Chapter 373 Insects

"You actually know so many plants." Si Luodeyi was surprised.

She did not see Yan Xia retrieve any data from the secondary brain. Although retrieving the secondary brain can be very secretive, she felt that Yan Xia did not do so, and there was no need to do so.

Yan Xia really relied on the memory of his own brain to find those things, which was amazing in Si Luodeyi's opinion.

Besides, Yan Xia is a biologist, not a botanist.

Although plants are also included in biology, biologists study not only plants, but also animals, cells, microorganisms, drugs and other things. If a person says that he is a pharmacologist, then he is likely to only study drugs, and if someone says that he is a biologist, then he studies all of the above.

Biologists are often not so proficient in each item. Sometimes you ask a ranking scholar in biology, and it may not recognize some plants or even animals. This is normal.

So in Si Luodeyi's opinion, Yan Xia may be a biologist who mainly studies plants.

This is actually somewhat different from a botanist. The research direction of a pure botanist is to understand everything about plants, while the research direction of a plant-oriented biologist is to change plants in other ways, or whether this plant can be used in other aspects.

"I just dabbled in it a little bit." Yan Xia said modestly.

In fact, because he has a much longer lifespan and research time than ordinary people, his basic skills are very strong.

This is not actually an advantage, because many projects do not require too much knowledge.

Sometimes scholars who know less in a certain field can let go and make some attempts.

Yan Xia went deep into the jungle here.

The jungle of Xinglu is not that tall, but relatively short. Many trees are not even 50 meters high, and the tallest is less than 100 meters.

Yan Xia took Si Luodeyi to walk in the jungle, and it was soon night.

The night here is very quiet, without the hustle and bustle of the city.

Yan Xia found that there are very few animals here, and he did not find one in a day.

As the night deepened, it seemed that something began to revive. With the first chirping, the whole forest began to become lively.

"Is this the sound of insects?"

Yan Xia saw some bright lights appearing in the forest. Those lights were emitted by insects like fireflies. They were very small, even only half the size of fireflies.

"Are there insects here?"

There are no insects in the Federation. The insect race has long disappeared with the destruction of the earth.

As for the Zerg in the current Federation.

And the Zerg are generally hundreds of meters long, and even tens of meters are rare.

But here there are real insects. Although it is definitely not the same species as the insects on Earth, it is obvious that it also participates in the ecological construction here.

"Is there a complete ecological chain here?"

Yan Xia thought of this possibility.

Ella usually doesn't deliberately let him go to a certain place, but this time Ella asked it to come here, it must be because there is something special here.

Sure enough, if this is a real ecosystem, it can really interest him.

Biology does not actually need to specifically study those large Zerg, nor is it necessary to create those dragons and phoenixes. Biology can dig out treasures anywhere. This is a huge treasure house for Yan Xia.

Yan Xia began to observe everything here carefully.

Then he found something different.

There are a lot of algae on the ground here, and the algae are also different. He found that three kinds of algae live together in the same pool.

There are also fungi, scimitars, beamworms, and arthropods...

Many species are new species of the Federation. Even if they have the same name as some species on Earth, they are just somewhat similar to those species on Earth and use the same name. In fact, the Federation has already developed a different set of botany.

For example, beamworms are actually a group of flocculent life forms floating in the wind, but they emit some fluorescence, because they move quickly when the wind blows, and it feels like a stream of light passing by, so it is called beamworms.

Yan Xia took out a small microscope of his own and began to observe.

This microscope is about the size of a thumb, like a monocular telescope. It is electronic, not optical, and can magnify objects about 1,000 times.

Yan Xia took the microscope and began to observe around, and then he found that the insect population on this star land was more than he imagined.

Some insects are even the size of mites, or even smaller.

The most notable feature of insects is the distinction of their bodies. The insect body consists of a head, thorax and abdomen, and also has a pair of antennae. These are insects. These petite insects are very interesting. They lie on leaves in clusters, treating a leaf as their own small ecosystem.

Yan Xia found that they were like ants, only the queen insect had wings, and the other insect workers did not.

He studied carefully, and a shout came from Si Luodeyi.

"This is actually a bug?"

Yan Xia looked over there, and saw a group of bugs flying around Si Luodeyi like a black cloud, as if they wanted to attack her, but the flesh of the citizens of the Federation could not be penetrated by these small bugs.

Even the fragile eyes are actually very tough, and even if these bugs enter the body, they will be killed quickly.

The group of insects attacked for a while and then moved away after finding it useless. When they arrived at a place, they turned into a stone.

It was a stone that looked normal at first glance.

Yan Xia walked over, and plasma appeared in his palm to bind the insects. He carefully studied the insects and found that the length of these insects was only about 0.2~0.3mm, which was too small.

Each insect had an exaggerated upper jaw for attacking. They looked like a smaller and fatter version of a stag beetle.

What surprised Yan Xia was that many insects in this swarm looked different. It can be seen that they are of the same species, but some of them have mutated.

He used his secondary brain to analyze it. There are about 1.3 trillion insects in this swarm, which was beyond Yan Xia's expectation.

It's just such a small swarm.

It is estimated that there is no swarm larger than this one, not even the Zerg unit, because if the Zerg divides the swarm according to the brain worm, in fact, each brain worm now controls only about 200 billion with the help of technology.

The huge number provides the possibility for the swarm to mutate.

Any genetic change is enough to cause a drastic change in their petite bodies.

Isn't this a smaller version of the Zerg?

Yan Xia suddenly thought of a plan.

The Zerg are all growing bigger, but why not smaller? What he needs is genes. The Zerg itself appeared because it needed to participate in battles, but the Zerg can also accommodate the existence of these small bugs.

What if these small bugs are turned into robots in the body of the Zerg?

He is very interested in this!