How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 4 The Brain

The problem of bonding was solved, and the number of life forms duplicating the same kind increased exponentially.

...two...four...eight...sixteen...

The increase in the number is also accompanied by the unraveling of a large number of 'shackles', and this stimulates the living body even more, prompting it to replicate and split into more of the same kind.

As the number of clones huddled together reaches a certain critical point, the nature of the lifeform changes.

"I... I am Hogu."

The living body, that is, Huo Gu, now finally has a clear understanding of himself, and has completely escaped from the previous muddleheaded state.

At the same time, I have to accept that I have become a 'single-celled biological cluster thinking'.

"No, maybe I'm just a person who accepted the memory of the human named 'Hogu'..."

Huo Gu didn't struggle with this matter for long. After all, I think, therefore I am. Only when we exist in the present moment can we be qualified to think about those wild things.

Right now, there are still the most difficult problems that need it to solve.

That's the part of the gene that the temperate phage inserted into the DNA of this single-cell colony.

A mild phage is still a phage after all, not a nice guy, even if it is mild.

What are bacteriophages?

It is a virus that specifically infects microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, algae, actinomycetes or spirochetes, and is a terrifying killer in the microbial world.

It’s just that unlike those virulent phages, the reaction period of mild phages will be longer.

This is like poison is divided into chronic poison and severe poison. Chronic poison is not non-toxic or not fatal, but the remaining cycle of toxicity is relatively long.

What's more deadly is that the temperate phage will infect those split replicas as the single cell divides. In other words, the single-celled biological cluster that Huogu is currently hosting has all been infected.

As long as the temperate phage enters the last lysis cycle, it means that the group of single-celled organisms that Hogu hosts will also die.

And what will happen to Huogu who lost his host carrier, the result is also self-evident.

So, what should I do?

Such a question was placed in front of Huo Gu, making him fall into deep thought.

Bacteria and viruses are essentially the same thing, living organisms based on amino acids, but their survival modes are different...

Gene chains are like tapes in a tape recorder. Only when they are connected together can they play their original role...

"Although it is more troublesome, it is the only feasible way."

After regaining consciousness from meditation, Huo Gu thought of a relatively stupid method - through DNA 'untwisting', to gradually screen out the gene segment that replicates the phage.

But before that, it still needs to do some preparatory work.

The first is to choose the experimental object. Huogu did not choose a single-celled organism currently used as the carrier, but directed the outermost replica to split into a daughter.

After the clone split out, under Huogu's command, it clings to the group of single-celled organisms.

This experiment started with the untwisting of the daughter's DNA. Huogu observed this process with great concentration, not daring to relax at all, for fear of missing a certain detail.

Then there is partial transcription, and the part of derotation starts from the gene segment that replicates the protein structure, and gradually expands and replicates to both ends.

"Be careful... be careful... have to be more careful..."

Huo Gu told himself over and over again in his heart that if the transcribed incomplete fragments formed a toxic phage, it would be a very dangerous thing for it.

At the beginning of the first replication, after the protein structure that can be used as a connecting bridge is copied, it is just some useless proteins. Although it forms a dock with the transcribed phage tail, the shape is just a fluffy spherical shell, completely inconsistent with the phage coat.

Huogu also determined that one end of the gene chain belonged to the DNA of the single-cell cluster he currently serves as the carrier, thus focusing more on the other end.

The second replication begins, and this time it is indeed transcribed, but only the coat of the phage is copied, and no genes of the phage are copied.

Huogu is not in a hurry, and those who conduct experiments must have enough patience. This is the basic quality of a scientific researcher, and it has been the norm for ten years.

At the beginning of the third replication, the single-chain bases of the gene spontaneously search for their own partners to complement themselves. As the amino acids gather to form proteins, the phage finally takes shape.

The three pairs of bracket-like tails and the rocket-shaped protein container connected to the tails are the outer shell of the mild bacteriophage.

Transcription is still going on, this time the amino acids are combined with each other in a completely different form from the previous ones, forming single strands, and independently complete the base pair combination, and enter the shell of the phage.

Huogu knew that he had found the gene fragment that he was looking for so hard.

However, before it could breathe a sigh of relief, what happened next made it nervous again, and what it was most worried about still appeared.

The copying single strand did not stop transcribing the phage gene, the number of phage in the daughter cells continued to increase, the DNA single strand was completely out of control, and the gene was transcribed at all costs to produce the phage.

Obviously, these are virulent phages, among the phages, the most threatening phages to Hogu.

Huo Gu could probably guess what was going on, the gene replication of the phage was still incomplete, and it was this incompleteness that caused the mild phage to transform into a virulent phage.

According to the current development trend, these virulent phages will gradually explode the cell membrane from the inside out, and then infect other single-celled organisms, performing the behavior of 'infection-replication-explosion' repeatedly.

And the one that bears the brunt is the single-cell cluster that Hogu lives in.

But fortunately, Huo Gu had taken protective measures against accidents in the experiment early in the morning.

"Stay away from us."

Huogu gave instructions to the offspring that did not form a connection with the single-cell cluster in this way.

This offspring filled with phages immediately changed its bonded state, took advantage of the power gushing around in the darkness, quickly moved away from Hogu, and disappeared.

Huogu didn't stay idle either, and quickly moved in the opposite direction by taking advantage of the gushing power.

After I don't know how long, I don't know how far I ran, and after Hogu thought that he was really safe, the single-cell cluster stopped moving.

The matter is far from over, and so far, information is being collected for the next step.

Huo Gu's target was locked on the offspring of a single-cell cluster.

Next, it has to perform 'surgery' to complete self-rescue.

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