I Am the Swarm

This practice made Rowan complain again and again. He now needs to run a longer distance to hunt those lone black ants and drag them back to the cave, which increases his workload a lot.

But these are all worth it. After these days of meat feeding, the mother hive has finally recovered its vitality and can be hatched again.

Rowan has been thinking about whether the last operation was correct.

Direct hatching of adult worms is somewhat of a loss. Hatches a mature black beetle, although it takes two days to cross the process from egg to larva to adult.

Rowan didn't know whether the black beetle had a stage of pupa formation. If there was, it would have crossed four full stages.

Although it is possible to directly harvest the combat power of a mature body, the price is too high. Its huge body is completely completed by absorbing the blood of the mother hive.

Following this line of thinking, Rowan speculates that if the mother nests are directly allowed to produce eggs and let them hatch and grow by themselves, will it consume a lot less?

This guess is not without basis. By feeding the tree roots non-stop these past few days, he found that the black beetle has also grown a little.

Because of the size of the mother's nest, the hatched black beetle was far from its normal size.

Originally, Rowan thought that the black beetle was like a product that came off an assembly line. At the moment of leaving the factory, various parameters have been finalized. But he still underestimated the mother's nest. Now this is not the mechanical technology he is familiar with, but a brand-new biological technology, which contains many impossibles.

It was by observing that the black beetle could still develop normally that he had some idea of ​​the correct usage of the mother nest.

This time, he will try to make the mother nest produce a worm egg. There are no fancy gene fragments in the worm egg, and it is completely copied from the genes of black ants.

He wants to hatch a black ant egg, and by the way, test whether it carries an interactive system.

Things went very smoothly. The mother nest easily produced a small worm egg, which seemed to have no effect on itself.

Rowan was very excited, which proved his previous speculation that the correct use of the brood should be to produce eggs, and then let them mature slowly on their own.

But reality poured cold water on Rowan right away.

Looking at the little yellowish worm eggs in front of him, Rowan was worried. He had no experience in caring for worm eggs. Not sure how to make them hatch.

This made him feel that he was sloppy, and before he could think of a remedy, the black beetle roaming around the room stepped on the eggs with one foot. The sharp hook claws cut through the eggs directly, and the liquid inside flowed all over the place.

Rowan was a little stunned, the black beetle didn't have his eyes that could see in the dark. It completely relies on sound and vibration to perceive the surroundings. The egg has been stationary since it was born. In addition, the size of the black beetle is too small. Rowan was thinking about the problem and didn't pay attention. Various factors led to the occurrence of this tragedy...

The black beetle didn't feel anything, didn't know what he stepped on, and continued to walk. Rowan didn't move either. He couldn't save anything now. Besides, it was just a bug, and he didn't have any feelings.

However, this incident also caused him to think a little.

Although the mother nest is an individual evolved from him and separated from it. But the worms produced by the mother's nest are not Efiash. This is Rowan's conclusion by looking at black beetles and eggs.

If Efi Ash could be bred in this way, they would have long since become a breed of rotten streets, and would not be so rare at all.

The bugs produced by the mother nest are more like some kind of machine, a living machine, and the machine has to perform certain tasks. Of course, whether they have other characteristics, it is impossible to draw conclusions due to too few observation samples.

Therefore, the eggs produced by the mother's hive cannot be as indestructible as the eggs of Ifeish. They are still fragile and need some care.

And the manpower to take care of them, the black beetle is obviously not a good choice, Rowan can't command it, it will only patrol around the mother nest mechanically.

After thinking about it for a while, Rowan had an idea.

Touched the mother nest and issued a production order.

Half a day later, two miniature black ants were spit out by the mother nest. This time, the hive was just a little weaker, and it didn't seem to be leaking like last time.

This time, Rowan learned his experience and blocked the two ants with his body when they were still in the weak stage of birth. In this way, when the black beetle encounters Rowan, it will change its patrol direction.

Although the black ants are a miniature version, they are also much larger than the eggs. After a little bit of adaptation, they got up from the ground one after another.

The two ants touched each other with their tentacles, as if they were doing some communication.

Luo Wen looked a little confused from the side, his head hurt a little, what's the situation? Do they bring an interactive system, but they don't have it?

But soon, it seemed that he was stimulated by some kind of stimulation, and a hidden ability he had previously awakened.

This ability seems to be the dormancy that evolved from the hive, and it evolved along with the hive. It seems to secrete something, and now I think it should be a pheromone, but there is no communication partner before, this ability is hidden.

After awakening, Rowan immediately understood what the two ants were expressing. They were expressing a confused emotion, as if they didn't know what to do and were waiting for instructions.

They smear the pheromone that expresses this meaning on their bodies, on their antennae, and then other ants receive these messages through the contact of the antennae.

However, Rowan can directly "see" or "smell" or "perceive" the meaning of the information, omitting the touch of the tentacles. It seems that some gene fragments play a role, specifically how to do it He didn't know when he arrived, it seemed that it should be like this. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

Rowan did not continue to struggle with this issue, he has been attracted by this novel way of communication.

After a period of testing, he also learned this method of communicating with pheromones. He merged the meaning of "follow me" into the pheromones, and then radiated their breath.

The two ants seemed to feel something, moved to Rowan's side, touched his body with their tentacles, and then stood obediently behind him.

"It's interesting." Rowan secretly said.

Then he crawled into a passage with two ants and issued a new command, "Dig together."

Then, in the passage, three little worms began to dig soil.

"You guys go dig over there." Rowan tried to give a more complicated command.

After the two ants received the new instruction, they sent out pheromones with a confused meaning, not knowing what it meant.

"Damn it, I don't understand it? Your IQ is a little worrying."

Rowan let one of them stay in place again, and then took the other to a slightly farther place, and gave him the order to "go and call the one over there".

This time, the ants understood, Pidianpidian crawled to the side of another ant, and the two ants intertwined their tentacles and communicated for a while. The other ant did not have the slightest doubt, and the two ants returned to Rowan together.

After some tests, Rowan has a certain understanding of the scope of the command.

There must be a clear goal for the ants to understand what it means.

For example, with the command "go over there", the ants will be confused. Because they can't understand which side is over there. But if it is the command of "return to the nest", they can understand it and can complete the task perfectly according to the command.

And now, he needs to perform some other tests.

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