The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 113 Final preparations

The regeneration ability of giant starfish cannot be controlled by itself.

I'm afraid they themselves never imagined that one day they would be consumed alive in this way. The once invincible regeneration skill has now become a fatal weakness.

After a long period of cutting, which seemed like an execution at Ling Chi, the giant starfish and the small starfish were finally killed by Lin Yi.

This time, Lin Yi did not leave any individual starfish for research, but killed them all to prevent the other party from causing any trouble for him.

After the giant starfish incident, Lin Yi finally understood how skinny these echinoderms could be. Although under normal circumstances, they didn't have many opportunities to skin like this, he still decided to eradicate them as a precaution - that is, there are no such skins in this era. Because, otherwise, the eggs would have to be shaken loose.

The micron torpedo swarm patrolled countless times and after confirming that no starfish survived, Lin Yi once again controlled the floating mother nest that had absorbed the "Kraken" gene sequence to empty the seawater in the vesicle and float upward.

The mother-fly slowly pushed the floating mother nest towards the fragmented body of the giant starfish.

Arriving above the corpse, the workers carried by the whisker-like structure on the side of the floating mother nest broke away one after another and rushed towards the huge corpse of the giant starfish. They began to cut it and stuff it into the holes on the surface of the mother nest.

As expected, the genetic sequence of the giant starfish, like the Kraken, has been encrypted in a special way.

This made Lin Yi more certain that what was encrypted was the original mother nest that was most likely related to their output. ,

More workers broke away from the floating brood and continued to clean the battlefield. They stuffed all these food resources into the holes on the surface of the floating brood, then produced transport workers, assembled into teams, and headed towards the deep sea under the protection of the fearless soldiers. Go ahead.

deep sea.

Countless special figures swung their paddling feet and passed between those deep-sea cephalopods such as the baghorn stones and the stacked horn stones - species that have never appeared in the deep sea.

Different from the rough waves and violent storms in the shallow sea, until now, the environment of the deep sea has maintained a considerable degree of stability, as if it is a different world from the shallow sea in the deep and fiery waters.

After the mass extinction, due to various reasons, many creatures naturally tried to dive down into the seemingly safe deep sea.

These even include some large horned rocks that live in shallow seas.

However, their gas-filled shells could not withstand the water pressure of the deep sea, and were soon crushed by the huge pressure. Their remains fell weakly to the seabed, becoming a feast for the aborigines of the deep sea.

Although those smaller creatures escaped the fate of being crushed like a watermelon by the water pressure, they still could not escape death. In the abyss of the ocean, the predators in the dark had been waiting for a long time.

Even if those shallow-sea creatures can withstand water pressure to a certain extent, they cannot fully adapt to the deep-sea environment, especially in the face of native deep-sea predators.

During this period, the life of the deep-sea predators was extremely prosperous. A large number of creatures fled here from the shallow sea, providing them with almost inexhaustible food.

But this time, the creatures that dived into the deep sea came prepared.

The echolocation system returned a large number of signals of small and medium-sized objects - another group of deep-sea cornerstones were approaching. In recent times, they have killed many creatures that dive into the deep sea, but their primitive brains do not know that this time, they will encounter unprecedented difficulties.

Various strange deep-sea hornstones waved their tentacles and slowly approached. Dark red eyes that could see clearly in the weak light loomed in the abyss.

What appeared in their eyes was a scorpion-shaped arthropod with flat paddling feet and an equally flat tail segment.

It's not like they have never seen such a creature before, and they have even killed it more than once - even the apex predator in the shallow sea is at risk of death in this dark abyss.

But when they approached from the darkness again, trying to launch a surprise attack as usual, they suddenly moved. The pair of sharp sickle-shaped appendages were wide open, the tail segments and paddling feet were swinging, and they were heading straight towards them!

At the last moment of their lives, they noticed that the opponent's eyes, which were composed of countless eye spots, also showed the same dark red color as their own.

The soldiers waved their sickles and easily cleared away these insignificant obstacles blocking the front of the transport team.

It seems that the recent influx of a large number of shallow-sea creatures into the deep sea has made these deep-sea predators more and more courageous, and they dare to attack such a large number of soldiers.

Because he was not sure whether the huge bodies of the fearless soldiers could withstand the test of deep sea pressure, Lin Yi did not let them dive into the deep sea. Instead, they stayed in the middle waters and were on standby. Ordinary soldiers equipped with pressure-resistant shell gene fragments Escort the transport workers to the deep sea.

Ahead, a large number of signals came from the echo positioning system again, but this time, Lin Yi did not have any mood swings and continued to control the transport group forward.

The connection in the consciousness revealed the identity of another group of people coming ahead - micronized torpedoes, a subspecies developed by Lin Yi and stationed in the deep sea. At this time, they swam out of the fixed Ganacang structure and came to meet this group. Transport workers.

Under the escort of another group of micronized torpedoes, the transport workers' compound eyes showed the shapes of clusters of sea ringworms and spines.

In certain trenches, Lin Yi had already produced a large number of mother nest-like nutrient storage structures, but their interiors were not filled with nutrients and had been slowly accumulating.

And the previous preparations finally came in handy.

Hexagonal prism-like nest-like fixed life forms were densely arranged on the seabed. Under his control, the transporter slowly stepped forward, stretched out the hose structure under his body that connected the core supply bag and the nutrient storage structure, and began to Transport nutrients into it.

Scenes like this are happening at the same time in various deep-sea trenches. Massive amounts of nutrients are transferred to these temporary safe havens under Lin Yi's control. After the earth is restored to life, he can produce a large amount of grades immediately. Seize the ecological niche again.

In various sea areas, large-scale nutrient transportation has begun to come to an end, and many transportation vehicles have been recycled by the mother nest along with nutrients.

The temperature is getting colder day by day, and the once fertile tropical shallow sea gradually begins to look desolate. Early reef-building organisms such as bryozoans that make up coral reefs began to die on a large scale. After the heroic prelude to the mass extinction, a long period of death was about to come.

Next, for a long period of time, the nest colony will stop most activities and hibernate in the deep sea until the real stage of mass extinction has passed and the ecosystem begins to recover, and then withdraw to the shallow sea where the ecology has recovered.

(End of this chapter)