"Crack..."
The ice layer continued to tremble, and more cracks appeared around it. Lin ordered the diggers to retreat to the aircraft carrier, but she still left the little eyeball outside to observe the situation.
Under the continuous tremors, the tunnel dug out by the excavators had already collapsed. At the same time, Lin could see a gigantic shadow gradually emerging from behind the transparent layer of ice.
What is this?
Lin was very curious about this thing, but she could only see its blurry body through the ice. She could not understand the details.
The only thing Lin could confirm was that it was about the same size as her aircraft carrier, and it kept moving forward in the ice layer, and its direction was exactly where Lin was.
Every time the creature moved, more cracks appeared on the ice layer around it, which meant that it was moving forward with great force.
What is this thing?
Lin had never seen such a huge creature before. Even the biggest slime could not grow this big.
Lin had seen large-scale clusters of cells before, but this was obviously not a huge cluster of cells, but an entire creature!
Could there be other creatures that could combine multiple cells?
Lin had never seen such a creature, which was why it had always been invincible.
Crack … As the creature got closer and closer, there was only a thin layer of ice between Lin and the creature. In the next moment, the layer of ice let out a final cracking sound. Under the creature's attack, the entire ice wall shattered into countless small pieces that floated in the water before dissolving and disappearing.
At this time, the creature appeared in front of Lin.
Its appearance was very strange. It did not look like a normal cell. Its head was a semicircular structure that seemed very hard. Lin watched as the creature used its head to break the ice layer.
Its cylindrical body was very long, and there were continuous protrusions on it that extended all the way to the ice hole it had dug out.
Under the semicircular head, there were ten symmetrical tentacles that seemed to be used for movement.
No, they could not be called tentacles, because these 'tentacles' were not as flexible as real tentacles. They seemed to only be able to bend in a fixed direction, and they were hard and divided into several segments in the middle.
Perhaps the word 'arthropod' was more suitable for this creature.
At the end of these appendages was a clamp-like structure, and the inside was full of serrated teeth. Lin came up with a new term, 'turtle limb', to describe this structure.
This was a completely new creature. Not only did it have a gigantic body, its body structure was also something Lin had never seen before. Its appearance also brought with it many new words.
"Round Shield Worm." Lin felt that this name was not bad.
Although Lin liked naming things, she didn't like what this creature was doing right now.
The round-shield worm had dug through the ice and was swimming towards Lin's aircraft carrier. Lin did not know what it was going to do, and it did not know what it should do either.
Attack it? Ignore it?
Lin wouldn't act rashly when facing an opponent who was on par with her. Who knew if the opponent had the ability to destroy her? However, if he didn't do anything, the other party might not attack.
Lin hesitated.
But the other party didn't.
The giant worm swam to the surface of the aircraft carrier. It touched the surface of the skin with its appendages as if it was searching for something. Then, it suddenly opened its serrated pincers and clamped them on the surface of the skin.
With a forceful pull, a large piece of skin was torn off the surface of the aircraft carrier. Then, without hesitation, it sent the skin into its mouth.
The round-shield worm's mouth looked like a hole with a circle of small sharp blades around it. Lin's torn skin was sent to the mouth, and then it was cut into smaller pieces by the sharp blades before it was swallowed.
It hurts …
The skin was torn apart and then shredded and swallowed. This series of pain made Lin no longer hesitate. At this moment, she was determined to destroy this enemy.
Counterattack!
Lin shook the tentacles on the side of the aircraft carrier vigorously. As the aircraft carrier twisted its entire body, she flung the round-shield worm away. At the same time, she opened all the portals on the aircraft carrier, allowing all the devourers to attack the target!
So hard!
This was Lin's first thought after attacking the round-shield worm. Because the opponent's semi-circular and smooth head made it impossible for the devourers to bite, Lin focused on attacking the opponent's appendages.
However, the cone-shaped cells and acid-injectors in the devourers' mouths, which could crush all cellular creatures, could not shake the hard shell on the round-shield worm's appendages at all.
In fact, it was difficult for them to even bite the smooth hard shell. After all, the largest devourer was not even half the size of the round-shield worm's pincers, and the smallest devourer was not even comparable to the serrated teeth on the pincers.
Moreover, most of Lin's devourers were small ones. Originally, the large devourers were used to deal with large groups of cells, but after all, they were too big to burrow through the cracks of the sand, so there were only a few of them.
The round-shield worm was not affected by Lin's attack at all. It twisted its body and swam up, pouncing on Lin's aircraft carrier again and using its appendages to tear off piece after piece of skin from the aircraft carrier.
As the skin was torn apart, the individual cells in the aircraft carrier flowed out. However, the round-shield worm did not seem to be interested in these small single cells at all. It was still tearing at the aircraft carrier's skin. It seemed to only eat structures made up of multiple cells.
If this continued, Lin might not be completely killed, but the aircraft carrier would definitely be destroyed.
Absolutely not! But what should I do?
Lin began to think quickly. She noticed the twisting joints on the round-shield worm's appendages. Those joints were white and different from the black hard shell around them. They should be more fragile.
Lin ordered the devourers to focus their attacks on those joints, but the worm's appendages kept swaying and it was very difficult to aim at them. However, under Lin's constant attempts, a large devourer managed to bite one of the wrist joints of one of the appendages.
The joint was made up of a soft white substance. Lin ordered the devourer to twist its body continuously. Finally, under the strong tearing of the sharp thorns made up of dissolved fluid and cone-shaped cells, the devourer successfully tore off a large piece of soft white substance.
After tearing the joint open, Lin found a large group of blue cells gushing out from the joint. Lin immediately thought that these cells should be the things that made up the round-shield worm. She immediately ordered the devourers to bite the cells that gushed out and let some smaller devourers burrow into the joint.
It was very dark inside. There was no light at all. However, some of the devourers had mixed a lot of flash bursts in their skin to move in the darkness below the sand. Therefore, no matter how dark it was, they could still clearly see their surroundings with their self-illuminating ability.
The interior of the appendage seemed to be a place similar to a pipe. It was filled with a weak flow of water and was filled with densely packed blue cells. They were constantly swimming towards the joint that Lin just tore open, completely ignoring the invasion of the devourers.
Some of the larger blue cells seemed to be blocking the joint with their bodies to prevent more blue cells from flowing out.
Bite them.
Lin did not hesitate. The devourers immediately attacked the blue cells that were blocking the joint. At the same time, Lin ordered more devourers to rush into the joint and attack the blue cells inside.
At this moment, the round-shield worm finally reacted. As if it felt pain, it forcefully swung its injured appendage, but the remaining appendage was still tearing at Lin's skin.
Because of its swinging, Lin's invasion from the outside became difficult. However, dozens of devourers had already burrowed into the joint and Lin ordered them to attack everything around them.
At the same time, Lin ordered the remaining devourers to continue attacking the other joints. She also ordered a large number of bursts and cone-shaped cells to swim out from the damaged skin of the aircraft carrier and rush towards the mouth of the round-shield worm.