I Am the Swarm

Rowan has far underestimated his sleep time this time.

Although he is an extraordinary species in other worlds, some special talents are normal.

But after all, the environment has changed, the talent has mutated, and it is beyond his control.

After losing Rowan's swarm navy, after raging around the coastline for a period of time, due to lack of fertility, it gradually withdrew from the stage of history.

Some arthropods and crustaceans have re-occupied here.

At the same time, fish in the deep sea gradually appeared in the shallow sea, and even wanted to march towards the land.

But they are not the opponents of crustaceans and arthropods with armor and sharp weapons. Although they are flexible, they still belong to the bottom of the food chain.

On land, due to the destructive sweep of insect swarms, a large number of creatures were wiped out, and even insect eggs were not left, and the ecosystem was severely damaged.

But the collective disappearance of the bugs, and the plants that have lost their checks and balances have gained an opportunity for development.

Plants become more and more dense, a large amount of carbon dioxide in the air is absorbed, and carbon elements are deposited with the death of plants.

There is less and less carbon in the atmosphere, and the surface temperature is getting lower and lower.

Vegetation withers, life withers.

The planet is gradually covered by frost.

Rowan, who was supposed to wake up at this time, ate a frozen bug. There is a super dormant gene in the worm, which is activated by Rowan's state and the surrounding environment at this time...

Rowan fell into hibernation again, and this time more thoroughly.

Time flies, and the planet covered with a thick ice crust finally erupted into a volcano because the energy accumulated in the ground was too much to be released.

Countless underground substances broke through the ice and rose into the sky. And a lot of carbon is released with these substances.

The sky was covered by a large amount of floating volcanic ash, and the planet that was supposed to cool down again because the sunlight was blocked, but because of the massive volcanic eruptions at this time, the temperature continued to rise.

The thick ice shell began to melt, turning into water vapor and rising high into the sky.

At high altitudes, the water vapor cools and falls back to the earth, carrying volcanic ash.

Volcanic ash contains rich minerals and nutrients in the mantle, which have been accumulated for a long time.

The life suppressed by the temperature begins to revel, this is a rain of life.

A large amount of vegetation absorbs abundant mantle nutrients, rises from the ground, and releases a large amount of oxygen.

On the planet, the concentration of oxygen continues to rise.

The creatures in the ocean began to move towards the land again, and a special fish in the deep sea took the opportunity to land.

The original **** of crustaceans and arthropods has completely changed with the arrival of this fish.

This kind of fish has a kind of black technology that crosses the era - spine.

Animals with vertebrae continue to grow in size with the help of the oxygen-enhanced environment.

On the contrary, it is crustaceans and arthropods, although in an oxygen-rich environment, the respiratory system is no longer the main reason for their size expansion.

However, due to the exoskeleton armor covered on the body, if you want to increase your body size, you have to shed skin constantly.

In the primitive environment, a lot of physical exertion during molting, and the weak period after molting are all ways to die.

In the pursuit of giant crustaceans and arthropods, only some of them have a small amount of success in the depths of the sea, and all of them on land have failed without exception.

After the failure, the crustaceans and arthropods still have hard armor and sharp weapons due to their size, and their living space is constantly squeezed by the increasingly huge vertebrates, and gradually reduced to the bottom of the food chain.

Some vertebrates are no longer developing towards large size, they are small and gradually occupy the ecological niche of insects.

And some other vertebrates pursue a larger size by virtue of abundant oxygen. Some species even begin to have thick cuticles attached to their bodies, comparable to exoskeleton armor.

For some insects whose living space is squeezed, one day the carapace opens, and one or several pairs of wings stretch out under the carapace. These wings are completely out of nothing, making them one of the few successful cases in evolutionary history.

Their sudden take-off has redeveloped a blank ecological niche.

The insects who have acquired the ability to fly have regained their place on the planet with their unique talents.

Some insects have given up much of their armor, including the solid carapace and other parts, to gain size.

Soon afterward, vertebrates also learned to fly. Unlike insect wings, they specialize their forelimbs into wings.

Relying on the advantages of body size, the vertebrates just flew together, and they became the new air overlords by flying higher and farther.

In this regard, vertebrates occupy the land and the sky. Only in the ocean, there are some large crustaceans and arthropods that can occupy a little place.

(This ecological evolution is located on an unknown planet, any similarity is purely coincidental.)

A green beetle of two or three centimeters, flapping its wings quickly, was looking for food in a low weed bush.

The wings are transparent and weak, and the inner lines are clearly visible.

There was a very big earthquake just around here, the original surface environment was destroyed, and the familiar hunting grounds could no longer be found~www.novelmt.com~ I can only try my luck in this unfamiliar place.

Suddenly, a long flesh-colored object flashed past, and the green beetle disappeared.

And not far from where the incident happened just now, a huge frog with a height of twenty centimeters and a dark green body was shrugging its eyelids and swallowing something.

After finishing the job, I made a few satisfied "guquas", and the eardrum became bigger and shrunk, and with the lazy facial expression, it seemed very comfortable.

A frog's ear grows behind its eyes, like a button from a distance.

At this time, its sensitive ears seemed to hear something strange. But it didn't move. Its eye structure was special, and its dynamic vision was very powerful. It was confident that no creature could sneak up on it.

Blind self-confidence made it die.

A violent wind sounded, and it seemed that something was attacking it rapidly, and its ears were sensitive to catch this crisis.

But when the frog just stretched its hind legs and was about to jump away, it was like being hit by an unknown weapon. The huge impact pressed its entire body into the mud.

In a blink of an eye, the culprit revealed his figure. At this time, he could finally see its true colors.

At this time, a huge and mighty pincer-like limb was covered with dense and tiny pits, like a meteor crater. The pit is full of tiny fluff.

At this time, its tip is poking into the frog's body. Although the frog has not died, the injury is only a matter of time.

Looking back along the claws, its owner is a huge beetle with a body length of sixty centimeters. Even in this oxygen-rich environment, insects of this size are rarely seen on land.

In addition to a pair of huge claws, he actually has eight spider-like legs. The peculiar combination makes him very unusual, and he can be called a handsome boy in the insect world.

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