Doomsday Bunker Upgrade Chapter 544: “bug” plague

By dissecting and studying 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 colony structure similar to that of an ant colony or a bee colony, with a clear division of labor among individuals, and even huge differences in body size.

If it weren't for the discovery of a large number of embryos that have not yet hatched completely, but already had a basic form in the nest and the mother's body, Chen Xin could not believe that the two daughters with such large individual differences would actually be the same creature.

There are four types of alien creatures discovered so far. The first one is the huge parent body that Chen Xin and the others saw in the cave. This monster-like big guy is more than ten meters long. After being killed, a lot of biomass was lost in the body, but it is estimated that the body weight in the intact state is more than 30 tons.

However, although the mother body is huge, it has no ability to move. Although a large number of auxiliary limbs for walking have grown under the body, just like the queen, it has basically lost the ability to move and has become a huge reproductive machine.

One of the biologists involved in the study felt that this kind of mother may be very similar to the queen of the ant colony. The body is not so heavy and bulky before starting to produce offspring, but after reaching the nest, the body will develop to a certain extent. changes, such as the expansion and development of the reproductive organs used to breed offspring, so that offspring and daughters can be reproduced in large numbers.

For this view, Chen Xin and other biologists also thought it was very possible after discussing it.

Because more than two-thirds of the mother's body is an exaggerated abdomen, not only the whole body is inflated to a nearly translucent level, but also filled with a large amount of fluid and daughter embryos. More than half of the body weight of more than 30 tons is more than half. The weight is all about this huge belly.

The information obtained from the anatomy of the mother's body is naturally more than that. Among them, Chen Xin cares most about the brain of this thing.

It is well known that the intelligence quotient of a creature is closely related to its brain volume. Although an animal with a larger brain volume is not absolutely said to be smarter, a larger brain volume means more brain cells, which naturally means more space to construct a more complex neural network.

After the mother was dissected, what was presented to Chen Xin and the biologists was a brain weighing more than 100 kilograms.

Although it is not unusual for a monster weighing more than 30 tons to have such a large brain, after rigorous analysis, the mother body has a very high intelligence, and can even control and command all offspring of .

And what is even more surprising is that the mother does not rely on the pheromone commonly used by the ant colony or bee colony to command and control the daughter, but bioelectrical 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 discharges, thereby transmitting radio wave signals like radio.

This greatly shocked Chen Xin and the biologists, as well as everyone who learned about this fact.

There seems to be no species on the Blue Star that can evolve such exaggerated organs, and this is really unnecessary for animals.

After all, the transmission of information between animals is not too complicated. The combination of pheromones, body movements and calls is enough to transmit all the information.

But a biological radio? How exactly did this evolve? Why did this species have evolved such a set of information transmission organs? What is it about the environment they live in that they need to communicate in this way?

However, through the anatomy of other daughters, Chen Xin and others suspect that this creature is likely to be a species with certain intelligence, and they can communicate through radio waves to form a whole.

This is not like a lion or monkey group, but a structure like an ant colony and a bee colony. With a more efficient communication method, at the same time, the individual has a certain wisdom

This makes Chen Xin unable to help but wonder if this kind of creature has begun to evolve towards the swarm in science fiction works.

Although there is no evidence, after dissecting all the biological individuals, Chen Xin is increasingly worried that his concerns will become reality.

The other three progeny of this alien creature include the combat progeny that Chen Xin has already encountered. The surface of the body is covered with quite thick chitin bones, which has a strong defense force, and its body structure is similar to that of a cat. , flexibility, movement speed and strength are quite strong, and the number is also quite large, some of which are similar to the existence of soldier ants in an ant colony.

The other is the progeny that Chen Xin and the others saw in the cave, similar to worker ants or worker bees. Their body size is only about half the size of the fighting progeny, and the chitin bones on their bodies are not so thick and strong. But it has specialized a pair of insect-like forelimbs, with digging and limb structures that can be quickly popped out like a skin shrimp. It looks like a combination of a hammer and a shovel~IndoMTL.com~ After seeing this daughter , Chen Xin also gradually understood why there were traces of excavation in the cave. Obviously, the cave was excavated little by little by this kind of child.

As for the fourth seed body, Chen Xin, they did not find a living body. The only individual sample was an embryo that was not fully developed from the mother's body.

This embryo is very large, more than three times the size of the other two daughter embryos, which once made Chen Xin and biologists think it was the mother's embryo.

However, the final dissection and research revealed that this was an unknown fourth seed.

What is the purpose of this sub-body? Everyone's opinions are divided, because the information at hand is too little, and they are only just starting to study, and if they want to decipher all the information, obviously more time.

Just when Chen Xin arranged for the scientific research center to set up a project and let these biologists continue to study these alien creatures, 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 to carry out strategic bombing, they had already eliminated this group of alien creatures after clearing all the daughters in the cave, so the aerial bombing had been cancelled at that time. Now that the bodies have been pulled back for autopsy, the military has started bombing?

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

New caves and tunnels have appeared on Junshan Island, and a large number of combat children have poured out of them, forcing the military to carry out a large-scale bombing to eliminate these alien creatures that broke out of the ground.

And not only Junshan Island, the entire Dongting Lake area, there are also traces of alien creatures in many places, and they have flooded.