The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 316 Alien Creatures
In the formation, a small number of ancient web-winged flying insects were equipped with echolocation systems. In the underground world, this was a very practical structure. For example, now, these beggar's version of radar carriers had already locked onto the target's detailed location.

The infrared night vision monocular also showed the outlines of the bodies of several members of the order Sauropsida, emitting infrared thermal radiation. Obviously, they were also warm-blooded animals with a high level of evolution.

The dense formation of ancient web-winged flying insects flew almost close to the top of the underground world hole to prevent the other party from attacking. At this safe distance, although the other party once again noticed the approach of the ancient web-winged flying insects, it seemed that there was really nothing they could do.

But one action still caught Lin Yi's attention - the largest individual in the group, who was not sure whether it was an adult or a large-sized one, seemed to emit a low-frequency sound wave of a certain frequency. It should not be audible to human ears, but it can be clearly heard in the wide-band receiving organs of the nest version of the ancient web-winged flying insect.

However, Lin Yi did not take it to heart, and quickly made the next move - among the flying insects that had already arrived above the opponent's group, all the flying insects bent their abdomens together, and a dense purple-black mist sprayed down from the end of the abdomen, forming a cloud of mist under the flying insects.

The main component of these clouds is the fungal spores. If it is impossible to collect samples directly at close range, Lin Yi can only use more violent means, such as using the fungal spores to directly parasitize as he does now.

The mist floated down, but the creatures did not dodge this time, as if they were unaware of the power of the fungal spores. The second batch of ancient web-winged flying insects also slowly approached, ready to spray more fungal spores.

At the same time, the first batch of fungal spores have begun to invade the opponent's body through the respiratory system and more strange locations, quickly eroding the original cell tissues and taking deep roots for further parasitism.

Lin Yi is already very skilled in this process. From the Ezki people to all kinds of strange animals, no one can escape his clutches. No matter whether the parasite is dead or alive in a short period of time, the life is in the control of Lin Yi.

But this time, what Lin Yi didn't expect was that this parasitic method that had always worked would sometimes fail.

According to past practice, the next step after invading the body is to enter the circulatory system and quickly spread throughout the body. But this time, after entering the circulatory system of these creatures, the microscopic spatial synaptic structures in the fungal carpet spores lost contact one after another.

According to the last signal sent back, these spores seemed to be dissolved directly from the outside. Lin Yi immediately came up with a guess that the second batch of ancient web-winged flying insects that were spraying the fungal carpet spores immediately stopped "dropping bombs" and began to modify and produce some new fungal carpet spores at the microscopic level.

The single-cell spores at the microscopic level were cultivated extremely quickly and were replaced very quickly. A large number of improved spores continued to spray down, sprinkling towards those creatures again and performing the same operation.

This time, Lin Yi wrapped a layer of corrosion-resistant cell wall structure made of special material on the surface of the new generation of fungal mat spores, and it really worked. After invading the circulatory system again, it finally did not dissolve again.

More fungal spores were able to continue to spread deeper. At the same time, Lin Yi finally did some research on these strange creatures at the microscopic level. He felt that the various mysteries about them would be solved soon. Lack of morality, lack of great morality, this was Lin Yi's first thought after a preliminary analysis of the structure.

Analysis shows that the blood of this creature is highly acidic and quite corrosive, which is why the first batch of fungal spores were all dissolved. This acidic blood, which is even more terrifying than the toxin of the rove beetle, is really not something that these ordinary fungal spores, which are targeted at ordinary creatures and have not undergone much strengthening treatment, can resist.

This alone would not be a big deal, the most important thing is that although it is a large creature similar to the vertebrates on Earth, it has a structure similar to an open-tube circulatory system, and a large amount of acidic blood flows directly in specialized cell tissues that will not harm itself.

If evolution is the result of editing, then the editor of this biological evolution is undoubtedly as Lin Yi said, truly wicked, coming up with such a genius combination attack structure to disgust all other creatures.

The advantage of the open-tube circulatory system is that it is not easy to cause heavy bleeding due to blood vessel rupture, while the disadvantage is that it is easy for foreign matter to spread rapidly and invade the whole body. However, when combined with this special acidic blood, the situation is different.

This acidic blood is enough to completely prevent most of the native pathogens of Dikla from invading, and the blood that flows directly through the gaps between cells will flow out after any epidermis is injured, but it will not cause excessive blood loss, but instead form a means of defense.

However, this phenomenon also made Lin Yi a little curious - for social predators of this size, theoretically no creature should be able to pose a threat to them, and they should not have specially evolved a structure that is more defensive than offensive and is not used in intraspecific competition.
Everything may still require a detailed analysis of the gene sequence to answer, but Lin Yi believes that whether it is this question or the question he cares about most, that is, whether this is a true social creature, there will soon be a definite answer.

During this period of time, some behavioral observations on them can also continue. Lin Yi is really curious why they show such unreasonable aggression towards these nest-like ancient web-winged flying insects.

But at the same time, some other situations occurred - among the signals continuously sent back by the ancient web-winged insects equipped with echolocation systems, a large number of signals from flying creatures suddenly came from a certain direction, and the number was quite astonishing.

There are no Dikla locusts in the underground world, and the largest Dikla locusts will not send out such an echo signal, which means that it must be some small or medium-sized members of the Ornithorhynchus or Pterosauria that are approaching in groups.

The echo signal showed that their direction was extremely clear, and it was near the location where the ancient web-winged flying insect swarm was currently located. They were not just passing by, but were obviously well prepared.

Whether on the surface or underground, Lin Yi had never seen such a large-scale group of Dikla Star flying dragons. Considering these sudden appearances and the equally strange large animals that were suspected to be eusocial, he was afraid that this area was indeed not that simple.

For some reason, the low-frequency sound waves emitted by the larger unknown creature before reappeared in Lin Yi's consciousness. Could there be some unknown relationship between the two?
(End of this chapter)