I Am the Swarm

After realizing that the ant's territory was unexpectedly small, Rowan began to pay attention to the surrounding trees during the exploration process to see if they had also engaged in animal husbandry.

But even with animal husbandry, it is difficult to feed so many combat units with so little territory without destroying vegetation.

Rowan did find some aphids on the trees along the way, but there was no sign of mass farming. But he made other unexpected discoveries.

On the yellow-brown soil, a strange stream caught Rowan's attention.

Upon closer inspection, I found that this little stream was actually flowing leaves. The leaves are being transported, and the transporters are the workers of the big-headed ants. Regardless of their size, each one uses its jaws to move leaves that are several times their size.

There are also some larger soldier ants in the transport team, which patrol around the stream. While ensuring the safety of the worker ants, it is also responsible for clearing some small obstacles on the way. Make the originally rough road a little smoother. Of course, in the face of obstacles that are too large, they can only choose to detour.

The direction of the flow of this green leafy stream is the location of the big-headed ant nest, and Rowan is heading against the stream.

Soon, he discovered the source of these leaves.

This is a fairly tall tree, at least fifty meters high, and the green stream spreads down from the top of the tree. However, due to the obscurity of the dense branches at the top, the specific Rowan could not be seen clearly.

However, it doesn't matter, the sticky hair on his feet is enough to support him on a smooth rock wall, and it is not easy to climb a tree.

After changing his own pheromone, he disguised himself as a rock that was forbidden to approach. Rowan avoided the team of the big-headed ants and flew up the other side of the tree trunk.

Looking at the top of the tree, he saw a magical scene.

On some young leaves at the top, the worker ants of the big-headed ant use the jaws as scissors. Insert one side into the upper part of the leaf, and use the other side to cut from the bottom to the top. This process is repeated over and over again.

Finally, a part of the leaf is neatly cut, and they carefully lift the leaf with their jaws to avoid falling, and then become part of the green leafy stream.

The worker ants lining up behind continue to cut the leaf until the leaf is completely cut.

The big-headed ants actually know how to protect vegetation. They only collect about one-third of the leaves on each branch, leaving two-thirds intact, so as to minimize the impact on the vegetation.

Their actions made Rowan wonder if there is also a wise soul commanding them.

However, Rowan found that the big-headed ants did not eat the leaves, they just chopped them up and transported them back to the nest.

What is this for?

Rowan knows the worker ants working in his aphid pasture, but under normal circumstances, he feeds himself first. If there is any leftovers, they will be fed to the surrounding similar species, and when everyone is full, the rest will be transported back to the nest...

But after watching it for so long, Rowan didn't find that a big-headed ant stole it, which is very abnormal.

When he first discovered the situation here, he thought that these leaves were in the recipe of the big-headed ant. If this is the case, it can explain why they have so many labor and troops when they only have so few territories.

You must know that other ant species Rowan has seen, but none of them eat this kind of leaves.

Now it seems that the situation has changed. The big-headed ants don't eat leaves, so why do they work hard to mine the leaves back?

Rowan couldn't figure it out, but he knew that it must be related to the secret of their powerful rioting ability. Because he has wandered around in the big-headed ant territory for so long, this is the only abnormal place other than the chimneys of their nests.

The secret must be hidden in the ant nest, and Rowan was a little itchy, but unfortunately, due to the constraints of his size, he had already bid farewell to the hidden undercover job.

So now we can only take some special measures.

Although looking at the appearance of the big-headed ant, the aggression is not strong. However, no matter how small their territory is, they block the way for the swarm to expand, and the two sides will have a battle sooner or later.

At that time, the secret will be unraveled.

And now, Rowan needs to seize the opportunity and fight a prepared war.

Meeting a new and stronger opponent, Rowan was a little excited, and he rushed back to the main base in a short time.

After checking the mother's nest, it was found that the super giant big-headed ant soldier ants still use the common feeding system of the ants. However, its muscles are unusually developed and powerful, and can squeeze oxygen farther to support its huge size.

This set of muscle-strengthening gene fragments is quite useful, but the others are quite ordinary.

After preparing several new bugs, Luo Wen planned to learn the large-headed ants to divide the soldier ants and worker ants into dozens of body types, large and small. After thinking about it, it seems unnecessary. The swarm has its own development model, so there is no need to learn from everything.

For example, the big-headed ants use soldier ants and large and medium-sized workers as means of transportation, and the units below the small-scale workers are responsible for fixing the transported goods. But the swarm has transport worms with stronger carrying capacity, as well as slime worms responsible for fixing items, which is more convenient.

As for the production plan, first place an order for 500 queens and collect 3,000 queens.

Before fighting the big-headed ants~www.novelmt.com~, you first need to solve the red ant nest and the site that receives them.

The 500 queen ants were following the front-line violent soldiers in the early stage, and then they were sent to take over the territory.

Of course, a red ant colony does not need 500 queens, but with the addition of the big-headed ants, it is almost the same.

This is called planning ahead.

Of the 2,500 queen ants, except for more than 500 who were far from the northern front line, the distance was too far, and the transportation of troops to the front line cost too much, so they were not assigned production tasks. However, they also have tasks to transport supplies to bases close to the front lines.

And the remaining nearly 2,000 ant queens began to riot with all their strength.

With the passage of time, the newly produced insects in each base have broken out one after another, and then, together with a large amount of materials, have been transported to the frontline bases one after another.

A month later, including the North Road army that had already been called up and stationed here, the swarm had assembled a total of 500,000 soldiers of various species and more than 1.5 million worker ants.

With the addition of various auxiliary arms, the total number of troops actually reached 2.1 million.

This is the largest military operation since the birth of the swarm. Rowan is full of sincerity, raising the strategic threat level of the big-headed ant to the highest level, and this time he is going all out to deal with it.

As the saying goes, before the troops and horses move, the food and grass go first.

The army of more than two million is the limit of the swarm's ability to dispatch troops at present. This is more than two million mouths. In the rear of the army, there are more than 2,000 branch bases, and more than 12 million worker ants are guaranteeing the logistics. There are more than 5,000 transport insects in various places in the territory, constantly transporting the resources produced by each base to the front line.

That's it, because of the rush of time, there are still some material shortages.

But it doesn't matter, there is a granary in front of the army...

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