How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 58 Cold Resistance

【Huo Gu, is your plan going to work? Why is it still ineffective? 】

Don't make noise, I need to concentrate.

The plan went smoothly until the sunlight focused on the frozen rhizome remains, but after that, obstacles appeared.

They waited for a long time, but they never saw any sign of the ice melting.

Rao is that they are all in a state of slowing down their thinking now, and they feel that they have waited for a long time.

The temperature is still not enough, too far away, that star.

[So it failed, right? 】

No, there is still a way...

As he spoke, Hogu focused his attention on those rhizome remains.

Unwinding, transcription, replication, gene targeting, photoreceptors.

The perspective is stretched to the microcosm, the photons originating from the star are transmitted to the surface of the planet, and after passing through a refracting mirror, the direction is deflected and enters the ice crystal of the frozen rhizome remains.

After refraction and deflection by countless tiny crystals, finally a few photons hit individual cells in the rhizome system, which brings energy to the cells.

If it is an ordinary microorganism, this amount of energy is definitely not enough to recover, but cells with a collective consciousness like Huogu are completely different.

Huogu can't increase the energy out of thin air, but it can make the energy collected from the rhizome wreckage gather at one point through the synapse network to stimulate individual cells to wake up from hibernation.

This kind of awakening is short, but enough, Huogu calculated the timing and gave the revived cells division instructions.

New cells are born inside the rhizome remains in transparent ice crystals.

The whole body of this cell is black, and this color is very effective in absorbing light or heat, so it can more or less provide some bonus to the absorption of sunlight.

This cell belongs to the photoreceptor cell, but it is slightly different from the photoreceptor cell that provides vision as the visual system. It has a strong cold resistance.

The cell membrane has cold shock proteins, which can keep the cell membrane active in such a low temperature environment instead of entering hibernation.

A large amount of hydrochloric acid is added to the cytoplasm, accounting for about 23.89% of the internal cytoplasmic solution. The freezing point of this mixed liquid will drop to -79.5 degrees Celsius, which is more than enough to deal with the current low temperature on the surface of the planet.

After this kind of cold-resistant cell has collected enough energy, it will continue to divide into new individuals according to Huogu's instructions, proliferate in number, and expand the light absorption surface.

The material is taken from the remains of the rhizome, as well as the ice crystal itself. As a low-temperature condensate of seawater and atmosphere, the ice crystal is not as pure as it looks to the naked eye, and its interior is full of impurities and various other elements.

Using a hydrochloric acid solution, the freezing point of the water in the ice crystals is lowered so that it remelts into a liquid state.

In this way, the location space of the cold-resistant cells inside the ice crystal is expanded by it little by little, and the transparent cavity is getting bigger and bigger.

It lasted for a while, and finally, a small hole was broken in one part of the ice crystal, and black vines formed by the combination of black cells protruded from it.

Seeing that the timing was almost the same, Huogu added a new type of cell to be a partner of the cold-resistant cell.

The function of this kind of cell is nothing else, it is to use photons to decompose hydrochloric acid, produce heat and nutrients, and supply the current new low-temperature rhizome system.

With the combination of the two kinds of cells, icicles or ice mirrors that can focus or refract light are produced one by one, which makes the rhizome system absorb more photons.

In this way, the Great Thaw Movement is in full swing under Huogu's command. It is foreseeable that the planet will be liberated from the freeze soon.

Logically speaking, Huogu should be happy that the plan went so smoothly, but...

【look……】

【Come……】

【want……】

【become……】

【achievement……】

[has...]

【…】

Min’s speech, every single byte has to wait for a long time, the sky is no longer changing as fast as the stars are moving, and the snow on the ground is no longer like a tide from the rising direction of the stars to the direction of the falling stars. horizon.

All this is because the effect of slowing down thinking is gradually disappearing, and as the new type of rhizome energy cycle is on the right track, Hogu is about to be pulled back to the normal view of time.

But Huogu was not satisfied with this, after all, there was one less person to speak.

It would be fine if there was no one to communicate with at the beginning when living on a deserted island, but if there is someone who can talk to them but cannot communicate for some reason, it will undoubtedly make people uncomfortable.

Thinking that the way of communication between the two sides will soon return to the time in the Minggu Era, Huo Gu felt that it would be better to discuss and communicate in advance, otherwise there might be some misunderstandings again.

Of course, it's a negotiation, but it's actually a unilateral notification. After all, if the other party is delivering information intermittently like this now, I'm afraid it's impossible to discuss things well after Hogu restores the environment of the entire planet.

Ming, my perception of time has returned to normal, and the information sent from you has been delayed, so I have to explain some things to you before the delay becomes serious.

In view of the fact that after recovery, you are using lightning to deliver information, I will erect a lot of towering conical metal bodies on the surface of the ground, you can use this as a target to launch lightning, don't worry about whether I will receive it, the whole rhizome The systems are all connected, and I can receive information from any of them.

As for the special bodies you made, I will pay attention, and I will not be as unscrupulous as in the Hadean period. If there are alien meteorites and comets, I will also help you destroy them, so as to ensure that the global ice is not repeated. , you can rest assured.

After thinking about it, Huogu continued to add another sentence.

In addition, pay special attention not to use cyclones or create crustal changes in the area where the roots are entrenched. If you do so, it will cause me a lot of trouble.

【good……】

【of……】

Maybe Ming also took into account the delay of the message, so he gave a very brief answer.

After this exchange, Huogu always felt that there was something strange, it seemed like he was writing his last words to himself, and it seemed like he was writing a farewell message to others at a friend's funeral.

Throwing away this weird idea, Huo Gu devoted himself to the work of spreading the new rhizome system.

Climbing out of the gap cut by Ming's wind blade, the rhizome system spread to the raised ice field.

The flat environment of the ice sheet is perfect for collecting photons.

Immediately, under Huogu's command, the rhizome system impatiently started laying the ice field.

On the ice sheet, icicles that can refract or reflect light stand upright, and the most central ones are cold-resistant cells used to collect photon energy.

After a while, seeing that the necessary materials were almost collected, Hogu ordered the rhizomes to spread directly below.

The second step of the plan was implemented.