The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 37 Abstract Master
  After the two pressure-resistant soldiers were killed, Lin Yi lost his vision under the abyss and could only edit the genetic sequence of the soldiers while quietly waiting for the other party's possible response.

As dawn broke, there was sudden movement under the abyss. The two soldiers who landed on the seabed to rest immediately moved their paddling legs and tails under Lin Yi's control, opened their sickle limbs, and stepped forward to meet them.

A figure swung its leaf-shaped swimming legs on its side and slowly swam out of the darkness, revealing three blood-red compound eyes - it was a three-eyed Hed shrimp.

Five ordinary anomalies were guarding behind the three-eyed Hed shrimp, and further below, the huge silhouette of the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp was also revealed, with white spots on the side of its body cut by the sickle limbs of the soldier. flesh.

It seems that the life of the anomalocaris nest is really not easy. As a high-end combat power, the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp is likely to be the only one left. So much so that even though he was seriously injured, he was forced to float up to the shallow sea.

The pair of swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp's appendages that are always close to the bottom of the headplate to keep the body streamlined are spread out. There is also a large exoskeleton in the mouth, and the carving marks on it are vaguely visible - it was Lin Yi who previously controlled the work. The exoskeleton fragment sent down the trench.

Lin Yi felt happy, it seemed like things were going well. He asked Binghao, who had fallen to the seabed, to move his appendages and slowly retreat, retract his sickle limbs, and at the same time lower his scorpion tail, canceling his alert.

Then, he controlled a worker shrimp to step forward slowly, raised and opened its two pairs of chelicerae, and waved at the three-eyed Hed shrimp in front of him.

The three-eyed Hed shrimp shook its eye stalks and compound eyes, and its large, stalkless middle eye shone with luster. It also slowly stepped forward, swinging its leaf legs to lower its height, and its body slowly stopped on the seabed, stretching out a pair of The appendage scratched on the sand on the seabed, slowly drawing a crooked triangle.

Then came Lin Yi's familiar semicircle and a few short sticks - the combination turned out to be the abstract version of the right helical stone he had painted before.

Then there are the abstract versions of the feather-winged horseshoe crab pattern and the anomalocaridids pattern, which has the same composition as the last painting painted by Lin Yi, representing the anomalocaridids nest and the anomalocaridids nests fighting together against the helix-horned stone nest group.

Lin Yi immediately controlled the worker to use his chelicerae to carve the same pattern on the sand to represent confirmation. Then, a pair of compound eyes looked at the three-eyed Hurd shrimp opposite.

Four eyes, no, five eyes faced each other, and Lin Yi could clearly see that there seemed to be a flash of light in the compound eyes of the three-eyed Hed shrimp.

The three-eyed Hed shrimp then continued to carve its way onto the seabed with its appendages. Although the shape was more abstract than what he had drawn, it still made Lin Yi's eyes widen - if the compound eyes of arthropods could be enlarged.

A simple horizontal line, and under the horizontal line is an abstract anomalocaris. It consists of an oblate oval representing the body, two upward protruding circles, which roughly represent compound eyes, and two downward downwards, representing The arc of the appendage.

At first glance, there was nothing. With the opponent's learning speed, Lin Yi had already guessed that the hive minds of other "wild" hives also had similar human IQs, but they did not have the cognitive world of the channel system, and they did not have human civilization like him. It’s just a foundation accumulated over thousands of years.

What really shocked him was what was above the horizontal line in the painting.

Above the horizontal line, several small dots were drawn, but these small dots dragged a "tail" diagonally upward. Combining the horizontal line with the abstract style of shrimp below, Lin Yi immediately understood that the horizontal line It represents the water surface, and with such a shape on the water surface, I'm afraid the other party wanted to express the scene of a falling meteor!

There are often a large number of meteors streaking across the sky, and it is difficult not to remind him of the Darivian Period, which is the period when meteor events occurred in the Middle Ordovician.

Combined with previous speculations, the things that caused individuals to mutate into pupae and form nests were brought to the earth by the Middle Ordovician meteor event. Then, the Anomalocaris nest group may be one of the "people" involved in the meteor event. ! Gong Hui raised his head sharply and looked at the three-eyed Hed shrimp opposite.

But the opponent did not stop at all, swaying his leaf feet, moving to the side twice, and continued to carve on the sand on the seabed.

Lin Yi didn't dare to be distracted at all. Gong Hao's compound eyes were firmly locked on the opponent's appendages, for fear of missing any details.

The second painting took shape quickly. It is still a horizontal line, but this time, small dots are drawn under the horizontal line, which seems to represent meteors falling into the sea.

On the other side of the painting, under the horizontal line, is still an abstract image of Anomalocaris. But this time, the front end of the oval is elongated, pulling out a pointed end, while the compound eyes are retracted backwards, presumably to represent the swordfish-shaped Heard shrimp.

This painting seems to depict a colony of swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp chasing a meteor in the sky and swimming towards the sea where the meteor fell.

Afterwards, the three-eyed Hed shrimp continued to move and continue to draw, and Lin Yi also controlled Gong Hao to look at it more seriously.

In the third painting, Lin Yi's familiar figure - Jiao Shi appeared.

However, I don’t know whether it is intentional or the painter is limited. The shells of these hornstones seem to be different from those of the straight hornstones. They are slightly curved and appear in the shape of a hat rather than a cone. They seem to be more in line with the shapes of early hornstones such as the short stick hornstone and the Alice wood hornstone. feature.

In the picture, the tentacles of several horned stones are wrapped with patterns representing the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp. The body of the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp is turned over, which seems to represent its death. It probably means that the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp was killed by a few horn stones.

This painting is supposed to show that the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp went to the place where the meteor crashed, was surrounded by a group of horned stone species, and was killed. The amount of information in this is quite large.

The horned stones that hunt in groups are most likely today's horned stone nest groups.

If it's not that the three-eyed Hed's shrimp was not drawn well, it means that the initial shape of the individual under the hornstone nest is not a large-scale rectangular stone like the helical hornstone, but more similar to the short club hornstone. It also proves that it was born earlier.

But this is not the key. The real key is that the suspected nascent right spiral stone nest cluster is located near the possible meteor crash site, which makes Lin Yi can't help but think about it.

Thinking about it, the three-eyed Hurd shrimp opposite has already painted the next picture on the seabed.

In the painting, there seemed to be a large number of strange shrimps and swordfish-shaped Herd shrimps gathering together. There was not much information, and Lin Yi directly ignored them. The next painting caught his attention again.

In the painting, the bodies of a large number of Anomalocaris are bent at strange angles and concentrated at the bottom of the picture, which seems to represent their death. At the top of the picture, there is a slender triangle, a semicircle and several short lines - corner stones. It also specially emphasizes that the shell is long and straight. Combined with the body shape of the suspected Anomalocaris corpse below, there is no doubt that it is straight. The Heliconia Stone has grown up, and the picture should be of it massacring a nest of Anomalocaris!

(End of this chapter)