The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 48 The Second Generation of Pioneer Mothers

The emergence of the fearless soldiers has completely separated Lin Yi's nest group from other wild creatures, but a strong combat level is not enough.

Therefore, while developing the fearless soldier, the new pupal sac mother nest and internal and external double skeleton system allowed Lin Yi to create larger combat levels while also upgrading some of the previous levels.

This level is the pioneer mother that has been temporarily eliminated after the birth of the floating mother nest.

The new Pioneer Mother is the same as the Dreadnought Soldier, and is equipped with a skeletal structure composed of an inner and outer double shell. This makes its size reach the same level as the fearless soldier, almost ten meters tall.

However, because the three pairs of feeding appendages on the head are not as developed as the sickle limbs of the Dreadnaught Soldier, which was born from the fifty-oared horseshoe crab, the actual size of the second-generation pioneer female is slightly larger than the Dreadnought Soldier.

The same multi-layered composite structure of the exoskeleton makes the shell of the second-generation Pioneer Mother as strong as that of the Dreadnaught Soldier. Even a stab from an adult straight horned stone may not cause damage to it.

In addition, in order to make up for the defect that the compound eyes of horseshoe crabs grow on the top of the head and have a blind area of ​​vision downwards, Lin Yi integrated the middle eye gene fragment of the three-eyed Hed shrimp into the gene sequence of the second-generation pioneer mother.

Moreover, the position of the middle eye was adjusted by Lin Yi, facing forward and downward, supplementing the blind spot of the downward vision of the pioneer mother.

In other aspects of appearance, the second generation pioneer mother is not much different from the first generation. It still has three pairs of feeding appendages and five pairs of paddle-like paddling feet. The real difference lies within its body.

First of all, it has the same structure as the Dreadnought Soldier. However, since the Pioneer Mother has no need for close combat, the capacity of the Gnarcage can be larger.

And at the same time, the second-generation pioneering mother has a larger space for opening and closing nails on both sides of the body, which can even directly allow normal-sized workers to enter and exit.

Therefore, the storage space of the second-generation pioneering aircraft can not only accommodate micron torpedoes, but also ordinary crafts.

This means that when the worker is accompanying the pioneer mother, she no longer needs to hang upside down with her chelicerae under the mother as she did with the previous generation of pioneer mother.

Of course, the second-generation pioneer mother still retains tiny scale-like protruding structures under her body for workers to grasp and carry more workers.

In order to achieve this goal, the second-generation pioneer mother naturally also has a core supply sac structure derived from the placental gene sequence.

But the difference is that Lin Yi referred to later aerial tankers and installed two retractable hose structures for the second-generation pioneer mother. The ends can be directly connected to the mouths of other grades to transport nutrients.

This allows the second-generation pioneer mother to no longer supplement nutrients for other levels of individuals by producing nutrient eggs. Instead, she can rely on this hose to directly transport nutrients to the opponent's body in a manner similar to the aerial refueling of later generations.

At the same time, after absorbing the tissue fragments of the mother's nest of the Orthogonal Stone and analyzing them, Lin Yi finally managed to integrate some fragments of the mother's nest gene sequence into the individual's genetic sequence.

Now, the second-generation pioneer mother can directly lay a huge egg, allowing it to hatch into a new mother's nest on the spot, without the need for accompanying nesting workers to pupate.

Taken together, the second-generation pioneering mothership will become a multi-purpose mothership for the nest group. It can provide supplies for other levels of the nest group or expand new nests on weekdays. If necessary, it can also carry a large number of micronized torpedoes and join the battle as an "aircraft carrier". . Subsequently, Lin Yi made a few adjustments to the genetic sequence of the common soldier fly, mainly installing venom glands from isospinids to replace the original digestive fluid venom sacs.

At the same time, Lin Yi divided the Binghao into a separate sub-level - the Poison-Injecting Binghao.

The bladed spines on the sickle limbs of the poison-injecting soldier were once again improved by Lin Yi. The shape of those protruding large spines was once again changed into a conical shape suitable for fixation, while internal tubes were left to connect to the poison glands.

This allows the poison-injecting soldier's scythe limbs to swing and pierce to inject poison into the prey. Further enhancing its lethality against large prey.

But now, another problem appeared in front of Lin Yi - the genetic sequence between the brood nests cannot be shared in real time. If you want to transfer these harvests from the Dikla Crater to the front line, you need an individual to carry the genetic sequence. One trip.

Just in time, a second-generation pioneer female has pupated from the pupal sac mother nest. After adding micronized torpedoes to the Gana warehouse, Lin Yi immediately controlled the pioneering mother torpedo to return to the front line along the same path it came from.

While Lin Yi was researching new levels near the Dikla Crater, the mother nests in other territories were not idle either.

A large number of sea turtles are produced by the mother nest and disperse into the open sea to collect plankton resources in the vast sea. At the same time, they are also given an important task - to pay attention to the movements of the Orthogonal Stone nest group.

The nest group of Orthospermum adopts a nomadic lifestyle, with the floating mother nest as the core, and a large number of filter-feeding Heliconias and adult Heliconias are swept along with the action.

According to the information provided by the Anomalocaris nest group, the Orthostriids have a large number of troops, but they usually disperse and form a team with a single mother nest as the core to raid.

Lin Yi currently only used all his strength to defeat the opponent's mother nest and the accompanying corner stone individuals.

From his previous exchanges with the Anomalocaris nest group, he had already learned that the opponent's real main force had more than one floating mother nest, a large number of adults and larvae of Orthospermum, and there was literally no grass growing wherever they passed.

Well, there aren't even many terrestrial plants these days. There's no way grass can grow in the first place.
  Therefore, Lin Yi needs to quickly convert the accumulated nutrients into as many combat entities as possible, especially an epoch-making powerful combat entity like the Fearless Soldier.

These sea turtles that dispersed to various sea areas carried with them a level of spy craftsmen now officially named micro-spy turtles by Lin Yi. Once the helical stones are found, they can be adsorbed on the surface of their shells and locate their locations. The location of the floating brood nest.

However, the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group was still missing, which made Lin Yi a little suspicious.

But he didn't think much about it. Instead, he waited for the second generation of pioneering broods from the Dikla Crater to arrive. He quickly passed the genetic sequence of the fearless broods to all ordinary broods and prepared to start multiplying pupal brood broods. .

More fearless soldiers and miniaturized torpedoes began to be produced, becoming the well-deserved main force. The soldiers and poison-injected soldiers also began to be cultivated in large quantities to assist the fearless soldiers in filling the line. The supply team composed of the second-generation pioneer mother and filter foreign mother is also expanding following the expansion of the main force.

But at this moment, at the Dikla Crater, Lin Yi, who continued to expand his nest into the depths of the crater, seemed to have discovered something was wrong - as he continued to go deeper, the composition of nearby creatures became strange.

(End of this chapter)