The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 79 Improving Sodium Production

Below, the nesting workers installed with pressure-resistant shells have begun to pupate, gradually forming the appearance of a mother's nest.

After the central nest is formed, the rest of the nest-building workers plunge their bodies into the holes on the surface of the nest to transfer the stored nutrients into the body of the nest.

Since it was not clear whether the pioneer mother's body could withstand the water pressure of the deep sea, Lin Yi did not let it dive directly into the trench. Instead, he connected the hose connected to the core supply bag to the mother's nest above the trench. Deliver nutrients.

Subsequently, the mother nest above continues to produce nesting machines whose abdomens are stuffed with nutrients. The nutrients are transported to the bottom of the trench and put into the holes on the surface of the mother nest to realize the transfer of nutrients to the mother nest.

After two rounds of tossing and turning, and seeing that the efficiency was not high enough, Lin Yi simply modified the genetic sequence of the nesting worker, slightly increased its size, and added a core supply bag structure and a few hoses.

First, their crab-like horseshoe crab-like broad abdomens are filled with nutrients by the pioneering mothers above. Then these improved levels, which can be called transporters, transport a large amount of nutrients down the trench, and the liquid nutrients are transported through hoses. Pour into the hole of the mother's nest.

The efficiency is much higher between trips. Lin Yi also asked the mother nest to produce more transportation tools to continue transporting nutrients down the trench and storing them.

After starting to cultivate coccus, Lin Yi obtained more and more food resources. Every time he filtered out the seawater dyed green by a large amount of coccus in the culture capsule, he could harvest a lot of nutrients.

The hose of one pioneer mother soon ran out. Soon, two more pioneer mothers arrived with their bellies full of nutrients and began to transport the nutrients to the transport workers, who then transported them down the trench.

While the work was going on here, some structures to be built in the deep sea were also cultivated in the main territory of the nest group.

It is mainly a fixed echolocation system. Lin Yi plans to install this structure on all the brood groups to further prevent the right spiral stone from launching surprise attacks on the brood groups.

The search for the remnants of the rhodonite nest continues. Second-generation reconnaissance queens equipped with an echolocation system are produced every day in the pupal sac mother nest, carrying micronized torpedoes and setting off everywhere, using sonar and compound eyes to search for traces of the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group.

Because the original echolocation system developed by Lin Yi had limited accuracy, the densely packed group of right-angled stone nests produced an astonishingly large echo signal, which was quite conspicuous.

This allowed Lin Yi to easily locate the hunting team of the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group from a distance, and control the fearless soldiers to lead the team to destroy them.

More and more of the Orthospermum hunting teams were wiped out by the joint stranglehold of Lin Yi and the Anomalocaris nest group, becoming the nourishment for the mother nest to produce more individuals.

In some core brood groups, the shells of the straight snails were half-buried into the seabed by Lin Yi's control of the fearless soldiers, forming a shell array similar to the bones of the Jingguan, to deter those who might sneak up. Helicotite individuals.

Not to mention, the gray-white shell with bright red stripes like the blood of vertebrates was punched there, it really felt a bit primitive and bloody. As for the creatures of this era, Lin Yi didn't know whether they were appreciated by the intelligent hives or not.

If this frequency continues, Lin Yi will eventually wipe out the Straight Snail Nest Group. But even though he was still speeding up as much as possible, hoping to wipe out the opponent as soon as possible, the right spiral stone nest group did not know how long it had accumulated, as if the entire ocean was their hunting ground, and their number was endless.

Lin Yi was still worried that the other party was consuming his resources to gain time and continue to develop new levels that could fight against the fearless soldiers. At least in the recent battles, the self-exploding corner stones no longer appear. Perhaps the opponent no longer wants to waste precious sodium production capacity and is preparing to use them together. Perhaps it is preparing to find an opportunity to deal with the fearless soldiers again, or perhaps there is something else. picture.

The other party learned quickly, which was undoubtedly bad news for Lin Yi. In order to win in this evolutionary arms race between nest groups, Lin Yi must improve the existing template again to deal with possible threats from the opponent.

The first thing he is ready to solve now is the sodium production capacity problem.

For the current Hao clan nest group, sodium is considered a strategic resource. At least underwater, they are the key to creating explosions and accurately striking high-value enemy targets such as the Netherworld Octopus Horn Stone.

Not only sodium-containing micronized torpedoes, Lin Yi also has many similar ideas, which he plans to use the reaction between sodium and water to realize, but there is currently no demand, and Lin Yi is not in a hurry to realize them.

Another reason for not realizing it is that the production of sodium is limited. The small amount of sodium required for the sodium-containing micron torpedo to accurately attack the octopus cannot be met, let alone the production of more sodium-based grades. .

The process of biological extraction and accumulation of sodium is quite slow. With Lin Yi's current level of gene editing technology, it is still a bit reluctant to change this structure. All he can do is to increase the number of this set of structures and use a simple and crude parallel method. Boost.

However, the internal space of the micron torpedo template is really unable to accommodate more structures. Therefore, in order to solve this problem, the production of sodium can only be handed over to other grades, and then passed to the micron torpedo.

Once sodium comes into contact with water, it will explode violently, which means that the transfer process will be very dangerous. A little carelessness can lead to serious explosions.

Therefore, after some thought, Lin Yi installed this system for obtaining sodium from food and seawater on the mother nest.

Because this type of brood will only be used to produce micron torpedoes, the hole-like structure can be opened very small, allowing enough space inside to accommodate it all.

As for the transmission problem, it is even more simple and crude. In the process of producing micronized torpedoes, sodium is wrapped into the new micronized torpedoes and directly immersed in oil without contact with seawater during the entire process, thus perfectly avoiding the problem of explosion.

Just like that, the new sodium production system was installed in the mother nest. These mother nests that specialize in the production of sodium-containing micron torpedoes will greatly improve the production efficiency of sodium-containing micron torpedoes, allowing them to even be used as a regular force to attack the enemy on a large scale, instead of just being used to attack the Netherworld Crested Torpedo. Precise strike.

At the same time, more ideas of self-destruction levels based on "biological guidance" are gradually being realized.

Because the production of sodium has become easier, these grades that have been stuck in the gene template stage and have not been actually produced will also have the opportunity to come out and play a role in the fight against the Orthogonal Hives.

Especially, at the same time, Lin Yi got some incredible information from the strange shrimp nest.

(End of this chapter)