How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 20 Disaster

The exponential growth of the cell clusters quickly reached a considerable value in terms of number - more than 400 individual units.

Due to the change in shape, the cell clusters that joined the perception area changed from the shape of a long-necked porcelain bottle to the shape of a gourd. Huo Gu simply called them 'gourd'.

"Number ten calabash, try to keep the position unchanged."

"No. 131, you are off course, adjust the elevation angle, and move nine meters obliquely upward to the right, and return to your original position as soon as possible."

"No. 368 calf, immediately reduce the speed and maintain the formation."

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Huo Gu took the trouble to emphasize his instructions, and as the distance of instruction transmission increased, a certain problem that was not obvious also came to the fore.

Although the relay method can be used to transmit instructions to farther places, there is a delay in the instructions conveyed in this way. The individual with the shortest distance always takes a long time to receive the instructions issued by it.

For this reason, Huogu needs to correct the position of a certain gourd every once in a while to maintain the entire collective formation. In the current complex and changeable environment, the problem of delay is very troublesome.

At present, Huogu doesn't have any good way to solve this problem. After all, it hasn't figured out what the core secret that caused it to be in this state, so naturally it can't be used more efficiently.

"The quantity is not enough..."

"Am I being too aggressive?"

Huogu, who has squeezed out a little bit of thinking ability from the work of complicated instructions, thought that although there is no good solution to the delay problem, 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 instruction delay can be covered up.

Huogu began to consider whether to slow down the progress of exploring the alkaline waters and expand the water coverage of the gourd group.

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

At a glance, a 'white line' appeared at the farthest end of the gourd group's field of vision, something like a skyline.

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

After the visual system received the instruction from Huogu, the vitreous body immediately adjusted the degree of concavo-convexity, and the eyes turned, tightly locking on to 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, swaying in the gentle wind of the country path.

Immediately afterwards, Huogu noticed the abnormality of the entire gourd group, the cell membrane, cytoplasm, organelles, and even the cell walls were all vibrating slightly.

"Could it be..."

An extremely ominous premonition shrouded his heart like a revelation, and some kind of rather bad speculation emerged in Huogu's mind, making him feel terrified.

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

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

Perhaps because of Huogu's own anxiety, or through Huogu's premonition of the coming crisis and the help given by his desire to survive, Huqun's emergency adjustments were finally completed before the foreseeable disaster came.

However, this is not something to be thankful for, it is just a little psychological comfort after a bad luck.

It didn't take long, just a short period of time after Huo Qun completed the emergency adjustment, the danger that made Huogu fearful had already crossed the end of his field of vision and came nearby.

At this point, it was no longer a 'fence', but a 'wall'.

Time, at this moment, is like being pressed to slow down the playback button. When Huogu was still a human being, he heard people say that when he was about to die, his thinking would speed up. Relatively speaking, the subjective feeling of time would also Slow down, at least humans do.

Staring at the wall not far away, one can deeply appreciate the meaning of the word 'small', straight up to the sea, looking to the left, extending to the end of the eye's vitreous concavity limit, still can't see Going to the end of the wall, looking to the right is the same.

As if standing at the end of the world, facing the barriers standing on the edge of the world - Huogu has the most intuitive feeling for the things he sees 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 face of this magnificent wall-a giant tsunami.

Somewhere in this sea area, a burst point that is not yet clear releases a huge amount of kinetic energy in one breath, and radiates in the form of 'waves' in the liquid environment of the ocean, which is what Hu Qun is facing now giant tsunami.

The sweeping white wall arrived in an instant, engulfing the entire group of gourds that looked like ants, and continued to run into the distance.

"Hold on! Be sure to hold on!"

Huogu knew that this was a futile cry. In the face of such mighty power, Huogu's group of them is just a trivial joke, and the drainage of fins has a limit after all.

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

After being engulfed in the tsunami, the surrounding scenery became fleeting, mainly because the gourd, which is the carrier of the eyes, has been suffering from the turbulence caused by the tsunami.

At present, the only thing that can guarantee a good ability is the internal vision of the inside of the gourd. After being coerced by the rolling swell, the number of gourds has dropped from four hundred to double digits again. It is not death, but It was thrown an extremely long distance and lost contact.

And this is not the end, the room leaks happen to rain all night, sometimes it is unlucky, even if you drink cold water, it may get stuck between your teeth.

Some kind of object passed by only one 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 drawn out.

"What the hell?!"

Huo Gu was terrified, he wanted to know what it was, but he couldn't do anything about it, the 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 continued, the first gourd that was drawn with a third of the long hole was the least damaged gourd in the entire cluster.

The gourd group suffered more damage from piercing, and no less than dozens of gourds were sieved by those objects, and the gourd that Huogu was boarding was also the same.

The defense line of the parietal cells was disintegrated, and a large number of aggressive microorganisms aggressively attacked the predators at the top of this water area.

The situation went from bad to worse.