4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
466 Questions about transformation
"Those things ... what are they?"
The emerald dragons gathered at the edge of the jungle and looked at the huge dark shadows in the sky ... they are now confused, confused, and ... fearful.
The shadow is made up of countless small creatures, those creatures look very familiar.
"Those are standing scorpions? How could ..." Susumi was looking at the sky at this time. This situation was unbelievable to him. Why did this group of standing scorpions suddenly fly?
In fact, not only Su Sumi, Lin was also a little surprised by the flying scorpion.
The 'eggs' that Susumi found before were not eggs, but something like pupae. The scorpion deformed like an arthropod like a beetle. They did not grow new organs and structures directly from the body. Instead, you need to make a shell to wrap yourself, and then dissolve yourself into a liquid inside to reorganize the entire body.
This is an extremely complicated way. Every cell is rearranged to create a completely different organism, so many larvae and adults are completely different.
Standing scorpions look very close to the previous form, but their bodies have undergone major changes. In order to be able to fly, they first have to change to a lighter porous carapace, and then have to adapt their body shape to aerodynamics, and then come It is a change of internal organs, but it is relatively easy to add wings.
However, one doubt is that the Yat group was a sea creature before, and they should not have flying types. But the wings of the standing scorpion are not the membrane wings of the common arthropods, but the shape of the wings of the pterosaurs. , Lin speculates that perhaps the Att ethnic group has had such arms before, and their appearance is suitable for flying out of the sea to sneak attack on surface creatures.
But why is the Scorpion deformed now?After Susumi burned most of the fire with fire, it changed?If they can fly at the beginning, the Emerald Dragon has long been defeated. Was the Scorpion originally possessed this ability to transform, or was it only later?This is also a mystery ... Lin thinks they are similar to headworms, and it may take a certain time for the colony to produce new troops ... but this area needs further research.
Li Scorpion made this deformation decision as if it were a "gambling" thing, because Li Scorpion is not sure whether the Emerald Dragon will destroy the egg. Although they have odor protection, the change time is too long, it is difficult to say anything. , But now they are indeed gambling to win.
Lin was very interested in their various questions and asked a standing scorpion to ask.
Thinking, Lin's spy left the Emerald Dragon's camp and walked to the city of standing scorpions.
The Emerald Dragons are still looking at the flying scorpions in the air in surprise.
"I didn't expect the eggs to become like this, but their number seemed to be small, king." Mukla stood beside Susumi, and he had been carefully observing this group of standing scorpions. Although they flew up and down, the actual number Not as many eggs as they found in the city.
"I have noticed." Susumi said: "Maybe some eggs have not hatched successfully, no matter how they become like this, even if they can fly, it is difficult to resist our troops with such a small amount ... bow preparation!"
Under Susumi's order, the surrounding emerald dragons reacted, and they took their bows and arrows and aimed at the flying scorpions in the air. At this time, the flying scorpions hovered in the air and kept flying, but there was no movement.
Mukla noticed this phenomenon and said: "It's strange, Wang, they haven't attacked."
"Then let's attack first, let go of arrows!"
'Wow!'A large number of arrows suddenly rushed into the sky, but before losing contact with the flying scorpion, they all lost their power and fell from the air to the ground ...
Fei Li Scorpion still did not attack, but hovered in the air, as if waiting for something.
"Is the range not enough?" Su Sumi looked at this situation. It didn't know how to do it for a while. The bow and arrow range used by the Emerald Dragon is about more than one hundred meters.
Now Susumi feels a little anxious, but it is impossible for Yalong to attack the standing scorpion. Even if Yalong will not be bitten, the emerald dragon riding on it is also vulnerable to the siege of standing scorpion.
The previous giant bows were also damaged in the battle, and now Susumi's only way is to ... make them again.
The manufacturing method of the giant bow is more complicated. It needs to find suitable wood, and then it needs to be cut and other kinds of work to make it. So Susumi did not bring too much, but another reason is that it is not convenient to transport.
But Susumi has now found a way to make another giant bow. His eyes are on some trees at the edge of the marshland. These trees are called 'swamp woods.' Susumi used sap on these trees before. Burning raid in the night.
But now Susumi thinks of more uses for this tree.
