I Am the Swarm

Luo Wen believes that the metal carapace on the Bodi star should be left over from a mechanical civilization. After all, that thing has nothing to do with the biological civilization playing with flesh and blood.

The power at the other end of the wormhole should be a powerful biological civilization. After all, being able to create creatures that generate negative energy must have gone a long way on this road. At least a little farther than the current swarm.

But it is such a pioneer, their works, in the eyes of Luo Wen, a "younger", are somewhat difficult to describe.

That internal circulatory system, to be honest, was worse than the one that Rowan used when he first stepped into space. Although Rowan's set is also "breathing", it only needs to add a little water every few years. It is not easy to find water in space, but it is not difficult to find some ice, so Rowan's system can support him to stay in space for a long time.

But the set of monsters is not satisfactory. After being fully charged, it can stay for a month with the lowest consumption state. If it is engaged in high-intensity battles, it may be completely exhausted in a few hours.

This does not match the technological level of the negative energy organ.

Possibly due to cost considerations? The positioning of this monster is cannon fodder? But the cost of that set of negative energy generating organs is not cheap.

And this is not a confrontation between two armies, this is an elite raid with only one. In other words, this monster is a special scout. If it were Rowan, it would definitely be using the most cutting-edge technology and arming it to the teeth.

But the opponent's operation seemed to send a primary school student to perform the task. He was only equipped with cold weapons such as sticks, but he was equipped with a nuclear power battery.

Second, the intelligence level of monsters is too low.

Rowan didn't find anything like a chip in the monster's body, but as a civilization that has gone a long way in the biotechnology route, it is not difficult to improve the autonomy of biological weapons, especially special operations weapons.

Then monkeys can still be trained through some primitive means to execute some complicated commands, let alone advanced civilizations that specialize in this way. But in the monster, this is not seen at all.

Leaving aside the question of why the monsters didn’t dig directly out of the wormhole, the locations of the “dead zones” are all located on the land of the Bodi star, which means that the monsters chased the Bodi people all the way from the sea and ran over by themselves. , and was killed by a nuclear bomb.

And except for the two monsters that ran out at once this time, they knew how to fight while retreating, scattered and fled, all the monsters that were surrounded and beaten by the mech fighters before were all masters who never retreated.

As far as this IQ is concerned, it is barely at the same level as the soldier ants and worker ants when Luo Wen played mud on the Origin Star in the early days. At that time, most of the swarm units acted on their instincts. Now, if Rowan ordered those combat units to attack independently without restricting their performance, they would be able to use their tactics to their advantage.

A vague idea popped up in Luo Wen's mind, but he was still a little unwilling to believe it, and subconsciously found a reason for the other party.

But then one problem after another came up one after another. There is no one way of saying that can unify everything and tell a logical and self-consistent story.

For this, he had to use the old method of brainstorming.

"Maybe their order to the monster was to eliminate all threats, so the monster went after the Botians."

"Then they must at least install an atomic furnace for the monsters, so that they can at least reach the level of Godzilla, otherwise relying on hand-to-hand combat, not to mention the Botians, even if the planet is full of monkeys, when will they have to kill them?" go."

The intelligent bodies are having a heated discussion...

"First of all, monkeys can't kill monsters, so judging from the fact that the opponent throws a monster every once in a while, there will only be more and more monsters. With the size of monsters, it should be an instant kill attack against monkeys, but monkeys are relatively flexible. , the monster cannot be guaranteed to be hit every time it takes a shot. In addition, the monster needs to rest and replenish its strength, so it cannot complete the kill without interruption... Now we don't know the specific parameters such as the species of monkey, reproduction speed, food consumption, etc., so it is impossible to calculate what the monster needs. for how long……"

"Shut up, monkeys are not a threat at all in the eyes of monsters!"

"Why? Do you look down on monkeys?"

"..."

The conversations of the several intelligent bodies here gradually entered a state of no nutrition, and Rowan turned his attention to other places.

"Maybe these monsters are controlled remotely, just like knights remotely control space octopuses, but the closure of the wormhole cuts off this connection, so the monsters look a little... stupid." Zhiti thought for a while, Come up with an adjective.

"It makes sense, but if this is the case, doesn't it mean that the other party does not have any monitoring, communication and other facilities here?"

"Therefore, they have to wait until the next time the wormhole opens to receive the feedback from the monster."

"But what they didn't expect was that the monster was killed by the Bordians as soon as it came out."

"So, after more than a dozen repetitions, they finally realized something was wrong. Not only did they increase the number of monsters, but they also changed their coping mechanism so that they would choose to run away when they found themselves invincible?"

The several intelligent bodies here, you say what I say, tell another version of the story, which is somewhat consistent with the unbelievable guess in Luo Wen's mind, but there is not enough evidence to support this statement.

"But this is contrary to the opponent's technological strength. Don't they know that there are Botians here?" An intelligent body raised the question in Luo Wen's mind.

"Indeed, the small wormholes and negative energy organs are not fake, and many places contradict each other." Some intelligences echoed.

"But why do they have to wait so long before opening the wormhole again? And why don't they release more monsters at once? Does the wormhole still have this limitation?"

"I don't know, I don't know much about this knowledge."

"We need to find an expert in this field to answer our doubts."

The inside of the swarm is extremely efficient. Although the swarm has just dabbled in the field of wormholes for a short time, several intelligences quickly found an expert and asked him the question just now.

"Opening a wormhole requires a lot of energy, maybe the other party is waiting for energy storage. As for the number of monsters to put in, the wormhole itself should not have this limitation. But its opening time limits the number of shots. After all, monsters enter the wormhole one by one, and there is no It takes time, that monster is very clumsy." The expert shrugged and replied.

"How much energy does it take to open a small wormhole? Does it take more than a year for a powerful civilization to accumulate?"

"Actually, this is also where I am puzzled. Although the energy required to open it is huge, the cost of this small wormhole is much smaller. If there is a complete Dyson sphere, the energy absorbed every day is enough to open it once. A small wormhole. I don't think a Dyson sphere would be a big deal for that level of civilization."

After a pause, the expert continued: "Furthermore, according to the information of the Botians, the early opening interval of the wormhole was only a few months, and later developed to the current interval. This shows that the other party has the ability to shorten the opening time, and at the worst it can Extend the opening time and let more monsters come over."