The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 93
  Lin Yi originally thought that after this large-scale battle, the Zhiluojiao Stone Nest Group would be temporarily dormant for a while, and then continue to toss other moths to come out and launch another attack.

But soon, he received another signal from the reconnaissance mother - the army of straight spiral stones gathered again, gathering in the direction of Lin Yi's nest.

It's not even a combination of self-exploding horn stones and carrier horn stones, but the traditional straight spiral horn stone + Netherworld octopus horn stone army. Facing the army of fearless soldiers, these once main units have almost been reduced to cannon fodder, and it is difficult to play an effective killing role.

In fact, these straight spiral stones also look very strange in terms of tactics - they look very crazy, using their lives to block the attack of the fearless soldiers.

But at the same time, their attack method seems even weirder - as if they are not fighting with the purpose of killing the enemy, but simply delaying the enemy's attack.

Use tentacles to block the Dreadnought's compound eyes, wrap around the Dreadnought's paddling feet, or block the openings of the water jet propulsion system, limiting the Dreadnought's vision and affecting its movement.

Under such restraint, Lin Yi's advancement slowed down.

Lin Yi was a little uneasy as the group of straight-horned stone nests delayed things like this. Needless to say, the other party has naturally done some new work, developed a brand new grade, and is mass-producing it, and is ready to take some action.

He couldn't help but think of the mysterious inkjet hornstone mentioned by the Anomalocaris nest group.

On the carrier hornstone, the suction cup structure of later cephalopods has appeared. So the emergence of the ink sac structure is not surprising. This is a considerable threat to a species that relies on sight.

But it's easy to deal with these things. As long as the echolocation system is further strengthened so that it can accurately locate each adult body of Orthospermum, the threat will be greatly reduced.

With the current echolocation system, the sound-producing organ has reached the standard, but the receiving organ is a little apologetic.

The lateral line structure from the ancient jaw of the leader can only identify the approximate orientation, and can only play a role in detecting the approximate position of the target outside the visual range. It's a bit difficult to accurately determine the enemy's location.

If you want to upgrade, the easiest way is to expand directly and violently. Let the lateral exoskeleton present a wider arc like the radar antenna of later generations, and then let the lateral line structure be densely distributed on it to achieve more accurate reception and positioning.

However, such a structure is somewhat abstract and difficult for Lin Yi's current gene editing technology.

For this reason, Lin Yi came up with a simple and crude solution that made the most of his "super-individual" way of existence.

Since the structures cannot be integrated together, the receiving structure should be reduced and installed on other small levels. Let these small-level individuals be scattered around the top, bottom, left and right of the individual carrying the transmitting structure to receive echo signals for them.

The real super-individual, that is, the linking method between hive mind clusters, is still unknown to Lin Yi, but this does not prevent him from using this method.

This connection is instantaneous and without delay, and is not limited by distance or interruption. Its efficiency is even more likely to exceed that of electromagnetic waves, and is close to the legendary concept of quantum communication.

It would be a pity not to take advantage of such characteristics, so Lin Yi has already started the development and production of new grades.

The new grade will be based on the miniaturized spy cockroach, but the pair of astonishingly large compound eyes and the suction cup structure under the body have been eliminated, replaced by the lateral lines of the leader's ancient jaws all over the hind body, and its receiving frequency has been adjusted to allow It can receive signals better.

It is envisaged that this level will be distributed throughout the battlefield, receiving echo signals from multiple directions to determine the enemy's position more accurately. In this way, even if the opponent does use the Inkjet Corner Stone, Lin Yi will still have a way to deal with it.

But in this way, the anomaly shrimp nest group cannot join the battle. Without the help of the swordfish-shaped Hed shrimp, it will be somewhat difficult to deal with the sudden self-exploding horn stones and carrier horn stones.

And this is the next problem he wants to solve.

After the emergence of the Micron Hammer, groups of self-exploding cornerstones are no longer a threat. However, it is somewhat difficult to handle the self-exploding corner stone carried by the carrier corner stone to penetrate the defense.

It requires the attack power of a fearless soldier or a full-tooth Hed shrimp to successfully kill the carrier corner stone, and exchanging the two for one with the carrier corner stone will undoubtedly result in a loss of blood. Therefore, Lin Yi's idea was to use explosions to make explosions and kill them with sodium as the main attack method.

Multiple sets of sodium storage structures will be installed in the abdomen of the new grade. It is envisioned that they will explode in a series to ensure the destruction of the carrier corner stone while simultaneously blowing up the shell of the self-exploding corner stone it carries, causing a fatal explosion.

In order to achieve this goal, Lin Yi chose the nesting worker, whose shape is similar to the Silurian crab body Limulus, as the main genetic template, and installed multiple sets of sodium storage systems in its enlarged abdomen.

In addition to these sodium storage systems, there is still a very critical point, which is how to effectively cause damage to the shell of the carrier horn stone.

The self-explosion grade that uses the reaction of sodium and water as the detonation method has a fatal shortcoming, that is, the triggering time of the fuze is long, and the grease needs to be discharged and seawater is injected to detonate the sodium. Against an opponent with strong mobility, the opponent has enough time to escape from the killing radius.

To this end, Lin Yi thought of a method commonly used by later generations of terrorists - attached explosives.

Lin Yi installed an adsorption structure derived from the genetic sequence of the broad-angle snail on the abdominal surface of the new grade, allowing it to be adsorbed on top of the shell of the carrier horn stone to obtain sufficient detonation time.

And such a close explosion has a side benefit of increasing the power of the explosion.

In order to further enhance the power, Lin Yi bound the central and largest storage organ in the abdomen of the new grade with a thicker inner shell, which is only weak in the downward position, allowing the shock wave to be concentrated downwards Cause damage.

It is envisaged that this organ will be used as the main means of causing damage to the carrier horn stones, while the remaining sodium storage organs do not have similar structures, making it easier to cause secondary damage in a wider range and kill self-exploding horn stones that are too late to evacuate.

In addition to this set of organs, it also has three teams of paddling legs and a developed water jet propulsion system. In addition, the rest of the body structure is as sparing as possible.

In this way, the new grade was simply named Adhesive Self-Destruction by him based on its function, which was specially used to restrain the carrier horn stone.

The first batch of adhesive self-destruction missiles began production immediately. At the same time, those grades named micro-receiving weapons also began mass production, carried by the reconnaissance mother rocket, to cooperate with its operations to deal with possible inkjet horn stones.

But even so, Lin Yi still felt a faint sense of uneasiness.

(End of this chapter)