How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 38: The Beginning of Inheritance

After the special-supply amino acids in the water were absorbed, Huo Gu exported other types of amino acids and proteins in the water, and urged the collectors to complete the two tasks of 'collecting organic materials' and 'putting them into the rhizome system for absorption'.

After completing these two things, the collector will get the special amino acid provided by the rhizome system. Under the temptation of food, the collector will soon learn this process, even if it has not yet awakened the concept of "I".

To put it bluntly, it is the animal taming skills in the circus, not high-end skills.

The collectors adjusted their cognition little by little under the guidance of Huogu, and recorded it in their brains as empirical knowledge, that is-as long as they put strange things on those vine-like structures, they can get delicious food.

After such continuous stocking in water for a period of time, the collectors will understand that only the rhizome system can provide food for it, and then an equation will appear in their minds, the rhizome system equals food security, and the rhizome system is destroyed , means hunger, so driven by desire, a concept - protection will be derived.

During the whole process, Huo Gu paid close attention to the changes in the collector's brain. The memory of the collector belongs to learning memory, which should not be inherited in theory. Huo Gu is going to transform it into heritable memory. It requires every newborn The collector knows what to do, which is why it takes so much trouble.

In addition, Huogu also tested his control over the cells of the collector, and the result was that there was indeed a decline in control. Although the connection still existed, it could no longer be completely controlled like a gourd. Things are weakened.

As time passed, the rhizomes climbing towards the bottom of the sea finally spread to the edge of the seabed cave and tangled with each other to block the seabed cave.

More than a dozen gourds were made from rhizomes. Under Huogu's order, they used the gravel and gravel on the seabed to spread to the bottom of the sea to hide the rhizomes.

Then, it attaches to the rhizome, transforms into a cocoon, and gestates itself again.

Huo Gu covered the gatherer information collected during this period directly into the inside of the cocoon, allowing the gourd's genes to be expressed in the form of gatherers.

Not long after, the collectors broke out of their shells and became the first batch of macroscopic multicellular organisms to appear on this planet.

They have the same appearance as gourds, but they are different. They are no longer restricted by the owner's movement distance, no longer restricted by the life field, and can move freely. They have been upgraded from tools to labor servants of the contractor.

The collectors turned their eyes for some unknown reason, observing this new world that they had never seen before. The vast environment of the seabed was different from the narrow 'world' in their inherited memory. The inconsistency between reality and memory inevitably made them produce A little overwhelmed.

However, driven by hunger, they still started collecting in the ocean.

At first, due to their inability to adapt to the physical ability and the ocean environment, the collectors struggled to swim in the sea. Compared with the stable water environment in the underground cavity, the current in the ocean can be regarded as 'turbulent', and the collectors often There will be accidents where the speed and direction cannot be controlled and they will collide with each other.

Fortunately, the nutrient-rich environment of the Hadean era caused the proliferation of microorganisms. Even with such a delay, enough organic materials were collected to barely fill the stomachs of the collectors.

Of course, there are also individual collectors with a very small amount of collection. They can't adapt to the turbulent environment of the seabed at all. Instead, they hit the seabed reefs several times, and Hogu added a lot of organic materials to repair them.

Just like Huogu decided at the beginning, it can't be used up like a heartless slave owner. After all, it is working for it. If there is no medical assistance, it is too unreasonable.

The foragers who could no longer bear the hunger went to those foragers who were eating, wanting to get a share of the action, but all the foragers didn't have much reaction to this.

When they were just born, they were all like blank paper, with no concept of public or private, no concept of stealing, and no desire to possess. Therefore, no collector would express any objection.

But Huo Gu couldn't just sit on the sidelines, the rules were set by it - 'The supplies the collectors get depend on the amount of organic materials that can be collected'.

Moreover, if left alone, will there be 'slackers' derived from collecting here? Specialized in grabbing food from other foragers, like carnivores above herbivores.

Huogu, who was concerned, couldn't just watch these substandard collectors eat the food of other collectors. The rhizome drove away the collectors who approached them, and restricted its ability to move.

Collectors want to break free from the limitations of the rhizome, but the rhizome system is really indescribably thick compared to it, just like a baby wrestling with a weightlifting champion, the possibility of winning has never been higher than zero from the beginning.

"Strange...what's the matter with this weird heartache?"

Looking at the collectors struggling in vain, Huo Gu felt uncomfortable for some unknown reason, as if seeing the other party hungry, he would feel hungry too.

"Synesthesia? Or something else?"

Huogu waved away this feeling with a little displeasure, and gathered those collectors who failed to meet the standard, and let them reattach to the rhizomes and turn into cocoons.

It's not to recycle resources, but Huogu intends to copy and transfer the experience memory of the most skilled collectors who have carried out the current collection work into the brains of these collectors who are completely unable to adapt to the marine environment.

Although Huogu's authority seems to have been weakened, the connection is still there. The collector was designed by him from the inside to the outside. It is not difficult for him to copy a memory.

If there are still non-compliance, then it will consider the option of recycling resources.

During the collection period, Huogu did not forget to pay attention to the movement of the sea surface. If that unknown guy reappeared, it would immediately disconnect the rhizome system connected to the seabed, in a physical sense.

Soon, the second collection activity started again. The previous group of collectors who failed to adapt to the seabed environment did not disappoint Huo Gu, and collected far more organic materials than other uncocooned collectors, and even more Complete the collection of materials early and have a good meal.

Of course, there are exceptions. There is a situation where a cocooned collector failed to meet the standard, but Huogu does not intend to pursue it, because that guy is really unlucky, and was caught by a strong current in the sea on the way to collect materials. Being stuck in an atoll and unable to get out was an accident. What's more, Hogu, who passed through inexplicably, found some empathy in the hapless collector.

This second collection fully demonstrated the advantages of Huogu's ability to adjust experience memory as genetic memory. Many collectors knew what they should do and how to do it better when they were born.

This is an ability completely different from the creatures on Earth. The accumulation of experience is like a snowball, which will get bigger and bigger, and what the end of the snowball is, even a maker like Huogu doesn't know.