How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 29 Infrastructure Construction

Due to the release of lava from the volcano, the level of the lava dropped to a low point, the sword of Damocles hanging above Hogu’s head was finally removed, the threat of the volcano no longer existed, and a safe place was replaced. place of residence.

After the volcanic magma stopped flowing out, Huogu issued new instructions, and the infrastructure construction of this new 'home' was in full swing.

The taproot on the island continues to extend new roots, and these roots grow in line with the topography of the island, forming a thin layer of lichen.

The cells that make up the lichen are a new type of cell designed by Huogu with reference to the structure of algae. On the basis of combining parietal cells and inner cells, this design adds organelle structures such as ribosomes, vacuoles, and nuclei.

Ribosomes can dehydrate and condense the amino acids harvested by cells to form proteins, which are converted into protein structures, which is beneficial for storage.

The vacuole can exist as an intracellular storage room to store resources such as water and protein. The advantage of this is that there will be no large loss of resources such as cavity leakage.

This kind of cells can independently absorb atmospheric elements from the air through breathing, absorb acid-base rainwater and inorganic salts in volcanic rocks, as well as the heat emitted from the interior of the volcano, and produce amino acids needed by living individuals.

The reason why Huogu designed these is for an obvious purpose - to create a 'producer' like the earth's ecological circle, to fill the vacancy of the entire cell population.

The design of the titanium snail is very perfect, and it can even be said that it should not be a life individual born in the Hadean period. Even in the earth's biosphere that has experienced 4.6 billion years, the titanium snail will not be afraid of any top-level ocean inside. Predators - except humans.

However, in order to upgrade all aspects of abilities beyond the times, most of the internal space of the Titanium Conch is used to strengthen the speed and armor capabilities, which leads to the low ability of the Titanium Concrete in resource collection.

It is indeed a compromise to let the gourd be the resource collector of the titanium snail itself, but this is not the best choice. The gourd individual is only collecting resources, not producing resources.

The rhizome system that covers several kilometers of islands and nearby seas is also only doing collection work, not production.

Judging from the current rate of increase in the number, the bearing capacity of organic resources will reach the limit of the cells' expenditure one day sooner or later, and the time is not far away from now. Huogu must be prepared for that day when he is prepared for danger.

Since the overall structure of the lichen is simpler than the rhizome system, and it only grows on the surface, the lichen completes the coverage of the volcanic island at the speed of comprehensively crushing the rhizome.

Immediately afterwards, Huo Gu used the rhizome system to excavate rocks on one side of the volcanic island to create a harbor. All the turbulent waves would be stopped by the harbor reefs of the harbor and would not affect the waters in the harbor.

After the construction was completed, Hogu transferred the core nodular mass of the rhizome system to this harbor, and gave the nodular mass an order to expand in size, thus expanding the scope of the life field again.

At the same time, the lichens on the island also received orders from Hogu to complete the docking with the tumor-like lumps in the harbor, forming a supply chain loop.

Then there is the observation system of the island. It is natural to see far from the height of the station. The rhizome system is at the uppermost part of the volcano. At the intersection of all the main roots, several hemispherical objects grow. They are transparent and hard entities. When the rain falls on it, it will make a crisp crackling hitting sound.

The transparent object is tempered glass built by Hogu using silicon and carbon elements. Although it is not as strong as metal, it is not as fragile as ordinary glass.

The tempered glass is filled with a transparent liquid, and an eyeball grows bigger in the hemispherical glass container. The nerve bundle at the end of the eyeball can transmit electrical signals, and can also help the eyeball to turn to any angle except the bottom.

On the outside of the glass container is a thin half-curved strip, the two ends of which are connected to muscle cells, and there are tiny cilia in the place where it contacts the tempered glass.

Its function is to brush away the rain and dust that interfere with the line of sight on the glass surface, and complete the behavior of blinking.

Huh, it's finally finished.

After working so hard for so long, Huo Gu was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

The volcanic island at this moment is no longer as desolate as it used to be, and it is not like the land in the Hadean period. The rhizomes and lichens make this land look full of vitality.

However, the development of things is not as simple as it thinks, and some more dangerous external factors are ignored by it.

Just when Huogu thought he could explore nearby with peace of mind, a new crisis came quietly.

The first is the newly established island vision system, and noticed that the speed of the cumulonimbus clouds in the orange sky is obviously accelerating.

Huogu didn't pay much attention to this change in the cloud layer, because the Hadean Era was already a very harsh environment, with fierce winds, acid-base rain, volcanic eruptions, and thunder and lightning that appeared from time to time, all kinds of factors made Huogu subconscious. I don't think anything worse will happen.

When it realized something was wrong, it was feeling the change of the sea current through the titanium screw.

Ordinary sea waves can only cause a slight sway of the titanium snail, but it can clearly feel the attraction from a certain direction, as if a bottomless giant hole appeared in that direction, continuously swallowing the sea water.

The clouds of the sky protrude a cone toward the bottom, and the clouds present a spiral shape.

A vortex appeared on the sea surface, but unlike ordinary vortexes, this was a cone-shaped vortex facing the sky.

The seawater cone and the cloud cone face each other far away, gradually elongate themselves, and finally the cone tips touch and merge into a water vapor mixture, becoming a pillar between the sky and the earth.

A noun emerged in Huo Gu's mind - tornado!

Tornado? No, this can't be called a tornado anymore, it's too big!

Huo Gu had never heard of a tornado with a diameter of about one kilometer.

Huogu stared at the area where the tornado existed in horror and horror. He didn't know what words to use to describe what he saw. He didn't focus on meteorology and geography, so he couldn't accurately describe this kind of thing that was beyond the scope of his knowledge. .

Not long after this 'water column' was formed, another 'water column' of the same level was born in other directions one after another. Continuous arcs flickered in the sky, and the turbulent sea surface was so peaceful and peaceful to a strange degree.

These 'water columns' also seem to influence each other, and under this influence, their paths turn to the volcanic island where Hogu is.