Chapter XXVIII

After the lava level of the volcano dropped to a low point due to the release of lava, the sword of Damocles hanging over Hogu's head was finally removed, and the threat of the volcano no longer existed, and it was replaced by a safe place to live.

After the lava flow from the volcano stopped flowing, Hogu issued a new directive, and the infrastructure of this new 'home' was in full swing.

The taproots on the islands continue to extend new roots that grow in accordance with the topography of the island, forming a thin layer of lichen.

The lichen cells are a new type of cell designed by Hogu with reference to the structure of algae, and the design adds organelle structures such as ribosomes, vacuoles, and nuclei on the basis of combining parietal cells and inner cells.

Ribosomes are able to dehydrate and condense the amino acids harvested by the cell to form proteins, which are converted into protein structures, which are conducive to storage.

Vacuoles can be used as intracellular storage chambers to store resources such as water and proteins, which has the advantage of not having to lose a lot of resources, such as cavity leaks.

These cells can autonomously absorb atmospheric elements from the air, breathe, absorb acid, alkali, rainwater, inorganic salts in volcanic rocks, and heat emitted from the inside of volcanoes to produce amino acids needed by living individuals.

Hogu designed this for the obvious purpose of creating a 'producer' to fill the gap in the entire cell population, as the Earth's biosphere does.

The design of the titanium snail is so perfect that it should not even be born in the Pact period, and even after 4.6 billion years of the earth's biosphere, the titanium snail will not be afraid of any of the top marine predators in it - except humans.

However, in order to upgrade all aspects of ability beyond the times, most of the space inside the titanium snail is used to enhance the speed and armor ability, which leads to the low ability of the titanium snail in resource collection.

It is indeed a compromise to let the hoist as the resource collector of the titanium snail itself, but this is not the best choice, the hoist is only collecting resources, not producing resources.

The rhizome system, which covers the islands and nearby seas for several kilometres, is also only for collection, not production.

At the current rate of increase, sooner or later the capacity of organic resources will reach the limit of the cells' expenditure, and the time is not far away.

Since the overall structure of lichens is simpler than that of rhizome systems and grows only on the surface, lichens cover volcanic islands at a rate that fully crushes the rhizomes.

Immediately afterwards, Hogu used the rhizome system to rock one side of the volcanic island to create a harbor where all the rough waves would be stopped by the harbor reef and would not affect the waters inside.

After the construction was completed, Hogu transferred the core nodule mass of the rhizome system to this harbor, and gave instructions to the nodule mass to expand in size, and the scope of the life field was once again expanded.

At the same time, the lichens on the island also received instructions from Hogu to complete the docking with the nodules in the harbor to form a supply chain loop.

Then there is the observation system of the island, which can be seen far from the height of the station, and the rhizome system is at the uppermost part of the volcano, the meeting point of all the taproots, and several semi-circular objects have grown, which are transparent throughout, or hard entities, and the rain from the sky will make a crisp "crackling" sound when it falls on it.

The transparent object is a tempered glass built by Hogu using silicon and carbon, although it is not as strong as metal, but it is not as fragile as ordinary glass.

The tempered glass is filled with a clear liquid, and an eyeball grows larger in a semi-circular glass container, and the nerve bundles at the end of the eyeball transmit electrical signals and help the eye to turn at any angle except the bottom.

On the outside of the glass container, there is a thin strip of semi-arc, with muscle cells connected to both ends, and there are tiny cilia in contact with the tempered glass.

Its function is to brush away the rain and dust that interfere with the view on the glass surface, and complete the act of 'blinking'.

"Whew, it's finally done."

After working hard for so long, Huo Gu was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

The volcanic islands are no longer as inhospitable as they once were, and they don't look like the land of the Plutozoic era, where the rhizomes and lichens make it look full of life.

However, things are not as simple as it thinks, and some of the more dangerous external factors are ignored by it.

Just when Hogu thought he could go to explore the neighborhood with peace of mind, a new crisis quietly came.

The first was the newly established island vision system, which noticed that the cumulonimbus clouds in the orange sky were moving at a noticeable speed.

Huo Gu didn't pay much attention to this kind of cloud change, because the Immortal Universe was already quite a harsh environment, with fierce winds, acid-alkali rain, volcanic eruptions, and thunder and lightning from time to time, all kinds of factors made Huo Gu subconsciously think that there would be no worse situation.

When it realizes that something is wrong, it is feeling the change in the current through the titanium snail.

Titanium snails, which can only cause slight swaying by ordinary waves, can clearly feel the attraction from a certain direction, as if a bottomless giant hole appeared in that direction, constantly devouring the seawater.

The clouds of the sky protrude a cone towards the downwards, and the clouds take on the shape of a spiral.

Whirlpools appear on the surface of the sea, but unlike normal whirlpools, they are cone-shaped whirlpools facing the sky.

The sea cone and the cloud cone are far away from each other, gradually elongating themselves, and finally the tips of the cone come into contact and merge into a mixture of water vapor, becoming a pillar between heaven and earth.

A term emerged in Huo Gu's thinking - tornado!

"Tornado? No, this can't be called a tornado anymore, it's too big! ”

A tornado with a diameter of about a kilometer, Hogu is simply unheard of.

Huo Gu stared at the area where the tornado existed in horror and horror, and he didn't know what words to use to describe what he saw, it was not focused on meteorology and geography, and there was no way to accurately describe this kind of thing that was beyond the scope of his knowledge.

Soon after the formation of this 'water column', a 'water column' of the same level was born in other directions, and the continuous arc of electricity flashed in the sky, and the turbulent sea surface was quiet and peaceful to an eerie degree.

These 'water columns' also seem to influence each other, and their paths turn towards the volcanic island where Hogu is located.