How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 3 Fitting

Splitting again—this is the next purpose of the living body after calling to no avail.

Facing the surging and majestic forces in the darkness, the single cell tried to stabilize its body so that it could maintain a relatively stable state.

The split begins again.

Repeating the same process as before, in this unknown time darkness, the self-replication of the living body will soon reach the final stage.

The feeling of unraveling the shackles emerged again, and even the living body could feel that the dark world around him was changing.

When the separation outer membrane is completely formed, the two single cells begin to gradually separate, and the shackles appear and lock slowly.

The feeling of ease is slowly disappearing, replaced by an indescribable sense of stagnation, the living body does not want to accept such a thing, it still wants to keep it like this.

"...Don't go."

The living body is calling instinctively.

There should be no reaction, but there are so many strange things in this world.

The daughter body, which has not been completely separated from the mother body, actively fits together with the living body, and those surging forces, after the daughter body changes its shape appropriately, become the power that fits with the living body.

"So happy……"

"...What is 'happy'?"

As always there are questions it doesn't answer.

The living body turned its attention to itself, when it suddenly discovered that it could 'see' more things.

Initially, it can only 'see' a point by feeling.

Then, after being attacked by that phage, what you can see extends from a point to your entire body.

Now, the field of vision in the pitch-black world has been expanded again, and it can see the entire internal situation of the daughter body that is close to itself.

Yes, this is a change, the same change as before.

The living body is happy about this, and it doesn't understand why it should be happy, but it instinctively feels this way, so it obeys this instinct.

"Want more...more changes..."

This is desire, and the living body has learned 'desire' unconsciously.

Driven by this desire, it wants to continue to reproduce itself.

Self-replicating materials are not scarce, they are everywhere in the dark, and every time they are moved by force, the living body can always bump into a pile of such things.

With the help of the replica body close to the mother body, the living body quickly collected the required materials.

"more and more……"

In the joyful biological current of the living body, a new division begins.

The members who hugged each other in the dark world suddenly added two more, and the sub-body also carried out self-replication under the command of the living body.

What followed was the double shock of unraveling the 'shackles'.

"So many... so good..."

Enjoying the feeling of this comprehensive upgrade, the release of the 'shackles' is accompanied by more and fresher things. Compared with the hazy feeling when I was a single cell, everything seems to be gradually improving. become organized.

Then comes a greater desire, driving the living being to action.

Just the closeness of four individuals can feel the current level, so what will happen if more clones are grouped together?

The living body can't wait to start the behavior of self-replication.

Four gradually split into eight, accompanied by endless freshness, comfort after clear thinking, and countless other feelings that are difficult to express.

These feelings make the living body deeply fascinated by it, and it is impossible to stop it.

Unfortunately, these feelings did not last long.

A force of spiral operation engulfed the eight clumps of cells, and the already extremely fragile single-cell aggregate was facing the fate of disintegration.

"don't want!"

The living body resisted, but it was a futile effort, no matter how it changed its shape, it could not disobey the power emerging from the darkness.

Around it, once again there is only one individual left, wandering aimlessly.

Fall from heaven to hell.

"...discomfort..."

The living body that has tried to form a group with seven daughters once again feels the situation of a single individual, but it is more uncomfortable and difficult. It does not want to stay in this situation for even a quarter of an hour.

The copying operation continues, and the desire is stronger now than before.

When the new daughter appeared, while enjoying the clarity of thinking, the living body also realized belatedly that the empty shell of the mild bacteriophage was still firmly attached to its outside, and it was not as strong as other daughters. The body was thrown away by the sudden force.

"Why weren't they separated?"

With such doubts in mind, the living body began to observe the empty shell of the phage.

"The six scaffold-like tails made of protein dock with the cell membrane to form a whole, thus ensuring that it is difficult for external forces to separate them."

"What is 'protein'?"

"What is the 'cell membrane'?"

This is the answer obtained subconsciously by the living body, and it doesn't understand why it can get such a transparent answer just by observing.

As before, it couldn't understand this situation.

Giving up the pursuit of such endless questions, the living body began to pay attention to collecting materials. Now that the questions have been answered, only action remains.

The key point is the six connecting tails. Thanks to the special viewing angle, the living body can easily see the macromolecular structure of the six bracket-like tails.

The collected material is placed in the cytoplasm.

The messy inner core began to partially untwist, and a small number of experimental attempts searched for the phage gene chain hidden in the gene chain.

After going through an unknown number of attempts, the living body finally found the part it wanted, which is the genetic blueprint of the phage assembly tail.

The gene chain begins to play its application role, and the single chain captures those macromolecular groups that are in a free state in the cytoplasm to complement itself.

Soon, the macromolecular clusters in the cytoplasm were exhausted, replaced by dozens of protein structures identical to the phage tail.

These structures serve the same function as that phage tail.

That is, it can form an integral body with the outer membrane of the cell it comes into contact with.

The completed living body can't wait to transport these protein structures from the cytoplasm to the outer membrane of the cell.

The scaffold-like protein structure protrudes naturally from the gap in the cell membrane, and forms a whole with the outer membrane of the replica that is close to its mother.

What followed were multiple protein structures one after another, and the connection between the two single cells became more and more unbreakable. Those surging forces that were everywhere were no longer a threat to separate them, but instead It is the boost that allows them to move faster.

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