The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 245: Armed Wild Collecting
Hissing, footsteps, and the sharp whistle of the warhead tearing the air echoed in the cave. Blue insect blood was already flowing everywhere, as if the scene was not a battle, but a massacre.

With something like a large combat structure machine joining the battle, the situation is beyond the control of the wild Saw Ants. The light vehicle-level firepower and the maneuverability of the infantry left only broken bodies wherever their gunfire passed.

Fortunately, Lin Yi had already guessed that the other party might do it again for the existence of the Saw Ant Queen, and had already controlled the Saw Ant that was directly controlled by the nest to dissolve itself and destroy the body.

Now, this is a completely wild litter of animals, just larger eusocial animals. There should also be truly social animals such as ants and termites on the other party's home planet or colony planet, so it wouldn't be too strange.

Those wild saw-toothed ants screamed and charged again and again, but in the face of the surging firepower, they seemed to have hit an invisible wall, and were torn to pieces by the ferocious firepower of the electromagnetic cannon.

The principle of rotating tube continuous fire does not require gunpowder gas to complete a series of operations such as ejection of the chamber, so even electromagnetic weapons with completely different principles can use this structure for continuous fire.

Although this design is complex and heavy, the multi-barreled design reduces the burden of a single barrel, allowing the rate of fire to be increased to an astonishing level when firing projectiles at maximum power, just like now, tearing apart the wild maniac in front of you. Tooth saw ant.

Many of the warheads even had residual power, and after penetrating and tearing apart the body of the Saw Ant, they were deeply embedded in the rock wall of the cave. The stalactites on the roof of the cave were also shot to pieces by the ferocious machine gun fire, and fell down, accidentally killing one or two crazy-toothed saw ants.

However, the opponent obviously does not lack this firepower. The infantrymen equipped with powered exoskeleton protective suits accompany the construction machinery. The electromagnetic rifles in their hands also emit sharp whistles with warheads piercing the air, catching fish that have slipped through the net. knife.

Some combat machines are equipped with continuous-fire large-caliber grenade launchers, or they can be called medium-caliber low-bore pressure rapid-fire artillery. Each time they are fired, they can explode into a bloody mess among the saw-toothed ants. .

The explosives used by the aliens should also be slightly more powerful than later generations of humans. Lin Yi suspected that if the other party was not concerned about the cave environment and was afraid of blowing up the cave roof, they would have more powerful ones that could be carried by these combat machines.

"The cleanup has been completed, what is the next step?"

After a massacre, there was not a single wild saw-toothed saw ant standing normally on the entire battlefield. The torn remains, flying broken appendages and blue insect blood were everywhere. Seeing this, the radio signal began to came from a combat machine.

"Keep searching deeper to see if there are any eggs or anything like that. Or if there are any that look different, they may be similar to the breeding females of Kiril's Sliculodon on the home planet. Remember to catch them alive."

The Cilitodon is a large shell-footed creature on the Ezki home planet. It has a highly specialized slender jaw that is good at tearing skin and flesh, hence its name.

Most ciliodonts are small social animals that live underground. Their numbers do not exceed two digits. They feed on some other shellopods of similar size. They seem to be no different from ordinary small carnivorous shellopods.

The only difference is that their females will fight to determine their status, and the female with the highest status will become the only individual with reproductive rights in the community. The remaining female insects are castrated by the leader and permanently lose their reproductive rights. Subsequently born larvae will also be castrated before they emerge and have the ability to resist. Until the death of the highest-status female, a fertile female will be determined again among the newly grown larvae.

But Kirill's ciliodontids are an exception. Among their groups, after the female worm obtains the right to reproduce, her ovaries will greatly expand, and her abdomen will also expand to a limited extent, which greatly increases the amount of eggs she lays.

Therefore, the number of ordinary ciliodonts in a colony ranges from only ten to dozens, but the Kirill ciliodontids can reach an astonishing size of nearly a thousand. When they go out in groups, they are quite spectacular and can even hunt some. Small brachiopods.

This was a fairly well-known species on the home planet, and was the only supporting evidence for the sociobiological theory prior to those events. Most of the people present came directly from the home planet, so naturally they knew this kind of creature very well.

"Split up and start searching. Be careful not to get too far away from the combat machinery. Protect your mask and be careful about sneak attacks. These beasts are very cunning."

"Suspected creatures were found. A large number of suspected eggs were found nearby, as well as common shell-footed creatures guarding them. They have been killed."

A signal came from the radio and immediately attracted everyone's attention. Immediately, a picture was shared to the visor terminals of all members, as well as to the screens of the rear headquarters and scientific research team. It was Lin Yi who created the Saw Ant Queen in order to completely pretend to be a wild animal without leaving any flaws.

"This should be it. Remember to change the tranquilizer bombs and capture them alive."

He replaced the anesthesia magazine with a bright color to make it easier to distinguish it from the anti-personnel ammunition magazine. The standard electromagnetic gun was switched to the lowest power. A tranquilizer bullet hit the head of the Crazy Tooth Saw Ant Queen. Immediately, it had been specially adjusted according to the biology of the earth. The formulated anesthetic spreads rapidly along the circulatory system.

Immediately, a special combat machine stepped forward and stepped forward - its first pair of stepping structures were a pair of flat shovel-shaped structures similar to forklifts. With a single shovel, the Crazy Tooth saw The body of the queen ant with a fat belly was scooped up and held in front of her.

Immediately, flanked by a large number of infantry and combat machines equipped with additional rotating cannons or bulletproof shields and bulldozers, the army slowly drove out of the cave, not even looking at the crazy-toothed saw ants whose bodies were torn apart by the electromagnetic cannon. One glance.

At the entrance of the hole, the huge body of the tilt-rotor aircraft slowly fell down. Several combat machines slowly stepped into the cabin. They retracted the mechanical arms on both sides of the body and entered the aircraft in the most space-saving posture. The accompanying infantrymen followed closely. Finally, step into the cabin.

Even so, the cabin that could carry a large number of infantry was still crowded with nearly ten huge combat machines, and the Queen Saw Ant, which was larger than the average wild Saw Ant, was also locked in an extra-large iron cage. In the center, there are many guards in the center.

Still protected by a large number of ancient Dictyoptera flying insects, the tilt-rotor aircraft took off again and slowly flew towards the landing place of the scientific research ship, preparing to send this harvest back to the laboratory for research by scientific researchers.

(End of this chapter)