How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 1: Spores

Who am I?

Where is this?

At the moment when this organism subconsciously recognizes the 'self', these two questions arise.

In the surrounding environment, darkness is the theme, absolutely dark, without a trace of light.

Living beings can feel that they are wrapped in some forces and moving non-stop, either up or down, or forward or backward, or left or right, sometimes there is a sharp turn, or under the conflict of two forces, they are thrown in a direction that they don't know where they will reach, and there is no rules to follow.

Where am I going?

Such questions still emerge in the subconscious of living beings.

In this absolutely dark world, life is not the only existence. There are many things in the absolute darkness around.

In this world without light, living beings cannot understand the concept of 'seeing', but this does not prevent living beings from recognizing the existence of objects in the dark.

Under those surging forces, things in the dark often have collision contact with living beings, and then separated in the wrapping of power.

The emergence of the subconscious mind does not bring any changes to the living body. It has been so muddle-headed since its birth, and it has always been so.

Chaos, as if there is no future, as if everything today is the whole world.

This situation continues until the contact between the organism and an unexpected visitor.

This contact is different from those in the past. The unexpected visitor did not separate after the collision, but kept a close fit with the living body. Even those ubiquitous forces failed to split them.

For the first time, the living body felt a 'sense of crisis', which was a warning signal from its subconscious. The subconscious is calling it - run away! Run!

It is not only the subconscious, but also the pure biological instinct that is urging - your life is threatened. Act quickly. If you don't act, you won't have a chance!

The life body moved. This time, it was no longer to be dragged around by those surging forces, but in turn changed its position with the help of these forces. It seemed that the schematic diagram would get rid of the guy attached to it in this way.

But unfortunately, this kind of action is just futile.

Living organisms can feel 'foreign bodies' invading 'inside' from the outside.

At this moment, the living body not only did not feel that it had lost anything, but also had more, and some kind of shackles that had been carried seemed to have been untied.

"There are no signs of a lot of replication... Fortunately... It's a mild bacteriophage..."

The living body thought so in horror, but other questions followed.

"...What is 'copy'?"

"What is 'mild phage'?"

The living body doesn't understand why it expresses this. It was completely subconscious just now.

If you can't understand these questions, life will give up thinking.

With what happened before, the mode of action of living beings has changed. Instead of allowing those forces to float around, it is not to take the initiative to take these flowing forces and move forward without a destination.

What's the purpose of doing this?

The living body doesn't know. It just does things by instinct. It instinctively feels that it is right to do so. As for why it is right, it will not think about it.

This change in life is not only the change of the mode of action, but also the perception of the living body - it finds that it can see its own inside clearly, not as before, it is dark, and the only point of its cognition of the world is centered on itself.

The shape of the ball is like a balloon full of water. In the conflict of those forces, it changes its shape, and the power disappears and returns to its original state.

The soft outer membrane plays a role in maintaining the internal stability of life and ensuring the body in those power conflicts.

The core is a mess, like a spherical instant noodles, located in the center of life.

This is all about life.

"Is this... a cell?"

Such cognition emerges subconsciously in living organisms, followed by questions and confusion.

"What is 'cell'?"

Of course, there is no clue. It is just a single-celled creature. It is already a biological miracle to have such a cognition.

"Live..."

The living body has established its own goal, which is the goal driven by the purest instinct over the mind.

Under this desire, the chaotic core inside began to become loose.

The living body can see that the spiral bimolecular chain stretches straight into a ladder, and then the ladder is divided into two from the middle and splits into two incomplete single chains. The material free between the core and the outer membrane is consciously traction and combined with the cracked single chain to form a new double chain.

The double-chain spiral forms a core, and the two cores exist in a single cell at the same time.

The extra core stimulates the outer membrane, and The outer membrane begins to expand, expanding the original outer membrane volume.

I don't know how long it took, this instinctive behavior of life finally reached the last step - a thin film appeared between the two cores, and a single cell completely turned into two individuals.

As a result, the self-replication behavior of single cells is completed.

At the moment of completion, a strange feeling emerged from the living body. Just like the bacteriophage before, a shackle was opened, as if the beast trapped on the ground grew its wings and soared above the blue sky, as if the disabled patient had completed his body and could move independently - how free it was.

However, this situation did not last long.

The living body and the replica were separated by those surging forces, and the strange feeling also disappeared. The wings of the beast were broken and fell back to the ground. The disabled were missing again and could not live alone.

Lock, it's back on again.

"It's terrible..."

The feeling of instinctive boredom of living beings, no life likes to be bound. After feeling the freedom after 'unlocking', it is impossible for a living body to be satisfied with the current situation, even if it has actually stayed in this environment since its birth.

It instinctively began to call for the replica, and it hoped that the replica could come back and return to the previous state of mutual 'fitting'.

But this is useless. Its call is just a biological current within itself, a living body that cannot transmit information, but an isolated island, and it is impossible to call back the separated replica.

So, will the life experience give up?

Of course not, life is free, and life can always find a way out.

Life began its new attempt.