The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 96 The North Sea Giant Monster
  At this time, signals were transmitted back from the lateral line structures of the micronized receivers ahead.

In addition to sensing vibrations, that is, sounds, the main job of the lateral line is actually to sense water flow. Lin Yi also thought about canceling this function to avoid interference, but this involves the core mechanism of the operation of the lateral line structure, and Lin Yi can only simplify it so that it is no longer sensitive to subtle changes in water flow.

But now, there is an obvious abnormality in the water flow ahead - it is not a fixed-direction ocean current, but an irregular chaotic vortex, as if some huge object is swimming quickly, disrupting the water flow ahead.

In the echolocation system, that huge, alarming signal is approaching.

At such a distance, no matter how poor the accuracy of the echolocation system is, it can still be confirmed that it is an extremely large single life form, not a cluster of smaller life forms.

But now, the echolocation system is no longer even needed. The water flow brought up by the movement of the opponent's huge body has already disturbed the ink, revealing the tip of the iceberg of its huge size.

In the echolocation system, the huge figure approached a fearless soldier.

Immediately, in the sensory signal sent back by the fearless soldier, several soft objects wrapped around its body, and then, an astonishing force came from it!
  Just like the first generation of soldiers when faced with the adult form of the spiral horn stone, the pitiful fearless soldier who was originally huge but now looks small was easily entangled by the opponent's huge force and unable to move.

Immediately, the sound of the exoskeleton cracking was heard, and a ball of blue horseshoe crab blood exploded in the thick ink. The huge body of the fearless soldier was torn in half by something. Ordinary adult helical stones could not break it in any way. The exoskeleton looked so fragile in front of the opponent.

This was the first time the Dreadnaught's indestructible shell had been fatally damaged by an attack other than self-destruction. Moreover, the opponent did not use any bells and whistles, and only relied on the most traditional violent physical attacks to break through its exoskeleton.

At this time, because the ink-jet corner stones had been almost slaughtered by Lin Yi's control and the fearless soldiers under the guidance of the reconnaissance mother's echolocation system, the huge figure was crossing back and forth again, disturbing the water flow. The ink was dispersing, slowly revealing the huge figure. true appearance.

The cone-shaped gray-white shell, which is exactly the same as the helical stone, is also covered with blood-red lines, similar to the lines on the nautilus shell of later generations.

But the difference is that the size of its shell alone reaches an astonishing nearly forty meters. At this time, it stands tilted in the sea, like the legendary needle that fixes the sea, standing in the sea.

At the same time, its soft body is also somewhat different from that of the helical stone. The ten tentacles are no longer rigid structures of the same length, but like the squids of later generations, with two tentacles of astonishing length and eight shorter tentacles.

The ends of the two longest tentacles also have broad, flat palm-like structures like squids. At the end is a curved and developed horny claw, which is currently piercing into the exoskeleton of the fearless soldier, proving its sharpness.

The inner sides of the wrists of all the tentacles are covered with a combination of suckers and horny protrusions, which is also a structure similar to that of later octopuses and squids.

At the same time, the basic configuration of cephalopods-the sharp horny beak has naturally not fallen. But because of its staggering size, the size of its horny beak is also staggering.

Now, the tentacles and horny beak are stained with the azure horseshoe crab blood of the Dreadnought, making its appearance look particularly ferocious. A pair of narrow eyes scanned the area, the same as the straight horned stone, and the eyes seemed to be full of contempt, like an old god coming to the world.

There is no doubt that even the largest blue whale or the colossus of the Peruvian whale in later generations will be dwarfed by this huge sea monster that looks like the mythical Kraken, and may even become prey. With horseshoe crab blood mixed with the remaining ink, the huge body of "Kraken" ran a water jet propulsion system with the same amazing thrust, swinging its tentacles, and killed other fearless soldiers.

As if they had found a backbone, the nearby adult Helical Stones gathered together and moved closer to the huge body of "Kraken". Some even stepped forward directly and began to wrap their tentacles around the fearless soldiers' appendages.

The evolving arms race seems to have come full circle, returning to its original starting point. The scene once again returned to the scene where the second-generation soldiers fought with the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group before the fearless soldiers appeared.

The fearless soldier is like the second-generation soldier at that time, the adult Helicalite is like the juvenile Helicalite at that time, and "Kraken" is like the adult Helicalite at that time. However, everyone's body size has increased countless times.

Now, everything that had happened before made sense. The various actions of the Straight Horn Stone Nest Group to buy time were to produce this "Kraken" in the hope of breaking the stalemate - to be precise, to save the defeat.

In the modern wars that humans have formed a system in later generations, one or two powerful "decisive weapons" cannot play a role in turning the tide of the war - even the atomic bomb only makes victory come earlier when they already have the advantage, rather than reversing the situation. Defeat, turn defeat into victory.

But in this era, in the battle of the nest group, it is not certain whether such tactics can win.

The fearless soldiers gathered and rushed toward the huge body of "Kraken" from all directions.

As soon as the opponent's pupils glanced, two longer tentacles suddenly stretched out, entangled the body of a fearless soldier, and dragged it back to him regardless of its desperate struggle. Its horny beak opened and closed, making a crunching sound. .

The sharp horny beak bit into the strong exoskeleton of the Dreadnaught, making the originally solid armor look so fragile at this moment. With a clicking sound, azure horseshoe crab blood surged out, and the body of the fearless soldier was torn in half by the huge force of the "Kraken", just like the adult body of the horned stone would to an ordinary soldier.

The two broken bodies of the fearless soldier fell downwards, trailing a trail of azure horseshoe crab blood. At this time, the straight-horned stones did not even look at it, changing their previous attitude of desperately trying to snatch the remains of the fearless soldier.

It seems that in the end, the other party successfully obtained the genetic sequence of the fearless soldier. Perhaps the birth of this "Kraken" is related to it.

At the rear of the battlefield, under Lin Yi's control, more fearless soldiers rushed forward one after another, waving their sickles to attack the huge body of "Kraken".

Micronized torpedoes, sodium-containing micronized torpedoes, sticky and self-destructing torpedoes, all levels that can participate in the battle rushed forward to face the huge body of the "Kraken" on the opposite side - Lin Yi knew that the current situation was even more... The battle must be resolved quickly, and the opponent must not be allowed to produce more "Kraken".

In that case, Lin Yiyang would really be doomed and would face the same fate as the strange shrimp nest.

(End of this chapter)