How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 27 Titanium Spirals

In the waters one mile away from the volcanic island, lay a slender cone. This is the finished product that Huogu racked his brains to design.

The length of the cone has already reached eight meters, and its quality is not comparable to the previous cell cluster, even in the raging waves, it is only shaking slightly.

This kind of creature, in the period when the biosphere in the Hadean Era was still in the microbial stage, could already be regarded as the category of 'divine beast', except for looking up, there was only looking up.

At the end of the cone, there are several tentacles with suction cups formed by a combination of muscle cells and carbon nanofibers.

The function and principle of the sucker are the same as those of the tentacle sucker of cephalopods. They secrete mucus and create a vacuum environment in the sucker to achieve the adsorption effect on objects. On a certain object, by the way, it can also grasp the direction at high speed.

There are six such tentacles at the end of the cone.

There are four eyes on the cone, three of which are on the slope of the cone, each eye observes a 120-degree viewing angle, and the fourth eye is in the center of the tail to ensure that there is no dead angle of vision.

In order to ensure the safety of the eyes during high-speed driving, the outside of the eyes will be covered with a layer of silicon crystals with a certain carbon content, which is tempered glass that is widely used in human civilization.

The conical casing is silver-white with a silver-gray metallic luster. This is a titanium alloy casing, which is lighter, stronger and less dense than iron of the same volume.

The structure of the shell is divided into three layers, the innermost layer and the outermost layer are made of titanium alloy, and the two middle interlayers are grids made of carbon nanofibers. In this way, even if the outermost layer of titanium alloy is damaged, the second layer The nanofibers can also play a very good role in counteracting the buffer, and the third layer of titanium alloy can also defend against attacks that can penetrate the defense of the titanium alloy.

The cone's head and shell are slightly different in color, being steel gray.

This part is not titanium alloy, but 'chromium', with a Mohs hardness of 9, and as the hardest diamond in nature, its Mohs hardness is 10, and it is as easy to plunge into rocks as it is into soft mud.

Huogu did not abandon some of the original designs used on gourds, but continued to apply them to his newly designed individual.

The two pairs of 'fins' on both sides of the shell are used to complete maneuvers during high-speed navigation, or to stabilize the course. In addition, Huogu also made a certain degree of modification to the 'fins' design of the new body and gourd, making it Able to shrink back inside the body, like a turtle.

The power system, inside this conical body, there are two sets of power systems, one is the original jet propulsion.

Huogu did not give up this propulsion method, but mainly because of the feature of "recyclable use in water", so he kept it as a conventional propulsion method.

Corresponding to the conventional propulsion method, the other is a rocket-type propulsion with a metal sodium column as the core, which is a consumable propulsion method.

The chemical properties of sodium metal are very active, especially after contacting with water, huge energy will be released immediately.

Someone once did an experiment, throwing two fist-sized pieces of sodium metal into the river, the power of the trigger was not much worse than that of a grenade, and this was not a one-time release. The explosion continued several times, and the waves in the river It was lifted to a height of seven or eight meters, and the explosion on the water surface did not stop until the metal sodium was thrown to nowhere by the reaction force of the explosion.

The inside of the cone is divided into two areas by Huogu, the front and the back, the first part mainly carries the sensory cells, which are used to expand the life field.

The coverage radius of the life field of the cone has already reached a distance of about one nautical mile, which is a full thirty-six times greater than that of the original gourd.

The rear part is a jet propulsion arrangement, the design is still the same as before, there is an opening on the slope that can be opened and closed automatically, during conventional propulsion, it swallows the microorganisms in the water, digests them in the small digestive cavity, and then transports them to the The water storage cavity at the rear is sprayed out.

The only difference from before is that the water storage cavity occupies a much smaller proportion of the body, and instead several small water storage cavities provide propulsion in water.

Rocket propulsion is different. The sodium column is located on the central axis and runs through the front and rear parts.

This propulsion method is a means of escape when encountering a catastrophic event, and can enter a very high speed in a short time.

Of course, there are disadvantages. How far and how fast you can run depends entirely on the amount of fuel. Compared with other elements, the time it takes to prepare sodium metal as a reaction fuel can be described as a slow speed.

That's why Huo Gu arranged it as the propulsion method used when escaping.

At the tail of the cone, there are six grooves corresponding to the tentacles, which were specially designed by Huo Gu, so that the gourd can ride on the newly designed cluster individuals.

Nothing can be perfect. While a large body brings many benefits to a new individual, it also means that some limitations will also come with it.

Letting small individuals like the gourd ride into the new individual to act together can form a good complement, and each other can help the other to complete things that the other cannot do.

"The design is complete, but I haven't thought of a name yet..."

"What should I call it?"

After solving one problem, Huogu fell into another tangled predicament.

"The template for the design is a straight-shelled nautilus, which is also similar to a snail in terms of appearance...so there should be a word 'snail' in the title."

"The shell is made of titanium alloy, which is the most significant difference from the straight shell Nautilus, so there should be a word 'titanium'..."

"To sum it up, it's called...'titanium snail'?"

When he pronounced this name, Huogu obviously felt an inexplicable strange feeling, as if he had heard this word somewhere but couldn't remember it.

After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't recall why I had such a sense of déjà vu for this name.

If you can't figure it out, just don't think about it. Huogu chooses to give up, because he still has a lot of things to do.

"Forget it, maybe it's the name of an acquaintance. Since it's an acquaintance, it won't hurt to borrow it."

"Well, that's the truth."

Having said that, Huogu turned his attention to the volcanic island, and completed the design and production of the titanium screw, and then it was his turn to transform the volcanic island.

If it succeeds, Hogu will have a relatively stable resident. If it fails, it will be a volcanic eruption in the form of side leakage at most, and Hogu will not be threatened at all.

Of course, it is necessary to be prepared to run when an accident occurs.