I Am the Swarm

The changes in the outside world are still continuing, and it is impossible to return to normal in a short time. Most of the air force bases located on the top of the mountains have suffered devastating blows.

In this kind of astronomical phenomenon, the wind gods can't fly at high altitude, and the high-temperature dust everywhere will destroy their respiratory system. For a time, Fengshen suffered heavy casualties.

No way, Rowan ordered them to fly as low as possible, looking for a nearby underground base to hide. It's just that due to their huge size, there was no passageway for them to pass through.

Luo Wen thought about it and didn't care about it anymore. Now the foundation and logistics of the swarm are many times better than when he first woke up. Even if the entire Fengshen army is wiped out, it won't take long for it to develop again.

On the other side of the test site, closer to the impact point, the falling flaming rocks ignited the forest. The experimental subjects produced by the swarm were commanded by Blade and arranged to escape in a unified way. Now that there is no Fengshen as a means of transportation, it is unknown how much they can survive.

On the other hand, those wild individuals, although some of them followed the swarm test subjects to evacuate, many of them also took advantage of the chaos to escape. At this time, Luo Wen didn't care about them anymore, so let's run away if he runs away.

Most of the queens, worker ants and worker bees survived as long as they were not in the impact core circle. They are active in the underground base all year round, avoiding the first round of shock waves and meteorite rain. They are now scrambling to dig tunnels downward, extending the base further underground, and at the same time transporting the queen there.

The spider war insects and flying insect troops also began to move underground, but the underground space was limited, and they didn't have the ability to dig. They could only let the blade command them to see if they could find a temporary shelter like a cave.

A few days passed, and the natural disasters outside still showed no signs of abating, the sky was still dark, and animals and plants were howling.

Since the insect swarm took control of the land, the underground part of the newly built base is not large, and it is mainly used to house queens and cultivate larvae. It's okay to say that it is far away from the impact point, and there is still time to dig now. As for those near the impact point, most of the bugs were not settled in time. They were lucky enough to find the cave and start dormant, but unlucky...

Due to the reduction of outside activities and insects, Rowan's control over some areas of the mainland has been reduced to a minimum. But now most of the creatures are lingering, and it doesn't matter if they are controlled or not.

More than ten days later, Rowan's new body broke out, his consciousness shifted, and he took over the new body. This body is only thirty centimeters long, several circles smaller than before. But all kinds of abilities are not lacking. After Rowan got used to it for a while, he found no abnormalities.

If he wanted to restore his previous body shape, Rowan only needed to replenish his energy, and he could restore it by skinning a few times, but he didn't want to do that.

There were too many accidents. He thought he had become the captain of the ball, but who would have thought that disaster would come from the sky and almost kill him.

Now, he usually handles the big and small affairs of the swarm through the Internet. Moreover, consciousness can descend at any time and take over the bodies of the bugs. Except that the bugs don't have Ife Ash's talent, they are not much different from his own body, and his body doesn't have to do everything by itself.

Now that his body has shrunk in size, he has actually become more flexible. For example, holes that he could not drill before can now be drilled. He decided to separate the main body from the brood and hide them to avoid being wiped out.

Because his body can rebuild the mother nest, and the mother nest can also hatch the body. As long as either of these two exists, he can be reborn, and the swarm will not be destroyed.

At the same time, he has to work harder on this in the future. If the queens can also download his gene pool, does that mean that as long as there is any queen, they can also produce his body or mother? nest?

Or he could find a way to produce more broods or spare bodies.

As long as any one of them gets a breakthrough, then his ability to survive will be infinitely magnified. Consciousness exists in the network, the body can be reborn infinitely, and he will achieve true immortality.

The natural disasters outside continued, although Rowan wanted to separate from the brood as soon as possible, but now is not a good time. Can only stay with the mother nest, order the mother nest and the two queens in the base to produce digging ants and worker ants with all their strength.

These two units consume less energy, and digger ants are good at digging holes. Worker ants can assist them, and they can also serve larvae and creep. They are the most needed insects in the current situation.

The experience of being gasified this time made Rowan a little nervous. He feels extremely insecure now, especially when he stays in the same place with the brood.

Since you can't get out and transfer, dig the hole deeper.

Creep integrates a variety of genes. Even if there is no sunlight, its strong roots can penetrate hundreds of meters underground to absorb the nutrients hidden deep underground. Moreover, it can also directly decompose rocks and minerals and extract nutrients from them, which is very wild.

With the help of the creeper, in a short period of time, the number of digging ants and worker ants in the underground base has reached one billion. The two queens became the biggest contributors. These ten-meter-high giant production units can produce tens of millions of tiny eggs every day.

During this period of time, the brood was a little sluggish. It may be that the output of Rowan's body was too large, or it might be limited by the size of Rowan's body. Instead, it shrank from 60 centimeters to 50 centimeters.

However, now the main task of the brood is to produce queens. For the production tasks of other arms, in front of the queen, its little production capacity is really dispensable.

With the efforts of many digging ants, the underground base has been dug 500 meters underground. Although the environment at this depth is not good, hot and humid, and water seeps in some places, it gives Rowan a sense of security.

Although as long as there are bugs, he can survive in the swarm network. But if he loses his body and brood, he will lose his talent and cannot add new genes. This means that his potential will be locked.

He just had the grand goal of traveling the stars and the sea. If he loses his talent at this time, he can only continue to be a "ball captain". The vast outer space will not be for him, which will be the biggest blow to him.

Although he doesn't have much idea about how to travel the universe, but as long as his talent is still there, he can survive until he flies out of this planet.

And this asteroid impact also made him realize his insignificance. The self-satisfaction that originally occupied a planet was also awakened. There are too many accidents in the universe. Even a planet is very small in the universe. "Ball leader" is also a high-risk occupation.

If the swarm continues to shrink on a planet, it will have no resistance to the accidents in the universe. But on the contrary, if he can spread the footprints of the swarm all over the universe, then almost nothing can destroy the swarm.

At the same time, that would mean that he would be safer.