How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 22 The Island

After correcting the new opponent, the design of the new macro-organism was also promoted. At the same time, Huogu also had the time to pay attention to the surrounding environment.

This is an alkaline water, best evidenced by the high concentration of free metal compounds in the aqueous solution.

For organisms in acidic waters, this is a place of death, and entering means death. Their life mechanism that can resist strong acid cannot help them resist the erosion of strong alkali.

However, this is not a difficult task for the gourd group with Hogu's super thinking. After adjusting the internal and external osmotic pressure of the cell membrane and the screening mechanism, the gourd group has changed from an acidophilic organism to an alkalophilic organism.

There are three volcanoes nearby, two in the water and one on the surface, and the cooling of the lava has formed a volcanic island that is still emitting gray smoke and dust into the atmosphere.

The entire island is black, and between the cracks in the stones, you can vaguely see the blood-like bright red, and the rain falls on it, emitting wisps of thin blue smoke. From a distance, it looks like it has just been fished out of the fire. .

"The land in the Hadean Era..."

There was a sudden movement in my heart, and the super wave that could sweep the entire sea area that I had encountered before flashed in my thoughts, and then my attention was focused on the volcanic island in front of me.

"Isn't this a perfect 'shelter'?"

Hogu, who couldn't wait, looked at the lava island in the distance and issued instructions to the gourd group.

As before, it was a long formation to ensure safety during exploration.

However, with the previous experience, the deployment time of this formation has been shortened a lot, and the delay adjustment has made Huo Gu more familiar.

Hogu can see that the volcanic islands are submerged in water, and the ellipsoidal or pillow-shaped shapes formed when the scorching lava cools, also known as pillow lava.

This part is mainly located at the bottom of the volcanic island, and the middle part is a columnar joint. Due to the rapid cooling and contraction of lava, cracks on the vertical cooling surface are often formed, and they are parallel to each other, so these pentagonal or hexagonal joints appear. Long stone pillars.

In addition, the closer to the volcanic island, the more obvious the interference of the waves, coupled with the command delay, for Huo Gu, the difficulty of operating the frontmost gourd body rose sharply.

Fortunately, there is no solution. The width of Huqun's exploration formation increases, and the fault tolerance rate increases.

After many twists and turns, Hu Qun was finally able to get close to this volcanic island.

The first batch of gourds rode the waves as the first animals and landed on the land of this planet.

However, the good news didn't always favor Huogu's side, all the gourds who climbed onto the land died.

Regarding this, Huogu didn't have too many emotional fluctuations, because these gourd individuals were originally going up to die, all in order to be able to understand what dangers existed on the sea.

These gourd individuals die in a variety of ways.

There are factors of atmospheric composition. There are not only carbon dioxide with a concentration that is too high to explode in the atmosphere, but also excessive methane, sulfur dioxide and other elements.

Unprepared, these elements were inhaled into the body of the gourd, which affected the material circulation inside the gourd. In addition, the pressure in the water and the air were not the same, which eventually led to death.

Others died from trauma. There was no such thing as fine sand in the Hadean Era. There were stones everywhere, and the angular stones on the coast accounted for the vast majority. Most of the gourds that washed up on the coast were pulled out. Big mouth, whole cell death from dehydration in the absence of a foot-like outer limb back into the sea.

There are still quite a few gourds that barely adapted to the unfamiliar atmospheric environment, and the wall cells were not damaged by stones or a very small part of the damaged part, they also failed to survive.

The reason lies in the microorganisms living on the island. Long before the arrival of the gourds, there were already 'aboriginal people' on this island. They were washed ashore by the waves and occupied this volcanic island earlier than Hogu.

Because the land is no better than the ocean, organic macromolecules such as amino acids, proteins, and phospholipid groups are almost non-existent. Huogu used the method at the beginning to kill the microorganisms that invaded the gourd, and the stored organic materials were quickly exhausted. We know that the maintenance of the life activities of the cells also depends on these organic materials.

As a result, the last survivors in this batch of gourds died of starvation.

"Stone... If you say that, it shouldn't be..."

Huo Gu suddenly discovered that the second way of death was very similar to the unknown attack he suffered during the previous wave.

During the Hadean Eon, it should have been true that there should be no macroscopic large organisms other than microorganisms, that is to say, the unidentified objects that penetrated the gourd group should be inanimate.

In this way, it is easy to understand that not only gourds are engulfed by the super wave, but also those stones are rolling in the wave together.

Think about it, it’s easy to understand putting small stones and water balloons into a side-scrolling washing machine. The small stones endowed with kinetic energy by the washing machine will not be polite to the water balloons that burst when touched, so it created the Misery in the tide.

"So, in order to avoid encountering that danger again, a safe haven is necessary. Only a stable environment can guarantee survival."

This is a compromise decision. Establishing a stronghold on an active volcanic island is of course extremely risky, but before designing a biological engine that can bring higher speed to Huo, this is undoubtedly the best option.

Moreover, after the Hadean Era, marching to the land is also Huogu's goal, so it is better to accumulate more experience for future plans now.

"The structure of the gourd is indeed very useful in a liquid environment, but on land..."

Without the support of water buoyancy, the gravitational effect will be highlighted, and the physiological structure determines that the gourd is not suitable for action on land.

The various arms and legs of the organism floated by in Huogu's mind, and then they were immediately denied. There was no other reason, and the energy consumption was too high. The collection of protein amino acids alone was quite troublesome and a waste of time.

Huogu’s line of sight is located at the columnar joints in the middle of the island in the sea. The stone columns with hexagonal structures look more like artificially carved performance art.

"Maybe... I can learn about plants..."

"Yes, plants, why must they be limited to animal forms? Plants should also be a good choice."

"Wait, if it's a plant, can I also..."

The moment the idea appeared, it was like a wild horse running wild, expanding out of control, and occupying Hogu's entire thinking in an instant.

Plants are just an introduction, and what really makes Huo Gu excited and uncontrollable is the bolder ideas extended from this introduction.