It's an evolving creature.

Lynn's sonographers dragged a crawling creature up from the water and took a closer look at it.

The creature was about two meters long, and it was easy to kill a sonic in the water just now, but then Lynn had more sonic scouts rushing into the water, making it easier to kill the creature.

Although the creature resembles a reptile, it has a long neck and bones on its hands and feet that begin to come together, which seems to be a good fit for living in the water, which Lynn believes originally lived on land and then planned to return to the water.

Actually, this kind of evolving creature is more common, but there are more interesting things found in this lake.

This is when it was attacked by reptiles, the acoustic detectives used their sound to detect some special traces, which were carved into the rocks at the bottom of the lake, and Lin knew that the Inca swarm liked to get this kind of thing, it should be a passage or something.

The sounders jumped into the water again, and this time Lynn lit up, revealing that it was a circular notch more than two meters in diameter carved into the bottom of the lake.

The sounders reached into the crack of the nick and pulled hard, and sure enough, there was a 'rum......bling' sound, and the entire circular nick slowly moved to the side, revealing a wide passage behind it.

After Lin entered this passage, she found that the sea water here had become clean, only the previous lake was relatively turbid, and there were some older marine creatures living here, such as trilobites, flat fish or something, it seemed that because of the long-term lack of light, some of their eyes had degenerated, but other perceptions such as the sense of smell were very developed, and Lin fled instantly as soon as she got close.

Other creatures love it. It will degenerate useless organs. Lynn never did such a thing. Who knows if even if it doesn't work now, it will be useful in the future?

The Acoustic Detective Gate swam about a hundred meters through the passage and noticed that the passage began to curve upwards, and after passing this bend, Lynn reached a large space again.

The Inca swarm likes to make an open space every other way? Why not all of them all in one place?

But this space ...... It's special.

The space is square, about fifty meters wide and about the same height, and filled with seawater. There are also a lot of strange things in this place.

Acoustic scouts detect the shape of these objects by means of guò sounds, and they come in a variety of shapes, large and small, which is an item that the Inca swarm is very good at working with—statues.

Are they also here to keep their cells? However, Lynn thinks that it is not a good environment in the seawater, and that they can corrode the statues.

The statues are arranged neatly one by one, unlike the home trees, which are stacked together, as if they were specially arranged.

Lynn's sonic approached the closest statue to the entrance, a worm that was just over a meter long, and the entire statue was riddled with cracks and signs of decay. There are still a few snail creatures crawling on it, as if they have been there for a long time.

Lynn noted. This worm seems to ...... Quite primitive.

Worms, although very common, are actually a very special creature, they are the evolutionary precursors of almost all arthropods and vertebrates, and the common ancestor of arthropods and reptiles is usually in the form of worms, and then slowly develops into other forms.

The statue of this worm resembles the kind of worm that pre-evolved, primitive and ancient, with only an elongated body, feeding on phagophagocytic fungi, could it be that the Inca swarm has the cells of such worms?

Lynn made a hole in the statue and explored inside, but found no cell chamber inside, just a pure statue.

Then Lynn looked at the second statue next to the worm, what is this? What Lynn saw was a '>' shape, which was deliberately standing on the ground, with the tip of the '>' pointing to the next statue.

The next statue is still a worm, but with an extra ring of fangs in its mouth and a hardened structure on its body, like a predator.

And then the next one, there is a statue in the shape of a '>'.

What are they doing so weirdly? What is the point of a statue like this in the Inca Swarm?

Then Lin looked down again, and there was another statue of a worm, but this one was larger than the previous one, and there were more structures on the body.

Could it be......

Lynn suddenly thought of the possibility that the Inca swarm was using statues to illustrate the evolutionary route of these worms?

It's possible, Inca swarms have fossils like this, and it's possible for them to record this, but how do they record the evolution of a species? That seems to take quite a long time.

Lin didn't know how old the Inca swarm was, but judging from the internal organs of its various units and the decomposition of its cells, it probably wouldn't be more than tens of thousands of years.

Of course, it's not that they didn't exist tens of thousands of years ago, but it's a matter of intelligence.

Regarding intelligence, Lin also has a lot of research, generally a creature's intelligence can only allow it to solve basic life situations, in fact, such as thinking about how to use stones to make nests, thinking about how to find food, and so on.

