Chapter 28 Infrastructure Construction
After the volcano released lava and the lava level dropped to a low point, the Sword of Damocles hanging above Hogu's head was finally removed. The threat of the volcano no longer existed and was replaced by a safe
place of residence.
After the lava flow from the volcano stopped flowing out, Hogu issued new instructions, and the infrastructure construction of this new 'home' was in full swing.
The main root on the island continues to extend new roots. These roots grow according to the topography of the island, forming a thin layer of lichen.
The cells that make up lichen are a new type of cells designed by Hogu based on the structure of algae. This design combines parietal cells and inner cells, and adds organelle structures such as ribosomes, vacuoles, and nuclei.
Ribosomes can dehydrate and condense the amino acids harvested by cells to form proteins, and convert them into protein structures, which is beneficial for storage.
Vacuoles can exist as intracellular storage rooms to store resources such as water and proteins. The advantage of this is that there will not be a large loss of resources such as leakage of the cavity.
This kind of cell can autonomously absorb atmospheric elements from the air through breathing, absorb acid and alkali rainwater and inorganic salts in volcanic rocks, as well as the heat emitted from the interior of the volcano, to produce the amino acids needed by living individuals.
The reason why Hogu designed these is for an obvious purpose - to create a 'producer' like the earth's ecosystem to fill the vacancies of the entire cell population.
The design of the titanium snail is so perfect that it can even be said that it is a living entity that should not have been born in the Hadean Era. Even in the earth's biosphere that has experienced 4.6 billion years, the titanium snail will not be afraid of any top oceans in it.
Predators - except humans.
However, in order to upgrade all aspects of capabilities beyond the times, most of the space inside the Titanium Snail is used to enhance its speed and armor capabilities, which results in the Titanium Snail's low resource collection capabilities.
Letting the gourd be the resource collector of the titanium snail itself is indeed a compromise, but this is not the best choice. The individual gourd is only collecting resources, not producing them.
The rhizome system covering several kilometers of the island and the nearby sea is also only doing the work of collection, not production.
Judging from the current rate of increase in quantity, sooner or later the bearing capacity of organic resources will reach the limit of the cells' expenditure, and the time is not far away from now. To be prepared for danger in times of peace, Huo Gu must prepare for that day.
Since the overall structure of lichens is simpler than the rhizome system and only grows on the surface, lichens complete the coverage of the volcanic island at the speed of completely crushing the rhizomes.
Immediately afterwards, Hogu used the rhizome system to dig into the rock on one side of the volcanic island to create a harbor. All the turbulent waves would be blocked by the harbor reefs and would not affect the waters in the harbor.
After the construction was completed, Hogu moved the core nodule mass of the rhizome system to this harbor, and gave instructions to the nodule mass to expand in size, thus expanding the scope of the life field again.
At the same time, the lichens on the island also received instructions from Hogu and completed the docking with the tumor-shaped clumps in the harbor to form a supply chain loop.
Then there is the observation system of the island. You can naturally see far if you stand high up. The rhizome system is at the top of the volcano. At the intersection of all the main roots, several hemispherical objects grow. They are completely transparent and are still solid entities. The sky
When rain falls on it, it will make a crisp "crackling" sound.
The transparent object is tempered glass made of silicon and carbon elements. Although it is not as strong as metal, it is not as fragile as ordinary glass.
The tempered glass is filled with transparent liquid, and an eyeball grows larger in the hemispherical glass container. The nerve bundle at the end of the eyeball not only transmits electrical signals, but also helps the eyeball rotate to any angle except the bottom.
On the outside of the glass container, there is a thin half-curved strip, with muscle cells connected to both ends. Where it contacts the tempered glass, there are tiny cilia.
Its function is to brush away the rainwater and dust on the glass surface that interfere with the view, completing the behavior of "blinking".
"Phew, it's finally done."
After working hard for so long, Huo Gu could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
The volcanic island at this moment is no longer as desolate as it used to be, let alone the land of the Hadean Eon. Roots and lichens make this land look full of life.
However, the development of things was not as simple as it thought, and some more dangerous external factors were ignored by it.
Just when Huogu thought he could explore nearby with peace of mind, a new crisis quietly came.
The first is the island visual system that was just established. I noticed that the cumulonimbus clouds in the orange-red sky were moving faster.
Huo Gu didn't take these changes in the clouds too seriously, because Hades was already a very harsh environment. Severe winds, acid and alkali rain, volcanic eruptions, thunder and lightning from time to time, and various factors made Huo Gu subconsciously
I believe that nothing worse will happen again.
When it realized something was wrong, it was sensing changes in ocean currents through its titanium snails.
The titanium snail, which is usually only slightly swayed by waves, can actually clearly feel the attraction coming from a certain direction, as if a bottomless giant hole has appeared in that direction, constantly swallowing the sea water.
The clouds in the sky protrude into a cone downwards, and the clouds take on a spiral shape.
A whirlpool appeared on the sea surface, but it was different from ordinary whirlpools. This was a cone-shaped vortex pointing toward the sky.
The cone of sea water and the cone of clouds are far away from each other, gradually elongating themselves, and finally the cone tips touch and merge into a water vapor mixture, becoming a pillar between heaven and earth.
A word came to Huogu's mind - tornado!
"Tornado? No, this can't be called a tornado anymore, it's too big!"
A tornado with a diameter of about one kilometer was completely unheard of in Hogu.
Huo Gu stared at the area where the tornado existed in shock and horror. He didn't know what words to use to describe what he saw. He was not focused on meteorology and geography, so he could not accurately describe such things that were beyond the scope of his knowledge.
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Shortly after this 'water column' was formed, 'water columns' of the same level were born one after another in other directions. Continuous arcs flashed in the sky, and the turbulent sea surface was actually quiet and peaceful to an eerie degree.
Chapter completed!