The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 112 Encrypted Gene Sequence

At this point, the rest of the battle is a bit lackluster.

Under Lin Yi's control, several fearless soldiers rushed forward with their sickle limbs waving, aiming at the arm and foot of the giant starfish. The sickle limb clamped its arm and foot, and the two sets of muscle systems worked together to cut off fiercely.

The extremely destructive sickle limbs easily broke through the skin of the giant starfish's arms and legs. The triangular pyramid-shaped blades cut off the muscle fibers root by root and tore them apart. They quickly cut off the remaining arms and legs of the giant starfish and shaved them off. Become a "star stick".

In a sense, against opponents like giant starfish, the Dreadnaught has an advantage over the Kraken.

Their sickle limbs can easily pinch off the arms and legs of giant starfish. However, after losing several arms and legs, the giant starfish that cannot support its body is like fish on a chopping board in front of the agile and fearless soldiers, ready to be slaughtered.

It's not that the fearless soldiers are agile, but that the giant starfish's mobility is as good as their IQ - in fact, if the "Kraken" hadn't been eager to snatch the original nest, and Lin Yi's interference, it wouldn't have been controlled by the giant starfish. Keep your feet under control.

Of course, the severed arms and legs were also dragged away by the joint efforts of the fearless soldiers, and then micronized torpedoes injected toxins into the broken parts and performed a simple inactivation treatment to prevent them from regenerating from the broken parts.

And those little starfish wriggled their tube feet and kept crawling into the mouth of the giant starfish to replenish them with nutrients. This caused more little starfish to gather together - Lin Yi's goal was gradually achieved.

Nearby, the corpses washed up by the tsunami had been consumed. After "Kraken"'s corpse was dragged away by Lin Yi, these starfish had lost the food resources for their proliferation.

A large number of small starfish threw themselves into the giant starfish's mouth without hesitation, filling their bodies into the giant starfish's digestive system to supply the giant starfish's broken arms and legs for continued regeneration.

Although this act of demolishing the east wall and forcibly repairing the west wall cannot last long, for the current starfish, it is already a helpless move.

Their primitive brains can only think that if the giant starfish recovers and supports its body again, there will be a chance to turn defeat into victory, repel these fearless soldiers, and successfully break the situation.

The granulation of the giant starfish's severed arm squirms, and the new arms and legs gradually take shape.

But before each formation, a fearless soldier stepped forward with its paddling feet, waving its sickle limbs, and cut off the tentacles of the giant starfish again and dragged it away.

The number of tentacles on the body of the giant starfish remains at two, which gives it some hope but cannot support its body. The scene was like the torture of Lingchi execution. The flesh and blood of the giant starfish was cut off again and again, and then quickly regenerated, and so on.

But Lin Yi has noticed that the speed of regeneration of the giant starfish's flesh and blood tissue is gradually slowing down, which means that the nutrients supplying its proliferation are getting less and less, and are gradually beginning to be insufficient.

After the endless lag, there were fewer and fewer ordinary starfish beside the giant starfish, but from beginning to end, they did not escape, but continued to supply the division and proliferation of the giant starfish.

Those little starfish were consumed by Lin Yi in this way. This is a long process - just in time, at the same time, Lin Yi plans to do something else.

That is, during this period, while the real process of mass extinction has not yet begun, research on the genetic sequences of those corpses has been carried out.

Recently, the floating nests that survived the previous tsunami have been arriving, and the objects to be analyzed are also being transported outwards by countless fearless soldiers - yes, what Lin Yi wants to analyze is the "Kraken" The genetic sequence! No matter how the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group obtained the "Kraken", through normal production of the mother's nest or in some special way using the original mother's nest, these genetic sequences, which combine the black technology of future generations of cephalopods, are about to be used for used by him.

The floating mother nest slowly filled the vesicle-like structure on its side with water and landed on the seabed. The worker detaches from the whisker-like structure on the side of the floating mother nest, and uses its chelicerae to start cutting from the fracture of the "Kraken" tentacle.

The pieces of meat were skillfully stuffed into the holes on the surface of the floating brood nest, and analysis began.

But Lin Yi soon discovered that this gene sequence, like the gene sequence of the mother's nest, was quite complex.

At first, Lin Yi only thought that the gene sequence was too complex and difficult to analyze. Just like what he encountered when analyzing the genetic sequence of the brood.

But soon, his non-existent brows began to frown in consciousness.

When Lin Yi tried to directly lay an egg through the mother's nest without editing its genetic sequence at all, he discovered something was wrong.

The genetic sequence of "Kraken" does not seem to be simply complicated, but seems to have been deliberately encrypted in some way to prevent it from being read!

The Encryptors are unlikely to be a group of Orthogonal Stones. Their level of gene editing is not much higher than that of Lin Yi, and they do not have the ability to use gene encryption technology.

Moreover, as Lin Yi had guessed before, it is very likely that the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group itself did not understand the genetic sequence of the "Kraken", and thus only produced one "Kraken".

The Strawstone Nest Cluster is a "Kraken" obtained through some special means, and because its genetic sequence is encrypted and cannot be directly read by the mother nest, the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Cluster cannot produce any more, or it is difficult to reproduce it. The second "Kraken" is produced.

Over a long period of time, the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group must have deciphered and reverse engineered the "Kraken" gene sequence countless times before deciphering some of the non-critical gene sequences, such as the inkjet system and sodium-related structures. , and the suction cups on the wrists, etc.

Even if there is another "Kraken", the outcome of the endgame is likely to be rewritten. It is impossible not to imagine that the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group has rich experience in dealing with plate-footed horseshoe crabs.

All circumstances indicate that the genetic sequence of "Kraken" was directly produced in an encrypted form and added to the Orthogonal Nest Group.

Otherwise, what Lin Yi would have faced in the final battle was an army of "Kraken" that was capable of fighting even humans with early thermal weapons.

But this raises another question - since the Encryptor is not a hive of helical stones, what kind of existence could it be?

He couldn't help but think of the primitive mother nests. Various signs showed that these primitive mother nests were alive, and might even have primitive hive thinking consciousness, forming a primitive nest group, just like the ancient control leader found in the Dikla Crater. The original brood of jaws.

But what kind of existence are they and why do they appear on the earth? The primitive mother nest, this extraterrestrial thing that seems to have fallen into the earth's atmosphere following the Middle Ordovician meteor event, has become increasingly mysterious.

(End of this chapter)