How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 22: root

   The waves hit the stone wall composed of columnar joints, and then retreated, hit again, and so on. The earliest seabeds and beaches were formed after tens of thousands of years under the cyclical interaction of sea water and rocks.

   At this time, an inharmonious ‘alien’ was in the crack of the stone wall, gradually, slowly, grasping the gap between the stone pillar and the stone pillar, and climbing towards the top of the stone wall.

   This ‘alien’ shape resembles the root system of a plant. From the main root, a large number of roots extend out. Through molecular-scale embedding, these roots can penetrate deep into the stone pillar even if it is a solid stone.

   In addition, while the roots provide fixation to the taproot, they can also extract inorganic elements such as calcium, magnesium, iron, silicon, and zinc from the stone pillars.

   has a thick stone pillar as the main load-bearing pillar, the root system does not need to be torn off by the waves, and the main root extends below the sea surface.

The source of the main root of    is a nodular mass, which also extends a huge number of roots, which firmly fixes 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 taproot of the nodular mass. Except for the one that is'climbing', the other taproot systems cling to the volcanic rocks on the seafloor and spread out, each extending for several kilometers, forming a lichen. Style huge network.

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

   "Huh... the design is finally completed, and then only the work of gradual ‘construction’ is left."

   Thinking out of the work of ‘design’, Huo Gu only felt that his spirit was relaxed and he could finally catch his breath.

   If, as a human, mental work is easier than manual work, the situation is now the reverse.

   Huogu, who can't feel physical fatigue, relatively speaking, the tedious and time-consuming mental work becomes hard work.

All of these near the volcanic island are Huogu's masterpieces, which transformed the entire gourd group into what it is now like a plant.

   In the design, Huogu used the structure of the earth's plant rhizomes, and the surface layer is no longer the fragile skin that can be broken by the stone, but a thick cocoon formed by the superposition of cell death.

   In order to ensure the strength of the main root system, the spider silk-like multiple rhizomes are entangled in all ways to provide a powerful feeding function while ensuring that no breakage occurs.

   In the entire huge system arranged by Huogu, the tumor-like mass is the most core part, and the sensory cells of the entire gourd group are gathered here.

   At the cost of sacrificing mobility, the radius of influence of the life field has been directly expanded to about six kilometers!

   Moreover, under the premise that there was no relay command at all, Huo Gu was surprised to find that the command delay phenomenon suddenly weakened a lot.

   The mysterious life scene yarn has become much thinner because of this.

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

There are still a certain number of'flowers' on the taproot on the bottom of the sea. These are the'mouths' of the gourd. Huogu did not modify it, but transplanted it to the taproot intact, and it looked like it had grown.' Flowers'.

   Facts have proved that Huo Gu’s idea is correct. These ‘flowers’ have indeed brought a considerable amount of organic materials to it.

   What made it even more surprising was that it was still in the microbes and captured the genetic samples of the microbes with ‘nucleus’, which is not an exaggeration to say.

   The importance of the development of the cell nucleus is the first life in the history of biological development, such as the first life constructed by organic macromolecules such as amino acids and proteins, and an important milestone in the establishment of a civilization by the terrifying erect apes.

   Its function is that the cell nucleus is the genetic information repository and the control center of cell metabolism and heredity. In other words, it can maintain the overall coordination of the cell without the superconsciousness of Hogu.

   Its existence means that single-celled organisms have the qualification to develop and evolve into multi-celled organisms.

   "But this cell nucleus is still very crude..."

   "It just has a simple double-layer nuclear membrane and nuclear pores, but no nucleolus, chromatin, nuclear matrix and other structures."

   "As far as it seems, this kind of cell nucleus can only function as a defense against phage invasion to a certain extent."

   Huogu summarized the information obtained from the genetic samples.

  Once I became interested, I was guilty of an occupational disease. Huogu couldn't help starting to study this microbe sample with a nucleus.

   "Nitrifying bacteria..."

   In this way, it is easy to understand that this kind of bacteria was caught in this neighborhood.

   At this time, the planet is full of active volcanoes. Nitrous acid is everywhere in the ocean. Especially near here is a volcanic island that is still active.

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

   "What the hell?"

   Huogu emerged again ~lightnovelpub.net~ that found the nucleus before, as if he had discovered a new world.

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

  Oxygen is chemically unstable, so it is suitable as an additive for the reaction, not as an effluent after the reaction.

"and many more!"

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

   Suddenly, there was a flash of inspiration, and Huo Gu, who had a slight contempt for this kind of bacteria, suddenly put away his mind.

  Oxygen itself can react with unsaturated fatty acids without enzymatic catalysis, and can destroy the phospholipids that store these acids, and phospholipids are the main components of cell biofilms, which ultimately cause the death of microorganisms.

In the microbial world, the nitrifying bacteria captured by Huogu can be said to be quite terrifying “poisons”. No microorganism wants to approach them. Especially in today’s atmospheric environment, the evolution of oxygen-consuming microorganisms is basically impossible things.

   "Sure enough, none of the creatures that can exist in nature is a simple role."

   After a lot of admiration, the sample information was added to the gene sequence preserved by Huogu, and the nitrifying bacteria were digested and became the nutrient of the entire cluster.

   The weak and the strong are everywhere!

   Under the transcriptional expression of genes, the root core in the middle of the rhizome-like system that extends for several kilometers has the function of producing oxygen, and the purpose is to kill the microorganisms that may invade the rhizome system.

  Of course, this is just in case, to prevent the invasion of microorganisms after the epidermal defense line is destroyed by rocks.

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