4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
Chapter 196 Worms in Worms
The internal organs of the Purgatory Worm are gone.
When the collector penetrated the wall of the esophagus and drilled into the body of the purgatory worm, Lin found that there were no blood vessels, no organs, and nothing. It was not disappeared, but was eaten.
It was packed with a small worm with a length of more than one meter. They are exactly the same as the big purgatory worm. Lin remembers that when the second purgatory worm came out, there were many such small worms at the same time. Entering the purgatory worm that was injured by Lin, Lin thought that they might be healing, but did not expect to see them eating the organs in the purgatory worm now.
And they are quite large in number. Lin remembered that she did n’t drill as many at that time, and there was n’t even a hole in the esophagus wall of the Purgatory Worm. How did they get in?
The small worms are not as toothless as the purgatory worms. They have several serrated teeth in their round mouths. They devour all the internal organs, blood or anything else here. They almost eat a huge body of the purgatory worm. In the space, they did not find that the small collectors entered, and they were still engulfing all kinds of flesh and blood, but they all seemed to reach a consensus that no worms would bite the wall of the esophagus.
Does the Inca Swarm intend to eat the internal organs of the Purgatory Worm so that Lin can't decompose the information inside?But how do they know that Lynn also imitates creatures by studying the internal structure of other creatures?
In any case, it seems too late to stop them now. The entire worm body is eaten up and down, leaving only some muscle structures connected to the shell and esophagus. When did they start eating?The speed is so fast that it doesn't seem to start eating after the purgatory worm is crushed to death.
Lin is not easy to allow large arms to push open the home tree here, but it is better to follow them than to kill them, to understand the purpose of these small worms to eat the purgatory worms.
Lynn asked one of the collectors to deliberately find a worm that was constantly devouring flesh and blood. The worm swallowed the collector together with food without any doubt.
The blood of the purgatory worm is accumulated in the body of the small worm. Too much food causes the solution of the small worm to be too dispersed, so that the collector of Lin can easily make a wound in the small worm and successfully parasitize it in the body close to the brain Location so that Lynn can keep track of the worm.
Lynn watched this group of worms eat for a while, and ended up eating all the organs except for the muscles left. Finally, these worms bite a hole in the esophagus, and they all drilled into the purgatory worm Tail.
Then they all drilled out of the tail hole and into the mud under the purgatory worm.
These small worms eat too much at a time, resulting in insufficient cystic solution, which allows Lin ’s collector to successfully penetrate the worm ’s parasite before being dissolved.
Now these worms are walking under the ground and heading towards the territory of the Inca Swarm.
Lin happened to plan to go over there.
But before that, Lin needed to restore the army, and there were many troops left in the Inca Swarm. This is a normal situation. If you use your full strength at the beginning, you will have no way out afterwards.
Lin collected all the nutrients of the corpses and gave them to several mobile bases that she had been carrying to produce troops. Lin didn't need to restore as many troops as before the war, just a part of it.
For the study of purgatory worms, because the small worms eat them up, Lin can only study some muscle structures, but other organs and how they synthesize high-temperature liquids like lava are not known.
Lin found that the carapace synthesis of the Purgatory Worm was also a bit troublesome. Except for the two corpses, other common organisms would not produce this kind of shell, which means that Lin needs to go to some special places ... such as volcanoes Looking for it, it is possible to find the material of this shell material, or the creature that can make this shell.
The restoration of the army took about two days and nights. Before that, Lin released a large number of pilots and asked them to detect the infection of nearby home trees.
Time ... slowly passed.
Lin found that the quality of the home trees was different, many of them were ulcerated by fungi, and some were immune. This phenomenon is very strange. Lin investigated dozens of nearby home trees and found good and bad homes. The trees actually account for 50% of each, and some home trees that are close to each other will have a good one and a bad one.
Usually a plant is injured, it will send odor information to tell similar plants nearby to pay attention to threats, but the home tree does not seem to be like this.
In addition, ferns do not seem to be infected, so far they have not been found to be corroded by fungi.
But even if only 50%, if all the infected home trees are broken ... this underground world will collapse.
