The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 70 Repairing the Fearless Soldier
  But now, Lin Yi has more important things to do.

That is, trying to repair the seriously injured fearless soldier so that it can fight again.

The two swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimps escorted the three Dreadnought shrimps until they evacuated to the nearest area with the mother nest of pupal sacs. They replenished some nutrients through Lin Yi's pioneering mother shrimp and then headed towards the nest of Anomalocaris. Territory swim.

The two fearless soldiers carrying the seriously injured kind slowly let go of the seriously injured kind under the control of Lin Yi, and slowly landed on the seabed to rest.

The seriously injured fearless soldier swung its remaining pair of half-paddling legs, operated the water jet propulsion system, and slowly swam into the empty pupal sac mother nest.

Immediately, the two clam shell-like structures of the pupal sac mother nest slowly closed, wrapping the huge body of the fearless soldier. Tissue fluid began to gush out, gradually submerging the seriously injured body of the fearless soldier.

With this idea, Lin Yi was preparing when he created the epoch-making level of the Fearless Soldier.

But because the fearless soldier has never faced an opponent since its birth, there is not even a creature that can break through its exoskeleton. Lin Yi couldn't let the fearless soldiers kill each other just to test their repair ability.

It wasn't until this time that the explosive energy produced by the reaction of sodium and water from the self-exploding hornstone severely damaged the Dreadnought Soldier. Lin Yi was able to experiment with treatment, or rather repair a Dreadnaught Soldier.

If the exoskeleton of arthropods wants to regenerate, it can only wait for the next molt. But the complex exoskeleton structure of the Dreadnoughts is destined to prevent them from growing and developing in this way.

Therefore, the method Lin Yi planned to adopt was also very simple. It pupates again and transforms the nutrients in the body into a structure similar to the imaginal disc to repair its structure.

While waiting for the fearless soldier to pupate again, Lin Yi also started developing new grades.

The new grade will have a sodium-containing structure similar to self-exploding hornstone. It absorbs sodium ions from food and sea water, deposits them in a special bag structure in the body, and soaks them in oil.

At the critical moment, just like the right spiral hornstone nest group did to the self-exploding hornstone, the grease is discharged, water is injected inside, and the sodium is detonated to create an explosive effect.

The difficulty of extracting sodium indicates that they cannot be used as weapons on a large scale, and can only be used for precision guidance to attack high-value or high-threat enemy targets, just like self-exploding corner stones against fearless soldiers.

In the imagination, they will have the same appearance as micronized torpedoes, and they will be mixed in the group of micronized torpedoes. When the octopus is wrapped between the mantle and the tentacles, it will detonate sodium and pull the octopus to death together. .

In the small space where the tentacles of the Netherworld Crested Stone are connected to its mantle, the explosive power of sodium will be released without reservation, enough to tear apart the weak mantle of the Dark Crested Stone, at least making it lose its threat.

In order to achieve this goal, it means that Lin Yi needs to completely insert the structure of extracting sodium and storing sodium into the small body of the micron torpedo.

Although the structure of self-exploding hornstones is not large, there is a large amount of space between their shells and air chambers. They are also naturally equipped with water injection, drainage and osmotic pressure adjustment structures, which can well accommodate sodium-related structures.

The internal space of the micronized torpedo is even smaller, and the rear half of the body is filled with a water jet propulsion system. There is not enough space to accommodate a one-to-one replica of the self-destructing cornerstone blasting system. Lin Yi could only reduce the size of this system as much as possible and arrange it in every possible way, trying to cram various organs into these small spaces.

After a lot of hard work, finally, a new grade - sodium-containing micronized torpedo was born.

Except for the poison glands and poison injection structures, which are replaced by structures for extracting and storing sodium, as well as injecting water at critical moments, their other body parts are exactly the same as ordinary micronized torpedoes.

These special sodium-containing micron torpedoes will be mixed in the micron torpedo swarm at a ratio of 1%. They will serve as precision guidance torpedoes for the swarm, specifically designed to attack the octopus horns and swallow a large number of micronized torpedoes with the maw of the abyss. The presence.

Lin Yi also gave the guidance method of sodium-containing micronized torpedoes a fancy name - biological guidance.

But it is not actually an advanced technology. In Lin Yi's previous life, an island country that had a good life used it more than seventy years ago. However, they didn't care about calling it this, but called it Kamikaze.
  To put it into detail, the ones flying in the sky are called Sakura, and the ones swimming in the water are called Kaitian. As for the performance of these things, the guidance accuracy is enough, but the cost is a bit high. There is nothing else, except that each shot consumes one Taijun.
  Of course, this method is a crime against humanity when used on humans, but there is no such problem here in the nest. Anyway, individuals have no independent consciousness and can be created casually.

At this time, the fearless soldier's pupation repair had also reached a critical stage, allowing Lin Yi to once again focus on the mother nest of the pupal sac to observe its changes.

Nutrients filtered out by the nearby ringworm clusters are passively transported into the pupal sac mother nest in large quantities, and converted into nutrient solution, which promotes cell division and begins to form the appearance of each tissue, and then begins to proliferate.

These imaginal disc structures further developed, gradually forming the complex structure on the side of the Dreadnaught Soldier and the broken paddling leg. It also repaired the scars on its exoskeleton caused by the puncture of the right helical stone.

After another period of time, the two halves of the pupal sac mother nest slowly opened, revealing the body of the newly born fearless soldier underneath.

On the exoskeleton, the new color is lighter than the old exoskeleton, which makes its body look a bit weird, but this does not affect it. It is still the undisputed overlord in the ocean of this era.

One or two setbacks cannot affect the status of the fearless soldier in the nest.

Just like on the battlefield where anti-tank weapons are flying in later generations, tanks are still irreplaceable. As long as Lin Yi still needs a level that can shatter the outer shell of a straight spiral stone and withstand most common enemy attacks, the fearless soldier can always shine in the nest.

What's more, the number of the opponent's self-exploding corner stones is not large. If they appear sporadically, the soldiers are enough to intercept them.

In the face of conventional attack methods, the fearless soldier is still an iron shell that cannot be broken by the opponent. After going through the process of laughing at stacked armor and understanding stacked armor, Lin Yi finally became the one who stacked armor.
  After settling all this and producing the new sodium-containing micron torpedo, Lin Yi had some free time and once again began to prepare for the encirclement and suppression of the remnants of the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group.

If it continues to drag on, the other side doesn't know how many more troubles it will cause, which makes Lin Yi firm up in his thoughts of a quick victory. More scouts began to gather - but this time, these scouts were different too.

(End of this chapter)