How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 185 Construction and Search

Standing on a volcanic plateau, Yongxuan looked down at the 'spider flowers' floating up and down on the boundless sea below. They were taking advantage of the temperature difference between the atmosphere and the boiling water ocean to continuously produce the nutrients needed by the collectors.

Si, what was the problem with the previous incident? Why did it deviate so much from the expected time?

The exact reason is still being investigated.

Why can't I find it? This should be a very simple matter.

I want to know that too.

Si replied helplessly, Si’s previous thought was the same as that of Yongxuan, wanting to find out the problem that made the planned time deviate, and then solve it.

Since the period of embryo formation is different from the expected time, it should be that there are some problems in the genes. Kesi checked the entire gene chain, but did not find out where the problems are.

Not only Si, but every collector, as an investigator, checked the genes and found no problem.

You know, this brand-new organism was designed by the collectors from the very basics. They are extremely clear about what information each piece of gene represents. It is a very strange thing that they can't find the problem.

If there are omissions in Si's inspection, are there omissions in all the collectors' inspections?

So what is the reason that none of the collectors found the problem?

...In other words, this problem is not resolved now, is it?

It looks so right.

Then let's put it aside. Next, we need to create a stable environment for ourselves. An environment full of lava is not suitable for our own development.

When will this land preparation project start?

Now.

The selected collectors crawled to their mission locations, and began to transform into cocoons and change their forms just like the previous collectors.

The sharp limbs were discarded and returned to the body as nutrients. When the cocoon gradually hardened and fell off, a creature like a plant sapling revealed its own form from it.

Information about saplings emerged in the life field channel.

I need nourishment.

Not long after, around the 'sapling', a transmission chain composed of several collectors delivered the nutrients of the 'spider web' to the 'sapling' layer by layer.

The nutrient was placed near the creature, and the root system of the 'sapling' was pulled out from the ground, wrapping the nutrient tightly, and then, it grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Upward is a bare pillar, which looks like a foundation laid by a construction site from a distance. Downward, the root system network is continuously bifurcating and growing, with a superfiber skin. Even if the root system encounters underground magma, it will not be burned immediately. When encountering a steam hot spring, it is directly ignored.

On the surface, when these 'saplings' just started to grow, the hard volcanic rock ground still erupted steam hot springs or magma from time to time, as if the earth was mercilessly mocking these 'little ones' who tried to dominate it.

However, as time passed, the raging hot springs stopped, and the lava emerging from the cracks in the ground also condensed into carbon black and extremely hot volcanic rock.

When the collectors destroyed the scattered volcanic rocks with their fangs and transported them away, the whole project came to an end.

strangeness……

Why is there no problem with the time this time?

Full of doubts, Si moved her eyes back and forth between the 'Spider Flower' and the 'Sapling'.

What key thing is missing?

Only Si noticed this. The collector's plan was orderly. Before the end of the plan, there was no time to think about unnecessary things.

On the permanent side, the foundation has been laid, and there is no need to worry about the danger of high-pressure gas jets suddenly appearing nearby.

Moreover, the elimination of danger is only incidental, and the stable environment provides them with a good guarantee for building other types of functional individuals. After all, not every kind of organism is as agile as a collector, and the functional individuals constructed by pooling resources are just To be scalded to death by the gas jet that suddenly emerges from the ground in this way is only a loss for the collectors.

Bee hives rose from the ground, and familiar rhizomes were erected. Collectors were consumed one after another, and one after another was bred to arrange other tasks.

From a distance, if you put mosaics on it, it is easy to be mistaken for a city.

The honeycomb and the temperature-sensing cells are combined to obtain the electricity needed for production. Although it is very small, it is enough. Using electrolysis and chemical replacement, their chemical resource reserves are gradually increasing.

Of course, not all collectors will be transformed into other functional individuals, such as those who need high mobility for mining rocks, planning and mapping, exploring new areas, etc., because the assigned tasks are best to maintain the original posture, so these Gatherers do not change their form.

During this period, the erection of rhizomes was also inconsistent with the similar estimated time before. Similarly, the degree of deviation was extremely large. Fortunately, it had nothing to do with nutrients. In the worst case, it would seriously delay the progress of the project.

The intelligent body organized by Si, who is responsible for designing the genes, also checked the genes of the roots, but still found nothing, and did not find out the root of the problem.

Si, Eternity sent another message, asking what is the reason for our wrong time estimation. If we can't find the reason again, it will affect the progress of the follow-up tasks. Let us solve it quickly.

knew.

Si continued to check the genes one by one in the life field channel, and the number of checks was much higher than before, because the types of problems had increased.

After going over and over again, I still can't find out where the problem is.

Why is this so?

Obviously there is no error or conflict in the expression of each segment of the gene, and there is nothing wrong with these genes.

The collectors who make up the intelligent body only feel that there are dark clouds in front of them, and they can't find the direction to move forward. The breadth of thinking is not inferior to the sustainable thinking, and they are also in trouble at the moment.

At this time, a collector came up with an idea.

Perhaps... it's not a genetic problem, but... something else that we've ignored.

As soon as this proposal came out, it was immediately questioned by other members of the same race.

According to your thinking, then tell me, what exactly can affect the growth rate of an individual?

If something is really wrong, why can't we see it on the genetic map?

...

Stop it, it's right, we're really missing something.

The questioning was abruptly interrupted by thinking, it swept away the previous decadence, and impatiently established a connection with perpetuity in the channel of the life field.

Permanent, I found the reason.