I Am the Swarm

The first batch of air units of the swarm will choose the flying insect template, which is divided into two versions of flying insect type I and type II. Among them, type I is closer to the original template, and they basically have no other changes except for the addition of an echolocation system.

Their main responsibilities on the battlefield are to provide aerial reconnaissance, enemy tracking, marking, interception and other tasks. Now that the swarm has a real-time interactive system, it must be fully utilized to achieve a real collaborative combat effect.

For flying insects type II, some genes of cannon insects will be added.

Their size is larger than Type I, the poison sac in the abdomen will be replaced with a storage bag, and the tail stinger will be replaced with a barrel, which can fire extremely viscous venom shells.

Farting bugs are no longer suitable for the current version due to reasons such as mobility and range. Flying insect type II is their replacement.

The battlefield duty of Type II flying insects is to provide air fire support and precision strikes. Although their attack method is a single attack, compared with farting bugs, their much lower price will allow them to make up for this in quantity.

The original Cannon Bug will no longer be produced due to reasons such as mobility, terrain effects, cost, and poor shooting angles.

In addition, their commander, the type I queen, will also undergo some modifications. On the previous basis, add a pair of membrane wings and optical stealth system to adapt to the new war mode.

Two days later, the first branch of the swarm base was established on a tree trunk not far away. Two type III queen ants were sent to develop a new base. Since they had no soldiers available in the early stage, some worker ants were sent to take care of their food expenses, nest construction and daily maintenance.

The fact that the air force base can be established so quickly is because Rowan discovered a new skill. He can update the queen's gene pool through contact. In this way, the swarm no longer needs to produce a new batch of queens every time it acquires a new gene.

However, the disadvantage is that these operations must be done through physical contact. Now the territory of the bug swarm is still small, so the problem is not big. If it develops to the previous scale, with a radius of thousands of kilometers and more than 100,000 ant queens, then Rowan basically doesn't have to do anything else.

So Luo Wen began to take time to study the function of the cloud storage. Maybe in the future, when he finds the trick, he can directly update their gene pools remotely through the swarm network.

If it can be done, it will be much more convenient.

After finishing the arrangements in the base, Luo Wen, who had nothing to do for a while, had the idea of ​​going out for a stroll again. Otherwise, he would always stay in the base, and his food intake would be a serious burden to the current insect swarm.

In the following period of time, Rowan ran around in the forest, constantly expanding the scope of investigation. While filling his stomach, he's not really messing around.

Since realizing that plant genes can be recorded, although he has not yet figured out how to develop this ability, he has begun to consciously pay attention to those strange plants.

There are many types of plants in the forest, and Luo Wen actually discovered many interesting ones. Some plants, for example, are actually carnivorous.

They use their bodies to make all kinds of traps, some are unfolded, some are pot-shaped, and some are simply slime traps. They prey on various insects, there is a very large flower carnivorous plant, and they can even hunt some small animals.

Moreover, some of them have a very fast digestion rate, such as the flowers, a small animal, which will be digested in one night.

Some fungi were also collected by Rowan. After all, the swarm had rich experience in growing them. Although they look strange, the requirements for the growth environment are also different.

Some grow directly on tree trunks, on the ground, underground, and even on rocks, which opened Rowan's eyes who hadn't noticed these before.

At the same time, some algae are also within the scope of collection. As the most primitive plant species, they can still flourish after so many years without being eliminated, which in itself proves that they have a lot of merits.

In addition to these plants, Rowan also discovered many novel creatures.

After all, in such a large forest, there are countless species of creatures.

Among them, various insects are naturally the most. Now that they have fallen to the bottom of the food chain, they can only rely on numbers to keep themselves going.

However, although there are a large number of them, their talents are all similar, and only a few have skills that can make Rowan shine.

For example, a large golden beetle has an extremely thick exoskeleton armor and is covered with spikes. It even has a long conical threaded horn on its head, just like a unicorn.

Putting aside the practicality, this appearance is really super powerful and handsome. Rowan planned to wait until the swarm developed again in the future, and when he didn't need to do it himself, he would show off in such a golden armor.

And some bugs stretch their hips a lot, and their evolved talents can even be dismissed as useless.

For example, a kind of bug covered with long and twisted exoskeleton structure. If you want defense power but no defense power, you need attack power but no attack power, and it's super ugly.

Luo Wen originally thought that such an abstract shape should have some special and shocking talent. But after many experiments, he found that it has no other uses except hot eyes.

This somewhat overturned his cognition, after all, before encountering this bug, he always thought that bugs were pragmatists.

In addition to bugs, there are a lot of birds with different shapes and colors. Some beaks are short, some are sharp and slender, and some are not only long but also very strong.

Some of their calls are very pleasant, crisp and sweet, like a clear spring flowing in the heart. Some are simply noise, very disturbing. Only Luo Wen encountered this kind of disturbing people, and all of them were sent to Dulitun for a meeting.

Luo Wen also encountered many snakes, some of which were small in size and brightly patterned, and they were basically poisonous. They use heat sensing to hunt prey, and optical cloaking has little effect on them.

However, Luo Wen accidentally discovered that when he was running the dormancy talent, although his limbs were a little stiff and his flexibility was reduced, he could blind the heat sensor of these snakes.

Therefore, during this period of time, there were many more snake creatures in the meeting in Dulitun.

In addition to these small-bodied snakes, there are also some large-bodied snakes, which should perhaps be called pythons. They have huge bodies and thick waists. The largest one Luo Wen has ever seen can reach more than 20 meters in length. It is the second largest creature he has ever seen besides Diplodocus.

Their bodies are covered with a large piece of armor, and their strength is astonishingly strong. The trunks as thick as buckets can be easily twisted off. These guys are much more threatening to him than Liang Long, after all Liang Long eats grass.

After comparing the bodies, Rowan kept them at a respectful distance.