The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 84 Self-destruction of corner stones

In the gaps among the group of helical stones, figures smaller than the adults of the helical stones but larger than their larvae appeared, swinging their underdeveloped tentacles and cutting through the waves.

The tip is conical, and the back end of the shell is as enlarged as a hornstone, indicating their identity - self-exploding hornstone, the grade that once severely damaged the fearless soldiers.

Despite the help of the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp from the Anomalocaris nest, the sporadic self-exploding horned stone Lin Yi no longer regarded it as a threat. But this time, a large number of self-exploding horn stones came rushing in, which shocked Lin Yi.

In such a short period of time, how did the Orthogonal Hornstone Nest Group collect so much sodium and produce such a large number of self-exploding hornstones?

With such a large number of self-exploding corner stones, even if there are swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimps and ordinary soldiers guarding them, the fearless soldiers are still at risk of death. Lin Yi immediately controlled them to change direction and retreat backwards.

Ordinary soldiers rushed forward one after another, tearing at the self-exploding corner stones with their sickle limbs, trying to stop their progress with their lives.

But the anomaly shrimp nest group didn't care about this. The swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp flapped its swimming leaves and moved forward, slashing with its sword edge, cutting a bloody path through the group of self-exploding corner stones.

But more self-exploding horn stones are still coming, and some have even gotten close to the body of the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp, and are about to burst. If you explode a corner stone, you will die or be disabled.

But with their incredible speed and maneuverability, they managed to avoid explosions one after another and continued to attack other self-destructing corner stones.

The remnants of the self-exploding hornstones of the right spiral hornstone nests were already scattered in the water, but what surprised Lin Yi was that most of these remnants did not explode, and the shells were still basically intact.

This finally explained Lin Yi's doubts.

It seems that the other party has not also improved the production of sodium, but like him, has produced a large number of self-detonating horn stones with the same shape, but without installing sodium-related detonation structures, as false targets.

The Strawhorn Stone Nest Group really learns quickly. Not long after the sodium-containing microtorpedoes appeared, they learned how to use a large number of false targets to cover the real self-destructing individuals.

But Lin Yi had nothing to do with the trick he came up with.

Just like the sodium-containing micron torpedoes mixed in the group of micron torpedoes, at the moment before they explode, no one except the hive mind consciousness of the right helical stone hive itself wants to know which are the real self-exploding horned stones. , which are pseudo-self-destructing corner stones responsible for attracting firepower.

The army of self-exploding hornstones surged forward, and their number was not far behind the largest number of larvae of the hornstones in the past.

However, the threat posed by the larvae of Orthospermum to ordinary soldiers is limited, let alone the fearless soldiers. However, the self-exploding corner stone is the only level that the opponent can threaten the fearless soldier!
  Under the control of the hive mind of the strange shrimp hive, the swordfish-shaped Herd shrimp swings its swimming blades at extremely high speeds, operates the water jet propulsion system, and cuts through the afterimages with its body, splitting the shells of real or fake self-destructing hornstones. Split open, rendering them incapacitated.

There were endless muffled sounds, which were the real self-exploding cornerstone shells shattering and the explosion caused by the contact between sodium and water.

Even if the real self-destructing corner stones account for only a small part of them, the huge number and the speed of being killed still make the sound of self-destructing corner stones continue to erupt. Perhaps the other party has also improved the extraction of sodium at the same time, or perhaps the other party has spread the genetic sequence of the self-exploding hornstone to most of the mother nests, and all the floating mother nests have worked together to produce such a quantity.

A large number of soldiers waved their sickle limbs and swung their two pairs of paddle-like paddling feet, facing each of the self-exploding corner stones, and used their sharp sickle limbs to cut off their soft parts.

But the Binghao doesn't have the speed of a swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp. It's okay to encounter a fake one, but if it encounters a real one, there's no time to escape from the killing range of the self-exploding corner stone.

At the moment when the soft tissue is severed, the self-exploding corner stone uses the last bit of consciousness to trigger the fuse in the body, discharge the oil, and allow full contact between sodium and water. Then, the shell burst violently.

The shell designed to break through the solid heavy armor of the Dreadnought Soldier unleashed its power 100%. The exoskeleton of the ordinary soldier was easily torn apart by shock waves and fragments, and azure horseshoe crab blood burst out along with the crimson blood of the self-exploding corner stone. A cloud of red and blue blood mist.

Then, the adults and larvae of the Orthospermum also came forward, swinging their tentacles to attack the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp and ordinary soldiers, doing everything they could to cover the attack of the self-exploding horned stones. There were even many surviving Nether Cuckoo Horn Stones who came forward to kill them.

Forced by the self-exploding horn stones, the fearless soldiers did not dare to step forward. It was difficult to stop the charge of a large number of adult straight horn stones with only ordinary soldiers, micronized torpedo warriors and the cannon fodder leader Gu Jaw. In addition, it was specially designed to target a large number of horn stones. Trying to stop the small-sized Nether Cicada Stones is a fool's errand.

Without the checks and balances of the fearless soldier or the sodium-containing micron torpedo, the Netherworld Octopus is an eternal nightmare for all small-level individuals. The maw of the abyss filled with staggered blades can easily crush any opponent.

Now, there are only two choices before Lin Yi. One is to continue to withdraw the fearless soldiers, at the cost of losing a battle, to preserve the genetic sequence of the fearless soldiers as much as possible. The second is to let the fearless soldiers turn around to meet the enemy, face the army of self-exploding corner stones, and save the defeat.

Even if the Orthogonal Stone Nest Group obtains the genetic sequence of the Dreadnought Soldier, it will not be compatible with most of the gene fragments due to the huge body structure differences between molluscs and arthropods, and will not be able to exert much strength.

But Lin Yi still didn't want the gene sequence of the fearless soldier, a transcendent level, to leak out. Just in case something goes wrong with the Helical Stone Nest.

The swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp and the full-toothed Hed shrimp are still fighting on the front line, their sword edges sweeping across, their appendages opening and closing, and their mouth cones like blood drops blooming to harvest the lives of the cornerstones.

However, under the impact of more self-exploding corner stones, the slower full-tooth Heder shrimp also began to suffer losses. The incomplete arthropodized body was torn into several pieces by the shock wave and fragments, and the remaining body was tumbling with the waves.

The situation of the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp is not good either. The circle of spiral horns is getting tighter and tighter, restricting their range of movement. The tentacles are wrapping around these shrimps in the urn, which are no longer agile and agile.

The sharp horny beak is as hard as the head armor of the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp, but it is soft, and the rear half of the body, which is not completely arthropodized, cannot compare, and can be easily torn into two pieces.

Scenes like this appeared in Lin Yi's consciousness through the compound eyes of the mother behind. He seemed to suddenly understand something. Immediately, the fearless soldiers at the rear turned around, swung their paddling feet, cut through the waves with their huge bodies, and rushed straight towards the corner stones in front!

(End of this chapter)