I Am the Swarm

Edres has been waiting for twenty years, perhaps because in the eyes of the chess players behind the scenes, the swarm still needs time, or it may be because of other reasons, but no matter what, the result is that the Ji Clan Presbyterian Council has made some compromises .

In this way, Edreth's engineering team stayed in the outer edge of the origin galaxy for twenty years. Fortunately, the battleship of the Ji clan was huge, and it was fully loaded with supplies before going out. On the way, another batch of supplies was sent from the Riken clan. In addition, most of the personnel have chosen to sleep, so as not to waste their lives meaninglessly. So, these twenty years, they feel that they have passed quite quickly.

In fact, Edreth's engineering team can withdraw to the Riken galaxy for repairs. Although the two are separated by a neighboring galaxy, the straight-line distance is only a little more than nine light-years. For the Ji clan, it takes three years to run one. back and forth.

But the Ji Clan still let Edres stay where he was, in order to have a suitable excuse to spy on the swarm's activities at close range. Not to mention, in these years, Edres has really collected some information.

For example, most of the swarm troops in the galaxy of origin went to Proxima Centauri.

This piece of information was analyzed by the think tank of the Ji Clan and concluded that it was the royal court of the swarm. Now its north is the Rickon galaxy, the west is the sandstorm galaxy used for trade, and the south is the origin galaxy that is about to leave. The three sides are areas that cannot be completely sealed.

It was only natural for the swarm to strengthen the defense of the royal court.

Another piece of information is that the Zerg Swarm has successively exploded its six megastructure units in the star orbit of the galaxy. Although the procedure is still self-exploding and pushing stars, it seems a bit complicated and repetitive, but there is a precedent of the Rickon galaxy, and it has not attracted too much attention.

In fact, if they combine the earlier intelligence, they may be able to discover something. The Swarm originally had only two giant structures orbiting the stars in the Progenitor system, while the other four were built just a few decades ago.

To be more specific, it was shortly after the swarm detonated the giant structure of the swarm in the Riken galaxy.

Rowan had predicted this situation as early as when the Keya Alliance found the Riken tribe to plan a conspiracy. But at that time, I didn't think about adding megastructure units in the origin galaxy.

But when the "seed" fell into the worm queen and arrived at Bodi Star after the long-distance warp, the uncertainty made Rowan realize that he had to dig a few more "back roads".

As a result, the four institutions were urgently built. Fortunately, the origin galaxy is the real base camp of the swarm. It has accumulated a wealth of heritage over the years, so it took only 20 to 30 years to mature the four giant structures.

In this way, with the addition of the original two, Rowan can use six long-distance warp and send away six "seeds". He didn't believe that after six chances, he couldn't find a clean star field without any life.

The result was not bad. As the megastructures detonated one after another, Luo Wen, who had a "successful" experience, became better and better at controlling the long-range warp.

The "seeds" were sent away one by one.

In the cosmic starry sky, in the void between two unknown galaxies, a hole suddenly opened, and then a two-meter-diameter flesh sac was spit out.

The flesh sac floated in the void for a while, first a tentacles protruded, and then an eye popped out. The cold and dead void outside made Luo Wen, who had been paying attention, calm down.

This time it was finally normal, and I checked the surrounding environment visually, but it is a pity that it is impossible to accurately calculate the distance by optical observation alone. In the end, it could only choose the largest star, and rely on a simple push device to move in that direction.

Whether this seed is considered a success is still open to debate, because it is temporarily impossible to know whether there is life in the surrounding star systems. But now it seems that the seed or the carrier of the seed still has a lot of flaws.

Originally, due to lack of proficiency in long-distance warp skills, Rowan reduced the size of the carrier as much as possible, which resulted in it only having some basic functions.

What I originally thought was that after arriving in a new environment, I would obtain energy to carry out genetic mutations and grow other additional functions. It's a pity that the energy contained in the void is too little, too little. Relying on this thin acquisition, the flesh sac carrier wants to mutate into a plasma thruster, and he doesn't know when it will have to wait. And even with propulsion, there isn't enough energy to run it.

This kind of situation was actually thought of before, but at that time the situation was urgent and there was nothing to do. All he was thinking about was sending the seeds out. With a way out, no matter how long it took, the seeds would always reach nearby star systems.

As for time, for Luo Wen who wants to keep his current territory, it is natural to race against time, but once he loses his territory and worries, time is not so important to Luo Wen.

However, after two long-distance leaps through the Rickon galaxy before, coupled with such a long period of precipitation, in the recent use of the leaping skill, Rowan seemed to be much more comfortable, and he felt that he could do more.

The second meat sac has been added with an enhanced version of the atomic furnace, and its volume has also increased from two meters to five meters. This is already the smallest atomic furnace, and it is the pinnacle of Rowan's current work. On top of that, a set of shielding positions is also added to isolate its response to fluctuations.

Once this seed is successful, even if it falls into the void, it can quickly mutate into various advanced organizations with its continuous energy, quickly enter the surrounding star system, and open up a new swarm territory.

Another gigantic structure was detonated, and in the void of the unknown area, a crack opened, and a five-meter-large mass of flesh popped out. As a routine procedure, after the environment was found to be normal, the shielding position was deployed, and the atomic furnace began to work.

The meat sac did not mutate a propulsion organization first, but first mutated a simple radar device, captured various particle information around it, and analyzed the distance from the surrounding star system.

With some manipulation, a star system 1.7 light-years away was chosen as the target. The stars in this solar system are very small and slightly faint. It is only the third-largest star around the flesh sac when viewed using only optics. And the star that looks the largest is still six light-years away from the meat sac.

Soon, the meat sac's propulsion organ was mutated, and then various shielding devices and cloaking devices were completed one after another. Finally, with the supply of the atomic furnace, the meat sac turned into a 20-meter-long Zerg battleship, quietly Fly towards the target star system.

"Huh~" After finishing everything, Luo Wen let out a sigh of relief, the volume of the flesh sac more than doubled, and the long-distance warping really took a lot of effort, but fortunately it was still within his ability.

He closed his eyes and meditated, thinking about everything just now, looking for shortcomings and deficiencies.

Soon, the third seed delivery program was also put on the agenda.