The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 351: Light-year Conference

The body of the tunnel worm quickly approaches under the push of a series of tissues. The scaly plates on its surface wriggle under the traction of the muscle tissue below, continuously pushing its huge body to move underground like a giant earthworm.

However, with the astonishingly high-speed vibrating tooth-shaped armor scales in front of their heads digging, accompanied by vibrations and loud noises, their speed was not too slow. While the fierce battle was still going on in the cave, they were basically in place.

The tunnel worm has a special digestive system in its body that can quickly expel some of the broken soil and rocks in front of it, but this time, there is an extra process in the middle.

A series of detection and analysis structures can easily separate the components of biological tissue from the stone, and then quickly analyze it to prove that it came from a small animal that was accidentally caught in it, which is the target this time.

The other party used the same cellular autolysis technology as Lin Yi, but while Lin Yi used this technology to dissolve small-scale products, the other party dissolved the entire tentacle together, and it also contained various complex tissues, so it was impossible to completely destroy the body in a short period of time.

Even if the body is completely destroyed, a small amount of tissue will remain for a period of time afterwards. Before they are completely decomposed by microorganisms, Lin Yi will have enough time to find and track them along the way to achieve his goal of following the clues.

In the main battlefield, the battle is nearing its end - a large number of suicidal ancient web-winged flying insects joined the battlefield and fought with those seeker variants, ensuring air supremacy and giving the explosive flame armor a chance to open fire and cause damage to the huge tentacle structure.

At this time, the bud-like structure at the end of the huge tentacle was still wide open, and countless eyeballs were scanning everything in front of them, quietly watching the blazing plasma flames erupt from the back of the Explosive Flame Armor and shoot towards it.

The first ball of blazing plasma flame exploded, and the high-temperature plasma ball under the confinement of the magnetic fluid exploded as the magnetic field was destroyed. The blazing ion flame immediately bloomed, covering the entire terminal structure of the huge tentacle.

Without the restraint of the magnetic field, the high-temperature plasma flame spread rapidly at an astonishing and uncontrolled speed, engulfing everything around the landing point, and then quickly dissipated into a ball of harmless gas as the temperature could no longer be maintained.

But in the center, the end of the huge tentacle had been burned to a charred color, and even due to the spread of plasma, the shock wave caused it tore the petals and eyeballs on the upper half into pieces.

The plasma flame sprayed by the Explosive Flame Armor at this giant tentacle was larger in volume and more lethal than before, and it was fired from multiple locations at the same time. The giant tentacle was not covered with enough exoskeleton tissue to resist heat and damage, and it was difficult for it to withstand all of this.

The ends of the huge tentacle, which concentrated most of the nerve tissue, were destroyed, and the entire structure of the tentacle immediately fell to the ground powerlessly. Most of the structures around it had been cleared, leaving only a few scattered variant seekers still avoiding the attacks of the suicidal ancient web-winged insects.

The huge body of one of the tunnel worms quickly broke out of the ground, stretching out the four hoe-shaped appendages on both sides of its head to support its body, and then opening the scale structures. A large number of fungal spores and nutrients poured out, taking root and multiplying on the ground, replacing the original fungal tissue.

This time, the difference is that because the "live broadcast" is still going on, some crazy saw-ants come forward, and at the same time, some special ancient web-winged flying insects fall down to process the giant tentacles and a series of structures. The claws and mandibles of the crazy saw-ants waved, splitting the giant tentacles as a whole, revealing a series of structures underneath, and with the help of those special ancient web-winged flying insects, they are gradually displayed in the compound eyes of the reconnaissance ancient web-winged flying insects, and then transmitted to light years away through a series of broadcasts.

Those ancient web-winged flying insects have tweezer-like forelimbs similar to the chelicerae of worker scorpions, which can assist in a series of operations, such as assisting in the dissection of the claws of crazy-toothed saw ants, or unfolding the structure and presenting it clearly in front of the "camera".

In the star system where another exploration fleet of Ezki is currently stationed, which is light years away, the originally tense atmosphere has gradually eased as more and more evidence has been presented. Communications have gradually been established stably, and a large amount of information has been transmitted back and forth.

The distance between the two sides was gradually closing. From the rear, the second batch of main star scorpions had arrived. The huge body of the pioneering star scorpion was also mixed in among them. It was fully loaded with nutrients and was sailing forward under the protection of several escort star scorpions.

The shield-scale reactive armor layer on the escort star scorpion's body sparkles with bright colors under the illumination of the stars, and the blazing plasma flame at the tail emits dazzling thermal radiation, shining like a bright lamp on the cosmic background radiation.

When passing by several barren planets, countless nutrient airdrop capsules based on the Type-III Baghorn Stone, but with all the space inside filled with nutrients except for the propellant, were thrown out from the huge body of the Pioneer Star Scorpion and fell to the surface of the planet.

Whenever passing by a planet with at least a solid surface, it has become Lin Yi's habit to drop two airdrop capsules no matter what the environment is like. After all, the airdrop capsules are like seeds. They are considered consumables at the beginning of their design. Even if they cannot gain a foothold, the loss is not great. But once they can take root, they can quickly proliferate into a huge forward base.

Although factors such as gravity, rotation and revolution speed, nearby space environment, temperature changes, the presence or absence of an atmosphere and, if so, its general density will affect the specific environmental conditions of a barren planet, there are not many star scorpion production bases as perfect in all aspects as Gondwana, but they are ultimately the resources of the entire planet.

Even though the maintenance costs and transportation efficiency caused by a series of conditions make it impossible to achieve the amazing production scale of Gondwana, such planets are the majority. Their number makes up for the lack of efficiency of a single planet, making this barren planet that is unsuitable for survival in the eyes of countless later humans and Ezki people the foundation for the nest to gain a foothold in the starry sea.

As for the issue of resource content within the planet, it is not important because most of the filling materials consumed by the star scorpions can be replaced by high-strength organic materials, and the higher efficiency of catalytic processing of metal ions at the cellular level makes the hive's demand for various rare minerals lower than traditional mechanical structures.

However, at this time, all this is not the point - after a certain amount of contact, the misunderstanding can be said to be basically resolved. At this time, the communication between the two sides has deepened with the transmission of more information, and at least on the current topic, a consensus has been reached.

This also included some information that needed to be conveyed by some members of the remnants of the Fifth Exploration Fleet, which was also relayed by Lin Yi one by one through the large radio transmitting equipment carried by the Star Scorpion.

A three-party meeting, spanning countless star systems and a distance measured in light years, began under the recitation of the space synapse structure.

(End of this chapter)