The division is complete.
I was very interested in the message about evolution points, and I immediately opened the development tree, already thinking that it would be possible to take it. The "Circular chromosome", "Ribosome type 1" and "Plasmalemma type 1" bars were already open in appearance, but marked in gray ― clearly the starting minimum. From the first one, you can pump out "Multiple DNA stores, level 1", which costs 50 evolution points and, according to the description, opens up DNA improvements and tools for this in the cell editor. From this die, one line went into the distance, and the other went to improve the "Plasmid", which was just the easiest solution for any manipulation of hereditary information (thanks to the description) and cost 80 OE (points of evolution).
"These are, of course, promising improvements, especially since they will not allow you to build a complex organism without them, but as I understand it, this is a matter of the future. These improvements look much more useful at the moment, " I said to myself, looking at what I could pump out of the last die. "Shell structures, level 1", which revealed "Plasmalemma type 2" and " Villus type 1", all cost 50, 70, 50 evolution points respectively. The first were tools for the configuration of the cell shell, while the villus, according to the description, are needed in order to attach them to something. Also, a large number of them can repel water and they add protection. However, this is a universal villus, so it does not really do anything well. But the second type of membrane allows you to replace part of the channels in the membrane with special carrier proteins that pass only certain substances.
"The most interesting upgrade," I decided. Apparently, if instead of getting everything into the cell, make sure that only the right things get into it for the most part ― this will increase the speed of reactions, which in turn will accelerate the regeneration of life and energy. Having decided, I took "Shell structures, level 1" to open access to the" Plasmalemma type 2", and then took it, after which there were 12 OE.
Immediately going to the cell editor, I started changing my own. I immediately popped up the window " Attention all changes will be applied during the creation of a new organism. The "Simplest type 2"" tab will be created, and when I closed it, I actually saw a new tab. You could switch to the old one, but you couldn't change anything there. When I returned to editing, I realized that I would not be allowed to change the form. In General, I can't change anything except the shell parameters. The shell itself was now worse than a colander, not only was it full of channels, but the wall itself was not so dense and almost everything passed through it. Apparently, the liquid on the outside and inside didn't differ much. I decided to create these carrier proteins, and the system helpfully suggested which ones and how many I needed. Of course, it was possible to adjust everything, but after looking at the manual settings, I realized that I would not have time to do this until the next division. I replaced 75% of the channels with proteins, did not give any more, and twisted the parameters of the non-transmission of the membrane to the maximum. Let random substances still fall into my cell in a noticeable amount, but still the composition of the cytoplasm will change significantly.
After completing and applying the changes, I received a message again that they will only take effect after division. Now the window showed how the improved cell would function, and its updated characteristics. I saw that the values of life regeneration and energy regeneration are now equal to 0.02(1) which I really liked ― an increase of 2 times.