Chapter 132 Inca Origin

This is an evolving creature.

Lynn's sound detectives dragged a crawling-like creature out of the water and observed it carefully.

This creature was about two meters long, and it could easily kill a sound scout in the water just now, but then Lin let more sound scouts rush into the water, which made it easier to kill the creature.

Although this creature looks like a reptile, its neck is relatively long, and the bones on its hands and feet are beginning to close together. This structure seems to be very suitable for living in water. Lin thinks that it originally lived on land, and then plans to return to the water.

In fact, this kind of evolutionary creature is more common, but Lin also found something more interesting in this lake.

This was when they were attacked by reptiles. The sound scouts detected some special marks with sound, which were carved on the rocks at the bottom of the lake. Lin knew that the Inca swarms liked to make such things, and it should be a passage or something.

The sound detectives jumped into the water again, and Lin lit up this time, and found that it was a circular notch more than two meters in diameter carved on the bottom of the lake.

The sound detectives put their claws into the crack of the notch and pulled hard, and sure enough, there was a sound of 'gulong...', and the entire circular notch slowly moved to the side, revealing a spacious room at the back. channel.

After Lin entered this passage, she found that the sea water here became clean, only the previous lake was turbid, and some ancient marine creatures lived here, such as trilobites, flat fish and so on, it seemed that there was no light for a long time. The relationship between them, the part of their eyes has degenerated, but other perception abilities such as smell are very developed, and Lin fled instantly as soon as they approached.

Other creatures like this very much, and they will degenerate useless organs. Lin never does such a thing. Who knows if even if it doesn't work now, it will work in the future?

The sound detector door swam about 100 meters in the passage, and found that the passage began to bend upwards. After passing this bend, Lin reached a spacious space again.

The Inca swarm likes to make an open space across the road? Why not get it all together?

But this space is... special.

The space is square overall. It is about 50 meters wide and about the same height, and it is full of sea water. There are many strange-shaped things placed in this place.

Sound detectives use sound to detect the shape of these things, and they come in all shapes and sizes. Big or small, this is an item that the Inca swarm is very good at making - statues.

Do they also preserve cells here? But Lin thinks it's not a good environment in sea water,

They could corrode those statues.

These statues are neatly arranged in rows, unlike the home tree where they are all piled up, as if they were deliberately arranged.

Lin's sound detective approached a statue closest to the entrance, which was a worm-like shape of just over one meter. The entire statue is full of cracks and rot, and there are several snails crawling on it, as if it has been placed for a long time.

Lin noticed that the worm seemed... quite primitive.

Although worms are very common, they are actually a very special kind of creatures. They are the evolutionary precursors of almost all arthropods and vertebrates. The ancestor multicellular organisms shared by arthropods and reptiles are usually in the form of worms. Then slowly develop into other forms.

The statue of this worm is like the kind of worm before evolution. It is primitive and ancient, with only one long body. It feeds on fungi. Does the Inca swarm have cells of this kind of worm?

Lin made a small hole in the statue and explored it, but she didn't find any cells storing cells in it, it was just a pure statue.

Then Lin looked at the second statue next to the worm, what is this? What Lin saw was the shape of a '>', which was deliberately placed on the ground, and the tip of the '>' pointed to the next statue.

The next statue is still a worm. But there is an extra ring of fangs in the mouth, and a hardened structure on the body, which looks like a predator.

Then the next one, another '>' shaped statue.

What are they doing so weird? What the hell does a statue like the Inca Swarm mean?

Then Lin looked down, and there was another statue of a worm. But this one is bigger than the previous one, and there are more structures on the body.

Is it...

Lin suddenly thought of a possibility. Are the Inca swarms using statues to illustrate the evolutionary route of these worms?

This is indeed possible. The Inca swarms have also placed fossils in this way. They may record these situations, but how do they record the evolution of a species? That seems to take quite a while.

Lin didn't know how long the history of the Inca swarm was, but just from the internal structure and cell decomposition of its various arms, it probably wouldn't exceed tens of thousands of years.

