Chapter 88 Inca Ecology

Leviathan drags the smashed spider back into the breeding chamber and begins to decompose the scalding creature.

During the research, Lin discovered that this spider has an explosive system similar to the silver beetle in its body. It mixes two liquids together and can instantly generate extremely high temperatures, but the ingredients are somewhat different, so it will not explode.

When the spider bites its prey, it injects the two liquids into the opponent's body at the same time, and mixes it into a high-temperature liquid in the opponent's body, so that it will not hurt itself, and it can quickly destroy the opponent more effectively than venom.

Why are the body fluids in spiders hot? That's just because the Leviathan smashed the spider's two fluid-making organs, allowing the two fluids to mix.

It doesn't seem to be a very complicated structure. Lin might be surprised if she sees it for the first time, but because there is already explosives, it feels nothing special.

However, Lynn found another organ in the spider, the silk sac.

It is the thing that secretes silk. Many organisms secrete silk. They first create a liquid, and then this liquid will harden 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 recently noticed that the hardness of each type of silk thread is different. It seems that ordinary larvae use silk threads to wrap and protect themselves from internal deformation. This is The most common type of spinning, this type of thread has low strength and is easy to pull apart and break.

The strength of the sticky silk spit by the 'starlight worm' that Lin had encountered in the underground cave was much stronger, and the strength of the silk thread created by the silk sac of this spider was the strongest.

Lin came up with some silk thread liquid to form a silk thread test. This kind of spider silk only needs about 5 mm in diameter to lift more than 200 tons of things.

Although she has not really experimented with such a large object, Lin believes that there is no error in calculating this kind of thing, after all, the data will not change.

It would be very useful to make this kind of thread, but Lin needs cells to break down its components in order to fully understand what it is made of. It's like making chitin in the first place, but the combination may be a little different and it will take a long time to fully understand.

In short, I found something very interesting. At that time, spiders didn't use this kind of silk thread for hunting. Lin speculated that it might be used elsewhere, if I could catch a live one. More experiments can be done.

The next night was very quiet, no second spider appeared, and there was no strange sound. It was not until the daytime that those hidden lizards and various creatures reappeared. Some large male lizards climbed high,

Announcing the arrival of day with a loud howl.

Lin continued to dig the cave in the tree, and at the same time released a large number of fliers, including the Leviathan itself, to set out to explore the environment nearby.

The entire area here is almost rocky, and there are many home trees, but it's relatively close 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, and there are still many creatures living, but as long as you fly a distance from the home tree, all you see is dry and cracked rock, and there is no moisture on the rock, so I didn't see it either. What kind of creature, at the same time, there are fewer luminous creatures at the top of the cave here. This leaves the entire environment dark and desolate.

Leviathan flew through the air quickly, Lin just wanted to find those spiders.

When flying to about five kilometers from the home tree, Leviathan found a huge rift valley, the rift valley was more than 70 meters wide, and there was a non-stop rumbling sound, and Leviathan flew to the rift valley. Looking down, I saw that the bottom of the rift was covered with a layer of black rock that seemed to be very viscous.

That's solidified lava. This seems to be a lava-prone area, but it's not surprising. Lin has seen it many times, and the rift wall is worthy of Lin's attention. On the cliff, there are several giant spiders whose bodies are as bright as lava. This is obviously the giant spider that Lin encountered in the dark night.

I finally found it. They only hang themselves under the cliff with a seemingly thin thread. They have evolved such a high-strength thread to support their weight, although Lin still doesn't know that they are hanging here. Well, these spiders curl their legs together and seem to be sleeping.

Hanging on top of the solidified lava to sleep, it feels really strange... Coupled with their color, Lin can give them the name 'lava spider'.

Lin has left some flyers here to observe them, and there is no need to take them back to study spiders. Flyers can inject penetrators at the joints of spiders to study the internal changes of spiders. Now Leviathan is flying. Going back to the home tree, Lin has to prepare a lot of things.

Lin has confirmed that there are no Inca swarms nearby, so Lin plans 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 can live here. At the same time, Lin also With this home tree as the center, start to build a base and generate troops.

