The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 280 Living Planet
The Pioneer Star adjusted the direction of its body and slowly moved into the orbit of the habitable planet. At the same time, a large number of sac-like structures began to break away from the Pioneer Star's body like eggs were laid. They were captured by the gravity of the Life Star and fell downwards. .

In the process, some sac-like structures with compound eyes also looked at the structure of the planet in detail - in all aspects, it is similar to the Earth in the Eocene Epoch. The vegetation coverage rate is frighteningly high, even the equivalent of the polar circle on the Earth. The location looks lush and green.

Tianyuan 4 is an orange dwarf star. The light it emits is more red than the yellow dwarf star like the sun, but of course it is not without green light. However, seen from space, the plants here are still green, not more orange-red as expected. Perhaps the origin of the color of the earth's plants is wrong, and Lin Yi doesn't know.

According to current observations, at least on the surface, no man-made structures have been found. We do not rule out the possibility of primitive forms of civilization existing underground or in the ocean, but there probably will not be any on the ground. This also made Lin Yi's actions even more unscrupulous.

Continuing downward, these large numbers of specialized airdrop-shaped structures were used to land in the thick atmosphere. Under Lin Yi's intentional control, the airdrop capsule-like structures with heat-resistant structures dispersed over a large area, deep into the atmosphere, and prepared to land everywhere.

If there are intelligent creatures observing secretly on the ground at this time, they will be able to find that dots of meteors flying across the sky with flames behind them, forming a dense meteor shower like the Middle Ordovician meteor event, and falling to the earth scatteredly.

On the thick shell, the layers of special scale structures similar to shield scales vaporize under the high temperature generated by friction, taking away a large amount of heat, keeping the temperature of the body in a safe range, and falling through the dense atmosphere.

These structures are not equipped with any recoil deceleration devices, but are simply equipped with special structures similar to elytra and membrane wings, but the shape after deployment is more like a parachute. After entering the densest area of ​​the atmosphere, these structures will be opened immediately to start deceleration. .

Although it was the first time to land on a living planet with a dense atmosphere, there was no technical content and it was easily accomplished. However, during this process, Lin Yi saw something incredible.

Those are some huge flying creatures - due to the long distance, both sides are still moving at high speed, so it is certain that they are not man-made objects, but the specific shape is not clear. It can only be seen that they are wings, with a tail-like structure, more like a spine. The presence of animals.

At a glance, Lin Yi speculated that the opponent's size and wingspan were even much larger than the current Kuai-Wing Diver, which had been improved several times, and had even surpassed the largest flying creature in the history of the earth - Noro. Aeolian pterosaur.

From the appearance of such large flying creatures, it is not difficult to see that the life on this planet has evolved to a high level and already has such huge flying creatures. When the time comes to establish a firm foothold, such flying creatures will have to be gathered at any cost. Just research research.

The first airdrop capsule landed quickly. The landing point was in an open space. There were several medium-sized creatures nearby. The appearance should be similar to the vertebrates on the earth. They were looking for food on the ground. The sudden airdrop capsule seemed to make They panicked and ran away quickly.

But I don’t know if meteors falling because they are too close to the asteroid belt is nothing new. Soon, even though the compound eyes on the airdrop bag fell into the soil with the violent landing, and I couldn’t see clearly, I could still hear the creatures. The footsteps were approaching again.

Lin Yi did not take any measures - anyway, the outer shell of the airdrop capsule is not something that ordinary creatures can chew. As for the opponent who dares to eat the subsequent fungus carpet, Lin Yi dares to kill it from the inside before the opponent's digestion is completed. .
The fungus carpet began to spread, and the roots extended out, swallowing up the rotting vegetation layer on the ground, as well as all kinds of strange microorganisms and soil organisms, and began to understand the general biological composition of the entire planet from the grassroots ecosystem. At this time, the rest of the airdrop capsules basically landed all over the planet. Whether it was ocean or land, the most suitable structures were quickly produced, and the exploration and expansion of a new life planet began.

After the carpet root system proliferates to a certain extent, the original airdrop sac begins to dissolve and gradually pupates into a tissue structure similar to a mother's nest. However, its role is not to produce grade-level individuals for the time being - to be precise, it is not to produce macro-level individuals.

Some airdrop sacs confirm the presence of animals nearby. A structure similar to a vine, a fungus fruiting body, a sea forest plant, etc. slowly grows upward, and at the end is a flower-like structure.

In the bud-like structure, a large number of spores float out with bursts of air currents, approaching all nearby animals and plants indiscriminately - this is not a sneak attack on the Ezki people, but a direct and massive parasitism, and naturally there is no trace of it. Keep it.

The plants on this planet are somewhat special. Their plant fibers are even stronger than the grasses of later generations on Earth. They seem to have adopted a special structure - this structure can be used as a reference and further improved by the carpet.

In the sea, where Lin Yi made his fortune, he also produced a large number of tissues similar to the former sea forest clusters, but now functioned like carpets, and also spread some special spores along the water flow.

On land, judging from the parasitism of carpet spores, this living planet, at least the area where the airdrop pods fell, has a large number of small and medium-sized flying insects similar to Orthoptera insects on the earth, and their teeth are quite good. There are also special symbiotic microorganisms in the digestive system to better break down plants.

But now, they have become nutrients for the proliferation of the mother nest and the carpet. Others have been analyzed by carpet spores and then directly parasitize brain nerves after analyzing their genetic sequences, spreading further and preparing to infect more parasites.

Through the compound eyes of these creatures, Lin Yi was able to initially observe that this planet was very different from the earth, but it also revealed a similar ecological environment - of course, limited by the moving distance of these ordinary creatures, it is not possible to see it on a large scale yet. Detailed investigation.

For this reason, in some areas with more abundant resources, airdrop capsules have begun to become real land mother nests, preparing to produce a batch of land-based construction projects for auxiliary construction. The mother nest in the sea gradually takes shape, producing traditional marine crafts for exploration.

And when these structures continue to develop, producing shadowflies, long-winged swoopers and even gastrocystis on land, and producing pioneer mothers in the sea, it is the time for further detailed exploration of the entire planet - Lin Yi believes that this planet The planet will definitely bring him more surprises.

(End of this chapter)