Chapter Eighty-Four: Fossils

While Lin observes the situation in the cave of the homestead tree, she also communicates with the Guò Displayer to show these strange bugs to the head bugs.

The head worm also said that he had not seen these bugs, and there was really little information about the Inca swarm, and Lin suspected that they had been in this deep underground for a long time, and they didn't seem to have expanded much.

While watching these wonderful insects, the shapeshifter climbed higher and higher in the tree hole, at this time, a huge insect suddenly appeared in Lyn's field of vision, its huge body blocked the entire cave with a diameter of more than ten meters, Lin can only see its head now, the mouth of this giant insect has a pair of huge long jaws more than six meters long, the inside is full of serrations, Lin was only slightly surprised when she saw this bug, but the head worm who was also looking at the display was extremely surprised.

"Lynn, Earthsplitter, the class of the clan, huge, powerful, but why ......"

Although the voice of the head worm was calm, it could not hide its surprise.

Earthbreaker? Lin remembered that the head worm said that the Mayan tribe had many types of troops, and the 'Earth Splitter' was the most powerful of them, and it was said that it could produce deep sand buses from the ground, and was also responsible for digging mountains and other work in peacetime, representing the ultimate evolution of the Mayan race.

But why did this ultimate evolution appear here in the Inca swarm? According to the Brain Worm, except for the infantry and a few queens, all the other units were flooded with lava and lost all contact, making it impossible for them to remain alive.

Lynn wanted to study the Earthsplitter, but she didn't know where to start, and Lynn couldn't prove which race it belonged to. The head worm also has to come into contact with the class. in order to have control over a class. If this Earth Splitter originally belonged to other head worms, then it was indeed uncontrollable.

Because the passage ahead was blocked by the Earthbreaker, Lynn's shapeshifter couldn't move on, and although it was possible to get through the gap under the Earthbreaker's body, it might be dangerous, so it was better to stay here and observe.

Lynn then asked the shapeshifter to return and follow the passage to see some of the other rooms. Lin found that most of the insects in this homestead tree were of various shapes, they did not do any work, just stayed there and waited to be fed, although they were numerous and almost all of them were large, but because they were almost inactive, they consumed very little.

Most of these bugs have unknown effects, and many species of bugs have fluid of different colors in their abdomen, while some have obvious effects. With fangs and claws, it appears for battle.

Although Lynn has not seen them fight. What the Inca swarm is supposed to be preparing for is unknown at this time......

The shapeshifter stayed in there because the smell was well hidden, and it never went undetected, but Lynn was bored just looking at a bunch of immobile bugs, so Lin planned to have the Brain Hunter outside fly to another other home tree to see if there were any other Inca swarms living in the trees.

As the Brain Hunter walked around the homestead, Lynn suddenly noticed a huge crater in the back of the homestead.

This pit is quite similar to the desert one on the ground, and there are also layers of steps inside, but it is much smaller than the desert one, this one is only about 50 meters in diameter, and many black bees of the Inca swarm go back and forth on the stairs, transporting food, carrying stones, and many gathered at the bottom of the pit, as if digging something.

What are they doing?

The Brain Hunter slowly approached the pit and flew into it, and the black bee going back and forth on the stairs ignored the Brain Hunter, which made Lynn quickly approach the bottom of the pit.

Lynn noticed that the black bees were digging incessantly, and they were mixed with a kind of bug with a swollen abdomen, about the same size as the black bee, about ten centimeters, and Lynn noticed that the worm would spit out some green slime on the hard stone, and then the black bee would bite the stone open.

It seemed that they were digging with the dissolving solution, and Lynn also saw a group of black bees nearby digging up a large piece that looked like the skeleton of a fish, and the black bees were carefully using their jaws to sweep the sand and dust off the skeleton.

This fish...... Lynn seems to have seen it.

The Brain Hunter lowered his height slightly, and now he was only about ten meters away from the ground, but he still hadn't been discovered, and Lin could see the whole of the fish bone buried in the ground......

This skeleton seems to be the type of dunklefish, this skeleton still retains a sturdy head armor, but it does not have the sharp tooth-like structure of the dunkle fish, and the body size is only more than one meter, which may be an evolutionary transitional species.

To put it this way...... Was this once an ocean? Lynn knew that the skeletons of some dead creatures would not be digested by the fungi and would be preserved and would slowly be hidden under the bottom of the ocean by the sediment, so the Inca swarm could dig up the bones here.

