I Am the Swarm

He came to the hatching room deep in the ant nest, had a full meal, and then found a corner where ants rarely pass by to dig.

After digging out a small hole, turn around to seal the hole connecting it to the hatching room, and then continue to dig out.

Pheromone is really a good thing. After mastering its basic application, Rowan has discovered a variety of extended applications.

For example, the method of using marker pheromones as coordinates cannot be regarded as a new invention. Black ants have been able to use this method for a long time.

However, they can only receive this information by touching them at close range, while Rowan can sense the pheromone coordinate information left by him at a distance.

At this time, he digged towards a coordinate point he marked. This is the result of the labor of the previous two days and the transport team, the underground passage.

Since the underground passage was already very close to the ant nest, Rowan only took a short time to connect the newly excavated passage to this underground passage.

Climb into the underground passage, call on the transport team that was already waiting here, first move the soil in the newly excavated passage out of the passage, and Rowan used saliva to reinforce the new passage.

Then, a temporary storage room was dug out near the ant nest in the passage, and the transport team was on standby in the passage. Then, the connection between the storage room and the passage was sealed to clean up the pheromones left by the transport team here.

After doing this, Rowan returned to the hatching room of the ant nest and began to carry food from the inside to the temporary storage room dug just now.

Although ants passed by during the period, Rowan had proper identity information, so they didn't care.

After carrying enough food, Rowan sealed the connection between the passage and the hatching room, and spread some pheromones that were forbidden to approach.

Then open the connection between the storage room and the underground passage, and call the transport team to start carrying the food in the storage room back to the nest.

The plan went well, and the worm's nest was like a parasite on an ant's nest, and began to live a life of indolence and dislike of work.

Rowan was relieved from his busy hunting work at once, he didn't need to look for the lone scout worker ants, and he didn't need to perform Roche fighting techniques. Just carry some food into the pantry every once in a while.

Unfortunately, such days could not last.

The neighbors also have a population of thousands of people, and the amount of food consumed every day is also very amazing, and there is not much food that can be accumulated. This can be seen from the number of soldier ants. These special arms, which are not involved in production and are dedicated to fighting, are only supported by the number of thousands of ants in the ant nest.

But with these days, the number of worms in Rowan's nest has gradually increased, the food in the neighbor's hatching room has decreased significantly, and the black ants have obvious irritability, they can't figure out why the food is getting more and more few.

Rowan is also very anxious, these days are really comfortable, but the number of ants in his nest is increasing day by day. He has stopped the task of letting the mother nest directly hatch two adult ants per day. Except for hatching 10 eggs per day, the remaining resources are reserved for its own development.

Even so, in a few days, when the pupated larvae emerge, Rowan's nest will increase by about ten adult ants every day, and in addition, about ten eggs will hatch.

These mouths waiting to be fed will quickly increase the burden on the ant nest, and it will not take long for the ant nest to collapse. We must find a way.

But before he could think of it, Rowan was attracted by the yellow worms of the hatching worm. At this time, the ant nest has been regarded by Rowan as his own food production base, so these parasites are particularly unpleasant.

His mind turned slightly, and he came up with a solution. He didn't know whether it would work or not. Let's test it first.

Slowly crawling to the side of a yellow worm, the yellow worm that was feasting was not alert to Rowan's approach.

Rowan secretly spat at the yellow worm, then quickly moved away. This saliva contains a pheromone mixture, which is basically another ID card, except that it does not belong to the ant nest.

The hatching room is an important facility for the ant nest. The importance of it is self-evident that it continuously provides new labor for the ant nest.

A strange identity suddenly appeared in such an important place. Such a dangerous thing was quickly noticed by the surrounding worker ants who were feeding the larvae, and they surrounded the yellow worms, and several of them quickly moved towards the patrolling soldier ants. .

The yellow worm, who was enjoying the food, was unaware of the impending danger. The constant security environment had made it lose its alertness, and it could not imagine that there was a sinister villain like Rowan in worm skin.

The soldier ants in the distance began to move towards this side, and Rowan also saw the tyrannical combat power of this kind of combat weapon for the first time.

Two jaw teeth directly bite the unsuspecting yellow worm, one swings its head, and the yellow worm is divided into two parts. The vitality of the yellow worm is very tenacious, even so, its upper body can continue to move.

It's a pity that it has no chance to escape. In the blink of an eye, it is overwhelmed by many worker ants who have long been eyeing ~www.novelmt.com~ Luo Wen is a little scared to see it, and it is very flawed to rely on a perception function to identify the enemy and the enemy. too big. Fortunately, his hive has two sets of identification friend or foe systems. Otherwise, only relying on pheromone to identify, this loophole is too big, as long as a bug with the ability to change pheromone and a certain wisdom can destroy the entire ant nest from the inside.

It seems that there is only one bug like him that is both capable and smart at present, but the world is so big, who knows if any similar bugs have evolved.

After thinking about it, the two sets of IFF systems are not safe. When the ability is enhanced in the future, he must develop several more sets.

Just like the TV series I saw before, when human technology was not yet developed, we could only rely on the naked eye to distinguish the enemy from the enemy. Many people who are proficient in disguise can easily sneak into the enemy's camp. It was not until the development of science and technology that fingerprint recognition, pupil recognition, face recognition, DNA recognition, etc. came out, and this situation improved.

He must take these lessons from the past as a mirror.

However, it is still too early to think about these at this time. He already has two sets of identification systems, which are sufficient for the time being. This matter is not a high priority. The most important thing at this time is to clean up other yellow worms first, so as not to waste the food of the ant nest.

The other yellow worms did not respond to the death of their companions, they should eat and drink, as if they had nothing to do with them.

Rowan spit the fake breath on them in turn, and then watched as they were drowned by soldier ants and worker ants.

Cleaning up all the yellow worms not only reduces the consumption of a lot of food, but also contributes to the food reserves of the ant nest.

However, these are still a drop in the bucket. Facing the mother nest that is about to explode, the ant nest does not know how long it will be able to bear it.

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