The more she knew, the more questions she had.
This was an interesting phrase in her mind, and Lin believed in this theory very much.
Lin looked at a series of statues. These statues seemed to depict the evolutionary history of the Inca insects. It depicted how a worm slowly evolved into a parasitic organism, then invaded the brain of another organism, causing the organism to mutate. Some of the mutated organisms died, but some of the mutated organisms survived. The worm used them to hunt for food and nutrients for itself. In the end, these worms lived together and completely fused with their mutated hosts, forming a new species.
Although this method of evolution was strange, it was not completely impossible.
Lin had seen many of the effects of parasitic organisms on the host. After they squeezed into the host, they would indeed damage the host's cell division mechanism, causing the host to grow an extra limb or something like that. There were also long-term effects, such as the host producing a large number of immune cells to attack the parasite, or even changing the body's structure, which would greatly affect the organism's future evolution.
It could be said that the current state of organisms had a lot to do with parasites and viruses.
However, the Inca bugs were more powerful. They directly affected the organism's brain. Although the statues could not show it, Lin believed that they would release some kind of information to interfere with the organism's growth, causing the organism's cell division to produce strange phenomena.
If there was a useless mutation, the host would die, and the worm would find its next target. If there was a useful mutation, the worm would continue to use the host.
Perhaps only one out of tens of thousands of parasites would produce a useful mutation. However, this was not a problem.
In addition, the worm could also control the host's activities through the brain.
The worm was very similar to Lin's Brain Reader. But the question was, how did the worm obtain these abilities? The statue describing the evolution of the worm was not complete. It only described the worm's growth step by step, but it did not describe how it knew how to enter the brain. It was as if it suddenly knew how to control the brain …
Although Lin did not take long to create the Brain Reader, the evolution of other organisms was not the same as Lin's. The most important thing for them was opportunity.
A chance opportunity would determine the organism's evolution, unlike Lin's ability to just think about it.
How did this worm obtain the opportunity to enter the brain? Perhaps it was originally a normal parasite that accidentally got close to the brain. In short. Their research on the Inca bugs wasn't complete enough.
The next route was clear. The worms should be able to identify which other creatures were parasitized by the same species. Then, they would gather together and develop into a complete division of labor. Because they were different from each other from the beginning, the process would be faster than the usual division of labor.
Other than that, Lin also discovered a few other statues that depicted the transformation process of the Inca insect army. Basically, it depicted how these originally ordinary creatures were transformed beyond recognition by the parasitic worms.
It seems like the Inca insectoid army was originally obtained through parasitism, but later on, they were produced through the use of fat worms to extract the target's cellular information.
'Fat Bug' was not a parasitic troop type. Instead, the original worm had transformed into a worm, but there was no detailed description of the process. The statues of the Inca insect swarm only depicted them slowly changing their form. However, since their original parasitic ability and influence ability were so strong, it wasn't strange for them to have such an ability.
This was very interesting. It was a very special way of evolution, but how did the Inca insects discover their own evolutionary history? Lin believed that their brains began to develop at a later stage. In other words, the Inca insects might have discovered their own history by excavating fossils and other methods.
Although fossils couldn't be so detailed, they could still extract cellular information to aid them. Thus, it wasn't difficult to research their own evolutionary history.
However, there was another problem with the Inca insects.
They didn't have a 'Brainworm'.
Although they had a division of labor, they didn't have a unit type that represented the existence of a brain. Every combat and non-combat unit type in the Inca swarm had a certain degree of thinking ability. They didn't have a specialized brain for each unit type. In terms of individual units, their intelligence was much lower than the Aztec Montezuma. However, as a whole, their intelligence was even higher than the Maya Brainworm.
This was a strange phenomenon. Although they all had brains, they were able to cooperate perfectly. They didn't need to be commanded and could even transmit information to each other.
Moreover, their thoughts were very rich. They liked to record their own research and made various statues.
During times of war, their thoughts were also very interesting. Just like now, Lin didn't know why they would run into this tunnel in the giant pit. She also didn't know why they would show her these things.
Generally speaking, one shouldn't show their own things to the enemy. This would only give the enemy a way to defeat them.
If it was Lin, she would destroy all these research records before the enemy came in. She wouldn't let the enemy know anything about her.
However, Lin doubted that the Inca swarm had come here before. The Inca swarm didn't have the ability to live underwater. Their breathing structure didn't allow them to live underwater. It was probably because they had been out of water for a long time. Therefore, when they wanted to catch fish, they would create nets made of silk instead of directly catching them.
'Gulp …'
Lin heard a sound. A large creature was swimming.
There were some creatures here, but they were all conchs and small trilobites.
The Sounder made a small sound. Sound was much more sensitive underwater than on land. Lin instantly knew the shape of the creature.
This was … a creature that Lin recognized? And it was one of the Inca swarm's units.
This was a Shadow Creature.
According to the statue, the Shadow Creature was a type of fish. They were indeed one of the few Inca swarm species that could live underwater.
Lin only found a single Shadow Creature. Did they think that this would be enough to defeat Lin's hundreds of Sounders?
Moreover, this Shadow Creature didn't even try to hide. Instead, it directly swam towards the Sounders.
It didn't seem to have any intention of attacking.
"Gah …"
Just as Lin was puzzled, the Shadow Creature suddenly made a sound. This time, Lin realized that it was using the vocabulary of Cerebrum.
It seemed like it had just learned it. Its pronunciation was strange and intermittent, but Lin still understood.