"Mukla, order it to the soldiers!" Susumi said to Mukla, looking at the flying scorpions that were not rushing down the sky. "With those trees, we may be able to hit them ..."
"Tree?" Mukra didn't know much at first, but after listening to Susumi's instructions, it immediately ran away to command the soldiers. Some soldiers followed Mukra's order, and most of the emeralds Dragons still looked at the sky with bows and arrows. As long as they kept watching the standing scorpions, they would not rush down.
Susumi did not know what method would come to mind?Although Lin has basically guessed.
On this side, the eyes are watching Susumi ’s command, while on the other side, Lynn ’s spy is now close to the city of the Scorpion ...
The appearance of this fire-burned city is a bit different now. Most of the pyramids are opened at the top. It is estimated that the group of flying scorpions flew from there.
They have such a powerful transformation ability, it is impossible that they themselves learned during the war. It must be that there were similar arms in the previous Yat group, but why did the scorpion change now?
Lin felt there were more secrets in the pyramid.
Speaking of which, the white skeleton dragon crystal mad dragging the main brain crystal has been on the edge of the plain since these days and nights, it has not yet entered the jungle.
Although there are occasional dinosaurs in the urban plains here, they are basically vegetarians, and there is no threat to the crystal madness. In the jungle, no creatures will let go of a piece of fat.
However, Lin felt that Crystal Madness was not afraid of not entering the jungle. It was purely because the terrain in the jungle made it impossible for him to drag and crystalize.
After so long, Lin found that it was getting more and more anxious and tried to drag it inside, but such a large piece of heavy objects could easily get stuck in the roots or various places.
But it is still working hard, and its perseverance is quite strong. Unfortunately, it wastes its perseverance on this madness. This is also a rare sight.
Lin now entered the city and came to the previous pyramid. The hole in the center of the pyramid was still empty, and there was a split brain that was dug out by the black pepper everywhere.
Moreover, no scorpion has ever been here ...
It seems that although the scorpions buried the split brain and the master brain here, they do not seem to attach great importance to it, otherwise they will not find out the situation for so long ...
No, there is something here.
Lin felt some changes in the surrounding air, and there were some very subtle sounds, it was like ... There are some creatures hiding here.
"Call ... call ..."
Indeed, there is a strange voice echoing ... is there?
At the next moment, the spy picked up a split brain and threw it towards the rear wall. With a snap, the split brain seemed to hit something and was bounced aside.
I saw the wall there swayed, and a creature appeared.
It turns out that this is the ability to change color, so to speak, this is also a variant of the standing scorpion.
Lynn found that the creature was exactly the same as the sickle standing scorpion she had seen before, except for its ability to change color.
It seems that the scorpion has changed not only one flying scorpion, but also other scorpions have changed into other types, but in any case, should not retain the previous species ...
This standing scorpion seemed a little surprised because he was found. It quickly waved its forelegs and rushed over, but Lin took a step back easily and avoided the attack.
The speed of the standing scorpion is not much stronger than before. It seems that it has nothing special except for its ability to change color.
Maybe you can ask this standing scorpion how they achieved transformation.
Seeing Li Scorpion continue to rush over, Lin immediately shouted at it: "You, stop!"
Li Xie heard the 'Emerald Dragon' in front of him speak the language of Li Xie, and stopped suddenly.
Unexpectedly, it really stopped. It should be too strange that the Emerald Dragon said that the scorpion language was spoken, but when Lin planned to continue, the other party first asked Lin, "Why?"
"Why? What do you mean?" Lin said doubtfully.
Scythe standing scorpion said: "Why attack us?"
Lin hadn't thought it would issue such a normal question, and thought it would be as difficult to communicate as the previous one. Thinking, Lin replied: "This is the king's decision."
"King?" Li Scorpion didn't seem to understand the word.
Lin said: "Wang, is the meaning of the leader, everything is decided by Wang, Wang's ideas, other members do not understand."
"If there is no king, the war will stop?"
"Maybe so."
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Next, Lin and Li Xie talked about something. Lin found that Li Xie likes to talk and feels like a very "different" Li Xie. Through communication, Lin also learned some detailed life of Li Xie, and also asked Regarding the problem that they will deform.