The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 55: The appearance is scary from a distance, but the five pairs of paddling feet are seen up close

In any case, there is a high probability that the Straight Spiral Stone will no longer launch a large-scale attack in vain.

If the positions of the two parties were reversed, and Lin Yi came to control the Straw Horn Stone nest group, he would probably choose to take advantage of the Straight Horn Stone's speed and quantity, adopt guerrilla tactics, break them into pieces, and raid the edges of the territory.

The number of fearless soldiers is small and they cannot take care of the vast territory. With the mobility of the Straight Spiral Stone, several of them can be formed into a small swarm to attack the edge of the territory that is only guarded by ordinary soldiers.

It is difficult for ordinary soldiers who have not formed a cluster to gain an advantage when facing several cooperating snails, but the snails can easily penetrate or tear the bodies of soldiers.

Judging from the situation when first encountering the Orthogonal Angle Stone, it only takes two or three adults to cause considerable damage to the defensive force at the edge of the territory composed of a small number of soldiers and a large number of workers.

After the large-scale destruction, even if the hive mind allowed the fearless soldier to know the news of the attack immediately, he would still have enough time to pack up the loot and leave when he arrived at the scene.

Although he didn't know whether they had enough intelligence to come up with such a tactic, Lin Yi felt that they still needed to be prepared to deal with this possible tactic.

The way to deal with this tactic is also very simple - micro-spying.

All you need to do is mass-produce miniaturized spies in mother nests around the country, and when the helix comes, they will find an opportunity to attach to the surface of the opponent's shell.

There will definitely be a time when the right helical stones outside will return to the floating mother nest for repairs or to supplement the mother nest. And when the helical stone returns to the mother's nest, it takes the opportunity to attach to the mother's nest.

In this way, Lin Yi can track the location of the enemy's nest in real time, and then control the fearless soldiers to kill it.

And if he wanted to kill the adult Helical Stone without forming a cluster and without the presence of fearless soldiers, he had two options.

One is the micronized torpedo. Integrating the core supply sac structure similar to the placenta into the genetic sequence of the mother's nest will make the mother's nest no longer defenseless, but can release swarms of micronized torpedoes to attack the incoming worms.

The second is the poison-injected soldier's grade that was developed after obtaining the gene sequence of the stinging insect but has not yet been produced. The blade spines on its sickle limbs are also connected to the poison glands. Once they are clamped on the body of the straight helical stone, they can cause considerable killing effects.

Thinking about it, Lin Yi planned to prepare a small amount of both grades at various brood groups, just in case.

Anyway, the food resources consumed by these two are no more than that of the Dreadnought Soldier. Compared with the losses that may be caused by being attacked by the Helical Stone, the cost of this production is not worth mentioning.

But such a defense is somewhat passive after all. If you want to completely wipe out the remaining forces of the Straw Horn Stones, you need to take the initiative, expand the scope of investigation, and search the range of the Straight Horn Stone nests.

At present, the task of finding the right spiral stone nest group is completed by the micron spy carried by the foreign mother.

This grade of filter foreign mother grass was born out of the first generation of pioneer mother grass. The only advanced things in the body are the improved water jet propulsion system and the myelinated nervous system. The double-layer shell and the double-layered muscle tissue are not mixed together.

Nowadays, this kind of internal structure is somewhat backward. It is enough to filter plankton resources for the nest colony, but it is not enough to be responsible for reconnaissance.

At present, the main problem exposed is its lack of speed. After being attacked by an adult helical stone, it is as difficult to escape as the pioneer mother that first encountered the adult helical stone. It can be slaughtered by the snail and can only be used once.

Although the existence of hive mind consciousness allows the signal to be transmitted back to Lin Yi's consciousness even if the filter foreign mother is dead, consuming one filter foreign mother at a time is also a bit too much for Lin Yi. He immediately began the development of a new class - one that could travel at higher speeds and be self-sufficient in nutrients.

The faster its usual cruising speed is, the better, and its maximum speed needs to exceed that of an adult Helical Stone, and it must be able to carry micronized spies with it. Once it encounters an adult Helical Stone, it will quickly escape and release microscopic spies to attach to it. on the other party's shell.

It still uses the foreign mother's wormwood filter as the basic template, and makes magical changes beyond recognition on this basis.

The head refers to the genetic sequence of the swordfish-shaped Heard shrimp and the genetic fragment related to the fifty-oared horseshoe crab. The scaly structure on the body surface is covered by a larger streamlined head shell.

The front end of the streamlined head shell does not have a sharp protruding structure like the snout of later swordfishes like the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp or micron torpedo shrimp, but a huge middle eye.

The shape of the five pairs of paddling legs was also modified by Lin Yi, like the swimming legs of a swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp that sweep back at a small angle.

Moreover, because the structure of the horseshoe crab's swimming feet is more flexible than that of Anomalocaris, it can make more complex movements.

These five pairs of paddling feet can be folded or unfolded easily, just like a variable sweep wing structure, combining maneuverability at low speeds and low resistance at high speeds.

At high speeds, the main source of propulsion power is naturally the water jet propulsion system.

The improved water-jet propulsion system is still located on both sides of its body, but this time, due to the installation of an inner and outer double-layer shell in the new grade, the position of the water-jet propulsion system has changed slightly.

But this does not affect its efficiency. Combined with its streamlined shape and scale-like structure similar to shark shield scales, the water-jet propulsion system allows the new class to achieve a theoretical maximum speed that is at least twice that of the ocean filter.

At the same time, in order to make it self-sufficient, the three pairs of feeding appendages on the front of its head have also been retained.

But this time, a groove-like structure was designed behind the feeding appendage, which was inspired and genetically derived from the eye sockets of the swordfish-shaped Heard shrimp. When necessary, it can retract its feeding appendage into the groove at the rear to further reduce resistance and speed up.

Moreover, the developed ovaries of the Poseidon Helmet shrimp from the Poseidon Helmet Shrimp of the new-generation female turtles and the first-generation pioneer female turtles have been eliminated from the posterior abdominal position, freeing up a large amount of space to install the most critical structures.

Lin Yi installed a Gnacellum and core supply sac structure on its posterior abdomen, where the original ovary was located, and the interior accommodated the miniaturized spy.

Once they encounter an adult helical stone, these miniaturized spies will break away from the grana chamber and attach to the surface of the opponent's shell.

In this way, a new level was born, which Lin Yi called the reconnaissance mother. It soon began giving birth at the mother's nest.

After settling all this, Lin Yi once again turned his perspective back to the previous research on the mother turtle. At this time, the starfish had been stuffed into the sac-like structure in the body by the worker, waiting for his next move.

Thinking about this, Lin Yi controlled the chelicerae in the study mother's body, which were returned from the book gills, and slowly stretched out to the starfish's body, preparing to start tossing.

(End of this chapter)