How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 60: Vibity

Huo Gu changed the planet, and as a result, the ocean appeared again, and some things hidden under the ice were exposed in Huo Gu's vision.

A vast land...

According to Huo Gu's rough estimate of the area, it accounts for about 50% of the total area of the planet.

Cheng Yin Huogu can probably guess that it is the result of the frequent volcanic movements actively created by Wei.

The heating of the land is extremely troublesome, because the main part of the land environment is not water but air, which means that the honeycomb cannot absorb water directly from the surrounding environment.

You should know that water is indispensable for every cell or heating work.

Fortunately, there is still a way to solve this problem. A concave terrain is dug out in the area occupied by the hive for water accumulation, so that the whole hive can be heated normally.

The water access channel is drawn from the ocean, using pipelines to transport it over a distance of several kilometers, and natural precipitation after the planet's climate is restored.

Of course, the most important thing is the first one as the main source of water for the mainland's hive. The area of the continent is so large that the marine climate cannot enter the depths of the continent, and there is no natural rainfall.

It can be expected that after a period of time, when the water in the soil of the mainland is gradually evaporated by Huo Gu, it will become a desolate desert.

But these don't matter to Huo Gu now. It is no longer human. Naturally, it is impossible to think about problems from a human perspective.

Over a period of tens of millions of years, this giant continent will one day be divided by the thermal cycle in the depths of the earth, just like those continents on the earth. After that, the deserts in the central region of the continent will also enter the range of the oceanic climate and will naturally be transformed back into fertile soil.

What really made Huo Gu pay attention to was other things, the microorganisms that were scattered at the beginning.

Not long after those microorganisms spread out, they began a cruel ecological competition.

At first, the number of autotrophic and heterotrophic types were equal, but in order to obtain nutrients, heterotrophic types launched a large-scale attack on autotrophic types.

The conclusion is self-evident that the heterotrophic type swallows up most of the autotrophic microorganisms with absolute crushing, and only a few can survive.

At this time, brainless heterotrophic microorganisms will naturally not consider sustainable development. As long as enough biomass is accumulated, new individuals will be immediately replicated and split.

However, due to the sharp decline in the number of autotrophic microorganisms, the target of heterotrophic microorganisms had to be transferred to other heterotrophic microorganisms. Therefore, the second microbial war began, and heterotrophic to heterotrophic microbial.

The survival of the fittest, the survival of the fittest, and the failed heterotrophe will be driven farther away like the previous self-contualization. The winner of the war will be qualified to continue to stay in the original position.

Then the third, fourth, fifth...

Life is in this situation, screening out better genes, and the microbial survivors of the war will become more aggressive and more able to kill other microorganisms more easily.

So, are those losers in the microbial war absolutely no way to survive? Not really.

After the first microbial war, autotrophic microorganisms fled to a place far away from the microbial battlefield and flourished.

Without the suppression of the natural enemy of heterotrophic microorganisms, autotrophic microorganisms naturally unscrupulously obtain energy and substances from the surrounding environment, transcribe and copy their own kind, and the number will increase exponentially.

This increase will continue until the losers of the Second Microbial War.

They will inhibit the number of autotrophic microorganisms and increase their number. If they have no choice, the autotrophic will go to farther and free of microorganisms to reproduce.

Then, in this new area,

It will repeat what has happened, and batches of losers will flee to places where there are large numbers of autotrophic microorganisms and there is no victors.This is the cycle. It is this cycle of 'you chase me'. Microbes quickly occupy every place in the ocean of the planet.

And then? When every place on the planet is covered by microorganisms, will autotrophic microorganisms have no way to survive?

It is not that in the subsequent microbial war, those who victors can be said to have not been exposed to autotrophic microorganisms.

It is for this reason that as microorganisms fully occupy the whole ocean, a rather dramatic situation emerges. The winner will specifically attack the heterotrophic type of the loser and turn a blind eye to the autotrophic type that is far weaker than the loser.

In this way, the balance of the microbial world is established.

So, has the development of microorganisms stopped at this stage?

Obviously not.

Life is wonderful. Every self-replication can be regarded as a vote of life on the evolutionary path.

When this kind of vote accumulates to a certain extent, evolution also occurs.

This provides the possibility for the emergence of strange microbial capabilities such as cell walls, nuclei, organelles... in the future.

Although the purpose is to survive, the planned route is different based on different ideas.

Some microorganisms will evolve their attack ability. Maybe it can easily break the acid that can break the cell membrane, or protein spikes, or simply enlarge their own shape and directly wrap the other party into their own internal decomposition.

Some microorganisms evolve their own reproductive ability in order to win in quantity - can't beat you and I can't give birth to you?

This type of microorganism will basically greatly reduce the length of its own gene chain. The shorter the length, the shorter the time of gene replication, and the faster the number will naturally grow.

However, in Huo Gu's view, this method is that the benevolent see benevolence, and the wise see wisdom.

The microorganism with the shortest genetic chain on the earth is the virus, so what kind of microorganism is the virus? Heterotrophic type.

This just shows that it is meaningless for the self-contained type to have a numerical advantage.

There are also some microorganisms that will find ways to expand a new living space and evolve their own capabilities in this direction.

Taking this as an opportunity, since the Ice Age, the first indigenous creatures that landed on the surface also appeared.

They live on the shore close to the water, decompose the hard rocks and gravel, and process them, and the fertile soil is born.

Among them, what Huo Gu cares most about is some kind of autotrophic microbe that dominates a piece of water on this planet where heterotrophic microorganisms are rampant.

Huo Gu has also seen this kind of creature on earth - cyanobacteria.

The microorganism that used to be the lowest level on the earth now belongs to the most powerful autotrophic microorganism on the planet.