4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

The more you know, the more questions you have.

This is a very interesting phrase in her thoughts, and Lin also believes in this theory.

Lin looked at a series of statues that seemed to illustrate the evolutionary history of the Inca swarm. It described a worm that slowly evolved into a parasite, then invaded the brains of other creatures, causing the creature to produce various mutations. Some abnormal creatures died, but some creatures that produced favorable mutations survived. The worms used it to continue to hunt for themselves and obtain nutrients. Eventually these worms lived together and completely merged with the parasitic mutant host. , Then they form a brand new species.

Although this evolutionary method is wonderful, it is not a totally impossible feeling.

Lin has seen the impact of many parasitic organisms on the host. When they are squeezed in, they do sometimes damage the host ’s cell division mechanism, resulting in an extra long limb or something, or some long-term effects. Immune cells attack the parasites and even change the structure of the body, which will have a great impact on the future evolution of the organism.

It can be said that the present organism has this appearance, and it has a great relationship with parasites and viruses.

However, the Inca swarms are more powerful, and they directly affect the brains of the creatures. Although the statues cannot be displayed, Lynn thinks they may also release some information to interfere with the growth of the creatures and make the cell division of the creatures produce strange situations.

If a useless, abnormal mutation occurs, the host will die, and the worm will find the next target, produce a useful mutation, and the worm will always use the host.

There may be tens of thousands of parasitic ones, and only one will produce useful mutations, but this is obviously not a problem.

In addition, the worm will control the activity of the host through the brain and so on.

The worm at this time is very similar to Lin's brain reader, but the question is how does the worm have these abilities?The statue describing the evolution of the worm is actually not complete. It only describes the morphology of the worm growing step by step, but it does not describe how it understands how to parasitize the brain, as if suddenly it knows how to control the brain ...

Although Lin does not take long to make a brain reader, the evolution of other creatures is not the same as Lin. The most important thing for them is the opportunity.

An accidental opportunity determines what changes will happen to the creature, instead of thinking about it just like Lynn.

How did this worm produce this opportunity for parasitic entry into the brain?Perhaps they were originally ordinary parasites, and they approached the brain by accident. In short, this part of the Inca swarm was not fully studied.

The next route is relatively clear. The worm should be able to distinguish which other creatures are parasitized by the same kind, and then they gather together to live and develop into a complete division of living creatures. Because they are different from the beginning, this process is more than usual. Divisional creatures are faster.

In addition, Lin also found some other statues. They have described the process of some armies of the Inca swarm. Basically, these ordinary creatures have been transformed by parasitic worms.

It seems that the soldiers of the Inca worm colony were obtained through parasitism from the beginning, but after that, they became the direct extraction of target cell information with fat insects and then produced.

'Fat bugs' are not parasitic arms, but the original worms changed, but there is no detailed process. The statues of the Inca swarm only describe their morphological changes slowly, but since the original It is not surprising that the parasitic ability and influence ability are so strong.

This is interesting and a very special way of evolution, but how did the Inca swarm discover its own evolutionary history?Lin believes that their brains began to develop in a later period, which means that the Inca swarm may find their own history by excavating fossils and so on.

Although fossils cannot be so detailed, they also help extract cell information to help them study their own evolutionary history.

But the Inca Swarm has another problem.

They have no 'headworm'.

Although they have a division of labor, they do not symbolize the arms that generally exist in the brain. Each combat and non-combat type of the Inca swarm has a certain degree of thinking ability. They do not allow a specific arm to specialize to a great brain. Speaking of individual arms, their intelligence is much worse than that of the Aztec worm Montezuma, but as a whole, their intelligence is even higher than that of the Maya group of head worms.

This is a peculiar phenomenon, and although they have brains between the arms, they can cooperate perfectly. They do not need anything like command, and they can also pass information to each other.

And they are obviously rich in thoughts, like to record their research, and also make various statues.

At the time of the war, the ideas they showed were also very interesting. Just like now, Lin did n’t know why they ran into the tunnel in this huge pit, or why they wanted to show them to Lin.

Generally speaking, one should not show one's own affairs to hostile creatures, as this will only give opponents a way to defeat themselves.

If it is Lin, all the research records will be destroyed before the enemy comes in, and the other party will not be given any information.

However, Lin doubts whether the Inca swarm has come here. Almost all the Inca swarms have no ability to live underwater. Their breathing structure cannot live underwater. It is estimated that they have been away from the water for a long time, so they are catching fish It will make nets made of silk thread for fishing instead of catching directly.

'Guru ...'

Lin heard a sound, and a large creature was swimming.

There are some creatures here, but they are all snails and small trilobites.

The sounder made a small sound. The detection power of the sound at the bottom of the water was much stronger than that of land. Lin instantly learned the shape of this creature.

This is ... a creature that Lynn knew?And actually one of the arms of the Inca Swarm.

This is a shadow monster.

According to the observation of the statue, the shadow monster comes from a fish. They are indeed the few species with underwater life in the Inca swarm.

Lin only found a shadow monster. Do they think that this alone can defeat Lin's hundreds of sound detectives?

And the shadow monster didn't hide, but swam directly to the scouts.

It seems that it has no intention of attacking?

"Ga ..."

Just when Lin was puzzled, the Shadow Monster suddenly made a sound, and this time Lin actually found out that they used the head worm vocabulary.

It seems to have just been learned, the pronunciation is rather weird and intermittent, but Lin still understands clearly.

The shadow monster's words are: "We, leave."