I Am the Swarm

In line with the attitude of being responsible for the swarm, for the future development of the swarm, of course, there is also a little bit of consideration for their own safety. Rowan has been researching how to let the queen download his original gene, or find a way to create more bodies or broods.

After a lot of hard research and experiments, and after repeated demonstrations, let the queen download the original gene through cloud storage. Maybe he is currently not capable enough, so he hasn't found a way yet.

As for building more bodies or broods, he has some ideas.

Through constant attempts and letting go of himself, Rowan discovered that as long as the main body or brood is kicked off the assembly line forcibly, he can obtain the permission to produce another part.

To put it simply, it is to disconnect their swarm network, pretend that they are dead, and then hatch another part.

However, this method is easy to say, but very difficult in practice. He had to concentrate all his energy to shield the main body or the brood, which lasted for dozens of hours, until the other part hatched.

The main body lay on top of the sporangia, pulled the surrounding dust over, covered the hole, and then began to cocoon.

At the same time, in the underground of the Origin Star Continent, somewhere in a lair three thousand meters deep. Viscous liquid seeped out from the surface of the hive, and its body dried up quickly. The viscous liquid gradually dried and wrapped the nest, forming an amber-like object.

It was also the first time that Rowan officially tried to regenerate the insect nest, and it was only a theoretical basis before. So he doesn't know whether he can support dozens of hours, so he needs to pay more insurance.

At this time, the brood is using some kind of bug's feign death skill. They can squeeze out most of their own body fluids and form an amber-like object to wrap their whole body. This amber-shaped object has a very strong defense and is basically indestructible, while the main body inside is in a state of suspended animation, and its vitality is almost completely cut off. If there is no external stimulus, it can also be said to be really dead.

This skill can be said to be a model of death. Due to the powerful defense of the external amber-like object, it can resist almost all external stimuli. Therefore, most of those bugs will die from feigned death.

Although this skill is stupid as hell, it is just right for the brood at this time. The mother's nest fell into a state of suspended animation, which made it easier for Rowan who blocked it.

The energy in the swarm network surged, and the network cable of the mother nest after the feigned death was forcibly pulled out. At the same time, on the side of Rowan's body, the energy stored in the tail fat organ flows out.

Because Luo Wen has escaped from the shackles of his body, he will no longer fall into a deep sleep when his body cocoons. Therefore, he can independently mobilize the energy in the body to perform some operations.

The priority of repairing the main body's injury is very low, so under his control, none of the energy in the main body is used to repair the injury, but all of it is used to hatch the brood.

As time passed, Rowan was unable to focus on other things because he concentrated all his energy on cutting off the connection between the brood and the swarm network. On the yellow moon, a bulge gradually emerged from the tail of the main body, and it grew slowly.

During this period, the creep seeds under the main body were not idle either. With the help of sporangia outside the body, it quickly takes root and germinates, and then the root system begins to continuously expand deep underground.

Sensing the situation here, Rowan also breathed a sigh of relief. Due to the rocket's load and his size, he only brought one creep seed. If nothing grows, the moon landing is almost a failure.

Hard rock can't stop creep's rhizomes at all, and its rhizomes secrete a secretion called "lichen fluid" that can quickly decompose rock.

There are also water resources on Huangyue, but they are buried in different depths. Moreover, due to the extremely low temperature here, all water resources are in the form of solid ice. And if you're lucky, you might be able to find them on the surface of the moon, but otherwise, you might not be able to find them even if you dig hundreds of meters.

Luo Wen's luck was not too bad. When he hit, he smashed a hole more than 1 meter deep, and dug another two or three meters by himself. On the basis of the creep, it took five days to pierce the root system down less than ten meters, and finally found the frozen ice crystals.

Moreover, when passing through the rock layer, it also absorbs a lot of metal substances.

The enhanced version of creep uses most of the space technology developed by Rowan. After finding the water source, it can finally no longer rely on sporangia and can produce self-sufficiency.

A series of modules such as generating metal particles, constructing a magnetic field generator, and a self-illumination system have been produced. With their support, the creeps began to grow at an accelerated rate.

At the same time, there was a hole in the cocoon of Rowan's body, and a root of the creep was inserted through the hole.

Breeding a brood requires a lot of energy, and the tail fat organ, which originally had only half of its reserves, is almost exhausted. If the creep movement was slower, Rowan would need to consume the flesh and blood of the main body to supply the brood.

After Creep has passed the most difficult initial stage, not only is it able to support Rowan, but it can also continue to develop itself on this basis.

By the time the mother nest is bred, the main part of the creep has covered the entire well. Fluorescence was still flashing on the creep, constantly changing colors.

This is Rowan's improved lighting system. The original faint yellow-green fluorescence was too monotonous, so he adjusted the lighting types of the lighting system. There are many lighting masters under the sea, and this is easy to do.

But looking at the colorful lights in the three to four meter deep well, Rowan inexplicably thought of some entertainment venues in Blue Star. He considered whether to find time to modify the lighting system back.

After the brood hatching is completed, after the self-inspection, it separates from the main body, and then docks with the creep to start producing the space version of the swarm.

Because of the need to add a series of components necessary to survive in space, and these components are quite complex, it means that they are expensive. Even magnetic field generating components require metallic minerals to produce.

Therefore, these space bugs are many times more expensive than their counterparts on the origin star.

However, no matter how high their cost is, it also means that the swarm has already stepped out of the planet it was born on, and the harsh environment of outer space will no longer be the shackles of the swarm.

Because the brood no longer has a unique attribute, in order to distinguish them, Rowan called the brood on the origin star the origin brood. And the newly born ones on Huangyue are called Huangyue's mother's nest, a very easy-to-understand name, named after their birthplace.

After the Huangyue brood was officially launched, the origin brood started the awakening process, was awakened by the outside, and the amber material that wrapped it began to melt. The creep under it delivered the nutrients it had already prepared, and the shriveled body of the mother nest of origin expanded rapidly like a balloon.

An hour later, the origin brood was restored and officially launched, and it was perfectly compatible with Huang Yue's brood, and there was no system conflict. Moreover, Rowan feels that the swarm network seems to be stronger because of this.

Thank you for the reward of 100 starting coins for Yuan Zhiorder.

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