Build the Swarm Tech Tree in Konoha

Chapter 64 The Second Generation of Brood

The battle is over, clean up the battlefield.

Aburame Tetsumaru was very satisfied with the performance of the three students in the battle. The three genin destroyed the team led by the jonin and suppressed the jonin within two minutes.

This battle proved that the strength of the three of them had steadily reached the level of chuunin, and they were only a few steps away from accumulating missions before they could be promoted.

However, Aburame Tetsumaru planned to let the three of them wait for a while before considering promotion, mainly because he felt that there would be a big war soon. If he promoted the three little guys at this time, they would probably participate in the war as captains.

Too dangerous.

In addition, the current strength of the three genin has reached the limit of physical development, and they will grow one day every day. At this time, it is most taboo to learn some skills that damage their potential. As a teacher, Aburame Tetsumaru thinks that he cannot just let go.

Uchiha Hiro was mainly responsible for cleaning the battlefield, but he asked Aburame Tetsumaru to equip him with ten hands.

In Team 121, Uchiha Hiro and Inuzukao are responsible for facing the enemy head-on. The two of them faced great risks in battle. They also encountered fatal dangers during their missions. Uchiha Hiro even opened his eyes because of this.

These two endured the restriction of chakra amount, and the secret ninjutsu could only be used as a trump card. They mainly relied on taijutsu to fight. There was an urgent need to enhance their melee combat effectiveness.

Aburame Tetsumaru suddenly had an idea and selected several suitable bugs from the appendage bugs, which are component bugs used to increase the giant bug's mobility or melee attack power, as weapons and equipment for the disciples, and then adjusted them based on actual combat feedback.

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Actual combat has proven that appendage bugs are particularly useful in close combat. This type of bug has no intelligence at all and is controlled by ninjas. The specific use depends entirely on the ability of the person who wears it.

For an idiot like Inuzukao, the fighting mode is straight forward, so he can only use the fixed appendage attached to the arm. It only has two states: folded and unfolded, and can be used purely as a weapon and armor.

Ninjas with outstanding talents, such as Uchiha Hiro, can become more flexible free-type appendage insects after mastering the psychic thread. Especially after Uchiha Hiro awakened the Sharingan, he gained dynamic vision and became more flexible and precise in control.

Aburame Tetsumaru specially made a special appendage bug for him. He took reference from Spider-Man's nano armor, enlarged two of the legs based on the spider, and finally combined it with five appendage bugs.

This is a multi-purpose appendage attached to the shoulders and waist. It has ten appendages, which can be used not only for fighting, but also for various tasks.

However, backline ninjas like Nara Yoshino are not good at close combat, so configuring the appendage insects adds unnecessary burden. After trying many kinds of appendage insects, the performance was not ideal, so I had to give up in the end.

Aburame Tetsumaru guided Nara Yoshino to focus on ninjutsu, combined with water release and glue jutsu, and developed water release and spider silk jutsu and water release and spider web jutsu under the guidance of Aburame Tetsumaru. Combined with the shadow technique

Secret Techniques can be used in a variety of ways in combat, and they fulfill the responsibilities of assisting and controlling the field very well.

Team 121 continued the construction task. The attackers originally chose the time to attack when it was about to be completed, and the remaining finishing work of the bridge construction was quickly completed.

After releasing a signal to summon the ninja responsible for the inspection, and receiving the mission completion certificate from him, the four of them returned to the camp.

After handing over the mission and receiving the mission money, Aburame Tetsumaru was intercepted by the messenger ninja before he could leave.

The masked messenger ninja handed over a scroll: "Aburame is a special jounin. The commander assigned Team 121 to escort the mission. This is the mission statement."

"Come again?" Aburame Tetsumaru hates escort missions the most. This matter has long been spread among the Konoha ninjas, and almost everyone knows about it.

As the war continues, a new generation of outstanding ninjas has come to the fore, among which the three Aburame heroes are very famous and have great personal characteristics.

The almighty ninja Aburame Shiguro has mastered the inheritance of microscopic bugs and developed poisonous dust bugs that are instantly fatal when touched. She has a calm and taciturn personality, and is never picky when performing tasks, maintaining a record of zero failure in tasks.

There is also Aburame, who has mastered the inheritance of parasites, developed and perfected Aburame's traditional parasites, and taken into account all ninja abilities such as detection, tracking, combat, defense, and medical treatment, making him a more versatile ninja.

It's that person, the one who has no sense of existence. Everyone knows that he just can't remember his name.

The giant insect user Aburame Tetsumaru controls large insects and giant insects. She is good at melee combat and strong attacks. She is good at training subordinates and hates high-mobility tasks.

"Okay~" The Aburame Tetsumaru, who was extremely divided, still accepted it.

The ninjas of the Aburome family have never refused orders, and of course they will not risk their lives at critical moments. They do not pursue 100% completion.

Even the strongest clan leader has a record of mission failure. The 100% completion rate that Shiguro and Tetsumaru currently maintain is actually due to good luck, and all the missions they take are within the range allowed by their strength.

