I became a planet

Chapter 90 Dominant Consciousness
The giant's corpse was quickly overwhelmed by the black bugs.

Within a few seconds, the scrambling bugs gnawed away their prey, not even a single bone remained.

They quickly spread out again, and finally got into the hole in the ground.

The breeze blew and scattered the weeds.

There were only bloodstains soaked in the soil and countless large circular pits left at the scene.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Guo Sen really wouldn't be able to understand what just happened.

It only took a short time for the intelligent bug to kill and prey the huge giant.

Guo Sen was also fascinated by the unusual and strange behaviors that happened to them.

Why are they able to do a job with ease and be extremely proficient, and generally execute hunting and killing as a set program?

Why were they completely still when the big worm appeared and devoured the food just now?
Guo Sen rummaged through the soil.

He felt that there seemed to be some secret hidden in it.

It was easier for him to rummage through soil and rocks than in woods and grasslands, or even the ocean.

Soon, he discovered a huge space more than ten meters underground.

This space is connected to the ground through dozens of tunnels.

And the protagonists just now were all motionless in this huge hole of several thousand square meters that seemed to be pulled out, exactly the same as before.

Guo Sen saw that the big worm was in the deepest part of the burrow, dug a big hole at some point and lay down on it.

At this moment it was shaking constantly, not knowing what it was doing.

Observe carefully, from the lower abdomen of this disgusting guy, transparent spherical objects are continuously being produced.

Have you spawned yet?

Those balls were unmistakably insect eggs, just like the ones it carried on its back.

The eggs piled up layer by layer, gradually covering the deep pit.

Is this big worm a female worm?

Guo Sen looked at this ugly guy. After it laid eggs, its abdomen also suffocated, and it shrank a lot like a deflated ball.

At this time, the rest of the bugs were motionless as if they had been frozen.

This is so weird.

After laying eggs, the female worm continued to lie on it, and the pair of long antennae kept shaking. At the same time, the antennae of the other small insects were also shaking at the same time.

Then, the little bugs moved around the walls of the burrow, using their well-developed mouthparts to dig into the soil, neatly, really like a machine.

Guo Sen looked at the soil gradually piled up beside them, and fell into deep thought.

He just looked at all the underground in the entire continent again.

Besides here, there are really several places that have almost the same bug groups as here.

What they have in common is that they all have a huge worm as the mother worm, and the rest of the small worms seem to completely obey the orders of the mother worm, and there are also situations where they are completely motionless as before.

But why?
Guo Sen observed carefully.

He found that after each of the little bugs dug a hole that could accommodate them, they suddenly stopped moving, while the antennae on the mother bug's side kept swinging in different patterns.

Hey?Could it be that……

The worms crawled out of the hole, and their antennae were trembling. Then, as the mother worm changed the direction of the antennae, they began to spread the excavated soil around the hole...

It turned out to be the case.

Does the mother worm direct the worms through the antennae?
However, what happened to the almost simultaneous actions?

wait.

Guo Sen suddenly remembered a noun.

group awareness.

Or it can also be called, dominate the collective consciousness.

It means that many individuals receive the main consciousness through the medium emanating from a single individual, and make it the collective consciousness of the individual.

If you put it in this way, the weird and strange behaviors of these bugs can be understood.

Things like sudden movement, division of labor and orderly operation like a machine, attacking, harassing and defending, and even standing in two rows are all a "cluster consciousness".

And the "medium" that conveys this awareness should be the tentacles between them.

Guo Sen felt that after the tentacles rubbed against each other, some special biological information would definitely be conveyed, so the female insect could completely control the insects, let them receive the group consciousness, and do things similar to those just now.

However, this is only a more likely hypothesis.

Among the five burrows with strange worms on this land, there are five female worms that look almost identical, but the total number of worms in all the burrows is less than five hundred.

This seems to create a paradox with the number of eggs laid by the female worm just now, and the number of eggs that are about to hatch on the back.

It can be born so much, but why is the number so small?

Time passed slowly, neither the mother worm nor the little worms moved, as if they were asleep.

Guo Sen was a little bored, and he didn't know what a head was if he continued like this.

Just when he was about to divert his gaze to observe and look for those giants, he suddenly noticed that in the nearby soil, something seemed to be approaching here at an abnormal speed!

When the thing was about to approach the hole, it suddenly slowed down, and even the range of its movements was greatly reduced, and the sound of digging became extremely faint.

Guo Sen carefully observed the creatures in the soil, and felt that this thing looked a little strange.

At first, he thought it was a kind of bug, but when he looked carefully, he found that this scaled creature only had four legs and a tail, and it was less than two meters long.

Their front and rear limbs are abnormally thick, and the front fingers divided into five claws have long claws like sharp knives, which are sharp and thick, like an awl.The tip of the hind paw is flat and wide, like a shovel.

It's almost tailor-made for digging.

The front paws only need to scrape lightly, and the seemingly tough soil will fall off, while the rear paws swing quickly, and then push the scraped soil to the back, and finally use the slender tail to sweep the soil to both sides of the cave wall.

Their heads are huge, accounting for almost a quarter of their bodies, with long cone-like faces, slender eyes in front of them, and small black noses that open and close with moisture.

Guo Sen always feels that this thing is very similar to a creature on the earth - pangolin.

However, the pangolin did not grow so huge, and, is the head so big?

Guo Sen thinks it's more appropriate to call them "monsters with big heads".

What are they doing here?
Guo Sen saw them and their slight movements to push away the last layer of soil blocked between them and the bugs, but he didn't come out immediately, smelling them with his sharp nose.

He looked at where all the holes were pointing to, and suddenly found that they were all gathered on the side of the female worm!
Their purpose, is it...

(End of this chapter)