Chapter 14: Elsewhere

Dizzy......

What just happened?

Who am I?

What are you going to do?

Hogu struggled to reminisce......

The waves of white flowers on the surface of the water are rolling one after another, and the clusters of long-necked porcelain bottle-like cells are tumbling and drifting in the waves.

The waves weren't the culprit for Hogu's dizziness, it knew it.

I don't know how long this groggy state lasted, but Huo Gu gradually returned to his normal level of thinking, and at the same time, he also remembered the situation above the water.

The torrential rain that continued to fall, the orange sky, the lightning from time to time poked out of the dark clouds to tear the darkness apart, and the volcanic eruption of the red lotus karmic fire and the huge waves brought by the roaring wind confronted each other......

These are all scenes that Hogu saw on the water.

The most critical point is that the concentration of carbon dioxide is simply outrageous, and the unsuspecting cells are combined with water to form carbonic acid by these sudden influxes of carbon dioxide into the cells, which seriously affects the normal operation of each cell.

This is the root cause of Hogu's stupor.

But this adventure was not without gain, just a simple glance like this, Hogu got a rather useful piece of information.

The message was so shocking that Hogu's mind paused for a long time before he turned around.

"Looks like I'm on a strange planet right now."

At that concentration of carbon dioxide, if humans really existed, they would definitely suffocate in no more than half an hour.

Hogu recalled the volcano he had seen during his glimpse.

"The volcanoes around here seem to be a little too active, there are a group of volcanoes at the bottom of the water, and now you can see so many active volcanoes on the water."

"When I came up from the bottom of the sea, I never saw any multicellular organisms, not even the simplest algae......

"Combined with the explosive concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the orange-red sky, it is not clear that this strange planet is still in a fairly early 'rain sea generation period'."

All of this is the conclusion that Hogu has assumed that the planet is similar to Earth, after all, the planet has an ocean of liquid water like Earth, and it does not have more types of planetary templates to refer to.

The high temperature in the planet evaporates the water that exists in the interior of the layer, and the water vapor is bound by gravity to form a dense cumulonimbus cloud, which returns to the ground in the form of rain, and then is evaporated again, and so on, and so on, the whole planet is like a huge boiling boiler.

If the planet is flooded with water, the rain can last for up to 10 million years.

The long-necked porcelain bottle-like cluster of cells glides down some distance, away from the hustle and bustle of the water.

"Rain Sea Generation...... I didn't expect to have the privilege of experiencing such a historic event firsthand. ”

After learning that he had a deeper understanding of the current situation, Huo Gu not only did not feel depressed because he was in a foreign country, but even faintly excited.

What could be more exciting for an archaeologist, especially one who focuses on the field of extraterrestrial biology, than to witness a historic event firsthand?

It is precisely because of the oceans that formed during the Yuhai Era that life was born, at least on Earth.

"If you decide, let's set a small goal first - to set up a global vision network to see every corner of the planet."

The combination of intellectual curiosity and excitement drove Hogu to make such a decision, leading to such an ambitious idea.

If you are still a human being, it is really just wishful thinking, after all, the power of the individual is limited after all.

But now it is different, Hogu is a collective, not a single individual, it has tens of thousands of cells that obey the command, don't look at this force seems to be very small, but even ants, as long as enough time, even a celestial body as massive as the earth can be moved.

Of course, the premise is that there is such a star path that can transfer the mass of celestial bodies to ants.

"But what about the volcano?"

Hogu thought of the flame-spitting mountains, which appeared because of the excessive pressure inside the planet, and instead released the inner core energy in the form of thermal energy.

Liquid lava at temperatures of up to 1,200 degrees Celsius is enough to make any protein lose its original activity.

“…… Plans for a global covered observation network can be put on hold for the time being, waiting for the planet to cool down, well, I can afford to wait anyway. ”

In Europe during the Middle Ages of human civilization, the question was once raised: if the wood on the ship was gradually replaced until all the wood was no longer the original wood, would the ship still be the same ship?

This is the famous 'Ship of Theseus' paradox.

Now, Hogu is the ship, and it has obtained the ability that emperors have most desired throughout the ages—'immortality'.

As long as the base number of cells is not lower than a certain threshold, it can maintain the current thinking, and as long as there is no shortage of matter or all the cells die in one breath, it can live forever.

Suddenly, Hogu's mind moved slightly.

"Where does my power come from?"

Instructions only work when the cells are in tune with the whole collective—something that became clear to Hogu not long after he regained his mind.

In other words, Hogu's 'instructions' only exist at the microscopic level, and at the atomic or molecular level, once exceeded, the delivery of instruction information cannot be completed, or there is a delay.

"Then here's the problem......"

"If it doesn't fit properly, but it's still a whole, will my instructions still be in effect as before?"

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth – this is the creed of life that Hogu has always believed in.

When doubts arose, Hogu immediately began to experiment.

New cells are divided, which are primitive single cells that have not been specialized before.

This time is different from the past, the new cells do not actively fit into the cell cluster, and the connection between them all relies on three short connexins.

"Transcription of connexins, lengthening the length of connexins."

Under Hogu's command, the three connexins were gradually lengthened, and the experimental cell, under the action of the water flow, slowly narrowed the distance between the cell clusters.

After completing the lengthening work, Hogu gave a new directive.

"Transcribing DNA and starting to split new individuals."

If you start copying yourself, then the instruction is valid.

If not, then it means that the medium of information transmission of instructions is not proteins.

"Next, let me see what the result is......"