Chapter 90: Origin and Resurgence
Some research has been done on the 'Death Spikes', these plants are indeed specially planted here by the Inca swarm, and the roots of the plants have traces of excavation, the 'Death Spikes' are not hard, they should not be used to prevent foreign enemies, but they can prevent all kinds of creatures in the jungle from leaving, which may be one of the reasons why the rocks are so barren, if you build a base here, it will be too conspicuous, and it will attract the attention of the Inca swarm.
But Lin can put down a lot of observational eyeballs to notice what special the Inca swarm of this 'border' will do.
Leviathan is now returning to the base of the Hometree and Lynn will continue to build the environment and keep an eye on the Inca swarm.
This creature is indeed very observable, Lin mainly learns from other creatures to evolve, Lin is curious about how they were born, Lin has seen the evolution of many creatures, but the territory of Lin in the ocean is really small for the whole world, so it is not surprising that there are many creatures that Lin has never seen at all, but for those creatures that have not been seen, it is impossible to tell where they evolved?
Not necessarily.
Inspired by the excavation site of the Inca swarm, Lin found that there were many transitional varieties between biological evolutions, and the varieties at each evolutionary stage were located in different locations, so Lin could also dig through guò to find the ancestors of some creatures.
While Lynn is now unable to dig in Inca swarms, she can speculate on the circumstances under which the Inca swarms, Aztecs, or Mayan populations were born.
The initial situation of 'divisional' organisms should be larval differentiation, and in some social organisms, the larvae and adults they give birth to live together. These creatures are slowly discovered. Juveniles can do things that adults can't. Like digging into some crevices to find food or something.
So they begin to keep a certain number of larvae in the community to maintain their role, but sooner or later the larvae will grow up, so this process is slowly strengthened and evolved, at this time the creature will even produce a small larvae to help the community, which is probably the basis of the 'division of labor'.
Then the division of labor slowly emerges, and it is also possible that an individual in the group encounters a situation that causes its cells to change. These changed individuals reproduce together with the unchanged primitives, and because both the mutated and primitive individuals have different roles, they are all preserved to cope with various situations.
The process between this is very peculiar, just like the emergence of male and female species, at first it is just by dividing, then it becomes a combination of cells, and then it becomes a 'male' side that only provides the cells, and the 'female' side is responsible for combining cells and production, obviously. The difference between male and female means that all kinds of organisms can create different 'division' individuals, but creatures like Inca swarms. Their division of labor is more detailed.
Judging from this process, Lin can also deduce how the 'head worm' type of troops was born, in fact, it is very simple, for example, when fighting, it is impossible for it to rush up the whole nest, there will always be a few individuals around the back and can't squeeze in, and then these individuals will observe the whole battle situation in the back, and the heads of these individuals who are 'watching' will receive more information, and the brain cells will evolve, and they will become more able to think than other individuals.
Then this special ability was also retained, and slowly, this kind of special 'spectator' individuals will appear in this kind of community, which is different from other combat-friendly individuals, and at the same time, they are also responsible for transmitting all kinds of information they see to other individuals, so they have a strong ability to transmit information, and in the end, they are simply under their direct command.
This kind of differentiation is interesting, because ordinary organisms aggregate the abilities of males and females on their young, while the division of labor species develops each ability separately to become extremely powerful.
In fact, the division of labor species is very rare, but once the evolution is successful, it will continue to grow stronger like an explosion, and Lynn has seen the primitive division of labor species 100 million years ago.
That species was called by Lynn...... The Legion Ball, which Lynn encountered during a landing, is an event that is easily forgotten, but in retrospect it is very simple, the Legion Ball is to use the mother body as a 'transport carrier', and then release the larvae to attack, and the Legion Ball or a creature similar to the Legion Ball is the ancestor of these swarms that Lynn saw.
Studying the evolution of other organisms is equivalent to the evolution of Lynn herself, and Lynn is very interested in the evolution of various creatures.
If there is no research, then there is no progress, Lynn has not seen the complete Mayan population of the head worms, so it is not clear, but the Aztec worm's lifestyle of killing all the qiē is definitely difficult to make any progress, and it will be difficult for their race to evolve at a certain point.
On the other hand, the Inca swarm probably excavated fossils to study fish, and they tried to resurrect fish, or they searched for merit in them.
In short, the Inca swarm is clearly the most powerful swarm and needs to be faced with caution.
