Chapter 84 Fossils

While observing the situation in this home tree cave, Lin also showed these strange bugs to the head bug through the displayer.

The head worm also said that he had never seen these worms. The information about the Inca swarm was really very little. Lin suspected that they had stayed in this deep underground for a long time, and they didn't seem to expand 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 Lin's field of vision. Its huge body covered the entire cave with a diameter of more than ten meters. Blocked, Lin can only see its head now. The mouth of this giant insect has a pair of huge long jaws that are more than six meters long, and the inside is full of serrations. Lin was only slightly surprised when she saw this insect. , but the head worm who was watching the display was extremely surprised.

"Lin, the Earthshatter, the troops of the tribe, huge and powerful, but why..."

Although the head worm's voice was calm, it couldn't hide its surprise.

Earthshatter? Lin remembered that the head worm said that the Mayan group has many troops, and the 'Earth Breaker' is the most powerful one. It is said that it can produce deep sand buses from the ground, and is usually responsible for digging mountains and other work, representing the Mayan group. the ultimate evolution.

But why did this ultimate evolution appear here in the Inca swarm? According to the head worm, except for the infantry and a few queens, all other arms were submerged in lava, lost all contact, and could not survive.

Lin wanted to study this Earth Splitter, but she didn't know where to start. Lin couldn't prove which group it belonged to. The head worm also had to come into contact with troops to gain control over a class. If the Earth Splitter originally belonged to other heads Insects, then it is indeed uncontrollable.

Because the passage ahead was blocked by the Earthbreaker, Lin's shapeshifter could no longer move forward, although it was possible to drill through the gap under the Earthbreaker's body. But this may be very dangerous, it is better to stay here and observe.

Then, Lin asked the shapeshifter to return, and followed the passage to see some other rooms. Lin found that most of the insects in this home tree were of different shapes, and they didn't do any work. They just stay there waiting to be fed. Although they are numerous and almost all of them are huge, they seem to consume very little because they are almost inactive.

Most of these insects have unknown functions. Among many types of insects, there are liquids of different colors in the abdomen. Some are more effective, with fangs and claws, and appear for battle.

Although Lin has not seen them fight, what the Inca swarm should be preparing for, but currently I can't know...

The shapeshifters have been here, because the smell is well hidden,

It has never been found. But Lin was a little bored just looking at a bunch of bugs that couldn't move, so Lin planned to let the brain hunters outside fly to other home trees to see if there were other Inca swarms living in the trees.

And when the brain hunter bypassed the home tree, Lin suddenly found that there was a huge pothole behind the home tree.

This pit is quite similar to the desert one on the ground. It also has a layer-by-layer ladder structure inside, but it is much smaller than the desert one. The diameter of this pit is only about fifty meters. of. Carrying food, carrying stones, and many more gathered at the bottom of the pothole, as if digging something.

What are they doing?

The brain hunter slowly floated close to the pothole and flew into the pit. The black bees who were going back and forth on the stairs ignored the brain hunter, which made Lin quickly approach the bottom of the pothole.

Lin found that these black bees were constantly digging. Among them was a worm with a swollen abdomen, about the same size as a black wasp, about ten centimeters. Lin noticed that this worm would spit some green mucus on the harder stones. Then the black bee bit the stone.

It seemed that they were digging with the solution. Lin also saw a group of black bees dig up a large piece nearby, which looked like the skeleton of a fish. Clean up the dust.

This kind of fish...Lin seems to have seen it before.

The brain hunter lowered his height a little, and now it is only about ten meters away from the ground, but it still looks like he has not been found. Lin can also see the whole fish bone buried in the ground...

This skeleton seems to be the type of Dengshi fish. This skeleton still retains a strong head armor, but it does not have the sharp-toothed structure of Dengshi fish. The body size is only over one meter. It may be a transitional species in evolution.

So...was there ever an ocean here? Lin knows that the skeletons of some dead creatures will not be digested by fungi and will be preserved, and will be slowly covered by the sand under the seabed, so the Inca swarm can dig out these bones here.

