Chapter 551 Construction Site
Zhao Mai has never forgotten his dream of leaving the earth and heading to the starry sky. The creatures in other planetary environments must contain many surprises, which can give him more insights. Moreover, the earth is too crowded for a druid. Under the cover of eight transcendents and their respective organizations, there is still time to trace back to this kind of killer weapon, which is not a suitable place for development.
But Zhao Mai cannot give up on Earth. After all, it is the center of the world of origin, and his own motherland and home. It is not impossible to maintain existence and distance from both states at the same time. Just build your home away from the surface of the earth. Zhao Mai is preparing to discuss with the old man that if the moon's orbit is still too close, then Mars, asteroids and even further away places can also be considered.
However, the basis of all this depends on the restoration status of the ghost spacecraft. Although the ghost spacecraft that Zhao Mai came into contact with was still considered a creature, it actually had some incompleteness, just as big as the difference between normal people and vegetative people. The ghost cut off most of the brains of the spacecraft creatures, and many organs in the body were replaced by artificial equipment, and mixed them with their warships. Zhao Mai was not sure whether the DNA in the spacecraft was complete after this transformation, and he did not know whether the reduction ability of the Z insect could support the entire project.
It is precisely because of this that this experiment is more important and may directly affect his subsequent plans. The mangroves in Wadsworth is an ideal experimental site, which is relatively isolated, whether it is the swamp terrain or the goblin patrol. Wadsworth has always implemented the "single-man natural environment" method, so there are no beasts nearby, and the initial safety of the z-worms can be guaranteed.
Looking at Wadsworth, Zhao Mai seemed to see another version of himself. On his druid growth path, enlightenment was the first step, but it was Wadsworth who really led him on the road of development. Wadsworth was building a "single-person ecological environment". This was also the case with Zhao Mai. Even the z-worm is actually another form of clone. The only difference is that Zhao Mai is particularly careful to protect his mind and soul, and he does not dare to move at all. He learned from other people's failures, and everything has been safe so far.
But he would always walk ahead of others, from a follower to a leader, and no more experience can be learned from it. Only by overcoming all obstacles by himself can we guarantee that there will be no mistakes at that time. Zhao Mai patted his chest and clenched his fists, repeatedly reminding himself not to take it for granted, not to be arrogant, and to remember criticism and self-criticism.
"What are you thinking? Why do you suddenly hit me?" Xiaohua's voice sounded in Zhao Mai's ear. It seemed that she had finally decided to show up. Zhao Mai made a face at Xiaohua because he figured out how to keep moving forward in the future and was happy: "Criticism and self-criticism, we take care of each other. I think no matter what difficulties we can get through, this is the meaning of companion."
"Well, I think so too." Xiaohua smiled, completely relieved, lay on Zhao Mai's shoulder again, hung it on it without any weight.
The "the·che" started the engine and led Zhao Mai and others to the north, leaving the z-worm behind. It wriggled, climbed onto a fragment of a mangrove, and bit it with its jagged mouth. Only a slight crackling sound was heard, and the wood was chewed into residue like tofu. After swallowing, the food was divided into two parts: "body material" and "energy". The powerful digestion and absorption ability made the z-worm expand rapidly, and the weight basically amounted to the weight it would be converted into.
It took an hour to go from a worm the size of an earthworm to a rabbit. As the size of a worm grew, the feeding speed of the worm also accelerated. After another hour, he became as big as an adult dog.
Wood, grass, insects and soil, it ate everything, but it still felt unable to gather the nutrients it needed. So the z-worm began to split for the first time, turning from a big dog into a rabbit, but split into four. One of them began to drill underground and charged against rocks and minerals; one was covered with chlorophyll, forming a fast-growing sapling, emitting an attractive aroma to attract birds and insects; one continued to clean up the surrounding plant fragments and kill everything that could be eaten. The last one grew six legs, covered with sharp carapaces, hook-claw-like forefoots and sharp teeth, and it quickly ran out of the swamp, searched for surrounding situations, and discovered and eliminated enemies and prey.
It soon gained a harvest. In addition to the mangrove giant, there was also a large pile of wreckage ruins in the swamp. The fragments of the pyramid aircraft have been lying in the swamp. Although many of them have sunk into the mud, these minerals, metals and polymer organic materials are processed, which is undoubtedly a treasure house for Z insects.
Except for the zworms drilling downwards, the other three slowly moved to the wreckage of the pyramid aircraft. The scout zworm continued to explore the way, and the engineer zworm began to sort out the wreckage. No matter what, they moved to the green base zworm for it to eat.
The z-worm does not directly change matter like Zhao Mai, but it can decompose and transport matter. With continuous proliferation, the green z-worm quickly expanded to five meters high, bulging like an obese spire tent. It specializes in dividing other z-worms in its body, and at the same time creates bone marrow components based on the DNA memory of the ghost spacecraft. Since Zhao Mai and Z-worm learned all the cellular organs of the ghost spacecraft, and even improved it to a new form suitable for humans + Z-worms on its basis, this z-waste spacecraft adapted to the local environment from the beginning of its original cells.
The ghost spacecraft itself has the ability to regenerate, but it cannot be completely regenerated like a troll. If there is only a little bone marrow, it cannot be reduced to the spacecraft, and it can only be achieved by continuously providing energy and organ materials by zworms. This work is much slower than zworms' self-dividing, and it is almost inch by inch.
But the strength of Z-worm lies in its change and adaptation. Feeling that the progress is slow, Z-worm uses the method of "extending working hours, increasing work intensity and increasing the number of workers". Soon it established four other manufacturing workshops to create components of the ghost spacecraft in parallel. It constantly balances the speed of resource collection and consumption, either increasing the excavation speed, or increasing the manufacturing workshop.
Life comes from the ocean and develops in the earth. The biggest source of material for worms is the land. Everything in the swamp is concentrated. With constant chewing, the ground and water surface are all falling, and only worms are expanding. This is a construction site that is constantly settled. The flowing water from all directions gathers in the middle, and soon a lake is formed. With the help of buoyancy, the manufacturing workshop continues to move from increasingly unstable high places to low places until it reaches the bottom of the newly excavated lake. A few days later, there is no manufacturing workshop here, only a shaking lake.
The swamp was slowly drained, the moisture content on the periphery began to drop, and the mud was digested and absorbed by the zworms and converted into more zworms and the components needed by the ghost spacecraft. Inmeasurable cells are constantly replicating, cloning, proliferating, and mutations.
Some mutations are good, but most mutations are just mistakes in cell reproduction. But even the errors are picked out by Z worms and stored in one place. When Zhao Mai turns back, he will slowly review them.
Chapter completed!