Zerg evolution road

Chapter 17 Research on Termitic Acid

Biofilms have a big flaw. They cannot store venom for a long time. It is not that Zhang Fan has not studied the poison sacs of termites, and they cannot be stored for a long time.

This strongly acidic venom is different from the biological toxins carried by the Zerg itself, and cannot be integrated into the cells.

It is estimated that war ants are also in the same situation, releasing an appropriate amount of toxin at a specific time.

Zhang Fan was still working on the experiment, when Adam sent a message: "Master, your most loyal Adam has successfully completed the task."

Zhang Fan stopped his movements and asked, "How is the situation now?"

"Master, all the old springtails have been sacrificed on the battlefield. Those ant tribes didn't pay attention to our great race. Although Adam was very angry, he obeyed the master's teachings not to cause trouble, and saved most of them. Vitality has entered the termite battlefield." Adam replied to Zhang Fan's words with a little rosy skin.

With a thought, Zhang Fan recalled the picture in Adam's mind.

This Adam has a very hot temper, and he is quite disgusted with the situation of devouring his tribe, so he slaughtered the bulldog ant when he got angry.

Now the matter became serious. Of course, the ant tribe would not allow the rebels to appear, and began to massacre the springtails. The springtails rose up to resist, and the ant tribe stopped when they killed half of them.

The Golden Feather Ant King was a little dissatisfied with the self-assertion of the ant clan. It was nothing to lose a bulldog ant, but it would make it unhappy if it consumed its own troops.

Kill all the ants who did it, then take a look at the springtails and leave.

What followed were some battle scenes, nothing interesting, so Zhang Fan didn't continue to watch them.

Zhang Fan: "Adam, you did a good job."

Adam's skin became even brighter: "Master, everything is due to the master. Without the master, there would be no Adam. Adam is willing to go through life and death for the master!"

After Zhang Fan encouraged Adam, he began to say formally: "Now I am doing research on banelings, and I will share the picture with you."

Adam received the picture inside the base, a 360-degree panoramic picture with no dead ends.

The dead bodies of some larvae and banelings are scattered on the ground, and the worker bees are cleaning up these bodies.

Adam saw the problem at a glance: "Master, you are great. Adam doesn't know how to praise you. Your idea is really great. You should be thinking about how the biofilm handles formic acid."

"Yes, I have tried many experiments, but they all ended in failure."

Adam continued: "Master, Adam has a small suggestion, I hope the master can accept it."

Zhang Fan asked curiously, "What suggestion?"

Adam: "Master, under your order, the springtails went to the battlefield and were also exposed to formic acid. This acid is very corrosive. Adam has a deep understanding of it, but the Master doesn't know if you have discovered anything?"

Zhang Fan: "Oh? Is there anything I haven't discovered? You continue."

Adam: "Master, you have exhausted your plan, and you must have discovered it. You are testing Adam. Adam knows that although these formic acids are biological acids, their synthesis is indeed organic chemical synthesis."

Zhang Fan wasn't shy at all and said, "That's right, that's the reason, you discovered all of this, well, it's commendable."

After hearing this, Adam exuded the glory of joy and kept trembling: "Master, the great Lord, your praise is the glory of Adam's life!"

"Don't say these things are useless, I want to see if you think the same as I do." Zhang Fan controlled Adam to calm down, he was really afraid that Adam's blood vessels would burst from excitement and die.

"Obey, Master!" Adam continued: "Master, Adam can try to separate this acid, analyze its components, and then use the synthetic effect to create this acid. I don't know what you want, Master?"

Zhang Fan was very satisfied: "That's right, Adam, I'll leave this matter to you, and finish the task well."

Adam accepted Zhang Fan's order and began to separate termite formic acid. The termite formic acid here is not pure formic acid. Formic acid does not have such a powerful effect.

The elemental composition of termite acid is still mainly carbon-based. Adam peels it off little by little through bacteria, and very tiny formic acid adheres to the surface of long-haired bacteria.

Long-haired bacteria are scientific bacteria produced by Adam specifically for biological research. Not only that, it also produced many bacteria such as deep-tube bacteria, bipartite bacteria, and slice bacteria, all of which are under Adam's control.

Zhang Fan also knew the existence of these bacteria, but he didn't know how to use them. This required strong concentration and micro-manipulation ability, and only Adam had this ability at this time.

The long-haired bacteria began to be gradually corroded by formic acid, and the surface of the bacteria began to collapse, but before the end of life, the other long-haired bacteria had taken over the formic acid.

Formic acid keeps flowing on the long-haired bacteria like this, constantly reducing its power.

After the formic acid could no longer cause damage to the long-haired bacteria, Adam started another job.

It controls the cone head bacteria to get close to the formic acid, and then separates the large substances in the formic acid little by little through the very, very fine hairs on the top.

What is left after separation is pure acid, which is weakly corrosive but still damages the biofilm.

Taking this into consideration, Adam extracted the acid onto the vibrating bacteria. The vibrating bacteria vibrated his body at high speed, gradually breaking up the acid.

Almost out of sight!Never mind that Adam also has flake bacteria, which are specially designed to be used as magnifying glasses.

Under the action of flake bacteria, Adam clearly observed the internal elemental combination of this acid.

An organic acid composed of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen.

After knowing their synthesis style, Adam began to think about the synthesis problem.

This requires a lot of experiments to verify. The answer is already known, and the task can be completed without making mistakes in the question.

As long as it takes a while, organisms need oxygen to breathe, and organisms contain carbon itself.

Speaking of hydrogen, Adam's first thought was water, but how to extract hydrogen faster and better, Adam once again fell into distress.

By the way, the reaction between water and alkali will release hydrogen gas. Adam began to order the worker bees to find some alkaline ores and return them.

The most common element in the stone is sodium, which is widely distributed. Adam stripped it off in the same way, and then the hydrogen element can be extracted.

The water-alkali reaction produced hydrogen gas, and Adam wrapped them with filter bacteria before proceeding to the next experiment.

Adam was doing experiments on the side, but Zhang Fan received an unexpected gift here.

(End of this chapter)