The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 237 Disguise Plan
During the return journey, a large number of ancient Dictyoptera flying insects continued to monitor and monitor each other's radio signals for continuous deciphering and analysis.

The other party's process of capturing the wolf-lizard beast can be seen in full view of the nests of ancient reticulopteran flying insects that are walking around. There is indeed no means beyond comprehension. It is just a small drone carrying a structure that seems to be an electromagnetic gun. Fire tranquilizer bombs to knock them out.

The other party used effective anesthetics without having too much contact with earth creatures, which seems to indicate that the other party is indeed not far from the earth's life forms.

Combined with the gradually formed deciphering and analysis, more general information about the other party gradually appeared in front of Lin Yi, which provided him with more confidence.

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The large tilt-rotor aircraft landed slowly on the simply constructed apron, the hatch was opened, and the captured biological samples were immediately removed from the aircraft and carried into the scientific research vessel.

After simple disinfection, a large number of scientific researchers immediately stepped forward to take over these biological samples, especially the large predatory creature, and operated various instruments to scan and detect them.

The large-scale special-band fluoroscopy scanner quickly gave results, presenting the endoskeleton information of the captured large predatory creature in the form of images and three-dimensional models.

"The inside of the head is wrapped with a layer of bone, and the spine is connected to the back of the head, rather than passing between the eyes like the brachial limbs. It is highly similar to the mechanoskeleton."

"The limbs are similar to those of mechanical bones. The joints are slightly different. They are nearly vertical to the body. There are a lot of muscles attached. The strength should be slightly stronger than that of wrist limbs."

A large amount of information is simultaneously transmitted to the exploration fleet in planetary orbit, and then transmitted back to the home planet through large quantum communication equipment. Needless to say, there are naturally a large number of scientific researchers who are unable to visit the site for various reasons and have been waiting for a long time to prepare for further analysis.

"Looking at this location, it is currently speculated that its origin may be similar to the gill arch structure of the home planet's mechanoskeleton. It bites up and down, combined with these specialized scales, to kill."

"Can you determine the origin of the opening and closing structure under the head? The cyborgoids on the home planet do not have similar structures."

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And this means that if you want to sneak into the opponent's scientific research ship and further infiltrate, this is the only breakthrough.

After a period of observation, Lin Yi could learn that the other party was currently very interested in various strange creatures on the earth and had been capturing and studying them on a large scale.

"The arrangement of the organs is slightly different, which shows that it has a different biological origin from its home planet."

Macroscopic organisms could infiltrate in a way that might reveal their presence, but microscopic organisms would quickly prove unfeasible. He has tried microscopic ones to attach to the surface or inside of large animals and then be captured by them. The final result was that it still failed to break through the opponent's three defense systems.

The nuclear, biological and chemical three-defense system has been quite well developed by later generations of mankind during the Cold War. The aliens, who are more technologically advanced, have no reason to lag behind in this regard.

What's more, this is an alien planet - if you think about it from another person's perspective, if future generations of humans develop to the interstellar colonization stage and land on extraterrestrial planets, they will inevitably be wary of unknown alien microbial pathogens. Every organism transported into the cabin has been fully disinfected, and when conducting research, those aliens are also in full protective clothing to isolate themselves from the outside world, and they will also be disinfected after the experiment, without giving Lin Yi any Opportunity to attach.

If you want to successfully break through this layer of defense, there is only one way - to find a way to use physical methods to break open the opponent's protective clothing and allow its body to briefly contact the atmosphere.

In other words, the creature needs to attack the opponent's individual, causing damage to the protective suit, and then use various means to attach to the opponent's body, and then use the attached individual as a carrier to find a way to blend in.

But there is no need to say that this process is dangerous - Lin Yi does not expect ordinary creatures to break through the opponent's defense line. Even wolf lizard beasts, Antio beasts and the like are very fragile in front of the opponent. Therefore, the whole process can only be carried out by the nest. Swarm of creatures completed.

This means that this plan must expose the existence of the nest creatures, and it is difficult for a single creature to complete the task, which means that this plan must at least allow the nest creatures to appear in a truly social form.

If it were a complete Shadowfly, it could try to break through the alien defenses alone, but the sudden appearance of this thing would be too inconsistent. It would be better to disguise it as a gregarious creature and conduct a sneak attack.

After thinking about it, the one that is not so inconsistent and has a certain degree of combat effectiveness is the Crazy-Toothed Saw Ant. Of course, this process still needs to be improved.

If you want to break through the firepower network of the aliens, the enemy will inevitably obtain the corpses, or even capture a few alive for research, which means that these modified versions of the Saw Ants cannot have any unnatural characteristics.

The biological firearm system at the tail must be completely removed. This is obviously not a structure that can evolve naturally. Instead, there will be a tail spine, similar to the structure of a spiny-tailed horseshoe crab.

The large amount of space freed up will be used to install a complete digestive system, making the Saw Ant look more like a normal creature, rather than a highly specialized level in the nest.

In addition, there is the fatal feature of spatial synapse. In order to prevent the other party from seeing the clues, this structure must be removed, which also prevents Lin Yi from directly commanding these crazy-toothed saw ants.

This requires a normal communication system that can be explained by the current technical level, similar to the vocal structure of the ancient commander Gu Jaw.

It is obviously unrealistic to use pheromones like ants in later generations, and the simplest method is still to make sounds. The vocal organs are located at the front of the abdomen and have various combinations of tones, representing different signals.

At the same time, the underlying logic of the genetic sequences of these "Wild Saw Ants", that is, the part that determines instincts, needs to be modified accordingly so that they can communicate with each other and accept commands as a complete community.

These ferocious saw ants are still sterile, so they also need a matching reproductive level. In this regard, they can basically be copied from later generations of eusocial insects, and are simply called ferocious saw ants queens.

The larvae will develop through metamorphosis and pupate after growing to the size of adults. Obviously, the mother nest cannot be exposed to the opponent. Just in case, everything must be arranged seamlessly.

As for the specific plan, Lin Yi already has a rough plan and is just waiting for the final production and implementation - although it is a bit desperate, this is probably his only way to obtain more in-depth information.

(End of this chapter)