How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 44: Giant-octahedron

   From a small underground cavity about 700 kilometers apart, the rhizome that had been trying to advance stopped growing, and over time, the root tip expanded to form a sphere.

   The inside of the sphere is a hollow structure, in which a fist-sized tumor, like an organ-like object, is constantly beating.

After another period of time, the suspected organs were still beating, but they were not as full of vitality as they were at the beginning. Both the expansion and contraction rate and the rate dropped a lot, and there were six more on the peristaltic flesh wall. Two protrusions pointing in different directions and equidistant from each other.

   It didn't take long for the organs to be cracked by the internal objects, and an octahedral-shaped object was exposed in the stratum cavity supported by the rhizome sphere.

   This regular octahedron is crystal clear like glass, and you can see the various pipes crisscrossing inside it. It has fifteen sides. In addition to the twelve exposed, there are three diagonal lines perpendicular to each other inside.

   The slightly agitated surface indicates that this guy is a creature, a creature that blends three-dimensional geometry with a living body so perfectly, not only does it feel unobtrusive, but it is full of a different kind of beauty.

   The rhizome still plays its role as usual, and a large amount of material flows from a distance through a biological pump composed of muscle cells to continuously transport it.

The flow of these substances is quickly absorbed by the regular octahedron, and its existence and the biological pump in the body quickly divide these substances into various parts of the body. The body is proportionally enlarged without changing the shape, and the transparent color on the surface gradually fades and replaced with a dark black. Metal scale armor.

   Soon, the hollow structure constructed by the rhizome can no longer accommodate the ever-increasing octahedron, and the inner space of the rhizome bulb is broken.

   Under instructions from afar, the broken rhizomes were quickly repaired, and countless roots stretched out and plunged into the octahedron, continuing to faithfully perform the task of transporting materials.

   The octahedron began to show its power to the world, the space in the stratum was constantly enlarged, and the octahedron used its own muscle cells to resist the pressure from the stratum.

  This kind of confrontation has been completely dumped on the side of the octahedron.

  The increase in size often means that the strength will drop linearly. If the size is infinitely enlarged, even things constructed from the strongest metal will appear fragile.

   However, facing the stratum's pressure is increasing, the octahedron is unmoved, always maintaining a steady speed to expand its body.

This is all due to its own structure. The internal skeletons are all connected to form a triangle, which provides an absolutely stable structure for the octahedron. The hypotenuse design of the octahedron allows the pressure applied by the formation to be dispersed and passed to the whole body. Share it everywhere.

It is unrealistic to rely entirely on the skeleton. Among them, the octahedron plays the role of'hercules'. It is the huge number of muscle cells that share most of the pressure on the octahedron, which continuously consumes methane to form the octahedron. The overall structure of the company provides the driving force to achieve the purpose of weakening the external pressure.

   Corresponding to the octahedron in the stratum, the sea level of the planet is falling, as if an invisible planet-level behemoth leaned down to drink water, and the global water level dropped between one and twenty meters.

   The octahedron followed the instructions, tirelessly inflating his body, and soon a new opponent appeared.

   They are lava. The fire dragons of the ancient epoch are disasters and wealth. Even on the earth, they are existences that humans absolutely do not want to provoke.

   Now that the swelling octahedron has penetrated into their dragon's nest, how can they stand it?

  The lava with a temperature between 700 and 1,200 degrees Celsius poured out, vowing to ecstasy the idiot who dared to offend him.

   The dark scale armor of the octahedron was burnt red under the high temperature of the lava, but soon the redness disappeared and returned to the original blackness.

Inside the octahedron, under the acceleration of the biological pump, the high-speed flowing liquid water quickly takes away the heat, which accelerates the rate of metabolism, and the volume of the octahedron increases sharply—the lava has become the one that was “eaten”. square.

After the expansion of the octahedron continued for a period of time, the sea floor began to uplift. At first, it was just a little invisible arc, and gradually became a small mountain bag visible to the naked eye. At this time, it was only three kilometers away from the seabed.

When the turbulent ocean current washed away the dirt and gravel covering it, the octahedron was finally completely exposed to the surface environment. This process did not produce much movement and formed a sharp contrast with the unstoppable momentum in the formation. , Like a peerless master who has returned to the mountains and forests.

The shape of the octahedron continues to expand, and the internal skeleton structure becomes more and more complex. Numerous triangular stable structures maintain the main strength of the locality. The fifteen main bones that grew out of the earliest period have also become larger and larger. .

After    comes into contact with the ocean, the expansion speed of the octahedron is further increased, and the ocean water level drops at the same time. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

   The rhizomes that have been lurking underground have been drilled from the seabed one after another, and they form a **** with the octahedron to increase the transport strength of organic materials and other substances.

   The octahedron quickly touched the surface of the sea, and it was swelling almost at a speed visible to the naked eye.

  ... one meter... ten meters... one hundred meters... kilometer...

The top of the octahedron is getting higher and higher from the water surface, and a nearby volcanic island is slowly disintegrating in this bottom-up process, like a bulldozer pushing away the sand pile with absolutely irresistible force.

   All these things happened, Huo Gu had a full view through the rhizome system, and a small feeling of complacency emerged uncontrollably.

   "If it weren't for the actual sample of the huge hollow support column, based on the knowledge I know, there is really no way to design such a strong skeletal structure..."

Of course, it’s not enough just to rely on the support pillars, and the help of the alien skeleton fossils discovered later, otherwise Huogu really can’t design such a self-consistent and integrated one in such a short period of time. Iron bones.

Bones are not like alloys. Just throw them in the stove and burn them, then beat them, and you're done. On a microscopic scale, bones have a more microscopic structure. It is precisely because of this that bones will grow with life. And become wider and bigger.

   Huogu’s perspective was from bottom to top, scanning the octahedron that swelled out of the sea, and then from the top of the octahedron, he shifted his sight to the orange-red sky with dense clouds.

   "It seems that it won't be long before we can learn about the troublesome things now..."

   Soon thereafter, when the octahedron rose to an average height of about five kilometers on the surface, the tornado that made Huogu familiar and hated itching appeared.