The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 305 Perfect Closed Loop
Between the shattered earth and the scorching magma, the fleeing beasts have been basically divided and swallowed by the magma, and they are scattered and waiting for death. Among them, there were two wolf lizard beasts, forced into a small open space by the cracked earth.

The ends of the shocking lava pillars that had previously spewed up to a thousand meters were partially cooled in the sky, dispersed and solidified into countless semi-cooled hot rock blocks, and fell to the earth again under the influence of gravity, like flying fireballs, trailing flame tails from the sky.

Under the dark red volcanic ash clouds reflected by the magma, it was like purgatory. The small and cramped safe space could no longer accommodate two huge predators like the wolf lizards. Their instincts overcame their fear, and they roared, revealing their sharp dagger-like bodies. The canine teeth and eyes reflected in the fire revealed a hint of despair.

A piece of red, semi-cooled rock trailing a trail of thick smoke fell from the sky, landing right in the middle of the two roaring wolf-lizard beasts. The red and hot semi-solidified gravel splashed on the surface of the animal skin, leaving behind scorched black scars.

For a moment, the fear of Huanghuang Tianwei was awakened by pain again and took over. At this time, the broken ground collided with other fragments again, causing the two wolf lizards to tremble. The beast could no longer care about anything and ran away.

Another flying fire meteor fell, and the body of the wolf-lizard beast behind was engulfed in flames in the blink of an eye, without even having time to let out a complete scream. The one in front only had time to look back in horror before leaping over another magma gap that looked like a river of fire.

Climbing up a steep slope that was tilted up due to the violent changes in the earth's crust, I barely managed to stabilize my body. There was no road in front of me. One step further, there was a cliff. Below, the dark basalt had covered the earth, winding like a river. Magma flows among the mountains, still like the blood of the earth.

There were still flying fireballs trailing by from time to time, and the wolf lizard beast's eyes were filled with firelight. At the last moment, it raised its huge head as if resigned to its fate, facing the surging magma, and let out the last roar of its life.

The next second, blazing lava spewed out and hit the cliff like a wave. The small body that looked up to the sky and screamed was instantly swallowed up by the magma and disappeared, just like 95% of those who were buried in this natural disaster.

While flying past the Earth, some escort satellites dropped some airdrop structures that pupated on-site. After entering the atmosphere shrouded in volcanic ash, they quickly pupated into mother nest structures that could withstand the harshest environments.

This place is a certain distance away from the location where the mantle plume is raging, but at this time, the magma has also spread, and geothermal heat has become the best source of energy. Soon, some large grades were quickly produced.

Several shadowflies emerged from their pupae, flapped their membrane wings and quickly flew into the air, scanning the earth with their improved and developed compound eyes. Compared with ordinary ancient net-winged flying insects that have been basically lost before, these shadow flies produced to space-grade standards have an independent internal circulation system and can survive well in harsh environments.

Developed compound eyes scanned the earth in a direction relatively far away from the incident site. These creatures were still safe - for the time being. Soon, the spreading volcanic ash will cover the sky and plunge the earth into a long period of death.

Most of the creatures that could escape had basically moved away from the scene of the incident. Only those that had been unable to escape due to various reasons were still waiting for death in the red sky and earth mixed with magma and volcanic ash clouds. .

Under the dark red blood-red volcanic ash clouds reflected by the magma, a familiar figure is still crawling staggeringly in the mud - it is the two-fold arc-headed horseshoe crab. On the heavy body, the pair of dull compound eyes showed a rare luster when they saw the arrival of the shadow fly. The heavy shell of one of the horseshoe crabs cracked, and the soft new shell underneath struggled to get out of the old shell. However, volcanic ash and toxic gases had polluted the swamp, and its body could only be half Stuck in the old shell, gradually losing consciousness, as if the soul is being freed from the heavy body.

The last plate-footed horseshoe crab, the descendant of the race that was born with the rising sun of the Paleozoic Era and once stood proudly on the top of the sea, is buried in a corner of Pangea, and also sets with the setting sun of the Paleozoic Era.

The same fate was shared by the last trilobite aphid. The unyielding middle finger on the evolutionary tree that raised up to the world was finally completely broken by natural and man-made disasters. The last shrimp, the last stickleback, familiar or unfamiliar species, disappeared in this disaster.

This is the real apocalypse, something that the cold 95% derived from strings of fossil data can never really tell. These horseshoe crabs are just the beginning. The real disaster has just begun.

In the mud that exuded a putrid smell, a medium-to-large orgynous creature of unknown species walked into the mud with the same staggering steps, grabbed the dead horseshoe crab and pulled it out of the mud. , awkwardly turned over its body and started to eat.

There are various signs that it itself is in its final years. Even if there is no mass extinction, it will probably starve to death soon because it loses its hunting ability. But the appearance at this time added a bit of sadness to the atmosphere.

The corpses of other creatures that were suffocated by volcanic ash also appeared in the field of vision. Corpses were scattered all over the field, but no creature dared to come forward to eat them. The second stage of the mass extinction, that is, the long silence, was about to begin.

On the other side, in the ocean, the situation is equally grim. The magma poured in, and a large amount of toxic substances were produced. A layer of dead fish had already floated on the sea surface. The adaptability of the cartilaginous fishes of the subclass Holocephalis was no better than that of the ray-finned fishes of later generations. At this time, they all died of poisoning or lack of oxygen. Turned into a floating corpse that either drifted with the waves or washed up on the shore.

Also floating on the sea surface are countless ammonites and other molluscs, and huge figures such as the Helicopteron shark are mixed in among them, making the entire ocean seem like a pot of dead fish soup mixed with the smell of highly toxic sulfur.

Such scenes will soon spread to most of the world's oceans. In the oceans, the end-Permian mass extinction, a horrific natural disaster known as the mother of mass extinction events, has truly fully demonstrated its power.

From the vocal organ of the shadow fly, waves of unconscious screams came out, like sighs - the timeline seemed to have formed a perfect closed loop. It seems that he single-handedly ended the era of nests where demons danced wildly, and indirectly triggered the mass extinction at the end of the Permian. He used the most vigorous method to erase all traces that did not belong to the era.

However, he still wanted to leave something behind after all. As he thought about it, his consciousness followed the spatial synapse to the Dikla star, and a bold idea emerged in his consciousness.

(End of this chapter)