The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 111 Behemoth Cemetery

The little starfish squirmed, and their bodies slowly crawled towards the center of the giant starfish's huge body, where the mouth was.

The mouth structure of the giant starfish is very different from that of the small starfish. There is no stomach tube structure that can be turned out, and the way of eating is a mystery - Lin Yi even suspected that the problem of eating was not considered when this thing was designed.

But now, Lin Yi knew the answer - these small starfish squirmed and crawled into the mouth of the giant starfish one after another, and then drilled deeper into the depths without looking back, apparently feeding the stars with their bodies.

The mouth of the giant starfish has probably evolved into a purely offensive organ and no longer has the ability to swallow. The way they eat is to let these small starfish crawl into their mouths carrying nutrients.

It is a very simple and crude solution that also has the characteristics of a true social nest.

As a large number of small starfish crawled into the mouth of the giant starfish, the speed of the wriggling granulation at the broken arm and foot seemed to be a little faster. Under this situation, it would not take long for a complete arm to regenerate.

Seeing this situation, Lin Yi suddenly thought of a method, a method that could gather a large number of small starfish and giant starfish to facilitate his processing. With the poor IQ of these starfish, Lin Yi felt that it didn't seem impossible.

The micron torpedo swarm gave up the attack on the broken arm of the giant starfish. Instead, after dealing with the broken arm scattered on the ground, they dispersed, as if they had temporarily let go of the small starfish.

The three tentacles of the giant starfish struggled to support its body, still standing on the seabed. Its huge body made the fearless soldiers beside it look as small as ordinary soldiers.

For Lin Yi, the threat of giant starfish and starfish nests was far less than that of the right spiral stone nests.

Their eager hunting ability means that they can only pick up garbage to eat, but unless there are special circumstances like this, there is simply not enough garbage for them to multiply to a sufficient number, let alone give birth to behemoths like giant starfish.

But if you let it go like this, it will be the same threat after all, especially when the other party has clearly shown aggression.

Another self-destructing female turtle's body swung its five pairs of paddling legs, operating its water-jet propulsion system to approach the body of the giant starfish. It swam toward the other arm of the giant starfish, preparing to blow up its other arm as well. .

No matter how apologetic the giant starfish is, he still associates the figure of the self-destructing mother with the explosion just now. His arms and legs squirmed, and his huge body slowly moved.

But it's too late. A dull explosion came from the sea, and accompanied by a strong shock wave, the other arm of the giant starfish was torn from the root. The body of the giant starfish finally became unstable and fell downwards, returning to what a normal starfish should be. posture.

In order to achieve his goal, Lin Yi quickly controlled the nearby fearless soldiers to start new actions.

On the seabed, the corpses of the Dreadnaught Soldiers and Ortholiths were basically consumed by the starfish. Nearby, only the huge corpse of the "Kraken" was left lying on it.

At this time, the bruised "Kraken" had completely breathed its last, and was scattered on the seabed with its tentacles weak. The air chamber ruptured, and the sea water poured in, causing the huge shell to no longer provide buoyancy for it. The dozens of meters long body was lying sideways like this. on the seabed.

The scene reminded Lin Yi of the first time he encountered the corpse of Cornerstone.

At that time, he was still so weak and powerless, unable to fight against ordinary cornerstones. Unlike today, even a behemoth like "Kraken" died under his offensive.

But what he has to do now is the same as then, to quickly move or consume the large amount of food resources brought by the corpse to prevent them from being used by other creatures. The swarm of fearless soldiers swung their paddling feet and operated the water jet propulsion system. They clamped the tentacles of the "Kraken" corpse with their sickle limbs and dragged its heavy body away from the giant starfish.

The inside of the huge shell of "Kraken" has been filled with seawater. At this time, it has lost its buoyancy and its body is extremely heavy.

But Lin Yi didn't need much speed, he just needed to run faster than the giant starfish and those small starfish.

The body of the giant starfish has lost two arms. The remaining three arms can no longer support it to use the arms as limbs to move on the seabed in a walking-like manner. Instead, it can only wriggle in the traditional way using its tube feet. Move forward slowly.

The tube foot actually evolved from an organ that assists in eating. Although it is hydraulically driven and extremely powerful, its speed cannot be complimented. After all, it has no hands or feet to walk with a tongue, so it is strange that it can be fast.

A large number of fearless soldiers were like trackers on the canal, dragging the corpse of "Kraken" through its tentacles and pulling it backwards. The body of the giant starfish followed closely behind with its tube feet squirming.

On the seabed, a chase was going on, and the speed of both sides was astonishing - not amazingly fast, but incredibly slow. But just like this, it was hard to tell the winner.

The densely packed tube feet under the giant starfish's body squirmed with all their strength driven by the hydraulic system, dragging the body forward. The surrounding ordinary starfish also came from all directions, squirming and crawling towards "Kraken"'s corpse.

The only two self-destructing females running the water jet propulsion system stopped in front of the giant starfish, using their bodies to block the opponent's attack. Their back abdomen was slightly swollen, and they made a posture ready to self-destruct.

As expected, the giant starfish shrank back, and those densely packed tube feet and spines curled back slightly, as if telling its instinctive fear.

The surrounding small starfish continued to chase forward, but were pierced by the miniaturized torpedoes that came later and injected with poison to kill them.

The huge size of the self-destructing mother flies, even if they are not used in this battle, will not be useful for a while in the future. In the arduous mass extinction, they can only waste nutrients and have their nutrients recycled. .

Therefore, no matter what, Lin Yi had no intention of letting these two self-destructing females return alive during this battle.

But for things like self-destruction level, although you are not afraid of sacrifice, you are afraid that the sacrifice will be worthless. How to sacrifice the fewest self-destruction level individuals in exchange for the greatest results is the key to using them.

Therefore, now, under the control of Lin Yi, the two self-destructing female turtles did not immediately rush forward and explode, but slowly approached, deterring the giant starfish and preventing it from approaching the corpse of "Kraken" .

Seeing this, the small starfish also slowly retreated back and continued to rush towards the mouth of the giant starfish, feeding the giant starfish with their bodies and supplying its broken arms and legs to continue to multiply.

This was exactly what Lin Yi wanted. The fearless soldiers continued to drag the corpses, while the self-destructing bombs and micron torpedoes also temporarily stopped moving and retreated.

(End of this chapter)