I Am the Swarm

In the depths of the ground, a black bug that was badly damaged and mostly disabled lay there motionless, as if it was dead.

Suddenly, from its body, eyes, mouthparts, and the roots of the fluff all over the body, some viscous liquid slowly seeped out.

Under the influence of these liquids, whether it is the black head, weak eyes, delicate mouthparts, rotten abdomen or the hard shoulder armor and carapace, a magical chemical reaction took place, as if melting,

Some white foam appeared, swelled, and then slowly hardened, finally forming a cocoon that looked like a black bug, and the cocoon chrysalis that swelled several times encased it.

Rowan's consciousness was ups and downs in the darkness, as if he was drowning, and was twisted into a paste in the water, which made him unable to breathe. He began to struggle hard, trying to get out of the current situation.

Outside, the black worm-like cocoons trembled, as if some beings trapped inside were about to break free. As the shaking became larger and faster, the top of the cocoon suddenly split a gap from the middle.

One skin looked smooth, supple and transparent, as if it would shatter if poked, and the yellow-white worm with internal organs could even be seen, protruding its head from the gap. Then as he struggled vigorously, a pair of excavating feet also broke free slowly.

With the pair of digging legs for external support, the tender worm quickly pulled its whole body out of the cocoon.

It may be that this round of struggling exhausted its whole body's physical strength, and the little bug lay on the cocoon for a while to rest.

At this moment, its originally yellow-white and tender body quickly turned black and hardened, and the outermost layer of skin turned into an exoskeleton to wrap the whole body.

In a blink of an eye, it turned into a black bug.

Rowan checked his body and found that his overall size had shrunk several times. The body that was about to grow to the size of a fingernail has changed back to the size when it was just "born".

No new organs or limbs appear on the body, but the previous damage to the body has been completely repaired. Including the dark spots in the previous field of vision, the image has been restored.

The tentacles swayed, and two tentacles of the same length stretched out in front of Rowan's eyes, which made him a little bit more comfortable with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

This achievement is also due to the white worm that was eaten. Most of the gene fragments of the activated pupation talent this time came from it. Coupled with some gene fragments carried by Rowan himself, after the life-and-death juncture, the integration and improvement after the potential was stimulated, it became what it is now.

It's just a simple patchwork of some limbs and organs of other insects, it's just a four-dimensional image. Fusion, improvement and evolution of them is the ultimate manifestation of Ife Ash's ability.

It's a pity that Luo Wen is still a larva, and he can't even select some gene fragments to activate on his own, let alone fusion and improvement. This time, it was only a fluke of the instinctive stimulation of the imminent disappearance of life.

No matter how great the benefits are, Rowan doesn't want to try it a second time. He doesn't have any urgent goals, so he spends time until he matures, and naturally he has to acquire these abilities to be on the right track. In order to accelerate the acquisition of abilities, it is not his choice to go crazy and die.

However, although the whole body has been repaired at this time, the energy reserves in the body have also begun to alarm. This time the repair energy was insufficient, and even part of his body tissue was burned, causing his overall size to shrink.

He must now find food supplements as soon as possible, otherwise any of his survival tactics will be empty talk.

The excavation was fully started, and I found a random direction and drilled through. Now in an unfamiliar land, any direction is similar to him.

Rowan's digging speed is fast, but in fact he feels that he can go faster.

But this newly evolved 360-degree full viewing angle, the big light bulb eyes can see farther. But now he was basically underground, which not only had no effect on the eyes, but he also had to devote energy to protecting them when digging, which seriously slowed down his speed.

However, after thinking about it, it's better to slow down, this is not his original three-acre land. He doesn't know where he is now, and he doesn't know if there is any danger hidden underground here. It's better to be cautious.

So he slowed down a little more, and at the same time the tentacles and fluff were working at full capacity.

There is a shortage of supplies in the desert, and Rowan was lucky to be able to find suitable food nearby when he was just "born".

But that luck didn't seem to be inherited until now. Rowan has advanced for an unknown period of time, and the little energy left is about to be exhausted. Still no evidence of any food was found.

As a last resort, he simply dug down vertically, and gradually, some large rocks appeared around. Continuing down along the crevices of these stones, the large stones slowly condense together to form a rock layer.

Strong vibrations came through the rocks. The tentacles also felt the thick moisture around them, and heard the sound of water.

Rowan judged that there might be an underground river under the rock.

Climb along the rock layer towards a place where the water vapor is more concentrated. Not long after, a small crack was found on the rock layer that was originally tight, and a clearer sound of water flow came from it.

Relying on his small stature, Luo Wen crawled in along the crack. As it slowly deepened, the rock walls on both sides gradually turned black and gradually became moist. It was a liquid recondensed after some water vapor hit the rock walls.

Moreover, black spots gradually appeared on it, which seemed to be some kind of plant, which looked like moss, but this was not his hometown, and the color was wrong, so it was hard for Rowan to judge what it was.

Here, the digging feet were basically useless, and Rowan used the hook claws on the other 6 jointed limbs to hook the potholes on the rock surface to fix the body.

Then stretch out its own mouthparts, the mushroom-shaped front end touches the rock surface to describe a disc-shaped structure, the fine hairs and uvula hidden inside slide quickly to scrape the water on it.

The cold groundwater entered the esophagus and flowed into the body. The rich minerals and microorganisms in it were quickly digested, slightly filling up the dried up energy reserves.

In this way, Rowan licked until he couldn't drink anymore, and then found a place to rest beside him. Wait for a while to digest, then get up and continue drinking.

However, the efficiency of drinking water to replenish energy was too slow, and Rowan drank so much that he almost vomited. And from "birth" to the present, he, who has never excreted, has urinated for the first time.

He never peed when he drank the root juice every day.

Of course, the experience of draining water for the first time is also very novel.

However, that's not what he cares about.

Based on his experience as a human being, or as a man, certain organs are needed to drain water.

As for the first drainage of worms, of course he has to check it.