I Am the Swarm

The super giant can grow to such a large size with the extremely backward oxygen supply system of the ant template. Relying on the super strong muscles all over his body, he forcibly squeezed oxygen to all parts of his body.

Therefore, the energy conversion ratio of this amazingly dense muscle is also quite high.

When Luo Wen woke up, not only did he have wings, but even the brood grew back.

Prior to this, Rowan had always been guessing about the regeneration of the brood. It wasn't until now that the speculation had become a fact, and Luo Wen breathed a sigh of relief.

Perhaps it is because the energy supply is insufficient during growth, and the brood appears a little underdeveloped at this time. But this is only relative to Rowan's size. Compared with when the brood was first born, it is already many times larger after rebirth.

Picked up some rotten branches and leaves from the surroundings and stuffed them into the feeding hole of the brood. Although the first meal after rebirth was a bit stretchy, but life is really tight now, so let's make do with it first, it's better than nothing.

The brood is not as picky as Rowan. After acquiring the earthworm gene, it doesn't even dislike dirt and stones. It is said that as far as the eye can see, there are all ingredients. At this time, it is no problem to eat some rotten leaves or something.

After arranging the brood, Rowan crawled out of the cave.

If it weren't for the fact that the brood was too important just now, he would have been unable to bear it.

Flying freely in the blue sky has always been the yearning for any creature. Whether it was when he was a human being or in his current worm body, Rowan longed to have his own pair of wings.

And now, the dream has come true.

The solid black carapace flew away from the middle, tilting up to the side.

A pair of folded delicate, transparent wings popped out, then stretched out. The lines on it are clearly visible, with a tinge of black at the edges and roots.

Then the wings began to vibrate, the speed became faster and faster, and Rowan's bulky body gradually lifted off the ground.

Although he was not proficient at flying for the first time, and was swaying left and right, there was a risk of crashing the plane at any time, but Rowan still hissed with excitement.

Flying is a thing that actively consumes energy, especially like Luo Wen, relying on a pair of transparent cicada wings to drive his heavy and clumsy body of tens of kilograms, it consumes a lot of energy.

Therefore, Rowan, who had just woken up and was severely depleted of energy in his body, was forced to land after flying for the first time in less than half a minute and just 20 centimeters from the ground.

Although Luo Wen felt a little regretful about this, he didn't complain about it. This thing is not rented, and it's not too late to play after eating and drinking.

The poor big-headed ant leaf-cutting team, after two days in peace, was attacked by unknown creatures again during transportation, and lost several super giants.

Desperate, the big-headed ants sent a large group of troops to sweep the area where the crime occurred, but there was only a long-lasting stench and disordered pheromones left there, and the murderer had long since disappeared.

After replenishing his strength, Rowan brought two of them back to the brood to speed up its recovery.

Everything was arranged properly, and he couldn't wait to start the second flight experiment.

In the jungle, a big black beetle was flying slowly half a meter above the ground. His front pincers and jointed limbs drooped naturally, and a pair of wings flapped behind him so fast that he couldn't even see the afterimage clearly.

At this time, Luo Wen was a little helpless. He could fly, but it was a little different from what he imagined.

The flying in his imagination is the kind of aggressive maneuvering in the air, flying at an extremely fast speed, and engaging in fierce and wonderful dog fights with the opponent, just like the scene of the pterosaurs fighting for food in the air before.

But now...

Looking at the scenery slowly moving behind him, his flying speed is not as fast as his crawling on the ground.

The gap in reality was too great, which temporarily made him lose interest.

With this speed, apart from making him less embarrassed when he encountered the free fall of the last time, it seems that he can't think of other effects.

However, his slow flying is not because this flight system is weak, on the contrary, it also has quite a lot of black technology.

First, he has an extra set of muscles on his back dedicated to flapping his wings. The proteins of the muscle-derived fibers are very neatly arranged, and the cross-section of the fibers is a well-defined hexagon. This regularity enables them to vibrate their wings quickly.

Rowan's usual fanning speed is more than 1,000 times per minute, and the limit speed is more than 20,000 times per minute. However, this kind of extreme fanning will make a lot of noise and consume a lot of energy, but the flying speed will also increase. be greatly improved.

The wings themselves are membranous, with invisible creases on the wings. When it is to be used, the elytra is opened, and the hidden wings below are popped up and unfolded just like an umbrella is opened.

It is a little troublesome to retract, and it is necessary to flexibly use the flexibility and elasticity of the internal structure of the membrane wings to achieve some complex conversions. To put it simply, it is to "fold" the wings back along the creases on the membrane wings.

At the beginning, Rowan was very unskilled in this kind of operation. After the elytra and membranous wings were put away, a large part of the membranous wings were still exposed. He thought it should be like this, and didn't pay much attention to it.

Later, after observing the little green beetle, it was discovered that the membranous wings can be fully retracted, but it needs the help of the hind legs. In fact, the membranous wings are stuffed back under the elytra with the hind feet, and the membranous wings will automatically fold according to the creases.

If this is the case alone, the pair of wings cannot carry Rowan's heavy body at all.

So, next, the darkest place comes.

A huge amount of ultra-miniature pyramid structures were added to the elytra that originally belonged to the carapace. Driven by the high-speed vibration of the wings, longitudinal waves of magnetic particles will be generated at the top of these structures, and these directional longitudinal waves will produce the phenomenon of polarized magnetic particles, and this phenomenon will produce the effect of shielding gravitational field.

Simply put, just three words, anti-gravity!

The special structure of the elytra, after the flapping of the wings starts, will shield Rowan from a part of the influence of gravity, allowing him to fly a body weighing dozens of kilograms with only a pair of light film wings.

However, this system is not a panacea, otherwise, Rowan would not complain about his flying speed.

It is actually simple to obtain faster flight speed, that is to permanently change the body structure, abandon the exoskeleton armor and part of the protective structure, and reduce the body weight. And change the chubby body shape into a streamlined one.

This will increase his flight speed.

Moreover, after a few days after waking up, he has already grasped some changes in himself,

After sleeping for an unknown period of time, his racial talent has been greatly improved, and he can already independently select gene fragments to transform himself.

If he wanted to, the operations mentioned above would be no problem at all, he only needed to replenish his energy, and he could do it in one hibernation pupation.

However, after careful consideration, he temporarily gave up on this idea.

The jungle road conditions are complicated, and his membranous wings are extremely delicate, unable to withstand any toss. And above the canopy, it was the territory of the pterosaurs, no matter in size or number, they suppressed Rowan in all directions.

Based on a comprehensive analysis, flying faster would not be of much help to his current situation.

Therefore, between defense and speed, he chose defense.

Thank you Dark Whispers for your reward.

The fact that the beetle elytra has anti-gravity is really not nonsense.