Chapter 49 Anatomy
"Indeed, there is a saying that for this kind of group insect, individuals should be calculated in groups. One cannot be regarded as a separate individual. They are only part of the swarm." Shuer gently tapped his thigh and said thoughtfully, "I have heard of this theory, but..."
"You've heard of a ghost." Militi finally found a chance. Not only did she interrupt Shuer's words roughly, she also secretly made a rude gesture, which only two people could see. "The theory you said can be applied to all insect swarms, but I'm not saying it. The insect swarms here have a true unity. They are not like a whole, they are 'a whole' themselves. Do you understand? All the insects in this world add up to a complete individual. The enemies we have to face are not a certain group of insects, but the entire insect swarm."
"Each of the Pavatiga swarm has a strict division of labor, responsible for fighting, construction, fertility, and care. It does seem like they form an individual called swarm, but if you look into it, each of them is actually independent, with an independent life system, an independent brain, and even an independent soul. But the swarm we are facing now is completely different, and there are none of these things. Do you understand that they rely entirely on the swarm, which survives. If they leave the swarm, they will not live long."
"But..." Shur frowned, obviously not very understanding. Not only him, everyone looked puzzled, and couldn't figure out the difference between the two. "Pavatiga's group bugs seem to be unable to leave the clan..."
"Don't mention the bugs in the Pavatiga. Each of them can survive alone. It's one thing to have survival skills or not, but it's at least theoretically possible. Just like the mutated burrow spiders, isolate a small spider alone, can you say it can't survive? For example, bees, if you catch the war peaks and even the queen of bees, they can live well as long as they give enough food and space. But the insect swarms here are different. They don't have an independent survival system at all. Do you understand? As long as you leave the swarm, no matter how much food you put in front of them, they will starve to death."
"Forget it, I can't explain it clearly to you. Come to the laboratory with me and show you my anatomy results today. You will understand what I mean when you see it."
"No, just go to the control room." Xiuer shook his head, "We should have records of your afternoon research process. Looking at the records not only can you know the results, but you can also see the process clearly."
"If there is a record, I don't want to do all those tests again, it's too troublesome."
"Wei, the image records in the laboratory in the afternoon should be retrieval." There were only mercenaries around, but as Xiuer asked, Wei's mechanical answer came from somewhere.
"The image recording is ready, please go to the control room to check it."
Nodding each other, the eight people ran to the control room with their worries. Although they didn't understand Militi's words very much, if what she said was true, the swarm was really an inseparable whole, then the difficulty of confrontation would have undergone qualitative changes. After all, the difficulty of confrontation and the four people divided into one's limbs are completely different concepts.
As soon as you enter the control room, you can see that the recording images of the laboratory have been prepared in one corner. In the image, Militi stands on the platform with a small phantom, with a serious expression when facing a corpse, which looks very comedic.
Poke, poke, a light green nail pokes around Militi's Phantom's face. There is no doubt that only creatures who can do such things are different from ordinary people: "Hey, it's so fun, there's nothing."
"Have you seen magical magic in your tree? Let's go away and don't poke my face." A slap off Moria's bare hands, Militi nodded to Seul, "It's time to start."
"#@¥@#¥." Xiuer whispered to Wei, who was standing on the central platform for a while, and suddenly looked up and asked, "You have dissected a total of seven insects in the afternoon. Which section do you want to check."
"Let's look at the first one first." Militi thought for a while, "The first one, the fifth one and the sixth one are both representative, just look at these three paragraphs."
The illusion was slightly enlarged. In the image, the little Militi slowly walked to the test bench with gloves and began to flip the corpse of the insect.
"Look at this insect, it has obvious combat organs, sharp claws, spikes on the head, and here, this is their mouthparts. Looking at their teeth, they are not like insect teeth, but like the teeth of carnivorous beasts, you can feel the deterrence just by looking at them. If you look at them from the eyes of Pavatiga's group, this is undoubtedly a combat member similar to soldiers bees and ants, yes."
The seven people nodded. Needless to say, everyone had long regarded them as things like soldiers and bees in their hearts.
