The cell clusters grew exponentially and soon reached a considerable number in number - more than four hundred individual units.

Due to the change in appearance, the cell clusters added to the sensing area changed from the shape of a long-necked porcelain bottle to the shape of a gourd. Huogu simply called them 'gourds'.

"No. 10 gourd, try to keep your position unchanged."

"Hurt No. 131, you have yawed. Adjust the elevation angle, move nine meters diagonally upward to the right, and return to your original position as soon as possible."

"Hurt No. 368, immediately reduce speed and maintain formation."

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Huogu took the trouble to emphasize his instructions. As the distance between instructions increased, a certain problem that was not obvious also became apparent.

Although relays can be used to transmit instructions to farther places, there is a delay in the instructions transmitted in this way. It will always take a long time for the farthest individual to receive the instructions issued by it.

For this reason, Huo Gu needs to make a position correction to a certain gourd every once in a while to maintain the entire collective formation. In today's complex and changeable environment, the delay problem is very troublesome.

At present, Huogu doesn't have any good way to solve this problem. After all, it has not yet figured out what the core secret is that caused it to be in its current state, and naturally it cannot talk about using it more efficiently.

"The number is not enough..."

"Am I being a little too aggressive?"

Huo Gu, who had squeezed out a little thinking ability from the complicated command work, thought that although there is no good solution to the delay problem for the time being, as long as the number is large enough and the coverage area is wide enough, the fault tolerance of the overall formation will increase.

, the problems caused by the instruction delay can be covered up.

Huogu began to consider whether to slow down the progress of exploring alkaline waters and expand the water area covered by Huqun.

At this moment, hundreds of pairs of eyes, always alert to changes in the environment, keenly captured subtle abnormalities in the nearby waters.

At a glance, a 'white line' appeared at the far end of Hu Qun's field of vision, like a skyline.

Huogu immediately used the gourd closest to the 'white line' in the formation to conduct observations.

After the visual system receives the instruction from Hogu, the vitreous body immediately adjusts the degree of concavity and convexity, and the eyes move to tightly lock on the 'white line' in the distance.

Under the magnification of the glass body, the 'white line' becomes a 'fence', just like a fence made of cotton that only exists in fairy tales and sways in the gentle breeze of the country path.

Immediately afterwards, Huogu noticed the abnormal situation of the entire gourd group. The cell membrane, cytoplasm, organelles, and even the cell wall were all experiencing subtle vibrations.

"Could it be..."

An extremely ominous premonition enveloped his mind like an enlightenment, and some rather bad speculation emerged in Huo Gu's mind, making him feel frightened.

"Attention clusters No. 8 to No. 5! There is a jet stream coming! Flow to the rear left, adjust the course, deploy all fins, and prepare for buffering!"

Not long after the order was issued, the entire gourd group immediately followed the order and made corresponding changes.

Perhaps it was because he sensed Huogu's own anxiety, or because Huogu himself had a premonition of the coming crisis and the help given by his desire to survive, Huqun's emergency adjustment was finally completed before the foreseeable disaster came.

However, this is not something to be thankful for, it is just a small psychological comfort after a bloody misfortune.

It didn't take long, just a short period of time after the Gourd Group completed the emergency adjustment, the danger that made Huo Gu frightened had crossed the end of the field of vision and arrived nearby.

At this time, it was no longer a ‘fence’, but a ‘wall’.

Time, at this moment, is like a slow playback button being pressed. When Hogu was still a human, he once heard someone say that when death is approaching, thinking will speed up, and relatively speaking, the subjective feeling of time will also.

Slow down, at least humans do.

Looking at the wall not far away, one can deeply understand the meaning of the word "small". It goes straight up to the sea, looking to the left, extending to the end of the field of vision that reaches the limit of the vitreous body of the eye, and still can't see

When you reach the end of the wall, the same thing happens when you look to the right.

It was as if he were standing at the end of the world, face to face with the towering barrier at the edge of the world - Huogu's most intuitive feeling about the things he saw at this moment.

Through the surging white waves on the white wall, and considering the liquid environment of the ocean, it is easy to judge the true appearance of this magnificent wall - a giant tsunami.

Somewhere in this sea area, there is an unknown explosive point, which releases extremely huge kinetic energy in one breath, radiating in the form of 'waves' in the liquid environment of the ocean, which is what the Hu group is facing now.

Giant tsunami.

The sweeping white wall arrived in an instant, directly enveloping the entire swarm of ants, and continued to flow into the distance.

"Steady! Must hold steady!"

Huo Gu knew that this was a futile cry. In the face of such a powerful force, Huo Gu and the others were nothing more than a trivial joke. After all, the drainage of fins had a limit.

But there are some things that you have to do even if you know it's futile. At this time, even a little miracle is infinitely better than no miracle happening at all.

After being caught in the tsunami, the surrounding scenery turned into a glimmer of light. This is mainly because the gourd, as the carrier of the eyes, has been being tossed and rolled by the turbulent currents in the tsunami.

At present, the only thing that can guarantee good ability is to look inside the gourd. After being caught by the rolling surge, the number of gourds has dropped from four hundred back to double digits again. This is not death, but

He was thrown far away and lost contact.

And this is not the end. The house leaks and it rains all night. Sometimes if you are unlucky, even drinking cold water may cause a gap in your teeth.

Some kind of object passed by an individual in the gourd group at an extremely fast speed, and a hole equivalent to one-third of the length of the gourd itself was pulled out.

"What the hell?!"

Huo Gu was horrified. He wanted to know what it was, but he was unable to do anything. Vision, as a means of detecting the outside world, was now no different from a decoration.

Once again, I felt that deep sense of powerlessness.

The same situation continues. The gourd that was scratched out with a third of its length was the one with the least damage in the entire cluster.

The gourds suffered more from puncture damage. No less than dozens of gourds were smashed into sieves by those objects, and the same was true for the gourd where Huogu stayed.

The defense lines of the parietal cells were broken down, and a large number of aggressive microorganisms launched a massive attack on the predators at the top of the waters.
Chapter completed!