At this stage, there will only be those things that have direct interests in the brain, for example, when a creature sees a stone, it will only want to use it as a nest, or ignore it, but as the capacity of the brain increases, a creature will have all kinds of doubts about the object, which will further promote the evolution of the brain.

For example, where did this stone come from? Why is it there? Why is it different from the objects around it? and so on, they will begin to doubt their surroundings and try to use their brains to understand their existence and their sources, etc.

This kind of thinking, although it may seem redundant, can greatly contribute to the evolution of the brain, and so far Lynn has only found that this happens in creatures with division of labor, because their brains have a lot of free time, unlike other creatures that do not have that much time.

Lynn has placed quite a few eyeballs in the Twisted Jungle, and has been constantly observing the condition of environmental creatures, and during her research, Lynn has found that some creatures have this condition.

Lynn has studied the brains of various Inca swarms, and their basic weight is about 1%, which may have evolved 100,000 years ago, but this is only speculation.

But perhaps looking at these statues will give you an idea of the history of the Inca swarm......

Lynn continued to observe the statues of the Inca swarm, and they were indeed expressing evolutionary relationships, each with a '>' shape next to it to point to the next evolutionary dù higher worm statue.

At the same time, Lynn also noticed that the statues had been sitting for a long time, but the '>' was new, as if it had just been made and put up.

According to the order of the statues, the fungus-eating worm, which was originally nothing, grew little by little, its teeth grew, armor appeared, and many barbs grew on its body, and there was even a statue made into a half-cut appearance, and the Inca swarm made a detailed visceral structure in half of its body.

It seems that their research is even as detailed as Lynn's.

When Lynn kept looking at the thirtieth statue, she noticed that it was two worms entangled, and Lynn guessed what the Inca swarm meant: gender.

They evolved their sexes at this stage, but it doesn't take much time to tell.

Lin looked at the whole ninety statues, each of which was larger than the previous one, and the evolved Cheng dù was also a little taller, but when she reached ninety-one, she found that the statue was another arthropod creature, and the worm was lying on the body of this creature.

It seems to be a parasitic relationship, so it turns out that worms have not evolved into predators, but into parasites?

The next statue shows the worm burrowing into the creature's body, and because of the detailed visceral structure, Lynn saw the worm burrow into the part of the creature's brain, where it parasitized and slowly devoured the brain.

The statues that follow are peculiar, each showing worms eating the brains of creatures bit by bit, and integrating their bodies into the brains.

It can be seen that the worm seems to be connected to its brain, somewhat like Lynn's brain reader.

However, as the worm slowly burrowed into the brain, Lynn noticed that the creature's body structure was also changing, it had grown more claws and arthropods, and the whole body had become very strange, I should say very deformed.

Eventually, the creature died, but the worm burrowed out and continued to look for other creatures to parasitize.

Some of the next parasites didn't die, they grew limbs that weren't so deformed, and the parasites seemed to use the creature to get nourishment for themselves.

Later statues, as well as many of them in the same location, are the expression of the Inca swarm in which all the parasitic creatures have gathered together to form a special social lifestyle.

Each parasitic creature is different, and they are responsible for a variety of different things, such as part fighting, part reproducing, etc., and the basic pattern of division of labor creatures has emerged.

The reproductive organs of these organisms are still functional, but they can only give birth to worms, which in turn parasitize more organisms to join the colony.

But in the end, these parasitic people slowly evolved and mutated, and finally became completely different creatures from before they were parasitized, and the worms parasitic in the brain were no longer worms, they directly turned themselves into a brain, completely replacing the original brain.

At this point, Lynn saw some of the familiar classes of the Inca Swarm, such as Black Bee and Burst Armor.

And they no longer give birth to parasitic worms, but give the task of reproduction to a role similar to the queen, the queen comes from a very productive species, and it can directly give birth to various troops, instead of giving birth to worms, they use their respective hosts to combine and become a completely new species......

At first, Lynn thought that the Inca swarm was recording the evolution of other creatures, but it turned out that this was the evolutionary history of the Inca swarm itself? And they actually come from a parasitic type of worm? Although the details are not very clear. (To be continued......)

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