After the next division, as always, the question arose that would pump. I was getting tired of it. Because seats in place the only thing you can do is to look around and choose what to improve.
Probably because of fatigue, I did not choose for a long time and took "Compartmentalization 1" and "Inclusions". Now I can create reserves and no longer worry that there is almost no energy after fission.
Two more division and I'll be able to go somewhere. Hmm... I can't seem to get physically tired, but mental fatigue is just as bad.
I went to the editor to see what I can do now and stock up. Inclusions were essentially chunks of matter and therefore did not particularly affect the parameters of the cell, so I decided to limit myself to just one inclusion, which will store energy: now the maximum energy is 0.14.
All business done, now you just have to stare around. The energy scale is almost frozen, and now it will take even longer to fill it. While I was looking at the surroundings, the cells were dividing, there were more dying cells, and while I was waiting for the energy to accumulate, it seemed that the number of cells appearing was equal to the number of dying cells. Moreover, when a lot of cells died nearby, the increase in energy was accelerated.
However here is the part of the cells themselves quite well. As you can guess-these are my closest relatives with a improve membrane, and, apparently, they will begin to displace the original cells.
So, looking around and thinking about how everything will change around, I waited for the division.
― Division begins.
― Spent 0.06 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 to evolution points.
― Received 174 evolution points.
― The duplication of DNA: ready.
― Cell division has begun.
― 0.061 life units lost.
― 0.02 energy units lost.
― The division is complete.
"Here it is, take an upgrade for the movement, share and go forward to meet the adventure! Just what to take? We have a choice of "Flagellum 1" or "Cilia 1", according to the description, a classic choice between speed and handling. However, once again taking into account that I will not be allowed to drive, there is not much difference. In general, judging by the fact that in the description, the flagella is like a propeller on a ship large and expensive, you can't take much. And cilia ― it's like villus, only move, like oars, but because of this they replace the villi and 100% of the coating of the shell and those and others I do not see. Okay, what to suffer, we will count the pros: for the flagella-speed, lower price, will not conflict with the villi, for the cilia-manageability, more flexible in the editor. In total, three for the flagella against two for the cilia." I took the flagellum and went straight to the editor.
And in the editor I was waiting for a bummer, first, to feed a fully covered with villus single-celled with a flagella, and even more so with several, judging by the received stats, it will be extremely difficult. Besides, the editor made me happy with the message " the Creature is too different and can't be obtained in the next division".
"Mda, covered with villus in the last division did not want to now apparently either they or the flagella, and only one, that is, we will swim wherever we are lucky."
However, given the inability to steer, and so we will swim where we are lucky. Choosing to take a flagellum and swim without armor, or first covered with hairs and wait for the next division, the first option won by a large margin. First of all, I was bored, and secondly, I will have to pay for the villus with increased energy consumption for life, and it is not a fact that with the current situation, I will not go into minus. So, having made myself a future "adventurer", I closed the window and waited.
Only when I closed the editor, I realized that this time I would not be bored waiting for division. The amount of energy was equal to 0.0189, while initially it was 0.02.
"I don't want to die, I don't want to die." I begged.
"Although I OK can move in relatives... truth fucking know what fines for death, and, that more importantly, closest relative I have one, and all the rest past divisions with the worst builds... there is no, only not die, only not die!"
At first, I was relaxed because I could capture other cells, but when I realized that I would probably lose a lot of them, I tensed up again. While I was fighting the flash of panic, the energy dropped to 0.0188. After waiting a little longer for it to fall to 0.0187, and then to 0.0186, I realized that the values change about once a minute. I began to wait for the next fall, looking around and it became clear why everything was so bad ― I was surrounded, and now, except for the adjacent 8 cells and the water above, I could not see anything-the viewing angle was spinning around the center of the cell.
I was already waiting for 0.0185, but then the cell next to me from those who were without improvements began to disintegrate and after that the amount of energy crept up to 0.0189. In addition, it seems that my cell was able to absorb a piece of its DNA because the message appeared: "fragment of DNA was absorbed, thanks to horizontal gene transfer, accelerated evolution, and evolution control, 8 evolution points were obtained." All this made me happy and in addition, I stopped losing energy, although it also did not grow, apparently, the changes are so small that within the margin of error. After some time, another neighboring cell broke up, this time I received eight thousandths of energy and 5 points of evolution. Energy became 0.0197 and it began to grow very slowly.
This went on indefinitely, because then the cells seemed to get easier and their number increased, then decreased again. I was losing, but I was saving more energy. The only thing, the cell - "closest relative" on the one hand shared and if earlier I had 120 degrees of view because of the dead not pumped cells, now there are 90 and the background flow again became zero. I had to get energy from the dying cells, and they were far away from me, and gave only one or two thousandths and only occasionally points of evolution. While I was waiting, the sun's glare stopped playing on the water-apparently evening, in general, according to my feelings, a week has passed, but, judging by the sun, more than 6-8 hours are hidden ― the microcosm lives quickly. And finally I waited for the division.