I Am the Swarm

The results were far from ideal.

However, with Luo Wen's meager knowledge of entomology, he doesn't know whether insects have such things.

And even if you have it, what's the use?

Leaving aside whether he has the same kind, how could he have any improper relationship with a bug?

Not to mention, in his memory, males generally died miserably. When I was a child, I watched a children's film with a cat as the main character. Some of the plots in it are still the shadow of his childhood.

I shivered all over, forcibly interrupting the train of thought that I wanted to continue.

However, he had always thought that the last small hole in his buttocks was the excrement opening, and it had left him along with the three-jointed tail that fell off. Unexpectedly, a new one grew secretly later, but he has never used it, so he has never paid attention to it.

Who knew that it was still not used for drainage this time, but a small hole was exposed in the middle of the lower abdomen for drainage, and the small hole behind the buttocks was still not known for what it was used for.

Drinking water is full but not very useful, Rowan turned his attention to those black algae plants.

I don't know if it is poisonous? I don't know how his insect body is resistant to poison.

Thinking of his awesome racial name and title, his heart to die suddenly started to stir.

It should be ok to try a little bit first, right?

I moved over carefully, and first digged the black algae twice with my digging feet. I didn't find any unknown gas or ejected any unknown liquid, and the fluff on the joints showed no signs of corrosion.

I stretched out my mouthparts and touched the black algae a little, but I didn't feel it. Then he licked it with his small tongue, and after waiting for a while, there was no sign of numbness on the tip of his tongue.

I took another sip carefully, and lay down for a while more cautiously, but I didn't seem to feel anything.

After gradually increasing the food intake and prolonging the waiting time, Luo Wen finally came to the conclusion that the black algae was edible and not poisonous. Or poisonous, but it has no effect on him.

Although the energy provided by plants is not as good as that of meat, it is much better than simply drinking water.

After repeated repetitions, he was finally full, and Rowan climbed out of the crack to take a rest. The rock wall inside the gap becomes smoother as it goes down. His claw structure is not very good at walking and staying on smooth rock faces.

Therefore, it is very risky for him to continue to go deep. If he does not grasp it firmly and falls, it is okay to fall on a rock. If he fell directly into the underground river, he didn't even know if he could swim. If he couldn't, he would be in big trouble.

Thanks to the special duct system of most insects and their unique operating mechanism, it is difficult to suffocate most insects, but it is very easy to drown them.

Unfortunately, Rowan's current body is this kind of conventional system, but if he really falls into the water, with Ife Ash's characteristics, who knows if he can evolve a new system in time to solve the difficulties.

Luo Wen said that whoever wants to go will go, anyway, he will not do this kind of challenge.

If you don't die, you won't die, which has been engraved into the first article of the action plan by him.

Although Luo Wen wanted to become a big boss before going out, it was obviously unrealistic. Although food can be provided here, the replenishment efficiency is very low. He's still small now, but when he grows up a bit, he'll probably spend most of his day eating.

These black algae can't provide him with a new gene panel, and if he continues to stay here, he can only enlarge himself proportionally, and can't add any new functions.

And he still needs to know more about this world, don't just think that he is invincible and ready to go out, only to be hit by a ballistic missile or a dissociation technique... or take advantage of his inconspicuousness Time to do more observation.

After thinking about it, Rowan came up with a compromise solution, and he continued to follow the direction of the underground river.

Water is the source of life. He believes that as long as he keeps going like this, he will meet other life sooner or later.

It's just a pity, just left like this, and I don't know when the revenge of those ants will be avenged.

Of course, Luo Wen felt that he was definitely not a person who held grudges, but just sighed in a very ordinary way.

Just like this, Rowan started a long journey along the underground river.

The daily routine consists of eating, drinking, traveling, and resting. Occasionally he would climb up for a while, searching back and forth to see if there were any relatives of the white worm, but unfortunately, he never found them.

He hasn't been to the surface for the time being, and the only few experiences on the surface gave him an extremely bad impression. Except for being scalded for the first time, the next two times, each time I got myself half-dead.

The underground river slowly rises. The underground river, which was originally fifty or sixty meters above the ground, is now only twenty meters above the ground.

Rowan's body also grew back to the size of a fingernail.

To be honest, the growth rate was much slower than he expected.

In addition to the low energy conversion rate of the food eaten, most of the energy is provided for mining such heavy physical labor, which is also one of the reasons.

And he also suspects that the oxygen supply system in the body is also an important factor limiting his continued growth. Therefore, he urgently needs a new, more powerful oxygen supply system to replace it.

As time went by, Rowan didn't know how long he had been digging. However, the river bed of the underground river is getting higher and higher, getting closer to the surface, and the rock layer where it is located is only a few meters away from the surface.

The soil here is gradually increasing, and the thickness of the sandstone layer is already very small. Occasionally, the roots of certain plants can be seen passing through the soil. Rowan feels that he may be able to walk out of the desert in the near future.

When the rock layer is only about 1 meter away from the surface, the sand layer between the rock and the surface disappears, leaving only soil. The rhizomes of the plants here are more and more dense, obviously there are a lot of plants on the surface, but unfortunately no white insects were found.

Finally, Luo Wen couldn't help but drilled out of the soil and ran to the surface to have a look.

The two huge eyes finally played their role, and everything around them was clearly imprinted into Rowan's mind. The field of vision has reached nearly 20 meters, and it seems that it has been secretly strengthened recently.

Groups of unknown shrubs dotted the ground, and the sand accounted for only a small part of the dust blown by the wind.

Although I saw plants, I still felt a little barren, and I didn't find any insects or animals.

It was daytime now, and the hot sun shone on Luo Wen's body. Not only did he not have the feeling of being scalded the first time, but he felt warm instead. He knew that this was because his fire resistance had increased.

Carefully climbed to the nearest bush, the thick yellow-white trunk twisted upwards, and then some slender branches were pulled out from it, dotted with a large number of small green leaves.

It looks delicious at first glance.

Subterranean black algae have long been lost, probably because they have to be deep underground to grow.

Luo Wen drank enough water for two days and was about to find another way out when scattered tree roots appeared in front of him. With the supplement of rhizome sap, he can barely maintain his daily consumption, and there is even a little leftover.

Therefore, he continued to advance along the underground river as originally planned. After all, in this environment, the risk of finding another way out is also great.

Subsequently, the roots appeared more and more frequently, until now they can be seen everywhere. Luo Wen didn't have to worry about food for the time being, but new problems also appeared.