The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 205 The silent one will sleep forever (2)

Once again, the other party fell into silence, seeming to be thinking about how to express himself.

In the silence, the Shadowfly's head shook twice, accompanied by the swing of its antennae and appendages. Lin Yi was the first to break the silence: "To be precise, which 'Tumbler' is it?"

"Tumbler" is a "word" that has appeared in the other party's signals many times before. Combining the context and context, Lin Yi learned that this word, in the other party's "language", probably refers to planets and similar things. , a celestial body that revolves and rotates.

"Do you know the Tumbler, 'the same kind'?" Fernmu - now, it seems that he should be officially called "Bao" - a rare signal of surprise once again appeared in his consciousness, "Obviously, it seems that he has not yet stepped forward. into the void"

"Yes, we, call it a 'planet'."

Shadowfly's head looked up to the sky, and then bent down to look at the earth, as if he was looking at this familiar yet unfamiliar planet that had given birth to him as an intelligent creature in two lifetimes.

"Moving stars? A very apt description." The signal sent back by the alien plant called Bao once again restored the loneliness and sadness that had been mixed before. "In the beginning, we came from a planet with nine larger stars. Tumbler, the fourth Tumbler in your system of so-called planets."

"Wait a minute." Shadowfly suddenly raised its head. It seemed that Lin Yi, who was controlling it from behind, thought of something. "Is it true that the first four are solid, the last four are gaseous, the last one has a very small mass, and the fifth one is also Is it that the first gas star has the largest mass, and the second gas star has an obvious ring structure outside?"

Hundreds of millions of years are enough time to cause changes in the celestial body that can be observed with the naked eye. He doesn't know whether the solar system hundreds of millions of years ago met these characteristics. But he still subconsciously reported this string of information, seeking an answer.

Bao rarely stopped, and signals came from the nerves one after another, and passed into the spatial synapse and Lin Yi's consciousness.

There was another long silence - this time, it was Lin Yi who fell into silence.

"No, there are indeed four gaseous tumblers, but the first five are all solid tumblers. Among the four gaseous tumblers, the first one is indeed the most massive, and the second one has a ring structure. And the last one is solid Tumblers are too small and are not included.”

Considering various reasons, Lin Yi guessed that the place where the other party was born was also within this solar system. However, this solar system is slightly different from the observations of later generations - there is an unknown fifth planet located between Mars and Jupiter.

"The third, fourth, and fifth planets have climate conditions that are more suitable for biological survival, but when we were born, only the fourth planet, where we were born, had complex life forms, and the third planet only had simple fixations. Type creature, the condition of the fifth one is unknown, but it’s similar.”

In later generations, this location will be the location of the asteroid belt in the solar system, and the largest celestial bodies are just a few dwarf planets with a mass of the moon level. There is no fifth planet - according to the other party's description, there is still a planet with primitive life - that exists.

Thinking of the unknown intervenor and what happened to the Ba'ao race, Lin Yi suddenly came up with a more terrifying guess - whether this so-called fifth planet had been attacked and shattered, forming the remains of future generations. Asteroid belt?
Combined with the terrifying methods of the unknown intervener, Lin Yi felt a sense of fear. Just how powerful is it that can crush a living planet similar to the earth and turn it into an asteroid belt scattered in space?
"We once dropped seeds on the Fifth Tumbler and tried to speed up the evolution of the creatures on the Third Tumbler. However, when the enemy arrived, the individuals on the Fifth Tumbler first lost contact with the cluster, and then we also lost contact with the cluster. Contact. What happened next is unknown.”

Bao was still sending out signals slowly. According to the other party's description, they seemed to be born on Mars. At that time, the earth seemed to be still in the Ediacaran period, and there were only worm-shaped creatures fixed on the seabed. The word "Cambrian Explosion" slowly emerged from Lin Yi's consciousness.

Although it is not as mysterious as the marketing accounts say, the Cambrian Explosion was a process from scratch. Now it seems that this process is also the result of acceleration.

Later generations speculated that 700 million years ago, Mars still had an atmosphere with a nitrogen and oxygen composition similar to that of the Earth, and the environment was suitable for the growth of living things. Perhaps Bao, a race with a hive mind-like collective consciousness, was born during this period.

Or, the period when Mars became no longer suitable for biological survival can be pushed back to the Precambrian, or Ediacaran, period of the Earth, 500 million years ago from the era when Lin Yi lived in later generations.

I am afraid that the rapid deterioration of the Martian environment is also related to the enemy Bao encountered, that is, the unknown intervener. And the Middle Ordovician meteor event, the emergence of mother nests and nest colonies, seems more like some kind of experiment done by unknown intervenors after obtaining Bao's genetic sequence?

"Do you know what's going on on these Tumblers? Do our tribes still exist?"

As if hope has been rekindled, this plant is likely to be the last Bao, and its branches and leaves are swaying again, as if with a hint of hope, or in other words, extravagant hope.

"Probably, it no longer exists." Lin Yi couldn't bear it, but he still told the result that he already knew, "Here is the third tumbler, and the fourth tumbler is no longer suitable for living creatures to survive. The fifth Tumbler no longer exists, shattered into a large number of fragments.”

Then there was a long silence. Shadowfly's compound eyes looked at the ferns mixed with fungi on the periphery, and he fell into deep thought. Finally, Lin Yi broke the silence again:

"In other words, they still exist here, but they are no longer themselves, no longer an intelligent species, but have become puppets of parasites."

After being silent for a long time, the branches and leaves of Bao seemed to have turned a little yellow, the rustling sound was no longer, and only a long silence remained.

"However, all of this is not what we have seen with our own eyes, but is just a kind of prophecy in a certain sense. It may not have happened, if"

Seeing this, Lin Yi added again, but was quickly interrupted by Bao: "No need, we have survived in such a twisted situation for a long time. Now, we only seek peace, eternal peace, even if it means falling into silence. , that’s fine.”

Then, there was another long silence. The fern leaves trembled again, making sounds like sighs, and in this sound like a sigh, another signal was transmitted into the consciousness.

"Then, fellow kindred spirits, can you do us one last little favor?"

(End of this chapter)