I Am the Swarm

All the way to Ant Nest No. 1, I carefully dug out the wall of the hatching room in the nest.

Luo Wen didn't rush in to investigate, but waited for a while. A khaki ant heard the movement and stuck his head out of the hole. Before he could see clearly, he was terminated by a move by Luo Shi.

Just as he dragged its juice-splattered corpse into the passage, another khaki-yellow round head couldn't wait to get out. Rowan was not polite, blasted it, and dragged it out of the hole.

Following the same method, he has been killing five khaki ants who came to investigate. After waiting for a long time, no more heads came out of the hole.

Rowan then poked his head into it.

Although he had already guessed in his heart when he saw the yellow ants, but when he saw the scene in front of him, he still took a deep breath.

The cave was clean, and the soldier ants, worker ants, larvae, insect eggs and food scraps in it all disappeared, and even the walls seemed to have been scraped off several layers.

Rowan didn't go in, so he took a peek at his face. The hatching room was so cleanly shaved that there was no need to check the rest of the ant nest. It was estimated that even the queen ants were already in trouble.

Returning to the worm's nest on the original road, No. 2 and No. 3 of the ant's nest can not be directly passed from the ground, and there is a section of road that needs to pass through the surface. He pondered for a while, and finally decided to take the risk and go check it out.

Some troubles encountered on the road were solved by Rowan, and it took some time to complete the exploration of the two ant nests.

Although they are both larger than Nest One, with thousands of members. But not to mention that the individual combat power of the black ants is not comparable to that of the natural yellow ants, and even the pure numbers are crushed, and they are simply unable to resist in front of the army of millions of natural yellow ants.

So their endings are exactly the same as Ant Nest No. 1.

He found a few natural yellow ants that stayed here, and Luo Wen's heart was a little heavy, and he was in big trouble.

Although his worm nest is developing rapidly now, it is based on the continuous blood-sucking from the ant nests. Now that the granary has been destroyed, it is no longer easy to feed such a large colony of bugs.

But now the situation is even worse. If only the granary is gone, then with the current number of adult worms in the nest, they will go out to look for food, and then temporarily stop the laying of eggs in the mother nest. After a large number of larvae are mature, the nest can start to expand and develop again.

However, the premise of all this is that food can be found in the wild, but considering that the surface of the sky is three feet high, this plan will definitely not work.

Rowan planned to go back and explore the surrounding area to see how big the area that the khaki ant army was afflicting was. It was really impossible, and the nest might have to be relocated.

He dragged the corpses of a few natural yellow ants and returned to the worm's nest. Now every bit of food is very precious and cannot be wasted in the slightest.

Connect to the mother's nest and issue an order to save energy and temporarily stop laying eggs. Although he has grown rapidly since he had a steady source of food, the brood is now a bit bigger than him.

It shouldn't be a problem for him to drag the mother's nest now, but the mother's nest has no legs and no reels. If the dragging time is too long, it will definitely cause a certain degree of abrasion at the bottom of the mother nest.

If you want to move the nest, the mother nest must be taken away, then you must find something to put it under it. Otherwise, the mother nest cannot withstand dragging too long.

He also issued an order to many insects to halve their daily food and forbid going out. Rowan hurriedly crawled out of the insect nest and went around to investigate.

After half a day, he realized that he had far underestimated the number of the natural yellow ant army, and they were far more than tens of millions.

Because of the places where the army of natural yellow ants passed by, it was very easy to identify the landforms that were completely different from the previous ones. Under this landscape, many dangers have been eliminated.

It was also the first time that Rowan let go of his speed and ran with the maximum code force. The sporadic natural yellow ants he encountered on the road were also mainly avoided, without too much entanglement.

With the insect nest as the center, he continued to expand the scope of exploration. However, in half a day, Rowan ran all over the surrounding land for about a kilometer, but still did not get out of the ravaged range of the army of natural yellow ants.

At this time, the sky was already slightly bright, and Rowan returned to the worm's nest, took a break, and straightened his thoughts by the way.

He was able to search a one-kilometer radius in half a day, depending on a few points.

One is the super-far vision distance. His glasses have been improving all the time. At present, he can achieve a clear vision of about 30 meters. It may not be worth mentioning among humans, but it is definitely one of the best clairvoyants among insects.

The second is to rely on the geographical advantage created by the yellow ants. Their style of scraping the ground has eliminated the risk of hiding many things underground. In addition to some tall trees, even the turf has been cleaned, so there are few obstructions, which is very conducive to long-distance observation.

The third is that he is relatively large and has large steps, so he can crawl fast and his physical strength is not bad. Even an ordinary ant would not be able to search a 100-meter area in a week.

Fourth, he just looked at it carelessly, but didn't search carefully. The purpose of his investigation was not to find anything in this area, but to see how much the khaki ants had caused the scourge. The place where they scourge is definitely not enough food to support the survival and development of the nest.

All kinds of points added up to allow him to explore such a large area for half a day. Other bugs in the hive are absolutely unable to replicate his achievements.

That is to say, there is no food source within a radius of at least one kilometer, and no matter how far the distance is, it is too far for other insects, so migrating insect nests is imperative.

And the new nesting site still needs him to continue to explore. The main problem now is to know how many places the khaki ant army has ravaged. If you still follow today's loop-type exploration mode, the efficiency is too poor.

You must choose a direction to go straight ahead, and get out of this desert with the shortest time and the least distance, which is also conducive to the migration of the worm nest.

After thinking for a while, Rowan decided to start exploring in the direction of the underground riverbed. At first, he found it all the way from the desert along the underground riverbed.

Water is the source of life. Only by following the source of water can we find the next prosperous place as quickly as possible.

Now that a decision has been made, it is not too late. Although there are still some reserves of food in the nest, if the rations of the insects are halved, they can still support them for a few more days.

But after all, there is no replenishment. It is water without a source and a tree without roots, and it will always be exhausted. He went out to explore this time, and he would not be able to return until there was no result, so he didn't know how long it would take and when he would be able to return. If it takes too long, the bugs may not be able to last until then.

Therefore, you can't waste a minute and a second, and you can save the nest to the greatest extent by going back quickly.

The room of the mother's nest was sealed off, and the bugs were strictly ordered to approach.

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