"Do you think it's nothing special? You think it's just a little bit of a difference in image? Haha, once you're dissected, you won't think so."
In the image, Militi has begun to dissect the first bug. The bug looks very familiar. When everyone comes to this projection world, they are the ones they see the most.
"They have solid muscles filled with their exoskeletons. Can they enlarge them a little? That's great, thank you. Here, the muscles fill the exoskeletons. Look, the muscles are compact and elastic. This is undoubtedly a very strong bug. The nerve clusters wrapped in the muscles are also particularly obvious. Yes, I just picked up that thing."
In the three-dimensional image display, Militi slowly cut the corpse of the insect from her legs bit by bit. She is worthy of being a necromancer who deals with the corpse every day. Even a creature she has never seen before, she is very skillful in dissection. The corpse's hard exoskeleton cannot stop the scalpel strengthened by the corpse with magic. Soon, the inside of the corpse appears completely in front of everyone.
"Perfect corpse, isn't it?" Even though he saw the scene in the image, Militi was still a little intoxicated at the corpse and said with a blurred look, "Look, the strong muscles give them powerful strength, the rich nerves make them move more agile, the thick blood vessels make their blood circulation faster, and their endurance is far superior to that of normal creatures. In addition, the exoskeletons, this is simply a creature born for battle."
"The exposure maniac who blasphemed the corpse." Mia said sarcastically without hesitation, "Do you just want us to see how changeable you are?"
"Idiot flat chest, stupid mountain elves, rigid-minded green skin and long ears, cognition of the shame of intelligent creatures who stayed in the wilderness era, stubborn species whose brain can be used to build walls, low-energy mages whose brain capacity is filled with unsatisfactory knowledge." A long list of scoldings, even the breath is not needed, and the skilled ones are like repeating it a hundred times every day. The rest of the people hold back their smiles and force their eyes away. Well, we didn't hear, and nothing, "Are you blinded your eyes, or is your brain really being taken to build a house? Look at it yourself, don't you think this bug is missing something?"
Huh? After all, I am not a professional. I haven’t noticed it yet without prompting it. When Militi reminds everyone that there are too many things missing in this bug.
It does have an oral device, but the end of the oral device is filled with muscles, and there is no channel for food to pass through. Downward, there is no organ that is connected to digesting food. Of course, the excretion system does not exist. In addition to muscles and mucosa, there are only the heart and blood circulation system that supplies blood. There are also some unknown functions, similar to the diameter of the nerve cluster connected from the surface to the heart.
Can this thing be a living thing? What a joke.
"Don't they have to eat?" Dark leaned closer and stared at the worm's corpse and asked in surprise. "It's okay if the worm has no respiratory system, but there are no organs for digestion, absorption and excretion. How can it survive?"
"I remember there was a small flying insect that had no digestive organs after breaking out of the cocoon. They could only live for half a day, and after half a day the accumulated energy was exhausted, they would die." Shur also squatted beside Dark, and the two enemies stared at the three-dimensional image together, "Is this thing similar?"
"Well, it's very likely, and it's considered male or female?" Dark's most concerned issue was a bit subtle difference from normal people. "Why can't I see its gender?"
"Yes, there is no reproductive system either." Shuer nodded, "It's not a sexual reproduction."
"Ha, man, this is a man." Militi smiled contemptuously like a queen, and suddenly slapped the table. "Do you have to put food and sex in your sad mind? Apart from these two things, can't you think of anything else? The most important thing in soul creatures is not as important as eating and sex?"
"I can't agree with this." Dark retorted seriously, "What else can be heavier than eating and sex...Oh."
"Brain." Shure took back the kicked Dark's foot, "It has no brain at all, but... the bugs may not have brains."
"Hmph, all." Militi sneered, recognizing Shure's discovery. "It's just not as obvious as other creatures. Their brains are actually formed by some nerves. However, this bug doesn't even have such a pitiful brain."
In the image, Militi was searching in detail the organs suspected to be in the corpse of the insect, but nothing was found except for a few slightly prominent ganglions that were necessary to control the body.
Chapter completed!