He doesn''t know whether he is Li Yao or not, or even whether he is "he" or "it". He seems to have lost his logical thinking ability as an intelligent life, but there are some more things that can''t be described in words.


    He seems to be an egg, and it seems to be the aggregate of thousands of eggs. He can feel the temperature and humidity of the soil near countless eggs and the vibration of the eggs themselves at the same time. He can even get in touch with the adults on the ground, share the vision of the adults and see everything through some kind of telepathy or pheromone exchange.


    He saw that it was a vast, hot and fiery planet, full of incessant erupting volcanoes and thundering lead clouds. The star seemed to be very close to the planet, and the sun shone down like magma pouring down, bringing far more destruction than life.


    Few life can adapt to such a harsh environment, let alone evolve into civilized intelligent life.


    But his ethnic group is an extremely rare exception.


    He "saw" countless kilometers of black meteorites or starships burning, dragging gray plumes, tearing lead clouds, driving sunlight, diving into the atmosphere of the planet.


    However, they did not slow down to land, but sent out a huge roar in mid air, burst into countless spiral fragments.


    As soon as the debris fell to the ground, it spun at a high speed and went underground.


    A word appeared in the primitive chaotic consciousness of Li Yao, "explosion".


    He instantly understood the meaning of this picture, just like a blind man seeing the light for the first time, seeing the colorful world and receiving endless information.


    These black meteorite like warships are not cold vehicles, but the Houyi people themselves.


    Hundreds of millions of Houyi insects, just like hundreds of millions of cells, gather together to form a giant star ship life that can cross the sea of stars. With the mission of exploring the starry sky and finding a new habitat, they come to this new and primitive planet.


    The dark and cold universe is eroding the black beetles that make up the Starship all the time, making these beetles gradually come to the end of their lives.


    And the high temperature brought by the super high speed friction with the atmosphere is the last ray of life of these "living starships".


    As a result, after successfully bringing a large number of seeds containing genetic information into the atmosphere of this new habitable planet, the "starships" completed their mission and used their last strength to explode themselves one after another.


    Hundreds of millions of old beetles died in an instant, but hundreds of millions of seeds were also inspired by the shock wave and spread to every part of the planet.


    Li Yao quietly watched the fireworks of destruction and rebirth blooming above the lead cloud, and realized that there was no sadness or joy in the deep sea.


    All beetles are one. Countless beetles form a creature called "Houyi". The sacrifice of tens of millions of biological starships creates the hope of hatching new life. This is a very common metabolic process. It is neither tragic nor joyful. Besides, their situation is still precarious, We should not waste the slightest energy on happiness or moving.


    He, it, they, are just faithfully carrying out the mission that has been engraved into the depth of the gene chain, trying to absorb the heat of the sun and nutrients in the soil, constantly breeding and growing.


    Not all seeds are lucky.


    Many insect eggs were sown in the shallow soil too close to the ground, and were roasted by the hot sun like magma. Even the black crustaceans of Houyi clan could not resist such heat and turned into ashes.


    There are also a lot of insect eggs drilling too deep, all the way to the dark and cold depths of the strata, not enough heat and nutrients, and they will die there forever.


    Not to mention the indigenous people on this planet - although there are no huge higher organisms here, there are also fungi that feed on sunlight in the soil. These fungi have caused quite a lot of trouble to Li Yao''s "clansmen". The lightning like pheromone has brought the news of distant "clansmen". It is said that in a certain place, fungi have become a huge net and blanket, After swallowing the eggs of countless Houyi people, they had to adjust their genes in time to evolve the ability to resist the fungal infection, which greatly delayed their time to break out and occupy the whole planet.


    Fortunately, Li Yao is not buried deep or shallow, not high or low, not too wet or particularly dry. The sun is enough to provide him with abundant energy without burning his tender shell. There are no annoying fungi to disturb his growth. Volcanoes and earthquakes are still thousands of miles away from him. He can devote all his efforts to unlocking the secrets deep in the gene chain, From the "arsenal" to extract the same and the same new weapons to arm themselves.


    He has gone through a total of seven times of shelling. After each shelling, his body will expand once, and the newly grown carapace is branded with a brand new pattern for the radiation, wavelength and power ripple of the star.


