The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 107 One person becomes many, and all will eventually become one

【revenge】

Although it does not know the word, this does not prevent it from acting like this. Whether it is a floating giant beast or a long creature, it will be the target of its revenge.

But the huge body of the floating giant beast has long been deeply engraved into the depths of its consciousness - they are almost invincible to the current self.

Especially, after it saw the elongated creature that was countless times larger than the giant floating beast, for a moment, it even had the idea of ​​​​escape.

But soon, an idea popped up in its primitive consciousness.

Perhaps, the only one who can defeat the giant beast is another giant beast. Then, continue to multiply until it becomes that other giant beast!

The corpses of those giant floating beasts and elongated creatures were scattered all over for some unknown reason, while the individuals on both sides were missing, which provided them with the opportunity to proliferate to a sufficient number.

Mere numbers may not defeat the long creatures and giant floating beasts. But it’s enough to buy it enough time.

At this moment, a child seemed to come into contact with something strange.

In the compound eyes of the reconnaissance mother, the "Kraken" touched the bottom of the wrist. The seabed covered with starfish suddenly began to tremble, and the sand and soil flew up, as if something huge was about to break out of the ground.

Suddenly, a huge scarlet long arm and foot broke out of the ground, raised high, and shot directly at the tentacles and soft tissues of the "Kraken". On the arm and foot, the densely packed tube feet and forked spines were particularly scary.

"Kraken" waved its tentacles and activated its water-jet propulsion system, avoiding the slap with an astonishing agility that was inconsistent with its huge body.

As the gravel on the seabed shook, below, the astonishingly huge body of another creature gradually revealed its true form in Mount Lu.

Five astonishingly huge arms and legs, the arms and legs are covered with dense pincer-like spine structures, and underneath are wriggling tube feet. It is an unprecedentedly huge starfish, comparable in size to the "Kraken"!

Seeing this, the small starfish around seemed to have found a backbone, and they all flew towards the side of the giant starfish, guarding its astonishingly huge body.

On the body of the giant starfish, there are densely packed eyeballs at the places where the eyes should be. At this time, the eyeballs seem to be burning with anger that is about to burst out of the eyes, which is particularly ferocious.

The next second, the giant starfish made another move that surprised Lin Yi - its two arms and legs squirmed, and it slowly lifted its body up, revealing its ferocious mouth.

The two arms are the forelimbs, the two arms are the hind legs, and the last one is raised as high as the head and neck. The tube feet and fork spines are squirming, and they slap towards the body of "Kraken" again.

The surrounding ordinary starfish swarmed up, and at the same time, they surrounded the output "Kraken" that was still attached to the seabed.

When "Kraken" saw the appearance of the giant starfish, it looked a little strange, and a special luster shone in his eyes again, as if his hope had been rekindled.

"Kraken" waved its tentacles again, and its eight tentacles and two broken arms opened wide, revealing the sharp horny beak underneath.

This time, it did not dodge, and its tentacles went straight towards the arms and legs of the giant starfish, entangled them tightly, and opened and closed its horny beak to bite the surface of the arms and legs of the giant starfish.

Tissue fluid surged out, and the giant starfish's flimsy body surface was immediately torn open by the "Kraken's" sharp horny beak. The flesh and blood tissue was surging, and it quickly squirmed and healed - like ordinary starfish, this giant starfish's regeneration ability is also ridiculously strong.

Moreover, Lin Yi also noticed that the squirming granulation tissue at the wound of this giant starfish had a strange shape, as if it was made up of countless small starfish.

This may be a new form of life, a new form of existence based on the "super-individual" hive mind consciousness. But this is not good news for Lin Yi and the only remaining "Kraken" in the Zhiluojiao Stone Nest Group.

It is impossible for a starfish's nervous system to support such a large body. The other party most likely does not have a central nervous system in the true sense, but relies on a large number of special synaptic structures connected to the hive mind consciousness to control every part of the body.

In other words, the other party is not a single life form at all, but a true super-individual creature composed of countless sub-individuals under the same hive mind consciousness. Just like a certain classic line, one person becomes many, and all will eventually become one.

Seeing that the attack was ineffective, "Kraken" quickly changed its strategy. It released its arms and legs, and the water jet propulsion system was running, driving its huge body upstream. It tried to turn around and pierce the giant starfish with the tip of its shell. body.

But the tube feet and spines on the surface of the giant starfish moved. Each of these forks is about the size of a worker's body. Although they are relatively soft, driven by the internal hydraulic system, they can explode with quite terrifying power.

Several tentacles of "Kraken" are tightly clamped or sucked by the spines and tube feet, and these spines and tube feet squirm to transport the tentacles of "Kraken" toward the center of the body.

The center of the giant starfish's body is not the simple mouth of an ordinary starfish, but a ferocious, huge mouthpart shaped like an anomalocaridid ​​mouth cone, and it does not have the classic stomach that turns outwards.

All around, more small starfish swarmed up and climbed onto the tentacles of the "Kraken". They took advantage of the two giant beasts to ignore them while they were wrestling, and once again gnawed on the soft tissue of the "Kraken".

The tentacles of the "Kraken" are covered with horny armor, and even the sickle limbs of the Dreadnaught Soldier take a lot of effort to break open.

But these starfish are small enough to insert their stomach tubes into the gaps between the armor plates on the "Kraken's" tentacles, directly eroding the "Kraken's" flesh.

Some starfish went a step further, crawling directly to the wound of the "Kraken" that had been blasted by the self-destructing rocket, gnawing at the flesh and blood under the wound, trying to complete the small feat that Lin Yidu had not accomplished.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that "Kraken" no longer has the protection of the adult body of the "Kraken". If there are still the "Kraken" with the "Kraken" body, if there are still the "Kraken" body with the presence of the "Kraken" .

Moreover, "Kraken" seemed to have some special purpose in not escaping.

If it escapes, with the speed and maneuverability of these starfish, even if a giant starfish takes action, there is no way to keep it behind.

In fact, if Lin Yi hadn't encountered a tsunami during his battle with the Orthogonal Stone Nest, resulting in a large number of corpses being exposed without biological recovery, these starfish would not have multiplied to their current numbers, let alone giant starfish.

But the reason why "Kraken" refused to retreat still made Lin Yi a little strange.

(End of this chapter)