How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 19: disaster

   With exponential growth of cell clusters, they quickly reached a considerable number in terms of number—more than 400 unit individuals.

   Due to the change in appearance, the cell clusters added to the sensing area have changed from a long-necked porcelain bottle shape to a gourd shape. Huogu simply called them ‘gourd’.

   "No. 10 gourd, try to keep the position unchanged."

   "Hoist No. 131, you are yaw, adjust the elevation angle, move nine meters diagonally upwards to the right, and return to where you should have been as soon as possible."

   "The 368th hoist, immediately reduce the speed to maintain the formation."

  ...

   Huogu took the trouble of emphasizing his instructions. As the distance of instruction transmission increases, an unobvious problem also emerges.

   Although the relay can be used to convey instructions to farther places, there is a delay in the instructions conveyed in this way, and it takes a long time for the shortest individual to receive the instructions issued by it.

   For this reason, Huogu needs to adjust the position of a certain gourd after a while to maintain the entire collective formation. In this complex and changeable environment, the delay problem is very troublesome.

   At present, Huogu has no good way to solve this problem. After all, what is the core secret that caused it to be in this state, it has not yet figured out, and naturally there is no way to talk about more efficient use.

   "The quantity is not enough..."

   "Isn't I a bit too aggressive like this?"

Huogu, who squeezed out a little thinking ability from the work of complex instructions, thinks that although there is no good solution to the delay problem for the time being, as long as the number is large enough and the coverage area is wide enough, the fault tolerance of the overall formation will increase. , The problem caused by the instruction delay can be covered up.

   Huogu began to consider whether to slow down the progress of exploring alkaline waters first, and expand the water coverage area of ​​the gourd.

   At this moment, hundreds of pairs of eyes constantly alert to environmental changes, keenly captured the subtle abnormalities that appeared in the nearby waters.

   looked at it, a ‘white line’ appeared at the far end of the gourd’s vision, like something like a skyline.

   Huogu immediately used the gourd closest to the ‘white line’ in the formation to make observations.

   After receiving the instruction from Huogu, the vitreous body immediately adjusted the degree of concavity and convexity, and the eyes turned to tightly lock the ‘white line’ in the distance.

   Under the magnification of the glass body, the ‘white line’ has become a ‘fence’, like a fence constructed of cotton, which only exists in fairy tales, a fence swaying in the gentle and gentle wind on the country path.

   Immediately afterwards, Huo Gu noticed the abnormal condition of the entire gourd, the cell membrane, cytoplasm, organelles, and even the cell wall were all vibrating slightly.

   "Should it be..."

   An extremely ominous premonition shrouded in my heart like an initiation, and some rather bad speculation appeared in Huo Gu's thoughts, making it feel a bit shy.

   "Attention No. 8 to No. 5 clusters! A rapid current is coming! Flow to the rear left, adjust the course, expand the full fins, and prepare for buffering!"

   Not long after the order was issued, the whole Huqun immediately followed the order and made corresponding changes.

   Perhaps it was Huo Gu’s own anxiety, or through Huo Gu’s own premonition of a crisis, and the help of his desire to survive, Huqun’s emergency adjustment was finally completed before the foreseeable disaster.

   However, this is not a good thing to be thankful for, it is just a little psychological comfort after a **** mildew.

   It didn't take long. Just a short time after Huqun completed the emergency adjustment, the danger that made Huo Gu tremble had crossed the end of his vision and came nearby.

   At this time, it is no longer a ‘fence’, but a ‘wall’.

Time, at this moment, is like being pressed the slow play button. When Hogu was still a human, he heard people say that when death is approaching, his thinking will speed up. Relatively speaking, his subjective perception of time will also be Slow down, at least for humans.

Looking at the wall not far away, people can deeply understand the meaning of the word'tiny'. Looking up straight to the sea, looking to the left, it extends to the end of the visual field at the limit of the convexity of the vitreous body of the eye. The same goes for looking to the right at the end of the wall.

   It seems to be standing at the end of the world, facing the barriers erected on the edge of the world-Huogu's most intuitive feeling of what he sees at this moment.

   Through the surging white waves on the white wall and considering the liquid environment of the ocean, it is easy to judge the true face of this magnificent wall—the giant tsunami.

Somewhere in this sea area, an unclear explosion point releases extremely huge kinetic energy in one breath, radiating in the form of'waves' in the liquid environment of the ocean, which is what the gourd is facing now. Giant tsunami.

   The white wall that swept over came in an instant, directly engulfing the entire gourd group like ants, and continued to rush to the distance.

   "Stay steady! Be steady!"

   Huogu knows that this is a futile cry. In the face of such a mighty force, Huogu and their clusters are just trivial jokes, and the drainage of fins has a limit after all.

   But there are some things that you have to do even if you know it is in vain. At this time, even a little miracle is many times better than no miracle.

   After being wrapped in the tsunami, the surrounding scenery turned into a glimpse of light. This is mainly because the gourd, which is the carrier of the eye, has been suffering from the turbulence and rolling of the tsunami.

At present, the only thing that can guarantee good ability is the inward view of the inside of the gourd. After being engulfed by the rolling swell, the number of gourds has dropped from 400 to double digits again. It is not death. It was thrown a great distance and lost contact.

   And this is not the end. The leaking of the house happens to be rainy night, and sometimes it becomes unlucky, even drinking cold water may clog the gap between the teeth.

   At a very fast speed, only a certain individual in the gourd group passed by an object, and a hole equivalent to one-third of the length of the gourd itself was drawn out.

   "What the hell?!"

   Huogu was horrified. It wanted to know what it was, but it was powerless. The vision as a means of detecting the outside world was no different from decorations.

   Once again, I felt the deep sense of powerlessness.

   The same situation continues. The first gourd that was drawn out of a third of the long mouth was the one that suffered the least damage in the entire cluster.

   The gourd group suffered more from penetration damage. No fewer than dozens of gourds were sieved by those objects, and the same goes for the gourd where Huo Gu stayed.

The defense line of    wall cells was disintegrated, and a large number of attacking microorganisms launched an attack on the predators at the top of the current waters.

   The situation has further developed to a worsening situation.