The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 239 The First Battle
"The location of the creature's nest has been determined. Whether to arrest it or not."

"The other party is a gregarious creature and may have a certain degree of sociality. The number is temporarily uncertain. It is best to bring more people and be careful."

"They are just wild beasts. No matter how many there are, can they still rebel against nature?"

The power assist system allows the Ezki Marines' standard outer armor to have heavy armor plates, making old-fashioned gunpowder weapons completely impenetrable. In Ezki society, gunpowder weapons are not controlled and can be legally held by the private sector. However, electromagnetic weapons, outer armor, etc. are strictly controlled items.

On the home planet, the attacks of ordinary wild animals are almost an itch for these heavy protective suits designed for orbital landing operations on the surface of alien planets. And according to calculations, the same is true for the creatures on this planet.

The cabin of the tilt-rotor aircraft carries a fully armed team. With such heavy protective outer armor and the power assist system, each of them can easily fly without using thermal weapons. Kill large beasts.

This gives them absolute confidence. Under normal circumstances, wild animals will not pose any threat to them no matter what. Even if there is an unexpected situation, the electromagnetic firearm in their hands is not a fire stick and can easily resolve the battle from a distance.

At the end of the four wings of the tilt-rotor aircraft, the engine nacelle began to rotate slowly, and finally became perpendicular to the ground, making the end blades parallel to the body. It switched to hovering mode, and then, a rope hung down from the side door.

Several heavily armed Marines grabbed the rope, jumped from the cabin, picked up their weapons, and quickly assembled into a team, preparing to march into the cave.

Immediately, the aircraft continued to take off and hovered in the sky. A large number of small unmanned aerial vehicles are also on alert nearby, preparing to seal the cave as a precaution.

It is worth mentioning that although they resemble centipedes from the Myriapod subphylum, genetic analysis results show that they are a primitive insect, probably representing the original form before the class Insecta was specialized.

The five mass extinctions of organisms have covered up too much. Most organisms have no time to leave traces of their existence in the stratum, and are forever submerged in the long river of time. Just like these small insects, if Lin Yi did not need them as From the beginning to the end of the reconnaissance nodes, no intelligent creature will remember them.

On the wall, a strange multi-legged insect seemed to be frightened by the sudden visitor. It moved its legs on its side and fled quickly, hiding in a stone crevice, sticking out its head and antennae, and sizing up the intruder.

In the darkness, dots of fluorescent lights flickered, reflecting the interlaced stalactites on the roof of the cave that looked like the teeth of giant beasts. The only sounds in the ears were the sound of running water and the rustle of stepping on the ground, echoing in the cave.

In the compound eyes, there is a fully armed team of twelve people, holding standard electromagnetic firearms and slowly advancing forward wrapped in a powered exoskeleton. The little bits of fluorescence are emitted from their position equivalent to the mask.

In the cave, the appearance of ordinary ancient web-winged flying insects was too unconventional. Therefore, Lin Yi chose an unknown insect that lived in caves and resembled later generations of centipedes as a genetic template to reproduce one-to-one as a nest. A group of eyeliners in a cave.

But no one discovered that there was an invisible channel in the little bug's brain, connecting this strange little bug with countless "similar" creatures from all over the earth, even Mars and the asteroid belt, forming a... A huge network. At this time, everything seen by Xiaochong's senses is being recorded truthfully.

It seems to be some kind of device equivalent to a night vision device, allowing them to see easily in low-light environments. Communication between individuals still uses radio communication, and the signals are also received by electromagnetic wave receiving devices installed on the bugs. See clearly.

Thanks to long-term analysis, Lin Yi was finally able to barely understand some of the other party's signals, and could initially monitor the radio conversations between the other party and translate them.

"... reported that the target creature was not found. Everything else is normal. It's over." The other party seemed to be using hexadecimal counting, which corresponds to the two forelimbs with three fingers. This also makes deciphering and translating numbers a rather complex and cumbersome process.

Therefore, Lin Yi simply ignored the digital issues for the time being and focused on deciphering other signals for the time being.

"Where is this thing hiding? It's such a big one and it's a social creature. Why is there no trace at all? It's not that it has been completely scared away."

"Yeah, having said that, such large crustaceans are really rare. I don't know how to solve the oxygen problem. The oxygen concentration here is not high."

"Otherwise, the higher-ups have named this thing and sent us down so hard, but don't worry about it. There are many scientists studying this kind of thing."

During the conversation, the other party's position seemed to have entered a relatively narrow environment suitable for an ambush. Lin Yi felt that it was time to take action.

Behind, at the top of the cave where the wild saw-toothed ants were, a signal with a special frequency sounded. It was a nest of genuine saw-toothed saw ants mixed in, one of the ones that had been used as bait to lure the aliens to the bait. signal sent.

Upon hearing the signal, the wild saw-toothed ants around them immediately jumped up, moved their six limbs, waved their claws, and charged forward. A pair of well-developed upper jaws open and close, ready to attack.

This is a signal that represents an attack, just like the special frequency sound waves that commanded the leader Ancient Jaw. Wild saw-toothed saw ants that hear the signal will become manic and restless, and their aggressiveness will increase significantly.

But the genuine Saw-toothed Saw Ant of the nest stayed deep in the cave, hiding in the shadows - the characteristics of the nest must be impossible to expose. Therefore, this genuine saw-toothed saw ant of the nest that had previously served as a bait was now on standby at the rear, and the subsequent secret command was completed by those one-to-one replicas of the nest.

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"Suspicious signals have been found and are being compared...has been identified as the mission target."

"Everyone pay attention, prepare to engage the enemy, adjust the weapon firing power to the lowest setting, load tranquilizer bombs or net bombs, and give priority to capturing those alive."

Different from gunpowder weapons, the launch power of electromagnetic weapons can be easily adjusted to obtain different warhead exit speeds and adjust the power. In addition, the modular design concept adopted by standard electromagnetic guns has a large number of ammunition and functional modules, which can be applied to different environment for various purposes.

Therefore, the Ezki Marines almost only have this one main weapon, and a large number of replaceable modules based on this weapon.

For example, now, most of them have replaced their magazines with tranquilizer bombs and are ready to shoot - the battle between these outsiders and the local nests is about to officially begin.

(End of this chapter)