This one seems to be called a fossil.

But what's the point of digging up these bones? It can't be eaten, right?

The black bees carefully swept away the dust around the skeleton, and slowly dug out the entire skeleton, the skeleton was very intact, except for some cracks in the ribs, there was not a single one, and then the black bees carried these ribs up the stairs one by one, and brought them out of the hole.

Lynn wondered where they were going to get the bones and what they were for. Lynn now also found that they have dug up a variety of sea skeletons and carapaces, among which snails and shellfish, ammonites and so on, the carapaces of these creatures are the easiest to keep, but the Inca swarms seem to ignore snails and shellfish, in addition, they will also dig up many trilobites, as well as marine arthropods, starfish, etc., which they will move out.

There was a small swarm of black bees digging very deep, and Lynn found it there, and they dug up creatures that Lynn had seen before...... Phylliformes.

The foliomorphs, which seem to be the multicellular creatures that Lynn saw for the second time, were in fact completely extinct not long after Lynn fell asleep, they did not evolve into any creatures, and disappeared into the sea forever.

The little leaf worm was embedded in the rock, and the black bee ignored it, but continued to dig, and Lynn looked around, it seemed that these black bees were most interested in fish, followed by trilobites, and other shells and the like were thrown aside in large numbers, and Lynn asked the Brain Hunter to follow a group of black bees who were carrying fish skeletons to see where they were moving the bones.

In this Homestead tree, Lynn's shapeshifters don't see any place to place the fishbones, and Lynn thinks they should be moved to other Homestead trees.

The black bees carried the bones up the stairs, and it was really strange for them to make this kind of staircase structure, and Lynn thought that they might as well make a vertical burrow, and make some potholes or protrusions in the walls of the holes, so that they could climb up and down quickly.

After the black bees came out of the pit, Lin saw that they were not walking towards the homehouse tree next to the pit, but towards the direction of the jungle, and the destination seemed to be another homeyard tree more than two hundred meters away.

The Brain Hunter also followed the small group of insects, and the moment they entered the jungle, two large beetles with a body of more than three meters suddenly emerged from the trees on both sides of the surrounding area, and they followed the black bee and walked towards the depths of the jungle.

The Inca swarm carried bones through the jungle, and the two beetles seemed to act as guards, and when a strange sound approached in the nearby jungle, they let out a low roar to scare off enemies.

Maybe it's because the fern is shorter, and Lynn has found far fewer creatures than the Twisted Jungle, but she's still abundant, and there are quite a few creatures that Lynn has never seen before.

On the way to follow the black bees, Lin also saw a lot of digging holes, some seemed to have just been excavated, quite shallow, only more than a meter deep, and some were dug to a depth of tens of meters, and their role was unique, that is, to dig out the skeletons or carapaces of various creatures and move them back.

It's an incomprehensible act, those skeletons and carapace can't have any rare substances mixed in with them, right?

The group of black bees carrying the skeletons reached the bottom of another homestead tree, and Lynn found that there were piles of various skeletons under the tree, and the black bees simply threw the skeletons next to the pile of bones and left.

What are they doing with their bones piled up here?

Lin let the Brain Hunter fly closer, and Lin saw a small flying creature flying around on the skeleton, it was only a centimeter long, quite small, its mouth was as sharp as a needle, and it pierced its mouth into the gap in the bone as if it were sucking something.

The skeleton of a normal endoskeletal creature also has organs that produce various cells, mainly blood cells and immune cells, and Lynn doesn't think that the organs in the fossils are still alive, but they do look like they are sucking.

Are the Inca swarms using their skeletons to raise these little flying insects? Or is it ......

After the little flying insects were absorbed, their abdomen would swell to more than ten times their original size, and even then they still flew, and with a huge belly, they flew towards the home tree, and the brain hunter followed them, and Lin saw that these little flying insects were all burrowed into a small hole in the bark.

The hole was too small for the Brain Hunter to enter, so Lin made a flying eyeball the size of the little flying insect and drilled through the small hole in the bark......

The eyeball advanced about five meters, and found that the space around it instantly became wider, this seemed to be a large room, Lin saw at first glance on the floor of the room, some fat worm-type creatures were constantly moving, and those small flying insects that had sucked bones automatically flew in front of these fat insects, chewed and swallowed them into the belly of the fat insects.

This is......

Lin suddenly discovered that some of these fat worms were transparent, and there were actually some live fish swimming in the fat worm's body! (To be continued......)

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