The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 304 The End-Permian Extinction

For the remaining escort stars, it must be too late to slow down. They reluctantly changed their orbits, passing by the side of the Earth's orbit, and then found ways to slow down and return to the Earth's orbit.

But at this time, these are no longer the focus. On the surface of the earth, almost all the individuals of all levels rushed out and rushed to the scene of the incident to check the situation, but in fact, there was no need for it.

Even in space, the escort star's well-developed compound eyes at the level of an astronomical telescope can penetrate the atmosphere and easily see what is happening on the ground - what a terrifying scene it is.

The terrifying red beam almost penetrated the earth's crust. At this time, it seemed that the bottom was completely detonated. Astonishing cracks spread rapidly on the earth, accompanied by red magma spewing out. The scale of the eruption was, are clearly visible in space.

The earth is collapsing, and the hot magma from the earth's mantle spurts out as the ground cracks, rising up to a thousand meters under the astonishing high pressure, as if the heaven and earth are dyed blood red - that is the blood of the earth.

On Earth, level individuals close to the site of the incident can already hear the earth-shattering loud noises. More magma spewed out, just like the stormy waves at the end of the Ordovician Period, but this huge wave was actually composed of fiery magma.

The blazing waves swept past, and the tsunami-like magma rolled in with a devastating momentum. Wherever it passed, deserts, forests, and even rivers and lakes no longer existed, and everything was reduced to ashes.

The magma passed through, leaving only a thick black basalt layer. Between the ferocious cracks formed due to various reasons between the rock layers, the remaining lava was still flowing slowly along the cracks, forming rivers of magma.

Massive amounts of volcanic ash material had already spewed out with the first round of eruptions, and now gradually gathered into clouds, covering the sky. Viewed from the ground, the fire of the magma became the only source of light under the volcanic ash layer, reflecting the dark red of the clouds, making it look like purgatory.

The time is the late Permian period, and the location is Siberia in later times. The cracked earth, gushing magma and purgatory-like scene made Lin Yi immediately understand what this meant.

The End-Permian Extinction, the most terrifying mass extinction event in the history of life on earth, is also known as the Siberian Traps Event, but Lin Yi did not expect that it would come in this form.

This is by no means as simple as ordinary volcanic activity, but the eruption and explosion of an entire mantle plume - an ordinary volcanic eruption is nothing more than a pimple for the earth, but this time, even for the earth, it is called Severe bleeding on the body surface.

In later generations, some people even called the end-Permian mass extinction "the mother of mass extinction events", and its horror is evident. And everything that happened at this time was just the beginning of this doomsday punishment.

The last time Lin Yi personally experienced it was the mass extinction event caused by gamma ray bursts at the end of the Ordovician period, which wiped out 85% of all living things. The second time he "missed" for some reasons was the long mud event. The mass extinction at the end of the Basin Period wiped out 75% of all living things.

But this time, the end-Permian extinction event wiped out up to 95% of all living things. In the coming period, the most severely affected marine environment will even seem to return to the pre-Cambrian period.

Lin Yi never imagined that this earth-shattering extinction event was actually caused by him - it was the giant ship's astonishing red beam that penetrated the sky and the earth, and somehow detonated the mantle plume that was already in the active period. , triggering this unprecedented catastrophe. Even though the main damage was still caused by the mantle plume, and what the other party did was just igniting this already unstable powder keg, Lin Yi was still shocked by such power.

Some swarming versions of the ancient Dictyoptera flying insects have arrived nearby to observe all this happening at close range - even very soon, this form will no longer be the ordinary flying insects that can be seen everywhere, but the final swan song.

The results of later studies show that the source of their appearance and structure, that is, the real ancient Dictyoptera insects, was also buried in this catastrophe - yes, even insects known for their tenacity, as many as eight orders perished in Beneath the fiery mantle material.

This is only a small part of the power of heaven and earth, 95%, but it is just speculation based on taxonomy. If calculated based on the number of living things, this number is enough to reach 99%, or even infinitely close to 100%.

Just a short distance away, the entire history of life on earth will be fixed at this moment, and this magnificent blue planet will from now on be the same as Mars, Venus, Gondwana and the like.

The giant insects of the order Archaeoptera, the order Acroptera, or the order Permida flap their membrane wings desperately and fly past the nests of the flying insects of the order Archaeoptera. Only the nest version of the ancient web-winged flying insects flew upstream as if they were out of place, flying towards the purgatory where the fiery magma was still surging.

On the ground, everyone from the huge Cuposaurus to the tiny lizards and canodonts fled one after another. From time to time, hoarse screams and lamentations could be heard. At the back of the team, lives were being swallowed up by the fire of hell.

All flesh and bones were turned into ashes and solidified in the dark rock formations, completely erasing all traces of their existence. In the face of heaven's punishment, ordinary carbon-based organisms are so fragile, even almost all the planets in the nest are the same.

Among the fleeing beasts, the wolf lizards and various other oriole-toothed beasts stood out. At this time, they completely turned a blind eye to the prey that was almost within easy reach. In the eyes of the beasts, there was a lizard-like cold blood and a jackal-like look His cunning has long been replaced by fear.

There was another explosion, and on the side of the beast group, the ground suddenly burst open, and a column of magma spewed out, engulfing several creatures that happened to be directly above. In the spreading fissure, more magma gushes out and engulfs two other creatures.

In the next million years, such turbulent magma and the thick basalt formed will cover a full seven million square kilometers. This number is almost close to the land area of ​​Lin Yi's motherland in his previous life.

For the beasts below, escaping has become a luxury. The ground is splitting. This is an instantaneous stratigraphic change caused by violent crustal activity. From time to time, land falls apart and is engulfed by magma gushing out from the gaps.

In the field of vision of these ancient Dictyoptera flying insects, in front of the herd of beasts that had become more and more scattered as the earth cracked, the earth had almost completely cracked, and the magma pillars and surging magma tides were coming again.

Their fate was determined at this time, just like 95% of all species, which were turned into imprints in the rock during this shocking catastrophe, and were completely swallowed up by this man-made natural disaster.

(End of this chapter)