The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 284 Reflective Structure Layer

From the body structure, it is speculated that the feather scale wings of the Featherscale Wyvern do not seem to be suitable for long-distance flight. It is just a compromise that does not sacrifice the ability to move on land while having a certain flight ability.

But at this time, under the combined effect of the greater lift brought by the two pairs of wider wings formed by the merger of seven pairs of feather scale wings and the lower gravity of the alien planet, the huge body of the feather scale flying dragon rose into the air and quickly approached. Huge flying dragons were still flying over the migratory locust swarms from time to time.

It moved very skillfully. Its body was facing the direction of the sun - Tianyuan Si to be exact - and something special seemed to have happened to its seven pairs of feather scale wings. For a moment, the entire body seemed to be completely hidden in the sun, blocking the opponent. Sight.

Equivalent to noon, the sunlight cast by Tianyuan Si is even worse than the sun. This also made the Featherscale Flying Dragon's strategy of concealing itself under the sun quite successful. The opponent didn't react until it climbed to a high enough height and was ready to dive.

The seven pairs of feather-scale wings that were folded into four pieces were completely closed into one pair, and they formed a swept angle. The body of the feather-scale flying dragon swooped down in the light, and strange changes seemed to have occurred on the feather-scale wings again. It reflects a dazzling and bright light, quite a bit like "Kraken" glare.

As a group that truly "sacrifice" appendages in exchange for flight capabilities, the flying speed of giant flying dragons should theoretically be faster than that of feather-scaled flying dragons with free wings. However, at this time, the latter has the energy advantage brought by diving, chasing Evened the gap.

The strong hind limbs with sharp claws kicked hard on the neck. The huge kinetic energy immediately broke the cervical vertebra-like bone structure of the giant flying dragon, and the body fell heavily to the ground. The finger claws that can be grasped like a raptor are deeply embedded in the flesh and blood, ensuring that it is killed and then released and thrown to the ground.

The huge flying dragon's body fell heavily to the ground, and there was a burst of blood and flesh. The feather-scale flying dragon looked up to the sky and roared twice, and then fell downwards. Lin Yi, who had been observing secretly for a long time, knew that it was time for him to take action.

On the ground, the shadow fly's body also suddenly appeared, a striking yellow and black body appeared, a pair of bladed appendages popped out like lightning, and with the flapping of its hind limbs and membrane wings, it suddenly pounced forward, and the feather scales that had just landed on the ground The flying dragon didn't even have time to gather its feathery scale wings before the shadowfly came closer and swung out its appendages.

The extremely sharp bladed appendage swung by, and the huge dragon head fell to the ground. The headless body staggered two steps and fell to the ground. In the face of shadow flies that have been upgraded countless times, ordinary wild animals have no chance of winning, even alien creatures.

Immediately, the shadowfly slowly bent its abdomen, and the special stinging structure that was retained and improved at the end of the abdomen penetrated into its body, injected the carpet spores, and began to analyze the gene sequence.

Facts have proved that sometimes, some strange biological gene sequences do bring surprises.

The feather scale wings of the Feather Scale Flying Dragon are densely covered with some smaller scale structures that are almost invisible to the naked eye. They are somewhat similar to the scale powder of lepidopteran insects, but are more complex and can achieve a series of complex reflections of light. It has been realized Various effects.

Lin Yi almost immediately realized the use of this technology - if a layer of such a structure is installed on the surface of the spacecraft and controlled at a microscopic level, the intensity of reflected light can be easily changed.

Its purpose is obvious - under normal circumstances, the spacecraft needs to consider the issue of concealment as much as possible, which means that it must be made of light-absorbing material as the outer shell. According to the theory of Ezki civilization, when a capital ship performs a probability cloud maneuver, it needs to scatter its light signal as widely as possible to interfere with the enemy's aim. The two conflict with each other, so it is difficult for the Ezki battleship to be well concealed due to its own flaws. It simply ignores concealment under normal circumstances and instead pursues the interference effect during probabilistic cloud maneuvers.

But here in Lin Yi, with this technology, you can have both. Even this complex reflection mechanism makes both more efficient than before, and the only cost is a small and insignificant material cost.

As for the processing cost, it may be torture for the mechanical structure, but the biological structure is much simpler. After all, it can be pupated directly. Compared with the original structure, the working hours are almost not increased.

At the same time, this structure also has another use - laser is also light. In a sense, it can also be reflected to weaken its intensity. However, this reflection cannot be as simple as "just make it a mirror".

The reflective ability of an object has a threshold, and it is impossible to achieve 100% perfect reflection. Due to the heat resistance of reflective materials, the remaining part of the weapons-grade laser is enough to cause damage to the reflective materials.

What's even more terrible is that after this layer of reflective material is heated to plasma by an instantaneous high temperature, it will impact and spread to cause damage to other materials inside - in fact, this is also the main source of damage to directed energy weapons.

In other words, the entire piece of reflective material or coating is completely self-defeating and designed to increase the lethality of lasers. However, if it is a fine scaly multi-layer reflective structure, the situation may be somewhat different.

Theoretically, such a scaly multi-layer structure can reflect part of the laser at one time, and if the angle is right, the plasma formed will not impact other materials, but can dissipate and take away some heat.

But this is just a theory. To truly realize it, repeated experiments are needed to determine the best incident angle, material structure, etc. The original feather scale structure of the Feather Scale Flying Dragon can only be regarded as a source of inspiration, and it is difficult to be regarded as a reference.

The remaining gene fragments in its gene sequence are of far greater collection significance than actual significance to Lin Yi. However, just the inspiration of the feather scale structure was not worth Lin Yi's special trip to the habitable planet.

With the evolution and development of the nest group, wild animals can provide fewer and fewer genetic sequence references. Now, the nest group is more likely to study technical principles in an ordinary way and create and apply this technology through verbalized gene sequences. Principles of biological structure.

It is almost impossible to go into the Dikla Crater and collect countless genetic sequences to piece together the fearless soldier. However, after some thought, Lin Yi decided to call the planet with extraterrestrial life that he discovered for the first time Dikla to commemorate the crater where the species was so different.

While thinking about it, in the orbit of Gondwana in the distance, research on the use of new structures was also started at the same time - whether it is a whimsical but unrealistic fantasy, or a real life-saving structure that can enhance the survivability of the star, we will see next. The test performed.

(End of this chapter)