    These patterns make him more powerful, and the efficiency of solar energy absorption and utilization has reached a new level. There are countless mottled images, which flash through his sea of knowledge. It seems that he can see thousands of Houyi people''s "biochemical star ships" crossing the sea of stars, and the highly developed Houyi people''s parent stars, row after row Skyscrapers are made up of small beetles, and even hundreds of millions of beetles come together to form things like "biochemical Super Brain".


    Li Yao gained unprecedented insight and understood the mission of this expedition.


    Only when the number of beetles reaches the limit and exceeds the critical point, can they construct complex structural maps such as warships, tall buildings and biochemical super brain, and can they be qualified to be called "civilization", and can they send back messages to the parent star to announce the "victory" of this expedition.


    Li Yao broke the ground and came out with thousands of people.


    He couldn''t even tell whether he was this little beetle or the aggregate of pheromone exchange among countless beetles nearby.


    He didn''t feel uncomfortable with the strong toxic air and too strong sunlight. In the long process of growing underground, his genes had been adjusted to suit the environment of this planet - Houyi people conquered many similar planets, which was not the worst one in the environment. There were many weapons in their gene pool to deal with the difficult situation.


    Even so, there are still countless people who die in the moment of breaking the ground.


    Death, poisoning, sun exposure, hypothermia, hunger, strange or common reasons - death needs no reason, survival needs it.


    Li Yao did not hesitate. At this time, his instinct was still far above his thinking ability. He struggled to wriggle his round body, clumsily waved his tender tentacles and devoured the bodies of his dead companions.


    This is a very critical moment. The whole wilderness is flooded by the black tide. The black tide makes a "click click" sound. Countless beetles are devouring the corpses of the dead, enhancing their own nutrients, struggling to resist the hot sun, wind and heavy rain, and striving to seize the slim life.


    In the wind and sun, Lee has experienced several times of shelling, and his body has become bigger and more beautiful.


    He grew a pair of sharp and tough big Ao, enough to finish the rocks on the planet; His carapace became more glossy and full of colorful patterns, which could reflect different wavelengths of light and become mysterious and complicated information; His abdomen grew a few pairs of redundant feet, and there were two parallel rows of holes in his chest - these organs also have their own secrets, but now he did not know.


    Suddenly, like a flash of lightning across his muddled sea of knowledge, he and thousands of people around him wake up - the season of cohesion is coming!


    Li Yao''s carapace radiates colorful light, transmitting the patterns imprinted on his body to all directions, looking for people who are suitable for matching with him.


    And all his clansmen did the same, just like searching for him.


    Soon, the two glittering patterns gathered together in mid air, and Li Yao struggled to climb towards a clansman, who also tried to respond to his call.


    Li Yao tightly fixed the ring groove between the other side''s waist with his abdominal redundant feet, and the other side also inserted the tentacle of his head into the hole in Li Yao''s chest, making a perfect fit.


    In a flash, Li Yao felt a shudder from the depths of genes. He felt that he had become more "complete". He shared the sea of knowledge with each other. All the gene pools that could not be opened were opened, and more information poured out like a surging tide.


    Unsatisfied, they - he is still unsatisfied, he still uses the pattern on his carapace to attract more beetles to join this "small group". After that, 12 beetles accepted his invitation and became a part of him. Some beetles acted as crawling parts, some as fighting and finishing parts, and some as digestion and energy storage parts, He instantly completed the leap from a low-level animal to a high-level animal, and became a tyrannical creature like a cancer.


    And he is not the biggest winner in this gathering season. Many beetles have successfully gathered hundreds of companions to form a "big group". They shape themselves into various and bizarre images. They are not limited by any rules. They just try to find out what form is most suitable for survival on this planet.


    The process of survival testing is brutal.


    Countless successful forms in the past have been proved not suitable for the environment of this planet. Those seemingly fierce "big groups" have collapsed one after another. Most of the beetles have died, and the remaining beetles have joined "small groups" such as Li Yao with the lessons of failure.


    However, a small number of condensed forms have been proved to be quite successful, and the "big groups" that make up these forms will also split orderly, bringing new successful forms to more "small groups".


    Even Li Yao died twice.


    He is not sure whether he should use "death" to describe his collapse. In a word, the shape that he finally condensed was proved not suitable for the survival of the planet and the finishing operation of rock strata. 90% of the beetles that made up his body died, but the remaining 10% of the beetles joined the new team with the most critical genetic information and integrated perfectly.


    Perhaps, for the individual of bee colony civilization, death is really a meaningless concept. If civilization is not destroyed, they will get eternal life.