Chapter 55: The Mystery of the Population
Leviathan left the head worm and flew alone to the far, twisted depths of the jungle, without the little creature of flesh, and Lynn developed a feeling called 'unaccustomed'.
Therefore, Leviathan flew back after that, leaving a manifester in the population of the head bug, and Lin intended to maintain an exchange of information with the head worm, so that Lin felt that the discovery of new species, the study of new environments, etc., would be helpful, because it could be discussed with the head worm.
Lin also observes how the head worm expands, the head worm has been directing the expansion of the colony recently, it seems to be planning to build more rocky mountains nearby, and it has used its powerful technology to hunt a lot of prey, so that the colony has begun to grow rapidly.
The Brain Bug has a peculiar way of commanding swarms, using a sharp voice or touching the tentacles of the infantry, and it only needs to do this once to command the infantry.
Lynn once tried to disassemble an infantryman who had died while being a hunter, and found that the infantryman's brains were quite peculiar, their brains were quite small, completely disproportionate to their bodies, and their shapes and cell distribution were strange, more like a ......
'Receiver'.
Yes, the infantry can't think and act on their own, they all rely on this brain-like organ to receive the signals of the head worm, so if there is no brain worm, the infantry is not unable to move, but will only carry out some basic activities, such as eating or something, and will not hunt, in this case, their colony will quickly perish.
The queen may have something special in that it will spawn a new head bug without a head bug.
Lynn was curious about how they evolved this form, and this form of creature was really peculiar, and it wasn't supposed to be an Aztec. Inca swarms and so on have this form?
Not necessarily. For example, the Chibucha worm does not have.
The head worm will inherit the knowledge of the previous generation of the head worm. But the inheritance is not complete, only some basics, more knowledge needs to be learned by themselves, it seems that in this generation, Mketu began to use the method of 'drawing' to inherit the newborn brain worm.
The brainworms have a long lifespan, and when Lynn interrogates them, she discovers that their cells don't seem to have the 'timed death' that is common in living things.
In addition, Lynn discovers that reptiles don't 'die at regular intervals'. If given the opportunity, they will grow indefinitely until they are killed by other creatures.
Timed death, which can also be said to be the exhaustion of life, is actually a special method developed by cells in order to give a place to the newborn offspring, and the population is not too large.
The head worm produces one every 30 years, and the new head worm will separate with a part of the population, and they will continue to grow on this basis, if one of the head worms of the colony dies. Nearby head bugs will merge with that colony.
The rich vocabulary possessed by the head worm is not used to control the infantry, but to communicate with other head worms.
This is the way of life of the 'Mayan swarm'.
But. Something seems to have happened recently, the Mayan swarm is almost extinct, and the head worms are almost dead, leaving only 'Maya' and 'Mketu'.
The Heads Bugs described the catastrophe they encountered, which was said to be a terrible event, when a burning wave washed over the entire jungle and destroyed countless tribes, and the Heads Bugs fled to the location of the home tree to settle down, and then encountered another earthquake, and the Heads Bugs were taken away by the Chibuta Bugs.
Lynn thought it might be a catastrophe it had never seen before, and the Leviathan was now heading in that direction.
It's been a long time, and Lynn doesn't know if she can still see the traces of the disaster, but if it's a disaster that can destroy a large area of Miè, it must be spectacular.
Lynn now has to study not only biology, but also disasters, but disasters don't seem to be so easy to come across.
The twisted jungle seemed to stretch and spread seemingly endlessly, and after three days and nights of Leviathan flying through the endless forest, Lynn finally saw something anomalous.
The Leviathan flew slightly above the canopy, flying so low to observe the creatures of the jungle, but in this area, the extension of the jungle was abruptly interrupted.
Leviathan flew over a special area, and the whole area was filled with a thick fog, which was not a collection of water vapor, but some other kinds of gases that were intense, some of which contained toxic ingredients.
As Leviathan lowered his flight, Lynn found that the area looked like it had been burned by flames, with charred ground and rocks everywhere, as well as many blackened, twisted tree trunks.
In this kind of place, there were still plants growing, and Lynn found that some plants that she had never seen appeared in these charred rocks, they were like sharp green pinnacles, about fifty centimeters to a meter high, and they were covered with down, and there were not many of them, except for a few that occasionally grew on the rocks.
There are some fast arthropods that are only ten centimeters long, they are fast, and they hide in the cracks of the rocks, and Lynn thinks they resemble trilobites, and presumably feed on the plants here.
Leviathan flew slowly in this foggy place, because the fog was thick, and the visibility was only about ten meters, this may be the original settlement of the head insect colony, because the ground was full of twisted tree remains, what kind of disaster did this place suffer? Flames?
Lin thinks that the flames can't burn the kind of rocky mountains of the Zerg people.
So what is it......
Suddenly, Lin noticed a huge crater on the ground in front of her, filled with black muddy water, which kept tumbling and bursting a lot of bubbles, and Lin could feel that the heat of the water was quite high.
And the phenomenon of them tumbling seems to have one word to describe it: 'boiling'.
Leviathan stretched out his tentacle and lightly touched the surface of the water, the hot sensation from above made Lin immediately withdraw his tentacles, the temperature of this water is indeed quite high, and there may be quite a lot of strange substances mixed in it, after the bubbles floating in the water burst, Lin can smell that a large amount of toxic gas is floating in the air.
Does the destruction of the colony of the head worm have anything to do with these waters?
But......
But there is still life here. The trilobite-like arthropods that Lin had seen before were swimming in this hot water, and they didn't seem to be harmed at all, not afraid of the heat, and not afraid of poisonous gas.
Looks like we'll have to grab one and break it down.
But what makes this environment possible? Even hot water and poisonous gas won't burn the woods, right?
Suddenly, a fresh breeze blew around, and Lynn noticed that the fog was slowly beginning to lift.
As her vision widened, Lynn saw a landscape she had never seen before...... (To be continued.) )
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