I Am the Swarm

As the hive continues to expand, a new problem is faced by Rowan.

This problem is the long-distance communication problem.

There are more and more branch bases, approaching one hundred.

However, although they were still faithful to follow Rowan's orders, Rowan knew nothing about their condition.

Rowan is also clueless about the solution to this problem.

His knowledge reserve is limited, and he can't create a communication device suitable for bugs.

Moreover, the IQ of the bugs is not up to the responsibility of the signal soldiers, and there is no way to accurately report the status of each branch base.

So, Rowan, who was idle, got busy again.

He began to run on the road to the various branch bases every day to check their current situation.

I don't know if I don't see it. I was startled when I saw it. It turned out that his sphere of influence was already so large.

He branched bases one by one, and it took three full days and nights to run a circle.

If you stop and look carefully, the time required will be doubled.

On the first lap, he could visit the territory by the way, the novelty kept him from getting bored.

On the second lap, he was a little tired.

By the third lap, his thoughts were empty and his eyes were dull...

Rowan felt that he couldn't go on like this, otherwise as the site continued to expand, he would be exhausted sooner or later, and he had to think of a way.

Unfortunately, he thought about it, but he couldn't come up with any clues.

So, this matter was delayed like this.

After Rowan patrolled for several laps, and found nothing unusual, he no longer continued to patrol frequently, and instead patrolled once every ten days.

But then the accident happened.

During a new round of inspections, Rowan discovered that the bugs in a sub-base, including the queen ant, had mysteriously disappeared.

After several rounds of genetic adjustment, the queen ant is emotionally closer to an emotionless machine, with full loyalty, and there is absolutely no possibility of mutiny.

Then they must have encountered something that led to the current situation.

Rowan dug the cave and carefully examined the traces left in it. There are a lot of pheromone residues here and there, after contact analysis.

These pheromones come from bugs in the base and an unknown force.

From the pheromone point of view, the unknown forces should also be a population similar to ants, but the violent and cruelty revealed from the pheromone shows that they are not as honest and safe as black ants.

Rowan first thought of the khaki ants. Could it be that there are branches of them here, but later he overturned this guess. The characteristics realized in the pheromone are completely different from the natural yellow ants. This is a brand new ant colony.

And judging from the status of the branch bases, their way of doing things is very similar to someone else's.

There was a very aggressive neighbor around, Rowan didn't dare to neglect, and traced all the way along the remaining traces of pheromone.

On the road, Rowan's usual cautious style continued. His speed was not fast. He had to observe carefully every distance he traveled, and he was ready to run away when he found danger.

He now has hundreds of sub-bases, even if the staff is insufficient due to the rapid expansion. On average, there are only about 2,000 bugs per base.

Even so, he still has 200,000 Zerg brothers.

As their supreme commander, Rowan must of course be more cautious, this is his responsibility to his younger brothers.

If it weren't for the fact that the younger brother's IQ is really worrying, he wouldn't even want to do the investigation by himself. Squatting at the rear, commanding the front line of the army to fight, this should be his character.

The traces went all the way north, gradually leaving the sphere of influence of the worm nest, and then dispersed into multiple lines, heading in different directions.

Rowan chose one at random, followed it all the way, and found that it turned out to be an unfamiliar black ant nest. It's just a pity that he came a step later. At this time, the nest is also empty, and the owner here has disappeared.

There was no way, I chose a route scattered from here, went around in circles, and finally returned to the territory of the worm nest. Arrived at the location of another branch base.

Fortunately, it was not too late this time, and a fierce battle was taking place at the exit of the base.

Through the chaotic battlefield, Rowan finally discovered the appearance of the enemy.

This is a small ant, only about half the size of the worker ants of the black ant. Its head and chest are eerily dark red, and its eyes, jaw teeth, abdomen, and arthropods are black and red.

In addition to the standard configuration of these ant tribes and a slightly different painting, it also has a short and sharp stinger on the end of its abdomen, which should be its special talent.

Although they are small in size, they are very numerous and extremely fierce.

In the most cutting-edge worm nest sub-base, the number of worms is not much. It is basically the standard configuration when the queen is assigned to the frontier, with about a thousand worker ants and fifty soldier ants.

At this time, they have been beaten and retreated due to the lack of troops. You can see the bodies of dozens of soldier ants curled up around the entrance of the base. There are very few soldier ants still alive. has been lost.

The remaining worker ants also lost more than half, and the number was less than 300. At this time, under the leadership of the only remaining soldier ants, relying on the narrow terrain of the entrance, it was difficult to defend.

The number of these red ants is at least 3,000. What's weird is that in addition to these red ants, there are actually many black ants in the attacking team, and there are probably around 3,000.

"Could it be that I killed too many black ant nests recently? The helpers that the black ants found came back to take revenge?" Luo Wen was a little surprised. With the IQ of black ants, he shouldn't be able to do such an operation to ask for reinforcements, right? Is there anything hidden in the middle?

However, the situation was so urgent that he couldn't allow him to think too much. After seeing that there was no ambush around, he entered the battlefield.

These red ants are small in front of him, and they have no resistance at all in the face of his tyrannical charge.

The two digging feet smashed hard, although they were a little bulky, and these red ants had very high agility and flexible movements. But there were too many ants, so Rowan didn't need to aim specifically, he just smashed down the digging feet, killing and injuring many red ants, losing their ability to fight.

At the same time, his feet were raised one by one, and the small bone claws at the front of the feet came together to form a pointed head, and the entire foot was like a spear. With the help of eyes with a super high refresh rate, he stabbed the surrounding red ants fiercely.

The speed of walking feet is much faster than digging feet. It is really like lightning, piercing into the heads or abdomens of red ants and these larger target areas.

After a while, Rowan's digging feet and walking feet were covered with all kinds of mucus, and there were red ant corpses lying all around him.

Rowan stood in it, majestic and majestic, with a somewhat unparalleled feeling of mowing the grass.

Unfortunately, after all, this is a small-scale war that has reached more than 3,000. Even if he is unparalleled in combat power, his role at this time is very limited.

Moreover, his appearance finally caught the attention of the Red Ant Legion. Although he killed dozens of them in a surprise attack, more red ants surrounded him.

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