The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 285 Resurrection, the anomaly shrimp nest
In the Gondwana orbit, the construction of the second space elevator has been completed. At this time, the third and fourth space elevators are being started simultaneously. Subsequently, the number of construction starts will increase exponentially, and the material on the surface of the planet will continue to be mined.

In space orbit, several special "target ships" using new feather scale-like reflective structural layers are slowly floating in orbit, and on a defense platform, several X-ray laser weapons have completed charging, and the end focus The structure is aligned with the reflective structural layer surface of the target ship.

The arrangement, angle, etc. of this layer of fine feather-like scale structures require a series of complex tests to achieve the best results. Otherwise, like a normal full-layer reflective mirror, it may be heated into high-temperature plasma by the terrifying heat energy of the weapons-grade laser, causing greater damage to other parts below.

But with the existence of the nest, all this is only a matter of time. After all, the fact that the data returned by the target is intuitive, efficient and error-free shortens the distance between the theoretical situation and the actual situation a lot.

While the experiments and construction of the Centaur Three-Star System were going on at the same time, in the four directions of Tianyuan, the pioneering stars and the escorting escort stars that had set out previously had also arrived at the target star system and were preparing to enter the orbit of the Dikla star.

Like the Ezki escort ship, any kind of Starfly can crash-land into the planet's atmosphere at once. It only needs to open some air inlet structures and let the fusion reactor consume air, a ready-made propulsion medium, to operate. Stay in space for a short time in the planet's atmosphere.

Although the weight of the battleship makes it impossible to take off again or stay in the air for a long time like the heavy aerosol vehicles called armored gunships by the gastrocystis and the Ezki people, it is more than enough to slowly fall and find a suitable location for an emergency landing.

As for the specific location for the emergency landing, Lin Yi had already chosen an inner bay in the shallow sea on the edge of the continent. He had already pupated a mother nest there as a coordinate. Bing Gao and others have begun to expel nearby wild animals to free up the site.

At this time, the Pioneer Star has been captured by the gravity of the star Dikla and is entering the atmosphere little by little in a circle, while several escort Stars spread out, destroying several approaching asteroids to avoid this final There was an accident at the stage.

The Pioneer Star is shaped like a crab-shaped horseshoe crab, but its body without tail spines slowly falls. The hot wake vaporizes the seawater and rises up. Then, the huge body slowly falls into the sea and sinks downwards.

The moment it touched the seabed, its huge body began to dissolve and began to pupate in the direction of a large building similar to a terrestrial mother nest. The fungus blanket that was already in place spread over it and merged into one, beginning to accelerate the process of pupation. .

The new huge building structure has a large number of gill-slit-like holes on the outside, and the interior is layered layer by layer. Based on the filtering and regulating structure at the microscopic level, the internal environment can be similar to the ocean environment of the Earth's Ordovician period.

In a sense, the inside of this structure is now equivalent to a large fish tank, simulating the ocean environment of the Earth's Ordovician Period. Inside, a special structure is slowly revealing itself surrounded by a large amount of fungus carpet tissue.

It was an approximately oval-shaped structure with a honeycomb-like hole structure on its surface, resembling the appearance of the first-generation mother's nest - in fact, this was a mother's nest, but it was not Lin Yi's, but came from the Anomalocaris nest group. Their last remnants.

Lin Yi has no intention of intervening in the situation of the earth, but rather exists as a protected area in the true sense. Planet Dikla is a very good environment. Although it can only be regarded as a protected area for Lin Yi, it is a good place for the anomalocaridid ​​nests that cannot survive outside the ecosystem of the living planet. Therefore, the location for the "resurrection" of the Anomalocaris nest was chosen in the ocean of the star Dikla. A large number of grade individuals, both micro and macro, are already in place and ready to complete this task.

Talking back to the mother nest itself, after being infected by the genetic pathogen of the original mother nest and unable to produce a normal nest group level with spatial synapses again, the mother nest was acquired by the fungal symbiont at that time and parasitized, and it was once reduced to as a puppet.

Those parasitic fungi do not require the host to have spatial synapses. Their own fruiting bodies have the ability to communicate, so they do not affect anything. However, if you want to truly "resurrect" the Anomalocaris nest, you must eliminate the other party's genes at the genetic level. of infection.

The roots of the carpet tissue extend into the surface of the mother nest, and some microscopic structures begin to operate, regulating the genetic sequences in the mother nest. With the support of gene language technology and a large number of samples, Lin Yi is confident to unravel the genetic infection of the original mother nest.

According to the information currently available to Lin Yi, the mother nest is controlled based on a large number of microscopic space-like synaptic structures at the cellular level. Therefore, complex gene editing and high-level individual output can be achieved without complex neural tissue or other similar tissues. and other functions.

And these structures also have certain complex "storage" functions, not just the storage of genetic sequences, but also some storage at the consciousness level that is difficult to explain.

That is to say, in theory, the main hive mind consciousness of the Anomalocaris swarm still exists in a state similar to Lin Yi's previous dormancy, but has lost all means of sensing and communicating with the outside world. As long as it produces level individuals again, it can To achieve a certain sense of "resurrection".

But this is only a theoretical situation. Since there is no traditional nervous system, Lin Yi cannot even use the traditional special root system of the carpet to replace the nervous system to issue instructions to control all this. It can only be achieved through a large number of microscopic levels.

At this time, these microscopic grades have begun to be injected into the remaining mother nests of the Anomalocaris nests along the carpet root system, interfering with the genetic sequence structure of the mother nests and adjusting the spatial synaptic nerve structure at the microscopic level.

Time passed slowly, and with the operation of a large number of cell tissues, although no difference could be seen on the outside, Lin Yi, who was always monitoring the status of the mother nest, knew that the structure of all these was changing rapidly.

Finally, a burst of signal stimulation tentatively emitted from the carpet roots and microstructure, and the holes on the surface of the mother nest began to slowly squirm - some nutrients were immediately injected into it through the carpet roots to replenish nutrients.

That is a sign that the grade individual is taking shape. As for whether it would succeed, Lin Yi was unsure. All he can do is continue to monitor the status of all this to prevent the situation from getting out of control. The rest depends on fate.

(End of this chapter)