The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 44 Dikra Brood Group
  Seemingly stimulated by the smell of blood from the previous killing of the huge Iowa Jaw, in the huge compound eyes of the sifting mother, I could see more leader ancient jaws swinging their eel-shaped bodies towards them, trying to separate them. A cup of soup.

But Iowa Jaw's body has been almost eaten. Seeing that the newly arrived leader of the ancient jaw group has been eaten, it looks like a siren with strangely huge blood-red eyes staring at the floating mother nest and the one pushing the mother nest. Filter the foreign motherflies.

In fact, compared to the seven pairs of conodonts with sharp and large spines in the Iowa jaw, the three pairs of saw blade-like conodonts in the ancient jaw are not very suitable for breaking through hard shells, but they are very suitable for sawing through soft flesh. Take good care of yourself.

The exoskeleton of the soldier's abdomen and the outer shell of the mother's nest are relatively soft, so it may be dangerous to face the saw blade-shaped feeding structure of the leader's ancient jaw. But the alien's exoskeleton is hard enough to prevent its bite.

Therefore, protecting the mother nest has become a top priority. Fortunately, the number of soldiers was large enough to prevent the attack of the Ancient Jaw Group.

Under Lin Yi's control, the soldiers dispersed and faced the group of leading ancient jaws.

A pair of sharp sickle limbs covered with blades and thorns were widely opened, but the leader Ancient Jaw showed no fear at all. Although it had no jaws, its mouth that was still very destructive also faced Binghao's sickle limbs.

The soldier's sickle limbs, which were covered with thorns, pinched each other, and the sharp thorns were torn off in a staggered manner. The red blood surged out, and the slender eel-shaped body was easily cut in half, and the remaining half of the body was still twisting. But he could no longer maintain his balance and fell feebly toward the seabed.

The original spine could not stop the blades on the limbs of the soldier's sickle, and it was easily torn in half, just like the fifty-oared horseshoe crab tore Iowa's jaw before.

Under Lin Yi's control, each soldier swung its tail and paddling feet to break through the blood-stained waves, leaving behind only the remains of its leader, Ancient Jaw, which slowly fell to the seabed.

Stimulated by the blood, the group of leader ancient jaws immediately went crazy, but most of them went straight towards the remains of the leader ancient jaws that were cut off in the middle by soldiers using their sickle limbs.

Compared with the serious true social nest group, although these leaders Gu Jaw are equally crazy and ruthless, their organizational discipline is much worse. This scene is the best illustration.

More crimson blood surged out as the leader's ancient jaws tore, making these strange sea-monster-like fish look even more ferocious.

However, there were also some leaders, Ancient Jaws, who did not grab the corpses of their kind, so they had no choice but to come towards the soldiers. A few soldiers were unable to dodge and were surrounded by groups of leader Gu Jaw.

But this time, they changed their tactics. They no longer rotated and cut with saw-like conodont molecules. Instead, they adsorbed on the exoskeleton on the soldier's body like the lampreys of later generations, and the feeding structure scraped under the pull of the muscles. Rubbing the surface of the exoskeleton.

Bing Hao's exoskeleton, which was not very strong, could not withstand such scraping. Blue horseshoe crab blood surged out and mixed with the vertebrate blood that had not yet dispersed.

However, Lin Yi discovered that the copper-containing blood of horseshoe crabs did not stimulate the leader's ancient jaw to go crazy like the blood of vertebrates containing iron ions.

Perhaps its main prey is the Iowa jaw, which is also a conodont. Vertebrates whose blood uses iron ions to transport oxygen are most attracted to them. For Lin Yi, I don't know whether this is good news or bad news.

But now, the leader of the ancient jaw group, who was attracted by the same kind of corpses, was no longer the opponent of the well-organized group of soldiers controlled by Lin Yi, and was cut off in half one by one.

Finally, when a large number of their kind died, the leader of the Ancient Jaws finally realized that something was wrong and dispersed. The soldiers no longer stopped, and after chasing for a short distance, they returned and continued to guard the mother's nest. At the same time, the workers mounted on the mother nest broke away one after another under the control of Lin Yi, recycling the remains of the leader Ancient Jaw, supplying them to the mother nest, and absorbing their genetic sequences.

As a member of primitive fish and the first generation of predatory fish, Archaeognathus seems to have a high level of intelligence. After being massacred by the swarm of soldiers controlled by Lin Yi for several rounds, he never launched an attack on the floating mother nest again.

This also allowed Lin Yi to continue "seeding". Each nesting worker is produced by the floating mother nest, looking for a suitable place to pupate into a new mother nest.

Soon, Gong Hao's figures were all over this area. The waves of green algae that originally undulated like waves were harvested by Lin Yi's control workers, and were replaced by clusters of sea forest algae extending from the mother nest.

The huge figure of the fixed mother nest stands among the sea ringworm clusters. Worker and soldier flies swim beside the mother nest, or shuttle between the sea ringle clusters to take care of the clusters and hunt other small creatures that scavenge for garbage.

In addition to the ordinary Sea Ringo, in this sea area that he called the Dikla Brood Group and planned to build it as the core of the territory, the Brood Nest also extended a brand-new cluster structure.

The new structure is somewhat similar to a floating mother nest, or graptolite, with a vesicle-like structure filled with air. But they are connected to the mother nest and the ringworm clusters by a caudal stalk, or rhizome, and float in the middle waters.

Moreover, unlike graptolites and floating mother nests, they have feathery filter-feeding structures up and down their bodies, but the upward ones are more developed, making their appearance look a bit like an enlarged version of later crinoids.

At the same time, above the sea surface, the floating mother nest is also floating on the sea surface, supported by vesicle-like structures, with feather-like filter feeding structures hanging downward.

The three structures of floating mother nests, large crinoid and sea ringworm clusters together form a dragnet in the upper, middle and lower waters, allowing almost no plankton to escape the capture of the nests.

As for the small number of fish that have slipped through the net, Lin Yi naturally has a way to filter them. The figure of the foreign motherfly is drifting with the waves in the upper waters. Three pairs of well-developed feeding appendages and the mesh-like structure connected between the appendages are spread out, filtering everything along the way.

Although it would affect the ecological environment, Lin Yi couldn't care less about the impact. Now, using the genetic sequence of the Fifty-Oar Horseshoe Crab as a template, the key is to develop a new grade as soon as possible to combat the Orthogonal Stone.

Recently, a new level is about to be completed. This will be a level with an unprecedentedly complex body structure, and it will also be an absolutely epoch-making powerful level.

In order to allow such a grade to be born, Lin Yi also came up with some methods to cultivate it as quickly as possible.

In this cluster, apart from the usual honeycomb-like mother nests with holes all over the body, there are also some new huge "buildings".

After so long of absorbing the genetic sequence of the mother nest of the Right-Helix Stone Nest Group, the floating mother nest finally analyzed something, and these brand-new buildings made of flesh and blood were born.

(End of this chapter)