How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 22: Root

The waves beat the stone wall composed of columnar joints, retreat, and then pat. In this way, the earliest seabed and beach were formed after tens of millions of years under the interaction of such a cycle of seawater and rocks.

At this time, an unharmonious 'alite' is in the stone crack of the stone wall, gradually and slowly grasping the gap between the stone pillar and the stone pillar, climbing above the stone wall.

This 'aler' looks like the root system of a plant. From the main root, it extends a lot of roots. Through the embedding of the molecular scale, even if it is strong stone, these roots can penetrate into the interior of this stone pillar.

In addition, while providing a fixed effect to the main root, the root can also extract calcium, magnesium, iron, silicon, zinc and other inorganic elements from the stone column.

With a heavy stone column as the main load-bearing column, the root system does not need to worry about being torn off by the waves, and the main root extends to below the sea surface.

The source of the main root is a tumor-like mass, which also extends a huge number of roots, firmly fixing itself between the ellipsoidal and pillow-shaped rock groups at the bottom of the volcanic island to resist the erosion of the sea.

There is not only one main root of the tumor-shaped mass. In addition to the one that is 'rock climbing', the other main root systems climb the volcanic rocks on the seabed and spread around. Each one extends for several kilometers to build a huge lith-like network.

It is hard to imagine that these things, not long ago, were a huge population of suspected animals.

"Wow... The design is finally completed, and there is only the gradual 'construction' work left."

Thinking separated from the work of 'design', Huo Gu only felt that his spirit was relaxed and he could finally take a breath.

If mental work is easier than physical work when you are a human being, now the situation is exactly the opposite.

Huo Gu, who can't feel physical fatigue, is relatively tedious and time-consuming mental work becomes hard work.

All this near the volcanic island is Huo Gu's masterpiece, which transformed the whole gourd into what it now looks like a plant.

In terms of design, Huo Gu follows the structure of the rhizome of the earth plant. The surface layer is no longer the fragile epidermis that is broken by stones, but the thick cocoon formed by the superposition of cell death.

In order to ensure the strength of the main root system, spider silk multi-root rhizomes are entangled in all ways to ensure that it does not break while providing a strong feeding function.

In the whole huge system arranged by Huo Gu, the tumor-like mass is the most core part, where the perceptual cells of the whole gourd group converge.

At the expense of action ability, the impact radius of the life field has directly expanded to about six kilometers!

Moreover, under the premise of completely no relay instructions, Huo Gu was surprised to find that the phenomenon of instruction delay has suddenly weakened a lot.

The mysterious life scene has become much thinner.

The rhizome arranged on the seabed is to collect enough organic materials to meet the overall consumption. The roots extending from the main root can capture those organic materials well.

There are still a certain number of 'flowers' growing on the main root at the bottom of the sea. These are the 'mouth' of the gourd at the beginning. Huo Gu did not transform it, but transplanted it to the main root intact, which looks like a growing 'flower'.

It turns out that Huo Gu's idea is right. These 'flowers' have indeed brought it a considerable amount of organic materials.

What's more surprising is that genetic samples with 'nuclear' microorganisms have been captured in microorganisms, which is not a surprise.

The importance of nuclear development is the first life constructed by organic macromolecules such as amino acids and proteins in the history of biological development, and the establishment of civilization is an important milestone for the establishment of a Horrcer.

Its function is that the nucleus is a genetic information database and a control center for cell metabolism and heredity. In other words, it can maintain the overall coordination of cells without the superconsciousness of Huo Gu.

Its existence means that single-celled organisms are qualified to evolve into multicellular organisms.

"But this nucleus is still very simple..."

"It's just that it has a simple double-layer nuclear membrane and nuclear pores, and there are no structures such as nucleus, chromatin, nuclear matrix, etc."

"At present, this kind of nucleus can only play a role in defending against the invasion of phage to a certain extent."

Huo Gu summarized the information obtained from the genetic sample.

In terms of interest, occupational diseases were committed, and Huo Gu couldn't help but start studying this microbial sample with a nucleus.

"Nitrobacteria..."

In this way, it is easy to understand that this kind of bacteria is caught around here.

At this time, the planet is full of active volcanoes, and nitrous acid in the ocean is everywhere, especially around here, which is a volcanic island that is still active.

"Huh? By inhaling carbon dioxide and methane, reacting with nitrous acid, and finally expelling oxygen to maintain life activities?

"What the hell?"

Huo Gu emerged again, and the one that found the nucleus before, as if it had found a new continent.

As we all know, carbon dioxide is an inert gas. Even on the earth, plants that produce oxygen need oxygen-consuming breathing to maintain normal life activities.

The chemical properties of oxygen are unstable, so it is suitable to exist as an additive for the reaction, rather than as an excretion after the reaction.

"Wait!"

"I seem to have entered a misunderstanding. The chemical nature of oxygen is unstable. Isn't this a very powerful 'attack method'?"

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed. Huo Gu, who had despised this kind of bacteria, suddenly put away his mind.

Oxygen itself can react with unsaturated fatty acids without enzyme catalysis, and can destroy the phospholipids that store these acids, which are the main component of the cell biofilm, which eventually leads to the death of microorganisms.

In the microbial world, the nitrifying bacteria captured by Huo Gu can be said to be quite a terrible 'poison'. No microorganism wants to approach them. Especially in today's atmospheric environment, it is basically impossible to evolve oxygen-consuming microorganisms.

"Sure enough, no creature that can exist in nature is a simple role."

After amazement, the sample information is added to the gene sequence preserved by Huo Gu, and the nitrobacteria is digested and become the nutrient of the whole cluster.

The law of the jungle is everywhere!

Under the transcriptional expression of genes, the root cores between the rhizome-like system extending several kilometers has the function of producing oxygen, in order to kill microorganisms that may invade the rhizome system.

Of course, this is done just in case and prevent the invasion of microorganisms after the skin defense line is damaged by stones.

With the power of microorganisms alone, the possibility of a positive breakthrough is very slim.