The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 242 Infection
After "repelling" the surging swarm of wild saw-toothed ants, everything in the cave was quickly cleaned up. The wild saw-toothed ants that were mopped up were tied tightly and carried out of the cave.

Because there was cargo, the tilt-rotor aircraft hovering overhead slowly landed, the hatch opened, and the personnel remaining on board quickly jumped off and took over the things taken out of the cave.

The paralyzed wild Saw Ants were quickly stuffed into the metal cage and carried into the cabin. The alien armed man who was attacked by the Saw Ants and had his mask pierced also set up the tilt rotor under the cover of others. machine.

Then, the hatch closed and the blades began to rotate again, driving the huge fuselage to rise from the ground and fly towards the location where the scientific research ship had landed and was now the alien scientific research outpost.

Behind it, an ancient Dictyoptera flying insect slowly watched the tilt-rotor aircraft go away, its pair of compound eyes shining with a thoughtful light.

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As soon as the aircraft landed, a team of medical personnel onboard the ship quickly took over the Marine whose mask had been damaged and carried out all-round disinfection.

The surface of the fully enclosed outer armor was simply sampled and then thoroughly disinfected to check whether there were any dangerous pathogens near the damaged mask.

The outer armor surfaces of all persons entering the cave were sampled, and then, as usual, all-round disinfection was carried out to prevent pathogens from being brought into the cabin.

Alien pathogens are completely unknown. Even if the research ship stores most of the medicines on the home planet and has large-scale equipment to analyze and extract natural pharmaceutical ingredients, no one can guarantee whether unknown pathogens will threaten the lives of all personnel. .

Although it itself was not injured, and the Ezki's respiratory opening is not located on the face, normal pathogens can only enter the body through the mouth, but there are no special forms of pathogens on the Buqi Alien. After a period of isolation and observation, it is necessary.

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It is naturally not difficult to create a sealed and sterilized isolation cabin inside the scientific research ship. At the same time, a large number of special equipment have also begun to operate in preparation for analysis.

In the isolation room, a large number of medical staff are still busy identifying possible pathogens. During the busy period, several tubes of blood were extracted from the body and quickly sent to special large-scale equipment for laboratory analysis.

"Continue to observe and end the isolation after it is confirmed to be stable."

"Prepare to extract body fluids, and conduct laboratory tests on the external armor surface sampling results to check for suspicious pathogens."

The lack of a long period of co-evolution means that the Ezki people have no resistance to these unknown pathogens, even if the other party has not experienced the baptism of various antibiotics.

"No unknown microorganisms were found in the body fluids. There are not many alien microorganisms on the surface of the outer armor. Preliminary testing found no harmful microorganisms."

After determining the alien's detailed body structure, Lin Yi immediately controlled the spores of these carpets to start proliferating and headed towards the opponent's brain.

The structure of the opponent's respiratory system is quite strange. The air is taken in from a position roughly equivalent to the waist and the air is discharged from the lower part of the face. It seems to have evolved from a structure similar to a water jet propulsion system. Therefore, it is not feasible to erode the respiratory system. It is better to directly Invasion from subcutaneous tissue.

Considering that the other party must have various testing methods, "microorganisms" with special structures such as carpet spores must not be able to hide from the inspection methods of interstellar civilization. Therefore, Lin Yi adopted the simplest and crudest method to prevent himself from being discovered. . That was the specialty of destroying corpses and wiping out traces of nests in those days - autolysis at the cellular level. These carpet spores that failed to successfully enter the opponent's body were all self-dissolved from the inside, leaving only a pool of microscopic organic matter in place.

On the surface of the opponent's fully sealed powered exoskeleton armor, these organic matter were quickly absorbed and multiplied by other microorganisms, leaving no traces of these tissues at all.

At the same time, the best way to kill all the way to the opponent's brain is naturally through the blood circulation system. However, methods such as blood drawing have been used by humans in later generations, and the other party will inevitably have them and must take precautions against them.

The related prevention method is also very simple. Through the surface structure of the cell membrane of the carpet spores, it senses abnormal flow and quickly autolyzes, which also destroys corpses and traces.

The process of drawing blood is inevitably accompanied by flow abnormalities. This process is enough for Lin Yi to quickly detect abnormalities and control cell lysis.

However, this method still has certain limitations. Therefore, on the way, Lin Yi has completed a certain degree of parasitism and initially taken root in the other party's brain.

In the brain, some tissues have begun to form and attach to the surface of the nerves, forming a simple central structure. This central structure is the core of the second insurance.

The second insurance is that once the spore structure leaves the central structure at a certain distance, it will immediately trigger the self-dissolution mechanism, allowing the detached spore structure to dissolve into a pool of organic matter.

And then, these spores distributed throughout the body will gradually dissolve, leaving only the structure in the brain tissue, which makes most testing methods no longer valid.

In this way, there is only one thing left to worry about, and that is technology similar to X-ray scanning. This kind of technology that later generations of humans will also have fun with, aliens will definitely have, and will only become more advanced.

Therefore, these structures will perfectly fit the original brain nerve structure, and the presence of foreign matter will be almost invisible. As long as the other party does not have the almost metaphysical technology of medical nanorobots, it will be impossible to discover the existence of these special structures.

At the same time, since the alien's genetic sequence has been obtained, these structures can also perfectly deceive the alien's own immune system in a way similar to some special parasites.

In addition, Lin Yi tries his best to avoid any impact on the opponent's body. These structures will not cause any abnormality to the opponent's body, further reducing the possibility of being discovered and almost becoming a part of the opponent's brain nervous system, such as shrinking the head. Fish lice or mites do the same thing, directly replacing part of the opponent's nerves.

From various aspects, this parasitic structure can be perfectly integrated into the alien's brain and nervous system, and at the same time intercept the signals returned by the other party's sensory system and steal more information from the other party.

At this time, the connection has been initially established. Unfortunately, judging from the situation, the other party is most likely in a state of isolation and cannot contact the outside world for the time being.

However, it stands to reason that the other party is now in a stage of shortage of manpower and should return to normal working conditions soon after confirming that there is no infection.

At that time, it will be Lin Yi's time to obtain more information about the aliens.

(End of this chapter)