Although the Inca swarm has not done anything until now, Lin always feels that it is necessary to prepare, and the head worm also thinks this way. When it saw the activities of the Inca swarm, it said to Lin nervously: "Mysterious, Complex, incomprehensible, Inca swarm, unimaginable, but very powerful, belongs to unknown creatures, communicates with Aztec insects, threat level: very high."

Therefore, Lin had to quickly build a base here. During the construction of the base, Lin also asked the brain hunters to conduct research on the Inca swarms. Lin needed to thoroughly understand them, the swarms that had the ability to revive ancient creatures.

The research has continued, and after more than 30 days and nights, Lin also has a certain degree of understanding of the Inca swarm.

The fern forest is located directly under the desert. Among the dozens of home trees here, each of them is inhabited by an Inca swarm. There are many types of troops in the Inca swarm. Lin has seen at least more than 30 species, and there may be more. many.

Among so many arms, only the 'black bees' are the most widely used. They are ten centimeters long and are used for almost all activities such as feeding, digging, hunting, transporting, etc. When they encounter something they cannot face, they will All kinds of troops are brought in, usually a kind of fat worm. They are of different sizes and have the ability to spray silk threads and dissolving liquid, but they cannot move themselves, and they need to be carried by black bees.

Other arms only appear occasionally, so Lin's research on the role of arms is not complete. So far, Lin has never seen the Inca swarm with such arms as the 'Headworm', perhaps because the exploration is not complete enough.

Lyn now mainly studies their behavior.

Inca swarms usually get food by hunting. They rarely hunt in the same place. They often hunt a little here and there. At the same time, they will build large pits and raise some worm-like creatures, which is similar to the behavior in desert pits. Exactly the same.

In addition to this 'ordinary' behavior, it is a strange behavior. Among all the home trees inhabited by Inca swarms, some of them are relatively common, which are simply places to store food and lay eggs, while some homes The nests in the trees are more bizarre, including the tree of the 'resurrection fossil' that Lynn has been studying.

There are many dig sites next to the home tree of the resurrected fossil. Lin found that the black bees would dig to a certain depth. After the fossils were transported out, they would fill the hole with soil, and then find a new place to continue digging, and they were dug out. The fossils are piled under the tree, sucked by a small flying insect, and then fed into the mouth of the fat insects in the tree.

After the fat worm eats the small flying insect, it will produce an ancient creature in the body in about ten days and nights, but the strange thing here is... Lin has not seen them succeed until now, and the creatures produced are usually They all look deformed, have a lot of extra limbs, etc., or die soon after they come out, these creatures will be moved out by black bees, and then they will all be eaten.

This kind of behavior is difficult to understand. Lin can also piece together a completely identical creature based on the cells in a living creature, but it is useless. Those ancient creatures are not very powerful, just ordinary fish and some small sea creatures. Lin is often seen in the sea.

But the Inca swarm has been trying so hard to revive them, why? And how are they resurrected? Lin didn't think that the brains of the Inca swarm could control every cell, so it would be impossible to make so many failed products.

This strange behavior only made Lin feel a little strange, but what happened next really made Lin feel threatened.

Under a few home trees closer to the cave wall, Lin found that the Inca swarm not only lived in the tree, but also surrounded the trunk, and their behavior was different from that of other trees.

There are a large number of black bees gathered here, they are digging around the clock, and their targets are not fossils, but a huge burrowing worm living in the mud here. This worm grows Heavy carapace, and the Inca swarm hunted them, chewed them into a paste, and transported them into the home tree, and they also hunted various creatures in the nearby jungle, and they killed more than their daily food. demand, but it has never stopped.

After letting the shapeshifter sneak into the twisted tree, Lin discovered that there are ten 'queens' in the tree, and they keep laying a huge number of eggs. These eggs hatch into various species in a short time Huge, with thick carapaces, some with sharp teeth, and some with glowing abdomens and high temperatures.

Lin found that these units have some characteristics of the creatures hunted by black bees, and they seem to be able to... imitate other creatures? And it can continue to be mass-produced.

That's right, they are preparing something... If you live here, you don't need so many troops. There is only one reason for the constant generation of troops... (To be continued...)