How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 66 Throbbing

The sea surface is ups and downs, not to mention the scorching sun shining on the sea surface, and a gourd-shaped object also rises and falls under the influence of the current...

It is the gatherer who opened the shackles

At this time, it was no longer troubled by hunger, and the opening of the shackles allowed it to break through its authority, and it awakened a new ability-dominating its own cells.

It sounds very powerful, but in fact it is not as exaggerated as Huogu. It directly controls the cells in a comprehensive sense. It is just a little adjustment on the basis of the original biological structure, so that it can only be used as a collection of organic materials. The digestive cavity can also provide supplies for the body of the collector, that is to restore the digestive cavity to the design of the 'gourd'.

In the final analysis, even if Huogu is not around, the collector cannot obtain all the authority of the entire cell population, at most it can only affect his own body cells...

However, even so, it is already very strong, especially in this world full of large macroscopic creatures that have not yet evolved naturally.

The petal-shaped mouth with almost negligible bite force brought countless deaths every time it opened and closed, like a black hole, devouring the tiny microorganisms swimming nearby.

This gives it a boost in the energy it captures.

Ascension means that it can make one's body reach the most full and complete state, which has never happened before, just like a skinny beggar and a muscular wrestler. There is little comparison in terms of physical ability.

The improvement of physical ability has provided a foundation for higher thinking and intelligence, and the brain, which is already quite energy-consuming, can now run fully and recklessly.

On the basis of the desire to survive, more thinking emotions and more complex ways of thinking are extended.

Now, a premise and a question are before it.

The disappearance of the supreme will means that they are defeated, this is the premise.

Does the enemy still exist? This is doubtful.

Two possibilities are extended from the question.

With the disappearance of the supreme will and the death of the enemy, it means that they all die together—even though the collectors still don’t know the idiom ‘to die together’, the truth is still clear.

The Supreme Will is gone, and the enemy is still alive, which means that the threat of existence still exists.

The first possibility is safety, and the second possibility is danger. It may be affected by the supreme will that has never been actively contacted. The collector abandoned luck and subjectively believed that the situation was based on the worst outcome, so he chose the second one. .

This is why it is now floating on the sea like a rotten driftwood, it is camouflaging, its meager brain capacity gives it a plan to survive in a dangerous environment.

Wandering all the way, unconsciously, it came to a more distant place.

On the way, you can see countless smoke columns rising from the bottom of the sea, the huge body of the hive is tirelessly performing the work bestowed by the creator, and the thick rhizomes are constantly providing supplies.

Of course, there are also scrappers among them. They have an error in a certain link. This error may be caused by genes, or it may be caused by the material delivery process, or it may come from the invasion of some extremely threatening microorganisms.

Silhouettes like hills stood on the bottom of the sea. They were inactive, and they were already cold corpses, under the gnaw of microorganisms.

The collector stared intently at these natural scenes where the weak preyed on the strong, and a certain kind of throbbing vaguely rose in his heart, but just when he wanted to pay attention to this inner throbbing, it suddenly disappeared.

Thinking back for a long time, I couldn't find that throbbing. I don't think it is something like knowledge, so it should belong to the category of dispensable, the collector thinks so.

Don't think too much, follow the current, it doesn't know where the current will lead it, but now it is camouflaging, and the temperature of the sea water is getting higher and higher, which makes it feel safe when it hates low temperature, so there is no need to take the initiative Change your course.

How many days and nights the arrangement lasted, the ocean current entered the tropical sea from the temperate zone, and the collectors also got off the bus of the ocean current in this place.

Just arrived in the new environment, the collector was very confused. It looked at the surrounding environment, both the hive and the rhizome were much larger than what it had seen before.

If I insist on describing it, it is probably like the feeling of people from poor mountain villages seeing those high-rise buildings when they enter the metropolis.

The same form of life has many cognitions in common. The huge body can often give a strong sense of security and deterrence. However, this kind of thing combined with another thing can easily cause greater fear.

That is 'even with such power, the Supreme Will is still dead'.

The collector once again felt the throbbing in his heart, but he still didn't grasp that feeling, nor did he understand what that feeling meant.

Collectors who don't know why continue to look at the environment blankly. Map information can be recorded as knowledge. Although the terrain is variable, without map information, there is no way to extend the 'concept' of location. Many things cannot be done. For example, where should the collected organic materials be transported? Where is a particular area? How would you describe your current location, and where should you go?

In view of such reasons, when Huogu originally designed it, he included 'map information' in the category of knowledge.

What the collector is doing now is what it often did in the Hadean Era. No matter what it is going to do, first confirm the surrounding map information.

Suddenly, the ever-zooming pupils captured a figure floating in the sea, which was the same as the Gatherer, with the same gourd-shaped appearance.

The sense of joy, having found his own kind, made the collector feel very happy. This sense of joy even made him ignore the principle of 'disguise' he had to follow before, and actively approached the gourd-shaped figure.

...It turns out that I am not the only...companion left...

It extended the tentacles on its tail and touched the gourd-shaped object.

puff!

It’s just a touch with such insignificant force that it ushered in an unexpected disintegration. The collector could see a huge number of microorganisms gushing out of the gourd-shaped body. In fact, this gourd-shaped individual has long been a human body. Inanimate organic material.

The throbbing feeling emerged again, far heavier than the last time.

However, the Gatherer still couldn't grasp that feeling...

Afterwards, one after another of the same kind of floating corpses appeared in the eyes of the collectors. They all woke up from the ice, and then the collectors who died one after another because they could not get supplies were brought to this water area by the current .

In fact, Huogu didn't have time to add cold-proof abilities to the collectors at all. It was already a miracle that they survived the ice, and the current collector who got rid of the shackles was even more fortunate among the miracles.

The pitifully small brain capacity makes it forget what happened before, it still touches it with hope, and then greets the dream-like shattering.

again and again……

Finally, the throbbing feeling was captured, which was deeper than fear, more advanced than survival, and more fundamental than reason...'I' was born.

"who I am?"