The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 206 The silent one will sleep forever (3)

The fire shot up into the sky, illuminating the newly white sky. In the sky, the figures of the giant-winged divers were hovering in groups. In the firelight, their figures looked so weak and powerless.

At the edge of the sea of ​​fire, Shadowfly's yellow and black body was reflected in orange and red by the firelight. The pair of well-developed compound eyes reflected the jumping flames, covering up the original luster of thoughts brought by the flow of body fluids.

The fern wood burned, making harsh creaking sounds from time to time, but it didn't sound like a wail of pain, but like a soul that had been tortured for a long time and finally found relief.

In the silence, the shadow fly raised its forelimbs silently, and between its fingers and claws, a branch that began to turn yellow appeared in its compound eyes. From the respiratory system of the abdomen, a mouthful of metabolic waste gas spurted out, like a sigh.

The fingers and claws were released, and the branch was submerged into the fire, and was immediately engulfed in flames. Shadowfly lowered his head slightly and stood quietly in the firelight, watching all this silently.

Bao's last request still echoed in Lin Yi's consciousness and could not be dispersed for a long time.

"Can we end the pain and bring peace to our compatriots who have lost consciousness?"

"According to you, under the control of parasites, they have caused disasters to the lives on the third Tumbler. So, please end their suffering, and don't let the same disaster befall this Tumbler again. I I know, you have such a method."

"In that case, almost all of their body tissues will be replaced by parasites with carpet structures, and being parasitized by other organisms will really bring peace to them?"

"But."

After transmitting a special signal, Bao finally cut off the signal connection with Lin Yi. The removal of the parasitic fungus allowed him to take control of part of his body, including cutting off the connection between the brain and the outside world. .

"No, I mean, kill them. Along with the parasites, including myself. We have survived in this twisted state for too long, and it's time to end it."

Such an action is tantamount to suicide. In this way, it ended its life, or in other words, its life as an intelligent creature.

Just like a human being turning into a vegetative state due to some reasons, it has completely returned to a primitive fern tree, cutting off all nervous tissue, leaving only the body that follows the instincts set in the genes.

"There is nothing, born in silence, returning to silence, farewell, 'similar', these should be helpful to you. May your species endure less pain in this world."

For non-intelligent creatures, reproduction is even more important than survival. And for the special existence form of hive mind consciousness, its survival and proliferation are also above all else. When a hive or hive mind loses its ability to continue to multiply, it is as if its lifespan has come to an end.

And Bao was right, he did have the means to destroy the entire fern forest.

Originally, Lin Yi planned to continue to proliferate the fungus carpet and devour the entire fern forest, but in the end, he decided to set fire to the forest and give this once glorious race a glorious burial. Before the flames ignited, the mushroom carpet proliferated and spread onto its trunk composed of knotted lignified vines, and its genetic sequence was extracted. At this time, the last paragraph had been recorded by Lin Yi in a special way. signals are analyzed together.

Subsequently, a large number of Ku-winged Divers carrying biological incendiary bombs took off from behind and dropped a large number of biological incendiary bombs everywhere in the forest, completely turning the vast fern forest into a sea of ​​fire.

In the environment of this period, a large amount of desert divided the forest land into smaller pieces. Therefore, the fire would only burn this fern forest and would not escalate out of control.

The fire burned for nearly a night. At dawn, the fiery red sun reflected the light of the fire on the ground, as if the sky was also burning.

The last special signal sent by the other party seemed to be a linguistic gene sequence. The specific corresponding trait expression has not been analyzed yet, but from the fragments that have been analyzed, we can know that it is extraordinary.

At the same time, Bao's own genetic sequence was also quickly analyzed by Lin Yi, and he tried to integrate it into the carpet - in a sense, Bao's organism single-handedly created the Cambrian explosion, and can be regarded as the "innovator" of all living things on earth. Reborn parents”.

The other party's genetic sequence is so similar to that of Earth's organisms, and it can adapt to the Earth's environment to a certain extent, because the Earth's environment and organisms are the result of their "seeding".

Now, Lin Yi plans to integrate part of their genetic sequences into the mushroom carpet to further improve the various functions of the mushroom carpet. In a sense, it can be regarded as passing down their bloodline.

Many of Bao's own genetic sequences have the ability to autonomously control the circulation in the body and then change the environmental circulation through a large number of individuals as a whole. This seems to be the reason why fungi parasitizing them can cause the mass extinction at the end of the Devonian and the collapse of the Carboniferous rainforest. reason.

After these gene fragments are integrated into the genetic sequence of the creep, the creep will be able to adapt to harsh environments and modify them, and even form an ecosystem on its own when the number is large enough.

This is the powerful ability brought about by the integration of producers, consumers and decomposers. In the foreseeable future, these multi-functional special structures will play an increasingly important role in the nest group.

While thinking about it, the signal that seemed to be a linguistic gene sequence was being analyzed step by step by Lin Yi. The final gift of this once glorious civilization must not be useless.

One base pair after another is read and begins to be arranged in the mother nest simultaneously. Judging from the overall genetic sequence structure, it seems to be the overall genetic sequence of a complete creature, and its overall length and complexity are astonishing, far exceeding any creature Lin Yi has ever encountered, even the "Kraken" , leaf-clawed worms, and even balao itself.

This made Lin Yi couldn't help but think about how complex a creature with such a genetic sequence would be when it was actually produced, which could be called a miracle.

It can be said that without complete control over the genetic linguisticization brought about by gene-edited virus-like microorganisms, Lin Yi would not be able to sequence this gene for his own use anyway. But now, he did it.

The fire is still burning, and the analysis of the genetic sequence is still continuing. When the analysis is about to be completed, its general shape and internal structure can already be presented in Lin Yi's conscious imagination through the mother's nest and the verbalized genetic sequence - That is, what a spectacular and great existence!
(End of this chapter)