Under the displacement of the water jet propulsion, a team of hoists slowly approached Huogu's side from a distance.

In fact, Hogu did not abandon the design of the gourd because of the new design, and after the general prototype of the entire rhizome system was constructed, a part of the organic matter was allocated to create a new group of gourds.

Of course, in order to avoid recurrence of cases such as being cut by stones, a thin layer of cuticles with a certain degree of toughness is created on the outside of the parietal cells by using the accumulation of parietal cell death.

If it had simply washed up on the shore, the stone would no longer have been able to cut through the skin of the gourd, unless it was again subjected to a catastrophe like a violent wave.

Defense increases at the cost of reduced speed, but it doesn't matter, the Hurd's positioning has changed from 'Runaway' to 'Gatherer', and it exists as a mobile gathering platform in the ocean.

There is a limit to the rhizome system covering the seabed, that is, it can only collect organic materials close to the bottom of the sea, and the sea is different from the land, it is a three-dimensional activity space, and it is undoubtedly a waste to only have organic materials on a two-dimensional plane.

The gourd group is close to the nodulous mass, and there are dozens of cavities in a certain part of the nodulous mass, and the head of the gourd is docked with the hole, thus completing the whole process of organic material transfer.

When constructing the rhizome system, Hogu simply designed the 'warehouse' for storing materials in the cavity of the cell-sensing cell.

These transferred materials, amino acids will be dehydrated and condensed to form proteins, and then stripped from the aqueous solution and stored in a special cavity, as are the various other elements collected, which are made into elemental substances and stored in a special cavity for later use.

Everything went as expected, but the rhizome system was designed much earlier than the organic material was collected.

The current situation is that organic materials are in short supply.

So, regarding the design of a population of cells that is more efficient, fast, and long-lasting than the hoist's ability to move through water, Hogu decided to put it aside for the time being and wait for a while before considering it.

There is one more thing that Hogu needs to do, and that is to find out the specific situation of this volcanic island, there is such a dangerous neighbor around it, it is necessary to confirm the authenticity of some information with its own eyes.

After all, it's about its own life and death, and it doesn't want to be surprised by this neighbor suddenly, and many things in this world can't happen so suddenly, such as its original 'crossing'.

Distract some of your attention and concentrate it on the taproot that is climbing the columnar jointed stone wall, on which there is an eye, which is convenient for Hogu to observe the outside environment.

Through the imaging of the electrical signals transmitted back by his eyes, Hogu finally got a closer look at the inland area of the volcanic island, far from the coast.

Barren, very barren, after turning over the stone wall, the whole plane above is a whole large rock, the rock is full of cracks that resemble the lines on the shell of a tortoise, but these cracks only exist on the big rocks, not on the small stones.

Hogu estimates that this is the result of rapid cooling, and that even boiling water can have the same 'cooling' effect as cold water in the face of a lava flow at least 700 degrees Celsius.

The taproot is bent from the edge of the stone wall and grows horizontally on the stone face.

At the same time, the roots on the taproot are not idle, and they go deep into the surrounding stone faces, which can not only provide fixation to the taproot, but also allow Hogu to understand the surrounding elemental structure.

The eyes on the taproot looked at the highest peak in the middle of the island, an active volcano that was still emitting a lot of smoke and dust, like a giant chimney of a factory.

Soon, the taproot came to the foot of the mountain, where there were a lot of small pieces of rubble and volcanic glass.

These small rubbles were originally stones on the edge of the crater, and they were scorched by the volcano, and the heavy rain that fell day and night in the Underworld, and soon became unbearable when it was cold and hot, and they broke into such small stones and glass crystals, and rolled down to the foot of the mountain, thus creating the current landform.

If it was before, it might be a bit more troublesome, because you need to take into account the sharp edges and corners of the gravel and the glass.

But now, this terrain is no longer a problem for Hogu.

The movement of the taproot is not driven by limbs, but by 'growth', which is like in plants, by cell division.

Slow is a little slower, but this slowness is relative to animals, and compared with plants, it is god speed, because there is a super consciousness like Huogu who is carrying out macro-control.

The taproot lay down without fear and headed straight for the top of the mountain.

Considering that this steep slope is composed of small gravel and glazed blocks, there is a possibility of landslides, especially in this environment that is washed by rain all the time, Huogu sent a taproot, like a winding mountain road to the top of the mountain in the way of encircling the volcano, so that even if the original taproot falls off from the landslide, the surrounding taproot can replace the first one, but it will take more time.

Fortunately, Hogu did not use the second taproot, and the first taproot came to the crater at the top of the mountain.

Thick smoke billowed and the hot air, because it is an alkaline volcano, the concentration of metal ions in the air is very high, immersed in this environment, all the iron sand on the ground turns into magnets.

The taproot cannot advance for half a minute, and if it goes any further, the temperature will reach the flammable point and spontaneously combustion.

At such a close distance, since it is not at the bottom of the sea, there is no immediate cooling of the water, and it is easy to see the red and shiny lava in the volcano, which is still bubbling from time to time.

"Well, this is an active volcano, not a dormant volcano, and I shouldn't take any chances." Huo Gu laughed at himself in resignation.

Ever since he crossed into this posture, Huo Gu has been hiding in Tibet, cautiously, and now that he can finally have a safe place for the time being, he unconsciously came up with the idea that "maybe I'm lucky, this volcano is dormant, and the smoke coming out of the crater is a column of smoke formed by the evaporation of water vapor".

Now, this delusion was shattered, and at the same time, Huo Gu also breathed a sigh of relief, it deeply understood that this delusion of its own was shattered, and it would not help it in its current situation, but might put itself in danger.

In a world full of dangers, no fluke should exist, and with this lesson and a warning, it will not be so easy to make such mistakes in the future.

Of course, Hogu came so close to the crater not only to correct his mentality, but also to confirm one more thing.

The taproot is a small piece of volcanic rock debris very close to the crater.