I Am the Swarm

Seeing the special talent displayed by this bug, Rowan's eyes could shine, and he hurriedly jumped off the tree trunk.

The worm plunged into the grass and disappeared. If Rowan hadn't blinked and stared at it from just now, he might have let it run away.

At this time, the advantage of body size was manifested. Rowan entered a tank all the way, and rushed straight towards the bug. All obstacles on the road were ignored and run over directly.

Although the color of the bug keeps changing as it crawls quickly, it is inconsistent with the color of the surrounding environment, making it difficult to detect.

It's a pity that it doesn't have the strong hind legs like a grasshopper. It had already been locked in, and Rowan chased after it just through a few gaps in the weeds.

A long stride stretched out like lightning, stuck to its back armor, and dragged it to Rowan.

Two digging feet came from the sky and held them down. Although they struggled hard, it was of no avail. The gap in strength could not be made up.

A pair of big teeth clamped on it, up and down, and the worm gradually stopped struggling.

Fresh ingredients often need to be eaten in time, and Rowan didn't move. After a full meal on the spot, he returned to the bedroom to rest.

After waking up, he was able to glimpse the secret of the color-changing bug.

The surface of Rowan's exoskeleton armor is covered with a layer of very fine and dense scales.

In the epidermal cells of the scales, many nano-scale lenses grow, forming a special kind of pigment cells. These cells can reflect different wavelengths of light by controlling the spacing between the lenses in them.

They can quickly and automatically adjust according to the surrounding environment, so that the scales reflect the same light as the surrounding material, so as to deceive the observer and achieve the purpose of hiding themselves.

This new ability is very targeted, and it is very restrained by Rowan's clairvoyance.

The eye is a very complex and dexterous optical system, and it is also a very important observation organ. It can perceive light and project these light into the light-sensitive retina for imaging, which is then converted into a special signal and transmitted to the brain.

Light contains many colors, and how many of them can be seen depends on the type of photoreceptors in the biological eyes. The human eye contains three different colored photoreceptors, so humans can see three primary colors, while dogs only have two.

Rowan's eyes are much more complex, and he can see more primary colors. He can't tell exactly how many colors he can see. By mixing primary colors in different proportions, many new colors can be created, but these are not primary colors.

He is comparing with his previous life. The scene he sees now is much richer than before. For example, he can see a very special light. Through it, although Rowan cannot see the sun and moon of the planet, he can determine their orientation and can use it to navigate.

Since he turned into a bug, his road blindness has been cured, thanks to this special light.

However, even if he can see more kinds of light, he will be restrained by this new ability.

Because this new ability completely mimics the reflected light of the surrounding environment, no matter how many of them the observer can receive, they won't see any difference.

Just like before, Rowan could only see through the layering of the space that there was another worm-shaped bark lying on the bark. Simply by eye, you can't tell the difference between them at all.

But through brain analysis, it can be analyzed that it is a bug.

But all of this is based on knowing in advance that there is an anomaly there. If the worker ants hadn't discovered the anomaly, he wouldn't be able to find anything even by staring at it for a day.

However, although this ability is very targeted, its weaknesses are also very obvious. For example, creatures like ants, which basically do not use their eyes to observe the world, have the feeling of dancing for the blind.

It is very easy to be seen through, and this bug is also very upright and overconfident in his own abilities. They were all surrounded and didn't believe that they had been exposed, and finally contributed this ability to Rowan.

Although it has various flaws, it can also be said to be a very powerful black technology. In his previous life, Rowan had browsed some videos while surfing the Internet, and had seen some similar inventions, a special armor that imitated and played images of the surrounding environment through an electronic screen to deceive visual observation.

However, that kind of device was completely destroyed by the instinctive ability that this creature evolved.

Although, the biggest help for Rowan at present with this new ability is that when he is lying on the trunk, it is no longer as conspicuous as a ball of dog skin plaster.

After such a small episode, the day calmed down again.

As time passed, everything in the worm's nest was developing in an orderly manner, and the vegetation within the radiation range gradually became slightly different from the surrounding.

Rowan implemented new rules for aphid feeding, where aphids are only allowed to eat an old leaf when the vegetation has grown a new leaf.

If the aphids overproduce and eat the food they are not allowed to eat, they will be cleaned up by the worker ants and recycled into protein.

Therefore, under strict control, the vegetation in the territory grows gratifyingly under the irrigation of biological fertilizers.

The abundance of food makes more and more bugs hatch from the nest, and when it reaches a certain level, a new round of expansion begins.

Under the command of Rowan, all the bugs that can be drawn out rushed out while ensuring the normal operation of the insect nest. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

Because they have had a lot of strategy experience, the worms are familiar with the road, and they will pull out the ant nests that were originally used as food extraction stations.

This is not a war of the same level. Under the guidance of advanced tactical thinking, it has several times the strength of the ant nest, and the resistance of the ant nest has not caused any waves.

After expanding the territory in a fan shape by 100 meters, the hive army stopped and started a new round of recuperation to consolidate the territory.

On the right track, the development speed of the insect nest is like a snowball.

Many worker ants with rich work experience went to the new territory in a mighty way. They will open new aphid pastures over there. At the same time, corresponding to the pastures, the vegetation of the new territory has also been irrigated with biological fertilizers.

And the vacancies left by them after they left were filled by a steady stream of new adult worms emerging from the chrysalis.

Rowan has no idea how many bugs are in the nest now. After all, bugs die in various accidents every day.

For example, beating black beetles, for example, those who explored outside the territory and got lost inexplicably, and those who were sneak attacked by unknown insects.

There is also a kind of worm that hides underground and attacks like a stinky earthworm. They dig a funnel-shaped pit in the ground, and the worker ants can easily slip into the pit as they pass by.

And the worm just sits and waits for the rabbit at the bottom of the small pit. When the prey falls to the bottom of the pit, it will suddenly burrow out. It uses the pair of large pincer-like jaws on its head to control the prey and drag it to the ground to eat.

However, they are mostly concentrated in new territories.

After being taken over by the worm nest, it has been cleaned up almost. However, there are still some fish that slip through the net and escape the settlement, and there are still some unlucky guys who die at their hands every day.

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