I Am the Swarm

The worm nest is deep in the ground, and there is no digging foot. It is difficult for the ants to dig such a deep place just by relying on the body structure of the ants. Therefore, Rowan built another temporary nest above the worm's nest, which was used to transfer supplies, and it could also act as a blindfold to get a real and fake nest. This fake nest is the first defense of the real nest.

The distance from Ant Nest No. 1 to the Insect Nest is about 50 meters, which is roughly equivalent to the length of the smuggling channel of Ant Nest No. 2. Such a project is naturally no problem for Rowan, who already has experience.

It took a while to complete this passage, and the worm nest started stealing food from ant nest No. 1 again. With the support of two ant nests, the food reserves in Rowan's own worm nest began to increase at a speed visible to the naked eye, not only covering the hatching room, but even the storage room dug at the beginning began to accumulate some food.

After that, Rowan's daily work was to go to two ant nests early in the morning, carry enough food to the passage for the transport team's workload for a day, and then continue to expand the scope of the investigation.

After a period of time, Rowan's physique has grown enormously, and has reached the physique of the original black armor "God of War". Although there are no two giant jaws, the combat effectiveness is slightly inferior, but it is enough to single out the soldiers.

At this time, his physique was larger than that of Soldier Ant, and compared to his rounded physique, Soldier Ant's slender body looked a little thinner.

Aside from the unexpectedly sharper teeth, the soldier ant actually looks like a worker ant that has been magnified more than ten times. When its size is not dominant, it will naturally not be an opponent of Roche's martial arts.

Rowan set up a trap not far from Ant Nest No. 1, and led a large number of younger brothers to ambush there. Using the tactics of encircling and fighting, he led out a soldier ant. After a little effort, he killed it and harvested it. its genetic fragment.

At this time, there were already more than 200 adult black ants in the nest, and there were thousands of eggs, larvae, and pupae combined. It is worth mentioning that the ants with digging feet that were prepared in the second batch have already formed pupae, while the black beetles prepared in the first batch are still larvae, but they are larger than many adult black ants. Much bigger.

But it's understandable when you think about their template source, their adult body shape.

This time, the soldier ant template was harvested, but Rowan did not plan to hatch some. Their functions are similar to those of the Black Beetle, but their combat effectiveness is not small. Moreover, the soldier ants do not want to produce, and they consume a lot of food. It is meaningless to hatch a few.

When those black beetles grow up, the nest should also come out of the ground and occupy a territory.

However, before that, it is still necessary to quickly search for new ant nests. With the sharp increase in the number of insects in the nest, the supply of only two ant nests has been stretched.

A few days later, Rowan discovered a new ant nest more than 200 meters north of the nest. Immediately, he forged his identity information to sneak in.

The main road of the ant colony, which was originally quite spacious, seemed very narrow in front of his current size. If his size continues to grow, he will probably not be able to do espionage work in the future unless he widens the channel all the way in. It's just, I don't know whether his fake identity was still good at that time.

He had seen a soldier ant kill a worker ant when he was eating and drinking in the No. 2 hatchery of Ant Nest. That worker ant is definitely not a spy like him, but a serious aboriginal with legal status. Rowan has not yet figured out why he was attacked by the soldier ants.

However, this made him know that even ants in the same ant nest would attack each other, and over-trusting and relying on forged identity information would make him lose his due vigilance.

Since then, when he entered the ant nest again, he was not as careless as before, but cautious. However, as his size gradually swelled, the threats to him from the various units in the ant nest gradually decreased, and his mentality seemed to want to take off.

The newly discovered Ant Nest No. 3 is also a black ant, and its size is similar to that of Ant Nest No. 2, and no abnormal troops were found in it.

As usual, he gave a few mouthfuls of thick phlegm to the several yellow worms who were eating and drinking in it, then went home and ordered the troops and horses, and the excavation team started work in a mighty manner.

The route to Ant Nest No. 3 passes through the middle of Ant Nest No. 1 and No. 2. Going past the surface, you might encounter scouts from these two families, creating an uncertain risk for the transportation work.

So, this time Rowan planned to dig just above the worm's nest, and then dig a passage of more than 200 meters underground to directly connect the transfer station above the worm's nest to Ant Nest No. 3.

With Rowan's current size, as long as he digs according to his size, it will be a comfortable passage of height and width for the ants. As long as he opens the way in front of him alone, hundreds of ants in the back will continuously dig him to the soil transport cave behind him~www.novelmt.com~ Therefore, although this passage of more than 200 meters is the largest construction Rowan has started so far The project, but its completion speed may be much faster than the 50-meter passage of Ant Nest No. 2.

A few days later, a new species of ants with digging feet joined the team. The difference between digging feet and ordinary arthropods in transporting soil is like the difference between sweeping beans with a broom and picking up beans with hands, and the efficiency is clear at a glance.

Everything is going well, and with the help of digging ants, this new passage will also be completed ahead of schedule. But at this moment, the accident happened.

Rowan, who had been working for a day, returned first, and the excavation team had to clean up the soil in the passage, and they were still busy. The ground above the worm nest has been built with a mound more than half a meter high, which was carried out by the excavation team bit by bit from the passage.

Rowan climbed to the ground, planning to drink some sap first, and bring some for Hei Da by the way. The black beetle larvae that use the black big as a template have started to form pupae one after another in the past few days. I wonder if they are only vegetarian after breaking the pupae. But no matter what, he no longer destroys the roots and stems of plants, and begins to consciously protect the vegetation around the insect nest.

I was climbing on a plant, trying to find a branch with a delicate root. Suddenly, several moving khaki stains flashed out of the corner of his eyes.

He immediately became alert. With the growth of the worm nest, although it has not officially landed on the surface, there are basically no other living creatures around, let alone the rare khaki.

Rowan moved in that direction until these figures entered his clear vision.

Huo, this is really a narrow road for the enemy. These khaki figures are actually those desert ants who almost made him get the lunch earlier.

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