How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 45 Megastructure - Octahedron

About 700 kilometers away from a small underground cavity, the rhizome that was trying to push forward stopped growing, and over time, the root tip swelled to form a sphere.

The inside of the sphere is a hollow structure, and a fist-sized tumor, like an organ, is constantly pulsating.

After another period of time, the suspected visceral object was still beating, but it was not as energetic as it was at the beginning. Both the expansion and contraction rate and speed had dropped a lot, and there were six more on the wriggling flesh wall. projections pointing in different directions and equidistant from each other.

Not long after, the organs were cracked by the objects inside, and an object in the shape of a regular octahedron was exposed in the stratum cavity supported by the rhizome sphere.

This regular octahedron is as crystal clear as glass, and you can see the various criss-crossing pipes inside it. It has fifteen sides. In addition to the twelve exposed ones, there are three internal diagonals perpendicular to each other.

The slightly pulsating surface indicates that this guy is a creature, a creature that perfectly combines three-dimensional geometry and life forms, not only does not make people feel awkward, but is full of a different kind of beauty.

The rhizome still plays its role as usual, and a large amount of material flow is continuously transported from afar through the biological pump composed of muscle cells.

The flow of these substances is quickly absorbed by the regular octahedron. Its existence and the biological pump in the body quickly divide these substances to all parts of the body, and the shape is enlarged in proportion without changing the shape. The transparent color on the surface gradually fades and is replaced by a dark one. Metal scale armor.

Soon, the hollow structure built by the rhizome could no longer accommodate the ever-increasing octahedron, and the internal space of the rhizome ball was broken.

Under the command from afar, the broken rhizome was quickly repaired, and countless roots stretched out and penetrated into the interior of the octahedron, continuing to faithfully carry out the task of transporting substances.

The octahedron began to show its power to the world, and the space in the stratum was continuously expanded, and the octahedron used its own muscle cells to resist the pressure from the stratum.

This kind of confrontation has been dumped on the side of the octahedron in a completely one-sided manner.

Increasing size often means that strength plummets, and if the size is infinitely enlarged, even things constructed of the strongest metal will appear fragile.

However, facing the increasing pressure of the formation, the octahedron remained unmoved, and kept expanding its shape at a steady speed.

This is all due to its own structure. The internal skeleton is all connected to form a triangle, which provides an absolutely stable structure for the octahedron. The design of the hypotenuse of the octahedron allows the pressure exerted by the ground to be dispersed and delivered to the whole body. Share it everywhere.

It is unrealistic to completely rely on the skeleton. Among them, the octahedron plays the role of "hercules", and it is the huge number of muscle cells of the octahedron that share most of the pressure. They constantly consume methane to provide the octahedron The overall structure provides the driving force, so as to achieve the purpose of weakening the external pressure.

Corresponding to the octahedron in the stratum, the sea level of the planet is falling, as if an invisible planet-level giant is bending down to drink water, and the global water level has dropped by between one and twenty meters.

The octahedron followed the instructions and tirelessly inflated its shape, and soon, a new opponent appeared.

They are lava, the fire dragons of the Hadean Era, disasters and wealth, even on Earth, they are existences that human beings absolutely do not want to provoke.

How could they bear it now that the swelled octahedron had penetrated into their dragon's lair?

The lava with a temperature between 700 and 1,200 degrees Celsius poured out, vowing to ecstasy the fools who dared to offend themselves.

The dark scales of the octahedron were burned red under the high temperature of the lava, but soon, the redness disappeared and returned to the original blackness.

Inside the octahedron, under the acceleration of the biological pump, the high-speed flowing liquid water quickly takes away the heat, the heat accelerates the speed of metabolism, and the volume of the octahedron further increases sharply——the lava becomes "eaten" instead that side.

After the expansion of the octahedron continued for a period of time, the seabed began to rise. At first, it was only a slight arc that could not be detected, and gradually became a small hill visible to the naked eye. At this time, it was only three kilometers away from the bottom of the sea.

When the turbulent ocean current washed away the soil and gravel covering it, the octahedron was finally fully exposed to the surface environment. This process did not produce much movement, which formed a sharp contrast with the unstoppable momentum in the formation. , like a peerless master who has retreated to the mountains and forests.

The shape of the octahedron continues to expand, and the internal skeleton structure is becoming more and more complex. The countless triangular stable structures maintain the local main strength, and the fifteen main bones that grew out at the earliest stage are also becoming thicker and thicker. .

After coming into contact with the ocean, the expansion speed of the octahedron is further increased, and the rate of decline of the ocean water level is also increased at the same time.

The rhizomes that have been lurking underground have been drilled out of the seabed one after another, and they form a dock with the octahedron, increasing the transport strength of organic materials and other substances.

The octahedron soon touched the sea surface, almost expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

...one meter...ten meters...hundred meters...kilometers...

The top of the octahedron is getting higher and higher from the water surface, and a nearby volcanic island is slowly disintegrated in this bottom-up process, just like a bulldozer pushing away the sand pile with absolutely irresistible force.

All these things happened, Huogu had a panoramic view through the rhizome system, and he couldn't help but feel a little complacency.

"If it weren't for the actual samples like the giant underground hollow support pillars, based on the knowledge I know, there is really no way to design such a high-strength bone structure..."

Of course, just relying on the support pillars is not enough, and with the help of the alien skeleton fossils discovered later, otherwise Huogu really couldn't design such a self-consistent and integrated structure in such a short period of time. iron skeleton.

Bones are not like alloys, just throw them in the furnace and burn them, and then beat them, and it’s over. On the microscopic scale, bones have a more microscopic structure. It is precisely because of this that bones grow with life. And become wider and larger.

Hogu's perspective is from bottom to top, scanning the octahedron that swells out of the sea, and then from the top of the octahedron, he shifts his sight to the orange-red sky with dense clouds.

"It seems that it won't be long before we can understand these troublesome things now..."

Shortly thereafter, when the height of the octahedron rose to an average height of about 5,000 meters on the surface, the tornado column that Hogu was familiar with and hated to the point of itch appeared.