The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 38 "Technical Exchange"

In the image of the three-eyed Hed's shrimp drawn on the seabed, the image of the orthohelical hornstone is obviously different from the previous suspected short-club hornstones and other early hornstones. The shell is long and straight, and the shape is distorted according to the pattern below representing the corpse of Anomalocaris. He speculated that it might represent being pierced and torn apart by the shell of the orthohelical stone.

The previous similar patterns of short stick hornstones probably represent the original appearance of the right hornstone nest group.

During this time, apart from natural evolution, the mother nest of the hornstone nest group probably absorbed the genetic sequence of the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp, which provided a reference for the later individuals of the hornstone.

This also seems to explain why individuals of Orthospira also like to charge and thrust with their conical shells. If they have ever encountered the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp in the Anomalocaris nest group, they were deeply impressed and succeeded. If you kill one and extract the genetic sequence, you will naturally develop similar tactics.

However, compared to the swimming legs of the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp, the water-jet propulsion system of the corner stone has more than enough speed, but lacks maneuverability.

Therefore, they can only pierce blankly, but cannot combine piercing and chopping like the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp. In small-scale battles, their flexibility is limited.

But in large-scale cluster battles, this disadvantage does not seem so fatal.

As Lin Yi analyzed before, the larger the scale of the battle, the more detrimental it is to the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp and the Anomalocaris nest group.

While thinking about it, the three-eyed Hed shrimp continued to carve on the seabed with its appendages.

The next picture shows a large number of heliconias confronting the swordfish-shaped hud shrimp, and then the swordfish-shaped hud shrimp died in large numbers. Among the group of corner stones, there are also giant objects with corner stone shells extending all around - obviously floating mother nests.

In addition, in this picture, there is also a pattern of three circles drawn diagonally upward on the front end of an oval, and it appears at the top of the picture, which seems to represent the three-eyed Hed shrimp. It seems that the tactic of using it as a detection method had already emerged at that time.

The next picture is a horizontal line, and the middle part of the horizontal line suddenly stretches downward to form an acute angle. It seems that the horizontal line represents the seabed, and the acute angle represents the trench. On the screen, the swordfish-shaped Hed's shrimp and the common Anomalocaris are swimming toward the trench.

Lin Yi's guess was indeed correct. It was precisely because the Anomalocaris nest group lost the competition with the Orthophylla nest group that it was forced to escape into the trench to avoid the pursuit of the Orthogonalis.

The next scene is the scene of Lin Yi's arrival and the battle between the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp and the soldiers.

And as the three-eyed Hurd shrimp completed its final strokes, the story of the Anomalocaris nest from the Middle Ordovician meteor incident to the present was almost completely presented to Lin Yi.

Thinking about it, Lin Yi also controlled Gong Guo to use his chelicerae to carve on the sand on the seabed. From the attack by the adult snails to the life-and-death battle with the swarms of snails, everything was presented to the opponent one by one.

In this way, the two parties completed the initial exchange. Gong Hao and the three-eyed Hurd shrimp faced each other with five eyes. The other's compound eyes were shining with luster, and they didn't know what they were thinking about.

But what Lin Yi wants to express next is the focus of the exchange.

He had two main purposes in communicating with the Anomalocaris nest group. One was to find a way to obtain the genetic sequence of the swordfish-shaped Herd shrimp, and the other was to temporarily form an alliance with the Anomalocaris nest group to jointly fight against the Orthostridium swarm.

After thinking about it, Lin Yi controlled the workers to slowly draw the same shape of the trench on the seabed as the opponent had previously drawn. He also drew a pattern representing soldiers on the left side of the trench, and a pattern representing anomalocaridids on the right side. .

Further to the left, the pattern representing the helical stone is intertwined with the pattern representing the soldier, representing the battle between the helix and the helical stone. On the right side, Lin Yi drew countless smaller circles under the pattern representing the anomalocaridids, expressing that the anomalocaridids nest group will not participate in the battle for the time being, lay a large number of eggs, and thrive.

Then, in the next picture, the pattern representing the swordfish-shaped Heard shrimp lays an egg, which is taken over by the pattern representing the soldier. At the same time, the pattern representing the pioneering mother also lays an egg and passes it to the common Anomalocaris. in the appendages.

In order to make it easier for the other party to accept it, and to better fight against the Orthospermum, Lin Yi planned to hand over part of the genetic sequence from the pioneer mother to the Anomalocaris nest group as a technology exchange.

For the purpose of defeating the Orthogonalis nest group, or exchanging genetic sequences with each other, he believed that the Anomalocaris nest group would probably not refuse.

Thinking about it, he finally drew a picture of the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp and the soldiers swarming together to fight against the helical stone, which represented the ultimate goal.

After some gestures, he also controlled the mother's nest to lay an egg, which was brought to the exchange site by the worker. Then he pointed with his chelicerae at the mother's nest above, and drew the shape of the mother's nest and the shape of the anomalocaris holding it. With the scene of eggs being stuffed into the mother's nest, the other party finally understood what Lin Yi meant.

This is an egg from a pioneering mother-fly, but it is not the giant egg that was specially edited to be larger than a worker-fly in order to speed up its development, but an ordinary egg that is not much larger than a Poseidon helmet shrimp egg.

However, he did not hand over the eggs to the other party for the time being, but used several pictures to explain that he would not hand them over to the other party until he had completed the "inspection".

After waiting for a while, another ordinary Anomalocaris figure emerged from under the trench. It also had an egg sandwiched in its appendage - an Anomalocaris egg.

The worker slowly stepped forward, grabbed the egg, swung his paddling feet, and swam toward the mother's nest above. Then he slowly stuffed the shrimp egg into the hole on the surface of the mother's nest for absorption and analysis.

After a while, the interpretation was completed, and it was indeed the genetic sequence of the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp. Lin Yi was overjoyed and released the eggs of the pioneer mother and gave them to the other party.

The other party also controlled the bent appendages of an ordinary anomalocaridid, gently clamped the egg, and swung its leaf legs to swim back down the trench, preparing to absorb it.

There are many genetic sequences of the pioneering mother frog that can be used for reference by the opponent. The integrated water jet propulsion system suitable for arthropods and pan-arthropods, combined with the swordfish-shaped Heard shrimp, can allow it to compete with the snails.

However, Lin Yi was not worried that the other party would use this against him.

After all, with the current size of the Anomalocaris nest, it would be unknown how long it would take to breed an improved version of the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp.

By that time, having obtained the genetic sequence of the swordfish-shaped Herder shrimp, he was confident that he could edit a special grade of the swordfish-shaped Herder shrimp and mass-produce it to prevent the Anomalocaris nest group from rebelling.

Considering that one of the main attack methods of the Strawhorn is also puncture, which is similar to the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp, this does not conflict with the main goal of fighting the Strawhorn nests.

In this way, the first exchange between nests ended in a win-win situation.

Lin Yi exchanged the genetic sequence of the pioneering female shrimp for the genetic sequence of the swordfish-shaped hud shrimp, and the development and production of a new grade was immediately put on the agenda - it would be specifically for the right helical shrimp and the swordfish-shaped hud shrimp. Shrimp grade.

(End of this chapter)