I Am the Swarm

Once the freshness of gaining wings wears off, enthusiasm cools down, and reason once again takes the high ground.

The plan to fight the sky has been temporarily put on hold, and now the most important task is to raise the brood and rebuild the structure of the swarm.

In the next few days, nothing happened except that the big-headed ants lost varying amounts of super giants every day.

The underground temporary base was completed yesterday. In addition to the individual rooms of Rowan and the brood, there are also facilities such as hatching rooms and storage rooms. In addition, there are as many as five escape routes...

After a few days of recuperation, the brood has basically recovered.

Luo Wen immediately placed a production order, and the first batch of 50 adult worker ants will be produced.

This production method consumes a lot of energy. Fortunately, the worker ants are too small compared to the size of the mother nest at this time. It will no longer be the case that after the queen ant spewed out a black bird, it languished for more than a week.

Half a day later, fifty adult worker ants arrived.

Immediately afterwards, an order of 10,000 eggs per day was placed, which would hatch into worker ants, digger ants and spy ants.

In the early stage of the swarm, there is no need to produce combat units. With the current resources, they cannot be supported for the time being. At present, the main thing is to make up the engineers and soldiers first, and let the wretched development take a while.

The base is gradually getting on the right track, and the hunting missions are carried out by Luo Wen himself. Since the "granary" is next to it, the danger is very low. The base adds 10,000 eggs every day, and after hatching one after another, fifty worker ants can no longer take care of them.

The mother nest suspended the order of eggs, and gave priority to producing adult worker ants for a week. Although the supplement of hundreds of worker ants still cannot meet the needs of the incubator, it can only alleviate it, but that is the only way for now.

After several rounds of genetic optimization, the worker ants are now slaughtering very quickly. As long as we persist for more than ten days, the first batch of chrysalis will break out of their shells, and the shortage of human resources will be resolved.

As for this period, those larvae were only fed less frequently. It won't be a big problem if you are a little hungry and you can't starve to death.

On this day, just as Rowan got out of the cave to prepare for hunting, he noticed some abnormal vibrations from the ground.

These vibrations were not earth-shattering like the ones that came from a distance a few days ago. They are a bit light, which means that the builder is not big, and they are not far from Rowan.

There are too many obstacles in the jungle, and the vision is extremely poor.

Rowan carefully turned on the optical invisibility, climbed up the tree trunk next to him, intending to use the height advantage to view the target.

However, the visual environment above is also not good.

The membranous wings popped out from under the elytra, and Rowan kicked vigorously on the tree trunk, and at the same time spread the wings, and slapped them lightly a few times. Although he can't fly like this, it allows him to glide to another tree trunk not far away.

And, quietly.

This is a new way of using wings discovered by Rowan. When he was in a daze on the canopy by chance, he saw a creature with flying membranes under its armpit on a taller tree in the distance and learned it.

At that time, because the distance was too far, Rowan only vaguely looked like a frog or some kind of lizard. It was not big, jumped from a high place, spread its limbs, and glided to the distance to disappear.

Looking back, Luo Wen followed suit and practiced many times by himself. Although there is no such professional equipment as other people's, the membrane wings can barely make do with it.

However, due to his weight problem, the gliding distance is extremely short, and he can only be used on two tree trunks not far from each other, and he has to rely on the help of jumping.

Although it has a big flaw, it can be regarded as an added way of moving. Thinking about the current situation, the safety has been greatly improved.

After walking more than 20 meters, Rowan was surprised to find that an unknown creature was coming towards him.

He stood still, and soon saw the true face of the unknown creature.

This is a dog-like creature, but its head is particularly slender and looks a little wretched. It is more than one meter tall, and its body length is close to three meters including the tail. The limbs are short and thick, and there are three toes on the claws, which are very thick and powerful. It is covered with taupe steel bristles and has no armor.

The long-faced beast came to the tree near Rowan, sniffing around with the nose in front of the long face, as if looking for something.

Rowan was between the tree trunks, carefully following him to see what this guy was going to do. The opponent's body shape has an advantage, and it is not clear what talents he has, so it is not appropriate to act rashly for the time being.

Slowly, the long-faced beast approached the big-headed ant's leaf-cutting team. Then, as if it had found its target, it happily ran towards the big-headed ants.

As the distance continued to approach, a flexible and slender tongue more than half a meter long shot out from the mouth of the long-faced beast. The tongue accurately hit a medium-sized soldier ant, then rolled it into the saliva, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it into the stomach with a movement of the throat.

Luo Wen was shocked when he saw this. He didn't expect that this guy who looked like a dog could practice the talent of a frog.

Afterwards, he became a little angry.

The big-headed ant nest next to the base has long been regarded by him as a granary. Now this guy, isn't this taking food from a tiger's mouth?

This long-faced beast also seemed to be a veteran who knew the big-headed ants quite well, and kept attacking with its long tongue while keeping the attack distance. The worker ants and soldier ants disappeared quickly, and the big-headed ants who were once the overlord did not notice it.

Flaws are too obvious to be targeted easily.

After observing for a long time, Luo Wen found that this long-faced beast seemed to have no other talents except for its tongue. Think about it too, if this guy has many talents and outstanding abilities, he wouldn't be so big and come to sneak attack on ants.

And for such a long time, this guy actually only attacked ants below the size of medium-sized soldier ants. And those giant and super giant, long-faced beasts choose to avoid them far away.

Luo Wen had a clue in his mind, how dare he come to grab something to eat with such poor combat power?

Just as the long-faced beast was enjoying its meal, it suddenly felt its back sink, staggered, and was almost crushed to the ground. Just as it was about to struggle, it suddenly felt a pain in the back of its neck, followed by a lightness on its back, and the thing that was pressing it just now had left.

The one who attacked just now was naturally Luo Wen.

The eyes of this long-faced beast grow on both sides of its head, above which is its blind spot. Rowan landed on its back without a sound, using gliding and optical invisibility.

Before the long-faced beast could react, two fangs pierced the back of its neck. It is only covered with fur, and under the fur is a relatively hard skin, but its defense is far inferior to that of the exoskeleton armor, and the defense is easily broken by the fangs.

After injecting the venom, Rowan immediately left the target and climbed up the tree trunk next to him.

The death of the poisoned long-faced beast is only a matter of time, there is no need to entangle with it, it is enough to wait slowly.