How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 10 Good and Bad

"Why is this so? Although it cannot be said that every single-celled organism must have the photoreceptor organelle 'eye point', it is not impossible for all of them to lack it..."

Later, Huo Gu also noticed that in single-celled organisms, there is also no such thing as chloroplast or chlorophyll that requires '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 associated with 'light'."

From the situation of single-celled organisms, Hogu deduced 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.

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

As an energy source like the sun, organisms should never let it go, even if there is no cell organelle related to 'light' at the beginning, they will find ways to evolve it.

However, Huo Gu was not in a hurry to draw conclusions. After thinking about it, he decided to carry out a few more large-scale captures of microorganisms.

"It's a bit too arbitrary to draw conclusions like this. This is just the first capture. Try a few more times. If it still doesn't work, you should be sure. My current position is either a bottomless deep sea, or A subterranean dark lake without any light."

Those non-living single-cell organisms are dismembered with microenzymes to dismember the cell membrane and cell wall, and then the internal organelles and gene fragments are drawn into the inner cells behind the surface cells of the cavity, and fixed on the inner wall of the cell membrane with connexin.

For a moment, Huogu actually had the illusion of getting rich overnight.

But when he thought of the possible existence of multicellular organisms, his excitement quickly cooled down.

Huogu knew very well that although the current multicellular clusters were invincible against many microorganisms, once the opponents were replaced by multicellular organisms, they would be as fragile as a newborn baby.

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

Enzymes that can break down cell walls are harmless to macroscopic organisms.

The fangs and sharp claws of macro organisms that can easily tear apart epidermal tissue, from the perspective of current single-cell clusters, are equivalent to the nuclear weapons of those big countries seen by African natives.

"It's not enough... There's still a long way to go to stop being life-threatening."

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

From the perspective of microorganisms, the bloody mouth like a black hole slowly opened. Driven by the flow, Hogu's single-cell clusters moved forward, and countless microorganisms, proteins, amino acids and other substances were undetectable. Wrapped into the land of death.

Use enzymes to kill those worthless viruses, extend the connecting protein, capture a large number of microorganisms, dismember them, and carefully extract the genes and organelles of the microorganisms.

With two successes, the third time became more proficient, the number of mouth opening and closing increased, and the command coordination between Hogu and the cells in the cluster was more coordinated, and it was no longer as mechanical as before.

After opening and closing hundreds of times, the opening and closing of the mouth seems to be no different from normal macroscopic creatures in Hogu's view.

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

The cause of the incident was the single-celled organism with suspected mitochondria that Huogu had captured before. This single-celled organism is a sulfur bacterium that conducts life activities with sulfur.

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

This kind of creature is generally distributed in waters where sulfur exists. Just like their name, they cannot do without sulfur.

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

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

"I just wish that place wasn't an active volcano."

Huo Gu was terrified in his heart, even though the volcano didn't erupt, it was just emitting thick smoke.

The bad substances mix with the rain in the atmosphere along with the smoke and dust. The result is either acid rain or alkali rain. When a heavy rain falls, the water quality environment will change drastically in an instant.

And those magmas, without eyes to observe the surroundings, magma is also extremely dangerous for Hogu and the single-cell clusters, the lava will make the surrounding liquid boil, and in this high-temperature environment, the cells that are combined into a whole 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 rudimentary, even without a temperature sensing system, Huogu can only observe the water temperature indirectly through the protein changes in the cell cluster.

If the fangs and claws of macro organisms are equivalent to the nuclear weapons of a major country for the current single-cell clusters, then the active volcano is equivalent to the sun. All Huo Gu can do now is to be in awe. Once the volcano erupts, the current actions of the cluster will Speed, that is sure to die.

"Only when you lose it, will you know how precious those things are..."

Huo Gu missed his eyes very much, as well as the international civil aviation airliner that can reach twice the speed of sound in the human world.

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

There are currently two things that can be determined.

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

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

"Adhering to the worst-case scenario, assuming that such an active volcano exists nearby..."

Huogu's analysis stopped abruptly, not because he didn't want to continue the deduction, but because his thinking stopped.

In the face of absolute power, these are just futile struggles.

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

A thought appeared in Huogu's mind like this - since there is no cell organelle related to 'light', why not simply create a pair of 'eyes' independently?

As soon as this idea appeared, it was like a weed growing wildly, occupying Hogu's thoughts in an instant, and he couldn't get rid of it no matter what.

"That's right, I can completely design a visual system by myself, which is more sophisticated than the 'eyespots' of those single-celled organisms, and has a high-performance visual system."

"As a standard, use human vision as the standard."