I Am the Swarm

Rowan's body underwent a slight structural change, with an extra air sac between the carapace and the abdomen.

When he dived into the water, the air bag was like an oxygen tank, and the air bag was connected to a valve on his abdomen. There are some steel hairs growing on the mouth of the valve, like a "filter", which allows air to pass through and filters out impurities.

This impurity also includes moisture, which ensures that he can breathe underwater.

When the air in the "oxygen tank" is about to run out, Rowan can forcefully squeeze the airbag out between the carapace and the abdomen.

Because there is a lot of dissolved oxygen in the water, and the pressure is also strong, the oxygen in the water will seep into the bubbles, and he can continue to breathe.

When he wants to move underwater, the air bag can be retracted, and the oxygen in the air bag can still supply him for a period of time.

This is really a novel ability.

Although it's not the true underwater breathing of fish, and requires frequent stops for oxygen, this ability makes it possible for Rowan to explore the underwater world.

It seems that the swarm's navy is going to add new troops. The previous sampan can only row on the water, but it does not have the ability to dive.

In addition, Rowan's eyes have also acquired a new ability.

When underwater, a liquid will be secreted on the surface of his eyes, like a film that wraps the eyes, allowing Rowan to see normally underwater.

He climbed out of the pool, then stepped into the lake, and his body gradually sank into the lake.

Looking at the dark lake bottom in the distance, Rowan thought for a while, but in the end he didn't rush into it.

I don't know if there is any danger at the bottom of the lake. If he goes deep alone, if he is in danger, there will be no insects to help him. He is too careless and doesn't fit his cowardly character.

All he had to do was wait a few more days, and his swarm "submarines" would be launched one after another. The lake had not been explored for so long, and he was not in a hurry now.

Convinced himself, Rowan was very satisfied, he climbed ashore, turned and left gracefully.

Under Rowan's special attention, the new version of the ant queen was given priority to be assigned to the lakeside construction base after the main base had matured.

In fact, Rowan is not very eager to explore the underwater world. It's just that this time is too boring, and he has entered a state of wanting to find something to kill.

After this period of development, the average number of members in the swarm base has nearly doubled to 50,000. However, as the North Road army assembled an army of 8 million to return to the road a few days ago, they took the lead in cleaning up the few red ant nests around the big-headed ant nest.

Rowan didn't even have any interest in watching the completely crushing battle. Although he directly lost nearly one million troops, it didn't take long for new troops to be replenished.

Afterwards, the North Road army was dispersed into dozens of teams and advanced ahead.

When they encounter a large ant nest, they will regroup to destroy each other, and then disperse again after the battle. Such a forward mode greatly increases the efficiency of expansion.

More than 2,000 queens gathered near the original headquarters were also sent to the front line one after another to develop and defend new territories. The number of bases of the swarm has approached 4,000.

Due to the rapid expansion, the average number of members in a single base dropped from 50,000 to 40,000, but the total number of swarm members still exceeded 150 million.

Recently, Luo Wen has also expanded the army on the west route and the army on the middle route. Before, the number of these two armies was less than 100,000, which was too shabby compared to the army on the north route.

Although the swarm is absolutely loyal, they never question Rowan's orders, and they won't cry to him even if they treat them differently. But Rowan felt embarrassed himself and felt that he should pay more attention to them.

With the gradual replenishment of the troops in place, the two armies also began to move forward in a decentralized manner, and the expansion progressed quickly.

Although Rowan has accumulated a batch of ant queens without a base before, he still has some surplus, but at this rate, all these ants will be dispatched immediately.

Moreover, after a while, the newly formed insect swarm water army will carry the east road army, cross the river and lake, and go to the other side to occupy and develop new territory for Rowan.

However, now the East Road army only has a number, and the soldiers are not yet in place. The number of queen ants that was abundant in the past has become insufficient again.

Therefore, the mother hive has no longer produced other types of troops, and has begun to hatch the queen ants with all their strength.

Day by day, due to the increasing strength of several armies and the new advancement method, the progress of the expansion is too fast. The army gradually became out of touch with the territory in the rear, and the supplies gradually failed to keep up. As a last resort, Rowan had no choice but to make them slow down again.

The ant queens who originally gathered near the main base for concentrated production have all been sent out, and they all have their own bases. Now the resources of the queen ants are extremely scarce, and even the old retired queen ants are full of production tasks.

But even when human resources were so tight, Rowan still hatched a number of 100,000 diving bugs.

The day is sunny, breezy, and cloudy.

By the lake, all 100,000 diving troops have assembled. Rowan gave an order, and the diving worms lined up to plunge into the water. The scene was quite spectacular for a while~www.novelmt.com~ Rowan also dived into the water. Due to the good weather today, the lake here was not terrified. Contaminated by Homo erectus, the lake water is very clear. Therefore, the underwater vision environment is not bad, and the visual range is very wide, which makes Rowan breathe a sigh of relief. In such an environment, security has been greatly enhanced.

Under Rowan's command, the diving bugs surrounded Rowan and slowly moved towards the bottom of the lake.

As we went deeper, there was less and less light that could reach here, and the surroundings began to darken slowly.

Soon, the swarm reached the bottom of the lake, which was about twenty meters above the water.

After wandering around for a while without finding any danger, the diving bugs surrounding Rowan scattered and swam around.

The bottom of the lake is full of black silt. Occasionally, some stones are hidden in it, and the exposed stone surface is smooth with some peculiar patterns.

Unfortunately, Rowan is not a fan of strange stones and is not interested in them.

There are also some dark green water plants growing in the silt, and some algae are attached to the leaves of the water plants. Some of the prototypes of diving bugs are hiding among the aquatic plants, but the blisters on the back of their buttocks are quite dazzling underwater.

It turns out that these guys have always been hidden in the depths of the lake. No wonder Rowan found nothing when he explored the lake.

It took Rowan a day to search the bottom of the lake. The deepest point at the bottom of the lake is just below the waterfall, but the water depth is only about 30 meters.

There are no giant beasts hidden below, no treasures, not even fish.

Although this may be the best outcome, at least there is no threat in the lake.

But to be honest, Rowan didn't know why he was a little disappointed, maybe he expected to find something to break the boring life now.

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