Chapter 6 The trapped beast devours
Hogu is distressed, and it is currently facing a difficult problem.
The cell wall is formed by the DNA blueprint in a single cell, and the DNA blueprint needs to be trimmed in order to narrow the tunnel of the circulating substance.
However, Hogu does not have the conditions to do such a thing now, or there is not so much time, and the next wave of bacteriophages does not know when it will encounter, and the cell wall must be completed before this.
"Isn't there a way to do it?"
Hogu asked himself, his attention fixed on the cell wall sample, lost in thought.
If you want to narrow the tunnel, the key to the problem should be the tunnel......
In his mind, Huo Gu kept recalling the past when he was still human, and all the memories related to the 'pipeline' were fleeting like a marquee.
Suddenly, something occurred to it.
"There it is!"
"If you just reduce the passage, you don't necessarily need to re-trim it, as long as the passage wall is properly bent to a certain extent, a small part of the passage will naturally shrink."
The cell wall that appeared in front of Huo Gu seemed to be gradually disassembling and reorganizing, and the drawings in his mind were gradually becoming clear.
"If you want to twist the channel, you can do it by misaligning the two layers of cell walls, so that part of the channel can be reduced."
Without further ado, Hogu immediately began work on the construction of this new type of cell wall.
The single cell with the cell wall as a sample received Huogu's instructions and began to spin and record its own DNA, while Huogu stared intently at the remaining gene strands of the phage.
Soon, a brand-new, single-cell with a cell wall was presented to Hogu, and at the same time, Hogu mastered the DNA that produced the cell wall.
Directing the newly formed single cell, partially uncoiled, and a new cell wall is created again.
There is a slight dislocation between the material circulation channel of this cell wall and the original cell wall, just as Huo Gu had planned.
With previous experience with cytoplasmic manipulation of enzymes, the construction of the cell wall was completed in one go.
Hogu looked at the single cell with a double cell wall and felt very satisfied.
The two-layered cell wall of this single cell is absolutely sufficient to defend against the injection of those phages.
The tunnel, which has shrunk to the point where it can only pass through a single molecular cluster, is confident that absolutely no bacteriophage can invade this single cell through this pathway.
Everything seemed so perfect......
"That way, I can breathe a sigh of relief...... Well? ”
Hogu, who was just about to turn his energy elsewhere, noticed something unusual.
The double-walled cell, which was used as a test sample, was gradually losing its original activity.
"This ......"
After a while, Hogu completely lost control of this double-walled cell, which means that this double-walled cell died, and the DNA connection as the inner core also disintegrated, and the cell membrane was no longer permeable at all.
"Why is this happening?"
Toxin? Breaking down enzymes? Antibiotic? ……
Huo Gu's mind flashed through countless possibilities, which seemed to correspond to the current situation, but when he thought about it carefully, it didn't seem to be right.
"Calm down, there must be something wrong with the operation just now, just carefully line up one by one......"
Huo Gu, who was just about to find out the cause of the death of the double-walled cell, suddenly had an alarm bell in his heart.
The entire single-cell cluster has been in contact with multiple uninvited guests one after another, and it is also the toxic bacteriophage that Hogu does not want to see.
"Shhh
"No, the numbers are still increasing!"
With this number of bacteriophages, the previous method would definitely not work, and now, the cause of the death of the biparietal cells has not been found, and forcibly using it is tantamount to looking for death.
Desperate?
Huo Gu seemed to be able to see that the ghost gate was slowly opening to it, and behind the door was the endless darkness......
"No!"
"When this broken door will be opened, Lao Tzu has the final say!"
The imminence of death provoked Hogu's anger, and the beast was trapped and devoured, and the entire cluster of single cells seemed to be infected by Hogu's emotions, maintaining a very high state.
The excitement of the single-cell cluster, in turn, acts on the cluster thinking of Hogu, who can really see that the flow of cytoplasm, the division of bacteriophages, everything is slowing down, and at the same time it becomes extremely clear, and it can even see a single molecule in this state.
Not only that, but the memories of its past as a human being are repeatedly rewound and fast-forwarded, and as long as it wants to, it can immediately recall every detail of that memory, like divine help.
"Chance, definitely chance, it's just a bunch of bacteriophages......"
Like a seasoned hunter crouching in the grass, all memories and knowledge are like animals passing by, oblivious to the threat hidden in the grass.
Suddenly, the 'prey' appeared.
“…… I was so stupid to ignore such a killer feature. ”
At the same time, the large area of single cells in the single-cell cluster began to spontaneously release a large number of enzymes, including endonucleases, exonucleases, polymerases, ligases, etc., as long as all the enzymes are made.
In the flow through the cytoplasm, all these miscellaneous enzymes are directed to the vicinity of the cell membrane.
After the enzymes reach the cell membrane, the membrane starts to gradually thin, but this doesn't matter everything to Hogu now, and getting rid of these damn bacteriophages is the priority.
And those parasitic cells that can still be controlled, under the command of Hogu, quickly began to suicidally produce a large number of enzymes, killing the invading phage genes along with itself.
In the blink of an eye, the number of parasitic phages rapidly decreased by more than half.
Hogu did not relax because of this, it knew very well that the battles in the microscopic biological world were different from the macroscopic biological world, and the number did not play a decisive role in many cases.
As long as there is one phage that does not die, it can directly threaten the survival of the entire single-cell cluster.
Just as Hogu saw that victory in this battle was coming, another wave of bacteriophages landed in Hogu's single-cell cluster one after another.
"Damn it!"
Huo Gu scolded angrily and instructed the single cells to build a protective layer with their flesh to isolate most of the phages.
In order to maintain the number of cells, Hogu is also directing some single cells to divide, and with this maintenance, the two sides enter a war of attrition.
Either the number of virulent phages is too large and the single-cell cluster led by Hogu is overwhelmed.
Either the single-cell cluster on Hogu's side has exhausted this large swarm of phages.
As the time limit of the battle was extended, Huogu's was also red-eyed, and now its thinking gradually tilted in a more brutal direction.