I Am the Swarm

This ability is good, especially the strong hind legs. Unfortunately, this bug is very vigilant. Just as Rowan shook the blade of grass, it was startled away. Although it didn't jump too far, the vegetation was lush here, and Rowan's "clairvoyance" was greatly weakened in this environment.

No matter how good his eyes are, he is not clairvoyant, unable to see into the distance through these weeds. Now that the biggest advantage of the ground is gone, it is safer to go underground.

This place is not far from the lake, and the ground is relatively humid. He noticed some movement not long after he walked, and when he approached carefully, he found that it was an earthworm.

This earthworm looks different from the stinky earthworm that lays ambushes back then. It is dark red all over, and it doesn't look as hideous as a stinky earthworm.

At this time, the earthworm was clinging to the pupa in the soil. Luo Wen said that it was fate to meet each other, so let's take a bite and taste it first.

The more gene fragments in the gene pool, the better, maybe which one will come in handy at any time. Just like this time, although the foul-smelling earthworm is hard to swallow, its ability to absorb nutrients from the soil is indeed amazing, and this energy supplement at critical moments can save lives.

Now that he encountered a new species of earthworm at this time, Luo Wen would of course have to try to see if he could harvest new genes. Maybe various earthworms could absorb different nutrients in the soil. In the future, if he collects more and evolves through fusion, maybe he can reach the level where he can eat dirt and not need a tuba. By then, he will be really powerful.

Grab one end of the earthworm, don't be too particular about it at this time, and put its body mixed with soil into the mouth. This kind of earthworm looks rather frustrated, and has no ability to resist Rowan's attack.

It may be that Rowan has swallowed more smelly things before. Although the taste of this earthworm is a bit earthy and smelly, it is relatively easy to accept.

After eating half of the earthworm's body, Rowan let it go. Although the earthworm lost half of its body, it was still full of vitality. After a while, it burrowed into the soil and disappeared.

Although its vitality is enviable, Rowan has long been able to regenerate a broken limb, but this gene fragment seems to be slowly integrating into his body, making his resilience gradually stronger .

But compared to this, he actually wanted to taste the spider that sneaked up on him on the cliff. Rowan is not too worried about whether he can obtain the gene fragments of spiders.

Although spiders are not insects, Ife Ash is not a serious bug either. Although it did look like a bug when it was born, the definition of this bug is not the same as that of Blue Star.

During the growth of Ife Ash, the types of fused biological genes were all kinds of strange. If you want to give it a classification, it would be Zerg rather than insects.

Although the current members of this group may only have Rowan left.

After thinking about the gap with that spider for a while, no matter how I think about it, there is no chance of winning in a single fight. If it wasn't poisonous, maybe he could still get around with the strong armor. But once poisoned, the combat effectiveness has undergone a qualitative change.

One-on-one is not enough, if you pull all the younger brothers in the nest to learn from the yellow ants, the tactic of crushing with numbers may be feasible. First use cannon fodder to exhaust all the venom reserves in the spider's poison sac, and then rush forward.

This method is possible, and the feasibility is very high. Since it is necessary to develop the power of the collective, it is impossible to think about fighting alone in everything.

However, there is no rush right now, he has to find a place to build a nest first, and then go back to pick up all the bugs.

As for the location of the nest, it is best to find some places with more ant nests.

As expected, ants are widely distributed. Rowan found some familiar cavities and pipes not long after digging underground.

Climbing to the surface, I found many black ants. Luo Wen carefully identified them and found that these ants should belong to the same species as the black ants in the desert above.

Then it's easy to say that he changed his pheromone and burrowed into the black ant's nest in a grandiose manner.

The distribution of paths in the lair is very familiar. Luo Wen walked to the hatch room along the thickest passage, and found that there were other old acquaintances here.

As the saying goes, when old acquaintances meet, they are extremely jealous, and Luo Wen sends them on their way with a few mouthfuls of thick phlegm. Then, according to the conditions of the hatching room and storage room, as well as the number of soldier ants, after analysis, it was concluded that the ant nest may have more than 5,000 members.

This place is close to the water source, and the dense vegetation is rich in products. The size of an ant nest found at random is much larger than that in the desert.

After eating for a while, Rowan climbed out of the ant nest and began to explore the surrounding area again.

Since there is such a large ant nest here, it means that there is no big threat around here, otherwise the black ants, which are not strong in combat effectiveness, cannot grow to such a scale at all.

So Rowan doesn't want to dig holes in the ground anymore. Apart from tree roots, there are earthworms in the ground. If you want to get more gene fragments, you need to be on the ground.

Cautiously crawling through the grass, occasionally grasshoppers of various colors and sizes would jump out of my side. Most of these grasshoppers stayed on the blades of grass, and they were very vigilant. With Rowan's size, it was too difficult to approach them quietly. So although there are many grasshoppers, Luo Wen has not had the opportunity to show their talents to them so far.

Many new insects were also found on the road, but most of them were featureless, and there were no unique skills that could be shown. Since Luo Wen just had a good meal, he was not very hungry, so he didn't bother to have a talent exchange with them.

Besides that, he also found many black ants looking for food.

Under a piece of gravel, a group of black worker ants dragged out a long semicircular worm. The worm was covered by a thick carapace and had many joints and small feet. At this time, it was besieged by ants, and its whole body was lump into a ball.

Many worker ants had nothing to do with the bug's armor, but they surrounded it. Whenever the bugs unfolded their bodies and tried to escape, they would swarm up, and the bugs had no choice but to gather their bodies together again.

But this is only temporarily delaying its death. Rowan saw a huge soldier ant, led by several worker ants, rushing over the grass to this side.

Sure enough, after a while, the battle broke out again. The armor of this bug could not resist the powerful weapons of the giant soldier ants who were dedicated to fighting. After a few rounds, he was seriously injured and lay on the ground, with serious damage to his whole body.

All the worker ants rushed up, broke it into small pieces, and carried it back to the ant nest.

Rowan also found these hardworking black ants on the stems and leaves of many plants. Some stems and leaves are covered with a green translucent bug.

However, the black ants did not attack them, but kept patrolling aside. At short intervals, the worms puff up their abdomens and excrete a cloud of viscous fluid. A worker ant will crawl over and scrape the mass of liquid off the bug's butt with its big jaw.

Then after a while, it will spit out a semi-solidified jelly-like object and feed it mouth-to-mouth to its unharvested companions...

Rowan looked at the jelly-like object very familiarly, thinking that he seemed to have eaten some of this kind of thing in the ant nest just now, and the sweet taste was quite good.

At that time, he still thought that there was such a good thing here, but now he just feels nauseous.