Chapter Eighty-Eight: Inca Ecology
The Leviathan dragged the flattened spider back into the breeding chamber and began to decompose the creature that secreted hot body fluids.
In the course of her research, Lynn discovered that the spider had an explosive system similar to that of a silver beetle, which mixes two liquids together and can instantly produce extremely high temperatures, but the composition is somewhat different, so it will not explode.
The moment the spider bites its prey, it injects two liquids into the opponent's body at the same time, allowing it to mix into a high-temperature liquid in the opponent's body, which will not harm itself and can quickly destroy the opponent more effectively than venom.
Why are the body fluids in spiders also hot? That's just because Leviathan squashed the spider's two liquid-making organs, causing the two liquids to mix.
It doesn't feel like a complicated structure, and Lynn might be surprised if she sees it for the first time, but because she already has explosives, she doesn't feel special.
However, Lynn found another organ in the spider's body, the silk sac.
It is something that secretes silk, and many organisms secrete silk, and they first make a liquid, and then this liquid becomes hard when it encounters air, forming silk threads.
Usually Lin doesn't pay much attention to these abilities, there are many creatures that can spin silk, but Lin has only recently noticed that the hardness of each silk thread is different, like the average larva uses silk thread to wrap up and protect itself from internal deformation, this is the most common silk spinning, this kind of silk thread is less strong, and it is easy to pull apart and break.
And the strength of the sticky silk spit out by the 'Starlight Worm' that Lin once encountered in the underground cave is much stronger, and the strength of the silk thread made by the silk sac of this spider is the strongest.
Lynn made some silk thread liquid to form the silk thread test. This kind of spider silk only needs about 5 millimeters in diameter to lift more than 200 tons.
Although I didn't really take that big object. But Lin doesn't think there's anything wrong with calculating such things. After all, the number of jù will not change.
It would be useful if it could make this kind of thread, but Lynn needs cells to break down the components in order to fully understand what it is made of, just like chitin, but the combination may be a little different and will take a long time to fully understand.
Anyway, I found something very interesting. At that time, spiders did not use this silk thread for hunting, and Lin speculated that it might have been used elsewhere, and if she could catch a live one, she would be able to do more real things.
The rest of the night was very quiet, with no second spider or strange sound, until daylight when the hidden lizards and various creatures reappeared, and some large male lizards climbed to the heights. Announce the arrival of day with a loud howl.
Lynn continued to dig caverns in the trees, releasing a large number of flyers. Including the Leviathan itself, set off to explore the surroundings nearby.
Almost the entire area here is rocky, and there are many home trees, but compared to the fern forest, the distribution is relatively sparse, and only one will appear in one to two kilometers.
There are waterfalls and hot springs in the place where Lin was before approaching, and there are many creatures living there, but as long as you fly some distance away from the home tree, all you see is a dry rock field, there is no water on the rocky ground, so there is no living life, and there are relatively few glowing creatures on the top of the cave here, which makes the whole environment full of darkness and desolation.
The Leviathan flew swiftly through the air, and Lynn was just looking for the spiders.
And when flying about five kilometers away from the homestead tree, Leviathan found a huge rift, the rift was more than seventy meters wide, and there was a non-stop rumbling sound from it, Leviathan flew to the rift and looked down, only to see that the bottom of the rift was covered with a layer of black rock that seemed to be very sticky.
It was solidified lava, and it seemed to be a lava-prone area, but there was nothing strange about it, Lynn had seen it many times, and the rift wall was worth Lin's attention, and on the cliff, there were several huge spiders whose bodies were as bright as lava, which was obviously the giant spider that Lynn encountered in the dark.
Finally, they found that they only hung themselves under the cliff with a seemingly thin silk thread, and the silk thread they had evolved so high strength seemed to be used to support their weight, although Lynn didn't know what they were hanging here for, these spiders curled their legs together, as if they were sleeping.
It feels strange to be hanging and sleeping in the air above the solidified lava...... Coupled with their color, Lynn can give them the name 'Lava Spider'.
Lynn left some flyers here to observe them, there is no need to catch them back to study spiders, pilots can inject penetrators into the spider's joints to study the changes in the body of living spiders, and now Leviathan flies back to the garden tree, Lynn has a lot to prepare.
Lin had confirmed that there were no Inca swarms nearby, so Lin planned to completely transform this barren rocky land, Lin asked the troops to bring some twisted tree species and some creatures from the surface to see if they could live here, and Lin also began to build a base with this homestead tree as the center, and generated troops.
