I Am the Swarm

As Root guessed, the technology on the cat-ear spaceship, compared to them, is only worthless to the swarm.

Experiments quickly unfolded.

Luo Wen has done a lot of tests in the process of understanding the generation of intelligence, and these tests have accumulated a wealth of experience for him.

The three elements of producing intelligence, land, seeds, and nutrients.

The first is nutrients. Nutrients and seeds complement each other.

The history of the Rickens is much longer than that of the Ratmen. Compared with them, the Ratmen can only be regarded as a new civilization. From this point of view, the wisdom irrigated by such a profound civilization must meet the standard.

And the seeds watered by this kind of wisdom should not be bad.

The seed with the best quality that Rowan has seen so far is Sarah, the Queen of Ratmen. Her mental body is extra high-quality, and her ability to receive is stronger. Most intelligence bodies will have an adaptation process after being instilled with memory, and she will fall into a coma, but she has no response.

Although this is the only advantage that Rowan found of her, it is definitely not the only advantage. As his abilities grow and become familiar, he will definitely find more from her.

But this is just an example.

However, from the point of view of "nutrition", the average quality of the Riken tribe cultivated by a deeper civilization may be better than that of the Ratmen.

There is no problem with the seeds and nutrients. The Ricken tribe wants to become the production material of the intelligent body, but they are stuck on the most basic "land".

Their bodies have no connection to the swarm.

But this problem is relatively easy to solve for today's bug swarm.

Rowan's most proud work is not the Ratman or the Queen Bee, but the Creep.

Creep is an aggregate of multiple genes, it is all-encompassing and extremely compatible.

Electromagnetic guns, biological spaceships, in vitro hatching chambers, etc. are all its derivatives, and almost all units of the swarm are more or less related to it.

Therefore, as long as the Creep cells are implanted in the Rikens, they can slowly be transformed into a suitable "soil".

Rowan had done similar experiments with many wild animals before, and all of them were successful. Unfortunately, they were all stuck in the seeds and nutrients in the end, and could not become the production materials of intelligent bodies.

The transformation process went very smoothly, but after a few failures and loss of a few materials, the "soil" was gradually transformed into place, and then the seeds thrived under the watering of nutrients.

After a year, the seeds mature and are harvested.

Thus, the first intelligent body of the Riken tribe was born.

Afterwards, the intelligence of the Rickon tribe increased by two every half a month, which was exactly the frequency that the crew was taken away in Reggie's memory.

Although very successful, in Luo Wen's eyes, they still have some small flaws.

One is that during the transformation of the "soil", the creep cells in their bodies can be detected. With the technology of the Rickens, it is easy to find this.

This makes it impossible to surreptitiously use Creep Cells to modify Rickens.

However, after the transformation is completed and the seeds are made into intelligent bodies, the swarm can use his previous body as a template to produce a new body.

This new body can be exactly the same as the body before it was transformed by the creep cells, and there is absolutely no difference. This made Rowan have some plans at that time.

It was because of these plans that a second glitch arose.

That is, the transformation of "soil" takes too long. It takes nearly a year for the creep cells to slowly transform the whole body of the Riken tribe. This situation makes Rowan's plan almost impossible to implement.

Therefore, how to quickly ripen the "seeds" has become Luo Wen's next research topic.

The remaining Rickon materials became precious, which were resources that could not be regenerated in a short period of time. Even if Rowan bred them in captivity without a corresponding nutrient environment, the seeds obtained would probably be different from the original ones.

And the new attempt itself makes the already mature technology dangerous.

In this case, the time for the transformation of intelligence and body of several important figures of the Ricken tribe has also been postponed.

If at the end of the day, the ordinary Rickon materials are exhausted and the ripening experiment has not achieved the desired effect, then they will have to play. Although the few of them still have some secret information, it seems to have passed the timeliness and has little meaning.

The value of these messages is no longer enough for them to get rid of their status as consumables.

Fortunately, the experiment is progressing fairly smoothly. Rowan has accumulated a wealth of experience over hundreds of years. Ultimately, the ripening of the "seed" was compressed to seven days.

At this level, it will be difficult to shorten the time further, because Rowan has already reached the current extreme in terms of genes and spirit.

In the seven days, half a day is spent on the creeping of the body.

Then, under the action of the crepe-formed body, the mental body undergoes a sharp change, and finally connects with the swarm network. There are six and a half days in seven days, and this process is going on.

If the time of the sharp change continues to be compressed, it will cause serious damage to the mental body itself, making its memory unable to be copied. And even if such a mental body is converted into a smart body, it will not have the slightest effect on Luo Wen.

Fortunately, seven days, although a little troublesome, already has tactical value.

However, shortening the one-year conversion time to seven days still has certain side effects. That is, their bodies will be irreversibly and destructively damaged.

Fortunately, it is not difficult for the swarm to replace a body with an intelligent body, but to apply this research to an actual plan, it still needs a lot of planning.

When Reggie woke up, he understood everything, and before he returned to his body, the Queen Bee transmitted some basic information to him. He received everything from Reggie, and continued to exist as Reggie of the swarm.

"How do you feel, old friend?" Reggie rolled over and sat up, Morgan was already waiting beside him.

"Very good, very good, better than ever." Reggie waved his lower arm and continued: "It's just why I'm stuffed into the same body as before. I need a more robust body."

"I thought you would be more nostalgic." Morgan said with a smile.

"I have been reborn, and I should bid farewell to the old era." Reggie said solemnly.

Different seeds produce slightly different things.

Maybe it's because the Ratmen themselves are derivatives of the Brood Creation, and they are intelligent bodies made of materials. Although they are absolutely loyal to Rowan, they often confuse their identities in the first few years of their transformation, like Go back to your old life.

However, this kind of situation will not occur at all in the intelligence bodies made by the Riken tribe. From the moment they wake up after conversion, they understand their identities, and there will be absolutely no confusion.

Luo Wen is also amazed by this and is happy to see it succeed.