How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 25 The Choice

If you want to gain a foothold in the field of archaeology, it is not enough to just specialize in biology, and you need to expand your knowledge to the field of geology.

Thanks to previous knowledge, Huo Gu was not so passive in this strange place.

The purpose of including volcanic rocks in the main root is to analyze the general element ratio of the lava inside the volcano with the help of small rocks near the crater.

The volcanic rocks on the coast were not used because the seawater reacted chemically with the rocks to a certain extent, which caused the risk of analysis errors.

The rocks at the foot of the volcano are not used for the same reason. Unlike the rainy environment of the Cenozoic Earth, due to volcanic ash, the Hadean rainwater is rich in various chemical substances, and it is still raining heavily all the time. It is quite difficult to understand the original element ratio from these volcanic rocks.

What is the use of analyzing the element ratio of lava?

Knowing the ratio of elements, it is natural to infer some properties of the lava in this volcano, such as volatile matter, viscosity and fluidity.

These properties determine the form in which the lava accumulated inside the volcano will be released.

If it is rich in silica and volatile matter, the temperature of the lava is low, the viscosity is high, and the fluidity is poor. When the volcano erupts, it mainly releases energy in the form of an explosion, which is very violent and violent, and releases a large amount of volcanic ash and volcanic bombs. The ejection is quite dangerous, and if the energy is huge enough, it will even be accompanied by a certain degree of shock wave.

The magma contains low silicon dioxide, relatively low volatile matter, high temperature, low viscosity, and high magma fluidity. This kind of lava volcanic eruption is relatively quiet, and it will be similar to the overflow eruption of the Hawaiian volcano, as long as it is not With a missing string in his head, he took the initiative to stand in the direction of the lava overflow, and basically there would be no casualties.

"This is the reason why the area of ​​this island will be relatively large. Although I guessed it early on, I don't think there is any need to be too surprised..."

"But the fluidity of this lava is much higher than expected, which is very exciting."

The lava with high fluidity cooled and condensed into a large area of ​​lava platform and shield volcano. When he first saw the appearance of this volcano, Huogu had doubts, and now he finally got a definite answer from the information he obtained.

"The high liquidity means that even if the island is an active volcano, it is not impossible to use it, as long as it can be slightly modified..."

My thoughts gradually drifted away, summing up the information sent back by the two main roots. The three-dimensional projection of the volcano presents Hogu’s thinking. Although there is no information about the interior of the volcano, it can be inferred from the shape. Based on Hogu’s knowledge accumulation, It's not too difficult a thing.

Falling into contemplation for a long time, this state lasted until it was pulled back from his thoughts to reality by another thing.

It took a lot of time to climb the mountain. During this period of time, enough organic materials were finally collected. Huo Gu knew that it was time to start designing and creating new types of cell clusters.

Huogu is used to simplifying problems and solving them quickly in a simple and efficient way.

Empty all the messy thoughts in his mind, recalling the various problems that gourd individuals showed when driving the gourd group, Huogu directly summed it up as a core-body shape.

It is precisely because the body is too small that it is so fragile in terms of protection. Just a simple scratch by a stone may cause fatal injury.

The body is small, the load-bearing capacity is naturally small, and the number of sensory cells in the carrying capacity will be small, that is to say, the coverage area of ​​the life field will be small.

Although it is possible to expand the coverage area of ​​the life field through individual relays, this method has obvious delays and is unreliable in complex and changeable environments.

"It's decided! Let's design a strong and huge body, and use that super wave as the imaginary opponent..."

"...at least to the extent that after bearing it once, you can still be unscathed!"

A long spine comes to mind.

If you want to design a huge body, you first need a solid skeleton system to support the entire body. A soft body design like a gourd without a little bit of bone support is definitely not suitable.

If it were really designed in that way, it would be a lump of soft meat with difficulty in moving.

"Uh... this is not good, this series of vertebrae is too heavy, if you add a thick outer armor, it will have a great impact on the speed..."

"Besides, it is necessary to spare as much load as possible to carry a larger number of sensory cells..."

The spine in the mind is re-disrupted, returning to the original point, and at the same time, problems follow.

"...Then which skeleton design should I use better?"

Huogu asked himself like this, rethinking his countermeasures.

"Maybe……"

A flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in Huo Gu's mind.

"If it is necessary to consider the evolution of species, the spine is naturally the best choice, but I don't need to consider this, so I can go beyond the routine..."

"In nature, it mainly revolves around 'who can live longer' rather than 'whose design is more perfect', examples of species with perfect and complex systems becoming extinct before those with simple life systems have never occurred in the history of the earth. No less."

After weighing again and again, Huogu finally made up his mind to make a decision.

"Well, that's it, I'll choose the 'straight shell Nautilus' design."

A conical hollow shell tending to be slender, emerged in Huogu's mind.

Just like the straight-shelled nautilus, the interior is completely supported by a strong exoskeleton. Although in evolution, it is true that this exoskeleton will restrict the evolution to a large body. The straight-shelled nautilus is because of This, in the species race of the Cambrian Explosion, went extinct.

But it doesn't matter, Huogu does not follow the route of natural selection evolution, and there is no such restriction, and the strong exoskeleton is an advantage.

Especially with this conical design, the resistance in the water will be reduced to the minimum, just like a torpedo in the water.

Huogu thought of this design because he just thought of torpedoes.

No matter how powerful a species is, it is a joke in front of the tools made by humans. Although there are indeed some creatures that can do things that human tools cannot do for the time being, it is just that humans do not have the urgent desire for that aspect for the time being, and they are not in a hurry to create. , so temporarily maintain the advantage of .

As the fastest moving creature in the earth's oceans, sailfish has a record speed of 190 kilometers per hour, which translates to a speed of about 100 knots.

And when Huogu was still on Earth, throwing away those torpedoes that were still being secretly developed by various countries, even the highest known speed torpedo could already reach 100m/s, which means a speed of about 200 knots!