The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 94 Final Battle
  After thinking about it carefully, Lin Yi suddenly discovered that in the arms race with the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group, he had been at a disadvantage at some point.

Since the birth of the fearless soldier, Lin Yi has never developed any decisive grades. In every battle, it was always the side of the Zhihejiao Stone Nest Group that came up with brand-new grades and tactics, trying to catch him off guard.

Although Lin Yi used various methods to resolve them in time, giving him the upper hand in the battle so far, the fact is that he has been forced to take the lead by the opponent and is tired of dealing with the endless new levels and tactics of the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group.

This is not the end of his talents - in fact, Lin Yi has a lot of ideas from later generations in his mind, but limited by the current gene editing methods, he cannot create out of thin air, create a high-level individual without a source of genetic template.

But for some reason, the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group can often create brand new structures out of thin air. The suction cup structure, the suspected ink sac structure, and the unprecedented sodium-containing explosion structure are all completely original by the other party, without any reference.

This made Lin Yi even more uneasy. He didn't know what the other party had obtained to make his gene editing ability surpass his own. But he knew that if this continued, the advantage would gradually tilt towards the other side.

By now, the purpose of the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group is obvious, which is to use the secrets to delay for a longer period of time in order to achieve some special purpose.

Nowadays, all the abnormal behaviors of the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group indicate that they seem to be waiting for something. This gave Lin Yi an even worse premonition.

According to the information obtained through the exchange, the Anomalocaris nest group once fought a battle with the Orthogonal Stone nest group for a long period of time, and even the Anomalocaris nest group once had the upper hand.

Finally, after a period of delay, the Inkjet Corner Stone appeared and completely defeated the Anomalocaris nest by taking advantage of its blindness, forcing the Anomalocaris nest to escape into the abyss and survive.

Does this mean that the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group has some special ability to perform gene editing out of thin air? However, the activation of this ability is limited and requires a long time to analyze.

If this is indeed the case, the answer is already obvious - the other party is also developing a new, more complex level, and this new level, just like the fearless soldier did with the original right-spiral stone nest group, can be the final word and completely end this protracted war. fighting!
  Before the appearance of the self-destructing horned stones, the nest group of straight spiral horned stones also delayed for a long time. But it is not like this time, sending a combination of ordinary straight spiral horn stone and ghost horn stone to delay the pace of the attack.

This gave Lin Yi a new guess - maybe the opponent's resources were about to be exhausted in the war of attrition, and he had to do his best to stop it and buy time for the development of new levels. Or maybe, the new level needs more time to prepare. It takes a long time for the snails to sacrifice their lives to gain time.

A longer period of time means that the new level will be more powerful, which is completely detrimental to Lin Yi.

The best choice at the moment is still to fight quickly and resolve the battle as soon as possible, so that the new level of the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group is stillborn and has no chance to display its full power.

A large number of reconnaissance mothers and matching micronized receivers were produced and headed in all directions, looking for traces of the Straight-Helix Stone Nest Group's troops. ,

And Lin Yi seemed to have discovered that the troops of these straight spiral stone nests seemed to be centered in one direction and concentrated in that place in a circle.

With the assistance of the echo positioning system, Lin Yi quickly locked the location of his sea area and controlled the army to move inward.

As we approach that direction, in the signals returned by the echolocation system that detects the mother flies, the frequency of floating mother nests becomes higher and higher, and they become more concentrated. This allowed Lin Yi to lock down an area. Since the mother nests of the Right Helical Stone Nest Group, at least the mother nests that Lin Yi has come into contact with, are floating, they do not have a fixed territorial core.

But at least in this area, the concentration of the Orthogonal Stone floating mother nests is far higher than in other areas, proving that the core of the opponent's territory is most likely to be in this sea area.

The closer to the core, the more and more dense the floating mother nests of straight spiral horn stones appeared, and the resistance became more intense. In the end, even carrier horn stones and self-exploding horn stones continued to join the battle, risking their lives in a surprise attack.

This allowed Lin Yi to further narrow the scope. The armies of fearless soldiers, pioneering mothers, ordinary soldiers, micro-torpedo soldiers, micro-hammer soldiers and other levels gathered towards this sea area from all directions, slowly narrowing the scope of the encirclement.

Seemingly seeing that the location of their lair had been discovered, the peripheral Helical Stone troops no longer circled around and moved forward at full speed, running their water jet propulsion systems and concentrating towards this sea area.

This strengthened Lin Yi's guess that this sea area was indeed the home of the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group.

More fearless soldiers were also under the control of Lin Yi, following closely behind the straight spiral stone team, and concentrated towards this sea area.

The resistance became more intense - although the cruising speed of the Dreadnought Soldiers was almost the same as that of the Straight Helix, in order to take care of the slowest ordinary soldiers, as well as the filtering mother flies and floating nests, the army did not advance very fast, at least not at all. Straight helical stone is fast.

Behind them, from time to time, teams from the Straight-horned Stone Nest Group would catch up, waving their tentacles and risking their lives to move forward.

Even during their raid, a floating brood nest was attacked by a group of straight-horned stone nests because the Dreadnaught Soldiers did not respond in time, causing it to be killed along with the pushing filtrate brood nests.

Fortunately, in the end, the strange shrimp nest group took action, and the fastest swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp arrived in time, temporarily restraining the straight horns, allowing the fearless soldiers to arrive and rescue the intact floating mother nest. corpse.

As a last resort, Lin Yi controlled the fearless soldiers to slow down again and guarded the floating brood nest in the middle of the team to prevent the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group from attacking from behind.

With this gradual advancement, a large number of troops from both sides have been concentrated in this sea area, and the echo positioning system of the reconnaissance mother is no longer needed for the time being. Traces of the Orthogonal Stone can be found at any time by just visual inspection.

More straight snails rushed towards Lin Yi's army like crazy, but were easily crushed by the fearless soldiers' sickle limbs.

But as he got closer and closer to the core of the territory of the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group, Lin Yi knew that next was the moment that would determine success or failure.

It’s time to put an end to the long-standing feud between the two, or perhaps the three, true social nests. This final battle, which will determine the fate of multiple hives, is about to begin.

(End of this chapter)