But in addition to observing the present, you must also imagine the future, and when Lin first saw the Legion Sphere, Lin had no idea that it could evolve into such a powerful species.
Lin slowly built all kinds of things near the base of the rocks, Lin originally wanted to make the vine fern explode first, and then make a lot of dirt or something, because the basic composition of the soil is the debris of plants and animal corpses, but Lin found that the vine fern does not grow when it comes to water, and it may have something to do with the temperature or something, so Lin had to wait for the twisted tree to grow, and before that, Lin would use a green blanket umbrella to place it in most areas of the rock to get nutrients.
None of this qiē came close to the boundary line of the Death Spike, so the Inca swarm didn't notice that Lin had also started building a base underground, probably not.
Just as Lynn had detection methods that the Inca swarm didn't notice, the Inca swarm could also have detection methods that Lynn didn't notice, and a creature on the rocky ground could be one of the Inca swarm troops.
Of course, Lynn wasn't going to kill them all out of suspicion, Lynn was just getting the Brain Hunters to pay attention to the Inca swarm's every move.
Time passed slowly, and it was the middle of spring, and the Inca swarm had gathered quite a large number of troops, and these troops had gathered in large numbers on the trees of the Homestead, but Lynn had not noticed any special movements from them so far.
During this period, the land head worm also became more and more prosperous, and the head worm built more than a dozen rocky mountains and successfully bred another type of army in addition to the 'infantry'.
This class is called maize, which is the pronunciation of the head worm, and Lin discovered that this class is used for planting species, they will plant the seeds of a fern, then collect the leaves of twisted trees, chew them, and sprinkle them on the ground as nutrients to nourish the ferns.
It feels like an ordinary class, but it also symbolizes the recovery of the Mayan group.
In addition, the head worm once again has told Lin that the moon is coming, and he needs to be prepared.
In fact, the head worm himself didn't know what to prepare, so Lin planned to make all kinds of preparations, but the main thing for now was to deal with the Inca swarm.
Lynn dug the passage from the peak to the ground a little wider, and gathered many troops, including Behemoth, to the location of the peak, transporting nutrients to the base below and preparing for the Inca swarm lava attack.
The destruction of the Mayan tribe is believed to have been the work of the Inca swarm, but Lynn is curious how they got the lava, and so far nothing has been discovered.
In addition, Lin also did some research on the Aztec bugs, Lin released a large number of flyers to search for traces of the Aztec bugs in the desert, those escaped bugs could not disappear, sure enough, after looking for a few days and nights, Lin found that a large number of Aztec bugs gathered in a clearing in the desert, they seemed to like this place very much, including a large number of Aztec bugs and a deep sand bus, in order to study them, Lin asked the flyer to create a shapeshifter, invaded the body of the deep sand bus.
The shapeshifter found an egg in the body of the Deep Sand Bus, which was located closest to the brain in the Deep Sand Bus, and Lynn knew what it was, the new leader, was about to be born.
This is also very good for division of labor creatures, it is difficult to recover from brain damage in ordinary organisms, but even if their 'brain' dies, the class will maintain a certain basic level of intelligence and try to reproduce new brains.
The egg cracked around a day and night, and the creature that crawled out of it was very similar in appearance and size to Montezuma, but it was supposed to be only superficial, and it may not have any knowledge when it was born, because the memories in the 'brain' could not be transmitted through guò reproduction, but it was clear that they had other ways to transmit knowledge.
Immediately after birth, the 'Montezuma II' climbed to the center of the Deep Sand Bus, where Lin discovered a small ball that was identical to the one Montezuma used to hide and wrap the brain cells, and Lin speculated that Montezuma had left some of its memories in the ball and passed it on to its offspring.
This method is very powerful, and the Aztec worms may make a comeback, but Lin has little interest in paying attention to them now, but just in case anything goes wrong, Lin has the shapeshifter climb up Montezuma II's body, quietly make scars on its joints, and then burrow into its body, parasitic near its brain.
In any case, Lin could kill it directly, and then destroy its entire clan when the Deep Sand Bus produced the next generation of leaders.
But Lin's main focus is on the underground right now, so I'll leave it alone for now.
Lynn was slowly expanding the territory of the Underground Rocks, and had created a new breed chamber that looked like stone and was not easy to spot, but it was all over the rocky field and was filled with forts nearby.
These preparations were not in vain in the end, and Lin finally observed that the large army of the Inca swarm began to move...... (To be continued......)
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