Now that Lin had acquired new words, she began to understand part of the meaning of these words. So she named the creature 'Severed Shell', mainly because it was about to snap the Protector in half.
The Protector's entire body was covered in a hard shell. The Severed Shell was mainly clamping the middle part where the head and tail connected. The Protector's tail had been completely swallowed by the shell. Lin released a large number of Devourers and had them swim towards the crack between the two shells.
Lin could see that the two shells were tightly pressed against the Protector's body. There were even a lot of cracks where the shell was clamped. Inside the shell, there were countless small tentacles surrounding the Protector's tail. The tentacles had sharp heads. They drilled many small holes in the weaker parts of the Protector's tail, as if trying to suck the cells inside.
But they could not eat anything because the shell was empty.
Although Lin had placed many explosive balls and acid injectors in the tail to dissolve the shell material, they only took up a small area. When the Protector was caught, Lin had ordered them to retreat.
The Severed Shell was probably wondering why the shell was empty, so it did not completely snap the Protector's body in half.
Lin immediately launched an attack. The Devourers began to bite the small tentacles inside the Severed Shell, while Lin's Mothership released more troops into the Severed Shell to attack.
The small tentacles inside the Severed Shell did not seem to have the ability to resist creatures of the same size. They were easily torn apart by the Devourers, while the Gigantfang Devourers could easily bite them off. The Injectors injected a large number of Boosters into the Severed Shell's tentacles.
The Severed Shell that was attacked suddenly opened its shell and spat out a strong stream of water. In an instant, all the Devourers inside the shell were spat out together with the Protector's tail. Then, the Severed Shell closed tightly and quickly rotated its body in an attempt to drill into the sand.
Lin immediately had the Mothership extend all its tentacles to wrap around the Severed Shell, stopping it from rotating and pulling it out of the sand.
Lin had modified the Mothership's water jet. Now, the jet had been lengthened and could bend in any direction. It could reverse, turn, and other movements. It could directly pull the Severed Shell out of the water.
The prerequisite was that the Mothership had to be stronger than the Protector …
Even if the aircraft carrier tried its best to spray water backward, it could not pull out the shell from the sand. Instead, it was slowly being pulled down by the shell.
Lin discovered that a very deep section of the severed shell was buried in the sand. The lower shell of the severed shell seemed to be cylindrical with many circles of barbs, which made it very stable in the sand.
However, this was only its final resistance.
There were still a large number of Spiderlings in the severed shell's body. They burrowed deeper into the severed shell's body through the severed shell's blood vessels and began to absorb the severed shell's cells and proliferated. At the same time, Lin released many explosive spheres from the aircraft carrier. They directly crashed into the shell of the severed shell and exploded.
The shell of the severed shell had a very thin layer of transparent coating, which had a very strong corrosion resistance. This was to be expected, after all, the dissolving liquid was the most harmful thing to hard shells.
Following that, Lin gathered a large number of Explosive Orbs onto the hammer of the aircraft carrier. A new type of hammer was thus born, and that was … the Explosive Hammer!
The impact of the giant hammer's tentacles shattered the anti-corrosion coating of the severed shell, and the acid from the explosion of the Explosive Orbs directly affected the severed shell's unprotected shell. Lin only needed to smash a hole in the shell with her hammer.
The shell of the severed shell that was once calculated to be 'absolutely unbreakable' was now easily smashed open by Lin. Although Lin would explode all the Explosive Orbs with each smash and would need to replenish them, there were many of them anyway, so it was not a big problem.
On the other side, the Spiderlings were attacked by the severed shell's cells. These cells seemed to be very large and could swallow and digest the Spiderlings whole.
These should be the immune cells of the severed shell, and the Spiderlings were slowly defeated by their appearance.
However, the Spiderlings had already caused a certain degree of damage to the severed shell. The severed shell's drilling into the sand had obviously stopped, but Lin's hammering did not stop. Under the continuous attack of the Explosive Hammer, a large hole was punched in the shell of the severed shell. The next moment, it would be attacked by countless Devourers again.
