The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 33 Guess
  The head shell of the three-eyed Hed shrimp is very small, and the huge compound eye occupies almost half of the entire head.

According to observations, the claw-like appendages and mouth cones on their heads are also slightly smaller than ordinary Anomalocaris. They seem to have degraded their attack capabilities. They are specially used as "reconnaissance satellites" for the nest group, floating near the water and overlooking the entire scene.

When the battlefield moved to the water surface, the three-eyed Hed shrimp no longer had a view overlooking the entire field. The attack accuracy of the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp dropped significantly, and it could no longer accurately hit a soldier with every stab. middle.

This allowed the swarm of soldiers to gather under Lin Yi's control. Some of them continued to float up to attack the three-eyed Hed shrimp, while the other part surrounded and attacked the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp.

The swordfish-shaped Herd shrimp's swimming legs are swept back at a small angle, and the tail blades also swing with the shaking of the body, providing a small amount of thrust to charge from the bottom up towards the soldiers attacking the three-eyed Herd shrimp.

The body of a soldier was pushed upright by the sharp edge of the sword. Immediately, the nearly four-meter-long body of the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp rushed out of the water driven by its swimming feet, causing a splash of water droplets.

The body of the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp swung, and the blade of the sword slashed heavily at Binghao's side. Binghao's body was thrown straight away, and a string of blue horseshoe crab blood streaked across, falling like raindrops under the action of gravity. Return to the sea.

The scene was like the famous picture of marlin attacking bonito in later generations, except that the attacker was replaced by the first sword-beaked predator in history that was not discovered by later generations - the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp, and the attacker was replaced by the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp. The soldiers developed from the giant feather-winged horseshoe crab template, but the ending was the same.

There was another splash of water, and the body of the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp fell heavily into the water. Under the influence of gravity, it penetrated another soldier with its sword edge. Immediately shaking his head, the sword edge tore Binghao in half, turning to the seabed and falling to the seabed, dragging a trail of azure horseshoe crab blood.

But taking this opportunity, Lin Yi controlled a second-generation soldier to quietly approach the direction of the three-eyed Hed shrimp.

The tail swung, and the body rushed upwards driven by the four pairs of paddling feet. The sharp sickle limbs slashed, and the bushes of blades staggered and cut, easily cutting the three-eyed Hed shrimp's body into two pieces.

Without the real-time global vision transmitted by the three-eyed Hurd shrimp, flaws would inevitably appear in the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp's path.

Under the cover of other ordinary anomalies, Lin Yi only controlled the swarm of soldiers to shrink the encirclement smaller and smaller, gradually limiting the range of activities of the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the surrounding ordinary shrimps rushed forward at the risk of their lives, their claw-like appendages facing the sickle limbs of the soldiers. Amidst the sound of chitin clashing, blood and tissue fluid splashed out. The battle between the blood-drop-shaped staggered tooth plates and the clusters of blade spines on the sickle limbs each had its own winner or loser, but the purpose of these anomalocaridids had been achieved.

The leaf-shaped swimming legs on the side of the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp swing greatly, and the body shoots out like an arrow again, but it does not launch another attack, but shakes the tail blade, and the body draws an arc, from Those ordinary anomalies risked their lives to clear the way and fled in the same direction.

Lin Yi controlled the soldiers and immediately chased him forward. He clamped his sickle limbs and hooked the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp's body with the blade spine at the end. However, it only penetrated a little before the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp struggled violently and broke free.

The price was that a shocking long scar was opened on its huge body, and tissue fluid surged out, leaving a trail behind it.

Seeing that the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp successfully escaped, the ordinary anomalocaridids around it stopped entangled, leaving behind countless corpses, and retreated towards the abyss without looking back.

The dark body quickly submerged into the equally dark abyss of the ocean and disappeared. Only the corpses on the seabed prove their existence.

...     Under heavy protection, the floating mother nest began to inject water into the vesicle-like structure, and its body slowly descended to the seabed. At the same time, the workers on board broke away from the nest and began to pick up garbage skillfully.

While the workers tore out the flesh and blood of the strange shrimp and stuffed it into the holes on the surface of the mother nest, Lin Yi fell into deep thought.

Recalling the scene when he first encountered these strange shrimps, he couldn't help but feel glad that he had not rashly attacked these strange shrimps.

With the combat power of the first-generation soldier, it is already the limit to fight back and forth with the swarms of ordinary anomalies, but facing this swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp... there is only one word: send.

But what surprised him the most was the attitude of these strange shrimps. They did not show aggression towards the soldiers of similar size, but they attacked the pioneering females that entered the abyss.

At the same time, it did not show any aggression towards the normal fixed mother's nest, but it showed surprising aggression towards the floating mother's nest after just one glance.

In addition, this anomalocaridid ​​colony does not seem to be having an easy time.

Judging from the current situation, they are fully capable of breaking out of the trench and spreading their populations in a wider environment, just like what the Lin Yiguo Clan Nest Group and the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group did. Rather than being confined to a small territory under this dark abyss, it only floats up to the shallow sea at night.

There are at least three levels of individuals - the common Anomalocaris, the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp, and the three-eyed Hurd shrimp that can float in shallow seas, indicating that they are not unable to adapt to the water pressure environment of shallow seas.

Moreover, the body structures of the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp and the three-eyed Hurd shrimp are actually not suitable for the environment in the ocean trench.

The relatively small space makes it impossible for the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp to display its high swimming speed and rapid slashing ability. The three-eyed Hurd shrimp is even more unlucky in the dim and lightless deep sea and cannot perform at all. role.

These two grades indicate that this anomalocaridid ​​nest group belongs to the open water of the ocean, rather than this narrow trench for them.

There, the large, stalkless middle eye of the three-eyed Hurd shrimp can effectively play a surveillance role, and the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp can also let go of speed and gallop across the ocean.

Moreover, the complex targeted grade differentiation shows that they were once a highly developed nest colony that was highly adapted to ocean life. Its level of specialization is much better than that of the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Cluster, and even surpasses Lin Yi's current Huo Clan Nest Cluster.

This gave Lin Yi some bad guesses - could they have lost the competition with other creatures and were forced to hide in the abyss, only coming to shallow seas at night to avoid competitors?
  Anyone who can force a true social nest group that transcends the times to look like this must also be a true social nest group.

As for the true social nest group nearby, excluding Lin Yi himself, there is only one left - the right spiral stone nest group.

According to the available information, Orthospermum adopts a nomadic lifestyle and will inevitably move in a considerable range. It may conflict with the Anomalocaris nest group at its peak, and they also have floating mother nests!
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