I Am the Swarm

After a very unfriendly exchange, the two sides launched a fierce battle. At the beginning, the two sides were evenly matched, but after all, this was the home court of others, and follow-up support came in a steady stream.

After a soldier ant arrived on the battlefield, the situation changed rapidly. This kind of special fighting unit dedicated to fighting rushed into the battlefield where a group of worker ants were fighting each other, just like a strong man breaking into a kindergarten, it was really invincible.

The soldier ants were rampaging in the transport team, and there was no enemy under them. In an instant, they killed the transport team to pieces.

Although the insects produced by the mother's nest are based on black ants, they look exactly the same as black ants. But I don't know why, the ant nest scout worker ants used more than a dozen, and when they couldn't beat them, they knew to escape. And the mother's nest produced these unexpectedly inexorable battles.

So, the convoy was wiped out.

Rowan discovered the anomaly the day after the incident.

On the night of the gang fight, Rowan returned to the worm's nest with the excavation team after dark. There are not many black ants in the nest now, but there are dozens of them, and they are all busy. To be honest, Rowan really didn't pay attention to the loss of so many ants. After going to drink some sap and feeding Hei Da with some sap, I went to the small room to rest.

It wasn't until Rowan woke up the next day that he was about to count the people and prepare to leave, only to find that the convoy did not return last night. Immediately, my heart skipped a beat, knowing that something had happened.

Rowan responded quickly, and after thinking a little, he noticed the loopholes left at the beginning, and guessed the facts closely.

So, he went out alone to check the situation. As soon as he went out, he ran into the scout worker ants before crawling out very far. It is estimated that they came along the traces of the transport team.

Rowan didn't scare the snake, and after sweeping away these traces, he rearranged new pheromones, indexing the line in the direction of Ant Nest No. 2. Whether the scouts on both sides will meet, then it is none of Rowan's business, anyway, he has already picked out the worm nest.

Climbing all the way to the exit of the smuggling channel, although I saw a lot of investigative worker ants on the road, Rowan had already changed his ID card at this time, even if he encountered it, it didn't matter.

The battle traces at the entrance of the passage confirmed Rowan's speculation that a large-scale team battle took place here. Although the battlefield has been cleaned up at this time, pheromones such as "enemy", "alert" and "battle" scattered everywhere still reveal a lot of information.

Instead of entering the passage, he climbed from the ground to the entrance of the ant nest, and Rowan swaggered into it. Later, he found the transport team in the incubation room, but they appeared in front of him in the state of various parts.

Rowan sighed, not knowing if Hei Er and Hei San were inside. Because black ants all look the same, as the number of black ants in the nest gradually increases, he can't tell which one is black two and three black.

However, he didn't have any sad feelings. Maybe after thousands of years, the memory of being a bug will gradually increase, and the memory of being a human will gradually be suppressed. But at this time, it didn't take long for him to transform into a bug, and he was still dominated by the human soul memory. At this time, it was difficult for him to have any feelings for a few bugs.

He never thought that these bugs were his own kind, they were just tools. He hatches them, feeds them, just to make himself more comfortable. His sigh at this time is more like a sigh of depression and self-criticism because he has not considered it carefully and suddenly lost many tools.

After eating and drinking in the incubation room, Rowan didn't stay too long, got up and climbed out of the ant nest and returned home.

Ant Nest No. 1 has been in too many dangers recently, so I didn't bring people here for a while, just to let them rest for a while to enrich their storage.

Now the main target is still Ant Nest No. 2, where the smuggling channel is not based on patrolling blind spots, and the security is higher. Moreover, it will be completed soon, and it will only take a day or two to work overtime. There is still some food reserves in the worm nest for the time being, and there is no problem in supporting it for a day or two.

Returning to his worm nest, he first went to the mother's nest to prepare some worm eggs. This time, the worm eggs were all based on the gene template of black ants, and then a pair of digging feet was added to them.

The transportation work on the ground is still too dangerous, and he needs a professional excavation team. In the future, he plans to dig a channel directly underground to connect Ant Nest No. 1 and No. 2 to his worm nest. This avoids dangerous situations on the ground.

And in the future, there may be No. 3, No. 4 or even more ant nests that need to be connected to the underground network. It is definitely not enough for him to dig by himself, which is not in line with his original intention. His original intention was to eat and sleep, to eat when he woke up, and to evolve while lying down, not to work for these tools.

Although he had such an idea for a long time, he was not too anxious before and wanted to wait for the success of the last experiment before making arrangements.

But suddenly encountering such an emergency, he had no choice but to advance the plan. Fortunately, although the previously prepared worm eggs have not hatched, they are still vigorous. It seems that it is only a matter of time before the larvae hatch.

This is also his confidence in advancing the plan. The worm eggs are still alive, proving that the plan is feasible.

Pointing the staff, Rowan set off with this group of unprofessional excavation teams. Now he is doing the excavation work alone. These ants are actually more responsible for transferring the soil dug out of the potholes. . Then there is the post-reinforcement work of some channels.

Just two days later, the smuggling channel of Ant Nest No. 2 was completed. Rowan, who was familiar with the forged ID card, sneaked into the incubation room, dug a temporary road together with the smuggling channel, and began to transfer food.

The food reserves in the worm's nest gradually increased, and Rowan deliberately dug out two storage rooms. Although it is not used yet, he believes that it will be used sooner or later.

As time passed, everything seemed to be in order. The worm eggs based on Hei Da finally hatched into larvae. The new larvae looked different from the ants. They were more like the white worms that Rowan encountered when he first arrived in this world.

Looking at the larvae in front of him, Rowan felt a little nostalgic, but the white worm helped him a lot back then. And hard work, no matter how he treats them. When his teeth were not very good, whenever a tree root stuck in front of them, they would bite him open without complaining, what a big good bug.

After a while, the larvae of the black-footed ants that were prepared for the second time also hatched from the eggs. They were very similar to ordinary ant larvae, and there was basically no big difference.

During this period of time, the number of bugs in the worm nest has steadily increased, not only making up for the lost number of transport teams, but also increasing a lot.

With sufficient manpower, Rowan took them to re-dig the smuggling channel of Ant Nest No. 1, this time connecting directly to the top of the nest from the ground.

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