The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 88 Micronized Hammer Attack

Previously, the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group launched attacks from five directions at the same time. After the fearless soldiers in one direction were severely damaged, the troops in the other directions temporarily retreated.

Lin Yi was afraid of being deceived, so he did not pursue a large-scale pursuit. He continued to kill a wave of self-exploding corner stones and stayed there to defend. Unexpectedly, they actually concentrated on this place - judging from the direction, the one coming now was exactly the same. It is the strength of the right spiral stone nest group in the other four directions.

And when these forces originally dispersed in five directions are concentrated in a sea area, the visual effect is astonishing, and the same is true when it is displayed in the echolocation system of the reconnaissance mother.

Individuals with the best eyesight can already see from a distance, on the horizon in the distance, the black figure coming like a tide.

Among those tidal waves of black figures, a wave of smaller figures had begun to break away and surged forward at a faster speed. The black figure surged forward. Lin Yi knew that those were self-exploding corner stones and pseudo-self-exploding corner stones.

But at this time, faced with another swarm of real or fake self-exploding corner stones, Lin Yi no longer panicked at all.

Behind them, a large number of individuals that resembled miniaturized torpedoes were operating the water-jet propulsion system, swinging their swimming legs on their sides and heading straight ahead.

But unlike the microtorpedo frogs, their heads do not have swordfish-shaped protrusions like the Herd shrimp, but are thick, round and blunt, more similar to the baghead shrimp from which their genetic template comes.

Under their heads, there is a pair of appendages that are similar to the sickle limbs of the feather-winged horseshoe crab, but are shorter and grow downward.

There are no spines on the appendages. Instead, they have a claw pad structure similar to a wide-angle snail, which can be used for fixation. The curvature is just suitable for grasping the shell of the self-exploding horn stone.

At the same time, there was another pair of strange-shaped appendages growing on the side of the new class.

The ends of the appendages are abnormally enlarged and have a blunt triangular protrusion at the end that looks like a hammer - but in fact, it will function as a hammer.

Previously, Lin Yi had thought about developing a grade that was smaller in size, could be mass-produced, and could break open the shell of self-exploding cornerstones. But because the swordfish-shaped Hurd shrimp is very efficient at cleaning self-exploding cornerstones, he temporarily gave up the idea.

Until this time, the large number of pseudo-self-exploding corner stones made the Swordfish-shaped Hurd Shrimp too tired to cope with. Lin Yi urgently started the development of this grade, and finally completed the development when the second round of enemy troops arrived. , and allow mass production of floating broods behind the battlefield.

Now, these grades that have been expedited to be produced are Lin Yi's strategy to deal with the self-exploding corner stone.

Because it needs to be smaller, it certainly cannot break the shell with brute force by stacking muscles. However, the shell of the self-exploding corner stone is not thin to better store the explosive energy, which requires Lin Yi to use Qiao Jin.

It is small in size and needs to be able to break the hard shell. Lin Yi immediately thought of the mantis shrimp in later generations.

The hammer-type mantis shrimp's appendages are powerful enough, and it uses highly specialized appendages to achieve this despite its small size. It is a good reference object.

But in this era, it is still the same sentence. The ancestors of mantis shrimps still don’t know which trench they picked up garbage to eat. The ancestor of this ecological niche, Youhe, also plays puncture, which makes Lin Yi unable to be straightforward and crude. Extract gene sequences and improve them. What's more, even if there is one, Lin Yi doesn't have time to find it and send it back to the nest to absorb the genetic sequence and improve its production. He can only use the existing gene fragments to modify it as much as possible.

In the end, the result of his tossing was the pair of developed appendages with enlarged ends on both sides of the new level's body.

Inside this pair of hammering appendages, Lin Yi has installed an extremely developed muscle system, which is composed of hydraulic muscles with a special structure. Structures are installed at the joints to accumulate elastic potential energy to increase the power, allowing this pair of appendages to The limbs are extremely explosive.

Coupled with the triangular convex angle at the end of the appendage, its full force blow can completely break the shell of the two self-explosive horn stones, causing their sodium-storing capsule structure to rupture, leaking oil, and then allowing the sodium to come into contact with water to explode.

And if it is a fake self-exploding corner stone, once the shell ruptures, the water in the air chamber will make it impossible for them to continue swimming. Although they will not die for a while, it will also make them sink downwards, losing the role of covering the real self-exploding corner stone.

Their tactics are also very simple. They use a pair of appendages under their heads to attach to the shell surface of the self-exploding corner stone, and then use the hydraulic hammer appendages extending from the side to hit the opponent's shell with all their strength, breaking it into pieces.

This miniaturized grade for self-exploding corner stones and pseudo-self-exploding corner stones was simply named Micronized Hammer by Lin Yi.

Like micron torpedo flies, they do not have the ability to eat independently and need to replenish nutrients through the core supply bag structure of the fearless soldier fly or pioneer mother fly.

However, since the micro-hammer was created temporarily by Lin Yi for emergencies, it also had its own shortcomings.

The most important thing is that the structure of their hydraulic hammers is not as complete as that of later mantis shrimps. It is just a product used by Lin Yi for emergencies. The hammering strength meets Lin Yi's needs, but many related organizations cannot keep up with the supporting needs. , can only make do with it.

The specific manifestation is that every time the micron hammer hits the hydraulic hammer appendage with full force, it will cause irreversible damage to the special hydraulic muscle tissue inside the appendage. After being used many times, it will even be directly scrapped due to muscle damage and cannot be hit again. beat.

However, their production cost is not high. In addition, if the attack is a real self-exploding corner stone, it will not be able to escape the explosion range in time after a hammer blow. This flaw is not a problem.

As long as you make sure to replace a few more fake self-destructing corner stones before you die, you will earn money. If you are lucky and knock out a real self-destructing corner stone, you will earn blood.

After the previous round of battles, the first batch of sufficient micron hammers were finally expedited by the nearest floating brood to cope with the attack of the self-exploding corner stones.

With the addition of the micron hammer level, except for the self-exploding horn stones carried by the carrier horn stones that will pose some threats, the remaining self-exploding horn stones and pseudo-self-exploding horn stones will no longer be able to threaten the fearless soldiers through sea-explosion tactics.

As for how to deal with the carrier corner stone, Lin Yi already has a plan. But at this time, it is too late to reproduce the corresponding grade.

At the moment, the most important task is to repel the incoming troops of the Helical Stone Nest Group and prevent the seriously injured Dreadnought Soldier from falling into the hands of the enemy, causing the Helical Stone Nest Group to obtain the Dreadnought Soldier's genetic sequence!
  In the compound eyes, the self-exploding horn stone at the front of the Straight Spiral Horn Stone Nest Group was clearly visible, and another battle of staggering scale was about to begin.

(End of this chapter)