The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 211 Rocket Launch
Near the launch site, a large number of saw-toothed saw ants had already completely cleared the area, and a few long-winged divers were hovering far away from the launch track for final confirmation.

The structure of the launch site, which is shaped like a terrestrial mother nest, but has a hollow center that supports the huge body of the biological rocket, slowly begins to emit a counting sound similar to human voices - the genetic template is modified to produce a structure that can emit human voices. It is not difficult for Lin Yi now.

Although there was and would not be any audience at the scene, and all the operations of the rocket itself were done by himself, Lin Yi, perhaps following the last trace of his inner consciousness that he had been born as a human being, still came up with this function that had no practical significance. .

"10, 9, 8, 7"

All the cells and tissues in the Corner Stone's body have begun their last self-examination, which means that this combination of biology and technology is about to begin an unprecedented feat. Although there will be others in the future, they will have to wait for hundreds of millions of years for a feat.

The fuel storage glands are normal, the high-pressure airbags are normal, the cooling circulation system is normal, and the shunt valves are normal. Everything, including the load-carpet tumor structure of this launch, is also completely normal.

"5, 4, 3, launch!"

Two familiar yet unfamiliar words came out from the sound-producing structure of the brood structure in a somewhat weird tone. Immediately, the glands that store liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in the main body of the corner stone connected to the outside. With the help of a high-pressure gas tank, the compressed fuel begins to be atomized and sprayed out quickly.

Immediately, a blazing high-temperature tail flame spurted out from the nozzle at the end. A large amount of liquid water in the reservoir below was immediately vaporized by the high temperature, and then rose into the air to condense, like a cloud.

The Cornerstone seemed to be riding on this cloud of mist and slowly rising from the ground. The special nozzle structure formed by the chrysalis accelerated the high-temperature gas generated by combustion to above the speed of sound and sprayed it rearward, bringing unparalleled reaction force.

The tyrannical overload force immediately penetrated the entire body of the Corner Stone, but the structure that had been designed long ago was still operating normally. The special circulation system drove the cooling body fluid to run continuously, evaporating as much heat as possible from the combustion, and providing Materials lighten the load.

Due to concerns about the existing transparent exoskeleton materials, Corner Stone has no structure like compound eyes or ordinary eyes at all. This also means that when it leaves the environment near the launch site, it will need some other structures for relay guidance.

Because now, Lin Yi is the only intelligent force on the entire earth, and the launch site can be established in any corner of Pangea without restriction. Therefore, in order to avoid various situations, the launch site was built directly on the equator.

At this time, in the surrounding area, almost the entire hemisphere, regardless of land or sea, there are a large number of special, huge structures proliferating on the carpet, which are pointing in the direction of the Corner Stone, guiding and calibrating it.

These huge structures are cylindrical in shape as a whole, with the ends fixed on a structure similar to a terrestrial nest, and are pulled and fixed by a large number of well-developed hydraulic muscles and fibromuscular structures.

It has a large number of complex biological eye-like structures inside, and functions like a biological astronomical telescope. It consists of an astonishingly developed lens-like structure that forms the objective lens, and the lower part of the eyepiece is composed of a highly specialized compound eye structure.

A large number of muscles pull the huge objective lens, and the bacteria blanket below continuously absorbs nutrients and supplies energy for it. In the sea, a huge floating structure similar to the former floating mother nest holds the biological astronomical telescope, monitoring the Cornerstone's launch trajectory from different angles.

The hive-level individuals scattered all over the world now form a huge network of nodes, forming a special positioning system, which, together with the real-time monitoring biological astronomical telescope structures, guides the direction of the Cornerstone.

The altitude continued to rise and the speed continued to increase. This is not some weird other terrestrial planet, but the earth itself. Therefore, the first cosmic speed can be directly applied to the data of later generations - 7.91 kilometers per second without Lin Yi's complicated calculations.

Troposphere, stratosphere. The air gradually becomes thinner. However, the Corner Stone itself does not have the ability to breathe from the outside world. Instead, it relies on the internal storage tank and internal circulation system to complete gas exchange.

Further up, there is the ozone layer that blocks ultraviolet rays and protects the ecosystem from erosion. Crossing this thin protective layer on a planetary scale means that Cornerstone will face the dangers of ultraviolet light and radiation for the first time.

In the cell tissue under the outer shell, melanin used for radiation synthesis begins to absorb strong ultraviolet and other waveband radiation, and store its energy.

If the Corner Stone had a compound eye structure, the earth would already have an arc-shaped outline in the field of view. This is the earth that gave birth to him as an intelligent creature in two lifetimes.

The fuel for the peripheral auxiliary thrusters connected to the main body had been basically exhausted at this time. The structure of the connection automatically broke under Lin Yi's control. The bundle of parts surrounding the main body of the shell fell off, and under the influence of gravity Falling into the atmosphere under the influence.

Above the ozone layer is the mesosphere, followed by the thick ionosphere.

The air in this layer is already very thin, but under various influences, it is highly ionized, bringing extremely high temperatures. The shield scale structure outside the shell begins to work. Under the high temperature and friction of the ionized layer, this The first layer of coating begins to sublimate and take away heat, ensuring that the temperature of the main body is maintained within a relatively stable range.

After the booster's fuel is exhausted for a period of time, the fuel and oxidizer capacity of the first stage is basically close to bottoming out, marking the end of the first acceleration phase.

The Corner Stone's body began to change its trajectory slightly, chasing the dusk line, and began what would later be called the free flight segment. The first stage, which had run out of fuel, was then disconnected from the main body, leaving only the second stage, which temporarily shut down its rocket engine, to maintain speed and continue to move forward under the pull of inertia and the earth's gravity.

Along the direction of rotation, the earth's gravity seems to use an invisible rope to pull the body of the Corner Stone at the speed of rotation, continuously giving it a forward force, allowing it to continue diagonally upward in the ionosphere. sports.

Subsequently, the second stage continued to ignite, pushing the Corner Stone into the second acceleration stage, and launched an impact towards the final target orbit - under the gaze of a large number of structures on the ground, finally, the huge body of the Corner Stone jumped out of the water. Fish, jump over the Kármán line and enter the outer space called the exosphere!
Finally, after hundreds of millions of years of accumulation, the nest group jumped into the sea of ​​stars like a fish leaping through a dragon's gate, and entered among the stars!

(End of this chapter)