I Am the Swarm

As the worm nest continued to expand, a new problem posed in front of Rowan.

This problem is the problem of long-distance communication.

There are more and more branch bases, which are close to a hundred.

However, although they are still loyal to obey Rowan's orders, Rowan doesn't know anything about their status.

Rowan's solution to this problem is also clueless.

He has limited knowledge reserves and cannot make communication equipment suitable for bugs.

Moreover, the IQs of the bugs are not qualified for the duties of the communication soldiers, and there is no way to accurately report the status of each branch base.

So, Luo Wen, who had been idle before, became busy again.

He began to run around on the way to various branch bases every day to check their current situation.

I don't know if I don't look at it, but I was shocked when I saw it. It turns out that his sphere of influence is already so large.

It took him three full days and nights to run around the branch bases one by one.

If you stop and check it carefully, the time required will be doubled.

During the first lap, he could inspect the territory by the way, and the novelty kept him from feeling bored.

He got a little tired by the second lap.

By the third lap, he had already lost his mind and his eyes were dull...

Luo Wen felt that he couldn't go on like this, otherwise, as the territory continued to expand, he would be exhausted sooner or later, so he had to think of a way.

Unfortunately, he racked his brains and couldn't think of any clues.

So, this matter was delayed.

After Rowan patrolled for several times, and found nothing abnormal, he stopped frequent patrols and changed to patrolling every ten days or so.

But an accident happened at this moment.

During a new round of inspections, Rowan discovered that the bugs in a sub-base, including the queen ant, had mysteriously disappeared.

After several rounds of genetic adjustments, the queen ant is emotionally closer to an emotionless machine with full loyalty and absolutely no possibility of betrayal.

Then they must have encountered something that led to the current situation.

Rowan dug up the cave and carefully inspected the remaining traces. There are a lot of pheromone residues everywhere here, after contact analysis.

These pheromones come from bugs in the base and an unknown force.

From the point of view of pheromones, the unknown force should also be a population similar to ants, but the violence and cruelty revealed from the pheromones showed that they were not as honest and peaceful as black ants.

The first thing Luo Wen thought of was the yellow ants. Could it be that there are their branches here, but later he overturned this guess. The characteristics manifested in the pheromone are completely different from those of the yellow ants. This is a brand new ant group.

And judging from the situation of the branch bases, their work style is very similar to someone else's.

A very aggressive neighbor appeared around, and Luo Wen didn't dare to neglect, and traced along the remaining pheromone traces.

On the road, he continued Luo Wen's usual cautious style. His speed was not fast, and he had to observe carefully every time he traveled a certain distance, and he was ready to run when he found danger.

He now has hundreds of sub-bases, even if the expansion is too fast and the staff is insufficient. On average, there are only about 2,000 bugs per base.

Even so, he still has 200,000 Zerg brothers.

As their supreme commander, Rowan must of course be more cautious, this is his responsibility to the younger brothers.

If it weren't for the fact that my younger brother's IQ was really worrying, he wouldn't even want to do the investigation himself. It should be his personality to squat behind and command the army to fight on the front line.

The traces went all the way to the north, gradually leaving the sphere of influence of the insect nest, and then dispersed into multiple routes, heading in different directions.

Luo Wen picked one at random and tracked it all the way, only to find that it was a strange black ant nest. It's just a pity that he came one step too late. At this time, the lair is also empty, and the owner here has disappeared.

I had no choice but to choose a route that diverged from here, and after going around in circles, I finally returned to the territory of the insect nest. Arrived at the location of another sub-base.

Fortunately, it was not too late this time. A fierce battle was taking place at the exit of the base.

Through the chaotic battlefield, Rowan finally discovered the appearance of the enemy.

This is a small ant, only about half the size of the worker ants of the black ants. Its head and chest are strangely dark red, and its eyes, jaws, abdomen, and arthropods are black and red.

In addition to the standard configuration of these ants and a slightly different painting, there is also a short and sharp stinger at the end of its abdomen, which should be its special talent.

Although they are small in size, they are very numerous and extremely fierce.

In the most cutting-edge insect nest sub-base, the number of insects is not much. It is basically the standard equipment when the queen is dispatched to the frontier, about 1,000 worker ants and fifty soldier ants.

At this time, they have been beaten back steadily due to lack of troops. You can see the corpses of dozens of soldier ants curled up around the entrance of the base. There are very few soldier ants alive. The soldier ants are the main force of the war, serving as human shields and forwards. It's been lost.

Most of the remaining worker ants were also lost, and the number was less than three hundred. At this time, they were led by the only remaining soldier ants, relying on the narrow terrain of the entrance to defend with difficulty.

And the number of these red ants was at least three thousand, and what was a little strange was that in addition to these red ants, there were also many black ants in the attacking team, probably around three thousand in number.

"Could it be that I have killed too many black ant nests recently? The helpers the black ants went to find came back to take revenge?" Luo Wen was a little startled. With the IQ of black ants, he shouldn't be able to call for reinforcements, right? Is there any hidden secret in the middle?

However, the battle situation was urgent, and he couldn't allow him to think too much. After checking that there was no ambush around him, he entered the battlefield.

These red ants were all tiny in front of him, and they had no power to resist his brutal charge.

The two diggers smashed hard, although they were a bit bulky, and the agility of these red ants was very high, and their movements were flexible. However, there were too many of them, so Rowan didn't need to aim at them. He only needed to smash down the digging feet indiscriminately, killing and injuring many red ants, and losing their ability to fight.

At the same time, his walking legs were raised one by one, the small bony claws at the front of the walking legs were joined together to form a pointed point, and the whole walking leg was like a spear. With the help of eyes with a super high refresh rate, he stabbed hard at the surrounding red ants.

The speed of walking is much faster than that of digging. It is really like lightning, piercing into the heads or abdomens of red ants, which are relatively large targets.

After a while, Rowan's digging feet and walking feet were covered with all kinds of mucus, and there were corpses of red ants lying all around him.

Luo Wen stood in it, majestic and majestic, with a feeling of unparalleled mowing.

It's a pity, after all, this is a small-scale war whose number has reached more than 3,000. Even if he is unparalleled in combat power, his role at this time is very limited.

Moreover, his appearance finally attracted the attention of the Red Ant Legion. Although dozens of them were killed in a surprise attack by him, more red ants surrounded him.