The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 306: Nest Limulus Superfamily
Tianyuan 4, the surface of Dikla.

A large number of gastrocystis took off from the carpet clusters where they lived. The fusion reactor was running and ejected blazing airflow tail flames. Their bodies moved across the sky and headed towards a predetermined area.

It was a cliff of astonishing size. On the edge of the cliff, shadow flies were already flying, and the fungus carpet tissue began to spread upwards, piercing the roots deeply into the cliff and gradually covering the entire surface.

The originally uneven surface was quickly flattened into a plane by the microscopic carvings of a large number of bacteria carpet tissues, and above the plane, some special rhizomes also began to carve on the cliff wall from a global perspective.

Engraved on the cliff are huge Chinese characters - Ban-footed Horseshoe Crab Eye. Immediately, two long lines split upwards and downwards, followed by two lines of large characters: "Plate-footed horseshoe crab suborder" and "Spiny-tailed horseshoe crab suborder".

Subsequently, the names of major superfamily-level and family-level clades were subsequently engraved on finer lines of the evolutionary tree. However, under the superfamily of the crab-bodied Limulus family - Limulus, the genus Limulus, which is also a clade under the genus Limulus, suddenly separated into a clade that did not exist in later studies.

There are four big characters on the top - Superfamily Nesting Horseshoe Crabs - yes, this is the name Lin Yi proposed for the clade where the nesting group is located. From the first individual feather-winged horseshoe crab to now covering several star systems, everything in the past 200 million years is included under this superfamily-level taxon.

After these four characters, what is connected is not more scattered clades, but a huge (?), which means that evolution has not stopped and will become more diverse in the future.

Afterwards, more clades were gradually carved out on the wall, including Limulus superfamily, Limulus superfamily, and Limulus euryphyta. Subsequently, Lin Yi carved a cross-shaped mark in front of each taxon. logo.

This is a sign that the representative taxa of later generations have become extinct. And when the last two taxonomic units of the Hibbert's superfamily-Hululus genus and the Limulus superfamily-Hululus genus were carved by Lin Yi with a cross mark, only the "Hulu superfamily" was left. , without the cross symbol representing death.

The black cross that looks like a note of death has indeed avoided the nests, making the nests now the only bloodline of the entire species of horseshoe crabs, just like after the Cambrian, the nests of Anomalocaris became predatory shooting teeth. The only bloodline of the species.

It is ironic to say that the Ortholith nest group and the terrestrial arthropod nest group were destroyed early. In one group, the last Ortholith species lived until the Cretaceous period. In the other group, even Lin Yi once lived in it. era and was quite successful.

Lin Yi plans to reinforce this entire rock wall and other nearby structures with structures similar to carbon nanotubes to form an indestructible structure that can remain intact even during violent geological activities.

Lin Yi didn't know what the fate of the nest would be, but he still left everything behind. If future generations of humans have the opportunity to arrive at Tianyuan IV and land on Dikla, they can directly see the last thing he left behind, representing the nest. Traces of the group’s past existence.

But now, the situation here will soon become unimportant. Now, Lin Yi only wants to do one thing, and that is to completely defeat the unknown enemy, and do it quickly, no matter what the purpose.

The opponent's super weapon that detonates the mantle plume is most likely to be in a state that cannot be fully controlled at this time. If the other party were to repair it and launch another round of deep strikes like before, Lin Yi didn't know if the earth could withstand it. And as time goes on, if the opponent fully understands its technology and uses it on ordinary warships, if the astonishingly powerful main weapon and powerful deflection magnetic field structure are mass-produced, Lin Yi feels that he has no possibility of winning.

Even because of the unknown existence of super-light speed means, he felt that he might not even have a chance to escape. With that kind of instantaneous super-light speed method that does not require passing through hyperspace channels, all escape routes can be completely blocked.

Another reason is that the end-Permian mass extinction was caused by the other party, so Lin Yi would have to make the other party pay the price for the 95% of earth's creatures that perished in the mass extinction.

Although those were just mindless beasts, even Lin Yi knew that without this extinction event, everything would be rewritten. There would be no evolution from cynodonts to mammals, and there would be no dinosaurs that had crawled under the feet for hundreds of millions of years and became large. Restricted, forced to strengthen the senses, indirectly strengthen the nerves, and lay the foundation for a developed brain, naturally there would be no human beings.

But Lin Yi still couldn't let go of seeing such a scene of devastation, especially since this was the earth that gave birth to him as an intelligent creature in two lifetimes. So now, he has to use the full capacity of the colony.

Although everything happened in one thought and did not require any adjustments, the previous collision with the enemy ship made Lin Yi react. He seemed to be a little too cautious and conservative, and had been blindly referring to the methods envisioned by later generations of humans and the current Ezki people. construction.

In many cases, the conditions of the nest group can accomplish some "feats" that are completely impossible for normal civilization. However, they are limited to the existing methods. In a sense, they are self-inflicted and limit their own development potential.

There is no way to do it, but until now, Lin Yi has always been developing with a more conservative approach, for fear of unforeseen consequences. But now he can no longer control that much. He urgently needs a sufficient fleet to complete his purpose.

Compared with ordinary mechanical civilization, biological materials rely less on heavy elements such as metals. A small amount is integrated into a special exoskeleton through biochemical refining methods. The consumption of metal ions, which is only an inorganic part, is much less than that of the Ezki battleship, which is made of entirely metal materials.

This also means that for the nest group, the difficulty of detonating troops is much less than that of the enemy. After all, the substances that make up high-strength biological materials are much easier to obtain than pure metal structures, and large-scale mining is much more convenient.

If we exclude the rare resources required for some key components, now, what restricts Lin Yi's explosive soldiers is not a shortage of materials or manpower, but a rather abstract problem - insufficient number of docks, or pupa sacs.

Even if there are ten huge pupal sacs at the end of a space elevator structure, each of which can pupate into a main star, but if you want to arm a full science-level fleet, you still need 200 main stars. That is, twenty space elevators are under construction at the same time.

The current production center of the nest is on the surface of Gondwana, and the number of space elevators is still insufficient. Building more space elevators in a short period of time is certainly one of the solutions, but now, Lin Yi has some better solutions that are more suitable for the nest group.

(End of this chapter)