How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 529 Animal and Plant War

The amount of resources needed to lay rhizomes underground is very large, but if the liquid water on the surface is obtained too much, it will affect the stability of the ecosystem, so I propose to obtain hydrogen and oxygen from the ground to produce water elements as main source of acquisition.

Oxygen can be obtained directly from the air. This planet is extremely rich in oxygen, but we cannot guarantee that there will be abundant hydrogen in the formation.

Hydrogen can be obtained from outside the planet. We build Yuntai creatures and send transport creatures to gas giants to carry a large amount of hydrogen resources back.

The plan is approved, but this can only be used as a backup plan for the lack of hydrogen resources in the formation. The colonization of the ethnic group in this star system requires a lot of resources. If it is not necessary, try not to go outside the planet to obtain resources.

I agree.

After simply making a plan for the expansion of the rhizomes underground, the thick and long main rhizomes are bred. After reaching 50,000 meters underground, they are spread vertically in a one-sided manner, forming an intertwined network structure underground.

This kind of expansion is not once or twice, the collectors have quite experienced experience in this area, and this experience has assisted their rapid expansion underground.

There are multiple combustion chambers in the formation, these combustion chambers will regularly absorb oxygen from the surface, and then pour in the hydrogen obtained by the rhizomes from the formation, and after the combination of the two, they will not only obtain a large amount of heat energy as energy, but also obtain a large amount of water resources.

Unknowingly, the collectors quickly spread the rhizome network all over the ground of the entire planet, and the rhizomes were intertwined and intertwined, replacing a stratum structure of the planet.

Afterwards, the collectors began to extend vertically, with one side facing the surface and the other facing the core, extending the rhizome vertically in both directions.

During this expansion process, something caught the attention of the collectors. They found some spherical objects in the stratum 10,000 meters deeper, that is, a place about 60,000 meters above the ground.

What are these things?

Looks like...an egg?

Be more confident, change the question into affirmation, this is the egg of some kind of creature.

If it was an ordinary stone, these complex small structures would not exist inside these spheres. Following the restoration of the internal veins, the interior of the spheres is obviously an embryonic fossil of some kind of organism.

These spherical fossils are small in size, about the size of a human thumbnail. Because these egg fossils are small enough, they can remain intact under the high pressure of 60,000 meters underground.

Bones built with carbon and copper elements as the basis, interesting biological design, the ethnic group has no material ideas in this regard.

These things can basically prove that there were animals on this planet in a certain period of time.

But now that these animals are all extinct, what caused their extinction?

The collectors were puzzled. After the rhizome monitoring network for the surface was completed, they determined that there were no animals on this planet, but the fossils also showed that animals once existed on the surface, which means that there are extinct animals on the planet. Events led to their extinction.

I don't know. These fossils have not left us with more information. The lack of understanding of them prevents us from simply deducing their cause of death from their chemical composition.

But it is certain that it should be a large-scale or even global disaster that caused the extinction of animals. We can try to find the answer from the changes in the stratum.

The collectors first thought of natural disasters such as asteroid impacts, super giant volcanic eruptions, etc. that led to the extinction of animals.

That's here. The boundary line between animals and plants. Above this layer, there are only plant fossils. According to the half-life measurement, it is between 100 million and 150 million years from our current time.

There was no noticeable difference between the two formations.

Comparing the upper and lower areas, no obvious segmented traces were found. If it was a global natural disaster, it would definitely leave traces in the stratum, but there were none.

This is strange...

The reduction of animal fossils is gradual. It may not be the result of large-scale disasters. It is more like being eliminated by natural selection.

Some collectors suggested it, but it was quickly questioned by the same race.

Eliminate? Who eliminated them? There are only plants on this planet... When the same race questioned, he suddenly responded, You don't want to say that plants eliminated them?

Is this possible? The inherent subjective initiative of plants is weaker than that of animals, so plants can only serve as producers in the food chain rather than consumers. Plants on this planet are also less active than animals. How can they occupy the biological competition? Upwind?

The collector explained his thoughts, It may be because of the fire.

A sea of ​​fire?

The oxygen concentration on this planet is terribly high, and the plants are all oily plants. It can be said that they are gasoline in the shape of plants. It only takes one spark to spark a fire hundreds of kilometers away.

Animals are indeed much stronger than plants in terms of subjective initiative, but no matter how strong animals are, they are not as strong as flames. The basic units of genes will be denatured and decomposed in a high-temperature environment. To carry out cooling design.

Therefore, a large area of ​​flames on the planet will destroy everything. It is useless to hide in water, liquid water will be boiled, and the sky is also not good, because the heat of the flames will go up. With a super-large-scale perspective, just having the ability to fly is far from enough to survive in a sea of ​​fire.

With this in mind, there is a reasonable explanation for the demise of animals.

Yes, a large area of ​​fire is catastrophic for both animals and plants. I think animals are going to perish in the sea of ​​​​fire that occurs frequently.

After thinking about it briefly, other collectors also agreed with the idea of ​​the same race.

What you said makes sense. If the environmental factor of the sea of ​​fire is added, the competition between animals and plants will no longer be about who is more subjectively active, but who is more tenacious in vitality. Obviously, animals in this are nowhere near as good as plants, so they are eliminated.

100 million to 150 million years ago on this planet, there used to be animals with simple structures that ate plants for survival. However, a certain plant on the planet mutated and evolved the ability to burn itself. As a result, plants set off a scene. The fires drove their natural enemies to destruction-plants defeated animals.

In front of the flames, the competition is no longer about which of the two races has the stronger combat power, no matter how strong the flames are, the competition between them is about the ability to survive, who will give birth more, and who will develop faster.

It's clear that plants outdo animals in these ways on this planet.