The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 209 Infection with Anomalocaris
A familiar figure appeared in Shadowfly's compound eyes. The structure, which was unprecedented in the ages, immediately made Lin Yi recognize its identity - Pseudomonas pseudognathus.

But with just one glance, all the doubts, surprises, and shocks in Lin Yi's heart disappeared - behind the head shells of these Pseudognathus shrimps, there was a slender fungal fruiting body structure.

I don’t know how these fungi solve the problem of growing and developing in water. Perhaps it is able to obtain oxygen directly from the host's circulatory system, or perhaps it is for some other reason.

In short, the freshwater environment did not make them feel any discomfort at all - the only thing missing was the ability to spray spores remotely to cause damage, and they could make a cameo in the same game as the rhizome mine structure module that comes with the creep.
The appearance of these Hed's shrimp proves one thing - the last remaining mother nest of the Anomalocaris nest does still exist, and it has fallen into that special fungus, or there is a high probability that it is the former lichen symbiont. , later in the hands of plant-fungal symbionts.

A huge figure twenty meters long slowly entered the inland river from the ocean. After a brief battle, which was more like a massacre than a confrontation, the remains of a large number of Pseudognathus striata trailed toward the river bed with a trail of tissue fluid. come down.

Compared with the full-toothed Heard shrimp that Lin Yi personally pinched back then, the complete Pseudognathus Heard shrimp, the original mother nest, is actually better in a sense and is related to the unknown intervenor. However, after going through Lin Yi's nest group, which has evolved many times, still looks very fragile.

Lin Yi had no mercy for these parasites that merely occupied their bodies. A large number of soldiers, led by the fearless soldiers, entered the river and killed all the parasitized Pseudognathus prawns.

Along the developed river network in this area, Lin Yi quickly discovered a second familiar structural part - from the appearance, it was an upgraded version of the special lichen from back then.

Familiar mounds stood among them, but Lin Yi knew that their ownership had changed, and they were no longer owned by the terrestrial arthropod nest group. Who would have thought that their crops could use them to spread everywhere? Later, a backlash was launched.

Compared with the fern forest where Bao was located at the end, this mound group is slightly smaller and easier to handle. Still based on the experience of the year, it was completely destroyed.

There are very few enemy troops in this mound group, and there are not even leaf-clawed worms. There are only a large number of mesoscythid spiders, giant horseshoe crab spiders and ancient web-winged cockroaches in vain to stop the indiscriminate attacks of the giant-winged divers. fry.

Soon, it was completely razed to the ground by a large number of large-winged divers and shadowflies that came later. The carpet proliferated, absorbing and assimilating everything, and then dissolved itself, collecting and transporting nutrients.

After confirming that the last mother nest of the Anomalocaris nest was not here, at the end, the Kui-Wing Divers carrying incendiary bombs dropped bombs here, completely burning the place to the ground. Then, continue looking for the next area.

In this way, under the control of Lin Yi, the nest group was advancing and cleaning up these traces that should not exist in the era, while continuing to develop the biotechnology belonging to the nest group and making final preparations to touch the starry sky.

Time passed quickly, and driven by the linguisticization of genes and the large number of genome fragments left by Bao, the technology of the Hive Group was able to develop at an alarming rate.

The mineral extraction technology has been further improved. Now, the bacteria carpet can well decompose and absorb various special minerals, process and extract them through biochemical means, and mix them into the exoskeleton of grade individuals in the form of metal ions.

With the foundation of materials science, more fields are ushering in new breakthroughs - Lin Yi plans to establish a brain array composed of special neural structures in a stable environment to further speed up research. In the end, Bao's astonishingly developed, brain-like structure inspired Lin Yi - in the internal structure of that brain, the arrangement of the nervous system was not completely similar to the arrangement of a biological brain, but somewhat similar to an electronic computer.

A large number of tiny nerve cells are arranged in special pairs, somewhat similar to the humanoid computer in a famous science fiction work. They use the rapid signal transmission of special nerve cells and spatial synaptic structures to perform logical operations. When fully operational, they can carry out logical operations. Comes with extremely terrifying computing power.

But unfortunately, some of its structures rely on spatial synapses to be connected in series. Because the spatial synapses were affected, neither the final Bao nor the fungus that parasitized it had full effect at first.

Now, this structure has been converged and improved by Lin Yi, becoming the new generation biological computer of the nest, replacing the original fixed brain structure that simply enlarged one brain or added multiple brains.

On land and in the sea, new biological computer structures have begun to be mass-produced, providing the nest with further computing power to study various structures - since there is no longer an evenly matched opponent, Lin Yi can invest almost all of his resources in these studies to promote technological progress.

During this time, the colony traveled to every corner of the planet's surface, finally clearing away the last remnants of those strange fungi.

All the original mother nests were completely burned and destroyed by Lin Yi. Theoretically, there are no longer any conditions for the birth of new nest colonies on earth. Everything will be on the right track.

The place where the rest of the wreckage of the Unknown Intervenor space station fell was also discovered, but unfortunately, it seems that only a part of it fell to the earth. More are still waiting for Lin Yi to discover in the unknown starry sky.

At the same time, in a bacterial colony, Lin Yi also successfully discovered the mother nest of anomalocaridids that had been severely parasitized by fungi.

Brood nests are, as their structure suggests, theoretically immortal. When the mother nest was discovered, which was covered with a large amount of fungi and contained countless fruiting bodies, Lin Yi immediately wrapped it with a fungus blanket, removed all the fungi on the surface, and tried to conduct further research to completely unlock the original mother nest. genetic virus.

With the current ability of genetic language and micro-control, it does not seem impossible to achieve all this.

But before that, there are some more important things that need to be processed by his consciousness - this is a major matter related to the future fate of the nest group. In front of this, everything can be put down, even the Anomalocaris nest group.

This big thing is that after a long period of research, the idea of ​​touching the starry sky with a flesh and blood body wrapped in exoskeleton finally came to fruition.

Yes, finally, after countless simulations and experiments, the first biological launch vehicle of the nest group officially pupated from a huge pupal sac, and was soon ready for the final launch process!

(End of this chapter)