Chapter 9: Good and Bad
"Why is this happening? It can't be said that every single-celled organism must have an eyespot photoreceptor, but it doesn't mean that all of them don't have it......"
Later, Hogu also noticed that there are also no chloroplasts or chlorophyll in single-celled organisms that require 'light' to participate in the reaction.
"Did I think wrong in the first place?"
"Is it possible that the external environment does not have 'light', so these single-celled organisms have not evolved organelles associated with 'light'."
From the case of single-celled organisms, Hogu counter-deduces such a conclusion.
Life and the environment have a mutually influencing relationship, and if there is no life in the first place, then the earth will gradually evolve into a barren planet.
The surrounding environment also determines the form in which organisms can develop, affecting their evolution.
The sun is such an energy source, and living beings should not be able to let go of anything, even if there are no organelles related to 'light' at the beginning, they will try to evolve.
However, Hogu was not in a hurry to draw conclusions, it thought about it, and decided to continue with a few more large-scale microbe-trapping operations.
"It's a bit arbitrary to draw conclusions like this, this is just the first capture, let's try a few more times, if it still doesn't, then it should be certain that my current location is either a bottomless deep sea, or an underground dark lake without any light."
The inactive single-celled organisms are dismembered with microenzymes to dismember the cell membrane and cell wall, and then the internal organelles and gene fragments are pulled into the inner cells behind the surface cells of the cavity, and the connexin is fixed on the inner wall of the cell membrane.
For a while, Huo Gu actually had the illusion of getting rich overnight.
However, the thought of the possible multicellular organisms quickly cooled the excitement.
Hogu knows very well that although the current multicellular cluster is invincible to many microorganisms, once the opponent is replaced by multicellular organisms, it will be as fragile as a newborn baby.
The cell wall that can block phages is thinner than paper in the eyes of macroscopic organisms.
Enzymes that can break down cell walls are non-lethal to macroscopic organisms.
The fangs and claws of macroscopic organisms that can easily tear apart epidermal tissue, in the eyes of today's single-cell clusters, are the equivalent of the nuclear weapons of the African natives looking at those great powers.
"It's not enough... There is still a long way to go before we can no longer be threatened by our lives. ”
Hogu admonished himself of his current situation as he instructed the cells to open their mouths.
In the eyes of microorganisms, the mouth of the blood basin like a black hole slowly opened, and under the impetus of the flow, Huogu's single-cell cluster moved forward, and countless microorganisms, proteins, amino acids and other substances were wrapped into the place of death without being noticed.
Enzymes are used to kill the viruses that have become worthless, connexins are extended, microorganisms are captured in large quantities, and the genes and organelles of the microorganisms are carefully extracted.
With two successes, the third time became more proficient, the number of mouths opened and closed increased, and the instructions of Hogu and the cells in the cluster were more coordinated, and they were no longer as mechanical as before.
After opening and closing hundreds of times, the opening and closing of the mouth seemed to Hogu to be no different from that of a normal macroscopic creature.
This is good news, but there is also bad news.
The cause of the incident was the single-celled organism with suspected mitochondria that Hogu had captured earlier, and this single-celled organism was a sulfur bacterium that carried out life activities with sulfur.
Sulfur bacteria, Hogu is no stranger, it has seen such single-celled organisms in sampled volcanic rocks with an electron microscope.
These organisms are generally found in waters where sulfur is present, and as their name suggests, they are inseparable from the element sulfur.
Even in the early days of human beings, sulfur bacteria did not become extinct, and were mainly concentrated in the vicinity of active volcanoes and hot springs, and could survive even in boiling water of 100 degrees.
Since such a creature has been caught, it can be deduced from this that there must be a large area of stable sulfur environment nearby.
"I just hope that this place is not an active volcano."
Huo Gu was terrified in his heart, even if the volcano did not erupt, it was just smoking.
Bad substances mix with rain in the atmosphere along with soot, and the result is either acid rain or alkaline rain, and when a heavy rain falls, the water quality environment changes dramatically.
And the magma, which is also extremely dangerous for Hogu and the single-cell cluster without looking around with their eyes, the lava will boil the surrounding liquid, and in this hot environment, the cells that come together into a single body will all die in a matter of seconds, or rather, be cooked.
There is no way, the current multicellular organism composed of single cells is so rudimentary that it does not even have a temperature sensing system, and Hogu can only indirectly observe the water temperature through the changes in proteins in the cell cluster.
If the fangs and claws of macroscopic creatures are equivalent to nuclear weapons at the level of a great power for the current single-cell cluster, then the active volcano is equivalent to the sun, and all Hogu can do now is to be in awe, once the volcano erupts, at the current speed of action of the cluster, it will be certain death.
"Only when you lose it, do you know the treasure of those things......"
Hogu misses his former eyes and the international civil airliner that can reach twice the speed of sound in the human world.
Clearing the distractions out of it now doesn't have so much time to waste, and the threats that lurk in the darkness won't wait for it to be ready.
At the moment, two things are certain.
First, from the captured single-celled organisms, it can be determined that the surroundings are completely dark, so none of the single-celled organisms have evolved organelles associated with 'light'.
Second, there is an unknown area of sulfur concentration nearby.
"Assume that in the worst-case scenario, there is such an active volcano nearby......"
Hogu's analysis came to an abrupt halt, not because it didn't want to deduce, but because its mind was down.
In the face of absolute power, these are nothing more than futile struggles.
“…… Sure enough, you still need eyes. ”
A thought appeared in Hogu's mind like this: since there is no organelle about 'light', why not simply create a pair of 'eyes' independently?
As soon as this thought appeared, it was like a wild weed, occupying Huogu's thoughts in an instant, and it lingered no matter what.
"That's right, I can design my own vision system, which is more sophisticated and powerful than the 'eyespots' of single-celled organisms."
"If it's standard, take human vision as the standard."