I Am the Swarm

It was a black ant, which seemed to be a scout among them. At this moment, it was alone, crawling forward aimlessly, touching this and then with its tentacles from time to time.

Rowan slowly approached it and observed its surrounding environment. In the direction it came from, there were gradually more ants, and there were seven or eight in Rowan's field of vision.

However, this suspected pathfinder ant, the nearest black ant companion is also two meters away.

This distance is already a long distance for ants, and it is difficult for the two sides to communicate in time.

Rowan's eyes locked on it, and the distance of more than ten meters between the two sides was rapidly shortening.

Even in the fast crawling, Rowan did not let his guard down, and he escaped the trap of a stinky earthworm in the middle.

Except for the first time I was a little unclear, I was attacked at close range once. They're easy to spot if you're prepared later.

Because there is a small vortex of sediment where they dig traps, Rowan, who has a keen eye, notices these anomalies in advance.

This ant is much smaller than Rowan, which is his favorite type.

As Rowan approached, the black ant finally discovered the abnormality, and the tentacles swayed wildly. But it was too late, Rowan was already close at hand, and a stout digging foot had hit its head.

These black ants praise them for their poor eyesight. They mainly rely on the olfactory organs on their tentacles to find food. At this time, he was bullied by the well-prepared Rowan, and suddenly he only had to be beaten.

Before the black ant was stunned by the heavy blow of the digging foot, Rowan bit off one of its hind limbs in one bite.

The other arthropods of the black ants quickly rubbed on the ground to make some subtle sounds, as if they were calling for help. It's a pity that even the ants closest to it at this time have no abnormal response to the situation here, and it seems that they can't receive the distress signal here.

There was no response to the call for help, and the black ant could only resist on its own. Unfortunately, both its size and tonnage were suppressed by Rowan, and it was much weaker than the natural yellow ants that Rowan encountered before. The front teeth are also much smaller, making it difficult to pose a threat to Rowan's armor.

Although ants have always been called Hercules, it is said that if an ant grows to the size of a human, its strength can far exceed that of a human. But now everyone is a bug, who hasn't ordered exoskeleton armor or something.

After several battles, the black ant lost two more arthropods. It only then remembered to escape, but unfortunately it was too late. With only three legs left, it was difficult to maintain its balance, let alone move at high speed.

Originally it could still struggle twice, although the result would not change. But as soon as he ran away and turned his back towards Rowan, it saved him a lot of effort.

He easily caught up with the lame black ant from behind, and pinched its slender waist with digging feet. The black ants twisted their bodies hard and tried to attack Rowan with the pair of incisors, but they couldn't penetrate the armor of the excavating feet at all.

After restraining the black ant, Rowan made a headgear with a bit of mud with saliva to seal the ant's mouth. It was then dragged away from the attack site before burrowing away.

After digging for a while, he found a passage that he dug in advance. In the passage, Rowan dragged the black ant and quickly crawled towards the underground room. During the period, although the black ant has been stubbornly resisting, it has no threat to Rowan with its front teeth sealed.

When approaching the room, Rowan stopped, put the ants on the ground of the passage, blocked the passage when they came, and forced the ants towards the underground room.

The black ant had already been frightened by Rowan, and he didn't have the slightest idea of ​​hitting the passage behind him.

After the black ant climbed out of the passage, it was suspended in the air, and its three limbs could not fix its body. So, with a click, it fell out of the passage and fell to the floor of the huge cave.

The black beetle, who was wandering in the room, suddenly stopped in alert, and its tentacles began to probe towards the place where the ants fell.

In the dark cave, the function of the visual organ is reduced to the limit. If there is no mutant compound eye like Rowan, you can't see anything at all.

At this time, the perception of sound is amplified several times.

Compared with ants, black beetles have a much larger body, and the sound and vibration of moving on the ground are also detected by black ants at this time.

Its tentacles also probed in the direction of the black beetle, so the tentacles of the two sides collided in the air.

After a while of entanglement, both sides came to the conclusion that the other party was not a familiar worm, and before the black ant could respond, a pair of giant jaws with spikes had already stretched out, and forcefully pinched it off. body.

The vitality of the black ant is very tenacious. Even if it is broken into two sections, it is still struggling, and its tentacles are swaying wildly. The intruder was not dead yet, indicating that the battle was not over yet, and the giant jaws of the black beetle stretched out again.

After the giant jaws opened and closed several times, the scene was already very difficult to describe. Some unknown liquid sticks to the giant jaw, the invasion crisis has been lifted, and the black beetle is walking again.

Rowan, who was observing secretly, nodded with satisfaction. The experimental results were not bad. Although the black beetle can't communicate, it can really take care of the home, so he can safely hand over the vigilance of this room to it in the future.

Climbing into the cave, the indescribable fragmentation on the ground made Rowan have no appetite, and the black beetle is a vegetarian, but there is one person here who doesn't dislike these.

After tidying up casually, he fed some as complete as possible to the mother's nest~www.novelmt.com~ Rowan went to bite off a piece of tree root and dragged it back to reward the black beetle.

The black beetle didn't have any complacent emotions, as if doing all this was a matter of course, and it was also natural for Rowan to provide it with food.

Rowan feels that he gets angry every time he sees this stupid bug.

He is not a vengeful person. When the supplies become more abundant, he must bring this worm back to the furnace.

With the black beetle guarding the house, Rowan was ready to go out again after a short rest. There were so many black ants found in that direction just now, indicating that there was an ant nest nearby, and he needed to check it out and get to know the neighbor.

A few days later, Rowan lay in the cave thinking about insects. Due to the absorption of some genes of the black beetle, his body size has grown a little in the past few days, successfully growing from the size of a fingernail to the size of a one-dollar coin.

So some of the passages he dug originally were a bit small. Today, he widened them all a bit and just finished his work.

This cave seems to be in use for a while, and it is his old lair for the time being.

After these days of patrolling, he has already explored the 100-meter radius.

Lone travelers come and go in a hurry. Maybe if you see them today, you won't know where they're going tomorrow. Don't worry too much about them.

The biggest threat to his old nest is the only resident neighbor, the black ant nest more than 50 meters away from his old nest.

The scale of this ant nest is quite large, but for the time being, there is no need to worry too much. Because the farthest point the scouts they sent were more than ten meters away from Rowan's nest.

And recently, the scouts they sent to Rowan's lair have always disappeared inexplicably.

So, they have reduced the number of scouts sent in this direction.

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