Closing the window, I began to wait for the next division, along the way noticing that the "relatives" in the district became more than once in 2. I had to Wait for a short time, 5 minutes, a message appeared in the log:
― There are 10 minutes left before the division begins, and thanks to your "evolution control" feature, you can make changes to the future creature.
A window popped up:
― Detected an unapplied modification of the apply creature. Yes/No
I answered Yes and after the agreed time the division began:
― Division begins.
― 0.052 energy units spent.
― 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 137 evolution points.
― The duplication of DNA: ready.
― Cell division has begun.
― 0.051 life units lost.
― 0.024 energy units lost.
��� The division is complete.
This time, the fission took more energy,and the life was reduced even more. Apparently, this will raise the issue of increasing the energy limit in the future, but it seems that this is still a long way off.
Now the increase in energy and recovery of life should double, you need not hang on to the improvement, or you can skip the division. Now I have 149 OE, after checking the available improvements, I noticed that the upgrade "Compartmentalization 1" opened for 100 OE, from the second shooting gallery, which gave tools for editing the internal structure of the cell. But by itself, without further improvements, it is useless.
In total, I have two options:
The first is to pump out improvements for the DNA, the points are just enough.
The second is to take "Compartmentalization 1".
The first option will allow you to lengthen the DNA ― which means more mutations and, as a result, more evolution points. The second is the development of the path started, even more effective absorption of useful substances from the surrounding liquid, but I will get the effect only through evolution. You can still hold your glasses, take a "villus" and go to the looming means of transportation in the distance, but I can't control the cage. Who knows where it will take if the flagellum is added, so I did not consider this option yet. After a short but fierce battle, greed won, and I decided to take the first option. "Multiple DNA stores of 1" and "Plasmid" were purchased, after which 19 were left.
In General, while I was studying the development tree and choosing what to improve, the time should have already come. I rolled up the tree and saw that the energy and life values were 0.074 and 0.049, meaning that only a third of the spent values of life and energy were restored. This is noticeably less than I expected, it feels faster than it was without the upgrade, but not at all in the promised 2 times.
"Don't tell me that the food ends up in the water..."
I had a bad feeling. But first, you need to improve the cell with just opened upgrades. I went to the cell editor and added 3 plasmids. Although the main chromosome has decreased, the total volume of DNA has increased by 20%. After applying the build, I decided, before the division began, to understand the editor and eventually found a list of materials from which the cell is made. Switching between the current and just made builds, I realized that the number of proteins jumped, in addition, as I saw, there is a parameter "energy Expenditure for life", which jumped from 0.0055 to 0.006. True, it seems that the longer the DNA, the more complex the behavior of the cell, but I still can't change it, so this is little consolation.
After looking at the editor, I switched to the "very fun" activity of watching a strip of energy. Not to get bored completely and not to fall asleep, although can I sleep at all?
I started looking around. Judging by the fact that the cells were lying in two, they all shared, and some were already lying in four.
"There is a suspicion that it is not dissolved in water useful substances are running out, but just consumers of them become more and more. It may even lead to starvation."
In General, this place can not see how far reaching the surface with my relatives and what's behind it. Apparently, soon it will be necessary to go in search of more favorable places. Judging by the gaps between the cells, there are still a few more divisions before the place runs out. It is difficult to predict exactly how many times I will have time to share, the geometric progression is not so easy to imagine, but it is definitely more than three or even four. You need to calculate the improvements in order to have time to become not only mobile, but also quite resilient, before you go free swimming.
While I was thinking, the energy finally filled up and the cell began to divide, and I naturally agreed to the modification.
― Division begins.
― Spent 0.057 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.
― Mutations: thanks to the mutation, you have opened the "Villus 1" improvement.
― Mutations: thanks to your "evolution control" feature, the genome change is blocked and the changes are converted into evolution points.
― Received 104 evolution points.
― The duplication of DNA: ready.
― Cell division has begun.
― 0.055 life units lost.
― 0.022 energy units lost.
― The division is complete.
"Finally a free update!" I cried, mentally, of course "However, with the points of evolution this time was not lucky."
While the process of division was going on, I looked at the twin cell to see if something had changed visually. The surface seems to have become a little different in the form of pimples. Also, due to the fact that I looked, you can say, closely, I was able to notice a chromosome, 3 floating rings (probably plasmids) and a lot of small things that were, it seems, ribosomes. Apparently, after a couple of divisions, I will become different from the neighboring cells.
"Okay, this is all good, but time is running out, we need to figure out how best to spend the evolution points, so as not to end up dead."