The corpse of the giant was soon overwhelmed by the black crushing insects.

Within a few seconds, the insects were scrambling to eat the prey, and there was not even a single bone left.

They soon scattered again, and finally burrowed into the burrow.

The breeze blew and scattered the weeds.

All that remained was bloodstains soaked in the soil, and countless horrific circular craters.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Guo Sen really couldn't understand what had just happened.

It only took a short time for a worm with intelligence to kill and prey on a huge giant.

And the extremely bizarre behavior that happened to them also fascinated Guo Sen.

Why are they so comfortable and so skilled at executing the hunt as a predetermined program?

Why did the worm stand still again when it appeared and devoured its food?

Guo Sen rummaged in the soil.

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

For him, rummaging through the soil and rocks is much simpler than in the woods and grasslands, or even in the ocean.

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

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

And the protagonist just now is motionless in this large hole of thousands of square meters that seems to have been dug out, just like just now.

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

At this point, it was shaking and not knowing what it was doing.

If you look closely, from the disgusting creature's lower abdomen, a steady stream of transparent spherical objects are being produced.

Did you lay eggs?

The orbs were undoubtedly eggs, just like the ones it carried on its back.

The eggs piled up in layers, gradually covering the pit.

Is this big worm a female worm?

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

At this time, the rest of the insects were still motionless as if they had been immobilized.

It's weird.

After the mother worm finished laying her eggs, she continued to lie on it, and the pair of long antennae kept shaking, and at the same time, the antennae of the rest of the small insects were also shaking.

Then, the little insects moved around the walls of the burrow, using their well-developed mouthparts to arch the soil, in a uniform manner, like machines.

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

He'd just looked at all the subterranean of the continent again.

In addition to this, there are a few places that have almost the same group of bugs as here.

Their common feature is that they all have a huge bug as the mother, and the rest of the small worms seem to be completely obedient to the mother, and there are also situations where they do not move at all as just now.

But why is that?

Guo Sen observed carefully.

He noticed that after each of the little insects had dug a hole to accommodate them, they suddenly stopped moving, and the tentacles on the mother's side kept swinging.

Ay? Could it be ......

The insects crawled out of the hole, their tentacles quivering, and then, as the mother changed the position of their antennae again, they began to spread the excavated earth around the hole......

I see.

Does the mother command the worm through her antennae?

But what about the actions that were made almost at the same time?

Wait.

Guo Sen suddenly remembered a noun.

Cluster awareness.

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

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

If you put it in this way, you can understand all kinds of strange and bizarre behaviors of these bugs.

It seems that it suddenly does not move, and the division of labor runs like a machine, attacking, harassing and defending, and even standing in two neat columns, which is a "cluster consciousness".

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

Guo Sen felt that after the friction of the tentacles, it would definitely convey some special biological information, so that the mother worm could completely control the insects, so that they could receive the cluster consciousness and do things similar to those just now.

However, this is only a more likely hypothesis.

Among the five caves where strange insects exist on this land, there are a total of five female worms that look almost the same, but the total number of insects in all the caves is less than five hundred.

This seems to be a paradox with the number of eggs just laid by the mother, and the number of eggs on the back that are about to hatch.

Why is there so little of it?

Time passed slowly, and neither the mother nor the baby worms moved again, as if they were asleep.

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

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

As it approached the hole, the thing suddenly slowed down, and even the amplitude of its movements was greatly reduced, and the sound of digging in the earth became extremely slight.

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

At first, he thought it was a bug, but when he looked closely, he saw that the creature covered in scales had only four legs and a tail, and was less than two meters long.

Their front and rear limbs are unusually thick, divided into five claws, and the front fingers are 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 pretty much tailor-made for digging.

The front paws only need to scrape lightly to drop the seemingly tough soil, and the hind paws quickly swing and then move the scraped soil to the back, and finally sweep the dirt to both sides of the cave wall with its slender tail.

Their heads were huge, almost a quarter of their bodies, with long faces like cones, and small black noses with damp openings and closures in front of their elongated eyes.

Guo Sen always felt that this thing was very similar to a creature on the earth, the pangolin.

But aren't pangolins that huge, and are their heads that big?

Guo Sen felt that it was more appropriate to call them "big-headed monsters".

What are they doing here?

Guo Sen watched them and their slight movements remove the last layer of soil that was blocked between them and the insects, but they didn't come out immediately, and their pointed noses sniffed and sniffed.

He looked at all the places where the holes were pointing, and suddenly he saw that they were all gathered on the side of the mother!

Is their purpose ......