Chapter 753: Space
After throwing the debris into the crusher machine, Leon walked out of the alchemy workshop.
The automated pet breeding box is still as peaceful as ever, the sun is warm, and the trees are shady.
Swarms fly over the canopy, feeding on the sap,
Brainworms and workers toiled in the cultivated fields, sowing seeds, spraying water, harvesting ripe potions, and roughing them in makeshift workshops next to the fields.
It felt a little cramped.
Li Ang glanced at the terrarium, his brow furrowed slightly.
At present, the reproduction of insect colonies mainly depends on the queen bee and the hive.
At the beginning, the bee colony that Li Ang bought on the online shopping platform was just the most ordinary Chinese bees.
After hundreds of iterations, the bee colony has completely lost its original appearance, no longer limited to Hymenoptera, winged subclasses, insects, and even some have been out of the category of arthropods.
This is also something that can't be helped.
Although insects such as the Palawan giant stag beetle and the halberd giant beetle insect are invincible in the same size of creatures, they have evolved their combat power to the extreme,
But the limitations of arthropods are still too great.
Chitin exoskeleton, which limits the size of the body and has to molt and reskin every once in a while,
The open-tube circulatory system determines the slow transport efficiency of nutrients and metabolites.
In addition, there are inefficient respiratory systems and locomotor systems, which all determine that the size of insects cannot be enlarged at will.
If the swarm is to be able to adapt to the battle between the transcendents, it must be transformed.
Evolve the open-tube circulatory system into a closed system, so that blood always flows in the circuit formed by the blood vessels and the heart, and the circulation is more efficient and faster.
Preserve the chitin exoskeleton and divide it into components so that it can be shed periodically without affecting immediate combat power,
At the junction of the chitin exoskeleton, more valves are opened,
It is connected to the closed-tube circulatory system to improve breathing efficiency.
Evolved a skeletal system, with light bones growing in the arthropods, increasing muscle density, and having a spine,
And according to the spine,
Transforming the concentrated chain nervous system of arthropods into a tubular central nervous system,
to increase nerve signaling velocity.
(The concentrated chain nervous system of insects, inherited from the cordial nervous system of annelids, is more primitive and inefficient, and if there is a large volume of insects, then its reaction speed will be very slow and slow)
After such a set of transformations, there have been many "four dislike" species in the bee colony.
Some Scout Bees are more like birds with a layer of chitin armor than insects.
The swarm still retains the previous three classes,
Queen bee, soldier peak, worker bee.
The queen bee is nearly one meter long, lives above the canopy, and lays thousands of eggs every day.
These eggs will be taken by the worker bees to the southeast corner of the automated pet terrium and placed around the Abyss Magic Mirror.
Let the newborn eggs receive the radiation of the Abyss Magic Mirror - The Magic Mirror has the special effect of [Compensatory Alienation], which can mutate the surrounding living creatures.
Among the thousands of eggs, about 900 will die directly due to excessive mutation.
Only a hundred of them hatched properly,
These 100 newborn larvae will be brought into the simple hive next to the worker bees to feed and raise to observe the mutation state.
After a period of time, the mutation is basically stable, and the surviving larvae will be examined by Leon or brain worms.
If the variant trait is favorable, the larvae are kept for further observation.
If the mutation trait has no potential, it will be cultivated into ordinary worker bees, or directly destroyed and recycled, saving biomass and saving space inside the vivarium.
And the same goes for the biter,
Under the influence of Leon and the Abyss Magic Mirror, they got rid of the limitations of the phylum Neomorpha, and had a stronger locomotor system, circulatory system, and respiratory system.
Originally, the new worm was able to rely on division for asexual reproduction, two in one life, two in three,
But with advanced evolutionary traits such as bones, asexual reproduction is somewhat less applicable.
In the end, Leon decided to use the [Compensatory Alienation] function of the Abyss Magic Mirror to evolve an unconscious building-type swarm organ.
This organ is called the swarm brood,
It looks like a semi-open biofactory,
There are assembly lines and workers who do the work.
The nest retains the ability of the newworm to divide and reproduce, and is able to produce egg-like eggs on a regular basis.
A portion of the egg-shaped eggs will be placed next to the Abyss Mirror by the Worker Worm along with the bee eggs, and will be irradiated.
The other part will be debugged by the brain worm - the brain worm can use the [Synthetic Beast Crafting Table] in the alchemy workshop to adjust the gene sequence of the worm eggs according to the genetic information of other organisms collected by the worker worms.
The newborn larvae begin with the characteristics of other species of organisms.
It's kind of like an alien, and a gene stealer.
However, in this case, there is not enough space.
The volume of the automated pet breeding box is 1000m*1000m*1000m,
In addition to the water and soil necessary for a complete ecology,
It is also necessary to free up a lot of space to build temples, cultivate farmland, and plant trees.
Thanks to the miraculous function of the terrarium to create a livable environment, the growth of trees is largely free from the limitations of light and nutrients.
Leon consumed a lot of divine power and cultivated many giant trees one hundred meters or even more than two hundred meters high in the terrarium for the insect swarm to inhabit.
Rao is like this, the insect swarm imported by Tianding every day is still continuously compressing the remaining space in the automated pet breeding box.
It won't work like this, it seems that it is necessary to transfer some of the swarms out...