The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 86 The Sunken Dreadnought (1)

During the surging waves of blood, the huge body of the carrier horn stone broke through the defense line of ordinary soldiers and swordfish-shaped Hed shrimps, and went straight towards the fearless soldiers.

And at this moment, several more figures swung their leaf-shaped swimming legs on their sides, opened their appendages, and blocked the fearless soldier. Their sharp mouth awls opened and they bit hard. The tentacles of the carrier horn stones.

It's a full-tooth Heard shrimp. As the fearless soldiers joined the battle, they also managed to escape. At this time, they were waving their appendages to kill. The tentacles covered with armor plates were slightly inferior to the mouth cones of the Anomalocaris nests, and they were easily killed. break.

But this time, it was also sent into the attack range of the self-exploding corner stone. Several muffled sounds were heard. Although the full-toothed Heard shrimp was not as big as the Dreadnought, it was still extremely huge for pan-arthropods. Its body was torn apart, and the tissue fluid was surging, making the sea water more turbid.

But in terms of the number of self-detonating corner stones consumed by the opponent, it is slightly profitable to replace these self-destructing corner stones with the full-tooth Hurd shrimp.

However, the number of remaining full-tooth Heder shrimps is already limited. After another round of attrition war, there will be very few left. It will be difficult to stop all the carrier horn stones and self-exploding horn stones.

Finally, the carrier horn stone touched the side of the fearless soldier, turned around, and ten self-exploding horn stones broke away from the inside of the tentacles, and went straight towards the fearless soldier!
  The surrounding ordinary soldiers tried their best to intercept them, clamped their shells with sickle limbs, and pushed them as far away from the fearless soldiers as possible to detonate them. But there were still self-exploding corner stones that broke through the defense line and charged towards the fearless soldiers.

At the same time, while the ordinary soldiers were concentrating on dealing with the carrier horn stones and the carried self-exploding horn stones, the army of real and fake self-exploding horn stones also came forward.

The body of the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp has already danced out of its afterimage, and countless broken remains of fake self-exploding horn stone shells are floating in the water, some of which are still bleeding out with bright red blood.

But among the corpses, there are countless self-exploding horn stones that are difficult to distinguish between true and false and are surging forward with water jet propulsion systems.

The cost of producing a fake self-exploding hornstone is only slightly higher than that of a larvae of orthospirone. But it can perfectly confuse Lin Yi and the strange shrimp nest, making the soldiers and swordfish-shaped Hed shrimps run for their lives.

From time to time, fish that slip through the net approach the fearless soldiers. Although most of them are fake, the few that are real are mostly detonated by ordinary soldiers who sacrifice their lives. Only a few break through the heavy defense lines.

But considering the number of self-exploded corner stones from the opponent, even the few remaining ones are not a small number. Coupled with the self-exploding corner stones that were carried by the carrier corner stones to the side of the fearless soldiers, they can completely threaten the fearless soldiers!
  When they approached the fearless soldiers, the fake self-destructing corner stones stopped moving forward. Only a few of them really came forward with their tentacles waving, and the tips of their shells pierced the body of the fearless soldiers.

A self-exploding corner stone operates a water jet propulsion system, and the tip of the shell pierces directly into the fearless soldier's compound eye. As tissue fluid and azure horseshoe blood surge out together, the self-exploding horn stone's body suddenly explodes!
  A cloud of blue blood mist spread along with the shock wave. Even the strongest head shell of the Fearless Soldier was shattered by the shock wave from the inside out, causing it to struggle painfully.

Seeing that a Dreadnaught Soldier was finally injured, other self-exploding cornerstones all around concentrated on the side of the seriously injured Dreadnought Soldier, preparing to focus their fire to kill it.

Under Lin Yi's control, the injured fearless soldier ran the water jet propulsion system and swung his paddling feet to evacuate the scene with all his strength.

But the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group was unwilling to give him this opportunity. The army of self-exploding corner stones swarmed forward even more frantically, surrounding the injured fearless soldier from all directions.

The other side also knew clearly that once the seriously injured fearless soldiers were allowed to retreat to the rear, all previous efforts would be in vain. Last time, the Helix Horned Stone Nest Group controlled the self-exploding corner stones to attack at the opening of the granary and the paddling joints, but this time, the attack positions of these self-exploding corner stones have become more vicious.

Because it has a water jet propulsion system, the side of the fearless soldier must have a water inlet and outlet structure.

Compared with the original version of the water-jet propulsion system of Cornerstone, the improved version of the water-jet propulsion system suitable for arthropods used by Lin Yi has more thrust, which is enough to allow heavily armored giant insects like the Fearless Soldier to swim at a faster speed.

However, this structure is slightly less flexible than the original funnel structure of Corner Stone. It cannot achieve an effect similar to a vector spout by changing the direction like the original funnel structure of Corner Stone.

But then again, with the bulky shell of Corner Stone, it is impossible to fully utilize the flexibility of this system. It can only achieve the purpose of rapid deceleration by turning the entire funnel and pushing back.

Only when belemnites, the earliest subclass Octopus, appeared could such a structure be perfectly utilized.

In Lin Yi's case, the water-jet propulsion system structure used by the fearless soldier uses a structure similar to the gill slits of later generations of cartilaginous fish to achieve water absorption and drainage. At the same time, a gill structure is also installed to obtain oxygen more efficiently.

This also means that these structures similar to gill slits are the lifeblood of the fearless soldiers who are smaller in size and can cause powerful destructive power, such as self-exploding horn stones.

The tip of the shell of a self-exploding horn stone pierced the gill-slit-shaped water outlet on the side of the fearless soldier. Regardless of the strong wake, it burst open, causing the body of the fearless soldier to tilt upward immediately.

At the same time, on the same side, there is another self-exploding corner stone staring at the water inlet in front. It doesn't even need to pierce hard, it just needs to use suction to push upward and explode. ,

The side of the fearless soldier's huge body was blown to pieces with blood and flesh, and the fragments were embedded among the fragile flesh and blood tissue inside the water jet propulsion system, causing azure horseshoe crab blood to gush out uncontrollably.

The water-jet propulsion system on one side was disabled, and the forward speed of the fearless soldier's body immediately slowed down. In order to maintain balance, the water-jet propulsion system on the other side could only stop running, and only relied on two pairs of paddling feet to propel the body.

On both sides, two other huge bodies of fearless soldiers came forward, one on the left and one on the right, trying to lift up the injured body of their kind and take them away from the scene.

But more self-exploding corner stones have already poured into the battlefield, now aiming at the seriously injured side of the fearless soldier, preparing to launch another fatal attack.

At this time, the fragile gills of the fearless soldier have been almost exposed outside the body as the armor around the water jet propulsion system has been shattered. Facing more attacks from self-exploding corner stones, it is probably inevitable.

More soldiers surrounded them, trying their best to intercept the approaching self-exploding corner stones. But the opponent's offensive did not stop at all, but became even more crazy - the ·1 hive mind 2 consciousness of the Right Helical Stone Nest Group also knew that if this opportunity is missed again, the next time, I don't know when.

(End of this chapter)