Aburame Tetsumaru took the mission letter with a look of disgust, exchanged the mission command password with the messenger ninja, confirmed the mission details, stamped his private seal on the receipt scroll, and finally injected chakra to prove that the mission had been delivered.

After seeing off the messenger ninja, Aburame Tetsumaru sighed.

After building several bridges in succession, Uchiha Hiro and Inuzukao were already impatient and filled with resentment that was about to explode.

Although Nara Yoshino doesn't complain, people are getting lazy.

Forget it, I don’t like escort missions, but the three students should also change mission types.

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A few days later, on the edge of the traffic thoroughfare of the Fire Country, Aburame Tetsumaru found a big tree that satisfied him: it was in its prime, tall enough, with well-developed roots and luxuriant branches.

He used necromancy to summon five insect hives and released the Brood Zerg.

The fat beetle larvae are responsible for carving out burrows in large trees, gnawing the trees until they rustle, and soon drill four holes into the trunk of the tree, and then burrow deep into the trunk.

Aburame Tetsumaru placed four key bugs into the cave, and they immediately pupated. These four bugs have different functions. They are responsible for receiving, amplifying, and transmitting signals respectively, plus the brain bugs that will develop into the mother nest.

, together form a mother nest containing signal transmission capabilities.

Well, it can also be regarded as a ground signal base station. Information can be transmitted through this base station, but there is no dialing function. Each communication is equivalent to sending a clear message to the group.

The technology related to dialing may or may not be complicated, but if Aburame Iron Pill doesn't know it, there's nothing you can do. This is what the so-called meeting is not difficult for those who don't know it, and it's easy for those who don't know how to do it. Every line is like a mountain. It's very simple for Aburame Iron Pill to do it.

The radio signal is too troublesome, so let’s forget about dialing.

Isn't it just that every time a message is sent, the Ninja world is electrified? It doesn't matter, anyway, only you in the entire Ninja world can receive the signal.

Doesn't it mean that a huge amount of energy has to be consumed every time?

After the communication insect pupates, it will expand upward and downward along the cave dug by the beetle larvae, extending its tentacles to every branch and every root system.

The huge surface area is conducive to receiving and transmitting signals, and the huge root system is conducive to shielding the bugs from expanding deeper into a larger space, which will be the main body and warehouse of the mother nest, used to store sugar, fat, water, and minerals.

Ensure the survival of communication insects and parasitic trees.

There are three subsidiary insect colonies in the mother nest: the sugar ant colony is responsible for supplying sugar, the leaf cutter ant colony is responsible for supplying fat, and the Steller wasp colony is responsible for protecting the tree.

The affiliated insect swarms will build their own nests with the big tree as the center, creating a complete and stable mother nest that integrates the three major functions of supply, reproduction and communication. From then on, Aburame Tetsumaru will control the information hegemony of the ninja world.

The second purpose of building the nest is to herd mantises. Aburame Tetsumaru, who is known as the giant insect envoy, only has eighteen giant insects in her hand.

But there was no way. The village issued a special prohibition order to him. The Aburame family could not raise more than ten giant insects in the village, plus the eight banned in the psychic formation, that's all.

Obviously my ideal is to have a million troops, what the hell are the Eighteen Arhats? It’s outrageous

Of course, he could also understand the Hokage's concerns. A big guy like Dao Mantis, which is several meters long and weighs four hundred kilograms to three tons, is very destructive and has a ferocious and vicious image. It is really inappropriate to raise it in the village. It will scare children.

That's not good.

Pooh.

The family's large psychic lineup is also limited. There are only twelve large psychic slots that Dao Mantis can use, which are not enough to replenish them at once, and it is impossible to monopolize them all.

They can only be released into the wild, but how to manage them and how to dispatch and direct them has become a big problem. It would be ridiculous if they were left out to be released regardless of care, and eventually the genetic mutation would spread and cause a world-destroying pest disaster.

Of course, Aburame Tetsumaru is not afraid of the mutation of the mantis. This giant insect, which can die at any time without his own feeding, can only become a rare animal, and there is no possibility of an insect disaster.

What Aburame Tetsumaru is afraid of are the dozens of species of parasitic tool bugs that live in the body of the mantis. Once these parasites are free, the direction in which they will mutate is unpredictable.

Just when Aburame Tetsumaru was considering whether to eliminate Dao Mantis, a turning point occurred. Dao Mantis adapted to the environment of the ninja world, generated chakra on its own, and became a ninja insect that generates its own chakra.

Thanks to the giant worm's own mastery of chakra, not only the manufacturing cost of the sword mantis has dropped sharply, but it can also actively respond to the secret technique and field enchantment. The effective communication distance has reached an exaggerated fifteen kilometers, and the command efficiency has been greatly improved.

With this exaggerated control distance as the basis, remote command through amplified signals became feasible, so the construction of additional nests was put on the agenda.

The new mother nest is not only capable of breeding large numbers of mantises, but also has the capability of a signal base station. The new generation of mother nests can receive the Aburame Secret Technique signal, amplify it and transmit it again.

