The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 47 Gnacang and biological torpedoes
  The Dreadnought was born out of the front section of the hind body of the fifty-oared warship horseshoe crab. Between the inner shell and the outer shell, there is still a small amount of space behind the gills, water jet propulsion system and other internal organs, as well as muscles.

In the remaining space, Lin Yi opened two flat sac-like structures in the space close to the inside of the exoskeleton.

The bladder-like structure is not used to store air, nor is it used as a cushion. Instead, there are some other uses.

The armor plates on the sides of the body segments of the Dreadnaught's rear body slowly opened, revealing an opening connected to a sac-like structure like a gill slit of a cartilaginous fish.

Immediately, after some movement, the shutter-like armor slowly closed, and the opening closed. There was no trace of such a structure on the side of the fearless soldier's huge body.

The inner wall of the sac-like structure is covered with a thin layer of leather-like exoskeleton, and the internal space is large enough to accommodate an ordinary soldier. However, the interior was empty at this time.

At the same time, above, in the holes on the surface of a floating mother's nest, a large number of giant eggs about ten centimeters were discharged from it, and then burst open. The curled figure inside slowly unfolded its body, swung its swimming feet, and swam toward Wuwei. Soldiers.

Their head shell is wrapped by a double-valved shell similar to that of a spiny insect, with a spine-like protrusion extending forward, and the rear body is similar to a bag-headed shrimp, or anomalocaridids.

Except for the absence of tail lobes, eyestalks and feeding appendages, the streamlined head shell makes them look somewhat similar to a smaller version of the swordfish-shaped Heard shrimp.

The relevant gene fragments of the head shell were stitched together by Lin Yi using gene fragments such as the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp head shell, the angular stone shell, and the double-valve shell of the spiny insect.

Moreover, he also installed a shield scale structure from the fifty-oared warship Horseshoe Crab, giving it both sufficient structural strength and low resistance.

Although the paddling feet of the rear body cannot provide as strong thrust as the blade feet of Anomalocaris, and can only serve to stabilize the rudder, Lin Yi installed a fairly advanced water jet propulsion system on its rear body, allowing it to Reach incredibly high speeds.

Although an adult of this level is only about the length of an adult's hand, its attack power cannot be underestimated.

And their attack method is also quite simple - using the speed brought by the water jet propulsion system and streamlined body segments to hit the enemy in front of them.

In order to cause subsequent killing, the sharp protruding structure at the front of their head shell is hollow, and an internal tube is connected to the venom gland at the back of the head. When the sharp protrusions penetrate the enemy's body, the poison glands will squeeze hard and inject a large amount of toxin into the enemy's body.

The gene sequence related to the venom gland naturally comes from the isospinus.

This is a toxin in the true sense. Its lethality is much stronger than that of digestive juice. In addition, Lin Yi has installed a huge poison gland in the body of this grade. Theoretically, as long as it is stung by it, even the adult body of Heliconia will be killed. Not good.

The cost of cramming all this into a body that is more than ten centimeters long is that its digestive system is highly degraded, and even its mouth is degraded. If it wants to maintain life, it can only be provided by other levels.

Under Lin Yi's control, these little guys slowly swam to the side of the fearless soldier. Then, the armor of the fearless soldier opened again, allowing these small-sized creatures to penetrate through the gill slits and slowly absorb the fearless soldiers. The inner side of the sac-like structure on the side of the body of Binghao.

Yes, the sac-like structure on the side of the Dreadnaught Soldier is the "Gana Cang" that accommodates these small individuals.

These small individuals were simply called micro-torpedo soldiers by Lin Yi, representing their role. In Lin Yi's vision, the Dreadnought Soldier will function like a mothership, carrying a large number of these small-level individuals that cannot survive independently.

When fighting, first release a large number of micronized torpedoes, so that they can be used as biological torpedoes to use their speed advantage to cause chaos in the enemy's formation to assist the Dreadnought Soldiers, or when the Dreadnought Soldiers are entangled by a large number of small enemy individuals. To rescue him.

This means that in peacetime, the fearless soldiers need to deliver nutrients to these "biological torpedoes" with degraded mouths to provide them with survival.

The method of transporting nutrients was specially installed by Lin Yi, a set of organ structures that also transcended eras.

This is also one of Lin Yi's unexpected gains after searching the Dikla Crater - the original placenta structure.

And its provider greatly exceeded Lin Yi's expectations - it was Star Turtle.

That's right, it's this kind of star turtle that has no sand sculpture expression compared to the Sakaban turtle, has no swimming ability compared to the Aranda turtle, and only has a krypton gold skin that is pretty good. Unexpectedly, they actually have such a special structure.

It’s actually not surprising that fish give birth to babies.

There will be true viviparous sharks in later generations, and Lin Yi knows that in the Devonian period, there is fossil evidence of true viviparous life in a small placoderm fish called Attenborough's Attenborough, which proves that the origin of true viviparity may be greater than ovoviviparous. Even earlier.

But he didn't expect that it would be so early, appearing earlier than the lower jaw, and appearing in a classic species.

There is a structure similar to the placenta installed in the abdominal cavity of the fearless soldier with enough space. Of course, Lin Yi called it a core supply bag to express its different functions.

Unlike the disposable placenta and umbilical cord, Lin Yi allowed the sac-like structure on the inside of the Dreadnaught's body to extend from the inner body wall with a pipe opening that can connect with the opening in the abdomen of these biological torpedoes to connect the Dreadnought and the micronized torpedoes. The circulatory system of the grasshopper directly transports nutrients.

Although it will consume the nutrients in the body of the fearless soldiers, it is all worth it. Micronized torpedoes have degraded their digestive systems in exchange for a water-jet propulsion system that almost fills the back half of their bodies, allowing them to reach astonishing speeds.

To deal with the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp, the exoskeleton of the Dreadnought's own composite armor structure can easily prevent the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp from thrusting. The huge force provided by the two sets of muscle tissue can also easily crush the opponent's head shell, not too much. Need assistance.

Therefore, what needs to be miniaturized torpedoes is the main enemy at present - the spiral hornstone. However, they are limited by the flexibility of their tentacles and cannot effectively deal with small and numerous enemies.

With speed and sufficient numbers, the micronized torpedo can easily touch the side of the adult body of the snail, and inject venom into the soft tissue of the snail with its head spines connected to the venom glands.

Moreover, the toxins from the stinging insects are lethal enough, which allows the combination of the three grades of fearless soldiers, ordinary soldiers and micro-torpedoes to face the straight helical stone more easily.

It can be said that with the symbiosis of the micronized torpedoes, the fearless soldiers have become truly complete.

With the blessing of many black technologies that transcend the times, the complete body fearless weapon is enough to compete with any marine life in the nearly 600 million years since the earth evolved multi-cellular life and humans entered the era of thermal weapons!
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