The waves crash against the stone wall composed of columnar joints, then retreat and beat again, and so on, and so on, and the earliest seabed and beach were formed after tens of millions of years under the circulation and interaction of sea water and rocks.

At this time, a discordant 'alien' is in the crack of the stone wall, gradually, slowly, grasping the gap between the stone pillars and climbing towards the top of the stone wall.

This 'anomalous' resembles the root system of a plant, with a large number of roots extending from the taproot, and through molecular-scale embedding, these roots can penetrate deep into the interior of the pillar, even in the strongest stone material.

In addition, while providing a fixed effect on the taproot, the roots can also extract calcium, magnesium, iron, silicon, zinc and other inorganic elements from the stone pillars.

With the heavy stone pillars as the main load-bearing columns, the root system does not need to worry about being torn off by the waves, and the taproot extends all the way below the surface of the sea.

The source of the taproot is a nodulous mass that also extends from a large number of roots that firmly anchor itself between the ellipsoidal and pillow-shaped rocks at the base of the volcanic island, resisting the erosion of the sea.

There is not just one taproot of the nodule mass, except for the one that is 'climbing', the other taproots are clinging to the volcanic rocks on the bottom of the sea, spreading out in all directions, each stretching for several kilometers, forming a vast network of lichens.

It's hard to imagine that, not so long ago, these things were a huge population of suspected animals.

"Whew...... Once the design is complete, all that's left is the gradual 'construction' of the work. ”

Thinking out of the work of 'design', Huo Gu only felt that his spirit was relaxed, and he could finally take a breath.

If mental work is easier than physical work in human beings, the reverse is now true.

Huogu, who does not feel physical fatigue, relatively speaking, the tedious and time-consuming mental work becomes hard labor.

All this near the volcanic island is the masterpiece of Huogu, which has transformed the entire group into the current plant-like appearance.

In terms of design, Hogu follows the structure of the rhizomes of the earth's plants, and the surface layer is no longer the fragile epidermis that is scraped by stones, but the thick cocoon formed by the superposition of cell death.

In order to ensure the strength of the taproot, the spider silk multiple rhizomes are used in a tangled way to provide a strong feeding function while ensuring that it does not break.

In the entire huge system arranged by Huogu, the nodulous mass is the most central part, where the sensory cells of the entire hust group converge.

At the expense of mobility, the radius of influence of the life field has been directly expanded to about six kilometers!

Moreover, on the premise that there was no relay instruction at all, Huo Gu was surprised to find that the phenomenon of instruction delay had weakened a lot at once.

The veil of mysterious life scene has become much thinner because of this.

The rhizomes arranged on the seabed are arranged to collect enough organic material to meet the overall consumption, and the roots extending from the taproot can capture those organic materials well.

There are still a certain number of 'flowers' growing on the taproot on the seabed, these are the 'mouths' of the original gourd, and Huo Gu did not modify them, but transplanted them to the taproot intact, which looks like the 'flowers' that have grown.

It turns out that Huogu's idea is right, and these 'flowers' have indeed brought it an additional batch of organic materials.

What was even more surprising was that among the microorganisms, a genetic sample of a microorganism with a 'nucleus' was captured, which is not an exaggeration.

The importance of the development of the nucleus is an important milestone in the history of biological development, such as the construction of the first life by organic macromolecules such as amino acids and proteins, and the establishment of civilization in the terrifying Homo erectus.

Its role is that the nucleus is a repository of genetic information, the control center of cellular metabolism and heredity, in other words, it can maintain the overall coordination of the cell without a superconscious like Hogu.

Its existence means that single-celled organisms have the qualifications to evolve into multicellular organisms.

"But this nucleus is still very rudimentary......

"It has a simple double nuclear membrane and nuclear pores, and there are no structures such as nucleolus, chromatin, and nuclear matrix."

"At present, this nucleus can only play a role in defending against phage invasion to a certain extent."

Hogu summarized the information obtained from the genetic samples.

As soon as his interest grew, he committed an occupational disease, and Hogu couldn't help but start studying this microbial sample with a cell nucleus.

"Nitrifying bacteria ......"

In this way, it is well understood that this bacterium is caught in this vicinity.

At this time, the planet is full of active volcanoes, nitrous acid in the ocean, and especially in the vicinity, which is still an active volcanic island.

"Huh? By inhaling carbon dioxide and methane, reacting with nitrous acid, and finally excreting oxygen to sustain life activities? ”

"What the hell?"

Hogu reappeared, the same feeling as if a new continent had been discovered.

As we all know, carbon dioxide is an inert gas, and even on Earth, those plants that produce oxygen need oxygen-consuming respiration to maintain normal life activities.

Oxygen is chemically unstable, so it is suitable as an additive to the reaction rather than as an effluent after the reaction.

"Wait!"

"I seem to have fallen into a misunderstanding, the chemical properties of oxygen are unstable, isn't this a very powerful 'attack'?"

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed, and Huo Gu, who had a little contempt for this kind of bacteria, suddenly put away his thoughts.

Oxygen itself reacts with unsaturated fatty acids without enzyme catalysis and destroys the phospholipids that store these acids, which are the main components of cellular biofilms, ultimately causing microbial death.

In the microbial world, the nitrifying bacteria captured by Hogu can be said to be quite terrifying 'poisons', and no microorganism wants to get close to them, especially in today's atmospheric environment, it is basically impossible to evolve oxygen-depleting microorganisms.

"Sure enough, none of the creatures that can exist in nature are simply characters."

After some admiration, the sample information was added to the genetic sequence preserved by Hogu, and the nitrifying bacteria were digested and used as nutrients for the entire cluster.

The law of the jungle is everywhere!

Under the transcriptional expression of genes, the middle core of the rhizome-like system, which extends several kilometers, has an additional function to produce oxygen, in order to kill microorganisms that may invade the rhizome system.

Of course, this is done just in case to prevent the invasion of microorganisms from being damaged by the stones that break the epidermal defense.

With the power of microbes alone, the possibility of a frontal breakthrough is slim to none.