I Am the Swarm

Among the faces hidden under the helmets of the assailants, there are a few familiar faces, which seem to be the patrol soldiers who were rescued at the beginning?

That's right, to do this kind of thing on Rickon's home planet, who else is more suitable than the expeditionary soldier who just came back from outer space, has no whereabouts records for decades, and has combat experience?

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"Master Master, our creeper seeds on Riken's home planet have been activated." Sarah Hui reported.

Rowan nodded. Although the creep seeds were activated by the Sky Eye that he authorized to monitor all the time, he knew about it the first time they were activated.

"Master Juggernaut, we should find a way to deliver a worm queen to Rikken's home planet, so that the next step can be carried out."

"So what do you guys think?"

"There is no good solution yet. According to the information provided by the intelligent body over there, the Riken tribe has built the Riken galaxy into an impregnable wall. Although the degree of completion is not high, it will be difficult for us to pass through if we don't have a large army."

"I see, I will solve this problem!" Luo Wen thought for a while and replied.

Judging from Klos's news, the closer the entire Riken galaxy is to their home star, the tighter the defense. It is said that their technology has improved a little, and they even plan to hollow out the satellites of the parent star and build them into planetary fortresses.

The swarm still wants to put a few swarm meteorites as cover and fall to the planet like before, that is absolutely impossible. Because the reason why the Riken tribe went to war back then was that the swarm threw a meteorite and destroyed an administrative area on Riken's home planet.

This made Rowan realize that he had taken a big scapegoat inexplicably. If he knew who did it, he would definitely feed them to the cubs.

However, it was precisely because of this incident that the Riken tribe was extra cautious about things like meteorites, no matter how small a meteorite was, they would never want to get close to their parent star.

Therefore, if it was more than 20 years ago, this problem would have been extremely difficult to solve. It can't be said that the swarm can only rely on hard power to capture Riken's home planet in the end, but this is somewhat inconsistent with Rowan's original intention.

But today, this problem has become extremely easy to solve.

The reason is that Rowan's swarm network ability has been improved again.

As early as the birth of the first intelligent body made of the spirit body of the Ricken race, Rowan had vaguely noticed some changes in the swarm network, but because it was not obvious, and the swarm network was too broad, he did not Didn't find where the change occurred.

Then, with more and more new types of intelligent bodies, this change became more and more obvious.

In fact, it is not entirely true that the changes in the swarm network are caused by new intelligent agents.

The transformation method of the intellectual body is to absorb the energy of the mature spiritual body, and then use this energy to create the intellectual body.

The point is, this energy was first absorbed by the swarm network, and then there was an intelligent body.

To put it bluntly, this energy has not disappeared, but has only changed its presentation mode. The intelligent body that seems to have independent consciousness is actually a part of the swarm network.

Over the years, the swarm has accumulated millions of intelligent bodies and absorbed the energy of so many intelligent bodies. It must be impossible to say that the swarm network has not changed at all.

But these changes are just enhancements to the original functions, such as the increase in its coverage, such as having a total of 5 bodies and broods.

But this time, it may have been impacted by the seeds of a new civilization, which brought an opportunity to the swarm network, making the energy it absorbed over the years change from quantitative to qualitative, and even produced an evolution.

After the evolution of the swarm network, the most direct change is that many problems that have been troubling Rowan have been solved.

Moreover, these functions have been strengthened beyond imagination.

For example, all the production units of the swarm in the past, such as the early ant queen and the current queen, all need a brood to produce. But these days, any queen can be authorized to produce these units.

In other words, the queen can produce queens. This allows the Zerg Swarm to set foot in a new galaxy without needing to launch the main body and brood over like exploring the Proxima Galaxy.

This can greatly speed up the rate at which the Swarm can take over new systems.

For example, if you want to absorb the genes of a certain creature before, you can only absorb these genes by Rowan's body or brood. But now, all production units have the ability to absorb these genes, and can also upload them to the swarm network.

In other words, if you encounter a creature like Godzilla again, you don’t need to send out the Rowan body to eat it yourself. You only need any nearby insect queen to eat them, and Rowan can harvest these genes through the swarm network .

For example, after the former ant queen leaves the factory, the gene pool cannot be updated. The gene pool of the later queens can be updated, but Luo Wenwen must personally contact them and share data, which is very time-consuming and laborious.

Even if Luo Wenwen kept running around, limited by the speed, coupled with the expansion of the swarm's territory and the speed of genetic data replacement, this work became more and more powerless.

Fortunately, many units of the swarm later used creep as a template, and many components can be added later. Even if the gene pool of the queen is not updated for a while, the impact will be much smaller.

But if the impact is small, it is not without impact. For example, the genetic information learned from Godzilla must be completely updated. Every time this happens, it is a big action.

And the frequent activities of the main body outside were not very acceptable to Luo Wen at the time.

Fortunately, the problem has been solved now, and the gene pools of all production units can be remotely authorized and updated through the swarm network. This makes the data sharing work that needs to be completed one by one, as easy as copying and pasting once.

For another example, in the previous body and mother nest, only the body can grow a mother nest, and only the mother nest can hatch the body.

But now, Luo Wen can incubate the ontology through any production unit through the network authorization, and with the ontology, there will naturally be a brood.

what does that mean?

This means that the main body and the brood will no longer limit the potential of the swarm. Ife Ash's ability has been completely integrated into the swarm network, changing from a physical entity to an illusory ability.

The ability to absorb genes will not be lost due to the destruction of the body or brood.

The original unique abilities of the ontology and the brood have been integrated into the swarm network, which further weakens the meaning of their existence.

They, which originally needed to be hidden and heavily protected, have become less important. Rowan even plans to annihilate them all, and only produce them when needed.

This can further ensure that Ife Ash's genes and abilities are not leaked.

At the same time, this greatly enhanced Rowan's survivability.

The total number of the main body and the brood is only 5, but how many queens are there?

The latest data shows that the two galaxies, plus the queen eggs floating in the void of the universe, the total number of queens exceeds one million.

As long as any one of them survives, they can reproduce the bug swarm again in a short period of time.

These changes in abilities made Rowan gradually and completely transform from a physical creature to a spiritual creature. Whether this change is good or bad, Luo Wen can't judge for the time being, but these changes have given him more confidence in the face of possible future crises.