The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 63 Attack of the toilet pusher

Those filter-feeding hornstone tentacles opened wide, facing the leader of the ancient jaws that surged in like a mad dog coming out of the cage.

At this time, Lin Yi discovered that they still had sharp horny beaks between their tentacles, and the original filter-feeding structures like whale baleen on their tentacles had been replaced by clusters of horny protrusions like blades on the sickle limbs of soldiers. replace.

These spines seem to refer to the structure of the radula of molluscs, and are densely arranged. Just by looking at them, you can tell that they can easily tear apart prey with just a scratch on a creature with a soft body wall.

If viewed from the side, the shape of these filter-feeding hornstones looks like a large toilet spatula, then viewed from the front, their tentacles with dense spines and the mantle connecting the tentacles look like an abyss. The huge mouth is terrifying and ferocious.

The tentacles were closed, wrapping countless ancient jaws like a net, and then started to squirm. Immediately, bright red blood gushes out from the gap at the front end.

When the tentacles opened again, countless fragmented remains of the leader's ancient jaws slipped out, trailing a trail of red blood and falling weakly downwards.

It is not difficult to imagine how the bodies of the leader Gu Jaw, who had soft bodies and not very strong spines, were brutally crushed between the opponent's meat grinder-like tentacles and mantle.

Considering this point, it seems inappropriate to call these guys with abyssal mouths filter-feeding hornstones.

Because its tentacles and wrists are connected by a mantle, which is similar to the ghost octopus of later generations, Lin Yi decided to use a name similar to the straight helical stone and called it the ghost octopus stone.

More leader Ancient Jaws were stimulated by the blood and continued to kill. Seeing that the situation was not good, Lin Yi immediately controlled the pioneer mother to emit sound waves of the third frequency, trying to recall the killing mad ancient jaws to avoid dying in vain.

But the frantic leader of the Ancient Jaws, who had been stimulated by the blood, no longer even obeyed the orders, and was bent on killing the Corner Stone Group ahead.

I saw the figures of the nearby adult Heliconia and the juvenile Heliconia crossing arcs, gradually compressing the dodge space of the leader of the ancient jaw group.

Immediately, those octopus-horned stones opened their tentacles widely, and the huge mouths of the abyss enveloped the group of leader Ancient Jaws who were driven and lured by the straight octopus-horned stones.

The tentacles and the mantle connecting them squirmed, and bright red blood spread out, and countless ancient ancient jaws died in the abyss of the Youxujiao Stone. When the tentacles opened again, countless twisted bodies were squeezed out.

Seeing this, Lin Yi no longer hid, and the fearless soldier's huge body accelerated with the help of two pairs of paddling feet and a water-jet propulsion system, and he spread his sickle limbs forward to kill.

Considering that the appearance of the Nether Cockatoo Stone was aimed at small and numerous individuals, Lin Yi did not release the micronized torpedoes for the time being.

The huge body of the fearless soldiers rushed into the group of corner stones under the protection of ordinary soldiers. A Netherworld horned stone was unable to dodge and was immediately caught by the sickle limbs of the fearless soldiers.

The triangular pyramid-shaped blade immediately tore the body that was shaped like a toilet lever, and blood surged out, merging with the blood mist that had not yet dissipated from the leader's ancient jaw, making it indistinguishable.

Seeing this, the remaining Nether Cuckoo Corner Stones immediately moved to both sides to avoid the sharp edge of the fearless soldiers. The adults of the Orthogonal Stone gathered towards the fearless soldiers again, trying to block the progress of the fearless soldiers with their lives.

When facing a fearless soldier with a straight spiral stone, it is like Lin Yi, who initially only had a generation of soldiers born out of the feather-winged horseshoe crab template, facing an adult straight spiral stone. If he wants to win, he can only rely on sufficient quantity to consume it.

However, there are a large number of ordinary soldiers guarding the fearless soldiers, so it is not a good idea to let the siege and competition consume them. I saw those octopus horn stones swinging the mantle connecting the tentacles to the tentacles, making a circle in the water, then opening their tentacles, and killing the ordinary soldiers on the side.

The Zhihejiaoshi continued to use its life to block the fearless soldiers and cover the Youguijiaoshi on both sides.

Ordinary soldiers swarmed forward, but as soon as the wide tentacles of Youxujiaoshi and the mantle connecting the tentacles were closed, they easily enveloped the bodies of several ordinary soldiers.

Familiar squirming, Bing Hao's body was crushed by the blade thorns touching the inside of his wrist just like those ancient jaws of the leader. Blood gushed out from the gap, but this time, it was blue copper-containing horseshoe crab blood.

These blade spines seem to be similar to the composition of the horny beak. Although they are not as good as the composite armored exoskeleton of the Dreadnought Soldier, the pure chitin exoskeleton of the Soldier is still difficult to withstand.

But the number of soldiers far exceeded that of the Youxujiaoshi. Under Lin Yi's control, the rest of the soldiers swarmed up, and their sickle limbs covered with thorns easily cut through the thin coating of the Youxujiaoshi.

After all, it was born out of the filter-feeding hornstone. The soft tissue defense of the octopus hornstone is slightly inferior to that of the straight spiral hornstone, and it was cut off by the thorns on the limbs of the soldier's sickle.

Without its tentacles and funnel, the huge body of Youxujiaoshi has lost its ability to move. It can only float in the water under the influence of the air chamber in the shell, waiting for death to come.

In the middle of the battlefield, the battle between the fearless soldier and the straight spiral stone was also going on. The huge body of the fearless soldier rushed left and right, shattering the shells of the spiral horns and tearing apart the soft tissues.

No matter how the straight spiral stone attacked, it was difficult to break through the exoskeleton of the fearless soldiers. Instead, they were killed many times by the fearless soldiers because they stopped attacking.

At this time, on the flanks, a group of ordinary soldiers destroyed the octopus corner stones at the cost of dozens of lives. At this time, they also swung their paddling feet, moved closer to the center, and rushed to the aid of the fearless soldiers.

Seeing that the entire army of Youxiaojiaoshi was basically wiped out, under the control of Lin Yi, the fearless soldiers and the pioneering mother flies in the rear also opened the armor plates at the opening of the Gnacang, released the micronized torpedo flies, and joined the battle.

After a large number of micronized torpedoes joined the battle, the remaining straight horns were no match for them, and their numbers were quickly reduced under the combined attack of three levels: large, medium and small.

After a battle, the remaining Zhiluojiaoshi and Youguijiaojiu were completely wiped out. Corpses floated feebly in the water under the influence of the air chambers in the remaining shells.

The floating mother nest at the rear slowly moved forward, driven by the filter mother worms, carrying a large number of workers ready to recover the corpses of the snails.

But at this time, the opponent's floating mother nest had already run away for a certain distance. Without the tracking of the micro-spy, it would take some time for Lin Yi to find traces of the opponent again.

In a sense, the purpose of sending some troops from the Zhiluojiao Stone Nest Group to cover the evacuation of the large force had been achieved, but under the tracking of the micro-spy, Lin Yi immediately determined the opponent's location.

The huge body of the Dreadnaught Soldier slowly turned around, and with the assistance of the water jet propulsion system, it headed towards the floating mother nest of the right spiral stone nest group.

(End of this chapter)