The main body is a special metal lifeform that grows and reproduces in a way similar to that of a plant and has a structure similar to that of a machine.

Chen Chen rewrote the control program with the image crystal, or upgraded the system, and then it could be transformed as a whole, and the functions that did not exist or were not perfect were developed.

First of all, their original core consciousness is very rudimentary, only equivalent to very low-level plankton.

Therefore, in their native state, their appearance growth is completely irregular.

They may be the shape of any animal closest to them, or they may be a tree or a rock.

After Chen Chen's transformation, after obtaining a new and perfect control system, their growth direction will be completely in accordance with Chen Chen's settings and drawings.

If Chen Chen is set up as a car, it will grow into a car, and if Chen Chen is set up as a ship, it will become a ship.

Imagine an iron tree, after putting enough nutrients (iron), it can grow a car or a boat on it, and the car and boat can be driven away.

Moreover, after the captain of the car and the ship came out, their shape was not completely set in stone, as long as Chen Chen was willing, consumed a certain amount of energy, and spent some time, he could change the structure and shape again.

Even if it is from a submarine to a spaceship, it is not impossible.

The mini-submarines cruising in the sea are only the size of duck eggs

Although the power that can be released is limited because of the small size, but also because the volume itself is small enough, the resistance encountered when moving forward is also very low, and the power required for acceleration is also very small.

So in fact, when it moves, it is very fast, and the cruising speed reaches 100 knots (100 knots per hour, about 180 kilometers per hour), and the instantaneous sprint speed can be doubled again.

Following the navigation of the image crystal, the mini-submarine sailed southeast for nearly two hours before finally finding the sunken small freighter.

After reaching the target, the mini-submarine gradually slowed down and slowly circled around the freighter that had fallen to the bottom of the sea, looking for a place to go down.

Metal seeds can only absorb high-purity iron, and they themselves have almost no attack power, so they are powerless to paint the surface of the freighter.

Eventually, the mini-submarine found the place where the hull was broken, where there was fresh stubble, revealing the steel structure inside.

Having determined the target, the mini-submarine immediately changed course and slowly landed on the gap.

The propeller at the tail of the mini-submarine's body slowly stretched out, and finally became like a squid's tentacles, caught in the notched steel plates.

After immobilizing its body, the mini-submarine began to absorb the iron element from the sunken ship and strengthen itself.

The so-called small cargo ship, in fact, should be regarded as a coastal passenger and cargo dual-purpose ship, which can only sail in the near sea, not a large cargo ship in the open sea, with a tonnage of only about 2,000.

This tonnage, in a cargo ship, can be said to be quite low, but for the current mini-submarine, which is only the size of a duck's egg, it is really like an ant gnawing an elephant.

When I was in the laboratory, the researchers were experimenting with the iron sheet, and I felt that the devouring speed of the metal seeds was quite fast.

In fact, the main reason is that the iron sheets put on by the researchers are very limited, usually about 100 grams.

Now, when it lies on a 2,000-ton iron hull and eats, its speed seems to be very slow.

By seven o'clock in the morning, when the sky was completely bright, the size of the mini-submarine had increased several times, but it was still the size of a basketball.

However, as the size of the mini submarine increases, the intensity of the energy pulse it releases continues to increase, and the range that can be sensed also increases.

Now its sensing range of one seed has exceeded the original eight seeds, covering a radius of more than 500 kilometers of sea by itself.

Because of the large increase in the sensing range, the energy feedback of two dormant metal seeds appeared again in the entire pulse network.

The location of these two seeds is in the southern sea area of the East China Sea, and one of them is a little further east, just over 100 kilometers from the neon Okinawa Prefecture of the Northern Ryukyu Islands.

The other is further south, less than 200 kilometers from Jonlong Harbor on Wanwan Island.

After discovering the new metal seeds, without Chen Chen's command, the image crystal directly used the mini submarine as an antenna to start cracking the two dormant seeds

With the high-power antenna, the cracking speed this time has been greatly improved, and it is expected to take only a few hours to complete.

Moreover, as the size of the mini-submarine as an antenna continues to increase, the signal continues to increase, and this speed can continue to increase.

After the two metal seeds are cracked, they will automatically start looking for shipwrecks on the bottom of the sea, absorbing iron and strengthening themselves.

In the middle of the sea, as long as you can move, you don't need to worry about the source of iron at all.

In the near future, there are all kinds of freighters that have sunk due to accidents, and far away, because of the great war of the last century, countless warships of various countries have sunk at the bottom of the earth's ocean.

The neon battleship "Kongo" sank in the Wanwan Strait, the "Yamato" was in the north of the Ryukyus, and if it continued south, "Musashi" would be in the Philippines.

In Malaysia, you can also find the British battleship "Prince of Wales" and the battlecruiser "Counterattack".

These are all large warships, and in addition, cruisers, destroyers, and frigates of various classes are even more numerous, and the list alone can be lined up for several pages.

These iron lumps left on the bottom of the sea are the future food of metal seeds.

If it weren't for the extreme lack of oxygen in the deep sea, these old shipwrecks would have been rusted and grown by various marine creatures.

These rusts and marine creatures are equivalent to putting a thick layer of protection on these warships.

The metal seeds that have just been activated do not have much energy at all, and they are not enough to break through these rust layers and sea creatures, so when they just awaken, they can only find shipwrecks in recent years.

And it is necessary to start from the fracture opening, where the fresh steel structure is exposed, in order to absorb the movement.

However, when the mini-submarine grows large enough and has strong enough energy, it will naturally have the attack power it wants.

When the time comes, they can forcibly break through the rust layer and attachments on the surface of the wreck, open a gap by themselves, and then slowly absorb these old wrecks from the inside.

After it becomes more powerful, it can be simple and rude, and directly dismantle the wreck into pieces, so that you can absorb it as you want.