The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 208 Different paths lead to the same destination

After finishing the process of analyzing and storing the genetic sequence, Lin Yi controlled the Shadowflies and the Kui-winged Divers to continue circling around the still burning fern forest to check the situation below.

The billowing smoke has already risen into the sky, making it difficult for the high-altitude divers to see clearly. But the low-altitude shadowfly could still clearly see that the fire still showed no signs of being extinguished.

In the future, Lin Yi will continue to control Shadowflies to monitor this area to ensure that the fern forest, which originates from the Nine Heavens and should not appear in this world, is completely destroyed.

In his thoughts, everything that had happened recently was still turning over and over - the period after "waking up" from that state, Lin Yi experienced more than any other period of time in his two lives as an intelligent creature. Bizarre, or rather magical.

From fern forests, nests of fungi and parasitic terrestrial arthropods, to unknown intervenors, the last Bao, and the genetic templates of space creatures, everything spans too much and turns too fast, making Lin Yi His consciousness was a little slow to come to his senses.

Sighing and looking at the dancing flames, Lin Yi fell into deep thought again.

Although he has the basic genetic template of a space creature, this does not mean that Lin Yi can immediately take the first step towards the sea of ​​stars. There are still many problems that need to be solved by him.

Not to mention the problem of missing core components such as energy sources, even if the complete gene sequence of space creatures is placed in front of Lin Yi, he cannot immediately produce it and launch it into space.

Its various structures show that it does not have the function to break through gravity alone in the atmosphere and take off into the orbit of the planet.

All structures still need to be designed and manufactured by Lin Yi himself - although because of Bao's gift, the most difficult material science and part of the general structure have been solved, and the rest is just the design of the detailed structure. Relatively speaking, , much simpler than making something out of nothing.

However, having said that, it seems that when technology develops to a certain extent, the mechanical technology that Lin Yi was familiar with in his previous life and the biotechnology used in this life will have the same goal.

Among them, the required structures include at least a biological version of the launch vehicle, as well as a super-large pupal sac mother nest structure that can be used in space. Each of these is a big challenge for Lin Yi, not to mention a large number of Supporting structure.

However, in this way, the final product may be somewhere between biology and machinery, existing in a poor and almost weird imitation, and perhaps even a little weird in the style of stitching monsters.

In these aspects, Lin Yi can refer to a large number of various designs from the era of his previous life and reproduce them using biological structures to achieve various purposes and assumptions - genetic language and ready-made reference templates make this not impossible.

If you want to let it travel in outer space, the correct way to open it is to first transport the raw materials to space through traditional transportation methods such as launching rockets, and then complete the production process in space through assembly or pupation.

Then again, the evolution of organisms and the development of science and technology are inherently an endless process of convergence.

Living under the same starry sky and being bound by the same physical laws means that to achieve a certain goal, whether it is to gain an advantage in an ecological niche or win in a battle, there is a so-called optimal solution.

From the Precambrian to the era when Lin Yi lived later, the evolution of organisms was nothing more than two situations. One was to constantly approach the optimal solution of morphological structure of this ecological niche, and the other was to open up other ecological niches. Among them, the implementation methods may be slightly different, but the final results are the same close to the "optimal solution". In a sense, different paths lead to the same goal.

The upper and lower jaws of vertebrates are specialized from three pairs of gill arches and several bones. They have the ability to bite up and down, causing damage and assisting in eating. The ferocious mouthparts of the sun-avoiding spider are specialized from a pair of astonishingly developed chelicerae, which also have the ability to bite up and down to cause damage and assist in eating.

If we include the nesting organisms, there is also the killing structure of the Hed's shrimp, which is specialized from the head shell and a pair of appendages, and its function is the same - bite up and down to cause damage and assist in eating.

There are many similar examples. The compound eyes of arthropods and the eyes of vertebrates, the elephant trunk and the long neck of sauropod dinosaurs, the feather wings of birds and the leather wings of bats, and the membrane wings of insects all show that whether it is evolution or technological development, the end point is probably Then we will reach the same destination through different paths.

What's more, the two are not independent. Bionics exists in modern technology, and Lin Yi referred to later generations more than once when designing land levels.

Therefore, there are many missing parts about space creatures that need to be studied by Lin Yi on his own. He plans to first target the technological route of future generations and gradually transform them into organisms and colonies.

Of course, all this research is a long process, so while these plans are going on, Lin Yi needs to complete some important things that have not been completed before.

According to later research, there was more than one meteorite impacting the Earth during the late Devonian Kelvasa event. The only confirmed main impact sites were Alamo and Silyan, and currently, the last Bao The location is only one of them.

Now, it has been determined that the meteorite impact in the Frasian period was actually caused by the unknown observer's space station disintegrating for unknown reasons and falling into the atmosphere. So, do these impact sites have any debris structures that can provide inspiration for Lin Yi?

Even if not, he still needs to complete the necessary destruction of corpses and traces to avoid any strange consequences.

Moreover, it is not completely certain that the intelligent symbiosis of plants and fungi has been completely buried in the sea of ​​​​fire with the last Bao, and that the mother nest of the anomalocaridids nest is still missing. All of this requires Lin Yi. to solve.

At the edge of the fire scene, outside the isolation zone cleared by the workers in advance, the brood colony began its intense operations again.

A large number of King-Winged Divers and Shadowflies were born from the mother nest and continued to explore in all directions. At the same time, structures that evolved from the mother nest and filled with a developed brain began to be mass-produced, providing more computing power to facilitate the analysis of gene sequences.

At the same time, Lin Yi also analyzed many relevant gene sequences of Bao, and they are waiting to be slowly tested and applied. In the foreseeable future, the development of the nest group will enter another period of rapid growth.

And during this time, Shadowfly once again discovered something strange in the nearby river.

(End of this chapter)