How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 28: Infrastructure

After the volcano’s lava level dropped to a low point due to the release of lava, the sword of Damocles hanging above Huogu’s head was finally removed. The threat of the volcano no longer existed and replaced by a safe one. Place of residence.

   After the volcano's magma flow stopped flowing out, Huogu issued a new order, and the infrastructure of this new ‘home’ was in full swing.

   The main roots on the island continue to extend new roots, which grow in accordance with the topography of the island, forming a thin layer of lichen.

   The cells that make up the lichen are a new type of cell designed by Hogu based on the structure of algae. This design adds ribosomes, vacuoles, and nuclei and other organelle structures on the basis of combining parietal cells and inner cells.

   Ribosomes can dehydrate and condense amino acids harvested by cells to form proteins, which are converted into protein structures, which is conducive to storage.

   vacuole can exist as an intracellular storage room to store resources such as water and protein. The advantage of this is that there will be no large loss of resources caused by leakage of the cavity.

  This kind of cell can autonomously take in atmospheric elements from the air and breathe in, absorb acid-base rainwater, inorganic salts in volcanic rocks, and heat emitted from inside the volcano to produce amino acids needed by individual life.

   Huogu designed these for an obvious purpose-to create a ‘producer’ just like the Earth’s ecosystem to fill the vacancy of the entire cell population.

The design of the titanium snail is perfect, and it can even be said that it is a life entity that should not be born in the ancient period. Even in the earth's biosphere that has experienced 4.6 billion years, the titanium snail will not be afraid of any top ocean inside. Predators-except for humans.

   However, in order to upgrade all aspects of capabilities beyond the times, most of the space inside the Titanium snails is used to strengthen the speed and armor capabilities, which leads to the low ability of the Titanium snails in resource collection.

   It is indeed a compromise to let the gourd be the resource collector of the titanium snail itself, but this is not the best choice. The individual gourd is only collecting resources, not producing resources.

   The rhizome system covering several kilometers of islands and nearby seas is also only doing collection, not production.

   Judging from the current rate of increase in the number, the endurance of organic resources will sooner or later reach the limit of cell expenditure, and the time is not far away from now. In times of danger, Huogu must be prepared for that day.

  Since the overall structure of lichen is simpler than the rhizome system, and only grows on the surface, lichens can completely cover the volcanic islands at the speed of fully crushing the rhizome.

   Then, Huogu used the rhizome system to excavate one side of the volcanic island to create a harbor. The turbulent waves will be blocked by the harbor reefs and will not affect the waters in the harbor.

   After the construction was completed, Huogu transferred the core tumor mass of the rhizome system to this harbour, and gave instructions to enlarge the tumor mass under the command to expand the size of the tumor mass, thus expanding the scope of the life field once again.

   At the same time, the lichens on the island also received instructions from Huogu to complete the docking with the nodules in the harbor, forming a supply chain loop.

Then there is the observation system of the island. The height of the station can be seen far away. The rhizome system is at the uppermost part of the volcano. At the intersection of all the main roots, several semi-spherical objects have grown. They are all transparent, and they are still hard entities. When rain falls on it, it will make a crisp "crackling" beating sound.

   The transparent object is tempered glass constructed by Huogu using silicon and carbon elements. Although it is not as strong as metal, it is not as fragile as ordinary glass.

   Tempered glass is filled with transparent liquid. An eyeball grows larger in a semi-spherical glass container. The nerve bundle at the end of the eyeball can transmit electrical signals while also helping the eyeball to rotate at any angle except the bottom.

   On the outside of the glass container is a thin strip of half an arc, with muscle cells connected at both ends, and there are small cilia in the place where it is in contact with the tempered glass.

   Its role is to brush off the rain and dust that interferes with the sight of the glass surface to complete the act of "blinking an eye."

   "Huh, it's finally done."

   After so long, Huo Gu can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

   The volcanic island at this moment is no longer as desolate as it used to be, and it is not like the land of the ancient times. The rhizomes and lichens make this land look alive.

   However, the development of things is not as simple as it thought, and some more dangerous external factors are ignored by it.

   Just when Huogu thought he could explore nearby with peace of mind, a new crisis came quietly.

   The first is the island vision system that has just been established. I noticed that the cumulonimbus clouds on the orange-red sky are obviously moving faster.

This kind of cloud changes, Huo Gu did not pay too much attention to it, because the ancient dynasty was already a very harsh environment, with fierce winds, acid and alkali rain, volcanic eruptions, and lightning from time to time. All kinds of factors make Huogu subconsciously believe that there will be no worse situation.

   When it realized that it was wrong, it was feeling the changes in the ocean current through the titanium snail.

   The general ocean waves can only cause the titanium snails to sway slightly, and they can obviously feel the attraction from a certain direction, as if a huge bottomless hole appeared in that direction, constantly swallowing the sea water.

   The clouds in the sky protrude a cone downwards, and the clouds take on a spiral shape.

   A vortex appears on the sea, but unlike a normal vortex, this is a cone vortex facing the sky.

   The seawater cone and the cloud cone face each other far away, gradually extending themselves, and finally the cone tip touches and merges into a water vapor mixture, becoming a pillar between heaven and earth.

   A term emerged in Huogu's thinking—tornado!

   "Tornado? No, this can't be said to be a tornado anymore, it's too big!"

   Tornadoes with a diameter of about one kilometer are unheard of.

Huogu stared at the area with tornadoes in shock and horror. He didn't know what words to describe. The things he saw were not focused on meteorology and geography, and there was no way to accurately describe things that were beyond the scope of his knowledge. .

   Soon after the formation of this ‘water column’, ‘water columns’ of the same level were born in other directions one after another. Continuous arcs flickered in the sky, and the surging sea surface was quiet and peaceful to a strange degree.

   These ‘water columns’ seem to also influence each other, and under this influence, their paths turn to the volcanic island where Huogu is.