The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 172 Reunion

After some thought, Lin Yi decided to tentatively call this new species of Anomalocaris as Pseudomonas elegans, describing it as having a structure that is highly similar to the jaws of placoderms.

The body of the Pseudognathus swaying under the protection of a large number of "Schendhans shrimp" is specialized into a tail blade similar to the tail fin of a fish. The swimming lobes of the pectoral fin structure and anal fin structure balance the body, and it goes straight towards a soldier. scorpion.

However, compared with the full-toothed Hed's shrimp in the Anomalocaris nest, the cooperation between the swordfish-shaped Hed's shrimp and ordinary Anomalocaris is still far behind. At most, it reaches the level of the completely different blind leaf-cutting ants of later generations. In other words, they followed their instincts and surrounded him without any conscious cover for their weaknesses.

This made Lin Yi even more certain that even if the opponent had grade differentiation, it must be related to the Anomalocaris nest group, but it was definitely not the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp and the three-eyed Hurd shrimp that perfectly matched the Anomalocaris nest group. .

However, as for what kind of connection the two parties have, we have to wait until the battle is over and Lin Yi absorbs the opponent's genetic sequence before he can fully determine it.

While thinking about it, the Pseudomonas pseudognathus has already moved forward, with the two appendages that make up the "mandible" wide open, revealing a ferocious four-radiating mouth cone structure at the position equivalent to the throat. At this time, the mouth cone is also wide open. As it stood, the edges of those sharp tooth plate structures shone with a cold light.

At such a distance, through Bing Hao's compound eyes, Lin Yi also saw that the opponent's "pectoral fins", that is, the front ends of the first pair of swimming lobes were hardened and had jagged sharp edges. It seemed that they could also be used as weapons when necessary. use.

All combined, the Pseudognathus Hurd shrimp has become an absolute killing machine. If it were a little bigger, I am afraid that even the fully-toothed Hurd shrimp or the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp may not be it. opponent.

It's a pity that at least these two pseudognathic Hed shrimp are only more than two meters in size. They are nothing compared to the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp with a sword blade that can reach four meters and the five-meter full-toothed Hed shrimp. Great witch.

At this time, although there were only ordinary soldiers here, Lin Yi didn't take him seriously at all.

Although they were related to the Anomalocaris nest group, they were not the Anomalocaris nest group after all. At this time, he just wanted to quickly deal with each other, and then conduct a detailed analysis of the opponent's genetic sequence to obtain more clues about the Anomalocaris nest group.

The soldier waved its sickle limbs, and the opposite mandibular Hedera shrimp also opened its appendages and rushed forward. The sharp sickle limbs covered with thorns and the converging jaws full of tooth processes met in one place, fighting each other. The sound spreads in the water!

After a round of confrontation, Lin Yi admitted that he had underestimated the bite force of the Pseudognathus prawn.

Blue horseshoe crab blood surged out together with yellow and white tissue fluid. Those sharp odontoid structures, equivalent to incisors or canine teeth, were embedded in the soldier's exoskeleton, creating cracks. The soldier's sickle limbs were also embedded at the same time. There were scratches on the opponent's exoskeleton.

After a round of fighting, both sides ended up with a lose-lose ending. If there was a one-on-one fight, it was still unclear who would win in the end.

But the reality is that Lin Yi's side has a large number of enemies, while the other side only has a few. No matter what, the advantage lies with Lin Yi's side.

A large number of soldiers immediately swarmed up, waving their sickle limbs covered with blades and spines, and attacked the two Pseudognathus striata. The sharp sickle limbs immediately opened hideous scars on the soft back half of the body of the Pseudognathus, and tissue fluid gushes out.

In the righteous gang fight, the bodies of the two Pseudognathus were torn into pieces by the swarms of soldiers, and then they fell weakly to the bottom of the sea, with tissue fluid surging and forming a turbid trail trailing behind them. Seeing this, the "Schendhans shrimps" all around also swung their swimming leaves and retreated around, leaving their broken bodies and corpses on the ground, and fled backwards without looking back.

After Lin Yi obtained enough corpses, he stopped chasing. The workers controlling the rear slowly stepped forward, preparing to start the routine post-war garbage collection process to recover the corpses of these anomalies and find more information about the anomalies. Clues to the nest.

But at this moment, a new situation happened.

In the distance, in the river, another small figure slowly swam in - another "Schendhans shrimp". Beside him, two Pseudognathus striata were guarding him, and they were larger and more ferocious than the previous ones.

The soldiers immediately got into a fighting stance, preparing to fight the shrimps and cover the workers who came forward to pick up the corpses.

But the next second, Lin Yi controlled all the soldiers to put down their postures and retreat to both sides, while a worker swung its paddling feet, slowly stepped forward, and connected with the "Shendehans shrimp" on the eye stalks. The two eyes looked at each other - the compound eyes were shining brightly, representing the luster of complex emotions!

The two Pseudomonas pseudognathus also lowered their guard and closed their ferocious jaws. The ordinary "Schendhans shrimp" around them stopped running away and swam back.

Some kind of special mutual sensing ability between the nest groups allowed Lin Yi to immediately recognize that the "Shenderhans shrimp" that arrived later was an individual belonging to the Anomalocaris nest group. Moreover, from the look in the opponent's compound eyes, Lin Yi It is easy to see that it, or rather they, are still not hostile!

The worker slowly lowered its height, slowly landed on the river bed, and gestured on the river bed with a pair of chelicerae, while the "Schendhans shrimp" also swung its body, lowered to the top of the river bed, and used its appendages under its head. Limbs carved on the river bed.

An abstract version of an anomaly shrimp and an equally abstract horseshoe crab quickly appeared under the "pens" of both parties. At this moment, Lin Yi finally confirmed the identity of the other party. Their eyes met, representing complex emotions. The luster shines in the compound eyes.

Millions of years of time and the deathly hardships of the mass extinction have not changed much. The anomaly shrimp nest is still the same as before. When the fearless soldier was attacked by self-exploding corner stones, he could ignore the fear in his heart and control the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp to move towards it. The Anomalocaris nest group launched a charge with almost no chance of winning.

The previously eusocial "Schendehans shrimp" and Pseudomonas elegans, which were obviously not in a nest group, were obviously individuals indirectly controlled by the Anomalocaris nest group in some way, because they did not have the complex ability to identify friend or foe. This caused the previous misunderstanding.

But now, the misunderstanding has been resolved again, and the two true social hives that had formed an alliance as early as the Ordovician finally reunited in the Silurian.

If it were not for the structure of the lacrimal gland, Lin Yi would probably have tears in his eyes right now - not to mention his use and debt to the Anomalocaris nest, in a sense, the other party is the only person he can communicate with in this era. Intelligent creatures can also be regarded as the only "friends".

After millions of years, it took an unknown amount of time and arduous search. Lin Yi finally found them again!

(End of this chapter)