I Am the Swarm

After only one day of the long-awaited expedition to the bottom of the lake, Rowan regretted that he had hatched an army of 100,000 divers.

There is no way, leaving a small part to occupy the underwater world, and the rest will be sent to the river, maybe downstream, so that they can find something.

After the arrangement was made, Rowan no longer paid attention to this place, and instead focused on the operation of the swarm.

Time flies. Hundreds of days and nights have passed in a blink of an eye. Rowan has now found a new joy, that is, watching the number of insect swarms continue to increase, which gives him a strange sense of satisfaction.

The site of the swarm has continued to expand, and the base has expanded to tens of thousands. The average number of worms in each base is about 100,000. In other words, the number of swarms has reached more than one billion.

This is also because the hatching of the queen ants cannot keep up with the expansion rate of the territory. On all the territories occupied in the later stage, the density of branch bases is far less than that at the beginning.

Correspondingly, the number of bugs in each base has greatly increased, from 30,000 to 100,000, and this number is still increasing.

However, Rowan was actually not satisfied.

The insect group now masters the two major black technology industries of breeding and planting. The food problem that restricted the development of the insect group at the beginning has been solved.

Now, what restricts the development of the swarm is that the production capacity cannot keep up. Only the mother nest can hatch, and the mother nest has developed to the maximum because of its structure, and the production capacity has been fixed.

In the early stage, the mother nest, which was comparable to the productivity of hundreds of queens, is now somewhat unable to keep up with the progress.

The production capacity of the queen ants is even more stretched. Due to their size, their spawning is limited, and even if they work non-stop, the efficiency is not much higher.

There is no way to improve the mother's nest for the time being. Rowan initially considered whether the size of the queen ants could be enlarged to improve their egg-laying efficiency.

But at present, the genes that Rowan has mastered that can make the body more gigantic, except for a set of improving the oxygen supply system, the rest are to strengthen the muscle structure to make the body grow.

And these genes also have a little effect on the oxygen supply system, and the rest just simply increase the muscle density and body size of the queen, and have no effect on the improvement of the production organs of the queen.

In this regard, Rowan has no good solution. It can only be accumulated slowly over time.

Fortunately, the swarm is advancing, and they haven't encountered any decent opponents yet.

At the beginning, I fought with the swarm for a large-headed ant nest, and I encountered several during this time.

When history repeats itself, as regional overlords, their leaf-picking troops are intercepted. Then, when millions of troops were aggressively assembled to come to support, the result was an earth-shaking change.

This time, the swarm did not hit and run because of the inferior strength of the troops. The 2 million troops that year had increased to 20 million. The army directly surrounded and wiped out millions of large-headed ant troops.

Although the battle lost more than one million, for a swarm of more than one billion, is this loss a thing?

In addition, the insect swarm has spread branches and leaves on the east bank of lakes and rivers, but due to insufficient support, only hundreds of bases have been developed to act as bridgeheads.

The situation on the other side is similar to this side, after all, it is not far away.

The basic bug species are still those, there is nothing to emphasize, anyway, as long as they are encountered by a swarm, they will be recycled into proteins.

On the other hand, the diving insects down the river also found several small aquatic insects. Unfortunately, their talents are similar, and they did not bring any surprises to Rowan.

However, the east is not bright, and the west is bright. Just now, news came from the army in the middle that a small team of 500,000 was completely destroyed by an unknown enemy. The army ant did not act rashly, and while the advance was suspended, a signal soldier was sent to report to Rowan.

Hearing this news, Rowan was not angry, but excited. Finally, some decent enemies came out and took two steps. I don't know if they have any unique talents, so everyone can learn and exchange.

At the same time, he lamented that the IQ of the new version of the ant has improved again, and she already knows how to do whatever she likes. Knowing that he is bored, and encountering good things, he will leave it to him to solve it.

Because the marching range of the army in the middle is too wide, the number has increased to tens of millions, and the usual advance is scattered forward. Therefore, all kinds of road sign pheromones are messed up along the way.

Because he disliked the slow speed of the signal troopers, Luo Wen went out alone and searched for a long time. It was not until noon the next day that he found the camping point of the army in the middle. It was because his observation distance was far enough, otherwise he didn't know how long it would take.

These guys have been out of touch with the forward positions for a long distance, but he did not suspect that there were any traps or that the middle army was completely wiped out by the enemy, as he did a long time ago. Because the times have changed, there is no force that can silently eat up an army of tens of millions without missing any clues.

Moreover, since the annihilated team could let the queen find clues, it means that although the enemy may be strong, it is not too strong.

However, it's superfluous to think about it now. He's already there, and he can see what the other party's situation is right away.

Under the leadership of the scout~www.novelmt.com~ Rowan came to the place where the team disappeared. There are pheromones full of messy information everywhere, and there are still some arthropods on the scene that may not have been cleaned up because there is too little meat.

What surprised Rowan was that there were many dark corrosive marks on the ground. Instead of being caused by formic acid solution, they looked like burnt marks, and there was a stench that was hard to dissipate around them.

This is a bit strange, since Rowan was reincarnated, he has never seen such a thing as flames. If it weren't for his knowledge and knowledge, and if he were an aborigines, he really wouldn't be able to recognize what caused the scorching.

But it's a bit outrageous to see such traces in this original ecological environment. Everyone is playing hand-to-hand combat, and at most they spray some formic acid. Who started playing with fire? That's a bit too much.

Following these remaining traces, Rowan quickly found the residence of the guy who played with fire. Because this place is too conspicuous, it has more characteristics than the original big-headed ant's nest.

This is a tall earthen fortress, twenty meters high, which is taller than many trees next to it. So much so that people can't ignore it at all.

However, although the fort is very tall, the area is not large, only a few square meters. From a distance, it looks like a rocket about to be launched, and it looks like a corn cobs stuck on the ground.

Getting closer, the material of this "corn cob" is soil adhesive with dense pores. It seems to be the masterpiece of some kind of social insect, or it may be a brand new species of ant.

And with extraordinary talent, Rowan's eyes lit up.

However, they don't seem to welcome the "neighbors" who come to ask for advice. Rowan has already walked to the door, and no one has come out to greet him.

However, it doesn't matter, Rowan has quite a lot of experience in how to call a door.

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