The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 104 Transfer Operation (2)

The huge waves came and went as quickly as they came. The transport workers quickly organized themselves again under the control of Lin Yi and continued to move towards the trench.

But on the other side, the crisis has just begun.

The mother nest group. A large number of brood nests have not yet had time to completely convert the stored nutrients into nutrient-laden transport vehicles, and have only recovered most of the ringworm clusters.

A large number of workers are still busy, tearing apart the bodies of some brood nests that have exhausted their nutrients and can no longer produce more transport workers, and stuffing them into the holes on the surface of other brood nests for them to absorb and transform. For transportation.

The second batch of transport workers is still waiting nearby, waiting for the number of transport workers to accumulate enough to set off together.

But at this time, it is no longer time to wait any longer. Under Lin Yi's control, the transport workers searched for the nearest reef, attached themselves to it, lowered their bodies, and prepared to face the impact of the big waves.

The workers used their two pairs of chelicerae to dig up the sand on the seabed as much as possible and buried their bodies in the sand to escape.

At this time, the huge waves were roaring in with the power of heaven and earth, and were also mixed with the previously unlucky fish, feather-winged horseshoe crabs, right-horned stones and other trailing predators.

The huge honeycomb-shaped hemispherical main body of the mother hive was not greatly affected, but the extended clusters of sea ringworms were in dire straits.

In the sweeping tsunami, these swaying plants were uprooted one after another - their roots are naturally the transmission pipes connected to the mother's nest!

The body of the sea ringworm was torn out, and the main part of the mother nest was also lifted up from the sea water, rolling in the sea water. It was not until the extended body of the sea ring tree was directly torn off by the huge waves that it rolled and fell into the sea again. bed.

When the tsunami swept over, the mother's nest was covered with twisted bodies stuck in the sand, and the clusters of sea ringworms were almost completely torn off, with only two or three roots floating in the aftermath.

A large number of workers quickly swam out of their hiding places and began to clean up the messy seabed.

The remaining clusters of sea ringworms were recovered as much as possible, and a small number of broken brood nests were quickly torn apart and stuffed into the holes on the surface of other relatively intact brood nests for absorption.

More transporters began to be produced. Under Lin Yi's control, the area around the brood colony began to recover with all its strength again, rescuing as much nutrients as possible.

Dikla Crater.

This vibrant place where remnants of the previous dynasty coexisted with rising stars seemed to have become a relatively stable haven for the time being.

I don’t know whether it is due to luck or special climate conditions, but the acid rain pouring down like the Tianhe River bursting its banks elsewhere miraculously avoided this place, while the closed water body and stable environment prevented the turbulent waves caused by tsunamis everywhere. It did not affect the interior of the crater.

Driven by instinct, a large number of creatures from the outside world that survived the tsunami headed towards the crater.

From the Sakaban soft-shell turtle and Aranda soft-shell turtle in the bottom ecological niche, to giant filter-feeding insects such as the Poseidon shrimp, as well as various predatory hornstones and plate-footed horseshoe crabs, excluding the trilobites who still don’t know what’s going on, there are a large number of All kinds of creatures gather here.

But this move naturally caused dissatisfaction among the indigenous people.

The body of more than two meters long is waving its sickle limbs like a miniature version of the fearless soldier, swinging its paddling feet and sword-shaped tail joint, facing the huge figure that is coming - it is the horseshoe crab with fifty oars, in the Dikla crater Native apex predator.

Originally, they would never see any large corner stones in their lifetime. But now, the destruction caused by the mass extinction has allowed the large hornstones outside the crater to enter the territory of the fifty-oared horseshoe crab regardless of the osmotic pressure problem that makes it difficult for them to adapt. The huge cornerstone waved ten tentacles and opened and closed its sharp horny beak to face the oncoming fifty-oared horseshoe crab.

The tentacles wrapped around the wrists and the sickle limbs swung. The scene was like a miniature version of the "Kraken" fighting the fearless soldier. The blue blood was surging, and the broken body and severed arms were surging together.

As the main source of genetic sequences for the fearless soldier, the fifty-oared horseshoe crab's sickle limbs are more developed and sharper than those of the feather-winged horseshoe crab, making it a natural killing machine.

But after all, they are not a true social nest group, and they cannot completely specialize in the direction of combat, and they cannot replicate the feat of the second-generation soldier group that defeated the Zhihejiao Stone Nest Group under Lin Yi's control.

Even the giant ship was defeated by the huge sea monster from the abyss, just like the battle between the fearless soldier and the "Kraken".

The solid exoskeleton also failed in front of Cornerstone's sharp horny beak designed to break through the hard shells of large trilobites, and was broken open with a crunching sound.

After losing several of their kind, the remaining fifty-oared horseshoe crabs dispersed one after another. The Cornerstones, on the other hand, continued to move deeper into the Dikla Crater while gnawing at the remains of their bodies.

But what they don't know is that deep in the crater, it is a restricted area that even the fifty-oared warships are unwilling to set foot on. It is the territory of the Kraken.

After the entire original mother nest was moved away by Lin Yi, the leader of the ancient jaw group in the middle of the Dikla Crater was no longer as crazy as before, but they were still entrenched in groups in the middle water area. After experiencing it once or twice After driving them away in vain, Lin Yi simply ignored them.

But for ordinary creatures, even the Cornerstone, the apex predator, this is a death zone.

Without the cooperation of the Netherworld Cornerstone, even the Straight Cornerstone Nest Group would have suffered heavy losses at the hands of the mad dog-like leader Ancient Jaw Group, let alone these ordinary Cornerstones.

The long and narrow pupils of the corner stones showed the shape of an eel, a fish with a pair of huge eyes. The scarlet eyes were like the eyes of a sea monster, with an indescribable strangeness. Three pairs of sharp saw-shaped tooth-shaped molecules shone with a cold light.

The Cornerstones waved their tentacles, entangled the body of an ancient jaw, and easily pinched it off.

But then, more of the leader's ancient jaws were stimulated by the smell of blood, and the murderous intention hidden among the green algae waves was revealed!

Fierce fighting sounds could be heard among the algae leaves. When the blood mist dissipated, there were only a few conical shells falling downwards with bubbles, and the leading ancient jaws scattered in all directions.

But Lin Yi, who secretly witnessed all this, didn't feel the slightest disturbance in his heart.

He knew that later studies showed that no large hornstones or large conodonts appeared in the Silurian and subsequent times, proving that neither the hornstones nor the Archaeognathus survived the subsequent extinction event.

This means that the Dikla crater, which temporarily seemed to be a safe haven, will also be severely affected by the subsequent extinction event.

All this is just an episode in the prelude to the extinction event, and everything will continue - life will find its own way out.

　There will be two extra chapters later or tomorrow.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)