The amplified signal can be effectively transmitted to large insects within a few hundred meters, parasitic insects within two kilometers, knife mantis within forty kilometers, and another mother nest within two hundred kilometers.

Using four mother nests as relays, plus two base stations near Tetsumaru's home and the Kawakuni camp (there are no brainworms, only signal base station-related functions), it connects Konoha Village to the Kawakuni camp, and can be directly mobilized.

Dao Mantis at home rushed to the front line of Kawa Country.

Of course, the shortcoming of the mantis in terms of endurance is that it is unable to travel 900 kilometers at a time. If they run for 300 kilometers continuously, they will die of exhaustion and irreversible organ failure due to excessive body temperature.

The function of the mother nest is to allow the mantises to rest after traveling for 200 kilometers, while the mantises in the original mother nest continue to move forward. In this relay method, the mantises can move over long distances.

Another function of the brood nest is that the insects it reserves can be used for nearby support. Through the establishment of a series of brood nests, the entire escort route has become its own position. There is no need to worry about the replenishment of sword mantises on this route.

, which made Aburame Tetsumaru very satisfied.

After repeated inspections, Aburame Tetsumaru confirmed that there were no problems. All the hardware was ready and the final step was to activate the signal connection.

Aburame Tetsumaru separated into three shadow clones and began to perform spells around the trunk of the big tree. Each of the four figures stared at the hand seal order list in front of them, forming the seals with all their strength, and their hands turned into a virtual shadow.

Signal activation is improved based on Aburame's Secret Technique. The core remains unchanged, but countless amplification and range-extending functions are added. The layered spell structure requires an exaggerated and complicated process of performing the spell.

The construction process of the technique could not take more than five minutes. After repeated streamlining, it still required more than 4,000 hand seals. Aburame Tetsumaru's hand speed of four seals per second was simply too late, so he had to separate shadow clones to perform the spell together.

The long spell was completed, and as the final hand seals were completed, chakra poured out like a tide onto the three base station bugs in the heart of the big tree.

The insect's body shook violently, and its tentacles quickly extended along the dug tree hole, causing the tree crown to tremble together. At the same time, waves of strong signals were sent out, and a response was quickly obtained, completing communication with five other signal sources.

Aburame Tetsumaru checked the operation of several other brood nests and the status of the giant insects that were released, and sent orders to all military stations on a test basis, simulating operations such as mobilizing sword mantises, hatching insect eggs, and pupating sword mantises, and even simulated an automatic operation.

Destroy operations.

Aburame Tiewan completed the inspection and found that everything was normal. Then she waited for ten days for the mother nest to develop, and then began to breed larvae. A steady stream of pupae turned into more than thirty kinds of bugs, and finally assembled into a brand new mantis.

He breathed a sigh of relief, started to disguise the four tree holes, and left.

After an hour of sprinting, Aburame Tetsumaru caught up with the baggage train and secretly exchanged with his shadow clone. No one noticed that the leader of the ninja team responsible for escorting had left the team.

This was done to keep it secret. Aburame Tetsumaru didn't want Konoha to know the existence of the brood. He didn't think that the highly controlling Hokage would let himself control more giant insects.

Only when the total number of brood nests reaches 200, a marine version of the brood nest is developed, and the technical problem of bugs inserting their own bases is solved, can Aburame Tetsumaru gain final freedom.

Because at that time, the speed at which he inserts the brood will exceed the speed at which Konoha can clean it up with all its strength. With this kind of strength as a backing, it doesn't matter who is the Hokage of Konoha. I can do whatever I want, or whatever I don't want to do.

Do nothing.

In order to meet the conditions of travel distance, resource production, etc., this mother nest can only be built not far from the main traffic road, so we have to be more careful.

In the final analysis, it is because Dao Mantis is not strong enough. Not only is his physical strength not strong, but he also does not have enough chakra. Otherwise, it would be more convenient to directly make a blood contract and channel spirits at will.

Regardless of the mantis' maneuvering range, the distance between the brood nests can reach more than 300 kilometers. If it is no longer possible to build some base stations for transferring signals, the production brood nests can be built in no-man's land at will.

There is no need to dig a hole anymore, you can build it as big as you want, and you can raise as many giant insects as you want.

This makes Tiewan even more looking forward to a super giant insect with a body length of tens of meters and a weight of more than tens of tons. With this size, even without a brain, it can have enough chakra to be used for blood contract channeling.

When the Sannin Psychic Beast is showing off, you can show it off yourself, and everyone's expressions will be very interesting.

It's a pity that super giant insects are just a dream for the time being. The red and black giant beetles that were once the closest to them are also dead. The fifteen-meter-long bug lacks self-sustainability and is born with various congenital diseases. It cannot survive even four months.

Now that the key reference prototypes of super giant scorpions and giant ants have not been obtained, Aburame Tetsumaru's giant insect research has come to a standstill. He can only work hard on the construction of the brood nest, and when the single unit cannot be improved, he strives to increase the number.

Moreover, history tells Tiewan that infrastructure construction is tiring and hard, but the hard work will not let people down.

One day, these jobs will become the cornerstone of his meteoric rise.

(End of chapter)