The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 175 The funeral of the Anomalocaris nest

But what followed was a deep sense of powerlessness - even if there was really some conspiracy behind all this, with his current ability, he was powerless and could only watch it all happen.

What happened to the strange shrimp nest sounded the alarm for Lin Yi, thoroughly proving the danger of the original mother nest.

While thinking about it, the individual of the strange shrimp nest that resembled Schendhans shrimp also slowly came forward. The dim luster in the compound eyes no longer flickered, but the pair of compound eyes still looked straight upward, as if through River water and atmosphere, looking between the stars.

Another "Shindehans shrimp" slowly swam out from behind, but the difference was that this individual, which looked like a Schindehans shrimp, had a large, stemless middle eye in the middle of its head, somewhat similar to the former one. Three-eyed Hurd shrimp.

The flashing luster in the three compound eyes shows that this is also an individual directly controlled by the Anomalocaris nest group. This is probably one of the few individuals of the last level that the Anomalocaris nest can directly control, and may even be the last remaining one.

Moreover, the exoskeleton of this "three-eyed Schendhans shrimp" has begun to lose its luster, and the luster in its compound eyes has dimmed and almost disappeared, indicating that it is in its final years.

Just like the current nest of Anomalocaris, it has gone through an unknown amount of time, and eventually it is gradually dying out.

At this time, it happened to be night, and the sky was full of stars twinkling. The figure of the "Three-Eyed Schndelhans Shrimp" slowly floated to the surface of the water. Seeing this, Gong Hao's body followed closely behind him, and he also surfaced and looked up.

The head with three compound eyes surfaced, and then an appendage slowly lifted up, broke out of the water, waved under the power of muscles, and stretched out to the sky, as if to touch the stars in the sky, but soon it was gone again. Hanging weakly under the influence of gravity.

Gonghao slowly picked up its body, swung his paddling feet and swam downwards. He slowly placed the body in front of the ordinary "Shenderhans shrimp" controlled by the Anomalocaris nest below, and looked at each other. .

This means that now, in the entire strange shrimp nest group, there is only one "Shenderhans shrimp" as the level that can be directly controlled. When this "Schendhans shrimp" dies, it is the death of the Anomalocaris nest, which may be the world's first nest colony.

Behind, various pictures began to appear on the upper reaches of the biological display screen. After some explanations, Lin Yi finally conveyed to the other party the inquiry of "how many individuals are left?"

Immediately, the last trace of luster brought by the flow of body fluids slowly faded away in the compound eyes of the "Three-Eyed Shendehans Shrimp" and completely dimmed. The body that was close to the shape of a fish gradually stopped swinging and turned over like a fish, lifeless.

After another exchange, the only remaining "Shendehans shrimp" slowly swam in one direction, and the bodies of the workers and soldiers followed closely behind, until an oval object appeared in the field of vision - It is the mother nest of the Anomalocaris nest colony.

Seeing this, the "Schendhans shrimp" slowly drew two horizontal lines on the river bed, which seemed to indicate that there were only two left. And then, one of them was erased by it, perhaps representing the "Three-Eyed Schendhans Shrimp" that just passed away.

The size of this mother nest is very small, and it can barely produce "Schendehans shrimp" with a body similar to that of the Gonghao shrimp. Its appearance also seems to have changed somewhat, and it has a certain ability to camouflage, telling the story of the decline of the Anomalocaris nest group. tragic situation.

Even if they were once forced into the ocean trench by the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group to survive, the Anomalocaris nest group was not so miserable - as expected, it is often the smallest and inconspicuous microorganisms that can really kill large animals, even if they are super-organisms. "Large animals" that exist in the form.

The huge figure of a pioneer female slowly swung its five pairs of paddling legs, broke through the water, stretched out the hose structure connecting the core supply bag under her body, and the end slowly connected to the Anomalocaris nest colony mother with the help of the worker. Holes in the surface of the nest. A large amount of nutrients were poured into the mother nest from the core supply bag structure of the pioneering mother. Then, the second hose structure also stretched out, extending to the mother nest of the Anomalocaris nest below, desperately injecting nutrients.

Then, as if unwilling to give up, the second and third female pioneers came one after another, injecting a large amount of nutrients into the mother nest of the Anomalocaris nest, trying to save them again.

But on the side, the luster in the compound eyes of the "Schenden Hans shrimp" was still dim. Even, there is an extra hint of bitterness?

Different from the orthogonal stone nests that are always as contemptuous as the old gods coming to the world, and the aggressive terrestrial arthropod nests, the Anomalocaris nests have always been "humane", and this is how Lin Yi formed the of communication.

On the display screen, a picture of the mother's nest production level was shown. Lin Yi still controlled the development of the mother's nest and injected a large amount of nutrients into it, trying to save the anomaly shrimp nest group.

But the twinkling luster in the other party's eyes was still dim, seeming to persuade Lin Yi not to waste any more efforts.

Being able to suppress the most primitive desire for survival is enough to prove that the influence of the original mother nest has been too deep, and the Anomalocaris nest seems to be really unable to recover.

According to the other party's statement, this last "Schendehans shrimp" seemed to be dead. This means that the life of the Anomalocaris nest has entered its final countdown.

More pioneering motherflies inject nutrients into each other's mother's nest, but to no avail - unless Lin Yi can find a way to eliminate the influence of the original mother's nest on the genetic sequence of the mother's nest through that virus-like life form.

But all this is obviously impossible. Not to mention helping the strange shrimp nest, Lin Yi no longer even dared to touch the original mother nest, for fear of getting himself involved.

A sense of powerlessness resurfaced in Lin Yi's consciousness - he could only watch helplessly as the nests of strange shrimps passed away in front of him and could do nothing.

Time continues to pass, the brood colonies on land continue to expand, and the elimination of terrestrial arthropod nest colonies continues. In the sea, brood nests with photosynthetic structures and floating brood nests continue to proliferate, and everything is getting better. direction of development.

In the river, all this is presented on the "screen" to the Anomalocaris nest group. During the communication, Lin Yi has learned that the Anomalocaris nest group has a strong curiosity about strange things and prefers to explore this. world.

However, behind this great situation, what happened to the strange shrimp nest still made Lin Yi feel uneasy. A hive that was prosperous for a while could easily go to destruction in this way. He was afraid that such a fate would also happen to him.

He plans to do something to prevent this from happening as much as possible, or at least to retain some margin after it happens, so as not to perish.

But before that, there were other things that Lin Yi needed to deal with - that day finally arrived.

(End of this chapter)