The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 190 Fern Forest Murderous Intent

As if to confirm Lin Yi's thoughts, the next second, the fern forest suddenly lost its surface vitality and peace, revealing the previously hidden murderous intent - those twisted vine-like structures as flexible as tentacles. Swinging towards it, the end has exactly the same four-petal structure.

Also, the other party has obviously discovered the existence of shadow flies - disguised as plants, it can blind the perception of other animals, but not the plants themselves.

Moreover, these plants do not rely on vision for perception. Optical invisibility at the visual level will naturally have no effect on these plants that use unknown perception methods.

Seeing this, Lin Yi no longer hid, and the shadowfly's huge body jumped up driven by its four well-developed legs, nimbly avoiding this fatal entanglement. Immediately, the emerald green color all over the body also faded, revealing its yellow and black colors, just like the bright warning colors of mantises or wasps in later generations.

Although there is no precedent for organisms to evolve warning colors in this era, this color scheme is naturally useless. But out of the last trace of nostalgia for future generations, Lin Yi still designed a wasp-like background color for the shadowfly.

Anyway, the color of the exoskeleton can be adjusted at will. When you need to be concealed or low-key, you can naturally change it to a low-key color. It doesn't matter what color it is under normal circumstances.

While thinking about it, those vine-like structures still refused to let go, sweeping in from all directions and entangling the Shadowfly in the middle. The petal-like structure at the end is wide open, like a bloody mouth, biting out.

The Shadowfly's head turned slightly, and a glint of luster flashed through its pair of well-developed jet-black compound eyes. Then, the catching foot-shaped bladed appendage folded in one place suddenly opened, revealing a cold light!

The well-developed fibrous muscles with special structure and hydraulic muscles exerted force together. Immediately, the pair of forelimbs of the shadow fly waved like the wind, and the sound of sharp blades like ripping silk tearing through the air was endless.

Roads of cold light flashed and the sword light dispersed. Those vine-like structures had been cut into countless pieces and fell to the ground feebly - facing a shadow that could cut off the skulls of early Synapsids predators with both bones and flesh. Despite the sharp blade, these vine structures seem a bit fragile.

But then, more vine structures were waving, and the four petal structures at the end were opened, biting like ferocious mouthparts.

Seeing this, Lin Yi stopped entangled and controlled Shadowfly to turn around again, waving his appendages and cutting off all the vine structures in front of him. Immediately, his strong hind limbs kicked forward, and his body suddenly retreated.

The ferns here are a bit dense and not suitable for shadow flies to take off. Therefore, he has to find a way to control the shadow flies to exit this fern forest in order to escape from this fern forest where murderous intentions are hidden.

Although the loss of a shadow fly is not unacceptable to Lin Yi now, he still wants to test the shadow fly's true combat power - bullying small animals is not a skill. This time, he finally has a decent opponent.

The body moved forward quickly, and a pair of bladed forelimbs slashed along the road, cutting off all the vine structures blocking the road, allowing the huge body to carve a bloody path in the dense forest and continue to advance forward.

Continuing forward, those vine structures also shot out from the front, but they were easily cut into several pieces before they could get close to the side of Shadowfly. The distance the shadowfly entered the fern forest was not long. Soon after turning back in the opposite direction, the sunlight appeared in the pair of well-developed black compound eyes again, which meant that the shadowfly finally broke out of the fern forest and returned to the open area.

Immediately, the two pairs of membrane wings suddenly opened, and the hind limbs supporting the ground jumped suddenly under the operation of the hydraulic system, pushing the huge body into the air.

Below, more vine structures rose up from the ground, seemingly trying to drag the Shadowfly's body back to the ground. But under Lin Yi's control, Shadowfly's huge body only turned once in mid-air and flew towards the outside without looking back.

After flying hundreds of meters in a row, Lin Yicai controlled the shadow fly to slowly fall down, opened its upper lip and palate, and licked the sharp blade-like appendage with its mouthparts, just like a later mantis cleaning its claws.

At the same time, Lin Yi's consciousness also fell into thinking - currently, it seems that the entire fern forest is composed of this kind of carnivorous plant. It seems that not only animals, but other plants are also the targets of attack by these special plants.

So, this begs the question - how many such extremely invasive plants are there in the world?

If they can adapt to most environments, occupy the living space of normal plants, and have no checks and balances from animals, allowing these special plants to grow without limit, wouldn't it mean that the carbon cycle will be broken.

The Hangenberg incident, the collapse of the Carboniferous rainforest, and the extinction events speculated by later generations flashed through Lin Yi's mind. The real culprits of these extinction events are plants!

But after thinking about it, Lin Yi felt something was wrong - in these two extinction events, the cause of the carbon cycle imbalance was not entirely plants, but also fungi. It was the inability of early fungi to effectively decompose plant remains, which led to the loss of plants. A lot of carbon sequestration,

Lin Yi still doesn't know what role fungi play in this.

But no matter what, these weird carnivorous plants are abnormal existences, and from the Ordovician to the present, these abnormal existences are either nest groups or related to nest groups!

For a moment, Lin Yi came up with the idea of ​​controlling the Kuai-Wing Dive to carry incendiary bombs and burn the entire fern forest, which looked weird from the inside out.

But after thinking about it, he gave up this plan. After all, this is a rare clue about the mass extinction at the end of the Devonian period. It would be a pity to burn it directly without studying it.

However, in any case, the investigation of these strange carnivorous plants must involve force. With only the fighting power of a few shadowflies, it would be difficult to level the entire fern forest and obtain information.

In the rear, the long-winged divers carrying a large amount of fat tissue through the transport structure have been ejected from the nearest brood group on the take-off structure with the assistance of crane workers. They are preparing to take off and crash land here, and pupate into a new brood. .

At the same time, these shadowflies also dispersed and continued to explore forward, looking for more traces of similar fern forests to see if there were any such fern forests composed of carnivorous plants and to find out more truth.

here. Lin Yi planned to completely raze this fern forest composed of carnivorous plants once a large number of dedicated combat grades were produced, and then search for more clues from the genetic sequence.

If that doesn't work, spread the fungus all the way to see if the fungus that integrates the gene sequences of the three kingdoms of plants, animals, and fungi is better with black technology, or are these carnivorous plants of unknown origin stronger!

(End of this chapter)