Lin must quickly find a solution.
In addition, during this period, the Inca swarms have been building their rock nests. They seem to have forgotten the war. Some of these rocks have been built very large. The maximum length exceeds 100 meters, and the width is about At 30 meters, Lin found that the black bees made these things very well. They removed the sand and other impurities in the rocks, and then combined the spider silk with mucus. This made the rocks extremely strong and would not collapse, but no Any nest is placed upright on the ground, and each one is placed horizontally on the ground, like huge logs placed on the ground. For this reason, they have removed large areas of woodland.
Aztec insects also make the same nests in the desert above, but they are relatively poorly built, not at the level of the Inca swarm, and they are very small, the largest is not more than ten meters, but at least they can combine rocks. And will not crash.
Lynn asked about headworms. Although headworms have no relevant memories, they also feel like they want to create rock-like nests.
"Fragmental genetic memory is not clear, but it is very useful. The ancestor must have made it, and I also need to make it."
Although Brain Worm said so, it didn't make it, because its current rock mountain is like that. At the same time, Brain Worm also said: "The rock nest, it is estimated that it is related to the" month ", Lin, must pay attention."
Lin did notice that "Moon" was just bigger than the other stars before, but now it is getting bigger and bigger, just like getting closer to here ... Speaking of it, how far is the moon from here and how big is it?
There are really many puzzles about the sky, but this is what it means to look forward to.
Now the little worms have almost returned to the territory under the desert of the Inca Swarm and stopped at one location.
Lin's army is about to start.
But before that, Lin has to do one last thing ... record.
This war with the Inca Swarm is really interesting, and it is unprecedented, evenly matched battles, fierce battles between huge and rich biological arms, Lin wants to record all this, using the head worm method .
Lin found some solid and huge rocks, and let predators and bombarders use blade claws to cooperate with the small explosive bombs, depicting each battle scene on it ... Every arm of the Inca swarm, explosive armor , Executioner, Earth Ripper, Sandblaster and Inferno Worm.
Although she can remember Lin without portraying it, she always finds it more interesting. After the painting, Lin buried these stones and let them be kept here forever as a witness of history.
It doesn't seem to make much sense ...
After finishing the painting, Lin ’s army began to move towards the territory of the Inca Swarm. On the way, Lin would check every home tree, and also observe the number of fungi in the air,
Lynn thinks that this kind of fungus can also be used by herself.
During the march, Lin found that the trees around her home were similar. Basically, one was infected, and the other was not infected. It felt very weird. Why is it so average?Are they two kinds of trees?
It is indeed possible that many different species are developed from the same species. Lin believes that as long as they cannot reach a breeding relationship with each other, they can be regarded as two kinds of creatures.
The Inca worms were supposed to be inside these home trees, but now they have all gathered to the place where the rocks were made. The nests in these home trees are put there as if they were discarded.
Soon, Lin reached the location of the worm.
The worms did not go far underground, only about fifty kilometers away from the battlefield. Lynn could know by the collector who was parasitic inside a worm that they were all in a home tree.
Maybe the worm can be broken down to understand the worm.
Lin let a large number of predators surround the tree and searched for any entrances in the tree. Soon they found some caves that could lead into the tree. After entering, Lin found that there was only a large space, The tree is also empty.
The worms are hiding directly under this home tree, probably in the soil.
The worms seem to like and are suitable for drilling holes, so Lin also created a worm arm for ground drilling. Its length is three meters, and the head is made of a spiral shell material, which can quickly excavate the tunnel with a rotation.
Lin used this kind of earth drill to start digging at the inner bottom of his home tree. It quickly dug out a passage. After digging for about ten meters, Lin ’s earth drill found an empty cave area below, here It is more than thirty meters wide and is full of thick root systems of home trees. Some glowing beetles crawl around the root systems, which provide lighting for them.
Lin saw that the worms had gathered here before, because the earth-burrowers had drilled from the top of the hole, and they didn't notice Lin's appearance.
But what are they ... doing?
These little worms are spitting out some gray liquids. These liquids will harden quickly when they are spit on the ground. They spit out liquids as if they are combining them into a certain shape.