How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 40 Artifacts

The rhizome system is expanding with all its strength, going up, left, right, and forward, and the extension distance has reached almost ten kilometers.

Along the way, Huogu didn't see anything like a support pillar, and his curiosity couldn't help but grow stronger.

"The air environment is dominated by oxygen, which accounts for 67% of the air..."

This is an astonishing proportion of air. You must know that during the period when the earth's oxygen content was the highest, the proportion of oxygen in the air would only reach 35%.

Fortunately, Huogu can adjust the cells. When other organisms come here, they will immediately cause oxygen poisoning due to excessive oxygen inhalation.

Hogu observed the surrounding environment. To be honest, this super-giant cavity is flat beyond Hogu's imagination. If you just look at a small area, it is indeed uneven, but if you look at it, it is a straight surface. , it doesn't seem like nature can form at all.

Even though Hogu's attention was shifted to other places, the expansion of the rhizome system never stopped, and Hogu vaguely noticed a column-shaped object in front of him.

support column?

Hogu had such an idea.

After hesitating again and again, Hogu didn't slow down the pace of covering the rhizome system. Of course, he couldn't relax his vigilance against the columnar object. Hogu was ready to fight at any time.

It’s no wonder that Huogu is in a state of war. In this strange environment, encountering such strange things, especially before being driven into the underground cavity by some unknown creature, Huogu can no longer compare the Minggu Era of this planet to the Earth’s. The Ming Dynasty set into it.

After a period of time, the columnar object changed from a vertical thin line to a vertical thin column, and Huogu began to adjust the vitreous body of his eyes to the real face of the columnar object.

However, to Huogu's disappointment, the column was not a solid body, but a liquid, a water column formed by the seawater falling from the ocean above. Hogu could still see sporadic floating objects in the pool below the water column. The gourd and the titanium snail after losing their autonomy.

"Although these organic materials are not instant charcoal, it is a good thing to add to the cake, and with this water source, the pressure on the subsequent supply and delivery will be much smaller."

A cone-shaped creature soon entrenched in this water area, used to collect organic materials in the seawater, and the rhizome continued to spread forward.

This kind of expansion lasted for a while, and Huogu finally encountered the edge of this super-giant cavity, but it was not the front, but the rhizomes that expanded in the upper and left and right directions, reaching the edge at a distance of about one hundred kilometers.

The rhizomes that touched the edge temporarily stopped spreading and expanding. Samples of these edge substances were collected for analysis on the spot, and the results obtained made Huogu feel complicated.

On the left and right sides are standard neutral volcanic rocks such as andesite, andesite, trachyte, and alkali trachyte, but above it is a huge metal surface, which is consistent in appearance with the metal plates unearthed in other cavities before. It has become very rough after a long time.

Huogu then commanded the left and right rhizomes to break through the volcanic rock, and as expected, the same metal surface appeared as he continued to penetrate into the volcanic rock about one meter thick.

"Analysis of the constituent elements of these metals, as well as the experienced half-life time."

Repeating what he did in another underground cavity, Hogu got the answer—800 million years, the same time as that metal plate.

Not only time, but even the constituent elements are the same, but there are subtle differences in proportions.

"It seems that the metal plate should be part of the metal wall here."

"Maybe, this is really a man-made object..."

Huogu thought for a while, and added another sentence.

"...or a comet that fell on this planet."

Hogu thought of some comets that had been observed and were mostly covered in metal.

If it is that kind of comet, when it enters this planet, the metal will become molten due to friction with the atmosphere, completely enveloping the comet. This circular cross section is formed.

This explanation seems to make sense, but later discoveries make this explanation untenable.

In the rhizome system that spread forward and explored, a rather weird place was soon discovered at a distance of about 100 kilometers.

A cube-shaped object can be seen, which seems to be chiseled by hand, but it is integrated with the ground without any gaps.

The position adjacent to the cube is a mound of soil. On this mound, Hogu can see a round object that looks like a wheel.

At the place where the cube and the mound are perpendicular, there are three pillar-shaped stone pillars, not connected to the dome, with a diameter of about half a meter and a length of three meters. They look like test tubes placed upside down.

That's all there is to it, nothing else.

Huogu narrowed his perspective and looked at everything here. He has basically determined that these are not naturally produced. The underground cavity it is currently in is created by intelligent life.

Roots analyzed the materials of these objects, and found that the metal wall of this underground cavity and the excavated metal plate have the same half-life time. Rather, it is precisely because of this metal material that they can span hundreds of millions of years. For a long time, it appeared in front of Huo Gu.

At that cube, Hogu used his roots to clean up the dust that had clumped and formed rocks. It is precisely because of this accumulation of dust that lasted hundreds of millions of years that the cube seemed to be seamlessly connected to the ground. .

After cleaning up the dusty rocks very carefully, Hogu obtained several geometric figures from the sides of the cube, and then it cleaned up several other dusty objects.

After Huogu learned about the situation in the mound through the roots, he was basically sure that the mound should have been a means of transportation like a car, but finally couldn't stand the erosion of the years, so it became the mound it is today.

Huo Gu guessed that the three stone pillars were some kind of machine with a hollow structure inside, half of which was made of silicon, and there was no geometric figure similar to that on a cube.

Huogu can roughly guess what the purpose of this machine is. People are iron, rice is steel, and if they don’t eat, they die. In this desolate area where there is no village and no shop behind, this kind of machine not only guarantees food, but also allows intelligent creatures to continue to live. What else is there to sustain life?

As for the cube, Huogu began to guess that it was a coffin, a dormant cabin, and the like. However, the rhizome could not find a particularly obvious gap on the cube. Obviously, there was no such thing as a lid, so the guess was overturned.

The rhizome is still spreading forward and cannot reach the edge. Huo Gu will not stop the rhizome from spreading.

About 30 kilometers away from the weird place, a huge square array of cubes appeared in front of the rhizome group, and tens of millions of cubes were displayed there.