How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 60 Rivers, lakes and seas

Since the melting of glaciers is from bottom to top, when the honeycomb group heats up the surface of the planet, it will also be accompanied by the collapse of the glacier from time to time. Fortunately, the structural strength of the honeycomb itself is very high, so this can be ignored.

A trickle flows out from the crevices of the glacier, and the water drops from the top, gather on the outside of the hive, and then heat it into water vapor at high temperature.

The first cumulonimbus cloud since the Ice Age appeared when the honeycomb laying on the ground reached one-third of the progress.

However, the thicker and thicker cumulonimbus clouds are not raining.

The hive heats the water into water vapor, and the steady stream of steam, after melting the top layer of ice out of a channel to the uppermost layer of ice, continues to rise and become a cloud.

Heat-rich clouds release large amounts of heat at once at high altitudes, which condense into ice crystals that fall back to the surface.

Therefore, the first rain after the thaw was not rain, but hail.

This is a process of alternation of cold and heat. The hail brings the cold air mass in the upper layer to the surface, while the hot air stays on it. At this time, the role of the north and south poles is highlighted.

Atmospheric circulation begins to function.

Under the action of atmospheric circulation, the hot air is divided into countless parts and scattered everywhere on the planet.

It seems that the heating of the honeycomb has become meaningless. The falling hail thickens the ice layer, and the hot air mass created is spread to the entire planet due to atmospheric circulation, and the heating effect is negligible.

However, some things cannot be seen this way, and a different angle is needed. This may not be the fastest way to see the heating effect, but it is the gentlest way.

With the existence of atmospheric circulation, things like heating up the planet can have a buffering process, instead of being completed abruptly, causing some catastrophic natural phenomena.

The heating of the honeycomb is a continuous process. No matter how much hail falls down, it will be reheated into water vapor. If this goes on, the planet will heat up as a whole in the most peaceful way possible.

The ice sheets in more and more places are collapsing, and the pools around the hives have become ponds, which are gradually expanding from ponds to large lakes.

The water level rose again and again, and soon overflowed the height of the hive, placing it all on the bottom of the water.

Everything is going in a good direction.

Seeing that it was almost time, Huogu activated the native microorganisms that Ming had collected before, and released them one by one.

Among these microorganisms, there are autotrophs and heterotrophs, but Huo Gu treats them equally and does not treat them differently. What the microorganisms will develop later has nothing to do with it.

Time passed day by day, and Huogu couldn't be regarded as idle. It had to monitor whether there was any error in the operation process of each large biological system at all times, so as to avoid accidents.

The temperature rise is still continuing, but the expansion speed of the circular lake centered on the honeycomb has not been as fast as before. Although it is still expanding year by year, the expansion speed is indeed showing a decreasing trend.

Huogu has noticed this kind of thing, but he doesn't care much about it.

This is the illusion of diminishing efficiency caused by the expansion of the circular lake area.

Because the heat produced by each honeycomb has its own limit, the amount of melting glaciers is only so much every year. If you carefully calculate the area, you will find that the ice-melting efficiency of the honeycomb has not actually decreased.

The reason why it seems to show a decreasing trend is because the radius of the circular lake increases, and every time it extends a certain distance, the area of ​​the circle will increase geometrically.

However, there are still things that Huo Gu will pay more attention to.

I don't know when it started, but the pitch-black sky finally changed a little bit, showing some signs of being blue.

This sign is very weak, but it cannot escape Huogu's visual organs, which have been optimized, modified and adjusted many times. The sensitivity to the gradient of spectral hue has far exceeded the scope of human naked eyes.

Obviously, there are some other components in the atmosphere, and these unidentified substances interfere to a certain extent with the light shining on the surface, so this phenomenon will appear.

"Very well, it's almost here at last."

The visual system on the rhizome locked on a small black spot from the sky, and this small black spot was still rapidly enlarging, something was rushing towards the direction of the hive.

Soon, that unknown thing had descended a certain distance.

"The structure is relatively brittle, so it's better to pay attention when descending."

"Stay open."

The command was issued, and a parachute-like membranous object burst out from the tail of the thing, the speed dropped rapidly, and then fell into the water a few meters away from the hive.

The bottom of the water has been waiting for the rhizome for a long time, swallowing that object into the rhizome system.

This object is a bio-type collection bottle with a very simple internal structure, a hollow structure similar to bamboo, whose strength depends entirely on the titanium alloy shell, which Huogu specially manufactured for collecting air samples.

Not long ago, in order to explore the reason for the discoloration of the sky, Huogu launched this bio-type collection bottle into the sky like last time to collect samples of the current atmosphere.

According to Hogu's experience, the color of the sky mainly depends on the composition of the atmosphere at that time. For example, the orange-red sky in the Hadean period, and the blue sky of the earth.

Roots were inserted into the bottle, and the composition ratio of the air samples inside was analyzed.

The first thing to be noticed is carbon dioxide, because of the ingredients in it, carbon dioxide accounts for the largest proportion.

"Well, as the glaciers melt, some of the carbon dioxide trapped in the ice, and the carbon dioxide that becomes dry ice, all rejoin the planet's atmosphere..."

"A certain amount of methane seems to be a survivor from the last competition..."

This Huogu was not surprised. Although the octahedron is a big consumer of methane, it is impossible to consume all the methane reserves of the planet at once.

"Huh? Oxygen?"

"No! This molecular structure is... ozone?"

Ozone is a light blue gas with a special odor. The condition for its formation is oxygen plus electric shock.

In this way, the gradual change in the color of the sky can also be explained. It is precisely because of these ozone that the color of the sky is changed.

Hogu understands what the appearance of ozone means. This sign has shown that after a while, the ozone layer will form.

The ozone layer absorbs 99 percent of the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, which stays aloft, heating air masses, and ozone itself is a greenhouse gas.

When the ozone layer reaches a certain scale, the pressure on Huogu's side will be reduced, and the ozone layer can also provide temperature to the planet's environment, and the rate of planetary heating will be further increased.

Time flies, and for a period of time after that, except for the north and south poles, the glaciers completely disappeared, and the lake became a sea.