Lin aimed at the round shield worm's mouth and let the explosive spheres and cone-shaped cells charge. These individual cells were very small and could easily avoid the circular blades around the worm's mouth and directly enter its mouth.
There was no light inside, but in the darkness, Lin could only rely on the sensory ability of the cells to know that it was a space similar to a pipe. The pipe was constantly wriggling, sending everything inside deeper.
The water flow inside was very strong. The cells that Lin entered could only be continuously pushed around, completely unable to move freely. After a violent shaking, Lin found that the invaded cells were somehow washed out of the round shield worm's body and returned to the cold water.
Lin found that there were two slender slits on both sides of the round-shield worm's head. It seemed that the worm discharged the water it ate from the slits. Lin's cells were also discharged from the slits. It seemed that the esophagus in its mouth had the function of separating food from water.
Lin's attacks didn't have any effect. Not only were the cells that entered the mouth expelled, but the Devourers that entered the wound were also faced with an endless supply of blue cells. The other Devourers that attacked the joints also didn't succeed as they had already been noticed by the round-shield worm. It could easily shake off the Devourers that bit it with a flick of its limbs.
The round shield worm's devouring had not stopped. It had almost eaten half of the aircraft carrier. The pain of its body being torn apart did not stop for a moment. In this situation, Lin might start to lose her cool.
Blow up its esophagus!
Lin's thinking became faster and faster. She quickly decided on the next step of the plan. Countless explosive spheres once again rushed into the round shield worm's mouth. This time, Lin let them begin to expand and self-destruct before they were discharged along with the water!
The explosive spheres released a large amount of dissolved fluid. Although the situation inside could not be seen clearly, Lin found that the dissolved fluid seemed to be causing the round shield worm pain. After a large number of explosive spheres exploded, the round shield worm had stopped tearing the aircraft carrier apart. Instead, it kept shaking its head and vomiting a large amount of green liquid from its mouth.
It seemed that the wriggling esophagus in its mouth was also made up of cells. The dissolved fluid had caused quite a lot of damage there.
Lin had now regained her composure, but she could not continue attacking because … there were no more explosive spheres.
There were not many explosive spheres, and it took a long time to produce them. In addition, the aircraft carrier was now almost in shambles. Some of its resource storage points were also destroyed, so it was impossible to produce more explosive spheres at the moment.
What to do? Direct attack!
Lin ordered the Devourers to give up on attacking the joints and charge straight into the round shield worm's mouth!
The round-shield worm also noticed that these round things were rushing toward its mouth.
The worm's mouth couldn't open and close, so its only defense was the blade-like structure around its mouth.
The Devourers were much larger than single cells. Therefore, the first batch of Devourers that rushed up were instantly shredded into pieces by the sharp blades near the round shield worm's mouth. Intense pain was transmitted into Lin's mind, but there were still some smaller Devourers that managed to dodge the sharp blades and entered the worm's mouth.
The Devourer's illumination and vision allowed Lin to see the structure of the round shield worm's mouth.
It was a huge esophagus, and the walls were blue. If one swam closer, they could see that it was made up of countless blue cells. The entire esophagus was filled with the dissolved liquid of the exploding orb. The liquid was extremely destructive to cells, and the esophagus was full of festering scars.
That was probably why the round-shield worm was in pain.
Lin suddenly realized that 'esophagus' seemed to be a new term.
'Who cares?'
Lin suddenly saw some large and long amoeba-like cells appearing around the festering scars. They used their bodies to wrap around the scars. Lin thought that this was probably an act of healing.
These amoeba-like cells were quite large, even larger than Lin's Devourers made up of thousands of cells. That was why they could wrap around the entire wound and heal it.
However, these cells probably didn't have much combat power.
'Kill them!'
The Devourers rushed up and bit the amoeba-like cells that were healing the wound. They pulled in different directions and tore the amoeba-like cells into pieces in an instant.
At the same time, Lin ordered the Devourers to bite the wound and make it bigger.
However, this was far from enough, because there were still thousands of amoeba-like cells repairing the other wounds in the esophagus.
Lin only had a few hundred Devourers in the esophagus, and they were all small ones. The larger ones would be blocked by the sharp blades near the mouth and could not enter at all.
