I Am the Swarm

This is a question that Rowan never thought of, it belongs to his blind spot.

In addition to never seeing male ants, another point is that in the beginning, the mother's nest produced eggs without so many things.

Maybe the mother nest also knows that if it needs that process, it may not grow so big, and it will be killed by Rowan early.

Knowing the key to the problem, he absorbed the gene fragments of the male ants, and the mother nest then produced several male ants' eggs.

After a period of time, the queen ant lays eggs smoothly.

However, these eggs hatched from pure ants without any black technology.

However, the good thing is that these little guys will still obey Rowan's command.

Moreover, in addition to having pheromone recognition, they are also the products of the mother's nest, so they also have two kinds of identification systems.

However, this fell far short of Rowan's expectations.

He didn't come to raise ants. If the swarm can't grow stronger with him, what's the point of collective energy?

After that, Rowan conducted several more experiments.

Although the mother's nest was born out of the queen gene of black ants, it has since mutated and has already changed beyond recognition.

Rowan extracted some of his own genes and some of the genes of the mother's nest, and kept trying various combinations, and finally he combined a solution that was barely acceptable.

The queen ants hatched using the new scheme have an operating mechanism closer to that of the mother's nest, and no longer need male ants to lay eggs on their own.

And some genetic optimization combinations can be used to produce some special bugs, such as digging ants, spy ants and the like.

Of course, it also has some disadvantages, such as the inability to update the gene bank.

Since it leaves the mother nest from the egg state, the gene fragments that can be used in the body are fixed, and it cannot be connected to Rowan at any time like the mother nest to keep the gene pool synchronized.

Another example is that it can't be like Rowan, and it can't be separated from the mother nest alone. Limited by its food intake and time, there is no way to devour food and convert energy 24 hours a day like a mother nest. Therefore, its growth rate is relatively slow, and the number of eggs laid cannot be compared with that of the mother's nest.

However, these flaws can be compensated in some ways.

For example, the first point can be to produce a new batch of queens at regular intervals to update their gene pool. For the second point, the output of monomers is not good, but they do not have the limitation that it is difficult for the mother nest to produce a second one, and they can win by quantity.

If one doesn't work, then two, if two don't work, then ten or a hundred.

The expansion speed of the nest suddenly accelerated, and at the same time, the first batch of ten queen eggs were produced as experiments and observations.

During the period of growth and development of the queen ants, the army of insect nests expanded wildly, and cleaned up dozens of ant nests in a short period of time.

None of the more than 30 ant nests that provided food for the worm nests were spared, all of them were wiped out, and their sites were also taken over by the worm nests.

Unfortunately, due to the distance, although the new site has been established, it cannot be defended or developed for the time being.

But this is only temporary. As the ten queens mature, it is time for them to play their role.

Rowan equips each queen with 300 digger ants, 700 common worker ants, and 50 soldier ants, which are counted as their personal guards.

After the allocation and assembly were completed, the ten teams set off in different directions on the front line.

They will use seed to open branch nests in new territories and more aphid pastures around. At the same time, they have to use the resources in the territory to continue to expand the number of ethnic groups, while ensuring the security of the territory, they must also protect the safety of the mother nest.

Rowan is a little excited. If the experiment of these seeds is really successful and feasible, then the growth rate of the swarm will climb several notches.

The matter of exterminating the yellow ant army and taking revenge for the year has finally come to an end, ahem.

Although there are branch queens, the production of the mother nest has not stopped.

After replenishing the troops assigned to the ten queens, the newly mature individuals were sent to the front to support the ten branch bases.

After all, the output of those queens is still too low for the time being, let them use the limited energy to develop themselves.

With the support of the mother's nest, the sub-base has gradually developed. As there are more and more bugs in the sub-base, new aphid pastures have appeared on the vegetation around the base.

Everything went well in the experiment, so in the following period, the Hive Army continued to expand.

One after another, more than 20 ant queens and their personal guards rushed to the new territory, set up camp there, and built their branch bases.

With the dotted sub-bases all over this area, the insects have a much wider range of activities.

These ant queens are not like black ants. After they go out, they are a new independent group, using a new identity system and identification system.

The queen ants produced by the mother nest are more like an extension after going out, and each sub-base and the worm nest still share the identity system and identification system.

No matter which branch the bugs are, they can still enter and leave the nest and other branch bases, and get supplies and rest in these places.

Rowan is still their supreme commander.

Time flies, and every few days, a new team of queen ants will set off~www.novelmt.com~ to the front line to guard the new territory.

The sphere of influence of the insect nest is backed by the cliff, and an army of 50,000 insect swarms quickly expanded northward along the eastern lake shore. After reaching the end of the lake, the army divided into two groups, one continued to the north, and the other continued to turn east along the shore of the lake.

Afterwards, the army on the east route was blocked by the small river flowing out of the lake, and moved northward along the direction of the river, and then reunited with the army on the north route.

On the other side, 30,000 bugs formed an army on the west road, all the way to the west.

When his strength was still relatively weak, Rowan had been hiding from the lake in the east, far away from there. As a human being, he had an inexplicable fear of deep water.

After becoming a bug, his body shrank, and a small puddle was bottomless for him.

And, out of fear of the unknown, he didn't know if there were any terrifying creatures hidden in the water.

Later, as the strength of the worm's nest grew, he also sent many younger brothers to patrol and investigate, and there was no problem. He also climbed to the tall vegetation very close to the shore and looked at the lake in the distance.

It's a pity that the surface of the lake has been calm and there is nothing unusual, and he can't see the underwater situation.

After a long time, Rowan's defense is not so heavy. Although he has been sending troops to patrol and investigate before, he has never really expanded his sphere of influence there.

But now, the territory of the worm nest has covered half of the lake shore.

Now, instead, Rowan hopes that something crawls out of the lake, and maybe it can provide some new genetic fragments.

His gene bank has not been updated for a long time.

It is a pity that the creatures in the lake adhere to the spirit of well water and do not violate the river water, and there is no sign of going ashore.

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