The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 290 Underground World
In this way, controlling the most important issue of food sources can fundamentally ensure the stability of these Ezki people. As for other things that are not available, such as the "remote dog breeding technology" of later generations, Lin Yiwan I don’t come here very often, and since there are so few people now, it’s basically impossible to be fooled. It’s not very useful, and I don’t plan to bother with it for the time being.

In terms of genetic technology, no matter what, the other party can't defeat the nest group that started off this way. Not to mention the current encryption methods after genetic linguistics are implemented, the Ezki people may not be able to decipher the "Kraken" gene back then.

The situation here was on the right track for the time being, so Lin Yi stopped taking care of it and shifted his focus to the other side - on the other side, the individuals in the Anomalocaris nest seemed to have gained something new.

The diameter of Dikla is slightly larger than that of the Earth, but its gravity is lower. One of the main reasons is that there are a large number of cavity structures in its strata. Lin Yi already knew this, but he has not conducted detailed exploration of these cavities.

Originally, he thought that the environment in these stratigraphic cavities was not far different from the earth's cave ecological environment at most, and did not have high biodiversity. Until this time, Lin Yi discovered that he was wrong.

An ancient Dictyoptera flying insect was flying in the endless darkness, with a soft light emitting from the end of its abdomen. On its head, the low-light night vision compound eyes and the infrared night vision monocular cooperated, and with the help of that little light illumination, it Everything is in full view.

From the moment they entered the underground cavity, the flying insects were sensitive to bursts of vague radiation. Although it is nothing compared to the violent radiation in space, it can still cause damage to living organisms that have not been specially treated.

But it didn't matter. A layer of melanin and a matching radiation synthesis system were quickly put in place on the body surface, which quickly prevented the flying insect from being harmed by radiation, and even replenished some of its energy.

In the compound eyes, some strange fungus-like organisms also appeared in the field of vision. By collecting some samples, Lin Yi discovered that these fungus-like organisms also had structures similar to radiation synthesis.

Some strange, small organisms that seem to be able to tolerate radiation walk among these "fungi", forming a complete ecosystem based on radiosynthesis rather than photosynthesis.

Continuing forward, there are more and more fungi and other small creatures, and some fungi have even begun to emit a little bit of fluorescence, giving the previously invisible underground environment a glimmer of light.

The light was not strong, but it was enough. Some plants even began to grow tenaciously in such an environment, existing as primary consumers rather than producers, allowing more types of organisms to survive here.

At this time, the radiation in the environment has reached a very high level, and some radioactive ores are even directly exposed. Fungi cling tenaciously to them, emitting blue fluorescence.

Some fungi began to grow astonishingly tall, and their trunks had formed a lignin-like structure, rising into the sky, absorbing inexhaustible radiation and converting it into nutrients needed for their own survival.

There are plants climbing on it, and a variety of strange animals eating the plants and fungi - these plants seem to be relatively softer than their cousins ​​on the ground, and there are still many large animals that feed on them. The whole ecosystem is beautiful. It also looks normal.

Because of this reason, the environment here is closer to the earth than the surface ecosystem where the demons of Dikra star are dancing wildly. However, this is not important, since it is the same for the nest group anyway. Like some cave environments on Earth, Dikla's underground caves also have developed water systems. As for how the aquatic ecosystem is constructed, Lin Yi doesn't know yet. Perhaps it is nutrients from the surface world. indefinite.

Some small flying dragons that seemed to have lost their ability to fly again were walking around the water system - in fact, according to the classification standards of later generations, flying dragons may be more appropriately called the "Dragon Class", which is also divided into several categories.

For example, those with wing membranes were classified by Lin Yi as wyverns, while those with feather scales were classified as ornithosaurs. There are also some that cannot fly, such as theropods that resemble the large theropod dinosaurs on the earth and the odontosaurs that resemble early synapsids. In addition, there are also the sea dragons that evolved into aquatic groups.

A small to medium-sized member of the order Odontosaurus, the main predator in the underworld of Dikla. They have an appearance similar to the early small synapsid predators on the earth, and also have preliminary tooth differentiation, which is particularly ferocious.

According to genetic sequences, they even have certain infrared thermal imaging sensing capabilities. In addition, these ferocious hunters hunt in groups like wolves on Earth, and some larger prey are no match for them.

However, the ancient Dictyoptera flying insects that entered the underground world were completely unable to penetrate the eyes of these ferocious predators, but they could remain safe. They even had room to drop down like mosquitoes to collect some tissue samples to extract genetic sequences.

In addition to these, the underground world also brought Lin Yi some other surprises - in the water system, there were also some products that looked like spiders, crabs and some weird arthropod stitches, huge creatures wearing exoskeletons and moving their appendages. Wading forward, he occasionally picked up two fish with his well-developed chelicerae.

When he first saw these guys, Lin Yi was really shocked. After all, the gravity and other factors on this planet are not enough to allow life forms similar to arthropods to grow to such a large size.

However, after trying to analyze some genetic sequences, Lin Yi understood everything - this kind of arthropod-like creature does not have an endoskeleton, but it has a special kind in its body. Except for being easy to degrade and rot, it has amazing properties and is similar to high strength. Plastic organic polymer structure.

These organic polymer structures form a supporting endoskeleton in the bodies of these giant arthropods, allowing muscles to be attached. This also gave Lin Yi a new idea - it must be said that Diklasin can still bring surprises. .

Although in the field of aerospace, or to be precise on large-scale individuals like Xinghao that need to be used for a long time, this material is not of much use, but in some other disposable consumable structures, the improved material of the same type may be Can produce unexpected effects.

Even if it fails, in some other fields, such as providing supplies for the survivors of the Ezki exploration fleet, the new organic polymer structure can also play a significant role as a cheap substitute material, saving some construction costs.

And while Lin Yi was exploring the new underground world environment of Dikla in Tianyuan 4, other situations also occurred in the distance.

(End of this chapter)