The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 191 No grass grows

When a huge hive mind consciousness is operating at full strength, its speed and mobility are astonishing.

The long-winged diver carrying a large amount of nutrients quickly landed on the desert next to the fern forest under the position provided by the shadowflies. Guarded by the remaining shadowflies, it began to pupate towards the mother's nest.

The prototype of the terrestrial mother nest was quickly formed, and immediately, the purple-black carpet began to spread from the mother nest group, multiplying, expanding, and digging its roots deep into the ground, stabilizing the main body of the mother nest while absorbing water and supplying Brood.

Subsequently, more Kui-winged divers carrying fat tissue flew from behind and crash-landed on the bacteria carpet. Immediately, the nearby bacteria carpet tissue immediately extended and began to absorb the nutrients from the Kui-winged divers' bodies.

The mother nest and the fungus carpet proliferate rapidly, and soon the area extended by the fungus carpet can accumulate enough nutrients through photosynthesis to continuously supply the development of the nest colony.

A few shadowflies that stayed behind flapped their wings and took off, looking for nearby prey, killing them directly from the air, picking up the corpses, and transporting them back to their mother's nest to further replenish nutrients.

The first batch of crazy-toothed saw ants were quickly produced. In order to deal with the next completely different enemies, the appearance of these crazy-toothed saw ants did not change, but the internal structure, especially the biological shotgun structure in the abdomen, was completely changed. Replace it.

The abdominal end organs of these plant-attacking Saw Ants are more similar to the biological flamethrowers of fire-breathing Saw Ants. However, Lin Yi does not intend to set fire to the mountains for the time being, so he does not directly use the biological flamethrower structure.

A brand-new chemical storage structure is installed in their abdominal structure, which can extract and store a special chemical component from the mother's nest.

This ingredient was later known as bispyridine dichloride, and it also has another more widely known name, paraquat.

And just in case, if the battle fails, in the brood group at the rear, the Ku-winged Divers on standby will carry biological incendiary bombs, set fire to the mountain, and burn the entire strange fern forest to the ground.

Even carnivorous plants are extremely ferocious, as long as they have not left the category of carbon-based plants, these paraquats are effective against them.

This time, Lin Yi's goal is quite simple, and the level configuration is also simple. It is to kill a large number of saw-toothed saw ants and a few left-behind shadow flies by spraying a chemical composition similar to bispyridine dichloride to kill these carnivorous plants. .

The ingredient that Lin Yi synthesized using biological means, which should be paraquat, is indeed non-toxic to the modified Saw Ant itself, but it has a devastating killing effect on green plants.

The first batch of these herbicidal Saw Ants was quickly produced, and under the control of Lin Yi, they gathered in front of the carpet group and the mother nest group and made preparations.

The rest of the abdominal structure is the same as that of fire-breathing saw ants, except that the electric ignition structure at the end is changed to a structure that can atomize liquid, allowing them to absorb the chemical components stored in the venom glands in their abdomens. Efficiently atomizes and sprays out, causing damage.

In later generations, this ingredient was used as a powerful herbicide, fatal to green plant tissues and some animals, but slightly or even non-toxic to insects such as bees.

The goal of this battle is only four words - not a blade of grass can grow. In the physical sense, no grass can grow, even though there are no grasses in this era that can be called grasses in the strict sense.

Two shadowflies were hovering above, and below, the saw-toothed ants dispersed, two in groups, and slowly moved towards the strange fern forest.

As soon as he entered, from all directions, those knotted vine structures were waving and whipping like whips. The four petal-like structures at the end, which were similar to flytraps, bit into them. On the inside, those stamens suddenly showed tooth processes. His appearance reminded Lin Yi of the leader Gu Jaw back then. However, the crazy-toothed saw ants only bent their abdomens and skillfully sprayed the liquid from the end of their abdomens, spraying it onto the vine structures that were entangled in all directions.

The shot liquid swept crosswise, and in an instant, like the scythe of death, the swing of the large vine structure that came into contact with the liquid changed its shape, and fell feebly toward the ground.

The emerald green color turned to yellow almost instantly, and the spray of several saw-toothed ants immediately cleared a large lifeless open space in the fern forest.

On the fungus carpet at the rear, some of the workers produced by the mother nest began to pupate into tumor-like structures that served as neural consciousness nodes. They connected with the fungus carpet, gave birth to spatial synaptic structures, and began to extend the nervous system to the surroundings, allowing the fungus carpet to continue. Proliferate towards the fern forest.

In the mother nest, all the nutrients begin to gather along the fungus carpet, allowing the fungus carpet to continue to spread and multiply.

The moment the fungus carpet comes into contact with the dead fern wood, the root tissue at the end begins to wrap around the dead fern wood, and begins to dissolve its remains and absorb nutrients.

Stepping on the remains of these strange ferns, the fungus carpet tissue began to continue to proliferate. Viewed from above, the purple-black tissue was particularly eye-catching among the emerald green fern forests, like scars on the earth.

In front of them, the crazy-toothed saw ants continued to spray chemicals, causing damage to the carnivorous fern trees.

Paraquat, that is, bispyridine dichloride itself is colorless and odorless. In order to prevent accidental ingestion, later generations often added odors, vomiting ingredients, etc., but Lin Yi does not have this need now.

But out of some prank on some classic cases in his previous life, he slightly modified the ingredients in the glands in the abdomen of the Sawtooth Ant, making it appear bright orange. When it was atomized and sprayed, there was quite a bit of color. Very spectacular.

The Saw Ant colony advanced at an almost astonishing speed, and behind it, the carpet was also spreading steadily, absorbing pieces of plant tissue remains and turning them into nutrients for its own proliferation.

No matter how those vine structures are swung, it is difficult to get even half a step closer to the chemicals ejected by the Saw Ants, which can be called a dimensionality-reducing blow, and they can only come up one after another to die.

As if unwilling to continue to die in vain like this, the vine structures that were swinging wildly like tentacles finally stopped waving.

At the same time, the opponent also made a brand-new response - Shadowfly's echolocation system suddenly showed that something strange was approaching behind the dense fern forest. Judging from their number and clarity, wild animals can basically be excluded.

Judging from the degree of organization shown in the echolocation signal, there is only one possibility - a nest group. A brand new nest group composed of unknown species once again appeared on Pangea, which was no longer what it used to be.

But when their figures appeared in the shadow fly's well-developed compound eyes in mid-air, Lin Yi was immediately stunned.

(End of this chapter)