The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 101 Heavy rain

At this moment, Lin Yi felt an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.

It's like traveling through time and becoming the commander-in-chief of a beautiful country, preparing to make a difference. When he looks around, he sees that he is having fun in a convertible.

Seeing that the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group was at its end, he was about to be able to focus on technology without restrictions, but at this time, the extinction event happened by coincidence.

Although in his current form of existence, he is still able to survive this mass extinction event and survive until the arrival of the Silurian Period - after all, he has read the "script", and later generations have speculated quite a bit about this disaster. detailed.

Overhead, the blazing supernova remnant six thousand light-years away still hung high in the sky. At this time, the sun also belatedly rose from the sea level in the east. For a moment, it seemed like two suns were hanging in the sky at the same time.

Originally, this double-solar scene would continue for several months until the supernova's remnants burned up.

But Lin Yi knew that soon, no living thing on earth would see this scene again, and even the original sun would no longer be seen.

In the sky, dark clouds have begun to gather. It seems that one second it was clear, and the next second it became black clouds. Lin Yi knew that it was a strong gamma ray burst sweeping through the earth, ionizing the atmosphere, and the toxic substances produced were gathering in the air.

The huge body of "Kraken" was still running its water-jet propulsion system under the protection of the adults of the Straight Horned Stone. It rushed forward and tore the bodies of the fearless soldiers in half. It was as if the grand performance brought about by the supernova explosion just now was just a small episode, which did not affect everything happening at all.

But Lin Yi has no intention of fighting at this time - soon, neither the huge "Kraken" nor the smallest plankton will be able to escape a catastrophe sweeping the world.

According to later studies, it is speculated that at this time, the gamma ray burst may have destroyed nearly 30% of the ozone layer, completely exposing the earth's surface to strong ultraviolet light.

The plankton in the upper layers of the sea will soon die on a large scale, triggering the collapse of the entire food chain. But now, even existence forms like Lin Yi and the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group still rely on plankton for their existence.

And this is just the beginning. Subsequently, the concentrated toxic substances will form large clouds of dust, covering the entire atmosphere, blocking the light from the sun, and giving the world a scene like a nuclear winter.

A side effect of the sudden drop in temperature was that sea levels dropped significantly, eliminating the shallow continental seas on which most organisms in this era depended.

Some creatures can escape by moving, but those fixed filter feeders that are fixed on the seabed cannot - and the core of Lin Yi's nest group, the mother nest group and the associated sea ringworm clusters, cannot move!

Although all this has not happened yet, now, the prelude to the apocalyptic scene has begun, and Lin Yi must make preparations as soon as possible to deal with the next disaster.

On the battlefield, the "Kraken"'s huge body like a cruiser was still cruising to harvest the lives of the Dreadnought Soldiers, but Lin Yi was no longer interested in fighting. While controlling the Dreadnought Soldiers to block the pace of the "Kraken" as much as possible, he also The consciousness is transferred to various rich shallow seas.

After a long period of management, these rich coral reef waters have almost only been left with swaying clusters of sea forest and a large number of workers walking through them.

There was no time to linger on this temporary beautiful scene. Lin Yi controlled the mother nest and immediately began to concentrate the stored nutrients to produce high-level individuals - using the early nesting workers as the genetic template, increasing the size and adding core supply bags. A transportation tool developed from its structure.

At the same time, those huge mother nests of pupal sacs were also exerting the last remaining heat of their lives. Lin Yi urgently used the pioneering mothers as a genetic template and added a large number of genetic sequences of nesting and transport workers. The final shape showed a tail It is shorter and looks like a crab-like horseshoe crab with five pairs of paddling legs. The abdomens of these transport mothers have two core supply bag structures that can expand to fill the abdomen. When full, they can hold a large amount of nutrients at once. When empty, the capsules on both sides of the body will make room to directly accommodate Transport workers.

Whether it is a transport mother or a transporter, the gene sequence of the pressure-resistant exoskeleton is embedded in the gene sequence, so that it can directly transport nutrients to the trench and avoid mass extinction in the deep sea where the environment is relatively stable.

At this time, the sea and sky in the most severely affected areas had begun to undergo changes, telling Lin Yi that he did not have much time.

According to later research, the first round of the mass extinction at the end of the Ordovician period was the most severely affected in the equatorial region. As luck would have it, the sea area where the fearless army of soldiers and the "Kraken" launched a life-or-death battle, which seemed to be the core of the territory of the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group, was located in the equatorial area.

In the compound eyes of the fearless soldier, lightning and thunder had begun to thunder above his head. The vicious scar-like lightning tore through the sky with the sound of thunder, and the dark clouds covered the sun and the remnants of the supernova, reflecting the pale whiteness of the sky and the earth that had once again darkened.

The waves became more and more violent, and even the fearless soldier had to swing his paddling feet to keep his balance.

The huge body of "Kraken" was even affected. It temporarily stopped massacring the fearless soldiers, swung its tentacles, and ran the water jet propulsion system to stabilize its body.

The next second, heavy rain poured down, accompanied by strong winds, forming a sloping continuous rain curtain. Lin Yi knew that this was not ordinary rain, but acid rain mixed with toxic substances produced after gamma ray bursts ionized the atmosphere.

Under the control of Lin Yi, the fearless soldiers poured seawater into the air chambers one after another, driving their huge bodies to dive downwards to avoid the acid rain falling from the sky.

The strange shrimp nest didn't know what was going on, but behind the battlefield, Lin Yi controlled the workers and immediately drew a dive signal to the opponent's three-eyed Hed shrimp, the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp and the full-tooth Hed shrimp. The shrimps also dived down one after another.

Although the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group also didn't know what was going on, they saw the fearless soldiers diving downwards and followed closely behind them. They controlled the huge body of "Kraken" to inject water into the shell, and followed closely behind them downwards. Dive away.

The battlefield gradually moved deeper. Although this area of ​​water is open, it still belongs to the continental marginal sea area of ​​​​Gondwana, and the depth is not deep.

Under the influence of bigger and bigger waves, the water also becomes undercurrent. The adult bodies of the straight helical stones gradually began to lose control of their body shapes, and their bodies undulated with the water flow.

Individuals the size of ordinary soldiers have long since withdrawn from the battlefield. Now, almost only the fearless soldiers and "Kraken" can still stabilize their bodies in the stormy waves.

But at this moment, an ordinary soldier was thrown out of the water by the violent waves, and a horrifying scene came back to him in his compound eyes.

(End of this chapter)