Lin needed more reinforcements.
Lin began to mobilize the individual cells again, including the excavators, cone cells, and acid injectors. Since the round shield worm had stopped eating, the strong flow of water in the esophagus had become very weak. If Lin's cells were to invade at this time, they could cause great damage.
Attack!
Lin's army charged. The sharp blades near the round shield worm's mouth could not stop the invasion of these tiny cells.
As soon as the cell army entered the round shield worm's esophagus, they began to attack wildly. Each cell was desperately using their own ability to tear, pierce, dissolve, and damage the surrounding esophagus walls. Even a few of the huge Excavators that Lin used to dig ice blocks had successfully entered the worm's mouth. The Excavators used their serrated teeth that could dig through ice crystals on the surface to create countless scars in the esophagus.
These small cells caused great pain to the round-shield worm. It began to shake its head violently. The strong flow of water caused by its shaking immediately scattered the cells that had yet to enter Lin's mouth. Then, it turned around and fled back into the ice hole that it had just dug.
However, while Lin and the worm were fighting fiercely, the surrounding water temperature turned cold again. The hole that the round-shield worm had dug had been frozen into a thick layer of ice.
Lin's millions of cells remained in the round-shield worm's esophagus and continued to destroy without restraint. Just like when the round-shield worm began to eat Lin's aircraft carrier, Lin showed no mercy. She ordered the Cone Cells to drill countless holes in the esophagus and ordered the Excavators and Devourers to go deeper into the esophagus, preparing to destroy the core part of the round-shield worm.
The round-shield worm kept crashing into the ice wall because of the pain. It seemed to have forgotten how to dig through the ice crystals and only created cracks on the wall. Then, the round-shield worm's movements gradually slowed down. Finally, it lay on the ice wall, its ten limbs clamping tightly on some of the protrusions and cracks on the ice wall. Its whole body did not move at all.
It's dead?
It did look like it from the outside, but it was not the case from the inside.
The scene in the esophagus had completely changed. Originally, there were only a few deformed cells, but after the round-shield worm fell into a motionless state, a large number of new cells suddenly emerged. These cells were white, the big ones were as big as Lin's Devourers, and the small ones were only as small as Lin's basic cells.
There were so many of them, constantly emerging from the depths of the esophagus, wounds and other places. Not long after, the number of them was almost the same as Lin's invading cells, reaching more than a million.
These cells were the defensive forces in the round-shield worm's body. They began to attack Lin's cells, but their attack was very simple. There was only one move, and that was to wrap them up.
The surface of these white cells was covered with tiny tentacles. They attacked by swimming to Lin's cells and hugging them with their tentacles. Then, they kept squeezing and tightening their tentacles until Lin's cells were squashed.
When Lin invaded the round-shield worm's body, she knew that there would be a defensive force, but she did not expect it to be so late and there were so many of them.
Lin immediately launched a counterattack. The esophagus of the round-shield worm had now become a battlefield.
These white cells with tentacles were good at one-on-one battles. Their tentacles could easily grab and squeeze any of Lin's cells, but in a group battle, their tentacles could not be used well due to overcrowding. They could easily collapse in the face of a volley of acid injectors, or a charge of Diggers and cone-shaped cells.
Therefore, these white cells emerged from different directions in an attempt to split up Lin's forces and put Lin's cells in a one-on-one situation. Lin did not fall for the trick. She gathered her forces together and defeated these white cells together.
Lin had a slight advantage in the current situation, but she did not have any reinforcements. These white cells, on the other hand, were constantly emerging. Some of them even split in the middle of the battle to increase their numbers.
Lin planned to continue sending the white cells into the round-shield worm's mouth to reinforce it. After all, the worm's body was no longer moving.
Wait a minute …
Lin suddenly realized a problem.
If she continued to send reinforcements, she did not know how many she would lose to kill the round-shield worm. She did not even know how many defensive cells there were in the round-shield worm's body.
However, what if there was something that could directly turn the enemy into an ally?
Lin happened to have that thing.
The infected — — these bright red things had also survived the oxygen crisis and had been kept inside Lin's cell group all this time.
Now, it was their turn …
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