How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 7: A Trapped Beast Eats

Huogu is distressed, it is currently facing a difficult problem.

The formation of the cell wall is derived from the DNA blueprint in a single cell, and the DNA blueprint needs to be modified in order to narrow the tunnel for the material to flow.

However, Huogu doesn't have the conditions to do this kind of thing now, or he doesn't have so much time. He doesn't know when the next wave of phages will encounter him again, so he has to complete the cell wall before then.

"Is there no possible way?"

Huogu asked himself like this, focusing on the cell wall sample and fell into deep thought.

If the tunnel is narrowed, the key to the problem should be in the tunnel...

In his mind, Huo Gu kept recalling the past when he was still a human being, and all the memories related to the 'pipe' were fleeting like a revolving lantern.

Suddenly, it thought of something.

"Yes!"

"If you just reduce the channel, it doesn't necessarily need to be repaired. As long as the channel wall is properly bent to a certain extent, a small part of the channel will naturally shrink."

The cell wall presented in front of Huo Gu seems to be gradually dismantling and reorganizing, and the blueprint in his mind is gradually becoming clear.

"Making the channel tortuous can be done by misaligning the two cell walls so that part of the channel can be reduced."

Without further ado, Hogu immediately started working on the construction of this new type of cell wall.

As a sample, the single cell with a cell wall received Huo Gu's instructions and began to unscramble and transcribe its own DNA, while Huo Gu focused his attention on the part of the gene chain left by the phage.

Soon, a brand-new single cell with a cell wall appeared in front of Huogu, and at the same time, Huogu also mastered the DNA that produced the cell wall.

Directing the newly formed single cell to partially untwist and create a new cell wall again.

The material circulation channel of this cell wall is slightly misaligned with the original cell wall, just as Huo Gu planned before.

With previous experience manipulating enzymes through the cytoplasm, the construction of the cell wall was done in one go.

Hogu looked at the single cell with double cell walls and felt very satisfied.

The two-layer cell wall of this single cell is definitely enough to defend against the injection of those phages.

As for the tunnel, it has been narrowed to the point where only a single molecular group can pass through. Huo Gu is confident that absolutely no phage can invade this single cell through this route.

Everything looks so perfect...

"In this way, I can breathe a little bit of relief...huh?"

Huo Gu, who was just about to turn his energy to other places, noticed something strange.

The double-walled cell used as the experimental sample is gradually losing its original activity.

"this……"

After a while, Huo Gu completely lost control of this double-walled cell, which also means that this double-walled cell died, and the DNA chain as the core also disintegrated, and the cell membrane was no longer transparent. Transsexual.

"Why is this happening?"

toxin? Decomposing enzyme? antibiotic? ...

Countless possibilities flashed through Huo Gu's mind, all of which seemed to correspond to the current situation, but after careful consideration, it seemed that they couldn't match.

"Calm down, there must be something wrong with the operation just now, just carefully row one by one..."

Huo Gu, who was just about to find out the cause of the death of the double-walled cell, suddenly had an alarm in his heart.

The entire single-cell cluster came into contact with multiple uninvited guests one after another, and it was also the virulent phage that Huo Gu didn't want to see the most.

"Hiss—more than thirty phages!?"

"No, the number is still increasing!"

With this amount of phages, the previous method would definitely not work, but now, the cause of the death of the double-walled cells has not been found, and using it forcibly is tantamount to courting death.

Desperate?

Hogu seems to be able to see the gate of hell is slowly opening to it, behind the door is the endless darkness...

"No!"

"When the broken door will be opened, I will have the final say!"

The approach of death aroused Hogu's anger, and the beasts would devour them when they were trapped. The entire single-cell cluster seemed to be infected by Hogu's emotions, maintaining a very excited state.

The excitement of single-cell clusters, in turn, affects Huo Gu's collective thinking. Huo Gu can really see the flow of cytoplasm, the division of phages, everything is slowing down, and at the same time it becomes extremely clear. It even Individual molecules can be seen in this state.

Not only that, but the past memory of itself as a human being is repeatedly rewinded and fast-forwarded. As long as it wants to, it can immediately recall every detail of that memory, like a god.

"Opportunity, there is definitely a chance, but it's just a bunch of phages..."

Like a seasoned hunter crouching in the grass, all memory and knowledge are like animals passing by in a hurry, unaware of the threats hidden in the grass.

Suddenly, the 'prey' appeared.

"...I'm so stupid to ignore such a trump card."

While murmuring like this, single cells in a large area of ​​single-cell clusters began to spontaneously release a large number of enzymes. These enzymes include endonucleases, exonucleases, polymerases, ligases, etc., as long as they are all enzymes.

In the flow through the cytoplasm, all these miscellaneous enzymes are guided to the vicinity of the cell membrane.

After the enzyme reached the cell membrane, the membrane began to gradually become thinner, but this didn't matter to Huogu now, the top priority was to get rid of these damned phages.

And those parasitic cells that can still be controlled, under Huogu's command, quickly began to produce a large amount of enzymes in a suicidal manner, killing the invading phage genes and itself together.

In the blink of an eye, the number of parasitic phages decreased by more than half.

Huogu didn't relax because of this, he knew very well that the battle in the microscopic biological world was different from the macroscopic biological world, and the number often didn't play a decisive role.

As long as one phage survives, it can directly threaten the survival of the entire single-cell cluster.

Just when Huogu saw the victory of this battle was coming, another large wave of phages landed on Huogu's single-cell cluster one after another.

"Damn it!"

Huogu cursed angrily, and ordered the single cells to use their flesh to build a protective layer to isolate most of the phages.

In order to maintain the number of cells, Huogu is also directing some single cells to divide. With such maintenance, the two sides have entered a war of attrition.

Either the number of virulent phages is too large to overwhelm the single-cell cluster led by Hogu.

Either the single-cell clusters on Hogu's side consumed this large group of phages.

With the extension of the battle time limit, Huogu's eyes are also red-eyed, and now his thinking is gradually tilted in a more brutal direction.