Chapter 647: "Worm" plague

Through anatomy and research on the collected biological samples, Chen Xin and

the biologists finally have a certain understanding of this alien creature.

This is a very peculiar creature with a group structure similar to an ant

colony or a bee colony, with a clear division of labor between individuals and

even huge differences in body size.

If it hadn't been for a large number of embryos that had not fully hatched,

but already had basic morphology, found in the nest and the mother's body,

Chen Xin couldn't believe that the two daughters with such great individual

differences would actually be the same creature.

There are currently four kinds of alien creatures discovered. The first one is

the huge maternal body that Chen Xin and the others saw in the cave. This

monster-like body is more than ten meters in length, although it is being

killed. In the future, the internal biomass of the body has lost a lot, but

after estimation, the body weight is more than 30 tons in an intact state.

However, although the mother's body is huge, it has no ability to move.

Although there are a lot of auxiliary limbs for walking under the body, it has

basically lost the ability to move and has become a huge fertility machine,

just like the queen.

A biologist who participated in the research felt that this kind of mother

might be very similar to the queen of an ant colony. Before the offspring

began to produce offspring, the body was not so heavy and large, but after

reaching the nest, the body will undergo a certain degree of change. For

example, the reproductive organs used for cultivating offspring expand and

develop, so that a large number of offspring and daughters can be reproduced.

After discussing this view, Chen Xin and other biologists also found it very

possible.

Because more than two-thirds of the mother's body is swollen to an exaggerated

abdomen, not only is the entire body swollen to almost translucent, but it is

also filled with a lot of liquid and daughter embryos. More than half of the

weight of more than 30 tons is This huge belly.

Naturally, the information obtained from the anatomy of the mother's body is

more than that, and what makes Chen Xin most concerned about is the brain of

this thing.

It is well known that biological intelligence is closely related to brain

capacity. Animals with larger brain capacity are not absolutely smarter, but

larger brain capacity means more brain cells, which naturally means more space

for construction. A more complex neural network.

After this mother was dissected, what Chen Xinhe presented to the biologist

was a brain weighing more than 100 kilograms.

Although it is not uncommon for a monster weighing more than 30 tons to have

such a big brain, after rigorous analysis, the mother body has extremely high

intelligence, and can even control and command all the children. .

What is even more surprising to everyone is that the parent's command and

control of its daughters do not rely on pheromone commonly used by ant

colonies or bee colonies, but on bioelectric signals.

Near the mother's brain, Chen Xin and the others found a special organ that

can generate electromagnetic waves in the form of biological electrical

discharges, thereby transmitting electric wave signals, like a radio.

This greatly shocked Chen Xin and the biologists, as well as everyone who knew

this fact.

It seems that no species on the Blue Star has evolved such exaggerated organs,

and it is really unnecessary for animals.

After all, the transmission of information between animals is not too

complicated. Relying on the combination of pheromone, body movements and

calls, it is enough to transmit all the information.

But a biological radio? How did this evolve? Why did this species evolve such

a set of information transmission organs? What is the environment in which

they live, and they actually need to use this method to convey information?

However, through the anatomy of other progeny, Chen Xin and others suspect

that this creature is likely to be a species with a certain degree of wisdom,

and they can communicate through radio waves to form a whole.

This is not like the existence of a lion or monkey group, but a structure like

an ant colony and a bee colony, and there is a more efficient way of

communication, and at the same time the individual has a certain degree of

wisdom

This made Chen Xin couldn't help but wonder whether this creature had already

begun to evolve toward the insect swarm in the science fiction works.

Although there is no evidence, after dissecting all the biological entities,

Chen Xin is increasingly worried that his worries will become a reality.

Among the other three progeny of this alien creature are the combat progeny

that Chen Xin has encountered. The body surface is covered with quite thick

chitin bones, which has strong defense power, and the body structure is

similar to cats, and it is flexible. , Movement speed and power are quite

strong, and there are also a lot of them, somewhat similar to the existence of

soldier ants in an ant colony.

The other is the progeny of worker ants or bees that Chen Xin and the others

saw in the cave. Their body size is only about half of the progeny of combat.

The chitin bones on their bodies are not so thick and strong, but they are

very special. A pair of insect-like forelimbs are formed, with digging and a

limb structure that can be quickly ejected like a pippi shrimp, which looks

like a combination of a hammer and a shovel. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

After seeing this kind of subbody, Chen Xin also gradually understood why

there were traces of excavation in the cave. Obviously, that cave was a little

bit of this kind of subbody excavated.

As for the fourth seed body, Chen Xin, they did not find a living body. The

only individual sample was an undeveloped embryo taken out of the mother's

body.

This embryo is very large, more than three times the size of the other two

daughter embryos. At one time, Chen Xinhe and biologists thought it was a

mother embryo.

But in the end, anatomy and research revealed that this is an unknown fourth

seed body.

What is the purpose of this subbody? Everyone has different opinions, because

there is too little information at hand, and they are just starting to

research now. It obviously needs more time to decipher all the information.

It was just when Chen Xin arranged the scientific research center to set up a

project to allow these biologists to continue to study these alien creatures,

but the news came from Junshan Island that the military had bombed the entire

island.

This surprised Chen Xin suddenly.

Although they did apply for air support at the time and were preparing for

strategic bombing, after clearing all the descendants in the cave, they had

already wiped out the group of alien creatures, so the aerial bombardment was

cancelled at that time. Why are the corpses now? Pulled back and dissected,

the military started bombing?

Just when Chen Xin was puzzled, more information came, leaving him stunned.

New caves and tunnels appeared on Junshan Island, from which a large number of

combat sub-bodies gushed out, forcing the military to carry out large-scale

bombings to destroy these ground-breaking alien creatures.

And not only Junshan Island, but also traces of alien creatures appeared in

many places throughout the Dongting Lake area, and they were already flooding.