I Am the Swarm

After arranging the work on the front line, Rowan did not delay, and hurriedly returned to the swarm base camp.

Together with the mother's nest, after careful inspection and comparison, they did not find any part of the red ants' gene fragments that could make the black ants surrender.

This is huge bad news, and Rowan is also a little stunned.

The red ants conquering the black ants did not rely on the display of talent at the genetic level, but did it depend on the charm of personality?

"Are you kidding me?"

Anyway, although I don't understand the specific reasons, the result is already doomed.

Rowan didn't struggle with this issue for too long, and he started to deploy new worker ant panels.

Originally, he thought of loading the red ant stinger onto the existing worker ant template, but the result was that the stinger was incompatible with the formic acid solution injection system.

Not only did they conflict in the position of the tail, but even the sacs where the sting venom and the formic acid solution were stored overlapped in the body positions.

Since you can't have both, you can only choose one, Rowan fell into contemplation.

Suddenly, a light flashed in his mind, and he suddenly thought that although those red ants are half smaller than black ants, they specialize in fighting and do not give birth. From these characteristics, they are more like soldier ants. I have always been bewildered by their body size. If I think about it this way, the red ants are actually a species whose members are all soldier ants.

"No wonder it's so fierce."

Thinking of this, he immediately used the template of the red ants as the basis, and firstly replaced their red pigment genes with black ones, and his troops had to dress uniformly.

Then in addition to the standard configuration of acid-resistant armor, gene fragments such as catapult start, strength, chitin armor, and jaw reinforcement were added.

The new arms that have been deployed are also a kind of small soldier ants, and their instincts are full of combat factors, and they do not undertake any production tasks. They are about the same size as red ants, but stronger than red ants, with thicker armor and bigger and stronger jaws.

Although this makes them lose a little bit of flexibility, but with the launch assist, this small flaw can be completely made up for.

Rowan gave them a simple name - little soldier ants.

Then he didn't stop. After thinking about it, he prepared two new bugs.

One is based on the spider as a template, adding some of his own eye genes, the carapace gene of the black beetle, and the chitin armor of the feet.

The new unit is called the Transporter. As the name suggests, it is mainly responsible for transport. Using the spider as a template can make it grow very large, and the spider's feet are very flexible and move very fast. And the loaded spacious carapace allows it to carry more supplies.

Although they are logistical arms, their attack capabilities should not be underestimated. At critical moments, the feet wrapped in bone armor can be turned into spears, and with the aid of high-resolution eyes, they can pierce through the enemy. This actual combat system has been tried by Rowan himself, and it is very extraordinary.

The second type is a pure logistical unit, named slime worm, which uses ordinary worker ants as a template and adds the slime gene of camouflage worms. Their task is to cooperate with the transport bug, glue more supplies together with mucus, and fix it on its back. When the supplies arrive at the designated location, the slime will be removed to assist in unloading the supplies.

In the war with the red ants, logistics must be done well, and they are also in the mode of war to support war. If it is a protracted war, whichever side cuts off the supply first will be finished first.

But think of the black ants that are several times their size, these are their living food reserves. Not only can they be cannon fodder, but they can also be killed for food when they are hungry.

"It's really troublesome." Rowan narrowed his eyes, it is best to find a way to deal with them first.

But now, do a good job of preparing for the battle. Since the production of queen ants consumes too much energy, the mother hive only produces fifty queen ants, and then fully produces three new types of troops.

It will take some time for the new batch of queens to hatch and grow. Before that, the production intelligence of the new troops depends on the mother's nest. Since the first batch of queen ants did not have the means of production for the new troops, Rowan ordered them to produce worker ants at full capacity.

The worker ants are currently the only remote firepower output of the swarm. And if you win the red ants and receive their territory, you will need a large number of worker ants to develop the territory.

Therefore, at this time, the number of them is naturally the more the better.

After arranging the work in the rear, Rowan hurriedly returned to the front line. After all, he was still worried about the ability of the bugs to adapt, and he could only be at ease by sitting in the town himself.

In the days that followed, messengers frequently ran around the territory to convey Rowan's orders.

Rowan personally went to the enemy-occupied area to conduct reconnaissance many times, and found that the red ants were also mobilizing their troops.

A large group of red and black ants gathered together, and the number was initially estimated to be more than 200,000, and as time went by, this number was still increasing rapidly.

They swept along the border, and occasionally a small group of troops broke into the swarm territory to conduct harassing sneak attacks.

The two branch bases were wiped out due to their remote location and the lack of timely assistance.

When more sub-bases were attacked, reinforcements arrived in time to drive away the red ants.

The situation is getting more and more serious, and a war is about to break out. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

On Rowan's side, the new troops in the rear are gradually maturing. From the air, you can see a large number of transport insects marching with eight long legs, and they are continuously heading to the front line from the rear.

They are either carrying food or carrying a dense array of small soldier ants.

Due to their small size and low energy storage, small soldier ants are not suitable for long-distance marching. The transport insects can effectively reduce food consumption.

Since the strength of the troops has been at a disadvantage, the insect swarms have shrunk their strength and mostly focused on defensive counterattacks. The vast land outside has become the hunting ground for the Red Ant Coalition Army. Therefore, although they are not as good as the swarm in transporting supplies, they can still maintain a huge army size by sweeping.

The new batch of fifty queen ants finally matured. They took transport worms and were sent to the front line by a special **** team, and began to produce small soldier ants on the spot.

The mother hive no longer produces small soldier ants, and after producing ten queens again, it begins to fully produce transport worms and slime worms. This can reduce the transport consumption of small soldier ants.

At the same time, the rear also released the restrictions of aphid pastures, and used the background of vegetation to produce food with all its strength.

When the first batch of small soldier ants produced by the queen ants gradually emerged from the chrysalis, Rowan issued an order to transfer most of the digging ants from various places to the front line.

These guys lost their job of digging tunnels after the ant nest was wiped out. Now they have all turned into manure movers, and their main job every day is to fertilize vegetation.

And through this period of investigation, Rowan already had a rough plan in mind and needed to use them.

The digging ants in the distance ride on the transport worms, and the closer ants crawl on their own, and they reach the designated position one after another in a few days. Rowan took a rough count and found that there were more than 50,000 ants, accounting for 80% of all digging ants in the territory.

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