The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 102 Tsunami hits

In the distance, at the junction of the sea and the sky, a wave as tall as a mountain appeared at some point, sweeping forward with an indomitable momentum.

Among the waves, the cone-shaped shell of the Strawhorn Stone can be faintly seen, as well as the even larger body of the floating mother nest. It seems that the stormy waves are sweeping in from the core of the real territory of the Strawhorn Stone nest group.

It seems that the base camp was attacked, and the Straight-Helix Stone Nest Group, knowing that it was unable to save the day, became more and more crazy. The huge body of "Kraken" rushed forward into the group of fearless soldiers, killing them.

Under the control of Lin Yi, the fearless army of soldiers had dived to the seabed. At this time, they had no intention of resisting. They ran the water jet propulsion system as hard as they could and fled in the opposite direction.

But it's too late. Behind them, the adults of the Orthogonalis had begun to be lifted up by the big waves. Their nearly ten-meter-long bodies were worse than their usual prey in the face of such a force of heaven and earth, and their air-filled shells were easily thrown up.

The situation of the fearless soldiers was a little better, and they could barely maintain their balance among the waves, but they were still inevitably washed towards the shore.

But ordinary soldiers were in a miserable situation. They were thrown away together with the straight-horned rocks and continued to rush forward among the big waves.

The "Kraken" shell lay flat, and it used its eight remaining tentacles with suction cups to tightly grasp a few protruding rocks, trying to stabilize its body under the attack of the tsunami.

The waves continued to sweep across, and the level individuals staying at the rear of the battlefield, such as the pioneering mother, the reconnaissance mother, and the foreign filtering mother, were also swept backwards by the big waves, including Lin Yi's floating nest, which was also swept backwards by the tsunami. .

Although he had already controlled the floating mother nest to inject water into the vesicle-like structure on his side at the first time, and sank to the seabed. However, the violent waves still swept through, rolling up their main body, just like the floating mother nest of the right spiral stone nest group before.

Even the most powerful swordfish-shaped Herd shrimp could not withstand such huge waves and was swept forward. The full-toothed Hurd shrimp and the three-eyed Hurd shrimp were even worse. They were washed away to an unknown location long before the tsunami arrived.

Even the corpses on the seabed were swept up by the big waves, trailing red and blue blood trails.

From time to time, figures of straight horns collided with these corpses in the stormy waves, and the shells were immediately shattered. There were even some remaining self-destructing horns and the bodies adhered to the self-destructing horns. When the sodium came into contact with the water, a violent explosion occurred.

The faint muffled sound mixed with the thunder in the sky and the roar of the waves together formed the prelude to this mass extinction event.

Extinction events are not a few large-scale natural disasters in a short period of time, but a collapse of the food chain caused by long-term environmental changes. Such turbulent waves are not the norm, but just a prelude played in the most heroic way.

The tsunami in this direction gradually subsided, carrying a large number of creatures within it and rushing out for an unknown distance.

In the following period, similar scenes will occur in many places, until the continental sea disappears with the first large-scale ice age since the earth entered the Phanerozoic Era, and the climate is completely stabilized - but that does not mean the end of the disaster. But it is the beginning of the real extinction event.

This is the normal state of most extinction events. There are no landslides or earth shaking, only a long, almost eternal silence until the environment recovers or the organisms adapt to the new environment again.

Under Lin Yi's control and positioning, multiple levels of soldiers, fearless soldiers, pioneering mothers, reconnaissance mothers, and self-destructive soldiers locked the direction of the open sea, swung their paddling feet, and operated the water jet propulsion system to return. Far out to sea to avoid being stranded after low tide.

The floating mother nest drains the seawater back into the vesicle-like structure and floats upward. The nearest filter mother or pioneer mother has arrived and continues to push the floating mother nest toward the open sea. Overall, Lin Yi’s losses were not huge. And the main losses were ordinary soldiers, self-destructing soldiers and various micro-level soldiers.

The Orthogonal Stone Nest Group is not so lucky. A large number of Orthogonal Stone shells were shattered by the impact, and now they have fallen to the sea bed, ready to be slaughtered. Many six shells of the huge floating mother nest were broken and fell to the seabed.

The only thing that made Lin Yi a little strange was that the huge body of "Kraken" was missing and he didn't know where it was washed away by the waves. It stands to reason that with the opponent's size, even if it is attached to the reef, it is impossible to escape this tsunami.

Perhaps it was also washed away by the huge waves, or it was simply stranded. In short, it was unlikely that it could pose the same fatal threat to Lin Yi as before.

Not only the equatorial region is the most severely affected, but with the dramatic changes in climate, such a situation will inevitably reappear in many places around the world.

And if conventional brood nests and sea ringle clusters faced such huge waves, they would inevitably be uprooted together with the nutrients stored in them, and the whole thing would be blown away.

This means that the large amount of nutrients Lin Yi has accumulated over a long period of time will be destroyed, which is something he does not want to see.

Therefore, the top priority now is to produce as many transport workers and transport mothers as possible, and transport as many nutrient resources as possible into the safe deep-sea mother nest group.

Whether on land or in the ocean, if you want to survive a mass extinction event, a huge species base and adaptability are essential. In addition, avoiding as deep as possible is also a very practical skill.

Whether on land or in the ocean, heading as deep as possible is a good idea. There is no shortage of Paleozoic relics in the deep seas of later generations, and on land, small creatures that burrow in the soil, such as early mammals commonly known as bulk mice, are often the easiest to survive mass extinctions.

Hiding in the deep sea where the environment is relatively stable is a good choice, and Lin Yi is preparing to do so. But then, he suddenly thought of something.

Later studies showed that when the ice age ended and the climate warmed up again, it was not a recovery of all things, but a new round of disaster!

A large amount of highly toxic heavy metal substances surge up from the seafloor as the seawater warms, and rapidly accumulate along the food chain, eventually forming fatal deposits in the bodies of top predators.

In this disaster, the species in the deep sea bore the brunt, as if after the disaster, another batch of surviving species were sent to meet the seven old blacks.

But fortunately, the existence of the nest group can avoid this problem when the shallow sea recovers and produces creatures adapted to survive in normal sea areas.

In any case, heading to the deep sea is the best solution at present. More transport mothers and transport workers began to be produced by the mother nest, and they gathered under the control of Lin Yi, taking advantage of the disaster to prepare to head towards the deep sea.

(End of this chapter)