I Am the Swarm

The specific feeding process is not described in detail.

After a full meal, Rowan found a larger rock crevice on the spot and lay down to rest. At the same time, he ordered the army to station around him.

Since he just woke up in the morning and the battle ended too quickly, Luo Wen couldn't enter the dormant state for a while, so he could only recall the battle just now.

Although the scorpions are powerful in one-on-one combat, they seem to have fought against an army of tens of thousands, but in fact, only a hundred or ten giant ants have actually fought. Most of the rest of the bugs held their own shows and watched a show like Rowan.

This performance once again demonstrated the horror of group combat. Unless the individual develops to another level, it will never be able to erase the advantage in numbers.

This made Luo Wen more determined to follow the path of the group.

In his sleep, Luo Wen felt as if his hands had melted. Just as he was about to wake up, he suddenly thought that he still had hands now. With a pair of digging legs and four pairs of walking legs, even if one pair is melted, he can still be reborn with severed limbs.

Thinking of it this way, my heart felt more at ease, and I fell asleep with peace of mind.

I don't know how long I slept, but when I woke up, it was still dark, with two moons hanging high, casting cool light.

Luo Wen felt that there was something strange about his digging feet. He looked down and saw a layer of dead skin on his digging feet, as if the skin had exploded. After a closer look, I found that the dead skin was the shell of the foot.

This is moulting.

When his body absorbs certain genes and his body undergoes great changes, he will mutate into a pupa, but this is the first time that he has partially molted.

It seems that the claw limbs he expected before are in place, and the scorpion tail should be gone. If he wants to grow a scorpion tail, there is a high probability that he will pupate.

Looking back with his eyes, his body also felt it, and his guess was right, there was no extra tail behind his buttocks.

Then the next step is to test the newly acquired claw limbs.

Luo Wen gnawed and bit tore off the molted shells on the limbs, exposing the soft and sticky limbs inside. Then the claw limbs swelled rapidly after breaking away from the restraints outside, fully swelled twice, and then began to harden and turn black.

After a while, the claws were covered with armor again, and they became thicker, and the muscles inside became stronger. With a thought, the two large pincers opened, and a row of sharp sawtooths shone coldly inside.

Swing the pair of claws. Due to the strengthening of the muscles, although they look much bulkier than the digging feet, they are still flexible. In particular, there seems to be a special structure at the joints, which is similar to a catapult start, which can speed up his shooting speed.

A black light flashed, and the large pliers accurately clamped a stone beside him. The muscles exerted force, and with a "click", the stone was crushed into several pieces and fell to the ground.

"Cool!" Luo Wen secretly praised, this is exactly what he wanted.

Like a brat who got a new toy, Rowan kept destroying things around him, such as stones, vegetation and even scorpion shells.

Luo Wen was so happy not only because he had an extra powerful weapon, but also because the pair of claws gave him the illusion that he was using his hands when he was a man.

Although, a "hand" has only two "fingers". But it still made him feel like weeping with joy.

After being excited for a while, my mood gradually calmed down. After all, I can't always remember the past, but I still have to look forward.

Generally speaking, although only a pair of claws have been strengthened this time, it has greatly improved Rowan's strength, not only in combat, but also in daily life.

And he also found that when the "pincers" are closed, the claws can still be used as digging feet. Moreover, the limbs of the claws have swelled two times compared to before, and the efficiency of digging soil has improved slightly. Luo Wen was a little speechless about this.

The incident was resolved, the West Road army continued to set off, and Luo Wen also returned to his old nest to continue his boring daily life.

Apart from eating and watching the scenery on the tree trunk every day, as time goes by, there is no other change except that the queen ants are constantly being sent away, and the eyesight is getting better and better.

And because he is too big, there are not many trees in the territory that can carry him, so his viewing area is limited to those few areas, which greatly affects his viewing experience.

The boring life revived his heart that wanted to die. Although two red ant nests were also exterminated during this period, due to the growth of the swarm's strength, exterminating the red ant nests has become tedious, and there is no sense of accomplishment at all. Naturally, he couldn't suppress the heart that wanted to die.

There is no way, Luo Wen can only try his best to find something to do to divert his attention.

He inspected the territory first, and with the continuous expansion of the territory, now the swarm has added another thousand queen ants, and the total number of queen ants exceeds 2,500.

Due to the good development of animal husbandry, sufficient food, and not many wars in the territory, the number of members of each base has increased dramatically. On average, each base has at least 5,000 troops. If this is the case, the swarm currently has at least 12 million troops.

Although most of them are worker ants, their war potential should not be underestimated. With the current background of the insect swarm, it can easily generate millions of troops.

Just like attacking the two red ant nests before, Rowan assembled a million troops in a short period of time with an order. And he no longer formulates tactics, any early-stage consumption, siege and reinforcements, etc., are all superfluous.

Just poke a few holes in the ground, and the army will go in directly, even if the battle damage will be much higher, it doesn't matter. Anyway, as long as the opponent's ant nest is captured, these battle-damaged bugs will be recycled into protein.

In a matter of days, the queens turn these proteins back into soldiers and send them to the battlefield.

Back then, when he directed the bugs to attack the black ant nest for the first time, he was also full of passion. Later, the black ant nest became a supply point for the army to travel.

When encountering a black ant nest, there is no need to report to Luo Wen, and there is no need for Luo Wen to command, the army just rush in and the matter is over. So much so that now he doesn't know how many black ants' nests the bugs have destroyed.

Now it seems that the nest of red ants is about to be reduced to this point.

Is this the loneliness of a master? At this time, Luo Wen really wanted to hum a song about how lonely it is to be invincible, but then he thought that there was still a mountain-like army of earthy yellow ants pressing him down, and suddenly lost his mood.

To be a bug, don't be too arrogant.

Rowan, who had nothing to do, finally set his sights on the lakes and rivers to the east.

This is also impossible. There are swarm troops to explore in the north and west. To the south are cliffs, and in the desert on the cliffs, there are armies of khaki ants wandering.

Only the east side remains to be developed.

He was smaller before, and even the shallower places on the shore were deep water for him. And out of fear of the unknown under the deep water, he has been staying away from the river.

The most recent contact with the river was when they attacked the red ant nest for the first time. But that time it was half a meter away from the river, and he wasn't even there to dig the barriers for the river and canal at the end.

Now, he felt that with these long legs, he should be able to work by the river.