The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 323 Man-Made No-Fly Zone
In the fungal carpet organization, a series of complex structures began to be produced early, but some key organs were temporarily vacant, waiting for some resource support from the surface to pupate into some complex tissue structures.

A huge land mother nest structure is in the center, surrounded by spreading fungal carpet tissue and various functional building structures. Supported by an even larger series of root structures, it forms an exoskeleton forest that is very different from the surrounding style.

Underground, several core bio-fusion reactors began to operate in huge potato-shaped rhizome organs. Surrounding them were a large number of electric plate column organs, connected by further improved nerve wires, and combined with a series of structures to form an array to supply other structures above.

At this moment, the most conspicuous among all these structures is the huge land mother nest in the center. At the top of the mother nest, a structure that looks like the body of a former sea apple extends out. At the end, bursts of low-frequency sound waves slowly come out from a structure.

The frequency of the sound waves is exactly the same as the most sensitive frequency that those small and medium-sized strange flying creatures called seekers can receive. According to the underlying logic of the other party's genetic sequence, these sound waves are the signals that make them gather at a certain location.

All these reasons indicate that these creatures are definitely the product of gene editing, and, seemingly in order to better perform this task, their brain structure is very specialized. While they have strong processing capabilities, they have little independent thinking intelligence.

However, the environment of the underground world does not allow Lin Yi's large-scale individuals to exert their full power, and it may be a bit rash to directly attack the opponent's lair. Therefore, it is better to take advantage of this characteristic of the opponent and conduct a fishing enforcement, luring a large group of pursuers into the ambush circle and catching them all in one fell swoop.

Sound waves of this frequency can travel very far in the environment of Dikla. The other party may have noticed this and used this frequency as a signal for the gathering of the group of pursuers.

There is also a biological radar device that continuously emits electromagnetic wave signals, and senses the echo signals through receiving organs distributed throughout the fungal blanket tissue, monitoring nearby movements to ensure that it can detect any pursuers coming in the first place.

A large number of echo signals appeared in the senses soon, and their number was even more shocking than the last time. It was unknown where such a large number of pursuers usually hid and what they relied on to survive.

On the ground, a series of structures quickly began to operate, aiming at the direction where the target was coming from. Some advanced optical observation eyes and infrared observation eyes also looked at the target cluster vaguely visible in the distance.

In the field of vision that is much clearer than that of the compound eyes of the ancient web-winged flying insect, the strange head structure of the pursuer is clearly visible. Light signals are flashing on the pair of thin membrane structures, and the sounds of flapping wings and hissing are faintly discernible.

The tentacles on the heads of the leading few pursuers were half open, as if catching the scent signals in the air. Then, the light signals flashed suddenly, and the rest of the pursuers screamed, accelerated, and continued to fly forward.

Dense shadows were cast, and the group of pursuers who finally arrived above the target flew down, with their hideous tentacles wide open. Those dense sharp protrusions looked particularly hideous under the faint fluorescent light.

In their special-band night vision compound eyes, the huge structure in the center of the special structural organization on the ground was emitting dazzling light and heat. Around it, there were some strange small structures that were equally dazzling.

But in the next second, a shrill scream suddenly sounded, and blood mist immediately bloomed in the group of pursuers. On the original trajectory of the diverging pursuers in the front row, the limbs and pieces of flesh fell like rain, and the black and red smelly blood splashed out and stained the ground. The subsequent pursuers did not flee because of the fall of their counterparts in front. Just like the leader of the degenerated creatures of the nest, the ancient jaws continued to dive down with ferocious tentacles and wings, like a kamikaze special attack plane rushing towards the giant ship, with the last crazy delusion to exchange for victory.

But below, shrill screams still resounded through the hollows of the underground world. Arcs of electricity flashed faintly among the slender tubular "appendages" extending from the structures, and then, afterimages with barely detectable tails crossed the sky.

Amid the dense afterimages, the flesh and blood of the pursuer had accumulated into a layer on the ground, but the blood rain above had not stopped. The piercing scream of something cutting through the air overwhelmed the hissing and flapping of the pursuer's wings, becoming the only main melody in the underground cave.

On the fungal mat tissue, on those strange oval structures, a pair of well-developed compound eyes on the upper side growing on short and thick eye-stalk-like structures and a large sessile middle eye directly in front faintly appear blood-red in the dim environment, while on both sides of the middle eye are four strange tubular appendages that constantly flash electric arcs.

A pair of compound eyes on the eyestalks and the middle eye form a visual structure that looks like the head of the three-eyed Hurd shrimp. However, now these specialized compound eyes, which are based on the concept of phased array radar, are no longer the same as the ordinary biological eyes of the past.

Its design was inspired by the separate tracking radar and search radar on later self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, which also serve the purpose of complex and precise aiming and locking, so that the core of this structure, that is, the limb-like structures on both sides, can exert their greatest power.

These special, long and straight limbs only have the trochanter and femur, while the tibia and tarsus are completely degenerate. The functions of these two segments are also very different from those of ordinary limbs. According to the name of later generations, they should be called breech blocks and gun barrels.

A series of muscle tissues at the end of the trochanter are connected to the structure below and lead all the way to the specialized rhizome underground. Special projectiles are sent into the barrel by this series of special muscle tissues, waiting for the next step of acceleration.

A large number of electric column organs are buried nearby and connected to the roots of the fungal carpet. A large number of nerve wires are connected in the roots, directly leading to the specially structured femurs, which serve as the appendages of the gun barrel.

The barrel part, which is responsible for accelerating the shells, is no longer the strange arthropods that once came from the terrestrial arthropod colony. It is a propellant structure with a chemical substance storage structure as the core, which is used on a large scale as the main long-range attack method of the abdomen of the crazy saw-toothed ant and the main attack method of the mortar spider and other classes.

Instead, there is a series of more advanced and successfully miniaturized structures - first used to transport materials from the surface of Mars to space, later installed on space biological templates, and now also used as the main weapon of the escort star scorpion, the biological electromagnetic railgun!

Yes, after being miniaturized, the electromagnetic acceleration structure was initially experimented with in the underground world as a small rapid-fire firepower.

(End of this chapter)