The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 173 Biological Display

At the same time as the identity of the Anomalocaris nest was determined, a high-level individual that had been prepared for possible reunion and communication was rushing towards this place from the sea at full speed.

This is an individual who has installed a brand new structure to facilitate communication with each other. The specific structure comes from "Kraken" - after the mass extinction, "Kraken" once used a move in the battle with the giant starfish. A tactic in which the outer coating of the watch changes color and glows, flashing a faint blue light at a specific frequency to stun the enemy.

At this time, the gene fragments related to glare were also analyzed by Lin Yi, and he successfully created a truly complex color-changing and luminous structure. Coupled with the fine-tuning ability brought by the complex neural structure of the nest and powerful thinking ability, the biological This is how the display screen was born.

While thinking about it, the grade individual specially developed for communication has also arrived. At this time, it is swinging five pairs of paddling feet and slowly swimming towards here, revealing its special back structure.

The appearance of this grade is still similar to that of a transporter, that is, similar to the appearance of a crab-like horseshoe crab, but the difference is that their backs are extremely flat, and there is a large exoskeleton that presents a transparent texture similar to the exoskeleton of a compound eye.

Under the exoskeleton is a display screen structure composed of a large number of color-changing cells. Although limited by current technology, if you want to present complex images, the pixels are still not much higher, but it can still surpass previous abstract paintings.

The worker's chelicerae waved twice, signaling the "Shendehans shrimp" to look down, towards the back of the individual that Lin Yi called the mother-level individual. Immediately, those from the "Kraken" gene sequence The color-changing cells started functioning.

The picture first shows the scene of the "Kraken" fighting giant starfish in the ocean after the mass extinction, and then the self-destructing mother dragon comes to end the lives of the two giant beasts.

After that, we entered the Silurian Period, pioneering the mother flies into the river, and what we saw and heard along the way, the migrating sticklebacks, the intercepted scorpions and horseshoe crabs, and after entering the lake, the flying reconnaissance flies took off. rise.

Then, comes the highlight - the part about terrestrial arthropod nests.

In this part, Lin Yi expressed it in great detail. First, it shows the scene of a flying reconnaissance fly flying over a group of mounds, being attacked by a strange arthrothoracic insect, and finally crash-landing in a river. Then, it shows the pupation of the mother nest, the scene of the exploration work and the sudden attack. Spider's beach landing operation.

In the picture, the blue insect blood is particularly prominent, visually expressing the tragedy of the battlefield. Immediately afterwards, the mother nest on land was born, and the crazy-toothed saw ants appeared, killing all the spiders in the middle.

After that, the appearance of land and air levels such as the Mortal Terror Spider, the Main Battle Armor, and the King-Winged Diver appeared on the screen, and more enemy levels began to appear, such as the Ancient Web-winged Spider, the Giant Horseshoe Spider, and finally For the tough-to-treat leaf-claw worm.

Lin Yi also specially released a comparison picture of the leaf-clawed worm, "Kraken", the fearless soldier and the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp to show the hugeness of the leaf-clawed worm.

In the subsequent pictures, the leaf-clawed worm looked like a legendary evil dragon occupying its territory. It was huge, spewing flames, and extremely ferocious. In order to explain to the anomalocaridids nest that had never left the water and did not know what fire was, he used Give an example of an explosion produced by the reaction of sodium and water to describe its destructive power.

In the next scene, the leaf-clawed worm was killed by the bombardment of the mortar spider and the giant-winged diver. The army of fanatic saw ants advanced into the enemy's nest group, and analyzed and obtained the pseudognathus in the enemy's nest group. Genetic sequence of Heard shrimp. A large number of reconnaissance mothers and swoopers in the sky began to jointly search for traces of anomalocaridids nests by sea and air, and finally discovered those "Shenderhans shrimps". Scenes are presented to each other through the "screen".

Finally, the "screen" showed the scene of the battle between the soldier and the Hed's shrimp. At this point, everything that happened during this period was quickly informed by Lin Yi to the Anomalocaris nest group.

The luster in the other person's compound eyes flickered uncertainly, and he didn't know what kind of emotion he was expressing, but one thing Lin Yi was sure of was that the other person's emotions must be extremely complicated.

It was only then that Lin Yi asked the question he was most concerned about - some images of anomalocaridids appeared on the "screen", and their heads were connected by straight lines.

Because he didn't know how to express the network of hive mind consciousness among the hives, Lin Yi used this abstract way to describe it.

At the same time, another worker swam to the river bed, pointed at itself with its chelicerae, and then pointed at the previous worker, and drew a similar straight line on the sand in the middle - based on the previous performance of the Anomalocaris nest. With their high IQ and understanding ability, they should be able to understand.

Then, the image of Pseudognathus Hedera appeared on the "screen", and there was no straight line connecting them to the Anomalocaris-like pattern, but was replaced by a big question mark. I hope that the long period of time has not caused the strange shrimp nest group to forget some basic punctuation marks that Lin Yi taught them to facilitate communication.

What Lin Yi is most concerned about is why the anomalocaridids nest group does not directly control the Pseudomonas striata and Schendhans shrimp, but directs them through some indirect means. This is undoubtedly detrimental to them. .

Seeing this, the "Shenderhans shrimp" that directly belonged to the anomalocaridid ​​nest group immediately started carving on the river bed with its appendages, but was temporarily stopped by Lin Yi's control worker - a special egg was produced by the mother nest at the rear. At this time, another worker shrimp slowly swam over with eggs in his arms, and handed the eggs to the "Shenderhans shrimp".

At the same time, the "screen" showed the shape of a mother's nest. The "Schendehans shrimp" held the egg in its mouth and put it into the hole on the surface of the mother's nest. Immediately, the screen changed, showing a brand new anomalocaridids being nested in the mother's nest. The output, on its back, also has a similar "screen" structure.

The egg contains the color-changing gene fragment from the "Kraken". In order to facilitate further communication, Lin Yi plans to give this gene fragment to the Anomalocaris nest group, so that the other party can communicate with him through this method. Save time gesticulating on the river bed.

But what Lin Yi didn't expect was that the "Shendehans shrimp" did not take the egg, but slowly swung its appendages and pushed it away. At this time, the pair of well-developed eyestalks on the eyestalks The luster in his compound eyes also became dim, as if showing endless sadness.

A pair of appendages continued to carve on the river bed. Lin Yi was a little surprised. He didn't know what happened to the other party, but he could only watch quietly as the "Schendhans Shrimp", which was directly controlled by the other party, continued to carve on the sea bed. .

The pattern in Gong Fu's eyes immediately cheered up Lin Yi - the other party was answering the question he was most concerned about!

(End of this chapter)