How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 7: design

kill! Kill them all! Kill them to extinction! Only by letting them die can we be safe!

Such violent thoughts occupies Huogu’s thinking, which is transmitted to all the single cells. The cells are like soldiers receiving orders. From the beginning, Huogu manipulated them and used enzymes to resist, and gradually evolved to them. Spontaneous struggle, as long as the phage parasitizes, it immediately kills the cell membrane by suicide, and the phage perishes.

   The mutation of the single cells caused the stalemate on both sides to be reversed instantly, and the single cell cluster on Huogu's side began to take the upper hand, pushing back against the corpse of his companion.

   When the last bacteriophage parasitizes, it dies from a single-cell suicide attack, and the fight for life is over.

   The corpses are all over, even if there is endless darkness all around, Huogu can roughly construct that scene, the single-cell cluster has shrunk to one-twentieth of its original size.

   Huo Gu, who had recovered his composure, only felt afraid for a while. If he still had a human body now, it would have been as if he had been immersed in ice water.

   The battle just now, as long as there are twice as many phages, it will be over...

   "No, the cause of death of double wall cells must be found immediately!"

   Huogu's attention quickly turned to the double-walled cell that had completely died.

   "First eliminate the impossible factors one by one..."

"It can't be'antibiotics'. Although fungi and bacteria can produce them, viruses like bacteriophages cannot do it. Their structure is too simple. Moreover, if it comes from a single cell itself, then a double-walled cell There should be a certain degree of resistance..."

   "What could be the reason for that?"

   Huogu found himself back to the origin of the problem-how did the double wall cells die?

   "First of all, when single-walled, it is good..."

   "Wait, single wall? Yes, single wall!"

   Huo Gu suddenly, thinking of something, suddenly focused his attention on the slightly intersecting tunnels.

   Because of this mutual stagger, the tunnel formed a material exchange tunnel with two ends wide and narrow in the middle.

   This is originally used to allow single cells to interact with the outside world to form material, energy, and information. This is something that all life must not lack in order to maintain its own activities.

   Now the tunnel is blocked. It is the small and large molecular clusters that are blocking the tunnel.

   This is like blocking all of a person's mouth and nose, and the death of double-walled cells is a matter of course.

"So, this was a design flaw in the beginning, but what should I do? Even if the DNA is corrected, the clogging problem cannot be solved. If you give up the narrowing of the tunnel, it will not be able to defend the phage that deserves a thousand swords. "

  The idea gradually entered a dead end. After a while, Huogu's ideas had become a mess, and he couldn't think of any good solutions.

   "Maybe I should change the way..."

  Since this path doesn't work, it's better to simply change the path. Huogu's thinking flashed past the scene of fighting with the phage cluster.

   "I am not me, but we..."

   "Individual ability is always limited, maybe I should work hard in this direction..."

   A prototype gradually appeared in Huo Gu's thoughts-multicellular organisms!

   "In the case of the skin, the outermost cells can be made into completely closed cells. If life is maintained, it is given to the inner cells protected by this ‘epidermis’."

   The long strip of creatures like bamboo appeared in front of Huo Gu.

   "Inner cells are only responsible for feeding, defense and attack are left to other types of cells."

   "It is better to have an inner space inside to facilitate targeted strikes."

The long strip of creature in the mind is transparent, and the inside is presented as Huogu's conception. The inner wall of the cavity has the same surface cells as the outer skin. When the microorganisms enter the cavity, the epidermal cells in these cavities will release A large number of enzymes are used to decompose microorganisms in the cavity into amino acids.

In this way, the cavity is a completely harmless nutrient solution. Although there are a lot of enzymes, as long as the cell wall of the epidermal cells in the cavity is maintained and the two sides are balanced, the'digestive juice' in the cavity is harmless. of.

   "Involves two openings, so that when the entire single-cell cluster moves, the flowing water itself will bring those microorganisms into the cavity."

   At this moment, Huogu's thoughts suddenly came to a halt, and it found that there were problems in some places.

  How to absorb those amino acids that are broken down by enzymes?

   This is a terrible problem. If there is no way to take in the amino acids in the cavity, then these designs were just a waste of work.

   Is there no way? Huogu fell into contemplation again, recalling the memories of the human period, looking for the biological designs recorded in the books.

   "So what about people?"

   "How do people achieve nutritional intake after eating?"

   Huo Gu asked himself this way. UU reading www. uukanshu.com

   "The gastric mucosa, the gastric mucosa is alkaline and can neutralize gastric acid, so gastric acid does not pose any threat to the stomach unless the gastric mucosa is destroyed..."

   "I can try to formulate it as an inhibitor of the'digestive juice' enzyme, so that there is no need to worry about the enzyme breaking down the inner wall of the cavity."

   "So, the cell wall of the epidermal cells on the inner wall of the cavity doesn't have to be..."

   Huogu's thoughts suddenly stopped, and then he dismissed the thought.

   "No, it is still necessary. What if the microorganisms infect the cells in the cavity before they are digested?"

   This problem must be paid attention to. Hogu decided to keep the original cell wall design of the cells in the cavity.

   Next is the design of "open mouth" and "close mouth".

   This difficulty is not too great. It has a ready-made protein structure as a ‘rope’, which can simulate the ‘tenons’ of multicellular organisms.

   Although there is no muscle fiber to provide assistance, it does not matter, it can provide the motive force through cell division.

The only disadvantage of    is that it is impossible to open and close the mouth as quickly as those multicellular organisms with muscle fibers.

   However, Huo Gu is not worried about this shortcoming, because the opponent it has to face is microorganisms, and the speed of opening and closing the mouth does not make much sense.

  It can be said that as long as it is not fighting against multicellular organisms, Huogu’s design is invincible, even in the face of the previous group of phages, it can guarantee to be crushed.

   The current situation is no longer the same as in the past, fighting each other, loose as a disc of sand. Under this design, the single-cell cluster is like a clenched fist, enough to destroy any microorganisms that dare to punch it.

   In terms of size, the microbes lost from the beginning.