How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 33 Shooting the base

After having a definite target, one of the gourds living in the tail of the titanium screw carefully left the area covered by the seabed curtain.

When moving in the water, it always moves close to the seabed and follows the trajectory of the current as much as possible, so that even a submarine with military sonar cannot capture the gourd, which is an active individual in the water.

Whether it will be discovered by that unknown existence, Huogu himself has no idea, this is already the most concealed level it can do.

In this way, the gourd came to a place one nautical mile away from the position of the titanium snail under the impetus of the current. This was the edge covered by the life field of the titanium snail. If it went any further, Huogu could no longer issue instructions to the gourd.

The area I came to is a sandy land that exists on the seabed, and there are no large rocks. This is the result of repeated erosion by the seabed currents. It will take a long time before this planet can exist like the earth. The kind of fine sand on the beach.

The division began, and the cells on the gourd divided under Huo Gu's command, and the number changed from one to two.

The original gourd sank to the sand after splitting. This is to minimize the interference of the sea current on the individual position of the gourd. There is no need to worry about the gourd covered with carbon nanofibers. The coarse sand on the seabed will scratch the skin.

The gourd swung its fins on both sides, and used the sand to bury itself to hide itself.

The split gourd individuals continue to set off and go to further places.

During this period, when encountering submarine volcanoes or islands, you will choose to deflect the direction slightly, and you may not necessarily keep a straight line on the whole, but no matter how you change it, you will always be 'away from the hidden position of the titanium spiral', which will not change.

In this way, quite a long time has passed. Huogu doesn't know how long it has passed. It feels like this. At this time, the chain of command has extended hundreds of nautical miles, and the command delay has become more and more serious.

"It's about this distance... Even if humans dispatch satellites at this distance, it is absolutely impossible to follow the clues to find me without knowing the life field."

That's what I said, but Huogu still extended the distance to more than a hundred nautical miles out of the principle of caution...

The farthest gourd individual no longer splits like the previous gourd individuals, but changed its own gene expression sequence under Hogu's order.

This gourd sank to the bottom of the sea. This is a rocky area, full of gravel, just like the coastline of the volcanic island. Not far away is a submarine volcano.

The gourd that sank to the bottom of the lake no longer maintained the shape of the gourd, it became a meat ball, and it was still expanding and beating like an independent heart.

The sphere is getting bigger and bigger, and the inside of the sphere is no longer filled with solid objects, but a liquid environment. In the center of the sphere, a small blank can be vaguely seen from the outside of the membrane.

In order to maintain its own strength, the gradually expanding sphere felt that it was thickening its own structure. In this way, the embryos in the sphere completed their shape shaping and internal organ development in a fairly stable environment.

Finally, the fully developed creature inside used its titanium alloy fangs to pierce the sphere from the inside out.

The creature stretches its body, and a thing that looks like a creature and does not want to be a creature appears on the bottom of the sea.

A large living body that is similar in size to a small mountain bag. It is in the shape of a cone, with a radius of ten meters at the bottom and a height of fourteen meters. There are six huge mouths at the bottom that are attached to the seabed, and there is also a huge mouth at the top. On its cone, there are Many tiny holes, and rows of titanium alloy spikes.

The location where the core sensory cells exist is buried underground, and Huo Gu never considered letting such a big man move in the water at the beginning of the design.

The titanium alloy skeleton provides enough strength to support such a large body under the premise of resisting the seabed water pressure. The skin is a composite skin made of carbon nanofibers and protein layers, and the outermost part is also attached with titanium. Alloy scale armor.

This monster-like thing agitated its body under the command, the big mouth on the top sucked in seawater crazily, and then the water flow would be discharged from the six mouths at the bottom.

It's just such a simple process, and a large amount of protein is collected.

The rhizomes began to grow from the bottom of this monster. These rhizomes were also different from those on the volcanic island. There were no rhizomes like taproots. They were all of the same thickness and intertwined with each other to form a network structure covering the seabed.

If you zoom in to the extent that you can observe the cell structure, you can find that these rhizomes are composed of countless smaller rhizomes. The core of the small rhizomes is carbon nanotubes, and the resource compatibility of all small rhizomes is different. This means that this newly designed rhizome system can handle all types of resources while further improving its strength.

The most important point is that these rhizomes are constantly producing oxygen, collecting volcanic heat energy, or water temperature heat, and reacting with the acid-base elements in the water.

This is by design to prevent the presence of microbes attacking the rhizome system.

High concentrations of oxygen can destroy cell membranes. In this era of common anaerobic microorganisms, it is definitely a powerful killer. What's more, it is very easy to prepare, and the atmosphere is full of carbon dioxide.

Microorganisms killed by oxygen settle down and are collected by the rhizome system.

Of course, this is a secondary function. Its main function is to absorb the compounds in the covered area and transport them to the cone-shaped organisms. The two sides are in a complementary relationship.

Under the feeding of the protein of the cone-shaped organisms, the extended rhizome system is advancing all the way, covering the water area with a radius of six kilometers from the cone-shaped organisms as the core.

During this period, the cone-shaped organisms also used the remaining organic materials to manufacture a large number of gourds. Under Hogu's instructions, the gourd group would go to the edge of the life field, where they 'buried' themselves and transformed into cone-shaped organisms.

Under such circumstances, the covered area expands geometrically and explosively. If it encounters a volcano, the rhizome system will not let it go. Except for places with super high temperatures such as craters, the entire area will be covered.

Huogu also considered sustainable development at the beginning of the design. If it is too reckless, the result is likely to be that the planet is still in an infant ecological circle and dies prematurely. It does not want to see this something happens.

As a researcher of paleontology, learning to respect them is the most basic moral principle.

The metabolism of the rhizome system is faster than that of the previous generation, and the life span of a single cell is very short. After the cells die, they will gradually accumulate and form organic substances like sludge. For microorganisms, this is an extremely nutritious delicacy .

When this coverage area expanded to more than two hundred nautical miles, it finally attracted the attention of that unknown existence again.