I Am the Swarm

For a time, tens of thousands of digging ants were summoned first and rushed to the construction site of the new worm nest.

Later, more than 20,000 worker ants were mobilized to be responsible for the logistics. They needed to transport food to ensure the daily needs of the diggers.

At the same time, they also need to carry out some soil transfer work and post-reinforcement work of the cave.

In the past, Rowan took the lead in digging out the worm nest, but now he has tens of thousands of younger brothers, and there is no need for him, the supreme commander, to do it himself.

Although there is nothing that can threaten the hive now, it still adheres to Rowan's usual cowardly style.

Three meters underground, the digging ants built a very spectacular cave group, and this is just a fake insect nest used as a transit station and a blindfold.

The real worm nest is three or four meters below the fake worm nest. It is also composed of a continuous cave. There is only one channel between it and the fake worm nest. There are sediments at both ends of the channel, which can be buried and blocked at any time.

At the same time, a team composed of spy ants and diggers is also stationed here all year round.

Their task is to bury this passage and arrange inducing pheromones when the enemy invades the fake worm nest, so as to ensure that the real worm nest is not discovered by the enemy.

Rowan didn't think it was cowardice, he could only say it was prudence.

He is guarding against the khaki ants above the cliff wall. If one day his brain cramps, he hits the cliff without turning and rushes straight down, then he will be the first target to be hit.

Although the strength of the worm's nest is no longer comparable, there is still an unimaginable distance from the army of natural yellow ants.

Leaving the green hills is not worrying about no firewood, he Luo Wen will sooner or later avenge the revenge of the year, ahem.

Although the scale of the new worm nest is very large, it was completed at an extremely fast speed with the concerted efforts of tens of thousands of various types of worker ants.

The old worm nest is about to be abandoned, so there is no need to worry too much. Rowan dug a hole himself, and with the help of the worker ants, dragged the mother nest up.

The mother nest is tireless every day, and it has to devour a large amount of food and convert it into energy.

In addition to producing some eggs, the rest of this energy is basically used to supply its own growth.

When I was underground, I didn't have any concept. I didn't know it until I was transporting it. The mother's nest has grown to be much bigger than Rowan, and has a chubby figure. Even the channel was expanded several times before it was barely allowed to pass.

If Rowan is the size of a plate now, then the mother's nest is like a big watermelon. Worker ants, smaller than the size of a fingernail, are like little ones around it.

Countless little ants crawled around it, and tens of thousands of worker ants were stacked together at the bottom of the mother's nest to form a tray-like structure.

Then after constant adjustment, the tray gradually began to move.

Rowan did not participate in it. As the highest commander and highest combat power of the Hive, he was responsible for the transportation command and vigilance.

Hundreds of meters away, after several rotations, the worker ants finally moved the mother nest to the new nest without any risk.

In the days that followed, a round of widening work was carried out on the main passage and the chambers of the brood.

The brood has finally entered its new room.

Then, the main channel was tightened again and returned to its previous appearance.

He was successfully relocated to the new worm's nest, but unfortunately no one shared the joy with Rowan, but he was already used to this kind of life without communication.

The swarm once again entered a dull development period, recuperating, advancing outward, wiping out the ant nest, digesting the site, and starting again and again.

After hundreds of days and nights, the swarm is again about to reach its limit of expansion.

And Rowan has already figured out how to solve this problem.

The method is to split the base.

He has had this idea a long time ago, and has done a lot of experiments.

At first, he used the queen's genes as a template, and tried to hatch a few worm nest version queens.

These queens can normally grow from egg to mature body, but they will not lay eggs when they reach the mature body.

Later, after several rounds of experiments, the result is still the same.

After Rowan thought hard, he still couldn't find the problem. Could it be that the queen ants produced by the mother nest are defective?

Rowan, who vaguely felt that this was not the problem, began to look for the answer by observing the ant nest.

He kept a colony of black ants in captivity and killed the queen and most of the members. Reduce their size to make it easier to observe the process of new queens being born, growing, and laying eggs.

This nest of black ants is not allowed to go out. Whenever any of their members want to go out, they will be chased back by the soldier ants who are guarding outside the cave.

The nest worker ants transport food out of the burrow every day for the ants' nest needs.

Rowan, on the other hand, dug a channel to connect the ant nest, and blocked the opening with his body.

His color-changing skills and pheromone skills allow him to confuse black ants in all directions. He is like a stone in the ant nest, and no black ant will be curious about him.

In order to ensure that no details were missed, he gave up going out for food.

Every once in a while ~www.novelmt.com~ will also have many worker ants bring his food through the passage. He only needs to turn around to eat food, and when he is full, he turns his body back.

From beginning to end, his body has been blocked at the entrance to prevent black ants from escaping from here.

Rowan was ready for the protracted battle, but he didn't expect the answer to come unexpectedly fast.

After the ant nest lost its queen, the worker ants did not know what method they used, and re-hatched several queens and several ants that Rowan had never seen before from the eggs.

After the queen ant matures, she does some indescribable things with those novel ants.

Soon after, these novel ants died one by one, and none of them survived.

Rowan sneaked out and took the corpses of these strange ants.

Then, in the ant nest, several queens led their respective supporters to an internal war.

The failed queens were brutally killed, and their followers chose to surrender.

Until the end of the war, only one queen survived, and it reaped the allegiance of all the remaining ants.

Then the ant nest entered a familiar rhythm, laying eggs, cultivating larvae...

In fact, when the incident was halfway through, Rowan had already figured out the crux of the problem.

But he was really bored, so he just watched the end of the big play, and Quan should relieve his boredom.

Those novel ants should be male ants. They will die soon after that, so they generally only appear in the early stage of the ant nest.

The ant nests that Rowan went undercover were already large ant nests with at least several thousand members, so he had never seen male ants.

And this is the crux of the queen ants hatched from the mother's nest that cannot lay eggs. They have nothing to do with the male ants.

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