The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 163 Guess

Among the low vascular plants, a large group of wild-toothed saw ants move their six limbs, claws on their backs, and move quickly through them.

In the sky, one long-winged diver roared past, some even carried Euglena on the end of their abdomen, and their well-developed compound eyes were scanning the earth, searching for suspicious targets.

The ends of the abdomens of the remaining Ku-Wing divers are equipped with biological armor-piercing aerial bombs and armor-piercing rockets. The warheads covered with thick exoskeletons are exposed, like exposed stingers, shining with a cold light.

Although the leaf-clawed worm is huge, it is not as amazing as the "Kraken". Based on the performance of the other party, it may occupy more than half or even the entire Gondwana continent, and if there is a crop of lichen, I want to cultivate a few more of them. Leaf-claw worms, not a difficult thing to deal with.

The premise is that the opponent has the means to mass-produce leaf-clawed worms - the size of the right spiral stone nest group at that time is not impossible to hold back two "Kraken", and if more than one of them cooperate in combat, the battle situation may be Will be completely rewritten.

But the other party did not do this in the end, which means that the encrypted genetic sequence of "Kraken" cannot even be analyzed by the Orthogonal Stone Nest itself.

The body of the leaf-clawed worm killed last time has been analyzed by Lin Yi, and its gene series has also been encrypted. This allowed Lin Yi to confirm that these "decisive weapons" were indeed not created independently by these nest groups.

Now, Lin Yi has sufficient resources and computing power, and his genetic analysis ability is better than that of the Ordovician at that time. He should be able to complete the analysis soon, but it is not now, and he does not know the details of the leaf-claw worm, nor does he know How much genetic sequence did this terrestrial arthropod colony harvest from leaf-clawed worms?

Currently, Lin Yi speculates that the birth of these "decisive weapons" with encrypted genetic sequences is related to the original mother nest.

After the mass extinction, he also conducted many experiments on the original brood nest, but he never directly let the individuals under his control directly participate in the experiments. Instead, he captured lucky wild creatures and conducted inhumane in vivo experiments.

After various experiments, Lin Yi finally understood the general principle of the primitive brood - as long as a large amount of flesh and blood of a certain species is "fed" to the primitive brood, it will analyze the genetic sequence and secrete the virus containing special ingredients. Microbial fluids come.

The special virus-like microorganisms in these liquids, after absorbing a sufficient amount of the genetic sequence of the organism, can automatically create a set of genetic improvement plans for the organism, improving the genetic sequence of the reproductive cells in the organism, allowing them to The next generation of individuals born has a large number of benign directional gene mutations, which accelerates evolution.

Having said that, if there were individual intelligent creatures similar to human beings in this era, and they were in the era of ignorance, and obtained the original mother nest, would they use the original mother nest as some kind of sacred object that "can gain power by sacrificing flesh and blood"? Develop some kind of mysterious religious belief based on this?

However, in this era, there are only true social intelligent creatures such as nests. The difficult communication methods between nests make it impossible for Lin Yi to know how other nests view the original mother nest.

But the "Kraken" back then and the leaf-clawed worms today all prove that these hostile nest groups are all using the abilities of the original mother nest to create brand new genetic sequences out of thin air that are ahead of the times.

For example, the sodium extraction and utilization technology of the Orthogonal Nest Group, and the airborne beetle-like propellant injection system of the terrestrial arthropod nest group - of course, in comparison, the black technology of the Ortholithic Nest Group is superior. However, the original mother nest that appeared in the Dikla Crater, combined with the speculation that the mother nest was related to the Middle Ordovician meteor event, always made Lin Yi very uneasy about the existence of the original mother nest.

The scene of the leader Ancient Jaw being controlled by the original mother nest is vivid in his mind. All gifts in the world have a price tag in secret. This primitive mother nest has such a function to attract nest creatures, but does it have its own purpose?

In particular, the edited genetic sequence of the original mother's nest is actually encrypted, which also shows that it is different from the mother's nest - the mother's nest can be completely controlled by itself, while the original mother's nest is completely unknown.

Currently, among all the nests Lin Yi has encountered, only the Anomalocaris nest can communicate with each other, and it has not shown too much alarming aggression. The right spiral stone nest group and the terrestrial arthropod nest group are full of aggression towards other nest groups.

Both of them have used original mother nests, only Anomalocaris nests. At least the other party did not reveal that they had similar structures in their communication with Lin Yi - if they did, they would not be beaten by the Straight Spiral Stone Nests. Into the trench.

Although there are only three samples, the data is not general enough and the possibility of coincidence cannot be ruled out. Lin Yi still has a bad feeling - the original mother nest can improve the genetic characteristics of the species, and whether it can plant in its genetic sequence. Enter the "underlying logic" about aggression?

A more terrifying guess is that by directly editing the underlying logic of the genetic sequence, the entire nest group has completely become a puppet of the original mother nest itself, involuntarily, just like the controlled leader Ancient Jaw?

Although the original mother nest has no brain-related structures in its body, its ability to analyze and optimize genetic sequence improvement programs shows that it must have some form of intelligence, so all these speculations are not groundless.

In short, no matter what the reason, Lin Yi never let the grade individuals of his own nest participate in the experiments related to the original mother nest, and he did not dare to use the genetic sequences provided by the original mother nest. He only dared to use those from other nest groups. Steal some second-hand genetic sequences.

Moreover, the gradually formed combat system allows Lin Yi to defeat hostile terrestrial arthropod nests without relying on unreliable external forces such as the primitive brood. He uses the decisive battle-level leaf claw worms produced by the primitive brood. .

In an increasingly systematic battle, it will become increasingly unrealistic to pin hopes on one or two decisive weapons - after all, in the history of human warfare, the last decisive weapon to appear was the Yamato-class battleship.

A certain island country that was living a good life once had high hopes for it, but the final outcome was so miserable that people couldn't help but lament that it was like popping champagne.

Later generations often commented that he was born at the wrong time and was eliminated by the times, but in fact, he more proved that the idea of ​​decisive weapons was useless in the face of systematic warfare.

Maybe the facts will prove that he is overthinking, and maybe one day in the future, the unpredictable battle situation will make him use the primitive brood as a last resort when he is at the end of his rope, but at least now, Lin Yi has no need for this.

(End of this chapter)