The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 181 The natural disaster is me

When his consciousness slowly woke up from the "shelter" structures in his brain in the deep sea, Lin Yi felt that ten thousand leaf-clawed worms were whizzing past in his heart.

He didn't know exactly how long it took for the outside world to pass, but judging from the structure, it must not be short.

However, his consciousness seemed to only stay for a short period of time, and he made some adjustments to the special synaptic structure of his brain. He did not expect that such a long time had passed in the outside world.

However, this also further confirmed what his consciousness had guessed during the research process - that this special synaptic structure was related to space. This caused the outside world to pass such a long time, but Lin Yi was completely unaware.

It is a bit abstract to say that the nest group has not yet left the wild animal stage, but it already has space technology that future generations of humans have not fully mastered, and it has been directly integrated into the brain.

But with Lin Yi's current ability, he is still unable to make complex edits and modifications. He can only simply make some small changes - for example, fixing a fatal flaw that seems to have been left deliberately.

That's right, what is hidden by layers of genetic encryption means is a special genetic fragment.

However, this fragment is not an excellent trait for the hive creatures, but a fatal flaw that was clearly deliberately left behind - this gene fragment allows the brain to have special nerves that Lin Yi temporarily calls spatial synapses. The synaptic structure will fail after receiving a special signal!

Lin Yi has not yet clarified the specific mode of action. It may be some kind of special wave signal, the complexity of which is beyond what Lin Yi can edit now.

But fortunately, there is no complicated relationship between this gene fragment and other gene fragments. It seems to have been forcibly inserted into the gene sequence, as if its designer did not expect that the nest group would be able to decipher this. Gene sequence.

Therefore, this deeply hidden genetic sequence can be deleted simply and crudely without affecting other gene segments. The phenomenon of deleting one bug and causing more bugs will not occur in future generations.

But the appearance of this genetic sequence still made Lin Yi, who was incompatible with things like sweat glands, break out in a non-existent cold sweat.

If it hadn't been for the encounter with the Anomalocaris nest that made him determined to delve deeper into the structure of spatial synapses, he might still be in the dark and not know that there is such a fatal flaw in the genetic sequence of the nest.

This is obviously not a residual failure flaw of evolution, but a fatal weakness, or some kind of backdoor, that was clearly deliberately left. This also made Lin Yi completely sure that the nest group was created by some being.

However, why would a being who has the ability to control space and integrate it into a special synaptic structure that can be stuffed into the brain of a creature create a nest that is no different from a beast?

He couldn't understand, and there was no point in thinking about it anymore. Lin Yi simply stopped thinking about him for the time being, and instead continued to complete more important tasks.

Lin Yi did not know what purpose the unknown creator of the nest had in triggering the Middle Ordovician meteor incident. But he knew that it would never be pure kindness. Combined with the original mother nest, there must be some conspiracy involved. But based on the opponent's possible strength, and comparing it to the nest group, it is now estimated that it can barely compete with humans who have just entered the era of hot weapons. Even if the opponent really has some purpose, Lin Yi can't do anything.

Ants, in any case, cannot threaten humans. Even the most venomous Maricopa bearded ant in the world can only take away a person's life through a lucky anaphylactic shock.

But no matter what, the sting can cause severe pain. Even if it cannot kill the opponent, it will at least leave a scar to prove that it once existed.

The road must be walked step by step. Withdrawing his thoughts, his consciousness returned to the structure, and he looked around from the tentacle structure with compound eyes on the periphery.

Now, the most important thing is to determine how long the outside world has passed during the process of studying spatial synapses, and how to quickly continue to expand and complete the previously unfinished business.

The spatial synaptic network of the nest group has not been cut off, but the long period of time has basically killed all the peripheral level individuals. Only the special structure in the deep sea has played its original role in the design and preserved the fire of the nest group. .

From the beginning of the design of these deep-sea structures, consideration was given to restoring the colony operations after removing the genetic virus from the original mother nest. Therefore, its peripheral structure can easily pupate into the mother nest and pupal sac mother nest again.

The first one to pupate was a reconnaissance female. Of course, its spatial synaptic structure had the defective parts deleted and had some other subtle modifications.

It is equipped with a shell that is hard enough to withstand the water pressure of the deep sea and has the ability to travel freely in both deep and shallow seas.

The female scout quickly completed her pupation, swinging her five pairs of paddling legs, operating the familiar water jet propulsion system, and slowly floated toward the shallow sea, into the familiar yet unfamiliar waters.

Sunlight passes through the water waves and reflects into the compound eyes of the investigating mother. The first creature that appears in the compound eyes is none other than the photosynthetic structure of the nest!

It still looks familiar, with a circle of lotus leaf-like photosynthetic leaf structures extending outward around the main body composed of graptolite-like vesicle structures, but the number of them is astonishingly large, stretching for an unknown distance, even beyond the detection of the mother plant. range of vision.

It seems that the photosynthetic structure of the nest group has been very successful in proliferating during this period, which also makes Lin Yi feel relieved - during this period of silence of his consciousness, the proliferation of the photosynthetic structure of the nest group has indeed not stopped and continued. Collecting nutrients.

And looking at the number of these photosynthetic structures, their proliferation time is probably not short. The current time may have entered the Devonian period or even the Carboniferous period.

Looking at this boundless, sun-blocking photosynthetic structure, Lin Yi suddenly had some strange thoughts - in later research, it was found that from the Devonian to the Carboniferous, plants had dominated the earth's climate for a long time. Could it be that the real culprit is not the plants, but these photosynthetic structures?

At this moment, Lin Yi suddenly had a sense of déjà vu, that is, he had hung up on the Earth OL server. Not only had the version been updated, but he was also told that the main reason for the updated version was that he had hung up.

I sat up in shock when I was dying of illness. Is this natural disaster my own?

No matter what, now, the nutrients stored in these structures will be used by Lin Yi to allow the nest group to expand and develop again, and achieve the ultimate goal that has not been completed before, touching the stars.

(End of this chapter)