The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 66 Encirclement and Suppression of Fearless Soldiers (2)
  As the shell ruptured, the huge body of the floating mother nest slowly fell downwards to the seabed.

Under Lin Yi's control, the fearless soldier swung a pair of well-developed sickle limbs, and the huge body was bleed in the water under the action of the water jet propulsion system, leaving only a water line behind him.

But at this time, the ordinary soldiers were almost wiped out, and the fearless soldiers were flanked by only groups of miniaturized torpedoes.

At this moment, in the distance, countless water lines crossed again. In the compound eyes of the pioneer mother, she once again saw the figure of the opponent clearly - the straight spiral horn stone, but this time, there seemed to be something mixed between their tentacles.

Lin Yi suddenly had a bad feeling. In any case, the fearless soldiers who have lost the protection of ordinary soldiers have to deal with so many straight stones, just like a tank that has lost the cover of infantry and enters a street battle. If it is not defended, it will capsize in the gutter.

Thinking about it, under his control, the fearless soldier slowly turned around, and its huge body retreated to the rear under the action of the water jet propulsion system.

The remaining soldiers and miniaturized torpedoes rushed forward to intercept the fearless soldiers, making it easier for them to retreat.

But it's too late. Between the tentacles of the adults of the helical stones, several smaller figures were seen breaking away from the tentacles, but they were definitely not larvae of the helical stones, but a whole new level.

The newly appeared figure was very fast, even faster than the micron torpedo. A few scattered soldiers had no time to intercept them, so they were left far behind.

The miniaturized torpedoes stepped forward to block them, but were effortlessly knocked away by the opponent's faster speed, allowing them to rush straight towards the fearless soldiers without any hindrance.

The first figure slammed into the body of the fearless soldier, and hit the opening of the Gnacang accurately. The movable armor piece was immediately pushed open, allowing the tip of the opponent's shell to sink into it.

This also allowed Lin Yi to see their full picture clearly. Behind the tip of their shells, there is an eggplant-shaped shell that is somewhat similar to a hornstone. The transition between thickness and thickness is extremely sudden, like the handle at the end of an eggplant.

But in the next second, something amazing happened.

There was a loud muffled sound in the water, and immediately, a wave of water spread out, and the body of the fearless soldier was tilted upward by dozens of degrees by the wave of water.

When the water waves dissipated, the outer armor of the gnar capsule on the side of the fearless soldier had cracked, and the strange horn stone was no longer complete. The shell was completely shattered, and some of the fragments were even embedded in the fearless soldier's body. Inside the Gnacang, blue blood seeped out slightly.

This is the first time since its birth that the fearless soldier has received real damage to his flesh and blood. And the shell of the instigator cracked, and his body fell weakly, hurting both sides again.

If he read it correctly, at that moment, there was an explosion inside the strange horn stone shell. The huge shock wave and the fragments that flew out after the shell broke severely damaged the fearless soldier's side.

Because the second half of the shell of these unknown hornstones is somewhat similar to the hornstones, but has an extra point compared to the adult hornstones - this made Lin Yi suddenly think of later research on the hornstones.

The air chambers of the hornstone will fall off as the body grows, so that the old air chambers continue to fall off, and new air chambers gradually grow, so that the shell structure of the hornstone gradually transitions from the original traditional cone shape to an eggplant shape. Lin Yi had only seen adult hexagonites before, but had never seen an individual hexagonite that was half developed and had a two-part shell. This was why he did not react immediately.

The shape of these corner stones is somewhat similar to the shape of the shell of the corner stone transitioning into half. Lin Yi guessed that its gene sequence probably came from baghorn stone.

However, the principle of such self-destruction is somewhat unclear. Perhaps the gene sequence related to the shedding of the hornstone shell does play a role in it.

However, although the principle is not known, it seems that the explosive power of these "self-exploding corner stones" is limited and cannot directly explode the exoskeleton of the Dreadnaught Soldier. The reason why such destructive power is caused is that the small space in the Genna warehouse amplifies the power of the shock wave. for the sake of.

More self-exploding corner stones came forward, some of them attacked the wound on the side of the Dreadnaught Soldier again, and some attacked the joints connecting the appendages and the body of the Dreadnought Soldier.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Lin Yi immediately controlled the fearless soldier to swing his paddling feet at a faster speed, operate the water jet propulsion system, and continue to retreat backwards.

But the remaining self-exploding corner stones still moved forward relentlessly, and the sharp front end of the shell penetrated into the fragile inner wall of the granary chamber below the position where the Dreadnaught Soldier had been blown open, and then the entire shell exploded!
  Amidst the muffled sounds, the wound on the fearless soldier's side became more and more ferocious, and the blue horseshoe crab blood spread in the sea, leaving a long trail behind him.

At this time, the self-exploding corner stone that attacked the connection between the lower appendages and the body of the fearless soldier reached its position, and the shell exploded. With another muffled sound, a crack appeared at the joint of one of the fearless soldier's paddling feet!
  The second self-exploding corner stone followed closely. The tip of the shell penetrated into the gap, and there was another muffled sound. The impact force immediately tore the entire appendage root along the crack, and a huge paddle-shaped paddling foot immediately broke. !

Without one paddling leg, Wuwei Binghao's body immediately lost its balance. As a last resort, Lin Yi could only control the corresponding paddling leg on the other side to close up and move forward with only one pair of paddling legs.

Another self-exploding corner stone aimed at a new target - the two compound eyes on the head of the Dreadnought.

The tip of the shell pierced the compound eye, and then exploded violently. This time, the damage caused was more fatal. The compound eye was immediately blown to pieces, and cracks appeared on the nearby exoskeleton.

Seeing this, the remaining self-exploding corner stones stopped moving forward.

Behind them, several Nether Torpedoes slowly swung their tentacles and stepped forward to clean up the micro-torpedoes that were still attacking in vain. The adult Torpedoes followed closely behind, attacking from all directions the fearless soldiers who were severely injured by the self-exploding Torpedoes. Come.

At this time, the fearless soldier, who was blinded in one eye and suffered heavy damage to his side and paddling feet, could no longer crush the shells of the right spiral stones as easily as he did in his heyday. Instead, he was like a piece of plump fish meat. Snail slaughter.

Although another team of two fearless soldiers received instructions through Lin Yi's consciousness as soon as the self-exploding corner stone appeared and led the team to come, but judging by the speed, when they arrive, it is likely that only this fearless soldier will be left. Hao collects the corpse.

By that time, I am afraid that the other party has absorbed the genetic sequence of the fearless soldier through the mother nest that has only smashed the floating structure and has not completely lost its functions. This is undoubtedly detrimental to Lin Yi.

But at this moment, several figures appeared from behind that surprised Lin Yi!
  (End of this chapter)