Having finished the design, Huo Gu began preparing to enter a state of slowed thought.
According to the information Huo Gu currently knew, the prerequisite for entering slowed thought was that every cell cluster under its control had to be affected by low temperatures.
However, both the Hive that warmed the planet and the rhizome system that covered the globe and transported supplies were cell clusters entirely under Huo Gu's control.
If these massive cell colonies were exposed to low temperatures at the same time, the planet's surface would very likely undergo another global freezing event. Everything Huo Gu had worked so hard to achieve would vanish in an instant. That was something it could never accept.
For that reason, during the period it entered slowed thought, it had to relinquish control.
Of course, relinquishing control did not mean artificially creating an intelligent lifeform and handing control over to it. Setting aside whether Huo Gu had the courage to do such a thing, even if it did, its current level of knowledge was insufficient to create one.
What it meant by relinquishing control was more akin to placing the system under autonomous management, allowing the enormous biological collective of cell clusters to complete its work independently.
The principle was not complicated. In fact, it directly borrowed the bodily mechanisms of macroscopic multicellular organisms. For example, when a person ran, their body heated up as energy was consumed. When it detected excessive heat, the human body would spontaneously secrete sweat to cool itself down.
The link connecting the entire system was biological hormones.
After confirming the body's condition, the brain secreted specific biological hormones. These hormones were essentially signals. When their concentration increased, cells reacted; when it decreased, the cells returned to a dormant state.
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