How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 9: Good and bad

   "Why is this? Although it cannot be said that every single-celled organism must have the photoreceptor organelle ‘eyespot’, it’s not that there are none at all..."

   Later, Hogu also noticed that in single-celled organisms, there are also no things like chloroplasts or chlorophyll that require ‘light’ to participate in the reaction.

   "Could it be that I was wrong at the beginning?"

   "Is it possible that the external environment does not have ‘light’, so these single-celled organisms have not evolved organelles related to ‘light’.”

   From the situation of single-celled organisms, Huogu came up with such a conclusion.

   There is a mutual influence between life and the environment. If there is no life at the beginning, the earth will gradually evolve into a barren planet.

   And the surrounding environment also determines the form that organisms can develop and affects their evolution.

   An energy source like the sun, living beings should say that nothing can be let go, even if there is no organelle related to ‘light’ at the beginning, they will try their best to evolve.

   However, Huogu was not in a hurry to draw conclusions. After thinking about it, he decided to continue several more large-scale microbial capture operations.

"It's too arbitrary to draw conclusions just like this. This is just the first capture. I will try again a few more times. If it still doesn't, it should be certain. My current position is not in the bottomless sea, or A dark underground lake without any light."

   Use micro-enzymes to dismember the cell membrane and cell wall of the inactive single-cell organisms, and then drag the internal organelles and gene fragments into the inner cells after the surface cells of the cavity, and fix them on the inner wall of the cell membrane with connexin.

   For a time, Huo Gu actually had the illusion of getting rich overnight.

   But when I think of the possible existence of multicellular organisms, its excitement quickly cools down.

   Huogu knows very well that although the current multicellular clusters are invincible in the face of many microorganisms, once the opponent is replaced by a multicellular organism, it will be as fragile as a newborn baby.

   The cell wall that can block bacteriophages is thinner than paper in the eyes of macroscopic organisms.

  Enzymes that can break down cell walls are not lethal to macroscopic organisms.

   The fangs and claws of macro-organisms that can easily shred the epidermal tissue. From the perspective of the current single-cell clusters, it is equivalent to the nuclear weapons of African indigenous people in those big countries.

   "Not enough...There is still a long way to go if you want to stop being threatened by your life."

   Huogu warned and reminded himself of his current situation, while instructing the cells to open their mouths.

In the eyes of the microorganisms, the big mouth of the blood basin, like a black hole, slowly opened. Driven by the flow, the single-cell clusters of Hogu pushed forward, and countless microorganisms, proteins, amino acids and other substances were so unnoticeable. Wrapped into the land of death.

   Use enzymes to kill viruses that are no longer worthwhile, extend the connexins, capture a large number of microorganisms, dismember them, and carefully extract the genes and organelles of the microorganisms.

   had two successes, and became more proficient the third time. The number of opening and closing his mouth increased. The commands of Huogu and the cells in the cluster were more coordinated, and they were no longer as mechanical as before.

   After hundreds of times, the opening and closing of the mouth seemed to Huo Gu to be no different from normal macroscopic creatures.

   This is good news, but there is also bad news.

   The cause of the incident was the single-celled organism with suspected mitochondria that Hogu captured earlier. This single-celled organism is a sulfur bacteria that carries out life activities with sulfur.

   sulfur bacteria is no stranger to Huogu. It has seen such single-celled organisms in the volcanic rocks sampled with an electron microscope.

  This kind of creatures are generally distributed in waters where sulfur exists. Just like their name, they can't do without sulfur.

   Even in the original human period, sulfur bacteria were not extinct. They were mainly distributed near active volcanoes or hot springs, and they could survive even in 100% boiling water.

   Since such a creature has been captured, it can be deduced from this that there must be a large area of ​​stable sulfur environment nearby.

   "I just beg that place is not an active volcano."

   Huo Gu was shocked, even if the volcano hadn't erupted, it was just smoking.

   Bad substances are mixed with rainwater in the atmosphere with smoke and dust. The result is either acid rain or alkaline rain. When a heavy rain falls, the water quality environment is instantly changed.

There are also those magma. Without eyes to observe the surroundings, magma is extremely dangerous to Hogu and single-cell clusters. The face will make the surrounding liquid boil. In this high temperature environment, they combine to form a whole cell. In a few seconds, they will all die, or be cooked.

   There is no way, the current multicellular organism composed of single cells is too crude, even without a temperature sensing system, Hogu can only observe the water temperature indirectly through the protein changes in the cell clusters.

If we say that the fangs and claws of macro-organisms are equivalent to nuclear weapons at the level of great powers for the current single-cell clusters, the active volcano is equivalent to the sun, and all Hogu can do now is awe. Once a volcano An outbreak, with the current speed of action of the cluster, it is undoubtedly a death.

   "Only when you lose it, do you know how to cherish those things..."

   Huo Gu immensely missed his own eyes, and the international civil aviation airliner that can reach twice the speed of sound in the human world.

   Clear the distracting thoughts, now there is not so much time to waste it, those threats hidden in the dark will not wait for it to be ready.

   There are two points that can be determined at present.

   First, from the captured single-celled organisms, it can be determined that the surrounding is a completely dark environment, so no single-celled organisms have evolved organelles related to ‘light’.

   Second, there is an unknown area with dense sulfur nearby.

   "Adhering to the worst case scenario, suppose there is such an active volcano nearby..."

   Huogu's analysis came to an abrupt end, not because it didn't want to continue the deduction, but because its thinking was down.

   In the face of absolute power, these are nothing but futile struggles.

   "...Sure enough, I still need eyes."

   A thought just appeared in Huogu's thoughts-since there is no organelle about ‘light’, why not just create a pair of ‘eyes’ independently?

   As soon as this thought appeared, it was like a wild grass, which occupied Huogu's thoughts in a flash, lingering no matter what.

   "Yes, I can design a visual system by myself, which is more sophisticated and superb than the ‘eyepoint’ of single-celled organisms."

   "If it is a standard, take the human vision as the standard."