The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 67 Unexpected reinforcements

The dark purple figure passed by and crossed the water lines. The streamlined appearance, the sharp sword-like protrusion structure at the front of the head carapace, and the swimming leaf structure swept back at a small angle on both sides of the body all illustrate their identity.

Swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp, the most powerful grade of the anomaly shrimp nest. They actually appeared here, which made Lin Yi no longer have any luck.

There is a swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp in front and a straight spiral horn stone in the back. It is impossible for the seriously injured Dreadnought to hold on until the other two Dreadnoughts lead the army.

At this moment, Lin Yi felt mixed emotions in his heart - Is the nest of strange shrimps unwilling to be left under someone else's fence after all?
  But soon, something amazing happened. These swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimps swung their swimming legs, and their bodies passed directly by the side of the Dreadnought Soldiers, heading straight for the straight spiral stone behind them.

The figure of the three-eyed hud shrimp appeared above. It is still a familiar combination. The three-eyed hud shrimp provides a field of vision, while the swordfish-shaped hud shrimp sprints and chops to meet the figures of the adults of the straight helix.

The sharp sword-like protrusions pierced the soft tissue of a straight snail, and blood surged out. The huge mouth cone of the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp bloomed, ruthlessly tearing off a large piece of flesh and blood on the opponent's body.

Seeing this, the adult snails and octagonal stones retreated one after another. The remaining self-destructing corner stones started to operate their water jet propulsion systems and charged forward again.

The swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp still continued to swing its leaf legs, and the sword edge slashed down, directly hitting the shell of a self-exploding horn stone.

It seems that in order to facilitate the production of more fragments and cause damage, the tip of the shell of the self-exploding hornstone has regular grooves and carvings. But at this time, it is convenient to chop the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp.

Perhaps the explosion of the self-detonating hornstone needs to be actively triggered. After the shell was broken, there was no explosion for the time being, which also allowed the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp to escape the explosion range calmly.

Then, there seemed to be grease seeping out from between the broken shells. After a few seconds, a muffled sound came from the water. The water rippled and the remaining shell of the self-exploding corner stone was blown to pieces.

The specially shaped shell seems to have a structure similar to that of a broadsword mine, which can direct and concentrate the explosion energy. But when the shell shattered, the impact force received by the shell during the explosion was even greater than before, directly tearing its body into pieces.

The huge body of the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp cruised back and forth. When the sword edge passed by, one by one the self-exploding corner stone shell shattered, and the body exploded.

It has to be said that these self-exploding corner stones, which may be designed to target the fearless soldiers, met their nemesis when they encountered the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp with a nimble body and quick attacks.

But at this time, Lin Yi no longer cared about the battle between the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp and the self-exploding corner stone. Instead, he concentrated on controlling the fearless soldier as far away from the battlefield as possible, and tried to prevent its genetic sequence from falling into the enemy's hands.

Seeing this, two swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimps slowly came forward, one on the left and one on the right beside the fearless soldier, moving forward at the same speed as the fearless soldier.

And this posture doesn't seem like he's looking for an opportunity to strike, but rather like he's protecting the fearless soldiers!

As the speed slowed down, the eye stalks of the two swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimps protruded from their eye sockets, shaking and looking at the intact compound eye of the Dreadnaught Soldier. Then it swung its head and retracted a pair of feeding appendages under its head shell, and swung upwards, as if to indicate something.

Looking up, the figure of a three-eyed Hed shrimp appeared in the intact compound eye of the fearless soldier. But between the opponent's appendages, he was still holding an armor plate with something engraved on it.

Seeing this, the three-eyed Hed shrimp slowly lowered its height, unfolded its armor with a pair of appendages, and appeared in front of the fearless soldier. What is carved on the armor is the abstract pattern that Lin Yi had painted before - a pattern representing a soldier or a feather-winged horseshoe crab, and a pattern representing anomalocaridids jointly attacking the pattern representing the corner stone.

Immediately, the three-eyed Hed shrimp retracted its appendages and returned to its original position. Immediately, the two swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimps on both sides continued to guard the body of the fearless soldier, whose inner shell was almost exposed.

The blood-red compound eyes on the eye stalks of the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp sparkle with a luster that represents more than just any emotion. It made Lin Yi feel a little uncomfortable.

The hive mind consciousness of these hives may not have thousands of years of human civilization like Lin Yi, but it also does not have so many twists and turns. In human terms, it is a simple mind, but the most important thing is friendship.

This may be the case for Anomalocaris nests. Recalling that before, Lin Yi repelled the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group and rescued them from the dark abyss. They also handed over the genetic sequence of the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp to Lin Yi's nest group without any reservation. .

But now, the cause of the past has finally come to fruition. At the critical moment, the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp from the strange shrimp nest came to rescue the seriously injured fearless soldier and protected him from escaping.

From behind, the muffled sound was still coming rhythmically, which was the explosion caused by the shell of the self-exploding horn stone being smashed by the sword of the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp.

These swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimps seem to have been equipped with a myelin structure and a water-jet propulsion system. Their maximum speed and flexibility have been greatly enhanced. They can enter and exit seven times in the corner stone group without being hurt.

And at this moment, two huge figures swung their paddling feet and ran the water jet propulsion system to cut through the waves. What followed was a dense swarm of smaller figures.

It was a group of soldiers accompanied by two other fearless soldiers. At this time, they finally arrived belatedly. Under Lin Yi's control, they approached the seriously injured similar creature and slowly lifted its huge body.

Seeing the arrival of other fearless soldiers, the two guarding swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimps also moved aside to make it easier for the other two fearless soldiers to help them.

The armor plates on the sides of the two fearless soldiers' huge bodies opened, and a large number of miniaturized torpedoes poured out of the cabin. Immediately, the remaining ordinary soldiers also swung their tails and paddling feet to kill the remaining straight spiral stones in the rear.

Several octopus horns had been killed by the blade of the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp and the opening and closing of its mouth cone. The remaining straight octopus horns were no match for the soldiers and micron torpedoes, and were quickly defeated.

Several swordfish-shaped Hed shrimps also pursued the victory, and with the help of the vision of the three-eyed Hed shrimp, they killed the adult Strawhorn stone that was trying to escape behind.

The swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp, which was also blessed with a water-jet propulsion system, was already as fast as the adult Heliconite. It quickly caught up with the fleeing Helicalite and penetrated part of their soft body tissue.

And as the body of the last straight-horned stone stopped moving feebly, the ambush battle against the fearless soldier ended with the unexpected intervention of a third party.

And now, it’s time to enjoy the post-war trash-picking session.

(End of this chapter)