No matter how strong the severed shell's immune cells were, they were no match for the multi-cellular Devourers. Lin only needed to wait for them to completely tear the severed shell's body into pieces.
During this time, the severed shell sent out a type of cell that looked like a gland to deal with the Devourers. These cells would spit out a large number of shell substances to surround and seal the Devourers, but they would be torn apart by the Devourers before they could do that.
Inside the shell of the severed shell was a large and soft body with a large number of small tentacles on the surface. The body contained various organs, most of which Lin had seen before.
What Lin cared about was the shell of the severed shell.
The upper shell of the severed shell was a disc-shaped cover, and the lower shell was a drill-shaped structure that extended into the deep sand. Most of the severed shell's body was also located inside.
Most importantly, they were very hard. Lin's current method of assembling shell substances couldn't create such a hard shell, so studying this would be very helpful to Lin.
Lin also discovered a type of green cell inside the upper shell of the severed shell. They existed in large numbers in the gaps of the shell, and the severed shell had many cell tubes connected to this area. This type of green cell produced a very small crystal that was about the size of a common virus, but there were a lot of them. The severed shell's tubes were mainly used to absorb and consume these crystals.
Could they be eaten?
The green cells that Lin raised could also produce crystals, but Lin always treated them as waste and threw them out. But did the severed shell actually eat them?
There was a need to study this further.
If the green cells could produce food, then Lin wouldn't have to eat them directly. After all, they didn't divide very quickly.
After being thoroughly studied by Lin, the severed shell became Lin's food. Even its hard shell wasn't spared, most of it was dissolved by Lin to assemble shell substances.
With the severed shell's large size, Lin could also fully cover the Mothership with armor and implement a complete defense.
After Lin used the Painted Man to repair the Protector's wounds, she calculated that she didn't suffer any losses in this battle. Compared to a creature of the same size, this should be considered a very good achievement.
Then, next …
Where should she go?
Lin looked into the distance. She liked to explore areas that she hadn't been to before, but she also wanted to settle down in a place with abundant food. After all, she didn't know what kind of danger she would encounter if she explored everywhere.
But it was boring to always stay in one place, and she didn't know when the food would run out.
If that was the case, couldn't she just do both?
Let the Mothership settle down, then assemble some new units and go out to explore!
As soon as she thought of this, Lin began to look for a good spot on the beach. Soon, she found a large rock erected in the middle of the beach. If she sat on this rock, it would be very convenient to observe her surroundings, and she wouldn't be ambushed by creatures hiding in the sand.
The top of the rock was a flat surface that could fit ten Motherships. It didn't feel too big, so she decided to occupy it first and move to another place when it was big enough.
Lin let the Mothership float at the center of the flat surface of the rock and released various units to assemble and construct various structures nearby. The main structures were thorny tentacles used for defense and hunting on the edge of the flat surface, while various organs were constructed at the center of the platform.
For example, the heart and blood vessels connected to the tentacles, the sac-like structures used to decompose food, the 'melting plant' used to decompose and reassemble the crustaceous substances, etc. Lin wanted to transform this rock into a living base!
Lin didn't plan to stick the Mothership to the rock. The Mothership needed to be in a mobile state at all times, so Lin kept the Mothership floating above the rock.
Lin had tested it before. The crystals created by the Green Cells were indeed edible, and their nutritional value was about the same as the white paste from before. Then, it would be necessary to breed them on a large scale.
Perhaps she could form a large circular platform and breed the Green Cells on top of it, allowing them to be exposed to light on a large area, thus dividing more and producing more crystals.
The Protector would be responsible for searching for food outside. Lin would also need to create more units that could leave the base to hunt. The Devourers alone wouldn't be enough.
Lin also planned to hollow out the center of the rock and stuff more assembled structures inside.
However, Lin was most concerned about the units that could be used for exploration.
What should she do?
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