How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 62

As a semi-biologist, the world of microorganisms is undoubtedly very attractive. Unlike the last time in the Hades, Huogu's life is no longer threatened. Coupled with the global surveillance capabilities provided by the rhizome system, it can't extricate itself, completely immersing itself in the microscopic world.

When it reacted, the planet had already rotated more than 3,000 times, that is, more than 3,000 day and night cycles on the planet.

"It's been a long time since I've been so comfortable..."

Huogu laughed at himself helplessly. Since time travel, Huogu has been facing the pressure of survival. Now that the pressure is gone, he can't help letting himself go.

"Well, the heating up of the planet has come to an end, and it's almost time to set up a contact point to get in touch with Ming, otherwise it should wait..."

Huo Gu suddenly realized that something was not right, and now the Ding and its time concept should be inconsistent.

"...From my point of view, it's been a long time, but Ming's side, it should only have passed for a while."

"In this way, after establishing contact, will it happen that thousands of days have passed before the other party finishes speaking, and my speech is extremely fast, and the other party can't understand at all, such a situation?"

Huogu fell into deep thought, feeling more and more that this possibility is extremely high. Recalling the global battle caused by that misunderstanding at the beginning, he suddenly felt that the misunderstanding was not accidental, but inevitable based on this factor.

Ming's situation is quite special. Although the Frozen Age has passed, the current environment is not the high temperature environment of the Hadean Era. Huo Gu's thinking slowdown has recovered, but Ming's thinking slowing effect still exists.

"It seems that it is necessary to slow down the mind again, and talk to Ming about it."

"But before that, there are still some things that need to be done..."

Just now, Huo Gu noticed a problem after returning to his senses from observing microorganisms.

That is, it does not have the ability to completely separate itself from the planet's ecosystem. It must rely on the planet's own organic material reserves to expand the number of individuals. If it leaves the planet's environment and reaches another place, such as a small On the planet, it will do nothing.

It seems far-fetched, but there must be near-term worries without long-term considerations, which means a kind of upper limit, as if you suddenly know that the number you practice can only be upgraded to a maximum of one hundred levels.

If the highest limit of this game is 100 levels, the key is that there is no official regulation on the level limit of this game, that is to say, it can be as high as you want. A terrifying boss with hundreds of millions of ranks, will it be up to him whether he will live or die?

Don't say that this kind of problem is far away. Huo Gu is now a long-lived species, and he has reserved a seat for watching the end of the universe.

"It is necessary to master the manufacturing technology of organic materials first."

Based on this sense of urgency, Huo Gu entered his deep thinking and started designing.

With a sinking heart, Huo Gu spread out his thinking and knowledge thoroughly.

"Although there are many types of organic materials, as long as the miscellaneous functions, types, and structures are all ignored, basic and simple things will emerge..."

"That's right, it's you, Functional Group."

In thinking, the three-dimensional view of organic molecules is split to form scattered atomic clusters and atoms of different sizes.

The so-called functional groups are atoms or atomic groups that determine the chemical properties of organic compounds.

In fact, the knowledge about functional groups has gone beyond the scope of Huogu's knowledge. Those who specialize in this kind of substance are basically those bioengineering scholars who hide in the laboratory to study species improvement.

But there are real objects, and Huo Gu also has a microscopic perspective, the structure and function of the functional group itself, Huo Gu can obtain this information through observation.

Hogu first picked two organic compounds to target, organophosphorus compounds and organosulfur compounds.

There isn't much reason to choose them, it's purely random.

After listing them one by one, there are a total of eleven kinds of such phosphorus and sulfur-containing functional groups. This is the information Hoguche got after checking all his organic materials.

In addition, other types of functional groups are nitrogen-containing, oxygen-containing, halogen-containing substituents, and hydrocarbon groups.

The next step is the design process. A cell is presented in Hogu’s thinking. This cell is very single, with a nucleus, and then a mitochondria. This mitochondria can absorb atoms and process them into functional groups containing phosphorus and sulfur.

It is not difficult to design mitochondria that combine functional groups. To put it bluntly, functional groups are combined by atomic bonds. For Hogu, who has a microscopic perspective, it is equivalent to a snake without hands trying to put two bricks together.

However, the output of a single mitochondria does not satisfy Huogu. The high speed on the microscopic scale is slower than that of a snail on the macroscopic scale.

So then, it almost fills up the mitochondria in this cell that can process the phosphorus-sulfur functional group.

But that doesn't work.

Although the purpose of production capacity is achieved, it makes the postpartum transportation route complicated, and it is extremely easy to cause congestion in the cell. If the transportation is restricted, the production capacity will decrease, which is different from the original purpose of a large number of mitochondria in the cell. violated.

"So what to do?"

"To increase the number of mitochondria as much as possible without causing congestion..."

"...There is!"

A bold idea emerged in Hogu's mind.

What it wants to design is a tool, not a real living body. In this way, life becomes dispensable.

First of all, the environment is safe. This is the premise, which means that the role of the cell membrane will be minimal, and it can even be said that there is no protection at all. It is enough to ensure the internal and external osmotic pressure of the cell.

Under this premise, Huogu can completely combine mitochondria and cell membranes to form a new structure that is both organelles and cell membranes.

Thus, a completely miniaturized processing factory appeared in front of Huogu.

As long as there are atoms combining functional groups in the surrounding environment, it will be absorbed, and the process of being incorporated into cells is also processing, and only processed functional groups will exist in cells.

The functional group is transported to another cell through the connecting tube, and that cell also uses this design, using organelles as the cell membrane, but this cell processes the functional group into organic materials. After the exocytosis process is over, Hogu can also obtain organic materials .

A set of assembly lines in the microcosm was born.

After that, with a basic template, the subsequent design becomes much easier.

Hogu successively designed cells that process other functional groups and cells that can process functional groups into various organic materials.

Hogu named this type of cell - working cell.