I Am the Swarm

The sunlight shone on the lake, reflecting the sparkling light. On the shore of the lake, some aquatic plants exposed the upper half of their slender branches and leaves, swaying with the wind.

With long legs, Luo Wen walked carefully, two or three meters away from the shore. A pair of big eyes stared at the lake, looking for any suspicious living things.

The sunlight reflected on the lake was very dazzling, and the photoreceptors in Rowan's eyes were extra developed, which was doubled and stimulated, making his eyes swollen and stinging.

After staring at it for a few days, Rowan found nothing, just when he was a little frustrated and anxious. Unexpectedly, after being stimulated by the reflected light for a few days, he had some unexpected gains.

His eyes seem to have gradually acquired the ability to actively block some light.

Under the use of the new ability, his eyes are like wearing sunglasses. When he looks at the lake again, the reflected sunlight has become less glaring.

After acquiring the new ability, Rowan suddenly became excited again, and moved slowly along the lakeside every day while exploring.

In this way, they walked from the lake to the river. Although the river is less than ten meters wide, the current is very fast and the depth is unknown. For Luo Wen, it is like a natural moat.

But if Rowan can find a way to cross it, then the vast land on the other side of the river can become a new territory for the swarm.

Unfortunately, with Luo Wen's knowledge reserve, there is no way to get through it for the time being.

Now I can only hope to find some aquatic species to obtain new genes. At that time, let alone crossing the river, I can even explore the depths of the lake and river.

As time passed day by day, Rowan hadn't found any signs of living things in the river. But because he had nothing to do, he could only continue to investigate patiently.

As the saying goes, hard work pays off.

That evening, Luo Wen, who was about to go back to eat and sleep, suddenly saw circles of ripples rippling out of thin air on the distant river. He suddenly became excited, the river surface would not have ripples out of thin air, which meant that something there touched the water surface to cause this change.

However, although Rowan could clearly see the ripple, he couldn't see the situation below the river surface. So, what exactly caused the ripples is unclear.

Luo Wen stared at it for a while, but there was no movement on the river surface, making him even think that he was dazzled just now.

Is it caused by underwater plant rhizomes? When the river flows, the branches of aquatic plants will also ripple, but this kind of situation basically occurs near the shore.

And the place just now is already in the middle of the river, what kind of aquatic plants can grow there.

When it was completely dark, Luo Wen still didn't notice it. He didn't believe it was his eyesight. Although I didn't see what it was, at least I knew that there should be living things in the water, which can be regarded as a little gain.

This discovery reinvigorated Rowan's motivation. Just when he was full of energy and planned to continue observing the next day, a team of messengers sent news from the front line.

This time, the northern army encountered an abnormal situation.

You can look for aquatic organisms at any time, but checking the abnormalities encountered by bugs is a higher priority.

Simply Rowan has been exploring along the river, and the location is not too far from the frontline army at this time. Although in order to take care of the speed of the communication team, he still found the northern army two hours later.

It was still early, and under the leadership of the reconnaissance team, when he saw the familiar "crater" from a distance, Luo Wen thought it was another familiar battle to exterminate the nests of red ants.

But when he approached, he found that swarms of ants were constantly gushing out of the "crater", forming several continuous teams, and rushing away towards the distance.

"Could it have been discovered? But the direction is wrong?" Luo Wen thought it had been discovered at first, but although his body was relatively conspicuous, his ability to hide and hide has never been lost. He has long changed his pheromones and body color. In his eyes, he should be a big rock.

But then he found out that the other party was going in the opposite direction from his own, and he knew that he was wrong, but what was the other party doing in such a hurry?

For a moment, Luo Wen was aroused curiosity.

The reconnaissance team was sent away, and they were asked to return first to inform the army to station on the spot and not to move around. And he took advantage of his vision to keep a safe distance from the rushing ant colony, and then followed them all the time to see what they were going to do.

The army of red ants marched about 300 meters to the north, and Luo Wen had already seen the front from a distance, and a large-scale melee was taking place.

The two sides each dispatched hundreds of thousands of troops, distributed in more than ten battlefields, large and small.

The two warring parties, apart from the red ants, turned out to be a brand new ant species on the other side.

Their body color is between red ants and black ants, neither so bright nor completely black, but a deep dark red.

Among them, the worker ants are slender and slender, the size of the head, chest and abdomen is not much different, and the legs and feet are slender, which looks very flexible. And their soldier ants are much more interesting. Their abdomens don't change much, but their heads and abdomens swell dramatically.

Especially the big head, rectangular in shape, equal in width from front to back, wide and concave in the center of the rear edge of the head, with a longitudinal groove in the center extending to the forehead, shaped like a person's buttocks, very funny. The combination of the head and the abdomen is like a bunch of overripe cherries.

However, in direct proportion to its big head are the huge jaw teeth, which are very powerful and powerful in attack from the appearance.

And the most interesting thing is that this brand-new ant species, unlike red ants and black ants, has almost no difference in body size between mature individuals.

For example, the worker ants of black ants generally have a body length of about 1.5 centimeters, and the soldier ants are seven or eight centimeters in size. The red ants are all soldier ants, but their body length is generally only about one centimeter.

As for this new species of ants, the size of the individuals varies greatly. Just like their worker ants, the smallest is only a few millimeters, but the largest is five or six centimeters.

As for the soldier ants, the smallest ones are only three to four centimeters in size, not even as big as their largest worker ants, but the largest soldier ants are even close to twenty centimeters, which can be said to be a giant among ants.

You must know that the transport insects of the swarm often need to carry hundreds of ants for long-distance transport, and they are only about 30 centimeters in size.

Even if Luo Wen has reached the limit of what his current respiratory system can achieve, his body length is only more than 60 centimeters. This kind of giant soldier ant has already caused him a considerable sense of threat.

And it takes an astonishing amount of food to feed these big guys. Just like transport worms, only when a large amount of protein can be obtained during wartime will the number of several hundred be kept.

After the war, he will continue to fight with various armies. All kinds of bugs and ant nests wiped out by various armies, most of the spoils were consumed by these transport bugs.

And for a branch base with 5,000 members, maintaining five transport bugs has reached the limit. Sometimes, these transport bugs need to eat soil to reduce the loss of the base when there is no mission.

But on the largest battlefield in front of us, the number of such super giant soldier ants reached more than 20, and the number of giant soldier ants slightly smaller than them reached hundreds. And the number of smaller large, medium and small soldier ants is even more.

Moreover, there are several smaller-scale battlefields nearby, and the number of super giant soldier ants adds up to hundreds of them.

Luo Wen was stunned. The number of soldier ants was beyond what an ordinary ant nest could support. Moreover, the strength in front of him may not be all of the opponent.

If you want to support such a huge force, you need a very large territory.