Although the Inca swarm has not done anything until now, Lin always feels that it is necessary to be prepared, and the head worm also has this idea, when it saw the activities of the Inca swarm, it said to Lin with a nervous feeling: "Mysterious, complicated, incomprehensible, Inca swarm, unimaginable, but very powerful, belongs to unknown creatures, communicates with Aztec worms, threat level: extremely high." ”
That's why Lin had to quickly build a base here, and during the construction of the base, Lin also asked the Brain Hunters to conduct research on the Inca swarms, and Lin needed to thoroughly understand them, the swarms that have the ability to resurrect ancient creatures.
The research continued, and after more than thirty days and nights, Lynn also gained some knowledge of the Inca swarm.
The Fern Forest is located directly below the desert, and each of the dozens of home trees here is inhabited by an Inca swarm, and there are many types of Inca swarms, and there are at least thirty or more of them that Lynn has seen now, and there may be more.
Among so many types of troops, only the 'black bee' has the most extensive role, they are ten centimeters long, used for feeding, digging, hunting, carrying and so on almost a qiē activity, when they encounter something they can't face, they will move a variety of troops, usually a kind of fat worm, they are of different sizes, have the ability to spray silk threads and dissolved liquids, etc., but they can't move, they need to be carried by the black bee.
The other classes only appear occasionally, so Lynn has incomplete research on the role of the class, and so far, Lin has not seen the Inca swarm have such a class as the 'Head Worm', perhaps because she has not explored it completely.
Lynn now mainly studies their behavior.
Inca swarms usually hunt for food, and they rarely hunt in the same place, often hunting a little here and there, and at the same time building large pits and raising some worm-type creatures, which is exactly the same behavior as in desert craters.
In addition to this 'ordinary' behavior, it is a strange behavior, of all the homestead trees inhabited by the Inca swarm, there are a few of them that are more ordinary, that is, simple places to store food and lay eggs, and some of the nests in the homestead trees are more bizarre, including the tree that Lynn has been studying the 'resurrection fossil'.
There are many excavation sites next to the home tree where the fossils are resurrected, and Lin finds that the black bees will dig to a certain depth, and after carrying all the fossils, they will fill the hole with soil, and then find a new place to continue digging, and the excavated fossils are piled under the tree, sucked by a small flying insect, and then sent into the mouths of those fat insects in the tree.
After eating the small flying insects, the fat worm will produce an ancient creature in the fossil in the body in about ten days and nights, but the strange thing here is ...... Lynn hasn't seen them succeed yet, and the creatures that are created are usually deformed, with a lot of extra limbs, etc., or die not long after they come out, and these creatures will be moved out by the black bees, and then all of them will be eaten.
This behavior is difficult to understand, and Lin can also piece together an identical creature based on the cells in a creature's body, but this is useless, those ancient creatures are not very powerful, just ordinary fish and some small sea creatures, which Lin often sees in the sea.
But the Inca swarm has been trying to resurrect them without sparing, why? And how were they resurrected? Lin didn't think that the Inca swarm's brain could control every cell, and that would not have been possible in that way.
This strange behavior only made Lin feel a little strange, but the next thing really made Lin feel threatened.
Under several homestead trees closer to the cave walls, Lin noticed that the Inca swarm not only lived inside the trees, but also surrounded the trunks, and that they behaved differently from other trees.
There are large numbers of black bees that dig around the clock, and their target is not fossils, but a large burrowing worm that lives in the mud and grows a heavy carapace, which the Inca swarm hunts, chews them into a paste and transports them into their homestead trees, and they also hunt all kinds of creatures from the nearby jungle, killing more than they need for food, but they never stop.
After Lynn had the shapeshifters infiltrate the twisted tree, she discovered that the tree contained ten 'queens' who kept laying huge amounts of eggs, which in a short period of time hatched into a variety of species, some with large bodies, thick carapaces, some full of sharp teeth, and some with glowing bellies and high temperatures.
Lynn found that these classes possessed some of the characteristics of the creatures hunted by the Black Bees, and they seemed to be able to ...... Mimicking other creatures? And it can continue to be mass-produced.
That's right, what are they preparing...... If you live here, you don't need so many troops, and there is only one reason for this kind of behavior that constantly generates troops...... (To be continued......)