How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 416 Extreme Cold Colonization

The bitter cold wind is whistling, accompanied by a large amount of mixed and solidified snowflakes of carbon dioxide and methane. This is the outermost planet in the star system, with a volume one-third the size of the star. It is located in the Kuiper belt, about forty years away from the star. Astronomical units, the light of the star needs to travel a distance of several hours before it can shine on the planet.

Seeing the orbiting parent star from the surface of this planet is not much different from looking at the bright stars in the sky. Darkness and coldness are the themes here. The average temperature on the surface is constant at minus two hundred degrees, which is a real meaning. A hell of freezing cold that can shatter steel.

After the protoplanetary disk conceived the stars in the center, the residues that could not fall into the stars remained after a long period of time. Due to the combination of each other's gravitational effects, the density of the inner part of the material was enough to form planets, and the outer part However, due to the wide distribution, only a large number of meteorite groups can be formed - the Kuiper belt.

Therefore, it is very rare for a planet to appear in such a remote orbit. It may be a wandering planet captured by a star, or the local meteorite density in the Kuiper belt was enough to form a planet.

Over time, the planet's gravity will absorb Kuiper belt meteorites as its own mass, thereby weakening the bondage from the star, and the distance between it and the star will increase by one centimeter every year. In the foreseeable future, It will get rid of this star system and become a wandering planet.

Now this future has changed, and it has an owner, a group of organic creatures on a distant scale spanning dozens of astronomical units from the direction of the stars, occupying this uninhabited planet.

Due to the ultra-low temperature on the surface of the planet, their initial landing failed. A large number of organic seeds fell on the surface, and within a few seconds they were frozen by the extreme cold and entered eternal silence.

Falling from the high altitude of the universe, during this period, the seeds will be quickly frozen by the ultra-low temperature of more than two hundred degrees below zero, and smash into pieces in a state of free fall on the surface of the earth, with no possibility of survival.

However, if this is the only thing that can't stop their race, the seeds sent back the environmental information by radio at the last moment before their death, and the same kind who are the closest to the outermost planet quickly learned of the situation and sent a team The first batch of mothership biota carried a large amount of nuclear enrichment material to the outermost planet.

Their ways are brutal.

These mothership creatures directly landed on the planet in the form of free fall. The huge body carried a terrifying momentum and knocked the ground into a huge crater with a diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers. These mothership creatures completely ignored their own life and death, and used their bodies Pave the way for the same kind to conquer the planet.

Before the temperature dissipated, a large number of collectors relied on bio-nuclear reactors to excavate the strata below the biological corpses of the mothership, establish an underground space, and transfer a large amount of materials underground.

The ultra-low temperature on the earth's surface will soon recover, and the light of stars is too weak. This scale is almost equivalent to starlight. How much energy can be obtained by starlight? Photosynthesis loses its utility in this situation.

Before the surface temperature recovered, the collectors had completed the transfer of materials, established a planetary stronghold under the surface, and started construction work around the stronghold.

They are no strangers to the low-temperature environment. Even though the environment here is lower than Ming’s original surface environment, the difference is only in temperature, and the essence is still the same. If you want to expand and colonize in this environment, you need a heat source. Then, based on the heat source, the heat source is deployed in a large number from one to many. When such a heat source is deployed on a complete planet, the colonization of that planet will be declared complete.

Under the ground, the collectors assumed rhizomes, and laid a large amount of light, loose, and porous organic fiber materials on the outer wall, thereby establishing a heat insulation layer, retaining heat as much as possible, and blocking low temperature as much as possible.

Then it is based on this to obtain the material of this planet, process and utilize it, and then import it into the production sequence, so that the snowball will get bigger and bigger.

The radio communication creature was conceived, it has a very long metal antenna, extending from the ground to the surface, standing in the fierce cold wind, communicating with the strongholds of the collectors in the various underground cavities, in this way, the collectors Their underground colonization will be much smoother.

For the nearby strongholds, the collectors will first expand in the direction of the strongholds of the same family, meet each other and then continue to expand in the direction of the strongholds of the same family. In this way, a global underground network can be completed very quickly. What we do is to make this net denser, occupying the ground that has not yet been excavated.

After completing the global underground occupation, these collectors will not stop there, because this can only be regarded as the initial completion of their colonization operations, and the occupied area is only a certain distance from the surface to cover the entire planet, which cannot be done. Complete control and use of resources from all over the planet.

Therefore, after laying the entire earth's ground, a large number of rhizomes began to descend vertically, invading and expanding toward the planet's core to occupy more resource areas.

The core of the planet has been completely cooled for a long time, and what remains in the core is only a lump of extremely dense and massive solid iron. This environment also makes the collectors make changes to their expansion plans according to local conditions.

The rhizomes will extend all the way down to the underground stronghold on the other side of the planet. Without the terrifying high temperature of the earth's core, the collectors can completely cover the interior of the planet with a dense network of rhizomes extending in all directions, and then use the rhizomes to , a large amount of captured molecular substances are transported to the hive for processing, thereby obtaining a large amount of usable materials.

Of course, although there is no terrifying high temperature, the ultra-low temperature still exists, which has caused considerable obstacles to the rhizome. Every time the rhizome goes deep, it must build a reactor base to obtain heat, otherwise it will be frozen. Because of this, the rhizome expands many times later than normal.

In order to obtain more and sufficient heat, it is obviously not enough to use fission reactors alone. The collectors began to imitate the fusion reactors of the Serenes to bring more heat energy to the planet.

They hollow out the edge layer of solid iron to create a shaft, inject a large amount of liquid water into the shaft, and finally put hydrogen bombs into the liquid water for nuclear explosion until the temperature of the entire water body is raised to 100 or above.

Collectors will regularly measure the temperature of each shaft, and when the water temperature of a shaft is lower than 60 degrees, they will put in hydrogen bombs again to heat up.

The solid earth core and high-density formations can completely withstand the vibration of a nuclear explosion, and the natural gravity generated by the huge mass does not require collectors to create artificial gravity.

With the assistance of fusion reactors, the speed of expansion of the collectors became faster, and it didn't take long to complete the task assigned to them by the Supreme Will. Except for the hidden and unmodified surface environment, the entire planet was used from the ground to the ground. This distance from the core of the earth is densely covered with rhizomes, and the temperature is constant at zero.

After that, they fell silent and were hidden as the trump card of the group, until a certain point in time, a piece of information from the group made them active again.

Do you understand the plan?

Understood.

Then start breeding and seeding the signal body.

clear.