How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 14: A foreign country

   I feel dizzy...

   What happened just now?

   Who am I?

  What are you going to do?

   Huo Gu tried hard to remember...

   The waves of white flowers on the surface of the water rolled one after another, and the long-necked porcelain bottle-shaped cell clusters rolled and floated in the waves.

   The waves are not to blame for the dizziness of Huogu, it knows this.

   This groggy state didn't know how long it lasted before Huo Gu gradually returned to his normal thinking level. At the same time, he remembered the situation above the water.

   The continuous heavy rain, the orange-red sky, and the lightning peeking out from the dark clouds from time to time tore the dimness, the red lotus karma fire of the volcanic eruption and the huge waves brought by the grinning wind are facing each other...

   These are the scenes Huogu saw on the water.

  The most critical point is that the concentration of carbon dioxide is almost out of range. Unsuspecting cells, the sudden influx of carbon dioxide into the cells combines with water to form carbonic acid, which seriously affects the normal operation of each cell.

   This is the fundamental reason why Huogu fell into the drowsy state just now.

   But this adventure was not without gain, just a simple glance, Huo Gu got a very useful information.

   This information was too shocking, so that Huogu's thinking paused for a long time before he turned his mind back.

   "It seems that I am on a strange planet now."

   In an environment of that concentration of carbon dioxide, if humans really existed, they would definitely suffocate and die in no more than half an hour.

   Huogu recalled the volcano he saw when he had a glimpse just now.

   "The volcanoes around here seem to be a bit too active. There are a group of volcanoes at the bottom of the water. Now you can see so many active volcanoes on the water."

   "In the process of coming up from the bottom of the sea, I have never seen multicellular organisms, even the simplest structure of algae..."

   "Combined with the explosive carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the orange-red sky, maybe this strange planet is still in a fairly early stage of the ‘Rain Sea Generation’."

   All this is the conclusion that Huogu assumed that this planet is a similar environment to the earth. After all, this planet, like the earth, has an ocean composed of liquid water, and it does not have more types of planet templates for reference.

The planet’s rain-sea generation period is also the stage of the formation of the planet’s ocean. The high temperature in the planet evaporates the water that exists in the stratum, and the water vapor is bound by gravity to form a dense cumulonimbus cloud, which returns to the ground in the form of rain. Being evaporated again, repeating such cycles, the entire planet is like a huge boiling boiler.

   If the planet has enough water, this heavy rain can even last for tens of millions of years.

   The long-necked porcelain bottle-shaped cell cluster glided down for a certain distance, away from the noisy water surface.

   "Yuhaidai... I didn't expect that I would be fortunate enough to experience such a historic event in person."

   After learning that he had a deeper understanding of his current situation, Huo Gu not only didn't feel depressed because he was in a foreign country, but he was even faintly excited.

   For an archaeologist, especially an archaeologist who specializes in the field of extraterrestrial biology, what can make him more excited than witnessing historical events with his own eyes?

   It is precisely because of the ocean formed during the rainy sea era that life will be born, at least the earth is like this.

   "When it is decided, we will first set a small goal-lay out a global vision network, and have a panoramic view of every corner of the planet."

   The superposition of curiosity and excitement urged Huo Gu to make such a decision, which led to such an ambitious idea.

  If you were still a human being, it was really just a wishful thinking, after all, personal power is limited after all.

But now it's different. Huogu is a collective, not a single individual. It has tens of thousands of cells that follow instructions. Even though this force seems very small, even if it is an ant, if you give it enough time, it will be the earth. Such a huge mass of celestial bodies can be moved away.

   Of course, the premise is that there is such a star path that can transfer the mass of celestial bodies to the ants.

   "But what should the volcano do?"

   Huogu thought of the fire-flaming mountains. They appeared because of the excessive pressure inside the planet. Instead, they released the core energy in the form of heat.

   Liquid lava with a temperature as high as 1200 degrees Celsius is enough to make any protein lose its original activity.

   "... the global coverage observation network plan can be temporarily put on hold, waiting for the planet to enter the cooling phase, um, anyway, I can afford it."

   In the medieval period of human civilization in Europe, someone once asked such a question: If the wood on the ship is gradually replaced until all the wood is not the original wood, then the ship is still the original ship?

   This is the famous "The Ship of Theseus" paradox.

   Now, Huo Gu is that ship, it has the ability that the emperors have most desired throughout the ages-‘immortality’.

   As long as the cardinal number of cells is not lower than a certain threshold, it can maintain its current thinking. As long as there is no shortage of matter or all the cells die in one breath, it can live forever.

   Suddenly, Huo Gu's thoughts shifted slightly.

   "Where does my ability come from?"

  Only when the cells are attached to the entire collective, the instructions will be effective—this is something that Huogu knew soon after he recovered his mind.

   In other words, Hogu’s ‘command’ only exists at the microscopic level, and at the atomic or molecular level. Once it is exceeded, the delivery of the command information cannot be completed or there is a delay.

   "Then the problem comes..."

   "If you don't keep the fit, but it's still a whole, will my instructions still take effect as before?"

  Practice is the only criterion for testing truth—this is the life creed that Huogu has always believed in.

   When the question appeared, Huo Gu immediately began to experiment.

   New cells are divided, which are primitive single cells that have not been specialized before.

   This time is different from the past. The new cells did not actively adhere to the cell clusters. The connection between them all relies on three short connexins.

   "Transcribes the connexin to extend the length of the connexin."

   Under Hogu's instructions, the three connexins were gradually lengthened, and that, as a test cell, slowly increased the distance between it and the cell cluster under the action of the water flow.

   After completing the lengthening work, Huogu issued a new order.

   "Transcribes DNA and begins to divide new individuals."

   If you start to copy itself, it means that the command is valid.

  If not, then it means that the information transmission medium of instructions is not protein.

   "Next, let me see what the result is..."