The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 57 Ancient Jaw Breeding Program
  The saw blade-like conodont molecules in the ancient jaws allowed them to easily tear flesh from prey with soft body walls, even if they did not have lower jaws.

As cephalopods, Orthohelix has no defense in its soft body tissue. If you are besieged by a group of leader Gu Jaw, you will definitely not be able to get a good deal.

The straight spiral horn stone has limited flexibility in its tentacles and is not suitable for dealing with small and numerous opponents.

The scaleless eel-shaped body of the leader's ancient jaw is as slippery as a loach, and it is even more difficult to capture the helical stone, which has no suction cups on its tentacles and only has horny protrusions.

This means that the group of leader ancient jaws can easily eat up the huge body of the right spiral stone like the piranha described in the marketing accounts and street stalls.

Although the emergence of fearless soldiers has given Lin Yi an advantage when facing the Zhiluojiao Shi, the number of fearless soldiers is limited after all, and they still need to be covered by ordinary soldiers, just like the infantry-tank collaborative tactics of later generations.

Ordinary soldiers will inevitably suffer losses when faced with the Helical Stone. Although the losses are only extensions of the hive mind and are unconscious sub-individuals, the nutrients needed to cultivate them are indeed real.

The cost of cultivating the leader's ancient jaws is lower than that of the soldiers. If a large number of leader's ancient jaws can be cultivated and used as cannon fodder to deal with the Orthogonite, the meaningless losses of the soldiers can be greatly reduced.

His initial idea was to use the mother nest to produce a grade similar to the leader's ancient jaw, but the morphology of arthropods and vertebrates are very different, and it is temporarily impossible to integrate its genetic sequence into the genetic sequence of any kind of nest template. is unrealistic.

The underlying logic of the edited genetic sequences of these ancient jaws gave him inspiration. If DNA could be used as a language like writing a computer program, and the instinct of the leader Ancient Jaw could be changed, it would be able to act according to Lin Yi's ideas.

Although they cannot be expected to perform complex tasks, they can still complete simple tasks such as attacking specific targets.

Speaking of this, Lin Yi once again thought of the strange nest-like object in the middle of the Dikla Crater. It seems to use a similar method to control the leader of the ancient jaws, making them attack the intruders like crazy.

And they may be able to control the movements of the ancient jaw in some way. Lin Yi believes that the special lateral line-like structure may be the key to this.

But how exactly the signal is received and how the nest-like object sends out the signal still requires further research.

Thinking about it, his mind turned to the position of the mother's nest-like object again. The nearby workers swung their paddling feet to meet it, ready to continue to toss.

It has been some time since Lin Yi moved this thing out of Dikla Crater. It's not that they showed any discomfort with the seawater with higher salinity, but none of the leader Ancient Jaws who tried to follow them came back alive.

During this period, Lin Yi controlled the mother locust to provide it with many nutritious eggs, which still secreted a lot of yellowish-brown liquid. However, Lin Yi had many grades try it, but there was still no reaction.

He also tried capturing wild animals and force-feeding them this yellow-brown liquid, but it still had no effect. Even if these organisms later gave birth to offspring, the genetic sequences of their offspring did not change.

But now, Lin Yi couldn't help but wonder if his way of opening it was wrong.

But this time, he didn't plan to test any opening method or no opening method, but decided to do something violent - since it is similar to the mother's nest, then let his own mother's nest be like the floating mother's nest that analyzes the right helical stone nest group. Absorb it and analyze the genetic sequence!

Just in case, there are fearless soldiers stationed nearby. With a thought, Lin Yi directly controlled a fearless soldier to come forward, clamped its sickle limbs on the surface of the mother's nest-shaped object, and clamped down hard. The triangular pyramid-shaped blades quickly became deeply embedded in the surface of the object and began to tear. An unknown type of tissue fluid surged out, turning the seawater into a turbid mess.

The blade thorns tore and soon tore off a large piece of the object's surface.

Immediately, Lin Yi also asked the fearless soldier to release his sickle limbs and put down the remains of the mother's nest-like object that was torn into two large and one small pieces.

The group of workers swarmed up, surrounded the smaller piece of debris, and started tearing it apart with their claws.

As for the larger piece, the opening for feeding was preserved. Lin Yi thought that it could probably be saved a little more, controlling the female flies to lay some nutritious eggs again, and stuffing them into the holes to see if they could multiply and recover on their own.

The piece that was surrounded and torn apart by the workers was quickly cut into eight pieces and stuffed into the holes on the surface of the mother's nest for them to absorb and analyze the genetic sequence.

To Lin Yi's surprise, he quickly obtained the results of the analysis.

The first thing that was parsed out was a strange structure. But its effect made Lin Yi a little unsure.

After various studies, he even specially developed a new template based on the Gonghao template. After mounting the organ on the template and studying it, he concluded that it was just a vocal organ.
  The structure of the vocal organ is not complicated. It can emit several special low-frequency vibrations, and the sound waves emitted by these low-frequency vibrations seem to be within the most sensitive range of the lateral line of the ancient palate.

The combination of these sound waves with specific frequencies and the specially edited genetic instinct of the Ancient Jaw may be the key to this special life form's control of the Ancient Jaw.

The lateral line of primitive fish is further away from the ears of mammals, which are supported by the external ear and ossicles, but it is enough to perceive sound waves of specific frequencies and make simple responses.

But other gene fragments are a bit time-consuming to analyze.

Once this gene fragment is obtained, other gene fragments are not so important for the time being. Lin Yi stopped thinking about it for the time being and concentrated on studying the breeding of the leader's ancient jaw.

Thinking about it, he prepared to use the mother nest to further edit the genetic sequence of the leader's ancient jaw.

In fact, there is not much that needs to be edited in the genetic sequence of the ancient jaw. The main purpose is to solve the problem of its inability to adapt to seawater with normal salinity, which means that the gene fragments related to osmotic pressure balance need to be adjusted.

After solving the related problems, the leader's ancient jaw template is already a killing machine designed to target soft-bodied creatures, and it is more than enough to deal with the straight helical stone.

Next, is the most critical issue - how to enable the leader Ancient Jaw to clearly attack the target without being affected by external interference.

Based on Lin Yi's research on the brood-like object, he had a rough idea. With a thought, he started editing the underlying logical part of the genetic sequence of the leader's ancient jaw through the brood that determines biological instincts.

(End of this chapter)