I Am the Swarm

When Rowan returned to the sub-base, he happened to see black ants crawling out of the cave one after another.

They not only carry food, but also carry out eggs, pupae, and larvae, and they don't seem to have any intention of killing them.

"Do they still want to adopt these larvae?" Rowan was a little puzzled.

At the same time, he also discovered another strange phenomenon.

All the black ants were working, and the red ants were watching from the side. They didn't mean to help in the slightest, and they seemed to be idle.

An irresistible thought popped out of Rowan's mind. Could the thought that was a little joking just now be the truth of the matter?

He changed his pheromone and began to disguise his identity. While slowly approaching the past, he observed the reaction there, ready to run away at any time.

Fortunately, pheromone camouflage is still effective for red ants, and they have no response to Rowan's approach.

However, some red ants started fighting with each other for some unknown reason.

More than a dozen red ants like wrestling, bite their teeth together, and then start wrestling, and a large circle of red ants surrounds them.

"Is this their entertainment?"

These little guys were a little confused, and Rowan couldn't figure out their behavior patterns for the time being.

To be cautious, he didn't dare to go deep into the enemy's army rashly. If he encounters a brainless man and sees his size, if he compares his strength with him, he might be exposed.

It circled around the enemy army and found that these ants, whether black or red, were all using the same identification.

This shows that they are a group, and the red ants are not invited reinforcements at all.

This discovery further supports his guess just now.

After a while, the black ants finally emptied the contents of the branch base. The army set off with the spoils, and Rowan immediately followed.

On the way, these thousands of red and black ant coalition forces merged with a friendly army coming from other directions, and merged into an army with a number of more than 10,000.

Then they left the worm's nest territory, and turned to kill a black ant's nest on the way, emptying the materials and larvae inside.

This time, the black ants basically each carried something.

The coalition forces resumed their journey, this time without turning around on the way, all the way back to their old nest.

Here is more than 500 meters away from the worm's nest territory. What catches the eye is a towering mound, coupled with the huge hole, like a volcano.

Countless red and black ants crawled on the mound.

The coalition forces that had just returned filed into the cave with supplies, but Rowan stopped.

Before he knew exactly what the red ant was in, he would look for an opponent to fight, and he would not rush into a local cave. The situation inside is unknown. If his identity is revealed, hundreds of thousands of red ants will surround him and poison him. He estimates that he will explain it inside.

Rowan sneaked into the ground and took a turn. The structure of the ant nest underground was very large, far exceeding any black ant nest he had ever seen.

With the size of the red ants and such a large nest, even if there are many black ants inside, their number is quite astonishing, at least tens of thousands.

This is quite an astonishing number. Even if the worm nest currently has more than 200,000 worms, most of them are scattered in various bases to maintain the operation of the territory. There are only tens of thousands who can be recruited to participate in the war.

This is not counting the transportation of supplies. If it is a protracted war, then at least half of it will be allocated to transport supplies.

This battle is not easy to fight, but according to the habits of both sides, there must be one side out.

Rowan climbed out of the surface, followed a few teams to scout around, and even sneaked a few red ants in the middle to satisfy their hunger.

After a few days of observation, he found that the habits of red ants are more like bandits, they do not produce themselves, but loot for a living. They are far more numerous than those seen in the nest.

They have a lot of teams outside, and they will run out of a very long distance from the nest to sweep. The main target is the black ant's nest. They rush directly into the nest, killing the queen inside.

Then for some unknown reason, after the queen ants die, they will gain the allegiance of most of the surviving black ants. After killing a small number of unwilling converts, the surrendered black ants are instructed to carry supplies and larvae eggs.

The red ants form a team of two or three thousand, and they usually bring back several times as many black ants when they return. After these black ants are brought back, in addition to taking care of the larvae and looking for food for aphids, they are also the reserves of the red ants. food.

The group of red ants that attacked the sub-base of the worm nest also returned early because they did not capture additional black ants in the sub-base, resulting in a shortage of manpower.

Thinking of the larvae that were taken away from the sub-base, it is estimated that they have been more fortunate than fortunate. Although they look like black ants, they are actually two completely different things.

They will not surrender to the red ants, and the consequences can be imagined.

Rowan felt a little heavy, not only because of those larvae, but also because of the information he got.

Based on the teams that Luo Wen has seen these days, the number of red ants alone is more than 100,000, and how many have run too far to see ~www.novelmt.com~ is unknown.

In addition to this, there are black ants that are several times larger than the red ants.

Although they were captives, judging from the situation at the original sub-base, not only would they not resist, but instead they would help the red ants to attack.

Not to mention in their old nests, because most of the red ants are looting outside, their numbers far exceed the number of left-behind red ants.

There was no resistance at all. It seemed that these black ants had already followed the red ants with determination.

He thought about it for a while, and maybe there are still variables in the situation. Specifically, he has to wait until he returns to the mother's nest to check whether there are any secrets hidden in the gene fragments of the red ants.

The intelligence collection was almost done, and Rowan hurriedly began to return. This time the situation was a little bit dangerous, and now he is not going to attack the red ants anymore.

With their scale, Rowan is not yet capable of destroying them.

If you don't handle it well, you might even be attacked by them.

Running fast all the way, avoiding several red ant teams, Rowan entered his own territory.

On the way, I passed a sub-base, and sent dozens of communication teams to order each base to strengthen their defense. When encountering an enemy army, they immediately asked for help from the surrounding bases. After driving away the enemy army, they were forbidden to pursue.

I don't know if it's because of the growth of the mother's nest, or because of the mixing of various genes, the intelligence of the bugs has been greatly improved now.

Especially the queen ants, maybe their queen template has a built-in intelligence bonus, they can already comprehend more complex commands, and they have a high priority in the swarm, and they can command worker ants and soldier ants.

Rowan finally had the feeling of arranging troops. If it was replaced with the IQ of Black Second and Black Third at the beginning, killing them would not understand what it means to watch and help each other in the bases.

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