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

Regarding intelligence, Lin has also done a lot of research. Generally, the intelligence of a creature can only allow it to solve basic living conditions. In fact, for example, thinking about how to use stones as a nest, thinking about how to find food, and so on.

At this stage, only things that are of direct interest to the creature will appear in the brain of the creature. 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 Organisms have various doubts about objects, which further promotes the evolution of the brain.

For example, where did this stone come from? Why is it there? Why is it different from surrounding objects? And so many doubts, they will begin to doubt the surrounding environment, and try to use their brains to understand their existence and sources and other information.

Although this kind of thinking seems redundant, it can greatly promote the evolution of the brain. At present, Lin has only found that this kind of situation occurs in the division of labor, because their brains have a lot of free time, unlike other creatures. Not so much time.

Lin has placed quite a few eyeballs in the Twisted Jungle, and has been continuously observing and researching the situation of environmental creatures, and Lin has found that some creatures will have this situation.

Lin has studied the brains of various Inca swarms, and their basic proportion is about 1%. It may have started to evolve 100,000 years ago, but this is only speculation.

But maybe looking at these statues, we can know the history of the Inca swarm...

Lin continued to observe the statues of the Inca swarm. They really were expressing evolutionary relationships. Next to each statue, there was a '>' shape to point to the next worm statue with a higher degree of evolution.

At the same time, Lin also noticed that these statues had been placed for a long time, but the '>' was new, as if they had just been made and placed there.

Looking at the order of the statues, the fungus-eating worms that had nothing at all became bigger and bigger. Its teeth grew, armor appeared, and many barbs grew on its body. There was even a statue made of a cut. In half, the Inca swarm made a detailed visceral structure in half of the body.

It seems that their research is even as detailed as Lin.

When Lin kept seeing the thirtyth statue, she found that it was two worms entangled together. Lin guessed that the meaning of the Inca swarm was: sex.

They have evolved sex-like appearances at this stage, but it's unclear how long it took.

Lin looked at ninety statues, each of which was larger than the previous one, and had a higher degree of evolution, but when she reached ninety-one, she found that the statue was another arthropod, and the worm was lying on the ground. on this creature.

It seems to be a parasitic relationship. So, the worm did not evolve into a predator, but into a parasite?

The next statue shows the worm burrowing into the creature, and because of the detailed visceral structure, Lyn sees the worm burrowing into the part of the creature's brain, where it parasites and slowly devours the brain.

The following statues are very strange, each statue is showing the worm eating the brain of the creature bit by bit, and integrating its own body into the brain.

It can be seen that this worm seems to have connected itself to the brain, somewhat like Lin's brain reader.

However, when the worm slowly burrowed into the brain, Lin found that the body structure of this creature was also changing. It grew more sharp claws and arthropods, and the whole body became very strange, it should be said that it was very deformed.

In the end, the creature died, but the worm came out and went on to find other creatures to parasitize.

Some of the next parasites didn't die. They grew limbs that were not so deformed. The parasites seemed to use this creature to get nutrients for themselves.

After the statue, there are many in the same position, which is the expression of the Inca swarm to express that all parasitic creatures have gathered together, forming a special gregarious way of life.

Each parasitic creature is different, they are responsible for various things, such as part of the battle, part of the reproduction, etc., there is a basic model of division of labor.

The reproductive organs of these creatures are still functional, but only worms can be born, and the worms go to parasitize more creatures to join the colony.

But in the end, these parasites slowly evolved and mutated, and finally became completely different creatures from before they were parasitized, and the worms parasitized in the brain were no longer worms, they directly transformed themselves into A new brain completely replaced the original one.

Here, Lin saw some familiar units of the Inca swarm, such as the Black Bee and the Explosive Armor.

And they no longer produce parasitic worms, but delegate the breeding tasks to roles like queens. Queens come from species with high productivity, and they can directly give birth to various troops instead of worms. , they use their respective hosts to combine and become a whole new species...

At the beginning, Lin thought that the Inca swarm was recording the evolution of other creatures. It turned out that this was the evolutionary history of the Inca swarm itself? And they actually came from a parasitic worm? Although the details are not yet clear. (To be continued...)