Huo Gu altered the planet. As a result, the oceans reappeared, and some things hidden beneath the ice came into Huo Gu's view.
A vast expanse of land...
By Huo Gu's rough estimate, it accounted for roughly 50% of the planet's total surface area.
Huo Gu could more or less guess its cause: the frequent volcanic activity Ming had deliberately created long ago.
Heating the land was an extremely troublesome matter, because the dominant component of a terrestrial environment was not water, but air. This meant the Hive could not directly draw water from its surroundings.
After all, neither individual cells nor the heating process could function without water.
Fortunately, there was still a way to solve this problem. Depressions could be dug into the areas occupied by the Hive to collect water, allowing the entire Hive's heating operations to proceed normally.
Water would be obtained by drawing it from the ocean, transporting it over several kilometers through pipelines, and through natural rainfall after the planet's climate recovered.
Naturally, the first method would remain the mainland Hive's primary source of water. The continent was simply too vast for the oceanic climate to reach its interior, making natural rainfall impossible there.
It was foreseeable that, after some time, once Huo Gu had gradually evaporated all the moisture from the continental soil, the place would become a barren desert.
But none of that mattered to Huo Gu now. It was no longer human, so it naturally would not consider matters from a human perspective.
Over a timespan of tens of millions of years, this giant continent would sooner or later split apart due to thermal circulation deep underground, just like the continents on Earth. After that, the desert at the continent's center would fall within the reach of the oceanic climate and