I Am the Swarm

As time went by, there were more intelligent individuals in the swarm network. Under Luo Wen's deliberate screening, most of them are scientific researchers.

Some of them have been changed and rejoined the scientific research institute to continue the projects they were in charge of before. Some of them joined Xingkong Company and took charge of the company's private laboratory.

On this day, somewhere in the Xingkong company's laboratory, the main research project here is the outer space environment.

The Ratmen don't have any means to explore outer space yet, so they don't know the environment there. But Luo Wen is an educated person. Although he only knows superficially, he still knows the basic knowledge of low temperature, no oxygen, no gravity, and full of space radiation.

But this kind of experiment, because it can't explain its purpose, can't be approved in the Ratmen's official Space Research Institute. In the end, it can only be placed on the side of a private laboratory and recruit researchers for research.

Under the unlimited supply of funds and resources, this laboratory has produced some results. They have independently developed instruments that can simulate a vacuum environment. It can also simulate and manufacture a variety of space radiation.

Space radiation is a special mixture of gamma rays, high-energy protons and cosmic rays, which is extremely harmful to living organisms.

The laboratory's publicized research project is dedicated to developing a protective clothing that can provide the wearer with the necessary oxygen while also blocking radiation damage to the body.

While exploring minerals, Starry Sky Company needs this kind of protective clothing to help their staff go deeper underground while resisting the radiation emitted by some ores.

Of course, this kind of statement is just a reasonable cover for internal and external. After all, no matter how much money there is, it is still very suspicious to rashly study some irrelevant things.

Although killing all the Ratmen is simple, for Luo Wen, using the wisdom of the Ratmen to develop technology for him is the most important thing. Therefore, most of the time, he still chooses to fool as much as he can.

On this day, a rare crustacean with a body length of thirty centimeters was sent to the laboratory.

It is said that it was caught by fishing boats in the sea. It can swim in the sea, but it has wings. Although it is a beetle, it has claws and eight spider-like legs. The carapace material is special and can withstand strong deep sea pressure.

This is a strange creature that has never been discovered, and it was obtained by the boss of the laboratory through a powerful relationship. There are also biological researchers in this laboratory, who usually observe the performance of various biological materials under space radiation. In order to find materials against space radiation from the gifts of nature.

When they saw the beetle, they all sighed in disbelief. The appearance of this creature challenged their cognition. If you dissect this beetle, you may find something amazing, at least you can write a few papers.

It is impossible to dissect it. Starry Sky Company took great efforts to get this beetle to test its various performances in extreme environments. It is very precious.

Luo Wen is also a little helpless, unless he has to, he can't disguise the main body as a test object for others to study. However, he has achieved too few achievements in other ways, and it is impossible for him to fly out of the planet in a short time. At present, the most reliable way is to use the Ratmen to make flying instruments and reach outer space.

However, he is not traveling to outer space, he needs to survive in outer space for a long time. However, the environment in outer space is harsh, and there is suspicion of giving away the head if you go there hastily.

He has also accumulated a lot of various gene fragments over the years, but they are all collected in the environment of the planet. Whether they will work in the environment of outer space is another matter.

Therefore, he needs a simulated environment in outer space, using the anaerobic vacuum and various radiations in it to stimulate his own talent and potential, find useful gene combinations, and continue to evolve and develop.

In this experimental base, there are only a few "own people". It's not that he doesn't want to use all "his own people", but that the time to discover a certain function of the swarm network is too short, and the number of intelligent individuals in the network is too small.

If he could continue to wait for a few more decades, the swarm would definitely be able to save a laboratory full of "his own people". But Rowan has been waiting for too long, and in the simulated environment, the evolution of new capabilities cannot be completed in a short time. If you want to complete this task in your own laboratory, you may have to wait a hundred years.

Therefore, this kind of meaningless waiting is unacceptable to Rowan. He wants to minimize this time as much as possible. Although there are many outsiders in the laboratory, the security is very poor, but fortunately, the "main body" is not something that cannot be lost to the current Luo Wen, the premise is to protect the brood.

Moreover, the scientific researchers here are closely monitored to prevent them from leaking secrets. Before they knew it, another parasite had sneaked into their bodies.

The parasite uses a gene from the iron nematode inside the praying mantis to secrete a special substance when necessary. This substance can be mixed into the nervous system of the parasitic host, exchange information with it, disrupt the original order of protein synthesis, and simulate nerve signals to send wrong instructions to the host body.

If someone tried to give away the secret, he would find that his vocal system had malfunctioned and he could not speak. If you don't stop and want to continue to leak secrets through other methods, uncontrolled self-destructive behavior is likely to occur.

In this case, they can also be regarded as half of their own people.

The test site was quickly prepared, and Rowan stepped into it without hesitation.

This is a sealed space of a few square meters, and ninety-nine percent of the air inside has been pumped out. The first thing he has to adapt is to survive in this oxygen-free environment.

The first test result was much better than he expected. He just slept in the house, and many small changes took place in the internal structure of his body.

First of all, when he was gutted and gutted by the earthy yellow ants, a fibrous structure that could quickly close the wound evolved in his body, and some changes took place to form a flap-like structure.

This petal-shaped structure can divide the inside of the body into small spaces, usually like a screen, and will not affect the operation of the internal system. At critical moments, all external passages can be closed to create a sealed space inside the body.

At the same time, the energy stored in the tail fat organ can continuously provide nutrients for the body. These energies can be recycled in the body for a long time, until there is almost no waste residue generated in the end, and a small amount of exhaust gas will also be concentrated in a certain isolation chamber of the body and discharged in a concentrated manner.

Moreover, this kind of isolation chamber can be sealed and formed at any part of the body using that petal-shaped structure. When exhaust gas is discharged, its reaction force can even be used to change the direction of flight.

If some strong sphincters are added or modified in specific parts, the exhaust gas can even be used to accelerate flight. It's just that the upper limit of this acceleration is still relatively low for the time being, but don't forget that there is no air in outer space. At that time, the wings will be useless. This way of flying may play a very important role in space.

The problems of body sealing and circulation in the body are easily solved. As long as the problem of energy acquisition is solved, at least, he can survive for a long time in an oxygen-free environment.

However, outer space is not just anaerobic, and anaerobic is only the easiest problem to solve.