How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 16 Thinking

"It doesn't look like protein."

The cells did not divide new individuals according to Huo Gu's instructions, which meant that the answer was the second.

"Since it's not protein, it should have nothing to do with amino acids."

Amino acid is the smallest unit of protein, and countless amino acids form polypeptides, which form three-dimensional proteins through repeated folding and twisting.

So what would it be that keeps me thinking and remembering when I was human?

I thought it was the most likely protein, but now it has been falsified, and Huo Gu's logic has entered a dead end, and it decided to sort it out again.

"Well... Whether it's the Internet, the human brain, or a computer, they all have in common that they have a huge number of computing units as their foundation. This research direction should be correct."

"My situation should be the same. There are a huge number of cells as the basis of the calculation unit, and the connection between them should also be universal..."

"The human brain uses synapses to build connections. Obviously, this does not apply to me now. At present, this is just a whole cluster of cells. They do not have physical connections like synapses. The experiment just now also proved that Now, the connections between cells have nothing to do with proteins."

The core question that Huo Gu wanted to explore gradually became clear.

"That's right, it's the 'connection'. What exactly do the cells rely on as a medium to build a connection and form a huge network?"

Huogu focused his attention on the entire cell cluster, trying to discover the 'medium' between the cells through this macroscopic method.

Still nothing was found, even though it was now able to see all the cells inside and out.

"It's impossible to rely on electromagnetic waves to build the connection between computing units like the Internet?"

"Impossible. Although I don't specialize in the computer field, based on the superficial knowledge I know, this guess is untenable."

There is no other reason, there are too many external disturbances, and the life field constructed by cells is too weak, so weak that the energy release formed by the chemical reaction in seawater can destroy this extremely weak life field...

Huo Gu's thoughts suddenly stopped, and he keenly grasped the flash of inspiration in that moment in his mind.

"...Wait, this seems to make sense."

"Because the external interference is too strong, this connection can only act on the inside of the cell, which can also explain why two cells need to stick together for my instructions to take effect."

The environment inside the cell is very stable. If it is the same as the environment outside the cell membrane, the genes in the inner core cannot exist stably, so the inside of the cell must be very stable.

And in such a stable environment, the life field that has been disturbed will expand and take effect very well.

Thus, there is the current life network!

In order to confirm his conjecture, Hogu decided to conduct a new experiment.

The outermost parietal cells of the cluster begin to divide, then the inner cells, and then the parietal cells, creating a small cavity.

Fill this cavity with pure water, and Huo Gu puts a single cell into it.

This cell has this flagella, the most primitive cell membrane, and the DNA core, and nothing else. This is what Huo Gu deliberately did to ensure that the experiment did not go wrong.

"Now, following my instructions, start moving in a circle around the entire cavity, but without touching the inner wall of the cavity."

Sure enough, the cell that had been standing still in the cavity began to swing its flagella, following Hogu’s instructions, even moving his fingers, swimming around the inner wall of the cavity exactly on the trajectory imagined in Hogu’s thinking , without even touching the inner wall of the cavity.

After swimming like a tadpole for a while, the experimental cell stopped, and the flagella at the tail no longer moved.

In this case, Huogu was not surprised. The movement of the flagella requires the cracking of amino acids. At present, the cavity of the experimental cells is only water, and the experimental cells that cannot obtain amino acids naturally have no choice but to stop the flagella. , which is the same as the exhaustion of rocket propeller fuel.

"Then what about the 'field source'? Since it relies on the field, there should be a source that generates the field."

After thinking about it, Hogu decided to use the method of elimination.

The cell membrane and cytoplasm were first removed by Huo Gu, because it could instruct the cell to unwind and transcribe DNA, which is not the ability to control the cell membrane or cytoplasm.

It can be said that the answer is obvious from the very beginning, the source of the field is 'hidden' in the messy DNA double strands in the inner core.

"...Am I being too cautious?"

After complaining to himself like this, Huogu continued to focus on the experimental cells.

Between the parietal cell gaps on the inner wall of the experimental cavity, proteins were squeezed out one after another and added to the pure water.

Over time, the water in the cavity became extremely eutrophic, and the test cell's tail flagella once again wobbled in a circular motion around the cavity's inner wall.

Considering the possible danger, Huogu established a connection between the experimental cavity and the digestive cavity, and separated the two cavities with a valve.

After everything was ready, Hogu gave new instructions to the experimental cells.

"Partially unwinds, transcribes DNA, and creates new individuals."

Experimental cells start to reproduce new individuals, because of partial transcription, the time required for material collection and the process of replicating new individuals is very short.

Soon, Huogu saw the newborn individual cells.

This new individual also has a flagella, but it may be due to the partial transcription of DNA. Compared with the original mother, the new individual's body size has directly shrunk to one-twentieth of the mother's.

"You, on the premise that you don't touch the inner wall of the cavity, make a circular motion around the entire cavity." Huogu gave instructions to the newly formed individual cells.

However, this newborn individual did not act according to Hogu's wishes, but wandered around the cavity aimlessly, no different from the microorganisms that Hogu had come into contact with before.

There is only one reason for this situation. This copied individual cell does not have a 'field source' in its core, so it will not follow Hogu's instructions.

Huo Gu was not surprised, this was within his expectation, in the messy genetic chain, the probability of successfully finding the field source once is equivalent to winning a million prize when buying a lottery for the first time.

Similarly, it doesn't feel distressed. What it lacks most now is time.

"It doesn't seem to be this piece of DNA. The transcribed DNA needs to be extended a little further to expand the scope of replication."

After considering the next piece of DNA to be transcribed, Huogu gave transcription instructions to the original experimental cells.

"Copy new individuals, partially transcribed."

...

Repeated experiments were carried out over and over again, and the number of cells replicating individuals in the cavity also increased from the original single digits to an uncountable level.

Finally, it found out!

After duplicating the DNA for an unknown number of times, Hogu was finally able to control the new individuals transcribed from the experimental cells, which also meant that it had found the mysterious field source.

"How could it be this kind of substance?!"