After pondering for a long time, Huo Gu still made that choice - to create a macroscopic life in the true sense!

The rhizome grows and spreads towards the channel along with the ocean, this process is very slow compared to the rhizome that grows in other directions, and the resistance caused by the influx of sea water is the biggest difficulty in growing upward, and each rhizome needs to grow a large number of roots and dig deep into the rock wall to ensure that it will not be washed back by the sea.

Hard objects caught in the vortex are also an obstacle to the spread of the rhizome, such as gravel, stones, glass fragments, lost titanium snails, etc., and under the acceleration provided by the vortex, they will hit the rock wall at a speed of 14 kilometers per hour, and the rhizome skin is as defenseless to them as a hot knife is to cheese.

To do this, Hogu had to make a special thickening to strengthen the rhizome.

On the other hand, Hogu began to construct a concrete model framework for designing macroscopic life in his mind, first of all, to build the core, just like the foundation of a high-rise building, the keel of a steel wheel, an absolutely indispensable component.

What is the core of macroscopic life?

It is the carrier of the mind, that is, the brain, the shelter of the phenomenon of life, which feeds on entropy.

Of course, it can't be the amount of 1x10^30 times per second that the human brain has, nor can it be able to memorize and store 100 trillion pieces of information, but it is the most primitive and simple organ that can independently respond to changes in the outside world.

In fact, in essence, this self-feedback function is shared by every cell and every microorganism, and although there are no neurons, they can make subjective feedback to the outside world through ion channels composed of proteins in the cell.

Ion channels are also a key way for neurons to communicate and send signals, allowing information to be passed between individual nerve cells, a bit like an electrical charge passing through a wire, and every response the brain makes is based on this way of communication.

In a sense, neurons are based on an upgraded version of this ion channel, which can transport information-carrying electrons per unit distance and time, and get an exponential increase of orders of magnitude, that is, the feeling of upgrading ordinary broadband to fiber broadband fiber.

What Hogu has to do is just to enlarge the template in the cell, move the microscopic structure to the macroscopic to become an organ, and improve its original performance, except for the small details of fine-tuning, roughly this process is correct.

But things are not so simple, just like now, Hogu has encountered a problem that makes it helpless.

"Intelligent organs, indeed, no problem, but ...... How do I get the macroscopic creature to understand the concept of 'me'? ”

'I' is the basis of thinking, and by extension of the concept of 'I', there will be fear, hunger, anger, liking, pleasure, ...... Emotions such as this are the beginning of comprehension and thinking, even if it is a beast that drinks blood.

However, it is extremely difficult for Hogu to make the macrocosmic beings aware of the concept of 'me', because it has no knowledge about it, nor did humans at the beginning, and the concept of 'me' consciousness is still in the stage of research and exploration.

Obviously, this path is not going to work.

Hogu reorganized his thinking, and he was looking for a new design idea.

"Life is a phenomenon, and in order for this phenomenon to be maintained, they need to absorb and decrease entropy from the outside world, so their internal entropy will be constant or change very little, and the increase in external entropy will increase ......"

"From the first article, we can extend the concept of 'life can do anything to exist', which can explain why life fears death, which is the root of the 'desire to survive'."

"This desire overrides any emotion other than the concept of 'I,' and is an instinct within instincts, and it is for this reason that life on earth has been passed down for billions of years."

After sorting out the rules, Huo Gu suddenly realized something, the driving force that drove life forward, and those two words quickly amplified in his sea of thoughts - desire.

“…… Perhaps, I don't necessarily have to make them aware of 'me' first, even if they can't even meet the most basic requirements of drinking blood, I basically need them to be able to work actively, not to engage in mental activity 'intelligence'. ”

"So, I can use desire, desire to survive ......"

The idea gradually became clear, and Hogu began to put this idea into the design.

"That's right, it's like a so-called symbiotic relationship, which weakens the stomach of microbial collectors so that they can only digest a certain type of amino acid, so that the collected organic material is essentially useless to them."

"And the production of this particular type of amino acid goes to the rhizome system, so that the collectors of organic material have to constantly supply the rhizome system with organic material in order to survive."

"It's very feasible, and there are many examples on the planet, such as bees, which also pollen when they collect nectar, and use this way to pollinate between flowers."

The part of the brain that exists is placed by Huogu in the area where the original sensing cells are located, and the other functional components remain the same, except for an extra stomach at the front end of the water storage cavity, and the absorption of the cell membrane of the inner cells is also limited.

The moment the design was completed, Huo Gu suddenly felt a strong sense of guilt, and his behavior seemed to be very similar to that of the slave owners in the old feudal era......

Hogu hurriedly waved away this terrible thought.

"No, how could I be that wicked person?"

"At most, this is just a company business model, you have to work to pay wages, the boss is not a god who can make something out of nothing, at least the slave owner will not care about the life and death of the slave, and even use it for fun, I have medical insurance here, if any of them are injured or sick, I will provide them with the best medical care, this kind of welfare is not even human society, how can it be the same?"

Even though he knew that only he could hear it, Hogu still defended himself.

The sample of the first collector is squeezed out of the flesh cavity of the cone-shaped creature.

The newly assembled gatherer was very small, about one-tenth the size of an adult's slap, and motionless, as if the Hogu design had failed.

Huo Gu was not in a hurry, and put a little bit of special amino acids into the water, and the collector who sensed these amino acids immediately became active.

It wiggled its fins awkwardly on both sides, and with great effort, it finally completed the first feeding act of its life.

And this performance of the gatherer also means that Huo Gu's design idea is not wrong.