This 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 cleaned the dust around the skeleton and slowly dug out the entire skeleton. The skeleton was completely preserved, except for some cracks on the ribs, there was not a single one missing, and then the black bees removed these ribs. One by one, they moved up the stairs together and brought out the pothole.

Lin was curious about where they were going to take these bones and what were they used for? Lin has also found that they have dug up various skeletons and carapaces of sea creatures. Among them, there are many snails, shellfish, and ammonites. The carapace of these creatures is the easiest to keep, but the Inca swarm seems to ignore it. Snails and shellfish, among other things, they dig up a lot of trilobites, and marine arthropods, and starfish, etc., which they move out.

There was a small group of black bees that dug especially deep, and Lin found that there, they dug out the creatures that Lin had seen... Leafworms.

Leaf worms, this kind of creature seems to be the multicellular creature that Lin has seen for the second time. In fact, this kind of creature went extinct not long after Lin fell asleep. They did not evolve into any creature and disappeared forever in the sea .

This small leaf beetle was embedded in the rock, the black bee ignored it and continued to dig. Lin looked around, it seemed that these black bees were most interested in fish, followed by trilobites , other shells and the like were thrown aside in large numbers. Lin asked the brain hunters to keep up with a group of black bees who moved the fish bones to see where they moved the fish bones.

In this home tree, Lin's shapeshifters didn't see any place for the fish bones, and Lin thought they should be moved to other home trees.

This group of black bees carried fish bones to climb the stairs. It is really strange that they have this kind of ladder structure. Lin thinks they might as well make a vertical cave, make some potholes or protrusions on the cave wall, and climb up like this. Climb down quickly.

After the black bees walked out of the pit, Lin saw that they were not walking towards the home tree beside the pit, but crawling in the direction of the jungle. The destination seemed to be another home tree more than 200 meters away from here.

The brain hunter also flew with the small group of bugs. The moment they entered the jungle, two large beetles with a body size of more than three meters emerged from the bushes on both sides. They followed the black bee and went deep into the jungle. go.

The Inca swarm was carrying bones between the jungles, and the two beetles seemed to be acting as guards. As soon as a strange sound approached in the nearby jungle, they uttered a low roar to scare off the enemy.

Perhaps the fern tree is relatively short. The types of creatures that Lin has found so far are much less than those of the Twisted Jungle, but the number is still very rich, and there are many types of creatures that Lin has never seen before.

On the way to follow the black bee, Lin also saw a lot of excavated potholes, some of which seemed to be just excavated, quite shallow, only more than one meter deep, and some were dug to a depth of tens of meters. The only way is to dig out the skeletons or carapaces of various creatures and move them back.

It's an incomprehensible behavior, and those skeletons and carapaces don't have any rare substances mixed in them, right?

The group of black bees carrying skeletons arrived under another home tree. Lin found that a pile of various skeletons had been piled up under the tree. The black bees just 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. Lin saw a small flying creature flying around on the skeleton pile. This creature is only one centimeter long and quite small. Their mouths are sharp like needles. Stabs his mouth into the gap in the bone, as if sucking on something.

The skeletons of ordinary endoskeletons also have organs that produce various cells, mainly blood cells and immune cells. Lin doesn't think those organs in the fossil are still alive, but they do look like they are sucking.

Are the Inca swarms raising these little flying insects with skeletons? Or……

After the small flying insects are absorbed, their abdomens will expand to ten times their original size. Even so, they still fly. With their huge abdomens, they fly to the home tree. The brain hunters follow them. Lin sees these small flying insects. They were all drilled into a small hole in the bark.

The hole was too small for brain hunters to get in, so Lin got a flying eyeball the size of this little flying insect and drilled it through the small hole in the bark...

When her eyes moved about five meters, she found that the surrounding space suddenly became wider. It seemed to be a large room. At first glance, Lin saw some fat worm-shaped creatures moving on the floor of the room. And the little flying insects that sucked the bones automatically flew in front of these fat worms, chewed them and swallowed them into the belly of the fat worms.

this is……

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