very bad……

The proteins of cells are combined in an acidic environment. If it is transferred to neutral waters or alkaline waters, the proteins may deteriorate and lose their original activity...

Not only that, but also the water temperature. Since there is a volcano, the surrounding water should be hot water. It is difficult for Huo Gu to guarantee that the proteins of cells that have adapted to hot water can adapt to normal water temperature.

"Am I just stuck here?"

Huo Gu turned around and used his visual system to look at the volcano again.

After the water comes into contact with the hot lava, water vapor instantly forms and rises toward the water surface, and the vacant positions will be filled by the surrounding water.

In this way, a stream of water flows toward the volcano, a "black hole" on the seafloor in a sense.

If there weren't towering rocks around, diverting this flow of water...

If it weren't for the volcano, there would be intermittent small-scale eruptions...

Huo Gu estimated that he was already familiar with it now.

Nowadays, with the visual system, as long as you are careful enough, you can avoid the dangerous factors of those volcanoes.

"Then, don't you want to leave?"

Huo Gu asked himself hesitantly.

If you ignore the dangers posed by those volcanoes, there are still many benefits.

The intermittent eruptions of volcanoes not only drive water flow, but also make this water area extremely eutrophic. With amino acids, proteins, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium and other substances, almost everything you want is within reach. It is simply a microbial Eden.

To be honest, Huo Gu was slightly moved when he thought of this.

After all, in this acidic water, the only thing that can threaten it is the volcano, and the microorganisms that can adapt to this kind of water can no longer pose a threat to it, and can only be its meal.

"Maybe……"

"It is also a good choice to stay for a while and prepare carefully before taking action..."

The vibration, the sudden vibration, seemed like some huge creature was stirring the waters.

"What, what's going on?!"

The cores of the cell clusters are all resonating with this vibration, which is something that has never happened before.

Intuition told Huo Gu that something was about to appear.

Without enough time to think about it, Huo Gu immediately hid in the gap formed by two nearby boulders.

The shaking became more and more violent, and Hogu could see from the cracks that stones on the boulder fell from the top from time to time.

In the distance, with the dim light of the volcano, you can see that the bottom of the water seems to be covered with a light veil, swaying gently and gracefully with the current.

It was volcanic ash that had settled at the bottom of the water for a long time and was now stirred up by the shock.

The vibrations continued like this for a while, and the frequency became more and more intense.

Finally, it seems that some kind of tipping point has been reached.

A super strong current that far overwhelmed all previous water flows, carrying terrifying potential energy, like the shock wave of a nuclear explosion, sweeping across all directions.

Wherever it passes, small rocks are rolled up, big rocks are turned over, and even huge rocks are trembling.

Now Huo Gu finally understood why there were no small or medium-sized rocks on the nearby water bottom.

Before, it was thought to be the result of years of erosion by water flow, but now it seems that it was simply thrown quite far away by this current.

Huo Gu tried his best to shrink himself into the innermost part of the gap.

However, even though he was nestled in the gap between two boulders, Huo Gu could still feel an indescribable terrifying force trying to pull him out.

Once you get swept out, it's over!

Huo Gu emphatically reminded himself of this. At the same time, it also directed the cell cluster to change its shape, abandoning its original cylindrical shape and changing it to completely fit into the stone seams without leaving any gaps.

Like the previous vibration, this impinging flow of water lasted for a while before stopping.

After a while, when Huogu was sure that the current of water would not erupt again, he came out of the gap between the boulders with lingering fear.

"The direction of the eruption is towards the volcano. Judging from the surrounding landforms, it is likely to occur frequently. It's just that I was lucky before. It happened to be not long after the intermittent eruption ended..."

"This kind of eruption is completely different from the previous intermittent water flow. This should not be the release of pressure caused by the blocked volcanic vent, but the upwelling of lava from deeper layers..."

Summarizing the information that can be collected and analyzing the problem is Huogu's consistent approach, and it is precisely in this way that it can survive until now.

All that's left is to make a choice.

Go or stay.

So, do you want to stay?

This option was rejected by Huo Gu as soon as it came out.

"No, I have to get out of here. That volcano may suddenly erupt one day. If something unexpected happens, I won't have anywhere to run."

After what happened just now, Huogu couldn't possibly continue to stay here no matter what.

The obtained flagellar DNA is sheared into the outermost wall cell, and countless microscopic cilia grow on the outside of the cylindrical organism.

Just as a ship's propeller needs to be driven by an engine, these flagella also need an 'engine' to drive the water flow.

Fortunately, Hogu happens to have such an engine, which is the mitochondria.

Proteins that had been collected for a period of time were collected and stored in a new cavity opened by Hogu.

In order to make it easier to travel in the water, Huogu transformed the head and tail of the cylindrical creature into cones, and streamlined grooves appeared on the outside of the side.

In this way, the resistance of cell clusters to traveling in water will be much smaller.

Considering that during the swimming process, you may encounter a relatively narrow area, the eyes that originally stretched out from the side of the cylindrical creature retracted and became embedded in the side.

In order to ensure sufficient field of vision, Hogu installed three more eyes, one on the opposite side of the original eye, forming a complete 360-degree field of vision.

The other two are distributed at the front and back. The large cavity originally used for digesting microorganisms was divided into six small cavities by Hogu. The connecting part of the small cavities has an eye, which is exactly at the top of the head and tail cones.

Every time you take in those microorganisms to supplement protein, it is like the effect of a flower unfolding its petals.

Since it was only designed to deal with microorganisms, it was transformed into a plant-like appearance. If it really encounters macroscopic organisms, Hogu will use acid to make the opponent give up.

After redesigning the appearance, Huo Gu breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed his highly concentrated spirit.

"Fortunately, I haven't returned all the physics and chemistry I learned in high school to the teacher."

Cell clusters start functioning under command.
Chapter completed!