The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 347: Mutual Convergence to Show Respect

It seems that they have realized that it is of no use. At this time, the raiding dragons and pursuers have basically no longer appeared in the periphery. At the periphery, no individuals of the opponent who are controlled by various means have been found again for the time being.

The arrival of a large group of crazy-toothed saw ants allowed nearby wild animals to sense the movement from afar and quickly evacuate. The various structures in the cave could naturally easily capture all the movements and make preparations.

In the echolocation signals, some huge signal sources can be sensed, rapidly approaching from the depths of the opponent's nest, and gradually revealing themselves in other sensory systems.

The outline of the first individual has already appeared in the infrared reconnaissance compound eyes of the ancient web-winged flying insect, and after a series of tossing and turning, it has been sent across countless light years through the space synapse.

The first to appear were ferocious heads with features of a ravenerosaur, followed closely by a body that looked like a hunting ravenerosaur, but slightly sturdier, with all four limbs on the ground. However, a pair of forelimbs had a structure somewhat similar to that of a ravenerosaur king with claw blades.

However, what surprised Lin Yi the most was that the body structure was somewhat different from that of the Raider Dragon. On the shoulders and back of the slightly compact body, there was a pair of familiar claws that were somewhat similar to the catching feet of a mantis.

The exact sequence of its gene is still unknown, but one can tell without even looking at it that if Lin Yi said that this structure had nothing to do with the claws of the Crazy Tooth Saw Ant, he would never believe it. This was also the main reason why he was surprised and even couldn't hold back.

After all, the colony has always been converging on the designs of other creatures, but this time, the colony's design was actually copied by other forces. It seems that this is the first time since the demise of the Helicon Stone Colony.

Now, the genetic sequence of individuals at the hive level has more than one layer of encryption. One layer is the direct encryption of the genetic sequence, and the other layer is the simplest and crudest physical dissolution.

A series of special enzymes will directly dissolve the gene chain, and all that will remain is a series of base pairs. Unless there is another existence that has realized genetic language, it will absolutely not be able to connect these scattered base pairs again.

And because the arrangement of base pairs is also encrypted, even if it is spliced ​​again, it still has to face the various encryptions in the language-based gene sequence. Generally speaking, for this kind of structure with little technical content, it is better to refer to the appearance and grow it by itself.

While he was thinking, more similar individuals continued to emerge - this time, they were like a smaller version of the Raidersaurus, with only a pair of forelimbs and the hindquarters dragging on the ground. However, their abdomens were not so bloated, but formed into a long snake-like tail.

At the back of their heads, two huge holes and the internal muscle tissue are vaguely visible. They are exactly the same as the hole structure on the back edge of the head of the Raider Dragon that can eject special spikes, and their functions are probably relatively similar.

And it was indeed so - the sound of breaking air was endless, and the moment they emerged, sharp spines shot out from those holes, shooting towards the mad saw-ant in front, the size and force were even greater than those after the raiding dragon.

Thick, long, and sharp spines hit the exoskeleton of the Crazy Tooth Saw Ant. Compared to the spikes on the back of the Raider Dragon, the kinetic energy carried by these spines has been significantly upgraded. Their power is probably comparable to that of a large fixed crossbow in the cold weapon era, enough to kill a large native creature on the Dikla Star with one shot. And its firing rate is similar to that of the Crazy Tooth Saw Ant when loading shotgun pellets. And because it has two hole structures, firing alternately, the actual firing rate is slightly faster than that of the Crazy Tooth Saw Ant, but the lethality, although improved, is still not enough.

For the Crazy-toothed Saw-ants, the lethality of these spines can probably only cause real effective damage by hitting weak parts such as the compound eyes. However, with the Crazy-toothed Saw-ants' flexible dog-like mobility in the mountains, it is not easy to achieve this goal.

Those smaller melee individuals also rushed forward, but the Crazy Sawtooth Ants did not step forward to respond. Instead, they scattered, revealing the even larger figures behind the colony.

Seeing that they were unable to lock onto those relatively flexible targets, those individuals that looked like small raiding dragons also changed their targets and began shooting at the larger figures that appeared in the rear.

What they didn't know was that they had once again chosen the wrong target - the main battle soldiers shook their heads, and the thorns bounced directly off the streamlined main exoskeleton layer that played the same role as the inclined armor of the main battle tank, without even leaving any trace.

Then, pillars of blazing fire gushed out from between those ferocious jaws, and those individuals who still seemed to be not under the direct command of the hive consciousness but fighting only on instinct quickly and instinctively began to dodge.

But the blazing flames unexpectedly hit almost no individuals, but just kept chasing after them - lacking a macroscopic global perspective, they did not notice that all individuals were gradually being compressed into a smaller space.

The pillar of fire suddenly went out, but before they could react, some individuals with slightly different appearances walked out from the main battle armor group, moving their six limbs that were longer than ordinary main battle armor, and quickly took their positions.

Their hind limbs slowly straightened, raising their entire hindquarters high. In the middle of their backs, a huge hole suddenly appeared in the towering structure. Around the hole, the scales that had previously seemed like ordinary keratinous protrusions began to move.

Immediately, balls of blazing orange-yellow matter surged out from the holes, dragging an equally surging blazing trail, shooting down diagonally forwards, covering the enemy group in front of them!
Balls of fire burst out, illuminating the entire space, and then dispersed, leaving behind only broken, charred corpses covered with burn marks, which seemed even more terrifying than those caused by traditional fire.

Faint electric currents flashed between the special armor plates around the holes on the backs of those special main combat armors. A few seconds later, another round of attacks came in an instant, covering the creatures in front that survived the first round of attacks in a familiar way.

At this time, they rushed forward in vain, but to no avail. The second round of the same attack came in an instant - this time, the attack points were slightly separated, and those individuals who tried to disperse and dodge were killed in the same way.

Amid the corpses scattered all over the ground, these special-type main battle weapons flattened their abdomens again and resumed their marching posture. Under the protection of their ordinary counterparts and mad-toothed saw ants nearby, they continued to move forward towards the cave, preparing to completely destroy this place like the previous enemy nest.

(End of this chapter)