The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 49 Crazy Ancient Jaw

At this time, the area of ​​the unique ecosystem within the Dikla crater was much larger than the area of ​​the crater actually discovered later.

Therefore, the crater that was only five or six kilometers in diameter in later generations is now an inner bay with a vast area but relatively isolated from the outside world. The unique ecological circle even has the tendency to spread outward.

The area occupied by Lin Yi is basically on the periphery of the ecological circle and does not go deep into it. And when he finished studying the genetic sequence of the fifty-oared horseshoe crab, he controlled a newly pupated second-generation pioneer mother to expand inward.

At this time, it seemed that they were approaching the core area of ​​the crater. In the middle eye under the head of the second-generation pioneer mother, an eel-shaped figure appeared - it was the ancient jaw leader.

It is not unusual to find the leader of the ancient jaw in the waters near the Dikla crater. After all, they are a species unique to these waters.

However, although the appearance of these ancient leader's jaws is the same as that of ordinary ancient leader's jaws, their habits are somewhat strange.

Previously, Lin Yi already knew that the leader's ancient jaw was a creature with the habit of hunting in groups, and would unite to hunt larger prey, such as the Iowa jaw.

But at this time, these leader Ancient Jaws actually focused on the huge second-generation pioneer mother, and began to surround it from all directions, and even gathered more and more, opened their mouths, and launched a tentative attack.

At this time, Lin Yi just felt that they were a little ignorant, and he was no longer accustomed to them. The gill-slit-like armor structure on the side of the female turtle opened up, and a large number of micronized torpedo turtles poured out, killing the leader Gu from all directions. jaw.

The dense micronized torpedoes surged out, and their momentum even overwhelmed the dense swarm of leader Gu Jaw.

The micron torpedo has no compound eyes and relies entirely on other nearby levels to provide vision. The unprecedentedly large three compound eyes of the pioneer mother have excellent forward vision, but have a large visual blind spot backward.

Fortunately, Lin Yi was well prepared and had several miniaturized spies attached to the back of the mother's body. At this time, their well-developed compound eyes are staring behind them, providing the miniaturized torpedoes with a full range of vision.

The micron torpedo has excellent speed and maneuverability. The water jet propulsion system is operating at full strength, pushing the body to pierce the leader's ancient jaw at an astonishing high speed. The bright red blood spread.

Surprisingly, these leading ancient jaws were not attracted to the corpses of the same kind as before, but turned a blind eye and continued to fight against the micronized torpedoes.

The micronized torpedo was originally a template developed to deal with large creatures such as helical rocks, and was not suitable for dealing with groups of smaller opponents. The defense circle gradually showed flaws, and a large number of leader Ancient Jaws attacked the pioneer mother in the middle.

The mouth of the first leader's ancient jaw attached to the exoskeleton of the pioneer mother like a suction cup and began to scratch and gnaw.

But unfortunately, the exoskeleton of the pioneer mother was strong enough and could not be chewed by the saw blade-shaped conodont molecules of the leader's ancient jaw. After a while, the hind half of the pioneer's body was attached to the leader's ancient jaw.

Lin Yi also took advantage of the situation and changed his tactics, letting the micron torpedoes specifically attack these leader ancient jaws adsorbed on the surface of the pioneering motherflies.

During the entanglement, suddenly, a pair of well-developed sickle limbs swung, and clusters of blade thorns streaked across, and bright red blood surged out, dyeing a large area of ​​water red.

A body as huge as the pioneering mother came through the waves - it was the fearless soldier. At this time, between the triangular cone-shaped blades on its pair of thick sickle limbs, the remains of countless leader Ancient Jaws slowly fell downwards.

More micronized torpedoes were released from the gunna warehouse on the side of the Dreadnaught. They joined forces with the micronized torpedoes previously released by the pioneering mother and continued to kill the leader of the Ancient Jaw Group. A large number of ordinary soldiers followed closely behind, waving their sickle limbs to kill the leader Gu Jaw one after another. The dense swarm of soldiers was instantly more numerous than the ancient jaw swarm, and they were densely packed among the waves.

As the army joined the battle, the situation immediately reversed, and the remains of the leader Ancient Jaw trailed down in a trail of blood.

The body of the fearless soldier is even more rampant, harvesting the lives of the leading ancient jaws back and forth. But the other party was unable to cause any harm to it at all.

But something strange happened - the number of the leader's ancient jaws seemed to be endless, and they did not retreat at all due to the death of their companions. Instead, they rushed forward one after another, killing the approaching soldiers like moths to the flame.

Later, they simply used their lives to block the advance of the fearless soldiers, although what greeted them was the end of being torn apart by the clusters of blade thorns on the sickle limbs.

This senseless death obviously violates the instinct of living things to survive and reproduce, to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

But if these leader ancient jaws are a true social nest group, their ability to cooperate in a hurry cannot be justified compared to the organization of the Orthospermum and Anomalocaris nest groups.

This made Lin Yi couldn't help but have new guesses.

The observation of the birth of the Orthozoa nest group by the Anomalocaris nest group has proved that the emergence of the mother nest and the nest group is inseparable from the Middle Ordovician meteor event.

The Dikla crater is the place where the asteroid that caused the meteor incident crashed. And it is here that biological forms appear that are completely different from the outside world.

Since the unknown things that crashed into the earth's atmosphere during the Middle Ordovician meteor event gave ordinary organisms the ability to pupate into their mother's nest and evolve a eusocial nest group, it would naturally allow ordinary organisms to further evolve.

The Ordovician biological radiation was probably caused by the unknown thing that crashed into the atmosphere. This may mean that the leader of the ancient jaw, like the nest group, is not a naturally evolved species.

This may explain the leader's gregarious hunting habits, but their abnormal behavior cannot be explained. Lin Yi can only guess that there is something that can bring them benefits that is worthy of their actions.

"Evolution" is clearly untenable. These creatures must not understand the meaning of evolution. Then, another possibility is that these ancient jaws may have been seduced or controlled by something from a neurological level to behave like this.

Lin Yi did not think that such a thing naturally existed in this era, and the Dikla crater happened to be related to the Middle Ordovician meteor event, so it must be related to the unknown things that fell with the meteorite.

This adds to the mystery in the center of the crater. But this aroused Lin Yi's curiosity. He wanted to see what could make the leader Gu Jaw die like this.

At the same time, he also had a vague feeling that the thing in the middle of the crater must not be simple.

But now, with the powerful combat power of the fearless soldiers and the cooperation of a large number of ordinary soldiers, he is confident that he can break through the tight encirclement of these leader Ancient Jaws and find out the truth in the crater.

(End of this chapter)