How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 16: Emeralds

When thinking about the problem of 'field source' at the beginning, Huo Gu first thought of the trace amount of iron trioxide contained in the cell.

Iron tetroxide, commonly known as 'magnet', emits a magnetic field all the time. In addition, the content of this substance in the original cell is very small, which can also be consistent with the previous inference that the 'life field is vulnerable to external interference'.

But the results of the experiment are telling Huo Gu that it is wrong!

The true face of the field source - 'Beryllium-Aluminosilicate Mineral'.

Many people will feel strange just by hearing this name, but if it is a common name, it is definitely familiar - 'Emeralds', those gems that have been used as jewelry by princes and nobles.

"Why is it this substance? Can this substance also form a 'field'?

As a result, it suddenly turned into a situation that Huo Gu couldn't understand. In his impression, emeralds, in addition to their ornamental value, seem to be useless, let alone heard of, and can emit some kind of field.

At this time, Hogu had realized that his knowledge was no longer enough to help him solve the current problem.

After all, the energy of human beings is limited, and every subject is also extensive and profound. Although it is a professor, it can focus on the knowledge of archaeology, physics and chemistry after all, and it is just a general knowledge that is known in archaeology.

"Well, I'll put this 'Emerald Mystery' first and solve the problem that is easier to solve first."

Huo Guben hoped to find out what allowed him to maintain his mind, and then understand the principle and realize cross-cluster networking. In this way, he only needs to spread countless cell clusters in all corners of the planet, and he no longer has to worry about the sudden geological activity and kill it with the boarding cell cluster.

"But it's not bad. Although I didn't find the reason why that thing produced a 'field', it's still acceptable to say that at least I found the interconnected medium of cell clusters."

"In this way, you only need to enhance the output power of the 'field', which can also cover up the interference and issue instructions to distant cells... huh?"

Just as Huo Gu planned the follow-up action, the crisis that affected the entire cell cluster suddenly happened.

The first thing that happened was the inner wall cells in the digestive cavity and the inner cells near the inner wall cells, which entered a state of death one after another.

Attacking microorganisms?

Huo Gu subconsciously thought of this.

There is no other reason. It has absolute confidence that those microorganisms can never break through the completely closed cell wall of wall cells. Wall cells rely on the protein channels of neighboring cells to ensure cell activity.

This can also explain why the priority death is the inner wall cells of the digestive cavity and the inner cells connected to it.

The place where the whole cell cluster and the outside circulates substances is only the digestive cavity. The inner cells take advantage of the large gap between the cells in the inner wall to ingest the amino acids in the digestive cavity and provide nutrients to the whole cell cluster.

However, then, Huo Gu immediately threw away this conjecture.

All microorganisms rely on proteins and amino acids as their basic units to build themselves. Considering the possible extreme acidophilia, the digestive juice that Hogu chose at the beginning is an enzyme, which is a great killer of microorganisms based on protein.

The gap between cells in the inner wall is also absolutely invulnerable. It is not only the entrance to protein ingested by internal cells, but also the outlet for the release of digestive enzymes. The enzyme concentration is the highest in the whole digestive cavity.

Except for completely specialized and closed cells such as wall cells, no microorganism can resist the decomposition of digestive enzymes for a long time.

But since the cause is not microorganisms, what causes the death of inner wall cells and adjacent inner cells?

Because he had been focusing on the source of the cell cluster network before, it was not until the cell died that Huo Gu noticed the abnormal condition of the cell. The specific process was not clear.

Huo Gu briefly observed the internal cells around the inner wall as a whole, but did not find out the reason.

The interaction between the digestive cavity and the external substances must not be stopped. Just like people need to breathe, and all the cells in the cell cluster also rely on the collection and integration of the digestive cavity to maintain their own cell activity.

Immediately, Huo Gu issued new instructions to the cell cluster.

"Cell division, repair the inner wall of the cavity, and replace the dead cells."

A certain amount of protein reserve has been consumed, and the inner wall cells and inner cells have replaced the position of dead cells, completed the repair of the digestive cavity, and continued the operation of resource collection.

However, the same thing soon happened again. Through the internal cells engaged in the collection of amino acids and proteins through the wall cell seam, the cell membrane quickly began to lose its activity and repeated the mistakes of the previous cells. After a while, the inner cells died again, and the wall cells connected to it also lost their supply. In the footsteps.

The whole process was watching with cold eyes. The death of cells did not make it panic. It was better to say that everything that happened was deliberately done by it to understand the cause of cell death.

"Ext external factors lead to the 'degeneration' of the cell membrane... Well, it's a water problem."

Cell cluster cells originally live in the waters near the undersea volcano. The water is hot and acidic. It is a paradise for eosinophilia and a hell for non-eosinophilia.

Now, Huo Gu led the cell cluster to leave the water and came to a neutral water. As a cell cluster of eosinophila, it naturally cannot accept this environment. The cell membranes of the inner cells undergo protein 'degeneration' after contact with neutral aqueous solution, and it loses its original activity, which becomes natural. .

The method to solve this problem is also very simple. It only needs to make some subtle adjustments to the nature of the cell membrane. Whether it is eosinophilic bacteria or basophilia, the cytoplasmic solution inside them is neutral and relies on the cell membrane for liquid adjustment to survive in that extreme environment.

The process of transformation is not cumbersome. Thanks to the self-replicability of the cells themselves, Huo Gu soon got a batch of inner cells that can survive in neutral waters.

However, the result of the implementation is not as simple as Huo Gu thought. Under its stunned sight, the newly built inner wall is still as disintegrated as before.

"Why is it like this?"

"I have obviously adjusted the mechanism of the cell wall. Why do proteins still 'degeneration'?"

Suddenly, Huo Gu noticed the tiny crystal particles floating in the digestive cavity solution.

"Salt...wait, can you say!?"

The all-round perspective of cell clusters covering 360 degrees began to be mobilized.