By dissecting and studying the collected biological samples, Chen Xin and the biologists finally gained a certain understanding of this alien creature.
This is a very peculiar creature. It has a group structure similar to that of an ant colony or a bee colony. There is a clear division of labor between individuals, and there are even huge differences in body shape.
If it weren't for the discovery of a large number of embryos that had not yet fully hatched but already had basic forms in the nest and the mother's body, Chen Xin would not have been able to believe that the two offspring with such huge individual differences could actually be the same creature.
There are currently four types of individuals of this alien creature. The first one is the huge mother body that Chen Xin and the others saw in the cave. This monster-like body was more than ten meters long. Although it was killed Since then, a lot of biomass has been lost inside the body, but it is estimated that the weight in the intact state is over thirty tons.
However, although the mother body is huge, it has little mobility. Although there are a large number of walking limbs under the body, like the queen ant, it has basically lost its mobility and turned into a huge fertility machine.
A biologist who participated in the study felt that this mother's body may be very similar to the queen of an ant colony. Before she starts giving birth to offspring, her body is not so heavy and bulky, but after arriving at the nest, her body will change to a certain extent. For example, the reproductive organs used to cultivate offspring expand and develop, so that a large number of offspring and offspring can be reproduced.
After discussing this point of view, Chen Xin and other biologists also felt that it was very possible.
Because more than two-thirds of the mother's body is the exaggeratedly inflated abdomen, not only is the entire body inflated to an almost translucent level, it is also filled with a large amount of fluid and daughter embryos. More than half of the weight of more than 30 tons is This huge belly.
Naturally, the information obtained from the maternal anatomy was more than this, and what Chen Xin was most concerned about was the brain of this thing.
It is well known that the IQ of living things is closely related to brain capacity. Although animals with larger brain capacity are not absolutely smarter, larger brain capacity means more brain cells, which naturally means more space for construction. More complex neural networks.
After the mother body was dissected, what was presented to biologists Chen Xinhe was a brain weighing more than 100 kilograms.
Although it is not unusual for a monster weighing more than thirty tons to have such a big brain, after rigorous analysis, it has been found that the mother body has extremely high intelligence and can even control and command all its offspring. .
What's more surprising to everyone is that the mother's command and control of the offspring does not rely on the pheromones commonly used by ant colonies or bee colonies, but 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 discharges and thereby transmit radio wave signals, like a radio.
This greatly shocked Chen Xin and biologists, as well as everyone who learned about this fact.
There seems to be no species on Blue Star that can evolve such an exaggerated organ like biological radio, 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 convey all the information.
But a biological radio? How did this evolve? Why on earth did this species evolve such a set of information transmission organs? What is going on in the environment they live in that they need to convey information in this way?
However, through the dissection of other daughter bodies, Chen Xin and others suspected that this creature is likely to be a species with certain intelligence. They can communicate through radio waves and form a whole.
This is not like a group of lions or a group of monkeys, but a structure like an ant colony or a bee colony, with a more efficient way of communication, and at the same time, individuals have a certain degree of wisdom...
This made Chen Xin couldn't help but wonder whether this creature had begun to evolve towards the insect swarm in science fiction works.
Although there was no evidence, after dissecting all the biological individuals, Chen Xin became more and more worried that his worries would come true.
Among the other three sub-bodies of this alien creature, there is the combat sub-body that Chen Xin has already encountered. The surface of the body is covered with quite thick chitin bones, which has strong defense power. At the same time, the body structure is similar to that of a cat, and it is flexible. , movement speed and strength 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 type is the offspring that Chen Xin and the others saw in the cave, similar to worker ants or worker bees. Their size is only about half of the combat offspring, and the chitin bones on their bodies are not that thick and strong, but they are very special. It has a pair of insect-like forelimbs, with digging and limb structures that can be quickly ejected like a Pipi shrimp. It looks like a combination of a hammer and a shovel.
After seeing this sub-body, Chen Xin gradually understood why there were traces of excavation in the cave. It was obvious that the cave was excavated little by little by this sub-body.
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 from the mother's body.
The size of this embryo was very large, more than three times the size of the other two daughter embryos. For a time, Chen Xin and biologists thought it was the mother's embryo.
But eventually dissection and research revealed that this was an unknown fourth seed body.
Everyone has different opinions on what this sub-body is used for, because there is really too little information at hand, and they have only just begun to research it. If they want to decipher all the information, it will obviously take 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 suddenly shocked Chen Xin.
Although they did apply for air support and prepared for strategic bombing at that time, after clearing all the sub-bodies in the cave, they had eliminated this group of alien creatures, so the aerial bombing was canceled at that time. Why are the corpses now all Pulled back for dissection, the military started bombing?
Just when Chen Xin was confused, more information came, which shocked him.
New caves and tunnels appeared on Junshan Island, and a large number of fighting spawn poured out of them, forcing the military to conduct large-scale bombings to eliminate these alien creatures that emerged from the ground.
And not only Junshan Island, but also traces of alien creatures have appeared in many places throughout the Dongting Lake area, and they have become overrun.
